Sentences with phrase «out bravura»

Joanna reviewed Jackie at TIFF and she's right that it's a balls - out bravura performance from Portman.

Not exact matches

So it would have been a characteristically bravura, publicity - grabbing touch if the U.S. Attorney had chosen the end of last week to unveil a federal indictment of Mayor Bill de Blasio on campaign - finance - related charges — while de Blasio was out of town, jetting to Chicago and Fort Lauderdale and Beverly Hills raising money for his reelection campaign.

Compared to that level of bravura, Stranger than Fiction's jokes never rise beyond simply pointing out how crazy a man would look if he thought there was a little voice in his head talking about him.

This devastating film is buoyed by Dequenne's bravura willingness to go all out; she's a baby - faced kid when the camera focuses full on and an exceptionally beautiful young woman in profile.

The film opens in bravura fashion with a scene that wouldn't seem out of place in a Sergio Leone Western.

Compared to your preceding films, which feature bravura sequences like the nighttime shoot - out in Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink has a much more restrained style.

Alejandro González Iñárritu edged out Linklater for Best Director for his bravura work on the dizzying Birdman, while Wes Anderson scored Best Screenplay for The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Hers is a brilliant but subdued and subtle performance, which is probably why it had a harder time standing out among the more bravura works we're seeing this year from women.

In what really could be considered a leading role (and might very well turn out to be), Banks holds her own in a film that features two bravura performances by Paul Dano and John Cusack.

Innovatively shot by ace cinematographer Dante Spinotti (L.A. Confidential, Mann's The Last of the Mohicans), this contains at least two bravura sequences that still stand out: the fiery fate of a pesky tabloid reporter (Stephen Lang) and the «In - a-Gadda-da-Vida» - driven finale.

Indeed, Paramount just did the same thing with The Cloverfield Paradox, a film that was dropped out of the blue online after the SuperBowl, in a bravura piece of event marketing by Netflix.

The movie opens, and closes, with a bravura static, long take, from inside the gate of a house, looking out to a street and, beyond, to a beach and body of water.

The story of a vagrant who discovers that the man convicted of murdering his parents has been released from prison and sets out to take vengeance, only to become a target of the killer's family in turn, is a bravura follow - up to «Murder Party» by director Jeremy Saulnier.

Spader is somnambulently morose; Bassett's earnest intensity seems ridiculously out of place for a piece of cheese such as this; the bland Facinelli exhibits no air of menace whatsoever; Lou Diamond Phillips, Wilson Cruz, and Robert Forster (who receives third billing for a five - minute part) simply go through the motions; and a clueless Tunney makes you wonder if she could possibly be the same person who gave such a bravura turn in 1998's Niagara Niagara.

Since his bravura institutional outing in 1997 at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Melgaard's forté has been crass, crudely drawn, graffiti - like images of, and writings about, bareback and interracial gay sex — «hate fucking,» «gay terrorism,» «white Daddy dick,» «big fat black dick,» «straight cock,» and other delightful variations on the theme, all layered and scrawled on paintings, old beds, couches spilling over with posters, and other messy piles of carefully amalgamated bric - a-brac.

Koons's bravura handling of granite and bronze, the materials of the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, reflects the reactionary attitude toward materials that cost Marcia Tucker, the founder of the New Museum, her job at the Whitney in 1977 after she exhibited Richard Tuttle's sculptures made out of wire and rags.

There was «Godville,» a 2005 installation whose bravura editing made figures out of Colonial Williamsburg seem to voice angry modern feelings about war and race.