Sentences with phrase «la grand illusion»

Read about this and more in «Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War» by David M. Lubin (Oxford University Press, 2016).

We must persuade ourselves of the non-existence of all surrounding phenomena, destroy the Grand Illusion by asceticism or by mysticism, create night and silence within ourselves; then, at the opposite extreme of appearance, we shall penetrate to what can only be defined as a total negation — the ineffable Reality.

this world is a beautiful, grand illusion.

It was a grand illusion.

For Baudrillard we live in a world of societies that have been duped by a grand illusion and sadly live within it, but will never realize it.

The Grand Illusion of our times is financial security: Everybody wants it, nobody gets it.

The Wildcats led NOTRE DAME 7 - 6 late in the third quarter and they began to have grand illusions.

It is possible that Miami head coach Al Golden has pulled the «Grand Illusion» over Miami Hurricane fans.

Dear Abby: You should read «Grand Illusions,» George Grant's expose of the racist roots of Planned Parenthood.

Wayne Barrett's book Grand Illusion has done the best job of detailing the far - flung operations of Giuliani Partners, but the firm remains an underexplored story.

«and later in a second tome, «Grand Illusion» that questioned how Giuliani prepared for the 9/11 attacks.

Chaplin's Shoulder Arms (1917), the Oscar winning All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Grand Illusion (1938), Paths of Glory (1957), A Very Long Enagagement (2004), the Canadian epic Passchendaele (2009) and the little seeen Canadian picture The Wars (1983)?

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Soon after Duvivier moved around the casbah of Algiers, Renoir made his own tragic commentary on his country with Grand Illusion, a more sociological - centered statement on class resentment bringing about the Great War (and possibly, the war brewing on the other side of Alsace - Lorraine).

Unfortunately, I can't ask him, but there's evidence suggesting the answer was Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion / Grand Illusion.

The defining masterpieces of brash young artists get remixed by older artists with a new perspective: Fritz Lang's M and While the City Sleeps, Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion and The Elusive Corporal, Howard Hawks» Rio Bravo and Rio Lobo... and then there's Orson Welles» Citizen Kane and Mr. Arkadin.

The U.S. theatrical release of the rediscovered camera - negative print of Jean Renoir's «Grand Illusion» by Rialto Pictures.

After making his mark in the early thirties with two very different films, the anarchic send - up of the bourgeoisie Boudu Saved from Drowning and the popular - front Gorky adaptation The Lower Depths, Renoir closed out the decade with two critical humanistic studies of French society that routinely turn up on lists of the greatest films ever made: Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game (the former was celebrated in its time, but the latter was trashed by critics and audiences — until history provided vindication).

Rialto's past releases include Renoir's Grand Illusion, both in 1999 and in a new 4K restoration for its 75th anniversary in 2012; Carol Reed's The Third Man; Fellini's Nights of Cabiria (for the first time in its «director's cut»); Jules Dassin's Rififi; Godard's Breathless, Contempt, Band of Outsiders, Masculine Feminine, Le Petit Soldat, Alphaville, and the U.S. premiere of his Made in U.S.A.; Kurosawa's Ran; Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie; Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au Grisbi; Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar and Diary of a Country Priest; Resnais» Last Year at Marienbad; the U.S. premiere of the original, uncut Japanese version of Godzilla; the U.S. premiere of the complete, uncut version of Jean - Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge; the U.S. premiere of Melville's Army of Shadows, which became the most critically - acclaimed film of 2006; the U.S. premiere of Claude Sautet's Max et les Ferrailleurs; and Robin Hardy's definitive cut of The Wicker Man.

Playing at the Grand Illusion this week is Samantha Fuller's 2013 documentary about her father, A Fuller Life.

(His finest work, by far, is in Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion, which was nominated for Best Picture but received no other nods.)

Paris - based, Brooklyn - born expatriate has written the subtitles for over 30 French films released by Rialto, beginning with Renoir's Grand Illusion in 1999.

There have been prison breakout movies before, from Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion (1937), to Jacques Becker's Le Trou (1960), to John Sturges» The Great Escape (1963), to Jonathan Demme's Caged Heat (1974), to Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and even the current Chicken Run, but none like this.

