Not exact matches
On the surface Creed or Straight Outta Compton might not seem like typical «Oscar - bait,» but both were Hollywood success stories through and through,
with the kind of
mythmaking the Academy recognizes all the time.
«Rango,» an animated Sergio Leone - inflected Western that suited this Oscar year's obsession
with nostalgia and populist
mythmaking, won the animated feature award.
Whatever apocalyptic associations its title may generate, «Captain America: Civil War» turns out to be an infinitely smarter piece of multiplex
mythmaking, blessed as it is
with a new villain (played
with unnerving subtlety by Daniel Bruhl) who has more on his mind than blowing human civilization to smithereens.
With great characters, excellent performances, and stunning cinematography from Chung - hoon Chung (The Handmaiden, Oldboy), It is big, epic horror
mythmaking at its best.
Because she's not an actress, because she's not part of the cultural consciousness the way celebrities can be —
with none of the attendant
mythmaking — Rees» recognition has been more lowkey.
The curator, Thomas J. Lax, is into
mythmaking, and many artists come
with their own private myths.
It is fitting that Matthew Barney, an artist so enamoured
with heady conflations of
mythmaking and physiological mutation, should have a retrospective of his drawings across the way from an exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest tales of transfiguration around — the Holy Eucharist.
A room
with archival materials, including photographs by Asawa's lifelong friend and neighbor Imogen Cunningham, rounds out the
mythmaking.