Sentences with phrase «priceless painting»

To keep up with the façade Roger moonlights as an art thief, stealing priceless paintings from unsuspecting CEO job candidates.

Or it might simply be that his characters» biggest problem is which priceless painting to sell first, and as such they are a difficult family to care about.

The collection of 79 priceless paintings entered the museum's holdings in 2013, and was Apollo «s «Acquisition of the Year».

The charred pattern was then scanned using reliefography, the same process employed when curators replicate priceless paintings.

When one such guest (an aged - up Tilda Swinton) dies and leaves Gustave a priceless painting in exchange for years of companionship, the woman's eldest son (Adrien Brody) frames him for her murder, forcing Gustave and Zero to go on the run until they can prove his innocence.

WHAT: The enigmatic owner of the once - majestic Grand Budapest Hotel recounts how it came into his possession, dating back to his days as a lobby boy under the guidance of charismatic concierge Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), who's framed for the murder of a wealthy female patron when she leaves him a priceless painting in exchange for years of companionship.

The story involves the theft of a priceless painting; a raging battle for an enormous family fortune; and a desperate chase on motorcycles, trains, sleds, and skis - all against the back - drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.

The film sees Ralph Fiennes plays M Gustave, a hotel concierge who becomes embroiled in the theft of a priceless painting named «Boy With Apple» along with his loyal lobby boy, Zero (newcomer Tony Revolori).

Plot: Roger Brown, an accomplished corporate headhunter risks everything to obtain a priceless painting.

Things take a turn when the wealthy and intimately close to Gustave Madame D (Tilda Swinton, completely unrecognizable in some seriously effective makeup work) dies under suspicious circumstances and bequeaths a priceless painting to her twilight lover.

Roger Brown, an accomplished corporate headhunter risks everything to obtain a priceless painting

Morse code, to be precise, since we don't have either the time or access to priceless paintings to do it in an actual Da Vinci Code.

She has left a priceless painting, Boy With Apple, to him, but her ruthless son Dmitri (Adrien Brody) wants no part of his inheritance left out, and dispatches his even more ruthless henchman J.G. Jopling (Willem Dafoe) to retrieve it.

The thrust of the plot begins when one of his elderly guests, Madame D. (Tilda Swinton)-- for whom he has performed certain in - room favors — dies and leaves him the priceless painting known as «Boy with Apple.»

St. Trinian's (PG - 13 for sexuality, profanity, mature themes, and drug and alcohol use) Sixth installment in the British comedy series set at the famed school for troubled girls finds the mischievous heroines hatching a plan to steal a priceless painting in order to save their financially - troubled alma mater from bankruptcy.

The only constants are Tony Revolori as young Zero (whom Anderson makes a bland non-character) and Fiennes, who has a grand time as the urbane, poetry - spouting, bisexual egotist who steals a priceless painting and goes on the run.

When Gustave inherits a priceless painting from a wealthy female guest of the hotel, one of many he served as a companion to, her son (Brody) stops at nothing to regain it - let alone murder.

Following the escapades of art dealer / rogue Charlie Mortdecai (Depp), this film adventure sees him recruited by a pompous MI5 agent (McGregor) to chase down a priceless painting.

Headhunters (R for nudity, graphic sexuality and gruesome violence) Multi-layered mystery, set in Norway, about a corporate headhunter (Aksel Hennie) who risks his career to steal a priceless painting by Rubens from a well - heeled client (Nikolaj Coster - Waldau).

When one of his favorite lovers dies, his beloved aged Dowager Countess (Tilda Swinton), The Grand Budapest Hotel turns into a caper and a romp over her will, a priceless painting and a murder investigation.

After recovering a priceless painting in Chasing Vermeer, there's no rest for sixth - grade sleuths Calder and Petra when their free - thinking teacher tells their class that Frank Lloyd Wright's 1910 Robie House is about to be severed into pieces and distributed to museums around the globe.

Anger radiates from the searing descriptions of a world brought down by selfishness and greed, where mindless brutality triumphs and priceless paintings are fuel for cooking fires.

In Tartt's capacious novel of survival, beauty, and obsession, an act of terrorism yokes young New Yorker Theo to a priceless painting and catapults him into a dizzying world bereft of certainty, meaning, or love.

What happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot - tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting?

Although the monastery's modern inhabitants are mostly impoverished nuns, the monastery still houses the dowries of its former residents, including religious relics, priceless paintings, including Titian's «Caesar's Money», and precious artefacts, all of which are on display during our tour.

The priceless paintings have been taken and it is now your responsibility to reclaim what is yours.

You are Sophia Take, the heir to priceless paintings left to you by your grandmother.

Double Eleven COO Mark South holds LIMBO in the highest of regards, stating: «LIMBO for us is the gaming equivalent of a priceless painting.

Oct 16: Rotterdam Art Heist Last night, in the biggest ever art robbery in Holland, seven priceless paintings were stolen from the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam, including works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin, and Lucian Freud, as well as two works by Claude Monet: «Waterloo Bridge, London» and «Charing Cross Bridge, London».

Sculpture is a lost art: We're quick to decorate our homes with everything from inexpensive photos to priceless paintings, but three - dimensional pieces are underutilized.