Sentences with phrase «tightrope walking between»

The story begins with Nanny Piggins getting herself into trouble with the law - by tightrope walking between high rise buildings to gain access to a delicious chocolate cake!

«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.

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.

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.

«The Walk,» Zemeckis» account of Phillippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the old World Trade Center, would seem to be the ultimate Zemeckis set piece, rivaling the awesomeness of the plane crash and island sequences of «Cast Away,» the upside - down jet maneuver in «Flight,» the intergalactic wormhole trips in «Contact,» and the small - scaled relentlessness of the suspense sequences in his under - appreciated 2000 thriller «What Lies Beneath» (which wrung tremendous excitement from the question of whether a nearly paralyzed woman could use her big toe to remove the stopper from a bathtub drain).

FSR's Brian Salisbury said in his review: «I loved this film... The genius of The Loved Ones is that it knows how to use over-the-top horror elements to provide the necessary safety net for the tightrope walk between shock and entertainment.»

It has been six years now since James Marsh recounted Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers in his documentary Man on Wire.

In 2008, James Marsh's Man on Wire, a recounting of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers, was one of the most talked about documentaries.

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.

Robert Zemeckis's 3D take on Philippe Petit's tightrope walk between the twin towers takes truth and turns it into a cartoon

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.

Like its aerialist hero, this saga of the tightrope walk between the Twin Towers overcomes many potential disasters on its way to triumph

Somewhere in the exhibition's development, the title «Reinventing Presence» was changed to the snappier Tightrope Walk — which comes from an observation by Francis Bacon about his «tightrope walk between what is called figurative painting and abstraction».

You'll have to make your own moral tightrope walk between following your community's laws and fulfilling your vision for your life.

Not exact matches

It takes refined self - awareness to walk this tightrope between dwelling and remembering.

Pretty much from his first statements as governor in 2013 — that's about $ 100,000 ago in real estate appreciation terms — through to last week when the bank released its latest financial system review, Poloz has walked a tightrope between admitting that elevated house prices and debt levels pose a risk to the economy, and assuring Canadians that the likelihood of a crash is actually pretty low.

Questioners can benefit from knowing they need to walk a tightrope between over-analysis and gathering enough information to be personally convinced of the merits of a particular new habit.

More often than not, maintaining it is a balancing act between credit and cash on hand, and it's a tricky tightrope to walk.

Seventh Day Adventists have for over 100 years walked the tightrope between sect and cult.

Harrington calls his act «walking a tightrope between the sectarian irrelevance of the visionary whose vision is not connected with anything that's going on in this society, and the pragmatic irrelevance of those who so perfectly adapt to the daily struggle that they lose sight of the larger struggle.»

It is difficult to keep from wondering whether Ting, Wenzao and other Protestant leaders are walking a tightrope between the still religiously skeptical communist government and the fundamentalists both in the underground church and among intrusive foreign Christian observers who deeply resent any hint of accommodation with Chinese communism.

The established Church had to walk a tightrope, however, between offering comfort to bereaved families and keeping true to its Protestant roots.

«I try to walk the tightrope between being truthful and honest about the threat to the public but, on the other hand, to say we are doing everything possible to combat it and to try to keep our lifestyle as near as possible to the British way of life,» Mr Reid said.

Welfare reform has been on of the areas that the Lib Dems have found particularly hard in in Government, trying to walk the tightrope between economic credibility in reducing spending and social justice.

«Stick by us» But walking the tightrope between the party you lead, and the one which gave you your new job was never going to be easy.

In some areas where Mr. Trump remains popular, Republican hopefuls must walk a tightrope between expressing support for him and distancing themselves from a candidate who may become toxic to the moderates and independents they need to win.

Walsh has spent a career walking a tightrope between organized parties.

It was about the tightrope Miliband is trying to walk between retaining relationships with the unions and changing the way they function.

The nature of our future online lives will depend on answering this question, on how we walk the tightrope between total security and innovation - friendly openness.

Farmers are walking a tightrope between reaping the benefits of genetically modified crops and getting it wrong and losing all their advantages.

In a statement published online in Pediatrics, the organization walked a tightrope between strongly discouraging recreational marijuana use among teenagers while acknowledging that medical applications, including in young children, have grown more popular and that more research is needed to better understand when and how the drug might help.

Or, thanks to a semi-full-time chemotherapy regimen, walking a constant gastrointestinal tightrope between constipation and diarrhea.

Such angels, walking that tightrope between childhood and adulthood.

Co - writer / director Robert Zemeckis presents the story of Philippe Petit, who walked a tightrope across the 130 - foot gap between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974, as a romantic fable.

It's catharsis on steroids, walking the tightrope between FYI and TMI.

Walking a tightrope between deference and disrespect, James Franco has made his most ambitious work to date with «The Disaster Artist», a seriocomic exploration inside the mind of writer - director - cultural sensation Tommy Wiseau.

Director Nichols walks a tightrope between giving us a dark, Gothic tale of misunderstood prophecy and a sobering lesson on the state of mental health care in rural America.

Robert Woodfield (Eric Roberts) is a lawyer who grew up walking a tightrope between both sides of the law; after the death of his parents, he was raised by Charlie Mason (Dean Stockwell), a union representative who wants to do the right thing for his men, but who also has one foot in organized crime.

«And with this pencil stroke, my fate was sealed,» the narration tells us, over images of Petit drawing a line between the towers as depicted in a magazine ad that he peruses while waiting to see a doctor — as if we couldn't figure out why that moment is important, in a movie about a guy who tightrope - walked between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

The tale of French acrobat Philippe Petit's 1974 attempt to walk a tightrope between the Twin Towers already formed the basis of an Oscar - winning documentary, Man on Wire, so we assume Zemeckis has a strong shot with this fictionalized retelling featuring a heavily accented Gordon - Levitt.

Andrews was one of Preminger's favorite actors for that ability to walk the tightrope between American forthrightness and over-the-edge darkness.

Coraline — Focus Features, 100 mins — Henry Selick's terrifying animated 3D feature focuses on a little girl (voiced Dakota Fanning) who walks a tightrope between reality where her parents pay no attention to her and a parallel fantasy world where her parents are doting but dowright deceitful and dangerous.

Walking a tightrope between the comedic and the mundane, Gillespie brings a unique tonality to his projects across all filmed media.

Beau travail evokes him not only in the aforementioned encounters between sculptural bodies and heroic music, but in its musically inflected montages and its beautifully ordered compositions devoted to various maneuvers: crawling under barbed wire, vaulting over bars, occupying the shell of a half - constructed building, walking across parallel wires like tightrope artists imitating flurries of notes on a musical staff.

We'd be foolish not to give some sort of shout out to other terrific scenes throughout the year, like the hilarious funeral sequence in Li» l Quinquin, which had us doubled over from laughter; both the border crossing and night vision sequences in Sicario; the ending of Carol, which should get an emotional response out of even the coldest souls; the opening long take in Buzzard, a painfully funny experience much like Entertainment; the bonkers final act of Jauja; a scorching scene from The Fool where the town mayor lays into her corrupt staff; everything that happens at Mamie Claire's house in Mistress America; the intense argument between Gerard Depardieu and Jacqueline Bissett in Welcome to New York; the tightrope sequence in The Walk, and much, much more.

Circus freaks, puppets and soaring songs collide in a new adaptation that deftly walks a tightrope between romantic and grotesque

Nichols walks a tightrope between giving us a dark, Gothic tale of misunderstood prophecy and a sobering lesson on the state of mental health care in rural America.