Sentences with phrase «kirkpatrick frames the story»

This type of coverage follows Scott's newsjacking model — by framing the story with a new takeaway or opinion fairly close after it breaks, you can catch the news wave before it really takes off.

«This is the way that God frames the story of salvation; this is his story.

The Gospel account of the death and resurrection of Jairus's daughter frames the story about a hemorrhaging woman who, like Nussbaum, sought healing from a man she believed had special powers.

The press frames every story about Francis as a break with the rigidity, dogmatism etc, of his predecessors — Benedict's back in the doghouse, so to speak — and the latest example of a new, caring, open, pastoral (read: lenient) Catholicism.

Whatever that may mean I guess u will get the idea... each one of us (or maybe the majority of us who had experienced at least 1 of the former arsenal transfer windows) knew that there would be absurd rumors connecting each and every player that's available in the market, which can go into someone who is not at all in the market depending on the imagination of the one framing the story, when this transfer window began...

In particular it might help to frame the story in terms not so much of potentially devastating consequences in distant parts of the world, but in terms of more local impacts of the climate changing and what people are doing about it.

This is lovely — your dress, the setting, and your framing story!

Freeman (director Jackson's first choice for the title role) is inspired casting as Bilbo Baggins, and makes for a more likeable protagonist than Wood's rather other - worldly Frodo (who, along with Holm as the older Bilbo, makes an appearance in the film's opening framing story).

There doesn't need to be a frame story here.

He frames the story with the clinical debriefing of the clearly rattled Lena (Natalie Portman), a biologist and former soldier.

Price's descriptions of these new beasties trigger accompanying vignettes far less entertaining than the framing story, which is rife with horror movie in - jokes, cheesy rubber monster masks, and music by pop - reggae band UB40 -LRB-!).

What is the point of the frame story of the torturing producers?

Sydney Pollack's («Three Days of the Condor» / «Out of Africa») well - made but unimportant political thriller (more a character driven than a plot driven story) is set in New York City and frames its story around an assassination plot of an African leader set to speak at the United Nations.

One could cut Dunkirk into the middle of Darkest Hour to frame the story of how 300,000 soldiers became stranded on those beaches.

The same can be said for the framing story set in Coogler's home town of Oakland, California.

In that multiple Oscar - winning Ang Lee film, the frame story added value in the form of complexity and soulfulness.

A frame story finds author Herman Melville (Ben Whishaw) tracking down the only survivor from a harrowing incident that occurred a few decades earlier.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

There's a vague framing story involving the disappearance of Peter's parents that tickles us with possibilities without giving anything away.

Each segment establishes its own vibe: the first is dim and claustrophobic, the second is naturalistic with one stark science fiction set piece, and the third ties in with «Black Museum's» frame story, which is shot with a grind house seediness.

With a framing story set upon the occasion of legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) receiving a commendation in 1958 (an opportunity Murrow used to berate his colleagues for letting the standards of television journalism slip), Good Night, and Good Luck.

Never mind that this is a premise Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two already explored to similar consequence, nor that Europa Report is essentially an intergalactic The Blair Witch Project: best to focus on an unfortunate framing story that dumbs down the proceedings, emotionally and intellectually, at the exact moment the picture appears to be gaining momentum.

The picture has a framing story and a movie - long narration, two more ingredients in the neo - noir / American Gothic stew that Eastwood has continued to perpetuate long after his twin Americana triumphs A Perfect World and Unforgiven rendered the conversation — at least inasmuch as Eastwood is capable of carrying it — moot.

I abhor a framing story that inserts Burroughs (Daryl Sabara) as a young, aspiring writer who inherits uncle John's journal; and I resent the movie's representation of holy fakers the Thurn — led by Matai Shang (Mark Strong)-- as omniscient idiots à la The Adjustment Bureau.

One of my least favorite things about the current season of American Horror Story is that it's essentially sidelined Lily Rabe in the thankless role of a talking head in a documentary frame story.

His take on the coming - of - age film, however, is one of those cases where the framing devices and framing stories are more compelling than what's being framed.

