Sentences with phrase «magic of narrative»

My hope is that all of you will one day discover the art and magic of narrative practice.

Best - case scenario: This inherently exciting true story becomes even more thrilling through the magic of narrative filmmaking.

Not exact matches

The «nature knows best» argument is simply displaced from one narrative (body knows how to give birth) to another (vagina is magic determinant of future health).

The individuality and the heart of Resistance has been disposed for a lame narrative, dull characters, a hammy script, lack of variety and a general lack of Resistance magic.

Critic Consensus: Thunder and the House of Magic lacks real narrative depth, but its visual splendor offers sufficient compensation for younger viewers.

Critics Consensus: Thunder and the House of Magic lacks real narrative depth, but its visual splendor offers sufficient compensation for younger viewers.

At eighty years young, Woody Allen delivers his forty - sixth (yup, you read that right) feature film with Café Society; a bourbon basked narrative feature showcasing the wonderfully vibrant jazz era of the 1930's, where the magic of the movies is very much alive; nightclubs are bustling with

But Fire Emblem shares some of the key ingredients of a Warriors - style game, including a huge roster of recognizable and beloved characters, a focus on medieval - style combat with melee weapons, bows, and just a bit of magic, and narratives revolving around heroes leading armies to save kingdoms.

Eventually Magic Mike seems to remember that, as a narrative feature film, it should have a story of some kind, which is how we come to focus on the struggles of Adam (Alex Pettyfer), a 19 - year - old college dropout who's landed on the couch of his more responsible sister Brooke (the enigmatically poker - faced beauty Cody Horn).

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The narrative is full of magic and mayhem, and undoubtedly still resonant to legions of youngsters and their parents; particularly as it's been adapted by Melissa Mathison, who also penned such family friendly adventures as E.T The Extra Terrestrial and The Indian in the Cupboard.

In narrative mode, Jackie & Ryan casts Katerine Heigl as a former songstress and single mom with some serious issues, while Magic Mike XXL reprieves the original's abundance of pelvic thrusts, supported by a skimpy but sentimental jockstrap of a script.

From the magic lantern - style innovation of his sculpture installation Six Men Getting Sick to the fixed camera placements of The Alphabet to the rudimentary narrative of The Grandmother (whose heavy's freakishly accentuated jawline transforms his countenance into that of a snarling villain in the «Perils of Pauline» mode) to, finally, the total aesthetic compromise of the shot - on - video The Amputee, the first few entries contained on «The Short Films of David Lynch» imply that there is only one destiny for the medium, whether its evolution is spread out over a century or concentrated in the time it takes for an artist to develop a conscience.

But that's easily debunked — just look at Pixar's roster, which features a number of magic - feather narratives but also includes stories largely about family, friendship, and growing older.

Lincoln is not some mushy life - spanning biopic of our sixteenth president; it is instead heir to a class of film never truly reputable enough to have been actively missed; think of the forties Hollywood films Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet or Edison, the Man, which sprinkle biographical detail over narratives deeply invested in tracking their famous protagonists» often obsessive quest to achieve a single goal, say, the invention of vaccinations, the creation of light bulbs, or the cessation of slavery.

At - risk children running wild and having too much fun to know why they're hurting inside; a poverty - line motel named the Magic Castle, a cruelly short distance from Orlando's Walt Disney World, run by a kindly, big - hearted manager; a pace of perpetual motion set by the 6 - year - old with the reckless mother at the narrative center: It sounds like the stuff of vicious pathos.

The narratives tick along with casual indicators of their place in the overall story until the film finally crescendos and the wizardry of Nolan's latest magic trick is laid bare.

One of the year's best films, Guillermo del Toro's «The Shape of Water» is pure movie magic that pays tribute to past films while also presenting its own bold and fresh narrative.

Though much of the film's early press focused on von Trier's audacity in digitally superimposing porn actors» genitals onto the stars» bodies to maximize the verisimilitude of the sex scenes, Nymph -LRB--RRB- maniac is not an ironic essay on digital magic but rather a defiantly old - fashioned affair, grounded in well - trodden narrative traditions.

The poem they perform — a piece called «Black Girl Magic» — is a celebration of black female identity and a protest against an education system entrenched in a white - dominant narrative that doesn't serve their cultural and socio - emotional needs.

We also exclude hybrid texts that use a considerable amount of narrative to explain science or history (such as the Magic School Bus series by Joanna Cole).

McCorkle read an excerpt from «Magic Words,» originally published in the fall 2008 edition of Narrative.

It's a truly remarkable narrative and I can't recall many authors who are able to work that kind of magic.

Set against a backdrop of political intrigue and a simmering revolution, this is a carefully constructed narrative of uncertain loyalties, searing romance, and subtle magic in a harsh desert city.

Deborah Jay presents Please don't leave me hanging... posted at Deborah Jay — Mystery, magic and mayhem, saying, «I wrote this post with the aim of exhorting fiction writers to learn the craft of narrative structure.