As Michael Atkinson has written for Criterion, «Without its iconic precedent, there would have been no Humphrey Bogart, no John Garfield, no Robert Mitchum, no Randolph Scott, no Jean - Paul Belmondo (or Breathless or Pierrot le fou), no Jean - Pierre Melville or Alain Delon, no Steve McQueen...» Soon after Pépé, Renoir's antiwar masterpiece Grand Illusion hit, and it was an even bigger smash, cementing Gabin's superstar status; in this and all of his most successful roles (La bête humaine, Le jour se lève), Gabin played some form of working - class social outcast, and he always provided audiences with a strong point of identification.

In the film description from the original Janus Films» catalog there was a quote from Orson Welles: «If I could save only one film, it would be Grand Illusion.»

As most of you know, the rights to distribute movies can change over time, and we lost ours for Grand Illusion about a dozen years ago.

While we still hope to reacquire those rights, we are thrilled that we are able to present the Criterion edition of Grand Illusion on the Criterion Channel at FilmStruck starting today, in celebration of the eightieth anniversary of the film's release.

When we launched the Criterion Collection on DVD nearly twenty years ago, we picked Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion as the film we wanted to carry spine # 1.

Clouzot, one of the kings of French noir, grips and thrills and teases us with this dark - hued, very cynical and very smart murder mystery about a suave inspector (Pierre Fresnay of «Grand Illusion») pursuing a serial killer.

Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes plays at the Grand Illusion for a week in a 35 mm print.

Independent theaters: SIFF Cinema Northwest Film Forum Grand Illusion Seattle Art Museum Central Cinema The Big Picture Majestic Bay Theatres Cinerama

Having set his own creative bar stratospherically high with classics like The Rules of the Game, The Grand Illusion and The River, it's hard to see this climactic statement as more than a compendium of odds and ends.

When Henry stumbles upon a frontier homemaker (Emily Cass McDonnell) whose husband is away at war, it appears that the film is making a promising foray into more personal, Grand Illusion terrain.

CB: Yes, Grand Illusion [1937]-- I get the title confused with Rules of the Game [1939] because I always thought that should be the title for Grand Illusion.

Best Picture nominees that lost (top shelf) Grand Illusion, Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, The Maltese Falcon, The Magnificent Ambersons, It's a Wonderful Life, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Sunset Blvd., Shane, Anatomy of a Murder, Dr. Strangelove, Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, Nashville, All the President's Men, E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial, The Right Stuff, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Saving Private Ryan, Brokeback Mountain, Winter's Bone

I think Grand Illusion may be the most humanistic film ever made, but it's no more humane than its creator.

Hot Fuzz, Wright and Pegg's loving send - up of action comedies, suggests that its makers got more out of Bad Boys II and Point Break — two of its tongue - in - cheek touchstones — than most filmmakers get out of Citizen Kane and The Grand Illusion.

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If you're tastes are more... unconventional, there's 9 1/2 Weeks at the Grand Illusion and, in wide release, The Shape of Water, Phantom Thread, and Fifty Shades Freed.

The Pacific Film Archive's seven - film series mainly focuses on how people who lived through that time assessed the conflict, including Charlie Chaplin («Shoulder Arms,» screening 8:15 p.m. Sunday), Jean Renoir («Grand Illusion,» Aug. 8) and Lewis Milestone (the still hard - hitting «All Quiet on the Western Front,» Aug. 27).

In this Marvel tentpole world, where faux dramatics are conjured to create the illusion that superheroes are fighting for something of some value, Rogue One is indeed rebellious, posing a quest that resonates with emotional engagement and grand illusion.

Opening today in Seattle at the Grand Illusion is Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral, an interesting movie I saw and reviewed way back in September (someday I will finish my last three VIFF 2012 reviews, hopefully before VIFF 2013).

As such, it takes its place on an amazingly eclectic list that includes Grand Illusion, Steel Helmet, and Apocalypse Now.

Nobody has ever captured the First World War better on film (except perhaps for Jean Renoir in Grand Illusion, which is in a class by itself).

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If the commute up north is a bit too far for you, another weird Western is playing Wednesday night at the Grand Illusion: Sergio Corbucci's classic The Great Silence, starring Klaus Kinski and Jean - Louis Trintignant.

Grand Illusion, through Thursday.

It's a natural segue to the section on Renoir («The Rules of the Game,» «Grand Illusion») and Gabin.

Grand Illusion.

A new restoration of Geoff Murphy's apocalyptic The Quiet Earth (1985), the first science fiction movie from New Zealand, plays through the week at Grand Illusion.