Sentences with phrase «between nostalgia»

They're searching for the right balance between nostalgia for their physical cards and the need to move forward in the digital age.
The Nintendo Switch, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Splatoon 2 are all great, but Nintendo isn't the only part of the gaming industry striking a genius balance between nostalgia and novelty: This year, Resident Evil 7 simultaneously took the survival horror series back to its roots while exploring a sinister narrative in a completely new style.
This enormous white elephant both dominates the exhibition and embodies within itself Blachly and Shaw's compulsive reenactment of the moment where aesthetic forms cease to function as originally intended; a space perched uneasily between nostalgia for the simple certainties of bygone elites and exhilaration and revulsion at those very certainties.
, Natalie Labriola's expresses the short distance between nostalgia and humor, archeology and science fiction.
It's important to note the difference between nostalgia and a memory.
With an atmosphere in which peacefulness resides as the most important interconnecting point for all the works, the series Sojourn manages to cross the boundaries between nostalgia and the anticipation of the unknown.
The works in Newpapers express the short distance between nostalgia and humor, between archeology and science fiction as in Maximo Gonzalez» sculpture, a double filtered cigarette sticking out of the wall.
An aesthetic interpretation of the struggle between nostalgia and the desire for innovation, her work features hand - processed denim and unconventional materials.
Kindle Matchbook is a way to bridge the gap between the nostalgia of a physical book and the flexibility of e-books.
While the romantic element is sometimes forced, the true romance in the story isn't between a man and a woman or a girl and her father; it's between a young woman who has made difficult sacrifices and her art, between nostalgia and progress, and between ideals and a town.
by Walter Chaw Walking a fine line between nostalgia and regret, irony and earnestness, Philip Noyce's The Quiet American, adapted from the novel by Graham Greene, is a lovely film that captures, like Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the delicate balance between romance in the immediate foreground and the backdrop of war and politics.
Like the best vampire myths, it recognizes that the root of the monster lies in sexual consumption and addiction, in the interplay between nostalgia for the freedom of youth and the pricklier remembrance of the confused fever dreams of adolescence.
Promoting a brittle presentmindedness, the idea of progress weakens «the inclination to make intelligent provision for the future, and nostalgia, its ideological twin, undermines the ability to make intelligent use of the past» Distinguishing carefully between nostalgia and an appropriately critical historic memory, Lasch laments the ways in which — driven by progress, even driven a bit mad by it — we can do no better than issue a «communitarian counterpoint» to attempt to right the balance and to retain, at least here and there, smidgens of civic virtue.
They can pull at our hearts, leaving them wavering somewhere between nostalgia and discomfort, anticipation and hope.
In a contest between our nostalgia and their nostalgia, their nostalgia will win.

