Sentences with phrase «lurid title»

«Star Cunts & Other Attractions» is a fittingly lurid title for this exhibition of Judy Chicago's early works on display at Riflemaker in Soho.

The lurid title alone was enough for me to catch this film by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador on a pirate DVD, and my mind was blown when I discovered a c...

Despite its lurid title, the film scored more on the threat of violence than its actual violent content, which was minimal.

His latest book is Via Crucis published in English with the more lurid title Merchants in The Temple.

Not exact matches

Critic Consensus: Raw's lurid violence and sexuality live up to its title, but they're anchored with an immersive atmosphere and deep symbolism that linger long after the provocative visuals fade.

I remember actually renting The Boogeyman at a long - defunct Colorado video store over a decade ago (Video Plus, you magnificent bastards), a store that stocked a fabulous selection of lurid horror titles with fabulously trashy cover art — the kind you felt guilty peeking at.

The set - up here is classic sexploitation, which director Mikael Marcimain nods to in the opening titles, which have that grainy, lurid, Sweden - in - the - «70s look.

Perry has the title role here (based on James Patterson's character, but on no particular book) as a brainiac detective whose legendary profiling powers have made him the go - to guy in Detroit for lurid homicides.

Instead, right down to the nearly synonymous title we get a lurid, silly «Prisoners» me - too (and that film itself was far from flawless) in which the only additions are a flashback - and - forward structure that never works, the kind of contrivance in which a laptop camera accidentally left transmitting records a crucial conversation (perfectly framed) and a crude, distastefully regressive subtheme which suggests that well, of course that this is what happens to girls and to women (even successful, intelligent, independent women) when they are left alone even for a moment by their menfolk.

Instead, right down to the nearly synonymous title we get a lurid, silly «Prisoners» me - too (and that film itself was far from flawless) in which the only additions are a flashback - and - forward structure that never works, the kind of contrivance in which a laptop camera accidentally left transmitting records a crucial conversation (perfectly framed) and a crude, distastefully regressive sub-theme which suggests that, well, of course this is what happens to girls and to women (even successful, intelligent, independent women) when they are left alone even for a moment by their menfolk.

The story is slight and the cinema psychiatry creaky, but for a premise with such lurid possibilities, Lars and the Real Girl is as easygoing and warmly innocuous as the benign irony of the title.

Given the main character's literary ancestry, it's not surprising to see the title evoke the symbolism of the lurid folktales that would eventually be associated with the Grimm Brothers works or the allegory of Stoker's Dracula.

Niki de Saint Phalle's lurid 1990 throne, titled Horus, and a genuine Egyptian mummy's sarcophagus occupy the same gallery, if not the same culture or time zone.

Given Johns» antipathy to Expressionism in general (and Abstract Expressionism in particular, which he memorably skewered in such works as «Painting with Two Balls,» 1960), it is hard to imagine him even liking Munch's frequently lurid Symbolism all that much — even if he did borrow the title for a set of three paintings, «Between the Clock and the Bed» (1981 - 83), from Munch's elegiac «Self - Portrait between the Clock and the Bed» (1940 - 43).

For the Nurse series, Prince mined his own extensive collection of trashy romance novels from the 1950s and 1960s, lifting the protagonists and titles from their lurid covers and immersing them in layers of pigment.

17 years ago a Greenpeace report titled The Climate Time Bomb tried to frighten us with lurid images and dire predictions that have since failed.