Sentences with phrase «best illusionists»
A good illusionist would have either been stoned for being in league with devils, or admired as a miracle worker back then.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
fred Houdini is considered the greatest of all illusionists, but even if we were to compare him to all the others one of them would emerge as being the best, but that doesn't translate to that person's illusions being any different in kind than the others, yes?
Historically, artists as well as illusionists have used illusions to develop deep insights into the inner workings of the visual system.
Critical Consensus: «Crank» Is Well - Ranked; «Illusionist» Is Magic, «Crossover» Is An Air - Ball, «Wicker Man» Gets Burned
Critics Consensus: The Illusionist is an engrossing, well - crafted story of mystery, magic and intrigue that is certain to enchant, if not hypnotize, audiences.
Philip Glass (The Illusionist, Undertow) coats the film with his usual whimsical style, and though the film might be deemed as too slight in its subject matter to merit such heavy - handed compositions, the music is actually completely in keeping with the tragic allusions underneath, with motifs based on magic (wizard hats, old cats, strands of hair, and gold stars tie in to the coven - like relationship of the women) as well as Biblical references (Sheba is short for Bathsheba, the Old Testament woman seduced; Barbara's last name is Covett, and covet she most certainly does).
The good news, however, is that most of the names we most want to see recognized are still on it, including Daft Punk for «TRON Legacy,» Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for «The Social Network,» Sylvain Chomet for «The Illusionist» and arguable frontrunner Hans Zimmer for «Inception.»
Best Film: «Of Gods and Men» Best Director: Roman Polanski, «The Ghost Writer» Best Actor: Eric Elmosnino, «Gainsbourg» Best Actress: Sara Forestier, «The Names of Love» Best Supporting Actor: Michael Lonsdale, «Of Gods and Men» Best Supporting Actress: Anne Alvaro, «The Clink of Ice» Most Promising Actor: Edgar Ramirez, «Carlos» Most Promising Actress: Leïla Bekhti, «Tout ce qui brille» Best Original Screenplay: Baya Kasmi and Michel Leclerc, «The Names of Love» Best Adapted Screenplay: Robert Harris and Roman Polanski, «The Ghost Writer» Best Foreign Film: «The Social Network» Best Animated Feature: «The Illusionist» Best Documentary: «Oceans» Best First Film: «Gainsbourg» Best Cinematography: Caroline Champetier, «Of Gods and Men» Best Art Direction: Hugues Tissandier, «The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc - Sec» Best Costume Design: Caroline de Vivaise, «The Princess of Montpensier» Best Film Editing: Hervé de Luze, «The Ghost Writer» Best Sound: «Gainsbourg» Best Short Film: «Logorama»
LOS ANGELES, CA (October 3, 2017) The second annual Critics» Choice Documentary Awards, honoring the finest achievements in documentary features and non-fiction television, will be presented Thursday, November 2, 2017 at BRIC in Brooklyn, New York, hosted by magician / illusionist, comedian, actor and best - selling author Penn Jillette.
Left out for best picture consideration were the deserving «Notes on a Scandal,» «The Painted Veil,» «Last King of Scotland» and «The Illusionist.»
As long a shot as it probably is, would have loved to see a mention of Sylvain Chomet's score for «The Illusionist» — surely one of the year's best.
Directors Gregg Araki — «Kaboom,» «Nowhere» Susanne Bier — «In a Better World,» «After the Wedding» Neil Burger — «Limitless,» «The Illusionist» Lisa Cholodenko — «The Kids Are All Right,» «Laurel Canyon» (also invited to the Writers Branch) Debra Granik — «Winter's Bone,» «Down to the Bone» (also invited to the Writers Branch) Tom Hooper — «The King's Speech,» «The Damned United» John Cameron Mitchell — «Rabbit Hole,» «Shortbus» Yojiro Takita — «Departures,» «Himitsu»
I mention this because, however well done Pillars of the Earth might be [I've not read it], the television miniseries [Starz, Friday, 10 / 9C] is an overstuffed, frequently ponderous work that is most notable for its amazing cast — Ian McShane [Lovejoy, Deadwood], Donald Sutherland [Dirty Sexy Money, Salem's Lot], Rufus Sewell [Dark City, The Illusionist], Gordon Pinsent [Away From Her], Tony Curran [Underworld: Evolution, Doctor Who] and Allison Pill [The Book of Daniel, In Treatment] among them.
