Sentences with phrase «labyrinthine stories»

From the search for a 136 - year - old Amazonian explorer, to the secret sexual powers of Abstract Expressionist painting, Fujiwara's absurd and labyrinthine stories will be brought to the stage with the aid of actors, musicians, and a mobile set.

Both of these labyrinthine stories are mired in movie memories that the filmmakers try to reconcile with their visions of Los Angeles in the 90s, but Benton's references mainly run to the late westerns of Howard Hawks and to his own previous feature, Nobody's Fool (also starring Newman and coscripted by Russo), whereas the Coen brothers, characteristically, are all over the map, taking in Busby Berkeley, The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Cutter's Way, After Hours, and their own Barton Fink.

To compress the labyrinthine story into a sentence or two, the enemy is Saruman (Christopher Lee), who commands a vast army of Uruk - Hai warriors against the fortress of Theoden (Bernard Hill).

But besides the broody performances from Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, and the labyrinthine story by Nic Pizzolatto, what made the series work so well was its visual tone, crafted with deliberate skill by director Cary Fukunaga.

The surprise of Get Out is how genuinely unsettling, surreal, and labyrinthine the story becomes as it plays out, Peele forgoing easy laughs in order to convey the mounting discomfort of his hero, magnificently played by Daniel Kaluuya.

Not exact matches

Obviously, this is not the occasion to enter into the labyrinthine philosophical debates surrounding these «Story - substitute» candidates.

The story is a relatively simple one of how two people who should never have got together become obsessed with each other, but is told in Nicolas Roeg's fluid, labyrinthine style with flashes back and forward and disconcerting edits.

But for those not bothered by that medium - crossing approach to a true story, this is probably a must - see; buzz is that Wormwood is the filmmaker's most exciting, ambitious movie in ages — a labyrinthine investigative epic, rich with conspiracy theory intrigue.

«Auster coyly celebrates the power of the imagination and marvels over the labyrinthine nature of the mind in an archly playful and shrewdly philosophical tribute to the transcendence of stories.»

These are awarded for completing tasks in story levels, but more are scattered across Middle - earth behind puzzles ranging from the simple to the labyrinthine.

Now, for clarity: this is not a story that is complex in the engaging, labyrinthine way, but rather the messy and highly confusing way.

Douglas reimagines the story's labyrinthine winds of double crossing, intrigue and institutional corruption to criticise dodgy American foreign policy, framing the protagonist Verloc as the stooge of US ambitions to influence the outcome of Portugal's first democratic elections in half a century.

With his new book he continues the themes from his paintings and installations, and in a New Novel we continue into Melgaard labyrinthine layer - by - layer stories with exaggerated and destructive themes, expressive visuality and powerful use of words that we recognize from his visual world.