Sentences with phrase «with an outsider tale»

A dark - edged fairy tale as lovingly steeped in vintage movie magic as it is in hypnotic water imagery, this captivating creature feature marries a portrait of morally corrupt early - 1960s America with an outsider tale of love and friendship... Full Review

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When finally confronted with the truth, groupthink becomes fiercely defensive because there's been too much investment of time / energy to risk a demoralizing tale told by a long - gone outsider.

Del Toro's fairly conventional tale of underdog forbidden romance — between a fish - man creature in government captivity and a mute cleaning lady, Eliza (Sally Hawkins), facing off with a hateful investigator (Michael Shannon)-- was nonetheless warm, sumptuously shot and designed, and barbed with semi-subversive asides from Eliza's outsider buddies, fellow worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) and a closeted illustrator neighbor (Richard Jenkins).

It's a tale of the consequences of rampant fear of the outsider, filtered through the lens of a dystopian future, filled with an abundance of jokes, and set against the meticulously crafted worlds of an island of garbage and the pristine order of an engineered metropolis.

Still under the production company name of Vulcan films, they, along with first - time director John Llewellyn Moxey, put together this simple tale of a Satanic coven of witches in a small village, led by the reincarnation of Elizabeth Selwyn, who sacrifice virgin outsiders to Lucifer.

He's now one of the best - known young directors in the world, but French - Canadian Xavier Dolan was a 21 - year - old outsider when he made this smart, artsy tale of two friends — a girl and a guy — who both fall in love with the same person.

Chronicling the tale of a bunch of misfit outsider superheroes with no real superpowers who has to save the day when a real superhero is kidnapped by supervillain, Mystery Men tries to be camp (at times) and vulgar (at others).

After writing Kids, Larry Clark's cautionary tale about violent and anti-social youth, Korine skirted the line between outsider horror and jet - black comedy with his directorial debut, Gummo, about glue - sniffing, cat - killing kids in rural Ohio.

With behind - the - scenes reporting, observations in classrooms and conversations with teachers, parents, reformers, funders and others with a stake in Newark schools, Russakoff tells the tale of how moneyed outsiders failed in the end to turnaround a failing urban school distrWith behind - the - scenes reporting, observations in classrooms and conversations with teachers, parents, reformers, funders and others with a stake in Newark schools, Russakoff tells the tale of how moneyed outsiders failed in the end to turnaround a failing urban school distrwith teachers, parents, reformers, funders and others with a stake in Newark schools, Russakoff tells the tale of how moneyed outsiders failed in the end to turnaround a failing urban school distrwith a stake in Newark schools, Russakoff tells the tale of how moneyed outsiders failed in the end to turnaround a failing urban school district.

This Ripley-esque tale is told from the point of view of Martin — an outsider in a world of wealth and privilege — as he recalls his friendship (and obsession) with classmate Ben, whose family comes from old money.

The exhibition is structured in chapters whose themes are the man - eating outsider or non-human; the relationship with others and construction of an individual and group identity through a dual movement of incorporation and rejection; the body as an organism capable of transformation, and which feeds on and feeds others; eroticism and all - consuming passion; violence and horror; ritual and sacrifice; and images from childhood, derived from tales and legends.