Sentences with phrase «for bravura»

Alejandro González Iñárritu edged out Linklater for Best Director for his bravura work on the dizzying Birdman, while Wes Anderson scored Best Screenplay for The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Casey Affleck won Best Actor for his masterful work in «Manchester by the Sea» while Isabelle Huppert picked up the Best Actress prize for her bravura turn in «Elle.»

So this restored version of Lang's masterpiece is something to celebrate, both for its bravura filmmaking...

More than half of Labour voters (56 per cent) are pleased with Mr Corbyn's performance while just 25 per cent believe shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who was widely lauded for a bravura Commons speech backing military action against Islamic State in Syria, would make a good replacement, rising to 42 per cent among Conservative voters.

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He shoots slightly more frequently than Costa does, but until a bravura run of league form in 2017 (when he scored 10 goals as part of Real Madrid's rotational «B» team that took the slack for a busy Champions League — filled schedule), he hadn't consistently been shooting from the most dangerous central areas.

Shadow first secretary of state Angela Eagle has been applauded for a «bravura» and «truly amazing» prime minister's questions debut.

So it would have been a characteristically bravura, publicity - grabbing touch if the U.S. Attorney had chosen the end of last week to unveil a federal indictment of Mayor Bill de Blasio on campaign - finance - related charges — while de Blasio was out of town, jetting to Chicago and Fort Lauderdale and Beverly Hills raising money for his reelection campaign.

Shadow first secretary of state Angela Eagle has been applauded for a «bravura» and «truly amazing...

For all the cheers during and after David Cameron's bravura last PMQs the painful truth is that he was destroyed by hubris.

Irons, busily offset by Silver, gleefully choreographed by Schroeder, gives the picture its real bravura reason for being.

And through Will Patton's bravura performance, Sam becomes as much a center of the story as Dee who has the most to lose and proves there is always something worth fighting for.

Watching Krisha is a revelation: there are expected «rules» for such material (a former addict returns home for a holiday), but then director / writer Trey Edward Shults breaks every rule, making those rules seem tired and arbitrary in the process, and he does so with bravura, confidence, flash.

The Messenger does have two Oscar nominations, for its screenplay and for Harrelson's bravura performance.

Partly due to the iconic nature of the story and partly due to Bullock's bravura performance, we do root for Ryan Stone.

That last point is particularly important, because although it's easy to admire Tarantino's bravura storytelling — not to mention his moxie in resurrecting a large - format anamorphic film process that's been dead for 50 years — the schematic structure and derivative narrative he employs makes The Hateful Eight about as nuanced as bloody bootprints in the snow.

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.

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.

A bravura scene in which noodle dough is twirled through the air, pizza - like, recalls (intentionally or not) the Coens» affection for spinning discs (the hula hoop in Hudsucker Proxy, the hubcap in The Man Who Wasn't There, etc.).

Whether she's a prim homemaker intoning Malevich's Suprematist call for truth over sincerity to her children at the dinner table as if it were grace, a dishevelled homeless man in an apocalyptic wasteland declaring the old world dead, or a wasted party reveller praising a century illuminated by electricity, Blanchett's performance has a chameleon bravura that turns what could have been a dry conceptual exercise into a hilariously absurdist provocation.

For, adapted by Jane Goldman from Peter Ackroyd's 2012 novel «Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem», this film is a bravura music - hall gothic, with all of 1880s London its theatricalised stage.

Plaza shows impressive range and commitment in a bravura role that takes her from a dainty damsel to the Evil Dead, and allows for both existential anguish and some terrifically silly physical comedy.

«Inside Llewyn Davis» The logline for the Coen Brothers» «Inside Llewyn Davis» may not be especially appealing on paper, but from the completely bravura opening scene, which is an exquisitely shot sequence of Oscar Isaac's titular singer / songwriter performing a song in its entirety, we were completely and totally hooked.

Natalie Portman in a bravura performance as a driven perfectionist, a young ballerina up for a starring role at Lincoln Center.

That same year, Jim Carrey vanished into the role of Andy Kaufman for Milos Foreman's Man On The Moon, a bravura feat of method acting that Smith is now documenting in Jim & Andy.

