Sentences with phrase «about as a masterpiece»

It is talked about as a masterpiece, a timeless classic, and a game that needs to be remade more than 20 years later.

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Instead, each side has capitulated - each in its own way - to the philistine notion that art is necessarily about power: that all works of art, including the world's great masterpieces, are best understood as either attacks on the established social order or defenses of it....

People who say the Bible is boring probably need to forget everything they have ever heard about the Bible and begin to read it as the masterpiece of literature that it is.

Printed by a small publishing company known for other scientific masterpieces such as The Psychology of the Simpsons and You Do Not Talk About Fight Club» makes the rest of her article questionable at least and suspect at most.

Printed by a small publishing company known for other scientific masterpieces such as The Psychology of the Simpsons and You Do Not Talk About Fight Club, Campbell's book quickly hit the word - of - mouth circuit and skyrocketed towards bestseller status, with sales exceeding half a million copies to date.

As long as I have gotten plenty of kisses from Max, time to hear about Gabriel's latest leggo masterpiece, time to dance with Veronica to the record player, and time to just be with Gabe uninterrupteAs long as I have gotten plenty of kisses from Max, time to hear about Gabriel's latest leggo masterpiece, time to dance with Veronica to the record player, and time to just be with Gabe uninterrupteas I have gotten plenty of kisses from Max, time to hear about Gabriel's latest leggo masterpiece, time to dance with Veronica to the record player, and time to just be with Gabe uninterrupted.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselAs an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himselas well as portraying Wiseau himselas portraying Wiseau himself.

The director's new masterpiece is a summation of nearly everything he has learned as a filmmaker, and about black culture, but he doesn't feel the need to beat the audience over the head for each lesson he's trying to impart.

This is as close to a masterpiece as a movie about an unemployed bowler embroiled in a kidnapping scam can be.

Leviathan (Lucien Castaing - Taylor & Véréna Paravel, 2012) About as close as one could be to being a masterpiece.

Deakins spoke to Variety about his work on the new film, which has been hailed by some critics as a masterpiece of genre filmmaking.

After the pay - off goes wrong, Creasy vows to take revenge on all those who have contributed to Pita's death, turning to Federal Investigations chief Manzano (Giancarlo Giannini) and upright journalist Mariana (Rachel Ticotin) to guide him through all the sleaze and corruption — and, being an ex-assassin for the CIA, Creasy knows a thing or two about the business of killing — or, as his friend Raymond (Christopher Walken) puts it, «Creasy's art is death; he's about to paint his masterpiece».

Agnès Varda's New Wave masterpiece about a famous singer / fashion model who abandons her blond wig and rediscovers her identity on the streets of Paris is jam - packed with vivid detail, an expressive graphic style, and an eye for urban chaos, and is at least as engaging and inventive as Breathless and The 400 Blows.

Lost masterpieces are rarely as heady, harrowing and curt as Dorthy Arzner's proto - feminist pre-code melo about a couple engaging in a ruinous ménage à trois with the demon drink.

Chaplin is brilliant as always in the role of his famous Tramp character, and Coogan impresses as his young partner - in - crime, but while there's a lot to love about «The Kid» (particularly the duo's fantastic chemistry), it falls well short of its reputation as a cinematic masterpiece.

The movie may not be a masterpiece, and it's not anything that's going to win big awards, but as a sweet and touching film, it's about as perfect as it could be.

Voyage To Italy — I've been hearing for years about this as Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece, and having finally seen it, it did not disappoint.

-- «Belle de Jour» (1967): Hailed by critics as an erotic masterpiece, Luis Bunuel's first big - budget film, about a fantasy - obsessed young wife, holds up nicely and works well without the typical DVD audio commentary.

Critical consensus about any movie is impossible, but judging from end - of - the - year polls, Robert Altman's Gosford Park is widely recognized as a masterpiece.

Even if the big - screen revival of the HBO series about a movie star (Adrian Grenier) and his posse does technically qualify as a film, it's still questionable whether writer - director Doug Ellin has ever seen any other movies, given the Mortal Instruments - level movie - within - the - sorta - movie that he presents not as a goof on Hollywood hubris but as an uncompromising masterpiece that eventually makes half a billion dollars at the box office.

