Sentences with word «artiness»

Of course, until Spy magazine identifies and indicts the quaint artiness of this western neighborhood and then lampoons the hot pants off fans who may be flocking there to be part of the Experience, Wicker Park will never achieve the legendary status of, let's say, Greenwich Village.

That's why Tomorrow's Tulips treating noise - rock artiness as a comfort food, together with their «Beach Goth» t - shirts, feels so appropriate, even archetypal.

It's possible that engineers do better nowadays than architects; they try for craft instead of art and don't get trapped into artiness.

The film is very much of its time, trying desperately for «cult» credibility as it is by casting Lemmy, Iggy Pop and that bloke from Fields Of The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culture.

Ferrara films gore with black - and - white artiness; in his tight, weird world, pop culture and noble themes are intertwined.

But all the excitement, the tension, the power of this scene is completely ruined by this distracting and supercilious juxtaposition of middleweight artiness.

The English - language film by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino suffers from artiness for its own sake.

It has its moments of visual beauty, but a little more poetic daring and a little less in the way of safe artiness might have made this one something more than an expertly conceived business proposition.â $ After a second viewing of the film recently, I still find myself feeling that way.

Following the overwhelming success of No Country — which supplied them with both a Best Picture statuette and their largest box office to date — the Coens had opted for the pitch - black humor of Burn After Reading and the insular artiness of A Serious Man (their second - lowest - grossing feature, after The Hudsucker Proxy).

Dominating the lens with peerless openness is Brooklyn's Saoirse Ronan, who brings to life the movie's free - spirited title character, a suburban Californian aching to leave home and bond with her fantasy of East Coast artiness.

The tonal shifts and bravura filmic flourishes — starting with a masterful tracking shot at the movie's opening — in this logic serve as auteurist fissures, ruptures that connote a certain artiness, a too - be-readness.

Armand White, New York Press: Kaufman «Äôs artiness ignores political reality «Äîfurther congratulating hipsters who prefer Todd Haynes «Äìstyle narcissism to Todd Solondz «Äôs humane sociological explorations (Kaufman imitates both)... Pity those nerds and fashion - sheep who'll waste time trying to connect Kaufman «Äôs symbols, cite the many David Lynch references and puzzle for ways to use «Äúsynecdoche «Äù in daily conversation.

But, a lot like Terry Gilliam, whose films Stanley's own resemble quite a bit, truth be told, at a certain point all that misdirected, aimless mess — all that excess and pretension, that empty production - design artiness — amounts to exactly what it should: frustration and failure and people figuring out this stuff is a bad investment.

Yet it lends even brutalism a mannered artiness.

... At times it can seem too proud of its virtuous noncommerciality; its slowness can seem shallow, its artiness willful.

I could've done with some of his alleged experimentation and artiness to liven up the one note feel of the film.

Another is that in the course of showing us much more of China's particularity than ever before Zhang has realized his most universal and accessible film to date, offering a virtual reproach to the artiness of its predecessors.

Sarris also complained about the vagueness of the finale, stating the film ended on an arrogant note of artiness: «The ending is a mishmash of psychedelic self - indulgence for the special effects people and an exercise in mystifying abstract fantasy in the open temple of High Art» (Sarris 45).

The straight - six wound out 168 exceptionally smooth horses, and despite the artiness of the motorcycle-esque instrument pod (presaging the Chevrolet Sonic) and the polarizing, concept - car styling, it was immediately apparent that BMW's engineers had sweated this machine, with driver involvement the utmost priority.

If you like old - world charm, artiness, neatness, you will be in awe of all the interesting things inside and in the gardens, surrounded by farm sounds, wonderful braai and kuier.

«That was his artiness in dress.»

«Downes's literary training comes through when he describes what he was trying to do: «I wanted to get rid of style, art, artiness, everything extra.

Another technique nuttily reaffirms the «artiness» of many of these abstract paintings: a neatly painted outer edge that boldly encases / frames Strobert's messy paint marks.

Oxlade's work combines a love of the absurd with wit, sensuality, spontaneous brushwork and a rejection of «artiness», something he felt damaged art.