Sentences with phrase «autobiographical tale»

The manga broke through to new and crossover audiences with its autobiographical tale of a young woman coming to terms with her sexuality after a series of struggles, including hiring a prostitute.

This is a thinly - veiled autobiographical tale, and Plath captured the very spirit - or lack thereof - of depression with her words.

Her first novella - an autobiographical tale about a waitress who aspires to be a writer - Men, Money & Chocolate has been translated into 26 languages.

A pair of animated features debut: Waltz With Bashir (2008), an autobiographical tale of memory and repression turned oral history of the Lebanon war (R), and the made - for - TV family film The Point (1971), with songs by Harry Nilsson and narration by Ringo Starr (not rated).

During TIFF last fall, our own Steven Weintraub chatted with Hunnam about the autobiographical tale of the late Henri Charrière «s experiences in the French prison system and its penal colony.

Writer / director Carla Simón crafts a vividly lived - in, autobiographical tale.

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«Pierre Menard,» like its forerunner, «The Approach to al - Mu» tasim,» was still a halfway house between the essay and the true tale [«Autobiographical Notes,» New Yorker, September 11, 1970, p. 84].

Telling that eye opening tale is the woman she grew up to be — Marjane Satrapi, the author and illustrator of several internationally admired autobiographical graphic novels.

«Almost Famous» (2000) Crowe's been consistently unafraid to draw from his own experiences, but his epic «Almost Famous» is certainly his most autobiographical work, telling the tale of how, as an underage high - schooler, he ended up working at Rolling Stone magazine (in this case, covering fictional band Stillwater), falling in love, and coming of age.

Filmed in the twilit hues of the California magic hour, this loosely autobiographical coming - of - age tale marks Gerwig as an artist with equal talent and creative force — originality, spunk and heart — on either side of the camera.

«A BRONX TALE»: When Robert De Niro offered to buy the rights to the autobiographical one - man play «A Bronx Tale» from its largely unknown creator, actor - writer Chazz Palminteri, in order to make his directorial debut, it is said that Palminteri would not sell unless he was allowed to both write the screenplay and play one of its key roTALE»: When Robert De Niro offered to buy the rights to the autobiographical one - man play «A Bronx Tale» from its largely unknown creator, actor - writer Chazz Palminteri, in order to make his directorial debut, it is said that Palminteri would not sell unless he was allowed to both write the screenplay and play one of its key roTale» from its largely unknown creator, actor - writer Chazz Palminteri, in order to make his directorial debut, it is said that Palminteri would not sell unless he was allowed to both write the screenplay and play one of its key roles.

A coming - of - age tale that takes place in 2002 — long before teenagers lost themselves on their phones — the directorial debut of Gerwig was originally a mammoth - length script that she says wasn't autobiographical, even though she was born in Sacramento.

More of a horror / comedy, the manga is a single 120 - page book, following the «autobiographical» tale of the author's girlfriend, and the two cats that move in along with her.

The performance of an autobiographical high - school musical that Tiny writes, directs, and stars in makes a rousing and suitably theatrical finale for a tale populated with young people engaged in figuring out what's important and shot through with strong feelings, smart - mouthed dialogue, and uncommon insight.

Her book is autobiographical in nature and tells the tale of her coming to a new school and sitting alone at lunch, until her self - deprecating Vine's begin to get some serious attention.

First published in French in 1994, quickly acclaimed as a photobook classic and since republished and enhanced, True Stories returns for the fifth time, gathering a series of short autobiographical texts and photos by acclaimed French artist Sophie Calle, this time with four new tales.

Autobiographical material - tales of humiliation, desire, humor — presides in the details.

Later works include exuberantly satirical works of the 1960s, many featuring the vaguely autobiographical figure described by critic and artist Anne Doran as a «nattily dressed and deeply ridiculous Everyman in mad pursuit of liberty, poetry, and sex»; the pornography - inspired «X-Rated Paintings» of the early 1970s; the «Noun» paintings of the same period (each depicting a single everyday object against a bright, patterned background); the schematic, figurative canvases made in homage to Copley's Surrealist idol Francis Picabia; and the story cycles and morality tales from the 1980s and 90s, including a painting from the installation project The Tomb of the Unknown Whore.

Meaning Making, Uncertainty Reduction, and Autobiographical Memory: A Replication and Reinterpretation of the TALE Questionnaire