Strikingly mounted, lighted, shot and scored, this tense, decidedly arty film marks a bravura feature directing debut for young American actor Brady Corbet («Melancholia,» «Martha Marcy May Marlene»).

Caroline Champetier won the 2011 César for Best Cinematography for her superb work here, notably in a bravura scene inspired by the «Last Supper» and set to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

Crossfire Edward Dmytryk, USA, 1947, 35 mm, 86m This adaptation of writer / director - to - be Richard Brooks's novel The Brick Foxhole, about a group of vets, led by Robert Mitchum's Sergeant Keeley, searching postwar Washington for their amnesiac friend (George Cooper) so they can clear him of a murder charge, embodies the essence of what has come to be known as «film noir» — moody, troubled characters; nocturnal action; chiaroscuro cinematography; low - key acting spiced with bits of bravura eccentricity; and a plot so crazy that it feels like a nightmare.

Not only does he effortlessly juggle a wide canvas of characters and storylines, coax fine performances from his entire cast, and employ some bravura camera work, he shows an amazing eye for detail.

Boasting the best camera work outside the Namibian desert or the Canadian wilderness, with bravura one - takes and brazen 360 degree pans dripping with suggestive menace, this is a film that makes you scan the background of every scene for looming danger.

A bravura, extended showdown that eschews wild action beats for a mental and even spiritual confrontation.

Margot Robbie in a bravura, kick ass performance plays Tonya Harding the figure skater best known for maybe engineering the bashing in of her nemesis» Nancy Kerrigan's knee.

Spader is somnambulently morose; Bassett's earnest intensity seems ridiculously out of place for a piece of cheese such as this; the bland Facinelli exhibits no air of menace whatsoever; Lou Diamond Phillips, Wilson Cruz, and Robert Forster (who receives third billing for a five - minute part) simply go through the motions; and a clueless Tunney makes you wonder if she could possibly be the same person who gave such a bravura turn in 1998's Niagara Niagara.

Sport Plus, the most aggressive of four driving modes, may deliver too many revs too often, but Sport manages the transition between energetic to relaxed with bravura, and the transmission barely pauses for breath during upshifts.

Blowing up the transfer technique of that series (originally, soaking the magazine images in lighter fluid and rubbing them on paper with an empty ballpoint pen) to collect semi-transparent pictures, he then, with the bravura only he could muster (his friend and studio mate Jasper Johns was so much tighter) angled, swirled and layered them in symphonic pageants for which the term collage seems wholly inadequate even if it is technically right.

I liked best a woman who might stand in for the artist herself but with a house painter's roller, almost smiling at her own bravura.

For a while now Amy Sillman has been one of the most exciting painters working in America, creating bravura canvases that poke fun at the orthodox distinctions between figuration and abstraction, messing it all together into a humorous, thought - provoking, and often sexy stew.

Since captivating visitors to the last Venice Biennale with her bravura immersive painting in the Arsenale, a stunning landscape of brightly pigmented rubble and giant painted sheets, Katharina Grosse has become the go - to artist for collectors who want the beauty of abstract painting, conceptual heft, and of - the - moment flair.

For instance, he frequently alluded to Old Masters including Frans Hals, Anthony van Dyck, and Diego Velázquez in his compositions, but often updated these artistic references through the use of bravura brushwork or subdued tonal washes.

After a nearly - twenty - five - year sojourn in Rome, he spent fourteen years teaching at Harvard University, at the same time that he was executing large - scale architectural commissions for sites in North America, public works of exceptional physical beauty, structural bravura, and durability.

Unlike his compatriot Mr. Richter, who pursues every opening for painting only to demonstrate with bravura that each is a dead end, Mr. Tillmans exults in photography's limitless avenues.

The bright white cube of Danese / Corey is the perfect setting for an aptly straightforward hanging of one big Larry Poons extravaganza after another, blaring across the room in orchestral bravura like Ravel or Vivaldi cut loose.

In a bravura performance, Shultz articulated the rationales for a carbon tax (and against cap / trade), including cap / trade's price volatility and vulnerability to market manipulation, a carbon tax's straightforwardness, and the success (and revenue - neutrality) of British Columbia's carbon tax, as well as the general power of pricing and the insurance value of a carbon tax.