Sentences with word «roundelay»

Your mileage may vary on this slightly stuffy adaptation of Ian McEwan's wartime novel, set among the romantic roundelays of England's upper class.

One of the year's purest pleasures, this delightful comedy from writer - director Matías Piñeiro follows a group of young Argentines who engage in a romantic roundelay reminiscent of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

is an indeed endless sycophantic roundelay with one arguably interesting tidbit: that a generally game Aniston felt the line «I don't mind a little gravy on my beef» crossed her personal threshold.

See, it's true: When you befriend Anna Wintour, your life does become an endless roundelay of glamorous, tiny - appetizer - filled parties.

What might have seemed like a lively idea — an all - star roundelay about love in Los Angeles — is as fossilized as the wooly mammoths in the La Brea Tar Pits.

Maybe I've been missing something; maybe, amid my quick - fire roundelay of fashion personae, I've been overlooking the one that feels least like a put - upon pose.

Soon things go from sadly dumb to dizzyingly absurd, a surveillance - age roundelay.

If you can accept the ethnic roundelay, Fading Gigolo is, in its own Martian way, a pretty tender film about loneliness and the need for human connection.

Largely plays down the ethnic stereotyping to deliver a carefully observed, fundamentally human roundelay about the wonders and horrors of looking for someone to love.

Screenwriter Peter Morgan and director Fernando Meirelles» 360 combines a modern and dynamic roundelay of stories into one, linking characters from different cities and countries in a vivid, suspenseful and deeply moving tale of love in the 21st century.

Synopsis: The cast and crew of a Broadway play are thrown into a romantic roundelay when a lecherous director (Owen Wilson) hires a hooker - turned - actress (Im... [MORE]

A commentary ported over from the previous DVD has Stuart Galbraith leading a lively roundelay with Newman, Rossen's daughter Carol, legendary editor Dede Allen, bit - player Stefan Gierasch, assistant director Ulu Grosbard, critic Richard Schickel, and producer - writer Jeff Young.

Following a smidge of genuinely unnerving body - horror courtesy of Teller's infinitely extendable arms, the second half is nothing more than a sub-Avengers roundelay of superhero tics: dumb catchphrases, brain - grinding exposition and lifeless action scenes, the talented cast totally overwhelmed by lackluster CGI special effects.

They are among a larger group of people caught up in their own roundelay of unrequited love, ever - changing passions, dissertations on life and art, and all sorts of other matters in a sophisticated story where, as the old Dean Martin hit goes, «Everybody loves somebody sometime» — though in this case it is generally someone they can't have.

For the next two hours it's classic verbal knockdown, drag - out LaBute, a Darwinian roundelay in which characters vie to stay one step ahead of those they supposedly love.

The plot unfolds like a Shakespearean roundelay of romantic revels with their pre-ordained couplings, and a business expansion in the works.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS A Bloody Aria (Unrated) Appearances can be deceiving in this gruesome examination of bullying about a perverted music professor (Byeong - jun Lee) who kickstarts an escalating roundelay of revenge after making unwanted advances on his pretty protégé (Ye - ryeon Cha) while driving her to an audition.

Once the crisis is established, the first two acts are a repetitive roundelay of the confused Molly screwing up her relationship with a young rock singer, leaning heavily on her friends, and pissing off Ray.

So Roos's Happy Endings isn't just irritating, it's superfluous, too: a gimmicky way to tackle the tired romantic roundelay format that should be viewed in a double feature with Miranda July's almost - as - irritating Me and You and Everyone We Know just so you can say you've done your time this year in the indie coal mine.

by Walter Chaw Jill Sprecher's 13 Conversations About One Thing, her follow - up to she and sister Karen's Clockwatchers, is an Armistad Maupin roundelay of intersecting stories tied together by circumstance and a basic investigation into why we can't be happy.

In director Mayer's rhythmic pacing, the blemishes of one lost soul bleed into another's suffering, which gets paid forward in an endless roundelay of thwarted desire and crushed dreams.

Cosgrove and screenwriter Dean Craig aim for the kind of close - quarters chaos that John Cleese and Connie Booth turned into high comic art on «Fawlty Towers,» but Caffeine's roundelay of sophomoric urination, masturbation and pedophilia gags isn't half as funny as the atrocious British accents of the largely American cast.

He reveals the constantly shifting landscape of analytic trends, the roundelay of alliances and betrayals, schools — and reform schools — of thought.

