Sentences with phrase «artistic life as»

In 1978, he dropped out of high school shortly before graduation, and began his artistic life as a member of the East Village underground.

These landscape works would help define an entire creative era in the author's artistic life as the turn towards them was a surprising feat to the entire scene.

Lisa Kerr of Sea Fever Design began her artistic life as a professional choreographer.

Not exact matches

He used himself as an example: As a graduate of University of Michigan, Costolo moved to Chicago to pursue improv comedy — what many might consider a life of artistic povertas an example: As a graduate of University of Michigan, Costolo moved to Chicago to pursue improv comedy — what many might consider a life of artistic povertAs a graduate of University of Michigan, Costolo moved to Chicago to pursue improv comedy — what many might consider a life of artistic poverty.

«I love books about people coming into their vocations, and this haunting memoir by musician Patti Smith brilliantly evokes a time and place in New York City, as she and Robert Mapplethorpe began to build artistic lives for themselves,» says Rubin of this one.

As a person who makes a living at writing, I confess that regularly — every five minutes or so — I must battle artistic pride.

This life — A concern for this life (as opposed to an afterlife) and a commitment to making it meaningful through better understanding of ourselves, our history, our intellectual and artistic achievements, and the outlooks of those who differ from us.

Jules is a Caltech graduate who now makes his living as a professional photographer; he combines an artistic talent with his scientific abilities in the darkroom to produce some astonishingly beautiful images of nature that now adorn his living room.

I thoroughly enjoy all of these artistic expressions, these slices of life as seen by hurting and healing people who are made in the image of love.

Insofar as modern life becomes dehumanizing and isolating, rock has sung about this, tried to carve out artistic refuge from it, or otherwise sought to explore how one must deal with it.

We incorrectly view faith as an eraser, rather than giving Jesus artistic license over every chapter of our lives.

As to the aesthetic reaction against the task of considering method, this is a pain with which the minister has to live, a pain he shares with every writer, painter, musician, or other artistic spirit.

Concern with material continuity also fed theological and artistic speculation about the fate of cut fingernails and hair, the condition and presence of genitals, the age and stature of the resurrected body, the bodies of the saints, the fate of relics, whether bodies in hell are reassembled as completely as those given eternal life and how and whether digested body parts are regurgitated at the resurrection.

Several themes stand out in Mayernik's accounts of these cities: the persistence of a humanist sensibility grounded in sacred order (including what can only be regarded as a sacramental sense of the relationships among the human body, the city, and the cosmos); the role of memory in the life of traditional cities; the relationship between memory and artistic action; and the city as the physical embodiment of shared aspirations rather than «reality.»

Claire has been investigating her broadening sexual options, her rich artistic temperament and sad internal life, and Nate is, as his mother was, the guilt - tinged widower, still looking for love in what may turn out to be all the wrong places.

As a conscious, creative professional chef and designer, Jaime's dedication to creating a quality - driven life — whether that be in food, wine or interior designs and art — has influenced him to travel the world in search of superior foods and stylish, artistic, sophisticated brands.

I like it because it strikes me as a technically good photograph in an artistic way, and it shows an essential act in the life of the cottontail.

Mike LayPort, who has the distinction of being the fastest roller skater in America, lives in a 22 - room mansion off Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, with (above, in descending order) his father, Lee, a realtor who in the mid -»40s converted the old Mack Sennett studio into a roller rink known as the Palace Arena; his mother, Vivian: his brother, Patrick, a former senior men's four - mile - relay roller - skating champion who now manages the family gift shop; Patrick's wife, Carolyn, and their children, Kathleen and Pat; his wife Donna, an artistic (or figure) roller skater; and Sam, a Labrador retriever.

The Waldorf curriculum carefully balances academic, artistic and practical activities to prepare the child as thoroughly as possible for life experiences.

If only the streets of Houston were a modicum of that, sigh, sadly culture and the arts and artistic living aren't quite as predominant here.

With a table setup on a chalkboard full of artistic hand drawn elements such as table settings, and a table runner of both living and hand drawn flowers.

musical and artistic — I play percussion in a band — been a glassblower on and off for 17 years — I love gardening and the grateful dead — I am writing a book about my experience touring with the band in the late 80s and playing drums in drum circles across the country as a teenager — I live...

Taken as a whole, the vibrant musical culture of Wilmington truly lives up to the city's slogan, «In the middle of it all,» and puts people right smack dab in the center of an artistic hub.

My artistic nature also overflows into my personal life as well.

On the contrary, the seven popular novels and eight films have more likely resonated with millions of adults and children around the world for the reason that people have realized, intuitively, that something is wrong with the present state of things — that social and artistic life, as they are, are unsatisfactory.

Malick, who remains in a league of his own as a filmmaker of pure high art, creative and artistic excellence, epic heights of groundbreaking grandiosity, metaphysical transcendence, spiritual awakening, symbolism, and so much more... Tree of Life represents his highest note in filmmaking achievement.

In this film, which began life as a multichannel video installation, Blanchett plays 13 roles, from a turbaned choreographer to a nuclear scientist, with all of her dialogue spliced together from nearly 60 artistic manifestos of the 20th Century.

But the power of Ghibli can't be denied, as their films are an artistic medium all on their own and continue to amaze us with wonderful stories brought to life with dazzling talent.

Pedro Almodovar's movies are so beguiled by lustrous surface textures and colors (fabrics, hair, makeup, architecture, upholstery, jewelry) that the title «The Skin I Live In» (or «The Skin That I Inhabit,» as I've seen «La piel que habito» translated elsewhere) would serve well as the name of his artistic autobiography.

