Sentences with phrase «bacchanalia of»

He has the basis of a good joke there, but the use of a «key party» as his bacchanalia of choice ruined the joke.

As the first weekend of Sundance comes to an end, FC Editor - in - Chief Nicolas Rapold and Eric Hynes, FC contributor and Curator of Film at Museum of the Moving Image, discuss the white privilege and bacchanalia of Sebastián Silva's disorienting Tyrel, Ethan Hawke's biopic of heavy - drinking country singer / songwriter Blaze Foley, Gustav Möller's gimmicky debut thriller The Guilty, and the joyousness and charm of Sandi Tan's first - person Singapore - set documentary Shirkers.

This shocking moment of fratricide leads to their house being overtaken by a funeral party of black - clad strangers (during which Pfeiffer upbraids ill - prepared Lawrence for her casual, lighter - colored house clothes), which gradually erupts into a squalid bacchanalia of bad behavior that only our star seems to find inappropriate, culminating in some major destruction to the kitchen before the suddenly giddy mourners flee back into the night.

Gatsby's parties are depicted with the kind of circus - like insanity of modern club culture (combined with the bacchanalia of the Moulin Rouge in his prior film), yet the later parts of the film slow down tremendously to allow the characters and scenes time to breathe.

Now, however, his rehabilitation has picked up speed with an American re-issue (prior to a spiffy DVD release) of Cruising, his infamous 1980 account of a serial killer at large in the bacchanalia of the New York gay scene in the last moments before the death march of Aids - the attendant commentary having been rounded up by David Hudson's Green Cine Daily and, a few days further back, the IFC Blog.

Tune In The typical family holiday spread — your basic bacchanalia of fat and carbs — inspires fear and longing in equal measure.

He tied for second at the Tour Championship, then wore a kilt and a wig in the bacchanalia of another European Ryder Cup victory.

Located just a few blocks from the gypsies and fortune tellers who inhabit Jackson Square and a lifetime removed from the non-stop bacchanalia of Bourbon Street, Crescent City Books is of a piece of the Quarter and New Orleans itself.

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The circular beds are gone, and nobody stalks the halls in silk pajamas anymore, but the cavernous bar, dark and oppressive, still stands as a shrine to the black arts of bacchanalia.

It's $ 150 million worth of large - scale battles, bacchanalia and overwrought writing — particularly in its rendition of Alexander (Colin Farrell) as a mama - whipped, militarily gifted but emotionally unstable conqueror.

After sowing chaos across the city, the conspirators hide in a chic department store, where the luxurious merchandise gets the better of them, and a foolhardy invitation extended to two street people to join in the bacchanalia triggers the terrorists» doom.

Such virtuosic spatial clarification becomes a key visual gesture in the film, which goes on to aerially trace the cornfields of Cayden's surrogate home, the recurring locations in the off - the - grid town, and the forest lair where a squad of malicious werewolves host their man - eating bacchanalias.

- Publishers Weekly «From abortion to alcoholism, bankruptcy to bacchanalia, Barnhardt's satirical scorching of southern culture comes in second only to Sherman's fiery march.»