Sentences with phrase «ghost city of»

Get immortalized in - game by putting your name on the Wall of Heroes of the ruined ghost city of Quil (your name will also appear in the Bible of Nor).

There's a breath - stopping visit to a deserted ghost city of a planet, so evocative you can almost smell the sulfur in the air and feel the temperature drop when it comes on the screen.

He is the author of the book, Ghost Cities of China, and contributes to Forbes, The Diplomat, the South China Morning Post, and other publications.

The country is littered with luxurious county government offices, ghost cities of empty apartment blocks, unsafe high - speed rail lines and crumbling highways to nowhere.

Not exact matches

For a whole day, with the exception of the non-stop action in Watertown, the city became a ghost town.

He made mashups of the old images blending in the present scenery, creating a ghost - like effect of reflecting back over 100 years to one of the key events that changed the city forever.

All of it has brought life back to the ghost city.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

The half - hour presentation, which took place at Paramount's offices in New York City's Times Square, also teased footage for its sci - fi movie «Arrival» (opening November 11), starring Amy Adams; Robert Zemeckis» WWII drama «Allied» (November 23), starring Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard; the ensemble comedy «Office Christmas Party» (December 9), starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, T.J. Miller, and Kate McKinnon; the adaptation of «Ghost in the Shell» (March 2017), starring Scarlett Johansson; and «xXx: The Return of Xander Cage» (January 2017), starring Vin Diesel.

Some of his favorite stories looked at facial bias, the philosophy of Peter Thiel, Chinese ghost cities, self - driving car ethics, the average family on earth, Wikipedia hoax - hunters, income inequality, bleak futurism, cooking with MSG, global communication patterns, Somali pirates, the crucifixion of Tony Stark, and the worst hotel in New York.

This fact gives lie to the commonly held myth that the buildout of all these empty towers and ghost cities is a Chinese urbanization play.

All the ghost cities, spectacular - but - mostly - vacant shopping malls, barely - used airports and bridges to nowhere have boosted the Keynesian measures of growth — such as GDP — that don't distinguish between productive and unproductive spending.

How we took an hour and a half to walk one time around a lake that should take only 25 minutes, about how we stood on the bridge, and watched the moon fade into the coming day over the blue lake water in this western city in the country, how we ate blueberries they picked with their own hands, and we felt the wonder of it all, all three of us, quiet, and watching a ghost moon, together, and it felt like prayer, and a cathedral, and communion, and a gift, and kingdom come.

«Sex and the City» star Chris Noth declared, «The ghosts of Elaine's are coming out of the closets!»

«The ghost of Tammany Hall does not haunt New York City government, but I do think it haunts Albany in general and we need a much more transparent and better approach in general,» de Blasio said.

A previous study by researchers at McGill University in Montreal found that the home - sharing company is driving up rental prices and reducing housing availability due to so - called «ghost units» not made available to residents of New York City.

«Activities of this monster dovetailed into a disaster worse than that of a war - torn country; our people took flight; our economy was grounded, financial institutions relocated and our once buzzing city of Omoku was reduced to a ghost town.

Bodega Ghost - town: Hundreds of Deli Owners Protest Trump's Immigration Policy by David Greene Bodegas and delis around the city shut for eight - hours, as a silent protest to President Donald Trump's «temporary» immigration ban that has so far detained or -LSB-...]

Bodega Ghost - town: Hundreds of Deli Owners Protest Trump's Immigration Policy by David Greene Bodegas and delis around the city shut for eight - hours, as a silent protest to President Donald Trump's «temporary» immigration ban that has so far detained or prevented -LSB-...]

The infamous «ghost cities» of China have become a favourite internet meme of the past half - decade.

But none of these approaches address the question of why ghost cities exist in the first place.

This is a deliberate flipping of the ghost cities metaphor: whereas «ghost city» implies a metropolis whose time has come and gone — an abandoned city — Caemmerer points out that these cities are yet to see life.

Caemmerer's interest in China is as much about debunking the myth of ghost cities as it is about showing how ubiquitous such places are.

These ghost cities are meant to be sprawling wastelands of empty streets and uninhabited megastructures, without a human being in sight.

This includes cities in the US, such as his hometown of Chicago, which also becomes «a ghost town from the right angle».

