| 单词 | fantastical |
| 例句 | They told of wild “savages” with completely different beliefs and customs; plants with magical powers; and fantastical beasts, bigger and fiercer than any known in Europe. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z That was decidedly less fantastical, but by then, Ivy was hooked on Taryn’s bubbly laugh and the way she wrinkled her nose at anyone who made fun of Ivy’s poofy hair and freckles. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She laughed and laughed and laughed because the present scene, the past weeks, suddenly seemed fantastical. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As fantastical as America’s space ambitions might have seemed, sending a man into space was starting to feel like a straightforward task compared to putting black and white students together in the same Virginia classrooms. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The fantastical creatures and characters, on the other hand, were allotted a much more exotic and complex musical palette, often based on the so-called ‘Octatonic’ scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The air was thin and chill so high above the ground, but the sun was warm, and the cloud-shapes about them reminded Tristran of a fantastical city or an unearthly town. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z To claim that there existed a substance with no measurable attributes was, he maintained, to turn physics into a fantastical story, like Don Quixote. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She could see smells and smell colors and it was all just a little fantastical. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Ovism, as this was called, seems to us the most fantastical of theories. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z After the dramatic capture of the sympathizers and the runaway, his appearance nudged the night into the realm of the fantastical. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Above her bed are papered her fantastical pencil drawings of Frau Elena’s village, of Paris with a thousand white towers beneath whirling flocks of birds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I wasn’t sure if this was a cue for me to say how good the drawings were, but by this time, I was becoming genuinely drawn to these fantastical creatures in front of me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But now all that remained of the fantastical designs were faint waves on their fingers and the dark Sanskrit numbers on their palms. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The money flowing into the community from the oil boom had helped to build their businesses and to realize their once seemingly fantastical dreams of turning the raw prairie into a beacon of commerce. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z All the colors that had been missing from Vaes Tolorro had found their way to Qarth; buildings crowded about her fantastical as a fever dream in shades of rose, violet, and umber. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z What signified was not the tales we told, commonplace or fantastical, but the gestures, the silence of friends as another recounted. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It was a darkened magic lantern show, fantastical and all-embracing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Side by side, as majestic as a pair of statues but far more fantastical, they rode right through the Pavilion of Thought. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The man is, in any event, by all accounts a fool: too fantastical of temperament and childish of observation to merit trust; but too trusting to merit confidence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Dill’s efforts to disentangle himself with dignity were only moderately successful: he rose from the pool like a small fantastical water monster, covered with green slime and dripping sheet. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z To that fantastical end, the government regularly enlists the masses in miserable tasks dressed up in noble slogans. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But the contrast here was too great, the world before my eyes too fantastical. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The New Palace arched across it, as fantastical as a painted backdrop in a fairy play. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “To what mysterious and fantastical lands may I offer you passage today?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Sarai had the idea that every single person and creature she saw here was but the beginning of another fantastical story, and she wanted to follow them all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There is something mysterious as well, something fantastical. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It seems a bit fantastical to me, impossible even. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Another concern was Myers and his love of fantastical narration, so we sat down with him a few days before the hearing and tried to make it as plain as possible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Carrel’s claims about the cells grew more fantastical. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In the course of the fight Trip managed to break his sword, hide under a lady’s dress, fence with a sausage, and perform such fantastical acrobatics that it’s a miracle he didn’t seriously injure himself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Bill Riddick could exist only in real life; he was too fantastical for fiction. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But for both of them there was also something fantastical about it all, remote even though likely. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I find an amazing, fantastical fabric embroidered with moths and butterflies and ferns and flowers. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He and his friends were into old weapons and would spend lots of time talking about “material culture” and sketching ideas for fantastical blades. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Then I saw a clown in bright fantastical garb cavorting about the room. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It is the way she has felt in so many of his tents, the thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly on her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Maybe not, little brother,” says Toño, his eyes sparking like crazy, his Pancho Villa mustache in vigorous motion, “but you will have a fantastical vocabulario.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z This quiet woman in a plain cotton dress came onstage and proceeded to stun everyone in the room with the most hair-raising, bloodcurdling, fantastical, yet utterly believable, tale I’d ever heard. Alison Bechdel: By the Book 2012-07-26T14:36:01Z “Feather Gatherers,” part of the Ice Factory festival, a wellspring of singular drama, unfurls in some fantastical Serbia of the mind, a Slivovitz-soaked realm of peasant blouses and folk superstitions. ‘Feather Gatherers’ Gives a Twist to a Russian Folk Tale 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z But in the 20th century, as journalists established more professional standards, distinctions were drawn between factual and fantastical accounts, and only recently have such blends been celebrated as an exciting new literary form. ‘ZeroZeroZero,’ by Roberto Saviano 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The book “slides vertiginously between the mundane and the fantastical,” our reviewer, Sheila Glaser, writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z In some fantastical sequel, did they despair of escaping their provincial lassitude by traditional means, and join the circus in the hopes of finally making it to Moscow? Theater Review: ‘Donka: A Letter to Chekhov,’ by Daniele Finzi Pasca, at BAM 2012-11-16T22:50:08Z "It's fantastical in many ways, and macabre in many ways." 'Mad Men' star Hamm ditches suave for macabre in 'Young Doctor' 2013-10-01T17:30:14Z Fincher and Walker eschew the fantastical exaggerations of franchises like “John Wick” and “The Mechanic” in favor of plainer costumes, weapons and scenarios, intending to capture this hired gunman’s exhaustingly obsessive nature. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in November 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z A fantastical episode is run through with rigorous contrapuntal passages. Review: Thomas Dausgaard Should Be a Philharmonic Regular 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z What follows is suspenseful, then fantastical, then man versus nature, then almost science fiction. Newly Released Books Include ‘The Pier Falls’ by Mark Haddon 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, his paintings of fantastical storybook creatures, interlocked in animated combat and hallucinatory fields of brilliant color and pattern, grew to be wildly popular in Brazil and beyond. A Visionary Brazilian Artist Is Rediscovered 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z First, in the particularly chilly years of the fifties, anti-nuclear, anti-military freaks flocked to this form whose very fantastical nature provided an allegorical legitimacy for their questionable messages. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z His half-hour comedy, always on the dark and fantastical side, took on a whole new weight — a seriousness that was simultaneously impressive and a little wearing. Louis C.K.’s ‘Louie’ Returns for Season 5 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Which is not to suggest that there is anything naïve or fantastical about this tale of struggle and resilience. Review: In ‘The Other Side of Hope,’ an Old-Fashioned Humanist Fable 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The circumstances are fantastical, but the fears his aunt and uncle express — about the likelihood that the world will misjudge or harm him — will be familiar to any Black parent or child. How ‘I’m a Virgo’ Pulled Off Old-School Movie Magic 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z There are robotic arms, electrical cables, fantastical beasts and references to the Venezuelan folk figure María Lionza, as well as cameos of Ghersi’s own paintings and calligraphy. Arca Once Made Electronic Music. Now She Builds Worlds. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z A woman literally can’t stop dancing in the U.S. premiere of Matthew Bourne’s stage adaptation of the fantastical 1948 Powell and Pressburger film based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Although Pratchett's wizards, vampires and goblins are far removed from Wodehouse's butlers, toffs and parties, both, said Florence, are from fantastical worlds. PG Wodehouse prize awarded to Terry Pratchett 2012-05-29T23:06:01Z “I wanted fantastical images and science fiction and the primitive world all to collide,” he said. Summer Movies: Creating a God, With Links to Olivier 2011-04-28T13:49:44Z Walking to Buchenwald Open Fist Theatre Company presents Tom Jacobson’s fantastical new dark comedy about American tourists who make an unexpected side trip to the former concentration camp. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Sept. 10-17: 'Runaway Home,' Ain't Misbehavin'' and more 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z The Republican Party’s presidential primary debates have befuddled and confused serious political analysts and those members of the public who exist outside of the fantastical world created by the right-wing propaganda machine. Donald Trump’s “Death Wish” fantasies: Guns, white vigilantism, and the right’s toxic masculinity 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z “The Leftovers,“ a fantastical drama of spirituality and loss, proved that with enough grounding, the wildest absurdities can heighten the emotion. ‘Mrs. Davis’ Review: Algorithm and Blues 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z DuBois interpreted his figures as fantastical paintings, featuring whorls of bold color presented in visually engaging ways. Artist Theaster Gates on W.E.B. DuBois and what Donald Trump doesn't get about Chicago 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z He learned from them fast cutting between scenes, fantastical milieux, spare dialogue, quickfire narrative momentum – not to mention how to discombobulate readers by shifting times and introducing characters elliptically. Philip Pullman: Why I love comics 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z It makes it differ from fantastical stories people have seen before—is that it should make sense. What 'Game of Thrones'' Costumes Tell You About the Show 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Is your home life as fantastical as your stage shows? Marisa Carnesky 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z It’s a fantastical world, where a tree is a metaphor for life, and the branches tickle. Dance Review: Keely Garfield?s ?Twin Pines? at Danspace ? Review 2012-01-23T22:08:42Z The fantastical bonnet of flowers and feathers she wears posing in front of Grand Central Terminal echoes the drama of Jules-Félix Coutan’s sculpture of Hercules, Minerva and Mercury atop the clock on the facade. Art Review: Bill Cunningham’s ‘Facades’: The Book as Exhibition 2014-03-13T20:25:16Z Wilson responded to the controversy with another blog post, which explained to her readers that the verse in question “is subject to a truly fantastical amount of bullshittery in the modern era.” The Writer Behind a Muslim Marvel Superhero on Her Faith in Comics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z When he puts words together, it’s seemingly at random, and almost always fantastical: a game of Mad Libs come to life. Music Review: Riff Raff at Santos Party House 2012-09-02T21:09:52Z But by far the best quality was the fantastical world – oh, and the wonderfully odd sense of humour too. House of Secrets by Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini - review 2013-04-12T11:00:00Z Give me the harder truth of Ijames’s fantastical version any day. Review: Martha Washington, Hilariously Haunted by Her Slaves 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z "It's always through the west that Americans have defined their identity," says Chavkin, whose piece interweaves the story of a laid-off casino-worker with a fantastical overarching narrative about Dutch immigrants. TEAM's Mission Drift: The money markets are in meltdown. Send for Elvis 2011-08-07T21:31:01Z The children’s play isn’t idle or fantastical; in fact, we gradually realize, at some point it stopped being play. Review: In ‘Make Believe,’ Four Children Meet Their Inner Adults 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z It’s a stunningly composed scene, Dany looking not just regal but semi-divine in repose with three fantastical creatures, tossing them sweet meats to fight for. Game of Thrones Watch: Dragons and Eagles and Bears, Oh, My! 2013-05-13T09:45:54Z In his opening statement, Brave told the jury that any notion that police had “bungled the investigation” and the defendant was innocent was from the fantastical realm of television. What does an innocent man have to do to go free? Plead guilty 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Uchida is alive to their fantastical elements and brings distinctive colorings to each piece. If the music is Baroque, don't fix it 2011-01-26T15:22:15Z But that's precisely when people love their monarchs and royal families - it gives them a fantastical escape. Glenn Greenwald's reader Q&A: the highlights 2013-01-24T23:07:00Z Memory, it seems, is a fickle, fictional, fantastical thing. Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou – review 2013-04-22T06:30:01Z Her jump was something fantastical, like an illustration of courage; her expansive arms and back were full of breadth. A Farewell and the Promise of a New Future at City Ballet 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z It verges on kitsch, but retains a sense of the fantastical and the marvelous. Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet?s ?Ph?dre? and ?Psych?? - Review 2011-09-28T21:04:57Z Early in the “Mission: Impossible” series, the outlandishness of the movies’ plots and Cruise’s equally fantastical stunts started to make him seem less than human. ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Still Running 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z It's really remarkable to be able to sort of recognize different lived experiences but through this fantastical, beautiful, magical, enchanting underworld — this otherworldly way of expressing yourself. "There's serious athleticism" to being a professional mermaid 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z And is escaping into the strange and fantastical simply a natural response to living in a world bound by structural racism? From Beyoncé to Sorry to Bother You: the new age of Afro-surrealism 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The Mongoose World premiere of Will Arbery's fantastical tale about a dysfunctional Dallas family. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 21-28: 'The Mystery of Love & Sex' and more 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The combination of museum and view is fantastical. Horniman Museum; Bauhaus Live – review 2012-05-26T23:05:30Z Johns's Duchamp-inspired set featured in Walkaround Time, a dance of strange vibrating beauty in which seven inflatable vinyl rectangles were imprinted with fantastical mechanistic imagery drawn from The Large Glass. Marcel Duchamp's gift to New York 2013-01-06T17:59:01Z It sounds like a fantastical premise - and Thomas' film is filled with beautifully ethereal, dreamlike imagery - but it's also a universally relatable coming-of-age story. Rebecca Thomas picks 5 great coming-of-age movies 2013-03-08T01:31:08Z The way they look, like extras from a remake of Men in Black filmed around FWD>>, has added to the growing excitement that they are going to deliver the most fantastical future-funk of the century. New band of the day ? No 822: Magnetic Man 2010-07-09T15:30:00Z Hillary eschews all that fantastical wish fulfillment and leans into her pantsuit. Review | Hillary Clinton’s thriller with Louise Penny is a thinly veiled jab at a Very Stable Genius 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z This series is more immediately fantastical, with soaring dragons from the earliest moments. ‘House of the Dragon’ Will Revisit Westeros, Not Reinvent It 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Even in shows like iZombie or The Vampire Diaries, where fantastical elements propel the storylines, there is a feeling of real emotion. Small screen queens: how teen angst took over the TV scene 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Harrison Ford galloped up to the fantastical facade in the 1989 movie “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” in search of the Holy Grail. Exploring Petra and other archaeological wonders of Jordan 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z But the subjects of the Botswana artist’s “Blackbody Rogues’ Gallery” are too fantastical to be taken for the usual suspects. Review | In the galleries: A rock-and-roll odyssey through sex, race and religion 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z In this fantastical ode to the United States Postal Service, Berger posits that before email, actual snails were responsible for transporting physical letters to and fro. A New Technology Age: When the Technology Is Books, and the Age Is 3 to 7 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The works chosen are in a whole host of material from corten steel to fluorescent tubing, "some serene, some fantastical, some disorienting, some enchanting," said Outred. Jean-Siméon Chardin-inspired exhibition staged by Christie's 2012-05-24T17:54:25Z Either way, you were entering a fantastical world that was also fully recognizable. Let’s Take It to the Page 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Is Marling, whose work incorporates the fantastical, just a normal human being with an incredible imagination, or does she in fact spend part of her life subsumed in another world? Naomi Klein and Brit Marling talk Trump, branding, protest and activism 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z IT was not so long ago that commercials were filled with fantastical characters like green giants, flying maids and white knights. Advertising: In Network Pilots, Paranormal Is the New Normal 2011-05-22T21:51:26Z The eBay.com auction of a fantastical portrait the King of Pop posed for before his death ended with no bids, according to the auction's organizer. No bids for eccentric Michael Jackson portrait 2010-05-06T11:30:00Z The sequel amplifies the look with more fantastical creatures and more intricate costumes. Jolie and Pfeiffer battle for power in 'Maleficent' sequel 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z But he did retreat to home turf to dream up Susie's fantastical afterlife - a technicolor dreamscape full of golden cornfields, shimmering stars and sweeping shorelines. 2010-02-15T08:24:00Z Created by Boots Riley, left, and starring Jharrel Jerome, “I’m a Virgo” uses puppets and other practical special effects to create a fantastical world. How ‘I’m a Virgo’ Pulled Off Old-School Movie Magic 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Highlight of this opener, which promises so much, was one incredibly interesting interview with an American academic, who explained, to Dawkins's slow entrancement, how children are basically made to want the most fantastical explanation going. Rewind TV: Our Drugs War; Faith School Menace?; The Great British Bake Off 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z Kris Kelly's animated Here to Fall shows us a girl tumbling through a bizarrely fantastical landscape. Film-makers have lost the art of making a long story short 2013-04-08T10:48:51Z "Riot Baby" has also been praised for its "fantastical originality with his incredible worldbuilding and devastating prose. Stark, sharp, and brutal." "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z Or for younger audiences, "Aquamarine" or even "H2O: Just Add Water"? Maybe your mind goes to children's fairy tales, in which mermaids are fantastical creatures, destined to become princesses. "There's serious athleticism" to being a professional mermaid 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z Six lively prints rediscovered from her archives, among them a bouquet motif, are splashed across dresses, skirts, blouses, and swimwear showcased against walls covered in the same designs, creating fantastical, spirited vignettes. See the Striking Windows at Carolina Herrera’s Madison Avenue Store 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Although he never found anything too fantastical on his subterranean forays, the idea of vast cities and civilizations beneath our own has entranced him ever since. For ‘Trollhunters,’ Guillermo del Toro Found Inspiration in the Sewers 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The novel, a mythic tale set roughly 1,500 years ago in a wild, fantastical England populated by ogres, pixies, knights and dragons, was unlike anything he’d ever written. For Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Buried Giant’ Is a Departure 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z You will be amazed at nature’s fantastical imagination and evolutionary inventiveness in shaping such arachnids. Exhibition Review: ‘Spiders Alive!’ at American Museum of Natural History 2012-07-27T21:25:49Z “Toruk” takes place on Pandora, the fantastical, jungle-like world depicted in “Avatar,” but is set thousands of years before the events of the movie. 'Toruk,' the Cirque du Soleil show inspired by 'Avatar,' is coming to L.A. 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z She joined a lawsuit in 2015 asserting that representatives for Mr. Cosby had defamed her and other women by calling stories like theirs “fantastical” and “past the point of absurdity.” #MeToo Cases’ New Legal Battleground: Defamation Lawsuits 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z The doors open upon fantastical, horrific scenes, including a torture chamber, an armory of weapons, a horde of jewels dripping with blood. ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ and ‘Iolanta’ Open at the Met 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The Adelaide Gallery, for example, paired performances of Handel's "Messiah" with fantastical electrical displays, giant projections of microscopic beings, or demonstrations of laughing gas. 11 odd Victorian Christmas traditions 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Long treasured by climbers and hikers for its fantastical rock formations and abundant natural arches, the Red River Gorge in east-central Kentucky has been designated a National Geological Area. Coming Soon to an American Cliff Near You: ‘Via Ferrata’ Routes 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z But the ballet can’t quite decide what it wants to be, hovering uncertainly between the fantastical and the literal. ‘Nureyev’ Opens at Bolshoi After Delay and Much Speculation 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z A fantastical mural inspired by Voltaire’s satire welcomes patrons to this laid-back coffee shop, which opened in May 2015. Five Places to Go in Montreal 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Head to Zoo to see the latest show from the irresistible Little Bulb; Squally Showers is a fantastical balletic farce. Edinburgh fringe 2013: my top tips 2013-06-06T15:18:28Z This week: A celebration of an African American author and activist, a new musical based on a fantastical French comedy, and a holiday show improvised right before your very eyes. L.A. theater openings, Dec. 11-18: 'Impro Theatre’s 1966 Holiday Variety Extravaganza' and more 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z “Gestures,” an important gem of a dance, is an enticing blend of the matter-of-fact and the fantastical. Dance Review: Jodi Melnick at New York Live Arts 2012-03-09T23:41:20Z It attracts the fantastical too: during the pandemic, Lewis said, she discovered a baby squirrel had been sneaking in and hiding acorns under her pillow. Jenny Lewis Keeps Finding the Magic 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z In medieval style, we sat at long wooden tables surrounded by fantastical woodcarvings of jesters and knights, a chandelier made of wooden mermaids hanging whimsically over our heads. Overnighter: In Kutna Hora, Near Prague, Contemporary Art Amid Medieval Charm 2010-11-15T18:15:00Z He’s already delved into the early lives of such fantastical figures as Snow White and Cinderella. If you liked ‘Wicked,’ you’ll be enchanted by ‘Hiddensee’ 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z “She says that the ‘strongest argument’ in favor of some of the most fantastical sounding measures tends to be a sober realism: ‘What’s the alternative?’ 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Through an alchemy of video projection and action on the stage, Drosselmeier appears to be bounding through his own fantastical movie, which whirls us from his magical shop to the doorstep of the Stahlbaum household. Atlanta Ballet’s high-tech ‘Nutcracker’ at Kennedy Center is one of the most entertaining out there 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Some of them were more like fantastical, all-encompassing millinery than mere masks, as they were resplendent with gold chains, pearl-like beads and flowers. Masks are here to stay. And they’re quickly becoming a way to express ourselves. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Stine, but a movie about the books themselves—with a fantastical twist. Watch Jack Black in the New Trailer for 'Goosebumps' 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z One reason the movies work is that their scale never overwhelmed the extraordinary characters, especially the wizards whose very ordinary habits, prejudices, quirks and fears made this fantastical world recognizable. | 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2': Childhood Vanishing in Swirls of Smoke 2011-07-14T01:03:02Z The fantastical is necessary to access the fullness of reality. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z That list included locations as varied as fantastical colored-rock formations in India and a humble brickwork church in South London. The World Has Changed. So Has ‘52 Places.’ 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z But even those are grounded in the everyday, rather than in the fantastical. Spare Times for Children for March 14-20 2014-03-13T23:26:13Z The series’s main appeal, however, is its fantastical plot twists and developments within the span of stories that are just a few minutes long. Where Does ‘Unicorn: Warriors Eternal’ Rank in the Tartakovsky Canon? 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Twenty-four years ago, the Classical Dance Company of Cambodia astounded audiences at the Los Angeles Festival with its ritual dances and stories of fantastical demons and mythical goddesses. Heavenly emissaries Royal Ballet of Cambodia descend on Long Beach 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z I circled that sentence as I was reading, thinking it a nice distillation of both love’s folly and the mood of the fantastical Watteau. Review: In ‘The Improbability of Love’ by Hannah Rothschild, an Art-World Caper 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z She seems to be intrigued by the supernatural and fantastical and admits to a "geeky" enthusiasm for comic books and computer games. Kick-Ass Jane 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z This new book, "part memoir, part fantastical travelogue", sees him rediscover the sea, from the south coast of the UK to the Azores and New Zealand, investigating both natural and human history. The best books for summer 2013 2013-05-26T18:35:01Z Both are fantastical realities and vivid sorts of worlds. The Mighty Chris Hemsworth on Snow White, Joss Whedon and Thor 2 2012-05-31T14:15:20Z But that changed after a conversation with the show’s costume consultant, Patricia Field, known for her fantastical costuming on “Sex and the City.” ‘Emily in Paris’ Returns, With Even More Fantastical Fashion 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Martín Zimmerman’s “On the Exhale” — another current solo play about gun violence, also with a female narrator, at Roundabout Underground — is a somewhat fantastical tale, its action driven by the grief of an immediate survivor. Review: In ‘When It’s You,’ Isolation Has Consequences 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Best known for his fantastical thrillers, Mr. Ni wrote the screenplays for many of the action movies produced by the Shaw Brothers, who dominated the Hong Kong market. Ni Kuang, Prolific Hong Kong Novelist and Screenwriter, Dies at 87 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z But at this stage it is a different show to the one we were initially sold: more conventional, closer to the fantastical tales of knights and sorcerers Martin’s books seemed to be subverting. Game of Thrones has lost its evil streak – and it's a crying shame 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Over here is a fantastical transmitter built of a typewriter keyboard, a clock and a gramophone horn. Derring-do in a steampunk world: This Cirque du Soleil show is so 'Kurios' 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z And in this fantastical modern-day version, there are tensions between the couple from the start. Juilliard Stages an Orpheus Rarity From Opera’s Early Days 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z A scene called The Trolls that he drew for The Hobbit depicts a curling, fantastical flame rising amid a nocturnal labyrinth of stippled trees. Why Tolkien was a fine modern artist 2012-11-29T15:29:21Z First, the weirdly fantastical short story writer Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners and Pretty Monsters. Who are your favourite underrated writers? 