Sentences with phrase «story of madness»

So yes, it's all remote, but this doesn't get in our way to communicate and have good workflow», says the studio's CEO Eugene Lavrinenko as he shares the story of Madness Road, a mobile racing game inspired by post-apocalyptic movies about total destruction.

A dark story of madness and revenge seems to be unfolding.

Not exact matches

We're in the thick of March Madness and everywhere we look there are updates, commentary, stats, and advertisements about the upcoming games, Cinderella stories, and unexpected upsets from last night.

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery.

USA TODAY College: An earlier version of the following story misstated the Bloomberg March Madness championship winner team bet chosen by Goldman Sachs President and COO Gary Cohn.

Devotion, by Adam Makos (Ballantine): The story of the U.S. Navy's first African - American carrier pilot, Jesse Brown, and his white squadron - mate and friend, Tom Hudner, is touching in its own right and a timely antidote to the politically - correct madness of recent months on campuses and elsewhere.

March Madness once against lived up to its reputation with a lot of drama and some shocking upsets, but we're pretty much where we always are — with three No. 1 seeds and a Cinderella story.

We're getting down to the real champs now, but some big upset stories are still alive in final 16 of Leeds United March Madness.

Getting back to birth, though, what I would like to see is more birth centers, more midwives like the one in the NPR story, and less of both the «classic» hospital birthing experience and also less of NCB madness like «power birthing» (shudder) that I just this morning learned about from a comment on this blog.

The Daily Mail leads the pack, commonly referring to the UK's aid spending «madness» and running sensational stories of taxpayers» money being «squandered overseas».

Although Cahalan could not remember anything from her month of madness, she pieced together her story through her family's journals, hospital videos and reports, as well as friends» accounts.

A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets Luke Dittrich Random House, 2015

[8] Monthly Video: Via Scott Sterling, the story of Susannah Cahalan's descent into madness from an autoimmune disease:

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To cut the long story short, Plenty of Fish (POF) got itself into a surreal cinematic thriller involving Argentinean hackers, Russian gangsters, American dating site owners, Capitol Hill reporters, website serial killers, and an e-mail to a mother to stop all the madness.

Poetry, politics, madness, and desire collide in the true story of the woman hailed as South Africa's Sylvia Plath.

This movie suggests that, contrary to reports in America, Miyazaki does not plan to retire entirely, so the young and old may still have the chance to see the imaginative stories that are born out of Miyazaki's dreams and madness.

All and all, Alice Madness Returns is an exquisite alternative point of view of a classical story, given as a twisted gaming extravaganza.

The character is haunted by the start of the film, after he and Lady Macbeth (Marion Cotillard) lose a child, but his madness grows and grows over the course of the story.

Had plans for me in... that HP Lovecraft story, At The Mountain's of Madness, then that ended up not happening either.

There is an eventual confrontation between the forces of reason and those of madness, but the story veers a little too much away from Brad's point of view to remain entirely engaging.

While the story is careful to include moderate Muslim voices, the overall tone is nearly hysterical, and in retrospect will likely look like the Reefer Madness of the Islamic panic.

What I love is that while Pleasence begins their stories the subjects of them seem to be in absolute shell shock murmuring some wort of madness to themselves as he begins each tale.

With The Funeral, Abel Ferrara revisits many of his trademark obsessions — madness, honor, duty, loyalty, sexual dysfunction, and Catholic guilt and repentance — via the flashback - heavy story of the funeral of communist gangster Johnny Tempio (Vincent Gallo) at the house of his mob boss brother Ray (Christopher Walken).

The surviving Schultz brother served as an executive producer for the film, and gives his own first - person account in Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold, out on Tuesday.

Bennett once again teams with his collaborator on The History Boys and The Madness Of King George, director Nicholas Hytner, for this brilliant story of loneliness, unexpected - friendship and a running theme of community spiriOf King George, director Nicholas Hytner, for this brilliant story of loneliness, unexpected - friendship and a running theme of community spiriof loneliness, unexpected - friendship and a running theme of community spiriof community spirit.

The screenplay by Ben Ripley takes a unique position in that he handles the science as well as the heart of the story with exceptional care, keeping the film mysterious but also emotional, finding character within this madness instead of fetishizing the explosive artifice.

It should be noted, of course, that Mark Schultz's version of the events is readily available in the form of his memoir, Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold, which he is also promoting online while disparaging the fictionalized film directed by Bennett Miller.

John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness * 1/2 / **** Image B + Sound A - Extras C starring Sam Neill, Jurgen Prochnow, Julie Carmen, Charlton Heston screenplay by Michael DeLuca, from stories by H. P. Lovecraft directed by John Carpenter

The prolific Japanese director's latest is an adaptation of «Yotsuya Kaidan,» arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story, a blood drenched tale of murder, incest and madness.

The story centers on members of a dance troupe who descend into madness during a celebration.

No accident that»94 sported flicks like Forrest Gump, True Lies, Quiz Show, In The Mouth of Madness, Disclosure, Cemetery Man, and Natural Born Killers — all marking this turn towards a collective perceptual reorganization around an idea that the fundamental way we tell each other stories is irrevocably corrupt and completely corruptible.

