Sentences with phrase «sub-avengers roundelay»

«One single voice continues to sing the tenor, while at the same time many other voices play around it, exulting and decorating it in exuberant strains, and as it were leading it forth in a divine roundelay,» wrote Luther in the Preface to Georg Rhau's Symphoniae Jucundae, 1538.

See, it's true: When you befriend Anna Wintour, your life does become an endless roundelay of glamorous, tiny - appetizer - filled parties.

What might have seemed like a lively idea — an all - star roundelay about love in Los Angeles — is as fossilized as the wooly mammoths in the La Brea Tar Pits.

Soon things go from sadly dumb to dizzyingly absurd, a surveillance - age roundelay.

Largely plays down the ethnic stereotyping to deliver a carefully observed, fundamentally human roundelay about the wonders and horrors of looking for someone to love.

Screenwriter Peter Morgan and director Fernando Meirelles» 360 combines a modern and dynamic roundelay of stories into one, linking characters from different cities and countries in a vivid, suspenseful and deeply moving tale of love in the 21st century.

Synopsis: The cast and crew of a Broadway play are thrown into a romantic roundelay when a lecherous director (Owen Wilson) hires a hooker - turned - actress (Im... [MORE]

Following a spot of genuinely unnerving body horror courtesy of Teller's infinitely extendable arms, the second half is nothing more than a sub - «Avengers» roundelay of superhero tics: naff catchphrases, brain - grinding exposition and lifeless punch - ups, the talented cast totally overwhelmed by the duff CG special effects.

is an indeed endless sycophantic roundelay with one arguably interesting tidbit: that a generally game Aniston felt the line «I don't mind a little gravy on my beef» crossed her personal threshold.

Criterion releases two other Max Ophuls classics this week as well: the delicately sweet and sour La Ronde (1950), a roundelay of chance meetings, secret trysts, hopeless courtships and cuckolded lovers where everybody and somebody's fool on the romantic merry - go - round, and Le Plaisir (1952), a trilogy of romantic tales told with mix of sweet generosity and a wistful sense of regret.

He presents a roundelay of knitting prisoners, tested by foot - stomps, looking for deliverance.

A commentary ported over from the previous DVD has Stuart Galbraith leading a lively roundelay with Newman, Rossen's daughter Carol, legendary editor Dede Allen, bit - player Stefan Gierasch, assistant director Ulu Grosbard, critic Richard Schickel, and producer - writer Jeff Young.

Following a smidge of genuinely unnerving body - horror courtesy of Teller's infinitely extendable arms, the second half is nothing more than a sub-Avengers roundelay of superhero tics: dumb catchphrases, brain - grinding exposition and lifeless action scenes, the talented cast totally overwhelmed by lackluster CGI special effects.

They are among a larger group of people caught up in their own roundelay of unrequited love, ever - changing passions, dissertations on life and art, and all sorts of other matters in a sophisticated story where, as the old Dean Martin hit goes, «Everybody loves somebody sometime» — though in this case it is generally someone they can't have.

In short order, «The Americans» turns into a roundelay of coerced sources, overlapping operations and cat - and - mouse intrigue.

The plot unfolds like a Shakespearean roundelay of romantic revels with their pre-ordained couplings, and a business expansion in the works.

But the actors are betrayed by a roundelay farce lacking in insightful moments and by Bogdanovich's medium - shot visual scheme that is either too poorly - lit, too pointlessly obfuscating (see especially a long track of Herrmann galumphing through the bowels of his ship), or so terrified of being obtrusive that its very ordinariness becomes distracting.

«Douce» (1943): Elegantly shot, «Douce» is a dizzying romantic roundelay that contains a biting critique of France's rigid social order.

At the center of the film's roundelay of revelers are the icy Charlotte (Kate Beckinsale) and the demure Alice (Chloë Sevigny), by day toiling as publishing house assistants and by night looking for romance and entertainment at a Studio 54 — like club.

Marius Balchunas's first and only shot at the hyphenate brass ring is a roundelay farce set at a seedy California motel, shot like a television sitcom, and written like a train - wreck.

In director Mayer's rhythmic pacing, the blemishes of one lost soul bleed into another's suffering, which gets paid forward in an endless roundelay of thwarted desire and crushed dreams.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS A Bloody Aria (Unrated) Appearances can be deceiving in this gruesome examination of bullying about a perverted music professor (Byeong - jun Lee) who kickstarts an escalating roundelay of revenge after making unwanted advances on his pretty protégé (Ye - ryeon Cha) while driving her to an audition.

The elliptical scenario has the feel of your typical French romantic romp, given the roundelays of coupling and uncoupling, broken up by chain smoking and heart - to - heart dialogue.

Until a couple of tired romantic roundelays — Jasmine takes up with a wealthy widow played by Peter Sarsgaard, while Ginger strays with speaker - installation guru Louis C.K. — turn up in the last act, as they do in most of Allen's weaker comedies, this is an uncharacteristically focused work from the auteur.

So far the Hollywood movies screening at Cannes — Woody Allen's romantic roundelay «Cafe Society,» starring Kristen Stewart, Shane Black's hit - man comedy «Nice Guys» starring Ryan Gosling, and Jodie Foster's Wall Street thriller «Money Monster» starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts — have played out of competition, more as red - carpet plays and marketing junkets than surefire Oscar launches.

Once the crisis is established, the first two acts are a repetitive roundelay of the confused Molly screwing up her relationship with a young rock singer, leaning heavily on her friends, and pissing off Ray.

For his romantic roundelay Trust the Man, a New York - set movie very much in the vein of Woody Allen, Edward Burns and early David O. Russell (see review here), writer - director Bart Freundlich did his best myna bird impression — «gathering stuff from my life that I thought was funny, about the way you relate to your wife and kids, or conversations with friends about the ways that they relate to those topics,» he explains by phone — and then shaping and pruning them down, grinding them up against the age - old pressures of temptation and fear of commitment.

A pleasant, if predictable, period piece to be savored as much for the breathtaking seascapes as for the deliberately - paced romantic roundelays.

by Walter Chaw Jill Sprecher's 13 Conversations About One Thing, her follow - up to she and sister Karen's Clockwatchers, is an Armistad Maupin roundelay of intersecting stories tied together by circumstance and a basic investigation into why we can't be happy.

It's all a repetitive merry - go - roundelay of affairs, even a witches» dance that find the nuns frolicking naked.

Young Argentine auteur Matías Piñeiro continues his fascination with Shakespeare in this dazzling riff on Twelfth Night, which launches a host of intersecting characters into a roundelay of dalliances, intrigues and burgeoning revelations.

by Walter Chaw Packed to the gills with what ails Czech life, Jan Hrebejk's Up and Down (Horem pádem) is a roundelay of social dysfunction, encompassing in 108 frantic minutes what feels like everything that's gone wrong with the Republic in the last twenty years.

When it's his turn on the roundelay, Deakins humbly professes an inability to light like Blade Runner DP Jordan Cronenweth and further admits he didn't even try.

Early passages provide Ms. Dickinson, and actress Cynthia Nixon, with a roundelay of able sparring partners.

The latest from Bertrand Tavernier («Round Midnight), this period drama is set in the 1500's, during the reign of Charles IX, when France was decimated by religious wars, as Catholics and Protestants slaughtered one another.Tavernier skillfully manages a romantic roundelay, in which three suitors vie for the love of the Princess of Montpelsier who, of course (it's a French film, after all), is already married.

It's a roundelay.