Our team of gamesters infiltrate this endless sprawling lair, and the sequence that follows, which includes a human dog fight staged for the benefit of rich people, suggests «Eyes Wide Shut» crossed with «Fight Club» (references that the movie is knowing enough to make about itself), climaxing in a roundelay of Fabergé egg — tossing all done in a one seemingly endless shot.

Following a spot of genuinely unnerving body horror courtesy of Teller's infinitely extendable arms, the second half is nothing more than a sub - «Avengers» roundelay of superhero tics: naff catchphrases, brain - grinding exposition and lifeless punch - ups, the talented cast totally overwhelmed by the duff CG special effects.

Criterion releases two other Max Ophuls classics this week as well: the delicately sweet and sour La Ronde (1950), a roundelay of chance meetings, secret trysts, hopeless courtships and cuckolded lovers where everybody and somebody's fool on the romantic merry - go - round, and Le Plaisir (1952), a trilogy of romantic tales told with mix of sweet generosity and a wistful sense of regret.

He presents a roundelay of knitting prisoners, tested by foot - stomps, looking for deliverance.

Jean Renoir's romantic roundelay is as fluid and multifaceted as the characters he depicts with equal doses of compassion and bemusement, and this depiction of the mercurial nature of human behavior, of the beauty and absurdity of civilization, has never been equaled.

In short order, «The Americans» turns into a roundelay of coerced sources, overlapping operations and cat - and - mouse intrigue.

Meanwhile, Cinderella (Anna Kendrick) outsmarts her smarmy stepmother (Christine Baranski) and makes it to the royal festival — but she, too, flees into the woods, where she'll cross paths with the rest of the characters in a roundelay of seductions, negotiations, and betrayals.

But the actors are betrayed by a roundelay farce lacking in insightful moments and by Bogdanovich's medium - shot visual scheme that is either too poorly - lit, too pointlessly obfuscating (see especially a long track of Herrmann galumphing through the bowels of his ship), or so terrified of being obtrusive that its very ordinariness becomes distracting.

At the center of the film's roundelay of revelers are the icy Charlotte (Kate Beckinsale) and the demure Alice (Chloë Sevigny), by day toiling as publishing house assistants and by night looking for romance and entertainment at a Studio 54 — like club.

Marius Balchunas's first and only shot at the hyphenate brass ring is a roundelay farce set at a seedy California motel, shot like a television sitcom, and written like a train - wreck.

Until a couple of tired romantic roundelays — Jasmine takes up with a wealthy widow played by Peter Sarsgaard, while Ginger strays with speaker - installation guru Louis C.K. — turn up in the last act, as they do in most of Allen's weaker comedies, this is an uncharacteristically focused work from the auteur.

So far the Hollywood movies screening at Cannes — Woody Allen's romantic roundelay «Cafe Society,» starring Kristen Stewart, Shane Black's hit - man comedy «Nice Guys» starring Ryan Gosling, and Jodie Foster's Wall Street thriller «Money Monster» starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts — have played out of competition, more as red - carpet plays and marketing junkets than surefire Oscar launches.

A pleasant, if predictable, period piece to be savored as much for the breathtaking seascapes as for the deliberately - paced romantic roundelays.

It's all a repetitive merry - go - roundelay of affairs, even a witches» dance that find the nuns frolicking naked.

Young Argentine auteur Matías Piñeiro continues his fascination with Shakespeare in this dazzling riff on Twelfth Night, which launches a host of intersecting characters into a roundelay of dalliances, intrigues and burgeoning revelations.

The neat conceit of filmmaker Azazel Jacobs («Terri») is that they turn into cheaters on the people the high - strung dancer and wannabe poet (Melora Hardin, Aidan Gillen) that they're cheating in — resulting in the kind of roundelay that's been the stuff of life for such directors as Francois Truffaut and Eric Rohmer — as transferred to our screens.

by Walter Chaw Packed to the gills with what ails Czech life, Jan Hrebejk's Up and Down (Horem pádem) is a roundelay of social dysfunction, encompassing in 108 frantic minutes what feels like everything that's gone wrong with the Republic in the last twenty years.

When it's his turn on the roundelay, Deakins humbly professes an inability to light like Blade Runner DP Jordan Cronenweth and further admits he didn't even try.

Early passages provide Ms. Dickinson, and actress Cynthia Nixon, with a roundelay of able sparring partners.

The latest from Bertrand Tavernier («Round Midnight), this period drama is set in the 1500's, during the reign of Charles IX, when France was decimated by religious wars, as Catholics and Protestants slaughtered one another.Tavernier skillfully manages a romantic roundelay, in which three suitors vie for the love of the Princess of Montpelsier who, of course (it's a French film, after all), is already married.

It's a roundelay.