Sentences with phrase «most autobiographical»

Juergen Teller's work in books, magazines and exhibitions is marked by his refusal to separate the commercial fashion pictures and his most autobiographical un-commissioned work.

The most autobiographical of these is a large installation consisting of four couches facing inward to form a square that makes sitting inaccessible.

One of the simplest sculptures at Lehmann Maupin, and the one imbued with the most autobiographical resonance, was titled Scape (2012).

The «Mental Escapology» series includes some of Hirst's most autobiographical works.

It included works from Hirst's most autobiographical series.

«Freedom is my most autobiographical book.»)

Her most autobiographical essays in the collection — «One Hot Summer, or a Brief History of Time,» and «On Writing» — are the biggest treats of See What Can Be Done.

Carol (née The Price of Salt) is the most autobiographical of Patricia Highsmith's novels, dealing so frankly with her own lesbian experiences that she originally had it published under a pseudonym.

Almost Famous was his most autobiographical film.

Despite a recent public declaration that he is «done with autobiography», 57 Davies has also admitted that A Quiet Passion, his fervent and elegant biopic of the 19th - century American poet, Emily Dickinson, might be the most autobiographical of all his films.

Olivier Assayas has written eloquently of his complicated relationship with the film, first rejecting it and then over time coming to regard the troubled Charles as «the truest portrait» of his younger self; Assayas's most autobiographical film, Cold Water, owes a debt to The Devil, Probably, as will, perhaps, his upcoming Something in the Air, a coming - of - age story in the context of»70s youth culture.

A Serious Man is the Coens» most autobiographical film to date, and their most emphatically, if not always flatteringly, Jewish.

The Big Red One is Fuller's most autobiographical film, at once an old - fashioned war thriller and a portrait of the insanity and senseless destruction of combat, and the most expensive and ambitious production of his career.

«Almost Famous» (2000) Crowe's been consistently unafraid to draw from his own experiences, but his epic «Almost Famous» is certainly his most autobiographical work, telling the tale of how, as an underage high - schooler, he ended up working at Rolling Stone magazine (in this case, covering fictional band Stillwater), falling in love, and coming of age.

Described as his «most autobiographical» film, it tells the story of celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon), charting her life from her strong - willed schooldays to her tragically isolated adulthood.

Not exact matches

Lewis later described this in his autobiographical work Surprised by Joy: «But then the key to my books is Donne's maxim, «The heresies that men leave are hated most.»

Readers of Oz have long known the autobiographical background to many of his fiction's most memorable characters.

Until very recently, most studies of Galatians have followed the suggestion of Martin Luther that Paul's autobiographical remarks in Galatians 1 and 2 were «boasting and glorying» that followed out of his divine calling.

For most Niebuhr - watchers, however, the rather autobiographical introduction was of most interest.

He says that the album is «easily the most confessional and autobiographical work of my career.»

In addressing British scientists Baillie (1951 pp. 11 - 15) told them he had long been in the habit of regarding as the most important single passage in the whole literature of Western Philosophy Plato's report in the Phaedo of Socrates» autobiographical reminiscences as he sat in prison awaiting death in 399 BC.

This book will make you think and it's hard to give a greater compliment than that... a deeply personal and sensitively constructed exposition of some of the most enduring philosophical questions... particularly fascinating... endearingly autobiographical style... Shaha has constructed a charmingly readable journey through some of the most enduring philosophical territory, weaving memories and thoughtful anecdotes into a powerful story of hope and truth.

Given the abundance of records of one's lived past and anticipated future, we do not need to recall all of them or even most of them to operate in autobiographical mode.

As a singer she remains as wayward as ever, her velvety voice, so urgent and melancholy in its expression, rendering even the most nakedly autobiographical lyrics here impenetrably opaque.

For the many mavens who aren't familiar with Varda, this autobiographical documentary will be puzzling, in the best and most literal sense.

Louie has spawned a whole genre of autobiographical comedian stories, which may not be new in structure or concept, but are certainly new in terms of their brutal honesty and willingness to showcase the mental health issues which seem to define and codify most comedians.

