Sentences with phrase «on hagiography»

The two leads captivate us with strong performances in this simple walk - and - talk film, playing intelligent characters who spend a day together on a date through black culture in America, but the movie is also a bit too respectful and borders occasionally on hagiography.

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There had always been female models — Sarah, Naomi, Judith, Rahab, Mary, Felicity, Perpetua — but as Christian hagiography matured, more and more women became the subjects of lives and their exploits took on new visibility and significance for Christian piety.

It is also what some critics call an «encyclopedic novel,» at once a fictional distillation of a civilization — in this case, that of medieval Britain, or at least a vision of it — complete with the arcana of various subjects (in this case, medieval warfare, falconry, heraldry, hagiography, psalters, scholasticism, and so on) that you expect from Pynchon and DeLillo, and the highly individual vision of a writer who is using Malory's vast romance as a springboard for his own imagination.

«Creation,» based on the book written by Darwin's great - great - grandson and entitled Annie's Box, is a secular hagiography of Darwin, which is not surprising, given that modern films have a proclivity towards themes that fly in the face of biblical teachings.

Loving filmographies of the principals and extras dominates the track, sadly, with particular hagiography reserved for the late Robert Thom («A genius,» proclaim Cimber and Perkins), who, as Perkins's husband at the time, wrote the role of Molly specifically for her based on the couples» backgrounds and contemporary problems.

On paper, Stronger looked like another hagiography; a film that treated a real - life person like a marble saint, void of flaws, trotted out to wave a flag and provide little to no insight.

is one of those behind - the - scenes featurettes that combines morsels of making - of info with lots of talking - heads hagiography, as various actors and producers gab about how great everyone involved in the picture was and hold forth on how inspirational the story is.

There are any number of minefields into which «Goodbye Christopher Robin» might easily have wandered — it's a fall - release biopic set in England between the wars, about the creation of a beloved classic of children's literature — but the film emerges mostly unscathed as neither a hagiography nor a hatchet job on A.A. Milne, the creator of Winnie the Pooh.

It would have been very easy for DuVernay to let Selma slip into becoming an unsubtle hagiography but by and large she's managed to show King as a principled but flawed man, not least when it comes to the matter of his frequent extra-marital liaisons and the effect that had on his relationship with his wife, Coretta Scott King (Carmen Ejogo).

There is no contesting that it's a self - congratulatory hagiography of Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and that Clooney and his co-screenwriter, Grant Heslov, are highly selective in how they portray Murrow's fight to broadcast a damning assessment of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his overweening anti-Communist crusade on the timorous CBS network.

On the other hand, Aaron Sorkin's script is a disappointing bit of hagiography, especially in the final act that allows Jobs closure with everyone in his life before emerging triumphant to an adoring crowd.

Based on his long record, this yet - unseen portrait of the sitting Pope, on which Wenders kept final cut, may find a form above hagiography.

And yes, there is of course invalid criticism (I've had some of that myself — the people who were upset that my Beatles book wasn't a hagiography) but one should err on the side of taking criticism to heart and improving because of it.

The advanced, independent artist as a martyr of society was a standard fixture of Romantic hagiography, apotheosized in Vigny's Chatterton, and he had been immortalized on canvas by at least two obscure artists by the middle of the nineteenth century; both of these paintings serve to remind us that there is no necessary connection between advanced social or political ideas and pictorial adventurousness.

The emphasis this film places on the seemingly mundane ritual of cleaning shoes transforms the artist's own footwear into another contemporary object of worship deserving of meticulous attention and care, the modern equivalent to the traditional artistic «attribute» (an object conventionally associated with a particular figure from classical mythology or Christian hagiography): the social signifier.