Sentences with phrase «noble failure»

While so many other noble failures and outré excursions from that time have found their place within the canon, Cisco Pike continues to languish in obscurity.

What once seemed sure to be a noble failure plagued by production woes, World War Z turns out to be one of the more captivating summer entertainments this year, a sprawling film that maintains an alluring sense of intimacy.

What once seemed sure to be a noble failure plagued by production woes, World War Z turns out to be one of the more captivating summer entertainments this year.

John Huston's long - cherished adaptation of Herman Melville's novel has some wonderful scenes but must be counted as a noble failure.

DARK PLACES is a noble failure that gives away too much too soon, then takes much too long to get to its twist.

Ewan McGregor's new adaptation of Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel American Pastoral is a noble failure.

Since then, the director's reputation hit a bit of a speed bump with the noble failure of 2008's «Blindness,» so there's pressure on «360» to make up some ground.

But if it is, it's such an exciting, prescient, moving, and noble failure that I wouldn't care to swap it for even three or four modest successes.

A noble failure from a noteworthy filmmaker, Joseph Cedar's «Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer» — the unofficial winner of this year's «Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)» Award for the most fanciful title — mines a classic storytelling tradition in order to spin a darkly comic parable that often feels as unkempt and intolerable as its title character.

In light of such a tortured production, Super Mario Bros seems like something of a noble failure, a bizarre but worthy anomaly on the resumés of its stars.

The noble failures — those percolating under the surface — are often the most interesting.

An exemplary instance of this «national» devaluation of Turner may be found in L'Art moderne (1921), the penultimate volume of Elie Faure's canonical L'Histoire de l'art, in which Turner is deemed a noble failure, a victim of ambition overreaching ability.