Sentences with phrase «of chariots of fire»

Rufflets have 5 bedrooms and three self catering lodges that have direct access to the hotel gardens, not to mention the fabulous West Sands at St.Andrews famous for the start of Chariots of Fire just 10 minutes away if that.

Additional documentaries included are «Wings on their Heels: The Making of Chariots of Fire» and «Chariots of Fire: A Reunion».

Rush is a character study in the manner of Chariots of Fire, with excellent acting, story, pacing, setting, dimension, and moments of pure visual poetry.

The opening credits of Chariots of Fire — during which a flock of young men, barefoot and dressed in white, run at oceanside to Vangelis's unforgettable theme music — immediately clue the viewer in that this is not your typical sports movie.

He has been composing movie soundtracks since the mid -»70s, and first won acclaim and recognition for his Oscar - winning score of Chariots of Fire (1981).

The UK re-release of Chariots of Fire to coincide with the London Olympics gives us a golden opportunity to re-examine the film which revitalised the British film industry.

Labour's first party political broadcast, dubbed Kinnock: The Movie, was directed by Hugh Hudson of Chariots of Fire fame, and concentrated on portraying Kinnock as a caring, compassionate family man.

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His decisions to honour God in both sport and mission, as well as his athletic prowess, have made him a hero among many Christians, and led to a film being made about him - Chariots of Fire - in 1986.

the astronaut theory comes about because every culture and every civilization speaks about «Chariots of fire» among many other things.for those that are non Christians this can be interesting and fascinating..

.11 As they were going along and talking, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire which separated the two of them.

The Academy Award - winning film Chariots of Fire (1982) illustrates well the value of play for its own sake.

Elijah, in the sight of his successor Elijah, was carried to heaven in a chariot of fire.

The chariots of God are two myriads of burning fire, two thousand angels guiding them; the presence of the Lord rests on them, on the mountain of Sinai, in holiness.

Yahweh opens the servant's eyes and he sees the mountain full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.

Their story is masterfully told in the 1981 Movie, Chariots of Fire.

It is quite otherwise, however, with Elijah, the ninth century prophet, who, according to the Biblical tradition, had been carried up to heaven in a whirlwind riding in a chariot of fire, drawn by horses of fire.13 Elijah had made such an impression on the men of his own generation as a man of vitality and divine power that he continued to be a living legend.

Through the use of the pillar of cloud and fire and by causing confusion among the army ranks when the chariot wheels fell off, God continued to try to keep the army out of the danger of drowning in the Red Sea.

No chariot of fire swooped down to spirit him away; and you have to wonder about that.

In the film Chariots of Fire, Eric Liddell's father claims that God is a «benevolent dictator.»

Snakes talk, men live in whales for 3 days, bread rains down from the sky, a man parted the sea, chariots of fire come and go from heaven, and there's a flaming sward guarding this garden of fruit... Anyone who believes this stuff is a dummy of the highest order..

Instead, he entered the 400 metres and won the gold medal, an achievement immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire.

In Chariots of Fire when Jenny reminds her brother Eric of God's purpose for him (his missions work in China, for which he is still remembered today), he pauses briefly and then delivers that memorable line: «Oh, Jenny.

1 come the chariots of the spirit (70.2), the flaming cherubim (71.7), the fire which girdles the house (71.6; in Ezekiel fire surrounds the cherubim); and Enoch, like Ezekiel, falls to the ground when confronted by the vision (71.11; Ezek.

In that kind of cosmos a poem about the sun's standing still can come to be taken as literal fact; Elijah can be carried up from earth to heaven in a chariot of fire; Jesus can be pictured as ascending from the earth to the sky by physical levitation, and his second coming can be pictured as a physical return from the firmament to earth.

Elijah was a prophet who went to heaven in a chariot of fire.

No sooner had the colonialists waved their goodbyes in 1960 than our political elite rode on winged chariots of fire, burning the decencies of our shared existence with the departing overlords.

«I am delighted to be at the Labour party conference to put on record my personal thanks to Tessa Jowell, Tony Blair, Ken Livingstone, Richard Caborn and countless others that have made the Olympic and Paralympic Games the success they were,» he gushed through Chariots of Fire in a moment of merry cross-partyism.

Breath or prana in yoga is that eternal fire which drives the chariot of life through its courses.

Chariots of Fire is a great film which is more than deserving of a re-release this summer.

Based on a true story, Chariots of Fire is the internationally acclaimed Oscar - winning drama of two very different men who compete as runners in the 1924 Paris Olympics.

For those of us not caught up in the patriotic fervour of the Olympics, it would be tempting to dismiss Chariots of Fire as an outdated, backward piece of filmmaking.

The aesthetic of 1920s Britain is very well - evoked, and it takes a while to adjust to all the social niceties of post-war England; to paraphrase Mark Kermode's comment about The Shawshank Redemption, there's a whole lot of chariots before you get to the fire.

The performances in Chariots of Fire are of a very high standard.

Chariots of Fire may be British with a capital «b», but it doesn't fall into the obvious traps that would hamper later export - driven efforts from the likes of Merchant Ivory.

While they won gold on the big screen's racetrack, «Chariots of Fire» would go on to win Oscar gold for best picture.

Chariots of Fire will thrill you and delight you and very possibly reduce — or exalt — you to tears... Chariots of Fire is for everyone; it's exactly what a popular film ought to be: superb work by first - rate people out to achieve the highest standards of excellence.

