Sentences with phrase «title riffs»

The series title riffs on the original name of CMOA's legendary art classes for children.

With a title riffing on the film's iconic catch - phrase, Dave Itzkoff's book Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies notes that Network «s live suicide hook «eerily paralleled» 5 Chubbuck's suicide.

The work debuting in 17 is especially engaged with Smith's printmaking process, with the exhibition's title riffing on the number of patterns that intersect to make wallpaper print a consistent image.

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Each of their foot - tapping tunes on their latest self - titled album are carefully weaved together with bouncy keyboards and sunny guitar riffs.

The game makes extensive use of a mechanic reminiscent of the best 2D Zelda titles and familiar sounding riffs feature in the music from time to time.

It's all there in the mock heroics of the title, riffing on «I, Claudius.»

Originally titled Sofia (as in the city), Assassin's Bullet is a sub-De Palma riff on the Bulgarian capital's status as a popular B - movie shooting location.

The title is a riff on the classic James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me (released 1977), obviously, and the trailer plays like a Bond movie with the cool animated title sequence and all of that.

Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero are sort of like the outsider - cinema equivalent of Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski — with the roles reversed, of course — so it seems appropriate that Wiseau would riff on the title of Herzog's 1999 documentary on his tumultuous relationship with Kinski, My Best Fiend, for his big reunion with...

While it riffs on a few notable sci - fi / action films and traffics in storylines audiences have seen in other YA adaptations, there is a sense of urgency that doesn't let up, a lot of well - constructed action, and propulsion to a film series fitting of the title Maze Runner.

So it's hardly coincidental that Jesse's novel is titled This Time — or that the cut on a CD he chooses to play in Celine's apartment, which she does an elaborate actorly riff on, is a Nina Simone performance of «Just in Time.»

/ Film Edge of Tomorrow is getting a sequel (with both Emily Blunt and Tom Cruise returning) and its riffing on the original film's tagline for its title: Live Die Repeat and Repeat Collider why Rian Johnson asked JJ Abrams to make a small switch to the ending of The Force Awakens to help out The Last Jedi The New Yorker Anthony Lane reviews Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2.

It's easy to understand why Lionsgate wanted to change the title of the film to Anarchy (as in Sons Of...) so as to better capitalize on the film's seemingly overstuffed parallels with FX's entertainingly soapy biker series (itself a loose riff on Hamlet).

The Car was conceived as a cash - in — an easy riff on Jaws with the working title Wheels -LRB-!)

Finally, someone let him direct his own script, and the result was Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, a riotous riff on the hard - boiled works of Raymond Chandler (chapter titles are all from Philip Marlowe novels: Lady in the Lake, The Simple Art of Murder, The Little Sister, etc), that nimbly satirizes the movie business, detective - movie plotting (there are always two cases that implausibly tie up together), the action hero as idiot and the conventions of the film noir voiceover («Oh shit, back up, back up, I forgot to mention — Jesus, this is terrible narration, it's like my dad telling a joke and saying, oh, I should have told you the cowboy's horse is blue...»).

If you hear a sliver of Margo Channing's famous warning echoing across All About Nina you should know it's not just because the title's a riff on that Bette Davis classic.

Scathingly satirical director David Gordon Green riffs on the similarly titled 2005 documentary about ugly gringo political spin doctors gaming the election in Bolivia, a country best known for its powdered exports.

The Flexible Classroom riffs on the title of middle - level teacher Amber Chandler «s 2016 book, The Flexible ELA Classroom: Practical Tools for Differentiated Instruction in Grades 4 - 8 (Routledge / MiddleWeb).

This is Toni Morrison in a new mood; the language is like the title — a liquid riff with no beginning and no end, winding itself around you, resonating inside your skull, until you are understanding it in a way that transcends words.

And to riff a little on your title — Politicians soon will hang from trees, you got to shoot a shyster or two boys

The response from Best Friends to those naysayers was pretty much what the title of this blog, a riff on a famous movie quote, suggests: Saving lives isn't rocket science and your credentials and the letters after your name don't mean a thing if you are not using them to save more lives and end the killing in shelters.

But there's no doubting its expertly calculated savagery, industrial guitar riffs rippling through tracks titled «Rip & Tear» and «Flesh & Metal» with all the (purposely absent) subtlety of the game itself.

Indeed, all the hallmarks of early Lucasarts adventures are there; the puzzles, the humour, the 256 colour styled assets and of course, a riff on that iconic coloured font made popular in the early days with titles such as Secret of Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle.

