Sentences with phrase «from autobiographical»

Even though I'm a marriage therapist and author who specializes in helping couples, I learned lots from her autobiographical narrative.

The works» subject matter ranges from autobiographical and inclusive of friends and acquaintances to historical or completely fictional.

The exhibition addresses topics related to class, family, friendship, affection, social mobility, bionomies, management of power, administration of life, definition of the private and the public, distribution of the sensitive, dualisms and separatism, among others; from an autobiographical point of view that from the personal speaks on the conditions of the contemporary artistic practices and ways of life today.

Working from an autobiographical, six - act pseudo-operatic text that serves as a guide through his labyrinth, the work becomes a tapestry of myth, dream, and reality that seduces viewers into weaving in their own meaning.

Yet, far from an autobiographical study, the work evokes varieties of collective cultural memory, the contrasting ways in which different inhabitants of the landscape identify with its idiosyncratic character and atmosphere.

Thorton's work pulls from an autobiographical trove of objects and people.

As Dillane shuttles from autobiographical reflection to passages from The Tempest, his hairstyle suddenly changes or a wig appears from nowhere; Event for a Stage turns out to be a montage of multiple events, and the formal marriage of theater and film enfolds a profounder union of actor and artist.

This emphasis in her work derives not so much from an autobiographical subtext as from the work's persistent emphasis on specific subjects: it is grounded in the concrete, and imbued with the authenticity of things seen in her daily life.

His performance works range in scale from solo to larger ensemble, and stem from autobiographical, cultural, and political issues.

Carey has stressed that her Glitter role of Billie Frank is far from autobiographical, but the similarities to her true story are staggering.

Amusingly adapted by Sarah Kernochan («Impromptu,» «9 1/2 Weeks») from an autobiographical New Yorker essay by Katha Pollin and amiably directed by Isabel Coixet, it's basically a metaphor - filled, sympathetically nuanced two - hander for Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley, who previously co-starred in Coixet's «Elegy» (2008).

From this autobiographical beginning point it becomes meaningful to take on the major technical issue of this chapter, asking whether pastoral counseling has a definable historic identity?

It is clear from his autobiographical statements that Paul was able to move freely from one mode of consciousness to another, from the left hemisphere to, the right, and back again — from law to grace, from mystical experience to ethical evaluation.

Not exact matches

In 1960, The Christian Century exacted some rare autobiographical jottings from Outler.

In Whitehead's «Autobiographical Remarks,» and in Russell's Portraits from Memory5 each, with Edwardian grace and dignity, comments on the attitude of affectionate respect for the other, on the growth of that respect to friendship and collaboration on the monumental Principia Mathematica, 6 and on the subsequent dissolution of the collaboration and cooling of the friendship.

Autobiographical fallacies aside, I can now only repeat something Borges said, a paraphrase of Mark Twain he cited in reviewing Kipling's autobiography (Something of Myself) in El Hogar: «It is not possible for a man to tell the truth about himself, or to keep from conveying to the reader the truth about himself.»

Teaching Catholic non-fiction does not mean teaching theology (or hagiography) but that does not mean that great Catholic theologians and priests need be excluded from the curriculum either: there could well be room for extracts from St. Augustine's Confessions or Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan's The Road of Hope when looking at autobiographical writing, for instance.

Such an attempt as that of the late Professor Turner mentioned above to view the Gospel as autobiographical, at least from 1:14 to 14:72, with the exception of the doublets in 7:24 - 8:10 (or 12), we can not follow.

Young Moroccan scribe Abdellah Taia moves into the director's seat with the screen version of his autobiographical novel» Salvation Army,» losing much of the texture in translation from pen to camera.

His studies back in the early 1990s led him to conclude that human consciousness requires autobiographical memory, which emerges from emotions and feelings.

Researchers got their hands on archival autobiographical sketches written by 74 nuns, from Baltimore and Milwaukee, completed between ages 19 and 37 years.

Physicist Lee Smolin found solace from heartbreak in Einstein's autobiographical notes.

Persons with highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM, also known as hyperthymesia)-- which was first identified in 2006 by scientists at UC Irvine's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory — have the astounding ability to remember even trivial details from their distant past.

Because only 14 of the 93 nuns in his original study group had died, Snowdon expanded it to include 11 brains from other deceased nuns who had also written autobiographical sketches in their youth.

Autobiographical tracts from terrorists such as Sean MacStiofain, the first chief of staff of the Provisional IRA, Palestine Liberation Organization activist Leila Khaled and the Brazilian guerrilla fighter Carlos Marighella support this view, according to terrorism expert Martha Crenshaw of Wesleyan University.

«Furthermore, the psychedelic nature of ibogaine tends to induce a dream - like state in which many report autobiographical subjective experiences, like watching their life as a movie from the vantage point of an observer,» Malcolm continued.

