Sentences with phrase «doomed love»

For the story of doomed love to work, there has to be a compelling reason why the couple can't be together.

The last ten seconds of the movie is however awash in the sort of treacly unbearable Mills & Boons chocolate box kitsch that even Titanic — a similar doomed love affair story which Somewhere in Time has foreshadowed in many ways - would have blanched at.

World, Hold On: Yerzhanov Conjures Camus with Doomed Love Story Kazakhstani director Adilkhan Yerzhanov continues his...

Clips brought to life the links between films bound by a shared visual language, an obsession with doomed love and explicit homage in the latter two titles.

Before landing the role of Don's doomed love interest, Spencer had starred on «All My Children,» had a few guest spots on television shows, and even led a short - lived Lifetime series.

A dreamlike wandering through the streets of Istanbul, Grant Gee's film recounts the tale of doomed love from Orhan Pamuk's best - selling novel The Museum of Innocence.

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Royal expert Kelly Lynch and I enjoy better chemistry just sitting around chatting over a glass of wine than Naomi Watts and Naveen Andrews have while swept up in a passionate and doomed love affair in «Diana.»

A sublime, perfectly modulated story of doomed love between a merchant's wife and a servant, set in 17th - century Japan and drawn from the repertory of...

The classic, doomed love story gets a fresh look (and a Japanese setting) in this contemporary retelling, part of the Manga Shakespeare series.

Dr. Boli goes to the opera -LRB-» Giuditta tells the story of the doomed love affair between Octavio... and Giuditta, a beautiful woman with the brains of a gerbil»), observes Thanksgiving customs all over the world, teaches us history, and writes a play.

DOOMED LOVE A male New Zealand mantis (left) tries to mate with a cannibalistic female South African mantis (right).

Bring a bottle of champagne, something to nosh on and arm yourself with some interesting local history, such as a shipwreck, doomed love affair among sailors or anything cool that's washed up on the shore.

Against the backdrop of 19th Century Paris and the famed Montmartre cabaret, this is the story of the doomed love affair between Christian (McGregor), a young poet, and Satine (Kidman), a courtesan and performer at the Moulin Rouge.

In the first category are the two leads, Kitsch (from Friday Night Lights) and Collins (the doomed love - interest / character - motivation in X-Men Origins: Wolverine).

by Walter Chaw One of David O. Selznick's many attempts to shape the largely immutable mug of lady - love Jennifer Jones into the face that launched a thousand cinematic ships, the badly - fumbled Hemingway adaptation A Farewell to Arms finds Jones, about two decades past the age of her Red Cross nightingale Catherine, paired opposite the not - quite - long - in - the - tooth - but - almost Rock Hudson as her doomed love Lt. Henry.

Aided by a fantastic script by Larry Karaszewski & Scott Alexander and great performances by Woody Harrelson as Flynt, Edward Norton as his harried lawyer and rocker Courtney Love as his doomed love, Forman transformed it into a genuinely heartfelt celebration of the First Amendment and the right to free speech.

Terrence Malick's sublime examination of a doomed love affair is more abstract dance than straightforward drama — touching on deep - rooted themes of cultural disconnect and spiritual anxiety.

But he's never directed a film like «The Wind Rises,» a biographical period drama that has a few flights of fancy, but is otherwise a grounded and very personal tale of aircraft design, the oncoming storm, and doomed love.

He makes the doomed love between Smith and the much younger Pocahontas function as a metaphor for the decimation of the Native American population — and in so doing suggests the possibility that all human interaction can be analyzed along the lines of love and misunderstanding.

This is crazy, stupid, doomed love.

The «English» patient's secret past is as a Hungarian count, who had a doomed love affair with a married woman.

That Cowboy Bebop's main plot revolves around a deadly terrorist attack (both a specific reference to Japan's own subway massacre and a contemporary brush at a more global post-9 / 11 paranoia) precipitated (and ultimately ameliorated) by a doomed love affair is something to admire for its understanding of the ripple of consequence that infects as it spreads; love as the product of and the inspiration for chaos.

Fashioned more as a political thriller than a tale of doomed love, Mishra's film puts us in mind of his memorable Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi, which also had three youthful characters, stinging romance, and astute recreation of an India during the Emergency.

Tony Leung brings quiet dignity to the role of Ip Man, and Zhang Ziyi is elegant and ravishing as his competitor and doomed love, Gong Er.

TABU By Haden Guest Miguel Gomes's tale of doomed love and faded hopes in Portugal's colonial past

The episode recounted the doomed love story between John and a skittish Naomi as a tale told to Morgan, who tells John, «She loved you.»

The humour of the Cavendish story seems out of kilter with the other solemn stories concerning corporate conspiracy, suicide and doomed love affairs.

• «Carol» by the iconic indie director Todd Haynes promises a doomed love story between 1950s wife Cate Blanchett and a seductive Rooney Mara.

A deceptively simple tale of the doomed love affair between an ageing cleaner (Mira) and a young Moroccan gastarbeiter (immigrant worker) which exposes the racial prejudice and moral hypocrisy at the heart of modern West German society.

The remaining Film Foundation offerings are all in vibrant Technicolor: Senso, a 1954 Luchino Visconti extravaganza of doomed love in 19th - century Venice (1 p.m. May 29); Jean Renoir's spiritually transcendent The River, shot in India in 1951 (1:30 p.m. June 5); and Drums Along the Mohawk (1:30 p.m., June 12), John Ford's first picture in color and merely the third - greatest movie he made in 1939 (the others were Stagecoach and Young Mr. Lincoln).

He had the wrung - out look of a man who'd just come to the end of a long, doomed love affair.

The picture could only have been salvaged by Dark Blue World focusing on the macrocosm of the plight of Czech pilots for which its tale of a doomed love triangle is the microcosm.

With its doomed love story and Civil War backdrop, Margaret Mitchell's lush melodrama was ripe for cinematic adaptation, but could still have been made a hash of.

THE «DOOMED LOVE» MAN This four - and - a-half-hour study of passion has mesmerized viewers on two continents, and brought belated recognition to Manoel de Oliveira, 72, who tells Carlos Clarens how he did it.

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8:00 pm — TCM — Roxanne Steve Martin takes on the classic story of Cyrano de Bergerac and his doomed love for the oblivious Roxanne, transposing it into modern times and making it much more consciously comedic.

Anyone care to explain why music from Richard Wagner's seminal opera Tristan und Isolde, which tells the story of the doomed love between Arthurian Knight of the Round Table Sir Tristan and the already married queen Iseult, is used to accent scenes featuring the fellow warrior Lancelot and his lord's wife Guinevere in John Boorman's...

Their doomed love affair is told to us by Nick Carraway, a keen and reflective outsider.

Cities of the Plain partakes easily of the typical tropes of American westerns, doomed love, the sense of loss for an increasingly marginalized and antiquated cowboy culture at odds with a modernizing west, what have you.

Doomed love.

Shakespeare describes a passionate but doomed love affair and has many harsh words and recriminations for his lover (for more about the Dark Lady, see «Beyond the Book»).

At its heart, The Nationalists, tells the story of a doomed love story between an Irish journalist and a proud Kerry woman.

Confirming that the inter-linked short story is the coolest literary form du jour, Arnott shuffled narratives about science - fiction, Scientology, Eighties pop stars, doomed love, nuclear physics and the occult into a knowing, clever and intricately woven collection that deserves to rain on Cloud Atlas's parade or accompany Jennifer Egan on a visit to the goon squad.

A doomed love triangle is destined to end in disaster in a haunting story of passion that can never be reciprocated.