Sentences with phrase «modern audiences know»

Modern audiences know Cooper best as the apoplectic Perry White in the Christopher Reeve Superman films.

Not exact matches

The Modern Catholic Novel in Europe By Theodore P. Fraser Twayne, 210 pages, $ 24.95 In his straightforward, surehanded account of the Catholic novel after the late 1800s, Prof. Fraser analyzes the novels of the well - known British Catholics Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene and the novels of the Continental Catholics that have never had the audience in America that they deserve: Bernanos, Mauriac, Green, Chesbron.

Playwrights know, deep within themselves, that modern audiences are starved for transcendence.

'» He went on to tell his audience: «This will be the first election in modern British history when the answer from the government must be «no».»

Tarantino's frequent use of the N - word will no doubt inspire both challenges and defenses — I'd argue that, as it was in «Django Unchained,» the term allows modern audiences to experience period racism that much more vividly — and there's also the matter of Jennifer Jason Leigh, who spends much of the movie getting punched in the face by various characters.

Sena, who is known for making contemporary films that appeal to today's audiences, wanted to incorporate a modern twist into the historical backdrop of the movie.

No matter how good the movie looks, it doesn't quite wallpaper over the inherently icky white savior aspects of Tarzan himself (his mission is literally to free helpless African slaves), making it a strange movie to half - heartedly update for modern audiences.

It looks at the genre from modern eyes and constantly winks at the audience to let us know the filmmakers are in on the joke.

First, the script tames some of the more egregious proclivities of late, telling a story free from the buckets of irony and sarcasm that are usually employed as a form of distancing, allowing a modern audience to enjoy such an overt tale confident that they know what kind of story this is.

This cozy family drama may be too gentle for unsuspecting modern audiences, but for those who know it, it still goes down nice and smooth like lemonade on a warm summer's day.

Head of Crystal Dymanics Darrell Gallagher believes Tomb Raider was facing a crisis as it was no - longer relevant for a modern audience.

As with any modern game, there's also an XP system for finishing races, but because Forza Horizon 3 gives you so many different things to top up — from XP points to festival audience capacity, it's hard to know what you're actually achieving half the time.

Known for his massive installations built from industrial materials that take the menace implicit in Minimalism and throttle it into overdrive, the Polish Mirosław Bałka is well known on the European museum and biennial circuit — his 2009 work in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, which resembled a monumental cattle car (with a ramp leading visitors into its pitch - black interior), stunned audiences — but he has only shown rarely in New Known for his massive installations built from industrial materials that take the menace implicit in Minimalism and throttle it into overdrive, the Polish Mirosław Bałka is well known on the European museum and biennial circuit — his 2009 work in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, which resembled a monumental cattle car (with a ramp leading visitors into its pitch - black interior), stunned audiences — but he has only shown rarely in New known on the European museum and biennial circuit — his 2009 work in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, which resembled a monumental cattle car (with a ramp leading visitors into its pitch - black interior), stunned audiences — but he has only shown rarely in New York.

It is accompanied by a major publication, copublished by The Museum of Modern Art and Mercatorfonds, that reflects new scholarship on Szapocznikow, contextualizing this little known artist's work for a wider audience.

Christian Marclay: «The Clock» No better countdown to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's three - year closure could have been arranged than Marclay's epic feat of editing thousands of movie clips into a 24 - hour narrative that constantly, rivetingly tells the actual time to audiences seeking to escape that awareness.

I know from experience, as I spent more than a decade writing a book — New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century — which takes in the studios and the streets, the artists and the audiences, the galleries and the museums, the ideas that had arrived from Europe and were transformed beneath the strong, clear light of this most modern metropolis.