Rashomon and All About Eve are masterpieces, and Harvey, Stromboli, Winchester ’73 and In A Lonely Place are very god as well.

Most of the top 10 films of the year I barely read much of anything about them: Dogtooth, The Ghost Writer, Mother, Nowhere Boy, etc... and they probably benefited from that as well as there wasn't major publicity campaigns about their masterpiece mantle status.

The comparison to Shaun of the Dead is inevitable, so let's get it out of the way: Zombieland is kinda sorta Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's comic masterpiece of mayhem after the undead apocalypse done up American style, so instead of cricket bats as weapons and jokes about tea, it's shotguns as anti-zombie devices and a quest to find the last Twinkie.

The screenplay by first - timer Diablo Cody is a subtle masterpiece of construction, as buried themes slowly emerge, hidden feelings become clear, and we are led, but not too far, into wondering if Mark and Juno might possibly develop unwise feelings about one another.

I love Del Toro talking about Hitch's rarely - discussed masterpiece I Confess and the utter lack of decency in Frenzy — and I love the focus that these luminaries attach to the fetishistic aspects of Hitchcock's work, such as the eyeless corpse of The Birds, or the legs and feet of Strangers on a Train and Shadow of a Doubt.

Slow, not terribly interested in lore or internal logic, and fatally hamstrung by the choice of actors like Billy Crystal and a zombified Emily Mortimer to voice its American dub, it's a regression for Miyazaki from his last two films (Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away) in almost every sense, starting with his decision to have a lonely young woman as the central character in place of the prepubescent little girls front and centre in most of his masterpieces (the last two films, Kiki's Delivery Service, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and My Neighbor Totoro) and ending with a gross simplification of his usually complex themes of confidence and actualization into a colourless, flavourless drone about the hard - to - dispute badness of war.

It's a film about taking a risk in Hollywood, and itself represents a risk, but one that ultimately has paid off, not only for Chazelle and Hurwitz, as well as those who backed their dreams, but also for us in the audience who've gotten to become absorbed in this enchanting musical masterpiece come to life.

Along with Roman Polanski's underrated masterpiece The Tenant this has to count as being amongst the most paranoid films ever made about urban alienation (and hey, who never experienced that?)

On seeing it again, I realise I undervalued it nonetheless, finding it, perhaps because of that context, just all a bit too English in comparison to Michael Haneke's masterpiece about late marriage, Amour (it's true, there are a few overwritten Alan Bennetty moments, such as Geoff boring on about fixing a broken ballcock).

Ultimately, Loveless is as interested in solving the disappearance of its character as much as Michelangelo Antonioni is interested in Lea Masseri's vanishing in L'Avventura (1960) or Asghar Farhadi is interested in surveying the reality in his masterpieces About Elly (2009), or for that matter Jeff Lebowski deciphering the truth in The Big Lebowski (1998).

Evans quotes Mark Twain to his own great delight as he waxes nauseating about how amazing the children were, how complicated was the editing process to put the final glow on that masterpiece, and how deeply personal the experience was.

There are certainly some heavy themes at work in Alexander Payne's new film, our favorite of his since the similarly toned masterpiece About Schmidt, but as usual, he handles them with homey grace and good humor.

A countercultural masterpiece about the act of seeing and the art of image making, Blow - Up takes the form of a psychological mystery, starring David Hemmings as a fashion photographer who unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.

The line, «death is Creasy's art, and he's about to paint his masterpiece» will go down as a true Walkenism.

