| 单词 | narration |
| 例句 | When I got to the living room, Captain Picard had already started the opening narration. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Probably at Howard’s insistence, he let the press come into the barn to see the horse, albeit without narration from the trainer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 She said nothing, however, till the narration was all done, and matters had been brought right up to the present time. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z A narration might ask for the clarity and emotional temper of the plain style, for example, whereas the peroration— where you typically seek to stir your audience—gives the opportunity for a higher style. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He loves Joan Rivers and never misses her annual red-carpet narrations leading up to the Academy Awards telecasts. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z These things he called “introduction,” “narration,” “argument,” “digression,” and “epilogue.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The narration is one of the prime areas of a speech in which you are able to spin, and framing the terms of the debate is half the battle won. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She saw file footage of a jewelry store she didn’t recognize, its redbrick exterior surrounded by police and yellow tape, accompanied by the newscaster’s somber narration of events. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He stepped to the center of the stage and began his narration. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmer used my word as a springboard for another narration of Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In the narration, you would establish that Mr. Bear was a longtime resident of Jellystone, and that he had a history of picnic-basket-related offenses. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Since you have preserved my narration,” said he, “I would not that a mutilated one should go down to posterity.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Here’s part of the narration for a speech he gave in October 2008, where he went on to outline his “rescue plan” for America’s middle class. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z When his narration reached his moving to Boston to live with his half- sister Ella, Malcolm X began to laugh about how “square” he had been in the ghetto streets. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s the narration, where you set out the points at issue, and the proof, where you make the arguments for your case. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Still, though, even when they were dull I enjoyed the disconcerting combination of French life and English narration. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Yet where a Republican narration—they then being the party in power—would likely focus on unity, leadership, and determination in tough times, Obama’s emphasis is on crisis, instability, and uncertainty. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z To continue the historicall narration of these experiments would make a discourse too tedious & confused, & therefore...’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I focus on his face as he continues his narration about the kidnapped plastic bride. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Division and narration are two ends of a pantomime horse. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The video tribute to Coach Washington was a little less than ten minutes long, mostly consisting of interviews with past teachers and students and narration over old photos. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It was like watching a movie with a voice-over narration, but with one great difference: He was manipulating the pieces and speaking so rapidly that it was difficult to connect the moves with his commentary. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In narration mode, Nixon concedes that the fund exists: “I, Senator Nixon, took $18,000 from a group of my supporters.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I lolled them back and forth as the narration continued. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Racing, a sport whose sustained dramatic action was ideally suited to narration, became a staple of the airwave. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Widget ceases his narration as they investigate each silver bar, finding no hidden openings or cleverly disguised hinges. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He gazes directly into the camera, reveals the dimple, and begins his smooth narration. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Fixing the amplification, doing some last-minute cutting and adding just a touch of narration might prevent quite so many walkouts as there were during Thursday’s performance. Shakespeare in Disney Hall: An L.A. Phil 'Dream' deferred 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z “On absolutely all sides. It’s almost like a primer on the nature of specious narration.” ‘A Wilderness of Error’ Points the Lens Back at Errol Morris 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Images are still and silent while the narration flits from the banking crisis to meteorites, from lichens to Lidl. This week's new films 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z Her story is told in a series of songs interspersed by a few unhinged rants and smooth-tongued chapter narrations. X Ambassadors push boundaries with new multimedia project 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Irony shines through his narration as his characters cling onto numbingly petty concerns despite impending catastrophe. Prussia goes west 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The narration segues without warning between the first and the third person, with Boratin becoming first the subject and then the object of scrutiny. In ‘Labyrinth,’ a Musician With Amnesia Loses Life’s Rhythm 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z We become mourners while O’Nan turns his narration to the investigation, to due process and family wreckage. A Thriller Wrapped in a Story of Sisters and First Love 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Instead, Stridsberg combines second-person narration, screenplay dialogue, and acrostic poetry to build around her subject a pseudo-history—a fable set, partially, in locales that do not exist, among people who never were. “Valerie” Is an Extraordinary Love Letter to a Radical Feminist 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z It contains prose and verse; polemic and introspection; remixed pop lyrics and pellucid memoir; straightforward narration and constellated word games. An Arab-American Poet Asks What It Means to Belong to Two Cultures, or None 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Vogt layers his laughably neurotic narration over mile-a-minute transitions in an attempt to “find something funny in a mundane situation,” as he put it. 2013 winners of the 3-Minute Masterpiece film contest 2013-05-15T22:38:53Z Each piece started with a brief narration, and then the clarity and warmth of the dancing took over. Dance review: ‘Glory of Numbers’ is about the beauty Juliet Stevenson brings her lovely low voice and grace to the narration, ranging easily in accent through Britain’s social classes, from plummy British consul, clipped headmistress, refined Miss Benson down to Enid, a feisty cockney. Review | When these animals talk, listen: Audiobooks give voice to a cat, a horse, a sheep and others 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z A hallmark of the videos is the filmmaker’s narration, which tends to range from angry to bemused. The Summer of Coupon Carl, Permit Patty, and the Videos That Turn Cop-Callers into Mockable Memes 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z While Mr. Brancato, Mr. Bernard and Mr. Miro’s script doesn’t have quite the irreverent kick of Scorsese’s narration, it has the same outlaw allure. 'Narcos' Episode 1 Recap: Meet Pablo Escobar 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Throughout the series, retrospective narration gives way to contemporaneous recordings that capture events as they happened. A New Podcast Rekindles a Box-Office Bomb 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Without narration or ostensible political agenda, Restrepo got under the thin skin of a military siege. Tim Hetherington: War Hero Who Shot With a Camera 2011-04-21T10:20:00Z First-person narration, which predominated, was often characterised by some expressive impediment. Twelve of the best new novelists 2011-02-25T13:05:56Z It’s here, in the narration, that the novel finds itself — in the equable plainness of its language, a plainness that is nevertheless impressionistic and light-filled. Was There a Murder on the Mayflower? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Jack’s confessional narration also has the air of a self-justification, which he delivers in the form of his philosophical discourses on aesthetics. Review: Lars Von Trier’s Empty, Repugnant Provocations “The House That Jack Built” 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z With narration and music, it highlights the personal side of a tumultuous period. Right Out of Hollywood, a Witness to History 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z The soldiers at the front have learnt not to be shocked, not even to be emotional, at any particular person's death, and the manner of narration has to reflect this. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 2012-06-29T21:55:11Z Ms. Anderson’s narration included a rumbling, digitally altered rumination about a book that enumerated countless species of animals now extinct — their names subsequently flooding the screen. Music Review: Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet at Montclair State 2013-05-12T21:34:28Z His central challenge was to find a way to include the narration that dominates the novel. Impossible to Stage? Multimedia Impresarios Take On Paul Auster 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Naturally, the dialogue is all "Have at thee", as are the characters' thoughts, but, slightly uncomfortably, so is the narration. The Secret Life of William Shakespeare by Jude Morgan - review 2012-11-13T16:55:01Z Underwood’s narration even bled into the real world when Spacey uploaded a bizarre in-character video, in which he seemed to comment on his own misdeeds. You talkin' to me?: how TV narration got personal 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z "Prince Andrew: Banished" features narration from royal experts, palace insiders and members of Prince Andrew's social circles along with the journalists and authors who covered — and attempted to disclose — the royal tea. A closer look at Prince Andrew's friendship with Epstein and his scandal on Peacock's "Banished" doc 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z “Is it perhaps too wild a stream to be navigated in the accustomed barques of narration?” For Some Horror Writers, Nothing Is Scarier Than a Changing Planet 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z In his narration at the beginning, Mekas says he spliced together rolls of film “by chance, the way that I found them on the shelf.” 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Brown’s film felt like someone’s old home movies, an impression abetted by Brown’s cornball narration. Perspective | The beautiful lie Bruce Brown and ‘The Endless Summer’ told us about surfing 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Despite a "Panic in the streets" headline and narration by an upset onlooker, the footage shows a relatively calm response from people on the scene. Tracy Morgan's condition upgraded from critical to fair 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z In The Rainbow Lawrence does more than part company with Victorian modes of narration – he destroys them by completely inverting the literary and actual function of "man" as a representative of "mankind". Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence 2011-03-19T00:06:22Z Perhaps the most recent narration of her myth came from an episode of “American Horror Story,” in 2017, with Lena Dunham in the starring role. “Valerie” Is an Extraordinary Love Letter to a Radical Feminist 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z In the show, a faux calypso song celebrating the Little Mermaid’s birthday had just wrapped up, and the prerecorded narration took over: “The 15th birthday is very special to a mermaid,” the narrator said. The Last Mermaid Show 2013-07-05T13:25:59Z As with other Schrader characters, Tell opens the door to his head through his narration, bringing you into the shadowy room in which he — like the rest of us locked in existential solitary — struggles. ‘The Card Counter’ Review: A Gambler’s Existential Solitaire 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The narration rotates among the husbands and wives, who relate the same incidents from different perspectives, sometimes with altered details. An Italian vacation is not what two couples hoped in Delia Ephron's 'Siracusa' 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Thanks in great part to his narration, the book is high in energy and very funny — there’s a great deal of comic power and buoyancy that takes this story well beyond the printed page. Review | Should celebrities narrate their audiobooks? Will Smith and Mel Brooks make the case for yes. 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Though she addresses Dennis in her narration, the substance of Burnham’s artful tapestry of a novel — to be published in July — concerns Linda’s relationships with other women. Debut Novels Reveal the Fragility of Female Bonds 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Lost in the crowds, we listen on headphones to Speakman's carefully composed soundtrack of instructions, narrations and music, and in so doing we observe those crowds with a different kind of attentiveness. How downtown New York changed British theatre 2011-03-16T16:14:12Z His casual conversational tone, one he'd relax into with the help of a sated belly warmed by a few beverages, is largely gone from his narration. From “A Cook’s Tour” to “Parts Unknown,” Anthony Bourdain made us want to know him 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Thubron inscribes that dilemma in his novel’s subtly complex narration, which shifts without notice from third person to first, creating on the page a simulacrum of selfhood that we inhabit without notice. As a house burns, its residents are sustained by memories in ‘Night of Fire’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z In one sequence, Tish’s narration of Fonny’s troubles plays over real archival photographs of black men being abused by the police. Can we Trust the Beauty of Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk”? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The novel alternates the narration of the journalist, written in the first person, with the narrative of the murderer, told in the second person. Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z Yet while they're one way of solving the problem of narration, especially in a one-act ballet, they introduce an element of awkwardness. Royal Ballet mixed bill - review 2010-10-17T20:31:00Z His narration — at first so halting and unsure — has become warm and rich, a storyteller's voice. Stage Marathon: Is Seven Hours of The Great Gatsby Too Much? 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z This affirmation is triumphantly validated by "the tricky reverse narration" of Fun Home's final panels, in which Bechdel's artistically resurrected, epic father is there to catch and save her child self. Andre Gerard's top 10 father memoirs 2013-06-12T15:11:54Z Beyond the rap narration, moreover, he has created a rich musical score that runs from pulsating disco to sweetly lyrical ballads and Rent-like rock anthems. Venice: A Hiphop Dystopia Comes to New York 2013-06-19T09:45:17Z At the same time, he interacted with a co-star and also responded to Elliot’s continuing internal narration, which a writer’s assistant wirelessly reads into his ear during filming. Rami Malek of ‘Mr. Robot’: The Face of Hacktivism 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z And in place of program notes, a smoothly flowing, occasionally amusing narration — delivered by the actress , the singer Robert Cuccioli and Mr. Anagnost — discussed the works and their historical contexts. Music Review: Little Orchestra Society Takes Flight at Tully Hall 2010-04-27T22:12:00Z The narration is then taken over by Aaron, an elderly Israeli lawyer who's just lost his wife. Great House by Nicole Krauss ? review 2011-02-19T00:05:23Z Harry explains in one of the show's many instances of voiceover narration that if the universe had a scale for intelligence, "humans would land right below lizards." Syfy's charming "Resident Alien" lets its star(man) shine, despite muddled metaphorical aspirations 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Doyle carries the general narration in a calm, kindly manner as befits this novel. The best new audiobooks for your summer vacation 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z It didn’t feel like an album rollout at all, it just felt like a narration through music of what she was going through, how she was feeling. As a producer, Victoria Monét reaches longtime Grammy goal 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The narration tracks his rise from “just another kid in high school” to “one of the biggest stars in the world.” Chris Brown’s pity party: Self-described “America’s sweetheart” wants his redemption now 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z On these shows the narration, full of talk about rivalries and courtships and familial ties, could just as easily be laid over a documentary about the Kennedys or an episode of “Jersey Shore.” Television: Animal Shows Are Taking Over TV 2010-04-21T22:01:00Z Her narration in the second person insists that we stop peering down at this young woman and begin, instead, to imagine ourselves as her. Monica Lewinsky, reimagined 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z It is not a novel about narration or one that plays tricks with form. EL James, JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel … the women who dominated publishing in 2012 2012-11-30T22:55:17Z Each object — rocks, fences, cameras, even latrines — is an entry point for beautiful narration that connects the survivors’ moving testimonies to pasts long before 1942 and into the present day. New Podcasts Worth Checking Out 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Helped by a homespun narration and good-natured interviews, the filmmakers lock down a “no rancor here” tone that vigorously asserts itself at every turn. ‘The Gospel of Eureka’ Review: Christianity and Queerness Intersect in a Small Town 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z What was a show about bickering but loving roommates is now a show about, to paraphrase Aidan’s narration, living on the dark side. Television Review: Relocated to America, Still Bloodthirsty 2011-01-16T22:48:08Z Equally, multiple narration would continue to feature in his work. Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z The New York City-based hero earns her living as a private investigator, which gives the show its engrossing noir vibe, along with Jessica’s deadpan — occasionally corny — narration, which is delivered sporadically throughout each episode. For Marvel’s ‘Jessica Jones,’ the struggle is real 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Though her lens has widened beyond the intimacies of marriage and the home, paranoia and unreliable narration have remained constant threads throughout Flynn’s work. Gillian Flynn Takes Her Paranoia to Television 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Zachary James reads the Scribe’s narration with histrionic pomp and circumstance. Akhnaten as you've never seen him: How L.A. Opera delivers Philip Glass' Egyptian Pharaoh tale 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Her narration includes sections that jump back even further in time to 1855, when she was an enslaved child on a plantation. How Two Black Women a Century Apart Experience Racism 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Irons’s narration for this collection of poems, beginning with “The Waste Land,” is forlorn, desperate, crabby and weary — mirroring Eliot’s understanding of a desiccated, exhausted culture bereft of meaning. The 5 best audiobooks of 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z A dark, hooded figure appears to be walking on the dangerous stretches of water, looming up behind the kids, with Donald Pleasence doing the creepy narration. 'I didn't sleep well for months': the films that terrified our writers as kids 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z That year she was also contacted by an entrepreneur who was working on a start-up called Audm, which offered audio narrations of long-form magazine articles. That Voice You’re Hearing? It Might Be Hers. 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z As this story develops, so the narrator and his narration change. The Humans by Matt Haig – review 2013-05-15T07:00:04Z Her narration is a raised eyebrow and a tilt of the head. That Voice You’re Hearing? It Might Be Hers. 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z It is dominated by a single voice: Ms. Nixon’s, reciting stanzas instead of voice-over narration and cracking impish, sometimes impious jokes with the marvelous Ms. Ehle. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Beaty strikes an even balance between straight narration and dramatized scenes, keeping the show from stalling in puddles of exposition. Review: Daniel Beaty as Paul Robeson in ‘The Tallest Tree in the Forest’ 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z And suddenly you’ll get the equivalent of a montage, where he’s interspersing newspaper stories, newsreel narration and popular song lyrics in an almost kaleidoscopic fashion. Why we loved the men and women of “Mad Men”: “They’re the only characters in television history who are 100 percent consistent in their behavior” 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z In addition, she helps organize an annual traveling festival, Banners and Cranks, which celebrates the ancient art form of cantastoria, a performance of sung narration accompanied by painted panels. Where Some See Trash, She Sees Treasure 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z You could easily strip all of the future narration and mystery surrounding the mother’s identity from the series and it wouldn’t be that different at all. High (Concept) Anxiety: Are Big Ideas Bad for TV? 2012-11-14T15:40:09Z The emphasis, in both the narration and the images, is on Bowie’s work. ‘Moonage Daydream’ Review: David Bowie’s Sound and Vision 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The notebook — and Cristiano’s narration — becomes a portal into a peripatetic life marked by fleeting friendships and relentless privations, countless miles and backbreaking labor. The 9 New Directors You Need to Watch 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z With its use of archival clips, men talking into the camera and narration by Meryl Streep, “Five Came Back” might seem like standard documentary filmmaking. Review: ‘Five Came Back,’ and Inspired the Likes of Spielberg 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z “Who gets to tell the stories?” he asks in this episode’s closing narration. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Wolfe leaves some of the narration in, and Douglas’s actors are at ease with the art of telling the story while also being in it. Review | Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Spunk’ gets revived with flair, and all of it has heart 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z But there was one area in which its creators felt the technology was lacking: narration for the audiobook. Peering Into the Future of Novels, With Trained Machines Ready 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The present tense of the narration has acted as a preservative in the novel. We Still Live Within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer” 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Prentice Onayemi reads the general narration in a standard American accent, switching easily to a Cameroonian one to capture the cadence and spirit of Jende, his wife and their friends. Best audiobooks of 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Its lineup is full of tales constructed of narration by the people involved — victims, witnesses, police officers — and rickety re-enactments. Television Review: In ‘Surviving Evil,’ Victims Relive Terrifying Encounters 2013-08-27T20:19:01Z In this 2012 documentary with narration by Attenborough, he finds remarkably sophisticated social behaviors that illustrate these animals’ intelligence and adaptability — and experiences one of his most incredible whale encounters. Miss the sea? These documentaries about the ocean go beneath the surface. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z And its retrospective structure — narration is supplied not by the main character but by his imaginary friend — is reminiscent of American shows from “The Wonder Years” to “The Goldbergs.” ‘Moone Boy,’ a Comedy Series With Chris O’Dowd, on Hulu 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Vividly remembered scenes unfold with the help of atmospheric sound design — the din of a coffee shop, footsteps on a hospital floor — that complements her narration without distracting from it. The Best New Podcasts of 2020 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Hanks’s narration describes the role of journalists as eyewitnesses and gatherers of fact, as well as the profession’s larger importance to society. The Washington Post creates its first Super Bowl spot 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Part of the narration comes from the spooky old widower who is using the book as a weapon. Cool Beach Books for Hot Summer Days 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z In his narration of his famous “kitchen table experience” he himself articulated what those ethics were and how they were enjoined upon him. The “macroethics” of Martin Luther King Jr.: When he spoke out against the Vietnam War even his supporters deserted him — here’s how he endured 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z In The New Yorker, James Wood praised the “elegant polish of the narration” and “the silver rustle of these exquisite sentences” and quoted big chunks of passages to show what he meant. Edward St. Aubyn, Author of ?At Last,? at Peace 2012-03-14T22:08:58Z Just look at the names involved: Nile Rodgers on narration duties, with contributions from Debbie Harry, Bernard Sumner and the Mael brothers from Sparks. Catch-up TV guide: from Scott & Bailey to 10 O'Clock Live 2013-05-18T05:00:06Z But Mr. Deblinger’s high-voltage energy, his gift for vocal and physical impersonation and his snappy delivery of the narration enliven even the less compelling moments. Review: A ‘Lucky Penny’ for the Thoughts of a Son and His Father 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z That principle holds true for the director Jane Weinstock’s “The Moment,” a psychological thriller that shrouds its mysteries in layers of hallucination and unreliable narration. In ‘The Moment,’ Doubts About a Character’s Sanity 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Listening to Price’s approachable narration, I hoped I might join the current self-help trend and, well, feel alive again. For Travel or Hibernation: New Audiobooks to Uplift, Soothe or Terrify 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z This beautifully illustrated book with varying levels of narration, proved to be an unexpected hit with our young grandchildren. Extinct Animals by Hélène Rajcak and Damien Laverdunt - review 2012-09-29T11:00:00Z “Heroes” was all about surprise and the big moment — the twists and reveals that kept you interested, despite the show’s mundane writing, helter-skelter plotting, uneven performances and painfully cosmic narration. Review: ‘Heroes Reborn’ Finds Its Superhumans Again Fighting to Save the World and Themselves 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z The novel alternates chapters between Singh’s present-day struggle to decipher Gaitonde’s message and Gaitonde’s narration of his criminal career, and the series does a similar dance, moving with reasonable fluidity between its two modes. Review: The Criminal Life in Mumbai in ‘Sacred Games’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Its minimal music reflects your emotions without manipulating them; Ling’s narration isn’t self-dramatizing. “Uncover: The Village”: A Serial Killer, Toronto’s Gay Community, and a Podcast That Transcends True Crime 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Medieval works lend themselves to the picaresque, or multiple narration – think of The Decameròn or The Canterbury Tales. tapestry by Philip Terry – review 2013-05-28T10:36:05Z And from the looks of the trailer all of it — along with contributions from visual artists and narration by David Attenborough — is captured int he film. Björk does it again: Here’s the dazzling preview to her upcoming documentary 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z That’s what’s needed to get into the carcass, but get in there we must because, the narration tells us, “The guts of whales are windows into dark and hidden worlds.” | 'Inside Nature?s Giants': ?Inside Nature?s Giants? on PBS - Review 2012-01-17T23:29:39Z Certainly Kirchner’s astringent themes, primitive electronics and portentous recorded narration are of their time. Music Review: Orchestra of the League of Composers Takes On a Challenge 2013-06-18T21:09:49Z Darrell Dennis’s narration is marvelous, and he does a particularly good job switching from one character to another, including the female roles. Perspective | Let’s talk about audiobooks: best narrators, best listening speeds and why we like them to begin with 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z It's as near as a film can get to the first-person voice of written fiction without resorting to voiceover narration. was another master of first person. Anne Billson 2010-04-08T21:30:00Z That inevitable turn is the essence of the impulse to dramatic creation that inheres in a first-person narration. Where Comedy Comes From 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z The narration makes us feel Mr Bentley's silence, pausing to notice the yellow-grey fog outside the office window and the tolling of a church bell. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill 2012-02-10T22:55:08Z This entails a somewhat stilted narration that introduces us, as if for the first time, to things like haiku and "The Tale of Genji." 'Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo': Capturing a culture crawling with bug lovers 2010-07-29T20:31:00Z You have "The Message" on one hand, but then you have so many undercover hidden gems that have been so beneficial that have been lost in the narration. As hip-hop turns 50, Chuck D praises its power as "a worldwide cultural experience and religion" 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The narration of the “Truisms” on Jenny Holzer’s marble bench is unmistakable: “You are a victim of the rules you live by.” Art Review: Identity Politics in ‘I, YOU, WE’ at the Whitney 2013-06-20T22:13:11Z In his narration, Mr. Junger compares the situation to a bar fight, “where everyone jumps in and is throwing chairs at each other.” Review: In ‘Hell on Earth,’ Horrors From the Syrian War 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Just two singers, a soprano and a mezzo-soprano, share all the roles and mix lines of narration into their dialogue. Review: George Benjamin, at Mostly Mozart, Shows Depth as a Conductor 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z An inherent difficulty of dialect-heavy, first-person narrations does sometimes arise: while Anthony himself is given to us utterly and in the round, some of the secondary characters struggle to catch life. This Is the Way by Gavin Corbett – review 2013-02-20T09:01:01Z Inherently shocking material needs no dramatization, and David Pittu’s understated narration highlights the tragedy and horror of these crimes. New Audiobooks From Seth Rogen, Danielle Henderson and Elon Green 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z A heart-wrenching personal account of the Khmer Rouge genocide of the 1970s, it relies on clay figures, dioramas, archival footage and a poetic French-language narration to tell its story. Carpetbagger: Divisions in the Foreign-Language Category 2014-01-16T16:09:55Z But her ambivalent narration has been muted; instead, we hear the lofty strings of Britell’s song “Eros,” which is the sound of soul mates merging. Can we Trust the Beauty of Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk”? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Werner Herzog, whose documentary "Encounters at the End of the World," took a rather more serious look at the region, provides ponderous narration. 'Penguins of Madagascar' hit by a blizzard of puns 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Her narrations, informative and interesting and conversational without being overly didactic, provided context and a guide to a tradition that I imagine was not familiar even to some of the Chinese members of the audience. Review | Three centuries old, a band finally plays D.C. 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z I promise, this is not snooze-worthy documentary film narration, or irritatingly convenient exposition that the writers use as a crutch. Why we need narrators: “Jane the Virgin” has the best voice-over on TV 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z And when Wednesday discovers that people are being killed by a monster in the nearby woods, she goes into girl-detective mode, complete with voice-over narration that recalls “Veronica Mars.” ‘Wednesday’ Review: The Strange Girl Is on the Case 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z The viewer has the sense of watching a slot machine by way of an interior surveillance camera, while led by the affable narration of a customer-service professional. Watching Lottery Drawings in an Age of Plutocracy 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z How do you think “The Rooster Prince” parable fit in, or the narration of “Full Moon” at the end? ArtsBeat: ‘Fargo’ Recap: Boots on the Ground 2014-04-23T03:22:49Z That film depicts daily life as something of an unexplained mystery, unspooling from sunrise to sunrise without narration or dialogue. Robert Gardner Dies at 88; Filmed Cultural Practices 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Meredith's narration here is not, of course, on a par with Flaubert's superbly unsparing treatment of the death of Madame Bovary. Poem of the week: Modern Love by George Meredith 2012-08-13T13:24:41Z There's nothing particularly charismatic about its protagonist, whose voice-over narration quickly gets lost in a confusing timeline and a sea of flashbacks seen from other characters' perspectives. 'Road to Juarez' gets lost on its journey 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Opening narration by Jane Goodall describes this as “the next agricultural revolution.” ‘Meat the Future’ Review: The Growth of a ‘Clean Meat’ Start-Up 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z “Slowly but slowly, things will change,” the narration says. Review: ‘My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)’ Offers Hope to Others 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The Odyssey committee said that narrator Nick Podehl's "gripping narration of this disquieting work of dystopian fiction is masterful." Corner: Let's hear it for these winning audiobooks 2011-04-13T20:22:06Z Watch it for the crisp newsreel narration and jazzy montages. 'The Simpsons': Which Episode Should Everyone Watch? 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The madcap energy and profusion of detail, the weaving of unmarked dialogue with narration, the swoops from comedy to pathos—these are all typical of Lemebel’s prose. A Surreal End for an Unforgettable Queen: Pedro Lemebel, 1952-2015 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Parks' laid-back narration and appealing protagonist add up to a great lighthearted read. Review: Readers old and new will enjoy `Good Cop' 2013-03-05T18:15:11Z The other thing about the narrator is that Orson loved narration. Director Morgan Neville on “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead” and the last years of Orson We... 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z You won’t hear those reactions to the infamous opening narration of “Love Story” on any DVD commentary track. Film: Attitude Adjustment: How Harvard Views ?Love Story? 2010-08-22T01:13:00Z The artificial narration sounds natural but feels strange and somehow unholy. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z So we made it a lot shorter, we took at some narration, we just shifted stuff around. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z The American story, according to liberal narration, is a story in development. “Cultural anxiety” is unpatriotic: America’s mission is for liberty and justice for all 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z Unlike most productions of “Into the Woods,” in which a semi-omniscient observer sets up the scenes, this one divides the narration among the performers. ‘Into the Woods,’ Stripped Down by Fiasco Theater 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z It uses Wang’s own family and story as a way in, combining her narration with interviews with people who felt the effects of the policy in different, troubling ways. What’s on TV Friday: ‘One Child Nation’ and ‘Great Performances’ 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z He also lent his distinctive voice to a number audiobooks, adverts and podcasts, and the narration of BBC series Grumpy Old Men. As Time Goes By actor Geoffrey Palmer dies aged 93 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z Ah Ling’s narration is stiff and halting as he begins to understand the nuances of American speech. The Anxious, Unfinished Story of Chinese-American Assimilation 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Janus-faced and ambivalent to tropes, Daphne’s narration is riddled with omissions and reversals that intensify the mystery of the broken window. The Loneliness, and Danger, of Being a Young Woman in a New City 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z The third-person narration oscillates between her perspective and his, allowing us into their intimacy as it unfolds. When the Past Can’t Be Buried: Debut Novels Dredge Up Old Ties 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Its narration is intelligent yet conversational; its sophisticated sound design guides us along without being showy or intrusive. The Art of the Impeachment Podcast 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z A change of voice, when the red-haired woman assumes the narration in the last section of the novel, might have offered a chance to regain the moody tension of the opening chapters. In Orhan Pamuk’s New Novel, a Youthful Obsession Yields a Haunted Life 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z And where “Serial,” which explored the 1999 murder of a Maryland high school student, leaned heavily on the likable voice of its host, Sarah Koenig, the Netflix series does not use narration. Behind ‘Making a Murderer,’ a New Documentary Series on Netflix 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Throughout “Look & See,” Mr. Berry is an almost spectral presence, heard in narration and seen in archival footage. Review: Rural Kentucky With Poet-Farmer Wendell Berry in ‘Look & See’ 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z “I do s--- sometimes and I really don’t know why,” Ulysses tells the viewer, in narration. Review | Gregg Araki’s ‘Now Apocalypse’ is so preoccupied by sex that it forgets to have an apocalypse 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z O’Brien provides the narration, a meditation on the life of the city in Melville- and Whitman-inspired prose. | A Wunderkind Artist Summons a Barely Bygone New York 2013-05-07T16:33:31Z Robinson moves between first and third-person narration, with several sections given over to an omniscient urban historian narrator known as "the city" or "that city smartass." Writers imagined drowned worlds for centuries — what they tell us about the future 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z “More than 12 billion years ago stars are already forming the elements that will spur the Iron Age,” the narration says about the young universe. Television Review: ?History of the World in Two Hours? - Review 2011-10-05T22:13:50Z Number seven's narration of her life in Santa Teresa is very tedious and this part of the book does not really progress until towards the end of the book. The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore - review 2012-08-19T08:00:00Z The four-minute clip posted online by The New York Times on Thursday features Jay Z's narration over an artist's illustrations. Jay Z declares drug war an 'epic fail' in short film 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Don't expect anything scholarly – there's a Boy's Own feel to it with excited talk of ME109s and Hurricanes, and the patriotic reverence of the narration is a little overcooked. Spitfire Women 2010-09-18T05:45:00Z The singing is in Arabic and the narration in French. Can Opera Become an Agent of Change? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z One recommendation for the next film, though: drop Davenport’s narration. Television Review: Mark Harmon in ?John Sandford?s Certain Prey? - Review 2011-11-04T22:11:08Z Quite a few of the bootlegs that have pinged around YouTube in the year since have a raw charm—you can hear the fans in them babbling with giddy narration and squealing like bobbysoxers. Beyoncé’s “Homecoming” Is a Total Synthesis of the Pop Arts 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Romy’s narration darts around in a voice that is tough, cynical, a little defensive at times, but ruthlessly honest and without a trace of self-pity. Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’ Offers a Blackly Comic Take on Prison Life 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z As with the novel, the script relies on Offred/June’s internal dialogue with herself, which doubles as narration. Review | ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ isn’t just timely, it’s essential viewing for our fractured culture 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z He wrote the narration for the American version of that 2005 French documentary, which took in $91 million, after adjusting for inflation. Jordan Roberts and His Comedy ‘3, 2, 1 Frankie Go Boom’ 2012-10-01T22:16:24Z Of the original narration, the performance of the Stravinsky included only the monologue near the end in praise of a humble life. Music Review: Juilliard Students Perform in ChamberFest 2013-01-19T01:39:49Z Around the platform, the actors, in contemporary dress but mostly barefoot, sit or lounge, watching the play and divvying the narration among them. Review | ‘The Inheritance’ is epic in length, but not always in satisfaction 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Rain hadn’t even been hired to play HAL, but to provide narration. The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z But the actor's narration is handled with a light touch so as not to overwhelm Lewis as the main focus. HBO's "Crazy, Not Insane" brings understanding of serial killers, if you have the stomach for it 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Regeneration by Pat Barker Pat Barker shifts the point of view of her third-person narration throughout the novel. Regeneration by Pat Barker 2012-08-17T21:54:01Z Paul Groves, the tenor, sang the sketchy narration effectively on Tuesday. Extraordinary Creatures, and Some Elusive Ones, at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The documentary’s narration leans toward the cheesy, hyperbolic house style Marvel is known for — it ends by promising viewers that in the exhibit “you might just find the hero within!” MoPOP’s ‘MARVEL: Universe of Super Heroes’ is super fun for comics nerds and novices alike 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Waves of narration and exposition accompany even the most visually arresting sequences, and the dense text gets the better of several cast members now and then. | 'Burmese Days': ?Burmese Days? at 59E59 Theaters - Review 2011-11-17T03:03:15Z They cut down the recitatives and narration and some internal repeats and, adds Sharon, made tiny adjustments to the music to accommodate the shortening. Julius Caesar, young and gay: A groundbreaking 1971 opera gets revived for a new era 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z And if Davis’s clinching Grammy win — in the best audio book, narration and storytelling category — revealed anything, it’s that nonmusical methods can be just as effective. On the Origin of EGOTs 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Caroline’s intellect and innately feminist understanding of the world suffuse the tone of the narration: None of the myriad ways men are privileged over women escape Caroline’s notice, including the work of her own father. Review | ‘The Illness Lesson’ alludes to ‘Little Women’ but will remind you of darker works 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z There we were, students on couches and the carpet of a social room, Doctorow seated in a chair, as we talked about narration in first and third person. Cartoons, JFK’s Victory and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Beyoncé, in her narration, explains that she had long desired to attend an HBCU, but “my college was Destiny’s Child. My college was traveling around the world, and life was my teacher.” Beyoncé's "Homecoming" transforms the concert film into an artistic, historic moment 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z There are too many bits of funny banter, too many musical numbers and too much extended narration to keep all but the most patient gamers from becoming restless. Video Games: Rayman Legends, Total War: Rome II, Plants vs. Zombies 2, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Puppeteer 2013-09-11T21:39:06Z Everything about the show is more confident – the physical comedy is goofier, Devi's dingbat logic is more outlandish, and McEnroe's narration easily flows with the action. "Never Have I Ever" returns smarter, funnier and at the mercy of its hormones more than ever 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z These sisters have been through a lot, but Della’s matter-of-fact narration manages to be as funny and charming as it is devastatingly sad. An Unflinching Child’s-Eye View of Sexual Abuse 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Setting the play in an office so dreary it seems fit only for workplace homicide grounds Fitzgerald's endlessly romantic narration in the ordinary, where the only escape is a daydream or a novel. Stage Marathon: Is Seven Hours of The Great Gatsby Too Much? 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z “Devotion is a very personal story,” Ms. Shapiro’s moody narration concludes. Cultural Studies: Missed the Author?s Tour? See the Video 2010-07-09T18:01:00Z The last principal figure is an anonymous high-ranking officer in the Congolese army, whose narration is delivered by the actor Isaach De Bankole. Review: In ‘This Is Congo,’ Four Lives Shaken by Conflict 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Those accounts, however, are buried in the rote narration of the various seasons. From Politics to Scandals, Sports Seem to Speak to Our Times 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z With its quirky tone and ability to transform quotidian conflicts into the stuff of immersive drama, the narration might be plausibly redubbed by the likes of Ira Glass. | 'Extraordinary Stories': H Plus X Plus Z, Formula for 3 Intersecting Lives 2011-05-03T21:43:05Z This narration, timeless and omnipresent, telescopes out from the story of the Porters and places the family in a larger context across time. For This Brooklyn Family, Myth and Reality Are One and the Same 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Beethoven, it seems to me, is asking for declaimed narration. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z But it's also the soothing narration, which adds to the overall appeal of stand and stir TV. While the Food Network is in flux, Magnolia shows there’s still a hunger for stand-and-stir TV 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z “The truth was, Disney’s commercial success depended on a certain set of traditional values, which were sometimes racist and sexist,” the narration asserts but then moves on. Review: PBS’s ‘Walt Disney’ Explores a Complex Legacy 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Nor was there the languorous pace of “City Confidential,” or anything comparable to the oozing, insinuating narration Paul Winfield supplied during most of that show’s run. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: 'Hidden City' 2011-12-06T21:14:27Z Through the disjunction between the narration and the street scenes, Akerman in effect divides viewers’ attentions the way hers were presumably divided. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Others said Hetfield's narration of a TV show about bear hunting did not fit the event's environmental culture. Glastonbury embraces Metallica's 'heavier side' 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z As opposed to the “West Side Story” actors, marooned with no book, these performers were gifted with a complete and coherent concert narration written by Comden and Green. The Trouble With Bernstein’s Broadway in the Concert Hall 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z “High,” directed by Rob Ruggiero, isn’t a particularly subtle or deep drama, despite some fancy narration about the conversion of St. Augustine and the mysterious ways of God in shaping human destinies. | 'High': Assisting Recovery, Craving Redemption 2011-04-20T02:01:29Z Sonya’s first-person narration begins urgently: We see her alternately smothering and neglecting Tommy, staggering through life and subsisting on little, save as much white wine as she can carry home from the supermarket. Review | In ‘Bright Burning Things,’ an alcoholic mother must choose between drinking and her son 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z There’s no narration, so the action is led by an ensemble cast of friends, enemies and associates. OJ: Made In America – the Oscar winner that's the most in-depth look at race in America yet 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z The song’s title came from the film’s voice-over narration: “In World War II, the average age of the combat soldier was twenty-six. In Vietnam, he was nineteen.” The Archival Delights of Public Service Broadcasting 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Tovah Ott brings a fine, versatile voice to the narration, capturing character and mood, especially in Wayétu’s voice as a child, her unfolding sense of bafflement, sorrow, terror and eventual joy. Review | Three audiobooks to listen to now 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Schamus has repurposed some of this narration as voice-over, but it feels ladled over the images, not stitched into their fabric. Philip Roth Versus the Movies 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z And with a total running time of four hours, it makes you feel the limitations of the familiar “American Experience” format: no-nonsense narration; archival footage and photographs; talking heads delivering sound-bite-length flourishes. Review: PBS’s ‘Walt Disney’ Explores a Complex Legacy 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Yet while the book's claustrophobic first-person narration is filled with ambiguities – is Changez an inspiring lecturer or terrorist, is he talking to a CIA agent or a hapless tourist? – the film is more straightforward. Mohsin Hamid 2013-03-26T19:07:18Z Chief’s narration is deluded, tragically so, and yet it deepens, broadens and ultimately completes McMurphy. Eli Gottlieb’s ‘Best Boy’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z It unfolds through Mr. Murfi’s narration, as he takes on the personas of a priest, a corrupt local politician and a policeman. A ‘Swan Lake’ About Ireland, Where Myth Meets the Mundane 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Come Dine With Me may be formulaic, and a bit tired, and Dave Lamb's sarcastic narration can get a little irritating. Come Dine With Me: Wags Special 2010-06-10T07:01:00Z Her style is uniform, quietly lush, with a distance between narration and story where atmosphere lives. Shining short fiction collections by Dana Johnson and Anne Raeff 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Confined in Ana’s earnest narration, the story provides no critical distance, no irony, no real thematic ambiguity. Review | In Sue Monk Kidd’s ‘The Book of Longings,’ Jesus has a wife — and behold, she’s so woke! 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Dive deep into Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" in the season-opener of Beyond the Score, which uses musical examples, narration and projected visuals to explore the context and history of a piece of music. Lots of entertainment treats for Oct. 30-Nov. 5 2011-10-26T22:17:04Z Even so, he remains a distinct authorial presence, and not only in his sparse narration. Critic?s Notebook: Retrospective of Robert Gardner, Ethnographer, at Film Forum 2011-11-10T23:39:04Z The narration has the pace and inevitability of a scherzo, even its ominous moments told with a playful fluidity and irony. Tempting Fate With a Season of Romance, Sex, Art and Destiny 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Colleen Delany brings a restrained Texan accent to the narration and a sense of urgency to horse races, white-knuckle rescues and the battle against maniacal weather. Review | For summer vacation, the best audiobooks are about long, strange trips 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Yet she doesn’t mimic the style of the book – written as letters to the absent Franklin – by using a voice-over narration. About a (Bad) Boy 2011-12-08T13:15:55Z Each episode would take on a few different cases, combining interviews, narration, and re-enactment to present mysteries that you, the viewer, were then invited to help solve. Think the new "Unsolved Mysteries" is scary? The original will freak you out 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Alighting on county fair and high school football game, retirement home and voting booth, their detached, glancing gaze requires neither narration nor intertitles: the images — and the chatter of local radio — say it all. | '45365': Bill and Turner Ross Explore Sidney, Ohio 2010-06-16T23:05:00Z Striking, too, is the show’s heavy use of narration, uttered in a halting monotone by Elliot. Mr Robot: 'Edward Snowden is a huge fan of our show' 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z The U.S. version, which differs significantly from the British version, features narration by Liev Schreiber, complemented by a trio of British presenters who pop up on location around the world. Review | ‘Civilizations’ is the most ambitious story about art ever told on television 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Focusing primarily on these three men and their stories presented many structural challenges, especially as it was always my intention that we would have no narration in the film. Destination Titan: Mission impossible? 2011-04-08T16:21:00Z The difficulty on Thursday was that the dialogue was out of sync for much of the production — at least, it was on my connection — and as a result, the captioning didn’t match the narration. Perspective | As live stages await their big comeback, theater on camera is getting better and better 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z The rather silly — and at times factually inaccurate — narrations read by Step Afrika’s Shannan Johnson were also in dire need of an editor. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Step Afrika team up for a fun ‘Nutcracker’ Skittering back and forth between two time periods and a small group of nut cases, this bewildering collision of noir narration and purple paranoia may be long on atmosphere but is woefully short on sense. | 'Zenith': His Dad Left a Conspiracy; You?re Invited to the Hunt 2011-01-18T23:32:13Z “Part of what makes this book so riveting is Ellsworth’s skillful narration, his impeccable sense for when to reveal a piece of information and when to hold something back.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z There is no voice-over narration, and the few conversations that we hear within the families aren't subtitled; this is a purely visual story as we watch little people grow. 