Sentences with phrase «performance of this masterpiece»

My father has tried to get me to go to the live performance of this masterpiece since I was a child.

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After its first performance, the San Francisco Chronicle called the opera «something of a masterpiece» and the Manchester Guardian wrote that it «makes the most concentrated impact of any piece of American music theater since West Side Story.»

And you'll not get any argument from me about the wankfest over JM, by the way I didn't see a tactical masterpiece, just a ragged performance from your mids and a mismatch of numbers in the middle.

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Filled with religious and deep - meaning life message, visual treat, touching performance and powerful score make The Tree of Life undeniably Terrence Malick's masterpiece.

Critic Consensus: This atmospheric thriller is one of the undisputed masterpieces of cinema, and boasts iconic performances from Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles.

Critics Consensus: This atmospheric thriller is one of the undisputed masterpieces of cinema, and boasts iconic performances from Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles.

Morgan's performance is a masterpiece of scenery chewing as he accomplishes the not - at - all simple task of stealing scenes from Johnson on more than one occasion.

From a road trip to the scene of James Dean's fatal accident to the making of The Room, this film is an inspirational masterpiece that is guided by Franco's performance of a very driven auteur.

For Hitfix, Gregory Ellwood called the film «a near - masterpiece» while declaring «it has some of the most haunting images of the year and features the bravest performance of Scarlett Johansson's career.»

IndieWire On Demand: Adam Driver gives the best performance of his career thus far in Jim Jarmusch's intimate indie masterpiece.

As one who has seen both versions of Dying, I can report that in neither edit is Schrader's latest a masterpiece, while in both it is an efficient and mostly effective B - grade thriller rooted in a distinctly Schraderian sense of guilt and moral anguish, and featuring a very fine performance by Cage.

Armed with Seann William Scott's gloriously over-the-top turn as the title character, Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach almost manages to overcome its tedious storyline and hopelessly erratic pace to become a minor comedic masterpiece - yet there eventually does reach a point at which Scott's performance, ingratiating as it is, simply proves unable to compensate for the film's myriad of deficiencies.

My Top 10 from 1970 Oscar - eligible films are The Passion of Anna (Bergman at least won a special award), Adalen 31, Performance, The Confession, Ryan's Daughter, The Honeymoon Killers, Vixen (Russ Meyer's masterpiece!)

In regards to the rest of the film, Cage's performance is just one of many facets of the film that make it a downright masterpiece.

The actor adds a few layers of deadpan physical comedy to the role, much like his Buster Keaton-esque performance in Benny and Joon, and also recalling his earlier western, the masterpiece Dead Man.

And Serkis's expertise in motion - capture, including his masterpiece performance as Caesar in the Planet of the Apes trilogy, was probably a conscious and instinctive aid to Garfield at achieving maximum eloquence with limited means.

A Chinese star who grew up in England (which accounts for her excellent English) and who's appeared in almost 70 films since 1984, including most of the features of Wong Kar - wai, Cheung is exceptionally gifted when she's doing comedy (as in the 1989 The Iceman Cometh) and pantomime (as in her great performance as the silent Shanghai film actress Ruan Ling - yu in Stanley Kwan's 1991 masterpiece Actress).

Tom Ford's directorial debut is a near - masterpiece about a mourning, closeted English professor, with Colin Firth in the performance of his career.

This one has a brilliantly maniacal performance by Lorre, and it's a masterpiece of noir photography by German expressionist cameraman - turned - Hollywood - director Freund and his great cinematographer Gregg Toland («Citizen Kane «-RRB-.

The Conformist (Raro, Blu - ray, DVD), Bernardo Bertolucci's 1970 masterpiece about a petite bourgeois Italian (a superb performance by Jean - Louis Trintignant) who simply wants to disappear into the fabric of Mussolini's Italy in the 1930s, is arguably the director's greatest film, and it was hugely influential on American cinema of the seventies.

Our reaction: «The final chapter stumbles but this is two - thirds of a masterpiece from A Touch of Sin director Jia Zhang - ke, and is powered by a remarkable performance from the great Zhao Tao.»

Red River remains an American film masterpiece with beautiful cinematography, a rousing musical score, and one of John Wayne's most iconic performances with Howard Hawks» masterful eye at the helm.

• Wim Wenders's Der amerikanische Freund — notthe masterpiece some have claimed, but a first - rate thriller nonetheless, full of superb moments and boasting a dazzling performance by Bruno Ganz.

A practical effect], or the fight sequences where we actually see Batman beat down hordes of the ungodly with surprising ease — and savagery; while we could talk about superb performances [Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldman and the rest cast are all in top form] or debate the questions raised by the film for hours, and / or the film's achievement purely on an entertainment level, what makes it a masterpiece is that it is all of these things and more.

