Sentences with phrase «tightrope walk»

«Once there were two towers side by side,» Gyllenhaal begins as the colored line drawings come to life and we're introduced to Petit, who had previously astonished Paris by tightrope walking between the steeples of Notre Dame.

According to a website dedicated to tightrope walker Jean François Gravelet, the Greeks were so enamored of tightrope walking that they created a special prize, «The Thaumatron,» which could be won by tightrope walkers and «anyone who shows people something amazing, out of the ordinary.»

The film recounts Petit's infamous tightrope walk across New York City's World Trade Towers in 1974.

The was sun shining and sea lions were frolicking as Niagara County business professionals came together to help support Nik Wallenda's upcoming tightrope walk over Niagara Falls at the Aquarium of Niagara on Wednesday, June 12, 2012.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt puts on his best Franglais accent and goes tightrope walking as legendary high - wire madman Philippe Petit

But in McDonagh's careful hands, it's a Cirque du Soleil - like tightrope walk, gracefully balancing the harrowing with the humorous.

Adrenaline junkies can also try flying fox, rock climbing, trekking, and tightrope walking in Kalibiru National Park.

The final boss in Dragon Age: Inquisition was, for me, one of these, finishing a game about nuanced approaches to issues and political tightrope walking with a JRPG - style boss with a billion hit points and irritating area of effect attacks.

He replicated the Windy City tightrope walk more than 90 times by simulating the windy conditions using large, gusting wind turbines, duplicating the incline and distance as well as being blindfolded — all before he stepped foot on the actual Chicago skyscraper wire.

It's in the same theme of the young woman on her adventure, this time tightrope walking over a black stream under the light of the moon.

Niagara Falls, N.Y. (WBEN)- How do you mark the fifth anniversary of Nik Wallenda's mesmerizing tightrope walk across the raging Niagara Falls?

By a 14 - 0 vote Tuesday, the County Legislature earmarked $ 35,000 to help pay any costs connected with the spectacle, which local officials hope will draw thousands of tourists like Nik Wallenda's nationally televised 1,800 - feet tightrope walk did on June 15, 2012.

Vikki Ziegler, 42, star of Bravo's Untying the Knot, knows the fraught tightrope walk that is dating after divorce all too well.

That the ambiguity of his stance was ultimately not sustainable is not lost on Tavernier, whose position as an artist in France has been the same kind of deliberate tightrope walk.

His considerable effort helps the film maintain a tonal tightrope walk throughout.

The latter scene was filmed in 200 takes, with Chaplin often positioning himself a whisker away from the lion — but even that pales in comparison to the film's pièce de résistance, the climactic tightrope walk.

As in The Meyerowitz Stories, Baumbach's work is most insightful when characters perform an ugly tightrope walk between fashioning themselves as triumphant rebels and having to confront their own abject state of being.

At the red carpet team's request, the camera went in for a tight shot of Theron's sheer gown — not a porn star outfit, like a lot of red carpet getups, but a pretty decent tightrope walk between class and naughtiness, the haute couture equivalent of a Johnny Carson double - entendre — then moved the camera from head to toe like the Big Bad Wolf ogling Red Hot Riding Hood.

That film would be «Man On Wire,» James Marsh's crisp, witty and ultimately very moving documentary about Philippe Petit, the charismatic French performance artist who in 1974 committed the so - called «artistic crime of the century» — an illegal tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the New York's World Trade Center.

Though the story of Philippe Petit's daring tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers was already told (and told well) in James Marsh's 2008 documentary Man On Wire, the feat is getting a big, flashy update this year, courtesy of Robert Zemeckis» The Walk.

The film is an incredible tightrope walk between comedy and action and drama, and while there are some significant pacing issues, Black pulls it off beautifully, deftly summoning the best traits of big budget filmmaking.

Director Jonathan Levine's 50/50 is one of those rare movies that pulls off a feat of narrative tightrope walking, in this case a comedy - drama about a young man with cancer that manages to be thought - provoking and insightful without being melodramatic, and funny and irreverent rather than woefully inappropriate or safe.

For a brief moment, Wilson the movie becomes the serio - comic tightrope walk that Clowes intended.

McDonagh loves Rockwell; this is evident enough in returning the actor from his previous film «Seven Psychopaths,» crystal clear in the thematic tightrope walk he gives him.

Questions based around a newspaper report covering Philippe Petit's death defying tightrope walk across the World Trade Center (Twin Towers) in 1974.

Tsovkra - 1's (there is another village named Tsovkra) heyday occurred in the mid 20th century when Russian circuses recruited performers from the village tightrope walking school.

Though tightrope walking was not considered a competitive sport (a la Olympics - worthy), it was nonetheless respected as a special skill.

2015 Tracing Shadows, PLATEAU Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul Tightrope Walk: Painted Images After Abstraction, curated by Barry Schwabsky, White Cube, Bermondsey

Antoni concluded a 2003 performance, a plain old tightrope walk, simply by falling.

Michael Simpson is part of the group exhibition Tightrope Walk: Painted Images After Abstraction at White Cube, Bermondsey opening on Tuesday November 24th through January 24 2016.

Tightrope Walk A large exhibition of contemporary and modern figurative art, with works by Picasso and Lucian Freud, Alex Katz and Tracey Emin.

Fun Fact About The Number 82: On his 82nd birthday, William Ivy Baldwin tightrope walked across a canyon.

The first woman to tightrope walk over Niagara Falls was circus performer Maria Spelterini who, reportedly, once crossed while her hands and feet were manacled.

I do not mean that Arsene Wenger is planning on supplementing his Arsenal manager's wages by taking up tightrope walking with the circus.

According to a website dedicated to tightrope walker Jean François Gravelet, the Greeks were so enamored of tightrope walking that they created a special prize, «The Thaumatron,» which could be won by tightrope walkers and «anyone who shows people something amazing, out of...

Dyster says Wallenda owes the city $ 25,000 in emergency services and other infrastructure requirements paid out by the city for Wallenda's tightrope walk across Niagara Falls in June.

Familiarity with the subject — Philippe Petit's daring and illegal 1974 tightrope walk between the tops of the Twin Towers — might seem an obstacle to Zemeckis» often visceral and exciting brand of filmmaking.

Still, there has always been a tightrope walk required when advertising about war - themed video games.

Before you ask for money, you must manage the tightrope walk.

Not that I think they'd ever go there, but it'll still be a bit of a tightrope walk for a PG company.

The tightrope we walk is to make sure we're preserving our ideals.

«We wanted to encourage really creative play,» said Heinke, who added that the park has a pirate ship, puppet theater, lookout points, tightrope walks and a suspension bridge, all things the children asked for.

This summer, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed off on allowing world - renowned daredevil Nik Wallenda to perform a tightrope walk over the falls, an event that would almost surely attract tens of thousands of people and potentially provide an economic boost to the area.

It would have been a tightrope walk that would require LBJ like skill to reach a bipartisan 50 % votes in the house.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is finding the tightrope he walks between being a reforming outsider and the consummate insider is a little tighter these days.

In frank and poignant prose, Elsayed recounts his tightrope walk through the U.S. immigration system and his improbable ascent into the academic stratosphere before crashing and burning.

Each one strives to prepare a small rat for big challenges — standing long jump, tightrope walk, rope climb, weight lifting, and track hurdles.