Sentences with word «bravura»

A rueful smile acknowledging that Hal has learned from him — After all, Hal is now delivering the type of bravura performance of kingliness that Falstaff would offer on the tables of the Boar's Head Tavern.

So many men turn in bravura performances that drag a film along with it towards a win — McDormand is good enough to do just that.

Each measuring 109 x 65 inch, the scale of a twin bed, the sheets are now unfolded and drawn on with bravura strokes of spray paint, then hung with their irregular and individual grids of folds still visibly present.

It's exactly the kind of bravura sequence Edgar Wright might dream up if he were high on meth.

From the start of its cinematic universe, in 2008, it opted instead for light doses of humor — epitomized by Robert Downey Jr.'s bravura turn as Iron Man's alter ego, the extravagantly self - loving billionaire inventor Tony Stark.

Expect «blood, sweat and irony» with bravura filmmaking from the High - Rise director.

Jane, Lowe, Piven and McKay give bravura, unhinged performances as four friends on a drug and rock n» roll fueled trip together in Big Sur.

MIAMI BEACH — Amid all the predictable fare in Art Basel Miami Beach's Public sector, installed in Collins Park alongside the Bass Museum of Art — your Ernesto Neto hammock contraption, your Justin Matherly concrete - and - walker figure, your shiny bronze Elmgreen & Dragset provocation, your Georg Baselitz primitivist giant — is a set of bravura works by women artists.

Together the two opening tracks constitute one of the most bravura opening sequences of any film score.

There are moments of oddly dark slapstick humour when Pacino lets off some steam in that trademarked bravura style of his.

Dzubas would never completely eliminate such bravura brushwork, which would come to define his future paintings to extraordinary effect.»

Guston's painting is lumpen, ugly, funny, full of pathos, and as full of doubt as Labille - Guiard's is full of confidence (and bravura painting technique) but is equally as chock full of information about the artist and their position in the world.

They can also make for bravura curating.

Fritz Lang turns this into a creepily effective work, full of bravura set pieces and subtle suggestions.

Wilson's connections to the Club — as the painters at the core of the movement sometimes identified themselves — are both historic (he worked in the WPA project alongside Rothko and Krasner) and clearly visible in the technical bravura of such paintings as Omar, [READ MORE]

He displays a mastery of staging, of camera placement and of bravura acting from the incredible cast that has seldom been matched in the canon of noir.

Want to know how so - and - so gave a famous locker room speech such bravura?

There are plenty of smart ideas and bravura visuals in this maudlin, ponderous and slightly ridiculous tale of aliens coming to Earth, adapted from a Ted Chiang short story.

It's an ambitious, bravura finale, one that represents a huge departure from its source material — and may make future adaptations of «Acceptance» and / or «Authority» even more difficult than they would have been already.

Taut direction, a tight and intelligent (if ultimately derivative) script, excellent acting, bravura action sequences, wonderful locales, and intense photography and editing.

In fact, it's an identical feeling — gratuitous bravura technique, no content; painting about nothing; academicism disguised by flash surface.

Everyone gets their moments to shine — yes, even Hawkeye — in the film's bravura climax but even before that Whedon's script finds involving and creative ways to keep the team challenged within and without.

In describing his small portraits, the catalogue entry remarks that «here, color, form and composition are tightly knit together in a dazzling display of painterly bravura, forming a small group of extremely rare works that remain some of the highlights of the last one hundred years of painting.»

It is the film's most bravura set piece and features Coogler's signature one - take (as seen in Creed), capturing a brawl from all levels and sides of the casino where the trio ambushes Klaue.

It's also an unsurprisingly bravura showcase for Day - Lewis, who, in what will reportedly be his final screen performance, has left us with something rich, indelible and at times marvelously loathsome — a portrait of the artist as a fey, prickly, hyper - demanding middle - aged man.

The film's final scene and final shot are stunningly coterminous: one bravura camera setup that reveals Garrel as an undisputed master at organizing cinematic space.

Moose's voice - so true, so funny, so boyish, so irreverent - will make you want to stand up and applaud Choldenko's bravura encore... The plot carries the reader along and provides genuine suspense, but the novel's greatest achievement is the creation of the inner worlds of its characters: all complicated, turbulent, alive, surprising, sweet and deep.

In this sublimely intricate and compulsively readable tour de force of Dickensian bravura and genre - blending splendor, Harkaway tells the tale of a mild - mannered London clockmaker faced with saving humanity from extinction.

The Fauvist palette and bravura gestures are not surprising when one considers her family background and exceptional training.

Since the late 1980s, he has made deadpan, at times dour paintings that embrace politics as their subject matter, while tending toward compact brushwork and scales of gray rather than flashy colors and bravura expression.

He's in some of the longest, most aggressively focused two - shots in all of American cinema, some of which push in so slowly that they seem ever still — yes, this is a feat (just ask Waterston, whose hypnotic, naked, single - take monologue late in the film goes beyond bravura in front of Anderson's patient camera).

Unlike his cohorts, he did not adopt Frankenthaler's «staining» of unprimed canvases with poured color or employ acrylics but, like them, he considered expansive fields of color ample content, emphasized two - dimensionality in his work and eliminated bravura brushwork.

With truly useful tips (cut overlong cooked noodles to make them more manageable is one why - didn «t - I - think - of - that example), an oversize bravura design, and color photos throughout, the book shows and tells how to cook with the greatest ease.

Similarly, by pitting everyone against the monsters right up front, we don't get a lot of bravura character on character chest thumping.

Of course, he does this in the same bravura directing style of his past films, and with the rapid - fire comedy he and co - writer / star Simon Pegg brought to the first two parts of «The Cornetto Trilogy», Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

Combining Hitchcockian camerawork, lush, over-saturated colors, rollercoaster - like thrills, and at times surreal situations, Argento could overcome the sadism and misogyny in his gallery of sliced and diced beauties with the sheer cinematic bravura and beauty of the sequences.

Joanna reviewed Jackie at TIFF and she's right that it's a balls - out bravura performance from Portman.

«Gone Girl»: A scarlet - spattered sublime pleasure, with bravura direction from David Fincher, brilliant writing and plenty of social commentary to go with the thriller mechanics like the poison that truly kills you smeared on the shining knife that stabs deep.

Overall, it's more bravura work from the Criterion Collection.

The booming stinger chords of Alan Silvestri's score retain their shameless oomph on the disc's DTS and Dolby Digital soundtracks, and the pristine video transfer makes Zemeckis» bravura third - act camera moves just as dazzling as they were on the big screen.

And while SUVs are traditionally intended to deliver excellent off - road capability, the Mercedes - Benz GLK350 also offers enough swagger when the muddy roads become pavement and bravura takes precedent over brawn.

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It says no to heavy machinery and computers, to displays of bravura skill.

The often awkward, almost workmanlike gestures in McDonnell's paintings are closer to Fishman's stubborn, yet fluid, mark making than to any residual influence of abstract gestural bravura found in the work of, for instance, Willem de Kooning or Joan Mitchell.

Ashcan School paintings filled with strong colors and bravura brush strokes are superbly represented at the Telfair with works by Robert Henri, George Bellows, and George Luks.

Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Victor Kanefsky's effervescent documentary Art Bastard casts 76 - year old New York painter Robert Cenedella as a kind of aesthetic Robin Hood who robs from hallowed art tradition to give ordinary people bravura paintings that don't require them to plumb art history or some other arcane discipline to appreciate.