Sentences with phrase «artistic ambition»

As seems to be a tradition, the stylized animation achieves, more or less the look of the previous film while not aspiring to the same level of artistic ambition in backgrounds.

The second season revealed artistic ambition, reaching for a certain amount of depth in characterization and storytelling.

Those contradictions also place it squarely within the filmmaker's apparent artistic ambitions.

We are an independent game developer, focusing on story - driven games with high artistic ambitions.

Taken together, these works constituted an ultimate declaration of his distinctive artistic ambition.

Despite, or perhaps because of, having it both ways — ridiculing Rayette while sentimentalizing her, mocking the snobbery of Bobby's highbrow family even as it advanced the film's own artistic ambitions — Five Easy Pieces appeared as a genuine American Art Film.

His mother, Ruth, was an American of Quaker background with artistic ambitions.

«It is to Baudelaire that I owe the awakening of poetic feeling, and what is deep in me,» he wrote, and his youthful discovery of Baudelaire brought sensual craving and artistic ambition surging to the surface.

If they made any paintings on the cave walls 100,000 years ago, calcium carbonate deposits would have obscured them, so the team plans to beam X-rays through the layers to see if our ancestors left traces of loftier artistic ambitions.

The writer - director, Babak Shokrian, has made an erratic autobiographical film about juggling artistic ambitions and family expectations in L.A.'s close - knit Iranian Jewish community.

With Away From Her and Take This Waltz, actress - turned - filmmaker Polley has proved herself as an unusually gifted director, but this inventive, moving documentary reveals even more artistic ambition.

Glen, in contrast to Russell, is confidently out of the closet and has strong artistic ambitions, allied to a boldly gay - centric world - view.

Although «The Tempest,» like Ms. Taymor's «Titus,» «Frida» and «Across the Universe,» is technically a movie, its heart belongs to the same stretch of Broadway where tourists flock to «The Lion King» and curiosity - seekers nervously await the opening of «Spider - Man: Turn Off the Dark,» and where her commercial ardor and artistic ambition collide and commingle.

These adjectives may be apt, but they also function as shorthand, eliding the filmic while serving as a connecting thread between the aesthetic impression a movie makes and its larger artistic ambitions.

But this is a far sweeter, more generous film, offering up a place where artistic ambition and heady romance can co-exist, at least for a while, and breaking into song and dance can be both deadly serious and a whole lot of fun.

Spillman captures the rawness of youthful artistic ambition eloquently and self - consciously, the «amplified emotions you only feel in your twenties, when you are wildly changeable.»

Unless you have something completely unique and visionary to say about New York (I have yet to meet somebody in the flesh who does), any kind of Manhattan - fuelled artistic ambition runs the risk of turning you in to a «ligger».

We offer residencies, commission new work and promote existing practices enabling artistic ambition and development.

With budding artistic ambition, he went to study at the Art Students League, and then Heatherly Art School in London.

What united the artists was the coincidence of individual artistic ambition, turned into the method - actor romanticism of cold - water lofts, bad coffee in Sixth Avenue cafeterias, fights at the Cedar Tavern, and frontlines being drawn between the downtown drinkers and brawlers and the uptown, suit - wearing aesthetes who hung about with the influx of European surrealists escaping the war.

Eventually, Hammersley's artistic ambition led him to the Chouinard Art Institute, a college in Los Angeles that was later incorporated into Walt and Roy Disney's foundation, the California Institute of the Arts.

To Emin, it seemed her serious artistic ambitions were being mocked and she was touted as a freakshow.

This richly illustrated survey spans the artist's prolific career from the early Flag and Target paintings — which were central to establishing his reputation as a major young artist in the mid 1950s, and have since become icons of twentieth century art — to the compelling compositions of the recent «Catenary» series - works that testify to Johns's continuing artistic ambition at the start of the twenty first century.

Cézanne's early artistic ambitions were encouraged by his friend Émile Zola but fiercely opposed by his father, a wealthy banker in Aix - en - Provence.

But true to the series theme, the films explore artistic ambition, opportunism and sexual desire with less than harmonious results.

It is the measure of Guston's large, complex, and still emerging artistic ambition that he did not settle for those rewards and the comfortable life as an academic painter they more or less guaranteed.

Kurosawa, 80 years old at the time, makes a clear metaphor here in relation to his own artistic ambitions — he went on to make two more films after this.

LOS ANGELES — Insisting that the legal, centuries - long practice of slavery in America could never have limited his personal or artistic ambitions, Kanye West stated Wednesday that if he had been born into captivity, he would have simply escaped the plantation on his motorcycle «the first chance [he] got.»

His grandfather, Swiss post-impressionist painter (and namesake) René Auberjonois and his father, Pulitzer Prize - nominated Swiss journalist and author Fernand Auberjonois, assured that young René was constantly exposed to a creative atmosphere and any artistic ambition was nurtured.

So breathtaking in its artistic ambition, so technically accomplished, so morally expansive, so fully realized that it defies the usual critical blather.

Aside from its lack of artistic ambition, however, it's kind of hard to bellyache about Ballers.

Zemeckis, a showman in his own right, seems intoxicated by the artistic ambitions of his subject — so much so that he can't help but gloss over some of the less flattering aspects of Petit's personality.

Sid Meier's Starships is a pretty good challenging strategy game, with tactical depth, but suffers from a lack of artistic ambition and a flat atmosphere that leaves one indifferent.

Cash - strapped and homeless, she begrudgingly returns to the Hamptons home of her father (Christopher Walken), an over-the-hill crooner desperately charting his musical comeback, in this spunky, soulful dramedy about the personal costs of artistic ambition and the bonds that carry us through.

While easy to categorize Golan as an exploitation producer (a reputation he lived up to frequently, with one self - directed effort cashing in on the death of Gianni Versace), he also had artistic ambitions.

It's just as much a movie about loss, grief, and artistic ambition — and yes, it's also very funny.

Despite the references, La La Land doesn't especially resemble Rain or Cherbourg; through its interest in the costs and the glories of artistic ambition, it's an effervescent companion to Chazelle's thrillingly brusque Whiplash.

Cash strapped and homeless, she begrudgingly returns to the Hamptons home of her father (Christopher Walken), an over-the-hill crooner desperately charting his musical comeback, in this spunky, soulful dramedy about the personal costs of artistic ambition and the bonds that carry us through.

Artistic ambition can be a bitch in this day and age.

Meeting up in Columbia, Missouri, where the Ross's Western screened at the 2015 True / False Film Fest, they discuss the adventurous aspects of their films, the artistic ambitions that can hide behind an unpretentious demeanor, and the challenges of balancing an enjoyable life with the task of documenting the lives of others.

Think of the filmmaker's latest as a spiritual sequel to 2005's The Squid and the Whale if the principal characters of that film were 30 years older, with the grumbling patriarch (played here by Dustin Hoffman) still unsatisfied and unsuccessful in his artistic ambitions.

While those two films got bogged down with the self - importance of their «radical» artistic ambitions, Kumble has the keen sense to not take himself too seriously, making Cruel Intentions something that those films never were — entertaining.

With a premise tailor - made for creativity and artistic ambition, The Dangerous Book for Boys, co-created and written by Bryan Cranston and Greg Mottola (Superbad), misses a great opportunity to be uniquely engaging.

But artistic ambition can be a bitch in this day and age.

There's clearly no artistic ambition present.

Though its artistic ambitions are admirable, Guardians is neither as fun as DreamWorks» standard comedies (e.g. Megamind) nor as exciting as their better - regarded, more action - packed tales like the Kung Fu Panda movies.