Sentences with phrase «operatic style»

In fact, lying within the tunnels are four singers, performing in operatic style fragments of speeches by key actors in the global theatre of recent political history: from Martin Luther King and the Dalai Lama, to George Bush and Saddam Hussein.

Once the slow fuse of Jason Statham's fury reaches the dynamite, Fleder unleashes a series of old school set pieces that cry out for the economy of a Walter Hill or the operatic style of a John Woo.

Operatic style can't paste over the meagre, far - fetched substance in Oldboy director Park Chan - wook's English - language debut.

Now, when I need to talk, Christopher listens and no longer expects me to replicate his family's operatic style of communication.

Not exact matches

One could make a similar observation regarding the baroque and early classical musical styles of the 17th and early 18th centuries (roughly from Handel to Haydn), which crossed rather freely from the operatic stage and concert hall to the church and back again.

Aesthetically, the film finds Bertolucci in a transitory mode, caught between his early Godard - influenced abstraction and his later style of lush, operatic camera movements and theatrical use of color and music.

It's actually a pretty straightforward film, albeit one filled with eccentric choices: quirky Tarantino-esque monologues delivered in formal period speech; slow, rambling scenes punctuated with extreme gore; antagonists that could be read as racist caricatures, except the movie bends over backward to assure you they're not; and, to cap it all off, an operatic theme song that lays out the plot, Gilligan's Island - style.

That title currently belongs to O. (Sorimachi, Yamato), a Japanese hit man who is Tok's exact opposite in terms of style, achieving success with calm and calculation vs. Tok's more flashy, operatic maneuvers.

Gomez - Rejon's style reminded me a little of Paolo Sorrentino at times, striving for something mythic or operatic.

Call it «Renaissance Rural,» «Operatic Americana,» or, «Melancholy Chic,» but the influential style of photographer Gregory Crewdson has been capturing eyes with rays of magic - hour light for decades.