Sentences with phrase «from operatic»

Likewise, Gallaccio's oeuvre is one that stretches from the operatic to the atomic and from the logical to the phenomenological as she transmutes form into concept, concept into visual theater, and then, again.

It will go from an operatic theme to a hard rock theme, and then it switches back.

Populated by an eager groom (Alexander Skarsgård), eccentric parents (Charlotte Rampling and John Hurt) and arrogant brother - in - law (Kiefer Sutherland) in the first half, before making room for an intimate examination of the family dynamic in the second section, the cleverly compelling film captures attention from the operatic opening to the moving conclusion.

One could make a similar observation regarding the baroque and early classical musical styles of the 17th and early 18th centuries (roughly from Handel to Haydn), which crossed rather freely from the operatic stage and concert hall to the church and back again.

Aside from the operatics of Scarlett and Rhett, the novel is a sociological study of the before and after of the Civil War, and the irrevocable transformation of the South by opportunistic industrialists from the North.

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Among the lowlights of the retailer's continuing, soap - operatic slide in 2013: CEO Ron Johnson resigned in April after all of 16 months on the job; the company had to apologize to customers for alienating them with new store concepts; and activist investor Bill Ackman, who stepped down from the board in August, swallowed a $ 470 million loss upon selling his Penney's stake.

As for the masses, clergy and musicians from Mozart's time to the present have expressed reservations about their more operatic traits — the religious admiration of Barth and Hans Küng notwithstanding.

All influenza viruses ultimately come from birds, and the paper begins the somewhat operatic and knotty story of this outbreak's origins with an H1N1 first isolated in swine in 1930, which itself was a close relative of the virus that caused the 1918 pandemic in humans.

The last twenty minutes of Breaking Dawn are so harrowing that it's possible to forget that most of the acting is soap - operatic (the guy who plays Carlisle is aging to look like Liberace) and the dialogue from hunger.

After retiring from the opera stage, Lauritz Melchior performed on TV and in night clubs, and also funded a scholarship for promising operatic newcomers.

August 5, 2015 • The best - selling novel and star - studded movie gets the operatic treatment from Pulitzer - winning composer Jennifer Higdon with a world premiere in Santa Fe.

As much as the director creates a cold (and cold - blooded), operatic world with Sparrow, this movie, while thankfully convincing as a straight - faced spy thriller, still suffers from excessive sadism.

The character of Kelly can repeat over and over again that Line was «sent from above» and that the team is in emotional distress, but if we never see and process it, the operatic displays of emotion aren't grounded in any reality.

Speaking of that other Valkyrie, obviously the version that Tessa Thompson plays in the film is different from the original Marvel version of the Valkyrie, as the Marvel version intentionally evoked the mythological version of the character, which is very much a Norse vision of what a woman would look like, complete with the name Brunhilde (Brunnhilde also was a major part of Richard Wagner's famous operatic «Ring» cycle).

But there's no denying that Scarface is also a lot of fun, tracking homicidal Cuban homunculus Tony Montana (Al Pacino) from his first footsteps on US soil to his operatic demise in a cloud of AK - 47 bullets and coke.

There is certainly a plethora of different possibilities for black American cinema to explore right now, from the Brechtian operatics of Spike Lee's Chi - Raq to the exuberant pop myth - making we can no doubt expect from Ryan Coogler's Black Panther.

Horror at its most heartrending and operatic, the film boasts career best efforts from leading man Jeff Goldblum and Cronenberg's regular composer Howard Shore.»

It was moody stuff, building on the visual touchstones of The Force Awakens but seemingly upping the operatic scale, complete with a moody intonation from the elderly Skywalker that it was time for the...

I'll say that, to me, this looks way darker and more operatic than the last trailer we saw from the film.

That's because while Clark's successful, seductive, and I guess unpremeditated iteration of the giallo formula (whodunit structure, operatic set - pieces, abundance of shots from the killer's P.O.V.) as established by Mario Bava and his peers sparked a genre unto itself in America, the more pioneering copycats, lacking Clark's flair for interpersonal dynamics, so grotesquely oversimplified Black Christmas as to discard its most distinguishing feature: its empathy.

Great punch line Martin Scorsese's evocative black - and - white biopic about real - life brawler Jake LaMotta (Robert De Niro) is an intensely physical movie, tracing with operatic grandeur its protagonist's life from volatile middleweight contender to an obese has - been.

«Though not part of the noir writers series, it «s adapted from another Cain novel, directed by noir master Mann, and it boasts an operatic background.

Jolie has certainly developed as a feature filmmaker, from In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) to Unbroken (2014) to By the Sea (2015), steadily progressing from intense drama to operatic excess to languorous romance.

Yet instead of keeping this a tightly wound yarn of imprisonment and escape, Verbinski — working from a script by Justin Haythe («The Lone Ranger,» «Revolutionary Road»)-- opts for something bigger, grander and more operatic, sending the film wildly off the rails over the course of its far - too - long 146 - minute running time.

