Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Victor Kanefsky's effervescent documentary Art Bastard casts 76 - year old New York painter Robert Cenedella as a kind of aesthetic Robin Hood who robs from hallowed art tradition to give ordinary
people bravura paintings that don't require them to plumb art history or some other arcane discipline to appreciate.
Not exact matches
Of all the
bravura visual effects in Martin Scorsese's dazzingly stylish Casino, it's a glimpse of ordinary
people that delivers the greatest jolt.
No one kills
people with the
bravura relish of De Palma.
There are moments of real beauty in this movie — particular a
bravura panning shot of every character in their own personalized train car, whether or not they're actually on the train — but the protagonists are the last
people you'd ever want to be seated next to on a long trip, so watching them in a movie isn't much fun either.
Roger is the sort of fast - talking hustler who ends his
bravura performances with an ironic flourish: «Thank you, I love you
people.»
And how you ultimately feel about Another Year may in the end depend less on your response to Manville's self - evident
bravura, at once fully rounded and funny and unsettling, but to the persistence of a character who keeps being spoken of as a great mate and yet would send many (very kind)
people of my acquaintance running a mile in search of respite.
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.
Many
people absolutely adore its
bravura styling.
A master of
bravura expressionism with a nod towards Soutine, Vitali uses slashing impasto and vivid hues to get at the often wry and visceral crux of
people and things.