Sentences with phrase «great poignancy»

By the late 1950s he shifted to more representational subject matter, often depicting everyday scenes with great poignancy.

This appears with great poignancy in the Book of Lamentations.

There's greater poignancy still to scenes with Donna's daughter (Annalise Basso) and husband (James LeGros) touching on memories vanished in a digital - download world.

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The great Spanish director's fourth triumph in a row — following «All About My Mother,» «Talk to Her» and «Bad Education» — Volver (which means «coming back») flows effortlessly between peril and poignancy, the real and the surreal, even life and death.

And Cara's role and nudity in the film gives it a greater sense of poignancy.

Beneath the onslaught of contemporary in - jokes and one bad fedora, Baumbach manages to articulate, with a great deal of poignancy, the timeless challenge of aging and the challenge of ageing timelessly.

The laid - bare poignancy and touching immediacy of these films are exactly the kind of thing that is too often jettisoned by studio pictures; they're part of what makes indie film great, and connection with those common themes are, let's hope, a trend that we'll continue to see in independent film this year.

Along the way, there are times of great sadness and poignancy, times of abandon, times of goofiness, and that kind of humor that is really funny because it grows out of character and close observation.

It's that wit that propels a great deal of the surface pleasure of Cowboy Bebop with the archetype of the gangly American cowboy prophet / warrior, one referenced in a mid-film drive - in movie of High Noon attended by Jet and lent a certain degree of poignancy by the slow understanding that the picture (and the series that spawned it) is in love with nostalgia for a post-war age that, particularly for the Japanese, was fraught with ambiguity, shame, and tragedy.

That Good Night has an obvious added poignancy as the final feature made by John Hurt (one of Britain's greatest screen actors) before his death last year.

And the dialogue itself — the thing Crowe made his name on in his great, early films «Say Anything...,» «Jerry Maguire» and «Almost Famous» — so frequently strains for his signature poignancy that it feels like a parody of a Crowe script.

Watching it at VIFF, in a 1,000 seat auditorium, feeling the entire vast room captivated and rapturous with every twist and shock and small poignancy, is one of the great movie - going experiences I've ever had.

On par with films such as RUSHMORE and ELECTiON, it's chock full of progressive poignancy, 8 - bit nostalgia, really - relatable side characters (with Kieran Culkin giving one of the greatest performances ever!)

A novel of great humanity, written with dry wit, edgy humor, and emotional poignancy, Irma Voth is the powerful story of a young woman's quest to discover all that she may become in the unexpectedly rich and confounding world that lies beyond the stifling, observant community she knows.

This traditional way of life was under great pressure from industrialization, and it adds a bittersweet poignancy to these exquisitely executed works.

Christopher Baker, Director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, commented: «This remarkable exhibition features images of great drama and poignancy which depict a single, monumental building and its inhabitants in order to ingeniously document recent events in South Africa.

Blame it on the lack of a follow - up setting that could match the timely poignancy of taking over a bank building that was built but never used, and then slotted for demolition — all in the context of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

The power and poignancy that Hans Burkhardt conveyed in his paintings resonated strongly in Mexico, and some made reference to Burkhardt as a great Mexican master.