Sentences with phrase «poetic moments of»
But the catch is that Johnson's often unwieldy, rant - filled dialogue and frenetic plotline is checkered with great, poetic moments of clarity as his characters search for simple grace.
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The splatterpunks count as their most notable acolyte Clive Barker, whose film Hellraiser, also from 1987, delivers some of the decade's most graphic gore as well as its most poetic moments of horror.
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'» He takes a poetic stab at description: «It would be like plunging into the ocean of infinite love, a moment in which time — the before and after — no longer exists.»
At first they may be taken merely as aesthetic moments, such as communing with nature, savouring memories andimages, meeting mysteries, the heightened sensing of musical sounds, odours, colours, the thrill of acute poetic expression, or moving encounters with other human beings; but on further reflection people often cite such experiences as having a spiritual quality and as hints of the divine.
At moments, this new English version gets all this just right, managing to be faithful to the poetic compactness of the Hebrew, the meanings of the Hebrew words, and the tonality of the original poem.
Indeed, the epic is «very much about its own writing,» a writing that at every moment threatens to turn into what it purports to condemn: «Milton must summon the devils into poetic being in order to warn a reader... but he runs the risk of fascinating the reader with that very poetic creation.»
Christian Dietrich Grabbe, in 1829, produced Don Juan und Faust, a vast, seething swamp of large ideas, exaggerated passions, incoherent action, crushing monologues, deranged lyricism, and adolescent moral nihilism, which is somehow made even more unbearable by its numerous moments of poetic brilliance.
So it is therefore appropriate, I believe, to inquire into the particular revelatory function attached to certain modalities of scripture which I will place under the title Poetics, in a sense I will explain in a moment.
Coleridge asked readers of his fantastical poems, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, to give him «that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.»
There's also a moment of poetic justice in which he's forced to eat what he dishes out so much (I admit with a bit of shame that it's the movie's funniest scene).
It's Spielberg's best and truest action film since Jaws, relentlessly paced, pitch - perfectly acted (the young Fanning is almost certain to get a Best Supporting Actress nod come Oscar time), and rife with moments of such horrifically poetic imagery that it's all you can do not to stop thinking about them long after the film has ended.
The opening is the first of many sequences in «Under the Skin» that feel more figurative than «real» — moments in which we suspect we're seeing the poetic representation of a thing, not necessarily the thing itself.
He's taciturn in the classic action star sense, but there's a greater thoughtfulness to him, with the actor speaking in a steely - eyed matter - of - factness in moments of action and a more poetic, spiritual tone when bonding with Madeleine Stowe's Cora.
Written by Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost — although Waititi has claimed that a huge amount of the dialogue was improvised — Thor: Ragnarok does remember at moments to get generically somber, or even poetic (there's a fabulously lush insert of a slow - mo Valkyries charge on winged horses).
There's also effusive praise from Hunter for Jarvis's significantly more established co-star, «Hunger» sensation Michael Fassbender, and the film itself, which he compares to the works of Ken Loach and the Dardenne brothers in «finding the poetic moments in even the bleakest of lives.»
Aided immeasurably by DoP Fred Murphy's whiskey - dipped glow, and wonderful performances from Anjelica Huston and Donal Donnelly, it's in quieter moments that The Dead soars more so than in the literalism of its overtly poetic finale.
As gritty as Heaven Knows What often feels, it's leavened by empathy and poetic moments: desperate kisses, a passed - out couch nap lit by slanting sunbeams, the beautifully eerie synth music of Tomita.
As history the scene is defensible — Lincoln's poetic, 272 - word speech was widely printed in newspapers and immediately recognized as a rhetorical marvel — but as drama it's atrocious, a smarmy Hall - of - Presidents moment.
It has its moments of visual beauty, but a little more poetic daring and a little less in the way of safe artiness might have made this one something more than an expertly conceived business proposition.â $ After a second viewing of the film recently, I still find myself feeling that way.
But even if the film meanders more than it unnerves, more interested in creating elegant images and moments than tension or mood, the finale is perfectly orchestrated and it delivers a deliciously cruel poetic justice with echoes to Bava's Black Sunday, the film that made Steele an icon of Italian horror.
The River is full of small, poetic moments that are born anew in Criterion's update of the film.
A few of the best moments, without any dialogue, are quite poetic.
In the case of cinema, slow motion has been widely used as a poetic device to accentuate and invigorate moments that need to be highlighted, whether for storytelling or purely aesthetic... Read more»
A rare Hollywood film that deals with both the violence and the turmoil and the regret these men face when they slow to catch their breath, it's searing for most the emotional ride, with some genuinely chilling moments of impulsive human malevolence and a morally ambiguous climax that twists the knife of poetic justice.
For every instance of poetic, genuine romance in Blue Valentine, there's a moment of crushing heartbreak.
Jackson centers her tale around four women in the same family from four different generations and acutely sifts through the emotional landscapes of coming - of - age, claiming a cultural identity, grief and mental illness while including plenty of moments of brash humor and poetic insight.
