Sentences with phrase «on operatic»

Combining the whimsy and charm of the series» early days with its newfound focus on storytelling bordering on operatic, it stands out with what made Final Fantasy what it is.

But even before the film's finale, it's filled with nods to changing times and the traumatic effects of recent American history, themes Cimino explored on an operatic scale in his next film, The Deer Hunter.

Worst - case scenario: You thought This Must Be The Place was a trainwreck, and will still find yourself allergic to Sorrentino's largely rhythmic approach to cinema, which in this instance verges on the operatic.

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Among the lowlights of the retailer's continuing, soap - operatic slide in 2013: CEO Ron Johnson resigned in April after all of 16 months on the job; the company had to apologize to customers for alienating them with new store concepts; and activist investor Bill Ackman, who stepped down from the board in August, swallowed a $ 470 million loss upon selling his Penney's stake.

As Jonas Barish points out in his sharply observed monograph The Anti «Theatrical Prejudice (1981), terms such as theatrical, operatic, melodramatic, and stagey tend to be hostile or belittling, as do phrases like play «acting, putting on an act, making a scene, making a spectacle of oneself, playing to the gallery, and so forth.

His reflection on the liturgy as the action of Christ the Word made flesh provides a path between the Scylla of the clown Mass and the Charybdis of the operatic performance.

In response to the overwhelming demand for tickets to Il Divo's April 21 performance in Dublin, the operatic quartet have just confirmed a second Greatest Hits show at the O2 Arena, on April 22, 2013.

Previously, Khori enjoying a vibrant operatic career as a lyric soprano on stages throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

Cold Case is not only operatic, with a different bloody libretto and a different leitmotif each week, but has ambitions on the grander scale of Gesamtkunstwerk, of total Wagnerian theater - including a jukebox time machine.

After retiring from the opera stage, Lauritz Melchior performed on TV and in night clubs, and also funded a scholarship for promising operatic newcomers.

As its seasons have worn on and its universe of beasties and beastly acts has expanded, True Blood has become less interested in revising or adapting the soap - operatic tropes that made it such campy fun to begin with.

As old grudges threaten to undermine past glories and theatrical temperaments play havoc with the rehearsal schedule, it becomes apparent that having four of the finest singers in English operatic history under one roof offers no guarantee that the show will go on.

Even when reaching for the operatic, he keeps the focus on small human foibles: a cellphone going off at a funeral; a car parked who knows where; a teenager (Lucas Hedges, in what should be a star - making breakout turn) whose mourning process is no more preoccupying than his desperate attempts to get some alone time with his girlfriend.

At any rate, On the Waterfront is an operatic masterpiece.

But there's no denying that Scarface is also a lot of fun, tracking homicidal Cuban homunculus Tony Montana (Al Pacino) from his first footsteps on US soil to his operatic demise in a cloud of AK - 47 bullets and coke.

It was moody stuff, building on the visual touchstones of The Force Awakens but seemingly upping the operatic scale, complete with a moody intonation from the elderly Skywalker that it was time for the...

to the screen with his 2007 masterpiece There Will Be Blood, he ripped the original text to pieces and instead delivered a curiously bleak and operatic take on the sparse source material.

Famous for her operatic soprano, Lind is saddled here with «Never Enough,» an emo power ballad that never suggests opera or anything more than the reject pile left by contestants on The Voice.

After a series opener in which Sherlock traded its mystery status for soap, the second episode of series four, «The Lying Detective», doubles down on the new soap operatic direction of the show and delivers even more antics and heavy - handed emotional beats.

«A big, operatic family drama centered on a world of international espionage,» he said.

He even segues into a few surreal operatic sequences with hefty naked women, commenting both on cinematic score vs. emotion as well as a simple comment on what we take in our systems as seductive versus what the eye finds as such.

But he hooks you in with the primary narrative — a play on Beauty and the Beast wherein the mute and the «asset» communicate wordlessly towards a deeper understanding of each other and the world in general — and he elevates his source material until the entire film coheres with an operatic swagger.

Brilliantly executed, Wong's peculiarly decentered violent sequences are actually more evocative of the battle scene in Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight than they are of Leone's operatic showdowns, especially in the way they concentrate on ephemeral, oblique details rather than heroic spectacle.

2 is Tarantino's first real overture into the sort of grandiose, operatic, frequently 70 mm filmmaking that he's always called the biggest influence on his own work.

In Django Unchained (2012), Quentin Tarantino takes on one of his favorite genres: the spaghetti western, with all its extreme violence, operatic drama, eccentric characters, and brutal portrait of frontier existence.

Aptly titled, the nearly three - hour Infinity War pours on the action — some of it grandly operatic, some of it breezy and fun — but mainly, it's about a big purple goon on a bling quest.

Intent on making definitive, album - length statements, spurred on by his obsessive competitiveness with The Beatles («Rubber Soul» predates «Pet Sounds», and though Paul McCartney cited «Pet Sounds» as a primary influence on «Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band», the release of that album is often blamed for Brian Wilson's nervous breakdown), and sensing the opportunity in 1966 of being at the vanguard of the psychedelic movement with a follow - up album (the never - completed «Smile»), the story of The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson is as operatic and tinged with ironic destiny as an Aeschylean tragedy.

It seems necessary to call bullshit on Rowe's assertion, in the film's press notes, that Leap Year is a metaphor «for the complex victimizer - victim dichotomy that I think is at the very heart of Mexican national identity,» if only because that theme, so explicitly milked for maximum operatic verismo in Battle in Heaven, isn't being worked out on this particular film's screen.

Though the operatic dissonant relationship between Jean Valjean and Russell Crowe's Javert does prove to be compelling opera as it weaves throughout the rest of the story, the film's second act focus on the story of rich pretty boy Marius (Eddie Redmayne, whose singing voice is 45 percent Kermit the Frog) falling for Cosette (Amanda Seyfried) at first sight doesn't register nearly the same amount of urgency, feeling like a silly problem that doesn't fit into the story's near - apocalyptic presentation of revolutionary France.

It's impossible from one moment to the next to understand what's going on in Once Upon a Time in Mexico beyond a vague sense of Rodriguez's irritation with Dubya's dystopia and a feeling — sometimes operatic, sometimes not — of loss and the will to vengeance.

«A big, operatic family drama centered on a world of international espionage.

6:05 am — IFC — A Midsummer Night's Dream This version of Shakespeare's magical comedy is a tad on the over-produced side, but there's a lot to like from Stanley Tucci's unusual Puck and Rupert Everett's sly Oberon to the reimagining of the faeries through the lens of Bacchus legends and the use of popular operatic arias on the soundtrack.

8:00 pm — TCM — Carmen Jones Oscar Hammerstein takes on Bizet's Carmen, transposing it into a contemporary setting at a Korean War army base and writing new lyrics to go with Bizet's operatic melodies.

After reading nearly 70 books on the Civil War, I find I am drawn to books written with a literary elegance and operatic sweep, which matches the tragic and haunting history of this horrendous yet magisterial engagement that gave birth to these United States.

This month's audio column includes a fascinating history of cotton, an operatic epic and a lush historical centered on some of New York's most notable socialites.

This past Tuesday at a lunch on Toronto's Bay Street, after the operatic group, The Tenors, sang the anthem, Prem Watsa, chief executive of Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., took the podium.

While typically a calm little dog, they are well known for performing many enjoyable antics such as the «Chin Spin», in which they turn around in rapid circles; dancing on their hind legs while pawing their front feet, clasped together, in the air; and, some even «sing», a noise that can range from a low trill to a higher, almost operatic quality noise, and which sounds much like «woooo».

While typically calm, they are well known for performing many tricks such as the «Chin Spin», in which they turn around in rapid circles; dancing on their hind legs while pawing their front feet, clasped together, in the air; and some even «sing», a noise that can range from a low trill to a higher, almost operatic noise.

International audiences are sure to welcome a feature that can make even the most complex operatic plots clear: text screens on every seat, offering translations into English, French, German, and Spanish.

For all it's paucity of RPG ostentation and operatic melodrama, Shining In The Darkness comes through where it counts: an approachable and entertaining combat system and a detailed variety of bad guys to hack through on your way to the ultimate confrontation with the proverbial darkness.

Whether it's the Raiders fondness for Arnie references or the Valkyries operatic singing, there's a lot to like in each character on offer.

In 1999, Laurie Anderson mounted her operatic take, Stories and Songs from Moby - Dick, on Melville's classic at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

On view from December 1, 2010 — February 13, 2011, the exhibition Jonathan Meese: Sculpture focuses on Meese's three - dimensional work, including his first ceramic talisman created when he was 15, small assemblages and dioramas from the beginning of his career that have never been shown before, massive bronze sculptures, recent large - scale ceramics, and models and set designs for theatrical and operatic productionOn view from December 1, 2010 — February 13, 2011, the exhibition Jonathan Meese: Sculpture focuses on Meese's three - dimensional work, including his first ceramic talisman created when he was 15, small assemblages and dioramas from the beginning of his career that have never been shown before, massive bronze sculptures, recent large - scale ceramics, and models and set designs for theatrical and operatic productionon Meese's three - dimensional work, including his first ceramic talisman created when he was 15, small assemblages and dioramas from the beginning of his career that have never been shown before, massive bronze sculptures, recent large - scale ceramics, and models and set designs for theatrical and operatic productions.

Matthew Barney's New Movie to Show in NYC — In a hot tweet, our own columnist Walter Robinson revealed the news that the artist's long - awaited operatic epic River of Fundament will go on view at the Park Avenue Armory next year.

Work to transform part of the Toxteth estate - Granby Four Streets - is in the running for the annual award along with an operatic performance, a study room said to question issues around mental health and a series of dining chairs with fur coats sewn on top.

Wedding Loop (2017) sees the artist recounting a turbulent series of events at an operatic family gathering, while interspersing notes on auto - fiction, family portraiture, and the legacy of Julia Margaret Cameron alongside responses to writings by authors including Simone Weil, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgaard.

It's what should have been on television, but was forced out into the open market to fend for itself, and it has mutated into this hybrid B - movie / soap operatic form where the films are often 3 - 4 hours long, hyperbolic, melodramatic but made for TV.

Organized by Silvia Karman Cubiñá, director of The Moore Space, Soap - Operatic will be on view through March 31, 2005.

Thai - born, Los Angeles - based artist Nuttaphol Ma combines elements of Greek myth, Western operatic form, and European weaving to create a maze - like installation based on a story of migration and survival in his installation Ruins of Daedalus» Labyrinth.

Based on a found collection of love letters and phone messages, «Mocktalk» by Austrian conceptual artist Nin Brudermann (a collaboration with Arfus Greenwood) is a perverse operatic duet of desperate intentions played on a cracked iphone.