We could have feared a loss of the regional and autobiographical specificities that are characteristic of Coogler's cinema, but by starting and ending Black Panther in Oakland, California, his native hometown, and by calling upon Compton - born Kendrick Lamar to curate the soundtrack, he assures us that he speaks from the boundaries of his particular, personal place.

Variety calls the film «another delicate, surprising reflection on intimate relationship politics» from the talented director, who, according to THR «makes an audacious leap into autobiographical documentary.»

It's not clear how autobiographical Lady Bird is — Gerwig is from Sacramento and graduated from high school around the time the film is set — but the little slice of universe she shows us feels deeply and lovingly observed.

Shot in Super 16 mm and featuring a quartet of nuanced, understated performances from Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, and Owen Kline, this comic and poignant drama, peppered with autobiographical elements, deftly captures the heartache and confusion of a fracturing family.

They are well written characters and apparently autobiographical, from star and screenwriter Seth Rogen and co-writer Evan Goldberg and are extremely well played by Hill and Cera.

Described as his «most autobiographical» film, it tells the story of celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon), charting her life from her strong - willed schooldays to her tragically isolated adulthood.

Sadly, the film, which was adapted by The Artist's Michel Hazanavicius from Wiazemsky's autobiographical novel Un An Après, seems more interested in pastiching Godard's own movies than saying anything interesting about the couple.

The Piano Teacher, based on a novel by Elfriede Jelinek (apparently largely autobiographical, which is disturbing news in itself), is much more classical in style, though as before it demands considerable input from the viewer: Haneke deliberately avoids making any comments on the film's action, letting the audience judge for themselves.

I'm from there, even though the film isn't autobiographical and I was nothing like Lady Bird.

Reitman said that the three movies are autobiographical, not just pulling from Cody's life but from his as well, since they're about the same age.

«Almost Famous» (2000) Crowe's been consistently unafraid to draw from his own experiences, but his epic «Almost Famous» is certainly his most autobiographical work, telling the tale of how, as an underage high - schooler, he ended up working at Rolling Stone magazine (in this case, covering fictional band Stillwater), falling in love, and coming of age.

The news comes as the film from producer Scott Rudin, and his IACF partner Barry Diller, earned rave reviews at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, such as Scott Foundas» comments in Variety: «Rock has finally found a big - screen vehicle for himself that comes close to capturing the electric wit, shrewd social observations and deeply autobiographical vein of his standup comedy.»

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.

In Carla Simon's touching autobiographical film, six - year - old Frida (Laia Artigas) looks on in silence as the last objects from her recently deceased mother's apartment in Barcelona are placed in boxes.

Summer 1993 is a coming - of - age autobiographical drama following a six - year - old girl who moves with her uncle from Barcelona to the countryside, but she finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.

Anyway, maybe it's more fun to glean something autobiographical in the sight of Krasinski and Blunt, who are married and have two kids in real life, playing parents trying to protect their children from a menace that hounds them day and night, arriving at the smallest sign of their presence.

Generally favoring low - budget and independently - produced pictures, but not averse to working within the studio system (he had a good relationship with Daryl Zanuck), he knocked out a string of genre classics — from «Pickup On South Street» and «Forty Guns» to «Shock Corridor» and his epic autobiographical masterpiece «The Big Red One» — that quietly influenced many of your favourite directors.

Polanski surrogate Delphine (Emmanuelle Seigner) is enjoying great success with her new autobiographical novel but also burned out from the promo tour.

The autobiographical portrait of a group of young Americans living in Paris stars Chloë Sevigny, Adam Brody and Carrie MacLemore (both from Damsels in Distress), Dree Hemingway (Starlet), and Adriano Giannini (son of Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini), «plus other great performers to be discovered» per Stillman.

Writer - director Paul Dalio devastatingly autobiographical «Touched With Fire» (Lakeshore Records) also shows him sparking with musical talent as his score rises with the chiming, child - like wonder of impossible optimism, then plunges to surreal despair in his score's entrancing mood swings that conveys lives gone askew with mental illness, his haunting, religious - like musical portrait making us understand the price that comes with artistic inspiration born from bipolar enthusiasm.

From his sort - of neo-realist (but too quirky to really be neo-realist) films of the 1950s through his autobiographical opuses of the 1960s and his flamboyantly surreal 1970s films, he never made a film that wasn't undeniably Fellini, and yet it's easy to see his ties to nearly every cinematic movement that took place during his long career.

The two filmmakers discuss specific examples from their own bodies of work and how those relate to their own directorial processes, focusing on autobiographical elements, locations (especially cities), working with actors, and how an artist's personality or personal life becomes a part of their work.

Quietly, Richard Linklater downshifted from his towering 2014 epic, Boyhood, into a largely autobiographical college - baseball comedy that ended up feeling just as deep.

Davies's films — from his melancholy autobiographical drama