Sentences with phrase «n't autobiographical»

Although writer / director Woody Allen has long maintained that Annie Hall wasn't an autobiographical film about his relationship with star Diane Keaton, she claimed otherwise.

Despite being the star of her own photographs, she claims they aren't autobiographical.

Their work just isn't autobiographical enough.

While the novel isn't autobiographical in terms of the plot elements, it does contain many of my views on life, the philosophies which have influenced me, and the questions about life which I often ask myself and wiser people around me.

A coming - of - age tale that takes place in 2002 — long before teenagers lost themselves on their phones — the directorial debut of Gerwig was originally a mammoth - length script that she says wasn't autobiographical, even though she was born in Sacramento.

But the 18 - year - old son of the peripatetic literary gasbag Henry (Thomas Jay Ryan) and the incarcerated «lady terrorist» Fay (Parker Posey) likely isn't an autobiographical creation.

I'm from there, even though the film isn't autobiographical and I was nothing like Lady Bird.

Stephanie Danler insists her debut novel, Sweetbitter, isn't autobiographical.

LMD: In the press notes you make a point of saying this story is not autobiographical, but why then did you make Jayne's husband, Jackson the son of a famous artist as you are the son of a famous artist -LCB- Pop Art icon, Roy Lichtenstein -RCB-?

Not autobiographical cinema but personal cinema.

I would say that my scripts are always personal but not autobiographical.

Carrie Kabak assures us that Cover The Butter is not autobiographical.

However, the subject matter for Schutz's paintings are unique to her, though not autobiographical.

When asked where she comes up with her subject matter, Schutz told Mel Chin of Bomb magazine: «The paintings are not autobiographical -LSB-...] I respond to what I think is happening in the world.

Pittman's work is not autobiographical but it is personal.

Resumes are NOT autobiographical essays of everything you've done throughout your entire career.

Because in the movie script I haven't written, that's the song playing when the weekly magazine editor collapses — on the «cold ground» — from alcohol abuse (I swear, it's not autobiographical... yet.)

Because in the movie script I haven't written, that's the song playing when the weekly magazine editor collapses — on the «cold ground» — from alcohol abuse (I swear, it's not autobiographical).

Not exact matches

I guess this could be autobiographical or not.

Thompson grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home and his acclaimed 2003 autobiographical graphic novel Blankets tells not only the story of his first love but also his coming - to - terms with the Christian tradition of his family, culminating in a crisis of faith.

But to call the album autobiographical misses the point that Stevens himself lays out in Pitchfork's review: «It's something that was necessary for me to do in the wake of my mother's death — to pursue a sense of peace and serenity in spite of suffering... This is not my art project; this is my life.»

The autobiographical details magnified by Sufjan's critics serve, but do not exhaust, his pursuit.

If I say, after months of struggle with an issue, «Now I see the light; this is what you have been saying all along, and I couldn't get it,» I am making an autobiographical report that includes two levels of performative, negative and positive.

Readers who know Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974), Holy the Firm (1977) and Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982) are not only familiar with the autobiographical turn of her writing, but also with the power of a religious imagination that, while recognizably Christian; roams free.

But the Green - Hooper biography is not too lively and does not really advance its readers much beyond what Lewis himself had written in his autobiographical works.

It is a kind of autobiographical journal of her search for Jesus... where she doesn't find him and where she does.

In any event, Ex-Friends is autobiographical, and it is in the nature of autobiography that you tell the piece of the story that is yours, which need not fit neatly the pieces belonging to others.

The insistence on experience, especially in an autobiographical form, might suggest a highly individualistic and personalistic note, but I do not think that this is the case.

While his authorial modesty might elicit our admiration, we should not attribute it entirely to Shakespeare's personality, even if we accept the sonnets as autobiographical, where the persona of the poet can at times seem to grovel, even to the point of self «contempt.

Autobiographical fallacies aside, I can now only repeat something Borges said, a paraphrase of Mark Twain he cited in reviewing Kipling's autobiography (Something of Myself) in El Hogar: «It is not possible for a man to tell the truth about himself, or to keep from conveying to the reader the truth about himself.»

Teaching Catholic non-fiction does not mean teaching theology (or hagiography) but that does not mean that great Catholic theologians and priests need be excluded from the curriculum either: there could well be room for extracts from St. Augustine's Confessions or Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan's The Road of Hope when looking at autobiographical writing, for instance.

There may well be good autobiographical reasons as to why one or more of these options appeal to one, but such reasons are not to be mistaken for metaphysical principles.

Such an attempt as that of the late Professor Turner mentioned above to view the Gospel as autobiographical, at least from 1:14 to 14:72, with the exception of the doublets in 7:24 - 8:10 (or 12), we can not follow.

White tells us in another autobiographical fragment that «I used to pray madly every night (or it seemed like every night): «Please God, don't let me be beaten tonight.

In part, it was because this book, while not overtly autobiographical, is a deeply personal statement about the urgency....

The focus of the second chapter is not just Anis Sayegh's autobiographical narrative, but also the description of relevant historical information about Tiberias and al - Bassa (the birthplace of his mother).

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.

Canadian and U.K. researchers found that two patients who had lost their autobiographical memory (not to mention the ability to view themselves in future situations — such as dreaming about their wedding day) were able to pick up emotional cues and figure out the intentions of others.

While there is no need to add an autobiographical essay about yourself, the site does ask for information about things you love, loathe and can't stand.

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

It's not clear how autobiographical Lady Bird is — Gerwig is from Sacramento and graduated from high school around the time the film is set — but the little slice of universe she shows us feels deeply and lovingly observed.

Louie has spawned a whole genre of autobiographical comedian stories, which may not be new in

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.

True, Gerwig has gone out of her way to say that «Lady Bird» is not factually autobiographical, but she admits that to some extent it's emotionally autobiographical.

It wasn't written to be autobiographical, but it applies, I guess.

I'd always been interested in writing a story about late adolescence, but I didn't want to be too autobiographical, but these guys had written the thing.

Olivier Assayas» film didn't get much critical attention, with the general party line being that it was a middle - of - the - road autobiographical yarn.

With This Is 40, Apatow gets closer to making his quintessential dramedy — one which may not deftly express the universal experience of midlife (as if there even is one), but moves past its veneer of autobiographical verisimilitude and rings with something like real truth.

Reitman said that the three movies are autobiographical, not just pulling from Cody's life but from his as well, since they're about the same age.

A fond and appreciative portrait of one of American journalism's superstars, «Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold» may not contain any revelations that will surprise those who've followed Didion's eloquent, often autobiographical writing over the yeaNot Hold» may not contain any revelations that will surprise those who've followed Didion's eloquent, often autobiographical writing over the yeanot contain any revelations that will surprise those who've followed Didion's eloquent, often autobiographical writing over the years.