| 单词 | set piece |
| 例句 | The fireworks were by Gandalf: they were not only brought by him, but designed and made by him; and the special effects, set pieces, and flights of rockets were let off by him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The square was full of people and the fireworks experts were making up their set pieces for the night and covering them over with beech branches. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z If the main set piece does not rotate, it’s useless. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Bucci turns a bolt on one of the casters—the wheels on which the main set piece turns—and it snaps. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Disturbing emotions were conjured up in Liszt’s harmonies; flashy set pieces thrilled and terrified a sensation-seeking public. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Millet had planned an elaborate series of explosive “set pieces,” fireworks affixed to large metal frames shaped to depict various portraits and tableaus. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It’d be nice to have a room to sew costumes and create set pieces without the whole house being overrun.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “It’s the area under a coliseum. It housed all the set pieces and machinery used to create special effects.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Better yet, he has a few set pieces about Corduroy Greg because he used to work for him, too, and hates the guy. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Churchill came in with the equivalent of a loudhailer: delivering clumping great set pieces that occasioned Balfour’s famous taunt that his artillery was “powerful but not very mobile.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Early the next morning, Fred, Nala, Scruffy, and Tater stood outside the barn, watching the scenery and prop people, who had worked through the night, load in the final set pieces. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Between excruciatingly suspenseful set pieces, the themes of sin, guilt and expiation get an oblique workout. ‘Coming Home in the Dark’ Review: No Picnic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Phil, wanting to commission an opera using the sirens as central set pieces, she was all in. 'War of the Worlds' to invade Disney Hall and the streets of downtown L.A. 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z There's obvious parallels with Logan's own struggle to contain his bestial nature, at least until Mangold unsheathes the set pieces and lets the Wolverine run riot. The Wolverine – first look review of Marvel's blockbuster 2013-07-18T10:46:00Z A starter pack for "Infinity" will include the game, reader, play set piece and three figures: Sulley of "Monsters University," Captain Jack Sparrow of "Pirates of the Caribbean" and Mr. Incredible of "The Incredibles." Disney unveils own 'Skylanders'-like franchise 2013-01-16T01:01:04Z These included inflatable figures and mechanical set pieces that would emerge and withdraw at various stages throughout the concert. Watching the Stones Roll 2012-07-11T07:16:18Z Meanwhile, the haunted-house set pieces that make the films memorable were tossed our way like candy. Watching “The Purge” in Our Year of Nightmare Politics 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z The jokes are thin, the computer animation is wanting and the inane plot is a series of set pieces strung together. Review: ‘The Nut Job 2’ Squirrels Away the Laughs for Itself 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Structurally, “The City We Became” is largely a sequence of fast-paced set pieces, a series of encounters with the Enemy, with each embodied borough discovering new powers as readers discover their histories and personalities. When a Sinister Enemy Attacks New York, the City Fights Back 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Here the trek begins, a wonderwalk through fabulous horticultural set pieces, one environment subtly transitioning into another, with a shady arbor-like stretch north of 21st Street, and a seductive greensward just beyond that. The High Bridge, a Scenic and Serene Cousin of the High Line 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z What Whitemore hasn't done, thankfully, is cut the minor characters who make the intended comic set pieces so funny in the books. Your next box set: A Dance to the Music of Time 2012-10-04T15:00:01Z While they aren't awe-inspiring spectacles like the set pieces in "Mission: Impossible — Fallout", they are magnificently well-choreographed in a balletic sort of way. "John Wick: Chapter 3" is easy to like, but hard to love 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z Apatow decided to take the chance, hoping to marry Wiig’s sharp sense of character and fascination with minute human details to the broad, bawdy set pieces and fail-safe physical comedy he is known for. Can Kristen Wiig Turn On the Charm? 2011-05-01T08:30:02Z That movie at least had some solid zings and cinematic set pieces. Life After Beth first look review – fun zombie premise is dead on arrival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z What if the songs here were wedded to full-blown set pieces, in addition to kaleidoscopic exuberance? Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’: Let’s Discuss 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Minimal set pieces descend from above to suggest convent walls, a chapel or, in the gruesome final scene, the Place de la Révolution. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z The film's big set piece involves the information Oleg is collecting and passing on to Greville about what will become the Cuban Missile Crisis. Benedict Cumberbatch is a tense & meticulous spy in Cold War thriller "The Courier" 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The trouble is that these set pieces, in addition to feeling fragmented and elusive in meaning, are dwarfed by their surroundings. Manifold Motion's 'Compos Mentis': a little too spacey 2012-03-20T18:45:04Z Too much of the film involves set pieces that are designed for showboating. "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" shows off Quentin Tarantino's best and worst moves 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z A film crew traveled from D.C. to Petersburg, Va., and hired Berra’s uncle to build some set pieces. Before his final bow, a Kennedy Center veteran hands out one last backstage pass 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z Rajamouli proved to be a rare crossover event for Indian cinema in America, because of the abundance of you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it action and musical set pieces sprinkled liberally over its three-plus-hour running time. Where to Stream ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ and More 2023 Oscar Winners 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Based on a novel by Thomas Hardy, the opera “is perhaps most successful in its set pieces — arias and ensembles that are reminiscent of opera in earlier ages,” Mr. Holland wrote. Stephen Paulus, Classical Composer Rich in Lyricism, Dies at 65 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z A set piece on dietary habits in the 1970s, and another on Madonna – whom Lock characterises as a scampering sex-pest with an Aussie accent – close each act. Sean Lock 2010-10-11T21:31:00Z If the film's promise of crossover appeal holds true, those men will presumably report back to other men that there's enough gross-out humor and scatological set pieces in the film to offset all that estrogen. Breaking comedy's raunch barrier 2011-05-23T15:23:04Z If the movie were just these two going from action set piece to action set piece with Braga’s character pulling Jedi mind tricks along the way, it would have been satisfactory. ‘Hypnotic’ Review: A Twisty Thriller Sends Ben Affleck on the Run 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z It’s a sequel of sorts to a doorbell joke from years ago that is one of his most popular set pieces. How Is the Hottest Comic in America Still Under the Radar? 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Rae Smith’s period costumes and incidental set pieces serve the director’s intentions well. Review | Listen up, Bob Dylan fans: You’ll want to journey to Broadway’s ‘North Country’ 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z And some of the series’ machine-tooled set pieces – The Mandalorian’s attempts to recover his kit from a bunch of marauding Jawa in episode two is a gilded example – put their big screen counterparts to shame. Bye bye box office: has Disney really given up on Star Wars movies? 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The producers’ decision to shorten the episode count from 10 did make each episode a thrilling set piece. Game of Thrones: the best show on TV just became the silliest 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z This set piece opens shortly after Sidonie takes her introductory spill. Movie Review: ‘Farewell, My Queen,’ Set at Versailles 2012-07-12T21:53:22Z A new exhibition at London's Barbican Centre explores the style of the suave secret agent, displaying costumes, props, set pieces and design drawings from half a century of 007 films. 007 exhibition looks at screen spy as style icon 2012-07-05T12:19:09Z Big action set pieces from the films translate well to the game, especially the sequences from "At World's End" involving the duel atop a large wheel and racing around in those rolling cages. Game On: 'Dirt 3' hits pay dirt; 'Pirates' rates 'aargh' for 'rental' 2011-05-25T16:13:05Z Juggling a twisting plot, tonal shifts among drama, comedy and romance, large set pieces and moving the production to Buenos Aires, Requa and Ficarra handle it all with a jaunty ease. 'Focus' filmmakers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa go for the unexpected 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z One of the big set pieces on “Portlandia” this season is a musical number called “What About Men?” Fred Armisen Finds All the World a Playground 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z It seemed like there was a more steady flow of action set pieces in "Talulla Rising" than in "The Last Werewolf." ArtsBeat: Werewolves, Vampires and Shrinks, Oh My: Glen Duncan Talks About 'Talulla Rising' 2012-06-27T14:52:44Z 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 It’s a shrewdly economical set piece that both demonstrates Hittman’s gift for visually driven storytelling and situates Autumn in a world that you want to pluck her right out of. ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ Review: A Woman’s Heroic Journey 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z We always say that “A” has unlimited resources, so if we had a movie budget, it would just be so much fun to see what “A” could do — yachts, helicopters, big set pieces like that. ‘Pretty Little Liars’ Finale: How a Mystery Hid Its Villain 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z And the action set pieces look cool and seemed like they'd be fun to live through. Good fun is now a key plot point 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z A thrilling jailbreak that reunites her with her treasured ship, the Marawati, is only one of the book’s great set pieces. A Swashbuckling Pirate Pulled Into One Last Job 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Or as actor Oscar Isaac put in in the post-screening Q&A, “It’s pretty cool when the action set pieces of a movie are two people torturing themselves with their brains.” SXSW 2015: Of humans and robots in sci-fi chamber drama 'Ex Machina' 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z The action set pieces are pretty nifty, though. Netflix's "The Gray Man": Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans go loud in Russos' propulsive action flick 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z In Tanguera, it's still the set pieces that stand out, not the story. Tanguera 2010-08-05T20:31:00Z His major set pieces – a boatjacking that ends in flame, a bomb scare at a water park – have a zest and ambition absent from many film-makers of his relative greenness. My streaming gem: why you should watch The World Is Yours 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z The visually spectacular production includes choruses with glittering pompoms and showgirl outfits, and set pieces that go up in flames. Performance Guide for Autumn 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z In this throwback to the halcyon days of Hong Kong action cinema, Yen gracefully moves through large-scale set pieces with muscular precision. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z The fear on Jo’s face grips you in the raucous set pieces. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z I warned her that the final action set piece, in my opinion, it’s one of the hardest things to cut that any editor has ever been faced with. Q&A: Christopher Nolan on ‘Tenet’ home release 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z The action set pieces are all competently rendered, but it raises the question: Why can't they be better, or more intense? "Those Who Wish Me Dead" wastes Angelina Jolie's action chops in a film that's more smoke than fire 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z But the choreography for that energizing opening number, and many set pieces, seems almost entirely true to the original. Review: Does ‘Cats’ Have Nine Lives on Broadway? Two, Certainly 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z On the contrary, the set pieces are bigger than ever, with Lin proving especially adept at inserting moments of brevity into major action sequences. Vroom to Grow: How Fast & Furious Became Hollywood’s Greatest Action-Movie Franchise 2013-06-03T19:41:45Z Advertisement Mr. Lee doesn’t go that far, alas, but he does go cinematically all out with exuberant set pieces, musical numbers, bursts of phantasmagoric color, oceans of tears and blunt-force rhetoric. Review: Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq,’ a Barbed Takedown of Gang Wars, With Sex as the Weapon 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z By that, I meant I wanted to create suspenseful, tension-filled set pieces. The Director James Wan: If ‘Aquaman’ Doesn’t Work, Blame Me 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z “One from the Heart” is as unified in its composition and its ideas as its constituent set pieces, seen discretely, are diverse and distinctive. Movie of the Week: “One from the Heart” 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z A new creative team has taken over the fourth game in this highly cinematic series, and has kept the exhilarating action set pieces while adding quieter moments about aging, family and marriage. DVD, TV and Video Game Gift Suggestions 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The horrifying description of Edmonds’s corpse and how Waters has exacted revenge on Edmonds is a set piece worthy of a slasher film. Neely Tucker’s ‘Only the Hunted Run’ starts with a bang and never lets up 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z The rescue happens midway through the final book, but it’s been turned into the movie’s culminating set piece, one that Katniss — like you — witnesses unfold on screen. ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The Daily Telegraph's Philip Womack found much to commend in Lights Out in Wonderland, DBC Pierre's fourth novel, relishing in particular the "lunatic brilliance" of its set pieces. Critical eye: reviews roundup 2010-08-27T23:06:00Z Violent set pieces threaded through the show, beginning with a spectacular plane crash into the wall, complete with flames, and finishing with the wall’s destruction. Concert review: Roger Waters, 'The Wall' at Wrigley Field 2012-06-09T06:30:00Z There are some thrilling digressive set pieces involving the strange adventures of other characters, a specialty of Mr. Grossman’s. Book Review: ‘Magician’s Land’ Ends Lev Grossman’s Trilogy 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z The set pieces involving Stephanie trying to carry out a mission do raise heartbeats as she gets boxed in a corner and is forced to puzzle a way out. In nimble spy thriller "The Rhythm Section," Blake Lively misses a beat 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The performance wears everything on its sleeve: Stagehands conspicuously walk set pieces such as movie theater seats and wobbly cutout palm trees into place, and backdrops are noisily unfurled. Classic antics of ‘Laugh’ an uphill climb in Beth Henley’s latest 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Unlike its by-the-numbers predecessor, Hello Mary Lou is a legitimately compelling movie, a tightly constructed supernatural thriller with a handful of clever set pieces and bursts of startling artistry. No rights allowed: the strange world of unofficial movie sequels 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z I tended to skip the historical and topographical passages and revisit the comic set pieces. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z The buildings in the town center are like functional set pieces, almost like the corridors in Disney World parks, that look like they were built during turn-of-the-century America, with fake patina and fabricated wear. Onion ring scandals to deadly water parks: Watch these 5 docs when you need a break from true crime 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z “The Roundup” peaks with a broad set piece that begins as a claustrophobic fight and becomes a full-on brawl on a bus. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z "There’s set pieces, like the signage that say Lego Master, all the signs that say Lego Masters throughout the set, we’ve built those as well," Sawaya explained. 'Lego Master' artist explains his job creating building challenges for contestants 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The opening set piece brings us to a suburban Denny’s as members of a high school lacrosse team assemble for a post-mortem on the evening’s boozy mayhem. A Spellbinding Debut Leaps Across Genres to Recreate the Confusion of Trauma 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z It amiably alternates commonplace depictions of introspective intimacy with ostensibly bar-raising, outré set pieces. ‘No Hard Feelings’ Review: How Lucky Can a Nerdy Kid Get? 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z “Epic it indeed is, full of magnificent set pieces - sprawling space battles and incandescent lightsaber duels - gripping performances and a number of truly stunning surprises,” said Soren Andersen of The Seattle Times. 'Rise of Skywalker' reviews among most critical in 'Star Wars' galaxy 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The film includes some intricately choreographed set pieces. 'The Tribe' director aims for realism in depicting troubled deaf world 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Signature confirmed with its 2007 facility’s builders that the roof was designed to support the steel ramps, assorted set pieces and live humans. A ‘Titanic’ challenge: Creating the ‘floating city’ within relatively limited space 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The set pieces each season have gotten more and more ambitious. How 'Game of Thrones' Sets Actors on Fire Without Killing Them 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Other “Rudolph” figures and set pieces are thought to have survived. A famous Santa and Rudolph are heading to auction 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z These three wear overalls labeled “staff,” and the work’s principal choreography consists in how they move the minimal set pieces: foam-board cutouts, a plush, pink rug. Review: The Bitter Tears of Dean Moss & Co. 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z The movie zips to a commonplace climactic set piece, with two admittedly nifty computer-generated monsters battling it out to decide the fate of humankind. Review: In ‘Venom,’ Tom Hardy as a Weirder-Than-Usual, Not-Quite Superhero 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z It was incredibly fun to set up such a big set piece for the movie. Film: A Teenager Flying Over a Cuckoo?s Nest 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z Looking like it was shot on a cheap video format, it lacks the original’s scares and suavity, apart from an early escape set piece designed to resemble a fluid take. ‘Orphan: First Kill’ Review: Still Slashing After All These Years 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z They load four 40-foot shipping containers with set pieces that will be trucked to a yard near Newark Liberty International Airport, where about 1,500 containers full of the Met’s sets are stored. Never Missing a Curtain This Season, the Met Opera Takes a Final Bow 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z One of the tall, movable set pieces had been placed too close to the overhead lights and was on fire. Horror stories of that holiday favorite "The Nutcracker" 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z “Blue Lake Morning,” an atmospheric set piece with a grandeur established through accretion, was another. Music Review: The Joel Harrison 19, a Big Band, at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2013-07-17T20:24:01Z I felt that doing the work was overbuilding my muscles, and working with set pieces was like lifting weights all day. Machines Of Movement, With Bruises 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z An early set piece in the Guggenheim Museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright building allowed the filmmakers gleeful abandon. When Spider-Man Met Jeff Koons 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z The director also plays with our sense of time, through updated costumes and set pieces. Review | Government shutdown aside, Ford’s Theatre stays open and percolates with a multiethnic ‘Twelve Angry Men’ 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The story unfolds largely through a series of carefully realized set pieces, visual jokes that produce low-key chuckles and occasional bursts of amazed laughter. | 'Micmacs': In Jean-Pierre Jeunet?s Work, Misfits Battle Arms Manufacturers 2010-05-27T22:46:00Z I’ve rarely heard the multiple set pieces in this play sound more conversational and matter-of-fact, as if the speech were second nature to the speaker and not some sort of pileup of well-known quotations. Review: Glenda Jackson Rivets as King Lear in Her Return to the Stage 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z I wanted to make a film that had action set pieces but was grounded by character. "Indemnity" director on his unique South African action film: "What if trauma can be weaponized?" 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Corrie's birthday celebrations explode with a bombastic set piece. Tonight's TV highlights: Coronation Street 2010-12-06T00:05:00Z “The characters are nervous, insecure and acutely self-conscious. Even in the climactic comic set piece of sustained, high-velocity banter, the rat-a-tat-tat dialogue is tense and seamed with hostility, suspicion and hidden agendas.” What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘New Girl’ and ‘Mistress America’ 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z This wasn’t a series of arena set pieces played one more time. Review: Pearl Jam’s Full-Throttle Marathon at Madison Square Garden 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Based on New York Times reporting and starring Mark Wahlberg, the film was to look at the egos and victims of a big-money corporation a la Chandor's breakout "Margin Call," with more large-scale set pieces. J.C. Chandor goes from BP spill to 'Liar's Ball' 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Even in the writing, I’ve helped craft set pieces that are built for him to be the spectacle. In ‘Unstable,’ the Sins of the Father Are Comedy Gold 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z Nowhere in “Carousel” do we ever feel a dance is a mere divertissement or set piece. ‘Carousel’ Dances Are a New Feather in the Enigmatic Justin Peck’s Cap 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z It's the most compellingly ridiculous set piece in what may prove to be the strangest concert of the year. Kanye West – review 2013-02-25T13:04:10Z The set pieces: Sure, two of the Fast crew literally go into outer space, but that's one of the least exciting parts of the film. Tracing the evolution of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, movie by movie 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z The Outsiders casting call is the book's great set piece. Friends in Lowe Places: Rob Lowe and the Art of the Celebrity Memoir 2011-04-21T10:15:00Z Christie also has a knack for cleverly structured set pieces. Comedy profile: Bridget Christie 2010-03-26T15:32:00Z He brings off the set pieces, such as the Trinity test, but he also explores Oppenheimer the physicist with a thoroughness some readers may find arduous. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z Yet a timeless quality pervades this set piece. 'The Red House': Looking for the heart of family in a narcissistic age 2012-07-03T21:01:09Z Ratmansky's version stays true to Vainonen with some glorious Soviet set pieces, heroic workers wielding tricolours against a blood red sky. Bolshoi Ballet: The Flames of Paris | Dance review 2010-04-01T21:30:00Z Instead, we get a series of set pieces, often played for broad effect. Hanif Kureishi's 'The Last Word' lacks a certain sense of voice 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z I feel like the intimate moments were as important as the big set pieces. ‘The Woman King’ and Intimate Moments Amid Epic Action 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z What can you say about creating the action set pieces, such as the night vision sequence? "We leave these places in ruins": How the white lens on "Kandahar" reflects the human cost 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z A standoff scene near the movie’s finale would not be shamed if put next to one of Michael Mann’s better set pieces. Review: Murder Mystery on the Reservation in ‘Wind River’ 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z It’s a shelf well stocked with blockbusters from recent years: substitute “set pieces” for “indecipherable pseudoscience” and you’ve got the gaping pitfall that both Interstellar and Ridley Scott’s Prometheus tumbled down. The never-ending story: why are Oscar movies often so long? 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z In a series of skillfully executed set pieces, Rosenfeld skewers the pretensions and preoccupations of women for whom “parent” is both verb and competitive sport. ‘Class’ Takes Satirical Aim at Brooklyn Grade-School Parents 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z But he transforms a famous scene, in which Cyrano tops a would-be rival’s insults, into a killer comic set piece — something akin to Martin’s stand-up, featuring his variety of voices and spot-on timing. Why Is ‘Cyrano’ Still So Potent? Ask Anyone Who’s Loved at All. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Back in 1993, the theater department at Beatrice High School was staging a play called “The Gallows” that went disastrously wrong when the pivotal set piece malfunctioned and left the male lead dead. Review: ‘The Gallows’ Somehow Finds More Horror Footage 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Just as a Shakespeare production often breeds not contempt but pleasure through familiarity, so part of the enjoyment of panto lies in its standard set pieces and in knowing that the singalong is coming next. Still behind you! 2010-12-23T15:00:04Z It now looks more newly fallen — though the seam between the set piece and the stage floor was gapingly obvious from the orchestra level on Saturday evening. At the Met, a Refurbished ‘Bohème’ and an Art Deco ‘Ballo’ 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Even with all the stops and starts designed to fix lighting and blocking and set pieces that wouldn’t stay put, Mr. Borle found ways to make it fresh. This Broadway Season, Christian Borle Is Taking the Lead(s) 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Washington found in his writer-director a surprisingly supportive collaborator who was just as concerned about the acting as he was the massive set pieces. John David Washington cements his stardom in ‘Tenet’ 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z But each comic set piece decomposes on the screen, lifeless and hopeless. ‘Sextuplets’ Review: Six Marlon Wayanses and Zero Laughs 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z What Man of Steel displays in highly visual and dramatic set pieces, it lacks in humour. Man of Steel: a new era for Superman? 2013-06-15T02:58:02Z One of the set pieces was black and white, and it somehow resembled the future, still-unborn square—it was used as a backdrop for one of the scenes. The Square 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z As the ballet progresses, Wheeldon is less burdened by narrative exposition, and freer to create these kinds of pure-dance set pieces. Review: Ballet Is Spectacle in ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z She’s done both for her premiere, in which she regards Graham’s steps and set pieces — a few will decorate the stage, but subtly so — as souvenirs, or mementos, from her body of work. Odysseys Into Martha Graham World, One Dramatic, the Other Abstract 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Set designer Jason Sherwood keeps the environment appropriately simple; a few basic set pieces roll out from behind a sky-high upstage wall. Review | You’ll be happy you gave yourself a night off to watch Billy Elliot soar again 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z What's it like seeing a career's worth of set pieces come together for this show? As Gronk's set designs go on view at CAFAM, the artist talks opera, painting and B-movie crab monsters 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z It was a set piece: it made an impression on the audience, and it was pretty close to too much. Music Review: Two Stars, Two Assertive Drummers 2010-10-03T21:39:00Z His comic set pieces were sandwiched between his superb performances of standards accompanied by the pianist Tedd Firth playing in a more earthy style than usual. Review: Aaron Weinstein, Wunderkind as Highbrow Dandy 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z They remember one presentation in particular, about a design for a nursery school, for which they vacuum-sealed a bunch of toys and presented it as a rather random set piece along with their renderings. | Striking a Balance 2014-04-09T15:00:26Z There, surrounded by elements that look like set pieces for a Constructivist play, he is hosting productive get-togethers on Tuesday nights. Art in Review: OHAD MEROMI: ?Rehearsal Sculpture? 2011-02-24T21:15:13Z Soaring camera moves, lavish set pieces and a Rube Goldberg approach to clever gadgetry inform this comedic battle between greedy arms dealers and a motley crew of junkyard pacifists. June 11 at SIFF: The festival goes widescreen with 'The Wildest Dream' 2010-06-10T20:53:00Z It’s the first of many imaginatively theatrical set pieces in this unconventionally told parable of gender identity and the subtle, sinister power of the media. 'Women Laughing Alone With Salad': A playwright's raucous riff on sexism and body shame 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z There follows a manic set piece as Warwick entertains his guests, who may or may not be imaginary. | 'The Perfect Host': A Welcome to His World Is Accepted at Your Peril 2011-06-30T22:13:04Z The only set piece is a wall-like mirror of six panels, which evokes the waters in the glade where Diana and her sisters bathe but also catches the characters staring at themselves narcissistically. Music Review | Les Arts Florissants: Les Arts Florissants at BAM Opera Festival 2010-03-19T23:00:00Z And in a really fine set piece Mr. Spencer stages a long chase through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the relics of primitive times and the veneer of privilege always coexist. Books of The Times: ‘Breed’ by Chase Novak 2012-08-29T20:56:42Z In this, the film’s most stunningly executed set piece, national affairs are pushed literally into the background, echoing the character’s own curtailed perspective. Roma: why Alfonso Cuaron's Oscar frontrunner is a triumph 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z The set pieces are energetic, the makeup effects are convincing, and the storytelling is ruthless. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Every so often, though, Waters develops a longer dramatic set piece. Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Paying Guests,’ by Sarah Waters Within his choreography, Mr. Peck creates structures, like set pieces, with clusters of bodies. Review: City Ballet’s ‘Americana x Five’ Offers a Comforting Mix 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Instead of white-knuckle action, we get a sequence of exquisitely rendered set pieces. ‘High Dive’ review: A bomb is ticking under the prime minister 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Zahler’s skill at staging a bang-up set piece is undeniable, and he displays a welcomely nuanced interest in the blurry, gray lines that separate good and evil. ‘The Trip to Greece,’ ‘Moonwalkers’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z The special effects are top notch, the dialogue is smart and the action set pieces are among the most skillfully executed of the year, surpassed only by those seen in "Mission Impossible: Fallout." Top 10 blockbuster movies of 2018: Ranking the year's major action films and franchise behemoths 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z At least Ms. Zaytoun and especially Ms. Bott get to indulge in would-be comic tours de force in which they juggle two and even three roles, even if these set pieces overstay their welcome. Theater Review: Paula Vogel’s ‘And Baby Makes Seven’ Is Revived 2014-03-25T21:55:51Z The final “set piece,” at least, is deliciously over the top. Art Review: Art Imitates Movies in a Series of Scenes 2010-12-23T22:22:15Z There are some spectacular battle set pieces that still stand up, especially on the big screen. Every Star Wars film – ranked! 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z “We built five separate set pieces to shoot different parts of the sequence,” Mr. Hennah said. The Carpetbagger: 'The Hobbit's Visual Tricksters 2013-01-08T15:00:34Z But this performance made a strong case for its glimmers of forward-thinking angularity as well as its late-Verdian propulsion: it is an assemblage of set pieces — arias, ensembles, choruses — that presses forward with vigor. Opera Review: A Modern Media Spin on Ivan the Terrible 2014-03-06T11:43:55Z The confirmation party her mother throws to usher her, at 14, into the working ranks is another set piece of tenderly wrapped horror. Beyond the Cruel Facts of Her Life Are Truths That Cut Deep 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Hart’s show is a series of set pieces that lean on high-energy storytelling rather than concise jokes. Kevin Hart Is a Comedian Built for the Big Stage (and Screen) 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z On the plus side, "Singer always has a neat special effect, a well-timed gag or an action set piece around the corner, whipping up the action towards a symphonic climax." 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' compelling, if convoluted, early reviews say 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z And other, smaller companies are joining in, like the Industry, whose inaugural production, of Anne LeBaron’s new opera, “Crescent City,” immersed both singers and audience in a warehouse full of vivid installation-style set pieces. Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni,’ Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel 2012-05-27T22:36:40Z Such set pieces as the exciting "Dance at the Gym," the aching "One Hand, One Heart," the punky, jiving "Gee, Officer Krupke" and the acrobatic "Cool" hold their magic. Revamped 'West Side Story' still powerful 2012-01-12T03:01:05Z This particular and thoroughly unnecessary set piece takes place in the Mexican movie “Heli,” one of those exploitation films that sells its violent goods with art cinema pretension. Critic’s Notebook: At Cannes Film Festival, Ducking Rain and Competition 2013-05-16T22:03:37Z He wrangled the eclectic, if erratic, score — a succession of talky set pieces in which arias are more like brief soliloquies — into a coherent, flowing drama. Review: The Time for Prokofiev’s ‘War and Peace’ Is Now 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Alas, the set piece seems obligatory and somewhat, in one of its aspects, implausible. Review | The quiet allure of Charles Cumming’s ‘A Divided Spy’ 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z There are great sequences, brilliant set pieces, very nice shots – but they rarely hold together, still less allowing actual narrative subtlety to intrude on the scene-shifting. Critics assemble: our writers pick their favorite superhero films 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z In the dark recesses of set pieces yet to be rolled on and illuminated, Benanti waits, a mask of professional composure, for her next entrance. What’s it like behind the scenes at ‘My Fair Lady’? We went backstage with Laura Benanti. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The opening panorama – a painfully slow tracking shot of peasants trudging towards Lear’s castle – is one of the great set pieces of Shakespearean cinema. The best Shakespeare films – ranked! 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z That was one of the more exciting set pieces that season, but Michonne’s discovery of the bloody invisibility cloak allowed her to move to the prison and unite with what’s left of Rick’s clan. The Walking Dead Watch: Collision Course 2012-11-19T15:40:17Z The same set pieces are repeated, with some but not much variation, from one book — or season — to another. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Downton Abbey’ Begins Third Season on Sunday on PBS 2013-01-03T12:59:00Z The caffeinated cuts and pacing never allow the audience to find its footing in the film’s large, expensive set pieces, which prevents the action from becoming truly thrilling. ‘The Gray Man’ Review: Guy vs. Guy 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z When “The Young Pope” is bad, it’s epically so — laughable, with histrionics and mustache-twirling and bombastic set pieces. Review: ‘The Young Pope’ Is Beautiful and Ridiculous 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z You can see stagehand markings in chalk on the back of the set pieces; the characters then make their own charcoal drawings — musical notes and all — in the final act. ‘La Bohème’: Should Opera’s Most Beloved Classic Be Changed? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z “The Chemical Wedding” is full of outlandish set pieces—candles that walk on their own; a queen’s gown so beautiful it can’t be gazed upon—that might suggest an allegorical reading. Reimagining a Shadowy Medieval Brotherhood That Probably Didn’t Exist 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The overstuffed story takes one too many detours — including an inane set piece at New York Comic-Con — and the ubiquitous Hasbro product placement is distracting. 'Ted 2' is overstuffed and absurd but wickedly funny 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z And many of the famous set pieces in his movies — the shower scene in “Psycho,” the crop duster scene in “North by Northwest” — Mr. Ackroyd suggests, were part of the director’s initial inspiration. Review: In ‘Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life,’ Fear Drives a Master of Suspense 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Besides, too many of the scenes were static set pieces, revealing little and moving the episode nowhere you could see. Don Draper: Stuck in place as 'Mad Men' drifts? 2013-04-08T03:03:08Z Rather than integrating Native Americans into her world, they are reduced to background set pieces.” Pottermore problems: Scholars and writers call foul on J.K. Rowling’s North American magic 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z This is the main reason Spectre is making no waves during awards season, with Sam Mendes’ insatiable appetite for set pieces leaving the movie on the same overstuffed shelf as Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight series. The never-ending story: why are Oscar movies often so long? 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Savvy filmmakers know that when their releases are scheduled during the summer, it helps to include a musical sequence or set piece. The (Other) Sounds of Summer: Musical Scenes That Make Movies Sizzle 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Henze also skillfully integrates set pieces into the framework with no loss of dramatic tension. Review: 'Elegy for Young Lovers' Gets Strong Staging at English National Opera 2010-05-04T11:30:00Z There are some outstanding set pieces – the moment when Russell and a fellow criminal try to destroy a car by setting it on fire is a surreal moment of dismay. Killing Them Softly 2012-05-22T11:22:25Z Nothing could be bolted to the floor, so actors would crouch behind set pieces to hold them up. In ‘The Play That Goes Wrong,’ It’s Murder, Strictly for Laughs 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Her new show, her funniest yet, also zeros in on gendered double standards, but its finest comic set pieces dig into the bottomless amusement of lust. Ali Wong’s Raunchy New Stand-Up Set Brings the Laughs We Need 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z This isn't a movie about one of those chatterbox charmers with silenced pistols who cavorts through explosive set pieces, trading pop culture references as if "Pulp Fiction" just came out last week. Why we need more "adult" movies 2010-09-07T15:28:00Z The final set piece involves a nuclear submarine, a plane and an infrared missile. Tracing the evolution of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, movie by movie 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Many of the performers occupy the same bit of real estate when they are presenting one of the play’s famous set pieces. The Shakespeare Globe’s Informal ‘King Lear’ at the Skirball 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z In bed that night, I kept seeing the colors and images and magical moving set pieces in my head. ‘Grease’ in a Nairobi High School: Saheem Ali on His First Time Directing 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Maisel’s second series swapped storyline for absurd set pieces in Paris and the Catskills that did nothing but show off Amazon Prime’s Emmy-abetted budget. Sorry episodes: the most disappointing TV shows of 2018 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Boardwalk Empire, by contrast, is a return to the high style of sumptuous set pieces and simple psychological motivations. Rewind TV: Boardwalk Empire; The Big C; Louis Theroux ? Ultra Zionists; Welcome to Romford 2011-02-06T00:05:43Z “The plotting is fantastic, the set pieces are great, really excellent cliffhangers,” he said. Here’s What 11 TV Writers Are Bingeing 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Scarif is a gorgeous oasis and an eye-popping new set piece in the “Star Wars” world. ‘Rogue One’ Takeaways: Vader, Droids and a Stunning Planet 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z I wanted the audience care about the characters and not just the action set pieces. "The Old Guard": Gina Prince-Bythewood on superhero diversity, that ending & sequel possibilities 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z Many of the movie’s plot points serve as filler between major, impressively designed law-enforcement set pieces, the most remarkable of which could have been a freestanding feature film in itself. “Patriots Day,” a Police Procedural for the Age of Surveillance 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z And as the show continues, Mr. Wheeldon adroitly keeps it flowing, with the ensemble dancers moving set pieces in crossfades and montages that impressionistically blur the boundaries between scenes and numbers. Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘An American in Paris’ Brings Ballet Values to Broadway 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The film’s set pieces, from locations to traps, are temples of old Hollywood craftsmanship. Four Secrets About ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Their script is a barrage of quirky one-liners that punch up familiar set pieces like an accidental drug bender, a hot wings-eating contest, and a high-stakes card game. ‘80 for Brady’ Review: Remember These Titans 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Your triumphant appearance in the “Game of Thrones” episode “Hardhome,” after seasons of teasing, was a coup, a set piece, a breathtaking, daze-inducing experience so pleasurable that it transcended what was already transcendent. An Open Letter to the White Walker Army 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Visitors can easily float through on the immersive effects and clever set pieces. A New Museum of the American Revolution, Warts and All 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z With oppression and imprisonment as a running theme, numerous set pieces follow as the plot juggles a growing roster of thinly developed characters. 'Flying Swords of Dragon Gate': China's first IMAX 3D spectacle 2012-08-31T00:01:05Z Bergman appears in solo splendor on the German poster, beaming above a set piece of fez-topped musicians. ‘Casablanca’ and the Romance of the Refugee 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Her new work, ¡Ay!, sees her return to a more traditional format – a series of plotless, solo set pieces, with live music accompaniment – but she's also taken a real step forward. Eva Yerbabuena/Farruquito – review 2013-03-18T12:50:00Z Normally, you sit in a concert hall, and you experience a set piece of music in a set time. UW student's sound art plays at Washington Park Arboretum 2012-10-01T01:00:01Z That sequence, like most of the other action set pieces in the film, is lean, brutal and efficient, and evidence of Mr. Affleck’s skill and self-confidence as a director. | 'The Town': Bunker Hill to Fenway: A Crook?s Freedom Trail 2010-09-16T22:14:00Z The main cast had to travel between 14 different soundstages and 21 different set pieces in order to perform, mostly on glorified golf carts. “Grease: Live”‘s technical triumph: A dazzling production almost makes up for lackluster leads 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z The action set pieces in particular are ploddingly dull. Ben Affleck is the best thing in "Triple Frontier," a clunker of a heist film 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z And Michael Yeargan’s fondness for levitating set pieces here has some symbolic resonance. Review: A ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Revival With an Echo of Modernity 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Its action set pieces are cleverly conceived and coherently executed in ways that make them feel surprising, even exciting. Movie Review: ‘World War Z’ Stars Brad Pitt Battling Zombies 2013-06-20T22:55:53Z The actor’s wide-eyed reactions to an epic set piece early in the sweeping story came from genuine emotion. Diego Calva and the Detour That Took Him to ‘Babylon’ 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z He brought the right blush of fervor to some more pugnacious Police tracks — “Next to You,” “Driven to Tears,” “Demolition Man” — and duly simmered on later set pieces like “I Hung My Head.” Music Review: Sting at Roseland Ballroom - Review 2011-11-09T22:11:10Z However, with the possible exception of an extended action set piece involving a bursting dam, they aren't essential for those who choose to forgo the box-office premium placed on what remains essentially a novelty. 'Tangled': Disney's twist on Rapunzel is tressed for success 2010-11-23T21:57:00Z American political celebrity is the thrust of a small and fascinating set piece that features, among other items, the Lincoln casts and several dainty earthenware figures of Washington and Franklin. Art Review: Art Imitates Movies in a Series of Scenes 2010-12-23T22:22:15Z Uniformed W.P.A. guards demanded that all the show’s costumes, props and set pieces remain in the building because they were considered government property. The Virus Won’t Revive F.D.R.’s Arts Jobs Program. Here’s Why. 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Kelly, a writer for “Saturday Night Live,” adds humorous set pieces that don’t mesh well. Review: In ‘Other People,’ a Son’s Anxieties Mount as Tragedy Looms 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z A lot of the show's greatest moments were universally recognisable set pieces. Will The Inbetweeners US remake triumph? 2012-06-27T14:09:59Z The movie coasts on the charms of its rubber-faced star and its witty, easygoing set pieces. | 'Johnny English Reborn': ?Johnny English Reborn? Stars Rowan Atkinson - Review 2011-10-20T20:52:35Z A relatively low-budget project, especially when compared with the “Transformers” franchise he started, it bundles explosive set pieces into a plot that would be preposterous if you stopped to think about it. ‘Ambulance’ Review: Michael Bay Is Our Emergency Movie Technician 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z The set pieces are predictably great, but the story seems needlessly intricate and frustratingly opaque. From Memento to Interstellar: our writers pick their favourite Christopher Nolan films 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z “I liked that, and was drawn to it. I had to take photos of something, but never set pieces, always spontaneous.” Sabine Weiss, Last of the ‘Humanist’ Street Photographers, Dies at 97 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z The film’s tech geekiness converges with breathtaking action set pieces and groundbreaking visual effects to create a thoughtful, and telling, critique of the convergence of the digital and physical. In the Movies, A.I. Wants to Help … Until It Doesn’t 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z It pays off with some truly frightening set pieces. ‘A dark presence squats on my chest’: the waking nightmare of sleep paralysis 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z It was characterised by effective low-key photography and punctuated by some lively set pieces. Michael Cacoyannis obituary 2011-07-25T17:31:46Z Wednesday’s music alternated between set pieces — originals or written arrangements of standards — and more open sections. Review: Instant Composers Pool Orchestra Plays at Roulette 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Its best part, a set piece in her recent shows, was a shouted meditation on her recent surgery over a one-chord, whole-band tremolo. Critic’s Notebook: Essence Music Festival With Mary J. Blige, in New Orleans 2012-07-09T22:42:42Z Such low-key moments are presented with the same throwaway bravado as the big set pieces, like the one in which an elephant is made to vanish. Review: ‘Penn & Teller on Broadway’ Explores the Illusions of Technology 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z In the Triumphal Scene, a horse-drawn chariot caught on a looming set piece, scarily dragging it forward before being disentangled. Review: The Met Opera’s Grand Old ‘Aida’ Isn’t Dead Yet 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z The action set pieces are meticulously crafted and thrillingly executed, and the fact that Tom Cruise performs his own stunts easily earns him the right to be ranked alongside action legends like Jackie Chan. Top 10 blockbuster movies of 2018: Ranking the year's major action films and franchise behemoths 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z His most ambitious set pieces, the ones that get the belly laughs, work not by outsmarting the audience but by playing the fool. Jokes + Exasperation + Subtext = a New York Club Comic on the Rise 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The action flick’s biggest set piece, a treacherous bank robbery involving a car chase through claustrophobic cobblestone streets, is a highlight in a film filled with senseless killing, young love and midlife regret. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Among the busy, chaotic set pieces, a few stand out, notably a haunting and absurd encounter with shape-shifting sirens who lure mariners to their doom. Review: ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift,’ With Ray Romano 2012-07-12T13:54:00Z A couple of decent set pieces — one inflicting severe vehicular pain on the boyfriend, other using hot irons as defibrillators on a cop’s chest — are the most distant approximations of gags from early Stooge shorts. The Three Stooges: When Slapstick Meets Sentiment 2012-04-12T17:00:17Z The friendship story line acts mostly to tie together enthusiastically shot battlefield set pieces, innumerable episodes of intra-army abuse, and generally demonstrations of heroic endurance amid wretchedness. Movie Review: ?My Way? From the Korean Director Kang Je-kyu 2012-04-20T00:35:48Z As the synopsis suggests, plot is nothing more than an excuse to create a string of humorous set pieces featuring visual gags, snappy one-liners and lively song-and-dance numbers. My streaming gem: why you should watch Road to Bali 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z She writes comic set pieces to make you laugh, sex scenes to turn you on. ‘Mostly Dead Things,’ a Story of Taxidermy, Love and Grief, With Echoes of Past Literary Heroines 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z An ensuing onboard “game show,” a sort of “Newlywed Game”-style competition, is a great set piece; Harry concocts a scheme that allows them to win, albeit awkwardly. Two Netflix Original Dads, Incarnated by TV Favorites 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The set opened as the album does, with the chiming overture “IN9-1881,” which fades into a swinging set piece called “The Search.” Review: John Patitucci Takes His Electric Bass to the Iridium 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The free-for-all structure allows for wildly funny set pieces. | 'The Names of Love': You?re a Fascist? Let?s Hop in Bed! 2011-06-23T22:23:05Z These, too, are cheered by knowing audience members as beloved set pieces of the genre, and by the end of the show, you may find yourself happily applauding them, too. A Kabuki Drama at the Lincoln Center Festival 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Life’s Too Short is, in the three episodes I’ve seen, just an excuse for a string of set pieces about how ridiculous stars, and non-stars, are. TV Weekend: Life?s Too Short 2012-02-17T17:23:29Z For the most part, Wick chases or is chased by other assassins, shooting and stabbing, grappling and grunting in a series of visually distinct, meticulously staged and filmed set pieces. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z But these irritations are swept aside by the energy of the writing and some great set pieces, the best being a wonderfully vivid description of the oracle at Delphi. Halo by Zizou Corder | Book review 2010-03-20T00:08:00Z The set pieces: In split screen, we see Hobbs and Shaw in Los Angeles and London respectively fight off a bunch of people to extract information. Tracing the evolution of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, movie by movie 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z It is described as a standing show where the audience are encouraged to move around the venue as acrobats leap and perform on moving set pieces spinning above the crowd. Injuries as set falls on audience 2014-01-18T18:10:01Z That Mr. Minhaj, who is 30, is still brooding about high school is a bit worrisome, but mostly these set pieces are just anticlimactic. Review: Hasan Minhaj’s ‘Homecoming,’ a Tale of Multiple Worlds 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Inserted haphazardly along the way are big computer-generated set pieces — a stampede, a ballroom fight, a battle on a speeding train — all chaotically staged. 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter': It's ridiculous, honestly 2012-06-20T22:25:08Z The action sequences and convoluted pursuit of various MacGuffins — way stations toward the ultimate MacGuffin — are masterfully done, with cinematic set pieces, noirish interludes and horrifying bad guys. Review | Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Hummingbird Salamander’ is a gripping eco-thriller full of cinematic set pieces 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z In absence of either good humor or good set pieces, “Blue Iguana” is a heist gone bust. Review: ‘Blue Iguana’ Takes Two Goofballs, Adds a Caper and Comes Up Empty 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z By relying on jump scares, “It” becomes a series of tethered-together set pieces and not a unified film with a cohesive atmosphere. "It Chapter Two" will have to abandon jump scares to justify its nearly three-hour runtime 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z The book’s most striking set pieces — Disney’s dialogue with an animatronic Abraham Lincoln; the unexpected arrival of a frightening girl in an owl mask — retain their mysterious power onstage but don’t connect to their surroundings. Music Review: ‘The Perfect American,’ by Philip Glass, at Teatro Real 2013-02-01T16:17:23Z “I think back to where we were even 10 years ago and one or two of the set pieces in ‘Tenet’ could have probably been the climax of one of those earlier movies,” Thomas laughed. What’s bigger than an event film? ‘Tenet’ might just be 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z It brings Wayne's story to a suitably epic conclusion while at the same time offering the dramatic imbroglios, action set pieces, twists and surprises the form demands. The Dark Knight Rises – review 2012-07-21T23:05:32Z Thanks to the conductor Ryan Brown and the four singers, the recitatives between the set pieces stayed suspenseful; the act took us through quite a spectrum. Review: Lafayette’s Double Bill of Baroque Opera and Dance Drama 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Anna’s rescue of Astor feels hurried along in order to get to another eye-catching set piece, this time on the shore and water at the Straits of Messina. Review: In ‘Anna,’ the End of Adults, but Not the World 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Love interest is offered by Caractacus's daughter Eigen and the minstrel Orbin, while set pieces for the Arch Druid and his followers provide a hint of pagan exoticism, complete with bare-bosomed maidens. Caractacus ? review 2011-08-11T12:06:08Z One impressive set piece takes place within a high-rise, wherein an entire neighborhood of people donning masks chases the officers. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z And the big, hectic set pieces aren’t bad, as long as the gunfire doesn’t drown out Ms. McCarthy’s floridly inventive insults and non sequiturs. Review: In ‘Spy,’ Melissa McCarthy Is a C.I.A. Drudge Who Goes Rogue 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Despite an aggressively formulaic nature and virtually no believable story momentum, this phony tale of a simultaneous bachelor/bachelorette party eventually glides into a second act of extremely amusing and well choreographed set pieces. Think Like a Man Too review: 'A Vegas wedding without the hangover' 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z This is a story that needed a steady supply of super-trashy set pieces, because the indistinguishable characters cannot keep us engaged. ‘The Canyons’: Tale of Hollywood Z-listers falls short 2013-09-05T21:22:20Z What it does help, however, is the problem of the 45-ton machine so central to his production as its primary set piece. Review: In the Met’s ‘Siegfried,’ Singers Transcend the Staging 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z I don’t think I read the whole, 1,000-plus page thing through more than twice, but I read my favorite set pieces dozens of times. “Battlefield Earth”: Romney vs the Psychlos 2012-05-24T20:42:00Z Gifford is a master of the set piece in the tradition of Nelson Algren: larger-than-life characters, ribald dialogue and an uninhibited spirit that seesaws between the profound and the profane. Barry Gifford's 'The Up-Down' salutes legacy of Sailor and Lula 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Cutouts had become another signature of Katz’s gallery work: an extension of the flatness in his portraits crossed with the theatrical notion of a “flat,” a two-dimensional set piece. ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Granted, some things don’t age all that well in “Parenthood,” including a comic set piece involving the fantasy of a campus shooting. Perspective | Abortion has always been a tough subject for Hollywood. ‘Parenthood’ got it right. 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Neither of his earlier books required a huge set piece for a satisfying ending. Joe Ide Adds More Breathless Action to the Mix in ‘Wrecked’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The California artist Alison Saar designed the set pieces, which include the strangest lighthouse you might ever see: a sculpture of a woman, nearly as tall as the stage, clasping silver branches. Dance Review: Garth Fagan Dance at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-09-29T01:40:07Z Otherwise, it's a day-long set piece evoking America "as a nightmare of superabundance". Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain – review 2012-07-06T21:55:09Z That change sets up one of the snazziest set pieces in the caper movie canon, as Pierce Brosnan’s art thief stages an elaborate museum diversion to return his stolen prize. Stream These Ultra-Cool Heist Movies 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z And he can usually give you a good set piece while he’s at it. ‘The Little Mermaid’ Review: The Renovations Are Only Skin Deep 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z So it’s hard to tell if this movie avoids any conventionally exciting set pieces out of scrupulousness or just lack of inspiration. ‘Sound of Freedom’ Review: In the Land of Child Traffickers 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Both its Westbeth basement space and a New Jersey storage facility were flooded, leaving costumes, set pieces and paper records, some dating as far back as the 1930s, damaged. For the Public Library, Martha Graham Is the Missing Link 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z I knew we would never recreate the incredible set pieces from London, like the end of Act I bleacher that glided magically across the stage during “We Go Together.” ‘Grease’ in a Nairobi High School: Saheem Ali on His First Time Directing 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Apart from its witty dialogue and small, personal moments, the film contains some larger set pieces. A 'lost story' of 'Pride' touches on bonds, support and so much more 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z “My Nuclear Family” is packed with arresting set pieces. Books of The Times: What?s a Submarine Officer Doing in the Desert? 2010-09-21T21:23:00Z For days, they have been loading in set pieces, hiding them in corners of the cavernous opera house so they can find them after the Met loads out. Never Missing a Curtain This Season, the Met Opera Takes a Final Bow 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z So the chorus and Ms. Kampe must sing far back, with no side or rear set pieces that would help project sound. Review: A New ‘Flying Dutchman’ Makes Landfall at the Met Opera 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z It’s a grisly, but also a kind of funny, visual set piece that gets at the children’s nightmare spirit of the novel. ‘Miss Peregrine’ and Tim Burton: The Making of a Film Fable 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z You can feel Ms. Lange giving her all to each of her big set pieces, but they often feel too exquisitely self-contained, like coloratura arias in an opera. Review: ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ Is a Tempest in a Bourbon Bottle 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z In a late set piece, Rosetti goes to a diner and ends up ordering “spaghetti and meatballs,” which is a slightly ridiculous idea to a Sicilian immigrant. Boardwalk Empire Recap: A Chaos of Spoils 2012-09-23T22:04:22Z Frenzied Afro-Cuban dancing mixes with statelier Mexican danzón; one set piece is illuminated by a flashing neon sign, and another puts Mercedes and her sister in a museum, surrounded by pre-Columbian artifacts. The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema Lives Quietly Online 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Without a strong script — the defining foundational document of every great film — the audience is subjected to an ad hoc of stunts, set pieces and effects-driven spectacle. Perspective | ‘Trump: The First 100 Days,’ a troubled production in constant rewrite 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The daily press briefing at the White House, in the time of covid-19, features a rotating cast of characters and set pieces: illegible charts and dispassionate doctors, pushy reporters and bizarre special guests. It’s 5 o’clock. Do you know where your president is? 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z At times, my son made miniature versions of set pieces or characters to feign very long shots. 3-Minute Masterpiece 2014: Tips for digital filmmakers 2014-03-19T21:36:26Z It’s the set pieces that stand out, like the wonderful scene in which Mr. Greenspan evokes the backstage machinations that led to the selection of Harding for the Republican presidential ticket in 1920. 2010-01-12T07:09:00Z The show is always fixated on style and set pieces and production design—just last week I wrote about its use of symmetry. “Mad Men” recap: “Advertising is not a very comfortable place for everyone” 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z And there's an excellent choreographic set piece, a dining-hall riot set to banging mugs, which briefly shows us what this ballet could be, had greater creative rigour been imposed on it. La Bayadère; Midnight Express – review 2013-04-13T23:05:26Z Alas, one does not get the bravura set pieces of Hell in a Handbag's best work, and much here is overplayed. 