Sentences with phrase «of narrative threads»

Unfolding as an American epic of the small and incidental, Graham's sequences of photographs span gaps of time and place, their interweaving of narrative threads, their digressions and shifts of scene creating imaginative spaces and a sense of the country at large, while mirroring its social divisions and discrepancies alongside the unpredictable fluctuations of life.

However, it soon develops a series of narrative threads moving back and forward in time, which concern nature versus nurture, motherhood, authenticity and mapping a life.»

These three stories, related only by the slenderest of narrative threads, make up this light - hearted and quite entertaining film set around the city of Tehran.

Unfortunately, he decided to cram most of those narrative threads together in Wish I Was Here, a muddled comedy that feels more like a vanity project than a profound examination of upper - middle class family dynamics.

An overlong mess of narrative threads and a weak script which can not be saved by the quality of actors delivering it.

Although there is a bit of a narrative thread — the reporter is the estranged son of a famous gourmet — each volume is a collection of self - contained short stories and can be read on its own.

Modern Warfare 2 was widely panned for the shortness of its single player game and for the lack of sense of the narrative thread.

In the way that an eloquent author's chosen words illuminate a story, Stella's layered printing techniques (lithography, etching, engraving, aquatint, screen printing, mezzotint, relief, collagraph, woodcut, and hot foil stamping) and sculptural forms elucidate the power of a narrative thread to join his works together.

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As far as your comment as to the relevance of my contribution to this thread, I feel I have just used more colorful language to express my main narrative; Religion should be private, and kept completely separate from science, education, and state.

This thread gave me increased amounts of courage to own my deep discomfort with the narrative about forgiveness as a tool of oppressors and silencers.

And that narrative provides The Fountain's second thread — the story of the queen and the conquistador.

These purposes are realized in a series of events that Gabriel Fackre calls the red thread through Scripture - the central and defining narrative of Scripture, what we might call God's story of redemption or renewal.

The other parts of the Bible relate themselves naturally to this main thread of historical narrative.

There is no common thread, no common narrative, no set of rules, no dogma, nothing in particular that you can ascribe to atheists as a group.

It is therefore remarkable that, while they vary in detail as honest witnesses will vary in reporting matters which have touched them deeply, they follow the same thread of narrative.

This is not a new insight — Corbin Carnell treated it more than 30 years ago in Bright Shadow of Reality, whose subtitle was the nicely phrased «C. S. Lewis and the Feeling Intellect,» and David Downing also emphasizes it in his new book — but Jacobs uses this narrative thread to good advantage in uncovering continuity in Lewis's life.

«A prominent thread running through the narratives of my gay brothers and sisters is a church that no longer values them.

Wilson offers no extended comment on the book, even though one of the themes in Faces is related to his narrative thread: namely, the difficulty of coming to know ourselves as we are and the pain such knowledge involves.

tried to show that we can trace in the Gospel according to Mark a connecting thread running through much of the narrative, which has some similarity to the brief summary of the story of Jesus in Acts x and xiii, and may be regarded as an expanded form of what we may call the historical section of the kerygma.

On one hand there is the attempt to unravel the various threads (of the narrative) so that in the end one holds in one's hands what is the «really historical,» which means the purely human element in events.

6 the narrative thread is coherent and, with the exception of I Sam.

And certainly, there is caution threaded throughout The Great Gatsby's narrative of infidelity and excess.

Here and there we can discern the words of the Yahwist himself, which are intended to interpret to us the material he has selected, and to enable us to follow the thread which formed for him the meaning of his narrative.

The averted sacrifice of Isaac; the prophets» condemnation of scapegoating the widow, the weak or the foreigner; the story of Job; the Psalms» obsession with the innocent victim of collective violence; the passion narratives» transparent account of Jesus» death; the confessions of a new community that grew up in solidarity around the risen crucified victim: all these follow a constant thread.

Along the way, Kean threads in the history of Earth's atmosphere in a surprisingly compelling narrative of geologic history.

One particularly moving narrative thread features Sterling K. Brown, a tremulous, vibrantly sensitive actor who conveys entire chapters of grief.

It's ultimately clear that The Finest Hours is at its best in its relatively propulsive first half, as director Craig Gillespie, working from a script by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson, does a nice job of establishing the the central characters and the dangerous circumstances in which they find themselves - with the screenplay, which also emphasizes the ongoing exploits of Bernie's girlfriend (Holliday Grainger's Miriam), generally juggling the various narrative threads to seamless effect.

