Sentences with phrase «with bravura»

Tobey does not address us with the bravura of the maestro.

Unlike his compatriot Mr. Richter, who pursues every opening for painting only to demonstrate with bravura that each is a dead end, Mr. Tillmans exults in photography's limitless avenues.

Since captivating visitors to the last Venice Biennale with her bravura immersive painting in the Arsenale, a stunning landscape of brightly pigmented rubble and giant painted sheets, Katharina Grosse has become the go - to artist for collectors who want the beauty of abstract painting, conceptual heft, and of - the - moment flair.

Blowing up the transfer technique of that series (originally, soaking the magazine images in lighter fluid and rubbing them on paper with an empty ballpoint pen) to collect semi-transparent pictures, he then, with the bravura only he could muster (his friend and studio mate Jasper Johns was so much tighter) angled, swirled and layered them in symphonic pageants for which the term collage seems wholly inadequate even if it is technically right.

Luckily the Bay of Islands is absolutely riddled with bravura lookout points to fill up the last of the memory on your camera.

In a straight line, revs pitched high, the LC gathers velocity with bravura.

Sport Plus, the most aggressive of four driving modes, may deliver too many revs too often, but Sport manages the transition between energetic to relaxed with bravura, and the transmission barely pauses for breath during upshifts.

With his bravura performance, Denzel Washington shifts the balance of Lorraine Hansberry's classic play, and he shifts it in the right direction

«Gone Girl»: A scarlet - spattered sublime pleasure, with bravura direction from David Fincher, brilliant writing and plenty of social commentary to go with the thriller mechanics like the poison that truly kills you smeared on the shining knife that stabs deep.

Expect «blood, sweat and irony» with bravura filmmaking from the High - Rise director.

Boasting the best camera work outside the Namibian desert or the Canadian wilderness, with bravura one - takes and brazen 360 degree pans dripping with suggestive menace, this is a film that makes you scan the background of every scene for looming danger.

The movie opens, and closes, with a bravura static, long take, from inside the gate of a house, looking out to a street and, beyond, to a beach and body of water.

That year, fortyish David O. Russell — the eldest of the group by a decade — followed up his delightfully neurotic Flirting With Disaster with the bravura Three Kings; Paul Thomas Anderson built on his Boogie Nights reputation with flawed masterpiece Magnolia; Wes Anderson offered the sly subversion Rushmore (technically a 1998 film but not released nationally until February 1999); and 29 - year - old M. Night Shyamalan hit box - office gold with the surprisingly mature thriller The Sixth Sense.

In this bold and unique story about a single character stranded on an island, a top - notch Hanks holds the picture on his shoulders with a bravura perf.

But the good stuff arrived right on time with the bravura centerpiece that gives the episode its title and a stunning ending that had me needing to watch «Séance» again immediately.

This is a riveting film with a bravura performance by Cranston, who's been the signature television actor of the past decade.

No one kills people with the bravura relish of De Palma.

Watching Krisha is a revelation: there are expected «rules» for such material (a former addict returns home for a holiday), but then director / writer Trey Edward Shults breaks every rule, making those rules seem tired and arbitrary in the process, and he does so with bravura, confidence, flash.

Not exact matches

As the remarkable Gordie Howe opened his 24th hockey season — in triumph and with a burst of the old bravura — he recalled rookie days when he could hear the pucks from his pad

Not a few believe «Hausa - Fulani» ultra-nationalism is expressed in the notorious «Fulani herdsmen», that kill with murderous bravura and satanic flourish.

The guessing game over David Miliband's future dominated a day in which he gave his party a glimpse of what could have been — with a concession speech that turned into a bravura display of political theatre.

More than half of Labour voters (56 per cent) are pleased with Mr Corbyn's performance while just 25 per cent believe shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who was widely lauded for a bravura Commons speech backing military action against Islamic State in Syria, would make a good replacement, rising to 42 per cent among Conservative voters.

Another reason why girls prefer older guys is that they are faster than men mature and older men more attractive than their younger counterparts because the last still with the male bravura of their teenagers behave and can not move away from their adolescence or so it seems.

Field also has a sequence where she gets to tame Tommy Lee Jones with much softer, but sharper, words; it's the kind of bravura supporting actress work that steals Oscars.

Here's a masterwork of technical bravura, adorned with inspired ensemble performances and directed with astonishing empathy.

Of course, he does this in the same bravura directing style of his past films, and with the rapid - fire comedy he and co - writer / star Simon Pegg brought to the first two parts of «The Cornetto Trilogy», Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

Whether ruining a baby's naming ceremony or describing to Buddy's wife (Elizabeth Reaser, Twilight) how she still sleeps in his old t - shirts, Theron delivers with fearless, gasp - inducing bravura.

