Sentences with phrase «american rhapsody»

Her films - which include Chavela, Dispatches from Cleveland, American Rhapsody (in progress), Born to Fly, What's On Your Plate?

by Walter Chaw Editor Éva Gardos's An American Rhapsody, her first film as writer - director, is riddled with inconsistencies, lacklustre performances, and convenient platitudes that are perhaps not terribly surprising for a debut screenwriter and director, but disheartening from a veteran cutter who gained experience with the likes of Hal Ashby and Peter Bogdanovich.

An American Rhapsody is deeply felt, no question, but it jerks and lurches along without much regard for secondary characters, continuity, motivation, and coherence.

In «An American Rhapsody,» she was touching as a Hungarian refugee in America struggling to reconnect with the daughter (Scarlett Johansson) that she had to leave behind initially when she, her husband and other daughter were forced to flee.

Actors Russell Brand — «Arthur,» «Get Him to the Greek» Gerard Butler — «The Ugly Truth,» «300» Vincent Cassel — «Black Swan,» «Eastern Promises» Robbie Coltrane — «Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,» «Mona Lisa» Bradley Cooper — «Limitless,» «The Hangover» John Corbett — «Sex and the City 2,» «My Big Fat Greek Wedding» Rosemarie DeWitt — «The Company Men,» «Rachel Getting Married» Peter Dinklage — «Find Me Guilty,» «The Station Agent» David Duchovny — «Things We Lost in the Fire,» «The X-Files» Jesse Eisenberg — «The Social Network,» «The Squid and the Whale» Jennifer Garner — «Arthur,» «Juno» John Hawkes — «Winter's Bone,» «The Perfect Storm» Thomas Jane — «The Mist,» «The Thin Red Line» Nastassja Kinski — «An American Rhapsody,» «Tess» Beyonce Knowles — «Dreamgirls,» «Austin Powers in Goldmember» Mila Kunis — «Black Swan,» «Forgetting Sarah Marshall» Jennifer Lawrence — «Winter's Bone,» «The Burning Plain» Tea Leoni — «Ghost Town,» «Spanglish» Anthony Mackie — «The Hurt Locker,» «Million Dollar Baby» Lesley Manville — «Another Year,» «Topsy - Turvy» Rooney Mara — «A Nightmare on Elm Street,» «The Social Network» Dominic Monaghan — «X-Men Origins: Wolverine,» «The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King» Connie Nielsen — «Brothers,» «Gladiator» Ellen Page — «Inception,» «Juno» Wes Studi — «Avatar,» «The Last of the Mohicans» Mia Wasikowska — «Jane Eyre,» «The Kids Are All Right» Jacki Weaver — «Animal Kingdom,» «Cosi»

What prevents An American Rhapsody from achieving its full potential is a reliance on tear - jerking moments that actually detract from some of the feeling in the film.

The emotional intensity in An American Rhapsody comes from its writer / director Eva Gardos.

Crane also has an interest in managing Birdy Abundas (Scarlett Johansson, Ghost World, An American Rhapsody), a young piano player.

Her work as a producer also includes Black Folk Don't (PBS), «Like» (Field of Vision, SXSW), «The Older Fish» (Time Inc., Killer Films), «Intersection» (Frameline, ABFF), and American Rhapsody (Aubin Pictures).

Not exact matches

Bryan Fuller, best known for creating television series like «Hannibal,» «Pushing Daises,» and «American Gods,» is accusing Fox of «heterosexual - washing» Mercury's story in the «Bohemian Rhapsody» trailer and synopsis.

Noe gives us an unnamed French butcher in his early 50s (craggy Philippe Nahon) rather than an American cabbie in his mid-20s (lanky Robert De Niro), a series of offscreen gunshots and plucked notes to replace a swanky Bernard Herrmann score, and an exceptionally grisly urban plot about unemployment, abject violence, and incestuous delirium to replace Paul Schrader's rhapsody about existential and excremental urban anguish.

American masterpiece Rhapsody in Blue is introduced here, along with its composer, George Gershwin.

1997 Visions of My People: African American Art in Tennessee, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, Hayward Gallery, London; Arnolfini, Bristol; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, England; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Revisiting American Art: Works from the Collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

Rhapsody, «one of the most ambitious works of contemporary American art,» was purchased the week after the opening for $ 45,000 - an extraordinary amount at the time - and «in 2006 was given to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where it has been installed twice in its atrium, to critical acclaim.»

1997 African - American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IV, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, TN Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, Hayward Gallery, London; Arnolfini, Bristol; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, England; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Revisiting American Art: Works from the Collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

1997 African - American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IV, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, TN Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, Hayward Gallery, London; Arnolfini, Bristol; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, England; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Queens Artists: Highlights of the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY Revisiting American Art: Works from the Collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

He has recently garnered new attention and recognition in the contemporary film and art worlds marked by his retrospective exhibition at MoMA PS1, «George Kuchar: Pagan Rhapsodies,» as the subject of a recent article in the February Artforum, and his inclusion in the forthcoming 2012 Whitney Biennial (at the Whitney Museum of American Art, March 1 - May 27, 2012), which will be showing a selection of his Weather Diaries, a series of video works produced between 1986 and 2011.

A major survey of Bartlett's early work, including Rhapsody, will be on view at the Addison Gallery of American Art September 12 through December 10, 2006.

«Civil Progress: Life in Black America,» Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, February 6 — March 30, 1997 «Blind Spot: Coming of Age,» White Columns, New York, NY, May 8 — 29, 1997 «Kimchi Xtravaganza,» Korean American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, June 16, 1997 — January 10, 1998; catalogue «The Dual Muse: The Writer As Artist, The Artist As Writer,» Washington University Gallery of Art, St Louis, MO, November 7 — December 21, 1997; catalogue «Thirty - Third Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper,» Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, November 16, 1997 — January 18, 1998; catalogue «Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990's,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, November 26, 1997 — January 4, 1998 «La Biennale di Venezia, XLVII Esposizione Internationale d'Arte,» Venice, Italy, 1997; catalogue «A Decade in Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing,» Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1997 «Coming of Age,» White Columns, New York, NY, 1997 «Identity Crisis: Self Portraiture at the End of the Century,» Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, 1997; traveled to Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; catalogue «Kinds of Abstract,» Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, 1997 «Rhapsodies in Black,» Hayward Gallery, The South Bank Centre, London, UK, 1997; travels to Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK; The Mead Gallery, Coventry, UK; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; catalogue «Sunny Days / Critical Times,» The Bohen Foundation, New York, NY, 1997 «Un Bel Ete,» Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, 1997

Jennifer Bartlett (American, b. 1941) Rhapsody: House, Trees, Beach, Birds / A Set of Four Works, 1985, edition of 100, published by Harry N. Abrams, New York.

Recent honors include the exhibition George Kuchar: Pagan Rhapsodies at MoMA PS1 in New York; the addition of his 1977 short film I, An Actress to the Library of Congress» National Film Registry; and his selection for the 2012 Whitney Biennial, to be held March 1 though May 27, 2012 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

American artists include the 1975 - 76 «Rhapsody,» Jennifer Bartlett's monumental, underappreciated steel - plate meditation on painting.

1997 African - American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IV, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, TN Civil Progress: Images of Black America, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, Hayward Gallery, London; Arnolfini, Bristol; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, England; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC This is Why We Sing: An Exhibition of African - American Art, Atrium Gallery, Morristown, NJ Revisiting American Art: Works from the Collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY