Sentences with phrase «not cultural touchstones»

The connecting thread between Empire Records, The Craft, and End of Days is of course Robin Tunney, who hit it big in the late «90s and has grown to show as much longevity in her career as the select films from her body of work — cult phenoms, if not cultural touchstones by some measure.

Not exact matches

Indeed, even on this point Arendt's touchstone was not only the mission of the Congress for Cultural Freedom but also what she perceived as its bias against those thinkers of German liberal extraction, such as Paul Tillich and herself.

He added that he «flat - out disagreed with him doing this [protesting the national anthem] on the merits,» but said that he didn't believe it would become a cultural touchstone.

It's not merely a relic of a time when near - nudity could be plentiful in a PG - rated film, but a historical record: this particular cultural touchstone is said to be responsible for ushering in the enduring popularity of the wet - T - shirt contest.

Not every great movie becomes a cultural touchstone.

Other cultural touchstones don't get off scot - free either — there are jabs at the highbrow (French theorist Roland Barthes), the populist (Justin Bieber) and the likes of Michael Fassbender, Robert Downey Jr. and Jeremy Renner for donning cowls for cash.

Coppola's first two tales of the Corleone family aren't just great crime movies, they're cultural touchstones.

It's the perfect kind of manufactured reality for a guy who doesn't make documentaries that tell the truth — he makes propaganda films in hopes of breaking the population free from its cultural touchstones.

Not only do you get a look at the prototyping process that spans back to versions Cactus had created nearly a decade ago, but also the real - world cultural touchstones that inspired the game's neon - lit and blood - drenched scenery.

It is a touchstone for contemporary art internationally, plays a central role in London's cultural landscape and is pivotal to the continued growth of the world's most vibrant contemporary art quarter.The Whitechapel Gallery does not own a Collection, but has a dedicated gallery for opening up public and private collections, including five displays from the British Council Collection from April 2009 — May 2010; four displays from The D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Greece, from June 2010 — May 2011; five displays from the Government Art Collection, from June 2011 — September 2012; four displays from the Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo from September 2012 — September 2013; four displays drawn from member museums of the Contemporary Art Society from September 2013 — August 2014 and four displays of works from the V - A-C Foundation collection from September 2014 — August 2015.

The gambit was risky: Abstract Expressionism was in its artistic heyday, but it had not yet become a cultural touchstone worthy of postage - stamp commemoratives.

Never performed in the Bard's lifetime, though it seems to be enjoying a revival today, «Timon» functions for Drennen as a cultural touchstone that seems at once familiar and not really well known.

As a result, American audiences have been able to expand their understanding of 20th - century Italian art beyond Arte Povera — which has long been the art world's major postwar Italian cultural touchstone — and beyond Italy's fascist history, which, not surprisingly, creates a certain discomfort among American viewers.

In a North American context, for many people blackface is cultural touchstone that signals the symbolic domination of black bodies and its ugly, not so distant, history.