Sentences with phrase «masterpiece about»

Around that time, she garnered critical acclaim for her film Cléo from 5 to 7, a masterpiece about a Parisian woman who awaits news about a biopsy.
In the NY Times critic Manohla Dargis called the film «a masterpiece about life, death and everything in between.»
How can crap games like Uncharted, Assassin's Creed and Left 4 Dead already be getting sequels when a gem like Gunhead, EA's would - be masterpiece about a guy with a gun for a head, struggles to be taken seriously?
Alright, tomorrow (whoops, today already) I will treat you to my masterpiece about the most recent Delta's Coup d'Etat.
In a lot of ways, it reminded me of Alias, Brian Michael Bendis» masterpiece about what it's like to be a private detective who is also a superhero.
Inspired by the traditional «wonder tales» of the East, Salman Rushdie's novel is a masterpiece about the age - old conflicts that remain in today's world.
In this masterpiece about freedom, feminism, and destiny, Printz Honor author A.S. King tells the epic story of a girl coping with devastating loss at long last — a girl who has no idea that the future needs her, and that the present needs her even more.
Now, after nearly a decade of work, Bennett has completed a mature and moving masterpiece about the indelible bond between mothers and daughters and what it means for motherless girls to grow into women.
In USA Today, Deirdre Donahue suggests that the book is «a masterpiece about the Holocaust.»
Gillian Flynn, takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong.
Raging Bull Rated R Available on Blu - ray Finally on Blu - ray is Martin Scorcese's masterpiece about boxer Jake La Motta, brilliantly played by Robert De Niro who went on to win the Oscar for his performance.
A countercultural masterpiece about the act of seeing and the art of image making, Blow - Up takes the form of a psychological mystery, starring David Hemmings as a fashion photographer who unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.
There are certainly some heavy themes at work in Alexander Payne's new film, our favorite of his since the similarly toned masterpiece About Schmidt, but as usual, he handles them with homey grace and good humor.
On seeing it again, I realise I undervalued it nonetheless, finding it, perhaps because of that context, just all a bit too English in comparison to Michael Haneke's masterpiece about late marriage, Amour (it's true, there are a few overwritten Alan Bennetty moments, such as Geoff boring on about fixing a broken ballcock).
Venice Film Festival «But nothing happens,» complained several friends to whom I had (perhaps a little too zealously) recommended Kelly Reichardt's previous feature «Wendy and Lucy,» her pocket masterpiece about the mental unravelling of a stalled drifter in the great American nowhere.
«But nothing happens,» complained several friends to whom I had (perhaps a little too zealously) recommended Kelly Reichardt's previous feature «Wendy and Lucy,» her pocket masterpiece about the mental unravelling of a stalled drifter in the great American nowhere.
Roman Polanski is a terrible human but he did direct this horror masterpiece about a young mother who unknowingly gives birth to the son of Satan.
The Conformist (Raro, Blu - ray, DVD), Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 masterpiece about a petite bourgeois Italian (a superb performance by Jean - Louis Trintignant) who simply wants to disappear into the fabric of Mussolini's Italy in the 1930s, is arguably the director's greatest film, and it was hugely influential on American cinema of the seventies.
By 2009, when Asghar Farhadi's masterpiece about a group of friends vacationing by the Caspian Sea was first released in Iran, the intricate structure of the director's storytelling had already begun to feel like his artistic trademark.
Madame de... — Max Ophuls masterpiece about a pair of earrings winding their way through high society infidelity.
Tom Ford's directorial debut is a near - masterpiece about a mourning, closeted English professor, with Colin Firth in the performance of his career.
Agnès Varda's New Wave masterpiece about a famous singer / fashion model who abandons her blond wig and rediscovers her identity on the streets of Paris is jam - packed with vivid detail, an expressive graphic style, and an eye for urban chaos, and is at least as engaging and inventive as Breathless and The 400 Blows.
Martin Scorsese's undersung masterpiece about Hollywood hotshot Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) homes in on the man's obsessions with airplanes, leading ladies, soap, and other must - haves.
