Sentences with phrase «own idiosyncratic character»

Demonstrating the year's idiosyncratic character, all but two of the top five 2015 contributors and detractors were U.S. - domiciled companies.

This idiosyncratic character personifies the anti-conformist look.

Jackie Brown was met with a level of disappointment when it was released; yes it had the cool ensemble cast, excellent retro soundtrack and prolific use of the «N» word, but where were the violence, idiosyncratic characters and quirky comic dialogue we were all expecting?

A delicious combination of idiosyncratic character drama and increasingly violent and violently absurd comedy, this Netflix title opened the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance this year and is an assured debut for Blair, the star of Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin and Green Room.

The universal quality you mentioned is interesting given the earlier films where the characters» idiosyncrasies are more pronounced — they still have universal themes below that — but this one seems less about heightened idiosyncratic characters and more about a universal fear.

The film is rooted in Hollywood classicism, populated with idiosyncratic characters who have plenty of room to speak and interact in between the action / horror set pieces.

Beginning with shots of the violent evisceration of a truck — guts, fluids, and all — the film becomes a moving portrait of idiosyncratic characters and the force of community in the midst of a profusion of carefully dissected and categorized automobile detritus.

What I'm really excited about with this is that they're such idiosyncratic characters.

These films are all considerably more sprawling than the taut Phantom Thread, but you can see the seeds of this latest film (which Day - Lewis claims is his last) in the others — strange and unsettling narrative turns, idiosyncratic characters, a wicked sense of humor, and an enigmatic screenplay that rewards repeated watching.

: Where Jerry Goldsmith was lionized for any number of inventive, mainstream scores like «Basic Instinct,» «Total Recall» and «The Wind and the Lion,» the composer had an equal knack for embodying idiosyncratic characters for movies well below the widely accepted radar like «Under Fire,» «The Salamander» and «The Traveling Executioner.»

Its idiosyncratic characters and darkly strange worldview, however, will remind many readers of the gothic atmosphere of Joyce Carol Oates's novels.

Removing the stylized aesthetic of cartoons and offering realistic, idiosyncratic character art adds an extra jolt, forcing us to look ourselves in the ludicrous, Stone Age face.

«Wonderland gets a reverential makeover, full of heart and its own idiosyncratic character.»

Employing a diaristic style, the curator presents his personal curatorial alphabet with a similar transparency and the same idiosyncratic character revealed in many of his exhibitions.

Yet, far from an autobiographical study, the work evokes varieties of collective cultural memory, the contrasting ways in which different inhabitants of the landscape identify with its idiosyncratic character and atmosphere.

The Transylvania - born artist's site - specific exhibition at The Aldrich showcases her skill in traditional, labor intensive, hand - crafted book - making, and will take the form of a diorama, in which a series of cut - out panels will reveal layers of a hallucinatory narrative featuring fantasy worlds and idiosyncratic characters.

Taken together, the three installations suggest inventive, alternate worlds and the idiosyncratic characters who might once have inhabited them.

Not exact matches

Moreover, the idiosyncratic and fluid character of personal meaning has defied the very logic of seeking social scientific generalizations.

In this world, we can be our idiosyncratic selves, right alongside our favorite characters and their huge world - hopping narratives.

Raising Arizona has all the Coen essentials: a dark storyline about desperation for status; zany characters with sharp wit and idiosyncratic dialogue; and super stylized sets that magnify the absurdity of the world they've created.

That wonderful, unexpected entrance is the first of many idiosyncratic gestures and inflections Krieps gives her character; nearly every glance and word from Alma beguiles, puzzles.

Produced by James L. Brooks, who knows a thing or two about character - driven comedy (The Simpsons, Broadcast News), The Edge of Seventeen screams with an idiosyncratic voice at a time when so many movies just want to fall in with the popular crowd.

What happens at the end of Short Cuts isn't quite as apocalyptic as all that; nevertheless, it allows the characters to register their idiosyncratic responses to an extremely clear intimation of mortality.

Inventing characters is a lot of fun but I don't think I'm capable of creating a fictional character that could possibly be as dimensional, idiosyncratic or fully realized as the actual people I read about in the newspaper every day — which is another way of saying that when you're telling a true story, life itself has done most of the work for you.

For what we get, Waititi's idiosyncratic execution of humor is at its best through hilarious chemistry, character design, and unexpected quirks.

King, who matures from idiosyncratic comedies like The Bull and the Bunny and TV show The Mighty Boorish, peaks with a spellbinding narrative that utilizes characters to the most attractive and naturalistic effects.