The illusionist regularly performs to only a handful of people, never getting any appreciation or much money for his good work.
Among the names I'm particularly glad to see on the list are «The Illusionist» animator Sylvain Chomet (seven years after his first nod), offbeat directors Gregg Araki and John Cameron Mitchell and «Another Year» actress Lesley Manville — whose inclusion should come as some consolation for the missing Best Actress nomination many felt she deserved this year.
BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT The Arbor «Äì Sound «Äì Tim Barker Brighton Rock «Äì Cinematography «Äì John Mathieson The Illusionist «Äì Animation «Äì Sylvain Chomet The King «Äôs Speech «Äì Production Design «Äì Eve Stewart Monsters «Äì Visual Effects «Äì Gareth Edwards
The main cast truly has the time of their lives playing four wunderkind illusionists: J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), Henley Reeves (Isla Fisher), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson) and Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) are given terrific parts and are without a doubt collectively a good enough reason to give Now You See Me a try.
• «The Illusionist,» a French animated film based on a posthumous screenplay by the great director Jacques Tati, won the third slots for Best Animation which was expected to go to «Tangled.»
LAFCA and particularly the NYFCC aren't nearly as wedded to Pixar in the Best Animated Feature category as the Academy, so I expect to see «The Illusionist» spring a semi-surprise with either group.
Other striking male performances were provided by: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Alec Baldwin and Anthony Anderson in The Departed; Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber and Toby Jones in The Painted Veil; Wim Willaert in When the Sea Rises; Leslie Phillips and Richard Griffiths in Venus; Clive Owen, Denzel Washington, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Inside Man; Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase and Shido Nakamura in Letters from Iwo Jima; Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Alan Arkin and Paul Dano in Little Miss Sunshine; Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti and Rufus Sewell in The Illusionist; Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Gregg Edelman and Ty Simpkins in Little Children; Keanu Reeves, Christopher Plummer and Dylan Walsh in The Lake House; Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena and Stephen Dorff in World Trade Center; Tim Blake Nelson, Pat Corley, Jeffrey Donovan, Stacy Keach and Scott Wilson in Come Early Morning; Ryan Gosling and Anthony Mackie in Half Nelson; Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, and Danny Huston in Marie Antoinette; Matt Damon, Michael Gambon, Alec Baldwin, William Hurt, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Keir Dullea, Timothy Hutton, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Ivanir and Joe Pesci in The Good Shepherd; Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Kelsey Grammer, James Marsden, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones and Ben Foster in X-Men: The Last Stand; Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Simon Abkarian, Sebastien Foucan, Jesper Christensen and Tobias Menzies in Casino Royale; Ebru Ceylan and Mehmet Eryilmaz in Climates; Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck and Bob Hoskins in Hollywoodland; Jamie Foxx, Danny Glover, Keith Robinson and Hinton Battle in Dreamgirls; Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Trevor Fehrman, Kevin Smith and Jason Lee in Clerks II; Justin Kirk and Jamie Harrold in Flannel Pajamas; Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker and Adrian Grenier in The Devil Wears Prada; Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Hulce in Stranger Than Fiction; Samuel L. Jackson, Curtis Jackson, Chad Michael Murray, Sam Jones III and Brian Presley in Home of the Brave; Harris Yulin, Ty Burrell and Boris McGiver in Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus; Max Minghella, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar, Ethan Suplee, Joel David Moore and Nick Swardson in Art School Confidential; Joseph Cross, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes and Alec Baldwin in Running with Scissors; Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Ciarán Hinds, Justin Theroux, Barry Shabaka Henley, Luis Tosar and John Ortiz in Miami Vice; Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings, Roger Allam and Tim McMullan in The Queen; Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Anthony Mackie, Marlon Sherman and Clarke Peters in Freedomland; Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Linus Roache, Alex Rocco, Ron Silver and Raul Esparza in Find Me Guilty; Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley in Lucky Number Slevin; Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Chris Klein, Shohreh Aghdashloo, John Cho, Tony Yalda, Sam Golzari and Willem Dafoe in American Dreamz; Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Rory Cochrane in A Scanner Darkly; Adam Beach, Ryan A. Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, John Benjamin Hickey, Jon Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker and Robert Patrick in Flags of Our Fathers; Chow Yun - Fat in Curse of the Golden Flower; Sergi López, Doug Jones, Álex Angulo and Federico Luppi in Pan's Labyrinth; Bill Nighy in Notes on a Scandal.
