Sentences with phrase «which title character»

The paintings contain references to photographs the artist took during his travels in the Gobi Desert in 1993 and also to a scene in Ingeborg Bachmann's Book of Franza (1955), in which the title character unsuccessfully seeks solace in the barrenness of the desert.

The characters in the 1920 silent thriller The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in which the title character keeps a somnambulist captive in a cabinet to carry out murder in his sleep, spin hypnotically around a soundstage filled with painted set pieces.

Ericka Beckman's Cinderella, 1986, a 16 - mm rendering of the fairy tale, is an Atari - like musical in which the title character staggers through various levels of narrative as if in a video game.

The paintings contain references to photographs the artist took during his travels in the Gobi Desert in 1993 and also to a scene in the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann's Book of Franza (1955), in which the title character unsuccessfully seeks solace in the bareness of the desert.

In the case of Tosca, our Work of the Week, the song in question is «Vissi d'arte» from the Puccini opera Tosca, in which the title character, «the opera singer with the eyes of black, threatened with rape by her lover's imprisoner, sings of her life dedicated to art and love, [then] fights him off and kills him,» explains Schimmel Gold, who set out to capture the «despair and overwhelming emotions» of the tragic heroine.

It kicks off enticingly enough with a well - staged sequence in which the title character bullies a clean - cut couple on road bikes, ramming both of them off the highway.

The meandering plot takes in the pre-production period of an amateur production of Twelfth Night which the title character happens upon by going about her business of selling pirated DVDs.

But the Miyazaki film with the strongest connection to his latest is 1992's «Porco Rosso,» in which the title character was an Italian WWI flying ace transformed into a pig and the landscape is the rise of European Fascism in the years preceding WWII.

While the invention might bring to mind the film Terminator 2, in which the title character morphs out of a pool of liquid metal, the creation of 3D shapes is still some way off.

First shown at the Kitchen in New York, (A) Drift of Politics: Two Women Are Active in a Space (1978) comprises a single half - hour episode of the Happy Days - style US television series Laverne & Shirley (1976 — 83), the most popular sitcom of its time, which the artist condensed to five minutes by selecting only the two - shots (that is, a shot of two people looking out at the viewer) in which the title characters appear.

Not exact matches

DC Comics does a lot of different things with their own characters under the Elseworld titles which tell alternative universe stories using familiar characters.

In the new version of «Little Red Riding Hood,» the title character makes her way through the forest with a rifle, which reassures her.

Denise Daniels claims that, in 2005, she brought together a creative team and produced a pilot for a show titled The Moodsters, which was intended to help children understand their emotions through representing them as five different characters: happiness, sadness, anger, love, and fear.

Take the darkly comic Ingrid Goes West, in which Plaza plays the title character, who becomes obsessed with an Instagram star played by Elizabeth Olsen.

It is my task to focus on the second half of the title, on the character of that process perspective which our...

Many readers were first exposed to your reporting on character through your article in the New York Times Magazine in September 2011, which was titled «What If the Secret to Success Is Failure?»

These best - selling «edutainment» titles have been created by parents to offer something more than the soothing patterns and music, or fantasy cartoon characters, which appear in most baby and pre-school DVDs.

As first reported by Advertising Age, which broke the story of the Burnett - crafted Happy Meal book program, each title incorporates characters the agency created earlier to market and promote a healthier iteration of the Happy Meal.

Indeed, he compares the New York governor to the title character in the satirical film The Death of Stalin, in which the dictator paralyzed his subjects in fear even as he lay dying:

French games studio AMA has unveiled a simple puzzle game titled Escape, in which you guide a stick character around a path of dots.

The $ 451 million - grossing remake of the 1960 Rat Pack classic cemented itself in popular culture, and has even made it onto Betway's list of iconic films which celebrate casino — the iGaming operator gives nod to the suave sophistication of its title character (and Brad Pitt of course).

Given that the title character is a Mexican immigrant and that the guest of honor at the small soiree to which she's become a last - minute addition is Doug Strutt (John Lithgow), a billionaire real - estate and resort mogul with Trump - ian characteristics, one might think that this has all the makings of the kind of broad, pained farce where every character is a mouthpiece for over-determined conflicts of sociopolitical opinion.

The title, by the way, refers to Schubert's composition, which was played while Weaver's character was tortured, and which she in turn plays while interrogating Kingsley.

That narrative slyness is especially welcome in Friedkin, acting as a palliative to the sensory overdose in which he habitually deals; such a contrast was nowhere to be seen in «Bug» (2006), a film that sent me straight from the cinema to the pharmacy in search of anti-itch cream, but we find it in the first half of «Killer Joe,» thanks to the title character.

After the bug fixes with a patch this sequel exceeds the original in every aspect.Better graphics, gamplay and story along with 2 completely different playable protaganists give Dishonered 2 more replay value then almost every triple A title this year.And this time around I did nt feel pushed to play the game in any specific way.I felt that playing stealthily was alot more rewarding then the first entry but i never felt that i was playing wrong or was being punished when i played a full on assault playthrough.Also there are several ending for every playstyle for both characters which really drive you toward a second, third or even forth playthrough and in all the chaos or silence of each level, even on my forth run, I reimagined every situation and experienced different outcomes every single time.Dishonored 2 also contains some of the best level design I have ever seen with the likes of the amazing and masterfully thought out Clockwork Mansion level being among my all time favorites.Dishonored 2 truly is a masterpiece in almost every ascpect!!!

But Constantine, which follows Keanu Reeves title character as he teams up with Rachel Weisz's Angela to prevent Satan's arrival on Earth, takes a leap out the plausibility window early on, something presumably dictated by the comic book that the film is based on.

Lucas Till, as the 2016 version of the title character, doesn't make much of an impression in the premiere, which involves a bioweapon that has fallen into bad hands.

DeWitt starred as the title character in RACHEL GETTING MARRIED from which she received best supporting actress awards from the Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington D.C. Film Critics Associations.

United States of Tara, which features Toni Collette as the title character and whose executive producers include Steven Spielberg, takes a riskier tack, giving the story a wide vein of comedy.

Katee also successfully landed the role of Nell Bickford on the CBS series The Education of Max Bickford, in which she played the daughter of the title character.

Helping Allen to make this possible is his wonderful cast, which is headlined by a near - Oscar - worthy Radha Mitchell, playing the title character with incendiary flair.

Antonio Campos's film «Christine,» which opened last Friday at Film Forum and nationwide, is the second one this year about its title character, following Robert Greene's documentary «Kate Plays Christine.»

Finely crafted based on the appearance of Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther in the movie of the same title, the movie - accurate collectible figure features two interchangeable heads which include a newly developed head sculpt with stunning likeness and an all - new masked head with two interchangeable eye pieces, a newly developed body which can naturally portray Black Panther's muscular body, a meticulously tailored new Black Panther suit with fine details and the spectacular feature of purple patterns appearing under specialized LED light, a character backdrop and a movie themed hexagonal figure stand with two specialized LED light units.

Of all the 150 films I've seen this year, «Brad's Status» is the one with which I identify most in that the title character's existential fantasy is that he's a failure when compared with the people he knows or with whom he graduated.

According to Variety, Lionsgate and EuropaCorp are finalizing a production deal for the film, which is also written by Besson and will star Helen Mirren, Cillian Murphy, Luke Evans, and introduce Sasha Luss as the title character.

With Hitman: Agent 47 still a few months from release, a new poster has arrived online today, which features Rupert Friend's title character surrounded by a rather large cache of weapons; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Hitman: Agent 47 HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically -LSB-...]

Deadpool is often described as Marvel's first pansexual character, but this aspect of his personality did not feature heavily in last year's hit film, in which Reynolds» title character enjoys a romantic relationship with Morena Baccarin's Vanessa.

Reynolds was to show her dramatic chops again some 40 years later as the difficult title character in Albert Brooks» Mother, for which she was lauded with a Golden Satellite Award, a Golden Globe nomination and an Online Film & Television Award nomination.

Despite using similar, generic fantasy terminology, both previous Dark Souls titles had slight differences in which stats your character could build up and what those individual stats determined.

That being said, Anderson can be accused of being a little stereotypical in his depiction of the Japanese characters, verging on being offensive, just let off the hook given the title's overriding, playful approach which detracts from the more questionable elements.

Last year's adaptation of the Marvel character — which starred Ryan Reynolds in the title role — was a surprise hit both critically and commercially, generating nearly $ 800 million worldwide at the box office.

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Now here comes the first official one - sheet, which finds Charlize Theron as the stressed title character.

Although the title suggests the possibility of an exercise in the pre-digested, pre-fab cynicism which seems to be a staple of contemporary American cinema, this action film focuses on its people as much as its action, and a good deal of its power comes from the way its sharply etched characters develop in various convincingly observed milieux.

Although Mona dies during the film's opening moments, Midler's title character is revealed through the story's perpetual flashbacks, during which each character's theoretical motive for wanting to kill Mona is disclosed.

Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes and Tom Holland will provide their voices to some of the animals to which Downey's title character will speak.

There aren't many films which introduce the title character, having a snooze, almost two hours into the movie.

Armed with Seann William Scott's gloriously over-the-top turn as the title character, Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach almost manages to overcome its tedious storyline and hopelessly erratic pace to become a minor comedic masterpiece - yet there eventually does reach a point at which Scott's performance, ingratiating as it is, simply proves unable to compensate for the film's myriad of deficiencies.

Lawrence has a poem titled «Love on the Farm», which could work as an alternative title for Lee's film — except that love is as far from the mind of its main character, twentysomething Johnny Saxby (played by Josh O'Connor), when we first encounter him as anything could be.

Unfortunately, we're probably never getting a sequel to the badass 2012 film Dredd, which starred Karl Urban as the title character...