Sentences with phrase «for mainstream success»

Everyone here transcends their typecasting, including slacker balladeers Mark and Jay Duplass, who make a bid for mainstream success (two words: car chase) without precisely abandoning their idiosyncrasies, such as their camcorder - honed / derived aesthetic — which establishes a cinematic grammar that allows for shabby but essential angles like a shot of Segel's hair poking up from behind a vending machine.

Its plot follows the mysterious disappearance of Bowie-esque glam - rocker Maxwell Demon, but the film is actually more interested in concepts, and in so many ways it was simply too cool and strange for mainstream success.

Pulling off the tricky balancing act of aiming for mainstream success while keeping one's street cred intact, songs like «Ghost of You» and «Predictable» abandon the band's mall - rat roots in exchange for more mature influences like U2 and Muse.

Not exact matches

Though Laura Dern, 50, has had major success in the past, she achieved mainstream praise for her role as Renata Klein on HBO's «Big Little Lies.»

With an instinct for self - promotion, she evolved from «kindergarten circuit» stripper to star actress and director, and occasional mainstream success, by her late 20s.

The best metric for success are sales numbers and real readers, not the approval of the mainstream intelligentsia who were wrong about Rand as they are wrong about most things.

This profound alienation of the ghetto poor from mainstream American life has continued to grow worse in the years since the triumphs of the civil rights movement, even as the success of that movement has provided the basis for an impressive expansion of economic and political power for the black middle class.

The movie, while only a modest box - office success, garnered impressive reviews from mainstream movie critics as well as an impressive 77 % on Rotten Tomatoes4 and a four and a half star rating on Amazon5, where the movie remains available for viewing.

«A Teachable Moment,» August 17, 2008 «While it is true that for decades the children of New Orleans toiled in a substandard school system, they have also continually faced countless other obstacles to success — inadequate health care, poorly educated parents, exposure to high rates of violent crime and a popular culture that often denigrates mainstream achievement.»

We do realize Tide hasn't won any awards for being a «green» detergent, and we have to balance that with the success rate we see of customers using Tide or other mainstream detergents.

We also use / used all of the cloth diaper detergents we sell with great success and do recommend these when a parent wants to wash their diapers with a more natural detergent or for those who have issues with mainstream detergents.

The Ukip leader mocked the three mainstream party leaders for stealing his rhetoric on immigration following the party's electoral success this year.

Paladino, who has been making noises about running for governor again in 2018, recently said he sees himself in Trump and believes the billionaire developer's success proves that his own brand of political incorrectness is becoming more mainstream.

Governor Cuomo's Work for Success Pledge helps bring formally incarcerated individuals into the mainstream, economically and socially, while helping connect employers to a qualified workforce.

Calorie restriction has a very low success rate and is being questioned even by the mainstream medical community as a long - term solution for obesity management.

He continued to work steadily through the late 2000s, and received mainstream and critical success for his role in director J.J. Abram's Super 8.

In the 2000s, Stevens found new success on the other side of the camera, as a prolific producer of both independent and mainstream Hollywood films, even winning the Oscar for Best Documentary for his 2009 film about the slaughtering of dolphins, The Cove.

The success marks a gradual creep from the cult towards the mainstream for Anderson.

A top - notch actress who managed to remain a complete unknown as far as the general moviegoing public was concerned (spending over a decade starring in numerous art - house flicks for ex-husband Nicolas Roeg probably had a lot to do with that), Theresa Russell enjoyed a soupçon of mainstream success when she co-starred in Twentieth Century Fox's production of Black Widow, an ever - so - modest box office hit ($ 25 million) back at the start of» 87.

For an outsider rather perplexed by the overwhelming success of The Hunger Games series (both the young adult books and the mainstream movies), Divergent is partly more of the same, but there's also a bit more soul and relatability in Divergent's simple message: Don't give up.

By its very existence it begs the question of whether this (or the upcoming Kevin Costner vehicle Dragonfly) would even have been considered if not for the success of the supposedly non-influential The Blair Witch Project: a mainstream horror film that flies in the face of conventional genre wisdom (at least since The Exorcist) in refraining from gore as steadfastly as it refuses to show its bogeyman.

In 2004, Gosling gained mainstream success for playing the male lead in the romantic drama The Notebook.

The First Wives Club was a major success story for so many reasons: an original mainstream comedy, a movie about women over 50, a movie that recognized the comedic potential of actresses like Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Goldie Hawn... with every year that goes by, the movie seems more and more like a miracle.

Speaking about The Florida Project, Baker lamented that it took a big name like Willem Dafoe for the film to become a more mainstream success and get award nominations.