In a recent article in Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King named The Illusionist as one of the best films of the year and commented on how he didn't see the ending coming.
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I expected something better from director Neil Burger, whose track records are spotty («Limitless», «The Lucky Ones», «The Illusionist»), but whose ambitions are great.
Very little in «A Cat in Paris» compares with, say, the best in «Persepolis,» «The Illusionist,» or «The Triplets of Belleville» — the three most inventive 2 - D animation movies of recent years that weren't directed by Hayao Miyazaki («Spirited Away»).
This is the first ASC Award for Lubezki, who was nominated along with Dick Pope, for The Illusionist; Dean Semler, for Apocalypto; Robert Richardson, for The Good Shepherd; and Vilmos Zsigmond, for The Black Dahlia.
With that said, while The Triplets of Belleville proved that non-CG animated features have a chance in winning this category (good luck, The Illusionist), How to Train Your Dragon will ultimately win out for being something that feels fresh in comparison to the rest of the lot.
Short Takes All Good Things & Blue Valentine by Laura Kern; The Illusionist by Nicolas Rapold; Night Catches Us by Nicolas Rapold; Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale by Chris Chang; Tiny Furniture by Chris Chang
So we now have a movie set in Vegas, with a douchebag stage illusionist vampire hunter, a lonely nerd ditched by his cool best friend, and very little gore.
With Toy Story 3 also nominated for Best Picture among other awards, do How to Train Your Dragon or The Illusionist stand a chance?
The Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations are for Toy Story 3 (sure to win), The Illusionist and How to Train Your Dragon - Despicable Me didn't make it.
It's probably just as well we had a breather between this and the twin pronged attack of The Prestige and The Illusionist, as Gillian Armstrong's latest feature certainly covers similar territory.
The Best: The Illusionist (Bob), Black Swan (Matt P., Matt B.), Another Year (Kurt) and Blue Valentine (Mike Rot)
Director Neil Burger (The Illusionist, The Lucky Ones, Limitless) is certainly talented, and it's a credit to him that he keeps things interesting and exciting for as long as he does before the story gets bogged down in seriousness as well as its tiresome length.
Glen David Gold is best known as the author of Carter Beats the Devil, a fictionalized biography of Charles Joseph Carter (1874 - 1936), an American illusionist performing from c.1900 - 1936.
The shift brings out the illusionist in her as well, as in large, richly shaded drawings of even more twisted sculptural forms.
Best known for his re-creations of iconic images from visual culture made using nontraditional materials and recorded with a camera, Muniz here strips the work of representational imagery, in a direct exploration of the illusionist strategies and material processes that he has developed over the course of his career.
G Gair, Joanne (b. 1958) Illusionist body painter from New Zealand, best known for «Demi - Moore's Birthday Suit», which appeared on the front cover of Vanity Fair, August 1992.
Eventually they see through even the best of showmen and illusionists.
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