Sentences with phrase «of grand illusion»

I took a deliberate step forward to focus on what kind of writer I am, and move out of the Grand Illusion.

Many commentators seem to miss this point, being the vocal core of the grand illusion, entangling the self - publishing and ebook publishing debates, when in fact they are mutually exclusive.

eBooks are not at the core of The Grand Illusion, they are simply a platform that enables publishers to reach the public.

Secondly, there is a lot of misunderstanding about eBook publishing that contributes to the Grand Illusion, including believing it is a tool that is only used, or mainly used, by the self - publishing fraternity, and therefore exposes some of the Grand Illusion's dynamics relating to group behavior.

I'll set aside the intricacies of self publishing and traditional publishing in this post — just to say that I have already stated that any divide between them is part of the grand illusion — professional work (including quality cover design, editing, proofing etc) is the key to professional production.

While we still hope to reacquire those rights, we are thrilled that we are able to present the Criterion edition of Grand Illusion on the Criterion Channel at FilmStruck starting today, in celebration of the eightieth anniversary of the film's release.

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We must persuade ourselves of the non-existence of all surrounding phenomena, destroy the Grand Illusion by asceticism or by mysticism, create night and silence within ourselves; then, at the opposite extreme of appearance, we shall penetrate to what can only be defined as a total negation — the ineffable Reality.

Christian artists (with the exception of groups like Casting Crowns) seem to suffer from the illusion that since God is so great, when we come to Jesus, life becomes grand and all our problems disappear.

For Baudrillard we live in a world of societies that have been duped by a grand illusion and sadly live within it, but will never realize it.

The Grand Illusion of our times is financial security: Everybody wants it, nobody gets it.

Temecula Chilled encompasses the beauty of all the twinkling lights, the sparkle of iconic snowflakes, the grand and glorious illusions of snowfall and snow flurries, the Temecula On Ice outdoor skating rink, and special and unique Temecula Chilled beverages and desserts.

Dear Abby: You should read «Grand Illusions,» George Grant's expose of the racist roots of Planned Parenthood.

This is a classic case of illusion of grander.

Wayne Barrett's book Grand Illusion has done the best job of detailing the far - flung operations of Giuliani Partners, but the firm remains an underexplored story.

Some theories say that dark matter is only an illusion caused by a failure to understand the way gravity works on the grand scale of the universe.

When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free - fall toward a grand reunion with your original self; a self uncorrupted by the world's false lessons of fear, control and limitations.

This may be why Who Framed Roger Rabbit, while inarguably a mass - appeal, most - ages entertainment, still feels so personal to me: All of this grand difficulty, just to get an illusion across to an impressionable seven - year - old.

Chaplin's Shoulder Arms (1917), the Oscar winning All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Grand Illusion (1938), Paths of Glory (1957), A Very Long Enagagement (2004), the Canadian epic Passchendaele (2009) and the little seeen Canadian picture The Wars (1983)?

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Soon after Duvivier moved around the casbah of Algiers, Renoir made his own tragic commentary on his country with Grand Illusion, a more sociological - centered statement on class resentment bringing about the Great War (and possibly, the war brewing on the other side of Alsace - Lorraine).

The defining masterpieces of brash young artists get remixed by older artists with a new perspective: Fritz Lang's M and While the City Sleeps, Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion and The Elusive Corporal, Howard Hawks» Rio Bravo and Rio Lobo... and then there's Orson Welles» Citizen Kane and Mr. Arkadin.

The U.S. theatrical release of the rediscovered camera - negative print of Jean Renoir's «Grand Illusion» by Rialto Pictures.

After making his mark in the early thirties with two very different films, the anarchic send - up of the bourgeoisie Boudu Saved from Drowning and the popular - front Gorky adaptation The Lower Depths, Renoir closed out the decade with two critical humanistic studies of French society that routinely turn up on lists of the greatest films ever made: Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game (the former was celebrated in its time, but the latter was trashed by critics and audiences — until history provided vindication).

Rialto's past releases include Renoir's Grand Illusion, both in 1999 and in a new 4K restoration for its 75th anniversary in 2012; Carol Reed's The Third Man; Fellini's Nights of Cabiria (for the first time in its «director's cut»); Jules Dassin's Rififi; Godard's Breathless, Contempt, Band of Outsiders, Masculine Feminine, Le Petit Soldat, Alphaville, and the U.S. premiere of his Made in U.S.A.; Kurosawa's Ran; Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie; Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au Grisbi; Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar and Diary of a Country Priest; Resnais» Last Year at Marienbad; the U.S. premiere of the original, uncut Japanese version of Godzilla; the U.S. premiere of the complete, uncut version of Jean - Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge; the U.S. premiere of Melville's Army of Shadows, which became the most critically - acclaimed film of 2006; the U.S. premiere of Claude Sautet's Max et les Ferrailleurs; and Robin Hardy's definitive cut of The Wicker Man.

