Sentences with phrase «powered small town life»

Tinti's descriptions of the heterogeneous, gossip - powered small town life are fully realized, but even better are her vivid sketches of Hawley and Loo prowling the early morning beaches at low tide for clams and crabs and mussels.

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In the view of Thatcherites, the new Thatcherite Britain would be founded not on the traditional sources of trade union and Labour Party power but on owner occupiers living in suburbs and new towns, in small, specialist new technology and electronics companies, in the service sector, with weaker and atrophied unions.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

«The Tommyknockers» (1993) It's not all that creepy, but it's almost a perfect culmination of King tropes: from secret aliens, to psychic powers, to small town life gone awry.

Recent Blu - ray and DVD releases include: «Riverdale: The Complete First Season,» which promises David Lynch and delivers «Peyton Place» in its depiction of the shadows and scandals of small - town life with characters taken from Archie Comics; Ronin (1998) directed by a once occasionally great director, John Frankenheimer, involves mercenaries working for unseen paymasters trying to steal a case with unknown contents; Aretha Franklin: Divas Live, on this 2001 VH1 broadcast, released as a DVD / CD set, Franklin opens her concert with «I Can't Turn You Loose» backed by a horn - powered rhythm band that echoes the excitement of past triumphs; and Heal the Living finds people with no apparent relation to one another drawn together by an accident.

Rockwell is the other star here, the sort of cad who does all sorts of unspeakable things while hiding behind the power and protection of a badge in a small town, but we see in glimpses of his home life that he's capable of good, capable of compassion even as he struggles with anger and bigotry and a fierce desire to protect his chief.

That's why Harvest Moon stands out — rather than playing through a power fantasy you simulate a simple life in a small town, tending crops and livestock.

In Soresina, a small town of 9,000 people 48 kilometers from Milan and 23 from Cremona, there is a space dedicated to creativity with all the inspirational power which often characterizes abandoned places which got a second chance at life.