Not exact matches

Cramer had a fairly simple explanation for why friendlier rapport between the two presidents helped the market pole - vault: nostalgia.
But man's nostalgia to be at home in the universe is futile; the gap between man and the indifference of nature can not be closed.
All of this is true — but it obscures an important difference between the two forms of Boomer nostalgia.
Images of paradise invariably testify to a longing or a nostalgia for an original paradise, i.e., for participation in an original cosmic Totality, a Totality present in a primordial time prior to the advent of the rupture between the sacred and the profane, a time when suffering, death, and alienation had not yet come into existence.
This taste of 90s nostalgia will set you back between $ 105 and $ 415 — a small price to pay for a chance to relive the days when Clinton was in office and Destiny's Child had four members.
David (Paul Rudd), torn between sensitive - guy nostalgia for a fallen relationship and barely suppressed rage at the same ex-flame; Jay (Romany Malco), a handsome philanderer who screws himself over with his hip - hop attitude; and the homophobic would - be ladies» man Cal (Seth Rogen)-- this urgently funny trio constitutes a new - style frat - house burlesque of male paranoia and desire.
Here's yet another animated feature from Disney's mostly barren stretch between its two golden ages, a film that plays better in nostalgia - tinged memories than in the here - and - now.
There is an awful lot of rose - tinted nostalgia here for a time when women sat passively while powerful men threw wealth at them, but the interesting difference here is that the power dynamic between Red Riding Hood and the Wolf shifts.
This game makes a mockery of the original golden axe arcade classic, whilst it has features adapted to a modern game which are meant to draw you back to the good old days with that beautiful chuckle of nostalgia they are few and far between and were executed with so much more style and entertainment 25 years ago when golden axe graced lives.
A powerfully visual presentation of themes of loss, nostalgia and manhood, Zhao's movie tells its story in terse fragments intercut with long, slow passages that revel in the wonder of the natural landscapes and the quiet moments between human and beast.
This game got way over criticized to the point I think a lot of gamers are becoming as disillusioned as IGN, because its actually a fun game with a pinch of Resident Evil nostalgia set in a what if universe and the game is like a cross between gears of war and left 4 dead, so maybe its a tad bit buggy, but its still a fun game and if you paid 10 or so bucks then you got moneys worth for sure, so don't pay attention to all the haters, because they probably drink the Bill Gates kool aid.
Though familiar in subject matter, despite its uniquely confident female perspective, Gerwig never hits a false note, oscillating between wisdom and poignancy without falling into the trap of the nostalgia from a period so clearly influencing this sweetly tuned homage to misguided angst, ignorant yearnings, and the desire to break out on one's own.
It's the same spastic - type kids with the same silly jokes, and if there is one big difference between the two films, it's that the second film doesn't have the added benefit of being a nostalgia film extolling the virtue of the grand national pastime, baseball.
We all have memories of our childhoods, some happy some sad, but it's the in between moments that can fade into a general haze of nostalgia.
The photo was shared by Blumhouse's Ryan Turek via a tweet on his official Twitter page, capturing the nostalgia moment between the two icons of fright.
But there's a big difference between a movie content to surf a tsunami of nostalgia, and science fiction sturdy enough to invent tomorrow's nostalgia, today.
Once upon a time, I couldn't pick between Sonic and Mario — but now, years later, the seemingly endless stream of frankly mediocre - at - best Sonic games has jaded even my capability for nostalgia — I honestly didn't believe a 2D Sonic game could hold my attention in 2017, especially not after Sonic the Hedgehog 4.
A hybrid between crass commercial capitalization on nostalgia and a holiday film based around that obnoxious Chipmunk Christmas song, 2007's Alvin and the Chipmunks boasts a surprising supporting turn from edgy comic David Cross.
There's a story between them told only through glances that linger maybe a beat too long and a dance that seems fuelled less by wine than by nostalgia.
The new «Ghostbusters» film brings a battle between distorted nostalgia and the power of a child's imagination.
This story of an almost - love - affair between Tony Leung Chiu - wai and Maggie Cheung made emotional restraint sexy and kicked off a Sixties nostalgia trend in Hong Kong.
In an exclusive interview with Collider, Pellington revealed how the project first emerged, what appealed to him about Stuart Ross Fink's script, how Fink created the main character with MacLaine in mind, what convinced her to sign on to star, his directing approach with a veteran actress who is superb at her craft, the importance of getting the tone right between MacLaine and Seyfried in their first big scene together, his collaboration with music supervisor Liza Richardson on a soundtrack packed with unusual and lesser known artists, and his upcoming film Nostalgia starring Ellen Burstyn, John Hamm and Catherine Keener.
Between the majestic moose is a film about a bunch of older - type people (our thesaurus department has labeled them «adults») who return to their childhood summer camp for one last fling of nostalgia.
Nostalgia plays a big part of the conversations at hand between the characters and will definitely appeal to fans of the first film looking to return to these characters.
If 2015's «The Force Awakens» rebooted the series by cleansing our palates from George Lucas» dreaded prequels and cranking up the nostalgia machine, «The Last Jedi» gives us a «Star Wars» for today, where the good guys have shades of bad, the bad guys have shades of good and the rich get richer by profiting off the war between the two.
«This society puts my freedom above your hypocrisy,» one character declares, and this line resonates throughout the film as Almodóvar employs an elaborate flashback construction to square the circle between Catholicism and cinephilia, mirroring regimes that forge together trauma and nostalgia, oppression and rapture.
Set approximately 10 years after humdrum events of the 2012 prequel Prometheus, this battle royale between humanity and cinema's most perfect killing machine compounds artistic sins by hard - wiring into our nostalgia for Sir Ridley's other sci - fi masterpiece, Blade Runner.
This film plays as a pale imitation of that one, with less characters the love geometry is less complicated, and the film lacks all the social commentary of the other, with it's intersecting relationships between the various French classes on the eve of World War II and it's complex nostalgia for a more civilized time.
Betwixt the hi - tech battles between good and evil, the tale exploits breaks in the action to serve up a fair amount of nostalgia and sentimentality.
I caught a couple of shows in the nostalgia video room, and between showings, it was very obvious that they were bootlegged off the internet, too.
Her world is divided between ebooks and «real» books, nostalgia for what was and contempt for what is and will be.
It seems that if you played as a child, the Zelda that you played between 7 and 10 is the one which you will defend as your favourite, and will be the one with the highest nostalgia attached to it.
Gamers can dress up Lightning with Yuna's outfit, staff, and victory pose from Final Fantasy X. Between this and Cloud's outfit from FFVII, it looks like Square Enix is really banking on reeling in fans of nostalgia for their latest RPG.
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Nostalgia is a hybrid between genres such as Visual Novels and Rpgs.
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