«Lincoln,» Steven Spielberg's masterpiece about the last months of the 16th President of the United States, led all films this morning when nominations for the 85th Annual Academy Awards were announced.
Remember to pick up your masterpiece about a week later.
It's certainly fitting that after filling his German years with ballsy, predictive masterpieces about Nazi rule - by - fear, Fritz Lang would finally make a film that directly involves Nazis.
Ultimately, Loveless is as interested in solving the disappearance of its character as much as Michelangelo Antonioni is interested in Lea Masseri's vanishing in L'Avventura (1960) or Asghar Farhadi is interested in surveying the reality in his masterpieces About Elly (2009), or for that matter Jeff Lebowski deciphering the truth in The Big Lebowski (1998).

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By putting yourself into a creative state, you'll be sweeping negative feelings to the corners of the room and making space for a new masterpiece — even if it's nothing to sing home about!
Whether you're in Monaco for the mega yacht parties, the 21 gaming rooms of the legendary casino or the $ 30 cocktails (and $ 8,000 dames de compagnie) at the Beaux Arts masterpiece Hôtel de Paris, this miniature country is all about excess — furs, diamond heirlooms and magnums required.
Apart from some film and video game scores, these masterpieces and more complicated styles of music have just about disappeared.
Instead, each side has capitulated - each in its own way - to the philistine notion that art is necessarily about power: that all works of art, including the world's great masterpieces, are best understood as either attacks on the established social order or defenses of it....
Well I don't know about you, but I can't look at a painting masterpiece unless it's accompanied by cool digital effects that only the most accomplished high schooler can do.
But do you think that the master dares to be unconcerned about whether he piously consecrates his powers in holy service, or whether by despair in the midst of glittering sins he simply produces — a masterpiece?
People who say the Bible is boring probably need to forget everything they have ever heard about the Bible and begin to read it as the masterpiece of literature that it is.
From Town & Village, a neighborhood newspaper here, in a story about the New York Theatre Ballet: The company, which has reparatory seasons and revivals of long - lost chamber masterpieces, is also well known for its hour - long adaptations for children.
Whether you believe the Book of Job is historical fiction or historical fact, everybody agrees that it is a theological masterpiece which was written to teach the readers something about God.
I am drooling about this cheesecake masterpiece.
The TJ's pre-made version of this classic spinach, feta, and phyllo dough masterpiece presents the ultimate benefit: You don't even need to think about working with phyllo dough.
A meat and cheese masterpiece is about to land at Wayback Burgers — but this time in the form of a classic Philly Cheesesteak.
Yep, he went from calling the Damian Lillard masterpiece on Friday to rapping about Drake on national television on Sunday.
And you'll not get any argument from me about the wankfest over JM, by the way I didn't see a tactical masterpiece, just a ragged performance from your mids and a mismatch of numbers in the middle.
You never know when a pile of wood and nails might be about to turn into his next woodworking masterpiece).
Think about it, a mama spends nine months baking that bun in the oven... the last thing she wants is for someone to insult her masterpiece.
Case in point, the latest masterpiece from Serge Bielanko, 5 Reasons I'm Excited About Our Home Birth.
We went on about our busy day and came out with a masterpiece!
The Mole trip took the Heritage Caravan through Damongo to Larabanga, where participants saw and and were told about the famous Larabanga Mosque — one of Ghana's architectural masterpieces.
About this Exhibition: Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries Weston Library, Oxford, UK; through 20 September 2015
Printed by a small publishing company known for other scientific masterpieces such as The Psychology of the Simpsons and You Do Not Talk About Fight Club» makes the rest of her article questionable at least and suspect at most.
Printed by a small publishing company known for other scientific masterpieces such as The Psychology of the Simpsons and You Do Not Talk About Fight Club, Campbell's book quickly hit the word - of - mouth circuit and skyrocketed towards bestseller status, with sales exceeding half a million copies to date.
Whether it be helping to bake their own masterpiece or making something simple for their own lunch, one of the first and most important things (aside from making sure they have loads of fun, enjoy the experience and learn new skills) is to teach them all about the bugs and nasties they can pick up along the way if they are not careful with hygiene.
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