Sentences with phrase «through fictionalized»

Opening with a postmodern preamble explaining that this version of events is based on «irony - free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews» with Harding and her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (now Jeff Stone), the chatty, fourth wall — breaking black comedy — think The Big Short on ice — conveys much of its humor and humanity through fictionalized talking - head interviews with Tonya, Jeff (Sebastian Stan), and her mother LaVona (Allison Janney).

Whit loved the I Survived series by Lauren Tarshis, which addresses enormous moments in American history through a fictionalized I - was - there lens.

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«The Rider» is an unusual film in that it's a fictionalized version of what the performers actually lived through.

Much of what's known about Chris's last two years comes from the recollections of people that encountered him during his travels, and it is through these encounters, some partially fictionalized, others wholly so, that Penn presents Chris's story prior to his final months at the bus.

It's a fictionalized account (taken from the book «The Sewers of Lvov») of Polish Jews who lived through the Nazi occupation by hiding in the sewers beneath a ransacked Jewish ghetto, making for a drama that is every bit as grim as it sounds.

Todd Haynes» 1999 film «Velvet Goldmine» (Miramax) reimagines the Glam rock era and the iconic influence of David Bowie through the kaleidoscopic lens of «Citizen Kane» and the fictionalized persona of rock legend and bi-sexual pop icon Brian Slade (played by Jonathan Rhys - Myers).

Technically a remake of 2002 Hong Kong mob tale, Infernal Affairs, The Departed fictionalizes Bulger's reign over South Boston through a wholly terrifying Jack Nicholson.

Yet «Begin Again» keeps coming down with the cutes, especially when CeeLo Green turns up playing a fictionalized version of himself, or when Knightley (who begins the film in an appealingly wary key) starts crinkling her nose in bliss, or when Gretta and Dan walk through Times Square listening to Sinatra and Stevie Wonder on her iPhone.

There, once it sinks in that the Japanese intend to use the Brits to build a railway west of Baghdad through mountains and valleys, a vast, unenviable and soul - crushing undertaking (famously fictionalized in the Oscar - winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai).

I tore urgently through the book's outlandish chapters, each one crammed with anecdotes that, despite reading like a novel, were simply too absurd to have been fictionalized.

Through 44 full - page paintings and a text told in the fictionalized, informal voice of an African American senior citizen looking back on her life, Nelson presents an intimate, powerful view of American and African American history, from colonial days through the civil rights moThrough 44 full - page paintings and a text told in the fictionalized, informal voice of an African American senior citizen looking back on her life, Nelson presents an intimate, powerful view of American and African American history, from colonial days through the civil rights mothrough the civil rights movement.

This fictionalized biography follows Guthrie through his early, formative years as he and his family struggled to survive the destitute poverty of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.

Remember, the fictionalized Martel tells us halfway through, «this story has a happy ending.»

Woven through the evolving relationship between King and Maxwell are forays into classical codes and Internet encryption (factual), Virginia colonial history (slightly fictionalized) and modern - day government operations at Camp Peary, a CIA «farm» on the York River.

Although no comets collided with planet earth, no disastrous flood inundated the entire world, and no fire and brimstone through major cities like that terrible John Cusack film fictionalized.

In Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, explorers follow lava tubes from an extinct volcano to a vast cavern 87 miles underneath Europe, exiting through a volcano in Sicily, in a highly fictionalized depiction of the real phenonoma of lava tubes.

The campaign is an intense, intriguing eight - hour ride through heavily fictionalized Vietnam war sets.

Through imagery that combines painting with woodcut, drawing, silkscreen and intaglio methods, she builds series of works in which different symbolic elements encounter and interact with one another in altered, fictionalized landscapes.

Using cultural and social idiosyncrasies, Jankowski explores the contingent nature of meaning and interpretation through a constant play of fictionalized reality.

In their video, Benedict & Rueter labor to fabricate — through acts both practical and imagined, factual and fictionalized — the infrastructure of a new unauthorized high - speed global telecommunications network.

Hershman Leeson's project not only demonstrates how subjects are defined through social and cultural constructs, it also disrupts that same system by introducing a fictionalized character into it.

For her current exhibition at Honor Fraser, Crow made a series of paintings as well as a feature film entitled Madame Psychosis, both of which depict a fictionalized historical narrative through the exploration of a mysterious babushka woman who witnessed and filmed John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Visually striking and playfully rigorous» the films occupy wildly different stylistic positions as a means of re-animating the ways in which form can become the unquestioned carrier of meaning — by the way in which meaning is implied through metaphor or example, inscribed by case studies, fictionalized in props or interpreted in art criticism, status symbols and as the evidence of crime...