The studio swiftly hired Hugh Hudson, hot off the Oscar - winning «Chariots Of Fire» to direct the finished film, with Christopher Lambert as the king of the swingers, along with Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm and, as Jane, a debuting Andie MacDowell, who hilariously had her voice dubbed over by Glenn Close due to her impenetrable Southern accenOf Fire» to direct the finished film, with Christopher Lambert as the king of the swingers, along with Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm and, as Jane, a debuting Andie MacDowell, who hilariously had her voice dubbed over by Glenn Close due to her impenetrable Southern accenof the swingers, along with Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm and, as Jane, a debuting Andie MacDowell, who hilariously had her voice dubbed over by Glenn Close due to her impenetrable Southern accent.

Other movies about Olympic athletes include Chariots of Fire, Cool Runnings and Jim Thrope: All American.

Then, after Chariots of Fire all bets were off.

Annie Hall, Ben - Hur, Driving Miss Daisy and Chariots of Fire were among the few films that revolved around Jewish characters at all.

«Annie Hall» was No. 10 in 1977, and «Chariots of Fire» No. 7 of 1981.

Chariots of Fire may be veddy British, veddy 1920s — Gilbert and Sullivan, straw bowlers, cricket, school ties — but its story is as timeless as the Olympics themselves.

Of the faux - David Lean white elephants that proliferated in the early «80s, Gandhi is less personal than Reds, but also less complacent than Chariots of Fire and less doddering than Lean's own orderly post-colonial apologia, A Passage to India; it now exists in that dreary realm of antiseptic Best Picture Oscar winners, duly respected and revisited exclusively for school assignmentOf the faux - David Lean white elephants that proliferated in the early «80s, Gandhi is less personal than Reds, but also less complacent than Chariots of Fire and less doddering than Lean's own orderly post-colonial apologia, A Passage to India; it now exists in that dreary realm of antiseptic Best Picture Oscar winners, duly respected and revisited exclusively for school assignmentof Fire and less doddering than Lean's own orderly post-colonial apologia, A Passage to India; it now exists in that dreary realm of antiseptic Best Picture Oscar winners, duly respected and revisited exclusively for school assignmentof antiseptic Best Picture Oscar winners, duly respected and revisited exclusively for school assignments.

Five TIFF audience winners have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Picture: «12 Years a Slave» in 2013, «The King's Speech» in 2010, «Slumdog Millionaire» in 2008, «American Beauty» in 1999 and «Chariots of Fire» in 1981.

The score by Vangelis (Blade Runner, Chariots of Fire) is also quite beautiful and Roger Donaldson's (No Way Out, Cocktail) directing is as competent as you'd expect.

2010 The Social Network 2009 UP IN THE AIR 2008 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE 2007 NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN 2006 Letters from Iwo Jima 2005 Good Night, And Good Luck 2004 Finding Neverland 2003 Mystic River, Clint Eastwood, presented by Laura Linney 2002 The Hours, presented to Scott Rudin by Julianne Moore 2001 Moulin Rouge, presented to Baz Luhrmann, by Stanley Donen 2000 Quills, presented to Peter Kaufman, Julia Chassman and Philip Kaufman by Geoffrey Rush 1999 American Beauty, presented to Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinx by David Denby 1998 Gods and Monsters, presented to Bill Condon by Clive Barker 1997 L.A. Confidential, presented to Curtis Hanson by David Denby 1996 Shine, presented to Scott Hicks and Jane Scott by Isaac Stern 1995 Sense & Sensibility, presented to Lindsay Doran by Alan Pakula 1994 Pulp Fiction, presented to Laurence Bender by Jennifer Beals Forrest Gump, presented to Wendy Finerman by Inez Glucksman 1993 Schindler's List 1992 Howards End 1991 The Silence of the Lambs 1990 Dances With Wolves 1989 Driving Miss Daisy 1987 Empire of the Sun 1986 A Room with a View 1985 The Color Purple 1984 A Passage to India 1983 Betrayal 1982 Gandhi 1981 Chariots of Fire 1980 Ordinary People 1979 Manhattan 1978 Days of Heaven 1977 The Turning Point 1976 All the President's Men 1975 Nashville 1974 The Conversation 1973 The Sting 1972 Cabaret 1971 Macbeth 1970 Patton 1969 They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

The End: Lawrence Kasdan, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, Raiders Of The Lost Ark Oscar: Colin Welland, Chariots Of Fire

, Midnight Cowboy, Patton, Ordinary People, Chariots of Fire, Terms of Endearment, Out of Africa, Platoon, Rain Man, Dances With Wolves, Forrest Gump, The English Patient, Titanic, Shakespeare in Love, American Beauty, Gladiator, Crash, The King's Speech

In previous years, winners of the audience award included Oscar winners «American Beauty» and «Chariots of Fire,» as well as «Where Do We Go Now,» «Tsotsi,» «Hotel Rwanda,» «Whale Rider,» «Shine,» «Strictly Ballroom,» «The Fisher King,» «Roger & Me,» «The Princess Bride» and «The Big Chill.»

There are lots of other examples — I happen to think Shakespeare in Love deserved its Oscar over Saving Private Ryan but there are many who don't, Chariots of Fire (a favorite of mine) is most often remembered as a film that didn't deserve its Oscar, The Greatest Show on Earth is considered one of the worst films to win Best Picture, and on and on.