Sentences with phrase «searing portrait»

Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feeling with Mouchette, one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.

Among her many projects, Alia coded interfaces for provisioning of cell phone services in Latin America, managed the shopping cart experience for an internet - based nutrition supplement company, and created customized user experiences for online photofinishing print stores for clients such as Yahoo!, Lucasfilm, Sears Portrait Studio, Delta, NASCAR and others.

The curators, Thelma Golden and Lauren Haynes of the Studio Museum, see a «searing portrait of poverty,» but it is still about a family.

I like the Sears Portrait Studio.

For this week's Kickstarter Spotlight we featured the photographic exhibit Faces of Hope, which is a series of stark and searing portraits...

While recognizing that it's not any sort of great piece of acting by Robert Mitchum or a searing portrait of war, if one accepts The Enemy Below as an action - filled war movie, it's thoroughly entertaining stuff.

But «First Reformed» is less about that plot than it is character, and Schrader and Hawke have collaborated on a searing portrait.

Like the extraordinary Elizabeth Strout novel - in - stories that it's based on, HBO's Olive Kitteridge accumulates with steady, earned drama into a searing portrait of quiet desperation.

A straightforward documentary that uses Yoni's own words - in the form of his moving, eloquent letters and poems - to create a searing portrait of his short but meaningful life.

Stunningly acted, never didactic and yet provoking endless important questions, Michael Inside is a searing portrait of a damaged system, and the boys we lose to it.

But it's a searing portrait, at once condemning and forgiving.

«Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» — There were no punches held back in Martin McDonagh's searing portrait of a woman so outraged that her anger practically seeps out of her pores.

Salvation Army is a searing portrait of queerness as a stifling disappearing act.

It would be the autobiographical novels Post Office, Women and Hollywood, along with, eventually, the 1987 movie Barfly — all searing portraits of a distinctly Southern California underclass — that would resonate worldwide and turn blue collar novelist and poet Charles Bukowski into a celebrated countercultural icon.

CHICAGO — Peter Morgan's play «Frost / Nixon» was a searing portrait of two men trying their best to change their image and their future.

But Love The Coopers is not banal and harmless, it is actually a searing portrait of holiday - driven despair, a ruthless and harrowing look at emotional burnout and the soul - crushing playacting demanded by the holiday season.

It's the stuff of nightmares, rather than dreams, but the movie's searing portrait of the pain of youth makes for extremely compelling viewing, as do the nuanced performances from lead actors Arman Darbo (Defenders of Life) and Sawyer Barth (Super Dark Times).

So did Robin Campillo for BPM, a searing portrait of the 1980s AIDS epidemic in France that actually is, hands down, the year's best foreign - language film.

Clint Eastwood's searing portrait of an American military hero (Bradley Cooper) was a hit with audiences.

While Rachel Morrison's evocative cinematography creates an almost tactile sense of the farm's swampy milieu, the chorus of voices etches a searing portrait of toxic prejudice in a drama both moving and enraging.

The HBO series accumulates with steady, earned drama into a searing portrait of quiet desperation.

In this gorgeous collection of 12 essays, published to mark the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams provides a poetic and searing portrait of the land and, by extension, of America itself.

Seamlessly moving back and forth in time between the Soviet Union and contemporary America, The Madonnas of Leningrad is a searing portrait of war and remembrance, of the power of love, memory, and art to offer beauty, grace, and hope in the face of overwhelming despair.

Through the mixing of these distinct voices, Laura Restrepo creates a searing portrait of a society battered by war and corruption as well as an intimate look at the daily lives of people struggling to stay sane in an unstable country.

- Teddy Wayne, author of The Love Song of Jonny Valentine and Kapitoil «The Facades is a throbbing heart - breaker, an old - fashioned page - turner, and a searing portrait of a fractured family.

When it was published in 1995, The Liars» Club offered a searing portrait of Karr's hardscrabble Texas childhood that raised the art of the memoir to a new level and brought about a revival of the genre.

She's still the tough, scrappy outlaw that readers were introduced to in her first memoir, The Liars» Club.When it was published in 1995, The Liars» Club offered a searing portrait...

«Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity» by Katherine Boo: This searing portrait of life in aMumbai slum reads like a novel, but it's all - too - true.

Exit Enwezor's searing portrait of our political order and enter Macel's celebration of collectivity and relatively upbeat, forward - looking approach to addressing the current migration crisis — in, for example, Olafur Eliasson's Green Light project in the Central Pavilion, for which refugees, migrants, and members of the public are invited to join a community workshop where they assemble rudimentary materials to form lanterns that are sold to benefit NGOs.

Told through the voices of those who knew him best — Paul McCartney, Richard Hamilton, Mick Jagger, Bridget Riley, Keith Richards, Kenneth Anger, Malcolm McLaren and Vyner herself — Groovy Bob is a brilliant biography and a searing portrait of the most exhilarating period in post-war British social history.

Robert Longo's work are visualizations of power, protest, desperation, futility, and aggression that together create a searing portrait of our time.

A searing portrait of poverty in the United States, the Fontenelle photographs provide a view of Harlem through the narrative of a specific family at a particular moment in time.