Sentences with phrase «also poignant»

There's also a poignant gallery of baby mummies.

A gripping story of murder, greed, and retribution, All I Did Was Shoot My Man is also the poignant tale of one man's attempt to stay connected to his family.

Yet it's also a poignant story of sisterhood (twinhood, specifically), young romance, and grief, and employs some drop - dead gorgeous imagery (a girl flying through the air before crashing to the ground; the slick walls of a deep, dark well).

It is also a poignant story about one antiquarian bookseller's recovery from the loss of his beloved wife.

Eva Marie Saint, at 93, got an ovation for mentioning, «I'm older than the Academy» — although as the star of On the Waterfront, she was also a poignant reminder of Marlon Brando in his pre-mailbox-banging days.

Nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, «Land of Mine» is a powerful epic, superbly acted, tense and unsettling, but also poignant and occasionally tender.

Not exact matches

The book is also filled with poignant and hilarious examples of haters gone wild, and companies gone crazy, as well as inspirational stories of companies turning bad news good with speed, compassion, and humanity.

While the Board's recommendations address modest structural changes, involving also greater lay oversight, the real appeal, the urgent appeal, the almost poignant appeal, is to the bishops, pleading with them to exercise the responsibility that is theirs.

But they remind us of the fact that the death of Christ was not only the vivid and poignant focus of the church's memory of Jesus (as death is always likely to be in our memory of another), but also that it became almost at once the symbol of what was realized to be the crucial meaning of the event.

There were also simply spectacular saves, the double block on Milan's Mario Balotelli and the dramatic parry of Nikola Kalinic's penalty - kick against Fiorentina particularly poignant as the Bianconeri closed in on an historic fifth successive Serie A title.

The «every other 11 yr old has snapchat» is also very poignant at the moment, how young is too young is something we hear parents talking about a lot!

Blogger Jenn also includes poignant explorations of motherhood.

Sure, there were also times that took my breath away — incredibly sweet, poignant moments that are unique to twins.

It is a poignant love letter to fathers, babies and mothers, and also an imperative call to action for society: birth matters for each of our individual psyches, and for the future of our shared human family, so we better consider how we do it.

It is also just one example from a full house of poignant epigrams peppering the script of this fast - paced production.

But there are also lively accounts of people and places, politics and potentates, not to mention a poignant tale of life with an orphaned orang - utan, detailed instructions to his sister on choosing him a new assistant, and a letter thanking his mother for sending bacon («turned out more eatable than I expected»).

One poignant image can change not just the course of science, but also ordinary people's perception of their place in the cosmos.

That he could also play straight, and with compassion, was proven by Buono's appearance as President Taft in the TV miniseries Backstairs at the White House, wherein he delivered a poignant tribute to the late Mrs. Taft.

But the film's best scenes — including a haunting moment on the beach and a weirdly poignant encounter with a disfigured potential victim — also suggest a dawning moral awareness in the femme fatale.

Part gentle comedy, part perceptive, Cassavetian blue - collar character study, it's also tellingly poignant despite it's shaggy - dog style structure fair riveted together by Buscemi's compelling central performance.

It is also too obvious (to go as far as putting the word «facade» on a poster during a particularly «poignant» scene).

The animated celebration of Mexican culture and traditions, directed by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, is also darkly funny, imaginative and, of course, deeply poignant.

It's a brutal, blood - drenched story, but also a captivating and poignant generational saga that will stay with the viewer long afterward.

It's also the perfect capstone to a true AAA franchise, offering a poignant conclusion that'll stick long after the credits have rolled.

Curtis also has a knack of colliding the poignant with the trite.

Theron also does a lot of voice - overs, offering poetic or poignant observations that sound straight out of Terrence Malick's cutting - room floor.

It's frequently hilarious but also tender and poignant without resorting to clichés.

The action is thrilling, inventive and highly unusual while the dynamics between the characters are frequently hilarious and also incredibly poignant.

Also, «It's the time of the season for loving» is a poignant lyric from The Zombies — «Time of the Season», which features in the film that assists the juxtaposition.

Smith is also a more seasoned director and editor, and even manages to put in a few poignant moments of drama within the framework of this otherwise ribald comedy.

Keitel's final scene in the movie is also quite poignant to encounter.