«Mad Max: Fury Road» George Miller's masterpiece is not only a testament to the powers of creative filmmaking, incredible editing and inspired production design, but an example of a stable of actors willing to push their performances to unexpected extremes.

Daniel Day - Lewis channels John Huston (whose Noah Cross in Chinatown is a clear template both as a character and a voice) in a literally volcanic performance that slowly builds to an eruption in the film's closing sequences that either sends the film over the top into masterpiece territory or destroys the whole drama of the picture, depending on the viewer.

And Daniel Day Lewis creates a masterpiece in his performance as Cecil; give him a monocle and a butterfly, and he could be on the cover of the New Yorker.

A completely original musical vibrating with the spirit of the immortal Jacques Demy (yet alive with the dreams of today's Angelenos), Damien Chazelle's swirling masterpiece gave us a career - best performance from Emma Stone, heartbreaking in every shot.

This movie is a masterpiece of tonal balance and production value, anchored by not just one great performance but three.

Atonement is a near masterpiece that only lacks the substance of great performances.

His was a comedic masterpiece of a performance.

Directed by Paul McGuigan (in a decisive change of pace after «Victor Frankenstein»), the film offers a «My Week With Marilyn» - style gloss on the life of the great, oft - neglected stage and screen actress Gloria Grahame (Bening), who won an Academy Award for «The Bad and the Beautiful» and who is perhaps best remembered now for her heartbreaking performance opposite Humphrey Bogart in Nicholas Ray's 1950 noir masterpiece, «In a Lonely Place.»

The year lacked a single towering masterpiece, but this John Crowley film, based on the Colm Toibin novel, was a little treasure, with beautiful, invested performances and an air of enchantment.

Filmmakers and critics on Twitter are calling Phantom Thread nothing short of a masterpiece, highlighting the performances of Day - Lewis and his breakout co-star Vicky Krieps.

On her performance, Glenn Kenny: «Steve McQueen's «12 Years A Slave» is a masterpiece not just of cinematic artistry but of psychology; one needn't even be a particularly «close reader» of the movie to understand how it limns a pathology that defines racism in the United States to this very day.

Although the film is no masterpiece or work of art, the performances within David Ayer's gritty and intense narrative are easily the main attraction of SABOTAGE.

A dazzlingly original, heartbreaking musical pulsing with the spirit of the immortal Jacques Demy, Damien Chazelle's swirling masterpiece gave us a career - best performance from Emma Stone — and the soundtrack of early 2017.

And Day - Lewis, who has said that this will be his final screen performance, turns in a masterpiece of silky irritability.

Daniel Day - Lewis, who has said that this will be his final screen performance, turns in a masterpiece of silky irritability as 1950s fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock.

The acting is simply out of this world; Broadbent once again delivers a masterpiece of a performance with seemingly no effort; Lesley Manville and the criminally underrated Shirley Henderson are both fantastic.

I love Cuaron, but I think this is a case of a director being too closely affiliated with his movie's visual strengths — and let's be clear, on this front it's a masterpiece — and not closely enough affiliated with its shortcomings elsewhere: the good (but not great) performances, the mediocre dialogue (from a screenplay co-written by Cuaron), etc..

Of course, it was Truffaut's masterpiece Jules and Jim that cemented her place in the annals of film: her performance as the alternately coquettish and commanding Catherine made her a brainy sex symbol for the ageOf course, it was Truffaut's masterpiece Jules and Jim that cemented her place in the annals of film: her performance as the alternately coquettish and commanding Catherine made her a brainy sex symbol for the ageof film: her performance as the alternately coquettish and commanding Catherine made her a brainy sex symbol for the ages.

It was the story of one tormented man — the lonely and driven oil prospector Daniel Plainview: a magnificent performance from Daniel Day - Lewis whose masterpiece this was, too.

Brody's performance as a musician struggling to stay alive during the Holocaust was powerful, but Daniel Day - Lewis was extraordinary as Bill Cutting, the butcher who ruled the streets of New York by fear in Scorsese's flawed masterpiece.

A completely original musical vibrating with the spirit of France's Jacques Demy (yet alive with the dreams of today's Angelenos), Damien Chazelle's swirling romantic masterpiece gave us career - best performances from Emma Stone (heartbreaking in every shot) and the underrated Ryan Gosling.

Featuring Willem Dafoe in one of his all - time best roles and breakout performances from child actor Brooklynn Prince and young newcomer Bria Vinaite this movie might very well be a masterpiece.

Unfortunately, «Bullhead» is yet another case of a sensational performance in an otherwise average movie, and though that doesn't make it any less worth your time, it does prevent it from becoming the masterpiece it could have been.

«Strathairn is nothing short of amazing... Like his performance as Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck, his interpretation is a masterpiece of subtlety.»