Sentences with phrase «series of vignettes»

TO ROME WITH LOVE Starring: Penelope Cruz and Alec Baldwin Directed by: Woody Allen A series of vignettes showing people from all walks of life dealing with the predicaments of falling in love.

In a new series of vignettes and an accompanying video from Public Impact, the principals tell what they did and how their roles as principal changed when they could rely on their MCL teams to spread great instruction throughout the schools.

Set deep in the Georgia cotton fields (southern snow), Toomer's series of vignettes takes the reader on a tour of the souls of black folk and white folk.

This book contains a fascinating series of vignettes into home education at the end of the 20th century.

It is something far more grueling and merciless, and as the film reveals itself in an increasingly jaw - dropping series of vignettes, it's likely to leave you in tatters.

Structured more like a loose series of vignettes than anything resembling a plot, much of the movie rests on Oscar Isaac's shoulders, with the actor delivering a superb performance that manages to make the titular freeloader somewhat likeable.

Pulp provides a non-linear series of vignettes framed by a robbery staged at a coffee shop.

Musings are scattered lightly across a serenely tempoed series of vignettes, where they can be examined for profundity or dismissed as trite.

A beautifully written series of vignettes that weave in and out of the characters» lives.

The second - floor gallery spaces will be transformed into a poetically suggestive series of vignettes depicting the life of an anonymous traveling blues musician.

In a new series of vignettes and an accompanying video from Public Impact, these multi-classroom leaders share their view of their roles, the actions they took to lead their teams, mistakes they made, and how they recovered.

We only see them as a series of vignettes and too easily assume those brief glimpses indicate everything we need to know, even though those assumptions are invariably wrong.

The biggest publishing news of recent years has been Everyday Saints (literally translated, Unholy Holy People), in which Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), head of Sretensky Monastery and reputed spiritual counselor to President Putin, offers a series of vignettes about his journey from Marxist atheism into Orthodox monasticism.

In Six Encounters with Lincoln: A Presidency Confronts Democracy and Its Demons (Viking) Pryor through a series of vignettes gives a real warts and all analysis of President Lincoln.

The chapter is a series of vignettes showing how intelligent communications systems would operate in a different paradigm to current broadcast systems.

The package includes an editorial, a series of vignettes in the Policy Forum, three feature stories, and a quiz to help you find out whether you think like a «typical» entrepreneur.

Using a series of vignettes, she reconstructs her downward spiral into psychosis, which eventually led to a suicide attempt and multiple stays in mental health facilities.

Synopsis: Human history is traced through a series of vignettes, beginning with cavemen awestruck by their own magnificence.

There's no real sense of momentum at work here; Constantine feels more like a series of vignettes loosely strung together (some far more effective than others) than a linear, cohesive film.

The ensemble drama is told through a series of vignettes that begins with the first New York Times report on the mysterious «cancer» that had resulted in the deaths of a growing number of homosexual men and ends eight years later, after the disease has thoroughly and devastatingly affected the movie's close - knit core group of characters.

Nostalgia — the film is a series of vignettes centered around simple objects that define our lives.

It is a series of vignettes dealing with, well, how people deal with loss, and the literal baggage that needs to be dealt with after someone passes away.

Instead it strings together a series of vignettes comprising different kinds of porn.

Some pieces of the plot seem like they would make a bigger impact with a bit more backstory... But these series of vignettes still leave an impression, thanks in no small part to Deneuve.

The plot of Kaleidoscope is less a straightforward narrative than a series of vignettes creating a profound feeling of unease.

The story never feels particularly cohesive — more like a series of vignettes strung together.

The story: Told in a series of vignettes, this biopic of a figure - skating Olympian who falls from grace begins in Tonya Harding's childhood.

«Dark Stranger» doesn't feature a consistent story, instead it's a series of vignettes, all tied to themes of attraction, trust, and commitment, hoisted up high by self - centered characters who spend much of the movie arguing into white noise.

If you didn't know that Irvine Welsh's series of vignettes was a novel, you certainly knew it was a movie.

It was a series of vignettes, each directed by a famous director (from Gus Van Sant to the Coen Brothers to Wes Craven) with a whole slew of great, character actors and A-list stars.

Synopsis: A middle - aged man looks back on his childhood in Rockaway, N.Y., in a series of vignettes focused on the golden days of radio.

Who: Woody Allen, Penelope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page and Alec Baldwin What: A series of vignettes that take place in Italy involving the romances, adventures and predicaments that its residents and visitors get into.

It's a series of vignettes which occasionally show life and spark but eventually grow tiresome.

While I found Slow West to be somewhat maddeningly inconsistent, unable to feel like more than a series of vignettes, there is no denying that the final vignette is a special one.

It reduces its historical moment to a series of vignettes and voiceovers, each evincing a curiously tone - deaf sentimentality.

This series of vignettes filmed in glossy, nostalgic black and white examines ten different conversations that on the surface have nothing in common... Read More»

But Gerwig is smart enough to structure her character study as a series of vignettes all driving Lady Bird toward a gradual understanding of herself and all the help she had in becoming the person she will be.

Crowe's movie unfolds with a series of vignettes involving young unmarried Seattleites.

The film consists of a series of vignettes that bear the unmistakable framing of Antonioni and are, in turn, ponderous, melancholy and heart - wrenching — or jaw - droppingly pretentious, depending on your taste.

Although its slapdash style makes the film feel more like a series of vignettes than a cohesive story, there's still plenty of holiday cheer to be had from the outstanding cast.

The film's scenes are also associatively patched together (Carbone also edited the film), evoking a series of vignettes rather than a straight narrative.

But Curtis's script is essentially an American frat - boy comedy with a series of vignettes showing games and ribaldry, virginity to be lost and pompous squares to offend.

Once they hit the highway the movie becomes a series of vignettes at all their different stops along the way.

While the name evokes some kind of horrific anthology film where B - list actors and actresses pair up in a series of vignettes abou...

Person to Person starts off feeling like a Jim Jarmusch - Noah Baumbach hybrid, a series of vignettes that send signals that they will converge in a manner we've come to expect from «hyperlink cinema.»

Two - time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett plays 13 different characters in a series of vignettes embodying the artistic and political manifestos of Communism, Dadaism, Futurism, Minimalism, Surrealism, and other movements in this film by German visual artist Julian Rosefldt.

Based on short stories by Maile Meloy, as adapted by Reichardt, Certain Women is a series of vignettes following three different women in Montana, whose lives are only tangentially connected.

But in practical terms, what this most often comes down to is a series of vignettes involving superannuated Weathermen and Students for a Democratic Society types (additionally played by Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott, and Richard Jenkins — it's quite a cast) prattling on about the good - bad old days while the FBI dragnet, and that rapacious reporter, close in.

The film is a series of vignettes, each one showing the same scenario over each of the three eras.

Flashing back to a series of vignettes that unfold his personal story, this ingeniously written and edited film ties Jamal's answers into the events of his past.