Sentences with phrase «lose story threads»

episode of the mother of all movie franchises, George Lucas is faced with a daunting task of tying up all the lose story threads.

Not exact matches

Have we lost the thread of the story?

Adapted from J.G. Ballard's 1975 cult favorite novel, this movie starts well, but as the story descends into chaos, the movie follows, losing the thread of what it wants to say and why we should care.

At the even indier end, we have had Rian Johnson's Looper, which managed to tie all manner of time - travel - related knots without losing the viewer, and threaded a moving love story through it.

His well - earned reputation as one of our greatest living filmmakers lost none of its luster with «Phantom Thread,» an exquisitely textured and perversely funny 1950s love story that I found to be sheer cinematic bliss.

There are five different stories unspooling along parallel threads: in somewhat contemporary 2011, a professional tennis player who has lost his mojo, Sandy Alison, is trying to find himself...

Recognising that many people don't have enough time for regular reading — and thus can easily lose the thread of a novel — Helen Keeling - Marston set about writing a collection of short stories.

Recognising that many people don't have enough time for regular reading - and thus can easily lose the thread of a novel - Helen Keeling - Marston set about writing a collection of short stories.

The main thread of the novel follows young Vietnam vet Llewelyn Moss as he runs to evade the ex-Special Forces agent, Chigurh, employed by the cartel whose money he's appropriated; but it's also the story of aging lawman, Sheriff Bell (the moral opposite of Chigurh), who is coming to terms with the fact that there seems to be a new breed of bad guy on the lose these days, against which old style lawmen like himself can not compete.

The freedom you have to explore Wasteland as you wish and several great approaches in the matters of gameplay and story are unfortunately let down by some serious framerate issues and the fact that it's simply too easy to lose the thread.

Among the highlights of its first eight years are: Bernd Alois Zimmermann's harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved «through the music;» the unprecedented six - week residency of the Royal Shakespeare Company in their own theater rebuilt in the drill hall; a massive digital sound and video environment by Ryoji Ikeda; a sprawling gauzy, multi-sensory labyrinth created by Ernesto Neto; the event of a thread, a site - specific installation by Ann Hamilton; the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company across three separate stages; the New York Philharmonic performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's sonic masterpiece Gruppen with three orchestras surrounding the audience; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; a sonic environment that blurred the boundaries between artist and audience created by the xx; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath and henge by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh; tears become... streams become..., a genre - defying collaboration between artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud, which flooded the Armory's drill hall with an installation of water, light, and music; and HABEAS CORPUS, a performance and installation by Laurie Anderson based on the story of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee that examines lost identity, memory, and the resiliency of the human body and spirit.

Afraid I'm losing track a bit as to which argument was made on which thread — but for those discussing the drought issue, and particularly those recalling (from Dai, 2010, or elsewhere) that the Mediterranean basin is projected to be at very high future drought risk — this story will have really serious resonance:

A common thread through many of the stories is the tendency to see a negotiation as a win - lose competition (despite the usual claims of looking for a «win - win» solution).