Sentences with phrase «laconic american»

But we're always pulled back in by the performance of Mr. Taylor, an Australian actor who absolutely aces the laconic American lawman.

Not as insightful as «Topsy - Turvy» or «Vanya on 42nd Street» about the process of putting on a show, it's nonetheless a fascinating meeting of the minds — between iconic New York indie filmmaker Michael Almereyda and laconic American cowboy and dramatist Shepard.

Not exact matches

This poetic, laconic and ineffably beautiful drama has an unerring feel for its subject, a young cowboy struggling against his implacable fate in the American West.

Taylor Sheridan's directorial debut - a nouveau Western centering on the investigation of the murder of a Native American girl - features Jeremy Renner as a laconic and methodical agent of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who dispenses such folksy nuggets of wisdom as:

ANDREW KREPS GALLERY The larger of this gallery's two spaces has been dimmed to screen four moving - image works by the Ohio - born artist Kevin Jerome Everson, whose laconic films explore the quotidian passages of African - American life and, more recently, the everyday consequences of the Midwest's economic downturn.

So he belongs in the pool of postwar figurative painters whose works are, to one degree or another, conceptual or «abstract»: painters like Gerhard Richter and Malcolm Morley, who, like him, use photographs, or, among Americans, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and even Wayne Thiebaud, specialists at a certain laconic registration.

Although his images are undeniably rooted in the signs and symbols of American reality closely observed, his elegant and laconic art speaks to more complex and widespread issues regarding the appearance, feel, and function of the world and our tenuous and transient place within it.