McDonagh's outstanding script also isn't afraid to go off the wall, as it were, particularly in scenes with Dinklage that are as poignant as they are pointed.

«We are thrilled to return to a country, place and festival that has always been so close to our hearts, not only because my first film, «Strictly Ballroom,» was screened there 21 years ago, but also because F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside St. Raphael.»

It's a dizzyingly reflexive concept that could be too self - involved to really connect, but as our reviewer discovered, the fragmentary, impressionistic «Cameraperson» (often employing off - cuts of films she worked on) actually builds to «a surprisingly emotional and heartfelt film... Humanity permeates [the film], so as experimental as it is, it's also stirring and poignant, with a tangible sense of empathy intact in every frame...» [A]

(These have also been outfitted with vignettes accessible through White - Rabbit branching, if no other way; besides material that was on the old X-Men DVD, you'll encounter premiere footage and a sadly poignant quote from pretty - boy James Marsden: «I was clueless before I did the movie; I was clueless after I did the movie.»)

We also learn poignant things about his father, who mostly used his «extra days» to read books and spend time with his children.

The feature films nominated for Best Film this year are «Frank» which gives an insight into the weird and wonderful world of the enigmatic musician; the gritty urban family drama of «Glassland»; the raw, moving and honest «I Used to Live Here»; the feel good true - life story of «Noble»; the poignant and sensitive exploration of mental health in «Patrick's Day», and the beautiful Irish animated fantasy «Song of the Sea»; Three of the Best Films also get nominations for Best Director; Lenny Abrahamson for «Frank»; Gerard Barrett «Glassland» and Terry McMahon for «Patrick's Day», with John Carney also in that category for the musical drama «Begin Again».

You could take these earlier films, like the new one, as brilliant, unorthodox slide lectures, but they also work as poignant posthumous extensions of the friendships they recount and the careers they review.

It maintains and iterates on Awakening's best qualities, while also introducing new systems that have a profound impact alongside a richer and more poignant story.

Both actresses tear into the scene with a comical trenchancy that scores its necessary laughs but also establishes a layered and fleetingly poignant background of affectionately - waged one - upmanship.

«While it's a consistently entertaining and often poignant film which addresses a wide range of issues under the stealth cover of humour, I, Tonya also gives Robbie the chance — her first, really — to show her full range as an actress.

And the deaths of actors like Shepard, Della Reese, Jerry Lewis, Martin Landau, Harry Dean Stanton, and so many others, all of them legends, were especially poignant for me in a year that was also rife with fresh discoveries, the faces I hope to see carrying Hollywood's legacy forward.

As she uncovers the details of Nina's suicide and develops a poignant relationship with Nina's husband (Worthington), Claire also grapples with her own very raw personal tragedy.

While not to be confused with the 1987 Dudley Moore body - swap comedy, Hirokazu Kore - eda's latest drama also undertakes its own kind of identity experiment, one that organically grows into something altogether more poignant.

I didn't find this movie particularly original, but it is a thought - provoking and poignant glimpse into how ordinary people cope in difficult situations, and it's worth mentioning that it is also beautifully shot.

It's fun, it's entertaining but it's also very poignant.

Other highlights from 2016 (and also must see films) have included the very informative and poignant documentary, «Maya Angelou and Still I Rise,» by Rita Coburn Whack and Bob Hercules; Mick Jackson's «Denial,» the gripping Holocaust denial tale with compelling performances from Rachel Weisz and Timothy Spall; Paul Verhoeven's «Elle,» with its great Isabelle Huppert performance; the remarkably thoughtful sci - fi film, «Arrival,» by Denis Villeneuve; Tom Ford's «Nocturnal Animals,» with its outstanding performances from Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon; David Mackenzie's «Hell or High Water,» this summer's sleeper hit; Cristian Mungiu's «Graduation,» winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes; and Cristi Puiu's «Sieranevada,» winner of the top prize at this year's Chicago International Film Festival.

Not only is the movie relatable and poignant, but it's also extremely funny.

Scored by Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans («Martha Marcy May Marlene» and «Simon Killer»), their simple, mildly eerie, yet effective work also adds some incredibly layered levels of mood and poignant texture.

The support cast also acquits itself quite admirably, the upshot amounting to a poignant coming - of - age tale which resonates as realistic from its heartbreaking beginning clear through to a satisfying resolution.