2010-08-11T15:34:00Z A teenager must protect the world from being invaded by the evil ruler of a fantastical realm. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z It’s often been said of Le Guin that her dystopias are less comments on fantastical realities than they are comments on our own. Michelle Dean loves Ursula K. Le Guin's cat stories. Which is a good start. 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Bernet dismissed Daniel’s claim that his father had “put a stick in my butt,” writing that the child was, rather, making up a fantastical story under prompting by his mother. Custody in crisis: How family courts nationwide put children in danger 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z His second book, "The Snake's Pass" becomes more fantastical, centering on the legend of Saint Patrick as he defeats the King of Snakes in Ireland. The queer horror of "Dracula" 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Each fantastical creation was made by pouring resin — a favorite material of the designer’s — over an egg-shaped wooden mold held upside down and then righting the mold as the viscous material began to harden. At the Brooklyn Navy Yard It’s Full Steam Ahead 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z It's a totally original show, a character drama set in a fantastical world. "True Blood" star really wanted to be a physicist 2010-06-14T03:22:00Z "To me there's nothing as fantastical as Jodorowsky's vision ... and this is one of the peaks of it." Documentary 'Jodorowsky's Dune' argues case for lost masterpiece 2013-09-11T11:54:47Z From engrossing detective fiction to fantastical young-adult novels to a serious analysis of the Supreme Court, there are suggestions here for a wide range of tastes. 143 books to read in summer 2014 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The producers felt the last of the Brosnan Bond films, Die Another Day, had got too fantastical, with the invisible car and the ice palace. Pierce Brosnan on GoldenEye: crazy stunts and thigh-crushings from Xenia Onatopp 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The fantastical images mirror the song’s dream-like composition, and the video ends with a mammoth Martin laying beside a mountain as seen from space. Coldplay Mess With Perception in Illusory 'Up&Up' Video 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The pieces in this exhibition — which include seven new paintings — are often fantastical and dreamlike. New Southern California Exhibitions Reveal Riches of Art and Tradition 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The latest is one of his so-called postcard paintings from this year, in which one or more tourist postcards blossom into a fantastical oil-painted scene. William Wegman Show at Bowdoin College Museum of Art 2012-07-27T14:23:59Z The writer-director produces many impressively striking images, many of them without the benefit of CGI effects, to render his fantastical setting. Review: 'Upside Down' is mostly down 2013-03-15T03:16:04Z In the first of back-to-back episodes, 10 home bakers must create Bundt cakes inspired by winter flavors before tackling Ms. Berry’s recipe for apple almond cake and, finally, fantastical multitiered holiday celebration cakes. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Great American Baking Show’ and ‘Top Chef’ 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z “The Shape of Water” features a fantastical creature - a cross between human and fish with glowing spots on its skin - to point to “the otherness” people so often reject, Del Toro said. Don't be cynical about love, director Del Toro says in adult fairytale 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z And what Hubbard himself called Scientology’s “space opera” mythology of “Operating Thetans” pushes its reputation far into the most fantastical corners of recent history. HBO’s ‘Going Clear’ details Scientology’s theater of the surreal 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The fantastical adventures on the Woman’s journey soon come to a crisis point, when, alone in the garden, she panics, realizing that beauty fades, including her own. Review: A Powerful Opera of Eastern and Western Allure 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Framed around a little cinema, it's a compilation of fantastical stories. This week's new films 2012-05-25T23:05:15Z Playwright Glenn Berger puts his fantastical imagination to work again in this story about the rich inner world of a discarded stuffed goat. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-04-06T22:05:12Z The media carrying this overloaded pantheon of fantastical and historical characters are just as diverse. Artist of the week 79: Andreas Hofer | Skye Sherwin 2010-03-18T13:04:00Z If the first half, “Arrows,” simmered slowly, the dreamlike “Errors,” which began after a brief blackout, boiled over with Ms. Sweeney’s fantastical tale about that mountain lion. When the Body Is a Canvas, Accented With Paint or Peanuts 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Shot in the bayous of southern Louisiana, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” is less a literal-minded exercise in regionalism than a fantastical essay on the notion of place. Critic’s Notebook: BAMcinemaFest, With Jonathan Caouette and Others 2012-06-19T22:25:32Z Tasso had been influenced by Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso,” another fantastical epic about love’s travails during a clash of West and East, which had appeared to acclaim in several versions in the 16th century. Tellings of Armida?s Story, Including Gluck?s at Juilliard 2012-02-03T15:51:38Z Now it appears that his fantastical and violent directorial vision will once again find its way to the big screen with “Pacific Rim,” a monster flick already in pre-production. ArtsBeat: Del Toro to Unleash a Monster of a Movie 2011-03-09T19:49:19Z Pampa is 9 when an encounter with a goddess brings her fantastical power: She speaks a mythical city into existence, tying her own fate to its destiny over the next 250 years. 13 New Books Coming in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z It's shocking all right: there are some astounding leaps in logic to reach fantastical conclusions about buildings that, more than likely, are just used to store old tax returns. The X Factor 2010-09-25T05:45:00Z Cumulus clouds coursed by, fantastical animals in a slow-moving carousel. Homeless in Los Angeles 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The Gaiman/Sarrantonio and Chabon anthologies are similar beasts: stories with a fantastical edge, and brought to us from names not usually associated with such genres as science fiction, horror and fantasy. Gaiman's choice: shouldn't good writing tell a story too? 2010-06-23T10:41:00Z All unnamed, mother, daughter and grandmother are inextricably linked by the fantastical beasts that birthed them and ultimately bind them together across oceans, states and cities. ‘Bestiary’ Offers a Compendium of Creatures, and Generations 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z I've waited 26 years for my reckoning, from that first afternoon I stumbled upon the Power Rangers and immediately became enamored with the idea of fantastical possibilities beyond my own life. "WandaVision" gave us the MCU's first superpowered Black woman, which is long overdue yet not enough 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Just more than a decade later, Tomaselli would become known for his fantastical painted collages, embedded with photographs and pills and the leaves of psychoactive plants such as cannabis. Why artist Fred Tomaselli talks back to the New York Times 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Only toward the end, when Frankenstein and his Creature dance in a grappling pas de deux of mutual horror and dependence, does the dance finally evoke something of the novel’s fantastical gothic horror. Review: ‘Frankenstein,’ at Royal Ballet, Complete With Dissection 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z I don’t trust a woman who’s never wanted, in some fantastical part of her heart or mind, to be a spy. TV’s female spy problem 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z But if you introduce the fantastical element at Page 40, you’re on wobbly ground. In ‘Black Mirror,’ Sci-Fi That Feels Close to Home 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Yes, she was quite a sight in her fantastical costume, a mothlike figure with multiple flapping wings. Review: Fresh Talent Fuels ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z JJ Abrams' first pic from the Star Wars set meanwhile, pulling the veil from a franchise full of fantastical imagery, was of a clapperboard. Fifty Shades of Grey: first film image appears, and it's not very sexy 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Naturally, it only made sense for the two to theme their wedding after their fantastical interests. 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Game of Thrones' fans marry in fantasy-themed wedding ceremony 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z But he was a troubled soul, with a keen intellect and a fantastical imagination. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z Bran and Benjen may occupy a liminal space between the earthly and the fantastical, however, they are united in memories of family and humanity. “Game of Thrones” recap: Is power still a shadow on the wall, or does it come from standing in the light? 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z It is a place where ideas are pushed, risks are taken, where the fantastical or the ideal or the outrageous is engaged. | The Real Deal 2014-02-15T01:16:44Z Calvino was, of course, a Venetian, and the fantastical cities the novelist imagined in Invisible Cities were a homage to Venice itself; the least likely of all cities, fictional or real. Venice Biennale: castles in?the air 2010-08-30T20:31:00Z “Younger” has always been escapism at its fantastical best: A New York of dazzling Manhattan skyscrapers and tastefully grungy Brooklyn lofts. ‘Younger’ Departs a Covid-Free New York, a Fantasy to the End 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z “There’s kind of a big mythology around redheads,” Ms. Welch said, referring to what she called the more fantastical and romantic side of it. Skin Deep: Carriers of the Torch, in a Chorus of Red Hair 2010-10-26T23:10:00Z Augie and his best friend, Britt, are two smart, unpopular kids trying to survive middle school, and their friendship provides entertaining repartee and emotional depth to this fantastical novel. The best children’s books for June 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The look of the exhibit will match its fantastical theme. EMP Museum launches into future with four new exhibitions 2012-12-22T22:59:04Z That model of a modern major editor has now disappeared from the landscape, swept away on a tide of streetwear, digital democratization, shrinking budgets and a value system that elevates the functional over the fantastical. Beholder of Beauty 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z High Winds Writer Sylvan Oswald performs this tale of a trans man who undertakes a fantastical journey; part of the LAX Festival. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Oct. 8-15: 'Helen Lawrence,' Karen Finley and more 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z The writing may be in Turkish but the work is not lost in translation: it stars a cloaked superheroine on fantastical adventures within the Istanbul metro and on ancient cobbled streets. Cultured Traveler: In Istanbul, Seeing Art Through Two Lenses 2013-08-16T16:15:44Z The premiere of Ang Lee's "Life of Pi," a 3-D adaptation of the fantastical bestseller, opens the festival. A last hurrah at the 50th New York Film Festival 2012-09-25T14:41:09Z The last series of Scandal improved on reality with – spoilers ahead – a frankly fantastical ending in which the racist officer was prosecuted and anti-corruption legislation was introduced. Shots Fired: is this Black Lives Matter, the TV show? 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z Buy the Blu-ray It sounds terrible, like some misjudged hybrid of the all too real pain of Iris and the fantastical comedy of Sleeper. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-07-13T23:05:18Z This street, the main drag of an invented Chicano neighborhood called Belvedere Heights, hunkers at the symbolic center of “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels,” a fantastical horror-whodunit. In ‘Penny Dreadful: City of Angels,’ California Dreaming, Darkly 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z People don’t watch game shows to get riled up — it’s escapist, fantastical fun. An oral history of how Alex Trebek became America’s most beloved game-show host 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z It is a fantastical device which helps Brockmeier arrive at the kind of hard truths literary fiction so admires. Can fantasy ever tell the truth? 2011-03-17T09:37:12Z And Veronica Etro claimed proudly in her program notes that all the fantastical prints were done not on a computer but by traditional techniques of “the nearly extinct art of hand-painted prints.” Versace's Cyber Move 2012-09-21T18:51:17Z The short, fantastical piece was alive with trills and tremolos, rustling arpeggios, beguiling tunes and jittery dance segments driven by Bartokian cluster chords. Review: Young Concert Artists Is Back, With a Superb Pianist 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Made by cutting and pasting the glossy, exclusionary images that mass culture foists on women, they retaliate with fantastical concoctions of otherness — racial, cultural, physical — that can stop you in your tracks. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z In Miami, the Herald’s landmark bayfront building was leveled to make way for a fantastical glass casino; gambling was also a plan for the Philadelphia Inquirer building. Goodbye, old Washington Post, home of the newspaper the Grahams built 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Then Kripke’s original story arc ended, and he stepped aside as showrunner, and the plot — already fantastical, with demons at crossroads and characters dying and being reborn left and right — went progressively more nuts. ‘Supernatural’ Lays Its Weary Head to Rest 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Muscato said his goal was to document the trip, “or else it would have remained this fantastical barroom tale.” For the Love of Beer and His Buddies 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z You seem to alternate between darker roles and more fantastical stuff, like “True Blood.” ArtsBeat Blog: Emmys Watch: Michelle Forbes 2011-09-12T21:15:34Z But they are also fantastical, a blend of satire, science fiction and parable, the point of which is to change our view of reality by inflating it to surreality. A Different Kind of Dystopian Novel 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Considered one of the greatest printmakers of the 18th century, Giovanni Battista Piranesi created depictions of fantastical structures and captured views of modern and ancient Rome, influencing the architectural taste of the time. The Final Architectural Masterpieces of Giovanni Battista Piranesi Go on Display 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z But the Mad Ones avoids its usual fantastical accents. Review: ‘Miles for Mary,’ a Sendup of the Interminable Meeting From Hell 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Children as young as four were more likely to claim that surnits really existed when they heard about them in the scientific context versus in the fantastical context. Dear Santa Claus: Why do I still believe you exist? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z It's a dense 3-D world of immaculately detailed owls and fantastical places. 'Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole': Animated combat fantasy shows its talons 2010-09-23T20:21:00Z A different kind of sensation attends the larger-scale, more self-consciously artificial action found in the “Transformer” movies and also, to a less fantastical extent, in things like “The A-Team” and “Knight and Day.” Film: Brace for Impact ? It?s Action Movie Season 2010-06-23T18:10:00Z Creative and aggressively resilient, the baroness-to-be fled to Berlin, where she studied art and theater and wrote increasingly fantastical poetry, supporting herself by modeling and shoplifting. Dada Was Born 100 Years Ago. So What? 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z At its heart is a fantastical conceit: music as a conjurer of miracles. Science fiction and fantasy – reviews 2012-10-05T07:00:03Z Poupaud likens him to a mysterious figure from a fantastical piece of fiction. Raul Ruiz and the ghosts on the battlefield 2012-08-20T17:37:40Z “You have both psychological drama and fantastical elements because the same was in their writings. They were very complex in terms of form, and their descriptions.” What’s So Frightening About Identical Twins? 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z But a lot of us still need the sense of fantastical racial contentment that movies like “The Upside” and “Green Book” are slinging. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The fantastical tale concerns a nobleman father who consults a magician about the whereabouts of his long-estranged son. Tony Kushner's 'The Illusion' reappears on stage in Seattle 2012-08-09T20:29:04Z You may find yourself asking much the same question while watching the fourth movie in “The Matrix” series, as it alternately amuses and frustrates you with its fantastical world. ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Review: Slipping Through Dreamland (Again) 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z This means a few things: It means “The Daily Show’s” finale will be a far cry from the fantastical, Candy-Landish tribute Comedy Central colleague Stephen Colbert enjoyed last year with “The Colbert Report.” 10 “Daily Show” villains we’d love to see roast Jon Stewart on his final episode 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z There's a lot of, beyond comedic elements, more fantastical elements because it's all from the point of view of that main character. "I have more dragons to slay": Tony Shalhoub is just getting started 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Schweitzer has a perfectly sensible explanation for this: Wagner’s operas are about gods, myths and fantastical creatures, while the stories that Verdi tells are about human relationships. How ‘A Mad Love’ of Opera Has Played Out From 17th-Century Mantua to 21st-Century New York 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z In this fantastical historical novel, the Underground Railroad used by escaping slaves is an actual system of subterranean tracks and trains. 10 novels we’re looking forward to this summer and fall 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Once filmed, the scenes featuring the apes were sent off to Weta Digital, the New Zealand-based company that created the fantastical world of Middle Earth in "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" films. 'Dawn of Planet of Apes' marks digital lib for actors 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Mubi throws up some really interesting films, most recently Akira Kurosawa’s Ran and Vittorio de Sica’s Miracle in Milan, which is funny, fantastical and bonkers. Armando Iannucci: 'We're watching Cats five mins a night – to prolong the agony' 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Such ideological tensions are not, however, outwardly apparent in his fantastical short stories, “Ten Nights’ Dreams.” Read Your Way Through Tokyo 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z With its fantastical setting and characters, “The Lord of the Rings” bears a superficial resemblance to HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” currently one of the biggest shows in the world. ‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Coming to Amazon 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z This is something King would revisit in later short fictions, where he abandoned fantastical horror for cruel, bitter realities; but as a rare note here, it's exemplary. Rereading Stephen King 2012-07-17T11:00:32Z His work is a swirl of entwined dancers, androgynous lovers and fantastical cartoonish figures he called "robots". Art ? Miles Davis's last addiction 2010-12-09T22:28:00Z From the sculptural wigs adding what looks like an additional foot to Rosheuvel's height to the opulently laden dinner tables, verdant gardens and sumptuous gowns, every visual is intoxicating and unmistakably fantastical. She is very brown: "Queen Charlotte" explains how the integrated ton was won, but what is left out? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Even a decade ago, the notion of Irish-language rap seemed fantastical. A Celtic Revival, in Hip-Hop and More 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The play’s third main element, the fantastical fairy realm, takes a back seat in this decidedly earthbound production. Review: A ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ That’s More Speedy Than Dreamy 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z A fantastical, Victorian world created in paper tableaux was a fitting and witty end to the London season. A Handbag Merry-Go-Round 2012-09-19T17:26:26Z His lonely world and fantastical ability to cope are recognizable while also individual. Movie Review: ?Boy? Expounds on Life in Maori Village 2012-03-02T00:41:11Z Sometimes by being fantastical, it allows us to talk about reality in a more illuminating a way, because it’s a different sort of an entry. A.M. Homes, too, has met this guy at a reading: “I don’t read books by women” 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z It certainly made sense for the Met to have the input of the set designers of McQueen’s fantastical runway shows. Special Report: Fashion: Gone Global: Fashion as Art? 2011-07-04T18:13:03Z Schumann’s Fantasy blends Beethovenian structure with, appropriate to its title, fantastical wildness. Box Sets Highlight Leonard Shure and Howard Karp 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The children wrote fantastical stories together, spinning imaginary worlds of romantic and military adventure. Perspective | Two centuries after her birth, Emily Brontë’s gifts keep giving 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z First performed in 1910 when Massenet was 67, it's a folktalelike distillation of Cervantes' epic-length picaresque novel, in which the aging title character is inspired to feats of fantastical derring-do thanks to too much reading. Sara de Luis garnishes Seattle Opera's 'Don Quixote' with classic Spanish dance 2011-02-18T22:03:30Z A simple misunderstanding pulls him into this fantastical world — and eventually draws in his sister, too, determined to protect her brother just as in their childhood. Vampire novel ‘The Quick’ has rich Victorian details but too many characters, plots Your books are full of the surreal and the fantastical. Haruki Murakami Says He Doesn’t Dream. He Writes. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z “La La Land” celebrates the amateur: What happens when an ordinary person enters a fantastical world? Shall They Dance? Making ‘La La Land’ Move 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z While your new show Counterpart might include some fantastical elements, there’s an unavoidable link to be made to issues of real world immigration, given its focus on the border separating different realities. Olivia Williams on Hollywood inequality: 'Nobody, until now, gave a damn' 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z For some, “Turandot” — not just Zeffirelli’s extravagant production, but the opera itself, set in the fantastical Peking of legend — is an example of the problem. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z In the fantastical universe of these superheroes, Eshun — whose parents are Ghanaian — found not escape, but a way to rationalize his experiences. ________Stepping Into the Expansive Worlds of Black Imagination 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z That groundedness in the soil of natural life is, perhaps, an implicit admission that the treatment of African Americans has been so bizarre and grotesque that fantastical enhancements are unnecessary. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z Victoria's Secret, the multi-million dollar business once known for its alluring catalogs and glitzy fashion shows, successfully sold a fantastical dream to women through a collection of push-up bras, lacy thongs and other inviting lingerie. The 7 most shocking Victoria's Secret revelations from Hulu's "Angels and Demons" docuseries 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z In traditional Studio Ghibli-style, director Isao Takahata uses fantastical colours and the contrast between light and dark to create a sometimes stunningly sad metaphor for the narrow bridge between life and death. The best animated films for grownups 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Such sensitivity is the key to “Jane the Virgin”: Plots that could be fantastical train wrecks in the hands of lesser writers are actually strong, sensible and thoroughly entertaining here. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: ‘Chapter Twenty-Three’ 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z These tall tales of fantastical creatures are illustrated -- by the pictures seen in daylight and a second set of scary images that glow in the dark. 13 scary new books to make Halloween spookier 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z But Jones's music has always served as her catwalk, and she obliged with a range of fantastical costumes suggesting, variously, a Viking witch-doctor, a tinsel Cleopatra and Batman in a burka. Lovebox 2010-07-19T20:31:00Z It pits 10 hair stylists against one another in a contest to create the most sculptured, outlandish and fantastical hairdos. The Week Ahead: Aug. 8 ? 14 2010-08-04T19:06:00Z You’ll also find the towering Moreton Bay fig tree, which, legend has it, is the same tree that inspired Walt Disney to build the fantastical Swiss Family Tree House two miles away at Disneyland. 36 Hours in Anaheim 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The fantastical premise of “The Shape of Water” is set against the backdrop of Kennedy-era America with an emphasis on the attitudes of the period. ‘The Shape of Water’ Takes Top Venice Film Festival Prize 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z It is a partly real, partly fantastical depiction of post-revolutionary Cairo and Alexandria as seen through the stories of a struggling journalist, a former exile and a difficult love affair. Read Your Way Through Cairo 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z For all the starfish and flying albino buffalos, oversized prehistoric fish monsters, and the many fantastical things in "Undiscovered Country," our reality is far more alarming, strange, and terrifying right now. "Trump's wall is based on a ridiculous fantasy": Scott Snyder on how reality is scarier than fiction 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z Yet much of it is on roads, with uninvited companions, through unexceptional terrain, with a destination whose claims to sacred significance are fantastical, even by the standards of the genre. Walking the other way: the Portuguese Camino 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Madcap, emotional, anarchic, erudite, in touch with the universe, bewildered by pettiness, fantastical, curious, practical, noble, mischievous, good-hearted. Simon Callow remembers Snoo Wilson: his work was 'the stuff of dreams' 2013-07-05T16:51:22Z Corden's humble Baker is an everyman figure whose determination to become a father sees him interact with a witch, played by Streep, and other members of the film's fantastical ensemble. Woods team sing Sondheim's praises 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Marvel looks likely to continue its box office reign with fantastical tales of interstellar talking rodents, Norse gods and a certain gravity-defying teenage crimefighter. Sci-fi and superheroes in 2017: can Luke Skywalker save us from Hollywood's bleak year ahead? 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z This underground style looked back not just decades, but a century or more, blending high Victorian and Edwardian style with a fantastical, Jules Verne-era science fiction sensibility. How Steampunk Became a Stylish Protest to the Digital Age 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Despite all the fantastical high-jinks, however, Supernatural is at heart a story about the bond between two brothers: ordinary boys who joke, weep, rescue each other, and incessantly bicker. Your next box set: Supernatural 2012-05-31T15:00:01Z Hogg, known for her fantastical creations, presented revealing bodysuits and frocks decorated with masses of tulle as well as jumpsuits and dresses in a carnival-like print. Bright and frilly: designers unveil Brexit wardrobe 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z We’re back in Green land, a comfortingly familiar, if fantastical realm. Eva Green: ‘I don’t want to be put in a box marked Weird Witch’ 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The book feels cinematic and at times fantastical. Noah Hawley Keeps Changing Lanes 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z Why, in the fantastical past, can we not see beyond monarchs, emperors, and kingdoms? Why can't sci-fi and fantasy imagine alternatives to capitalism or feudalism? 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z His feline features and ability to lend gravitas to the otherworldly often took him into the realms of the fantastical. Michael Gough obituary 2011-03-17T19:38:43Z Both games leaven their core first-person shooter dynamics with some spectacular sequences in which you are controlling the guns on a fantastical, futuristic combat vehicle, like a train, a robotic walker or a space frigate. Calling All Killers: 2 New Games Offer a Workout 2011-02-28T16:27:59Z But the result of these quirky elements is less a true-crime dramatization than a fantastical exploration of an emotionally fragile criminal whose misdeeds appear to have been driven by a sense of her own victimization. In ‘Landscapers,’ True Crime Meets Hollywood Fantasy 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z This is chilling to watch, but it’s also fantastical. Alison Klayman: ‘Bannon’s into the Great Man theory of history and he’s certain he’s one of those great men’ 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z “You’re curious about building a house,” she says, the first line of a monologue — at once fantastical and plainly delivered — that will morph into a conversation with the audience. Review: A Choreographer Makes a Holistic Mess 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z He has constructed earrings that resemble blonde hair extensions from a horsetail, and believes his line stands out because of his fantastical design approach. On the Runway Blog: Mordekai Jewelry Line Now in Stores 2012-05-31T13:00:57Z Here he portrays the “fantastical duke of dark corners” as an exuberant escapee from the House of Windsor, an inbred composite of all the 20th century princes of Wales, including Charles. Review: Shakespeare Meets Elevator Repair Service. Mayhem Ensues. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z After a while, it becomes clear that what propels the novel isn’t an overarching plot or a conspiracy but anecdotes, episodes, and fantastical interludes that point to the book’s guiding ethos. Eugene Lim’s Uncanny Sense of What It’s Like to Be Alive Right Now 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Knechtel began to explore the fantastical qualities of human and animal figures at a time when painting was making a hard turn toward the minimal. 'The Vermeer of Los Angeles'? Slow-art champion Tom Knechtel lets us in the studio 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z What fantastical vision could they call forth in this place? The Power Brokers of Beverly Hills 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z “Flight” wields its medium as a ticket to the fantastical, imagining Athens as a cityscape of bending buildings and depicting the boys’ highflying dreams with a shift to striking 2-D artistry. Review | Studio Theatre’s ‘Flight’ soars by tackling big issues with miniature models 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z A cloud of crows burst from the trees, and the turkeys, like the fantastical airships in a Philip Pullman novel, sailed across the fence and were gone. Hamptons’ True Colors Show in Autumn Off-Season 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z From there we could see the first peaks of the Brooks Range glinting in the sunlight, a fantastical sight like some ancient Tolkienesque tableau. This 414-mile road to the Arctic Ocean is one of the world’s most remote highways 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z It reads like an invitation for readers from Baghdad to Fairbanks to meet across impossibly divergent worlds through the shared language and images of the fantastical. Mysteries Unfold in a Land of Minarets and Magic Carpets 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z This is network TV’s answer to Game of Thrones, a sprawling tale in a fantastical land that will end with a clash between “magic and science,” according to the trailer. These Are the 20 New TV Shows You Should Watch in 2017 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Then again, many fantastical ideas are — and he did call the first female presidential nominee from a major party a witch. Review: The Anti-Clinton Brigade’s Four-Letter Word Obsession 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s a short-story collection of decidedly fantastical, and decidedly Singaporean, tales. Review | The weird, the wacky, the underappreciated: A new look at science fiction and fantasy 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z On Friday, on the same night of Cosby's comedy show in Florida, Singer criticized media for rushing to publicize what he called "unsubstantiated, fantastical stories." Report: Ex-NBC employee says he helped Bill Cosby pay off women 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z To me, they open up some other portal in my brain that is wildly soothing and fantastical, because you can pore over the universe of the page. Cristin Milioti Finds Harmony in Fiona Apple and a Location Change 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Washington resident Kyla Whitmore is one of many museum visitors who miss Miró’s fantastical piece, one that is intimately tied to her childhood memories. A beloved Miro created for the National Gallery fell out of favor with curators 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z But in conjuring a fantastical slippery slope in which technology, pharmaceuticals and the entertainment industry co-star in a takeover of our lives, "The Congress" boasts a propulsive image-making pull. 'The Congress' envisions a future dystopian virtual reality 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Consequently, he has been in a remarkable position to shepherd himself through a shadow life, and to write large a fantastical autobiography of the man he might wish to have been. A Unified Theory of the “Rocky” Movies 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Yet still, in the quieter moments, you'll hear inmates whispering about the fantastical paradise land they say awaits us all at the end of our time. Justin Bieber's monkey: The prison diaries 2013-05-17T12:48:02Z On stage are fantastical scenes: pigs being fed into mincers; Simon Russell Beale rustling about as a duchess; the white rabbit setting sail in a paper boat. Lauren Cuthbertson: 'There are no Black Swan moments in this ballet' 2011-02-20T00:05:40Z I first read “Fahrenheit 451” in my seventh-grade English class at Horace Mann Junior High, and it seemed so fantastical, improbable and yet real enough that it made me deeply uncomfortable. Chelsea Clinton: By the Book 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z It is an elaborate, fantastical playground of an obstacle course, all tailor-made for the show. Mission impossible: How “American Ninja Warrior” masters the art of losing 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z He’s often one of the first writers who awaken students to the enthralling possibilities of storytelling and the use of fantastical metaphors to describe everyday human life. An Appraisal: Ray Bradbury, Who Made Science Fiction Respectable 2012-06-07T02:58:01Z It's hard to believe that what Rick Davies shows us isn't the result of some fantastical cutting and pasting. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-05T23:09:02Z It’s a fantastical tale that grabs you from the start and doesn’t let you go until its final twist. 31 of the best titles of 2013 2013-12-04T22:03:53Z Sorokin says he’s drawn to futuristic, fantastical settings because they feel like the most accurate lens to examine the chaos and instability of the present. He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z In this fast-paced, fantastical tale, a magical harmonica appears to three kids in danger during World War II. Best children’s books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z It was only in her 30s that she began to hear about sex-change operations, as they were known, but even then the idea seemed fantastical. 'Age has nothing to do with it': how it feels to transition later in life 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z What sticks are the fantastical landscapes, the beautiful creature designs and the actors delivering lively performances, even with strata of makeup and digital wizardry. Chris Pratt Stars in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z She transforms into a fantastical winged creature on the planet Uriel, and her dresses were therefore made of lighter fabrics like silk. How ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ designed the elaborate looks for Oprah, Reese and Mindy 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The most recent text-to-image systems often produce dreamy, fantastical imagery that can be delightful but rarely looks real. Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art? 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z The new work is based on a fantastical 19th-century tale by George MacDonald and was, for Ms. Tharp, many years in the making. Twyla Tharp Creates ?The Princess and the Goblin? Ballet 2012-02-03T15:40:07Z Originally, 1924's "The Thief of Bagdad" was Douglas Fairbanks' passion project — one of the most lavish and fantastical epic films of the silent era. Today's SIFF highlight: May 26, 2011 2011-05-25T21:32:38Z Exiled to the care of her great-aunt while her parents attend to some unspecified business, Mary is a bored, lonely, curious child, and therefore a perfect candidate for a fantastical adventure. Review: ‘Mary and the Witch’s Flower’ Chases a Girl and Her Broomstick 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z And talk about the fantastical: Mr. Denk ended with a rhapsodic and poetic performance of the Schumann work, a 40-minute suite of 18 pieces, less an actual dance suite than an apotheosis of the dance. Music Review: Jeremy Denk Performs in Peoples’ Symphony Series 2014-04-13T19:23:23Z "The Shape of Water" features a fantastical creature - a cross between human and fish with glowing spots on its skin - to point to "the otherness" people so often reject, Del Toro said. Don't be cynical about love, director Del Toro says in adult fairytale 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z “Her bold, fantastical and often inexplicable images bridge the Indigenous and non-Indigenous, the traditional and contemporary, the mythical and historical. ” Making Art on Top of the World 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Dante The role of young people in contemporary society is explored in this musical inspired by the poet’s fantastical 15th century text “Inferno.” The week ahead in L.A. theater, July 9-16: 'King of the Yees' and more 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z It’s more psychologically probing, intricate and fantastical in narrative, and morally direct. Critic?s Notebook: Louis C. K.?s Working-Class Roots and Success 2011-12-20T04:33:59Z But that’s an outmoded value in contemporary hip-hop, which skews heavily toward the triumphant, the fantastical and the unattainable — Drake and 2 Chainz talking about stealing girlfriends, Rick Ross boasting about wealth and so on. Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change 2012-10-07T04:49:05Z Word had gone out on social media that fans of the dark, macabre, fantastical Burton films were invited to attend the concert costumed as their favorite characters. Review: ‘Danny Elfman’s Music From the Films of Tim Burton,’ Macabre Yet Sweet 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z The action centers on a family-owned gator-wrestling theme park in the Everglades, where love blooms in many forms — some deeply rooted, others mystical and fantastical. 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The fantastical creatures find a perfect complement in Lorenz’s boxes. Jewelry Designer Temple St. Clair Carr's Collaboration with Artist Nancy Lorenz 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Armed with human trainers and cheered by fiery hometown fans, these fantastical creatures ascend to sports superstardom. ‘Rumble’ Review: He’s Not Ready, but His Coach Is Very Persuasive 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Style cues: Despite its reliance on 19th century fashion flourishes like bowler hats, corsets and Victorian-era military tunics, steampunk’s gaslight chic pushed far beyond Sherlock Holmes into fantastical “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” territory. How Steampunk Became a Stylish Protest to the Digital Age 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The fantastical premise is nourished by a kernel of truth. Simon Rich: the funniest man in America? 2013-07-16T19:00:00Z Stark and minimalist — except for a fantastical bureau drawer — Debra Booth’s set hits the right notes of unsentimental modernity while allowing the play to pursue space-time-flouting twists. Review | ‘Sooner/Later’ weaves rom-com premise into bittersweet family portrait 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z In his own time, he uses his cartographic training to represent the local landscape in strange and fantastical forms. 'The perfect combination of art and science': mourning the end of paper maps 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z The fantastical series, an award-winning YA space opera, is particularly appealing at the moment. Furloughed employees are filling workless days with books — lots of them 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The Purge, when we started, was a fantastical idea. Making America Gory Again: how the Purge films troll Trumpism 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z The composer Michel Petrossian, a friend of Mr. Tyson’s, came from Paris for this performance of his fantastical “The Raging Battle of Green and Gold.” A Diva, Two Pianists and a Pair of ‘Messiahs’: Classical Music This Week 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Some are considered beasts, which are animals that could exist in the real world, and others are monstrosities, which Goldstein described as more “fantastical.” A Beginner’s Guide to Dungeons & Dragons 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Italian colonizers long ago filled the city with fantastical modernist and futurist architecture. The Timeworn Beauty of Asmara, Eritrea 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Kingdom takes embroidery and gives it a surreal twist, using it to create scenes — a floating figure hovering over a crowd of faceless women, for example — that are as strange as they are fantastical. Datebook: Art inspired by Octavia Butler, photos that get gender-ambiguous, revisiting a Bay Area group 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z We believe that transformation because we see it happening, which in a film as fantastical as "Edge of Tomorrow" is a very good thing indeed. 'Edge of Tomorrow,' Tom Cruise run loops around competition 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Samuel is a "fantastical and sickly creature, whose poetry shines forth much more in person than in his works". Fanfarlo by Charles Baudelaire – review 2013-05-26T13:30:01Z Megs and her family learn that fantastical tales are more than mere ways to appease young children. Review | What inspired ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’? One novel explores the possibilities. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The stories feel like snapshots of real lives, even the more fantastical stories. Roxane Gay's new book 'Difficult Women' proves her power 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Rather than create a fully fleshed fantastical new world, Roberts seems content to refer us to popular touchstones such as “The Blair Witch Project,” “Star Wars” and “Harry Potter.” The apocalypse, as imagined by Nora Roberts 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Freely mixing spacemen with Soviet symbolism and modernist art references, Pepperstein's drawings, inspired by children's book illustration, have always had a fantastical edge. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z This is just one fantastical example of the innovative cuisine being dreamed up by a crop of talented young chefs in Hondarribia, a hamlet in Basque Country on the northern coast of Spain. Next Stop: A Dining Explosion in a Tiny Basque Town 2010-07-31T04:20:00Z This virtuoso vocalist, composer and unofficial musical anthropologist debuted “Ogresse” — the darkly humorous, fantastical suite she wrote with the composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue — one year ago at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z There was a fantastical spontaneity in their design that is hard to find in our new, more urban world. The Collective Memory of American Shoppers 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Opener Machines of Loving Grace transports you into a fantastical realm, all tangerine trees and marmalade skies. New band of the day – No 1,281: Princess Chelsea 2012-06-01T08:00:00Z And as for how "peacefully" those insurrectionists were protesting, "The View" had plenty to say about the Texas Senator's fantastical spin. "The View" slams Ted Cruz for comparing peaceful abortion demonstrators to Jan. 6 insurrectionists 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z In our intensely professionalized and monetized art world, is it too fantastical to imagine the whole system as an organized crime against the free spirit of art? Review: Deborah Kass Takes Mug Shots of the Art World 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Elsewhere in his exhibition, Shaw will display painted plywood cutouts of figures conflating humans and technology, like a man-electrical tower hybrid, placed in front of hand-painted, fantastical backdrops that the Masons used in ritual performances. L.A.'s Marciano art museum will debut May 25. But first: A sneak peek 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z “Psyché,” set to César Franck’s symphonic poem of the same name, is part of what might be termed the fantastical section of Mr. Ratmansky’s repertoire. Tanztheater Wuppertal Stages ‘Palermo’; Ratmansky Returns to Paris Opera 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Ball Yards The wide world of sports is satirized in Chuck Faerber’s fantastical new dark comedy. The week ahead in L.A. theater, July 23-30: 'As You Like It,' REDCAT's NOW Festival and more 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z For something like the House of Black and White in Braavos, that was much more of a fantastical space, the idea that you stored all those faces in this vast building. How They Make the Crazy Detailed Sets on 'Game of Thrones' 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z On Monday evening, Architectural Digest and Sotheby’s invited 80 boldface Mellon fans to a fantastical dinner at the auction house’s York Avenue headquarters. AD Honors Bunny Mellon 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Foner understands artists taking liberties with the facts, and he admires Whitehead's fantastical creation of an actual railroad that runs underground. A powerful symbol of resistance, the Underground Railroad inspires a wave of books, plays, TV and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z These fantastical elements, however, appear alongside realities that more commercial movies for young people usually avoid. Growing a Generation of Movie-Loving Global Citizens 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Give us more strong, amazing, fantastical people that we can pretend to be, in those difficult years when we’re building ourselves. Caitlin Moran on Teen Girls, Sex and Pretending to Be Courtney Love 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Setting the German composer’s 1905 opera in today’s war-torn Middle East allowed it to unfold with a sense of modern history echoing writer Oscar Wilde’s fantastical play upon which Strauss based his libretto. Virginia Opera presents ‘Salome,’ a tour de force etched in love and death 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z The whole experience is like entering some fantastical ancient tomb. Architect Smiljan Radic's striking redo of Chile's pre-Columbian museum 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Rice fields gave way to roads, lined with ever more fantastical buildings. Shenzhen stock exchange building: inside China's 'miniskirt' 2013-04-16T17:56:13Z But she said the accusations were “fantastical” and “seem designed to ‘take me down.’” Barbara Lynch, a Leading Boston Restaurateur, Is Accused of Workplace Abuse 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z There is more leeway, and less potential to offend, when villains are clearly fantastical creatures, unreal figments of imagination, like the Shadow Monster in “Stranger Things.” Scary Is How You Act, Not Look, Disability Advocates Tell Filmmakers 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z “I don’t want to alienate my readers with something too fantastical,” he said. Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z But not all that fantastical to a Parisian who knew the potential meaning of a knock at the door and a name on a list. Whimsy and War: Boris Vian’s Two Minds 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The emotional fuel can also be in the form of the fantastical and escapist, moving away from the pain and hardship of the present by imagining other worlds and possibilities. "We in America have actual fascists marching in the streets": Ed Brubaker on releasing art right now 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z The movie is filled with coincidences and odd detours that recall the fantastical ways that movies unite people, whether on a dance floor, across a crowded room or through a wallet. Film: Alain Resnais Explores Desire in ?Wild Grass? 2010-06-19T06:53:00Z But Fleming was also suffering from ill health following a heart attack, and struggled to find an illustrator for the books who could bring his fantastical creation to life. How Chitty Chitty Bang Bang took off 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z “Loving Vincent” addresses its subject, the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, with two what-ifs — one marvelous and fantastical, the other empirical and pedestrian. Review: ‘Loving Vincent’ Paints van Gogh in His Own Images 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Those “terrified hands,” “ringed” and “mastered,” also could imagine and create a fantastical reflection of life, those tigers, which remain “proud and unafraid.” Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z It is now perfectly acceptable for pop stars to lip-sync in live performances, as long as they supply a fantastical enough show in return. How Lip-Syncing Got Real 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z You go through a maze of antechambers, hearing fantastical stories about the Great Leader’s life. Mirror Images in the D.J. Booth 2011-01-05T23:22:41Z “Lost Transmissions” focuses on all things fantastical, broadening its remit to include literature, film, television, architecture, art, design, music, fashion and fandom. Review | ‘Lost Transmissions’ tracks down some of the best art you didn’t know existed 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z These are racist, fantastical, and bizarre comments more fit for a drug induced hallucination than sane observations that were accepted as reasonable facts in testimony to a grand jury. Nevertheless, A 10-year-old boy? An 84-year-old grandmother? Police brutality will not end in America until cops stop perceiving blacks as monsters 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z There are so many genuine threats in the world these days that 007’s writers hardly need to keep inventing fantastical ones. Why can't James Bond have a 'cinematic universe' of spin-offs? 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Through a slightly fantastical plot device, Ptolemy Grey slides back and forth between crotchety dementia and full, get-your-swagger-on capability. Review: The Graying of Samuel L. Jackson 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z He contemplates the collision of old customs and values with some of the grimmer facts of modern Italian life, and craftily blends nonfictional and fantastical techniques. Review: Angels, Some of This Earth, in ‘Lost and Beautiful’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Martin writes his "A Song of Ice and Fire" novels, the basis for HBO's megahit series "Game of Thrones," he sends his mind to a fantastical pre-Internet world. George R.R. Martin reveals his 'secret weapon' to Conan O'Brien 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z But it’s mostly because the subjects of this National Academy of Sciences exhibition are so fantastical. In the galleries: A personal look at a maker of monuments 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “Within these four walls, we can transport viewers to several different countries and even outer space,” said the art director Natalie Groce, who is responsible for bringing the creators’ fantastical ideas to life. ‘Sherman’s Showcase’ Is Back, Silly Smarts Intact 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z How, they wondered, would Jenkins visualize Whitehead’s most arresting anachronisms and fantastical visions? Perspective | With ‘The Underground Railroad,’ Barry Jenkins looks squarely at Black trauma. And doesn’t blink. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Beasts of the Southern Wild Beasts of the Southern Wild plays out in a fantastical bayou called "the Bathtub", where raggle-taggle outcasts forage through garbage and eat cat food from the tin. Autumn movie preview: how this year's Oscar contenders warn of America's fall 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z Last year’s two Snow White movies struggled to find customers, as did the afore-mentioned Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, proving that audiences just aren’t that willing to part with hard-earned money for fantastical genre collisions. The Fine Art of Schlock: Why Studio Kitsch Like Hansel & Gretel Tends to Be So Bad It’s…Awful 2013-01-23T12:58:24Z Ms. Romero’s dolls and fantastical dresses were the centerpiece of a film created with students from the animation program. On the Runway Blog: Chapeaux, Chapeaux 2012-05-04T16:42:34Z Historically, this archipelago was the isolated purview of turn-of-the-century airship explorers obsessed with finding the Northwest Passage; more recently Svalbard served as the fantastical setting for Phillip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy. Greeting the New Year in Earth’s Northernmost Settlement 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Between the rivalries and the affairs, it’s everything tweens catch between the morning bell and sixth period, with the added bonus of fantastical landscapes and magical happenings. ‘Live From Mount Olympus’ Review: Oh My Godsss, Who Am I? 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z I wanted to make it realistic, but also fantastical. An 8,000-Pound Tribute to the Power of the Beehive 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Last season, in the fantastical body-switching episode “The Gang Turns Black,” the twist was that they learned nothing from that experience of living as black people for a day. ‘It’s Always Sunny’ at 13: The Cast Has Evolved, but the Gang? Not So Much 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Of course, the showrunners do the same thing — creating an authentic aesthetic within an intentionally fantastical world. Reveling in the darkness: “True Detective,” “Game of Thrones” and the missing critique in TV’s cult of gritty realism 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z It is addictive, beautiful, fantastical and I just can't recommend it enough. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo - why should you read it? 2013-06-20T14:22:12Z This Congolese artist’s fantastical designs make for a “euphoric exhibition-as-utopian-wonderland,” Ms. Smith wrote in her review. New York Art Guide: How to Navigate Museums This Holiday 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z The show follows the structure of a classic teenage drama, interspersed with fantastical plot twists. In ‘First Kill,’ Hunter and Prey Fall in Love 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s moving to see how passionate he is, and how rich his internal landscape is with its fantastical sea creatures. This Week in Fiction: Lauren Groff on the Cult of Motherhood 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z He obviously had a brilliant mind, with one of the most fantastic, and fantastical, imaginations I've ever come across. What Philip K Dick needed was a co-author 2010-06-04T15:07:00Z The great detective’s final revelations, with all the suspects assembled in the dining car, may strike some readers as almost fantastical. Why ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ still thrills — even if you know whodunit 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s a show about people – real people masked by a fantastical facade. 'She saved me from depression': readers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Start an exploration of the neighborhood at Flanders Gallery, a bright space that exhibits varied contemporary art — a tractor covered in crochet, fantastical animal sculptures — with an emphasis on emerging area artists. 36 Hours in Raleigh, N.C. 2014-03-06T16:58:31Z It is here that Martin's use of dragons moves to a more modern taste for fantastical power. An introduction to the stories and British history that inspired the beasts of "House of the Dragon" 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Here was a mythological world potentially as distinct as Middle Earth: a biblical, fantastical world. | The Thing About Noah and the Ark 2014-03-19T22:15:45Z For an Indian born and brought up in London and surrounded largely by people who looked nothing like me, this was a window into a new, fantastical life. My streaming gem: why you should watch Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z This is a choreographer and dancer who merges formalism with the fantastical. Review: Dancing With the Flowers and Douglas Dunn 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Spring Breakers uses this annual ritual as a springboard into darker territory, filtering the neon debauchery through a fantastical looking-glass, infusing it with dread. Spring Breakers, a riotous take on modern America 2013-03-30T06:00:00Z From its premiere, in 1846, its composer was resigned to this fantastical work — a “légende dramatique,” he called it, not quite an opera or an oratorio — being played in concert rather than in full production. Dear Met Opera: Please, More Concerts Like This Berlioz 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z For Joseph, as for Maris, creating a life is a matter of authorship — of willing the fantastical into being. Review: At This Theater Festival, Death Crouches in the Wings 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Their quest becomes even more complicated when a fantastical blue tiger arrives in the garden. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 28-Jan. 3 2012-12-27T23:31:39Z A few stories take fantastical turns, but the author excels at realism and vivid portrayals of the widening gap between China’s haves and have-nots. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z I’m a fan of historical novels and when they combine with a fantastical element, I’m doubly enraptured. The best science fiction and fantasy of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z A perverse, hilarious essay on the nature of art in the form of a fantastical tale about food, passion, flatulence and funny hats. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z To test this out, we visited Il Casale, a strange and almost fantastical farm near Pienza, run by perhaps the most eccentric family in the valley. Tuscany Without the Crowds 2010-03-05T03:55:00Z Or, rather, the ending — not to give too much away — is so blatantly fantastical that it offers far less comfort than it might. Movie Review | 'Hot Tub Time Machine': John Cusack Leads a Cast Back to the 1980s 2010-03-25T22:14:00Z While these composers were locked away in studios, the fantastical sounds they made were like portals to a different world. The Enduring Appeal of Italian Composers’ Dramatic ‘Library Music’ 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The show features “fantastical creatures,” music and dance. Seattle Children’s Theatre announces 40th season 2014-04-09T19:39:47Z “The gravity of the situation demands a grassroots, mischievous, creative, disobedient, fantastical group,” says Dan Glass, who pushed for the revival. Giant condoms and buckets of fake blood: the true story of Aids activists Act Up 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z The work was saved by a tiny thick-accented Jewish grandmother of immense charm, who dispensed fantastical and funny folk wisdom. Dance Review: Bodytraffic in Gotham Dance Festival at the Joyce 2012-06-07T22:49:34Z When directing the actors, Barron said he had tried to achieve a balance between the fantastical adventures of the story and striking a more realistic tone. In a New Series, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ Gets More Worldly 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z The piano writing is almost frenetically brilliant; Mr. Andsnes dispatched it with such effortless command and penetrating clarity that every burst of arm-blurring octaves, every tangled patch of passagework, seemed both meaningful and fantastical. Review: A Bold Pianist Rescues an Overlooked Concerto 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z "It was only later that I became an honorary member of the Rat Pack…" I first got interested in Michael Munn's fantastical life when his biography of David Niven came out in 2009. Michael Munn: the celebrity biographer reveals all 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z Is it nice to delve into a fantastical role after doing something emotionally wrenching? ArtsBeat Blog: Emmys Watch: Michelle Forbes 2011-09-12T21:15:34Z Even by tabloid standards, the story seemed fantastical. ‘Hustlers’: The Story Behind the Headlines 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z At Columbia, you studied under Ben Marcus, another writer known for fantastical work. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Manuel Gonzales on His Story Collection 'The Miniature Wife' 2013-01-24T14:30:39Z Told mainly from Ada’s point of view — her tone repetitive, restrained, diffidently fantastical — the novel traces a life warped, then destroyed, by desire. A Mystical Healer, Her Ailing Crush and the Desire That Undoes Them Both 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z And while one might assume that dressing fantastical creatures becomes easier the sixth time around, the film’s designers beg to differ. Clothes and Character: 'Theory,' 'Selma' and 'Hobbit' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z "Holy Motors" - French, fantastical and nuthouse crazy, Leos Carax's film might seem the stuff of pretentious art house. AP critics pick the year's best movies 2012-12-14T21:29:02Z Reading it again for the first time since school, I was surprised how fantastical it is. Seattle's Intiman Theatre premieres a new adaptation of 'The Scarlet Letter' 2010-10-20T23:20:00Z What happens next are increasingly fantastical and funny adventures. Review | The weird, the wacky, the underappreciated: A new look at science fiction and fantasy 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z With the stabs at realism came the fantastical. ‘Dynasty’ or ‘Dallas’? Squaring Off in the Lily Pond 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z This episodic fantasy for once really sounded fantastical. Music Review: At Carnegie Hall, Maurizio Pollini Celebrates Chopin 2010-04-30T20:20:00Z In these excerpts from that conversation, he talks about historical and fantastical interpretations of Leonardo, and how the show is informed by his work with superheroes. ArtsBeat: Renaissance Men: David S. Goyer Introduces 'Da Vinci's Demons' for Starz 2012-10-12T12:00:54Z “Beowulf,” an epic poem filled with warfare and fantastical creatures long taught in high school classrooms, is now getting the “Game of Thrones” treatment. 'Beowulf' Series Will Bring More Monsters to TV 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z His frazzled energy isn’t realistic but is instead fantastical and a running commentary on the stiltedness of the rest of the proceedings. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Hollywood Heights’ on Nickelodeon, With James Franco 2012-07-09T22:33:23Z The historical and the fantastical entwine like snakes in Samantha Hunt’s fiction. ‘Mr. Splitfoot’ review: A gothic tale in the woods of New York 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z As for Mother Russia, the series includes two wildly different films from the glasnost era that nevertheless both find fantastical visions not in the future or in faraway lands, but in an infinitely warped present. Strange Lands Series Celebrates Soviet-Era Sci-Fi Films 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z He is one of the artists and interior designers most associated with today’s maximalism, and says that at a time when the world can be quite grim, it is about escaping into a fantastical universe. I can't believe it's not clutter: maximalism hits our homes 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Along the way, there are perils and portents, fair maidens, fantastical deeds and the like.” ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: An Adaptation of Robert Jordan's 'New Spring' 2011-01-28T17:30:24Z Less fantastical than Mr. Fellowes’s Escape to New York, the Music to Know festival is striving for a high-fashion flavor befitting the Hamptons. New York Festivals, British Formula 2011-08-04T22:15:27Z But it is “The Floating Piers,” his first fantastical outdoor installation since “The Gates” and the first project conceived since Jeanne-Claude’s death that consumes his every waking hour. Art That Lets You Walk on Water 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z The marrying of real people and events to a fantastical plot is done neatly and without archness, and you certainly can't accuse Pearl of insufficient research. Thrillers roundup ? reviews 2012-02-10T22:55:06Z Among their prized ceramics by Von Bruenchenhein are fantastical little thrones some six inches tall, constructed from chicken bones salvaged from TV dinners; dazzling crowns; and lacy, tabletop towers. Where Outsider Art Got a Warm Welcome Before It Was Cool 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z But realistic or fantastical, fiction must create a ground-floor reality. A Native American Coming-of-Age and the Uses of Enchantment 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z As a general rule, she writes in an author’s note, “when it comes to the Gilded Age, the more fantastical the circumstance, the more likely it is to be true.” Books of The Times: Money May Not Buy You Love, but It Might Help You Land a Spouse 2011-06-26T21:00:06Z For some Nigerians, the creatures in her books are not just fantastical beasts — they evoke real beliefs and traditions. Nnedi Okorafor and the Fantasy Genre She Is Helping Redefine 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Two current productions—one on Broadway, one Off—depict powerful people in fantastical ways that, paradoxically, reach them at their core. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The ancient Chinese collection “The Classic of Mountains and Seas” offers a vision of a world rich with fantastical landscapes and creatures. Review | Yan Ge’s ‘Strange Beasts of China’ is a luminous, beguiling chronicle of fantastical beings 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z This is the fantastical world “The Queen’s Gambit” gives us. Perspective | ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ a period drama that erases sexism from 1960, is the best fantasy show of the year 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z While neither polemical nor wholly fantastical, the story draws on skills he developed in those other genres. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Immersed in such fantastical settings, customers attached meaning and memory to their shopping experiences. "Nope" and the Fry's Electronics UFO sighting that almost wasn't 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z There are the usual stretchers: fantastical previous work experience with celebrities and not just one, but two made-up doctorate degrees. If the author of ‘Woman in the Window’ is a serial liar, can we still love his book? 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z If Cameron's "Avatar" was like looking through a window at a fantastical landscape, "An Unexpected Journey" at 48 frames is like removing the glass so you can step on through. Review: 'The Hobbit' suffers from story bloat 2012-12-04T23:46:08Z He may inhabit a world, Westeros, which features dragons, walking corpses and a 700ft wall of ice – yet it is far from wholly fantastical. 'Game of Thrones is more brutally realistic than most historical novels' 2013-03-24T19:00:01Z But a hint of that fantastical little notion heightens our idea of the relationship between the player and the dart. Poem of the week: Darts by Christina Dunhill 2012-08-27T11:35:18Z And while Hispanic characters do exist in animated preschool shows — Nickelodeon’s “Dora the Explorer” and “Santiago of the Seas” come to mind — those series involve fantastical adventures, not dynamics on a Bronx playground. In ‘Alma’s Way,’ a Young Latina Thinks for Herself, Like Her Creator 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z But Chbosky’s true skill is in turning a book of absolute horrors — both fantastical and real — into an uplifting yarn. 20 Years After ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Stephen Chbosky Has a New Novel 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Mixing lyrical thinking and rigorous technology in works both fantastical and functional, the designers entice viewers to stop, look, and ultimately reflect on our relationship to time. AD Innovator: Humans Since 1982 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Woolf’s novel, a fantastical parody of biographies, follows its forever-young protagonist through the centuries: from Orlando’s years as a favorite of Elizabeth I to the book’s publication in 1928. Genre-Blurring, Politically Charged Opera Wins Top Music Prize 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Moorcock's Ballard is a much darker and more damaged figure than the public image of the widowed father, dreaming his fantastical dreams between the morning and afternoon school runs. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z Big Fish Musical Theatre West presents the West Coast premiere of this musical inspired by Tim Burton’s 2003 film about a dying father’s fantastical stories. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 26-Nov. 2: 'Ragtime' and more 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Not in fantastical dimensions, but in the terrestrial world. The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson – review 2012-08-16T07:00:01Z Miles into Tunisia’s southern desert wastes, fantastical structures define the desert landscape. Star Wars' abandoned Tunisian locations – in pictures 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Shot on an iPhone, Junta Yamaguchi’s puzzle of a film sometimes feels like a thought experiment run amok, but it also has great fun exploring the possibilities held by its fantastical premise. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The crucified feet nicely resonate with another of Michele’s repeated tropes: shots of his own feet inside his own fantastical Gucci footwear, set off against interestingly patterned rugs or marble floors. A Portrait of the Creative Mind Behind Gucci, on Instagram 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z As he auctions them off — a pile of teeth removed from his own mouth — he invents fantastical provenances connecting them to his favorite writers. Valeria Luiselli's 'The Story of My Teeth' is a collision of storytelling, lying and art 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Less than an hour’s drive from downtown is the city of Horseshoe Bend and the fantastical woodlands that surround it. 36 Hours in Boise (and Beyond) 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Jake’s disability may be a fantastical construct, but the communication challenges are real. TELEVISION: Kiefer Sutherland in Tim Kring?s ?Touch? on Fox 2012-01-11T12:58:00Z Even by the standards of the late romances, rich in strange reversals and fantastical happenings, “Pericles” stands out for its tumultuous story line. Review: In ‘Pericles,’ Much Ado About a Lot of Things 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Tabaimo, a celebrated Japanese contemporary artist, creates videos featuring fantastical animated worlds that constantly transform in unexpected, playful ways. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The plane crash that follows ought to be a signal to scale back, but instead it spurs them on to more fantastical feats of accomplishment, investing each of them, they soon discover, with superhuman strengths. Forget the Downturn; Punish the Lazybones 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z She says that the “strongest argument” in favor of some of the most fantastical sounding measures tends to be a sober realism: “What’s the alternative?” Electrified Rivers and Other Attempts to Save the Environment 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z And we all, we're designed, we're conditioned to desire some element of fantasy or some elements of the fantastical in our lives, and even love represents that. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z The show is dominated by fantastical tableaux of nude women, picnicking or communing with wild cats. Judith Linhares paints the joys of life, on her own terms 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z But this troupe of actor-musicians have as much fun as the audience in 75 fantastical minutes from a company that certainly lives up to the cheekiness of its name. Ovid's Metamorphoses 2010-08-17T20:30:00Z The fantastical festivities around the Day of the Dead holiday are a distinctively Mexican mix of Aztec and Catholic customs that has not really filtered into South America. A Venezuelan life force for the Master Chorale's Day of the Dead program 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z If Li counters platitude through fantastical illogic puzzles, Mejer Caso does so through the wildness of poetry, which does not even try to be logical. In a Sister’s Elegies, Proof That the Art of Losing Can Bring Comfort 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z If you’re trying to make people believe in fantastical events, it’s like waking them out of a sound sleep to see an ad. Stephen King on Why ‘Lisey’s Story’ Was One He Had to Adapt Himself 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z What fantastical new thing can we come up with? Alton Brown is wrong, listen to The New York Times’ Sam Sifton & stop brining your Thanksgiving... 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Not a lot of "Inventing Anna" seems real, so a fantastical view of motherhood should come as no surprise. To the crimes of "Inventing Anna," add atrocious journalism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z On the "real life" side of the boundary, the space seemed fantastical, an optimistic dream world. The Thick of It: the agony of tight spaces 2012-08-26T19:00:00Z Such fantastical realms are the specialty of our Prudencia, an uptight academic from Edinburgh who comes to a conference in Kelso, a Scottish border town, one snowy night. Review: The Devil Went Down to Chelsea to See ‘Prudencia Hart’ 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Those who’ve read Furukawa’s novel, which doesn’t seem to have been translated into English, may have no issue tracking the movie’s labyrinthine turns, its time shifts, storytelling elisions and fantastical flourishes. ‘Inu-oh’ Review: Dazzling Anime Meets Medieval Epic 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z The two were conflicted about testing scientific theories on such a fantastical world. Watch 'Mythbusters' Put 'Star Wars' to the Test 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z In his breakthrough novel, 2000’s “Perdido Street Station,” a mysterious, spiderlike being called the Weaver assists a scientist named Isaac who’s trying to save the fantastical city of Bas-Lag from a catastrophic infestation. China Miéville and the Politics of Surrealism 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Another, “Hunting for Dragons,” highlights fantastical creatures from China to Mexico. A Mother-Daughter Test: London, Together 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z And then I needed some big, somewhat fantastical mystery. John Green on Mental Illness and Writing a Book That Mirrors His Own Life 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Children under ten may gawp at the spectacle with all its primary colours and plasticky sets, but they may not be transported to the kingdom of fantastical delight one finds at the best musicals. Monster reviews 2011-06-15T09:55:53Z "Not a fantastical idea of what a woman wants to wear." Designers feeling texture at NY Fashion Week 2011-02-16T21:51:22Z Cosby's lawyer, Martin Singer, said the accusations had "escalated far past the point of absurdity", dismissing them as "unsubstantiated", "fantastical" and "uncorroborated". Cosby defends rape claims silence 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z It will be a sharp step away from the plausible pseudo-science, first broached by Iron Man, that dominates the Marvel movies and will introduce the more strange and fantastical elements of the Marvel Universe. Benedict Cumberbatch Confirmed to Play Doctor Strange 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z They’re also a ton of fun, thanks to Murrow’s knack for making the fantastical look plausible. 3 don’t-miss gallery shows around Seattle, May edition 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z He’d published 14 previous novels, often fantastical works that blend history and politics with elements of magical realism. Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Jones, the director, asked, before talking about the piece’s fantastical elements: “There is a straining-reality to opera. It is place where atypical things can be proposed and worked through.” A Police Bombing, Homes on Fire and an Opera That Grapples With It All 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z This fantastical writer, who completed her first, acclaimed novel at the age of 18, sows her modern-day stories in the fertile ground of ancient myths and fables. Review | Helen Oyeyemi’s ‘Gingerbread’ recipe: Fairy tales with a dash of surrealism 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z As a backdrop to this autobiographical coming-of-age story, Naples is at turns fantastical and decadent, sunny and unpredictable, comfortably familiar and ultimately confining. Naples, a City of Contradictions, Is Once Again a Home for Cinema 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z A favorite with locals, the iconic Burbank, California big box store gives Peele's movie a quirky specificity while also grounding its fantastical story in the real world. "Nope" and the Fry's Electronics UFO sighting that almost wasn't 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Strangely unintimidated, Bashir charmed both mother and daughter with fantastical stories of his home in Kashmir. Review | A daughter searches for her mother’s secrets in Kashmir but finds only more questions 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z To culture war’s discontents, myself included, there’s something familiar about The Leftovers’ post-apocalyptic world, despite its fantastical premise. The Leftovers: confusion and doubt mirrors my religious journey 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Exhausted from his labors, he naps inside his rickety craft and, in a fantastical dream that recalls such books as “Where the Wild Things Are,” he sails it out to sea. Grandmas and Grandpas Are a Kid’s Natural Allies in These Books 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z During Covid he had eschewed the runway for fantastical films that melded fiction and fashion, putting clothes in the context of the stories we tell. Blockbusters at Balenciaga and Margiela 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Once filming began on “The Force Awakens,” there was little time to revel in their fantastical surroundings. Will ‘Star Wars’ Stick the Landing? J.J. Abrams Will Try 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z In the current, dire moment, their feat resonates, and at the same time seems fantastical. How Plagues Shape the Landscape 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Across five albums, she’s imaged fantastical sex positions, celebrated a smorgasbord of kinks and flipped the script on female objectification. What Peaches Can Teach America Now 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Brodsky, a native of Moscow, began his career in the late 1970s as a “paper architect,” producing fantastical conceptual drawings that starkly contrasted with the standardized public architecture of the Soviet Union. View Alexander Brodsky’s Surreal Architectural Drawings and Models at Berlin’s Tchoban Foundation 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z In each of her fantastical tales, Link creates a new universe from scratch, complete with different laws of physics. A Fantastic, Fantastical Book for the New, Cool Woman in My Life 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z On Saturday, for the first half of her recital, she brought poise and sensitivity to two early Brahms ballades, and then offered a rhapsodic, poetic performance of Schumann’s fantastical, challenging “Kreisleriana,” a 35-minute suite. Review: Yuja Wang Tackles Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier,’ Assured to a Fault 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Scriabin’s Fantasy in B minor, true to its title, is a fantastical piece that audaciously shifts from episodes of milky, harmonically murky lyricism to unhinged bursts of incandescent runs. Two Pianists Offer Contrasting Paths of Exploration 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z This fantastical melodrama is a showcase for a brilliant coloratura soprano portraying a wily sorceress. Ren?e Fleming With the Met and Chicago?s Lyric Opera Company 2012-01-27T19:30:47Z Amos manages to weave her own mythology into larger fantastical stories, and fight societal norms in the process, all with a fierceness that will please old fans and likely win over new ones. REVIEW: Tori Amos Creates Her Own Mythology on Unrepentant Geraldines 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z There are wolves and fantastical animals of every description, and stringed people of every size and shape. Fratello Marionettes bring wood, Styrofoam, cloth to life 2012-01-24T17:04:32Z Every narrative needs a tension, and in the kinetic, fantastical saga of Janelle Monáe’s career, it boils down to the tug-of-war between abandon and control. Janelle Monáe Kicks Off Celebrate Brooklyn! 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z We see vulnerability laid bare upon a hotel bed, when the weakened Salim meets another worn soul – no matter how fantastical – and each offers the other refuge from their loneliness. How American Gods changed the game for gay sex on TV 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Both of these threats are obviously fantastical while, in contrast, the extreme violence in "Them" is entirely familiar and possible. Scare goes the neighborhood in Amazon's "Them," where trauma porn collides with our visceral reality 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z “The Shape of Water” features a fantastical creature - a cross between human and fish with glowing spots on its skin - to point to “the otherness” people so often reject, Del Toro said. Don't be cynical about love, director Del Toro says in adult fairytale 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z “The Annihilation Point,” a spoofy piece of lo-fi sci-fi from the Berserker Residents, a Philadelphia company committed to producing fantastical shows, is the latest example in the current surge of science fiction in the theater. Cyborgs Onstage, Robots in the Wings 2010-12-30T23:58:33Z The Lister/Rimmer dynamic reached its bitter peak, the original Holly’s role was expanded to superb effect, and storylines became lighter, more fantastical and more, well, sci-fi. From Breaking Bad to Blackadder: the great TV shows with patchy first seasons 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Julia Wright said she believed that the previously unpublished portions add context to the story of a man’s adventure in the sewers, a realistic dimension to an otherwise fantastical tale. Decades After His Death, Richard Wright Has a New Book Out 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Diana Wynne Jones, whose critically admired stories and novels for children and teenage readers imagined fantastical worlds inhabited by wizards, witches, magicians and ordinary boys and girls, died on Saturday in Bristol, England. Diana Wynne Jones, Children?s Author, Dies at 76 2011-03-29T00:52:53Z Webb turned the useful objects of daily life into almost fantastical displays. Critic's Notebook: The Art of Collecting Collections 2011-05-19T21:00:31Z But, fantastical as it seems, nothing in science seems to forbid the creation of such a machine. Clever cogs 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z When we talk about the film as being sort of a fantastical conceit, it doesn't seem that way anymore. "It's like being black in America": "Snowpiercer" star Daveed Diggs on the Tailies with no agency 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z The vast differences among them creates a captivating patchwork of memories, reveries, and wishes — and it’s impossible to guess what fantastical world you’ll encounter next. ‘A Dozen Dreams’ Review: Eerie Memories Bring Magic to the Mall 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z When you’re a writer, watching another writer do things with language you can’t possibly explain or parse out is totally jarring and fantastical. Ottessa Moshfegh: By the Book 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z "Pericles": William Shakespeare's “Pericles” is one of his most fantastical plays — meaning, realism it is not. Save the Seats 2014: We've got your ticket for New Year's Eve 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z This isn’t a global doodle — in those regions, rather than celebrating imagination, fantastical adventures and dragons, Google is marking the first day of school. 'The Neverending Story' Google Doodle turns fantasy fancy with 3-D parallax look 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Some contain fantastical pencil-drawn figments of the imagination, some colorful watercolors and others intricate collages. Fun between the covers: Sketchbook Project in Seattle 2011-06-09T20:45:17Z But it lends a touch of realism to an otherwise fantastical Big Boys Adventure Story. Many Sinners, Very Few Saints 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Instead, Coates’s fantastical elements are deeply integral to his novel, a way of representing something larger and more profound than the confines of realism could contain. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z A canny mix of documentary and staged footage is married to a narration of fantastical encyclopaedia entries on Utopia, illuminating the islanders' romantic, weird or destructive social codes. Artist of the week 125: Ben Rivers 2011-02-10T15:01:14Z Each, in its own very specific way, gauges the audience’s presumed affection for the fantasy genre as fiercely as it presses our appetite to absorb politics in fantastical escapism. "Carnival Row": Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne's fairy tale is fractured by competing narratives 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Returning attractions include a flying flea circus and Ralph Lee’s Mettawee River Theater Company, which will lead a waltz with fantastical woodland creatures. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 24-30 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z But Nishino's obsessive cartography is of a different order: fantastical rather than scientific; imaginative rather than literal. Unreal cities 2011-02-24T11:40:04Z And yet what makes “Head of the State” so successful is the idea of Mr. Obama as a fish out of water, cutting loose in a fantastical context. Critic?s Notebook: Prez N the Hood: A Hip-Hop Parody Stirs Up Issues 2010-10-25T22:56:00Z Pericles, Prince of Tyre New adaptation of this fantastical adventure tale attributed in part to William Shakespeare. L.A. theater openings, April 26-May 3: 'Abigail/1702' and more 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The protagonist of “Ludwig,” who ruled Bavaria from 1864-86, is less interested in statecraft than in the music of Wagner and in building palaces that resemble fantastical stage sets. How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Songs, albums, the money that changes hands in a record deal, those are tangible things, not fantastical ones. Music Review: Riff Raff at Santos Party House 2012-09-02T21:09:52Z Shifting into a cosmically fantastical mode, Mr. Carlin imagines this disaster leading to the breakdown of the molecular structure of the atmosphere and changing the laws of nature. A George Carlin Special Too Raw After Sept. 11 Resurfaces Now 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Maybe it’s Jesus back from Brooks Brothers, maybe it’s the effect of Virgil’s brain injury or maybe it’s the author’s penchant for decorating the walls of this novel with fantastical knickknacks. Review | Leif Enger’s fans have waited 10 years for ‘Virgil Wander.’ Was it worth it? 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z You’ll get a thousand and one nights, which is this novel’s fantastical inspiration. Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a swirling tale of genies and geniuses 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Can you talk about that sequence, which was fantastical, and a step removed from your more “realistic” fight scenes? Will "Avengement" be a breakthrough movie for fan favorite Scott Adkins? 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z The very idea we could be writing novels like these seemed, well, fantastical. Review | The weird, the wacky, the underappreciated: A new look at science fiction and fantasy 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The balance of real and fantastical — I find myself drawn to both sides. "It Lives Inside" director on his psychological monster and "counterintuitive" approach to suspense 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z It all makes the president sound like any other clueless boss, only with more power and a boyish taste for the fantastical and impressive. Crash landing: Space Force is not the Trump satire we need right now 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z But I was equally intrigued by the indigenous Jal’qa people who live there and who are known for intricate weavings that represent a fantastical underworld filled with spirits and mythical animals. In the Mountains of Bolivia, Encounters With Magic 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The special effects, the ear-shattering action and the fantastical scenery fit the bill for a summer hit. 'Elysium' delivers action, destruction and a deeper message on life 2013-08-07T17:44:45Z Interestingly enough, this greatest of all biographies also supplies a possible answer to the second question, but one that isn’t in the least fantastical. Review | ‘The Club’ spotlights the stars of 18th-century British culture — and invites some new members 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z But such was the case with Dries Van Noten, whose clothes managed to be both utterly grounded and a little fantastical at the same time. Offline and On Point at Dries Van Noten 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z And Roald Dahl found fantastical inspiration in a small structure in southeast England he called Gipsy House. Check out ten stylish architectural cabins 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z It is a tradition just as rich as its American counterpart – and often more fantastical, playful and less macho. Sacré bleu! Why Franco-Belgian comic-book movies are more fun than Marvel and DC 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Matheson was great at mixing horror and science fiction, and rooting the fantastical in everyday reality. Charlie Higson's top 10 horror books 2010-09-08T10:53:00Z Each chapter is devoted to an encounter with one of the fantastical inhabitants of Yong’an, an industrial city, flanked with a description of the beasts written in the lapidary language of the “Classic.” Review | Yan Ge’s ‘Strange Beasts of China’ is a luminous, beguiling chronicle of fantastical beings 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Just, a Danish choreographer and director, takes inspiration from the fantastical fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges to explore that dichotomy in “Interpassivities.” 