It will also be the first to explore the complete spectrum of his astonishing artistic output, stretching across five decades from the late 1940's to his untimely death in the 1980's — and the first to put Warhol himself — his background and history, his family life and formative experiences in Pittsburgh, his crucial experiences as a commercial artist in New York, and his trajectory across three of the most transforming decades of the century — back into the presentation of his life.

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.

This very film could be seen as Rock's reinvention and even if he doesn't have one defining role he's trying to live down, he is clearly pursuing artistic relevance, something of a challenge given his track record in film.

As far as films go, the script and direction by Richard LaGravenese (Paris I Love You, Living Out Loud) aren't going to set the cinematic world on fire, as he imbues his tale with ample amounts of artistic license in order to get his overall message acrosAs far as films go, the script and direction by Richard LaGravenese (Paris I Love You, Living Out Loud) aren't going to set the cinematic world on fire, as he imbues his tale with ample amounts of artistic license in order to get his overall message acrosas films go, the script and direction by Richard LaGravenese (Paris I Love You, Living Out Loud) aren't going to set the cinematic world on fire, as he imbues his tale with ample amounts of artistic license in order to get his overall message acrosas he imbues his tale with ample amounts of artistic license in order to get his overall message across.

Indiepix Festival Favorites, Volume 2 Value - priced, three film set of music documentaries: «Icons Among Us: Jazz In the Present Tense,» about the modern jazz scene, with Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Robert Glasper, Nicholas Payton, Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Donald Harrison Jr., Anat Cohen and Esperanza Spalding; «Echotone,» a lyrical documentary providing a telescopic view into the lives of Austin's vibrant young musicians as they grapple with questions of artistic integrity, commercialism, experimentation, and the future of their beloved city; and «Roaring Abyss,» a stunning audiovisual poem, the product of filmmaker Quino Piñero's two years of field recording traditional and modern music from around every corner of Ethiopia, a country of eighty different nationalities and cultures spread amongst mountains, deserts and forests.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

If you can accept critically - acclaimed, but mostly historically inaccurate and somewhat anachronistic, films like Jesus Christ Superstar, Gladiator, and Braveheart, perhaps you might be able to cut Marie Antoinette the slack necessary, allowing the artistic license to properly engage you as a story about a young girl struggling to find herself, leaving everything she was behind her and uncertain of just what to be, only to finally emerge to the rest of the world as a historical figure larger than life.

What artistic liberties does this approach provide as compared to doing a biographical movie on the life of Robert F. Kennedy?

Writer - director Paul Dalio devastatingly autobiographical «Touched With Fire» (Lakeshore Records) also shows him sparking with musical talent as his score rises with the chiming, child - like wonder of impossible optimism, then plunges to surreal despair in his score's entrancing mood swings that conveys lives gone askew with mental illness, his haunting, religious - like musical portrait making us understand the price that comes with artistic inspiration born from bipolar enthusiasm.

Detailing nearly four decades of the poet's life, «A Quiet Passion» follows Dickinson (played in younger years by Emma Bell and for the bulk of the film by a remarkable Cynthia Nixon) as she struggles with religious, proper society, artistic recognition and encroaching death.

As Gil begins to idealize the beautiful city for its culture and history, he literally spends his nights in the 1920s, among his artistic idols — and certainly the idols of Woody Allen — only to return to the present in the morning with different insights on his own life and work.

As artistic director Peter von Bagh writes, the aim is «to make film screenings shimmer like live performances — through our efforts to guarantee the original format, the best technical care...» (1) And indeed thanks to that care, which includes live accompaniment by great musicians or the use of a large orchestra for new commissioned scores, or again the availability of new and recently restored prints within the walking space of four close venues, the experience of watching a film becomes something unique, a concert - like event.

A cursory IMDb search shows that The Better Angels's writer - director, A.J. Edwards, worked as an editorial intern on Terrence Malick's The New World, one of five editors on To the Wonder, and as a «key artistic consultant» on The Tree of Life.

Dan Deluca as Jack Kelly feisty leader of the newsboys, is lean and longing for a sweeter life in Santa Fe, and sings in a soaring, aching tenor which suggests both his artistic soul (this kid can draw!)

Edwards began working with Malick as an editorial intern on «The New World,» followed by being an artistic consultant on «The Tree of Life» and the editor of «To The Wonder.»

He first introduced the project into the world as a gallery installation where different screens pertained to an artistic movement or school of thought, whose texts Blanchett then brings to life as a character befitting a dramatic exploration.

Others cite the overbearing religious symbolism, starting with his disinterest in church as a lad to his ultimately becoming a bit of a Christ figure of sorts (perhaps not a coincidence that the film found a Christmas Day release), as being a bit too overbearing, but I find it one of the more fascinating artistic flourishes, and it brings great relevance to Zamporini's life and dedication to his religious pursuits beyond the scope of the film.

A look at the last 25 years of the life of artist JMW Turner, his screenplay highlights the master as man, detailing both his prodigious artistic talent and the emotional vulnerability that defined his character.

Based on the best - selling tell - all book about the making of the cult - classic disasterpiece The Room, «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made», by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and written for the screen by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds.

For the artistic pet lover in your life, Laurie Anderson's experimental, emotional documentary «Heart of a Dog» would make a thoughtful gift, if only for helping make the receiver contemplate mortality and their pet's life, as Anderson does so beautifully in this life's work.

When an artistic high school senior, Oscar Madly (Connor Jessup) begins to fall for his pretty boy co-worker, Wilder (Aliocha Schneider), he struggles to cope with memories of a traumatic hate - crime he suppressed as a child, while simultaneously living under the roof of his homophobic father (Aaron Abrams).