Sentences with phrase «with grand illusion»

(In fact, Abel Gance had recently remade his own 1919 film, J'accuse, in the futile hope of preventing World War II, and Jean Renoir presumably had something similar in mind with Grand Illusion.)

Francois Truffaut takes a stab at an anti-war film with a conscience, but like Renoir with Grand Illusion, he does it without showing any battle footage.

Soon after Duvivier moved around the casbah of Algiers, Renoir made his own tragic commentary on his country with Grand Illusion, a more sociological - centered statement on class resentment bringing about the Great War (and possibly, the war brewing on the other side of Alsace - Lorraine).

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Christian artists (with the exception of groups like Casting Crowns) seem to suffer from the illusion that since God is so great, when we come to Jesus, life becomes grand and all our problems disappear.

When you release the illusion of control, you begin an effortless free - fall toward a grand reunion with your original self; a self uncorrupted by the world's false lessons of fear, control and limitations.

The defining masterpieces of brash young artists get remixed by older artists with a new perspective: Fritz Lang's M and While the City Sleeps, Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion and The Elusive Corporal, Howard Hawks» Rio Bravo and Rio Lobo... and then there's Orson Welles» Citizen Kane and Mr. Arkadin.

After making his mark in the early thirties with two very different films, the anarchic send - up of the bourgeoisie Boudu Saved from Drowning and the popular - front Gorky adaptation The Lower Depths, Renoir closed out the decade with two critical humanistic studies of French society that routinely turn up on lists of the greatest films ever made: Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game (the former was celebrated in its time, but the latter was trashed by critics and audiences — until history provided vindication).

Paris - based, Brooklyn - born expatriate has written the subtitles for over 30 French films released by Rialto, beginning with Renoir's Grand Illusion in 1999.

As Michael Atkinson has written for Criterion, «Without its iconic precedent, there would have been no Humphrey Bogart, no John Garfield, no Robert Mitchum, no Randolph Scott, no Jean - Paul Belmondo (or Breathless or Pierrot le fou), no Jean - Pierre Melville or Alain Delon, no Steve McQueen...» Soon after Pépé, Renoir's antiwar masterpiece Grand Illusion hit, and it was an even bigger smash, cementing Gabin's superstar status; in this and all of his most successful roles (La bête humaine, Le jour se lève), Gabin played some form of working - class social outcast, and he always provided audiences with a strong point of identification.

Clouzot, one of the kings of French noir, grips and thrills and teases us with this dark - hued, very cynical and very smart murder mystery about a suave inspector (Pierre Fresnay of «Grand Illusion») pursuing a serial killer.

Having set his own creative bar stratospherically high with classics like The Rules of the Game, The Grand Illusion and The River, it's hard to see this climactic statement as more than a compendium of odds and ends.

CB: Yes, Grand Illusion [1937]-- I get the title confused with Rules of the Game [1939] because I always thought that should be the title for Grand Illusion.

In this Marvel tentpole world, where faux dramatics are conjured to create the illusion that superheroes are fighting for something of some value, Rogue One is indeed rebellious, posing a quest that resonates with emotional engagement and grand illusion.

Even before their Seijun Suzuki series wraps up (with Branded to Kill on Wednesday), the Northwest Film Forum and Grand Illusion have combined to bring yet another welcome series of films to Seattle Screens.

Best Local Repertory I saw in 2015: The Hou Hsiao - hsien Retrospective (Northwest Film Forum, Grand Illusion & Scarecrow Video), The Apu Trilogy (SIFF), Cat People & I Walked with a Zombie (Grand Illusion), A Day in the Country & French Cancan (Seattle Art Museum), Serge Bromberg's Saved from the Flames compilation (SIFF).

Meanwhile, Grand Illusion's music series concludes with the documentary It Came From Detroit, about the Motor City garage rock scene.

Grand Illusion's «All Monsters Attack» October series continues with a pair of Roger Corman - produced horror comedies that teams up Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff: The Raven and The Comedy of Terrors.

He depicts humanity rumbling with life in La Grand illusion (1937)'s prison camp, in...

The Grand Illusion kicks off Halloween movie season in style with a 35 mm print of John Carpenter's 1994 classic, the director's last indisputably great film.

I had grand illusions that I would be able to work intelligently with two groups, while the other students productively finished their experiment.

Even flogging off a couple of thousand copies of a title with a great cover, or with the aid of a potent sponsor / reviewer, does not a good book make — all it does is prop up the grand illusion.

Self - publishers often irrationally entangle eBook discussions with that of the virtues of self - publishing, adding to The Grand Illusion.

Villa 2 boasts a wealth of space, featuring two large bedrooms with heavenly king - size beds, where light cotton mosquito netting creates the illusion of grand four - poster beds, with views of the sparkling turquoise pool and gardens through ornately - carved, antique slatted window - frames, and en - suite bathrooms with bespoke Balinese wall carvings, deep terrazzo bathtubs and romantic outdoor rain showers.

This 2 - bedroom luxury villa with private pool boasts a wealth of space, featuring two large bedrooms suites with heavenly king - size beds, where light cotton mosquito netting creates the illusion of grand four - poster beds, with views of the pool and gardens through ornately - carved, antique slatted window - frames.

These masterworks of narrative compositions are astutely conscious of flatness, illusion, and draftsmanship, with dynamic brushwork and colors that freely incorporate comics and pop culture as much as they sample the grand tradition.

In a 1999 interview with journalist Stefan Koldehoff for his exhibition Gerhard Ricther: Text, the artist is famously quoted having said that ``... after this century of grand proclamations and terrible illusions, I hope for an era in which real and tangible accomplishments, and not grand proclamations, are the only things that count.»

One of the great illusions of the climate movement has always been that the problem would or could be solved with a grand, sweeping gesture like a climate tax or a binding international agreement.

The mirrors with reflect the light and give the illusion of a grander space.