Sentences with phrase «in bravura»

In a bravura performance, Shultz articulated the rationales for a carbon tax (and against cap / trade), including cap / trade's price volatility and vulnerability to market manipulation, a carbon tax's straightforwardness, and the success (and revenue - neutrality) of British Columbia's carbon tax, as well as the general power of pricing and the insurance value of a carbon tax.

In bravura installations, as in the Dakis Joannou collection at the New Museum, frat boys rule, too.

Margot Robbie in a bravura, kick ass performance plays Tonya Harding the figure skater best known for maybe engineering the bashing in of her nemesis» Nancy Kerrigan's knee.

Most importantly, Wingo's nicely melodic approach has an effecting, introspective sense of just how full of b.s., its musical machinations are, emotion that's particularly well realized in the bravura ten - minute end cue «What Are You Doing Jane?»

Director of photography Rachel Morrison utilizes long takes that capture the debates of King T'Challa's council chamber as well as the blistering action, especially in a bravura set piece that showcases Wakandan combat, a scene as vibrant and thrilling as anything thus seen in the MCU.

Caroline Champetier won the 2011 César for Best Cinematography for her superb work here, notably in a bravura scene inspired by the «Last Supper» and set to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

Indeed, Paramount just did the same thing with The Cloverfield Paradox, a film that was dropped out of the blue online after the SuperBowl, in a bravura piece of event marketing by Netflix.

Natalie Portman in a bravura performance as a driven perfectionist, a young ballerina up for a starring role at Lincoln Center.

that culminated in a bravura payoff, gonzo ironic and deeply sincere all at once.

Plaza shows impressive range and commitment in a bravura role that takes her from a dainty damsel to the Evil Dead, and allows for both existential anguish and some terrifically silly physical comedy.

This is filmed in bravura, bone - rattling fashion by Cianfrance.

The New York location photography has nice detail and depth — you can see it in a bravura opening crane shot that starts with a view of downtown, then tracks sideways as Swank emerges from a Chinatown subway stop.

The film shows great promise in a bravura opening sequence which starts with quick overhead flashes of New York City.

The film opens in bravura fashion with a scene that wouldn't seem out of place in a Sergio Leone Western.

As much as Herrmann and Chapman play a major part in the proceedings, though, so too does the unsettling delivery of DeNiro in a bravura show of restraint and suggestion.

In a bravura speech designed to raise morale, he said that the Lib Dems were «putting radical liberal politics into action and blocking Tory policies every day».

Tedford puts in a bravura shift as Maggie, donning his twin set and pearls and doing an impression to rival Spitting Image legend Steve Nallon.

Not exact matches

As the remarkable Gordie Howe opened his 24th hockey season — in triumph and with a burst of the old bravura — he recalled rookie days when he could hear the pucks from his pad

He shoots slightly more frequently than Costa does, but until a bravura run of league form in 2017 (when he scored 10 goals as part of Real Madrid's rotational «B» team that took the slack for a busy Champions League — filled schedule), he hadn't consistently been shooting from the most dangerous central areas.

Not a few believe «Hausa - Fulani» ultra-nationalism is expressed in the notorious «Fulani herdsmen», that kill with murderous bravura and satanic flourish.

The guessing game over David Miliband's future dominated a day in which he gave his party a glimpse of what could have been — with a concession speech that turned into a bravura display of political theatre.

Even big Cameron critic, James Delingpole at The Telegraph was positive (about the performance at least): «Cameron's speech was a bravura exercise in super-salesmanship.

More than half of Labour voters (56 per cent) are pleased with Mr Corbyn's performance while just 25 per cent believe shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who was widely lauded for a bravura Commons speech backing military action against Islamic State in Syria, would make a good replacement, rising to 42 per cent among Conservative voters.

Compared to that level of bravura, Stranger than Fiction's jokes never rise beyond simply pointing out how crazy a man would look if he thought there was a little voice in his head talking about him.

Christian Bale delivers a bravura performance as an unhinged Gulf War veteran leading his boyhood best friend (Freddy Rodriguez) astray during a drug - fueled foray into the seedier side of Los Angeles in this gritty drama.

In what may be the film's most bravura sequence, Isabelle meets the young and swarthy actor after a performance, after which she manages to painstakingly cajole him back to her place.

Watching Krisha is a revelation: there are expected «rules» for such material (a former addict returns home for a holiday), but then director / writer Trey Edward Shults breaks every rule, making those rules seem tired and arbitrary in the process, and he does so with bravura, confidence, flash.

