Sentences with phrase «poignant final»

Walker made the responsible decision to create a Living Trust for his daughter while giving a poignant final life lesson: You're never too young to start your Estate Planning.

A historical mystery set in 18th - century China, Kent Haruf's poignant final novel and Ron Rash's latest make for great group discussion this month.

Inspired by Martin Luther King's historic and poignant final trip to the UK in 1967, this free resource pack explores the legacy of Dr King and the...

One of the most beautiful and poignant final scenes in film history.

Lauren Sivan and I talk the weekend's new movies — including a poignant final performance from the late, great James Gandolfini — on Studio 11 LA.

Detroit undeniably has its merits: a virtuosic visual language, some strong performances, and an admittedly poignant final shot among them.

Filled with subtle moments and raw emotion, the movie will move you and keep you on the edge of your seat until its poignant final shot.

With the 3D walk itself being worth price of admission, more so in vertigo - inducing IMAX, and poignant final moments that especially resonated with the New York Film Fest crowd, Zemeckis has crafted a spectacle to be sure even if the rest of the film will likely not stand the same test of time that the 2008 documentary has.

Fortunately, the film recovers during its poignant final moments and brings its various narrative and thematic threads to a satisfying conclusion.

In the poignant final sequence, Gaskin exhibits her Safe Motherhood Quilt and calls for a deeper examination into the rising maternal mortality rate in the US.

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In the final pages, the novel's most poignant, Jeffrey wanders New York seeking absorption in the daily round, in the city's perpetual din.

A particularly poignant case involves the plants the botanist David Nelson collected in the interior of the island of Hawaii in 1779 on James Cook's third and very final voyage of exploration.

There's a cohesiveness here hard to miss, an emotionally - charged aura and elegantly precise feel that runs from Hollowed's surging opening notes to its final, poignant fade.

Keitel's final scene in the movie is also quite poignant to encounter.

Here is a franchise revival done right: with wisdom, grace, and passion — all of those qualities especially evident in its final scene, a rehash of Rocky's famous run up the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps, but given a poignant autumnal twist.

The final segment, a fantastical exploration of roads not taken, ranks with the poignant ending of «Umbrellas,» and that's high praise for lovers of glamorous cinematic melancholy.

With a compelling mix of battle action and poignant drama, The Yellow Birds is an unforgettable movie whose power resonates long after the final frame.»

Once «Only the Brave» takes a turn that makes its characters more vivid, it becomes clear that that the genuine life - and - death stakes of a firefighter's life will intrude upon the story; what starts out as old - fashioned and rah - rah becomes, by the final scenes, genuinely devastating and intensely poignant.

Being Flynn does pick up the pieces in the final act to deliver a poignant tale of survival for both father and son and ends on a surprisingly positive note with both men coming to an amicable relationship.

The watchable vibe is heightened by the ongoing inclusion of unexpectedly poignant moments and sequences, with the final stretch certainly rife with interludes designed to elicit an emotional response from the viewer (including an unexpectedly moving graveside conversation).

Striking a poignant note, quite literally, the film's haunting electro - orchestral score marks the final screen credit for composer Johan Johansson, who died this month, here working in tandem with fellow Icelander Hildur Gudnadottir.

The third and final chapter of 20th Century Fox's reboot series, War for the Planet of the Apes is a powerful and poignant climax to one of the greatest cinematic trilogies of all time.

But it's the film's final scene, in which a camera trains on the ravaged, tear - stained face of Elio, a precocious 17 - year - old crushed over having just learned that his older former lover, Oliver, is getting married to a woman, that provides «Call Me by Your Name» with its most poignant and powerful moment.

LUCKY features Harry Dean Stanton's final, and perhaps finest performance in a film that addresses the end of life issues for an atheist from a practical and philosophical point of view that is both wry and poignant..

In my opinion, Allen does flub the very end seconds of the film somewhat, stealing away what could have been a very poignant thematic capper, but the venture is entertaining enough along the way that questioning the direction that the film goes in its final moments is worth overlooking for the overall recommendation.

Bittersweet and lighthearted, fantastical and mundane, it's as compelling as any the character studies of Takahata, and the story's biggest question becomes irrelevant long before the Wolf's final, most poignant words.

Puffing one final cigar, the original hero of the Metal Gear franchise dies in the arms of Solid Snake, and Guns of the Patriots» graveyard scene was a slice of fan service that proved to be the perfect, poignant bow for an inimitable series.

Best known for his mystery novels, Walter Mosley takes a turn to literary fiction in this poignant story of an old man's final days.

When a new Joseph Wambaugh book arrives, I know that I will be mightily entertained: I will laugh out loud, suffer with the characters through the poignant moments and be very sad to have turned the final page.

Kent Haruf's final novel is the story of elderly neighbors Addie and Louis, who form a surprising and poignant bond when Addie asks Louis to sleep, and just sleep, in the same bed as her.

The final product ended up more poignant and thoughtful than the original short story, and the extra year spent writing it was incredibly rewarding.

Each route has a different final boss and ending, with each ending feeling incredibly poignant in its own way.

I would say that during my adolescent years, the FINAL FANTASY series among many other forms of media, have played a poignant role in shaping the sort of person I am now

This last one is particularly poignant, as while Red Earth was the first game for the CPS - 3 (a short - lived arcade board that focused on pixel rendering in a time when polygons were taking over), Jojo's Bizarre Adventure was the sixth and final CPS - 3 game before Capcom switched to the Taito Type X.

The book also includes 16 photographs by Jack Shear of Kelly's studio as he left it on his final day of painting — a poignant record of his seven - decade advancement of a singular artistic vision.

Outcomes can be surprising, funny and poignant, whether in the final form of installation, video, printed media or music composition, in the gallery or on the world wide web.

Thomas's mother is now the subject of a deeply poignant film, «Happy Birthday to a Beautiful Woman,» that chronicles her fierce battle with kidney disease in the final years of her life, both celebrating her humanity and laying bare her struggles.

It was poignant that Andrew's last piece of writing for Lund Humphries described the genesis of our 1948 monograph on Paul Nash, published posthumously but prepared by Nash in his final years.