Another criticism comes from Jackson's apparent attempt to turn The Hobbit - essentially a light children's tale — into the operatic high drama of Rings.

Working from a script he and four fellow writers originally conceived for the stage, Plotnick establishes a tone of seriocomic soap - operatics in the early scenes while introducing the diversely dysfunctional crew of the Omega 76 Space Station.

Visconti, from the very beginning, was an operatic director, even before he directed opera.

Gilded with ornate costumes and sets and a rich classical soundtrack, and featuring fearless performances, this operatic melodrama is an extraordinary evocation of reckless emotions and deranged lust, from one of the cinema's great sensualists.

Played for romantic comedy yuks rather than gravid melo - operatic contortions (and distinguishing itself from other products of the UK comedy mill by not featuring any old men and women or young boys naked), the picture follows the plight of shiftless loser, small - time criminal Jimmy (Robert Carlyle) as he steals a lot of money from three circus clowns and returns to his small Scottish burg to reclaim his lost love Shirley (the insufferable, simpering Shirley Henderson) and their daughter Marlene (Finn Atkins) from the clutches of mild - mannered simp Dek (Rhys Ifans).

It's impossible from one moment to the next to understand what's going on in Once Upon a Time in Mexico beyond a vague sense of Rodriguez's irritation with Dubya's dystopia and a feeling — sometimes operatic, sometimes not — of loss and the will to vengeance.

Speaking of the Gladiator aspect, there is a certain morbid amusement in seeing a film that's simultaneously trying to rip off both 300 and Game of Thrones but without the age - rating to pull off the almost operatic levels of violence and brutality from either.

6:05 am — IFC — A Midsummer Night's Dream This version of Shakespeare's magical comedy is a tad on the over-produced side, but there's a lot to like from Stanley Tucci's unusual Puck and Rupert Everett's sly Oberon to the reimagining of the faeries through the lens of Bacchus legends and the use of popular operatic arias on the soundtrack.

Yet it's the way the engine serves up this pace that's truly captivating, the V10 delivering the full operatic performance from growling idle all the way through to its spine - tingling, yowling crescendo at 8500rpm.

As she seeks her betrayer, we are treated to a grand operatic epic, from her Minnesota childhood, her escape to Europe as part of a traveling circus, her flight from the circus to the streets of Paris, then to a ritzy brothel, and finally to her emergence as a great singer and courtesan, with all the requisite reversals of fortune, melodrama and gorgeous costumes, gorgeously described.

While typically a calm little dog, they are well known for performing many enjoyable antics such as the «Chin Spin», in which they turn around in rapid circles; dancing on their hind legs while pawing their front feet, clasped together, in the air; and, some even «sing», a noise that can range from a low trill to a higher, almost operatic quality noise, and which sounds much like «woooo».

While typically calm, they are well known for performing many tricks such as the «Chin Spin», in which they turn around in rapid circles; dancing on their hind legs while pawing their front feet, clasped together, in the air; and some even «sing», a noise that can range from a low trill to a higher, almost operatic noise.

The game's various sound effects and themes are top notch, with the title theme an especially nice change from Brawl's operatic foray.

From primordial incantations to operatic melodrama to hip - hop beats, artists are exploiting the elemental language of music to communicate across cultural boundaries Read More

The extensive exhibition will trace the origins of these highly operatic text - based paintings back to Hanson's earliest works, showing rarely seen examples from the»60s and»70s alongside his vibrantly colorful, buoyantly playful recent paintings.

In 1999, Laurie Anderson mounted her operatic take, Stories and Songs from Moby - Dick, on Melville's classic at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

On view from December 1, 2010 — February 13, 2011, the exhibition Jonathan Meese: Sculpture focuses on Meese's three - dimensional work, including his first ceramic talisman created when he was 15, small assemblages and dioramas from the beginning of his career that have never been shown before, massive bronze sculptures, recent large - scale ceramics, and models and set designs for theatrical and operatic productions.

I've reimagined a context for classical operatic performance away from the safe confines of the concert hall towards the unassuming public, in this case, in the heart of Times Square.

For Soap - Operatic he borrows from Choose Your Own Adventure children's books, in which readers are given choices to how a story unfolds.

At the same time, through the operatic delivery, the performances test the speeches» original functionality, making them in - operative, while exploring the role of the spoken word as it is mediated across a continuum of expressivity: from the weighty depths reached through the grain of the voice to the artificial diction endemic to the language of opera and political speech alike.

Embodying the Braswell cousins and others from the tree, I perform original songs and soap operatic narratives investigating love, loss and the challenges of artistic and sexual self - realization.

In fact, lying within the tunnels are four singers, performing in operatic style fragments of speeches by key actors in the global theatre of recent political history: from Martin Luther King and the Dalai Lama, to George Bush and Saddam Hussein.

Speaking by phone from Austin, Tex., Mr. Young said his contribution was to convince her to play down her bookish side, advising her to be «as operatic as you can be about it — you're not a conceptual artist.»