Brooks Brierley tells the sad story of America's most expensive vintage thoroughbred / Driving a boat - tailed AC — The Editor gets to grips with a rare Anzani - engined survivor from the early days of the Thames Ditton marque / Magic Morris Minor — Alec Issigonis's postwar masterpiece is as collectable today as ever — Michael Worthington - Williams inaugurates our new series of expanded and very comprehensive Buyer's Guide / Wizardry in the land of Oz — There may not be many bushes in the Bush but you can trust Nick Baldwin to find a rusting relic / Prescott in 1950 — It's spot - the - celebrity time as Brian Heath pores over a newly discovered hoard of old hillclimb photos / Brighton revisited — Tom Threlfall describes the other Brighton Run while Peter Corrana gives us his driving impressions of one of the most covetable contestants in the main event / Immortal Austin 7 — Bill Boddy (who has owned nine of them) tells what it is about Herbert Austin's little wonder that keeps it at the top of the old - car parade / A summer affair For Vitoria Ainsworth — marriage meant an adventurous initiation into the joys of owning a Roesch Talbot / The real McCurd — Michael Worthington - Williams researches yet another obscure but fascinating UK motor manufacturer of the 1920s / Styled by the Wind — Touring 4 - seater lightweight bodywork on the Alfa Romeo 6C 2300B Mille Miglia was one of the first attempts at introducing aero technology to automotive coachbuilding.

Yes, that's a mildly click - baitish headline, but that's absolutely the ironic sentiment floating around about Milo «Oh, How the Mighty Have Fallen» Yiannopoulos and his as - of - yet unpublished masterpiece.

This laughably sad, morosely funny Irish - language short novel about a direct forebear of Beckett's absurdist protagonists waited 90 years to be translated into English and more broadly recognized as the masterpiece it is.

You won't be able to create and download a masterpiece, as there is no downloadable version or standard methods for exporting your data, but as long as you're in business, keeping your website look is easy: You just pay your monthly fee and can forget about it (no hosting, domains, downloads, and updates to worry about).

As ever, and the best thing about this, I just throw it all in, a one - bowler masterpiece and just, it works... TOO EASY... but the recipe below is the way Miss Beach Cottage does it (including, GASP, double GASP, sifting the flour, wowzas she's good)

As such, when a game gets a 5... or less... despite having not one single technical flaw, solid game play mechanics which beat out some bigger name games, being about as long as any other game with the same presentation, and being a visual masterpiece, the merit of the review is going to be called into question... not naming names, just using an examplAs such, when a game gets a 5... or less... despite having not one single technical flaw, solid game play mechanics which beat out some bigger name games, being about as long as any other game with the same presentation, and being a visual masterpiece, the merit of the review is going to be called into question... not naming names, just using an examplas long as any other game with the same presentation, and being a visual masterpiece, the merit of the review is going to be called into question... not naming names, just using an examplas any other game with the same presentation, and being a visual masterpiece, the merit of the review is going to be called into question... not naming names, just using an example.

It makes a great gift or coffee table book, as it creates discussion about older video game designs and how games have evolved into visual masterpieces.

1 other thing PS3 has as many if not more superior games to the Xbox 360, what you think Forzra or Project [email protected] racing is amazing, how about too fukn boring, that's a masterpiece right?

Silent Hills was to be Kojima's and Guillermo del Toro's masterpiece, P.T. actually giving hope to those of us who wanted Silent Hill to return to its former glory, and it was killed and just about erased from existence (and you can bet they will try to milk Silent Hill some more without anyone nearly as talented as those two).

Total War is a series of strategy games that many of you already have come to love, and rightfully so as the latest release from the series Total War Shogun 2 was a masterpiece in a genre where it takes so much for a game to rise above the standard set by games of this calibre, and I was personally very excited to get to review Total War Rome 2 but after withholding this review for weeks while waiting for patches to release I figured it was time to let my voice be heard about the state of this game as of now.

Blowing the orbs up in style will give the player more to brag about on the online leader boards, as anyone can view your masterpiece and witness your skills!

Gamers hail Kratos» latest journey as a masterpiece, but what about non-gamers?

Since the amount of work involved in converting OutRun 2 to run on Xbox would stretch to no more than about a week, and a few bucks to write some compression routines, we see no reason why Oguchi - san and his decision makers shouldn't bring this masterpiece into the living room as soon as possible.

It will likely be quite a while before Kojima is ready to share more about Death Stranding, but he did close out today's presentation with a bold promise... to prove that indie studios can create «triple - A world class masterpieces» of the same caliber as those made by major development studios.

A game is more about numbers and individual flaws, as the experience of the entire package is so satisfying that you never feel let down by a masterpiece like this one.

Without prompting, Doig refers to the sale, saying «the way auction houses write about paintings as masterpieces seems such an absurd way to talk about a contemporary work of art.