'Trogg!' digs up something enthusiastically terrible 2011-05-31T21:37:41Z Indeed, you can think of Ms. Bamford as the Wes Anderson of stand-up: Both are refined artists whose meticulous and sensitive set pieces are formally daring and stubbornly committed to a distinctive aesthete’s sensibility. Maria Bamford’s New Special Is a Kind of Inspired Gibberish 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The tallest set pieces are the 14-foot-high letters that spell “NYC,” to signify the action’s move to New York, and “Douglas Steel,” the name of the shipping line in the play. An Industrial Hellscape With You at the Center 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z It’s Tarantino, so the violence and profanity are plentiful, but the set pieces are thrilling, the characterizations are vivid and the laughs stick in the throat. Stream These 9 Movies and Shows Before They Leave Netflix in July 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Not all of these comics are as suited to theaters as Ms. Schumer, who can effortlessly shift from a dramatic set piece to a chatty intimate style while still playing to the third balcony. ‘Trainwreck Comedy Tour’ Is Amy Schumer’s Thing 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z A chase and shootout soon follow, and Greengrass shows his action set piece chops in this exciting sequence. Tom Hanks' "News of the World" is a toothless throwback Western 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Most critically, however, Mr. Wolf cannot pull off a vital set piece toward the end, which lacks both emotional heft and genuine suspense. Books of The Times: ‘The Intercept,’ Dick Wolf’s First Novel 2013-01-10T19:26:43Z Parked nearby, amid a staged scene of murderous mayhem, is a model of one of the show's signature set pieces -- Aunt Marie's trailer. ArtsBeat: TV Pumps Up Its Presence at Comic-Con 2012-07-12T17:26:49Z Inside the empty lounge, I approached the shuttered bar, which looked haunted, like a set piece in a seafaring remake of “The Shining.” In Chicago, the tourist experience is a mix of the familiar and the foreign 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Even worse, it didn't contain nearly as many memorable lines or action set pieces as either the "Iron Man" film that came before it or the one that came afterward. What's the legacy of The Infinity Saga? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The second half of the movie moves quickly, boom, boom, boom, and shows off Saleh’s ability to fluidly stage violent set pieces. ‘The Contractor’ Review: The Pine Identity 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z And one of the novel’s funniest set pieces describes the company’s annual employee morale survey, which is “delayed, reconceived, put off, and then abandoned entirely.” Review | If you hate office life, you’ll love — and laugh at — this novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Can you talk about creating some of the set pieces? "Massive Talent" filmmakers on Nicolas Cage's weird authenticity and the hilarious line he ad-libbed 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z With designers and the young market central to its strategy, the Palladium Board may be smarter than run-of-the-mill jewelers with trays of traditional gold rings and gem set pieces. Palladium Takes Less Traveled Road to Find Distinction 2012-12-06T16:48:50Z “All of a sudden, it’s the Cookie takeover,” Ms. Henson said, sitting in a corner-office set piece. Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z "Ghostbusters," on the other hand, is a big studio franchise with heavy genre elements — a new installment would presumably include eye-popping action set pieces and extensive visual effects. 'Ghostbusters 3': Is Paul Feig a good fit? 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z But such emblematic rock-and-roll set pieces know that freedom emerges the other way around at least as often—and that its great leaps forward are often followed by prudent retreats. The Startling Blast of “Rock Around the Clock,” Sixty Years Later 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Its gag set pieces run the gamut from uninspired to incoherent; Rob Schneider, voicing the title role, is energetic but bland. Review: In ‘Norm of the North,’ a Polar Bear Takes a Stand 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The nature and sheer scale and volume of action set pieces was unlike anything I had experienced. ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The ending of Suspiria isn’t bad, but it’s not as scary as the opening, which is one of the great set pieces in horror cinema. From Rosemary's Baby to Suspiria, five directors on cinema's scariest moments 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z These assume the form of intricate, gaudy set pieces in which the scenery performs more than the cast members. Theater Review: ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Opens in London 2013-06-26T16:33:57Z Taken in themselves, the pilots are at about the same quality: uneven, with very promising set pieces, and probably the two best sitcom pilots in a not-fantastic fall for new sitcoms. TV Tonight: The Mindy Project, Ben and Kate 2012-09-25T12:00:33Z A rendition of Aventura’s hit “Un Beso” occasioned a reliable set piece in which Santos brought a woman onstage and serenaded her; the song ended with a kiss on the lips. Romeo Santos comes on like a king at Staples Center 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z The snowy sets are teeming with extras, the precise period details offer a tactile texture and the large set pieces gives the story an epic quality. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z But in removing set pieces and characters, and focusing the story on just the two largely unknown leads, the team made the movie harder to market. ‘For a Good Time, Call ,’ an Indie Film With Ari Graynor 2012-08-29T22:21:46Z “Joy Ride” processes all of its familiar ingredients into a sustained, sometimes near-berserk, barrage of jokes, interspersed with epic set pieces. ‘Joy Ride’ Review: A Raunch-Com Roller Coaster 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z In the most elaborate set piece, Jay dives into an indoor swimming pool, which her friends encircle with electrical appliances. Review: In ‘It Follows,’ a Shape-Shifting Horror Stalks a Teenager 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z In one set piece, Elle is naked and covered in blood, rolling around on the floor as cooking noises are played along with droning music. "Flux Gourmet" is an absurdist adventure in pretentious performance art made from food sounds 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z “Keeping these series fresh — moving characters forward, maintaining the storytelling quality, adding new worlds, new antagonists, new set pieces — is as hard as any creative challenge in the business.” ‘The Batman’ Opens With Blockbuster Ticket Sales 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z Ms. Bigelow’s direction here is unexpectedly stunning, at once bold and intimate: she has a genius for infusing even large-scale action set pieces with the human element. Movie Review: Jessica Chastain in ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ 2012-12-17T23:06:45Z The adventure remake – as bereft of character development as its 1981 template, but graced by dazzling effects and some of the most thrilling set pieces to emerge from Hollywood in years – dominated the weekend. Clash of the Titans rules US box office | Jeremy Kay 2010-04-05T10:08:00Z "Operation Fortune" feels lazy with its action set pieces that should get viewers' blood flowing but instead feel tiresome. In "Operation Fortune," Aubrey Plaza saves Guy Ritchie's latest action-packed but lackluster caper 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Each is a virtuosic set piece that leans on a certain anxiety over whether he is going to say too much. Can You Love a Stand-Up Special About Loathing? 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z A long bench is almost the only set piece. Music Review: City Opera?s ?Cos? Fan Tutte? at Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-03-19T22:28:54Z One of the most thrilling set pieces includes an adrenaline-fueled bus brawl packed with endless kicks, flips and martial arts tricks against a rather intimidating and enhanced opponent. "Shang-Chi" is an unapologetically Asian triumph about an unapologetically Asian superhero 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Among the film’s breathtaking set pieces, to say nothing of the sun-drenched vistas of Sicily, are a siege of Palermo and a spectacular hourlong banquet sequence that is a marvel of production design. The Week Ahead: Aug. 12 — 18 2012-08-11T03:44:19Z The set pieces in “Bad Trip” are as ambitious as anything Andre has attempted on his TV series but were at times more dangerous. Eric Andre Isn’t a Prankster, He’s a ‘Benevolent Attacker’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z “Diana’s Altar” opens with one of those macabre set pieces that P.D. ‘Diana’s Altar’ by Barbara Cleverly beckons fans of P.D. James 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z So too, do several of the other action set pieces but the film is not concerned with realism. Brad Pitt hops aboard the ridiculous, rollicking "Bullet Train" packed with gleefully violent stars 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Zink excels at scathing set pieces that caustically sum up places and local cultures. ‘Nicotine’: The new zany-brainy novel from Nell Zink 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The last third of the film is a ballroom scene that Ben Mankiewicz, the host introducing the film for TCM, called “one of the most famous set pieces in cinema history.” | TV: ?The Leopard? and Its Lush Interiors 2011-08-24T22:41:39Z The requisite gun battle is one of the film's better set pieces in large measure because it showcases the production and costume design. 'The Salvation' a western that gets lost in the genre 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Our critic deemed it “often chaotic but never disorienting,” and praised its “spirited set pieces.” The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Her finest set piece investigates her childhood fantasy about the band New Kids on the Block, which, she recalls, involved her working as a maid on their tour bus. 5 Stand-Up Specials to Stream This Week 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Its last act is essentially a single set piece about a severely dysfunctional family at dinner, with battling brothers fighting for the approval of a damaged patriarch. In ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre,’ Sympathy for the Devil 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Some of his most inspired creations have been stagings of Glass’s operas — especially the ritualistic set pieces of “Satyagraha” and the juggling spectacle of “Akhnaten.” Review: Philip Glass and the Meaning of Life 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z For one selection, Rauschenberg contributed a live dog as a set piece. ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z "Rise of the Guardians" is at its best when it slows down, especially in one of the holiday-themed set pieces. 'Rise of the Guardians': Holiday legends unite, 'Avengers' style 2012-11-20T00:35:05Z Yes, it involves a set piece with a massive soft pretzel. Rachel Bloom Is Breaking TV Boundaries With Spanx and Diversity 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z It makes for a juicy set piece, and it further hardens President Kirkman. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 7: Whac-a-Mole 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z As the titular clash builds, "Jackson's massed set pieces shift between stirring visual salvos and general panoramic swarming." 'Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' a flawed finale, reviews say 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Each set piece, such as that between Gonsalve and Inigo hiding in their clocks, has an air of tense, nervous comedy. Glyndebourne 2012: A musical guide to the Ravel opera double bill 2012-08-16T11:05:51Z In one of the book’s many memorable set pieces, Ayad’s car breaks down while driving through Pennsylvania. Review | Ayad Akhtar’s play ‘Disgraced’ won a Pulitzer Prize. Now ‘Homeland Elegies’ shows what that success cost him. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z This is what happens when emotion and character are sacrificed for jokes, when set pieces are preferred over narrative, when a movie is just a collection of so-so gags. Review: Half-baked 'Babymakers' comes up negative 2012-08-01T13:38:09Z Can the studio pull off the same feat for Ruben Ostlund’s social satire “Triangle of Sadness,” which also took the Palme and similarly mines class warfare for big laughs and shocking set pieces? Will These Be the 10 Best Picture Oscar Nominees? 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z In these otherworldly set pieces, Doneghy’s conflicted father eventually enters the fold. Review | Constellation Theatre’s ‘Moon Man Walk’ stumbles through a cosmic voyage of love and loss 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z But when Mr. Kwan wrote the book, which was published in 2013, he never thought his set pieces would spring to life. ‘This Story Transcends Race’: Kevin Kwan on the Appeal of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z For example, there is an intense set piece in a gated community outside Phoenix. The Lawless Pleasures of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher Novels 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z As much as the jumbo-screen projections on the monolithic cube that is the concert’s main set piece, the dancers broadcast Beyoncé’s actions all over the arena. Heels on the Ground: Beyoncé and the Army of Women at Her Command 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z The first half sees some riotous set pieces as the company prepare for their performance. Napoletango ? review 2011-08-08T17:17:38Z There’s an extended set piece in which Ethan and Max play tennis, grunting so showily that it drives their neighbors on the court batty, which is often the experience of watching. Review: With Grating ‘Friends From College,’ Who Needs Enemies? 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z The best running set piece is one in which the Lehmans seek a better row in their Manhattan temple, competing with families like the Goldmans and the Sachses, with whom they have much in common. The Story of the Lehman Brothers, from Bavaria to Alabama, and From the Heights to the Crash 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Don't even get me started on the Mandy Moore jazz routine in which he managed to let a set piece out-charm him. Dancers, minus Alex Wong, mix things up on "SYTYCD" 2010-07-08T11:40:00Z It all climaxes with a large, sprawling set piece on the streets of Rotterdam, involving a runaway bus speeding toward a treacherous bridge. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z But if this band goes right, it may attain something better than solos and set pieces, which would be constant flexibility. Music Review: Swimming in a Sea of Color-Shifting Sound 2010-10-20T22:16:00Z That exciting premise of corporate sabotage immediately devolves into a thinly plotted series of mildly amusing set pieces. Review | You won’t find Dave Eggers’s new book on Amazon. That’s the most interesting thing about it. 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z Director Fernando León de Aranoa wanted to play their relationship seriously, but it comes off like a bad telenovela, emphasizing the garish costumes and sets and creating elaborate and stupefying set pieces. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z If they don’t get it, or don’t care, then meant-to-be-hilarious set pieces — like Professor Burr’s incoherent speech at a Greek theater on the slopes of the Acropolis — fall flat. In Will Chancellor’s ‘A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall,’ the hunt for purpose is on “Mongrels” offers a slide show of the narrator’s life between ages 7 and 16, composed of a series of sequential set pieces interspersed with short vignettes that jump around in time. The wild boy wants his fangs in Stephen Graham Jones' "Mongrels" 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z In the book’s funniest set piece, the narrator’s mother tells him she’s cooking him a special breakfast. A Great Indian Novel Reaches American Shores 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z In addition to the gantry crane and mechanized set pieces, Lien’s set is framed by a brick archway and an iron bridge that could serve in a production of “Oliver!” Who Needs a Shave? ‘Sweeney Todd’ Is Back. 