Sentences with phrase «of classical tragedy»

The filmmaker was a last minute edition at the 2015 edition of the Sundance film festival with her debut film (we called it «too convenient, and ultimately, not very provocative, Little Accidents feels like a dysthymic version of classical tragedy, with a bright streak of classism threaded throughout.»

The first American movie by absurdist Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth) sees him throwing the full weight of classical tragedy at a suburban family.

This first American movie by the absurdist Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos («The Lobster», «Dogtooth») sees him throw the full weight of classical tragedy at a suburban family.

Inventively structured, the documentary alternates between her early adulthood and her final months, her sad demise casting a shadow over the story and giving the film an air of classical tragedy.

And, true to the form of a classical tragedy, one of the hero's greatest strengths, a biological pedigree, may contain the seeds of the B. thuringiensis toxin's undoing.

In a novel whose title invokes the grand sweep of an epic, there shouldn't be any surprise when the domestic tale leaps into mythic territory: bouts of hubris, betrayal and thwarted power that spring from the pages of classical tragedies.

Not exact matches

The last great attempt to salvage modernity — indeed, so great an attempt that it bears all the marks of classical Greek tragedy — was Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences.

In his book of 1937, Beyond Tragedy, he restated with theological richness some of the great themes of classical Christianity.

The burdens of the book are to establish that television and movies are nihilistic; they display the inherent tendency of democratic liberalism towards nihilism; they remove any possibility for classical tragedy or comedy; and they hold up «demonic antiheroes» such as Hannibal Lecter for our emulation.

The image of the «crucified God» is central to Christian teaching, though perhaps it has not often been taken seriously.2 Instead «God» has been ensconced, in classical theologies, as omnipotently immune to suffering and tragedy.

But the classical prophets, from Amos on, are forced to reinterpret the meaning of the present not only in terms of a heightened sense of Israel's failure to maintain Yahweh's true order in the present, but also in overwhelming awareness of an immediate future charged with tragedy.

By this Buber does not mean tragedy in the classical Aristotelian sense of the downfall of a hero, but rather tragedy in a profounder sense of two men living in opposition to each other, each just as that which he is.

In a throwback to the classical tragedy, severe gift from Greece and Rome, the judiciary, suffused with sleaze and rumours of sleaze, is about committing institutional suicide.

From Killing Them Softly there's the setting of the film during Obama's election, from The Place Beyond the Pines we have the almost classical / Greek - Tragedy story and from Winter's Bone the vast, cold and oppressive emptiness of small - town America and its surrounding countryside which are filled with drugs and the twisted but more realistic vision of «The American Dream».

Today, the film remains a heartfelt but shrewdly judged blend of comedy, romance, action and tragedy — a movie that perfectly embodies the classical Hollywood ideal of providing something to appeal to every member of what, in the 1920s, was a wide public still unsevered by demographic categories.

Classical tragedy mixed with moderate sadism and Polanski - ish surrealism, upstart filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos» latest test of audience endurance plays like «Sophie's Choice» by way of «The Burbs».

Classical tragedy mixed with moderate sadism and Polanski - ish surrealism, upstart filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos» latest test of audience endurance plays like Sophie's Choice by way of the «burbs.

For the past decade, Brian Doerries, a classical scholar, translator, writer and director, has been bringing performances of the ancient Greek tragedies to communities devastated by loss and grief, and with them a surprising and cathartic healing.

Kalliope Lee studied Classical Literatures and Languages as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, focusing on Greek Tragedy and Ancient Greek language.

Building on Hundley's previous investigations of Euripides» tragedy The Bacchae, it examines the artist's effort to elaborate a critical relationship between classical literary sources and contemporary society.

While the pairing of their techniques represents stylistic extremes — Bresson's classical roots in Renaissance and Baroque painting and Prata's borrowing of multiple modern styles — together they build a language around representations of movement and stillness, reality and incongruity, tragedy and humor.

The stark Irish scenery with its accompanying sense of tragedy, derived from the days of The Great Famine, found later expression in O'Donoghue's art, as did the knowledge and experience he gained from his father Daniel, who introduced his son to many of the great European cultural traditions derived from Classical Greek art, the Renaissance and later eras.

Depicting ancient, medieval and contemporary warriors, as well as dinosaurs, bears and mythical beasts, along with nudes lifted from classical masterpieces, glossy magazines and salacious websites, Kuksi's Baroque confections treat history as primordial soup — a burbling stew of thrilling highlights and epic tragedies that not only resonate in the mind's eye but also inspire all sorts of emotions — good, bad and otherwise.

They have been cast, like Burton and Taylor, in a variety of showy roles: as painters interested in reviving aspects of the art form in its most staid and classical modes; as Marxist or Marcuseian critics of commodity culture and its discontents; as leering champions of youth movements and counter-culture stylings; as strict, detached, ironic appropriationists; and, finally, as sincere and romantic poets attendant on the tragedy of age's advancing degenerations of the body and of the melancholy states of nostalgia associated primarily with the waning of youthful beauty.

This most recent decision quotes one of the many judges who have been involved in the case commented, as far back as 1980, as having described the parties as «figures in a classical tragedy, bent upon destroying that which surrounds them and especially their monetary inheritance».