Sentences with phrase «kind of nostalgia for»

On top of that there's a melancholy music track behind the pictures that evokes, for me at least, a kind of nostalgia for things that never were.

However, Brice reassures players that even though the developers want to hit home and capture what it's like to be in school, they want to provide a nice kind of nostalgia for players.

Its Belle Epoque - inspired interiors evoke a certain kind of nostalgia for days when travel was slow yet more meaningful and certainly more extravagant.

As time has passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a kind of nostalgia for the old German Democratic Republic has been growing.

Not exact matches

I'm all for a rigorously selective form of nostalgia, and that kind of nostalgia, practiced by our most astute social critics, is less blinding than liberating.

To begin with, as mentioned above, nostalgia for the original union of praxis and theoria propels some of the most powerful currents of modern philosophy; it may even be said to be a kind of shibboleth of fashionably self «critical moderns.

No matter what type of relationship you're looking for — from the forever kind to the When looked upon with the rose - colored glasses of nostalgia, the dating we did in our 20s was the stuff of romantic comedies, especially when compared with

It's certainly niche, definitely esoteric, but for those that it does tickle, (especially those who have a friend to play with in real, physical space), it's the kind of experience that is unlike anything I can think of, and since first coming across it years ago, has been talked about with a sense of wistful nostalgia by anyone I know who's played it.

Setting it evocatively in George W Bush's America of the early 2000s, hardly a rosy age for American politics or mass nostalgia, courts a kind of bittersweet nostalgia that's hitting many right in the tear ducts: soft but sober, it's a film about how bad things were before we knew how bad they were going to get.

The gorgeous nostalgia supplied by Sergio Leone's mythic 1968 summation work — in many ways a tombstone for a certain kind of Western hero, of an «ancient race,» as Charles Bronson says — packs a wallop.

Not, mind you, the false, rose - tinted glasses kind of nostalgia, but the honest ache for when one's time was truly better.

It carries an assured kind of natural nostalgia for an old form of animation.

The appearance onscreen of pointillist swarms of film grain may trigger a specific kind of nostalgia in movie buffs, for chemically produced and mechanically projected images that are rarely seen these days outside of repertory cinemas and museums.

While younger cinephiles may not have the most nostalgia for these actors, this is kind of a big deal for those of us with an unhealthy fascination toward these actors» careers.

Filled with nostalgia for the kind of future Disney envisioned when he built the original Tomorrowland theme park in the 1950s, Bird's film borrows sci - fi tropes from «The Matrix,» «Stargate» and other films, mooshing them together with CGI action sequences (one of which, a rocket lifting off from the Eiffel Tower, is truly spectacular) and enough philosophizing to fill several TED talks.

But most of all it seemed to be a way to address something that's prevalent in all his books; that outlandish spirit, the humour, the nostalgia — that kind of sweet, dripping aching for the past.»

This kind of pop nostalgia, of course, has only intensified in the 16 years since «Donnie Darko's» initial release, as demonstrated most recently by the hit Netflix series «Stranger Things,» which shares Kelly's affection for Steven Spielberg and Stephen King.

It's the kind of movie that will make some critics instantly want to go and write a long essay — but then we too are probably caught up in our own nostalgia for the 80s and the golden age of theorizing on the wonders of post-modernism.

Thanks to its utter disregard for following trends, the flick is a welcome throwback to the kind of mid-to-late 90s action filmmaking that was heralded as absurd at the time, but now evokes pangs of nostalgia for its simpler, less CGI - heavy methods.

Publisher's Weekly even noted a kind of nostalgia in his book for the early days of Amazon, as Marcus writes about their warehouse across from the world headquarters of Starbucks and the exhiliaration they seemed to feel.

As you and editorial plot out what kinds of new series you'll launch, do you sometimes look for new series that capitalize on things like nostalgia, or grass roots interest in properties that haven't been around in a while?

Chet: For us this project originally started as having CS ported to XBLA and release kind of like a nostalgia kind of thing.

I have definitely played enough to tell this is a beautifully crafted, fun, addictive game that checks all kinds of boxes for nostalgia, entertainment, and one more turn (or day).

It just feels as though it's a replica of the classic games we used to play; I'm all for nostalgia and it's great to play something that reminds me of some of the classics, but in this day and age I kind of expected a little bit more.

Maybe as some kind of postmodern commentary on the nostalgia we, the longtime players of video games, hold for the admittedly simplistic and sometimes overly revered beat -»em - up genre, Lucha Fury is an effective tool.

It's hard for gamers to develop the kind of video game nostalgia for these games when they never go away, or are always being tweaked and changed.

Kind of like the modern Doctor Who, it draws on an old property for nostalgia and great jokes but makes it into something that feels modern and fresh.

Ironically, time hasn't necessarily been kind to these ports - if you have a burning nostalgia for those games, you're probably better off playing them on the Genesis or the Saturn, which had the kind of processing grunt to carry them off more faithfully.

«Both Wonder Momo and Rolling Thunder evoke strong, iconic nostalgia amongst gamers of different kinds,» said Rob Pereyda, Producer and Editor - in - Chief of ShiftyLook for NAMCO BANDAI Games.

At times a kind of nostalgia bubbles to the surface, and while the works are not intended to be primarily autobiographical documents, each holds the indelible marks of the maker and the things that hold meaning for her.

Author Maria Porges notes: «The cumulative effect here is one of nostalgia — sometimes for things that never really existed — mixed with a strange kind of déjà vu.

If the images she chose for the «dazzle paintings» have a kind of upbeat nostalgia, there's also a sinister undertow to them.