Sentences with phrase «like memento»

Emerging as a prominent artist in New York during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, Bleckner's paintings, like memento mori, often suggest meditations on the body, health, disease, and especially AIDS - related death.

Maybe I can make a tenuous connection between other recent visionary films, like Memento and Being John Malkovich, that are also at once fascinating and mind - boggling.

Tjarks: It was an impressive visual spectacle, but I don't think it holds up to movies like Memento, Interstellar, and The Prestige.

Although it finishes at the bottom, Following gave every indication that Christopher Nolan was a writer / director with a sharp point of view who could weave a complex narrative into a cohesive story — laying the groundwork for a noir film like Memento.

The Hangover is actually a rather neat narrative — it's kind of like Memento if Memento wasn't like a concept episode of «Miami Vice.»

He's the 44 - year - old London - born writer - director who turned comic - book movies on their head with his Dark Knight trilogy, a brooding take on Batman that retained the cocksure intelligence and visionary edge of his earlier films like Memento and Insomnia.

He's equally adept at providing low - key, personal, thrillers like Memento and Insomnia and more than proved his worth with big - budget spectacles like The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception and Interstellar.

Gritty and involving, this small British thriller is like Memento crossed with The Bourne Identity as it reveals its secrets through a fragmented structure that involves espionage and memory.When a woman (Reid) wakes up on...

Albeit, like Memento and Fight Club, a trick movie that reflects the post-modern equivalence of simulation and reality that Chuck Klosterman, apparently ripping off one of my college Film Theory papers writes about in Sex, Drugs and Cocoa - Puffs.

Like Memento or Dude, Where's My Car?

Not exact matches

Movies with big box office showings like «Wonder Woman» and «The Hunger Games» were also popular among DVD renters, as were cult classics like «The Big Lebowski» and Christopher Nolan's «Memento.»

Mementos of a life spent surfing around the world, driving racecars, and hanging out with his heroes, like surfing legend Kelly Slater, line the credenza behind Woodman's desk.

A memorial banner with an image of a rifle and a red circle and slash mark over it had been taken down, along with poignant mementos like teddy bears and poems, deputies said.

While an admonition such as «Remember, O man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return» sounds like the solemn - admonitory, the point of the memento mori is to contemplate worldly death in order to fit oneself for otherworldly life in communion with other eternal souls, not somehow to find comfort in the commonality of our mortal lot.

This is kind of like the movie «Memento.»

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

Yet like the others Treves also acknowledges the reflection of his darker self in this living memento mori: Merrick is «visibly worse than in «86 -» 87.

«It's great to receive something like this, it's a great memento for me and hopefully a nice trophy to start off my Premier League career.»

Don't we ALL wish for mementos like that from our mothers... Keep writing him every year so he'll have lasting treasures of all his cha chas!!!!

I like that this will be like a bookmark of his life - a memento of who he was at 6 years old.

Doing special things to remember your baby may help, like gathering and keeping mementos in a scrapbook such as ultrasound pictures (if you received some), sympathy cards or pressed flowers that people gave you and poems or letters you wrote to your baby.

Mementos of being removed, drunk, from a local pub by a bouncer «Like an old married couple we were.

We like that we can use this book to help explain why we have our son's picture all around the house and why we have mementos and special objects.

It can also be healing to do something special to honor your baby like a dedicated memorial stone at the zoo, planting a tree, create a blog or a website, celebrating birthdays, holding on to mementos, also wearing pins, getting tattoos, or applying car stickers of remembrance can help to heal as well.

The days of sending romantic mementos like the Golden Record are dwindling, and an era of private individuals launching what they want is nigh.

Tedisco thought it only appropriate that a champion candidate like Astorino should receive mementos commemorating local champions because, despite the so - called odds, he'll win by 10 lengths when the November race for Governor is over.»

