Sentences with phrase «in grand illusion»

In Part 1, under my name, I discussed eBooks, and how, among many in The Grand Illusion, there is a belief that there is a connection between the new technologies and being a self - publisher — when there isn't, and that there is some disconnect between new technologies and traditional publishing.

In other words, it takes time, and polishing of the craft — two factors that do not have a place in The Grand Illusion (noting that there are self - publishers who are mindful of this).

As I stated in my Grand Illusion articles, I believe readers will eventually reshape the industry.

The majority of participants in the grand illusion can not do this, and in all likelihood, never will.

What gets me, is that in The Grand Illusion, not only do the irrational assume that the editors and artists etc of the large companies are all those ugly, awful things I listed earlier, but the smaller players are no better.

Nobody has ever captured the First World War better on film (except perhaps for Jean Renoir in Grand Illusion, which is in a class by itself).

Not exact matches

Read about this and more in «Grand Illusions: American Art and the First World War» by David M. Lubin (Oxford University Press, 2016).

For Baudrillard we live in a world of societies that have been duped by a grand illusion and sadly live within it, but will never realize it.

The Wildcats led NOTRE DAME 7 - 6 late in the third quarter and they began to have grand illusions.

«and later in a second tome, «Grand Illusion» that questioned how Giuliani prepared for the 9/11 attacks.

After making his mark in the early thirties with two very different films, the anarchic send - up of the bourgeoisie Boudu Saved from Drowning and the popular - front Gorky adaptation The Lower Depths, Renoir closed out the decade with two critical humanistic studies of French society that routinely turn up on lists of the greatest films ever made: Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game (the former was celebrated in its time, but the latter was trashed by critics and audiences — until history provided vindication).

Rialto's past releases include Renoir's Grand Illusion, both in 1999 and in a new 4K restoration for its 75th anniversary in 2012; Carol Reed's The Third Man; Fellini's Nights of Cabiria (for the first time in its «director's cut»); Jules Dassin's Rififi; Godard's Breathless, Contempt, Band of Outsiders, Masculine Feminine, Le Petit Soldat, Alphaville, and the U.S. premiere of his Made in U.S.A.; Kurosawa's Ran; Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie; Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au Grisbi; Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar and Diary of a Country Priest; Resnais» Last Year at Marienbad; the U.S. premiere of the original, uncut Japanese version of Godzilla; the U.S. premiere of the complete, uncut version of Jean - Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge; the U.S. premiere of Melville's Army of Shadows, which became the most critically - acclaimed film of 2006; the U.S. premiere of Claude Sautet's Max et les Ferrailleurs; and Robin Hardy's definitive cut of The Wicker Man.

(His finest work, by far, is in Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion, which was nominated for Best Picture but received no other nods.)

Paris - based, Brooklyn - born expatriate has written the subtitles for over 30 French films released by Rialto, beginning with Renoir's Grand Illusion in 1999.

As Michael Atkinson has written for Criterion, «Without its iconic precedent, there would have been no Humphrey Bogart, no John Garfield, no Robert Mitchum, no Randolph Scott, no Jean - Paul Belmondo (or Breathless or Pierrot le fou), no Jean - Pierre Melville or Alain Delon, no Steve McQueen...» Soon after Pépé, Renoir's antiwar masterpiece Grand Illusion hit, and it was an even bigger smash, cementing Gabin's superstar status; in this and all of his most successful roles (La bête humaine, Le jour se lève), Gabin played some form of working - class social outcast, and he always provided audiences with a strong point of identification.

In the film description from the original Janus Films» catalog there was a quote from Orson Welles: «If I could save only one film, it would be Grand Illusion.»

While we still hope to reacquire those rights, we are thrilled that we are able to present the Criterion edition of Grand Illusion on the Criterion Channel at FilmStruck starting today, in celebration of the eightieth anniversary of the film's release.

Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes plays at the Grand Illusion for a week in a 35 mm print.

Hot Fuzz, Wright and Pegg's loving send - up of action comedies, suggests that its makers got more out of Bad Boys II and Point Break — two of its tongue - in - cheek touchstones — than most filmmakers get out of Citizen Kane and The Grand Illusion.

If you're tastes are more... unconventional, there's 9 1/2 Weeks at the Grand Illusion and, in wide release, The Shape of Water, Phantom Thread, and Fifty Shades Freed.

In this Marvel tentpole world, where faux dramatics are conjured to create the illusion that superheroes are fighting for something of some value, Rogue One is indeed rebellious, posing a quest that resonates with emotional engagement and grand illusion.

Opening today in Seattle at the Grand Illusion is Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral, an interesting movie I saw and reviewed way back in September (someday I will finish my last three VIFF 2012 reviews, hopefully before VIFF 2013).

The first foreign language movie ever nominated for the best picture Oscar, this most celebrated of antiwar films had a host of admirers, including Orson Welles, who once said, «If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be «Grand Illusion.»»

The also - rans were no slouches, as nominations were bestowed upon The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn in his most iconic performance, William Wyler's Jezebel starring Best Actress winner Bette Davis, Jean Renoir's richly textured war drama Grand Illusion, and the musical Four Daughters directed by workhorse Michael Curtiz.

