Most releases that contain the label " director's cut " or " extended edition " include minor changes and / or scene additions not seen in a film's theatrical release, but that do not tend to greatly affect or change the plot, story or overall product.

Life Without Zoe was mostly panned by critics and was generally considered the segment that brought the film's overall quality down.

Just as today, a film's success depended upon the setting, the mood, the script, the skills of the director, and the overall talent of the cast.

At the 1999 ceremony Benigni received the award for Best Actor ( the first for a male performer in a non-English-speaking role, and only the third overall acting Oscar for non-English-speaking roles ), the score by Nicola Piovani won Best Original Dramatic Score, and the film was awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which Benigni accepted as the film's director.

" The film's brooding, dark look was achieved through a chemical process called bleach bypass, wherein the silver in the film stock was not removed, which in turn deepened the dark, shadowy images in the film and increased its overall tonal quality.

While the film's unprofessional acting is pointed out by nearly all critics, its overall naturalist technique was praised at the time.

The popularity and profitability of DVD sales has added further opportunities for films to recoup losses and eventually become profitable, leading to doubts over the significance of US domestic grosses as a predictor of a film's overall success.

The Golden Compass, based on the first novel in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series, is considered a flop in North America due to its $ 180 million budget coupled with New Line Cinema's decision to sell all of the international distribution rights, but the unique circumstances of its international success have made the film's overall success a point of contention ; it was the first film ever to make more than $ 300 million internationally but less than $ 100 million in the United States.

The overall critical reaction to the film was mixed, with critics praising the film's visuals while complaining about the overall story and script.

The upshot is that the film's aesthetic form, rather than its content, embodies the overall theme of Rome as a moral wasteland.

David C. Hammack of Case Western University praised the film's compelling imagery, discussion of race relations, commentary by noted writers and historians, and overall coherence.

Caroline Westbrook for BBC News stated that the hype for the documentary was proper " to a certain extent ", because of its serious message, and that, overall, the film's " high comedy factor and over-familiarity of the subject matter render it less powerful than other recent documentaries-but it still makes for enjoyable, thought-provoking viewing.

Roger Ebert gave the film 2 out of 4 stars, criticizing the film's plot and overall lack of intelligence.

Although it had beaten Harlin's film's budget, it failed to beat the whole overall project's budget.

The control tones recorded on the film's optical or magnetic track triggered the rumble or surround sound effects as well as controlling their volume and the overall blend of the main soundtrack and low frequency noise effects.

The film's soundtrack, including original music by Tsoi's band Kino, contributes to the overall feeling of the movie, in addition to the film's use of post-modern twists and surreal scenes.

The film has developed a small cult following despite Peeble's lack of rapping ability and the film's overall poor production values.

An August 1972 review by Time said that many of the film's ideas " sound good on paper " but that the " skits wind down rather than take off from the ideas "; the film includes " some broad, funny send-ups of other movies ( Fantastic Voyage, La notte ), and its fair share of memorably wacky lines " but that " overall it is just Woody marking time and being merely a little funnier ".

Jane Krakowski's version of the character in the second movie was generally received better, though was largely overlooked owing to the film's poor overall reception.

Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett points out in the book The Committee of Sleep that, while the main content of dream sequences is determined by the film's overall plot, visual details often reflect the individual dream experience of the screenwriter or director.

" He found the film's beginning " interminable ", and overall, " very strange ".

The role of the Ancient Elf was written with James Cagney in mind ; however, with Cagney being very weak in his old age, the legendary actor could not adequately assume the role, despite the fact that he liked the film's overall idea.

Marker used very little commentary in this film, but the film's montage structure and preoccupation with memory make it a Marker film.

The film's plot structure also bears similarity to Orson Welles's Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), particularly the opening scenes with Lawrence's death and the reporter inquiring notables at Lawrence's funeral.

Furby argues that a " rhythm of repetition " forms the core of the film's structure.

The film's structure is often compared to Federico Fellini's 8½, another thinly-veiled autobiographical film with fantastical elements.

Coppola and the editors returned to the cutting room to change the film's narrative structure, but could not complete the work in time, leaving the final scenes poorly timed at the opening.

) The film's script is a frequent model for budding screenwriters, often used to display clear structure.

Scholars have examined Rocky IV and note the film's strong, yet formulaic structure that emphasizes the power of the individual, particularly an idealistic American.

Part of the film's structure and background is borrowed from Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander.

Even though the villain's body count is only two, the film's " whodunit " plot structure, knife-wielding and mentally disturbed killer, twist ending and ' stalking ' camera technique proved influential on films to come.

The film's structure closely follows the 1917 story A Report To An Academy, by the author Franz Kafka, in which an ape addresses a scientific audience, explaining the difficulties he encountered while becoming a man.

Lévy answered that he considers himself an " enemy of Kusturica, the man ", but that Underground is " not a bad movie " before going on to commend the film's narrative structure and conclude that " Kusturica is one of the cases, we have some writers like this, where the man is so, so, so more stupid than his work " before likening Kusturica again to Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

Philosopher Slavoj Žižek interprets the film's bipartite structure as exploiting " the opposition of two horrors: the phantasmatic horror of the nightmarish noir universe of perverse sex, betrayal, and murder, and the ( perhaps much more unsettling ) despair of our drab, alienated daily life of impotence and distrust ".

The theme of doubles is " the key element in the film's structure ," and Hitchcock starts right off in his title sequence making this point: there are two taxicabs, two redcaps, two pairs of feet, two sets of train rails that cross twice.

The American film critic Roger Ebert argued that the film's structure makes it inherently moral ; that by presenting vengeance before the acts that inspire it, we are forced to process the vengeance first, and therefore think more deeply about its implications.

Roger Ebert wrote a similar approval of this in the Chicago Sun Times stating " One of the most intriguing things about " The Vanishing " is the film's unusual structure, which builds suspense even while it seems to be telling us almost everything we want to know.

Nicholas Royle argues that the film's labyrinthine, Ouroboros-like structure reinforces several key Derridean tenets:

The film's protagonist, Sengbe Pieh ( Djimon Hounsou ), most known by his Mende name, " Cinqué " ( meaning " fifth "), painstakingly picks a nail out of the ship's structure and uses it to pick the lock on his shackles.

Meanwhile, detractors targeted the film's direction of storyline and structure.

Cannibal Holocaust is unique for its " found footage " structure in which the gradual revelation of the recovered film's content functions similar to a flashback.

Other critics claim that this widespread view of the film's structure is inaccurate.

" He described the film's narrative structure as follows:

Chuck Workman described the film's editing structure as " a sprint.

" The men are so grossly unattractive and the rapes so harrowing, long-drawn-out and starkly presented it is hard to imagine most male spectators identifying with the perpretrators, especially as the film's narrative structure and mise-en-scene force the spectator to view the action from Keaton's point of view.

Upon the film's release, Bosley Crowther wrote " it is hard to remember a picture — not excluding Henry V, Ivanhoe, Helen of Troy and, naturally, Ben-Hur — in which scenery and regal rites and warfare have been so magnificently assembled and photographed as they are in this dazzler ... The pure graphic structure of the pictures, the imposing arrangement of the scenes, the dynamic flow of the action against strong backgrounds, all photographed with the 70-mm.