It's one of those games lumberingly oblivious to that magic spot where gameplay and narrative intersect.

The narrative of Switch's launch year asserts itself: it is a time of rebirth at Nintendo, when conventions are swept aside and we can experience the magic as if for the first time.

Storytelling is certainly an obvious path, but the J.K. Rowling collaborative «Book of Spells» Wonderbook project covers that with narratives and background on each spell as well as various action games using spells of magic, fire and other properties (20 total).

The former manages to recapture much of the magic that made the early Final Fantasy titles such unique, wonderful experiences, while the latter boasts all the charm and narrative poignancy of its venerable cousins, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.

The gameplay is probably the most fun and smooth of any of the games in the series, and the narrative issue of Kenway having a magic suit that gives him special Assassin powers does end up getting addressed.

Narrative is unobtrusive; the formal elements of color, scale and space, fine drawing and unfinicky matte surfaces are a big part of the magic.

Downes says he chooses a site because it satisfies a «personal need» or has a kind of magic, but whatever his reasons are, he seems to choose sites that challenge him as a painter and that remain devoid of narrative, rhetoric and cliché.

David Frankel described the work in Artforum as «involving a series of interlocking situations or narratives carried by videos and installations, their sites ranging from a 1970's caravan seen in Magic to a teenage girl's bedroom (in Frenchy) to a nightclub (The Hungry Brain) to the kitchen of three London flatmates (Dream Interference Device).

His figurative paintings also seem to capture a bit of the magic of dreams and portray them in narrative works for all to see.

A tidy package on the one hand, a fury of magic on the other, it is a gemstone of narrative, the few perfect notes, a choreography of colour.

Two other powerful works, Weems's stunning, red - curtained, mixed - media installation, a magic show based on holograms called Lincoln, Lonnie and Me — A Story in 5 Parts (2012), at the McKenna Museum of African American Art, and Fraser's masterful performance at NOMA reenacting a New Orleans city council hearing from 1991 probe racism, both subtle and overt, in vivid, unsettling narratives.

Her work incorporates humble materials and everyday objects to create scenes of magic realism based on an abstracted narrative of the artist's history.

«While all of the sculptures are grounded in their own distinct narratives, derived from Art History and suburban towns,» writes Francesco Bonami in his catalogue essay, «the seemingly fragile and delicate gazing ball establishes that sense of uncertain equilibrium that exists between history and fantasy, magic and materiality, mass culture and exclusive beauty.»

When we met in a room above London's Frith Street Gallery, a few months before she opened overlapping exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery, the artist returned several times to the word «magic»: when marvelling at the encounter of light and photosensitive emulsion, at the curious way that narrative emerges from coincidence, at the moment in the editing process when everything aligns and something new emerges.

The narrative gains momentum when we, as viewers, surrender our sense of structure and logic to the magic of disorder, mistake and spontaneity.

She creates narratives and moments of magic by forging delicate relationships between the objects that compose her work.

Featuring: Amna Asghar, Dana Davenport, Umber Majeed, Tammy Nguyen, Ke Peng, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Sheida Soleimani Amna Asghar speaks on the construction and translation of disparate references, cultures, geographies, and generations from Pakistan and America; Dana Davenport addresses the complexity of interminority racism within her own community and institutions from her experiences as a Black Korean American; Umber Majeed's practice attempts to unpack the temporalities within South Asia as site, familial archival material, popular culture, and modern national state narratives; Tammy Nguyen interrogates natural sciences and non-human forms to explore racial intimacies and US military involvement in the Pacific Rim; Ke Peng documents the feeling of alienation and disorientation from urbanization and immigration by taking a journey into an imagined childhood in China, Hunan, where she was born and Shenzhen, a modern city where her family relocates to; Sahana Ramakrishan explores myths and religion from Buddhist and Hindu tales to speak upon the magic of childhood and the power dynamics of sexuality, race, and violence; Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian - American artist and a daughter of political refugees, making work to highlight her critical perspective on the historical and contemporary socio - political occurrences in Iran.

Simple suggestions of curve and an exacting articulation of the surface facets endow these paintings with a narrative life that celebrates the magic of the mundane and elevates the ordinary.

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A reference to magic carpet narratives as well as the blankets that Illegal street vendors use to quickly pack and transport their wares to safety, Flying Carpets perfectly fulfills the show's curatorial desire to link the symbolic significance of pattern with its aesthetic tradition.

Magic Beans takes its name from the beloved children's story «Jack and the Beanstalk,» which is full of symbols that we have translated to suit the meaning of our narrative.

The works construct a personal, narrative journey in which magic dominates and transcends physical and psychological space ultimately leading the viewer to a unique understanding of the nature of knowledge itself and how we come to construct, acquire and utilize this powerful tool.

Anne Sherwood Pundyk I love the work of the post-impressionist painter Edouard Manet for both the magic of his paint handling and the way he challenged narrative conventions.