Sentences with phrase «into pop culture figures»

Not exact matches

From the opening minutes of Craig Gillespie's unreliably narrated, glibly entertaining biopic I, Tonya, it's clear that Margot Robbie has disappeared into the role of disgraced figure skater and pop culture punching bag Tonya Harding.

Take some squeaky clean young stars, add a couple of fashionable pop culture figures and throw them together into a crime - based party movie set during the annual student rite - of - passage: sounds like a sure fire recipe for success, right?

At the film's recent press day, McKay, Lewis, Bale, Carell, Gosling, Hamish Linklater, Jeremy Strong, producer Jeremy Kleiner, and screenwriter Charles Randolph talked about turning the book into a movie and adapting it to the screen, why McKay was the right person to direct, what drew them to the project, how the actors met their real - life counterparts in preparation for their roles, the decision to combine a cinema verite documentary approach with other stylized elements, breaking the fourth wall, and using celebrities and pop culture figures as an entertaining storytelling device to explain complex financial concepts to the audience.

Music and pop culture plays an integral role throughout in «setting the scene,» as it were, and Gerwig's choices for the songs that play in various key moments are almost always pitch - perfect (Dave Matthews Band's «Crash into Me» figures prominently in the narrative — and, as an aside, will be stuck in your head for days after seeing the film).

So if you missed book promotion opportunities in 2007, keep in mind that — in 2008 — part of your job as an author or publisher is to keep an eye on pop culture, and figure out how your messages tie into the news.

«Blasphemous» Brazilian artist under fire for turning religious figures into pop culture icons

Incorporating recent historical events, pop culture, television technology, and elements of his own figure into his work, Jackson comments on the way history has shaped our present moment, creating a body of work that reads as a new interpretation of post-war America.

Grooms's signature style fuses fine art and pop culture imagery, collapsing figure and ground into an abstract field.

Caulfield, who died in 2005, disavowed the Pop artist label — Juan Gris, Fernand Léger and formal problems were his bag — whereas Hume, now in his early 50s, has always been comfortable pulling into his work figures from popular culture, such as Kate Moss or Michael Jackson.

Cartoonish drawings, symbols from pop culture, and figures that morph into abstraction appear in bright, sunny colors often times accompanied by text.

Leckey's interests might have shifted throughout the last decade — from an obsession with pop culture, subculture and the figure of the dandy in earlier films such as Parade (2003), and in his band collaboration DonAteller, with fellow artists Ed Laliq, Enrico David and Bonnie Camplin; to the high / low culture face - off of his BigBoxStatueAction performances (2003 — 11), in which Leckey's giant speaker stack confronts icons of modernist British sculpture, such as Jacob Epstein's Jacob and the Angel (1940 — 1); to his later multimedia performance lectures, the Internet - driven epiphany of dematerialisation In the Long Tail (2009) and its antithesis Cinema - in - the - Round (2006 — 8), with its more reflective inquiry into the physicality of images via, among others, Philip Guston, Felix the Cat, Gilbert & George, Homer Simpson and Titanic (1997).

Gastman will not only be looking into the roots and historical figures of Graffit and Street Art, but also take an in - depth look at just how expansive street culture has become in the worlds of contemporary art, photography and other mainstream pop and art movements.