Sentences with phrase «story center stage»

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We also need to move beyond the story of the American dream which puts the individual front and center stage.

«We're more about illuminating people about the creative process behind great music and the idea of the Grammy Award that signifies excellence is center stage in the story we tell in the museum.»

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Favorite nursery rhymes or Toy Story characters might be center stage.

Stories of hardship and resilience take center stage in a probing portrait of the world's largest refugee camp

The rare wartime story in which women's lives take center stage, it stars the usually urbane and sophisticated Nathalie Baye as a farm matriarch.

A Royal Affair loses its steam a bit in the final act, as the political shifting behind the scenes doesn't mesh too well with the love story that takes center stage, but it's all part of the required setup that brings us to that explosive climax which is well worth any minor complaints along the way.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Denzel Washington took the stage on September 17 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing arts to share personal stories from his career and his new 10 year deal with HBO.

The character is the driving force of the story but the performance stays within the supporting category and never takes center stage.

He and Renner both may cede center stage to Cotillard, but when it comes time and when the story demands it, he is just so terrifically good that you find yourself reframing your entire experience of the film around him.

Marston is center stage throughout, but his stated desire is to put women at the forefront of society, and it is indeed Elizabeth and Olive who are the story's driving forces, and it's Heathcote and Hall who steal the show, with the latter cutting an especially impressive swath through the film.

Langston Hughes» retelling of the classic Nativity story with an entirely black cast will be staged at the Marcus Center's Vogel Hall early this coming December.

However, while filmmakers could easily have opted for a story about the nasty stage mom and the self - centered singer, the story goes deeper into the characters» motivations.

Even if it were the most simple revenge story possible, elevated from the always stunning backdrop of mobster wardrobes and their luxurious, champagne - drenched, suit - sporting parties, an explosive mixture of action and thrills could have taken center stage.

That's OK by me, as this is one of his films where the story takes the center stage, while his direction and a fine cast provide the fuel for the mystery to run.

Stage - bound and tenuously plotted, The Post is one of Spielberg's less dramatically involving mediations on moral values and legal fine print; despite some astute observations on the sometimes toxically cozy relationship between the media and the politicans they cover, it struggles to find a center to its story.

Although initially unclear, Cruz's place in the story eventually takes center stage and the movie is better for it, giving Alonzo a surprising but deserved time in the spotlight.

There's always another story to tell, another adventure to be had, another character to take center stage, as we're reminded in the teaser scene (s) that pop up after the obligatory 10 - minute end credits crawl.

It's Cave Story week on the Nintendo Download, and Nintendo has gotten every other WiiWare game out of the way in order to make sure Studio Pixel's eagerly anticipated action adventure has center stage.

Fittingly, then, Jolie ceded the stage to Loung Ung, whose wartime memoir is the basis of the film, and to two of the young actors, Sreymoch Sareum and Kimhak Mun, who play the children at the center of the harrowing work - camp story.

The scandal at the center of the story may seem a little trite (and as an interview with Clooney and producing partner Grant Heslov reveals, it's probably the biggest difference between the film version and the Beau Williamson stage play that it's based on), but you can hardly fault «The Ides of March» for relying on such a tried and trusted premise when real - life politics are just as dirty.

Based on a stage play of the same name by Ronald Harwood, the story centers on the impending closing of Beecham House, an English retirement home for musicians, for lack of funds.

The legal battles for the 40 - acre (16 - ha) site, comical and sad at the same time, take center stage unfortunately and at times bog down an otherwise compelling story.

And now one of their own, a lowrider — the most famous lowrider of them all, in fact — is standing center stage in the nation's capital, chosen by the Historic Vehicle Association to be inducted into the National Historic Vehicle Register, where its specifications, photos, detailed scans, and entire life story will be archived for all time by the Library of Congress.

As exhibitors unwind from booth setup and prepare for the opening day of the premier automotive trade show, top vehicles will roll onto a stage in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center, where builders will be on hand to share details and stories about the celebrated vehicles.

Love stories inspired by classic lit take center stage in these two new comedic coming - of - age teen romances.

In «Everything the Mouth Eats,» one of the stories in A Lucky Man, the martial art / dance form of capoeira takes center stage.

Which makes it difficult when he disappears from center stage halfway into the book as the story switches the spotlight onto his sister, then his mother.

About the book: A forgotten American life takes center stage in this compelling debut, which tells the story of Laura Bridgman, a deaf, blind and mute woman who was born in the early 1800s.

Her stories lean toward the cultural, with palaces, monasteries, archaeological sites and the like taking center stage.

Public areas contain the three - story Lyric Theater that features contemporary musical stage productions and a conference center with state - of - the - art equipment.

But while the game play is solid, it is their twist and flavor to how the story is delivered that really takes center stage.

A quote from Jonathan Beales I found rather spot on was when he said, «All though his documentary was centered around the video games, the story is always about the human input» to go one with another quote from him «The rich experiences of making games, playing them or even going to game launches will always remain the center stage».

Eventually, the story takes center stage, and you end the game with a couple of pretty tough solo missions.

However, the story luckily does not really take center stage in DmC — instead, the gameplay itself does.

Mina and orc competitor Thrash take center stage in story mode, but the rest of the crew are equally likeable, and everyone is voiced with enthusiasm.

Its been rumoured for awhile, and the next game in the Assassin's Creed series, Assassin's Creed Origins, does indeed use ancient Egypt as its center stage... [Read full story]

Ellie is one of the most real and refreshing characters we've seen in gaming so it's exciting that Naughty Dog are going to take her story further and put her in center stage.

Taking center stage is the lengthy visual - novel - meets - fighting - game story mode.

It's not done by some new gameplay mechanic or with crazy realistic graphics, instead The Fullbright Company kept you playing by making the house and story take center stage.

There were more than a couple blown opportunities to really expand on the story of the main game, or even just to dive into the history of the Banuk, the tribe that takes center stage in The Frozen Wilds.

Before you fire even a single arrow, the story of Horizon takes center stage.

But Johnnemann was very clear that this is a game about stories and the writing takes center stage but also he really wanted to feature the music in a way that I don't think I had it featured before.

Stories take center stage in Toyin Ojih Odutola's drawings.

Legendary American artist, Norman Rockwell, takes center stage in our top stories this week as three of his iconic works will be auctioned at Sotheby's...

That the material stuff of paint encouraged the unselfconscious mark not only bolstered painting's already privileged position in the larger telling of recent art history, it also pushed it toward center stage when the curtain opened on Surrealism's part of that story.

That human numbers are, axiomatically, part of the story of human impact does not mean that human numbers have to take center stage.

Matt Barnes Arrested for Domestic Violence Despite other stories such as the news of Toyota releasing an electric vehicle, celebrities take the center stage in news reports read more...

But then, the South Korean tech giant has kept the device interference to a minimum in the video and let the story take the center stage with Hassan as the main protagonist.