Sentences with phrase «zeitgeist at»

(2) In recent years, Leslie's Abstract Expressionist work has been the object of renewed appreciation, with the shows Action / Precision: The New Direction in New York, 1955 — 1960, organized by the Newport Harbor Art Museum in 1985, and Alfred Leslie 1951 — 1962: Expressing the Zeitgeist at Allan Stone Gallery in 2004.

John Miller in Zeitgeist at Musée d'art moderne et contemporain / MAMCO curated by Paul Bernard, Lionel Bovier and Fabrice Stroun.

Group shows include Zeitgeist at MAMCO in Genève, Switzerland; Every Revolution is a Roll of Dice organized by Bob Nickas at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York and at the Ballroom Marfa, Texas; Greater New York at MoMA P.S. 1, New York; and Drunk vs. Stoned at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York.

Yet there was little question of which game fit better with the current zeitgeist at Origin.

After the success of the made - for - British - TV movie The Naked Civil Servant, which was based on his memoir, Crisp is commissioned by a small theater in Manhattan's Bowery to perform a one - man show; word - of - mouth spreads about his unfiltered wit and shrewd observations about the gay community and cultural zeitgeist at large, which lands him gigs on late - night TV chat shows via his newly acquired agent (Swoosie Kurtz).

A screwball - tinged heist flick that not so much feeds «eat the rich» feelings which might be surging in the zeitgeist at the moment as offer up a divergent, flight - of - fancy caper for the middle - aged, The Love Punch plays out like a reimagining of The Parent Trap by way of Ocean's Eleven, and minus the kids.

An MGM short subject from 1940 entitled Hollywood: Style Center of the World (which appears as an extra on the Warner Archive DVD release of The Women) does a succinct job of capturing this cultural zeitgeist at its zenith.

I bring this up only to state that the HFPA has made a point of awarding whatever film is in the zeitgeist at the moment.

A carefully modulated study into the psychology of fear and premonition, «Take Shelter» captures a macro-micro snapshot of America's post-9 / 11 zeitgeist at a moment when a decade of fear fatigue has left the country numb.

Clearly, our conception of the world and our place in it is, at the beginning of the 21st century, drastically different from the zeitgeist at the beginning of the 19th century.

Dr. Martha Lauzen, the study's author, told Variety, «The cultural zeitgeist at the moment is very concerned with providing more people with more opportunities, but the numbers have yet to move.

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Watch Dogs stole the show at the last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, where it was unveiled, not just because it's an entirely new property, but mainly because it looks like it's going to capture the zeitgeist of the super-connected era in which we live.

One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.

On Thursday night when Prasad Panda, 50, won the Wildrose its first urban seat since its previous two were lost in the May general election, Rachel at least got a partial reading of the zeitgeist of...

He is concerned that the authors of the Denkschrift too easily give in to the Zeitgeist of German society at the expense of what is precious to the Church.

cute Have you seen Zeitgeist... apparently everyone who ever was anybody at all in the spiritual realm, was born on December 25th even Jacob's son Joseph lol

So watch Zeitgeist the movie at your own risk.

At the same time, there was so much to do, so much to rebuild, and the regnant American and Israeli zeitgeist allowed so little room for melancholy or lack of confidence.

This isn't Tom Wright writing the definitive history of Israel, but a New York Times chart - topper with 50 times Wright's global influence, choosing to put an ancient biblical story at the heart of the cultural zeitgeist.

Hunter has a knack for finding companies embedded in the cultural zeitgeist, and his talk provides a revealing look at how he determines if a brand has what it takes to succeed and, once involved, how he helps the brand then understand its strengths and weaknesses.

PC is so pervasive at Oregon State University that, like a cursing sailor, she just can't get out of the her / his he / she zeitgeist.

Ignoring any of the sampling undertaken at the Jazz World stage (jazz stopped being relevant in the 50s, even if the doodles make more sense with a pint of pear cider in your hand) and flitting from Tinchy Stryder to White Lies, through Florence and the Machine, Friendly Fires to Kasabian, the zeitgeist was unremittingly unconcerned with the social advancement of society.

The lobby was less forgiving than perhaps he'd hoped, tittering and twittering at his admission of voting for Will Young on «X Factor» (Pop Idol, Mr PM, rewind those zeitgeist tapes)-- apparently his daughter had forced him.

San Jose, California (CNN)- Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor and Democratic firebrand, stood behind a podium at the San Jose Convention Center and neatly summed up the current zeitgeist of the left.

As such, in its broadest sense, the Zeitgeist can be defined as a collection of shared values, attitudes, norms, and ideas that exist within a society at a certain time.

«There is a zeitgeist now of Big Science being more effective,» says Zachary Mainen, head of systems neuroscience at the Lisbon - based Champalimaud Foundation and co-organizer of the open letter against the HBP.

Being the person with the juiciest contact database, or the one with a finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist is nothing to sneeze at.

I'm personally loving Zara's interpretation of the cat walk trend, they always manage to create wearable interpretations of sartorial zeitgeists, which allow you to try out the style at an affordable price in an «everyday» way.

Regardless of what any other designer is doing - this, at a time where the Vetements effect is a crack that's still spidering out to several design houses - Sarah Burton continues to do «McQueen», and the thing about that is, no matter what feels zeitgeist - y, it still works and it still feels up - to - the - minute relevant.

For a day date, you can't beat a Saturday morning at the Ferry Building farmers market, or a Bloody Mary at Zeitgeist in the mission district.

The movie's most sublime sequence has Deadpool putting together a superhero team of his own, a quick - cut job - interview montage that allows Zazie Beetz's Domino, Terry Crews» Bedlam, Bill Skarsgård's Zeitgeist, and Lewis Tan's Shatterstar to cycle through in short order, along with Rob Delaney's Peter — a nonsuperpowered fellow who just liked the sound of the want ad — and the Vanisher, whose invisibility powers prevent him from needing to be played by anyone at all.

Deadpool makes fun of Bill Skarsgard's Zeitgeist for his «toxic spit» superpower by referencing the fare at Arby's.

If this mildly amusing screwball comedy about mistaken identity has a conservative slant of glorifying housewives it's due to the zeitgeist: It was made in 1945, at the end of WWII, when men were coming home and women sent back to the kitchen.

But the decade writ large at this year's edition was not the 1930s, but the 1950s, if only thanks to a couple of high - profile studio films that re-created its zeitgeist as a meticulously curated waking nightmare with pointed lessons for the present.

Greta Gerwig had some awards buzz ever since «Frances Ha» premiered at Telluride in 2012, and the film certainly hit the zeitgeist among younger viewers.

Tapping into the zeitgeist of paranoia (everyone outside the sanctuary of The Continental wants Mr. Wick dead), and offering a piquant and disquieting look at a self - contradictory amoral subculture that mirrors the mainstream, it dares to have a soupçon of substance amid all that flash and dazzle.

Excellent (3.5 stars) Unrated Running time: 90 minutes Studio: Zeitgeist Films DVD Extras: Additional scenes with audio commentary by director Jennifer Baichwal, photo gallery with audio commentary, video discussion, video interview with the cinematographer, theatrical trailer, and a featurette entitled «Al Gore at the Nashville Film Festival.»

His slangy eloquence, his brilliance at scene making, and his nose for the zeitgeist fostered a slew of smash movie classics, including the seminal silent gangster film Underworld (1927), which won the first Oscar for best original screen story, and its sound - film successor, Scarface (1932); the screwball satire Nothing Sacred (1937); and the seductive romantic thriller, Notorious (1946).

Back at their zeitgeist - setting zenith, the Farrelly Brothers believed in applying as many funny bones and brains to the process as possible.

But where Harris's novel understood its place in the bittersweet, paranoid zeitgeist, Black Sunday, with its all - star cast (Robert Shaw two years after Jaws, Bruce Dern at his peak, Marthe Keller a year removed from Marathon Man), megalomaniacal producer Robert Evans, and blockbuster aspirations, proves to be another Star Wars - style harbinger of the impending end of what was possibly the most amazing period in film in history.

«Throughbreds» (whose title was singular when it premiered in Sundance's NEXT section in January 2017) may have been overshadowed by «Get Out» at that film festival, but it's no less elegant or lethal, concentrating its satire not on racial mind games (the way Jordan Peele did, seizing the zeitgeist in the process) but a case of blue - blood breeding gone horribly awry.

It's impossible to tell anymore what shows will or won't catch the zeitgeist — Peak TV has killed the water cooler show — but I hope Maniac does at least well enough to give Mizuno and Garner a boost.

Looking at the historical record, it's pretty amazing that The Bourne Identity even exists as a coherent film, let alone one that would tap the zeitgeist of the moment, launch a franchise, and help reshape action cinema in its image.

Is it going to be a coming out party for Kate Beckinsale and Vera Farmiga, both sensational in one of a very few films tackling the political zeitgeist this year (and successfully at that)?

While this year's Best Actress race is full of so many contenders from early in the year, like Salma Hayek in Beatriz at Dinner, and Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman, and even Kristen Stewart in Personal Shopper, the women that seem to be capturing the zeitgeist or buzz or excitement right now are the ones who push outward from the barriers that hold them down — characters who do not accept the lot they've been given.

In a way, the most prescient thing about the sequel to Al Gore's 2006 zeitgeist - hitting documentary An Inconvenient Truth, is that 11 years after the first one came out, the issues at its core are more prominent than ever before.

That sounds... pretty freaking dumb, and also completely at odds with the zeitgeist.

While two of his films have played in Park City previously (though one was a short segment in «V / H / S»), Swanberg and his zeitgeist - defining mumblecore movement (read: indie filmmaking with a cute name and perhaps even lower budgets than audiences were used to at the time), were actually embraced by the SXSW Film Festival and not the indie - defining organizers in Utah.

Maybe every 10 years, there's little blips of films, but I think it's as you say — because they're all in development for such a long time they all hit at a certain moment in the zeitgeist.

The insanity plea is likewise at the centre of Gregory Hoblit's same - year adaptation of William Diehl's Primal Fear, speaking to synchronicity, sure, but moreover to the reality of zeitgeist as more than a metaphysical construct.