Sentences with phrase «of zoot suits»

For National Public Radio and LA Theater Works Alma performed in the radio versions of Zoot Suit and Nilo Cruz's Pultizer Prize winning play Anna in the Tropics opposite Jimmy Smits.As a 25 year member of El Teatro Campesino (ETC) founded by Luis Valdez, she has appeared in landmark ETC productions of; Zoot Suit, both the film and play (1979 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award - Best Play); Corridos, both the TV version (1987 Peabody Award) and play; I Don't Have to Show You Any Stinking Badges; and Mummified Deer (Back Stage West «Honorable Mention» for her role as Mama Chu), all written and directed by Valdez.Ms.

Drawing source material and inspiration from the culture and music of the Zoot Suit, Zazou, and Pachuco movements, these underground modes of expression share a culture of resistance in which fashion and identity create and construct a temporary notion of the self through style, costume, and ideology.

Not exact matches

If you are happy with one of the parties that presently exist, you can be a bore and say why — though I would hope people could be a bit more imaginative, because let's face it, the Democrats are a 1930s paradigm that fits in about as well as a zoot suit, and the Republicans are so splintered they seem to be an illusion of a viewpoint rather than the reality of it.

Meanwhile, Mr. Smith might be best known for his zoot suits complete with suspenders and pinstripes, picking strange political battles like a press conference denouncing the rapper Dwayne «Lil Wayne» Carter, and his somewhat surprising decision to seek City Hall's top job on the other side of the partisan aisle without actually changing his voter registration.

And the movie «La Bamba,» written and directed by Luis Valdez («Zoot Suit») and starring Lou Diamond Phillips as Valens and Esai Morales as his half - brother, takes advantage of both opportunities.

Ken Loach — «The Wind That Shakes the Barley,» «Kes» Julia Loktev — «The Loneliest Planet,» «Day Night Day Night» Ami Canaan Mann — «Jackie & Ryan,» «Texas Killing Fields» Lucrecia Martel — «The Headless Woman,» «The Holy Girl» Adam McKay * — «The Big Short,» «Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy» Deepa Mehta — «Midnight's Children,» «Water» Ursula Meier — «Sister,» «Home» Rebecca Miller * — «The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,» «Personal Velocity» Karen Moncrieff — «The Dead Girl,» «Blue Car» Cristian Mungiu * — «Graduation,» «4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days» Anna Muylaert — «The Second Mother» László Nemes * — «Son of Saul» María Novaro — «The Good Herbs,» «Lola» Victor Nunez — «Spoken Word,» «Ulee's Gold» Euzhan Palcy — «Siméon,» «A Dry White Season» Park Chan - wook * — «Stoker,» «Oldboy» Lucía Puenzo — «The German Doctor,» «El Niño Pez» Lynne Ramsay — «We Need to Talk about Kevin,» «Morvern Callar» Dee Rees — «Pariah» Nicolas Winding Refn — «Only God Forgives,» «Drive» Patricia Riggen — «The 33,» «Girl in Progress» Gillian Robespierre — «Obvious Child» Patricia Rozema — «Kit Kittredge: An American Girl,» «Mansfield Park» Marjane Satrapi — «The Voices,» «Persepolis» Sam Taylor - Johnson — «Fifty Shades of Grey,» «Nowhere Boy» George Tillman, Jr. — «Notorious,» «Soul Food» Luis Valdez — «La Bamba,» «Zoot Suit» Melvin Van Peebles — «Identity Crisis,» «Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song» Margarethe von Trotta — «Rosenstrasse,» «Marianne and Juliane» Lana Wachowski — «Cloud Atlas,» «The Matrix Trilogy» Lilly Wachowski — «Cloud Atlas,» «The Matrix Trilogy» Taika Waititi — «Hunt for the Wilderpeople,» «What We Do in the Shadows» James Wan — «The Conjuring,» «Saw» Keenan Ivory Wayans * — «Scary Movie,» «A Low Down Dirty Shame» Apichatpong Weerasethakul — «Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,» «Tropical Malady»

I saw Swingers for the first time before its dialogue became part of the national lexicon, before the whole swing dancing thing got out of hand and people in Sheboygan started wearing zoot suits and long - assed wallet chains.

I yearned for the sight of Dumbledore clad in the flamboyant purple zoot suit described in the novel's flashback to Tom Riddle in the orphanage and instead got a very unremarkable knockoff.

Among his long - form documentaries is Zoot Suit Riots, a film on the youth culture of 1940s Los Angeles and the anti-Mexican riots of the same period.

AMERICAN GLORY When we think of the black renaissance, we typically conjure images of bustling Harlem streets and flashy zoot suits alongside the black excellence of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.

These included the Zoot Suit Riots (top right); the whitewashing of América Tropical, a 1932 mural by Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros (center); and the World War II incarceration of people of Japanese descent (bottom right).

Troy Michie's exhibition at Company Gallery alluded to the Zoot Suit Riots in 1943, when white servicemen in Los Angeles beat and stripped Californians of color, primarily Mexican - Americans, for the mere fact of the clothes they chose to wear.

Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald treat Barack and Michelle Obama to flora and fancy dress, while Troy Michie recalls the Zoot Suit Riots and Firelei Báez the fire of women in Harlem.

Troy Michie (Brooklyn, NY) Travel to El Paso towards the development of multi-disciplinary works inspired by the Zoot suit.

Support for travel to El Paso towards the development of multi-disciplinary works inspired by the Zoot suit

Screening: Zoot Suit at Brooklyn Academy of Music Zoot Suit, a 1981 film adapted from an earlier stage production, explores the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, when a group of Los Angeles policemen beat and stripped persons of color, primarily Chicanx ones, because they wore certain outfits.

A lively, inquisitive, zoot - suit - wearing high - school student, Leslie made the most of New York City's wartime cultural riches.

As an avid collector of Pop, Op and Abstract Expressionists — including works by fellow artist (and sign painter) Robert Indiana, Frank Stella, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Motherwell, Gerald Laing and others — Gallery Director is a role that fits Bill Pugsley like a vintage Zoot Suit.

Included in the show are hundreds of images and historic documents, as well as a zoot suit and a»90s era police cruiser.

The artist's interest in the power of language is a consistent theme in his work, from the opening words of the US constitution in We The People 2012, to vernacular expressions such as Real Deal and Zoot Suit 2014.

Soon after, at Sotheby's sale of the Evill / Frost Collection, Burra achieved a record price at auction when Zoot Suits, a work from 1948, went for # 1.8 m. Were the two things connected?

«And we get the ghost of Rehnquist inhabiting the philosophic zoot suit of Antonin Scalia.