Sentences with phrase «deceased writers»

David: Based on an original book by deceased writer Roland Barthes, co-writer and director Claire Denis» new film, «Let The Sunshine In», is notable for the marvelous performance by its leading lady, Juliette Binoche.

Based on an original book by deceased writer Roland Barthes, co-writer and director Claire Denis» new film, «Let The Sunshine In», is notable for the marvelous performance by its leading lady, Juliette Binoche.

To that end, Ray Charles plays piano and sings «Bein» Green» (to whose then - recently deceased writer Joe Rasposo the show is dedicated), Placido Domingo performs bilingual operatic duet «Look Through the Window» with Placido Flamingo,

Juliet Marillier defines the fantasy genre, Blake Morrison delves into the often distressing burden of managing a deceased writer's estate, and Olivia Mason presents a top - ten list of best works from one of my all - time favorite writers, Harlan Ellison.

His unclassifiable paintings have found homes in public and private collections, including those of now deceased writer friends like Hubert Selby, Jr. and Gilbert Sorrentino.

Not exact matches

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

Writer / director Sebastian Gutierrez follows up 2009's Women in Trouble with Elektra Luxx, which continues the further adventures of a retired porn star (Carla Gugino), pregnant with a recently deceased rock star's child, who makes ends meet by teaching a community college sexual education class.

A new trailer has arrived online today for writer - director Olivier Assayas» upcoming horror film Personal Shopper, which stars Kristen Stewart as a psychic looking to make contact with her deceased brother; watch it below after the official synopsis... Olivier Assayas, the internationally - acclaimed director of Clouds of Sils Maria and Summer Hours, returns with this ethereal and mysterious ghost story -LSB-...]

With a meager budget but memorable moments of suspense, decease the film marks a return to form of sorts for the writer / director, who earned accolades for his work on the Oscar - nominated film The Sixth Sense.

Director Leo Gabriadze and writer Nelson Greaves ambitiously contain the entire story to a continuous shot of a glitchy computer monitor where the main character clicks through her iTunes library, her deceased friend's Facebook photos and a group Skype chat infiltrated by the «hacker ghost.»

It follows Mary (Heather Graham), an aspiring writer working temp jobs who returns home one day — as the title suggests — to find her slacker boyfriend (John Corbett) deceased in a recliner.

Inspired by the thesis of Josh Karp's Kenney biography of the same name, the film suggests that his conflicts arose from always falling short in the eyes of his father, a country club tennis pro who constantly compared the writer unfavorably to his deceased older brother.

«The current reading lists are weighted in favour of white, deceased, male writers and this has - in turn - muted the voices of an integral part of our society, sending a message to students that these other voices and narratives are not as relevant.»

Not even Fleet Street writers, whose tradition of skewering the deceased in obituaries is legendary (and often admirable in a way), would defend this.

In the tradition of writers such as the deceased Oliver Sacks, who based his non-fiction narratives on people who suffer from inconvenient and often bizarre neurological conditions, Ananthaswamy has built his book on several individual case studies.

After four sons, Dr. Rosie Walsh and her husband, writer Penn Adams, thought maybe — just maybe — their fifth child would be a girl, Poppy, named for Rosie's deceased sister.

The deceased turns out to be a friend of his, Sean Casey, a writer that Bubba once loaned money to so that he could move to Las Vegas.

In POE, a 23 - year old obituary writer and college dropout runs afoul of an evil spirit while on a haunted house assignment and must uncover the common link between (among other things) a string of killings, his own deceased parents, and the strange numbered «code» that obsesses him.