As Michael Atkinson has written for Criterion, «Without its iconic precedent, there would have been no Humphrey Bogart, no John Garfield, no Robert Mitchum, no Randolph Scott, no Jean - Paul Belmondo (or Breathless or Pierrot le fou), no Jean - Pierre Melville or Alain Delon, no Steve McQueen...» Soon after Pépé, Renoir's antiwar masterpiece Grand Illusion hit, and it was an even bigger smash, cementing Gabin's superstar status; in this and all of his most successful roles (La bête humaine, Le jour se lève), Gabin played some form of working - class social outcast, and he always provided audiences with a strong point of identification.

As most of you know, the rights to distribute movies can change over time, and we lost ours for Grand Illusion about a dozen years ago.

Clouzot, one of the kings of French noir, grips and thrills and teases us with this dark - hued, very cynical and very smart murder mystery about a suave inspector (Pierre Fresnay of «Grand Illusion») pursuing a serial killer.

Having set his own creative bar stratospherically high with classics like The Rules of the Game, The Grand Illusion and The River, it's hard to see this climactic statement as more than a compendium of odds and ends.

CB: Yes, Grand Illusion [1937]-- I get the title confused with Rules of the Game [1939] because I always thought that should be the title for Grand Illusion.

Best Picture nominees that lost (top shelf) Grand Illusion, Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, The Maltese Falcon, The Magnificent Ambersons, It's a Wonderful Life, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Sunset Blvd., Shane, Anatomy of a Murder, Dr. Strangelove, Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, Nashville, All the President's Men, E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial, The Right Stuff, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Saving Private Ryan, Brokeback Mountain, Winter's Bone

Hot Fuzz, Wright and Pegg's loving send - up of action comedies, suggests that its makers got more out of Bad Boys II and Point Break — two of its tongue - in - cheek touchstones — than most filmmakers get out of Citizen Kane and The Grand Illusion.

If you're tastes are more... unconventional, there's 9 1/2 Weeks at the Grand Illusion and, in wide release, The Shape of Water, Phantom Thread, and Fifty Shades Freed.

In this Marvel tentpole world, where faux dramatics are conjured to create the illusion that superheroes are fighting for something of some value, Rogue One is indeed rebellious, posing a quest that resonates with emotional engagement and grand illusion.

It's a natural segue to the section on Renoir («The Rules of the Game,» «Grand Illusion») and Gabin.

A new restoration of Geoff Murphy's apocalyptic The Quiet Earth (1985), the first science fiction movie from New Zealand, plays through the week at Grand Illusion.

The first foreign language movie ever nominated for the best picture Oscar, this most celebrated of antiwar films had a host of admirers, including Orson Welles, who once said, «If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be «Grand Illusion.»»

The also - rans were no slouches, as nominations were bestowed upon The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn in his most iconic performance, William Wyler's Jezebel starring Best Actress winner Bette Davis, Jean Renoir's richly textured war drama Grand Illusion, and the musical Four Daughters directed by workhorse Michael Curtiz.

Grand Illusion's annual run of It's a Wonderful Life begins today and runs for the next three weeks until Thursday, December 27.

Though it is set during World War I and inspired by stories Renoir heard from fellow veterans, calling «Grand Illusion» an antiwar film runs the risk of making it sound strident and dogmatic.

And don't forget the Grand Illusion's traditional showing of It's a Wonderful Life (on 35 mm, of course) continues through Thursday, December 27.

Even before their Seijun Suzuki series wraps up (with Branded to Kill on Wednesday), the Northwest Film Forum and Grand Illusion have combined to bring yet another welcome series of films to Seattle Screens.

The Grand Illusion and the Northwest Film Forum have once again joined forces to present a mini-series of masterpieces on 35 mm.

He taunts Tony Stark by constantly playing «I Got No Strings on Me» and gives the illusion of grand themes as he goes on about AI and the folly of man.

Our very first DVD edition, Jean Renoir's masterpiece Grand Illusion, streams on the Criterion Channel in celebration of the film's eightieth anniversary.

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Once out of jail, Chopper has a grand illusion of the criminal he wants to be.

But Grand Illusion is pretty much the opposite of «meh.»

(In fact, Abel Gance had recently remade his own 1919 film, J'accuse, in the futile hope of preventing World War II, and Jean Renoir presumably had something similar in mind with Grand Illusion.)

Grand Illusion's «All Monsters Attack» October series continues with a pair of Roger Corman - produced horror comedies that teams up Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff: The Raven and The Comedy of Terrors.

It's a far more convoluted affair than that initial set up may imply and one gets the feeling it is convoluted purely to give off the illusion of grand complexity and to disguise its otherwise rote simplicity.