Steven Johnson makes this fact startlingly clear in his latest book, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Riverhead, October 2006).

While kids in most cities around the US can be seen frolicking in the streets on a normal summer day, the streets here are reminiscent of ghost towns.

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The Salem Smugglers» Tour is the best Salem walking tour and Salem Ghost Tour highlighting the history of the tunnels in the city.

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Check out this action - packed montage of various Xbox 360 games as shown at the Xbox 360 Press Conference at TGS 2005 featuring games such as Call of Duty 2, Dead Rising, Frame City Killer, Kameo: Elements of Power, Project Gothan Racing 3, Saint's Row, Sonic the Hedgehog, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, and much more.

City of Ghosts from documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land) follows members of the RBSS (Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently), activists who banded together when ISIS took over their hometown in 2014.

Directed by Mark Waters (Freaky Friday; Ghosts of Girlfriends Past; Mean Girls), who paints his story upon the tableau of New York City with featured tourist stops including the Guggenheim Museum, the Flat Iron Building, and (naturally) Central Park, the cinematic Popper is no longer a poor house painter like his literary counterpart.

«City of Ghosts» isn't merely about the personal sacrifices of these men, but a testament to the necessity of a free and open press the world over.

Critic Consensus: City of Ghosts takes a hard - hitting, ground - level look at atrocities in a part of the world that may seem foreign to many viewers, but whose impact will be no less devastating.

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Amirpour's movie is all set in the fictional suburbs of Bad City, Iran, an eerie ghost town haunted by The Girl (an excellent Sheila Vand), a young vampire who finds her way into this miserable circle of people.

Best Motion Picture, Documentary Chasing Coral City of Ghosts Cries from Syria Ex Libris: New York Public Library Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS Human Flow Icarus Kedi Legion of Brothers

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Heineman's «City of Ghosts,» which will be released on Amazon Prime later this year, and Afineevsky «Cries From Syria,» which did the same a day later, aren't even the only Syria - set docs at this year's festival; «Last Men in Aleppo» premieres on Monday, and its subjects, the White Helmets or Syrian Defense League, are mentioned in both «City of Ghosts» and «Cries From Syria» (as well as the Oscar - shortlisted short doc «The White Helmets»).

It's not unusual for film - festival movies to have some overlap in theme and approach, but «City of Ghosts» and «Cries From Syria,» both of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, have an extra measure of synchronicity.

«Cries From Syria» debuted in March on HBO; «City of Ghosts» will premiere on Amazon Prime later this year.

It's a reminder of how important streaming services can be for both documentaries and world cinema, with Amazon Studios acquiring The Salesman and The Handmaiden, and Syrian documentary City of Ghosts getting a day - and - date digital release.

The films are all extremely timely, with «City of Ghosts» taking on added resonance as the Trump administration has devoted much of its first weekend to criticizing journalists.

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City of Ghosts is Heineman's latest visceral documentary, an inside look at the ongoing crisis in Syria, with «deeply personal access» to a group of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014.

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BEST DIRECTOR Evgeny Afineevsky — Cries from Syria (HBO / Afineevsky — Tolmor Production, Cinepost Barrandov, Levy Entertainment Group, Studio Malibu) Amir Bar - Lev — Long Strange Trip (Amazon / Amazon Studios, Double E Pictures, Sikelia Productions, AOMA Sunshine Films) Matthew Heineman — City of Ghosts (Amazon Studios, A&E IndieFilms, IFC Films / Our Time Projects) Bill Morrison — Dawson City: Frozen Time (Kino Lorber / Hypnotic Pictures, Picture Palace Pictures) Doug Nichol — California Typewriter (Gravitas Ventures / American Buffalo Pictures) Jeff Orlowski — Chasing Coral (Netflix / Exposure Labs) Irene Taylor Brodsky — Beware the Slenderman (HBO, Warner Bros..

City of Ghosts begins in the Syrian city of Raqqa in 2012, wherein we witness the beginning of the revolution against the Assad regCity of Ghosts begins in the Syrian city of Raqqa in 2012, wherein we witness the beginning of the revolution against the Assad regcity of Raqqa in 2012, wherein we witness the beginning of the revolution against the Assad regime.