The dialogue often feels improvised or slightly forced and there's only so many ways to frame a story of city youths getting lured into crime.

The filmmakers made the bold choice of assigning each poem to a different animator, including Tomm Moore, Nina Paley and Bill Plympton, with Roger Allers of «The Lion King» directing and writing the frame story.

by Walter Chaw I'm going to talk on for a while, but all you need to know about House of D and The Game of Their Lives is that they share framing stories and voice - overs.

Or how about the «framing story» of the dog dying.

«The Prophet» is a very earnest book, and some of the slapstick elements in the framing story feel at odds with its fragile simplicity.

Sachs's young actors, Theo Taplitz and Michael Barbieri, are wonderfully at ease, but the connection between their characters and the film's framing story — gentrification and Brooklyn real estate — is, at best, understated.

Moore has an unfortunate propensity to say stuff like «This is the framing story» and «This is the reason Max is doing all this» while observing that Dorrance wanted to use muted colours.

The Manson Family isn't a perfect film by a long shot (framing stories are the pits), but it portrays atrocity as atrocity with the mean precision of John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

But Hooper and writer Lucinda Dixon take a deeply conventional approach by framing their story as a portrait of a loving marriage with an almost incidental awkward flaw.

During the bizarre (and embarrassing) courtroom melodrama that serves as the film's framing story, her hockey star attorney Bill (Woody Harrelson) will object to an exhumation of her sexual history — but by the time people have finished standing up in the gallery in a show of Dead Poets Society moral support, it's evident that for director Niki Caro and screenwriter Michael Seitzman, that Josie's sexual history be clean as the driven snow means absolutely everything.

In a way, director Tomm Moore's animated film is as much about how we frame stories and why we tell them as it is about this particular story.

Webb frames the story with the FBI's reports on King, which find imaginary, dastardly schemes from «agitators» and perceived enemies in the most mundane of actions and discussions.

Portman scores here even with the awkward framing story.

The film is not as depressing as it sounds, though, and that's because the screenplay by Morwenna Banks frames the story of the death of Milly (Toni Collette) as one of friendship and care.

A lone deleted scene (3:49), presented primarily in subtitled CG animatic with a bit of frame story footage and a touch of concept art,

The first act begins with this framing story leading into Pi's early life, all of which serves as a precursor to the bulk of the film that is covered by act two.

Ghost Stories Patience is necessary to enjoy this paranormal mystery adapted from John Nyman's long - running play, which tells three eerie tales (four including the framing story) about a paranormal skeptic facing the prospect of real - life hauntings.

Its framing story something to do with the approach of the odd couple's first year anniversary, the wise - cracking duo of gorilla Turk and elephant Tantor remind Jane of the tumult of T & J's common - law existence.

(Heck, I'll admit that I best know him for resembling an aged Martin Short, something that the future - set frame story of Clifford made clear.)

As he did in the play, Nyman (recently seen as the guy whose phone Liam Neeson keeps borrowing in The Commuter) anchors the framing story as Professor Goodman, host of a minor reality TV show called Psychic Cheats.

With that as the framing story, McGuckian continues to cull the fringes of the 1974 A-list with Harvey Keitel as another Brooklyn - ese Peruvian, impresario Uncle Pio, who creates a monster in the spicy Camila (Pilar Lopez de Ayala) while courting the patronage of the Viceroy of Peru (F. Murray Abraham!).

There is an awkward, completely superfluous framing story, where a mysterious older woman (Jeanne Moreau) tells the story to the Grimm Brothers; and a subplot involving a sleazy nobleman (Richard O'Brien) with a jones for Danielle is poorly developed.

V / H / S 2: Follow - up to last year horror film, which is an anthology film that is comprised of horror shorts by different directors strung loosely together by a framing story.

Its story - within - the - story, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an everyman whose wife and young daughter are abducted on a Texas highway late one night, is far more compelling than its framing story, in which Amy Adams mostly reads an unpublished novel (which tells the abduction story; it was written by her character's ex-husband, also played by Gyllenhaal) and looks miserably rich.