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Lestat’s world-weary, broodingly seductive manner and dandyish attire were enhanced by Grand Guignol set pieces, the discovery of entire vampire clans and families, and even more rapturous bloodletting. Lestat returns: In her new novel, Anne Rice revives a much-loved vampire The cult crossover done good – even if it did feel a bit laboured during this final run, galloping towards those big "gross-out" set pieces. Me and My Monsters 2010-10-18T05:45:00Z From the spectacularly gory opening set piece — a harrowing emergency cesarean section, scored only to the frantic spinning of hand-cranked suction machines — it’s clear that the show won’t be offering any “Grey’s Anatomy”-style uplift. Modern Medicine, Circa 1900, in Soderbergh’s ‘The Knick’ 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The question is what they’ll be given to do going forward, beyond generic relationship material, domestic comedy and the occasional action set piece. Television Review: ?Terra Nova? on Fox Has Spielberg Touch ? Review 2011-09-25T19:38:19Z One early set piece, in which deadly spiders run amok in a nursing home, shows potential but swiftly devolves into a tedious slog of limp action clichés and irreverent quipping. ‘The Curse of Bridge Hollow’ Review: Attack of the Halloween Décor 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Drops and set pieces fly in and out in a continual stream, moving the action along at a heady clip and evoking changing locations, both interiors and exteriors. It’s Story Time at Ballet Theater, With a Best Seller Twist 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Yes, there are many funny set pieces, but everything that happens is authentically grounded in the character’s choices, elevating the material. The Most Important Decade for Movies About Black Lives 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z In its bones, “News of the World” is a B western, lean and linear, its spare plot ornamented with efficient set pieces. ‘News of the World’ Review: Tom Hanks Does the Strong, Silent Type 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Instead, it drags the reader along by the sheer energy of its prose, its surreal-to-the-point-of-implausible plot and several extravagant set pieces that, in the extremity of their vision, recall Ballard or Burroughs. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z Then she dug into “When a Man Loves a Woman,” beginning on a set piece made to look and turn like a vintage turntable. 'The Voice' recap: Final four aim to please, shoot to win 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Wisdom and philosophy may be at the heart of the training, but fighting is what the audience wants, too, and the movie provides several glorious set pieces of crunchy kicking and punching. 'Ip Man 2': Sequel's martial-arts action beats the storytelling 2011-01-27T22:55:30Z Too many of the solos felt like operatic set pieces. A Diva, Two Pianists and a Pair of ‘Messiahs’: Classical Music This Week 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z I also, directorially, really wanted to distinguish each sex scene since they are set pieces of every episode. Zoe Lister-Jones subverts sex in "Slip": "Through orgasm, she's being transported into a multiverse" 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z But the depictions of violence, rage, corruption and dissipation have the feel of historical set pieces. | 'Who Do You Love': Leonard Chess: Starting Rock ?n? Roll, Sort Of 2010-04-09T00:03:00Z For “Teenage Dream” and “California Gurls,” Perry flashed even further back in time for a “Beach Blanket Bingo”-style set piece full of toothy grins and goofy movement by dancers dressed as surfboards. Super Bowl 2015: Katy Perry packs it all into halftime show 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z It was an intense set piece, the kind that make such a thrill to watch. The Walking Dead Watch: When the Dead Come Knocking 2012-11-26T05:18:27Z Indian moviegoers already know about Rajamouli’s knack for maximalist action and imaginative set pieces, many of which are built around dynamic special effects and choreography. How the Indian Action Spectacular ‘RRR’ Became a Smash in America 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z The Ryan Coogler-helmed film also works as an exemplary execution of its genre, from the stunning visuals and thrilling action set pieces to its larger role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe saga. "Green Book" robbed "Black Panther" 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Many of his most ambitious set pieces examined the thorny relationship between the performer and the audience, with sensitivity to the dangers of pandering. Lenny Bruce Shattered Taboos, but Was He Funny? 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Massenet is shameless in his manoeuvring of the action to create superb vocal set pieces. Cendrillon; Rinaldo ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:30Z "Our Kind of Traitor" has several virtuoso set pieces, from Dima's desperate opening entreaties in the Caribbean to a stunning climax in the Swiss Alps. 'Our Kind of Traitor': John le Carr?'s novel of the world's number-one money launderer 2010-10-13T23:08:00Z Like its cheerfully raunchy predecessor, which was directed by Steven Soderbergh, this sequel isn't so much about story but about conveying the viewer from one strobe-lighted set piece to the next. 'Magic Mike XXL': Abs and raunch aplenty amid the skimpiest of plots 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z As you continue right, there’s a gallery of Seinfeld props and set pieces, anchored by the Costanza photo shoot set up in the far right corner. Tour Hulu's Version of 'Seinfeld' Apartment 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z This can work, as it did last year, especially with clever set pieces and some awards-magic serendipity. Review: A Driverless Oscars Takes a Winding Road 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z On a shelf nearby are a pair of baseballs signed by Bobby Thomson, whose 1951 pennant-winning home run is the subject of the famous set piece that begins Mr. DeLillo’s novel “Underworld.” 2010-02-03T22:36:00Z Eager fans will likely thrall to the film's many overlong action set pieces, as Superman battles with Zod and his minions. Review: The laden 'Man of Steel' doesn't soar 2013-06-11T14:50:10Z It’s a wildly entertaining, thriller-like set piece — yes, there is a gun — though, as with the show, it is shot through with heady existential queries. Derek DelGaudio and the Great Unburdening of Secrets 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Miller is, above all, a rational filmmaker—a supremely rational one, whose mighty set pieces have the intricately interlocked construction of a Rube Goldberg contraption set to the speed of a Road Runner cartoon. Ridin’ Dirty: “Mad Max: Fury Road” 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z As the genie, he serves as the show's exuberant comic engine, performing an array of high-impact musical numbers and calorie-burning comic set pieces. James Monroe Iglehart releases the genie inside 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z It uses no huge set pieces, no big action scenes. My day at Westboro Baptist: “Yes, Jesus hates you” 2013-03-24T11:00:00Z Once we're back there, we encounter a show that comprises one smashing set piece after another. Pappy's: Last Show Ever – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-22T14:26:35Z Numerous gunfights, combat set pieces and fight scenes are muscularly staged and skillfully supported by Todd E. Miller's editing, though the sheer sound volume grows repetitive and wearying. Review: 'Expendables 2' fleet-footed and engaging 2012-08-14T14:44:10Z Hidden below the stage level, the towering windmill and wooden horse of “Don Quixote” sit amid a maze of set pieces. Never Missing a Curtain This Season, the Met Opera Takes a Final Bow 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z The Jola song was no bigger a set piece than any other. Music Review: At the Schomburg in Harlem, Carolina Chocolate Drops Let Loose 2010-05-03T21:12:00Z Elsewhere, Ms. Spalding created set pieces with lyrics alone, addressing class divisions in a purposefully bleary tune called “Tambien Detroit,” and relationship falsehoods in “Unconditional Love,” a winningly chromatic funk ballad. Review: Esperanza Spalding Recalls the Creativity of Youth in New Songs 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The show, which takes place during what is advertised as the last concert in Fela’s self-contained nation of a compound in Lagos, features a variety of striking set pieces. Theater Review: ‘Fela!’ on Broadway at Al Hirschfeld Theater 2012-07-13T02:00:00Z All this, which would be a long set piece in any other movie, takes about four mins. REVIEW: I Love Lucy — and Luc, and Scarlett 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Shock value also seems to be the point of this episode’s key set piece, a dream sequence in which President Frank Underwood has a vision of himself and Claire at each other’s throats. ‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 1: Is Claire Out of the Woods? 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Although this lengthy set piece could have been edited a bit more smoothly, it is pretty clear who dies, who gets double crossed, and who survives. In "Wrath of Man," Jason Statham shoots his way through an overblown, yet fun revenge thriller 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Remove the paper backing from the veneer, and set pieces of wax paper toward the front of the step to keep the veneer from prematurely sticking while you carefully align the top, back edge. My puppy chewed through the wood stair tread. What to do? 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z While the open corridors of the clinic allow for simple, effective set pieces for the film’s unrestrained gunfights, the leading men are the draw: Adkins’s moodiness reflects a down-on-his-luck loner. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z It is in this dazzling set piece that, McCormick, reminiscent of a young Sissy Spacek, is as awe-inspiring as Faye is awestruck. Here are 6 great film performances you missed in 2020 – and how to watch them 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Instead, tune out until the next amazing set piece, and then gape at the ingenious reconfigurations of objects like packing crates and parasols. Review: ‘SpongeBob SquarePants,’ a Watery Wonderland on Broadway 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z This is especially true in the finale when the floor-show set piece is robbed of its momentum. The Rocky Horror Picture Show: dammit Janet, it doesn't quite work 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z A routine about the Magnificent Seven movie meanders past my patience threshold; and Izzard has to pause too long for applause after an effortful set piece about drug use in the Tour de France. Eddie Izzard – review 2013-05-08T16:52:16Z The story — tightly wrought, intense, unpredictable — offers plenty of heart-stopping set pieces, but the real strength of the novel is Peggy’s gradual transformation from an aggrieved, explosive character into a selfless, courageous one. Aliens Among Us 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Seven international locations is a massive undertaking for any film, but in each one there was a big action set piece to accomplish. What’s bigger than an event film? ‘Tenet’ might just be 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z There’s beauty in the teamwork exhibited as the dancers continually rearrange the set pieces — metal frames designed by the sculptor Antony Gormley — into buildings, cities, a prison. Review: A Sunny but Disappointing Take on the Tower of Babel 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z The classic Hollywood style, epic visual set pieces and charismatic lead performers sweep such cavils before them. Bad book, great movie 2012-06-19T21:13:00Z The moments of wonder, exposition and ethical chin-scratching are arranged around a series of action set pieces that are scary, scrappy and marvelously executed. ‘Jurassic Park’: Where the Wild Things Are 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z In this book’s major set piece, he is taken on in the kitchen at La Mère Brazier, a serious and important Lyonnaise restaurant. In ‘Dirt,’ Bill Buford Goes in Search of French Cuisine’s Secrets 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z His brilliance lay primarily in his move away from the big symphonic set pieces used by his contemporaries towards structures based around successive points of sharp, focused concentration. Herrmann: Citizen Kane; Hangover Square 2010-04-08T21:20:00Z The same problem plagues the musical, which unfolds mostly as a series of loosely connected set pieces. Theater Review: ‘The Jungle Book’ Opens at the Goodman Theater 2013-08-06T20:35:47Z The traditionally animated sailors face the realistically rendered fiery supernova as it becomes a black hole for an action-packed set piece full of interplanetary explosions. ‘Treasure Planet’ at 20: Disney’s Failed Space Odyssey Deserved to Soar 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The result is an incoherent mess that's probably more satisfying if you forget about the plot and just enjoy it as a series of flamboyant set pieces. Review: Kratos is exhausted in latest 'God of War' 2013-03-19T12:42:12Z Several comic set pieces go on too long, while suspenseful situations tend to be shortchanged. ‘The Gentleman’: a Wodehouse wanna-be that (kind of) does 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z But the result was a talky, pokey narrative that wasn’t brought to life by its action set pieces, no matter how well they were done. ‘Daredevil’ Season 2: Watched It All? Let’s Talk 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z There is a set piece about bone-marrow extraction that moves over you like a terrible weather system. Books of The Times: ?[sic]: A Memoir,? by Joshua Cody - Review 2011-12-20T22:40:00Z These set pieces carry a perverse kick, and the three actors come shockingly close to making it all seem plausible. Theater Review: ?Botanica,? a Drama Directed by Jim Findlay 2012-02-15T21:56:25Z "Nobody" quickly devolves into a series of extended step-and-repeat set pieces where Hutch single-handedly takes on a handful of Yulian's bloodthirsty bad guys. In the joyfully violent "Nobody," Bob Odenkirk channels his inner John Wick 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z And since, as mentioned before, those set pieces are nothing but CGI-fests, it means that we're shortchanging on the heart of the movie to move to muscle that is much punier than the filmmakers realize. "Hellboy" needs Guillermo del Toro. 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z What sucks you onward are its strong set pieces, some of the best of which are about what Mr. Yergin calls “the new world of oil.” Books of The Times: ?The Quest? by Daniel Yergin - Review 2011-09-20T12:00:00Z This is all just a framework to hang a series of set pieces that reflect on Silverio's internal conflict. Surrender to Alejandro Iñárritu's Netflix movie "Bardo," a surreal "chronicle of uncertainties" 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z I’m going to skip recapping the performance set piece toward the end of the show except to say that Steve Buscemi either learned to juggle eggs or that the editing was perfect. Boardwalk Empire Watch: Finding the Easter Eggs 2012-10-29T12:00:54Z While the set piece here is also a cube, it's harder to play with and takes more work to twist. Diavolo's 'L'Espace du Temps' resonates in its metaphysical convergence 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z For nearly three decades, his ambitious comedy has leaned on articulate and slyly constructed set pieces filled with flamboyant metaphors and ornate flourishes. Patton Oswalt: ‘I’ll Never Be at 100 Percent Again’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The best pop shows function much the same as summer blockbusters: they are loud escapes from reality, full of action and spectacular set pieces and they’re unafraid of a little fan service. Lady Gaga treats fans to expansive, smart hit-filled set 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z That historic night is re-enacted with electrifying force in the movie’s opening set piece. | 'Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky': Jan Kounen?s Tale of Artists in Love 2010-06-10T23:28:00Z Where the actual Emily Dickinson's work achieved literary eternity by evoking vast and powerful imagery through an economy of words, "Dickinson" flourishes with its sumptuous scenery, costumes and set pieces. Ready, set, bake! Apple's vibrantly witty "Dickinson" layers in the sweetness and spice of fame 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z “Billy Wilder on Assignment” has a bit of everything: punchy film reviews, profiles, set pieces on the rituals of the new nightlife. Review | Before Billy Wilder ventured behind a camera, he was a precocious journalist honing his sharp wit 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z The design is spare — dominated by vivid colors, rather than sumptuous set pieces, which is meant to reinforce the show’s oft-stated theme: the importance of imagination. A Second Bite of the Wonka Bar: Reimagining ‘Charlie’ for Broadway 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Lloyd Webber transformed this into a musical comedy, complete with a hula-hoop set piece and a party scene with a whip-wielding dominatrix among its blandishments. ArtsBeat: Lloyd Webber’s New Musical to Close in London 2014-02-25T16:31:45Z The movie juggles flashbacks to the recent past with several cleverly constructed set pieces in which Zhou meets escape challenges with deadpan ingenuity. ‘The Wild Goose Lake’ Review: A Noir Thriller in Wuhan 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Indeed, Mr. Bergé’s hubris gets plenty of airing, including a meltdown over photographers at a runway show to a sneering set piece in a cherry picker high above the Place de la Concorde in Paris. The YSL Documentary Pierre Bergé Did Not Want Anyone to See 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Its high-concept set pieces featured a cadre of backup dancers who danced in human-sized hamster wheels and somersaulted over the Grammy-winning star. Britney Spears' Las Vegas residency a departure 2013-12-30T14:37:19Z When similar ideas end up being translated for the multiplex, the result is often far lazier, as if the focus is on making those high-octane set pieces really pop at the expense of storytelling. Could coronavirus-enforced streaming mean better blockbusters? 