Sentences with phrase «period cultural roots»

Richard III's period cultural roots are rather cleverly laid out throughout the film, with Lady Anne's (Kristen Scott Thomas) first appearance on the screen evocative of the grand dames of the silver screen, like an Ingrid Bergman or Marlene Dietrich: a dark coat and a fur draped around her, a hat partially obscuring her face, and the morgue she walks through smoky and opaque.

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An artist who in recent years has been investigating the African roots of American music by reconstructing and photographing historic sites in New York City where this cultural interchange was exemplified, Stan Douglas amps up that approach at David Zwirner this month with a new film set at Columbia Records's 30th Street studio in the»70s, replete with obsessively researched period details.

Third, it exposed the fact that Iniva's programme has, since the mid 2000s, existed in a state of arrested development, a position of stasis made all the more apparent by the accelerated rate of social, economic and cultural change during the period — most notably the partial dissolution of cultural hierarchies facilitated by the world wide web, and the emergence of strong grass roots arts activities and young independent organisations operating, for however brief a period, outside the mainstream.