Running around an hour, Waiting For Twilight, made during the filming of Twilight Of The Ice Nymphs (1997)-- and preceding much of the director's more mainstream successes — highlights the methods, family life and career of this great director through clips and talking - head interviews with friends and critics.

Call Me by Your Name was given life anew in Toronto, months after screening to raves in chilly Park City and Berlin — but the jury's still out on whether it's too arty and queer for mainstream awards success.

After the success of the visually stunning and critically acclaimed Hero, one can only expect great things to come from the mind of writer - director Zhang Yimou, after raising the bar for kung fu movies seeking mainstream acceptance in theaters in the United States, and worldwide.

I suppose that the studios have reasons for their releasing patterns, but it's beyond me why so many major New Releases — from Oscar nominees and critical favorites to mainstream successes to notable foreign dramas — are getting poured into the DVD marketplace on March 10.

Do you think this film will lead Charlie Day into more mainstream success for his comedic talents, apart from his years of stellar work on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?

On that latter note, KHNH has been a trailblazer of sorts on the global marketplace, opening up territories that had previously not been so receptive to Indian film fare — most notably, Germany, where this film's massive success established a major market there for Bollywood, which has now become a bit of a mainstream entertainment staple there.

Brick is probably not a movie that will have strong mainstream appeal, but for those that love independent films, the noir classics, old - fashioned detective stories, or just enjoy seeing something they haven't quite seen before, Rian Johnson's experiment will prove to be a success with you.

It has also been a standout year for LGBT cinema, with a number of titles breaking into the mainstream cinemagoing public's conscientious: the aforementioned Moonlight being a strong example, but also Beach Rats, God's Own Country and Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name continuing their festival successes into their general theatrical releases.

For Gerwig it is her most pronounced and definitive role to date, and it evokes her earlier mumblecore films rather than her recent mainstream success.

It's been a particularly great year for horror movies, some of which broke into the mainstream with both financial and critical success, and some of which are still looking for their audience.

Success has not shined upon most of the actors in this film, David Paymer is the most known in the mainstream as a character actor and he's only in the movie for less than five minutes.

Cardellini's talent has outstripped her opportunities for years now, though in mainstream successes («ER,» «Brokeback Mountain,» a recurring role on «Mad Men,» those shrill «Scooby - Doo» movies) and in work found in the margins (the very fine 2011 drama «Return,» where she played a military veteran back from Iraq) her unerring instincts in all kinds of material have served her well.

The Bridge will secure progress and success for each of its learners to ensure that each child is prepared for the next stage of their education when they return to mainstream education.

The government has also formulated separate, but similar, plans and initiatives for members of Pasifika groups, who also have been traditionally left out of much of New Zealand's mainstream educational success.

But if the Viziv - 7 concept, previewing the model to be named Ascent (and built off a new modular platform, instead of the Toyota Highlander, as originally planned), is any hint, it will be too tall and too conventional for an automaker that found success by avoiding the mainstream and by selling SUVs to American consumers who don't like SUVs.

I think people should really be on the lookout for the GT 7 ″ + as it should compete well in price & have significant mainstream success.

Q) How has the mainstream success of the Kindle played out for you guys on a business level in Europe, Russia and Asia?

The company has had small success in their enterprise segment of tablets and are hoping for a mainstream win with the Slate 8.

Perhaps that's a recipe for success other Android tablet makers have overlooked when it comes to mainstream consumers, such as my wife.

But what's happening now is it's consolidating into more real time and that a lot of indie authors are having success self - publishing, because for whatever reason — maybe their project didn't seem mainstream enough or wasn't filling X, Y, and Z slot or what have you — but then the readers decided, «I really like this; I want more of it.»

Again, remember that for a product to be a huge mainstream success, it needs to appeal to multiple demographics — the average consumer, not the geek or tech savvy.

This struck a chord with me as the coming year promises to be a new beginning for our community which came together in 1999 as the Open EBook Forum (OEBF) to develop open standards for digital books, reinvented itself in 2005 with a broader remit when it became the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), and then found mainstream success with the development of the key EPUB standard.

When you hear of success stories like Fifty Shades of Grey going from fanfiction to self - published book to mainstream novel, no matter how much your opinion of that book might vary, you can't deny that there are a lot of amazing, undiscovered books out there just waiting for someone to discover them.

While mainstream genres receive approval and press coverage because of the success stories, those genres have built a solid base for future authors to learn and craft their audience similarly, diversifying genres also proves to motivate readers to choose their favorite title in digital format based on their interests.

It was also a pretty hardcore game for such a mainstream success, and even though we're approaching the ten -LRB-!)

His success has demonstrated how, for artists from countries outside the art - market mainstream, an appearance at the Venice Biennale can mean more than the late - career blessing it is for established figures.