Sentences with phrase «chamber pieces like»

Naturalism is second nature to us these days, at least in indie chamber pieces like The Seagull.

Even a chamber piece like Two Girls and a Guy, filmed in one apartment, appears straightforward, until it swerves entirely off the road into a ditch that you never saw coming.

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It's quite literally brochureware — the text derives from a four - panel fold - out flier and the layout is designed to feel like a piece from your local chamber of commerce.

10 Cloverfield Lane still feels like the spec script it spawned from, trying vainly to pack tense set pieces and striking moments of violence into its simplistic chamber play.

Mr. Weerasethakul's film is like a piece of chamber music slowly, deftly expanding into a full symphonic movement; to watch it is to enter a fugue state that has the music and rhythms of another culture.

Krieps is a real find: a virtual unknown (thereby giving Alma maximum ingénue - ity) who can hold her own opposite a titan like Day - Lewis in a movie which, for the most part, is an intense, chamber - piece two - hander.

Released: September 15 Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer Director: Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan) Why it's great: Relentless, morbid, and empowered like an Adderall - fueled, all - night Philosophy final prep session, Aronofsky's chamber piece is not for the weak of heart (or anyone who flinches at the sight of a weak human heart, for that matter).

I think for Chris Nolan, the interesting thing about Chris was that even though «The Dark Knight» was as large a movie as it was, I always felt like I was doing a chamber piece in the sense that the scenes were always involving a small group of people.

This looks like a return to the moodier, intense fare of Kill List along with the chamber piece quality of his terrific debut Down Terrace (which largely took place in a house).

Russian Ark is a bracing tonic, a generous, and endlessly inventive adventure through a museum, with a cast of hundreds, where as Victoria almost feels like a cramped chamber piece by comparison.

Ingmar Bergman's intense, character - based chamber drama Through a Glass Darkly has always seemed like it would make for a great, intimate theater piece.

comes on like an Ingmar Bergman chamber piece, or the early parts of Straw Dogs.

Compared to something like A Fantastic Woman, Lelio's intimate, wrenching drama about a trans woman in Chile that is also screening at this festival, Disobedience is a distant chamber piece, a story about hidden passions without much of its own.

It's actually a moody, medieval chamber piece with elaborate production values; its aspirations to high - seriousness somewhat undercut by the likes of Richard Boone and James Farentino skulking about.

Above and beyond, this is a film of big ideas, elevated from what could be a theatrical chamber piece by the rigorous manner in which it delves into the question of artificial intelligence and the singularity, leaving you picking over its issues well after the credits roll, while also never feeling like you're sitting through a TED talk.

So, if you have images in your mind what suffering a female dog went through after a spay surgery, replace that with the images of dozens of dogs each week being literally yanked on the end of leashes as they're led to the death chamber and thrown into 50 gallon cans like pieces of garbage, waiting their turn in the incinerator.

We took the title from the piece itself, and this line: «Words in other languages are like icebergs: The basic meaning is visible above the surface, but we can only guess at the shape of the vast chambers of meaning below.»

Some are antique ironstone from England like the chamber pot in the picture above and some are pieces I've purchased from stores like HomeGoods.