Sentences with phrase «various narratives around»

Not exact matches

While not a particularly novel narrative concept, Pellington uses the screenplay from NYC indie wunderkind Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up, Philip) to help collect quite the impressive ensemble of actors - including Jon Hamm, Ellen Burstyn and Catherine Keener - to play out various vignettes that revolve around intense emotional trauma.

Su Rynard's feature, with its episodic overview of various interconnected issues around the globe, lacks the unifying emotional and narrative involvement of the best nature documentaries.

The inclusion of a few standout sequences (eg Charlie confronts Hans» dying wife) generally compensates, as does the effectiveness of the various performances (ie Rockwell has never been more entertaining), but the film doesn't wholeheartedly begin to engross until around the one - hour mark - after which point the narrative's escalating momentum becomes more and more difficult to resist.

Muller is particularly illuminating when discussing Otto Preminger's formal inventiveness — his long, subtle takes, his ability to create compositions that essentially edit the film within the camera — and the various noir «types» that inhabit the narrative, such as the «bad cop» or the sickly neighbor who, in Muller's words, is often «waiting around to be a plot point in a crime story.»

And that's really it for the narrative; Max wanders the wasteland doing favors for the various big bosses scattered around the place so that he has somewhere to hide out and build up his new car, but there's no overarching plot except for the fact that Max has somewhere he wants to go, and to get there he needs a good ride.

Woven around this main narrative thread is the politics of the various groups that inhabit the metro, primarily the Neo-Nazis and the Communists, both of whom somehow carried their ideals with them into the dark, dank world of the underground.

World of Warcraft made hotbar - oriented, cooldown - based «just stand there and take it» combat the norm for MMOs and while other games have tried to mask that through various hooks (such as The Old Republic's strong narrative), there just isn't getting around the tried, true and tired combat mechanics.

Situated to straddle the change to a new calendar year, the show will revolve around an ever - changing online calendar & visual narrative through which viewers can chart Olson's completion of various self - improvement exercises, task lists, and daily meditations.

me, the exhibition, featuring work by Bunny Rogers, Jill Magid, Jasper Spicero and Emma Talbot, continues the conversation around new forms of presentation by exploring «the relation between narrative and affect, as traced between objects and through various media».

In the series Archipelago, Artist Yolanda del Amo photographs family, friends, and acquaintances in various settings around the world as they perform scenes from a universal narrative about close human relationships.