Sentences with phrase «on masterpieces by»
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It's a stunning masterpiece, designed by architect Ed Niles, unlike any other house on the ultra-luxurious strip of California beach.
Rekindling the Christic Imagination: Theological Meditations on the New Evangelization, by Robert P. Imbelli (Liturgical Press): For those who've watched (as every sentient Catholic should have watched) Father Robert Barron's Catholicism series, here's the next step — a theologically rich, entirely accessible walk through the great themes of Evangelical Catholicism, keyed to four masterpieces of Christian art.
Or this, from a Cambridge lecture by Arthur Quiller - Couch: «Is it possible, gentlemen, that you can have read one, two, thee, or more of the acknowledged masterpieces of English literature without having it borne in on you that they are great because they are alive, and traffic not with cold celestial certainties, but with men's hopes, aspirations, doubts, loves, hates, breakings of the heart; the glory and the vanity of human endeavor, the transcience of beauty, the capricious uncertain lease on which you and I hold life, the dark coast to which we inevitably steer; all that amuses, or vexes, all that gladdens, saddens, maddens us men and women on this brief and mutable traject which yet must be home for a while, the anchorage of our hearts?»
A real masterpiece by God on display for all of us.
Patrons will be invited inside to see the «making of» these masterpieces with live installation events, some of which will also be streamed by CosmicLA.com starting on December 9th.
If you are not the crafty type, you can also call on a weaver to bring your vision to life by commissioning a masterpiece that is perfect for you.
Known to be among the finest of all Uzbek rugs, this masterpiece is hand - knotted by master weavers in Afghanistan with a crisply rendered traditional design that pops on a gorgeous blue field.
The masterpiece, if you will, was directed by Jonas Åkerlund, who was behind everything from Lady Gaga's «Telephone» and «Paparazzi» clips to the On the Run Tour: Beyonce and Jay Z doco.
This was indeed one of the top ten films of 1985 and to understand on its golden 30th anniversary why this movie moved audiences so deeply and why the greatness of this masterpiece was not by perfection or logic but by heart.
By the way, speaking of names invoked, it was nice to hear the names John Huston and John Ford mentioned on your site along with your listing of some of their masterpieces (personally, I think that just about every other film John Ford made from Stagecoach on to his retirement was a masterpiece).
A masterpiece by any measure, is fresh, immediate and contemporary, but its wintry yet warm perspective is suffused with the wisdom and experience of a great filmmaker who turns 85 on June 2.
I instantly became a fan of off - beat and quirky director Wes Anderson after seeing his 2009 animated masterpiece «Fantastic Mr. Fox», based on the book by Roald Dahl, and starring the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, and Bill Murray.
By all rights, this attempt to put cutting - edge PlayStation masterpiece Metal Gear Solid on Game Boy Color should have resulted in unspeakable disaster.
Frustratingly, tantalizingly close to a modern satirical masterpiece, WALL · E's humanism is corrupted by slapstick that verges on nihilistic and a final moment that tries to have it both ways when it's done too good a job of painting a bleaker picture.
Deakins spoke to Variety about his work on the new film, which has been hailed by some critics as a masterpiece of genre filmmaking.
Also, the story is able to draw on both Christian and traditionally Korean shamanistic traditions and combine them with the history of Japanese colonialism to create its morbid atmosphere, which has the ability to chill even without a belief in any of its superstitions.4 That said, the bludgeoning nature of the approach kept the movie from achieving the masterpiece status many other critics have assigned it.5 By contrast, Park Chan - wook's latest, Agassi (The Handmaiden), has received a mixed reception, but I feel it is his best since 2003's Oldboy.6
And it fits by the way quite well into Adrian Martin's definition of «great events and ordinary people» in his wonderful essay on Malick's masterpiece The Tree of Life.
A Community of Two (published on Parallax View here) Mary Poppins and Doctor Zhivago in a love story recommended by Seventeen — and it's a masterpiece?!
Imitation of Life (published on Parallax View here) A comprehensive interpretation of Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the masterpiece of the classic era in science — fiction cinema By Robert C. Cumbow plus
The Last Detail is a true masterpiece and catching up with these characters 30 years on (Last Flag is set in 2003) in a film directed by Richard Linklater is a truly mouth - watering prospect.
Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue, in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar - winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, this cynical masterpiece is accompanied on the Channel by a 1986 documentary about Mackendrick, a 1973 documentary about Howe, and a video interview with film critic and historian Neal Gabler.
Starring an excellent cast (George Clooney, Matt Damon, John Goodman, and Cate Blanchett), the film focuses on a group of men from the United States, Great Britain and France, who are moved by their love of art to recover the masterpieces that were on the verge of being destroyed by the war, or stolen by the Nazis (and the Soviets), in the waning years of World War II.
An excerpt on one of the masterpieces of 6os cinema from Mary Wiles» forthcoming book on Jacques Rivette, published by Illinois University Press.
Critics ranged from dubbing it a «straight - up masterpiece» / it «f — ing rules,» to a «Cannes rarity - a film I wish would go on for longer,» to a «gorgeously shot battle of [the] sexes led by formidable trio of Kidman, Dunst and [Colin] Farrell.»
The review that I found that I think sums up my divisive, confused thoughts perfectly was written by Jason Gorber on Twitch, where he states: «The Master is brilliant and / or confounding and / or terrible... It may be a masterpiece, and / or it may be empty of content masked by strong moments of acting prowess and visual flare.»