Stephen Gyllenhaal, uses a script he co-wrote with Justin Rhodes in adapting Phil Campbell's 2005 book «Zioncheck for President: A True Story of Idealism and Madness in American Politics» (available on Amazon for $ 9.72 but also published as «Grassroots» for $ 15.99).

It's almost as if the story has been sanitized to make it palatable — the kind of film that Kinsey himself might have put out to try to convince the uneducated public that there is no madness to his methods, and that underneath it all, he's really a normal guy.

CHICAGO — The frustrating madness that is the typical Hollywood movie never ceases to amaze, in the sense where large sums of cash are outlaid to pair the right movie stars together, and not one wit is expended to create an interesting or cohesive story.

The first - ever look at the inner workings of Studio Ghibli, the successful Japanese animation studio, comes to life when the riveting story, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, arrives on VOD January 27 from GKIDS, in conjunction with Cinedigm.

The story of Higher Ground is of Curtis» downward spiral into madness or his seeing vision of something bad happening that may just come true.

WHY: It's no secret that Guillermo del Toro has a slightly deranged imagination, but there's a beauty to his madness that flows through all of his movies, none more so than «Crimson Peak,» which delivers a different kind of horror from the typical haunted house story.

OLD Abismos de pasion (Luis Buñuel, 1954) Alyy parus Parizha (The Scarlet Sail of Paris, Marlen Khutsiev, 1971) All that Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955) Les anges du péché (Angels of Sin, Robert Bresson, 1943) Another Prayer (Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013) Au quatre coins (Jacques Rivette, 1948) Benilde ou a Virgem Mãe (Benilde, or the Virgin Mother, Manoel de Oliveira, 1975) Brian De Palma at the Metrograph Bruce Conner at Museum of Modern Art Cadaveri eccellenti (Illustrious Corpses, Francesco Rosi, 1976) Ching se (Green Snake, Tsui Hark, 1993) Cold Turkey (Norman Lear, 1971) Danièle Huillet and Jean - Marie Straub at the Museum of Modern Art Dao ma zei (The Horse Thief, Tian Zhuangzhaung, 1986) Le diverssement (Jacques Rivette, 1952) La escuela de Barcelona at the International Film Festival Rotterdam Wieczór (An Evening, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013) From the Notebook of... (Robert Beavers, 1971) Hachimiri Madness at the Berlinale The Inside Story (Allan Dwan, 1948) Joe Dante at BAM Karla (Herrmann Zsschoche, 1965) Kiga kaikyô (Straits of Hunger, Tomu Uchida, 1964) The Landlord (Hal Ashby, 1970) Leo McCarey at the Museum of Modern Art Lillian Schwartz at Magenta Plains Dupe od mramora (Marble Ass, Želimir Žilnik, 1995) Masao Adachi at the International Film Festival Rotterdam Part Time Wife (Leo McCarey, 1930) Pere Portabella at the International Film Festival Rotterdam Peter Hutton at the Viennale and Anthology Film Archives Modlitwa (A Prayer, Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2013) Raúl Ruiz at the Film Society of Lincoln Center Robert Aldrich at the Metrograph Robert Frank at BAM Standard Gauge (Morgan Fischer, 1984) Tout une nuit (Chantal Akerman, 1982) Ukikusa monogatari (A Story of Floating Weeds, Yasujiro Ozu, 1934) Le quadrille (Jacques Rivette, 1950) Qing mei zhu ma (Taipei Story, Edward Yang, 1985)

She is the one sane woman trapped in the madness of the story.

This cut uses its additional two - and - a-half hours of running time to dig into the story's satire at a more leisurely pace, resulting in a fuller study of the characters and historical context compared to the theatrical version's more impressionistic feeling of madness.

Regardless of genre or format, Herzog's ongoing cinematic obsession has almost always been an exploration of the intersection of madness (or, at the very least, eccentricity) and genius (or, at the very least, creative yearnings), whether it be the story of a man dragging a 300 - ton boat over a mountain in the Amazonian jungle (Fitzcarraldo) or of a wannabe animal rights activist being eaten alive by a bear (Grizzly Man).

Writer - director Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) and co-scripter C. Robert Cargill (the Ain't It Cool News staffer who pitched the story) clearly hoped to make Sinister an old - school horror movie, mining terror from classic haunted house scenarios designed to drive a desperate writer to Shining - style madness.

Like the anti-drug propaganda film of the same name, Dark Horse's Reefer Madness collects stories by comics creators of the 1940s — like Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (creators of Superman), Jerry Robinson, Frank Frazetta and Jack Kirby — plus an in - depth discussion by Henry Aslinger (America's first drug czar) and newspaperman William Randolph Heart.

This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition.

«Descend into the madness that is Dark Matter and experience a story that mixes all the craziness of Inception, and twists of Gone Girl, with the thought - provoking horror of Stephen King, into something truly unique, and terrifying.»

Named for a flower whose blood - red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a story about the legacies — of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss — that haunt one family across the generations, from the Great Depression to today.

- Publisher's Weekly «Readers in search of a crash course on the Bloomsbury circle and the machinations of Woolf's fevered mind will appreciate Vincent's attempts to illuminate both, but her dark portrait of Woolf's agonizing journey through a life marked by psychic pain will hold the most appeal for those already familiar with this sad story of genius and madness.»

On one level, Delirium reads like a detective story, as the reader pieces together information to discover the roots of Agustina's madness.

Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier by Tom Kizzia 6.