But back to the play - Vaughan - Lawlor delivered a commanding and bravura performance with plenty of puffing, scrapping and yapping about The Avalanche's ski pants, the ladyboy and the Mousie.

The film features a wonderful opening sequence that defines the lead character and his world with effortless grace, and then follows that bravura entr Rating: Hoopla Factor: Continue reading Drive →

Combining Hitchcockian camerawork, lush, over-saturated colors, rollercoaster - like thrills, and at times surreal situations, Argento could overcome the sadism and misogyny in his gallery of sliced and diced beauties with the sheer cinematic bravura and beauty of the sequences.

The film opens in bravura fashion with a scene that wouldn't seem out of place in a Sergio Leone Western.

It's also an unsurprisingly bravura showcase for Day - Lewis, who, in what will reportedly be his final screen performance, has left us with something rich, indelible and at times marvelously loathsome — a portrait of the artist as a fey, prickly, hyper - demanding middle - aged man.

It's lurid and warped and more than a little dodgy, but it comes off thanks to the bravura performance — or performances — of James McAvoy, who throws himself into the role — or roles — with an admirable mix of skill and abandon.

This collection of production - diary - style footage finds Brian De Palma on the set of his 2002 film Femme Fatale directing the shoot, a process that — as seen in these specific clips — includes rehearsals with actors Rebecca Romijn and Antonio Banderas, working through movement / blocking and fight choreography, and the management of the movie's bravura opening setpiece that takes place at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

The film shows great promise in a bravura opening sequence which starts with quick overhead flashes of New York City.

Roger is the sort of fast - talking hustler who ends his bravura performances with an ironic flourish: «Thank you, I love you people.»

I fell in love with Clarkson after I saw her bravura performance in «High Art,» a great film unjustly overlooked at Oscar time.

The film starts with a simple yet bravura narration about the elements of a castle.

The New York location photography has nice detail and depth — you can see it in a bravura opening crane shot that starts with a view of downtown, then tracks sideways as Swank emerges from a Chinatown subway stop.

For, adapted by Jane Goldman from Peter Ackroyd's 2012 novel «Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem», this film is a bravura music - hall gothic, with all of 1880s London its theatricalised stage.

Indeed, Paramount just did the same thing with The Cloverfield Paradox, a film that was dropped out of the blue online after the SuperBowl, in a bravura piece of event marketing by Netflix.

Saddening but riveting, and possessed of a positively wicked wit, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is executed with the sensitivity of great literature and the panache of bravura filmmaking.

Crossfire Edward Dmytryk, USA, 1947, 35 mm, 86m This adaptation of writer / director - to - be Richard Brooks's novel The Brick Foxhole, about a group of vets, led by Robert Mitchum's Sergeant Keeley, searching postwar Washington for their amnesiac friend (George Cooper) so they can clear him of a murder charge, embodies the essence of what has come to be known as «film noir» — moody, troubled characters; nocturnal action; chiaroscuro cinematography; low - key acting spiced with bits of bravura eccentricity; and a plot so crazy that it feels like a nightmare.

The music, curated by Lamar, in its exploration of sound and texture, its lyrical bravura and messaging aligned with the movie, has the makings of a cultural touchstone.

Adonis's first fight is performed in one bravura take, Coogler's camera dipping in and around the action with confidence.

With her booze - soaked, bravura performance in A Single Man and her upcoming turn as an Amanda Seyfried - obsessed wife in the «erotic thriller» Chloe, you may be feeling like you've been seeing a lot more of Julianne Moore these days.

It's a bravura accomplishment of the writing then, that though we're being asked to find our way, in two hours, to the heart of a story grown over with decades of secrecy and thorns — a process that took the participants months of hard slog — we never get caught in the brambles.

Park keeps the twists coming and handles the kick - ass setpieces with droll flair (notably, a bravura continuous shot as his hero fights his way through a corridor gauntlet), steadily building to a denouement whose perversity is worthy of Jacobean tragedy.

With apologies to Harry Nilsson, everybody's talking» bout the bravura second sequence of Béla Tarr's The Man From London (in which the perpetually scowling port worker Maloi...

Directed by Paul McGuigan (of «Lucky Number Slevin,» which should have tipped me off a little) from a screen story and script by Max Landis (of whom it can be said, at the very least, that horror appreciation runs in his family, what with his father having made «An American Werewolf In London»), «Victor Frankenstein» is, despite bravura performances from committed young leads Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy, all kinds of obnoxious and pointless.