The first American film by acclaimed French filmmaker Jean Renoir («The Grand Illusion» / «The Human Beast» / «Madame Bovary») is shot in black and white and on location in Georgia's Okefenokee swamp.

Best Local Repertory I saw in 2015: The Hou Hsiao - hsien Retrospective (Northwest Film Forum, Grand Illusion & Scarecrow Video), The Apu Trilogy (SIFF), Cat People & I Walked with a Zombie (Grand Illusion), A Day in the Country & French Cancan (Seattle Art Museum), Serge Bromberg's Saved from the Flames compilation (SIFF).

Our very first DVD edition, Jean Renoir's masterpiece Grand Illusion, streams on the Criterion Channel in celebration of the film's eightieth anniversary.

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He depicts humanity rumbling with life in La Grand illusion (1937)'s prison camp, in...

The Grand Illusion kicks off Halloween movie season in style with a 35 mm print of John Carpenter's 1994 classic, the director's last indisputably great film.

I'll set aside the intricacies of self publishing and traditional publishing in this post — just to say that I have already stated that any divide between them is part of the grand illusion — professional work (including quality cover design, editing, proofing etc) is the key to professional production.

BTW, my intention was just to air the Grand Illusion hypothesis in my role as editor of IFWG Publishing.

Self - publishers who participate in discussion and social networking espousing the virtues of self - publishing, its success stories, and accounts of evil traditional publishers, are collectively involved in consolidating a grand illusion.

In my seed article writing as Chief Editor of IFWG Publishing, I hypothesized The Grand Illusion, a state where many self - publishers created a bubble around themselves, constructed of beliefs and views that were not necessarily based on fact.

My concern, reflected in my article, is that the industry is in such a hiatus, that the proliferation of poor work is just too high, as it is having a negative effect on writers who are nearer their goal, it is harming readers who are picking up too much trash, and the Grand Illusion does not assist writers in properly being helped.

My recent articles have been largely focused on The Grand Illusion, a hypothesis that many self - publishers (mostly poor writers, some good) are dynamically sustaining a distorted view of collective self - worth (in terms of literary ability) as well as other irrationalities.

To demonstrate the Grand Illusion, I have heard of a writer that actually was in this situation and blamed lack of sales in the «other country» on the lack of education / appreciation of that population!

In other words, I entered the Grand Illusion.

I think I've made myself clear in my previous comment — I am talking about self - publishing when I talk about «the grand illusion» and other related topics, not «indie» as you define it — I don't actually use the term «Indie» in my articles for the very reason that there is confusion out there.

Many commentators seem to miss this point, being the vocal core of the grand illusion, entangling the self - publishing and ebook publishing debates, when in fact they are mutually exclusive.

Faisal Memon, chief executive, Illusions Online, speaks to Breaking Travel News at World Travel Awards 2012 Grand Final Gala Ceremony in Delhi, India.

The environments are grand and no expense was spared to give the illusion that you are apart of the world of Rome as it looked at that point in time.

Maybe not, but others in «Grand Illusions» had their staged photography more than a century before Cindy Sherman, while Alice Austen had a reclusive stage to herself on Staten Island.

His application of incremental brushstrokes in orderly rows creates an illusion of grand scale independent of the size of each canvas.

Unlike Cindy Sherman herself, «Grand Illusions» does not challenge, in the museum's words, photography's «unmediated relationship to the world,» as a «footprint» of objects and light.

Past series have included Discovering Georgian Cinema; Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area; Chronicles of Inferno: Japan's Art Theater Guild; Days of Glory: Revisiting Italian Neorealism; Isabelle Huppert: Passion and Contradiction; Castles in the Sky: Masterful Anime from Studio Ghibli; Grand Illusions: French Cinema Classics, 1928 — 1960; Women's Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran; and Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman.

«Well, after this century of grand proclamations and terrible illusions, I hope for an era in which real and tangible accomplishments, and not grand proclamations, are the only things that count.

Currently working and living in Berlin and Beijing, recent exhibitions include The Grand Illusion, White Space, Beijing (2016); I'm not a robot, Galerie Philine Cremer, Düsseldorf (2016); Our Painting, Yang Art Museum, Beijing, China (2016).

In a 1999 interview with journalist Stefan Koldehoff for his exhibition Gerhard Ricther: Text, the artist is famously quoted having said that ``... after this century of grand proclamations and terrible illusions, I hope for an era in which real and tangible accomplishments, and not grand proclamations, are the only things that count.&raquIn a 1999 interview with journalist Stefan Koldehoff for his exhibition Gerhard Ricther: Text, the artist is famously quoted having said that ``... after this century of grand proclamations and terrible illusions, I hope for an era in which real and tangible accomplishments, and not grand proclamations, are the only things that count.&raquin which real and tangible accomplishments, and not grand proclamations, are the only things that count.»

Scagliola is a plaster effect traditionally used to create imitations of marble in grand buildings, one that Kenny knows well thanks to experience gained as a specialist decorator» creating such illusions.