Sentences with phrase «with ragtime»

Days of Heaven is, of course, exactly that, and Malick's film now seems like a peak moment in a tendency that began with Coppola's Godfather films and Chinatown and saw its final flowering with Ragtime, True Confessions, and Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, where nostalgia reaches a frozen end point.

Not exact matches

A band played melancholy ragtime jazz music before six pall bearers carried the coffin inside the cathedral with hundreds inside preparing to pay a final farewell.

The annual event combines smooth ragtime beats with delectable fare and a serene atmosphere to deliver one of Southern California's premiere musical affairs.

It's an affordable place — by New York standards — and a great place to clink glasses with a new acquaintance as the ragtime piano plays.

Taking on minor film roles beginning with 1979's Hairspray, the burgeoning young actor would subsequently appear in such films as Milos Foreman's Ragtime (1981) and Woody Allen's Zelig (1983), though early struggles with alcohol and substance abuse threatened to sideline his screen career in the mid -»80s.

Since it's an oddball story to begin with, Michael produces an equally oddball score, with elements of ragtime, old - fashioned jazz, and a touch of the recently rediscovered Klezmer style of music.

Blu - ray Highlight: Although it's appeared on previous editions, «The Art of the Sting» is an excellent three - part retrospective that features interviews with Robert Redford, Paul Newman and other cast and crew as they reflect back on making the film, including the choice to use ragtime music for the score, cast chemistry and anecdotes from the set.

This engaging CD pays tribute to twentieth - century blues and ragtime music through 17 tunes performed by Randy Kaplan, whose bantering between songs with gravelly - voiced «Delta denizen» Lightnin» Bodkins is wryly humorous and invigorating.

The author of Ragtime, City of God, and The Book of Daniel has given us a magisterial work with an enormous cast of unforgettable characters — white and black, men, women, and children, unionists and rebels, generals and privates, freed slaves and slave owners.

Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.

Dennis Lehane, best known for his mysteries set in contemporary Boston, draws comparisons to E.L. Doctorow's classic Ragtime with his historical novel, The Given Day.

Juxtaposed with the original, Super Mario Bros. 2's ragtime score sounds more lush and alive.

Schapiro continued to work with dancing figures in large paintings such as Ragtime (1988) and in her monumental public sculpture, Anna and David, a 35 - foot outdoor piece in Rosslyn, Virginia.

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On holiday, in the Carolinas this last Spring, we found an ice cream parlour with a player piano — which I am delighted to say, played (amongst other things) a ragtime version of two of Elvis's hits!