Sentences with phrase «woodcock did»

Even if Reynolds Woodcock didn't have the shine of being Day - Lewis's (potential) final performance, it's worthy work.

Mr. Woodcock doesn't insult its audience with a pandering overcompensation, but the movie doesn't think much of us in the way it presents familiar jokes with a sense of forced inevitability.

Not exact matches

But Cameron repeatedly refused to apologise, despite calls for him to do so from MPs including Caroline Flint, John Woodcock and Alex Salmond.

Woodcock, who does not believe in being stationary for too long, plans to take advantage of this flexibility in the future and transition away from regulatory affairs to be closer to the heart of the science.

Even the poster, which depicts Woodcock holding a large set of basketballs as a sort of sign that he has great big testicles is unoriginal, done already by Baseketball.

It even ends with a feeble joke where Woodcock tells Farley to do some pushups, though how it's hard to groan when you're ecstatic at seeing the end credits finally arrive.

Billy Bob Thornton might have been amusing playing a surly a-hole in the last several comedies he's done, but I think that tank hit empty long before he attempted another one in Mr. Woodcock.

According to the L.A. Times, the man behind the camera will be Craig Gillespie — the same guy who did Mr. Woodcock and Lars and the Real Girl.

Woodcock has to appear at events and so do I. I wish being a designer was a bit less about being a public figure but spending time with my clients is important to me.

You don't cross the House of Woodcock!

Reynolds Woodcock has a tendency to look inward or downward, and when he does look at others, it's usually a withering stare over the top of his glasses, a dismissive expression communicating that whatever or whoever he's looking at is beneath him (something further underlined by his lilting, regal voice).

There's not much about the cruelty, the exploitativeness, and the destructive folie à deux of Reynolds Woodcock and Alma Elson's bad romance that Anderson doesn't lay right out there on the screen, with a psychological acuity worthy of Hitchcock and a cinematographic fluidity reminiscent of Max Ophüls.

I suppose you could read some darkly feminist subtext into Vicky Krieps» bravura performance as a young muse and paramour seizing control over Woodcock and her own destiny, but to do so would be to force Anderson's splendidly slippery creation into a generic mold that it instinctively rebels against.

Not only do we have to tell a story about the characters in a traditional arc, then we've got a sub-arc, which is the House of Woodcock fashion — people who are in that world, what they come in the house looking like, who made their clothes, what he makes for them.

Reynolds Woodcock is an affirmation: Daniel Day - Lewis doesn't need tricks.

The film begins as Reynolds Woodcock is doing his seasonal showing of dress designs.

Daniel Day - Lewis, in what he has said will be his final film role, doesn't disappear into London dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock so much as he builds him from the impeccably shined shoes on up.

His dedication to fixating on every miniscule detail of dressmaking is seemingly akin to what Day - Lewis did to prepare for his role as the unforgettable Reynolds Woodcock.

And even though I was a little disappointed that fashion design was more embellishment than underpinning with this movie, I did appreciate the acknowledgment of the physical labor that goes into couture, from the close - ups of calloused fingertips to the — too brief, in my opinion — glimpses we get of the Woodcock atelier.

Woodcock peeking through a peephole at how his fashion show is doing made me flash on Norman Bates doing the same with an undressing Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's «Psycho.»

It is all a matter of gesture: the way she glides, powerfully but simply, among the rooms of the House of Woodcock, drawing back the curtains and readying the house for the day; the way she gazes across the table at her brother's outgoing fling, checkmating an opponent who not only doesn't realize she's lost, but also hasn't even realized she's fighting.

«I simply don't have time for confrontations,» Woodcock tells one unhappy woman, who is about to feel a metaphorical trap door open beneath her.

Mr. Woodcock ends like most of these things do with a scene in which the «hero» learns that the target of his hatred isn't as horrible as he's assumed, but in this case, he's still a jerk.

We're not supposed to like Woodcock, but we don't even pity his gruff, hostile attitude, even after meeting his father (Bill Macy), who might be worse than the son.

Speaking of «Phantom Thread,» did you know that Daniel Day - Lewis» Reynolds Woodcock had a bunch of children with different women?

Scoff at that if you like (I do prepare to be eviscerated by K. Austin Collins, the Cyril to my Reynolds Woodcock), but it's a warm triumph that actually reminds me a bit of this year's Lady Bird.

Anderson's view is so sophomoric he doesn't care whether you get the joke of his deliberately puckish character names: Reynolds Woodcock, a sought - after innovator of female couture, and Alma, his latest model discovery.

(And this is child, don't forget, that scored in the superior range on the Woodcock Johnson tests she was given in math as a young four year old.)

How rigorous is the Woodcock - Johnson III and how does its testing components compare to EOG testing?

They were originally bred in England to hunt woodcock and rabbits, and still do, so they need to be able to penetrate thick cover, but they have adapted equally well to the wide open plains of the Midwest.

«Even the term «global warming» does not mean anything unless you give it a time scale,» Prof. Woodcock notes.

«Flurry» Yates, the eponymous hero of Somerville and Ross's Memoirs of an Irish RM, who managed both to discharge his duties as a resident magistrate in 19th century Ireland, and in so doing demonstrate a deep understanding of the best and worst of human nature, and (intermittently) to keep control of his lunatic Irish setter Maria while out rough shooting snipe and woodcock on the Irish bogs.