10 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Archer worked with a team of craftsmen to create the fantastical abode. Far from the Shire, a Hobbit house in Pa. country 2012-12-12T22:57:16Z Despite the fantastical premise, the story is still very much ground in reality, and also a romance, Mr. McCloud said. ArtsBeat: A Different Kind of Super Power 2014-04-23T15:28:09Z And Provence was not just a region but also a state of mind – indulgent, fantastical, credulous – and this element fed into those harsh and pragmatic owners up in the north. Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z The script then splits open into a fantastical, cosmic game show, in which nobody is a winner. 12 Streamable Plays That Depict Black Lives Pierced by Racism 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z The new film sees that premise reversed, with the lead characters journeying into the game's fantastical world. Jack Black leads star-studded cast for 'Jumanji' reboot 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z The public Gar initially seems brooding and cautious, while the private Gar is wild and fantastical. Philadelphia, Here I Come! – review 2012-08-01T14:09:54Z Animated sci-fi is just as fantastic, maybe it could be even more fantastical. Jennifer Lee, Queen of the ‘Frozen’ Franchise 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z “So you have to do both. You have to tell a super story that has some fantastical element, but the human element is what's going to keep people watching.” Cheo Hodari Coker on “Marvel’s Luke Cage” Season 2: “We’re trying to make ‘Bitches Br... 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z In the series, based on the book series of the same name, Ms. Frizzle takes kids on fantastical adventures through time and space with the help of a magical flying, shrinking and traveling school bus. Netflix to reboot 'The Magic School Bus' 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Wolf World premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s fantastical drama about a teenage girl who seeks to learn the secrets of the universe. L.A. theater openings, April 12-19: 'Loopholes: A Pain in the I.R.S.' and more 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z It is present in Renaissance theory and in the fantastical structures hand-built out of broken china and other debris by untutored obsessives that occur rarely but persistently around the world. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z But this is no ordinary stroll around the block: The twosome travel through fantastical landscapes and interiors that feel straight out of a Hayao Miyazaki film or a G-rated Hieronymus Bosch painting. Holiday Gift Books for Children 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Elsewhere are a number of fantastical animals, fashioned from card and made by the deaf, untrained artist James Castle. Rosemarie Trockel at the Serpentine: life, the universe and everything 2013-02-13T19:30:01Z The program includes Chopin’s four Ballades, two of Schubert’s Impromptus and Ravel’s fantastical “Gaspard de la nuit,” a supreme challenge for any pianist. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 13-19 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z When a twister whisks him to a fantastical land bearing his stage name - Oz - whose inhabitants believe him to be a wizard sent to save them, he can't believe his luck. Disney, Sam Raimi gamble on return trip to Oz 2013-03-07T18:54:12Z When the economy collapsed, the main feeling was one of vindication; it had always seemed ridiculous, fantastical, and so it had been proved. From City to Jungle, a New Novel Summons the Politics and History of Two Islands 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z More problematically, he can’t quite decide how to play out the fantastical central idea of a dying man coming to life only to find himself center stage for 50 minutes. Dance Review: John Heginbotham?s ?One-Man Show? at Joe?s Pub 2010-06-07T22:26:00Z While Mr. Adam’s production design on Bond allowed his fantastical imagination to roam free, working with Kubrick was a more strained process. Ken Adam, who made Bond villain lairs and ‘Dr. Strangelove’ War Room, dies at 95 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z But the real dilemma is how to interpret the clothes in such a way that – however fantastical – they are believable for a modern audience. Hollywood Costume – dressing the part 2012-10-12T21:55:14Z Mr. Griffiths’ work is both witty and fantastical, with a dark edge not dissimilar to Roald Dahl. Andy Griffiths, the Down-Under Kids’ Author Known for His Butt Jokes, Now Builds and Builds on His Hit ‘Treehouse’ Series 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z By inflating the story’s most fantastical implications, “The Chosen and the Beautiful” offers a timely consideration of class exploitation, sexual aggression and racial privilege. Review | Nghi Vo’s demonic adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’ might be — gasp — jazzier than the original 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z In “Beowulf: The Blockbuster,” written and performed by Bryan Burroughs, a man has spent hours at the cinema with his 9-year-old son, taking in the fantastical likes of the “Indiana Jones” and “Star Wars” movies. Theater Review: ‘Swing & Beowulf,’ at the Irish Arts Center 2014-05-05T21:12:47Z Mr. Froese and company were called in to supply the fantastical electronic ambience. Tangerine Dream’s Music in BAMcinématek Series 2012-06-02T23:03:01Z After working for several years as a librarian in France, she couldn’t decide between cooking and reading so she decided to write a cookbook based on fantastical worlds. These chocolate chip cookies are inspired by the hit film "Ghostbusters" 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z What is palpable, and not fantastical, is the narrator’s appalling distress, which grins like a skull beneath the surface humor. Four Books That Deserved More Attention in 2018 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Natalie Babbitt, a celebrated author of children’s literature whose 1975 novel “Tuck Everlasting” led millions of young readers on an exploration, both fantastical and philosophical, of what it might mean to live forever, died Oct. Natalie Babbitt, author of young-adult classic ‘Tuck Everlasting,’ dies at 84 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z There are some superheroes who don't suit "gritty" and "real", who are way too fantastical to appear in contemporary live-action movies because they originate from a more innocent, wide-eyed period. Superman: Man of Steel ? is this the blue boy scout's big-screen comeback? 2011-08-18T15:59:52Z It is a fantastical tale, one that sprung from harsh reality. Two Old Acting Pals, Together on Film at Last 2011-04-22T23:33:01Z As the world’s most prominent source of fantastical claims, Trump should have more sympathy for his fellow creators, brothers and sisters in the field, as it were. Perspective | Mr. President, you don’t know a poorly written novel 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z If the conceit seems fantastical, Mr. McGuire explained in an interview, it mimics our everyday experience of time. ‘Here,’ Richard McGuire’s Book, an Exhibition at the Morgan 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z But Yejidé spins them with gold and possibility in this dark and fantastical tale. Review: ‘Time of the Locust,’ by Morowa Yejidé√ And for the Broadway incarnation of “Oh, Hello,” the fantastical puppeteer Basil Twist has been recruited to provide an extra dimension of terror for an expanded nightmare ballet sequence. Review: ‘Oh, Hello on Broadway’ Stars an Even Odder Couple 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The Story of Alice New musical puts a modern spin on Lewis Carroll's classic tale about a young girl trapped in a fantastical land. L.A. theater openings, April 17-24: 'Father Comes Home From the Wars' and more 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Mr. O’Donnell’s conversations about campaigning and governing are predominantly tactical, not fantastical. And in the Left Corner, Weighing In ... 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Even so, as critics sought to grapple with the show’s fantastical tone, there was evidence of a perceived disconnect between the story’s grittier elements and the stylistic vibrancy. “We don’t do poverty porn”: “The Get Down” creators on recreating New York’s 1970s “party apex” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z Even if I do something completely surreal and fantastical, the core will be about life as it is lived today. Noises off: Pros and cons in the job of theatre 2010-08-26T10:35:00Z “I’m very fantastical and I do a lot of world building,” Lee explained. How 3 women-led arts organizations in the Seattle area make room for diverse voices 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z The project extrapolates from each community’s imaginary beliefs to propose fantastical transportation for each group, such as organically grown, super-light “biocars.” Design Fiction: Real Solutions, Unreal Problems 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z What exactly is a rain heron, the fantastical creature at the heart of the Australian writer Arnott’s daring, atmospheric novel? International Novels Unearth Family Secrets and Nature’s Mysteries 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z There is a lot of frightening, fantastical architecture here. Far-out show celebrates world of outsiders 2013-06-10T17:26:04Z Unfortunately, though, "they were just boring as hell, they were terrible stories", and he eventually found himself moving into the fantastical horror for which he is now becoming known. Joe Hill: Sympathy for the devil 2010-04-13T12:28:00Z A fantastical film that attacks some of our culture’s most cherished fantasies. ‘Annette’ Review: Love Hurts 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z This restless, fantastical music shifts from bursts of fidgety runs to fleeting passages of searching lyricism. Review: A Tiny Garage Explodes in Pianistic Madness 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z It’s the same themes as Parasite, but more fantastical. Ewen Bremner: 'They should let Irvine Welsh script the Tiger King movie' 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z In the press, fantastical stories abounded that the cast were unaware they were off air, emerging from the wilderness after a year to find that no one had been watching. ‘I don’t know if I’ll ever get over it’: how it feels to make a TV flop 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z But the hardest work — making a musical out of a fantastical story of an old man unspooling one tall tale after another — was left to the producers and their team. Hollywood’s Big Bet on Broadway Adaptations 2013-08-01T12:00:07Z The French conceptual artist Pierre Huyghe often plunges viewers into his own, fantastical universe. Coming to the Met’s Rooftop: A Pierre Huyghe Installation 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Rather, he was creating a fantastical satire about serious things. Reimagining a Shadowy Medieval Brotherhood That Probably Didn’t Exist 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z But it’s also one that is never simple or straightforward: It’s an indictment written in a language we can’t read, for fantastical crimes that may not exist in the tangible world. How do we watch Woody’s movies now? 2014-02-08T17:00:00Z This 30-minute fantasy in three movements is one of Schumann’s most ingeniously structured scores, yet Mr. Denk kept you engrossed every moment by fantastical, dreamy, and, in the rousing march movement, giddily energetic flights. Five Days, Three Pianists, Three Generations 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Busch crafted genre parodies that transcended camp in their fantastical elements and their abiding affection for the classic films and grandes dames who inspired him. Charles Busch’s New Phase Isn’t Drag. It’s Green Paisley. 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Unlike their American peers, British soap operas are not designed to be fantastical. Coronavirus Finally Comes to ‘Coronation Street’ 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z He’s a fantastical character, full of faux fury and outrageous pronouncements that would enchant any bright, lonely 10-year-old. Book review: ‘The Rise & Fall of Great Powers,’ by Tom Rachman As the boyfriends and the bodies piled up, and consecutive cliffhangers pushed the mystery in ever-more fantastical directions, a compelling story of female friendship emerged. #PLLGameOver: Farewell Pretty Little Liars, the most fancentric TV show yet 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z It’s a fantastical place, but also very real at the same time. How ‘I’m a Virgo’ Pulled Off Old-School Movie Magic 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z If it’s super fantastical or whimsical, then you’re like, OK, this is obviously not real. Jovan Adepo Pushes Through With Rachmaninoff and ‘Love Island’ 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Cameron says the new footage is sprinkled throughout the film and includes a dramatic action scene showing a hunt for one of Pandora's fantastical animals. `Avatar' returning to theaters Friday 2010-08-23T12:31:00Z Influential 70s director Sidney Lumet, usually known more for his gritty realism than fantastical musical numbers, was responsible for the production. The Wiz Live! Everything you need to know to enjoy NBC's latest camp classic 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z I can’t vouch for her theology, but “The Wolfman” spins in agnostic limbo, neither fantastical enough to be thrilling nor realistic enough to be genuinely disturbing. 2010-02-11T22:49:00Z Mr. Saul turns into a kind of mad Jan van Eyck, rendering his fantastical interpolations of current events as precisely and vehemently as possible. Review: ‘Peter Saul: From Pop to Punk,’ a Firebrand Willing to Offend 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z A similar kind of tricky balancing act is inherent in science fiction, a genre that often employs recognizable details to tether readers and viewers in fantastical realms. Movie Review: ‘Oblivion,’ With Tom Cruise 2013-04-18T22:11:58Z Throughout the last century, and notably during the 1940s and ’50s, skating spectacles were opulent, fantastical performances that featured skaters in solos and pairs but also burlesque, comedy and even showgirl-worthy kick lines. Critic’s Notebook: The Glories of Ice Shows Recalled, at Dance on Camera 2014-01-30T23:30:03Z He is interested in the power of these fantastical second skins, both for the people wearing them in performances and for the viewer. Nick Cave Uses His Capital to Help Aspiring Creators 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The performance — with its fantastical creatures, dreamy dances and grown-before-your-eyes giant Christmas tree — was a hit. PNB’s Stowell/Sendak ‘Nutcracker’ takes a final bow 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z When you’re watching a modern blockbuster such as The Avengers, it’s hard to escape the feeling that what you’re seeing is almost entirely computer-generated imagery, from the effects to the sets to fantastical creatures. In the age of deepfakes, could virtual actors put humans out of business? 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Mark Hogancamp, a photographer from upstate New York, appeared in its pages after a friend who lived next door told Lippy about the fantastical world Hogancamp had constructed in his backyard. | The Independent Journal Esopus, Still Going Strong After a Decade of Publishing 2013-12-27T21:16:27Z The sign transformed what was within not by pointing to it like a traditional sign, but by pointing somewhere else — here, to the fantastical, explosive possibilities of the atomic space age. Museum Review: The Neon Museum in Las Vegas 2013-02-02T01:43:04Z He made models of buildings, which he sometimes extended into elaborate cityscapes, both fantastical and familiar, with stadiums, train stations, hotels, banks and embassies — but never homes. Review | Everyone in New York will be talking about this artist soon 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z It had always been this somewhat fantastical idea. From Neah Bay to Key West: The story behind one man’s 4,764-mile cross-country cycling adventure 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z As the flu epidemic takes down civilization, fantastical creatures begin to appear. The apocalypse, as imagined by Nora Roberts 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z He simultaneously creates a vision of a fantastical world that can be surreal, yet hints at the real dangers that humanity faces: from commercialism to pollution and war. Special Report: Asian Art: A Filipino Artist's Fantastical Vision, Finely Crafted 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z I’m painting a kind of imaginary bunch of foreign-looking people of different persuasions, in slightly odd, fantastical costumes. What Has Lockdown Meant for L.G.B.T.Q. Artists and Writers? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z It will be inspired by “Game of Thrones” characters, a fantastical series, set in a similar time. Daenerys Tells All! 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z One reason GoT is so bracingly different from other pop-culture fantasy stories is how it combines the fantastical with the realistic—in this case, realistic attention to the way power is gained, maintained, and exercised. Dead Tree Alert: The Westeros Wing; or, Why Game of Thrones is the Best Show About Politics 2013-05-24T13:14:22Z When a summer storm brings an arcane circus to a Midwestern town, two lads are torn from their humdrum ennui into a fantastical realm of bearded ladies, malevolent carnies and the infamous Illustrated Man. Salman Rushdie, Diana Gabaldon and other authors reflect on the books they find most transporting 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Mallon also weaves his own fantastical what-ifs around the historical record. 'Watergate': Thomas Mallon's novel of Nixon's downfall 2012-02-22T22:01:06Z But the jokes about replicated food's shortcomings serve a function, to anchor the characters in this fantastical universe in their humanity. In the world of Star Trek, would people still cook even though they have access to a replicator? 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z In all these places, Norfolk included, mother and daughter won hearts as fantastical raconteurs and bohemian housekeepers who appeared endlessly amused by life's vagaries. Gwyneth Johnstone obituary 2011-01-06T19:02:23Z A brick back wall holds faded posters and houses Katherine Freer’s comic book projections, which do the fantastical heavy lifting when wings and superpowers enter the proceedings. ‘Lizard Boy’ Review: Swipe Right for the Hero With Green Scaly Skin 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z The problem for Mr. Arnault has been to replace the boudoir glamour and fantastical imagination of Mr. Galliano. Dior Turns to Raf Simons 2012-04-09T16:27:12Z In a fantastical steampunk version of ancient China, legendary sleuth Detective Dee returns from exile to help solve a series of suspicious murders on the eve of the coronation of the country’s first empress. ArtsBeat: Hello, Ozzy: Tribeca Lineup Adds Ozzy Osbourne and Carol Channing Documentaries 2011-03-14T16:00:16Z Construction of a highway in Lod, Israel, in 1996 turned up one of the most famous examples of an ancient mosaic: a fantastical Roman design featuring a bevy of animals. Getty mosaic program teaches conservation in conflict zones and beyond 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z HBO’s “Watchmen,” however, is set in an alternate timeline, and its fantastical nature allows us to contrast events with our own reality and therefore see them with fresh eyes. In “Watchmen,” just as in real life, feelings about Vietnam remain uncertain 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z A man’s voice recites lines from a poem as fantastical low-resolution images of cityscapes are projected on a screen in a darkened room. The Art of Rock: Four Museums Explore How We Connect to Music 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Their journey takes them around the city and into its past, both real and fantastical, with a crackling plot and laugh-out-loud humor. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z On the other side, they enter a land of blossoming trees, fantastical creatures, polka-dot food. In These Stunning Picture Books, Children Navigate a Big, Wide World 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Still, it's an interesting insertion of the fantastical in an otherwise straightforward true crime retelling. What does "The Shining" have to do with Hulu's "Candy"? 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z As with the recently opened “Amélie,” musicals have a way of smothering the fun out of movies that weld real and fantastical elements. The Tao of “Groundhog Day,” Onstage 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z But the fantastical elements in “Blindspotting” hint at the promising ways film and television artists can take a subject that has now become familiar to further creative heights. Fictional Police Brutality, Real Emotional Toll 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Curious, fantastical and weighty, this illuminating memoir penetrates the force field of mystery shrouding one of America’s most iconic musical figures. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z More importantly, though, he conveys an emotional truth, a pervasive sense of humanity, which may be an even tougher feat in this kind of fantastical scenario. Review: Garfield a restless, reckless `Spider-Man' 2012-06-26T19:51:11Z The seminal work, with a libretto by Berg adapted from two plays by Frank Wedekind, proved an ideal fit for Mr. Kentridge’s darkly fantastical artistic sensibility. Review: A Masterful ‘Lulu’ at the Met 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Two strains of the fantastical, meanwhile, may be distinguished. Best European Fiction 2013, edited by Aleksandar Hemon – review 2013-02-01T09:01:01Z Austere yet fantastical, the piece showed these two intent performers adrift in a flower-strewn landscape that was the stuff of poetry and dreams. Slowly Altering Expectations 2010-12-17T14:43:26Z But such institutions, with their volatile mix of regimentation and youthful energy, have also provided fertile ground for allegorical, sometimes fantastical investigations of power, rebellion and human depravity. Review: ‘The Tribe’ Communicates Without Words 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z But even at his most surreal, Waugh lent a persuasive, self-contained logic to how his fantastical parodies played out. Theater Review | 'Mr. & Mrs. Fitch': In a Gilded World, Theirs Is but to Quip and Sigh 2010-02-23T03:01:00Z More darkly fantastical in its use of theatrical expressionism, Lawless's production matches the score's vividly virtuosic writing, which is wonderfully presented by the under Stuart Stratford. The Maiden in the Tower/Kashchei the Immortal – review 2012-07-10T18:00:01Z Meanwhile, the idea of white supremacy as a guerrilla force is not exactly fantastical, given the extent such militias play in US history. Regina King on fighting white supremacists in Watchmen: 'My community is living this story' 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z In his later work, Mr. Snelson elaborated on his atomic structures using digital imagery, which allowed him to summon forth complex, intertwined forms bordering on the fantastical. Kenneth Snelson, Sculptor Who Fused Art, Science and Engineering, Dies at 89 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Its magic imbues each member of the Madrigal family with a fantastical gift when they come of age — except for Julieta’s youngest daughter, Mirabel. I Watched ‘Encanto’ With My Dad. It Brought Him Back Home. 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The show’s fantastical premise, in which 2% of the world’s population vanishes in a Rapture-like event, was too much like science fiction for her. Ann Dowd on The Handmaid's Tale: it's a form of activism 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z It’s not fantastical but it is imaginative, as in the couple’s dreams of vanilla farming, or their adoption of a wild lemur. What Constitutes a Foreigner? Two Story Collections Explore 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z She can get behind the sometimes fantastical reasoning for the things they do.” Single, and Singular, Women Become Her 2010-09-03T20:40:00Z The book tackles issues of discrimination and indentured servitude, and attempts to create a fantastical look at the murky area between good and evil. The Explosive Y.A. Novels Fans Have Been Waiting For 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z That whole world… I mean those magazines they just thrive on random, made-up, fantastical stories. The devil inside 2011-08-06T23:04:04Z But the costumes, by a design team half a dozen strong, are one fantastical flight of fancy after another. A 'Nutcracker' with a beat and burlesque flair 2011-12-16T19:33:04Z A child wanders through a door and into a mysterious world, meeting fantastical new creatures, in this mesmerizing wordless book. Need Gifts for Readers? Check Out Our Holiday Book Suggestions 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Despite promising to deliver on the fantastical idea of falling in love — sight unseen — through a wall in a pod, it seems like even the people on "Love Is Blind" aren't even getting married anymore. A disastrous "Love is Blind" season asks: Does Gen Z really believe in marriage? 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z Yet this fantastical vision was grounded in flat loafers with cutaway heels giving a reality check. Fashion Review: Phoebe Philo at Celine and Haider Ackermann on Paris Catwalks 2011-10-02T18:48:42Z Her story's fantastical tone aligns with her bright imagination, leavening its approach with the bubbly spirit of a dreamer suddenly able to make her superhero fantasies real. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe comedy is a woman's work 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z The Red Shoes U.S. premiere of Matthew Bourne’s stage adaptation of the fantastical 1948 film, based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, about an ambitious dancer. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Sept. 17-24: 'Fixed,' 'The Red Shoes' and more 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Set in a fantastical ghost town with a resident circus troupe and filmed on studio sets, it looks like a Sergio Leone epic as staged by Fellini, or by Lars von Trier. | 'The Warrior?s Way': And Baby Makes Comedy When a Princess Is Taken West 2010-12-03T23:09:00Z It’s easy to see how this fantastical musical could float away from a less confident, cleareyed director. Review: In ‘Dear World,’ Donna Murphy Leads a Righteous March 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z His fantastical kingdom of "mute cicadas and imperishable people" was part of the medieval tradition of a mirror in which the whole world was reflected. The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin – review 2013-03-13T15:49:39Z The show, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, was a crowd-pleaser in London partly thanks to featuring several giant, fantastical puppets — including a furry Catbus that is part motor vehicle, part feline. ‘Prima Facie’ and ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ Win Big at the Olivier Awards 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z It's a series of fantastical fables, showing the influence of Kafka, Swift and Johnson's Rasselas. Every Short Story 1951-2012 by Alasdair Gray - review 2012-11-14T08:00:03Z We descended a fantastical stone staircase, one of many highlights at Shawnee completed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. A day’s drive from Chicago, exploring a very different Illinois 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z For the song’s littlest fans, it is an irresistible, fantastical delight. The story of ‘Baby Shark’: How toddlers around the world made a K-pop earworm go viral 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z In her new triptych, “Unicorn Gratitude Mystery,” playing on Sundays, she applies her corrosive blend of humor and fury to Donald J. Trump, Hillary Clinton and a certain fantastical horned creature. Theater Listings for Sept. 2-8 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z This is an obvious thing to say, but Nolan departs from the more fantastical universe of Tim Burton’s Batman movies in numerous ways, mostly by making Gotham more … let’s not say realistic, let’s say plausible. “The Dark Knight Rises”: Does Christopher Nolan’s “Batman” hold up? 2012-07-14T19:00:00Z And this holiday season, shoppers are finding that one of the more venerable fantastical characters for children — Santa Claus — is blocked by a paywall. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town and It’s Going to Cost You 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Welcome to the White Room West Coast premiere of Trish Harnetiaux’s fantastical drama about three characters who find themselves in a mysterious room. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Aug. 13-20: 'Hamilton,' 'Henry IV, Part 1' and more 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z A Chinese Life's black-and-white artwork is dominated by vibrant images of jostling crowds, leaping children and heaving markets, their urgent life interspersed with sculpted propaganda portraits, beautifully still landscapes and fantastical visions. A Chinese Life by Li Kunwu and P Ôtié – review 2012-10-12T07:00:01Z Jones dives slightly awkwardly into the strange otherworldliness of the original story, drawing extravagantly on metaphor to capture its fantastical spirit. See How They Run by Lloyd Jones – review 2012-11-20T14:08:01Z Rather than portray the world around them, these artists use their knowledge of it to map fantastical universes of their own. In the galleries: Images of history, in black and white 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z In "Visitors," his first U.S. exhibit, Sakuta creates a fantastical world where anthropomorphic figures merge with or derive from flora, architecture or machinery. Bodies sprout drawers, antlers, more at Seattle galleries 2011-09-08T20:38:04Z There is, however, nothing fantastical about the station: everything is for a reason. Halley VI research station, Antarctica – review 2013-02-10T08:00:03Z Case in point: Mendelsohn writes about my favorite book, “The Bone Clocks,” that “the structural intricacies here are exhausting rather than involving, and the flirtations with the fantastical come off as silly rather than provocative.” On the ‘Mitchellverse’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z It veers between the political and the fantastical, the mysterious and the sarcastic, the utopian and the disillusioning. BAM's 'Travelers': postcards from the edge 2011-09-15T19:26:05Z This is not realistic enough to be accurate, but not fantastical enough to be brilliant either. Houdini & Doyle: new show can't free itself from shackles of old formula 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z In symmetry with Will, I suffer from sex dysmorphia; I habitually feel like an angry young man trapped in the body of a female … Orlando, Woolf's fantastical biography, records the 400-year life of Lord Orlando. Sam Mills' top 10 fictional sex changes 2013-03-20T13:54:52Z Eventually this returns in the fantastical Polka, a raw sort of peasant dance, in which dancers toss their arms in the air and stomp like mad. Dance Review: Old Rituals to Shape Young Dancers 2011-03-24T21:31:21Z Women w/o Walls Robin Rice Lichtig's new drama about assorted characters on a fantastical journey from NYC's subway system to the mythological underworld. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 1-8: 'Prairie-Oke!' and more 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z There are mundane explanations and less fantastical crises available. A Kraken is loose in America 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z His latest book is set in a fantastical vision of ancient Africa filled with monsters and witches and ever taller tales. Marlon James shares truths though the fantasy of new novel 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z One of many fantastical events juxtaposed with a to the point, almost ho-hum narration, suggesting the idea that these legends are common occurrences. ArtsBeat Blog: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Mythic Tales of Man and Gods 2011-09-23T18:26:19Z Its fantastical visions are restricted to those of Buñuel’s own anxiety-steeped dreams. ‘Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles’ Review: Animating a Surrealist 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Altmejd said that as much as a quarter of the work was new, and that the show would feature many of his fantastical mirror and Plexiglas installations. Inside Art: Meals as Art at MoMA; David Altmejd at Peter Brant?s Gallery 2011-10-27T22:47:46Z With its polished visuals, sharply timed slapstick, and mix of fantastical adventure and domestic reality, it could be a spin-off of The Incredibles. This week's new films 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Mitchell, the British master of formally intricate, elaborately interconnected and often fantastical novels, has long demonstrated a passion for music. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The arms-for-hostages plot did not bring down a president, of course, but it did involve fantastical characters and bizarre mischief that would enliven any Washington book. Karen Olsson’s ‘All the Houses’ traces the personal costs of a political scandal 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z It’s not such a stretch that Nikolais, who blended light, sound, color, objects and bodies to create fantastical worlds, is part of Dancenoise’s lineage. The Whitney Embraces Dancenoise, a Brash ’80s Performance Duo 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The story is told in a straightforward, if intense, manner, but several of its elements seem almost fantastical, like Emerence’s alternately funny and harrowing relationship with the family dog. New Books by Yasmina Reza, Michael Crummey and Megan Mayhew Bergman 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z They are engulfed in, and hindered by, these fantastical coats, which are both rich and cheap, playing with the work’s themes of empty promises of change. Dance Review: ?more, more, more future? at the Kitchen - Review 2011-10-14T23:03:18Z Street entertainers enacted folk tales, impersonated fantastical creatures, paraded exotic animals. ‘Unexpected Smiles: Seven Types of Humor in Japanese Paintings’ Review: Elegance That Encourages Laughter 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Some children's novelists limit themselves to what they think their readers are capable of; Handler creates his own fantastical world and invites us to find our own way through it. Who Could That Be at This Hour? by Lemony Snicket – review 2012-11-15T08:00:08Z “Dear Emissary, ...” is a feast of styles: modish silver halter dresses, belle époque, suggestions of ancient Greek and Roman outfits and more fantastical looks, including a wafting backless gown that leaves its wearer half naked. Dance Review | Walter Dundervill: ?Dear Emissary, ... ? - A Trip Through Time and Fashion 2010-03-12T23:02:00Z Krohn writes like a fantastical Lydia Davis, in short chapters the length of prose poems. The Books We Loved in 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The realism of these landscapes, in his loose confident lines depicting farm buildings, tents, fences, power wires and treelines, is unsettled by what looks to be invented and fantastical sculptural elements. Soot, Spit and Paper: James Castle’s Transfixing Worlds 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Ms. Keshari said she grew up with epic tales like the Bhagavad Gita that gave her a fantastical outlook on the world, a quality she also sees in her husband. Instant Chemistry, Caught on Video 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Neither these settings nor the staging offers the slightest hint of the magical and fantastical; a quality essential to a successful “Nutcracker.” A Proudly Unsentimental ‘Nutcracker’ at Paris Opera Ballet 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z A portrait must please the sitter and – in the case of royalty – promote a public image without obviously being fantastical. Fading queen 2013-02-13T15:46:04Z This year, more than a few selections also incorporate fantastical interludes — from brief hallucinations to alternative worlds — that productively complicate and on occasion destabilize their realism. At New Directors/New Films, See the World Through Perceptive Filmmakers’ Eyes 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z With objects culled from attics, forgotten storerooms and the bottom of the sea, or thrown more recently by potters, the fairs this year also seem marked by the marvelous, fantastical and paranormal. Art Review: Ceramics Fair and Metro Show Offer Inspirations 2014-01-23T22:47:33Z But this is Mr. Murakami, whose intensely popular fiction plays at the boundary between the real and the surreal, the mundane and the fantastical, regular life and irregular happenings. Haruki Murakami Says He Doesn’t Dream. He Writes. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Just outside town lie the badlands of Bardenas Reales natural park, an extraordinary semi-desert landscape where water and wind has carved canyons, plateaus and fantastical shapes out of the clay, chalk and sandstone. Spain, swords and sorcery: how Tudela enchanted the Game of Thrones producers 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Imagine a feminist, fantastical alternative to “The Da Vinci Code”: 92-year-old heroine Marian Leatherby is dumped into a retirement home where she finds a gang of old ladies seeking the Holy Grail. Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z I also liked the idea that the island could be imaginary, a little fantastical, one you might find not on a world map but in some other dimension. This Week in Fiction: Ottessa Moshfegh on the Repressed Western Consciousness 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z But there’s something poignantly fantastical about Mann’s assertions of Black humanity. Plot Twist! Why 2004 Was a Surprising Year for Movies 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z "The Shape of Water" features a fantastical creature - a cross between human and fish with glowing spots on its skin - to point to "the otherness" people so often reject, Del Toro said. Don't be cynical about love, director Del Toro says in adult fairytale 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z He’s not just making something fantastical of the real world, he’s also disorienting our very perception of it through the tools of filmmaking. Strange Lands Series Celebrates Soviet-Era Sci-Fi Films 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Zimmerman’s blandly fantastical “Eurydice” staging efficiently depicts the action — the elevator down to hell; the shower that makes the dead forget their lives; the looming, pocked walls of the underworld — but lacks magic and sparkle. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Altitude and vastness are conveyed by the dizzy, fantastical instructions to "gulp cloud" and "fling a jet-trail around your neck like a feather boa." Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke 2010-08-30T10:24:00Z Eason’s finely detailed illustrations balance the natural world with a fantastical one: A witch’s candy cottage looks as realistic and believable as the elaborately etched bark of a tree. Fairy Tale Heroines, But With Depth 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z For all its fantastical otherworldliness, Dungeons & Dragons — created by Mr. Gygax when he was 36, and Mr. Arneson, at 27 — is deeply rooted in Eurocentric ideals of the Middle and Dark Ages. Who’s Playing Dungeons & Dragons These Days? The Usual Fans, and Then Some. 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z The quartet's work includes none of the most traditional forms of art – or drawings and paintings – which last year were represented by the Oldham artist Rachel Goodyear's highly realistic illustrations of fantastical subjects. Northern Art prize 2010 shortlist announced 2010-06-15T12:15:00Z “A fantastical mixture of myth and historical reality,” Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The Times in February, adding that it “shatters lingering illusions of first-world culture.” Lost Culture on Found Film 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z In most kids’ films, the monster is a fantastical threat roused from the darkest, deepest depths. ‘A Monster Calls’: Talking Trees Are Easy. Truth Is Hard. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Both worlds are fantastical in different ways, and both are completely consistent within those worlds. PG Wodehouse prize awarded to Terry Pratchett 2012-05-29T23:06:01Z It’s just bad, and the scene is pointedly ordinary until it explodes into fantastical lunacy, then returns to the banal. | ?Hysteria? and ?If That?s All There Is?: The Ordinary Can Pave the Road to Insanity 2010-12-19T22:49:44Z It becomes increasingly important that Jewish films reflect an experience outside fantastical nostalgia, as more younger Jews look for identification outside of Zionism and a tacit support of Israel's apartheid. Hallmark's latest Jewish offering: An order of "Hanukkah on Rye" piled high with racial pandering 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z His huntsman, like the dwarfs, is a gruff human presence in a world that might otherwise have been too airily and abstractly fantastical. Movie Review: ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ With Kristen Stewart 2012-05-31T17:47:53Z Also in the courtyard, Mademoiselle Steinitz’s industrial warehouse mixes rare furniture, fantastical sculptures, contemporary photography and formal gowns. At a Paris Flea Market, Tips for Treasure Hunters 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Rovira pointed to a fantastical chandelier and said it had been made out of empty condensed milk tins. Gaudí's Catalan shadow: the art of Josep Maria Jujol 2013-06-03T06:00:06Z Here, the setting is also fantastical, although at the same time recognizably the workaday urban world in which people toil away in service to the ever-shifting digital future. Review: ‘Golem,’ a Visually Dazzling Fable for the Digital Age 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z But there's a risk, particularly in , of over-egging the fantastical until it becomes tiresome. The Coincidence Engine by Sam Leith ? review 2011-04-02T23:17:32Z This is the setup of the book, and little changes where the characters are concerned, save one or two fantastical flourishes. In ‘The Factory,’ a Mysterious Company Manufactures Fear 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z A slow and fantastical increase in powers was witnessed, as the collective reader-mind became absorbed in his possibilities. ‘Superman,’ by Larry Tye 2012-07-06T22:10:04Z Yet in less than five minutes, the piece lives up to its title, with fantastical episodes, sometimes dark-hued and ominous. A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z His fantastical, whimsical stories, blending horror, humour and sentiment – instantly recognisable in style – appealed to editors and readers across the board. Ray Bradbury obituary 2012-06-06T17:29:58Z Yes, we understand that this is a musical, a story with surreal and fantastical elements. ‘In the Heights’ and Colorism: What Is Lost When Afro-Latinos Are Erased 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z The Spanish animated feature “Birdboy: The Forgotten Children” includes talking animals — though the title character is silent — in fantastical situations. Review: ‘Birdboy,’ a Disturbing Animated Feature from Spain 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z And whenever that story is being told makes no difference; cornrows and other Black hairstyles belong on whatever timeline, real or fantastical, from Westeros to deep space. Deciphering cosmic cornrows in "Obi-Wan Kenobi": Why natural hairstyles belong in the future-past 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Take a spin through the most fantastical decorative scrims around the world. Decorative scrims add visual splendor to urban landscapes 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z But it’s when Manaugh and Twilley describe their visit to a nuclear waste facility that quarantine takes on dimensions that feel simultaneously urgent and fantastical. The Extraordinary History (and Likely Busy Future) of Quarantine 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z The hit series “Lost” was set on a mysterious South Seas island that was fictional and fantastical — a “Fantasy Island” where wishes mostly didn’t come true. | 'Off the Map': Doctors Operating Abroad, With Lots of Body Language 2011-01-12T00:12:29Z Instead, the fantastical elements that inhabit tracks like “Maids of Elfen-Mere” and “Selkie” are woven in thick, rich threads, mimicking the structure of epic poems or Celtic story songs. REVIEW: Tori Amos Creates Her Own Mythology on Unrepentant Geraldines 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z His digital destinies never leap so far into the fantastical that they can’t be recognized. ‘The Peripheral’ Isn’t Really About the Future 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z It is filled with fantastical creatures, strange demons and a powerful sorceress looming over them all. Now That Studio Ghibli Is Streaming on HBO Max, Where Do You Start? 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z The result is a rich and fantastical tale which entertains but is too uneven to truly entrance. Peter Pan by Régis Loisel – review 2013-06-07T16:30:01Z It would be almost fantastical for it to kill. "Hacks" creators on the final act & gloriousness of Jean Smart: "I feel like she is Deborah Vance" 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z And even if they aren’t bigots, they electrify moments — a card game with the neighbor, a negotiation with the “boss” — in which Willy’s paranoia seems at the same time both fantastical and well founded. Review: In a New ‘Salesman,’ the Lomans Look Like All of Us 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z It wasn’t the first time the director had enlisted Mr. Jones, all 6-foot-3 of him, to play a fantastical creature. ‘The Shape of Water’: Meet Guillermo del Toro’s Favorite Creature 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z The opera keeps shifting from grim domestic battles to fantastical literary flights, including a scene with a singing trio of noted literary critics who had panned “The Iceman Cometh.” Critic?s Notebook: A Blizzard This Summer at Glimmerglass 2011-08-02T16:06:03Z You have more grounded everyday drama opposed to this fantastical world of "Snakehead." Han who? Sung Kang on his new "Snakehead" bad boy: "Even his hairstyle – he's overcompensating" 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Hosoda skillfully alternates between Suzu’s naturalistic home life and the fantastical, beautifully designed U. But where “Belle” truly shines is in the way it shows how kids deal with death and violence. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Which isn’t to say that the climes of 2004 didn’t make their way into this week’s more fantastical entries. 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z From this conflict arises a fantastical array of other stories, pitched to the vacillating king. Review: Reliving Those Arabian Nights in ‘Pay No Attention to the Girl’ 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z In "Blue Butterfly," she suggests the patterned wings of some fantastical lepidopteran by symmetrically doubling an image of crumpled newspaper, Rorschach-style. Artists at Seattle's Foster/White turn books into art 2012-07-19T20:12:11Z Instead, as he tells us in an account that swings from the present to the past, from the biographical to the fantastical, he found friends in a gang. ‘Flamin’ Hot’ Review: Neon Dust, Hollywood Corn 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z There, I was confronted by fantastical 17th-to-19th-century religious sculptures, which are apparently quite famous within Russia, carved in complex detail by local peasants. A Bilbao on Siberia?s Edge? 2011-07-22T18:59:16Z They fidgeted during Act I, but sat on the edges of their seats throughout the fantastical and imaginatively wrought dream sequence of Act II. | 'Hansel and Gretel': At the Met, an Opera That Serves Children 2009-12-17T06:03:00Z The main action of “The Lone Ranger” takes place in a fantastical 1869 Texas, but it’s framed by scenes set in San Francisco in 1933, the year the Lone Ranger made his radio debut. Movie Review: In ‘The Lone Ranger,’ Tonto Takes Center Stage 2013-07-02T17:30:46Z I’m not saying it’s fantastical, but I think Loach highlighted the precariousness of the gig economy without actually highlighting the flexibility of it. ‘It’s a form of modern slavery’: MPs on Ken Loach’s film about the human cost of the zero-hours economy 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z It's a good week for world premieres with Rajiv Joseph’s fantastical new drama "Mr. Wolf," a musical adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and the tune-filled satire "Loopholes: A Pain in the I.R.S." L.A. theater openings, April 12-19: 'Loopholes: A Pain in the I.R.S.' and more 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan for their 1885 operetta, relocating the action to a fantastical land that resembles a circus crossed with a carnival. A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z None of these fantastical elements are a problem per se. In ‘The Changeling,’ the Dark Fears of Parents, Memorably Etched 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Abbey Steere’s costumes, a strangely cohesive blend of Gothic black, silken finery and Cossack uniforms, complement the fantastical ambience. Theater Review: ?The Ash Girl,? at Connelly Theater 2012-05-01T20:23:20Z The first of a projected trilogy, this fantastical adventure novel riffs on the imagery of Islamic folklore. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z What a shock to rediscover its feminism, its catholic appreciation of art, its fantastical belief that Cliff and Clair Huxtable could have produced children as phenotypically, facially varied as the five they had. Just What Was on Trial in the Bill Cosby Case? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Like the novel, it skips around through time and space and blurs the border between reality and a more fantastical realm, lurking just below mundane American landscapes. ‘American Gods’: Why a Story About Ancient Deities Is Timely 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The play is meditative and surreal, fantastical and funny. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Elsbeth carried the day, forcing Josh to drop the charges after a series of entirely fantastical twists that we’ll get to in a moment. 'The Good Wife' Recap: How to Make Will Gardner Go Away 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z It's almost as fantastical as the story of Kerslake's own rapid rise to fame. Rule The World? 2010-05-11T08:02:00Z And how do we play with that grounding, which then becomes something much more fantastical?’” How ‘Undone’ Takes Viewers Through the Looking Glass 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Collaborating with a mechanical engineer, the Rosenbaums turned all the modern appliances into fantastical contraptions. Cassandra Clare Created a Fantasy Realm and Aims to Maintain Her Rule 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z Now, however, a trio of 2023 fashion collections indicate that the cheeky, hyperfeminine, fantastical spirit of Limited Too may be on offer once again, this time for adult women. Perspective | Are you ready for the return of the Limited Too aesthetic? 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z In light of Roosevelt's real accomplishments, it's easy to see why this fantastical story was easy to believe. From George Washington's teeth to Taft's bathtub drama: 6 presidential myths, debunked 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Even so, there is more mime than most contemporary audiences are accustomed to, all in the interest of conveying the fantastical story. ‘The Golden Cockerel’ Is a Ballet Bird With a Kick 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z But it could also flop to earth like one of the human-size fish puppets in the fantastical story Ms. Ruhl tells. ?Sarah Ruhl?s Passion Play? at a Brooklyn Church 2010-04-13T23:19:00Z The fantastical and absurd can sometimes yield more insight than realism. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The artist, who is best known for his intricate etchings that depict fantastical and metaphorical subjects, will have recent works in the show that are rendered in a new technique he has created. Canvases, Clay and Cameras, Preserving the Spirit of Ukraine 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The Transformers ride signifies a new generation of fusing top-grossing movies with fantastical amusement park culture, giving visitors a full immersion and line-inducing experience, “blurring the line between fiction and reality,” as Universal touts. Blockbuster Rides: Transformers, Cars and Avengers Coming to an Amusement Park Near You 2012-05-29T15:08:43Z Animation is so often the province of children because it’s a medium so well-suited to the fantastical, horrible and surreal. Cartoon magic for grown-ups: “BoJack Horseman” imbues the cynical TV industry with zoomorphic soul 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z What did that fantastical, or speculative, element offer you as a writer? This Week in Fiction: Mohsin Hamid on the Migrants in All of Us 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z It is in the respectable, nay the proud, tradition of the goofy, fantastical sitcom: the comedy about what happens when regular people end up living next door to witches, genies, monsters and, yes, aliens. TV Tonight: The Neighbors Is Bad, But Not for the Reason You Might Think 2012-09-26T13:09:57Z So you may suspect that a Southern California theme park that relies on evoking a fantastical world of grandeur would view the water restrictions in the wake of the state’s drought as onerous. Drought Tests California Tourism 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Her poetry collection, “Electric Arches,” an Afro-futurist exploration of black girlhood, unfolds against the real and fantastical geography of Chicago, and includes plenty of homespun superpower technology. Eve Ewing Blasts From Chicago to Space, With a Boost from Marvel 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z But in “Washington Black,” the wonders are not so much fantastical and ahistorical as technological and natural. Review | In ‘Washington Black,’ a 19th-century slave escapes on a balloon 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z The boisterous high spirits eventually subside, as we return to Sicilia, where the play’s fantastical denouement unfolds. A Musical ‘Winter’s Tale’ Breezes Through Central Park 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z The fantastical tableaus and sleight-of-hand transformations proved perfect fodder for the madcap magic of puppets. Gotham Chamber Opera’s ‘El Gato con Botas’ 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Because the resolution on your spouse becomes clearer and clearer by the year, you must find compensatory ways to blur and pixelate them back into a soft, muted, faintly fantastical fog. Marriage Requires Amnesia 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z The Hoppers share a gallery with four watercolors by Charles Burchfield, setting up a lively exchange between Hopper’s factualness and Burchfield’s fantastical exaggerations of nature’s vitality, and highlighting these artists’ contrasting obsessions with light. Art Review: ‘American Legends: Calder to O’Keeffe’ at Whitney Museum 2012-12-27T22:56:49Z His paintings show a masterly technique, blending figurative elements and depictions of the natural world with abstraction, layers of symbolism and fantastical imagery that defy easy categories. Louis Delsarte, a Muralist of the Black Experience, Dies at 75 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The appeal of Westeros is less that it is fantastical than that it seems so richly, so vividly, so brutally real. 'Game of Thrones is more brutally realistic than most historical novels' 2013-03-24T19:00:01Z By the early 19th century, American merchants, artists and writers began to move away from the historic saint in favor of fantastical tales. The history of Santa Claus, his red suit and stand-out pop culture moments 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Those fabulous, fantastical, gaudy, glam-slam 1980s: Madonna’s “Blonde Ambition” facing off the Thin White Duke and the Karma Chameleon Boy George. Fashion Review: Then Comes the 4th Dimension 2012-09-30T17:54:41Z In your work on “Ms. Marvel,” you’ve tried to balance the fantastical with everyday American concerns. What Would Wonder Woman Say About Justice Today? Ask G. Willow Wilson 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z The book, which won the 2011 National Book Award for fiction, uses heady language to describe Esch’s desire and weaves in Greek mythology for a fantastical effect. In Harvey and Irma’s Wake, 3 Books on Hurricanes 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Now comes the hard part: “Perestroika,” the involved, fantastical, theoretical conclusion that’s so daunting, some companies don’t even try it, even though that leaves the story literally hanging in midair. ‘Angels’ in Maryland: An epic combination 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z "Lucky 7" is one of the few new dramas this fall without a fantastical concept; it's about how a lottery win changed the lives of a group of working class friends. Old rules don't mean much to broadcasters 2013-05-19T14:52:11Z Radiocarbon dating put paid to that theory, as the odds of anyone finding that much fresh, unused 15th-century vellum to cover with fantastical writing and drawing are slim to none. 5 historic codes yet to be cracked 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Don’t even get me started on gargoyles, the more grotesque and fantastical the better. In the French city of Poitiers, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s influence is everywhere 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z For all of its fantastical details, elements of “Watchmen” resemble the real 2019 too closely to be thought of as comfortable escapism. “Watchmen” is a brutally provocative reckoning of alternate history 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Underneath the Lintel: An Impressive Presentation of Lovely Evidences Arye Gross stars in Glen Berger’s solo drama about a reclusive librarian who undertakes a fantastical journey. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Oct. 15-22: 'Bright Star,' 'In the Heights' and more 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z No fantastical plane leaks into the real world. "The Matrix" is basically a sci-fi "Office Space" 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z We know the formula of the fairy tale: There is often a youth, sometimes a journey and always a touch of the fantastical to convey a moral or theme. Review: ‘Gnit’ Seeks Itself in a Mist of Magic and Mischief 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z He has written an opera to match his feelings about the place — a fantastical, convoluted tale. 5 Operas in 72 Hours: A Philadelphia Festival Is a Test of Survival 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Geisel’s stories are loved by fans for their rhymes and fantastical characters but also for their positive values, like taking responsibility for the planet. 6 Dr. Seuss Books Will No Longer Be Published Over Offensive Images 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z They’re very much based in real people, but the world is fantastical a lot of the time. Joel McHale on Reality Shows, Community, and Telling Costar Chevy Chase to "Soak Your Dentures" 2012-10-05T12:00:33Z That fantastical mystery smolders away under hundreds of pages, but when it finally bursts into flames in the novel’s fifth and longest section, it throws off surprisingly little heat. Review: ‘The Bone Clocks,’ by David Mitchell Not even as allegory could the fantastical adventure that swallows the second act sustain my interest; its concerns are sketchy, as thin as comic book stock. Review: ‘Superhero,’ a Comic-Book Musical Too Flimsy to Fly 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z A fantastical romp that proves every bit as transporting as that movie about the blue people of Pandora, his "Alice" is more than just a gorgeous 3D sight to behold. Burton's "Alice" update a wonder to behold 2010-02-26T04:37:00Z Keith Haring: Pieces of a Life SkyPilot Theatre Company presents a workshop production of a fantastical drama about the 1980s pop artist. L.A. theater openings, July 13-20: 'Burq Off!,' musicals and more 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z What was it like to play someone who’s an historical person in such a fantastical context? Q&A: Benjamin Walker on Becoming an Axe-Wielding President in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 2012-06-20T16:00:44Z But it was also a fantastical snapshot of a moviemaking-moviegoing ideal: weird, wedded bliss. ‘Moonlight,’ ‘La La Land’ and What an Epic Oscars Fail Really Says 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z But Sorry to Bother You, a fantastical dystopian satire, paints a darker picture of this natural linguistic technique. Sorry to Bother You shows why black Americans code-switch to survive 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z She doesn’t doll her models up in fantastical makeup. Perspective | Dior was part of the patriarchy. Then she changed everything. 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z In both her films, the fantastical aspects often act as symbols for something else: “Bad Batch is as much about cannibalism as Girl Walks Home was about vampirism, you know?” The female directors bringing new blood to horror films 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z In Horns, a fantastical far cry from the Harry Potter films, Radcliffe plays an accused murderer who begins growing devil horns in the middle of the night. Daniel Radcliffe Is 'Very Horny' in His New Movie 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Arrayed on interconnected circles of bright red fabric are sixteen, modestly scaled but fantastical constructions that together create a kind of Seussian altarpiece to fecundity. A thoroughly engaging Matthew Ronay at Marc Foxx 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Its enormous lapses in narrative and conceptual coherence — its blithe disregard for basic principles of science-fiction credibility — would be less irksome in the fantastical cosmos of animation. Review: ‘Tomorrowland,’ Brad Bird’s Lesson in Optimism 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Rushdie's novel is peopled by angels and devils, propelled by dream sequences and fantastical provocations. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z That’s why wine names have gone well beyond Chateau This and Domain That to emphasize the fantastical and the silly, as well as established brands such as Playboy. Here’s what happened when our wine critic opened a bottle of Playboy red 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z It's a story that's very based in reality but has sort of fantastical yearnings. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z Featuring giant flowers bigger than people and episodes of walking on water, the fantastical in this novel feels as true to the Cairo of today as the parts that are lifted from life. Read Your Way Through Cairo 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z The Old Man and the Old Moon West Coast premiere of PigPen Theatre Co.’s fantastical musical fable about one man’s epic quest to find his missing wife. L.A. theater openings, May 14-21: 'The Old Man and the Old Moon' and more 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Reality, in this instance, assumes the fantastical form of an aging, teetering woman in a psychedelic-print dress and Technicolor makeup, applied with a trowel. | 'By the Way, Meet Vera Stark': A Black Actress Trying to Rise Above a Maid 2011-05-10T02:24:41Z “Game of Thrones” makes the dragons, magic and other fantastical elements feel almost relatable by including lots of subtler moments of recognizable human drama and realpolitik verisimilitude. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Watch: Arguments in Family Court 2014-05-12T03:53:49Z Existential, fantastical, searching and silly, they reconnect me to the world by shifting my perspective on it. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Among the books stacked in my 1940s Hillcrest apartment were the seven Chandler novels, which I repeatedly reread because they now seemed so much less fantastical. Impersonating Philip Marlowe 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Thursday's news makes the idea of rival but unrecognisable life forms a little bit less fantastical. Tales of the unexplained: why these Monsters are entirely alien 2010-12-06T11:57:00Z The film is being marketed with intentionally opaque trailers that feature fantastical but disconnected snippets of action. Arts & Leisure Preview: Christopher Nolan, Norman Rockwell, Big Boi and More 2010-07-02T19:05:00Z It manages to be at the same time slice-of-life and cosmically absurd, reflective and irreverent, fantastical and grounded. Review: ‘Forever’ Is a Thrilling Story of Boring Love 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z “Finding that core truth and then using all of the fun, fantastical things in the show to express that core truth is absolutely something that ‘Adventure Time’ prepared me to do.” How ‘Adventure Time’ Became a Talent Factory for a Generation of Animators 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z His world, called Giant Country, consists of shimmering upside-down trees, charmingly bad grammar and, as with any good fantastical land, some grumpy villains intent on creating some problems for the feisty little mortal. The New Trailer for 'The BFG' Offers a First Glimpse of Giant Country 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z In 1966 the apartheid government declared the area white under the terms of the Group Areas Act, one of the regime's many fantastical schemes to maintain white supremacy. District Six revisited 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z In fact, the possibility of magic floats through this book, and it often seems as if something fantastical is just about to happen. She’s So Unusual. Is She Magical? 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Nor are there complicated dishes involving fantastical combinations; instead the straightforward menu includes filling bean stews, long-braised meats and fish lightly roasted in cider. Choice Tables: Where Madrid Chefs Go for ‘Real’ Spanish Food 2012-10-12T18:41:55Z That’s when this oddball clash of cultures takes a delicious and fantastical turn. ‘Better Living Through Plastic Explosives’: a gleefully twisted take on Vancouver, B.C. 2013-01-25T00:50:30Z Feminist writers of speculative fiction don’t need the bizarre rituals of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 classic, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” or even the fantastical elements of Naomi Alderman’s terrific recent novel, “The Power.” Review | ‘Red Clocks’ imagines a world where abortion is outlawed. And it feels eerily real. 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z When observers reported seeing fantastical solar phenomena — a sighting called “the Miracle of the Sun” — it was treated as corroboration. ‘Fatima’ Review: Blinded by the Light 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z It was like something out of a beautiful, fantastical, end-of-the-world, crazy, romantic movie. Peter Dinklage on ‘Cyrano’ and Life After ‘Game of Thrones’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Given Page's past form, this production is likely to be more fantastical and heretical than its Royal rival. The best dance in 2011 2011-01-03T11:42:33Z Like Pixar on steroids, “Earwig” doesn’t look remotely Ghibli, instead like an overly glossed, digital scrim laid over a narrative that reaches for the fantastical. ‘Earwig and the Witch’ Review: Domestic Incantations 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z “You’re entitled to your own opinions and your own fantasies, but not your own facts — especially if your fantastical facts hurt people,” he says, echoing a comment by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Fake News: It’s as American as George Washington’s Cherry Tree 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Superhero movies are consistently the year's biggest blockbusters, and fantastical shows like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead are among the most-watched series on television. These Are the Movies and TV Shows We Want to See at Comic-Con 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Here, in a convenient two volumes, was her vulgar, autobiographical, fantastical explosion of gender, self-expression, and identity performance. It’s Julie Doucet’s World 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z It started with a feeling that we wanted to tell these stories in kind of a fantastical way. From Congressional cowboy hats to codpieces, Netflix show asks, "What do these clothes say about us? 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z When it does end, though, in this production, it’s memorable, with the curtain falling on the poignant, fantastical sight of lanterns dimming underwater. Review: ‘Ainadamar’ Turns Lorca Into Death-Haunted Opera 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z It is often dazzlingly beautiful but never simply pretty; often it seems like something discovered fully formed in a forgotten corner, a citizen from some fantastical other world. Artist Mandy Greer molds the fiber of life 2011-11-30T23:49:57Z With fantastical dream sequences and arias that describe the existence of parallel universes, “Hopscotch” is less a traditional plot than a trippy exploration of time and memory. ‘Hopscotch’ Takes Opera Into the Streets 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z “The Witches” isn’t a hate tract; it’s just a weird stew of jokes, fantastical turns, swooping cameras, half-baked ideas and ugly signifiers. ‘The Witches’ Review: A Tale of Mice and Women, Toil and Trouble 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z "There is something quite improbable about how these famous writers started playing together, and all their characters are quite fantastical." Howzat? 2010-05-07T07:12:00Z For Cuba’s Sandor Gonzalez, there is no better place to sketch than several meters below the surface of the sea, surrounded by iridescent Caribbean fish and fantastical coral forms. Cuban artist sketches under the sea among fish and coral reefs 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z What’s actually interesting, from a historical standpoint, is how the show seems more fantastical even as it moves firmly into living memory. ‘The Crown’ Review: Tempus Horribilis 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z They are fantastical creations of fig bark and rooster feathers, spotted python and blood-red kid leather. 2010-02-04T03:03:00Z Juggling Primal Conflicts of Innocence and Sin Mesmerizing, mysterious, willfully perverse, the Mexican movie “Post Tenebras Lux” opens with two scenes, one realistic, the other fantastical. Movie Review: ‘Post Tenebras Lux,’ Directed by Carlos Reygadas 2013-04-30T21:31:18Z Only Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow’s Red Square gives it a run for its fantastical aspect. In Praise of Whimsical English Design 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z These days in this city, street toughs seem almost as fantastical as swan maidens. Dance Review | New York City Ballet: From a Dreamy World to a City?s Tough Streets 2010-02-19T23:14:00Z Given the words of his Last Witch Hunter director, the fantastical world enthralls Diesel. Watch Vin Diesel Play Dungeons & Dragons 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z A glittering dialogue unfolded among the percussion, winds and strings in the arch-shaped piece, which began quietly, built to swirls of fantastical colors, then quietly ebbed away. Music Review: Ensembles Resonate With Each Other 2011-06-06T21:45:25Z Channel-surf, and you'll likely catch this classic Judy Garland flick based on L. Frank Baum's fantastical storybooks on television around Thanksgiving. In the mood for a musical? Here are 4 on local stages 2012-11-08T21:11:06Z We seek solace in books, in solitary and sometimes fantastical thinking, in doing with words what boys who please their fathers do with balls. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z With the 2004 video “Cosplayers,” she honed in on China’s early “cosplay” scene, following kids costumed like Japanese anime characters as they staged fantastical battles, then returned to humdrum home lives. Chinese Life as Child?s Play 2011-06-04T23:45:24Z The utilitarian stairs and exposed ducts, if anything, serve as a point of distinction to the fantastical world that awaits the thirsty upstairs. Bo?te: Cienfuegos Opens in the East Village 2010-05-07T18:07:00Z There’s something supernatural and fantastical that really opens my brain when I look at it. Andy Samberg Makes Each Day Count With Thundercat and ‘Not Too Much’ Bourbon 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Twist, the wizard puppeteer who was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship last week, has a numinous touch that transforms the material — cloth, wire, plastic — into the fantastical, summoning otherworldly creations spiced with wicked worldliness. Review: In ‘Sisters’ Follies,’ Basil Twist Conjures Two Avant-Garde 1915 Benefactors 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Though it never becomes a neat allegory, beneath the fantastical elements is a blatant critique of anthropocentrism and state control, and a keen concern for the way power is wielded against the marginalized. Review | Yan Ge’s ‘Strange Beasts of China’ is a luminous, beguiling chronicle of fantastical beings 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z As C.J. and Sebastian work out the fantastical science of time travel in a garage, it feels practical, grounded in the reality of black American life. “See You Yesterday” and the Perils—and Promise—of Time-Travelling While Black 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z The Sparrow Coeurage Theatre Company presents the West Coast premiere of this fantastical drama about a young woman who returns to her hometown several years after a tragic accident there. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 18-25: 'Kansas City Choir Boy' and more 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z In this fantastical piece the soloist shifts from passages of humming and “Rumtum de diddle” nonsense, to elegiac melodic writing, to passages where the voice leaps about in a super-high register. Music Review: Oliver Knussen in Composer Portraits 2013-04-19T21:04:30Z The project is tightly under wrap, though his editor, Mr. Jackson, described it as “historical” with “elements of the fantastical” and Mr. Coates said it deals with race. Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z This exhibition brings together a wide variety of his paintings, including his fantastical works and his more traditional renderings. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z If, that is, politically motivated shootings and bombings in big cities were fantastical tropes or metaphorical conceits, like zombie epidemics or extraterrestrial invasions. Review: Bored, Beautiful Terrorists With a Taste for Luxury Brands 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Throughout his story Turgenev, the committed realist, repeatedly balances the unreal, the ghostly, with the simply human, fantastical terror with everyday pathos and empathy. A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z While “Homeland” previously cooked up some fantastical terrorist plots in its far-flung locales, its homecoming has forced it to stay grounded. It’s Home Sweet ‘Homeland’ for Season 6 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Its captivating use of CGI to realise Martel's fantastical tale of a young Indian sharing a lifeboat with various zoo animals makes it an obvious contender for the visual effects award. Oscars 2013: Runners and riders 2012-12-23T00:07:44Z “Anna” evokes a tradition of the fantastical in Italian cinema, from Fellini to Paolo Sorrentino, while remaining tied to its realistic, and sometimes harrowing and quite violent, action. Review: In ‘Anna,’ the End of Adults, but Not the World 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Rudolf II – whose rich collections will be shown at the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge this summer – sponsored the fantastical paintings of Arcimboldo, while the Spanish branch of the dynasty employed Velázquez. The Habsburgs shaped the story of Europe ? and of its art 2011-07-25T14:10:19Z This is an incredible, fantastical version of New York, full of costumed criminals, labyrinths of graffiti-covered subway tunnels and miserable slums. Scarecrow suggests | Like 'The Way Back'? Try other tales of wilderness survival 2011-01-20T22:20:04Z As recently as last year, the idea of two operas with exclusively Black ensembles running at the company in the same month would have been fantastical. Review: ‘Porgy and Bess’ Returns to a New Opera Landscape 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z “Every corner I turned, the light was so fantastical.” | Alice Temperley’s British Country House 2014-03-25T21:00:55Z Beyond these more fantastical poems, however, the speaker, self-identified as “one of many puzzlebodies,” negotiates the culture of the “hospitaljail” and, after her release, navigates her changed relationships with friends, family and lovers. Confronting Grief, Mental Illness and Marginalization, in Verse 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z So does the former governor nurse a desire to swap even his own fantastical life journey for the life of a superhero? Schwarzenegger superhero will overlook civil rights 2011-04-05T20:28:31Z Preventing this from coming off as too affected, however, is the characters' awareness of how absurd life has become, and how ordinarily dangerous it can be outside of the fantastical world they've constructed. HBO Max's must-watch "Station Eleven" brings comfort and joy after the eerily familiar apocalypse 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z In his mind, however, he ventured far beyond any earthly borders, conjuring fantastical worlds in surprising assemblages of thrift-store exotica and assorted bric-a-brac. London’s Royal Academy of Arts Showcases the Work of Joseph Cornell 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z There are moments of lightness and darkness, of the fantastical and of the everyday. The Dance Laboratory of an Existential Fidgeter 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Nobody looked or sounded as fantastical as Clinton. George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic – review 2013-07-23T16:35:52Z On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning Three female explorers from the Victorian Era have a series of adventures in Eric Overmyer’s fantastical tale. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Sept. 24-Oct. 1: 'Wicked Lit,' 'Resolving Hedda' and more 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z In the end, Portillo said, she prefers truth “because the truth includes dreams. And dreams can be fantastical and fanciful.” 'They Shoot Mexicans, Don't They?' leads a monthlong look at Latino representation 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Pullman’s trilogy, set in a series of overlapping universes — some fantastical, some resembling our own — is a tour de force of world building. The next “Game of Thrones” is coming: Phillip Pullman’s epic fantasy series “His Dark Materials” is a natural fit for TV 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Early Pink Floyd was never that bad, but the records that preceded “Dark Side” were dense, cryptic and fantastical. Behind the music on “Vinyl”: The New York Dolls & Lou Reed take the stage, and Pink Floyd abandons the cardinal rule of album cover art 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z In his 1940 painting the Robing of the Bride, the surrealist Max Ernst imagines a fantastical transformation of woman into bird, under the tutelage of his personal demon Loplop. Witches have always cast a wicked spell over art 2012-12-17T15:09:03Z Matthew Barney, “River of Fundament” at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Barney is a video and performance artist known for producing lush works inspired by fantastical mythologies. Datebook: Weimar-era art, photos after the bomb, a show about Irvine's radicals 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Some children heard about them in a fantastical context, in which they were told that dragons or ghosts collect them. Dear Santa Claus: Why do I still believe you exist? 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z But alongside that, Blur's gameplay is in fact firmly rooted in the fantastical. Blur 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z The Clangers was just the right combination of the familiar and the fantastical. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z Miyazaki's movies are exciting and fantastical, often involving flying machines, ecological disasters, clashing civilisations and precarious spiritual values – all rendered in clean, colourful, hand-drawn animation. Studio Ghibli: Leave the boys behind 2011-07-14T21:00:03Z The 77-year-old, who has not been charged, has denied claims, calling them "fantastical" and "uncorroborated". Refunds offered for Bill Cosby shows 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z A lot of recent books fall into this microgenre: climate-aware, speculative poetry, mixing the fantastical with what you might call dystopian realism. In Defense of Poetic Nonsense, With a Character Who Shares Your Frustration 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The beauty of DiCamillo’s text is that it is equal parts somber and silly, its undercurrent of grief balanced by fantastical absurdities. ‘The Magician’s Elephant’ Review: The Promise of a Pachyderm 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The fantastical film costumes, however, are nowhere to be seen. Niehoff/Lingo’s ‘Collision’: pretty parts, vague impact 2013-04-19T21:57:25Z His new novel doesn’t share that fantastical element, but it’s just as preoccupied with aging. Do we really need another novel about a novelist? Yes — this one is delightful. 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z In delicate washes of paint, political and cultural symbols are set adrift in a fantastical landscape peopled by knights, spacemen and figures of Russian folklore, while accompanying scraps of text play wry word games. Artist of the week 82: Pavel Pepperstein 2010-04-08T10:17:00Z In contrast to the rural decencies of Tolkien, Moorcock's writing belongs to an urban tradition, which celebrates the fantastical city as a place of chance and mystery. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z In "Edible Complex," when the girls barbecue Jackie's body and finally eat her, they are transported to a fantastical scene, surrounding a hearty dinner table as if everything is right in the world. "Yellowjackets": Eat or be eaten? It's called being a team player 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z How did you come up with the fantastical elements in the story? How do you explain death to a kid? Mark Webber on fantasy and reality in "The Place of No Words" 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z There’s a nice tension between those two things, the real and the fantastical. Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bringing Back Black Panther 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z While again investing a fantastical tale with undercurrents of real-life science, events in “I Origins” quite clearly cut the story between Dr. Ian Gray’s time with Sofi and his time with Karen. Mike Cahill, Brit Marling and Michael Pitt on science of 'I Origins' 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z It uses arresting CGI to realise Martel's fantastical story of a young Indian sharing a lifeboat with various zoo animals, most prominently a large tiger. In pictures: Best film nominees 2013-01-10T14:19:21Z How did “rabbit hole,” which started its figurative life as a conduit to a fantastical land, evolve into a metaphor for extreme distraction? The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Steve Smith “Le Grand Macabre,” the fantastical György Ligeti opera that receives its overdue New York debut at the New York Philharmonic this week, is unquestionably the most pressing premiere on the immediate horizon. The Week Ahead: May 23 ? 29 2010-05-20T20:56:00Z This breakthrough 1711 work, Handel’s first opera for London and the first Italian opera written to order for a London theater, was conceived as a fantastical entertainment full of showpiece arias for virtuoso singers. Music Review: Francisco Negrin Directs ?Rinaldo? for Lyric Opera of Chicago 2012-03-01T23:12:14Z Mixing archive clips, observational material, constructed fantastical sequences and to-camera reminiscences, she roams the country, musing on interesting random encounters. Agnès Varda, the queen of the meme 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The emotional battleground between the reticent but traumatized Natsume and the guarded Kosuke is rich territory but feels more procedural than fleshed out, as does the fantastical logic of the world, which lacks coherence. ‘Drifting Home’ Review: A Sinking Development 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z He’s still the product of a child’s fertile and fantastical mind, but he’s now scary as well as silly. How “Jojo Rabbit” crafted that hilarious yet horrifying “Heil Hitler” scene 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Of all the many design ideas on display during New York Fashion Week: Men’s, Mr. Palomo’s were by miles the most fantastical and giddy. Men’s Runways Are Threaded With Dissent 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Interweaving a fantastical medieval Persia with contemporary New York, the show is at its best when it flat-out mocks American ignorance and the stubbornness of ethnic clichés. Review: In ‘One Thousand Nights and One Day,’ New Tales of Old Persia 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z The third novel in the fantastical Locked Tomb series follows Nona after she wakes up in someone else’s body with no memory of her past. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z “Ecstatic Cahoots” holds fifty very brief stories—many less than a page long—that swing between fantastical imaginings and sharply captured everyday scenes.—A.D. Books to Watch Out For: June 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Cavendish, for all that she thought women of a "fantastical" turn of mind, suited to poetry and bad grammar, wrote some powerful polemic against women's lack of educational opportunities. Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z To rescue her father, Meg Murry, the physics-loving heroine — played by Storm Reid, now 14 — skips across galaxies with her little brother and a friend, encountering fantastical creatures and menacing beasts. Ava DuVernay’s Fiercely Feminine Vision for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Rushdie corrects "genie" to "jinn," the original Arabic for the fantastical creatures born of fire with the ability to shape-shift. Salman Rushdie's new novel 'Two Years' lets the jinn out of the bottle 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z X spends much of his day composing “mental-mail,” fantastical e-mail messages that he’s too cowardly to send — or even write. In Joseph O’Neill’s ‘The Dog,’ a depressed lawyer in Dubai won’t stop talking As computer-generated swords supersede the real thing, and more fantastical stories supplant traditional period tropes, Kamiyama and his cohort watch from the sidelines. ‘Uzumasa Limelight,’ About a Fading Actor 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z In “Orlando” it sprang from a fantastical literary conceit. Arts & Leisure: Glenn Close as a Man in ?Albert Nobbs? 2011-12-09T13:00:00Z Tents are a motif in “Singing Beach,” whose meshing of worlds — earthbound and fantastical — is difficult to imagine on the page. Tina Howe Copes With Caregiving and Other Late-in-Life Storms 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z It is bizarre and dizzying and oddly beautiful in its fervor, as fantastical props and effects distract from the nonsensical plot. ‘The Advent Calendar’ Review: A December Full of Tricks and Treats 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z It’s a visual feast, with music and fantastical costumes by Mr. Holder, a theatrical polymath who has been a dancer, choreographer, actor, director, costume designer and a well-regarded painter during his long career. Dance Review: Voodoo, Vivid Colors and Strange Visions 2010-12-08T23:56:00Z In France, the narrator finds himself contending with attitudes far murkier than anything he experienced in the proudly fantastical United States. Review | In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Beginning on Tuesday audiences can enter this fantastical realm, when the Paul Taylor Dance Company trades in its usual City Center home for the David H. Koch Theater. Paul Taylor Dance Company Comes to Lincoln Center 2012-03-09T18:58:14Z Bright, colorful, fantastical flowers of no known species or genus, morphing continuously in size, color and shape, as if botany and fluid dynamics had somehow merged. Music, Science and Healing Intersect in an A.I. Opera 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z On his endless walks, his thoughts turn repeatedly to a quiet cottage with lace curtains, a prewar life that now seems as fantastical as those mirages. 'The Way Back': Prisoners take it step by step in Peter Weir's great escape drama 2011-01-20T22:53:21Z “Tehran,” on the other hand, is slick, wildly entertaining and packed with fantastical plot twists. ‘Tehran’ Is the Latest Israeli Thriller, Emphasis on Thrills 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z It feels like just one more bit of fantastical melodrama that dilutes the potential power of “Bewilderment.” Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z A stage adaptation of “My Neighbour Totoro,” an animated Japanese children’s movie filled with fantastical creatures, emerged on Tuesday as the front-runner for this year’s Olivier Awards, Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys. ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ Dominates Olivier Award Nominations 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z In this glittering series opener, a scorned aristocrat assembles a talented team of outsiders to pull off an epic, high-stakes heist on the eve of the World’s Fair in an alternate, fantastical Paris. Fascinating Alternate Histories in Four New Novels 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Which might mean that Jo has a rather flawed, fantastical idea of what romantic love is — she doesn’t realize it can just be hanging out with your best friend. We watched 15 straight hours of ‘Little Women,’ and things got weird 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Among the 150 art projects that will flower nocturnally will be a fantastical projection on the facade of the Hôtel de Ville by the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. Art Flowers at Night in Paris 2010-09-29T10:00:00Z The movie’s characters explore fantastical lands and encounter incredible sea creatures while searching for a precious artifact. 5 ways to give the gift of travel 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z But its characters are drawn with such empathy and humor that it’s easier than you might expect to take the play’s more fantastical conceits at face value. Review: ‘Little Children Dream of God,’ a Drama of Haitian Refugees 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Not that Mr. Lee practices duplicity; rather, his renown comes from designing masks and puppets that turn human actors into fantastical characters and creatures, from a wisecracking cockroach to a majestic dragon. Spare Times for Children for Sept. 11-17 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Presented by New York City Children’s Theater, the play showcases the creative talents of the Puppet Kitchen, the inventive team that devised the fantastical puppetry in the original production of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show.” 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The writer changed tack in the hope that a more fantastical vehicle would allow him to discuss themes in a looser way. In the Flesh: a new twist on the zombie drama 2013-03-15T15:37:23Z In retrospect, the “Frankenstein summer” seems a fantastical interlude of happiness in lives marked by tragedy. Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z In one of the instrumental interludes, the “Fantasy Upon a Ground” in D, an inadvertent moment of dissonance rendered the work somewhat too fantastical. Music Review | Thomas Ad?s: Thomas Ad?s Conducts Ensemble ACJW at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-25T20:35:00Z I think there is a theme running through much of his work of isolated people going about some kind of slightly fantastical matter of sorting things out – Mr Magnolia, Mrs Armitage. Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z The settings may be fantastical, but the desired outcomes – recognition for good work done, social and economic security, peace, true love – are not. Why 2012 was the year of the fairytale 2012-12-24T08:30:01Z These questions led Butler to explore settings banal and fantastical, brutal and tender. The Essential Octavia Butler 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z For the new vulgarians, Mr. Fielden suggested, invoking certain airy and fantastical ideals, art is just another asset class. Events Like a Drawing Center Benefit and the Winter Antiques Show Gala Cater to the Rich and Famous 2014-01-29T23:20:15Z He’s most concerned with “a double world of the fearsome, the fantastical and the inhuman,” and he wants the reader to indulge in “the lost luxury of shadows.” Books of the Dead 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Levi Fisher Ames’s fantastical whittled zoo creatures from around the turn of the last century are worth the price of this book all by themselves. Books and Museum Treats for Art Lovers 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Ten singers will perform this fantastical fable involving deceit, desire and the titular magic flute, to piano accompaniment. Weekend Miser: Chelsea Symphony Offers Holiday Music 2012-12-06T20:51:05Z The numbers keep getting lower and lower as the tension in this fantastical story increases. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Tolkien’s artwork ranges from a scene of a bucolic landscape in the English Midlands, “Alder by a stream,” to nearly psychedelic depictions of fantastical vistas like “The Shores of Faery.” Tolkien’s World: An Exhibition Transports Us to Middle-earth 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Conventional wisdom would have it that a violent, fantastical action thriller about a group of supernatural mercenaries doesn’t lend itself to personal filmmaking. Perspective | Gina Prince-Bythewood is the first black woman to direct a major comic-book movie. It looks like the future. 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z While the "Harry Potter" franchise concluded with its eighth installment in 2011, three new films from the fantastical world of magic created by author J.K. DC superheroes, Lego and Harry Potter spin-off get new Warner Bros. films 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z In this tale, the title character and his fellow gods battle fantastical foes, including the god of frost. Seattle troupe the Cabiri's 'Tarhun' gives ancient myth an aerial turn 2012-04-04T20:32:04Z Teilhard, who died in 1955, went off in a fantastical direction, one that culminated in what he called the Omega Point, a form of supreme consciousness. Books of The Times: ?The Neighborhood Project? by David Sloan Wilson - Review 2011-08-31T22:00:25Z Viewed together, the white plaster forms resemble the peaks of a fantastical mountain range, not unlike the topography of Middle Earth. Hermann Obrist 2010-06-06T21:45:00Z His first words “look up here, I’m in heaven/I’ve got scars that can’t be seen” are now obviously an admission of his ill health, rather than just a fantastical musing on mortality. How David Bowie Told Us He Was Dying in the 'Lazarus' Video 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z The staging area, before you enter the Holodome, is decorated in an eclectic style inspired by Jules Verne, and encourages visitors to start engaging with the fantastical right away. Vulcan’s Holodome exhibit at MoPOP lets groups share an ‘immersive reality’ experience 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The Wall Street Journal recently sanctified Rush Limbaugh as “patient zero” of today’s cancel culture, which suggests just how successfully conservative voices have been muzzled by this fantastical plague of liberal harpies. Perspective | Did Facebook ‘cancel Abe Lincoln’? The truth is complicated — and alarming. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z I also loved the fantastical element of the film. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z “Alice Isn’t Dead” follows a woman as she sets out on a frightening and fantastical road trip in an effort to track down her missing wife. Fiction Rising: Podcasts Grow Dramatic 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Erdrich is not so much tantalizing as miserly with the details of her fantastical conceit. Do we need another ‘Handmaid’s Tale’? 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Eventually the flood comes, transporting Malcolm into more fantastical territory as he, Lyra and teenage companion Alice travel through a mysterious, shadowy world inspired by British folklore. Philip Pullman Has Made a Career Building New Worlds. He’s Not Done Yet 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The most fantastical aspect of the movie is that it may not achieve that goal.” “Fantastic Four is an unmitigated garbage fire,” and 15 other terrible reviews director Josh Trank is not responsible for 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z This particular storm, which deposits the heroine in a fantastical land, is so powerful it transform a mundane life to one worth two Oscars in a matter of moments. Clip joint: When the wind blows 2012-06-20T16:47:18Z Physical spectacles and special effects are virtually obligatory in any major pop concert, and Take That's visual vignettes veered from the fantastical to the futuristic. Take That and Robbie gel on tour 2011-05-28T02:01:01Z The story — a kind of grotesque fairy tale — takes place in the walled Republic of Urbs-Ludus, whose citizens adore giant hotels and “fantastical coiffure.” A sneak peek at ‘P---y,’ the soon-to-be published novel about Donald Trump 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Everything and anything is possible, and so there are fantastical stories to be shared, such as those involving dragons. Perspective | Our 5-year-old is lying. How can we steer him away from this habit? 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z A surging first movement is followed by a restless scherzo, a generously lyrical slow movement and an impetuous finale that sounds fantastical on the surface but is run through with polyphonic passages. Classical Recordings: Schumann: Complete Works for Piano Trio 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z She’s a fabulous creation, at once down-to-earth real as a friend who grew up in the Valley and as fantastical as a Hollywood dream girl. ‘Licorice Pizza’ Review: California Dreaming and Scheming 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z How can such a mild-mannered, nice woman have such a wicked imagination that keeps inventing these fantastical characters over and over again?” Arts & Leisure: MoMA to Showcase Cindy Sherman?s New and Old Characters 2012-02-16T12:00:00Z Ishiguro quite accurately perceived that some readers might be confused or even put off by the fantastical elements of “The Buried Giant,” even if he doesn’t hold those prejudices himself. We’re all genre readers now: Can we finally stop the tired “pixies and dragons” vs. literary fiction wars? 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z "The Board's view was that the fantastical and tongue-in-cheek nature of the situations would be self-evident to most audiences," its report states. Bones rating drew most complaints 2011-06-13T16:12:22Z So expect to spark some future female leaders with these empowering role models who embark on fantastical adventures. 'One big virtual love-in': how children's book authors are creating online sanctuaries 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z The science is unsettled, but not entirely fantastical. ‘The Power’ is our era’s ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z Now James is back with “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” out Feb. 5, which looks like another great, big tale of death, murder and mystery but more mystically fantastical. 10 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2019 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z The 14 motley pieces of this publication, composed over 13 years, are mostly short, fantastical and quirky. Review: Trifonov, in Risky Program, Doesn’t Fail to Thrill 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Instead, this 35-foot-long creature will lead a 2 p.m. dragon parade, which all are invited to join, dressed as dragons or flower fairies or any kind of fantastical being. Spare Times for Children Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z "It's a story about a child that is fantastical and funny and scary and touching all at the same time," he says. Glyndebourne's odd double 2012-08-09T19:00:12Z Scott’s nightly outings to mundane bars and rock clubs culminate in fantastical showdowns meant to evoke the frenetic pugilism of video games like Street Fighter II. Film: Cult Director Courts the Mass, Keeps the Crazy 2010-08-06T21:12:00Z Would it be too realistic for fantasy readers and too fantastical for fans of realism? Lev Grossman: My depression helped inspire the Magicians trilogy 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Two mats, a bowl, clay masks, a hat streaming with multicolor ribbons: such are the elements from which a series of scenes, fantastical and historical, are conjured. Drawing on the Past, Living in the Present, Dreaming of the Future 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Blending a gimlet-eyed satirical sense with fantastical whimsy, Mr. Banyai had produced frame-worthy covers for The New Yorker, along with eye-catching work for New York magazine, The Atlantic and other publications. Istvan Banyai, Illustrator Who Mined the Surreal, Dies at 73 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z The book tells of their fantastical adventures in what adults call the Impassable Wilderness. 'Wildwood Chronicles' conjures a Portland fantasy 2014-03-26T13:22:10Z The fight over who gets control over young Gordy is really a struggle for the messianic power he wields in this fantastical world. Review | A.R. Moxon’s ‘The Revisionaries’ might be the weirdest novel of the year 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The movie “spins in agnostic limbo, neither fantastical enough to be thrilling nor realistic enough to be genuinely disturbing,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in February. DVDs: New DVDs, ?Word Is Out? and ?Meredith Monk? 2010-05-30T01:53:00Z In "Terminator: Dark Fate," the special effects are sturdy and convincing, utilizing CGI sparingly and making even the more fantastical elements look like real three-dimensional objects. "Terminator: Dark Fate" works 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z It captures Rowling's richly textured magical world, with its byzantine mythology, complex history and array of fantastical creatures. Wizard magic: JK Rowling hopes Harry Potter play goes global 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z The structural intricacies here are exhausting rather than involving, and the flirtations with the fantastical come off as silly rather than provocative. David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z His style, Ms. Lawrence said, is more fantastical than Mr. Ross’s, but both remain true to the books, a must with such a devoted fan base. Jennifer Lawrence in ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ 2012-11-09T22:03:41Z With Miéville's novel a fantastical twist on a crime story, and Bacigalupi's a futuristic tale about an engineered girl grown for sex tourists, this year's winning titles show the range of science fiction today. China Mi?ville and Paolo Bacigalupi tie for Hugo award 2010-09-06T13:42:00Z To drum up interest in the festival Mr. McFarland engaged in multifaceted, sometimes fantastical, forms of promotion. Organizer of Failed Fyre Festival Pleads Guilty to Fraud 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z The Lightfoots also live in a fantastical recreation of the suburbs. How Pixar's hit Onward was born from childhood bereavement 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Overtaken by the fantastical, I nearly missed a small stenciled panda on the bottom right corner of the building, which sat quietly, munching bamboo. Art in Bristol, England, Moves Beyond Museum Walls 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Two more fantastical story sets would change the tone of your evening. Works of Fiction That Are Best Read Together 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z “It felt to us like a perfect summer paperback,” she said of the book, which chronicles the fantastical adventures of a Florida family that fights alligators and works in a theme park. Paperback Publishers Quicken Their Pace 2011-07-26T22:00:22Z In high school, he devoted his spare time to making stuffed animals: small, fantastical confections crafted from felt that depicted charming creatures such as a polka-dotted hedgehog and a mouse wearing a fringed cape. 'The Vermeer of Los Angeles'? Slow-art champion Tom Knechtel lets us in the studio 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z First, she continued with her fantastical story and insisted she was indeed an inactive RN. Perspective | Miss Manners: Friend might be lying, but you were definitely rude 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z The fantastical Someplace Else is now the entire setting of “Donkey Hodie.” ‘Donkey Hodie’ Adds a Fresh Face to Fred Rogers’s World. And a Mohawk. 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z The world of the books is a familiar-yet-uncanny blend of old-fashioned technology — gas lights, airships — and advanced science, of everyday worries and fantastical creatures including witches and armored bears. Philip Pullman’s latest book is adventure for an anxious age 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z At once fantastical and gritty, this sort of uninflected street vignette sets the movie apart. ‘Love Hunter,’ About a Serbian Musician in New York 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Ms. Uchida conveys both the architectural and fantastical elements in her magisterial performance. Classical Recordings: Inner Personalities of Composers and Performers 2011-04-10T02:00:18Z But that doesn't prevent the story from being suspenseful and blackly humorous, and again there is that compelling mixture of terribly ordinary everyday life, with a quite fantastical big event. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z In keeping with the fablelike, slightly fantastical West she has invented, we never learn the family’s surname. A Haunting Debut Novel Brings New Faces to the Myth of the American West 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z The most truly unexpected drama on Christmas Day was available only in the middle of the night and only to Sky subscribers, from the statistically fantastical first day of the fourth Ashes test in Melbourne. Christmas TV gets stuck in the old routine 2010-12-26T20:04:28Z Leitch had hoped to shoot parts of the film in Japan, but the pandemic made that impossible, so he leaned further into a fantastical vision created on an American sound stage. The Japanese Author Behind ‘Bullet Train’ Is OK That the Film Isn’t So Japanese 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z As with the muses, so with the mansions: Leighton’s Holland Park house became a shrine to exoticism and Rossetti created fantastical decoration for the Tudor House in London’s Chelsea. Exhibition Review: At the Victoria & Albert, Muses Let Their Hair Down 2011-04-11T14:37:06Z Part of the essential oddness, the fantastical nature, of “555” comes from a very particular fatigue that Berlant and Early have been experiencing. Kate Berlant and John Early’s Escape from Comic Realism 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z That the museum, which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary, lies mere footsteps away from Gaudí’s fantastical residence is serendipitous. Special Report: : When the Box Itself Is the Thing 2011-11-21T13:01:44Z But not all the whirling chiffon, sherbet colors and “let’s dance” music — nor the fantastical work of Dior’s studios — could conceal a basic fact. Special Report: Fashion: 3 Weddings and a Dior Carnival 2011-07-04T18:10:04Z His attraction to Sendak's stories fits the character of his own music - fantastical worlds that shimmer darkly under seemingly simple surfaces. A guide to Oliver Knussen's music 2012-06-04T11:03:21Z Natural science is the lodestar of Dam’s fantastical creations: As a child he immersed himself in zoology and botanical books owned by his grandfather, an engineer and keen amateur naturalist. The Danish Glassblower Making Modern Curiosities 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z I remember thinking, as I watched it, that this scene probably appeared fantastical, revisionist, to many viewers. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Sky1 It seems fantastical that a new episode of The Simpsons doesn't even register any more - frankly you're better off watching Modern Family at eight. The Culture Show 2010-06-03T07:00:00Z The medium remains stuck in what might be called its epic-poem phase, relying on static, larger-than-life characters whose exploits are explicitly fantastical — wizards, aliens, zombies, future soldiers and space marines. Video Game Review: Papo & Yo 2012-09-25T12:45:11Z I think “Teenage Dream,” it really encapsulated this fantastical view of love. Letting go of being No. 1, Katy Perry finds her ‘Smile’ 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z He is most famous for "Winter's Tale," his fantastical 1983 novel about New York at the dawn of the industrial age, which is being adapted for the big screen. Novelist Helprin spins a good yarn in life and art 2012-10-03T19:06:52Z I love it because it's a really nice contrast to the "balletic battles" as you call them, that are more CGI-driven, and more fantastical. "To help life flow": Mark Dacascos reflects on his strong, flavorful and action-packed career 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z The new album arrived on the heels of Ms. Amos’s fantastical musical, “The Light Princess,” which recently had an extended run at the Royal National Theater in London. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Aug. 8-14 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Don Juan in Hell Staged reading of George Bernard Shaw's fantastical drama about the human condition. L.A. theater openings, May 8-15: 'The Day Shall Declare It' and more 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The setting is a train, and the trimmings are allegorical and fantastical. A Lost Story by Sylvia Plath Contains the Seeds of the Writer She Would Become 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The tone and feel of the film is both modern and traditional, realistic and fantastical. "It Lives Inside" director on his psychological monster and "counterintuitive" approach to suspense 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Schumann emerged as a wondrously inventive composer whose signature works were piano suites with fantastical titles like “Papillons” and “Carnaval.” Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z It includes traces of science fiction, with ideas culled from cosmology, theology and particle physics, alongside fantastical elements such as witches and armored polar bears. The next “Game of Thrones” is coming: Phillip Pullman’s epic fantasy series “His Dark Materials” is a natural fit for TV 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z “Fantastic Beasts” is indeed fantastical, but many themes and references, like the Magical Congress’s color-coded threat index, are pointedly contemporary. In ‘Fantastic Beasts,’ a Jazz Age World of Fancy and, Yes, Fear 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The show pays fantastical, gently mocking tribute to the Misses Lewisohn. At 100, the Abrons Arts Center Revels in the Risky 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z At the end of the day, it's Hollywood and this fantastical carrot you need. Han who? Sung Kang on his new "Snakehead" bad boy: "Even his hairstyle – he's overcompensating" 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z The show creates a fantastical world that explores the whirlwind of city life, with characters dancing with each other, entering and exiting the stage and contributing to the frenzy. Cirque du Soleil brings the circus to Africa 2011-03-10T15:31:05Z Fast Co. rounds up fantastical fashions that incorporate a favorite childhood art supply: crayons. Links We Love: What We're Reading This Week 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z And I saw tables where eager hands were forging embroidery and making decoration out of bits of cloth that would wind up on McQueen's fantastical runways - like the coral and undersea-themed show for spring 2012. T Magazine: Haute Stuff 2012-10-15T13:00:07Z With this fantastical novel, he’s managed to capture the poignant paradox of loving troubled children. Review | Children burst into flames in Kevin Wilson’s ‘Nothing to See Here’ 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z But eventually, cake preferences shifted from fantastical to minimal, with some people eschewing them entirely and serving less fussy desserts including cupcakes and doughnuts. ‘Epic’ Dresses and Maximalist Cakes: These ’80s Wedding Trends Are Back 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z More fantastical yet, in her latest series of small-scale paintings, a ballerina pirouettes on horseback, a naked dancer rides a magic carpet, and a lady of the lake punts through clouds of purple-orange mist. This week's new exhibitions 2011-04-01T23:06:02Z Heat or no heat, it’s time to choose a fantastical mask and a wild costume and head to the Lower East Side to join a Wednesday evening parade. The Wide World of Puppetry Converges on New York 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z The plot becomes so twisty and fantastical that I lost some interest toward the end, but those same traits might captivate young readers. Stormy Fairy Tales 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z Suddenly that premise feels a lot less fantastical. Can ‘The Last of Us’ Unlock a Gaming Gold Mine for TV? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z After an opening section heavy with a sense of wonder, the trio heads to realms both familiar and fantastical, with "Matrix"-like villains in keen pursuit. 'Tomorrowland' director Brad Bird's mantra: 'We have to bring in new ideas' 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z It is a departure but it’s kind of a fantastical story. Sofia Samatar on the many influences on her fantasy novel, 'The Winged Histories' 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Like journalism, American film history tends to be rather too neatly divided between sober, apparently disinterested chronicles and gossipy counter-histories, some persuasive, others fantastical. Harvey Weinstein Is Going to Prison. But That’s Just a Starting Point. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z That year, Mr. Castro adopted the Soviet ideology of Socialist Realism, which required literature to glorify Communism with realistic, not fantastical, depictions. Sci-Fi Writers Find Warmer Climate Amid Cuban Thaw 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Lavie: “The Best of Jeffrey Ford” came out recently, the definitive collection by this modern master of the fantastical short story. Perspective | The best science fiction and fantasy of the year so far — plus what we’re looking forward to next 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Crime and the fantastical genres – science fiction, fantasy and horror – are perhaps closer than it would seem at first glance. Crime fiction: Evidence points to a clash of genres 2012-07-19T08:15:53Z The only difference is that it’s not as fantastical and silly as the web comic is – it’s not trying to be funny all the time. A more honest Iraq War story looks like this: “Sometimes the Marine Corps kind of sucks” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Filled with scenes of sexual violence and body horror, Bertrand Mandico’s “The Wild Boys” might have been unbearable were it not so fantastical and stylized. ‘The Wild Boys’ Review: Women as Boys, and Violence as Art 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z It remains to be seen whether the live show will be as eerie and fantastical as the one Andreas Nilsson designed for the Silent Shout tour in 2006, with the balaclavaed duo wielding fluorescent drumsticks. The Knife: 'Music history is written by privileged white men' 2013-03-23T06:00:00Z An animated film telling five fantastical stories of courageous women and their battles with madness. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The writers' fervor for experimentation coupled with Hiro Murai's gauzy, fantastical directing style make this one of the few places on TV where anything can happen, and more often than not, the big swings work. Sometimes we can go home again: “Atlanta” comes full circle in its final season, only richer 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Helping set the stage for a music scene that remains one of the strangest and most fantastical in Europe, acts such as Alaska y los Pegamoides mixed punk, disco and horror-movie references to startling effect. A history of Spanish pop in 10 songs 2012-06-18T15:17:21Z Wedged in between, the more fantastical action of Halo Reach was a refreshing break from the bloodshed. Battle of the machines in Los Angeles 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z "I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable," Whedon said. 'Avengers' boss Whedon mines mirth in Marvel idols 2012-04-30T13:53:47Z The themed spaces linked by a series of paths will let your children run, jump, play, and explore some of the most fantastical plants, insects, and characters. Atlanta for Families 2010-05-21T17:18:00Z But at the same time I think it’s really important for theaters, television shows, films — whatever it is — to buy into all our stories, not just the ones that are sensational and fantastical.” Expanding the pattern for black actresses in all-female “Blood Quilt” 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z In 2005 Architectural Digest featured a prime example of the latter devised in contemporary times: a fantastical chamber à la turque inside the Beverly Hills home of developer Geoff Palmer and his wife, Anne. AD’s Aesthete gets lost in a gloriously gilded Turkish-style room 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Like his first, his new novel “Sourdough,” gets a little fantastical, but this one is set in a Silicon Valley tech start-up and organic foodie culture. Books: Nobel goes to Kazuo Ishiguro, the narrative legacy of Las Vegas, Jesmyn Ward and more 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z Then again, it was not hard to imagine this fantastical author as an artist. Gormenghast author Mervyn Peake: master of the dark arts 2011-07-15T13:23:09Z Barcelona is a city brimming with fantastical, inimitable architecture. Check In/Check Out: Hotel Review: Barcelona W Hotel 2011-01-14T19:55:00Z There are no Rodents of Unusual Size, to borrow from "The Princess Bride," but every other fantastical creature is here so they'd be right at home. Review: `Snow White' a gorgeous take on fairy tale 2012-05-30T19:46:42Z It is everything that we see in ourselves and that’s why George Lucas could tell his story in such a fantastical setting. From “Star Wars” to our wars: What the Force has in common with “Thank you for your service” 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z In the front room at Cohan is “The Living Need Light, the Dead Need Music,” a 21-minute film that takes as its point of departure the fantastical funeral rites of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. The Propeller Group Brings a Phantasmagorical Vietnam to James Cohan 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z They set off on a fantastical journey, with Miao’s art bubbling and churning with boisterous plants rising into forests and caves morphing into cities. Helping Children Understand Death 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Or the film may fall victim to the academy's general distaste for fantastical tales. Abe, 'Argo,' 'Les Mis' jockey for Oscar attention 2012-10-01T11:16:04Z So much of the play adroitly balances the everyday and the extreme — while suggesting how crisis pushes reality into the realm of nightmares — that I felt a bit cheated by its bluntly fantastical conclusion. Review: In ‘The Treasurer,’ a Son Remembers Mama, as She Forgets Everything 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z “Twisted Impressions”: Davidson Galleries will get you into a Halloween mood with this group show of color and monochrome prints depicting fantastical creatures and scenarios. 5 must-see Seattle art shows in October 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Sorry, kids, Taylor Swift has not "been there," as is clearly evidenced in her own fantastical bully scenario, which involves a guy dressed like Snidely Whiplash tying her to the train tracks. Taylor Swift's "Mean" doesn't equate to "It Gets Better" 2011-05-09T21:10:00Z While this mercenary transaction might seem like the kind of fantastical plot twist that Englander, with his eye for irony, might invent, Jewish law does allow an emissary to be thus hired. ‘Like a JDate for the Dead’ 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z What follows is a fantastical fable of love and suffering, imprisonment and release, mythology and the material world. George Miller Is at the Cannes Film Festival Making ‘Furiosa’ (That’s Right) 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Here, suspended between gnarled treetops, colored lanterns, vast ruins of the old sultanate below and the surreal Qutab Minar against the stars, I finally sensed the fantastical garden city celebrated in Latitude 28’s exhibition. On the Edge of Delhi, a Dynamic Cultural Scene Takes Shape 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z In the previous films, the fantastical elements would’ve made him stick out like a sore thumb, but he fits right in within the anything-goes realm of this IP detour. Fastest & Furiousest: how Hobbs & Shaw expands the $5bn franchise 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z In the process, Lee demonstrated that comic books could contain fantastical characters and high concept stories while addressing serious political, social and psychological issues. Comics pioneer Stan Lee has died. His legacy is already immortal 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z A few years ago, that symbolism tended to be grandiose and fantastical, now it is bleaker and earthier, even dystopian. Design: Furniture Designers Are Shifting Focus 2010-04-11T14:52:00Z As much as he was a poet, Neruda was a collector of things, a builder of homes and a designer of fantastical spaces. In Chile, Where Pablo Neruda Lived and Loved 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z The result is a fantastical journey, with strikingly colourful, frequently surprising and occasionally shocking events encountered on the way, yet always maintaining at least a thread of connective continuity throughout its darkly entertaining course. Prom 42: Philharmonia/Mälkki – review 2012-08-14T11:30:25Z As show runner of the supernatural action-dramedy for five of its seven seasons, Whedon became known for balancing witty banter, group dynamics and fantastical flourishes. Joss Whedon: From 'Buffy' beginnings to 'Avengers' domination 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z This Victorian-era novel is one of almost insolent ambition — lush and fantastical, brimming with ideas. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Charlie Kaufman's films are so fantastical that there is an emotional distance. Psychoanalysts to break down films of Pedro Almod?var 2011-03-29T12:32:51Z "WandaVision" manifests grief as a fantastical, insular retreat from a painful and unacceptable reality. How "Rick and Morty" and "Loki" built thoughtful altars to apathy for everything we hold dear 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z |
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