Sentences with phrase «idiosyncratic characters»

What I'm really excited about with this is that they're such idiosyncratic characters.

A delicious combination of idiosyncratic character drama and increasingly violent and violently absurd comedy, this Netflix title opened the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance this year and is an assured debut for Blair, the star of Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin and Green Room.

The film is rooted in Hollywood classicism, populated with idiosyncratic characters who have plenty of room to speak and interact in between the action / horror set pieces.

- Booklist «In Heartless, the nonsense that is Wonderland gets a reverential makeover, full of heart and its own idiosyncratic character.»

: Where Jerry Goldsmith was lionized for any number of inventive, mainstream scores like «Basic Instinct,» «Total Recall» and «The Wind and the Lion,» the composer had an equal knack for embodying idiosyncratic characters for movies well below the widely accepted radar like «Under Fire,» «The Salamander» and «The Traveling Executioner.»

The universal quality you mentioned is interesting given the earlier films where the characters» idiosyncrasies are more pronounced — they still have universal themes below that — but this one seems less about heightened idiosyncratic characters and more about a universal fear.

Ultimately, The Extra Man tries too hard to be alternative cool and funny, and it slowly becomes a drag to watch a new idiosyncratic character or situation develop.

The many idiosyncratic characters are drawn with swift, sure strokes... notable for their economy and assurance of line as well as their pitch - perfect expression of personality, attitude, and emotion.»

Removing the stylized aesthetic of cartoons and offering realistic, idiosyncratic character art adds an extra jolt, forcing us to look ourselves in the ludicrous, Stone Age face.

Employing a diaristic style, the curator presents his personal curatorial alphabet with a similar transparency and the same idiosyncratic character revealed in many of his exhibitions.

That stylistic clash undermines Asus» premise of this being the most attractive Android Wear watch — the Moto 360 still seems to have more idiosyncratic character than any of its subsequent competitors.

Beginning with shots of the violent evisceration of a truck — guts, fluids, and all — the film becomes a moving portrait of idiosyncratic characters and the force of community in the midst of a profusion of carefully dissected and categorized automobile detritus.

«Wonderland gets a reverential makeover, full of heart and its own idiosyncratic character.»

This idiosyncratic character personifies the anti-conformist look.

Jackie Brown was met with a level of disappointment when it was released; yes it had the cool ensemble cast, excellent retro soundtrack and prolific use of the «N» word, but where were the violence, idiosyncratic characters and quirky comic dialogue we were all expecting?

A feast of colorful photography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters, the tough and tender Sweetie heralded the emergence of this gifted director, as well as a renaissance of Australian cinema, which would take the film world by storm in the nineties.

These films are all considerably more sprawling than the taut Phantom Thread, but you can see the seeds of this latest film (which Day - Lewis claims is his last) in the others — strange and unsettling narrative turns, idiosyncratic characters, a wicked sense of humor, and an enigmatic screenplay that rewards repeated watching.

Its idiosyncratic characters and darkly strange worldview, however, will remind many readers of the gothic atmosphere of Joyce Carol Oates's novels.

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.

An entertaining but idiosyncratic character, Fabro fiercely protected his independence, even unsuccessfully trying in 1971 to have the movement's exhibition retitled as simply a list of names.

The idiosyncratic character of their work has been appreciated or depreciated by art enthusiasts worldwide through their innumerable landmark art exhibitions, such as the Turner Prize which they won (1986), the 51st Venice Biennale (2005), their major retrospective at Tate Modern (2007), among solo shows at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (both in 2008).

The Transylvania - born artist's site - specific exhibition at The Aldrich showcases her skill in traditional, labor intensive, hand - crafted book - making, and will take the form of a diorama, in which a series of cut - out panels will reveal layers of a hallucinatory narrative featuring fantasy worlds and idiosyncratic characters.

Taken together, the three installations suggest inventive, alternate worlds and the idiosyncratic characters who might once have inhabited them.