Sentences with phrase «modern fairy tale»

It's funny how people who believe in modern fairy tales about god make fun of ancient religions like sun worship, which makes more sense than the crazy story told by the bible.

A magical modern fairy tale if ever there was one.

The jury, of course, is too busy watching the 17 films in the main competition to follow some of the other sections such as «New Directors,» a complete retrospective of that whimsical purveyor of modern fairy tales, Jacques Demy, and «The American Way of Death,» a vast program of 40 crime movies from 1990 to 2011.

This enthralling modern fairy tale from Caldecott and Newbery Honor winner Tomie dePaola and debut illustrator Doug Salati celebrates the greatest power of all: love.

Ancient literature, like modern fairy tales, is full of narratives in which gods and other supernatural beings disguise themselves as human beings, sometimes as the lowest of the low, and roam throughout the world to see how people will treat them.

In Gary Ross» daring modern fairy tale Pleasantville, an entire fictional town is granted a chance to experience the comedies, and dangers of real life.

An extraordinary modern fairy tale about femininity and sisterhood from Turkey's Deniz Gamze Ergüven.

The Shape of Water, while set in 1962 Baltimore still strikes out as a romantic modern fairy tale (The Purple Rose of Cairo meets La Belle et la Bête meets The Creature from the Black Lagoon) that wisely knits the never - ceasing discrimination and disrespect minority groups face all across North America.

I've already shouted the praises of Juno Temple to all who will listen, but now it's time I showed this quirky and dark modern fairy tale some love.

We hope you will like the game:) We do not plan referencing modern fairy tales or other IPs but of course there might be easter eggs.

Just beause «Everything you can think of is true», as he claims, the artworks in the exhibition entitled «Video Portraits of Lady Gaga», although they seem to balance in the dreamland, containing elements from the art history, with the help of technology transfigure into modern fairy tales and they are: Extremely Truly...

That's how close things seem between the modern fairy tale The Shape of Water and the fast and furious Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which have split the guild prizes and have left people who like to engage in guesses, guessing.

In That Hideous Strength, «a modern fairy tale for grownups,» C. S. Lewis imagined a National Institute of Co-ordinated Experiments (N.I.C.E) which is undertaking an ambitious attempt to control and shape nature.

And no better for my modern fairy tale than a fairy - print dress!

I believe that in the epoch it worked well in a successful way, almost became a modern fairy tale.

The title brings to mind Beauty and the Beast of course, and the film informs found settings with a casually fantastic atmosphere, occasionally suggesting Neil Jordan's modern fairy tales.

It's a near perfect story, with a beautiful ending, and every bit the modern fairy tale it sets out to be.

In this modern fairy tale, Edward is a gentle, naive creation with razor sharp scissors for hands.

What should be a wondrous excursion into Shyamalan's version of a modern fairy tale is undermined by the writer / director's bitter tone.

They may seem old fashioned and perhaps too sweet for American audiences — his films, while loved by many, have never found the huge audiences that flock to the more knowing and culturally savvy Pixar films and Shrek sequels — but the lovely fables, epic adventures, ecologically - minded dramas and modern fairy tales are all treasures.

A critical hit at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, this slick Austrian film adopts the shape of a modern fairy tale, right down to its spasms of brutally grim (m) and incongruously comic violence.

A modern fairy tale about a pauper angling to become a prince... Full Review

A modern fairy tale about a pauper angling to become a prince...

Netflix debuts a full - length trailer for Okja, the modern fairy tale from director Bong Joon - ho (Snowpiercer, The Host).

Ondine (PG - 13 for violence, sensuality and brief profanity) Oscar - winner Neil Jordan (for The Crying Game) directs this modern fairy tale, set in County Cork, about an Irish fisherman (Colin Farrell) who becomes convinced that the woman (Alicja Bachleda) caught in his net is a mermaid.

Written and directed by David Farr, screenwriter of Hanna, The Ones Below is a dark, modern fairy tale in which the lives of two couples become fatally intertwined.

Phoebe in Wonderland (PG - 13 for mature themes and brief profanity) Elle Fanning stars in this modern fairy tale about a young girl with Tourette's Syndrome who finds a constructive way to channel her destructive, obsessive - compulsive urges with the help of a drama teacher (Patricia Clarkson) who casts her in a school production as Alice in Wonderland.

Inspired by the W.B. Yeats poem that tempts a child from home to the waters and the wild, The Stolen Child is a modern fairy tale narrated by the child Henry Day and his double.

And these two books, one a lyrical, modern fairy tale and the other a sprawling adventure story, have deeper concerns bubbling under their magical surfaces than you might expect.

My reviews of «Sleeping Beauty: A Modern Fairy Tale» reflect this trend.

In the early days of its published life, my short story, «Sleeping Beauty: A Modern Fairy Tale,» garnered four - and five - star reviews and netted comments like «Well worth the purchase price,» and «Definitely worth the money.»