'Babies': Documentary is high-minded ? and cute to boot 2010-05-06T20:04:00Z Their introductions and narration were composed in that clean, purposeful voice that dominated post-World War I journalism and fiction. In defense of Andy Rooney 2011-09-28T13:29:00Z The same effect is harder to parse when it is produced by the narration itself. In Elvia Wilk’s “Oval,” Earth, Capitalism, and the Human Species Sink Toward Doom 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z As for the characterization of Lenù, it’s also refreshing to see her free of retrospective narration. ‘My Brilliant Friend’: A Fairy Tale of Youth Gives Way to Messy Adolescence 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The hotel library that once included a narration by “Twilight Zone” host Rod Serling will be transformed into the Collector’s office. What to expect from Disney’s new ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ ride 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Saunders and the interactive theater maker Andrew Schneider take turns with the binaural narration, deftly leading listeners through the Financial District, over to the harbor and back to the park. Theater Is in the Streets of New York, if You Listen 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z So the old-fashioned narration and preening models in his spring show were a bit of a sendup. Gaultier, Under New Management, and Focus of an Exhibition, Has a New Lease on Life 2012-02-29T21:29:58Z Kubrick finally decided against using narration, opting for the ambiguity that was enraging to some viewers, transcendent to others. The Story of a Voice: HAL in ‘2001’ Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z It also doesn’t have narration: we just watch the story’s crazy pieces line up and fit together. “Dirty John”: Looks, and TV Adaptations, Can Be Deceiving 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Opening with a jazz-rock song and lyrical, static imagery of attractive Western figures in watercolor, it features narration telling of Jean and Jeanne, young French provincial marrieds “smiled upon by God.” Review: ‘Belladonna of Sadness,’ a Bewitching Masterpiece 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Beautiful illustrations, voice narration from children, lots of interactivity and a dash of cheeky humour. The 50 best apps for children 2012-08-04T16:24:08Z Alan set me up with a professional film-editing suite and I went about recording all the narration and painstakingly cutting my film to it. Next stop the Turner Prize … the holiday that makes you an artist-in-residence 2012-11-13T22:45:02Z The narration is homely and full of cliches. Great British Food Revival 2011-03-23T08:00:02Z That said, in the final episode there was hardly any dialogue and more narration -- making those sequences more like another graphics element rather than a vibrant storytelling device. 'Cosmos' recap: From Alexandria to dark matter 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Actors portraying editors and writers who knew Xiao speak directly to the viewer, delivering narration within scenes that combines testimony and conjecture. 'The Golden Era' a 'Reds'-like tale of Chinese novelist Xiao Hong 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The script hews closely to the version that Dickens himself toured, with passages of prose narration that cut the goose-fat sentimentality with keen wit and gimlet detail. Review: In This Solo ‘Christmas Carol,’ the Night Is Never Silent 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Sandro's was "coated in maple bacon and cream cheese and filled with beef brisket, sloppy joe sauce, and spicy sirloin steak" and, according to Nigel Fielding's narration, "has been designed to meet a particular need." This season of "The Great British Bake-Off" adds an attention-grabbing ingredient in the mix 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Their understated chemistry — his pensiveness and her spunk — lends emotional shadings to a drama that's otherwise unambiguous to a fault, complete with narration that sums up the obvious. 'Fort McCoy' a heartfelt WWII memory piece 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Sometimes, as in Waiting for the Barbarians, he uses it in a first-person narration; sometimes, as in Disgrace, with a third-person narrative. A history of the present 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z Later, in voice over narration, he laments that “ignorance won” and he is “vexed at my people.” How ‘Chappelle’s Show’ and ‘The Boondocks’ Kept Us Laughing at R. Kelly 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z These are meaty topics, but the book's straightforward, often simplistic narration at times saps their energy. Herbie Hancock's memoir recalls a creative life and all that jazz “The Black Monk,” about a man’s descent into madness, is another one better left to the page, as is “Vanka,” a static story packed with narration. Theater Review: ?Chekhovek,? With 9 Chekhov Plays, at ArcLight Theater 2012-02-08T22:18:57Z Throughout the book the witty, sometimes flip, narration carries the reader along, though it’s his pain, resentment and, finally, acceptance of his family history that give the story its bearings. Dear Match Book: What Should I Read on My Summer Vacation? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z The Gardner-heist competitiveness that we’ve heard about throughout, between parties wanting to claim credit—criminals for committing the crime, investigators for solving it—emerges in the narration. The Mystery of the Inconclusive Podcast 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z He’s also becoming aware of the bruised lives all around, a burden of perception that fascinates and terrifies him, while giving his narration an eerie quality of precocious insight. A powerful new entry in the literature of race in America 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z Apart from "Lelio's" impractical scoring for narrator, vocal soloists, piano, orchestra and small choruses, however, there is one big reason the melodrama is hardly ever heard, and that is its long, narcissistic narration. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z As R's voice-over narration explains, it's been eight years since an unspecified plague devastated humankind. Review: 'Warm Bodies' could use more heat 2013-01-30T17:16:04Z Jarana Beat, a Mexican-American band, will provide live accompaniment and narration. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 22-28 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Lloyd provides effective narration and gravitas as The Singer in the first act, then turns irascible and loud throughout Act 2 as Azdak, the vulgar, ranting, drunken judge. Review: 'Caucasian Chalk Circle' jabs at injustice 2013-05-31T00:10:08Z But as the movie goes on, without narration or any talking-head interviews, a pattern emerges. ‘In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis’ Review: Serene Demeanor, Bracing Message 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Both are front-rank exponents of the part, but the immediacy of Charles Daniels’ riveting narration benefitted notably from what might be called the built-in intimacy of Nordstrom Hall’s size and acoustics. Smaller venue means more splendor in St. John Passion 2014-03-02T17:52:41Z At live showings of “32 Sounds,” Green himself provides in-person narration, while the musicians JD Samson and Michael O’Neill perform, in real time, Samson’s eclectic, largely electronic score. ‘32 Sounds,’ a Film Performed Live, Probes the Power of Listening 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z The narration also tends to confuse “United States of America” with “North America.” Television Review: ‘North America,’ a Discovery Channel Nature Series 2013-05-17T22:47:13Z There were also educational videos with text on screen to highlight points in the narration, always tying the experience back to the skill of reading. Not your mama's Highlights magazine 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Like the staccato rhythm of the chapters featuring the crow, Dead Papa Toothwort’s voice is also frantic, with his narration interrupted by wayward digressions. A Writer’s Deathbed Portrait of Francis Bacon 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Her debut novel, "The Fires," drew readers into the mind of a pyromaniac through a haunting first-person narration. Rene Steinke's 'Friendswood' visits a town toxic in many ways 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z As has often been the case in his earlier monologues — about Huey Newton, Bob Marley and Rodney King, among others — he does not settle for dry narration. At Under the Radar, Family Histories Bubble Up With No Easy Answers 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The reader is presented with a screenful of narration and then offered one or more responses to it. Megaphone by Natalie Bakopoulos 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z But the novel’s chapters alternate between first- and third-person narration, the former reserved exclusively for the older generation, the “aunties” and “uncles” who provide the historical anchor to the present narrative. In the Caribbean and Beyond, Aunties Are So Much More Than Just Family 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z They built cameras that allowed them to sync the sound, letting reality unspool before them, without narration. D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’s Counterculture Archive 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z The story would not be possible at all as a first-person narration. Joyce Carol Oates on Catastrophizing and Environmental Collapse 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Some introductory text or explanatory narration would have better helped historically ground viewers, who need to juggle a lot of information. Review: Tracking ‘Dark Money’ in Montana Elections 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z “I wanted the narration to be told through our eyes and our voice,” Porter said. Comedy Undercut ‘The Life.’ Billy Porter Looks for Its Humanity. 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Nicholas Boulton delivers the general narration in a courteous, gentlemanly manner, a temperate foil to his virtuoso performance in capturing the extravagant, Renaissance personalities of the story’s many characters. When Alec Baldwin reads his memoir to us, it’s even better than the book 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Lane’s approach here is dramatically different from that of her 2016 film “Nuts!,” which used animation and comedic narration to deflate the tragicomic story of a medical charlatan from the early 20th century. 3 Sobering Documentaries on Netflix, Fandor and Field of Vision 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Ford said he had enjoyed making the movie but was annoyed that he had to record a voiceover narration at the insistence of the producer, Bud Yorkin, who had also insisted the ending be changed. Blade Runner at 30: Celebrating Ridley Scott's Dystopian Vision 2012-06-25T14:31:59Z There’s been no lack of docu-reality crime shows since it went off the air in 2006, but none has had the same combination of regional flavor, hard-boiled attitude and lurid, literate narration. ArtsBeat Blog: Channel Surfing: 'Hidden City' 2011-12-06T21:14:27Z Marsha Music’s narration is Wagner in vernacular, conveyed with both honesty and a playfulness befitting a production that never takes itself too seriously. Think Outside the Opera House, and Inside the Parking Garage 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z In a self-conscious touch that ultimately proves scattered, his and many other pieces of narration hot-potato from actor to actor as they crisscross the stage. ‘About Love’ Review: Turgenev With Songs and Heartbreak 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Robinson is not seen, but the soundless black and white images are accompanied by a beautifully arch narration from his companion, "played" by Paul Scofield. Patrick Keiller on London: read the original interview 2012-11-30T15:00:00Z There is no biographical narration connecting the show’s loosely connected stream of vignettes that follow Tipton’s musical career from the late 1930s to 1970. Nellie McKay Plays the Drag King Billy Tipton at 54 Below 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z “This is not OK, I thought,” Clinton says in her audio narration of “What Happened,” set for release Sept. 12. 'My skin crawled': Hillary Clinton says Trump's debate shadowing made her want to shout 'Back up you creep' 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Your talk in your narration about bringing yourself into the story. HBO's doc "Exterminate All the Brutes" asks: "When was American great — and who was it great for?" 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Guggenheim Award-winning choreographer Ralph Lemon makes his Seattle debut with "How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?" a multimedia performance including film, live narration and dance. The Week Ahead: 'Wittenberg' and Ralph Lemon are A&E highlights 2010-11-14T05:01:00Z Exactly what constitutes proper documentary filmmaking — When does narration become intrusive? 3 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z But what was supposed to be a narration of what happened at the gas station turned into a 5-minute video of hilarity. Florida woman hilariously shares 'embarrassing' moment while spreading 'Christmas magic' at WaWa gas station 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z That kind of overwrought narration makes some of these documentaries a slog, as does the almost constant use of slow motion; in the wild, it appears, nothing happens in real time. Critic?s Notebook: It?s a Jungle Out There: Big Cats, Big Body Counts 2010-12-05T22:14:00Z “Emily Owens, M.D.” rides them especially hard: it opens with the voice-over narration of an insecure young doctor arriving for her first day as an intern at a big urban hospital. Television Review: ‘Emily Owens, M.D.,’ With Mamie Gummer, Begins on CW 2012-10-15T21:55:29Z The final, mournful piece of narration expresses sadness over the loss but also a stinging sense of regret. The Virgin Suicides at 20: Sofia Coppola's debut continues to haunt 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Actually, we meet Will first, ranting and raving and weeping and wailing in a coffee shop and in his therapist’s office, his actions explained by the voice-over narration of Samuel L. Jackson. Review: It’s Called ‘Life Itself,’ and Yet Everyone’s Dead 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Neyfakh’s narration and interpretation, while sparing, lend a trace of self-consciousness. Review: ‘Fiasco,’ a Look at How America Got to Where It Is 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z “His narration, as pithy and ‘over the top’ as his beloved TV persona, is incredibly endearing.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z As much as the absurd voiceover narration would have you believe otherwise, driving heavy articulated lorries through a north Canadian winter is no laughing matter. TV highlights 15/02/2013 2013-02-15T07:00:35Z In one section, striking for the coolness of Alice’s narration, an Indian sachem is beheaded and his head set on a spike above the colony’s meetinghouse, as an ensign of power and violent intent. Was There a Murder on the Mayflower? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z There are already three decent unabridged recordings of this novel, but David Shaw-Parker’s rendition is a true masterpiece of narration. Review | The words of Martin Luther King Jr. as you’ve never heard them before 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z The lack of narration adds to its authority and immediacy. Ezra Edelman on making his epic Oscar-nominated documentary OJ: Made in America 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z But, truly, I prefer hearing the narration the way the voice actor and producers intended us to hear it. Perspective | Let’s talk about audiobooks: best narrators, best listening speeds and why we like them to begin with 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z The narration is famous, or infamous, for being so grouchy, even dyspeptic. 'L.A. Plays Itself,' but do films get it right? 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z There's no narration – the children, and the pictures, speak for themselves. TV review: True Stories: War Child 2011-02-16T08:00:04Z According to one reviewer on Publishers Weekly, Fey's narration of her memoir was so funny "that I clipped a cement highway divider driving to work". Storytelling: how reading aloud is back in fashion 2013-01-06T00:08:26Z The book switches between Nick's narration and Amy's diary entries, making the reader unsure about who to trust. 11 thrilling facts about Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl" 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z These are serious, highly trained individuals forced to deliver drippingly sentimental narration and to exchange manly but meaningful glances while weeping violins egg them on. Movie Review: ?Act of Valor,? Starring Navy SEAL Members 2012-02-23T23:52:01Z Without narration, the film shows a series of clips as the day progresses - a mother breast-feeding her baby, a school bell rung in Peru, a worker eating alone in Dubai. YouTube film debuts 2011-01-28T11:18:43Z Not Fade Away, as Doug’s kid sister clues us early in the film’s fitful voiceover narration, is about a group that became a no-hit wonder. David Chase's Not Fade Away: The Sopranos Sing the '60s 2012-10-05T23:52:58Z Kershaw's narration sounded just as relaxed and conversational as his interactions, and the programme was knitted together with some splendid plucky music. A week in radio: Andy Kershaw 2012-10-11T19:30:02Z Her opening narration suggests a subtle film that will surprise. | 'Kinyarwanda': ?Kinyarwanda,? About 1994 Genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda 2011-12-02T05:13:02Z The whole, terrible story is retold here, complete with flimsy reconstructions, melodramatic music and tawdry narration. TV highlights 18/12/2012 2012-12-17T19:59:01Z My job was to look at the footage with the script in my hand, and add voices and narration. How we made The Wombles 2013-04-22T16:16:00Z But the narration can also be alien, frightening, with an implacable omniscience. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z “While fewer than 10,000 men have ever been Navy SEALs, they greatly define the modern battle space,” the narration says. Networks Salute Veterans Day With Contemporary Shows 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z It, too, allows the momentum of archival footage to replace heavy narration. Perspective | What’s better than a TV shot of Apollo 11? The looks on the faces back home. 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z What ultimately informed Ms. Douglas’s later work was a postmodern concern with the shifting reliability of narration — and, by extension, the essential uncertainty of truth itself. Ellen Douglas, Southern Novelist, Dies at 91 2012-11-12T05:37:19Z Swelling music and Kelsey Grammer’s refined narration supply the appropriate sobriety, but the film is too intent on promoting the nobility of its cause to worry about engaging the uninitiated. Movie Review: ‘Until They Are Home,’ a Documentary Directed by Steven C. Barber 2012-08-31T00:31:54Z Not only has Trautman just laid out the plot, he’s done the poster copy and the trailer narration, too. 1985: When ‘Rambo’ Tightened His Grip on the American Psyche 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z A narration by Joe Morton, one of the show’s producers, sometimes came perilously close. Music Review: ?Robert Johnson at 100? at the Apollo Theater 2012-03-07T19:51:48Z With , the author decided for the first time in his career to fully abandon first-person narration, and the absence is felt. IQ84: A Murakami Novel Sans Murakami 2011-10-31T09:00:03Z The jury said Nagy showed “masterful control of every aspect of the craft of filmmaking, a narration that transcends its historical context.” Berlin film festival’s Golden Bear goes to ‘Loony Porn’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Paul Giamatti fares better with the episode he directed, “More Than Human,” airing on Nov. 8, partly because he puts a bit more spunk into his narration. Review: ‘Breakthough,’ About Scientific Advances That Could Save Lives and Perhaps the Planet 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z “I thought it would be a huge problem,” Mr. Haddon said of the narration. Specializing in Secrets and Their Dear Cost 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z Her narration, written by her longtime partner, Jane Wagner, is measured and eloquent, but she's passionate in conversation as she decries "inequity and injustice and suffering" and encourages others to get involved. Lily Tomlin speaks up for elephants in documentary 2013-04-24T18:32:11Z The narration, by Samuel L. Jackson, can be informative but more often is silly: for Mara, we learn, Fang “is the best dad ever.” | 'African Cats': ?African Cats,? Is Disneynature?s Look at Lions 2011-04-22T04:43:02Z “Human indifference is surely the oceans’ greatest threat,” murmurs Pierce Brosnan’s excruciatingly bland narration while images of the garbage patch in the North Pacific Gyre float on screen. | 'Oceans': Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud Look at the Seas 2010-04-21T21:44:00Z Judging from the episodes I’ve heard, it’s smartly conceived and executed, blending delicious archival audio with personable narration and elegant sound design. Three Podcasts to Listen to in February 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z The narration, read by Miranda July, underlines temperamental contrasts between the scientists that are seemingly confirmed by the pictures. ‘Fire of Love’ Review: A Volcanic Romance 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z It is flimsily shored up with his very personal journal-like narration of the adventure. '180 Degrees South': Trekking ? and surfing and climbing ? to Patagonia 2010-05-20T20:10:00Z It's nowhere near as rewarding as the career mode in "Rock Band," and the narration by insufferable Kiss frontman Gene Simmons makes it almost unbearable. Review: 'Rock Band 3' hits all the right notes 2010-10-26T21:32:00Z And text, narration and images can be conveyed unobtrusively to those who want it. The Met?s Virtual Expansion Plans 2011-02-11T13:00:00Z Oh, and Billy Connolly deserves a mention, doing the narration, chuckling away; he's enjoying it. The Great Bear Stakeout – TV review 2013-04-25T06:00:00Z He even does his own narration on the audio version. "It was a life changer for me": Andrew McCarthy on his Brat Pack origins and a recent 500-mile walk 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z Maybe they really were that oblivious; if that's so, this is a part of the story that could have benefit from a bit of narration instead of leaving us to make assumptions about their ignorance. Netflix's new Colin Kaepernick series is as ambitious but not quite as successful as its subject 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z He’s invented a new kind of narration: he chronicles the minute details of his own existence, but not from the perspective of himself. Knausgaard’s Selflessness 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z And sometimes the narration got a little weird. Two hours, 22 stops: Playing tourist in D.C. on a double-decker sightseeing bus 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Day and his cameras almost seem to disappear; there’s no narration, no off-camera questions and no self-consciousness from the taciturn islanders; instead, the Faroese discuss over dinner how they are conflicted about the whale hunt. 'We were trying not to get hit by their tails' – how I filmed the Faroe whale hunt 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z The book takes its time getting on the highway, and the slow pace is exacerbated by Katharine McEwan’s demure and deliberate narration, which drains some of the pungency from Hartman’s prose. Audiobooks for Summer Trips With the Kids 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Their subject matter may be grim — suicide, grief, violence, murderous dictators — but his constructions of found footage and appropriated narration are inviting and accessible. | 'The Darkness of Day': How to Make the Grim Appear Artfully Beautiful 2010-10-12T22:49:00Z But it’s the voice-over narration that provides the dramatic backbone, just as repeating musical passages string an emotional line through the story’s episodic baubles. | 'Extraordinary Stories': H Plus X Plus Z, Formula for 3 Intersecting Lives 2011-05-03T21:43:05Z Two important partners later in her life, both women, are kept anonymous and written about in a sudden flurry of second-person narration, as if opening up too much to readers might also require disappearing. Review: Carrie Brownstein’s ‘Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z In the first two episodes, her onscreen contribution — not counting a pro forma introduction — consists of 50 to 60 seconds of narration, split between the beginning and ending of the episode. Review: In Viceland’s ‘Woman,’ Snapshots of Women in the Cross Hairs 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z There is no narration and all the sound is ambient. Babies Review: The Awwww Heard 'Round the World 2010-05-06T23:30:00Z The dry grandiloquence of the narration puts Celeste at a remove, making her seem more distant than she might be in a movie more interested in milking the viewer’s empathy and tears. ‘Vox Lux’ Review: An Apocalyptic Star Is Born 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Lily’s voice-over narration frequently spells out the societal pressures of young womanhood in a cool, detached affect. Review: ‘Assassination Nation’ Bluntly Calls Out All-American Misogyny 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Allen’s literal voice, which supplies narration, sounds unusually sluggish and weary. Review: In ‘Café Society,’ Rearranging Old Preoccupations 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Added to Danes’s celebrated narration is an afterword by Atwood, explaining in her quiet, sane voice the book’s origins, inspiration and bearing on the current political and social climate. Ingenious new audio version of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ deepens the original 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Gripping his score as if it were a Bible, Mulroy delivered the Evangelist's narration with the slightly unsettling sincerity of a committed preacher. St John Passion | Classical review 2010-03-23T23:00:00Z Good taste would have dictated that every gruesome detail of medical emergencies brought on by the show’s excesses might have been elided, or at least spared heroic narration by Probst. Survivor's Medical Emergency Proves This Is a Critical Moment for Reality TV 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z This one is floating in the middle of a lake and, as the narration informs us, "killing a moose while it's swimming is illegal". Last night's TV 2010-05-28T07:00:00Z The show featured hourlong documentaries from natural landscapes all around the world, and at first, didn’t even have narration so it could be sold in any television market, without any language barrier. Drones, viral videos help ‘Nature’ thrive after 40 years 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z The narration isn’t distant, but it isn’t intimate either. ‘W-3,’ a Memoir That Recalls Suffering Without Sentimentality or Sensationalism 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z He delivers the entire narration wonderfully, but his Tommy takes the gold. Review | For your pandemic playlist: 3 new audiobooks that will whisk you away — for a few hours, anyway 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The plot, driven by Harley’s hyperactive narration, zigzags and hopscotches across time and space to fill in the back stories of her frenemies, the as-yet-unhatched predatory birds who get top billing. ‘Birds of Prey’ Review: Nihilism for Fun and Profit 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z "This is the story of a film that was never completed," begins the sober narration of the Holocaust documentary "A Film Unfinished" — a film that is, in itself, an act of completion. 'A Film Unfinished': Holocaust documentary 'finishes' incomplete Nazi propaganda film 2010-10-14T20:40:00Z They all recap the hearings and the latest developments, generally with sound clips, narration, guests, and some level of interpretation; Brian Lehrer’s show sometimes incorporates questions from callers. The Art of the Impeachment Podcast 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Made as a series of stationary black-and-white shots, with no narration, "Empty Quarter" unfolds as a series of scenes in Lake, Malheur and Harney counties. 'Empty Quarter': A movie about nothingness 2011-04-07T19:09:04Z For the rest of the album performance, the Boss kept explanation and narration at a bare minimum—just enough to preface the more challenging numbers, specifically “Independence Day,” “I Wanna Marry You,” and “Stolen Car.” Bruce Springsteen takes you to “The River” on his new tour: A heartfelt, back-to-basics show — that so far avoids politics 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z His narration ensures that the film is just about coherent. Dark Blood - first look review 2012-10-01T12:54:20Z Its family photos and interviews and scenes from nature and neighborhood are interwoven with each other and interspersed with poetry and narration. ‘The ways love shows up in the world’: a Central District family’s history, transformed 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Other writers use dialogue in the same way they use formal narration: to express profound ideas in complex language with scant regard for realism. The unreal art of realistic dialogue 2010-03-18T10:54:00Z Caitlin's voice is written as a narration from the future, but Vann gives her a sense of preteen naivete and filters her language and metaphors through the twinkling blue light of the aquarium. Novels focus on gritty realism, anger, loss, family dysfunction 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Phrasings and descriptions do occasionally ring false, mostly in places where the author seems to underestimate Todd’s powers of expression, but overall the narration is consistent and authentic. Eli Gottlieb’s ‘Best Boy’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Bailey's narration was soporific – his dry delivery suits drollery and, as there was none here, it remained simply flat and unaffecting. Unreported World: Sex Lies and Black Magic (Channel 4), Baboons with Bill Bailey (ITV) 2011-04-09T08:00:02Z In the books, Schwartz’s matter-of-fact, unadorned, often whimsically inconclusive narration of ghastly turns of event is balanced by the harrowing, hallucinatory illustrations by Stephen Gammell. The Mild Horror of “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Sung in the original French, the vocal writing is economical, leaving the dance to carry much of the narrative thread, and the spoken narration to fill in the crucial gaps. Les Enfants Terribles 2010-08-24T21:00:00Z “The narration is just pure poetry,” McGraw said. ‘Yellowstone’ Gets a Prequel in ‘1883,’ but It Wasn’t Easy 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z Its opening narration still makes for a persuasive sales pitch: “Don’t you want devoted followers who will leave their families for you? … And will kill for you? Don’t you want to become a cult leader?” From Waco to Charles Manson: what TV gets wrong about cults 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Japan’s project “would unite the firepower of an aircraft carrier with the stealth of a submarine,” the program’s narration relates. The Week Ahead: May 2 ? 8 2010-04-30T18:18:00Z “The Waltons” aired for more than 200 episodes, with Hamner providing brief voiceover narration in each one, telling his audience about his family’s years in the Blue Ridge Mountains and how it had shaped him. Earl Hamner Jr., 'The Waltons' Creator, Dies at 92 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z In most documentaries, human speech is explanatory and expository: Much information is conveyed by means of voice-over narration and talking-head interviews. Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Shows Us Ourselves 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z When it comes to bodies, Wong isn’t afraid to be what most would consider crude, and joyfully peppers the narration with these effects. Jonathan Van Ness, Ali Wong and John Hodgman Walk Into a Bar … 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z It also features video and images from the beginning of his career through his final album, with narration by Gary Oldman, a longtime friend to Bowie. Meeting Old Masters, Rowing With Vikings — in Augmented Reality 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The five-minute video is an elaborate production that includes narration, a music soundtrack and explosive scenes of sculptures being toppled and clubbed with sledgehammers. Propaganda video may be a cover for Mosul Museum looting 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z “Whatever visual poetry the film possesses is overwhelmed by the thuddingly bad and nearly ceaseless narration,” Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times in 2009. Video : Start Your High-Def Engines 2011-05-22T00:53:01Z In typical Wiseman fashion “Crazy Horse” contains no narration, no identification of people and no back story about the club. Looking at Frederick Wiseman?s Documentary ?Crazy Horse? 2012-01-13T17:45:25Z Each performance is accompanied by chanted narration, and by music played on the samisen, a traditional Japanese three-stringed instrument. Distinguished Japanese puppet theater to visit Seattle 2013-08-14T19:32:33Z The narration is conversational and witty to a fault, teeming with celebrity anecdotes, childhood stories and the overall ridiculousness of being a person. Jonathan Van Ness, Ali Wong and John Hodgman Walk Into a Bar … 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z His deadpan narration spoofs the voice of God of many documentaries, often mumbling, shifting gears, tripping over itself. The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z “I drew lots of scenes of barbarism,” the narration reads. Comics of Violence and Nostalgia From War-Torn Syria 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Courtney Summers is also the author of a zombie novel, “This Is Not a Test,” that has stuck with me for years because of its beautiful, bleak narration. 7 Terrifying Horror Novels Perfect for Teens 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Despite the social importance of this story, there are points when the narration of "The Hustle" stalls. 'The Hustle': Black, white and playing basketball in 1980s Seattle 2010-12-30T20:27:04Z Mr. Grossman is usually a subtle, sophisticated writer, though, for some reason, he seems to have altered his tone in parts of “The Magician’s Land,” using too much narration with too much broish language. Book Review: ‘Magician’s Land’ Ends Lev Grossman’s Trilogy 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z In this way the performative aspect of musical theater is diverted from the characters into the narration, finessing the problem of musical theater kids. Review: Reviving a ‘Really Rosie’ That’s Hard-Candy Cute 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Or at least, that's how I saw it: a clever use of unreliable narration and even the language of that narration, designed to make us take a good, hard look at our own assumptions. Back to the Hugos: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin 2010-03-25T11:33:00Z This chorus is countered by female voices rejecting “the rules and regulations about narration and authorship and who gets to tell the story and in what way.” Review | A woman reconstructs her past with the help of an old journal in ‘Memories of the Future’ 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z “Billy Wilder opened with narration on almost every movie, because he sets the scene.” After Turbulent Flight, ‘Finding Neverland’ Alights on Broadway 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z When Flynn was preparing to write the screenplay for the film adaptation of “Gone Girl,” she decided against rereading the book, opting instead to listen to the narration. That Voice You’re Hearing? It Might Be Hers. 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z His narration, as pithy and “over the top” as his beloved TV persona, is incredibly endearing. Jonathan Van Ness, Ali Wong and John Hodgman Walk Into a Bar … 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z The writer may have been able to infuse a bit of the 21st century aesthetic to the story through casting and narration. "Tom Jones" finale highlights all the women he did wrong: "Actions have consequences" 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z This false, slippery narration, which the reader is called upon to interpret as self-deception, damns the 21st century flâneur. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z Decidedly choreographed for families — the recommended age range is 5 to 10 — this two-hour production, by Rose Menes, is set in colonial Yorktown and features narration. Finding the Right ‘Nutcracker’ for You and Yours 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z There are, instead, vivid, episodic bursts of narration, recounting a birthday party, the teasing of her by siblings, and Margaret’s time at court in Oxford, after the revolution interrupted her aristocratic family’s bucolic life. How Archival Fiction Upends Our View of History 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z At times, the writing is hallucinatory, the narration shifting between three men who are swimming in the present and submerged in the past. Robert Olen Butler’s ‘Perfume River’ is haunted by the Vietnam War 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z And sure, a memoir need not be a storage container for every family skeleton, but relevant narration — heartbreaking or otherwise — is, I’d argue, a big chunk of a writer’s basic job description. When Your Family Becomes a Noah’s Ark-Style Experiment With Race 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z They also eschew the voice-of-God narration of an earlier era of political advertising to let the candidates themselves do the talking. Hugs, flags, tears, kids: Inside the heart-tugging world of today’s super-viral campaign ads 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z The severely edited narration also underscores the continued devaluation of an entire people, the continued erasure of a part of history that needs to be recognized. Disturbing wedding trend: Getting married at a plantation 2014-01-05T16:00:00Z “But you can’t film language. You can use narration, of course. But narration is usually something pasted on a film when the visual storytelling isn’t working.” Amazon Tackles Hollywood’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Obsession 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Paul's two-hander plays like a monologue at times, relying too heavily on narration, on telling and not showing. The Secret of Sherlock Holmes 2010-07-23T21:00:00Z Nowadays, you generally do only the narration on these landmark series. David Attenborough Still Has Hope for Our Future 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z Epstein and Friedman interview a number of survivors, whose recollections are shown alongside archival film, family photographs and narration by the actor Rupert Everett. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The People vs. Agent Orange’ and Macy’s Fireworks 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z The disparity between narration and movement becomes funny, baffling, suspenseful. Review: ‘Spectator’ at the Japan Society 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The opera’s narration always has been a problem, but the narrator here is another inspiration. 'Young Caesar' finally conquers: Troubled 1971 opera is reborn at Disney Hall 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z But otherwise, pertinent strands of Austen's narration and dialogue are well-chosen and interwoven in her well-paced script. Review: Book-It's 'Sense and Sensibility' a delight 2011-06-06T21:48:04Z Arundhati Roy brings her clear, melodious voice and clipped Indian accent to the narration of her second novel, a passionate and compassionate work, 20 years in the making. ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’ is one of the best new audiobooks of the month 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Clunky narration and badly edited stock footage do little to illuminate Rosalee’s times or support her memories. ‘Reinventing Rosalee’ Review: A Centenarian Who Won’t Slow Down 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z No. We were originally trying to create it so there was no narration. The Carpetbagger: Starring a (Reluctant) Journalist 2014-02-25T20:25:00Z Initially, Mr. Pollard’s dark, gun-heavy songs were celebrated for being a narration of what goes on in the street. Hip-Hop Star Bobby Shmurda, in Jail, Finds His Label Unsupportive 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Beah’s narration rests lightly across these lives, suggesting only the outlines of their ruined childhoods. Review | Ishmael Beah’s memoir revealed the realities of child soldiers. His fiction shows the humanity of homeless kids. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z The filmmaker’s narration nuzzles up to the metaphysical, and frequently anthropomorphizes the mountains that practically seal off Guzmán’s homeland. ‘The Cordillera of Dreams’ Review: From the Heights to the Depths 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Based on the popular Maisy books, by Lucy Cousins, the show feels timeless, with gentle narration and cheerful colors. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z The film was to be a series of real-time video diaries tied together by Ms. Fawcett’s narration. The Long Goodbye 2011-05-27T20:36:29Z It mixes archival video footage, Khmer Rouge propaganda clips and a first-person narration in French. Cambodia Vies for 1st Oscar With Missing Picture 2014-02-27T08:24:29Z “You can simply insert narration clarifying the stakes.” How André Holland and Company Brought ‘Richard II’ to Radio 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Jamison, for whom the themes of imagination, narration, and metaphor will never not be seductive, endlessly elevates the act of portrayal above the thing being portrayed. Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z In any case, the ensemble produced a more rounded but no less driven tone once the narration began. Music Review: Viennese Chamber Music at Washington Square Festival 2012-07-19T21:45:52Z Even the narration is measured, calm, relaying the suicide method with a simple aside. “The Virgin Suicides” Still Holds the Mysteries of Adolescence 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z The narration is full of these puzzles – ruminations that seem precise but are actually sloppy, explanations that are carefully elaborated but make no sense at all. Big Brother by Lionel Shriver – review 2013-05-25T08:01:30Z The videos are often accompanied by music or narration while challengers whittle away piece-by-piece. People peeling raw eggs has become a viral trend on TikTok 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z Soneela Nankani delivers the general narration in a warm American voice and gives a trim, restrained Indian accent to the dialogue, modulating register to distinguish the characters. Review | Hear it to believe it: The audio version of Tana French ‘Faithful Place’ is perfect 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The narration comes from more than 200 hours of personal audio tapes made by Brando, starting in the 1950s and continuing for the next 50 years. Marlon on Marlon… the Brando tapes 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z “His descriptions are sharp,” and “in the audiobook version, Ray Porter’s forceful narration heightens the propulsive quality of Verini’s writing, while also highlighting the general and enduring absurdities of war.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z And yet, in this predictability — where the narration depicts the unavoidable messiness of adolescence — Coster portrays her characters’ worlds with startling vitality. Two Families Are Brought Together by a Busing Initiative 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Each also takes a solo turn with the narration. ‘My Broken Language’ Review: Piecing Together a Life of Many Dialects 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z There’s no narration to knit the songs together, no host to set a tone. Review | Sondheim revue provides exhilarating warmth in cold, trying times 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Anecdotally, some viewers aren’t too hot on the hard-boiled narration, but it feels of a piece with the gumshoe setting and source material, and allows a greater insight into Jessica’s often turbulent thought processes. Jessica Jones recap, episodes 1-7: what do you make of Marvel’s newest TV hero? 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z The combination of images and narration scaffolds the music, without violating what Hohnen has described as "the deafening silence" Gurrumul creates around his work, instead of cultivating celebrity. Gurrumul at Vivid Live 2013 – review 2013-05-29T00:41:49Z He explains this in a letter to the Chinese prime minister that doubles as voice-over narration for “The White Tiger,” Ramin Bahrani’s restless new film, which is itself a blend of disparate elements. ‘The White Tiger’ Review: Don’t Call Him a Slumdog 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Though inevitably frustrating to listen to at times, “Last Seen” is also perfect binge material, with the host Kelly Horan’s hypnotic narration guiding listeners through a juicy, baffling, stranger-than-fiction tale. 7 Podcasts About the Art of the Scam 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z In Daniela Danz’s libretto, bits of conversation keep recurring but never cohere into a firm story; interludes of spoken narration repeat the facts of the case before the opera returns into misty obscurity. Forced Online, an Opera Festival Searches for Intimacy 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z He had recently digitized old camcorder tapes she had made when he and his brother were kids and he layered some of her narrations into interludes on the album, making “Dreamland” all the more personal. Glass Animals ride the slow-burning ‘Heat Waves’ to Grammys 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Lam turns the ghost story into a fable involving twins and characters from Chinese mythology, who swim through a murky ocean to the sounds of rhyming narration and haunting music. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z It’s a brilliantly balanced act of synchronous narration, never succumbing to the temptation of sentimentality or cuteness but always attendant to the child’s wonder. Review | ‘Damnation Spring’ beautifully explores the human cost of environmental damage 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z That tension between Leonie and her teenage son runs throughout the novel as the narration passes back and forth between them. A powerful new entry in the literature of race in America 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z “I’m told fixing an old clock can be maddening,” Reed says in the opening narration. “S-Town” Investigates the Human Mystery 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Murphy Island is a unique place, as Newt’s narration makes clear. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘The Water Bears’ 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Added Smith: “There’s no narration, there are no interviews, and those are elements that we are accustomed to working with.” At the African American History Museum, a giant flicker of things to come 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z And then there’s the Setrakian voiceover narration at the end, which ridiculously mentions “a small world,” while the Scooby gang hightails it and tries to mentally regroup against the fiery New York skyline. 'The Strain' recap: The Master, crispy around the edges, still lives 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z “When pioneers learn that something’s never been done before, they don’t hear it as a caution,” Baker says in his narration. ‘American Wine Story’ captures the dedication and spirit of modern vintners Other shows have fiddled with unreliable narration, often for comic effect. "Mr. Robot" and the Angry Young Man 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z All of this creates a tension that is a pleasing counterweight to the rollicking rhythms of the narration. ‘Lurid & Cute,’ a Novel by Adam Thirlwell 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Towns – runs the opening narration – where would we be without them? TV highlights 21/05/2013 2013-05-21T05:59:01Z As in "Sex and the City," this series features Carrie's arch, epigrammatic narration. A new Carrie glows in a 'Sex and the City' prequel 2013-01-11T14:54:19Z The narration advances with some circularity; the language is often stale. The Brutal Economy of Cleaning Other People’s Messes, for $9 an Hour 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The collective narration intermittently narrows its lens to follow particular characters, presenting the candid thoughts of individual animals as if conducting street interviews. NoViolet Bulawayo Allegorizes the Aftermath of Robert Mugabe 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Though critics didn’t revere the musical’s reliance on narration, it was Mr. Prince’s staging and leadership that propelled “Evita” forward. ‘Cabaret,’ ‘Phantom of the Opera’ and More: Hal Prince’s Hits Transformed Broadway 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Gelb, stationed stiffly against a plain white backdrop, provides the narration while a hand draws the scenes around him, illustrating characters, soldiers, landscapes, tidbits of dreams. Review: Bringing Borges to Life in ‘Footnote for the End of Time’ 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z The flurries of narration allude to socialistic objectives in architecture, whether in a Yugoslav company’s construction work for the International Trade Fair in Lagos, Nigeria, or the plans for the 20th-century city of Brasília. Review: ‘All the Cities of the North’ Explores Architecture and Men 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z The back-to-back narrations — without heavy exposition from the author — quickly steep us in the interiors of the characters. Review | Max Porter’s ‘Lanny’ is a lyrical look at the tribulations of parenting 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Will Jane Fonda turn up to provide arch deadpan-bordering-on-disinterested narration for the whole thing? ‘Better Living Through Chemistry’: Not a new formula 2014-03-13T21:43:57Z Still, it's a daunting topic, but with the help of user-friendly graphics and Matt Damon's narration, Ferguson breaks down the meltdown into digestible terms without ever condescending. 5 films about the financial crisis you can bank on 2012-11-29T23:48:09Z This wild story sells itself, no narration needed. Movie Review: ‘Kid Cannabis,’ About a Teenage Drug Kingpin 2014-04-18T01:29:42Z So he ups sticks and moves them both upstate to supposedly quieter suburbia, where Tessa provides a narration on how lame things are there. TV highlights 17/07/2012 2012-07-16T19:29:01Z Throughout “Late Night with Leonard Bernstein,” Jamie Bernstein’s compelling narration was punctuated by music, photographs, and film clips. Review | Celebrating the Bernstein centennial with a family album 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z The political machinations that follow are thrilling, as is the lush and wild narration. The 5 best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z After the pummelling hard rock of Hellbound, Wiggs is cajoled by the Deal sisters into providing the uninflected first-person narration for Metal Man, which sounds bigger and more brutal than it does on record. The Breeders – review 2013-06-18T17:24:27Z Her narration is sometimes warm and cozy, like a grandmother reading us to sleep, and other times as dry and witty as was the author himself. Meryl Streep Wants to Tell You a Bedtime Story 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z That's what NCSoft has produced with Meet the Insects, which offers a mixture of photos, videos and audio narration about insects big and small. 30 best iPhone and iPad apps this week 2013-02-01T16:15:00Z Her fanged narration sets us up for a makeover movie in reverse where a carb-fearing perfectionist allows herself to enjoy pizza. ‘Luckiest Girl Alive’ Review: Lean In, to Outrage 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Ghosts — of people, places and rituals — accumulate and eventually dominate his narration, the fleshy bodies of women past and present filling him with tenderness and longing. 'Silent Souls': a tale of memories and longing 2011-10-13T20:14:04Z This BBC radio program is tailor-made for those moments — immersive soundscapes from around the world, interspersed with snippets of gentle narration. 6 Podcasts to Help You Take an Actual Break This Summer 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z “When the hospital was built four weeks earlier, 64 beds seemed more than enough,” the narration says. ‘Frontline’: ‘Ebola Outbreak’ and ‘Hunting Boko Haram’ 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Through most of the show, he describes his mother’s personality and routine in the present tense, as if providing a voice-over narration. Review: A Son Mourns in ‘Notes on My Mother’s Decline’ 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z All this is shown with no narration whatsoever. A film for foodies: Culinary creativity at elBulli 2011-07-19T20:23:09Z The tone was created at the beginning by Mr. Hamner’s narration, delivered in a soft mountain drawl. Earl Hamner Jr., Virginia-born writer who created ‘The Waltons,’ dies at 92 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z My mother is a particular problem because she does a running narration of her day. I Was Misinformed: It’s Not You — It’s That You Want to Stay in My Apartment 2014-04-24T22:58:22Z Her unreliable narration is one of the film’s several aspirational Godardian flourishes, including Dutch angles, nonlinear editing and long conversations about sex and cinema. ‘Adieu Godard’ Review: A Poor Imitation 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the narration shifts among a number of characters in and around 1890s bohemian Paris, the Paris when Montmartre was home to Claude Debussy, Auguste Renoir and other renowned artists. Review | ‘The Vexations’ revisits the eccentric life of composer Erik Satie 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Rather, we get a lengthy, choppy procession of short scenes and bits — some rather dry historical narration, an impish lecture from a slapdash art historian, a smattering of homemade visual effects. Stage collage skims the surface of Salvador Dalí’s offbeat life and work 2013-04-25T22:45:34Z Rival warlords aligned to block Wu's ascendancy and, the narration adds in a switch to pulp-magazine idiom, "All hell was about to break loose." 'Detective Dee': A Masterpiece from a Hong Kong Cinema Swami 2011-09-01T05:10:00Z It's a first-person narration, which always presents a challenge, but more than that it's written in a baroque vernacular, at once basely imbecilic and highly articulate, endearing and grotesque. Money; Lost; Damages 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z It’s an ambitiously mounted, yet strangely unfunny, teaser, with a Stephen Hawking-aping narration that uses jokes from the original to get fans onboard. Long catwalk home: can Ben Stiller make audiences care about Zoolander 2? 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Might one — or both — of these narrations be unreliable? Review | ‘My Sweet Girl’ pushes the boundaries of what a thriller can do 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Under the spell of Winman’s narration, this seems entirely possible — and endlessly charming. Review | Sarah Winman’s ‘Still Life’ feels like a Saturday night among old friends 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Grylls’s narration isn’t only unwittingly hilarious—dark narratives begins to emerge, and they involve us. “Hostile Planet”: Animals Are Struggling to Adapt, and National Geographic Is, Too 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z That same year, the British director James Marsh turned the book into a docudrama, a good one, with narration by Ian Holm. 50 Years On, ‘Wisconsin Death Trip’ Still Haunts and Inspires 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z The program’s narration, given an extra jolt via the vocal talents of F. Murray Abraham, keeps referring to “the python army.” Television Review: They?re Big and Ready to Eat Florida 2010-02-19T23:03:00Z Thursday brings JazzReach Presents Ellington!, an interactive program using narration and music to introduce children to the work of this jazz master. Spare Times for Children for July 4-10 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The second trailer for Season 2 begins, as the first, with the oily-voiced narration of Varys, the eunuch Master of Secrets at the heart of most of the intrigues in the Seven Kingdoms. Watch a New Game of Thrones Season 2 Trailer 2012-03-05T22:23:27Z "If you're wondering what it's like being the father of five young children," Gaffigan says in the burst of expository narration that begins the series, "just imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby." 'The Jim Gaffigan Show' a humane, human comedy, fun and funny 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Sarah Mollo-Christensen delivers the general narration in a low, gentle voice, modulating her tones unobtrusively to capture the dialogue among the characters. Review | Grab your ear buds: Here are three great audiobooks to distract you from reality 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The sardonic tones of the accompanying narration — voiced by someone whose identity will be revealed later on — are an early indication that Mr. Pitt may not be the hero of the story. Review: ‘War Machine’: Brad Pitt Has Met the Enemy. He Just Doesn’t Know It Yet. 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z He ruminates on these and related matters in long passages of voice-over narration, brought back to reality by the ringing of his cellphone or the needs of his son. Review: Ben Stiller Is a Dad With a Bruised Ego in ‘Brad’s Status’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Many of the trite expositions and unnecessary narration of his previous shows have been cut in favor of purer emotion. John Leguizamo has fun focusing on his career 2011-03-23T02:27:14Z Perhaps the most unusual aspect of Kirchheimer’s film is its lack of narration. Before Gentrification, a City Covered in Graffiti 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Combining interviews with real-world experts and imaginative narration – Sarah, Colin, and Matthew invite you to imagine what it might be like to hike up a mountain on Titan. Can lessons from Watergate prepare us for Trump? – best podcasts of the week 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z This Japanese choreographer presents “Cross Transit,” a multimedia dance work created in collaboration with the Cambodian visual artist Kim Hak, who contributes video, photos and narration. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The narration, read by Kevin Costner, finds a certain elemental beauty in the confrontation that takes place when a good hitter is challenged by a good fastball pitcher. Review: ‘Fastball,’ on the Mechanics and Poetry of a Pitch 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z West calls herself ’hood, and that’s probably a fair description of her Tubman narration, but she brings to light an aspect of Tubman’s story that people might not know. Lonnae O’Neal: Movie stars, a ‘turnt’ comic and Harriet Tubman. It works. 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Every time he started talking, he fell out of the frame, his mundane narration complementing shots of the ceiling. Bob Newhart, Master of the One-Sided Conversation 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z "When Sandro, a fitness fanatic from East London, isn't hitting the gym," co-host Matt Lucas gently shares in the first episode's introductory narration, "he works as a full-time nanny." This season of "The Great British Bake-Off" adds an attention-grabbing ingredient in the mix 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z The mood is affably garrulous, the narration deadpan and droll. ‘The Owl’s Legacy’ Explores the Glory That Was Greece 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z So, there are no talking heads or narration, because who better to tell such a remarkable, revolutionary story than Muhammad Ali himself? Telling Muhammad Ali's story in full: "What really struck me the most was how much humility he had" 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z The main video is a slowly revolving view of the library’s interior, accompanied by the voice-over narration of an anonymous man. Review | In the galleries: Cold War ignites inspiration for Culture House DC artist 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Remaining episodes in this final season use a combination of narration and guests. TV highlights: ‘9-1-1’ returns on Fox 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z This discomfort turned out to be a poetically appropriate prologue to what followed: a sung narration of New York history rendered as a myth that considers urban violence and spiritual transcendence. Paul Simon?s ?Capeman? in Central Park 2010-08-17T22:01:00Z Mr. Parnell’s serviceable book has the whiff of anachronism here and there, but a bigger problem is the heavy use of narration. Review: ‘Hunchback of Notre Dame’ at Paper Mill Playhouse 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z Expect voice narration and animation, and features to help early readers, such as word highlighting. The 50 best apps for children 2012-08-04T16:24:08Z Jack’s narration is so good-natured that it may take you a little while to realize that Kilmer dislikes nearly every film on his résumé that a fan might want to hear about. Cannes Film Festival: ‘Val,’ ‘The Velvet Underground’ and Famous Jerks 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z The series, which returns next season, uses images, narration and dramatic readings along with music in the first half of each concert. 'Beyond the Score' helps symphony-goers appreciate works from inside out 2011-05-18T23:17:04Z To portray the writing process of both main characters Mr. Weitz chose a risky device: double narration. Paul Weitz Directs ?Being Flynn,? Starring Robert DeNiro 2012-02-24T19:34:17Z Why yes, we get all this, plus the distracting — to put it mildly — amount of voiceover narration meant to fill the many potholes in the story’s execution. The idiotic crimes of “Insatiable”: Netflix’s fat-shaming series lives up to the negative hype 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Through narration, models and reproductions, we followed the passengers who boarded the ship on April 11, 1912, and explored the events leading up to and following the sinking four days later. What a Trip: Friends unite in Bavaria As with some blogs or soap operas, the ongoing narration, however tedious it often is, can be weirdly addictive, and the suggestive play with fact and fiction can be intriguing. What’s More Appealing: Eight Seasons of ‘Suits’ or Six Volumes of Karl Ove Knausgaard? 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z D-Scriptive solved the problem by dicing up its narration — into more than 600 audio files in the case of “The Lion King.” Admit One: Technology Extends Theater’s Thrills to Blind Patrons 2014-02-06T22:13:40Z The rather heavy-handed message — reinforced by Mr. Perrin’s spare, soothing narration — is clear, as war and pesticides are unleashed and animals displaced. Review: The Nature Documentary ‘Seasons’ Looks at Land Animals 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Stevenson, best known for such films as Truly Madly Deeply and Bend It Like Beckham, delivered her occasionally sombre narration from inside a sound-proof booth on stage. Pet Shop Boys premiere Turing tribute 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Maugham was a stylistic master at letting his characters tell stories within the story, getting around the problems inherent in a first-person point of view or third-person stream of consciousness narration. James Lee Burke: By the Book 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Her narration, she said, was meant to be ironic and self-mocking — "I find it very funny, almost obtuse." Retreat of the 'Tiger Mother' 2011-01-15T04:14:04Z For “Julius Caesar,” she wrote in an opening narration to underscore the contemporary resonances. A Theater in a California Canyon Becomes an Oasis Once Again 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z As a bonus, the tour is complete with narration as you fly across the Falls so you know exactly what you are looking at as you watch from the helicopter. Eat your way through Niagara Falls 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z The lyrical narration framing the film alludes to Giuseppe Garibaldi’s departure from Genoa on his unification campaign of 1860. Finding Poetry in a Couple?s Pain 2011-07-29T20:01:01Z Beth, in her narration, and "GH", in his diary, start off cagey but become increasingly explicit as the novel advances. The Server by Tim Parks ? review 2012-05-18T21:51:01Z The béarnaise sauce, if you will, was Ms. Winer’s insightful narration, which went considerably deeper than the anecdotal minihistories that accompany most of the series’ programs. Music Review: At Kaufmann Concert Hall, a Tribute to Astaire and Rogers 2010-03-23T21:18:00Z We are not heroes, and our narration does not make us such. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z When we started, it was going to be narration and small scenes, characters talking to each other, but eventually it turned into quite a strict form, with everyone performing frontward. A Show About Colonial Power, Born From the Freedom to Make Mistakes 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z And, by implicitly equating Eliza’s acts of narration with his own, he’s acknowledging the women who built the country alongside the men. The Women of “Hamilton” 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Told in intermittent, close third-person narration from the pony’s point of view, it is based on the real-life trials of a neglected pony in southern New Hampshire, his rescue and subsequent worldwide fame. Horse and Writer: What to Read to a Recuperating Pet 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Second person narration aside, the story begins conventionally enough when a mysterious veiled woman enters the office of Philip M Noir and asks him to find out who killed her husband. Crime novels roundup 2010-05-14T23:28:00Z “And through the power of narration, you are,” he assured her. Stephen King’s ‘Under The Dome,’ Adapted for a TV Series 2013-06-22T16:14:50Z The laziest scripts on Earth over-explain themselves, starting with redundant voice-over narration and finishing with the weariest truisms, bromides and rules to live by. ‘Paranoia’: Slow, slick, superficial smartphone thriller 2013-08-15T22:28:31Z Neither narration nor captions elaborates on this series of gentle interventions, as drug use, bullying and class disruption are copped to and behavior modifications suggested. Review: ‘Guidelines’ Is Jean-François Caissy’s Look at High School 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z “When Shelby looks at the data from her students’ test results,” the narration says, “she realizes she is standing in front of a class whose abilities range from third to 11th grade.” Television Review: Davis Guggenheim Goes to School With New Film 2013-09-05T20:28:12Z But the influence of German expressionism is absent, there's no hard-boiled narration, no angst-ridden hero, no distorted camera angles, no nightmares, no ominous shadows, no flashbacks. The Big Sleep ? review 2011-01-02T00:05:12Z In the exclusive clip above, Hart explains what it was like undertaking the audiobook narration. Exclusive (and serious!) Kevin Hart video about his audiobook, 'I Can't Make This Up' 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Yet the subtle low point of the film comes in Remus’s narration just before Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, when he reminiscences about how things were “a long time ago,,” when “every day was mighty satisfactual”. Song of the South: the difficult legacy of Disney's most shocking movie 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Kauffmann abbreviated the title and edited the text thoroughly—sharpening the quick cuts, juxtapositions, non sequiturs, and sudden shifts of topic and tonal register that give Binx’s narration, and the novel, its distinctive style. We Still Live Within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer” 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Her narration is one of the few spaces she can control. How "Euphoria" challenges viewers’ expectations of what a television show should be 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z With her almost cheerful narration, the Kraus heroine, whose name changes but whose identity is the same in each book of the trilogy, plays her loserdom for laughs. I Love Dick on television marks the rise of the female loser 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Among its biggest missteps is its use of voice-over narration meant to lend the events a mythic quality. ‘Die in a Gunfight’ Review: Another Tale of Star-Crossed Lovers 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z He keeps his voice near its normal pitch; in the world of audiobook narration, modulating too much from one character to another is bad practice. In the age of ear buds and audiobooks, they want to be the voices in your head 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z “In Every Moment We Are Still Alive” is narrated in a vivid present tense that collapses the distance between the time of narration and the harrowing events of the story. As a Daughter Is Born, a Young Mother Dies 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z “Those factories were channeling unimaginable wealth to a growing aristocracy,” the narration says. Review: ‘American Experience’ Traces President Garfield’s Assassination 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z It’s a thing of goofily cathartic beauty …and it’s almost immediately cut off at the knees when he turns to us and his narration says, with weary resignation, “You’re not buying any of this either.” ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2, Episode 3: This Is Your Brain on Drugs 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z The novel is densely plotted and written with unsparing accuracy about the characters of Naples, but Lenù's candid narration makes for an utterly engrossing reading experience. Freud, Nietzsche, Paglia, Fanon: our expert guide to the books of "The White Lotus" 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Our critic Jennifer Szalai calls it an “astonishing” book that uses present-tense narration “as an effective device for conveying what it felt like in real time to experience the tightening vise of the Nazi regime.” 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z That it doesn’t aim higher is clear enough from the fact that narration is provided not by a reserved voice of authority but by Jeff Foxworthy, comedian of the rural mundane. Television Review: ‘The Week the Women Went,’ on Lifetime 2012-08-13T22:24:20Z Almost every episode finds Patty declaring, in the voice-over narration, that being thin doesn’t matter after all because she’s still evil inside. Is Netflix’s ‘Insatiable’ as Offensive as It Looks? Let’s Discuss 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Directed by JR and scripted by Eric Roth, with narration by Robert De Niro, the movie will première at The New Yorker Festival, on October 4th. Festival Spotlight: JR’s “Ellis” 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Voice-over narration, tracking shots through teeming nightclubs and an occasional Rolling Stones song on the soundtrack do not make you Martin Scorsese. | 'Middle Men': George Gallo on the Internet Pornography Business 2010-08-06T00:47:00Z Once Biko dies, barely an hour into the film, Woods carries the narration; he plots his escape to any land that will issue his Biko biography. Mandela in the Movies: 10 Films About Apartheid 2013-12-06T21:21:59Z The whole thing plays out like a slightly more expensive, but much less erotic, feature-length episode of the Red Shoe Diaries, thanks in no small part to Jagger’s omnipresent narration. Rolling back: why we should welcome Mick Jagger's big screen return 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z With that piece of narration, “Narcos” opens its second season with the same jaundiced tone, anticipating another series of events that will continue the cycle of violence and peel away more layers of corruption. ‘Narcos’ Season 2 Premiere: One Man’s Town 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The other problem is purely technical: voiceover narration is perfectly natural in cinema, but on stage it seems rather clunky. The Silence of the Sea – review 2013-01-15T17:51:48Z His work, known for its sophisticated visual language and sparse narration, unveiled ethnographically distinctive peoples and practices with patience and a kind of objective astonishment. Robert Gardner Dies at 88; Filmed Cultural Practices 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z I felt no sympathy for him, and his narration of the story didn't work. Through to You by Emily Hainsworth - review 2013-04-21T14:00:00Z The film’s final act takes place on Aug. 8, 1969, the day of the slayings, a tragedy that Tarantino appears to be hurtling toward with ominous time stamps and a sudden increase in narration. ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Has a Wild Ending. Let’s Talk. 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z “The healer’s funeral was a catastrophe,” the narration says. Review: ‘Frontline’ Looks at Missteps During the Ebola Outbreak 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z As Garfield was delivering his address to the delegates,” the program’s narration says, “he shouted, ‘And now, gentlemen of the convention, what do we want?’ Review: ‘American Experience’ Traces President Garfield’s Assassination 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z This may be intentional on North’s part as a sort of structural storytelling: Capitalism is vague and diffuse, so why shouldn’t the narration follow suit? Heart-Hammering Science Fiction and Fantasy Thrillers 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The narration of Jeremy Irons lurked portentously into one last rousing montage. The England vs. Croatia World Cup Match Made for Some Awkward Television 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z And, as the unsettling narration demanded, I felt eerie in my own body. Flavorful Bites in a Virtual Reality 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z The 90-minute play at Woolly Mammoth Theatre hits some storytelling snags as it sweeps across years with narration that seems to cut corners. Out of prison and into the fire of race and sex in ‘Lights Rise on Grace’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z He wanted to record my narration of our drive while he shot the scenery. I gave a famous rock star a windshield tour of D.C. — and didn’t know who she was 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The narration ended with the ringing of a bell. At the Phillips Collection, viewing art through mindful meditation Questioning notions of cultural identity balanced by swerving, shifting melodies that occasionally take time to echo and harmonize with its spoken-word narration, "Identities Are Changeble" should reveal even more nuances here. Jazz picks: Miguel Zenon, Pharoah Sanders and more 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Barton points out several items of interest and peppers the outing with fun factoids — and all three captains are happy to answer questions — but there’s no continuous flow of narration. Long for a quick-hit cruise? Day-sail out of Annapolis on a 74-foot schooner. 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z In person, Mr. Herzog seems extraordinarily earnest about everything he does and speaks with the same odd mixture of flat tone and colorful, dramatic locutions that characterizes the narration of his documentaries. Prehistoric Cave With a Hornet on the Wall 2011-04-23T23:31:38Z They called for ketchup like my lungs call for air, like a cat mews for milk, like my Absolute Best Tests narration calls for human company and/or psychiatric intervention. The absolute best way to cook potatoes, according to so many tests 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Then there's the writing, alternating between Four and Seven: split perspectives is my very favourite kind of narration! The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore - review 2012-07-27T08:00:00Z The novel is framed by a chorus of the dead, each chapter introduced with their eerie narration. Quan Barry's 'She Weeps' listens to the stories of Vietnam's dead 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z But unlike most of the great deadpan comics, he stays off camera, telling his stories through narration, interviews with strangers and carefully curated scenes of New York. The Most Adventurous Comedy Right Now Is Also the Most Real 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Which bring us to the second misfire, demonstrated by Charles’s interviewing technique and narration, which deflates the all-too-popular notion of comedians being better truth tellers than journalists these days. The perils of "dangerous" comedy, or what makes a notorious warlord laugh? 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Get the right narration, and it becomes a key part of a television "brand". TV voiceovers 2010-03-25T15:43:00Z It’s no coincidence that one character mentions Italo Calvino’s masterpiece “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler,” with its intoxicating tag-team narration. ‘The Anomaly,’ Part Airplane Thriller and Part Exploration of Reality, Fate and Free Will 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Buoyed by Christopher Plummer’s velvety narration, the movie follows a lone Alpine shepherd as he plants thousands of acorns, his industry finally rewarded by a forest that transforms his desolate surroundings. ‘Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: A Mix of Whimsy and Dread 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The “X-Files” star’s first work, “Holy Cow,” was a wry magical realist story told through the first-person narration of a bovine on an upstate New York dairy farm. David Duchovny’s hilarious new novel hits a home run 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z That this slippery narration — a risky choice — not only propels the story forward but also resonates with the book’s themes of instability and skewed perception is a testament to Dragoman’s powers. Growing Up With a Revolution, and a Mystic Grandmother 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Its antic segments were often linked via narration by Mr. Owens, one of the very few performers to appear in all 140 episodes of the show. Gary Owens, Announcer on ‘Laugh-In,’ Dies at 80 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z It’s not only a fascinating journey into the case, but a look inside the strange world of the US justice system, supported throughout by fantastic production and narration. Can lessons from Watergate prepare us for Trump? – best podcasts of the week 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Speaking to the audience on Wednesday, Mr. Salonen shared his “internal narration” for this 38-minute piece, while inviting listeners to ignore it. New Concerto, New Leader: A Big Day at the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Faulkner uses stream-of-consciousness narration to suggest the way that Benjy's mind flows through time: memory, reality and emotion meet, shift, and kaleidoscopically recombine. Sarah Churchwell: rereading The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 2012-07-20T21:55:05Z The film, shown with narration alternating between Italian and English, relies on paintings, texts and photos to deliver a rather depressing crash course. In a prison that once housed Jews, a new museum devoted to Italy’s Jewish experience 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z As the pendulum of narration swings between where she finds herself in the present and her past, it becomes clear Clare is unhinged, wild. Review | The fantastic world of Laura van den Berg 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Most of these brevities play with point of view or whip up entertaining alternatives to standard narration. Review | The appeal of ‘And I Do Not Forgive You’ is hard to articulate but impossible to resist 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z That narration never promised that the investigators or prosecutors would do their jobs ethically. Why "Law & Order" has returned, even if you didn't ask for it 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Seemingly random vignettes of pedestrians, of wry graffiti, of urban minutiae play under Wilson’s narration, and suddenly what was a mess of roving is now a beautiful strand of yarn. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Sometimes I'd go from narration to narration without the visual cue. Phil Morris narrates Ken Burns-style 'Game of Thrones' Castle Black battle retelling 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z There's little music in "Babies," no narration and few title cards. The secret of "Babies'" success 2010-05-10T16:01:00Z “Best Boy” is an eventful novel with a mesmerizingly rhythmic narration and a little journey story thrown in. ‘Best Boy’ review: An unforgettable novel narrated by an adult with autism 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z “A group of Americans are determined to get their share of Greenland’s newly exposed treasure,” the introductory narration said. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Ultimate Survival: Alaska’ and ‘Ice Cold Gold’ 2013-05-10T21:41:17Z Petit, in the film’s narration, speaks of the “transformation,” the key moment, when preparation yields to action and the person becomes the artist. “The Walk” Falls Short of Artistry 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z It’s hard to find the urgency of solving the murders in Thompson’s narration or in the frequently subtitled interviews with Vietnamese-American community members. Following in “Serial”’s footsteps: A new documentary investigates murdered journalists, a possible government conspiracy, and delivers no conclusive answers 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z He didn’t want a scenario or spoken narration — just images and music, using pieces from his own recordings. A Pianist’s Warsaw: ‘Fascination and Pain’ 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z With toddlers, we do the same, holding up far more than our share of the conversational burden with a sort of narration designed, however unconsciously, to instruct, entertain and repeat key concepts. Motherlode Blog: Mothers Talk Less to Young Daughters About Math 2012-02-24T18:16:48Z But the key to this novel is that while the narration sometimes feels omniscient, the story is refracted through one particular lens: Dara’s. Megan Abbott’s Latest Crime Thriller Links Ballet and Sex 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z As in most of Mr. Glawogger’s films, the narration in “Megacities” is sparse; he said he wanted viewers to come to their own conclusions. Michael Glawogger, Austrian Filmmaker, Is Dead at 54 2014-04-25T04:23:03Z Burns then touted the celebrities he had recruited to provide narration for the film, including Paul Giamatti as Teddy Roosevelt, Edward Herrmann as Franklin Roosevelt and Meryl Streep as Eleanor Roosevelt. David Letterman's retirement plans: A Ken Burns doc? 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z But too often authors lack a natural gift for voice narration and aren’t trained in it. Review | Don’t let a bad reader ruin your audiobook experience. Here are recordings to savor — and to avoid. 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z "It was a good experience, but a stressful one," recalls Kristin of the show, which combined pre-recorded narration by Stephen Fry, live actors and a pop-up castle upon which was projected hundreds of images. Pulp fiction: bringing pop-up paper theatre to life 2013-07-03T14:45:45Z “Their expectations were at best uncertain,” the narration says. Movie Review: ‘Brother, Can You Spare a Dollar?’ by Thom Hoffman 2012-08-17T15:19:26Z Such passages are strangely segregated from Bud’s narration; a consistent voice might well have served this story better. In Molly Gloss’s “Falling From Horses,” a cowboy goes to Hollywood to play one Technically there is no narration, though extracts from interviews with Mr. Roach, heard in the background, often serve that purpose. Television Review: ?On Freddie Roach,? an HBO Documentary - Review 2012-01-19T23:31:23Z After some problem-solving, I landed on an optimal method: Let her narration accompany an activity, like chopping vegetables, stretching your stiff limbs, assembling a jigsaw puzzle. Some Personal News From Samantha Irby 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z As Nicole’s strangely poetic narration steers us through countless towns and grim interludes at diners, motels and rest stops, the show takes on a quality that’s alternately dreamlike and nightmarish. 6 Podcasts for the Drama Lover 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Tom Parker, who supplies voice-over narration and is played by Tom Hanks with a mountain of prosthetic goo, a bizarre accent and a yes-it’s-really-me twinkle in his eyes. ‘Elvis’ Review: Shocking the King Back to Life 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z When Penguin Press published “Inherent Vice” last year, the reclusive Thomas Pynchon did a trailer voiceover, writing the script and recording the narration in his rarely heard, rather compelling, Jeff Bridgesian voice. Cultural Studies: Missed the Author?s Tour? See the Video 2010-07-09T18:01:00Z Supplying the film’s narration, a few hardy residents lament the status quo, remonstrate against the powerful and reminisce on the city’s glory days. Movie Review: ‘Detropia,’ Documentary About Detroit 2012-09-06T23:55:35Z As Patrick Stewart’s mellifluous opening narration informs us, magic has not entirely vanished from the world. Pick of the week: Mark Wahlberg and his foulmouthed teddy bear 2012-06-29T00:00:00Z What is funny, though, is Michael's ridiculously flat narration, popping up to explain the obvious. TV highlights 01/07/2013 2013-07-01T06:00:09Z The cartoons were presented with narration in Russian. Music in Review: BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC 2011-11-04T22:27:51Z Some submissions are short essays read aloud by listeners, while others are longer stories with narration and interviews. Are you listening? 8 Seattle-area podcasters share origins, advice 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Through archival footage and vivid narration, Sheldon notes how the discovery of the precious black rock led to an economic boom that inspired a vibrant middle class in the 20th century, born from labor struggle. ‘King Coal’ Review: Heavy Is the Crown 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z The tone of the narration is so wrenchingly honest that the film never lapses into self-pity or relies on mystical platitudes. Review: ‘Notes on Blindness’ Is John Hull’s Trip From Darkness to Light 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Billed as a chamber opera, the work, which features a spoken narration, straddles the boundary between musical theater and opera. Review: In ‘The Astronaut’s Tale,’ a Farm Boy Dreams of Flying to Mars 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z When the camera is on, Gentzler usually sticks to the script; Vance takes delight in what he calls “running” or “dancing” — ignoring what’s on the teleprompter and making up his own narration. Jim & Doreen: NBC4’s top-rated anchors are still leading the pack after 25 years Its narration includes lines like, “They were thrown together by the cosmos to compete.” Television Review | 'Magic & Bird': Still Going One on One and Giving No Ground 2010-03-05T23:35:00Z Voiceovers can often be seen as a crutch in films, but here, Richard's narration enhances the story — especially when he has flights of fancy about how things played out. "I believe him": Jesse Garcia on playing the man who invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos – or did he? 