It is the film's most bravura set piece and features Coogler's signature one - take (as seen in Creed), capturing a brawl from all levels and sides of the casino where the trio ambushes Klaue.

Of all the bravura visual effects in Martin Scorsese's dazzingly stylish Casino, it's a glimpse of ordinary people that delivers the greatest jolt.

Only the bravura of the cast, first and foremost Park and Lee (both veterans of Unbowed), generates sufficient interest to see the film through to its surprising conclusion, recounted in a respectful coda many years later.

This devastating film is buoyed by Dequenne's bravura willingness to go all out; she's a baby - faced kid when the camera focuses full on and an exceptionally beautiful young woman in profile.

Of course, he does this in the same bravura directing style of his past films, and with the rapid - fire comedy he and co - writer / star Simon Pegg brought to the first two parts of «The Cornetto Trilogy», Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

Whether ruining a baby's naming ceremony or describing to Buddy's wife (Elizabeth Reaser, Twilight) how she still sleeps in his old t - shirts, Theron delivers with fearless, gasp - inducing bravura.

I'd argue that it's not better at all, but that «The Shape of Water,» in its eye - candy pageantry, its guild - happy technical bravura, its embrace of the saintly outsider, and in the 20 - year industry track record of its director, veers closer to being a classic safe middlebrow Oscar choice.

There are moments of oddly dark slapstick humour when Pacino lets off some steam in that trademarked bravura style of his.

Frances Ha used its quick cuts like punchlines; Mistress America does plenty of that (it's quick, coming in under 90 minutes) but also stages a bravura, extended farce sequence in the Connecticut suburbs that turns its snappy dialogue into a symphony of wit and movement.

My older brother and I had snuck in and, now seated beside a speaker pole, were introduced to Hitch's bravura act of misdirection and mayhem.

Richard Gere delivers a bravura performance in his title role of a Duddy Kravitz - style hustler, especially in a wordless early sequence that speaks volumes about his character.

Combining Hitchcockian camerawork, lush, over-saturated colors, rollercoaster - like thrills, and at times surreal situations, Argento could overcome the sadism and misogyny in his gallery of sliced and diced beauties with the sheer cinematic bravura and beauty of the sequences.

The summer's best threequels took radically different approaches: The Bourne Ultimatum was almost completely shot in camera; Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End was a bravura usage of CGI.

Aronofsky takes his usual bravura cinematic approach to this harrowing psychological thriller set in a New York ballet company.

There are moments of real beauty in this movie — particular a bravura panning shot of every character in their own personalized train car, whether or not they're actually on the train — but the protagonists are the last people you'd ever want to be seated next to on a long trip, so watching them in a movie isn't much fun either.

That last point is particularly important, because although it's easy to admire Tarantino's bravura storytelling — not to mention his moxie in resurrecting a large - format anamorphic film process that's been dead for 50 years — the schematic structure and derivative narrative he employs makes The Hateful Eight about as nuanced as bloody bootprints in the snow.

It's also an unsurprisingly bravura showcase for Day - Lewis, who, in what will reportedly be his final screen performance, has left us with something rich, indelible and at times marvelously loathsome — a portrait of the artist as a fey, prickly, hyper - demanding middle - aged man.

All of this is vividly realized, culminating in the walk itself, a bravura piece of moviemaking that — like Petit himself — makes the impossible seem irrefutably real.

I wanted to talk also about some of the setpieces, in particular the two hand - to - hand combat scenes, one of which is very claustrophobic and choppy, the other of which is a long sequence shot, very bravura in a different way.

This collection of production - diary - style footage finds Brian De Palma on the set of his 2002 film Femme Fatale directing the shoot, a process that — as seen in these specific clips — includes rehearsals with actors Rebecca Romijn and Antonio Banderas, working through movement / blocking and fight choreography, and the management of the movie's bravura opening setpiece that takes place at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

While the opening half is pretty much a perfunctory examination of frenzied genius and telling of recognizable events, once the bravura presentation of The Ninth is complete, the movie starts to touch upon ideas about art and the artist's role in society and the universe.

He displays a mastery of staging, of camera placement and of bravura acting from the incredible cast that has seldom been matched in the canon of noir.

Compared to your preceding films, which feature bravura sequences like the nighttime shoot - out in Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink has a much more restrained style.