These curious similarities are doubtlessly a confidence, since Lucky was obviously conceived and written expressly for Stanton, the titular character sharing numerous attributes with the famously idiosyncratic actor.

It's a solid little movie that operates without almost any plot, loosely constructed from the idiosyncratic side adventures of its main character.

The story of Burt Shavitz, the bearded, backwoodsy photojournalist - turned - homespun entrepreneur whose beekeeping and honey - selling business morphed into the Burt's Bees empire, «Burt's Buzz» spends its first hour as a charming character study of an idiosyncratic man who lives a ramshackle life («sort of like a high - class hobo») when he's not serving as the public face of a huge brand.

(Brolin really is growing into the second coming of Nick Nolte, with all the idiosyncratic weirdness of a character actor trapped in the body of a leading man.)

Since the multi-platform fictional character first appeared over 20 years ago as a BBC sports reporter on the radio show, «On The Hour,» this wonderfully conceited, idiosyncratic comic creation has flourished across virtually every medium imaginable.

Urban is the least expressive of the actors to play Woodrow but Zahn fills Gus with a richness of character and experience and Val Kilmer brings an entertaining flamboyance to Captain Inish Scull, their idiosyncratic Yankee troop leader.

This introduces an idiosyncratic mystery and, whilst he's often depicted mingling with the villains, the character goes beyond the grain of cackling antagonists.

Populated with great character actors in a superb ensemble cast, the film sympathetically displays the believable motivations and everyday, idiosyncratic human personalities of the assembled characters, mostly two - bit criminals (one with a family) and a recently - paroled mastermind criminal (Sam Jaffe) who all dream of and long for a quick, million - dollar jewelry store robbery to provide salvation and a means of getting away for their impoverished lives.

In 2002 he released Punch - Drunk Love, starring Adam Sandler, which, as a character - driven comedy, felt like an idiosyncratic left turn; five years later, he teamed up with Daniel Day - Lewis for There Will Be Blood, a loose adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!

The way he so effortlessly constructs an imaginary world of quirky characters, and a visual experience so resplendent and idiosyncratic that I wonder how he can even function in this bland, banal world that the rest of us inhabit.

With a prolific cast at his fingertips, Bateman's film becomes another entry in the dysfunctional family melodrama genre, filled with idiosyncratic, quirky characters and their colorful tics.

Harry Dean Stanton, who died Sept. 15 at age 91, was an esteemed character actor who could play cantankerous or melancholy or plain idiosyncratic, all in unforgettable ways.

, and over a career of sixteen features, their output has been marked by undeniably idiosyncratic performances from a cadre of the best character actors in the world as they careen from comedy to drama to everything in between.

Whereas it is Aiken's willingness to put personal motivations aside that makes the character idiosyncratic.

It's been 32 years since the Coens burst onto the scene with Blood Simple., and over a career of sixteen features, their output has been marked by undeniably idiosyncratic performances from a cadre of the best character actors in the world as they careen from comedy to drama to everything in between.

Concluding with Fay taking the fall for Henry and winding up behind bars, the story set the stage for a third character to take prominence in this idiosyncratic indie franchise — the couple's son, Ned (Liam Aiken), whose time has come to wrestle control of the messy situation.

As to my personal choice, I'm going to surprise even myself and single out Washington in «Roman J. Israel, Esq.» The film is undeniably uneven, but Washington's performance as an idiosyncratic idealist is thought out in such detail, and so different from the characters he usually plays, that it won me over completely.

Yes, we do need to get all stakeholders together, but calling character development «idiosyncratic» and «mysterious» doesn't help.

Brooks ends his column with this paragraph: «Character development is an idiosyncratic, mysterious process.

We could have taken a more critical stance on these efforts, as have some of our colleagues in professional development (e.g., Hargreaves & Fullan, 1992), and cited their idiosyncratic,»... self - indulgent, slow, time - consuming, costly, and unpredictable» (pp. 12 — 13) character.

Not quite funky The 2010 Honda Fit's appearance is a good approximation of its overall character — it's different without being idiosyncratic, accurately preparing you for what's inside.

He draws the minor characters as idiosyncratic without sacrificing authenticity; each one seems to be a real - life (if somewhat peculiar) individual that readers could well have met.

Filled with Amy Tan's signature «idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery» (Los Angeles Times), Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a façade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions - both good and bad - and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.

This full - color, coffee table - style volume celebrates and documents the comics medium with alphabetical entries to take an idiosyncratic look at everything from creators, characters, and companies to conventions and collectors.