Sentences with phrase «female roles»

The series is titled Tectonic paintings, to complement the shifting and overlapping of aesthetic terms with this physical metaphor of transformation; Onnagata, the exhibition title, is the Japanese word for male kabuki actors who play female roles in Japanese theater.

Like Simpson, Comani plays both male and female roles in digitally altered portraits of a marriage that, though cliché to extreme, feels wholly believable.

Linder combines magazine images of women's sexuality and domesticity to openly criticize conventional female roles and representation.

Her conceptual photographic «self portrait» scenes explore and question accepted female roles, cultural perceptions of race and gender, and, in the period covered here, a corruption of the male gaze.

On the stage, male actors wearing masks played both male and female roles.

In 1985 «Private Gone Public» was reviewed in The New York Times, «Another show of work by six «gut issue» artists — all women — assembled by the art critic Ellen Lubell... (Bonnie) Lucas makes clever assemblages of baby clothes and female fripperies — laces, ribbons, glitter, fake jewelry, etc. — in not - so - demure compositions that put down accepted female roles.»

Lin's installation evaluates the traditional use of badges and appropriates these uniform emblems as markers of changing female roles and the language used to characterize women in contemporary cultures.

Through near - limitless exploration of disguise, she comments on the female roles defined by the society, revealing gender as an unstable and constructed position.

If the chance of female roles again recalls Cindy Sherman, a back room has smaller self - portraits in black and white like her Untitled Film Stills.

Sherman first shot onto the New York art scene in the 1970s with her «Untitled Film Stills,» a series of black - and - white film noire style portraits of Sherman herself, donning stereotypical female roles like damsel in distress or femme fatale.

The sculpture demonstrates a combination of delicacy, decoration, pleasure, and artistic ambition, as well as a revealing degree of ambivalence about traditional female roles — the very ones that, paradoxically, Schapiro was proposing as a vital new source of inspiration for high art!

Horan's mixed - media collages examine historical female roles and representation.

Taking female roles in photographic representations as her starting point, Sherman creates recognizable pictures that mirror the human condition in its many nuances.

The stiffness of the amateur acting gave the proceedings an odd clarity, and the random casting unsettled stereotypes, as did giving the leading female roles to men: The Swedish artist Karl Holmqvist played Emmi; Florian Troebinger, the film's only professional actor, portrayed Barbara, the blond Germanic bar owner and Ali's sometime lover.

Sandwiched between the performative, gender - blurring self - portraiture of Claude Cahun in the 1920s and the glossary of female roles enacted in Cindy Sherman's self - starring Film Stills of the late»70s, is the work of Bunny Yeager.

Her video Team Jolie (2013) flashes between close - cropped images of Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston — subjects of a ubiquitous celebrity feud — while enumerating the personal experience of embodying stereotypical female roles, including that of «a machine for producing affection.»

Whether assisting young girls in finding their footing on a law - abiding path, using her voice to stand up for the voiceless, or fighting crime alongside her all - male counterparts, Constance Kopp is breaking with traditional female roles and navigating sometimes - stormy waters with grace, dignity, and a bit of humor.

Come to find out she and I have very much in common with our lead female roles even though their backgrounds are quite different.

15 - year - old Fernanda Marquina, of Spanish and Pima Indian ancestry, can't seem to live up to her mother's expectations or fit into the limited female roles of her culture.

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«There were 22 female roles; When else was I ever going to get to work on something like this?»

Like Blanchett, Wiest gets Allen's juiciest female roles, playing a third wheel of unfulfilled potential in «Hannah.»

One of the most interesting aspects of Ransom Riggs novel (which has been altered for the movie adaptation) is the strength of the female roles.

If the number of female roles increases at the current rate, it will take 700 years to catch up to males.

Other key female roles are admirably filled by three of the brightest talents on the scene: Amy Ryan, Andrea Riseborough, and Lindsay Duncan.

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It features a terrific cast, strong story development, and complex female roles.

The female roles are especially grating, and unknowingly so.

If they did, Amy Ryan's chances probably wouldn't be so overdetermined, because if there's anything more eternal than Oscar's penchant for snubbing a critic's darling, it is its tendency to give the cold shoulder to loathsome, almost irredeemable female roles (like Something Ronan's sniveling brat from Atonement, who is redeemed by film's end, but by two other actresses!).

He's interested, again, in male and female roles in his country, as well as how violence can forever alter the trajectory of a relationship.

In keeping with the highly self - referential nature of Seven Psychopaths, at one point Walken's Hans criticizes Farrell's Marty for the screenwriter's failure to create believable female roles.

Ironically in the year that the president of the jury is none other than Pedro Almodóvar, God's gift to women in the movies, there have been relatively few substantial female roles — certainly nothing to rival last year's astonishing field, which included Sandra Hüller («Toni Erdmann»), Isabelle Huppert («Elle»), Sonia Braga («Aquarius»), Kristen Stewart («Personal Shopper»), Ruth Negga («Loving») and Sasha Lane («American Honey»).

5:35 pm — IFC — Stage Beauty Sometime around Shakespeare's time, theatrical convention changed from having all female parts played by males on stage to allowing women to perform female roles themselves.

by Bryant Frazer An Actor's Revenge, director Kon Ichikawa's colourful melodrama depicting an elaborate revenge plot by a Japanese onnagata — a kabuki actor trained to play exclusively female roles — begins, appropriately enough, in the Ichimura Theater, where the very first shot illustrates that a panoramic aspect ratio is a perfect match for the wide proscenium.

She must have confused him with someone else, for the final extra pretty well sums up the worth of the female roles in this film: «Action Overload,» which edits together all the bartenders» dance sequences — «the hottest moments from the movie,» according to the disc box — into one MTV - ready reel.

We've also learned all about the supporting cast, which is full of character actors you know from other cable shows (James Frain, Michael Irby, C.S. Lee), as well as a bunch of beautiful women who get the kinds of female roles we've come to expect from True Detective.

12:30 am (11th)-- IFC — Stage Beauty Sometime around Shakespeare's time, theatrical convention changed from having all female parts played by males on stage to allowing women to perform female roles themselves.

The movie explores the emotional struggles between the two sisters and the larger implications of the female roles which they represent.

Disclaimer: I missed The Last Word, United Kingdom, and Wilson which all have prominent female roles for talented actors.

Davies» films have always supplied strong female roles (think Gena Rowlands in «The Neon Bible,» Gillian Anderson in «The House of Mirth» and Rachel Weisz in «The Deep Blue Sea») and this story, which followed an ordinary farm girl in the 1910s with a dream of being a teacher, who begins to assert her independence in the face of cruelties dealt by people ranging from her abusive father (Peter Mullan) to the initially sweet young man (Kevin Guthrie) who falls in love with her marries her, only to come back from the horrors of World War I irrevocably changed.

There are two major female roles in «Horizon» — which makes it unusual for a big budget tentpole release, a sad commentary itself.

Len Wiseman and Colin Farrell's remake of the Paul Verhoeven / Arnold Schwarzenegger cult classic is now reportedly considering actresses for the two main female roles.

The women are complicated, complex, confused, angry, and lost, while the men take on the more traditionally female roles of centering the protagonists.

The trend continues after Marky Mark, as the list is mainly comprised of actors who've starred in uber - lucrative franchises or big - budget superhero movies, films for which there are conspicuously few female roles.

Snub: There aren't too many supporting actress performances that scream to be recognized this year (it was a pretty weak year for strong female roles), but the first one that comes to mind is Oscar favorite Jessica Chastain for her performance in «A Most Violent Year.»

Chronicles of Hari — Indian film about an actor who specializes in female roles on stage.

Back home, he seeks out Spud (Ewen Bremner), to whom life hasn't been kind in an altogether more devastating way, and he reconnects with Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), who is now running a blackmail and prostitution racket with business partner Veronika (Anjela Nedyalkova in one of several underwritten female roles; Shirley Henderson and Kelly Macdonald suffer the same fate).

Strong female roles, like the ones she's been known for playing since «An Education» made her a star, weren't coming her way.

We had previously ourselves reported that New Regency had been looking at multiple female roles in Assassin's Creed, which could mean that Alicia might be playing a fellow assassin in the film as the studio was seeking out stunt people.

Inherent Vice has a dozen or so female roles and only two of them are halfway interesting (Yay, Jena Malone and Jeannie Berlin cameos).