Sentences with phrase «framing a story on»

The artworks within the exhibition can be viewed as interventions, explorations, musings and documents of framing a story on beauty and it's complex forms.

Try rigorously to include context on the overall state of knowledge when framing stories on science around conflict, given that conflict is a constant in science.

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On Thursday, Buzzfeed and Wired published in - depth stories explaining where Free Basics — framed by Facebook as a philanthropic venture — came from, and why Zuckerberg is hell bent on seeing it througOn Thursday, Buzzfeed and Wired published in - depth stories explaining where Free Basics — framed by Facebook as a philanthropic venture — came from, and why Zuckerberg is hell bent on seeing it througon seeing it through.

Our family rented small summer apartments on Long Island and returned each Labor Day to see the city new yet distressed ¯ fresh excavations, more steel frames covered with thin glass skin, sky cranes hoisting tons of stuff forty stories or more.

Then there's something commonly known as the «Proclamation on the Family,» which is often framed and displayed in homes — though rarely in upper - class households, said Joanna Brooks, author of «The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith.»

But he also reflected on the darker elements of Jewish experience, characteristically framing them in the light of the biblical story.

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This is a beautiful project, and I loved the framing of your story, and your practice of sending yourself a note on Valentine's Day.

Not only do they pay the usual assortment of real estate taxes on their two - story frame houses, but they are actually double - billed for their local parks and recreation programs.

The puzzle - adventure games and animated stories are definitely tween oriented with a science fiction - adventure type look, and are framed on story arcs that convey messages about altruism, community, and science.

The observed increase in sports metaphors suggests a general rise of the game - frame and points to a larger story of how a discourse of sports in politics appears to be on the rise in the twenty - first century.

A deep learning system generates the next few frames of a story based on just one image, helping it to predict the future and understand the present

Whether or not this is a comeback success story, though, depends on your frame of reference.

As you're reading this, we're on our way to Boston to film two projects and to shoot a photo story for The Frame.

Just this fortnight I've got to get the invites printed and packaged, my first dress fitting, do some video training (long story), a craft project (shudder) around the table name holders and more work on the images for the 17 A1 picture frames we need to fill in our reception venue.

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Framed by Hugo's tried - and - true story, given heart by Boublil and Schonberg's beautiful lyrics and melodies reinterpreted by Hooper's burgeoning directorial flourish, Les Misérables now has a welcoming new home on the big screen — and likely a new audience as well.

Rather than fancy camera work, he relies on powerful framing and the story itself to move viewers.

The story is framed in a slightly tiresome mockumentary style, with the chief players (though not poor irrelevant old Nancy) interviewed in aged - up makeup, reflecting on those unhappy times.

It is visually striking, with individual frames worth mounting on museum walls (here with dark tones well suited to the story's shadowy themes).

One could cut Dunkirk into the middle of Darkest Hour to frame the story of how 300,000 soldiers became stranded on those beaches.

The story is framed with a reporter (Billy Crudup) getting a firsthand account of the tragedy Jackie went through, from her husband's limp body collapsing on her lap, to telling her children, to making funeral arrangements, to getting kicked out of the White House.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Created in 2005 to justify a fourth American release on DVD, the extended cut lengthens several scenes by a few frames and reinserts scenes depicting Maximus tending his troops and of political intrigue in Rome, but does nothing to alter the story or characters overall.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Funded by the Polish Film Institute, Loving Vincent was created by a team of 115 artists who hand - painted all 65,000 of its frames, re-creating and elaborating on the canvases of Vincent van Gogh for a detective story that explores his last years in France and his mysterious, still - controversial death.

This beefy tale of male bonding is framed by a story loosely based on historical accounts from the 2nd century.

One thing I decidedly did not like was the framing device of Nick Carraway writing the story from a sanitarium, where he has gone to recuperate from the «morbid alcoholism» (I think those are the words we see on his diagnostic papers) brought on by the tragedy to which he was witness.

Disturbing: gradually building atmosphere and tension, focus on character interactions and unsettling story (Silent Hill, Fatal Frame)

Using the character's written confession (in a location far from his beloved farm) as a framing device robs the story of any real suspense and, worse, fails to enrich the events on screen with emotional or moral substance.

There's a case to be made that the success of a biopic depends almost entirely on the director having studied Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story like a road map of cliché pitfalls to be avoided: Don't lean so hard on formative childhood traumas, watch out for unnecessary framing devices, etc..

Never mind that this is a premise Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two already explored to similar consequence, nor that Europa Report is essentially an intergalactic The Blair Witch Project: best to focus on an unfortunate framing story that dumbs down the proceedings, emotionally and intellectually, at the exact moment the picture appears to be gaining momentum.

A flick with real heart and real tension, writer and director Sang - ho Yeon's story works on two levels as a horror - action narrative framing a melodrama reflecting on the nature of humankind during times of crisis.

For the most part, Oppenheim's script focuses on Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman) following the assassination of her husband and President of the United States, John F. Kennedy (Caspar Phillipson), which we experience via a framing device where Jackie tells her side of the story to a journalist (Billy Crudup) about what occurred and what she was feeling at the time.

The story here is but a wisp — Paddington is framed by a nefarious D - list stage actor (Hugh Grant on ripping form) and has to go to prison — but it's this core - level simplicity that makes the bounty of small pleasures that much more pleasurable.

His take on the coming - of - age film, however, is one of those cases where the framing devices and framing stories are more compelling than what's being framed.

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Using Melville (Ben Whishaw) as part of a framing device — he calls on a survivor played Brendan Gleeson to recall the tale as research for his next book — the film goes out of its way to tell us that «Moby Dick» is probably a better story than the one that will be told here.

But what initially seems to be just a literary framing device, tying the film we're about to see to A.A. Milne's original tales, turns out to be a much more involved conceit, as Pooh and the other characters talk back to the narrator and the actual words on the page of the book often become part of the story.

This intimate portrait of a broken, yet lovable family gives viewers a quirky story, fascinating characters and compelling performances, but the hands - on camera work and the almost claustrophobic framing upends most of the film's emotional appeal.

by Walter Chaw I'm going to talk on for a while, but all you need to know about House of D and The Game of Their Lives is that they share framing stories and voice - overs.

One of the best examples of this is the framing device for the main on - ship action: modern - day scenes in which an aged Rose (Gloria Stuart) tells her story to an expedition crew (led by Bill Paxton) searching for a legendary blue diamond called «The Heart of the Ocean.»

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Farrant has stated that the story is inspired by her overwhelming grief at her father's death and while Kidman and Fiennes provide credible character studies on two opposing reactions to loss, the framing of the narrative does not gel with its anticipated plot.

De Rochemont's background informed the film: it was based on a true story and largely shot on location, and the espionage drama, which was defined as much by the workaday procedure of the American agents as by the melodramatic storyline and the exotic danger of covert spies and double agents, was framed by authoritative narration.

Fatal Frame's debut on the Wii U builds a chilling, believable atmosphere but mars it with clunky controls and a forgettable story devoid of real drama.

Webb frames the story with the FBI's reports on King, which find imaginary, dastardly schemes from «agitators» and perceived enemies in the most mundane of actions and discussions.

Extras on The Transformers: The Movie (available for viewing in either widescreen or full frame) include audio commentary by director Nelson Shin, story consultant Flint Dille, and co-star Susan Blu; a retrospective making - of piece; storyboards; and TV spots.

I didn't think the additional back story around Belle's mother added anything to the storyline — it would have been no less sad if she'd died in childbirth as opposed to how she did actually perish and although it served to show Belle's frame of mind towards the Beast when it was shown, the film would have carried on perfectly well had this not been added.