Jackson centers her tale around four women in the same family, but from four different generations, and acutely sifts through the emotional landscapes of coming - of - age, claiming a cultural identity, grief and mental illness while including plenty of moments of brash humor and poetic insight.
Each painting's blue world, although all of the same color blue and treated in the same way, revealed itself to be of an entirely different essence and atmosphere; none resembled the other, not anymore than pictorial moments and poetic moments can resemble one another.
Moving to Paris at the beginning of the 1930s marked a significant moment in the development of Roberto Sebastian Matta's poetics.
Iovino argues that «the dissolution of traditional centers of power announced at the advent of postmodernism has finally been realized, but this is just the beginning: despite their versatility and poetics, this work reflects an approach to mark making in which the present is a moment in transition — a precursor to powerful forms of expression yet to be.»
Their titles — See the sky about to rain, All in a dream, Distance Equals Rate Times Time and I love you more than moments we have or have not shared — underscore the sense of poetic free - association that runs through Gallaccio's expansive oeuvre.
Through moments of poetic alignment, cacophonous rupture, and the steady hum in - between, Brueckner explores the power and limitations of our increasing enmeshment with machines.
I felt it very important to catalog my feelings at that moment — to honor Kusama's dedication to poetic sensation and to dedicate my own affective reaction to her psychosomatic projections on the difficult experience of everyday structure.
He views the landscape is an abstract entity, realized as moments of human intervention and poetic interpretation.
While these technological modes of representation seem ill - fitted for poetic musings on David Foster Wallace or the carnal moment of orgasm, it is precisely the limitations and inadequacies of these awkward avatars that elicit a profound kind of tenderness — one that mirrors our fears and failings with intimacy and love.
In a series of poetic gestures, much of Anderson's work in Blak Origin Moment is translated through a variety of distressed textiles and piled - upon surfaces: digitally produced, chemically and hand - treated jacquard tapestries; erased and subsequently printed - upon pages of Ebony magazine; purposefully besmirched old rugs; and large sheets of dirt - caked roofing rubber.
His video work Threshold to the Kingdom, currently on view at London's Tate Britain, with its lyrical images of moments of heightened emotion at an airport, typifies the sweet power of his art to be at once ordinary and poetic.
In his work, the familiar aesthetic of advertising, replicated through techniques like stenciling and silkscreening and special attention to typography and design, morphs into a poetic, dreamlike impression, cataloging the artist's personal experiences and diaristic moments.
Often printed on the grand scale of a history painting — exhibited either as backlit lightboxes akin to advertising displays or as crisp ink jet and silver gelatin prints — Wall's works reveal their poetic potential through portraying empathetic characters, picturing impossible vantage points, and capturing elusive moments.
Exhibition: SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2010 A-D Gallery, Athens, Greece, Within the Mind 2006 C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Unborderville 2005 A-D Gallery, Athens, Greece, Unborderville 2004 Kouros Gallery, New York, NY, Sacred Shadows 2003 C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Sacred Shadows 2001 A-D Gallery, Athens, Greece, Sacred & Poetic References 2000 A-D Gallery, Athens, Greece, Artificial Enemy 1999 Recalcati Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy, Tripticon, New Index 1998 Artforum Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece, Air Chicago 1996 Show Centre of Hdk, Berlin, Germany, The Untruth 1994 Show Centre of Hdk, Berlin, Germany, Poetry of the Moment - Photographic References GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012 C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Behind Walls C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Summer «12 2010 C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Summer «10 C.Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Wasteland 2009 Xippas Gallery, Athens, Realities & Plausibilities, curator: A. Moschovi Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece, 10 Aspects of Hellenic Photography curators, Jean - Pierre Giusto and V. Loakimidis Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Athens, Greece, Art Athina 09 2008 Theatre de la Photographie et de l Image, Nice, France, Aspects de la Photographie Hellenique, curators Jean - Pierre Giusto and V. Ioakimidis 2007 Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France, The Athens Effect, curator: Birgit Hoffmeister 2006 Fondatione Mudima Milano, Milan, Italy, The Athens Effect, curator: Birgit Hoffmeister C.Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Through The Lens II The Beltzios Collection, Trikala Greece, An Outing, curator S.Bahtsetzis 2004 C. Grimaldis Gallery» Baltimore, MD & «A-D Gallery» Athens, Art Athina Sala de Exposiciones, Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain, Self - Aboutness, curator: Marilena Karra White Box, New York, NY, Every Day Hellas, curator: Heather
The series «PuffSighBite,» is a group of paintings expressing poetic moments, phrases, lamentations, confessions and irreverent thoughts.
Michelle Andrade: Self - Titled Andrade's work mines the material of both everyday conversation and internal monologue for isolated moments of particular resonance — be they humorous, poetic, or seemingly mundane.
Brennan's practice — exemplified by previous work such as Jerusalem Pink, 2015, which considered the relationship between the role of stone in Palestine and her great - grandfather's occupation there as an architect during the British Mandate — merges serious investigative documentary practices with a sensitive and poetic relationship to using moving image as a means to create subjective and / or staged moments: footage meets fiction.
Her poetic conceptualism takes as a departure point the moment when one becomes estranged from his surroundings, exploring the shape of distance and estrangement.