Sentences with phrase «story within a story»

Not only does it deliver a fun story within a story, but it also gives us a solid, cohesive plot, which many films in this genre are sorely lacking.

This fresh, gently comic story within a story works in more than one way: it's a clever time - travel fantasy and a ghost story rolled into one.

For the purposes of this column, however, the important take - away from this is the fact that there exists a series of multiple stories within stories.

McDonagh's tells stories within a story that form an breathtakingly dark, emotional journey.

Inspired by the plots (and in some cases merely by the titles) of numerous actual movies that were made but no longer exist, The Forbidden Room is a Russian - doll nest of stories within stories, each one crazier than the last.

The film nests stories within stories, its structure approximating the complexity of Anderson's latest living dollhouse (that is, the titular hotel, nestled in the peaks of the imaginary Republic of Zubrowka, accessible only via animated Alpine lift).

The drastically shifting stories within the story reminded me of some of his other work, although the other examples of more smooth and tonally consistent.

Holmes takes collage work to a new level, with gloriously colored art that tells further stories within stories.

(There are all these myths and stories within stories in Strange, and I want to mock up fake covers for them all and add to this collection: --RRB-

The Ultimate Cut has been met with generally higher acclaim, though, expanding the film's run time to a gargantuan 215 minutes and reinserting many elements from the graphic novel that were missing the theatrical release, including the crucial story within the story, «Tales of the Black Freighter,» narrated by Gerard Butler, Snyder's 300 collaborator.

One thing that truly aggravated me while watching this movie is the overall story within a story kind of thing that Brian Nelson added to the film.

In the animated story within a story, we are introduced to Lloyd (voiced by Dave Franco), the abandoned son of Lord Garmadon (Justin Theroux), a warlord intent on destroying Ninjago.

Despite the engaging plot, it's the characters, the narrative voice, and the meandering stories within stories that make this novel so special.

In colonial - era India, a betrayed woman facing death, an unlikely hero, and a sarcastic white tiger come together in a magical story within a story.

The ghosts of war reverberate across the generations in a riveting, time - shifting story within a story from acclaimed thriller writer Tim Wynne - Jones.

In this grand saga of a Beirut family with Armenian, English, and Druze roots, Alameddine, the author of three previous works of fiction, constructs stories within stories that encompass the world of the jinni, the tales of Abraham and Hagar, the legendary pigeon wars of Urfa, Lebanon's brutal civil war, and post-9 / 11 Beirut and L.A..

Acclaimed author Michael Morpurgo pens a spellbinding story within a story.

For the three young curators metafiction is a strategy to approach the objects in the Olbricht Collection, as a fine line between reality and fiction, and to reveal the way they incarnate stories within stories.

Coco Fusco included in the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art A Story Within a Story curated by Elvira Dyangani, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Holmes takes collage work to a new level, with gloriously colored art that, the closer you look, tells further stories within stories.

Keeping with that film's medieval European setting, you could also check out Tale Of Tales, a macabre collection of stories within stories — featuring sea monsters, giant fleas, and water - breathing albino twins — from Italian director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah).

If you're just using stock clip - art, you're wasting an opportunity to tell a story within a story.

It is a strange and engrossing work, written in a manner that many have compared to Tolstoy: stories within stories, huge chunks of raw material gleaned from the newspapers and agitprop pamphlets of the time, seemingly endless speeches by would - be rulers in the doomed Duma, and all against the background of a weak and ineffectual Tsar dominated by his wife and «our Friend,» Rasputin, with Lenin seething and scheming in Switzerland, waiting for his time to come round at last.

Dustin Johnson — the story within the story this week is whether DJ can win three straight tourneys after capturing his first major at the U.S. Open and following up with a W at Firestone.

But the story within the story is of great interest to anyone who wants to understand how money and influence flow through consulting firms to politicians and supposedly grassroots activist organizations.

These stories within the story provide interludes that look as fantastical as the events and creatures Parvana describes.

This is not the story of Lincoln, but a story within the story of Lincoln's life.

After becoming a 1960s Russian spy in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. earlier this year, Armie Hammer joining Nocturnal Animals, a dramatic tale of a story within a story that is the next film from A Single Man director Tom Ford.

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The movie is a bit like a Russian nesting doll in that it's designed as a story within a story within a story, opening on a young girl reading a book about the titular hotel that was written by an unnamed author, portrayed at various ages by Tom Wilkinson in a brief 1985 flashback and Jude Law in 1968.

Ultimately, the film gets too clever and confusing for its own good, while the slow pacing zaps momentum from the story (and the story within the story).

A version of this article appears in print on, on Page 26 of the New York edition with the headline: The Story Behind the Story Within the Story.

The main story is in fact a story within a story; a grandfather, played by Peter «Columbo» Falk, visits his sick grandson Fred Savage and reads him a tale about a young princess, Buttercup (Robin Wright) and her servant Wesley, played to perfection by Cary Elwes.

The film, which opens March 7 in Los Angeles, has a rather complicated framing structure that creates a story within a story within a story within a story.

Like a Russian nesting doll, this film tells a story within a story within another story, playing around with fact and fiction, as well as the nature of creative inspiration and integrity.

So a story within a story plays out and yet this detailed, layered and sprawling narrative has a lightness of touch thanks to its great sense of humour and Anderson's passionate hand.

It narratively curls back into itself like a fractal, nesting stories within stories within stories within stories.

A movie featuring a story within a story within a story within a story.

In case you weren't counting, that makes four levels on which the plot of The Grand Budapest Hotel is told — a story within a story within a story within a story.

Stories within stories can be either the coolest cinema experience or the most convoluted, but they're always daring to say the least.

On one hand we have stories within stories, multi-tiered gameplay that puts a lot of its direction to the player, interesting design grouped with its innovative foundation and a great deal of character growth.

The story within a story is the strongest part about «Nocturnal Animals,» mainly due to its wonderful performances.

Stories within stories, with rich supporting characters (including a fantastic portrayal of a photojournalist / Grecian chorus by Reuben Blades) driving the narrative, Wang's film embodies the complexity of the political and social situations of a country in transition..

I also love the stories within stories and the marvelous use of models and bright colors to accentuate the artificiality of the world Anderson constructs, as well as the claustrophobic spaces and symmetrical compositions.

The story within that story is the focus... six escaped as the Embassy was being seized.

To pad things out there is the Story Within a Story featurette (worth checking out) and the first episode from Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic.