Sentences with phrase «hypnotic performance»

No surprise there, the two - time Academy Award nominee turning in an explosively hypnotic performance as a hard - living, emotionally volatile writer with a gambling addiction who is slowly destroying the lives of his wife and son.

2015 proved his biggest year yet, however, with a starring role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and, more importantly, a hypnotic performance in Alex Garland «s hugely promising debut, Ex Machina.

She should WON for that icy, hypnotic performance, I felt like one of her prey watching her.

Once again, the greatest strength in the film is a hypnotic performance by Parks as the old seafarer with nefarious motives.

Not exact matches

Under The Skin worked for me on virtually every level, from its hypnotic soundtrack to Johansson's outstanding performance, from its narrative ambiguities to its tantalizing (and, for my money, its all - too - brief) forays into the metaphysical and straight on through to its crushingly bleak finale.

Watch Alt - J turn in a stirring performance of their odd, yet hypnotic blend of experimental indie.

What it does have is Samuel L. Jackson in a pinpoint performance as an unctuous old house slave who's more layered than he appears, and when Django, Schultz, and Candie are sitting around the parlor trying to outwit each other, the film achieves that QT hypnotic mood.

The performances are top notch, and Drive «s score (by Cliff Martinez) and music selections, too, are hypnotic and of a piece — nervous, pulsing and desirous gems that give the movie a dreamlike hold.

Green's performance is can't - look - away hypnotic, even as it crashes headlong into her young co-star's authenticity.

The combination of Gardner's music, Marvin's stoic performance, and the psychedelic lava lamp lighting gives the sequence a hypnotic energy.

In Monte Hellman's hypnotic road movie Two - Lane Blacktop, folk singer James Taylor gives a lead performance that is both unassuming and arresting, the kind of askew, unshowy, vanity - free acting that perhaps only a nonprofessional actor is capable o...

From a performance perspective, Michael Fassbender is hypnotic as the eponymous OG harbinger of regicide.

«Watching Denzel just embody Malcolm X — the growing maturity, the intensity, the watchfulness, the utter control of his performance — is hypnotic, and close to a religious experience.»

Both men have far more to do than initially meets the eye, their expressive, multifaceted performances building in passion, power and urgency in hypnotic parallel with the film itself.

He's helped along by a memorably hypnotic score and excellent performances from some of the early members of his talented coterie of actors.

The Young Pope aired in the U.S. on HBO last winter to critical praise, particularly for Jude Law's hypnotic central performance.

Throw into that an extremely likeable performance from Christopher Lloyd and a bit of black humour that a Halloween episode of The Simpsons may try to evoke and the film does have an off - kilter but hypnotic charm that draws you in.

When the unravelling occurs it's no less effective whether you predicted the outcome or not but that's thanks in large to Ramsay's hypnotic direction and intense performances from her actors.

Inspired by soundtracks, Pinder utilizes hypnotic popular music and surreal performances to underscore themes dealing with Afro - Futurism, physical endurance, and blackness.

Cacophonic in form and content, Golding's performances transcend chaos and enter a hypnotic zone, while her installation work evokes acts of self - perceiving leading to meditative and transgressive states.

Alongside, Lee Mingwei's performance piece Our Labyrinth (2015) sees a dancer gracefully move piles of rice around the space with a broom, pushing the grains into concentric shapes in the most hypnotic of ways.

''... Stunning... Maya Stovall shows videos of hypnotic little dance performances she stages at shops in her neighborhood in Detroit...» (ARTnews)

Her performances are hypnotic, possibly due to the inclusion of ritualistic gestures — including hand signs, dance moves and silhouettes created on overhead projectors.

There is then a screening curated by Dominic Watson, followed by performances, including a restaging of Corpus Sonus (2012) by Sam Belinfante, with Musarc; a hypnotic event newly conceived by Salvatore Arancio; performances by Gaia Fugazza and Frances Scott; and works activated throughout the exhibition spaces.

A hypnotic new commission by Salvatore Arancio (please note this performance involves strobe lighting).

To follow are performances, including a restaging of Corpus Sonus (2012) by Sam Belinfante, with Musarc; a hypnotic event newly conceived by Salvatore Arancio; a performance by Gaia Fugazza; and works activated throughout the exhibition spaces.

Kusama first began making her Infinity Nets upon her arrival in New York in the 1960s, and it was paintings such as these, in combination with hypnotic site - specific installations and daring performances that won her international critical acclaim.

Deeply concerned with romantic beauty, repetition and duration, Kjartansson's videos are endurance performances that play with stereotypes and cultural clichés but are gratifyingly hypnotic; much like the new - fangled internet fad «Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR)» that now has many viewers hooked to their screens in endless viewing loops.