Developed by Black Forest Games who are responsible for the rather good Giana: Twisted Dreams, Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back is clearing riffing on the first two Bubsy titles and offers a 2.5 D aesthetic, a whole host of yarn - based gimmicks and a snarky attitude to boot.

Get married, tend to your animals and improve your house, it's a title that's since been riffed on by the phenomenal Stardew Valley and (indirectly) the Animal Crossing series.

Riffing off of McGonigal's book title, Matthew Burns writes about the GDC experience from the perspective of an indie developer trying to pitch his game to publishers, in «Reality is Bokeh».

Raymond Pettibon Raymond Pettibon's No Title (They are become) too riffs on desert and border culture with an ominous reference to the preponderance of aliens on the horizon and in the night sky.

There were accomplished riffs on master paintings (Jean - François Rauzier on da Vinci; Robert Wilson on Dürer, photographer Chan - Hyo BAE on Elizabeth I, Masami Teraoka on Renaissance altarpieces), and an ubiquitous shorthand commentary of words, snide, wry, or provocative — «For Sale», «Exit», «Heroes», «Not Yet Titled» — that were painted or scribbled, but predominantly drawn, in neon.

The title 1 cents Life is an impressionistic riff.

The title of her award - winning installation is meant to be a riff on «Want tea?»

The title of Raymond Pettibon's current show at David Zwirner, Hard in the Paint, riffs on basketball, art making, the Southern hip - hopper Waka Flocka Flame and maybe even the YouTube parody Baraka Flocka Flame.

My title was also a riff on the name Hulllaballoo (balloo sounds like blue).

The show's title is inspired by music, where «Riff» stands for a rhythmic figure.

I think I picked the right riff for the title.

Its title even riffs on the most well - known of those paintings, «A Bigger Splash.»

The show, titled DCTs and Scenes from the Blackout, mixes together Douglas's ongoing practice of detailed, involved portraiture, staged scenes that incorporate both specific time frames / locations into a freewheeling riff on the construction of reality, and a body of work that uses computer algorithms to deconstruct the image.

The show, Andrew Schoultz, Ex Uno Plura (from one, many), takes its title from a riff on the commonly known United States motto, e pluribus unum (from many, one).

The work feels too literal, too obvious: Hamilton Poe's Stack (2013), for example, riffs on Donald Judd's more famous eponymous works but is made from window fans, and John Salvest's Forever (2013) is created from the spines of romance novels that spell out the work's title.

Titled Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective 1999 — 2015, the project demonstrates the artist's unique, imaginative, and rigorous DIY aesthetic and is composed largely of works that riff on the idea of the «boombox,» the iconic emblem of 1980s hip - hop culture.

On the more subtle end of the spectrum are Minter's paintings of spilled coffee or Guagnini's crumpled sculptures, while while the work of Rosenberg (Miller's wife) quite literally calls the title into play with a riff on Freud's famed case study of «Little Hans,» a five - year - old boy with a crippling phobia of horses.

Occasionally a more fully painted female figure appears, as in the small «Strip Nurse 1,» whose smears conjure de Kooning, while its title recalls the artist Richard Prince, known both for paintings of nurses and for his own riffs on de Kooning.

Titled «Memory as Medicine,» this near - two - decade survey (organized by Carol Thompson and Michael Rooks of the originating High Museum of Art in Atlanta) featured thirty - one works riffing on key chapters from the grand narrative of black history, with frequent allusions to tribal West Africa, aptly demonstrating the artist's inspired ability to present his modern world as a continuum with his genetic past.

His 2006 Andy Warhol, «Two Campbell's Soup Cans, Onion,» 1961 and 1962 is a riff on Warhol's iconic odes to mass consumer culture, while his 1967 Stella, Sunapee, 1966 and 1980 My Favorite Title (Frank Stella, «The Marriage of Reason and Squalor,» 1959) play on two of Stella's signature pieces.

The title and content of Dana Hoey's latest series of photographs riffs on classic works of French feminist theory — Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) and Luce Irigaray's This Sex Which...

Keith Kloor has nicely woven together links to relevant coverage and commentary in a riff titled «The Post Partisan Power Play.»

The title of Michaels» and Knappenberger's new book is a clever riff on Naomi Klein's alarming book This Changes Everything.

The title of this post is a riff on the infamous «Not Your Father's Oldsmobile» ads of the 1980s.