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z There are no interviews or narration, but it does have an arc. Short docs, big Oscar hopes: "A Night at the Garden," "My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes" and "Los Comandos" 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Holding the whole shebang together is Ron Howard's dry narration. Arrested Development season four: the return of the greatest sitcom ever 2013-05-20T16:13:33Z Like many Brecht plays, “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” can wear you down with its sometimes laborious storytelling and narration. Theater Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle,’ at Classic Stage Company 2013-05-31T02:00:01Z This latter tends to use words as narration and the dancers as props, rather than storytellers. Lost in translation: does dancing to words work? 2011-04-06T15:58:31Z It sounds like just another B-movie, but the opening narration takes it somewhere else. The Outer Limits: box set review 2013-03-08T08:00:02Z The structure is reminiscent of the early “House” episode “Three Stories” in the way our characters fudge the narration of their own histories. What You Should Watch Each Day This Week: ‘The Detour’ and ‘Lady Dynamite’ 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Filmed over one year, it uses narration from Prodger’s diary as well as book extracts, looking at history and identity. Artist Charlotte Prodger wins Britain's Turner Prize with video... 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z But questions of content and narration get much more attention than recent sales trends. Audiobooks were set to destroy books — but instead, they opened a new world 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z As Whelan spoke, her tone shifted from conversational to controlled, from chatty to narration. That Voice You’re Hearing? It Might Be Hers. 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z THE PART: Stritch remembered the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, a crucial architect of the new, spectacular mega-musicals, talking to her about a narration role. Love Elaine Stritch? Thank the Parts She Didn’t Get 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z True, some of the additional time is eaten up by Laurents himself, reading unnecessary narration. Attend the Tale of ‘Anyone Can Whistle,’ Then and Now 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z My own kids grew up on Benjamin Soames’s soft-spoken but powerful narrations of the Norse and Greek legends. These small presses can help you think big about summer reading 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z In addition to a Q&A, Michael Zahs will present a 10-minute selection of silent shorts with live narration after each screening. How did some of cinema's greatest films end up in an Iowa shed? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The narration is as crucial in conveying the mood of Ottinger’s story as the film’s unhurried pace is. ‘Paris Calligrammes’ Review: Recalling the 1960s With Fondness and Passion 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z The narration is listless until it turns furious and then it collapses, lost and weary. A New Novel Stars the Dupes, Villains and Victims of America’s Forever War 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z As the filmmaker tells her daughter in her spare, simple voiceover narration, when she first left home to attend university in Aleppo, her parents warned her to be careful, calling her headstrong. Frontline's "For Sama" does its part to close the immigration empathy gap 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Her narration doesn’t use an “Ooh—sex is around the corner!” tone. The Audio App That’s Transforming Erotica 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Then there’s the narration, delivered in urgent, ominous tones. ‘Urban Jungle,’ on National Geographic Channel 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z This Formula One show was more workmanlike: a descriptive narration of the outfits, as in old fashioned couture shows. Milan Designers Fusing Sporty and Formal 2012-01-16T18:52:22Z Both narrations are hollow, an accusation I'd level at much of the rest of the book. Rereading Stephen King: week 15 – Christine 2013-01-30T14:40:59Z I use narration a lot because it can allow magic without the actors having to come in and out of roles. The best performance I've ever seen: Emma Rice 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z “Weathered though it is,” he says in narration, “my famous face gets me access to places and people I may otherwise not have known.” ‘Superpower’ Review: Sean Penn Chronicles the War in Ukraine 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z The show uses narration from academics along with the actors recreating certain scenes. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Katrina Babies’ and the MTV Video Music Awards 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z The concerts are likely to include some narration between songs, but Kohler suggests that the program will not be “a history lesson.” Indigenous art at Australian embassy showcases fluidity of form In person, he reminded me of many eras of himself: the homespun earnestness of Richie Cunningham; the wise tone of his narration on “Arrested Development”; some small hint of Winthrop, in “The Music Man.” To Mars, Not a Moment Too Soon 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Scattershot segments visit cheesy attractions that signal desperation on the part of field producers, and Mr. Bourdain’s narration turns both jokey and sentimental as he strains to compensate. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations,’ the Final Season 2012-09-02T21:59:41Z Her films were close to oral history: Eschewing voice-over narration, they were predicated on interviews in which her mainly working-class subjects spoke for themselves. Julia Reichert, Documentarian of the Working Class, Dies at 76 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z In narration, Green’s son says he’s telling the story “the only way I know how.” ‘Emperor’ Review: A Once-Enslaved Man Has a Date With Destiny 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Lacking narration or dialogue, the film simply follows this self-appointed savior, as packs of startlingly beautiful dogs greet him with unanticipated affection. Animal Lovers, Rejoice: The NY Cat and Dog Film Festivals Return 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z She added, “I think in the weird narration of our world of entertainment, there are these central figures who are in their 20s and 30s.” Making Room on the Big Screen for a Woman Over 50 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z For Roth, narration and self seem to have been born together; and, therefore, must die together, too. My hero: Philip Roth by James Wood 2013-03-22T16:00:06Z More than just a gimmick, the extra dimension in "Goodbye to Language" serves the film's larger themes, stacking image against image while the narration and dialogue pit idea against idea. Home entertainment: 'Maps to the Stars' is a showbiz psychodrama 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z “Despite their size, some of these nuclear weapons were more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima,” the narration says, and the SEALs were trained to carry them. Networks Salute Veterans Day With Contemporary Shows 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z But Christopher Smith’s book with Arthur Giron — and Smith’s power-ballad songs — are leaden from the opening narration that declares: “I was there. It’s a story that has to be told.” Review | ‘Amazing Grace’ lumbers into the new Museum of the Bible 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Her narration, she said, was meant to be ironic and self-mocking — “I find it very funny, almost obtuse.” Cultural Studies: Retreat of the ?Tiger Mother? 2011-01-14T23:39:11Z While I’m usually skeptical that present-tense narration increases the “immediacy” of a story, in this case, it really does work, particularly in the sections concerning the monster. Megaphone by Natalie Bakopoulos 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z His melancholy voice-over narration early on is a letter to her. Movie Review: Liam Neeson in Joe Carnahan?s Thriller ?The Grey? 2012-01-26T22:19:02Z Sammy’s narration acknowledges the Lenape tribe, who once lived on the land now occupied by New York City, and suggests that one day it will all be underwater. ‘Let’s Call Her Patty’ Review: Unseen Depths of an Uptown Matriarch 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Herzog brings the beauty and provides the on-and-off narration, the probing questions and the occasional glint of characteristic deadpan comedy, but he also relies on Mr. Oppenheimer as an on-camera interpreter. Review: ‘Into the Inferno,’ Staring Down the Terrors of Nature 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Tyson reads the introduction to her book, pausing to chuckle at her own anecdotes, before turning the narration over to the brilliant Robin Miles. Lenny Kravitz, Michael J. Fox, Cicely Tyson and Gabriel Byrne — All in Their Own Words 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z The only possibility for altering or widening the religious narration of American life — “shining city on a hill” — is through competition from an alternative story. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Yes, the brute force of totalitarianism is an inextricable theme, but the novel’s narration — with its texts within texts — also enacts its own phantasmagoria, a world where both everything is true and nothing is true. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Or, to be more precise, the voice of his son Jack, who delivers the documentary’s first-person narration. Cannes Film Festival: ‘Val,’ ‘The Velvet Underground’ and Famous Jerks 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Remarkably, his beatific innocence remains intact, as does the lightheartedness of the narration. On Being Young, Gay and Addicted in the 1970s 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z This entails a somewhat stilted narration that introduces us, as if for the first time, to things like haiku and “The Tale of Genji.” | 'Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo': In Japan, the Children Are Buying Bugs 2010-05-11T22:10:00Z With his customary sweep and detail, and without narration or the usual documentary prompts, Wiseman explores these exchanges throughout the building, witnessing a wedding in Room 213 and scanning the transaction windows elsewhere. ‘City Hall’ Review: Frederick Wiseman, for the People 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Suvari’s Catherine is so extravagantly monstrous that Mr. Huston’s David, who provides a desultory narration, comes across as an inert nonentity. | 'Hemingway?s Garden of Eden': In the South of France, a 1927 M?nage ? Trois Takes an Incendiary Turn 2010-12-09T23:38:00Z “There is the idea of a Patrick Bateman,” he says in the early in the narration, “some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory.” American Psycho at 20: a vicious satire that remains as sharp as ever 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Her narrations of her encounters with people are tender, and her prose becomes marked by rare stillness. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Scott, it “shows signs of Martel’s influence in its blend of oblique narration and subtle psychological insight,” but also demonstrates Alché’s own “arresting visual sensibility.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘America’s Got Talent’ and ‘Ashley Garcia’ 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z His rote delivery paled in comparison to Jean Shepherd's sardonic off-camera narration. Review: ‘A Christmas Story Live!’ Wasn’t Lively Enough 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The host is Bill Kurtis, the veteran TV newsman whose authoritative pipes are now known for the narration in “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.” Where classic TV reigns: multicast networks 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Places, actions, and emotions will be evoked by speech and movement alone here, without any of the description or narration of a novel. Bringing “Wolf Hall” to the Stage 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z As with those characters, Tell’s unease is first telegraphed by the careful restraint you hear in his sepulchral narration, in the even tones he uses to deliver both dramatic and quotidian information. ‘The Card Counter’ Review: A Gambler’s Existential Solitaire 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Finally, the narration was written by Michael Herr, author of the book Dispatches. Apocalypse Now: Archive review 2010-10-19T10:54:00Z We rarely hear the questions Faye asks to evoke these narrations, but clearly she is a subtle and superhuman interviewer. With ‘Kudos,’ Rachel Cusk Completes an Exceptional Trilogy 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z This is, Peck explains in his forceful narration, a story of greed and power; land, labor, and enslavement; and most notably, white supremacy. HBO's doc "Exterminate All the Brutes" asks: "When was American great — and who was it great for?" 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z For the most part, though, because she doesn’t use narration or scrolls of text, she expresses Diego’s story — its horrors, absurdity and her attitude toward each — through her limpid visual choices and the performances. Review: In ‘Zama,’ Trying to Say Goodbye (Cruel) New World 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The glasses also support audio amplification for those who are hard of hearing and descriptive narration for people who are visually impaired. Glasses show captions for deaf, hard of hearing 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Ninety-eight percent of the films that rely heavily on voice-over narration are just failures of exposition. Tom Ford, Ben Mankiewicz and a Fashion-Film Vortex 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z The narration is framed as a letter from Cousins to Welles. ‘The Eyes of Orson Welles’ Review: An Idiosyncratic Look at an Enigmatic Master 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Earlier, the fine-grained narration of lived life occasionally blossomed into ruminations on art, literature, music and life. What’s More Appealing: Eight Seasons of ‘Suits’ or Six Volumes of Karl Ove Knausgaard? 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z 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 And Bernstein was emboldened to revisit the score over time, adding music, lyrics and narration for productions at venues around the world. Theater preview: The fall and rise of 'Candide' 2010-05-20T20:13:00Z The novel uses creative structural tactics that break up Arc’s narration. Two Novels Confront Violence Against Women 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Beginning on Dec. 6, 1941, and unfolding in 23 days of real-time narration, “Perfidia” is a murder mystery, a subversive historical novel, and a dark meditation on power, politics, race and justice. James Ellroy’s ‘Perfidia’: dark doings on the eve of WWII 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z His inebriated narration for the Comedy Central series lends a greater appreciation for his performance as the guests at Doug’s birthday party, which is set in a hidden room in a Los Angeles wine bar. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z “Teenage” is comprised entirely of archival footage and pictures, with narration read by actors Jena Malone and Ben Whishaw, among others. ‘Teenage’: Meandering look at 20th-century youth can get old 2014-05-08T19:56:59Z The novel smoothly segues between adult Paloma’s narration in the present and her 12-year-old self recounting her life at the Little Miracles Girls’ Home in Sri Lanka. Review | ‘My Sweet Girl’ pushes the boundaries of what a thriller can do 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Her narration is gauzy yet skeptical, with dips into pop culture. Ghosts of Old Hollywood, as a Podcast 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z “G-force simply means gravity force,” a helpful narration explains. Travel Channel’s ‘Xtreme Waterparks’ and ‘Insane Coaster Wars’ 2012-07-03T12:00:14Z Throughout, the narration, however well-intentioned or genuine, can feel precious. The Mystery of the Inconclusive Podcast 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Stroman directs a sensual and emotional tale expressed less through dialogue than through narration, dance and music. Susan Stroman is back, this time waltzing with 'The Beast in the Jungle' 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z From there it was scintillating layers of interview and Snow's lively narration. Radio review: Random Edition 2011-04-12T06:59:00Z Act 1 briskly traces a career history, going back to Beyoncé’s childhood, with hit medleys, crisp choreography and a scripted narration. Music: New Concert DVDs From Beyonc? and Adele 2011-11-27T05:03:07Z The album also features narration from the “Saturday Night Live” star Bill Hader and liner notes by Bob Zmuda, who was Kaufman’s frequent collaborator and partner in crime. ArtsBeat: Album of Unreleased Andy Kaufman Material Coming in July 2013-05-10T12:25:06Z What is distinctive in a novel is the use of first-person narration. Small Island by Andrea Levy 2011-01-08T00:08:00Z Rather than use narration, Begleiter lets the artist tell her own story — excerpting pieces of interview transcripts, letters and diaries. Groundbreaking sculptor Eva Hesse finally gets a documentary that tells the story of her life and work 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z With mythologically named characters sometimes voicing their stage directions and inner narration, the plays seemed mannered, and the productions felt groomed to slickness. Review | ‘Moonlight’ writer McCraney’s writing still glows in ‘The Brothers Size’ 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z “Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray,” she says in the closing narration. ‘Westworld’ Series Premiere: Life Finds a Way 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z The god-like Mother of the film’s second-person narration evokes the inclination to humanize nature, to treat nature itself as a conscious being. Terrence Malick’s Metaphysical Journey Into Nature 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z This, too, is recounted calmly, almost clinically, with a mix of internal narration and external description. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z A multimedia immersion into the world of artisans and others involved in the moments between Bach’s musical inspiration and realization, the Toronto-based Tafelmusik’s “Circle” marries live music, narration, video and still images. Multimedia Tafelmusik concert immerses audience in Bach’s creative cycle 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Well, the queasy, robot-voiced narration that blights this documentary, for starters. BBC Proms: Jamie Cullum Night 2010-08-27T05:45:00Z True, the narration that bookends the show includes gabbled allusions to Chekhov’s life: apparently there are some incidental connections between him and a Russian baron in Lugano, Switzerland, whence hails Mr. Finzi Pasca. Theater Review: ‘Donka: A Letter to Chekhov,’ by Daniele Finzi Pasca, at BAM 2012-11-16T22:50:08Z So, sadly, if the narration is subpar, I will most likely never even finish listening to the book. On the Page and Out Loud, Two Actors Recount Very Different Paths 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z As the narration puts it, “When we create a world better than the wilderness, the wild is sure to move in, whether we like it or not.” ‘Urban Jungle,’ on National Geographic Channel 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Both help you imagine the world of the Caesars, as colorful images are projected on ancient walls, columns and porticos while English narration brings the story to life. What’s new in Italy for 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z That sentence ends Part I; in Part II, narration from Briseis alternates with chapters from the perspective of Achilles, as he moves toward his fateful fight with Hector of Troy. Review | Revisiting ‘The Iliad’ from the women’s perspective 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z The central figure tells his or her story, the narration accompanied by re-enactments. Review: MTV’s ‘One Bad Choice,’ Cautionary Tales of Growing Up 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z This also happens to the part of the "Colin in Black and White" that works best, especially once Kaepernick pulls back on his insistent narration of his teenage version's inner thoughts. Netflix's new Colin Kaepernick series is as ambitious but not quite as successful as its subject 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z This is an artful text: an intricate mosaic of shifting viewpoints, black-and-white photographs and fragmented, unreliable narration. If You Lived Here, You’d Be in Hell by Now 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z What she did was not a performance of comedy so much as a narration of the experience of someone performing comedy. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The writing’s as smooth as good whiskey, the plot is satisfyingly twisty, and the narration perfectly captures Marlowe’s bone-weary sadness and tattered nobility. New in crime fiction: tales from Wales, Los Angeles and Cairo 2014-03-10T07:02:36Z Naomi Lewin, an announcer from WQXR, provided a detailed narration that described the missing choruses and the staging, down to the lighting details. Music Review: ‘Mrs. President’ Opera Has Preview at Symphony Space 2012-07-10T22:20:10Z Although there are bits and pieces of famous speeches here and there, there’s a lot more jokey narration and confiding asides. | 'Nearly Lear': An Answer to a Crying Need: ?King Lear? for Children 2011-01-10T23:30:23Z Johannes was asked to write and read the narration, telling the story of his life and career so far. Heartbreak leads Alain Johannes to 'Fragments and Wholes' 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Tretheway’s narration is elegiac in remembering her mother — and steely as she reads the chilling transcripts of her mother’s telephone conversations with her killer. Best audiobooks of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z But the film’s voiceover narration got in the way of what is a pretty good story. TIME?s Second Annual Oscar Endurance Test?Two Days, Nine Nominees, One Movie Theater: Part II 2012-02-26T18:44:03Z Mythological narration, expressive mime and pure dance all took their turn as part of their “Durga Taranga.” Dance Review: Indian Dance at Downtown Dance Festival 2012-08-19T21:57:53Z Energized by neither music nor narration, and without the essential urgency of facts and figures, the result is a series of finely polished but relentlessly dull snapshots lapped by rising tides and melting permafrost. | 'Beautiful Islands': Floating Away 2010-07-01T22:56:00Z Everything about their narration hints at a tragic event in which they are all, to one degree or another, implicated. Review: ‘Fives and Twenty-fives,’ by Michael Pitre, a tale of dangerous duty in Iraq This week’s movie, “African Cats,” centers on cheetahs, lions and their young on the Kenyan savannah, with narration by a human who’s a pretty cool cat himself: Samuel L. Jackson. Spare Times for Children Listings for Sept. 30-Oct. 6 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Several companies offer these trips, almost all with narration in English available, and there is usually a boat of one sort or another leaving every few minutes from the Beestenmarkt. On the Pilgrims? Path Through England and the Netherlands 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z The narration comes off as a needless, distracting device — an attempt at distancing. A Guide to Enjoying the Final Stretch of the New York Film Festival 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z “Babies are being born all over the world pre-polluted,” Sean Penn’s creamy narration tells us, joining the men who show up now and then to lend authority to the wealth of moving anecdotal evidence. Review: In ‘The Human Experiment,’ We’re the Unwitting Guinea Pigs 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z There’s not narration and not much in the way of formal interviews. ‘The French’ Review: A Candid Look at the French Open 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s probably inevitable that a book that critiques the linear model of time will also be ambivalent about both the act of writing itself and the clicking rosary that is narration. Ben Ehrenreich’s Dispatches From the Beginning and End of the World 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z When they were first published during the 1960s and the 1970s, these novels were using a form of narration that was still rare and felt experimental. A history of the present 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z The movie takes a detour from the “Paranormal” franchise and tells its story using more third-person narration. ArtsBeat: What Scares Oren Peli? 2012-05-25T19:16:26Z Though the film proposes to be about silence, it is packed with incessant talking heads, voice-over narration and music. Movie Review: ‘Thomas Keating’ Follows a Life From Affluent to Austere 2014-04-10T23:23:52Z Miller’s narration expands in chapters to characters in the marriage’s orbit. Review | Sue Miller’s ‘Monogamy’ interrogates what it means to be faithful over the course of a long marriage 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Rather than narration being used to tie each episode into a neat bow at the end, it is there to complicate matters. You talkin' to me?: how TV narration got personal 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z “The Fairy Queen” skirts the principal action of “The Tempest,” throwing minor characters into relief, so a narration is useful, and the actress Antonia Christophers, Mr. Christophers’s daughter, made a fine, sassy job of it. A Weekend Can Span Centuries at Tanglewood 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z The field has become increasingly mindful of how narration choices can come across, he said. As Audiobook Market Grows, Narrators of Color Find Their Voice 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z The time between entering the arena and having my name called felt like 30 years with lackluster narration. Make graduations less boring, please! 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z His male characters mess up, in small and spectacular fashion, but their misdeeds often prompt our sympathy, thanks to Ferris’s insightful narration. Review | Men behaving badly: ‘The Dinner Party,’ darkly comic stories by Joshua Ferris 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Decisions that are logistical — keeping audience members in their cars; providing context through poetic narration by Marsha Music; reducing Wagnerian grandeur to a handful of players — are also fitting. Think Outside the Opera House, and Inside the Parking Garage 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Milius wrote the first drafts of the screenplay; former war correspondent Michael Herr later added narration. Apocalypse Now: No 1 2010-10-19T10:54:00Z At unexpected moments, the narration shifts briefly into the second person, placing us right in Pete’s life. ‘Fourth of July Creek,’ by Smith Henderson The narration becomes especially confusing when characters quote each other, and when Mr. Rodriguez occasionally flubs his lines. Theater Review: ?Growing Up Gonzales? at the Jan Hus Playhouse 2012-02-09T23:46:39Z He dispatches the general narration slowly enough but does so in an urgent, news-bearer’s voice that is in perfect accord with the novel’s feeling of unstoppable momentum. A buffet of darker themes, skillfully served as audiobooks Thankfully, though – and as ever with a Davis novel – the narration of these horrors is done so delightfully that the final impression is curiously warm and uplifting. The Ides of April by Lindsey Davis – review 2013-05-09T08:01:01Z West himself emphasized in his euphonious narration that the “music goes hand in hand with the politics.” Cornel West: “Donald Trump is a horror many of us can’t wrap our minds around” 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Viceland’s shows adhere to the media company’s reliance on naivete as both a means of reporting and narration. The new Viceland channel perfects the modern journalistic art of playing dumb 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z British actor David Sibley handles most of the narration, which involves the complex relations between the members of three families and survival and death in the theater of war. Best audiobooks of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Recovery isn’t a linear path of progress — it entails the kind of avoidance and dodging and backward steps that Jo uses in her narration. The #MeToo Movement Gets Its Novel 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z It is impossible to imagine “Our Town” without the stage manager, or “The Glass Menagerie” without the tortured narration of Tom. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Stop Talking To Me 2010-10-21T17:37:00Z The film was presented in 3D and featured narration from real war veterans. Peter Jackson turned down "Aquaman," next film won’t happen for another "year or two" 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z While Cole's search for the mystery woman unfolds, Goodwillie takes us into the dark world of a band of domestic terrorists, switching from Aidan's narration to that of the mystery woman, Paige. 'American Subversive': A suspenseful novel of domestic terrorism 2010-05-12T23:21:00Z The second volume of Dos Passos's USA trilogy combines history, fictional biography and stream of consciousness narration to try to fit modern America into one book. John Mullan's 10 of the best: dates in titles 2012-06-01T21:55:10Z The mix of narration and dialogue makes for clear, efficient storytelling, conjuring mind-sets and conveying forward motion. ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ Review: A Not-So-Subtle Slide Into Autocracy 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Fixing the show meant rebalancing it, making the narration strong enough — and candid enough — to stand alongside the Shakespeare. Using Shakespeare to Ease the Trauma of War 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z One of the strengths of Shlaes’s book is her narration of the broader context in which the Great Society programs were created. An Argument That Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society Wasn’t So Great 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Chaplin himself gave “The Gold Rush” an “Artist”-like makeover in 1942, when he reissued the film in a shortened version with music, sound effects and his own plummy, voice-over narration. DVD: Charlie Chaplin in ‘The Gold Rush,’ Remastered 2012-06-22T16:00:00Z This surreal concert film is as straightforward as it gets, delivering performance after performance without narration, context, or any of that messy getting-to-know-the-band stuff. 25 great rockumentaries every music (and movie) fan should see 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z The opening of the “Further Adventures,” complete with sound effects, included the heavy-handed narration: “Out of the fog, into the smog, relentlessly, ruthlessly, doggedly.” Phil Austin, co-founder of comedy group Firesign Theatre, dies at 74 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z The third-person narration turns into a monologue from a secondary character, which morphs into a memoir in the form of letters from a third character. In ‘Carnality,’ a Wild Ride Fueled by Rash Decisions 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Her narration combines biblical cadence with ready clichés. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 2013-05-03T17:41:01Z It's an intimate and captivating portrait of what is actually a tough existence for the bears, though the eager Billy Connolly narration and soaring music score tend to grate. TV highlights: 24/4/2013 2013-04-24T06:00:00Z Mr Robot is not the only show that uses narration to draw the audience in. You talkin' to me?: how TV narration got personal 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Still more perplexing was the po-faced narration by Juliet Stevenson, whose voice is more suited to, say, an unflinching exposé of animal vivisection. Rewind TV: Last Tango in Halifax; Homeland; The Aristocrats: Blenheim Palace; Gadget Man; Supersized Earth – review 2012-11-25T00:05:39Z In his new film’s opening narration, Gotti grumbles that a made man can only end his life dead or in jail. Gotti, Escobar, Manson: Hollywood's problem with real-life criminals 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z This is also a movie that depends on narration. For Your Reconsideration: Supporting Whom Exactly? 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The first-person narration is so constricted as to choke out any possibility for reflection, irony or insight. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z As the story of the group plunges forward, the narration constantly slips off onto the private paths of their individual lives. Review | In David Mitchell’s splendid ‘Utopia Avenue,’ a ’60s rock band finds its groove 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Stepping out of character after singing the opening song, Mr. Newman provided a bit of narration. ‘Randy Newman’s Faust,’ With the Composer On Hand 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Gypsy’s quippy narration will sashay its way into the reader’s heart. Vintage crime reprints: mysterious tales that never die 2013-06-05T22:27:56Z Its distinctive structural style, with narration that weaves in and out of flashback, is intriguing, and strong performances, especially from Ms. Debicki and Ms. Nélisse, bolster moments of overly pat dialogue. Speak, Memory: The Haunting Memoir of ‘The Tale’ 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z First up is Mark Bramhall, an American with a melodic, woodwind voice who executes a fine East-European accent, easing out of it for general narration. Best audiobooks of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z As Chang grows up, her narration and English also mature. 'Girl in Translation': Debut novel is an immigrant's tale 2010-04-28T23:51:00Z Looking natty in a three-piece suit, Henley lightly drawls Capote’s narration — the popular adaptation is by Russell Vandenbroucke — sharply delivering the writer’s vivid descriptions and wryly enjoying the literary handiwork. Truman Capote done right in ‘Holiday Memories’ 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The cliché-heavy narration Mr. Dance is saddled with is full of references to defending the border and military-style strategy worthy of MacArthur. Where the Wild Things (and Narrators) Are, on Television 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Christina Moore reads the book in a warm, engaging, mid-American voice and is notably deft and unobtrusive in altering the cadence of her delivery in distinguishing between general narration and quoted passages. Review | Joe Biden’s memoir is among the best new audiobooks of December 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Although the patient's narration must dominate, the analyst can steer, probe, wonder and interpret, while he or she maintains a thoughtful, sympathetic professional distance. Siri Hustvedt on the psychoanalyst in fiction 2012-06-08T21:55:19Z Her narration is peppered with astute observations and authoritative takedowns, creating a curious distance between herself and her activities; she’s a woman who gets the job done while doing what she must to survive. Cunning, Damaged and Deranged: The Latest Thrillers by Women 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z But the shifts between first-person narration, film transcripts and letters addressed to her mother cause the book to buckle somewhat under the weight of its own confusions. New Memoirs Try to Get the Balance Right 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z The portentous narration begins soon after Dan Rather delivers a windy recorded video message to start “Bikeman: A 9/11 Play,” a docudrama by Thomas F. Flynn that recounts his experiences on Sept. Theater Review: ‘Bikeman: A 9/11 Play,’ on a Journalist’s Sept. 11 Experience 2014-02-20T23:38:15Z Michael Mellamphy is affable enough as Tim, like a regular about town, but he’s neither as charming nor as menacing as his narration would have us believe. ‘The Smuggler’ Review: A Barman’s Rambling Yarn 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z After the models are created, small metal sensors are added to trigger narrations about the work and the figures within which they’re set. Different ways to show paintings, photos to blind people 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Telling me this, he provided narration as if it were happening again. César Aira’s Infinite Footnote to Borges 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z "Paula, whose prose is quite spare but never feels `minimal' or skeletal at all, shows us that all so-called minimalism is good old-fashioned carefulness in narration." Paula Fox looks back on a wayward life 2011-05-05T10:32:09Z In spectral, delicately comic videos, often with hushed narration and ambient sound, she explores mortality, mental illness, humans’ obligation to animals, and the role of women in Thai society. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Nor are there scripted videos to break up the game and explain the story, although there is some spoken narration. Video Game Review: In Gone Home, a Family Mystery Unfolds 2013-08-18T22:04:16Z His drug-duped mind gradually pulls the narration further away from reality, leaving more questions asked than answered. Freefall 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The narration isn't too snide, although they do drop the clanger "stiff competition", but that may have been accidental, and it's nice to see a show that doesn't demonise teens. Teen Undertaker 2010-08-20T05:45:00Z Courtney’s first-person narration of the opening section sets the novel’s tone, foregrounding his concerns as a young black man being raised by a widowed mother in a mostly conservative Southern town. Y.A. Novels That Explore Love in Many Forms 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z As this unfolds, Shori looks to satisfy her hunger for blood in scenes that, in narration, are vivid and disturbing. Listen at Your Own Peril: 3 Chilling Audiobooks for Halloween 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z His narration does not so much recall events as re-enact them. Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-05-25T21:54:02Z Would it have worked without Jean Shepherd’s narration? Authors weigh in on their favorite page-to-screen adaptations 2013-05-09T19:21:16Z Incredible footage of chimps in the wild clashes with Tim Allen's child-friendly narration, making for a Disney doc that plays more like a Disney cartoon. I'm So Excited, The Eye Of The Storm, Gimme The Loot: what to see at the cinema this week 2013-05-04T05:00:12Z Much like her mother’s new voice that compels her so, Lucy’s narration takes on the same compression, the same urgency. Elizabeth Strout’s ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’ review 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z The shapes and patterns of Ellis’s art, combined with the tenor of Barnett’s narration, give this book an air of mystery, whatever love is or isn’t. New Picture Books Pose Two of Life’s Biggest Questions 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z These electric observations are all too infrequent, however, and they can’t enliven a narration that always returns to characters parroting their few key points. A New Novel Stars the Dupes, Villains and Victims of America’s Forever War 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Marcus sees it also in E. B. White, whose narration of “Charlotte’s Web” can be sampled here. Exhibition Review: Public Library’s ‘ABC of It’ Looks at Children’s Books 2013-06-20T22:19:09Z In narration, Mr. Clapton talks of being practically mesmerized by music by African-American musicians he heard on the radio as a child. Review: ‘Eric Clapton: A Life in 12 Bars,’ of Triumphs and Tragedies 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z While Patty’s unreliable narration about her propensity to eat too much and murder becomes old hat after a while, Bob’s insatiable longings are actually pretty thrilling. Insatiable: has Netflix's controversial 'fat-shaming' show fixed itself? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z At first his pace is hesitant, tripping over the sentences, just as anyone might if they were reading fresh words out loud for the first time, especially if you're grappling with Fitzgerald's baroque narration. Stage Marathon: Is Seven Hours of The Great Gatsby Too Much? 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z “Stay Free: The Story of The Clash” debuted earlier this year, with narration courtesy of Public Enemy vet Chuck D. Barack and Michelle Obama make new podcast deal with Spotify 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Voice-over narration in lieu of opening credits, complete with an elevator scene and a vaguely titled secret agency, beginning with the letter “S.” She’s got that red lip classic thing that you like, but “Agent Carter” needs more substance with her style 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Sweeping back and forth across the years, her narration shifts nimbly to reflect the tenor of the times — from the shared legends of tribal people to the candid realism of the modern era. Review | ‘The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Bay’s narration of all this is seamless, skillfully recounting the granular details while offering judicious glimpses of the bigger picture. ‘Traveling Black,’ a Look at the Civil Rights Movement in Motion 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Cave’s narration adds to this, as he talks about the special “feeling of a song before you understand it . . . the moment when the song is still in charge.” Nick Cave looks into his dark mind with ‘20,000 Days on Earth’ documentary The Glass device records sound, but Ms. von Furstenberg's narration and the music, which constitute much of the soundtrack, were professionally recorded. ArtsBeat: Watch List: How Film Might Look After Google's Glass Goggles 2012-09-13T17:00:08Z The problems are real, but their depiction is enhanced with gravelly narration by Mike Rowe, the host of “Dirty Jobs,” as well as tricked-out photography and music that suggests horror movies. Salt and Sweat, Blood and Guts, but No Girls! 2011-07-22T21:30:32Z Deliciously irreverent in its narration, silly and spooky throughout, and charmingly illustrated by Punch artist George Morrow, this neglected masterpiece remains as winning today as when it was first published in 1927. Review | Before Tolkien created hobbits, there were Snergs. And oh, how delightful they were! 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Sorkin reinforces the necessity of a towering Atticus by shifting the perspective away from his daughter, Scout, whose narration defines the voice of the novel and the 1962 movie version. Review | Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is here, and Jeff Daniels soars as Atticus Finch 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z It lays waste to linear narration, thematic coherence, psychological plausibility and just about everything else you might expect to encounter. Movie Review: ‘John Dies at the End,’ Directed by Don Coscarelli 2013-01-31T23:09:01Z There’s an elusiveness and obliqueness to Petrona’s narration, perhaps an acknowledgment of the difficulty of representing the voices of those who rarely get to speak for themselves in literary fiction. A Novel About Growing Up in the Middle of Death 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z His narration tends to be blunt: “It all added up to spinning wheels, but they were wheels that needed to be spun.” Review: John Grisham and Michael Connelly, Making Their Cases in New Novels 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Moments of melodrama and scenes of everyday life are stitched together by deliberately dry third-person narration. How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The Guardian report further details Harry's recollection of the incident, adding specific quotes and Harry's narration from the memoir. William "came at me": Harry details getting knocked down in violent attack by brother 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z His narration of Kurt Vonnegut’s classic 1969 novel completes more than a dozen volumes recorded by Audible Studios in association with the Vonnegut estate. And so it goes: James Franco narrates ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z That was true of the book as well, but narration works differently onstage than in prose. Review: In ‘Who Killed My Father,’ an Inquest and an Indictment 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps the musical’s primary problem is a surfeit of narration. | 'The Blue Flower': ?The Blue Flower? at Second Stage Theater - Review 2011-11-10T03:01:06Z When she strings the monologues together, she does not offer any narration or editorial frame, preferring to leave gaps for the audience to fill in, puzzling out why these voices, and why in this order. Anna Deavere Smith Contains Multitudes 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z “In Hollywood, we design by story, it’s all from a script — but this is not Brad Pitt, it’s brand narration.” Style: Next Step for Labels: Cyber-Boutiques 2011-09-05T13:01:05Z For this section of the music, Jones gave them an interior narration to work with: “It’s really just like ‘I hate the world, everything’s horrible, I’m going to be 14 and I’m miserable.’ Without Michael Bennett’s choreography, is it still ‘A Chorus Line’? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Bobby asked me to come in and he wanted me to do the narration. John Leguizamo Steps Up to the Plate for Dominican Ballplayers 2012-07-11T15:07:05Z Cue the overwrought narration: “After 3,300 years they are together again: King Tutankhamen’s family, reunited on the long journey to eternity.” Television Review | 'King Tut Unwrapped': CSI: Egypt, Complete With DNA Tests of Mummies 2010-02-19T22:46:00Z There’s often movie-thriller-style background music and lots of hushed narration about lost production, missed quota and hard-used machines giving up the ghost. Arts & Leisure Preview: Grab a Brew While They Face Death 2011-03-24T16:56:52Z Q. Voiceover narration is prevalent in this scene and in the movie, but this is the first film where you’ve used it. Yorgos Lanthimos Narrates a Scene From ‘The Lobster’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z In this series, the same velvety British tones deliver not just reverent narration but policy recommendations—some quite radical, like the proposal to protect a third of the Earth’s coastal waters as marine reserves. With the Netflix Series “Our Planet,” David Attenborough Delivers an Urgent Message 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z The political machinations of the carnivals are thrilling, and the narration lush and wild. Review | Best science fiction and fantasy books out this month 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Ash’s voice and perspective are the main driving forces of the book, and her narration — especially of action and anger — is riveting in its competence and bleak desperation. Visit These Science-Fiction Worlds to Make Sense of Our Own 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z What’s worse, julienning these disparate plots saps them of their natural drama, and no amount of grandiose narration can pump that tension back in. Review | Anthony Doerr’s ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ is a convoluted love letter to books 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z In his narration, addressed to his mother, Aïnouz is drawn to details that conjure the phantoms of his parents. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z She used a microphone that is amplified underwater so she could talk the swimmers through each number — they also hear the show’s soundtrack and narration — and remind them where they dropped their air hoses. The Last Mermaid Show 2013-07-05T13:25:59Z The disembodied voices of Michael and Ridgeley guide the whole thing — rumination and memory as narration. ‘Wham!’ Review: They Made It Big, Then Broke Up 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z The two went on an adventure around town, accompanied by a soft narration of their feelings toward each other. John Oliver: 'I’m in a public beef with an unsanctioned Japanese otter' 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Before beginning the narration of the woeful epic they have to share, they describe themselves as “love watchers, kiss clockers” for whom “love is at arm’s length.” Kneehigh Theater's ‘Tristan & Yseult’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z A trilogy of philosophical novels in which Capek dabbles in detective fiction and unreliable narration. In Praise of Karel Capek 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z It includes over-the-top narration and elements intended to appeal to the tech-savvy generation, like texting that appears on the TV screen. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Helps Raise CW’s Profile 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Before the first image appears, the movie warns you of its gimmick: The characters all communicate in sign language, with no subtitling or narration. 'The Tribe' an unusual, powerful look at criminality 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Hastily re-edited before its release, it was given a narration by Humphrey Bogart that turned its story about a band of lowlifes and thieves on the high seas into flashback. Humphrey Bogart in ‘Beat the Devil’ at Film Forum 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z I praised the considerable beauties of its instrumental music and set pieces but complained about the protracted recitatives, the “long, arid patches of spoken narration” and the “precious, self-indulgent libretto by Robert Gordon.” Julius Caesar, young and gay: A groundbreaking 1971 opera gets revived for a new era 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Mute the narration, and you could be watching the same screensaver art pageantry of a dozen past nature series. Watching ‘Our Planet,’ Where the Predator Is Us 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Then she turned to the narration of a forthcoming book. That Voice You’re Hearing? It Might Be Hers. 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Who are we to assume Ant and Dec don’t have an untapped talent for documentary narration? Life Story: is this David Attenborough’s swan song? 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z And if Jim's highly articulate narration can be explained by the private-school education his father gave him, this lad can also seem too good to be true on occasion. 'Silver': courage and terror in the sequel to Treasure Island 2012-08-01T20:01:03Z These are accompanied by voice-over narration that is witty and meditative, and that pushes against the constraints of the “making of” documentary template. Review: ‘Notfilm’ Tells How Beckett and Keaton Collaborated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Jas’s narration might be rich with metaphors — but almost all of them are bovine. An Award-Winning Debut Novel About Innocence Shattered Offers Terror and Solace 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z His easygoing, self-deprecating narration is the film’s most valuable asset and the viewer’s best friend. Movie Review: Victor J. DeNoble Guides ?Addiction Incorporated? - Review 2011-12-13T23:08:22Z Duffy's narration describes the barren witch craving a child "like a bonfire yearning for a match". Rapunzel – review 2013-03-31T16:31:01Z The narration shifts deeper into the second person, as if Michaela were trying to recruit the reader into her funhouse-mirror-vision of the world. Review | Joyce Carol Oates captures the wobbly reality of widowhood in ‘Breathe’ 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z His aunt's narration describes a rainbow child, rainbow-covered, and the arrangement of the songs is itself multicoloured. Gurrumul at Vivid Live 2013 – review 2013-05-29T00:41:49Z According to Deadline, the film version might focus on the character played in the original video by horror legend Vincent Price, who provided the narration and a rap. Michael Jackson's Thriller set for big-screen resurrection 2010-10-27T11:16:00Z If both are unreliable does that make the narration reliable? Charlie Kaufman Is Sorry, He’s a Bit Distracted 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Filming, too, “is forbidden,” he says in the narration, as we see street scenes shot surreptitiously with an iPhone. In ‘A Sinner in Mecca,’ a Gay Director Ponders His Sexuality and Islamic Faith 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z As the last poignant words of narration fall, don’t be surprised to see even adults wiping their eyes. Spare Times for Children, for Nov. 23-29 2012-11-22T20:56:47Z As she often said, she approached every narration as if she were playing to an audience of one. Flo Gibson, Grande Dame of Audiobooks, Dies at 86 2011-01-16T03:29:21Z Mr. Burns had been inspired to tell the story of the Brooklyn Bridge by the 1972 book “The Great Bridge,” by the historian David McCullough, who provided narration for the documentary. Amy Stechler, Documentarian Who Helped Define a Style, Dies at 67 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z In her narration, she plays a confident, defiant future version of Plum. The Fashion Closet, Seen From Inside and Out 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z The intimacy of the narration is devastating in its precision, allowing us to trace the ramifications of war through generations of family life. Stories of War and Its Aftermath, From Ancient Greece to America in ‘2034’ 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z On the recording, released in December on the Gold Bolus label, there’s joy to be had in listening for the steadily morphing electronic music underneath the narration. For Three Avant-Garde Musicians, It’s Time for Pop 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z In his narration, Murphy says that the narcos always talk about loyalty until it’s one of them on the line. ‘Narcos’ Season 2, Episode 8: A Grieving Kingpin 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The special features clips from Jay’s one-man shows and television appearances, including a spot with Steve Martin on Dinah Shore’s 1970s talk show, and uses his distinctive voice for its narration. TV highlights: ‘American Masters’ pays tribute to magician Ricky Jay 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The score suggests that the conductor also play a toy saxophone and take up parts of the narration. Philharmonic to Present H. K. Gruber?s ?Frankenstein!!? 2011-12-04T04:23:05Z Dolby will present scenes from the film with live narration and music as well. This week's new film events 2013-05-18T05:00:10Z Along with a 16-piece band and a gospel choir, it will feature the soprano Priscilla Baskerville, the tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith, students from Dance Theater of Harlem and narration by the actor Norm Lewis. Jazz Listings for Dec. 12-18 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z In Kawaguchi’s third-person narration, these four optimistic tales are so endearing that it’s a feat the book mostly manages to avoid the saccharine. Hope Gained and Lost, in New Fiction From Around the World 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Even so, it was only in the last drafts of "Harriet Chance" that he hit upon using the voice-over narration as a way to frame her life. Jonathan Evison gets in touch with his inner 80-year-old woman for 'Harriet Chance' 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Jarecki draws largely on the testimony from the Black trial, spoken by Mr. Gosling using Mr. Durst’s actual words, as the narration for the film. Film: That?s Me on Screen, but I Still Didn?t Do It 2010-11-24T19:49:00Z Set in 2022, the grim “Submission” unfolds in self-absorbed narration and ineffectual nattering about politics. Review | Extremism rules ‘Submission,’ but soul swings ‘Three Sistahs’ 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z I had this weird music, which needed some narration. Bard reputation: pop stars pick their favourite poets 2010-10-07T15:52:00Z And then in 1970 he went back to both the silent and sound versions, shot new material, added narration and called the resulting 4 hours 45 minutes “Bonaparte and the Revolution.” Film: The Many Lives of Abel Gance?s ?Napoleon? 2012-03-16T17:35:40Z A haunting line of the narration cuts to the core: “No matter how we might try to bury the past, it somehow always revisits us.” ‘Hart Island’ Gives Voice to Stories That Might Otherwise Be Lost 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z In these interviews, McInerny provides narration and a frame from which to view the story. She lost her husband, her father and a pregnancy at 31. Now she’s helping others explore grief. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Primarily, it’s the narration of overcoming struggles in life that listeners relate to. WATCH: There’s a Christian renaissance in hip-hop happening now 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine the author herself would have approved of the documentary’s flowery narration and sentimental acoustic score. ‘Loving Highsmith’ Review: The Patricia You Didn’t Know 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Some readers may experience slight confusion with Ana’s narration, because she speaks to Connor as if he’s still alive, reeling between past and present as it suits her. Review | In ‘Here Is the Beehive,’ a philandering mother deals with the death of her lover 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z One does wish Walter voiced more of the book's first-person narration, adding extra spice and muscle to the lean script. A steamy, riveting 'Indemnity' at ACT 2011-10-29T21:45:05Z “Now,” the narration says, “witness these home movies as never before, restored to a state more pristine than the day they were exposed to the Dallas sunshine of Nov. 22, 1963.” Television Review: ?JFK: The Lost Bullet? on National Geographic - Review 2011-11-18T23:15:27Z And the actors, at ease with the Book-It blend of spoken narration and dialogue, do too. Colorful characters come to life in Book-It's 'Border Songs' 2011-09-23T17:50:05Z Frequent narration kept passengers’ attention amid the consistent beauty, exploring topics like the region’s original, Native habitants, European settlers, and modern-day attractions like Smith Tower. Seattle summer staycation: 3 day trips to take from the Seattle waterfront 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Lucie Fleming, 25, is a voice-over actress in New York City whose experience is mostly in corporate narration and product advertising. What If Porn Had No Pictures? 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z At one point the men sung a low humming drone that blended with a gently syncopated percussion line to underpin Mr. Cole’s narration. Review: For Roomful of Teeth, It’s All About the Polyphony 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z “One recent example of a gradual surge: Hurricane Sandy,” the narration says. Television Review: ‘Nova’ Explores Philippines Typhoon and Ocean Levels 2014-01-21T19:19:37Z But in the fall, she’ll participate in her second workshop of Susan Stroman’s “The Beast in the Jungle,” a story told through music, dance and narration that is loosely based on the Henry James novella. I Don’t Miss ‘Swan Lake’: A Ballerina’s Role on ‘The Americans’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Thanks to Joe’s twisted narration, there’s an occasional “Dexter” moment, too, and thanks to gentle hypnosis of swinging between budding romance and calculated foul play, there’s a “Gone Girl” vibe. Review: Lifetime’s ‘You’ Lets You Stalk the Stalker 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z One wishes for more of such narration, to contextualize the devastating panoramas he has assembled. ‘Invisible Demons’ Review: Capturing an Air Quality Crisis 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z It will showcase their hits, which also include "It's a Beautiful Morning," "How Can I Be Sure" and "Groovin,'" and tell their history through archival footage, narration and dramatic film segments. 1960s soul group The Rascals reunite for Broadway 2013-02-21T17:47:12Z But mostly the narration sets up six pre-existing shorter works that Berlioz chose from among his compositions at that time. Music Review: Chicago Greets Its New Maestro, Who Arrives With Unusual Fare 2010-09-24T16:47:00Z The host is Bill Kurtis, the veteran TV newsman whose authoritative pipes are now known for the narration in "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy." Classic TV shows get new life on digital airwaves 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z This classic “Planet Earth” segment was only missing one thing: A Snoop Dogg narration. Seth Meyers Asks What Trump’s Tweets Would Sound Like if Legally Vetted 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z For one thing it necessitates a lot of narration, not the liveliest way of drawing an audience into a dramatic world. Theater Review: Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man,’ at the Huntington Theater 2013-01-28T22:57:11Z It features narration from Henson along with dozens of interviews — including band members and managers — and music from Universal Music Group’s catalog. Taraji P. Henson tells New Jack Swing backstory in podcast 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z While this is a first-person documentary, with the director providing voice-over narration, it expresses a poignant humility and a patient willingness to listen. ‘My Imaginary Country’ Review: Chile in Revolt 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z McCann has perfected a method of finely blending his own narration with his characters’ thoughts and dialogue, without allowing any of those distinct strains to blur. Sleeping giant Colum McCann awakens with new collection 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z She was painting current crises as a bodily experience, free from the obligations of narration, and as she did so she grew confident enough to let the architecture disappear. Julie Mehretu’s Long Journey Home 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z "Am I living my own life, or the one I'm told to live?" he asks in the sermon's opening narration. 'Tyler Perry's Good Deeds': Well-intentioned and so-so as ever 2012-02-24T23:15:05Z In the audiobook version, Ray Porter’s forceful narration heightens the propulsive quality of Verini’s writing, while also highlighting the general and enduring absurdities of war. ISIS Lost Mosul in 2017, but the Story Began Thousands of Years Ago 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z In a haunting narration that mingles young Samuel’s naivete and adult Samuel’s regret, we watch as the siblings draw him away from his own joyless home into escapades exciting and sinister. With ‘The Nix,’ Nathan Hill announces himself as a major new comic novelist 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z But next to Birmingham’s rich, detailed narration of Dostoyevsky’s life, with all of its paradoxes and tortured ambivalences, Lacenaire’s extreme self-regard quickly becomes predictable, even a bit tedious. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Groff allows for further discrepancy with the use of bracketed narration, which riffs on and editorializes the story's proceedings. Lauren Groff's 'Fates and Furies' turns the struggles of marriage into art 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z We will complain, however, about the voice-over narration at the beginning, accompanied by self-pitying acoustic guitar, and also about a story that slides too easily from the predictable to the preposterous. | 'The Art of Getting By': Allergic to Homework and Possibly Smitten 2011-06-16T23:10:19Z Especially now, when our political rhetoric is so overheated — not to say overblown — readers can find sanctuary in Flaubert’s oblique humor, his deadpan narration. ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Part of that classic presentation, alongside the woodcut illustrations, lithographs and black and white photo slide show, is the disembodied celebrity voice narration. In Netflix's stirring "Amend," stars anguish over the injustices that led to the 14th Amendment 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Her husband, Jonathan, who handles narration every third chapter, is more unidimensional, or at least curiously edgeless. Ben Lerner’s ‘The Topeka School’ Revisits the Debates of the ’90s 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z “It’s something between Schoenberg and Wagner, and like a sacred opera without linear narration. So you have the freedom to do whatever you want.” Reawakening the Antichrist (and Other Lost Opera Gems) 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The language is plain, unadorned, almost masklike — a provocative composure that settles even more tightly over the narration as we enter “Dependency,” in which Ditlevsen describes her years of addiction. ‘The Copenhagen Trilogy,’ a Sublime Set of Memoirs About Growing Up, Writing and Addiction 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Include in that grim tally narrator Edward Herrmann, who was in the final stages of brain cancer when he taped the narration of "Cancer." PBS' 'Cancer' documentary cuts to the heart of the matter 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z The signature was the narration of Westbrook Van Voorhis: loud and urgent and Godlike, if you think of God’s voice as a cross between an evacuate-immediately announcement and a dentist’s drill. Time Marches ... Backward! 2010-09-02T17:53:00Z Once, Mr. Allen recalled, he was waiting for the conductor, James Levine, to ascend the podium, while Levine was waiting for Mr. Allen to conclude his narration. Peter Allen, stalwart host of the Metropolitan Opera’s radio broadcasts, dies at 96 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The cynical prickliness of the material — along with Rob’s incessant fourth-wall narration, describing her woe-is-me mismanagement of her own feelings — is too easily recognizable as a forgery. Review | Sampling too much from the past, Hulu’s ‘High Fidelity’ remix fails to find its own groove 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The most daunting was dealing with the core principle of "one shot" narration. 'Birdman' screenwriters created tension within its one-shot narration 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z “Hadestown,” even with the heat turned up, is still a somewhat abstract experience, mediated by several layers of narration from Hermes, the Fates and many of the songs. Review: The Metamorphosis of ‘Hadestown,’ From Cool to Gorgeous 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The narration alternates between Nick and Amy, and it becomes increasingly clear that neither has been entirely honest with the other. Christmas gifts 2012: the best crime and thriller books 2012-11-30T22:55:05Z In “Pearls of the Crown,” the first of Guitry’s great historical pageants, the off-screen narration is given to a chorus of storytellers. DVDs: Films of Sacha Guitry, a French Charmer, on DVD 2010-07-31T05:00:00Z Opposite an armchair, transfigured by cushions, were two TV monitors, each showing unedited wildlife footage, with no narration, just a tower of giraffes moving through grassland, or a heron standing by a water's edge. Chris Marker's vision will live on 2012-08-06T09:03:04Z Employing bursts of Bach and English-language narration, this lulling, informative documentary never fully grapples with its topic’s complexity. A Masterpiece Mired in Its Creator’s Vision 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z 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 I work month to month, and then I write up a narration of the events of the past year. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: This number is a gas! 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z The “Dateline” style includes touches like cliffhangers before commercials and recaps after, often delivered in ominous narration. A Prime-Time True-Crime Spree 2011-08-20T19:45:03Z If I ever get to teach writing, this will be my example of unreliable narration. Jennifer Weiner Used to Read Her Father’s Medical Textbooks for Fun 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The narration into the audiobook I am listening to is superb. Tips, links and suggestions: What are you reading today? 2013-02-05T11:39:21Z Toward the end, the narration zooms in — way in — linking the city’s beating heart with the organs of our own bodies and questioning how, after so much distress, we might rebuild. Theater Is in the Streets of New York, if You Listen 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z The drama's defining figure is Liam Neeson, with the Irish actor reprising the lead role originally voiced by Richard Burton and providing a sonorous narration via a giant hologram to the side of the stage. The War of the Worlds – review 2012-12-16T18:00:04Z Jacopetti's narrations were resolutely satirical, amusing, sad and at all times contemptuously despairing of humanity's failings. Gualtiero Jacopetti obituary 2011-08-18T21:06:08Z All of which is why I found myself let down by Ray Porter’s narration. ‘Killing People in Fiction Was Fun’: Mysteries That Have Stood the Test of Time 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Why are she, Pauline, and Victor now suddenly part of the narration? ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Season Finale: Two Seconds 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z “For the first time in the country’s short existence,” the narration says, “the man most capable of leading America is not a politician.” Television Review: ‘The Men Who Built America,’ on the History Channel 2012-10-15T21:45:53Z Identity issues, stories that necessitate this kind of fractured narration and multiple viewpoints, have become more and more a cinematic concern. is a cinematic novel in part because of this. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z But the genius of “Pioneer Girl” is that it brings them together in a single volume that is carried as much by Wilder’s narration as by Hill’s explication. Laura Ingalls Wilder finds new stardom in an old-fashioned way 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Leviston said 50 Cent then taped himself dressed in a wig and robe and edited himself into the video, adding his own narration before posting it on his website. Woman sues rapper 50 Cent over sex tape 2010-02-25T22:36:00Z He wrote mostly monologues, or at least the narration seemed to emanate from a single voice, though the books were not necessarily narrated in the first person. David Markson, Postmodern Novelist, Dies at 82 2010-06-08T03:22:00Z The filmmakers draw liberally from its pages for the narration, using its eloquence to express passion and patriotism. 'Invisible Front' reveals same fight for freedom 70 years ago 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The songs have been stripped and rejuvenated for the soundtrack, and any narration there is comes from Bowie himself. A Filmmaker Explores David Bowie’s Life and Finds Clarity About His Own 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z I first met Lee in 1991, when he provided the narration for a Channel 4 documentary I was working on entitled Fear in the Dark. Christopher Lee 1922-2015: an appreciation by Mark Kermode 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z While the production had recently completed principal photography, Williams had finished the narration and on-camera commentary for only three of the six episodes. For Michael K. Williams, a Legacy Interrupted 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z But I was also bemused by the narration. The Mystery of the Inconclusive Podcast 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z But it goes to great lengths to be neutral in its narration, and emphasizing the whale warriors’ pratfalls is another way of undercutting our natural sympathy for them. Television: On the High Seas, a Mix of Danger and Bumbling High Jinks 2010-08-26T22:23:00Z I write the narration, I'm just not in the editing room every day. WikiLeaks documentary: 'Julian Assange wanted $1m' 2013-07-09T18:00:04Z The first-person narration may have its limitations, but it’s a great tool for layering impressions: in Steerforth, David sees a handsome, Byronic god, while the reader sees through to the arrogant schemer beneath. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 4: David Copperfield 2012-02-02T23:24:54Z Mr. Pollock’s narration, particularly in the beginning, is prosaic. Spike Lee’s ‘Pass Over,’ an Offbeat Melding of Cinema and Theater 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z His narration is filled with monologues on sub-subcultures and scientific evidence. Hamilton Morris?s Web Series ?Hamilton?s Pharmacopeia? 2012-02-12T07:47:21Z The wrinkle is the momentum-killing narration that rotates from Grace to Large to Riece; that tactic delivers information but eventually dampens the heat generated by Beckim’s dramatic exchanges, authentic voices and unexpected arc. Out of prison and into the fire of race and sex in ‘Lights Rise on Grace’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z But it’s just as much about fly-fishing, Fibonacci numbers, unreliable narration, deathbed trauma and the proper use of cake forks. Von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’: sex, fly-fishing and more ... 2014-03-20T21:53:51Z Drawing more directly than the others on the beauty of Shakespeare’s language, it also conveyed in its narration a depth of feeling for the characters. Review: The Bard as Bedtime Story in ‘Table Top Shakespeare’ 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z But that narration still bore some resemblance to real speech. Your guide to Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" 2011-07-02T16:54:00Z Soderbergh’s version falls in between the two: the lawyers’ narrations offer up tidbits of their personal stories and suggest a complex web of private motives and public circumstances for their shifty daily dealings. “The Laundromat,” Reviewed: Steven Soderbergh’s Flawed, Thrilling Tale of Financial Greed 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z After nearly drowning in an ancient spring, he seamlessly assumes the novel’s narration, reborn in Adamic first person. Fleeing a Caribbean Plantation Into a Mythic Wilderness 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Soloists sing some of the lines of biblical dialogue, with the narration given a hypnotic setting for groups of voices. Les Arts Florissants Returns to New York, Endangered 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z And their narration of what I was watching was not even remotely close to my lived experience or to what most disabled people live. Jillian Mercado on ‘Generation Q’ and the Importance of Joyful Stories 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z Keller’s skillful interior narration puts us inside Mallory’s skin, even when it makes us uncomfortable. A New Novel From the Author of ‘When You Trap a Tiger’ 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Writing in The New York Times, the novelist Alex Gilvarry called it “a master class in child narration” and argued that“Foster” is as rich and emotionally resonant as a “heaping 400-page tome.” Claire Keegan Harnesses the Power in Brevity 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z The sporadic narration, which includes excerpts from Ms. Previn’s journals, focuses on her major relationships, all of which inspired songs. Dory Previn, as Portrayed by Kate Dimbleby 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z All three write in journals, and their entries, offering windows into their preoccupations, are delivered in voice-over narration. Living With the Men of Paul Schrader’s ‘Man in a Room’ Trilogy 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z Accompanied by a jolly brass band and snoozy narration, the documentary “Usedom: A Clear View of the Sea” lingers on the titular forested island, a popular vacation spot on the Baltic Sea. ‘Usedom: A Clear View of the Sea’ Review: Come In, the Water’s Fine 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z As Anna tries in vain to contact Sally’s only living relative, her estranged daughter Mabel, Anna’s unanswered stream-of-consciousness voice mail messages become the narration to the show. 7 Fiction Podcasts Ready Made for Vacation 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z His nomination is for an installation at the Jan Mot gallery in Brussels that used two slide projections and an audio narration relating to his mother's childhood in Berlin. Turner Prize winner to be announced 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Fifteen years later, Alché’s directing debut shows signs of Martel’s influence in its blend of oblique narration and subtle psychological insight. 11 Movies You Need to See at New Directors/New Films 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Some critics, despite the immediate runaway commercial success of “Mockingbird,” found the book naive and its narration flawed, with Scout moving implausibly between childhood innocence and grown-up understanding. Harper Lee, elusive author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ is dead at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z To its credit, "A Centennial Tribute to Mahalia Jackson" spared its listeners narration about Jackson's life and spoken effusions on her work. A flawed celebration of Mahalia Jackson's centennial 2011-05-21T14:55:00Z And he didn’t want to make your standard documentary, the sort with talking heads and somber narration. Making a Michael J. Fox Movie With Michael J. Fox’s Movies 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Impressionists read the words that served as the narration of the documentary. ESPN uses technology to bring Davis, Rozelle back to life 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z No one measures anything, but Ms. Bennison does her best to fill in the blanks with instructive narration. Hey, Look! Nonna and Her Pasta Are on YouTube 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z "Lotus, Georgia, is the worst place in the world, worse than any battlefield," Frank tells us in one of the first-person passages that complement the author's narration. "Home:" Toni Morrison's novel of a Southern homecoming 2012-06-20T21:42:07Z But when Tory Vasquez, who plays Benjy’s beloved lost sister, Caddy, at different ages, takes over the narration, you hear the throb of empathy for the bewildered figure at the production’s center. Review: ‘The Sound and the Fury,’ Elevator Repair Service’s Take on Faulkner 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z In its final section, the novel fast-forwards to 2009 and shifts from first person narration to an alternating close third person point of view. She’s Here, She’s Queer, She’s Figuring Out What That Means 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z I admire picture books that use entertaining narration and appealing art to teach children about things we assume — often wrongly — they understand. Picture Books That Show the World Through a Child’s Eyes 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z The style of the Wolper films is distancing; the narration is continuous and oratorical. Critic?s Notebook: How We Picked Our Presidents, 1960s Style 2011-07-05T00:23:31Z "There is fantastic narration about the history of the railroad," Pollin said. T Magazine: All Aboard 2012-11-15T22:22:03Z Of her three videos, the magnum opus is “Salt Dreams,” with narration and on-screen text that alternates between Korean and English. Review | In the galleries: Paintings reflect light’s luminous effects 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z A drama would be an opera, and a narration would be an oratorio, or a Passion. Christian Gerhaher: Summiting Mount Mahler 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Now they've gone digital with this app, adding voice narration, interactive activities and the ability to tap a word to hear it pronounced. 20 Best iPhone and iPad apps this week 2012-10-12T16:03:19Z The lyric philosophizing about human nature is lost in translation, cut for Stevenson’s more direct narration. ‘Blindness’ Review: Listening to the Sound of Theater Again 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z “Every Other Weekend” manages to be both funny and fierce as it reminds the reader, through Nenny’s charming narration, that children are always paying attention. A Debut Novel Sees Divorce Through the Eyes of a Child 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Through hilariously neurotic narration voiced by the actor Danny Wallace, it also exposes you to the blocks’ hopes and fears. Video Game Reviews: Reviews: Thomas Was Alone, NCAA Football 13, The Secret World, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Fieldrunners 2, Dyad 2012-08-07T16:20:18Z Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Master Chorale and soloists including three countertenors, who carry the narration. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z Recorded narration, delivered in a choice of 16 languages via personal headsets, skips lightly through the region’s natural and human history. 3 Day-Cruises Worth the Trip 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z His son looks and sounds like Kilmer, who wrote the narration sporadically, in text messages and scrap books. Val Kilmer on a life in illusion and the new doc ‘Val’ 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z The soothing narration by Cate Blanchett does much to assuage the inherent anxiety: “Art, in its simplest terms, is just a way to force a new perspective on to something familiar,” she says. 'I had this image of my husband making love to a tree': directors on filming shorts for Netflix's Homemade 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z A bit of explanation is in order, though I’m afraid it will not be as exhaustive or as breathless as the voice-over narration that begins the movie or the expository dialogue that pops up throughout. Movie Review: In ‘Pacific Rim,’ Pilots Inside Robots Face Alien Invaders 2013-07-11T12:00:01Z We were making changes in narration right on up to about three weeks ago. "There's no agreement on facts": Alex Gibney's look at Russian interference shows America's weakness 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z The narration is clean and efficient; the characters lightly sketched. Helping Out Family Is Taken to Extremes in ‘My Sister, the Serial Killer’ 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z The actress picked up her trophy for best audio book, narration, and storytelling recording at the event’s preshow ceremony on Sunday. Viola Davis reaches EGOT status with a Grammy win. 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z Shaker Heights, Mia offers in voiceover narration from a distance, and reading a passage written by Pearl, is a town made of blinding white flour and beautiful lies. "Little Fires Everywhere": An honest finale clears the smoke and reveals signs of hope 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Verini asks, in one of the sections when Porter’s narration slows, turning reflective. ISIS Lost Mosul in 2017, but the Story Began Thousands of Years Ago 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Part of the author’s outreach is devoted to debunking the content of Shark Week, a “dumpster fire of nonsense” that drives him berserk with its “horrifically inaccurate” narration. Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Shark? 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Robert Petkoff’s overall narration is calm, if occasionally and fittingly bewildered, and he delivers a virtuoso performance in rendering the story’s multitude of accents. Review | For summer vacation, the best audiobooks are about long, strange trips 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z His arresting narration of the 1977 death of Matthew Swan, from bacterial meningitis, after the boy’s Christian Scientist parents refused to seek medical attention, should be nailed to the doors of all religious-freedom absolutists. Review: ‘Bad Faith,’ a Dr. Paul A. Offit Book on Religion and Modern Medicine 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The narration was at best an unrealistic portrayal of teenage thoughts and the characters, though well depicted, are extreme clichés so exaggerated that they cannot help but irritate an actual teenager. Shelter by Harlan Coben - review 2012-06-20T14:00:00Z And it’s jarring when Rachel and Samuel switch briefly from first-person narration to addressing each other. Y.A. Crossover 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Jones sells her attractiveness easily and, reminiscent of the narration method used on “Fleabag,” lets the audience in on her saucy plans by casually breaking the fourth wall and speaking directly to us. Smart Watch: "Ramy" blesses us with a thoughtful, funny comedy about goodness 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z The middle and top of his voice remained virile, handsome and taut, and his narration cycled through a remarkable series of emotions — vulnerable, proud, sweet, disdainful, morally upright — before finding transcendence. Review: The Met Opera Orchestra Raises a Glorious Noise 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z We tried to stay loyal to the tone of the original narration in the comic as well. “The stories about masculinity that excite me most are written by women” 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z In fact, the two are presented as cut from the same cloth in Kushner’s reductive narration. A Wild West Story About the Early Internet and Sex.com 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z He also edits the words into an associative, aural abstraction: an overlapping narration that is out of sequence yet in sync. ‘The End of Time’: a slow-ticking meditation on time 2014-02-06T22:45:00Z Taken together, they create a parallel narration that makes swathes of dialogue superfluous. ‘The Prom’ Review: Showbiz Sanctimony, and All That Zazz 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z There was an immediacy to Adam Farmer’s narration of his bike journey to visit his father. 6 Thought-Provoking Y.A. Thrillers That Tackle Social Issues 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Such an economical approach also permeates the lyrics, which resemble running narrations from omniscient protagonists. "Talking Heads: 77," released 40 years ago tomorrow 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z |
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