Sentences with phrase «nod to the past which»

Not exact matches

As part of that nod to our illustrious past, 10 permanent benches are being positioned along 96 Avenue, each of which is dedicated to an individual club legend.

Aside from King's refusal to grow up the script has several nice nods to the passage of time including the corporatization of several of the small town's bars (which the group's leader fails to even notice) and the fact that despite their «legendary» past exploits, no one in the town remembers the once rowdy bunch at all.

Hollywood was truly at a crossroads then, and so were the Oscars, which had nominated in 1970 such daringly different kinds of films as Midnight Cowboy (the eventual Best Picture winner), Easy Rider, Z, and Medium Cool, while also giving Best Picture nods to films like Hello Dolly and Anne Of The Thousand Days, two movies more representative of the past than the future.

The prime case in point: Andrew Garfield's turn as The Social Network's spurned and spat - upon baby entrepreneur Eduardo Saverin, which has glided past Justin Timberlake's showier antics as Napster - teer Sean Parker and Armie Hammer's equally compelling double dip as the Winklevii twins to emerge as the sole boy from his film's well - tanked fraternity to contend here — especially on the strength of his Golden Globe nod.

And then there's this new model, which has a vestigial roof kickup and a funky asymmetrical license plate pocket that's a nod to past Discovery designs, but other than that, it looks very, very similar to other Land Rover models.

Much of the truck's body is made of carbon fiber, including the front fenders, extractor - style hood, rocker extensions and tailgate, which features large, debossed CHEVROLET lettering as a nod to Chevy trucks of the past.

Massively OP reader Francois recently pointed us to IGN's Top 100 RPGs of All Time, which we thought was worth a nod since unlike many such lists, it includes several early MMORPGs: including EverQuest (100), EVE Online (81), Phantasy Star Online (63), and of course, World of Warcraft (5), plus other multiplayer games we've covered in the past, like Diablo II, Titan Quest, Torchlight II, Stardew Valley, Neverwinter Nights, and more Ultima, Elder Scrolls, and Final Fantasy franchise games than you can shake an ancient console cartridge at.

In One Stone Head, 1997, which has Mr. Hammons gluing a tight afro (complete with a razored»90s geometric design) onto a head - sized rock that sits atop an old - fashioned hat, the artist deftly reference the African - American styles past and present — from the jazzman to the hip - hop artist — while nodding, however improbably, to the whole human history of art, from the objet trouvé exploits of Marcel Duchamp to Easter Island.

Luc Tuymans is known for bleached evocations of the degradations of history and viral image transmission which — like Lucas's work with its nods to Duchamp, Bellmer and Flavin — still keep a foot in art's past.

Known for her elegant filmic investigations into visual gestalts, voyeurism, and perceptual memory, as well as her creative engagement with cinematic history, Rosalind Nashashibi presents several of her experimental 16 - mm productions from the past four years, including Bachelor Machines Part 2 (2007), which borrows footage and dialogue from Alexander Kluge's 1968 film Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed; and The Prisoner (2008), a nod to Chantal Akerman's 2000 film La Captive.