A lot of scenes in the film just don't make any sense and don't add anything to the thread of a narrative that runs through it, but they are striking and do have an effect on you, which is perhaps the purpose.

«Insurgent» builds upon the action of its predecessor, but there are also pieces of «The Hunger Games,» «Ender's Game,» «The Matrix,» and «Inception» threaded throughout its visuals and narrative.

Life Is a Dream is composed of a patchwork of episodes organized around two narrative threads: Ignacio's return to his hometown (spy thriller) and the French - language performance (ostensibly as recalled by Ignacio) of Calderón's play.

And though that may limit the willingness of some to embark upon Park's vision, those willing to invest in the various threads of his ouroboros narrative and allow themselves to become an author in Park's craning whirligig of Shakespearean tragedy and sardonic sexual exasperation will find the The Handmaiden is filled with sick pleasures many and makes for a rather rewarding cinematic experience.

It's an essential work, though, serving as a bridge between Peace Walker and The Phantom Pain while setting up some narrative threads that would (mostly) be resolved in the fifth and final entry of the series.

What's worse, the movie often stumbles into outdated tropes about transgender people, and struggles to establish a narrative thread that connects a relatable character arc with the broader topic of trans culture exploration.

To get the narrative drive she needed out of her soundtrack Ramsay was desperate to get the unique talents of her «We Need to Talk About Kevin» composer Jonny Greenwood («Phantom Thread») onboard, but the Radiohead guitarist - turned - Oscar nominated composer was on tour with the band.

Following a single father who works as a human billboard in Taipei, and his left - to - their - own - devices kids, with the presence of their mother represented by three different actresses, the film has the barest thread of story (Tsai has admitted that he no longer has any real interest in narrative), and seems determined to provoke less patient audience members into walking out, with a series of shots that last upwards of ten minutes without all that much movement in them.

Set in the Barrio La Esperanza area of Puerto Rico, writer - director Angel Manuel Soto's film presents three narrative threads, loosely connected by the poverty, drug addiction and government crackdown experienced in this community.

With Trudell's lifeline as the narrative thread, this biopic journeys in and out of modern Indian history and politics, exploring the earth - infused philosophy and motivations of Trudell's radical acts and thought, as well as reliving the loss and heartache that prompted his activism to evolve abruptly into artistic expression.

And then, sadly, in the final act, he undoes much of the good that has come before, ignoring the carefully interwoven narrative threads in favor of an eruption of violence.

This is a culmination film ten years in the making and we are pulling the main story threads from all of the different franchises into one unifying narrative.

Earlier points in the trailer suggest Dutch may not have the full backing of the female outlaw, or Bill Williamson, and it seems likely a main narrative thread could revolve around Morgan's efforts to keep Dutch's gang together in spite of his partner's increasing paranoia.

The film raises the stakes by making the titular prophet the target of an oppressive regime even as he prepares to depart for his home country, but the narrative thread rightfully takes a back seat to the wisdom of his words.

One of the principal threads in «Stories We Tell» is exactly what the title suggests: All families have built - up narratives or jokes («You don't look anything like Dad — but you look like the milkman!»)

The recent release of Paul Thomas Anderson's eighth narrative feature film Phantom Thread has the film world abuzz.

As the film progresses, each of its two narrative threads moves from the peril - laced wilderness to the seemingly safer confines of domesticity.

Hell, it's a point I've made multiple times over the years, and since Harris includes in the latter category the sort of costume dramas and comparatively straightforward historical narratives that more or less dominated the upper ranks of Slant's top 25 films of the year — namely A Quiet Passion, Phantom Thread, and The Lost City of Z — we self - servingly agree.

Metal Gear Solid 3's story is the tightest and most thrilling of the bunch, using a pastiche of 1960s spy movies to tell the origin of just about every single narrative thread in the series.

David O. Russell's cast shines in this delirious chronicle of the Abscam scandal, but the director occasionally loses his grip on the narrative thread.

will combine three narrative threads: Ginsberg's formative years as an artist, the obscenity trial that followed the publication of

Starring James Franco as Allen Ginsberg, Howl will combine three narrative threads: Ginsberg's formative years as an artist, the obscenity trial that followed the publication of Howl, and an animation of the famous poem itself.

Rees cuts effortlessly between the various narrative threads (aided by editor Mako Kamitsuna, who previously collaborated on Pariah), and makes some neat connections, such as cutting from a battle in the war to Hap Jackson (Rob Morgan, one of Stranger Things» lackadaisical cops) falling of a ladder.