Pam Grady: Once filmmaker John Carney returns with Sing Street his brightest, most crowd - pleasing musical yet, an autobiographical story of a young 1980s teen (a delightful Ferdia Walsh - Peelo in an indelible screen debut) who forms a New Wave band with his mates in a bid to forget about his troubles and win a girl's heart.

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.

It's one of the most entertaining films you'll ever see, and its moments of obvious exaggeration are as revealing as the moments of autobiographical truth.

One of the most gifted actors of the 20th century, Ullmann was the Swedish titan's lover, muse and frequent leading lady, and Faithless in many ways their most nakedly autobiographical collaboration.

However, Kendrick's most - anticipated release of the Fall isn't a film, but rather her first book, an «autobiographical collection of essays» entitled, Scrappy Little Nobody, due out Nov. 15.

Fortunately, the comparison is more than superficial, and according to most, the film only shares the strengths of Dunham's work — sharp, acerbic humor, painful autobiographical situations and a fresh, unique voice.

However, it was Hardcore where he was at his most personal and autobiographical.

Thanks to all of that, plus the most memorable score of the year, it seems to indicate the birth of a major filmmaking talent, one not content to make something autobiographical about the love lives of twentysomethings for his debut, and that's something to be excited about.

Hong Sang - soo, South Korea, 2017, 101m Hong Sang - soo's movies have always invited autobiographical readings, and his 19th feature is perhaps his most achingly personal film yet, a steel - nerved, clear - eyed response to the tabloid frenzy that erupted in South Korea over his relationship with actress Kim Min - hee.

Based on Jeannette Walls autobiographical book of the same name, The Glass Castle tells the poignant story of Walls life growing up with her siblings under the care of their parental duo in the form of Naomi Watt's artistic and free spirited Rose Mary and most tellingly Woody Harrelson's intellectually attuned, yet troubled and alcoholic father Rex.

The truth is, no matter how well - intentioned and autobiographical this film may be, it is constructed in a most clumsy manner.

But more than just the autobiographical details, Lady Bird feels most like a Greta Gerwig movie in the way that it loves its characters even while they're at their most ridiculous.

Klein's most egregious autobiographical distortion is that he grew up in public housing.

Polacco's five most popular books all get ratings over 4.3, and her most popular book, the autobiographical Thank You, Mr. Falker, receives a 4.51.

Interesting to note: The inevitable question asked of most first novels is how much of it is autobiographical?

Its autobiographical musings on loneliness wax romantic, the narrator tends to get distracted by the general sexiness and curiousness of everything and, most of all, the prose lacks the determined edge Kerouac gained from the influence of the rest of the beats.

Is it a coincidence that autobiographical games are the ones that seem to experiment with new storytelling ideas the most?

The early ones especially, and Short Circuit most definitely, are loaded with personal, autobiographical, and even private esoteric references, which critic Yve - Alain Bois derided as «semantic traps,» good for little more than «keeping art historians busy for generations to come.»

Rosanna Mclaughlin: As your current exhibition Self Portraits at White Cube is your most explicitly autobiographical to date, I thought we could start at the beginning.

Her process of selection and arrangement of materials is measured and refined, drawing equally on a precise formal language and the most intimate of personal experiences to create a compelling autobiographical thread.

Yet for the most part, the subject matter mined by the artists is historical or autobiographical.

Beyond the common superficialities of the two spaces, both artists» work draws heavily upon autobiographical elements, contradicting society's expectations of women's art and women artists, through the communication of their most intimate experiences.

Great chronicler and one of the most incisive commentators of the contemporary society and culture, Grayson Perry combines his subversive art with autobiographical references from his childhood and family to transvestite alter ego Claire, making distorted commentary on class, taste, consumerism, and art versus craft.

Early pioneers included Van Gogh (1853 - 1890), most of whose paintings were autobiographical, notably his self - portraits; Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903), noted for his use of Cloisonism (blocks of colour) and Symbolism; Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944), the nervy student of psychoanalysis; and the primitivist painter Paula Modersohn - Becker (1876 - 1907).