Memory loss has been a stock movie plot device since the release of 1940s melodramas like Random Harvest, but lately it seems to be everywhere: in mysteries (Memento), in thrillers (Paycheck), and even in comedies (50 First Dates).

A University of Leicester clinical psychologist has described treating an individual with a «Groundhog Day / Memento» - style memory loss as «like nothing we have ever seen before».

Commemorative pins are a ubiquitous part of the space agency's culture - contractors hand out these mementos like cigars before every launch, and multiyear missions earn serial souvenirs.

«Memento simulates what it feels like to be a person who has suffered damage to the hippocampus that has obliterated the formation of long - term memories.

My necklace collection was getting too out of control for the standing organizer I have, so I decided to purchase a couple of cork boards to hang over our dresser (one is used to display mementos like concert tickets).

This DIY kit lets her create an inspiration board for her state — she can include mementos like stickers and ticket stubs from her favorite day trips.

It's almost like a little memento to remember it by.

What really drew me to this cabinet (for want of a better word, not really sure what to call it as I have never seen anything quite like it before) was the domed top, I love that it was upholstered on the inside and just looked like a lovely place to hold all those treasured baby mementoes.

I love that you have an extra special memento like that of your amazing outfit and as a reminder of everything that went into getting to STLFW!

Shaped like a scrumptious macaron, this darling jewelry box opens at the center to reveal a small place inside to stow your favorite jewelry pieces or mementos.

Having receiving gifts as a language doesn't make your partner shallow: it just means they treasure small, tangible mementos of your love like the three below:

From there the guys retrace their steps to reconstruct the night's events in order to understand and, where necessary, undo the current situation, like the guy with no short - term memory in Memento.

But «Swan» despite its excellent execution and master class performances doesn't quite achieve the heights of other classics in this genre like «Mulholland Drive», «Memento» or even Aronofsky's amazing «Requiem of a Dream».

Soon they're searching for their misplaced friend on a «Memento» - like adventure: void of memory, mapping clues and working backward to retrace their path from the night before.

To make his argument, Bordwell must, of course, ignore those aspects of the films he studies that do not fit the classical narrative structure, like the non-classical nature of a character such as Memento's Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce).

In fact, I'm in great haste to write what I can, like Guy Pierce in MEMENTO, as this film is so forgettable I fear all memory of it will be gone before I am finished.

Memento is highly recommended for anyone who likes to be thrown for a loop while watching a mystery and not have everything wrapped up in a tidy bow by the end of the film, a la Jacob's Lader and its brethren.

The movie plays out like a teenage - led «Memento,» with a young camp counselor suffering from amnesia and trying to save his girlfriend from a mystery infection.

I've always felt like so much great cinema is storytelling through memories, and here is a perfect example in possibly its purest form (another great example would be Memento, by Christopher Nolan).

There are also some really amazing visuals and genuinely heartbreaking scenes, though it's ultimately a disappointingly messy affair, lacking the discipline and uniqueness of Nolan's past films like «Memento,» «The Dark Knight» and «Inception.»

It's a costume drama that feels like the world's darkest, dour - est, most inappropriate thriller serial, placing a series of increasingly complicated and unpleasant revenge - scenarios in chronological order and reminding of, if anything, just how bad Nolan's Memento makes you feel.

The Memento - like premise is utilized to exceedingly agreeable effect by director Egoyan and screenwriter Benjamin August, as the movie's first half benefits substantially from an emphasis on the mystery behind Zev's hand - written orders - with the character's quest, which is consistently hindered by his crumbling mental state, heightened by Plummer's typically masterful turn.

I like innovative Memento and Dark Knight Nolan, not trying - so - hard - to - be-convoluted Inception Nolan, and thankfully Dunkirk is of the former.

The Machinist, one gleans pretty quickly, is about duality and split personas, meaning that the central mystery of the piece is the amount of time it will take for Trevor to figure out what an audience savvy with like entertainments (Identity, Memento, Jacob's Ladder, Angel Heart) already knows.