Sentences with phrase «high camp»

It is a charming story with all the elements of high camp.

Coming back down to base camp each time before climbing to the next higher camp can be both physically and psychologically exhausting.

«Additionally, a HADD group enjoyed a successful ascent up Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in Europe... At our meeting we initiated plans to design an improved «outhouse» at Priut No. 11, the Mount Elbrus high camp at 13 800 feet, a facility which Outside magazine called «the world's nastiest outhouse».»

When Erika finally plunges a knife into her chest at the film's conclusion, one can not be certain whether Haneke intends this as high camp or a serious depiction of an act approximating ritual suicide.

Walking an impossible line between high camp and ferocious heterosexuality, Brand's secret ingredient is his extraordinary verbosity.

The Cave isn't just a bad movie, it's a very, very, very bad movie, so bad that it can't even redeem itself by turning into high camp.

Past games in the series have been mostly high camp, but Dead Rising 3 feels like an attempt to make the series more grounded and broadly appealing while simultaneously appeasing series fans who want their allotment of zaniness.

It is, on reflection, a novel of such high camp and fruitloop melodrama, that the David Lean treatment — monochrome, big on strings and fog — seems the only way to go.

In their respective performances in I, Tonya and Lady Bird, these performers embodied two of the most memorable mothers in modern cinema, and took two totally different approaches: Janney was all delicious high camp and toxic bluster, while Metcalf created a subtle, close - to - the - vest performance of a mother whose love expresses itself in disapproval.

As villainous townies, Carrie - Anne Moss and Malcolm McDowell are clearly slumming it: she sports Gandalf's hair but doesn't have any fun with the material, and the literally chained - up actor goes for high camp.

Reviewers who say the sequel and Stone's performance in it are high camp imply that the original was something else, but I can't imagine what.

Knowing film buffs may relate the film's plot to the infamous classic All About Eve, but more modern filmgoers will see this more as a mix of Clueless and Single White Female The film has a very high camp value, all intentional, and the humor works well on the occasional scenes where there's some inspiration.

After so much repetition and reiteration though, even a soaring high camp wit can so easily plummet into the shallow luke warm pool of the just plain twee.

Though Taylor doesn't appear in any of the images, it is as an intimate portrait of another icon who combined a fierce intelligence with high camp.

If that sounds horribly indigestible, the sheer poise, elegance and professional rigour of the dancers allows them to animate the space in a truly satisfying way, bringing new life to the hackneyed notion of «living sculpture» as they interweave echoes of classical dance, classical sculpture and 21st century high camp.

That historical nugget is merely a springboard for an exercise in high camp, one that includes a sort of psychedelic nude ballet and a didactic explanation of racial divisions that uses ice cream as a defining metaphor.

And his highness is receiving the royal treatment here, although when Pop Art is treated with this kind of gravitas the exegesis can suggest high camp.

It's no great spoiler to reveal that the baddie is Hugh Grant's faded actor Phoenix Buchanan, a flamboyant weirdo who's calibrated his levels of high camp to within reach of the summit of Everest.

Radio was a wonderfully creative business then, but everything you read and see plays it as high camp, as if the entire radio era was directed by Woody Allen.

Amlexanox reduces IKK - ε and TBK1, leading to higher cAMP, increased sensitivity to catecholamines and increased energy expenditure by the fat cells.

This movie is targeted for lovers of high camp, and for those who are fond of Judy Davis, born in Perth, Australia (the city that is geographically the farthest distance from my New York).

Following the success of The Usual Suspects, it's hard to imagine Bryan Singer intended his sophomore feature as a glorious example of high camp.

But what the high camp masks is two raised middle fingers aimed at anyone still perpetuating such expectations.

It's also too mainstream, given the eerie creatures and other - worldly dimensions — perhaps a bit of high camp or ironic quirk would have given the film the edge it needed.

Everyone takes the material so seriously, which only has the Room - like effect of elevating the proceedings to high camp.

How to Talk to Girls at Parties is a wondrously bizarre affair, an exercise in kitsch and high camp that combines inspired moments with scenes that make you want to curl up in acute embarrassment.

An exercise in kitsch and high camp that combines inspired moments with scenes that make you want to curl up in acute embarrassment

Snowpiercer alternates between sudden violence, high camp, and heavy - handed political allegory with breakneck speed, and even when its disjoined plot mechanics seem a little too convenient, it's brimming with new cinematic technique.

Largely eschewing the baroque dialogue of the early comics — and the high camp that went with it — Derrickson and his co-writers embrace the blithe banter of other Marvel films.

This, his fifth novel for adults, retains the whimsy, intrigue and high camp of his children's fiction... Silly but poignant.

In New Orleans it is high camp: 12 days of parties and parades culminate into Mardi Gras celebrations where people dress up in costume, wear masks, get drunk and dance in the street.

His recollection of the night they spent at the high camp on Mera before beginning the final ascent at 3 am (in order to be at the summit for sunrise) is chilling.