One way leads to a surprise masterpiece that soars on the chemistry (surprise again) between Ferrell and Gyllenhaal — the other leads to a film that's a lot better than I expected it to be, weighed down by a resolution that it itself comments on as equivocal, cowardly, and disappointing.
Akira Kurosawa's late - period masterpiece, a feudal spin on King Lear, is a peak of»80s foreign cinema, crafted by a director in youthful command of his epic prowess.
Despite outstanding notices on release, Alfonso Cuarón's masterpiece was neglected by audiences, but it's only going to get better and richer as we edge towards the future it predicts.
The Conformist (Raro, Blu - ray, DVD), Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 masterpiece about a petite bourgeois Italian (a superb performance by Jean - Louis Trintignant) who simply wants to disappear into the fabric of Mussolini's Italy in the 1930s, is arguably the director's greatest film, and it was hugely influential on American cinema of the seventies.
It is based on the book by Seth Grahame - Smith of the same name, parodying Jane Austen «s 1813 masterpiece.
It's an enduringly fascinating and still - relevant story, so what a shame that writer - director Peter Landesman has made such a clunky film, made to look like a cinematic footnote by the definitive picture on the subject, Alan J. Pakula's 1976 masterpiece All The President's Men.
A practical effect], or the fight sequences where we actually see Batman beat down hordes of the ungodly with surprising ease — and savagery; while we could talk about superb performances [Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldman and the rest cast are all in top form] or debate the questions raised by the film for hours, and / or the film's achievement purely on an entertainment level, what makes it a masterpiece is that it is all of these things and more.
Based on Sapphire's relentlessly - raw, best seller «Push,» the book was faithfully adapted into a cinematic masterpiece by Lee Daniels.
Working within a formula established by the 1953 masterpiece «Little Fugitive,» in which a young child roams Coney Island on his own, Baker uses his measured neorealist style to turns the grimy setting into a sun - soaked wonderland in which the children relate to their surroundings as an ongoing game.
The studio United Artists was founded in 1919 by D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, and was one that prided itself on making edgy, thought provoking films such as John Slesinger's 1969 masterpiece «Midnight Cowboy» and the 1974 Bob Fosse film «Lenny» to name but two.
Boston, MA; April 7, 2017 — MASTERPIECE on PBS has announced that it will co-produce The Miniaturist, based on the novel by Jessie Burton.
Based on the beloved masterpiece by Jane Austen, it is...
Tsui Hark's second variation on Kung Hu's masterpiece, after 1992's New Dragon Gate Inn (nominally directed by Raymond Lee).
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of transcendent filmmaking in the The Lost City of Z and A Ghost Story, it was the age of foolish Spider - Man remakes / reboots / regurgitations, it was the epoch of a magnificent enquiry into belief by the evergreen Martin Scorsese, it was the epoch of the incredulous return of Mel Gibson in a box office hit, it was the season of Michael Haneke shining a light on our uncaring societal malaise, it was the season of manifold more people watching Baywatch, it was the spring of Aki Kaurismäki's warm - hearted but politically pressing The Other Side of Hope, it was the winter of despair at the box office results of masterpieces like Certain Women, Aquarius and The Death of Louis XIV, we had Yorgos Lanthimos» Kubrickian masterpiece before us, we had a new Kingsman film before us, we were all going direct to cinematic Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.
This modern masterpiece was shamefully overlooked come award season and over-shadowed by «Saving Private Ryan» on it's release — which is unfair, as they are very different films and this is just as good, if not better, than Spielberg's take.
In the latest Oscar Isaac vehicle, Mojave, director William Monaghan recycles the familiar tale of one man's seemingly chance encounter with a menacing stranger — a trope that was perfected more than six decades ago by Alfred Hitchcock in his 1951 masterpiece Strangers on a Train.
The words are spoken in E.M. Forster's timeless masterpiece, «Howards End,» by Ruth Wilcox (Julia Ormond), the matriarch of the wealthy family that shares the stage in the thrilling four - part adaptation of the novel premiering on Starz on Sunday, April 8.
Watching with experienced eyes, it's an astoundingly impressive low budget masterpiece that takes place in mostly a single location, and doesn't even focus on the now - iconic Pinhead (then played by the great Doug Bradley).
The film is based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history; The Monuments Men focuses on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners.
Taichman cites the late playwright's drama as a «neglected masterpiece» on this side of the world; her goal with «Time» — as with «God of Vengeance» by way of «Indecent» — is to bring «that art back to life again and to bring attention to it so it's not lost to time.»
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In your review of «The Simpsons Movie,» you mention that it is already voted as the 166th best film of all time on the Internet Movie Database and ask, «Do you suppose somehow the ballot box got stuffed by «Simpsons» fans who didn't even need to see the movie to know it was a masterpiece?
That year, fortyish David O. Russell — the eldest of the group by a decade — followed up his delightfully neurotic Flirting With Disaster with the bravura Three Kings; Paul Thomas Anderson built on his Boogie Nights reputation with flawed masterpiece Magnolia; Wes Anderson offered the sly subversion Rushmore (technically a 1998 film but not released nationally until February 1999); and 29 - year - old M. Night Shyamalan hit box - office gold with the surprisingly mature thriller The Sixth Sense.
NOW seek out the best movie on this list — the 2009 Iranian masterpiece by acclaimed writer / director Asghar Farhadi ABOUT ELLY starring one of the most exquisite actresses in the world Golshifteh Farahani.