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z In a methodical fashion, Johnson arranges set pieces such as a showdown scene with Israeli intelligence agents and an interrogation verging on torture. Book World: Denis Johnson’s ‘The Laughing Monsters’ offers more than formulaic thrill At the Tattered Cover bookstore I read the novel’s funniest set piece: young Miles Roby’s driving lesson. How Does a Novelist Write About a School Shooting? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z But 13 years ago, Christopher Nolan released this film, which reinvigorated the character and kick-started a trilogy that would become widely acclaimed for its sinister mood and enthralling action set pieces. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Quantico’ and Lollapalooza 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z This actor doesn’t milk the soliloquies as flashy set pieces; they always exist in the context of the moment. A Fast and Furious ‘Macbeth’ at Park Avenue Armory 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Despite its attention to period detail and some flashy set pieces, “Beloved Sisters” has the feel of a historical pageant; it is a game of dress-up that never transports you to the past. ‘Beloved Sisters,’ Directed by Dominik Graf 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z One of the book’s biggest set pieces takes place on a Ferris wheel out in the desert, one that’s been turned into a prison. The Wheels Come Off an American Journey in Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Feral Detective’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The V&A has always been ahead of the curatorial curve in considering theater ephemera — costumes, set pieces, memorabilia — as worthy of preservation and study. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z In the crassest terms, think Cool Runnings meets Slumdog Millionaire, but with a lot of dramatic set pieces over chess boards. Lupita Nyong’o: ‘Art is political in whatever way you slice it’ 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Metro police had just assigned one of its top detectives, Danny Whelan, to the case, but he was faced with a dizzying puzzle with no set pieces and a confounding array of clues. D.C.’s last serial killer: The Princeton Place murders, 20 years later Freud said that of all men only Nietzsche truly knew himself, and his letters can be wildly funny and full of comic set pieces. A Life of Nietzsche Turns the Spotlight on an Idol Long Misunderstood 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z She proved she had a way with big, splashy set pieces two decades ago with "Point Break" and became the first woman to win the best-director Oscar for "The Hurt Locker." Force is strong with dream `Star Wars' directors 2012-11-05T17:40:09Z Instead, they recreate the experience of the series with set pieces, like a reprise of the boys-vs.-girls trivia game from “The One With the Embryos,” and, especially, the table reads. ‘Friends’ Reunion: The One With the ‘Remember the One With … ?’ 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z That levitating tire, as famous a set piece as a certain falling chandelier, presides once again at the back of the stage. Review: Does ‘Cats’ Have Nine Lives on Broadway? Two, Certainly 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z But the torrential, if glossy, violence — he adores juxtaposing innocuous pop ditties with gruesome set pieces — grows tiresome. Review: In ‘The World of Kanako,’ the Old Ultraviolence 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z It’s a set piece whose theme is the attempt to transcend set pieces — and character, and narrative and, most of all, the technical limitations of cinema itself. Kubrick’s indestructible influence: “Interstellar” joins the long tradition of borrowing from “2001″ 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Several major set pieces, including the opening downtown Miami sequence centering around a parade of low-riders, help anchor significant plot developments, even if they add little narrative impetus. Review: More not necessarily better for 'Step Up' 2012-07-26T00:51:09Z In these films, the deaths, which are frequent, are hard and fast and blunt, a marked departure from the intricately stylized and ornately edited set pieces of his earlier work. From ‘Goodfellas’ to ‘Flower Moon’: How Scorsese Has Rethought Violence 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z Alberto delivers one of the movie’s most developed set pieces: his onstage performance of the text “Addiction.” Pedro Almodóvar’s Stifled “Pain and Glory” 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Performed here by Alina Cojocaru, we get dancing of a range and complexity that helps to break up the more simple family set pieces. Cracking the Nutcracker 2012-12-18T15:42:00Z No big special effects, no franchise stuff, not even any major "set piece" scenes. After "City Island," time for Hollywood meetings 2010-08-27T00:27:00Z The multiple narratives, the military-grade action set pieces, the unforgiving studio production schedules all demand masterminds in addition to the director. The Technical Stars Who Help Pull Off a Christopher Nolan Narrative 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z In the film, though, all we're left with between those redeeming action set pieces is a whole lot of dull narrative. Alita is a fascinating badass. "Alita: Battle Angel" fails her at every turn 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Levinson’s book is filled with small, interesting eddies and set pieces. Books of The Times: ?The Great A&P,? by Marc Levinson, a Retail History - Review 2011-09-06T21:03:24Z Just as “Joker” is a protracted homage to Scorsese, Bong’s “Parasite” bows toward Tarantino in its penultimate, hyper-violent set piece, creating a closed loop of mutual influences that is simultaneously hermetic and self-impressed. Perspective | This year’s Oscar snubs are as much about genre as they are about gender 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Even as these shows’ live audiences decline, even as they become more about creating YouTube-able set pieces like James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke,” their core is still a host on a stage, connecting with a crowd. The Night TV Went It Alone 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Soon the atrium was being annexed for larger works, set pieces and installations tied to the monographic surveys and retrospectives in the temporary exhibition galleries upstairs. Hold That Obit; MoMA?s Not Dead 2010-12-30T16:49:20Z Matt Dillon is in sync with the way many people like to eat now: informal, seasonal, a meal that’s more improvisation than set piece. Bar Sajor is Matt Dillon’s finest yet 2013-06-13T21:27:15Z Lenny Marcus, ornery and bespectacled, complains about airport security, leading to a wonderfully intricate set piece imagining an airline that has no security and allows you to bring anything. Dropping in at the Comedy Cellar With Amy Schumer and Leslie Jones 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z O’Brien, undiminished at the age of 85, proceeds as though she’s spinning some mossy comedy of village life with set pieces polished to an emerald shine. Review: Edna O’Brien’s ‘The Little Red Chairs’ confronts Radovan Karadzic 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z When clothing appears at the Metropolitan Museum, it’s typically a big to-do involving the Costume Institute, haute couture and numerous theatrical set pieces. ‘Kimono: A Modern History’ at the Met Tells Rich Stories Through Fabric 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z The set pieces adorning the stage transport spectators into his mind, where artificial mountains and cactuses create an off-hue desert. Travis Scott delivers an adrenaline rush at Fillmore 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Announcing itself with neon Art Deco titles and stocked with mock Erté sculptures, “Easy Living” has some notable sets and set pieces devised by Leisen. Gifts Galore: ‘Easy Living,’ With Jean Arthur and a Coat From the Heavens 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z The film is overall less interested in robot-led action — there are minimal set pieces, considering the subject — than in people’s reaction to it as Egyptians welcome a new folk hero. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z But it offers brilliant music, and Bartok created vivid set pieces to accompany the opening of the seven doors. Music Review: A Castle?s Locked Doors Bring Out a Wife?s High C 2011-03-20T21:12:53Z It's a bravura set piece, and one of several vignettes that may have viewers wishing Paul Thomas Anderson had directed the film. Why, Damien Chazelle, why?!: "Babylon" is a busy, bawdy and bad orgy of Hollywood nothingness 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z “Amleto” is not a forgotten masterpiece, but it is a fascinating view of a kind of missing link in Italian opera’s evolution from set pieces, such as fixed arias, to a more through-composed approach. A lost ‘Hamlet’ opera’s revival offers two happy endings 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z He caps off the show with a devastating dive from a set piece, echoing Natalie Portman’s final plunge in the ballet thriller “Black Swan.” Travis Wall brings a dizzying, sudsy dance spectacle to UCLA 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z They may not all have literally stopped the show—often the fault of a malfunctioning set piece—but they offered, in one way or another, frissons of the sublime. The Top Ten Showstoppers of 2015 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z But Verbinski's film, stretching hard to both reinvent an out-of-date brand and breathe new life in the Western with a desperate onslaught of bloated set pieces, is a poor locomotive for Depp's eccentric theatrics. Review: 'The Lone Ranger' is a runaway train 2013-07-01T22:48:21Z The swanky nightclubs are set pieces in themselves. An Evil Doctor Who Casts a Spell on Subjects and Viewers Alike 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z To be sure, Mr. Fei is impeded in his work throughout the first act by Michael Simon’s striking and giant set pieces. Review: National Ballet of China Brings ‘Peony Pavilion’ to Lincoln Center 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z From that point, the film is a series of fight-or-flight set pieces of the panicked family trying to stay alive. Review: ‘No Escape,’ Starring Owen Wilson as a Man in the Cross Hairs 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The studio backdrops will change primarily through projected images and lighting, not cumbersome set pieces. Channel 13 to Open Lincoln Center Studio 2010-04-12T21:42:00Z In dark comic set pieces, they are forced into contact with ordinary people, who must treat them with extreme deference. Three New Stand-Up Specials, Three Very Different Approaches 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z From the Battle of the Blackwater in Season 2 to the big clash at Castle Black last year, “Game of Thrones” has a good track record with big action set pieces. 'Game of Thrones' Recap: Oh, So That's What Winter Looks Like 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Can you describe how you created the set pieces and combined all these elements into a high-energy action farce? "Polite Society" filmmaker on combining Bollywood, martial arts and "angry women being rageful" 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z The sweetest moments are the show’s two main set pieces, re-creations of small gems from very early in Jim Henson’s career. | 'Stuffed and Unstrung': Henson Alternative Performs at Union Square Theater 2010-04-22T20:36:00Z Then came a set piece on Stephen Curry, the one-man scoring machine for the Golden State Warriors, the team that lost to the Cavaliers on Sunday. Bill Simmons as TV Host: Heavy on Sports and Cursing 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z These new set pieces resemble something of a hybrid between phones and tablets. 'Blue Man Group' gets upgrade 2011-03-19T14:50:07Z It was one of those dumb set pieces TV loves to build, part of the Declaration of Independence, turned into wallpaper. Perspective | The first debate was one of the worst moments in television history 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z One of the best set pieces involves Spillman attempting to get a laundromat to do his laundry in the ruins of East Berlin. Review: ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’ — the struggle to make a life that matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Carpenter manically orchestrates Plissken’s mission as a darkly funny free-for-all, loaded with slam-bang set pieces and memorable supporting turns by a rogues’ gallery of character actors. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z In Ford’s film, the great set piece is the Indian attack on the stagecoach as it crosses an open stretch of desert. DVD: John Wayne and Alex Cord: Two Ringo Kids of ?Stagecoach? 2011-10-15T22:23:03Z There’s also a dramatic set piece in a quarantine facility that explores the masculine desire to control women’s bodies — a la Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The world has a really bad hair day in ‘The Blondes’ 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The set pieces: Many of the drug runs are rather boring because they take place in dark and claustrophobic tunnels under a mountain. Tracing the evolution of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, movie by movie 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Here, Rossini’s effervescent music, an energetic cast and Michael Yeargan’s spinning set pieces had to provide the animation. Music Review: ‘The Barber of Seville’ at the Met 2012-12-23T22:31:35Z That may be true, though movies have long employed spectacle — pyrotechnics, lavish set pieces — to bait, hook and bludgeon the audience so it keeps begging for more. ‘The Flash’ Review: Electric Company 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z The movie’s set piece is a gathering — too small to be a rave but too heedless and chaotic to be called a party — held on the grounds of an abandoned chateau. A Fiery Tale of Teenage Despair, as Fresh as When It Debuted in 1994 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z In fact, Richmond doesn’t waste any motion or clutter the action with moving set pieces or even props, other than knives. The assassins are back in Folger’s spooky ‘Caesar’ The Musco Center is designed to allow scenery, set pieces and equipment to enter and exit easily from above the extra-large stage and from the wings, Hall said. Placido Domingo, Deborah Voigt to headline opening of Chapman's new arts center 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z This “Western Front” places its faith in big set pieces and powerful images. ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Review: The Spectacle of War 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z “Joplin thought naturally in small forms, and his opera is a collection of set pieces rather than a work with any kind of thread running through it.” Can a 108-year-old opera — by Scott Joplin — be made to sing for today? 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z These subtle negotiations build to two grand set pieces. “A Bread Factory,” Reviewed: An Audacious Four-Hour Portrait of Culture Clash in Small-Town New England 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z It’s a fearless and insular set piece, characteristic of an album more interested in looking inward at the thorny intricacies of the black experience than in interpreting that experience for whites. With ‘To Pimp a Butterfly,’ Kendrick Lamar brushes all hip-hop rivals aside 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Most fascinating among the set pieces is Leary’s time alongside the Black Panthers. On the Lam With Timothy Leary 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z The best set piece involves Nina attacking a band of hired guns through an abandoned loft as the lighting switches to infrared hues, denoting not only Nina’s bloodlust, but also, her gashed open soul. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Stone dances like no one’s watching through an array of set pieces inspired by old Hollywood musicals in the video, which features choreography from Ryan Heffington, best known for Sia’s “Chandelier.” Watch Emma Stone Dance Through the Queen Mary in New 'Anna' Video 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Some scenes, remembered 50 years after the fact, may read like set pieces, some conversations may seem too neatly composed, but the spirit of Borges rings true. A Road Trip With One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Writers 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z It has just as much to do with the overall effect of that film as the great performances and the great set pieces and gags. The Stars Have Holiday-Movie Favorites, Too 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The set pieces: Even before the full crime goes down, there are three car races, one that acts as an initiation into the drug lord's crew. Tracing the evolution of "The Fast and the Furious" franchise, movie by movie 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z The star does his patented shtick, supported by a handful of blue-chip supporting performers, as the story lurches through contrived, seminaughty comic set pieces toward a sentimental ending. | 'Arthur': A Lush Life Revisited, With Nanny on Board 2011-04-07T21:14:56Z The wedding ritual to which the movie builds is a vast set piece of narrow scope that leads to a tremendous frenzy. A Lost Masterwork Is Found: Thomas White's “Who's Crazy?” 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z And there are satiric set pieces, too, that remind us that DeLillo began as an advertising copywriter: “Die a while, then live forever!” Don DeLillo’s novel ‘Zero K’ captures the swelling fears of our age 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Evans is a master of the bone-crunching set piece — the more participants and more unlikely the location, the better. The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z His stormy relationship with Farrell is among this book’s most gripping set pieces. A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Still, his announced theme — the moral challenges of the war for civilians in Europe — gives way at the beginning to set pieces on other subjects: the ones, the reader suspects, that Fritzsche finds most interesting. A New Look at Civilian Life in Europe Under Hitler 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z But she made it a farcical set piece. Katie Finneran Performs ‘It Might Be You’ at 54 Below 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Throughout his career, Sir David was well known for his set piece interviews with statesmen and politicians, including US President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1998. In pictures: Frost's 50-year career 2013-09-01T14:00:50Z The exhibition, which debuted in Chicago in April 2009, fills 10,000 square feet with more than 400 artifacts from the film series — costumes, set pieces and props, such as Harry's wand. Harry Potter exhibition extended at Pacific Science Center 2011-01-06T19:17:03Z He confidently deals out small, intense set pieces. Review: ‘They Can’t Kill Us All’ Tallies the Unarmed Black Men Shot by Police 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Often painted across a wide canvas and bolstered by extravagant set pieces, these movies are uniquely fashioned to play on the biggest screen possible. Five Action Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z It’s too short, there are no minor characters to speak of, and the story is propelled less by a narrative coil spring than by a series of scenes and set pieces. Heard Any Good Books Lately, Zelda? 2010-09-30T17:16:00Z There were also set pieces cribbed from earlier performances of theirs. Beyoncé and Jay-Z Squeeze Triumph From Reconciliation 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z One minute, it is a 20th-century romantic drama; the next, it goes back to the 1898 original, with reconstructed set pieces. Review: A Skilled Ballet Leader Creates a Messy ‘Raymonda’ 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z The idea was to do “Frankenstein” as a kind of nonmusical musical, where the book drove to set pieces that were the equivalent of musical numbers. A ‘Frankenstein’ That Never Lived 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Then it explodes in gruesome violence and bravura set pieces, served up with the bombast and humour you just don't get from a Wire grumblethon. Breaking Bad: Aaron Paul plays a drug-dealing killer and viewers can't get enough of him 2012-10-12T23:01:00Z The most thrilling set piece features a purgative ritual that Cervera executes with a dance choreographer’s sense of movement and a gothic artist’s eye for composition. The Tribeca Festival Returns in Full Bloom 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z At the same time, the estate’s maids are sucked into a menacing string of set pieces that invariably end in shrieks over a black screen. ‘The Invitation’ Review: Bringing Down the Haunted House 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The most imposing presence in the movie isn’t an actor—it’s a vast, glossy, mirrored hall of glass and video screens in the Continental, where the final set piece is staged. “John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum,” Reviewed: Empty Fight Scenes with a Paranoiac Chill 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z It was an Instagram moment too good to pass up, but did they have to step and sit on the set pieces? Review: Martha Graham Dance Company in an Intimate Performance 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Unlike “Solo,” which ambles from one set piece to the next in a spirit of genial in-betweenness. Review: ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Answers Questions You May Not Have Asked 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z The major set pieces are five giant rotating panels kept off to the sides, and the flooring is marley vinyl, buffed and treated daily with a coating called “Slip No More.” For ‘Little Dancer’ set designer Beowulf Boritt, windows into the soul Writing in The Times in September Ms. Dargis called the movie a “pileup of sub-Bourne action set pieces, sad laughs and clichés.” DVD: Dorothy Mackaill?s ?Safe in Hell? and Others on DVD 2012-01-08T01:38:11Z This is especially true in its big, violent set pieces, in which every visual and aural element combines to create the sort of fragmented phantasmagorias that usually occur only in nightmares. London Theater Journal: The Greeks All Over Again 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Among the film's big, action set pieces are organized attacks on a stock exchange and a football stadium, but the violence features no blood. Many say Hollywood not to blame in shooting 2012-07-24T08:46:04Z Time Out London wrote: "The result is a stop-gap tale that's modest, fun and briefly amusing rather than one that breaks new ground or offers hugely memorable set pieces." New 'Star Trek' movie shows franchise could still live long 2013-05-03T12:27:44Z In a delightful set piece, Ribeiro describes a showdown between the two camps in Chicago in 2003, at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, attended by the world’s top sleep researchers. The History of Dreams, From Greek Mythology to Last Night’s Sleep 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The first such set piece — a heist at the Ohio State Fair undertaken by five guys dressed as clowns, a firefighter and a priest — provides a master class in how to balance chaos and coherence. Movie Review: ‘Parker,’ Starring Jennifer Lopez and Jason Statham 2013-01-24T23:27:56Z “Bad Trip” is organized around a series of increasingly elaborate set pieces that incorporate the response of real people not in on the joke. Eww, That’s Gross. And We Like It That Way. 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z That film isn’t on Netflix, but narrative continuity isn’t exactly front of mind anyway; Evans is a master of the bone-crunching set piece, the more participants and unlikely the location, the better. ‘Zeros and Ones,’ ‘Juliet, Naked’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z In his estimation the most effective action set piece of recent years is from the 2003 Korean film “Oldboy”: a tracking shot down a long corridor that unfolds without a single cut. Finding an Original Heroine 2011-04-02T03:13:01Z As is to be expected, arias and set pieces from “Don Giovanni” figure prominently, including the catalog of lovers expounded by the valet Leporello. Theater Review: ‘The Giacomo Variations,’ With John Malkovich, at City Center 2013-05-31T18:03:12Z He’s streamlined or discarded some of his ambling, poetic yarns, stopped indulging in elaborate riffs and turned epic tales into more traditional, joke-dense set pieces. Dave Chappelle at Radio City Music Hall 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z If the drama occasionally sags it's more to do with Lothar Koenigs's conducting, imposing in the orchestral set pieces, less convincing in the longer dramatic paragraphs, than anything else. Die Meistersinger von?N?rnberg 2010-06-20T20:31:00Z There is a mystery here, but how it's resolved--in fact even what's happening as it moves toward that resolution—is mostly beside the point; the comedy and character set pieces are the thing. NYFF: 'Inherent Vice' and the contemporary cult hit 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z There’s no CGI-spectacle set piece to speak of here, no crumbling skyscrapers or civilians screaming their way through incineration. Unbreakable at 20: the film that finally took superheroes seriously 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Certainly Jones has a talent for jazzing up the standard set pieces of an action movie. Source Code: A Sci-Fi "Groundhog's Day" Awash in Bombs, Paranoia and Inconsistency 2011-03-31T20:25:00Z We wanted this to be a great set piece. 'Whiplash's' J.K. Simmons, Miles Teller and others dissect last scene 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z What it calls “fakes” are really illusions, or stunts, or set pieces. Meet the weirdest show on television: Why you need to watch “Fake Off” 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z These dialogue scenes eclipse the episode’s relatively tame major set pieces. ‘Jessica Jones’ Season 1 Finale: Doing Something Good 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z “There’s no big set piece and I think that kind of leanness served it well,” Ms. Negga said. Four Actresses Everyone Will Be Talking About This Fall 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The set piece remained in Mr. Taylor’s private collection until 2014, when it was sold at auction to benefit the newly started Paul Taylor American Modern Dance initiative. How Do You Reconstruct Lost Choreography? 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z As more short-lived, thinly drawn characters accumulate, the movie contorts in unconvincing ways from one verbose, bullet-ridden set piece to the next. ‘Clover’ Review: A Crime Goes Wrong, and You Can Guess the Rest 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Chiarelli looks back on that time — scrambling to make sure all the set pieces were finished, then dealing with a calamity of malfunctions during the early shows — as one of the craziest in his life. PNB’s Stowell/Sendak ‘Nutcracker’ takes a final bow 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z In one bravura set piece, the guests at a sterile business hotel are forced to brace their legs against the wall as the whole building lists lazily to one side. Film review: Inception 2010-07-09T23:17:00Z With “A Doll’s House,” an adaptation by the British director Jamie Lloyd set to open on March 9, Chastain has no theatrical set pieces or ambience to fall back on. Jessica Chastain Returns to the Stage With Nothing to Prove 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z In fact, one wonders if the budget was blown on scene one because nearly every other action set piece that follows lacks the originality or velocity of the prologue. The Expendables 2: Locked and Overloaded 2012-08-16T12:00:05Z The new season of Slow Burn begins with a set piece straight out of a political thriller. Monica Lewinsky on Slow Burn: the thrilling hit podcast rips into the scandal 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z It went from being a border book to more like “Great Plains,” by Ian Frazier; more of a set piece about a region. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The American Border (Not That One) 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation,” like the other films in this franchise starring Tom Cruise, weaves a handful of complex action set pieces into its narrative. ‘Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation’ (With Movie Trailer): Christopher McQuarrie Narrates a Scene 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z A Seattle bicycle shop owner is currently selling an “original prop/set piece” he claims was used in the filming of the “Twin Peaks” TV series. Want to own a prop from the original ‘Twin Peaks’ series? 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z And that's certainly what I wanted, the ability to have the quiet moments be as important as the big set pieces. "The Old Guard": Gina Prince-Bythewood on superhero diversity, that ending & sequel possibilities 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z The final sequence of “Better Angels” was arguably the most well crafted set piece of this season. The Walking Dead Watch: Better Angels 2012-03-12T12:30:18Z When were Dan and Meggie made part of the process and what did they contribute as a director and a producer to changing some of the set pieces between the book and the film? Watch A Young Adult Novel Become A Film With 'Boy Who Couldn't Sleep' 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z In a playful touch, huge flat set pieces pop up, looking like speech balloons in cartoons. Music Review: Who Killed This Woman?s Lover? And Other Elusive Operatic Issues 2011-03-27T22:01:56Z But these forays into didacticism are balanced with gleeful, highly imaginative set pieces rich with black humor: Dr. Stein’s lab lurks, “Young Frankenstein”-style, in decommissioned tunnels under Manchester, complete with its own pub. A Novel That Riffs on Sex Dolls, Mary Shelley and Brexit 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z There are a few marvelous set pieces in "Togetherness" — party scenes, a game of kick the can, a dance-driven sequence in a cowboy bar — but even when nothing particular is happening, it feels like life. 'Togetherness' shows real life's just funny that way 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z The numerous action set pieces would be memorable even if the plot points didn’t eventually fall into place, which they do. ‘Cliff Walkers’ Review: Double Crosses and Double Agents 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z I was in my first year, wearing what they call “theater blacks” and moving the set pieces around the stage, so I was in the orbit of the play. In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ They Perfect the Art of Deception 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Some of the bulbous set pieces function almost as bodily parts, with the actors attaching themselves to the forms. Last chance: John Bock's far-out installation at Regen Projects is a feast for the senses 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Many of the set pieces in director Elizabeth Banks' one-joke film are shocking because they are so boring. Predictable "Cocaine Bear" never achieves the level of dumb fun to elicit laughs – not even a snort 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z It took nine months of editing, retakes and newly dubbed dialogue to create the movie, which, more like a dream than a logical argument, proceeds from set piece to set piece. David Cronenberg's 'Scanners,' in a Blu-ray/DVD Edition 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z To the film's credit, the actions sequences are nifty set pieces. In nimble spy thriller "The Rhythm Section," Blake Lively misses a beat 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z In a particularly chilling set piece, Cicero struggles against, then finally accepts, his fated doom. ‘The Age of Caesar’: A fresh look at the key players in a time of historic unrest 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Dozens of expensive vehicles and set pieces were built for a shoot scheduled for March 2003. ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Many of its set pieces are baseball games, which Harbach narrates beautifully. 'The Art of Fielding': Win, lose, improvise 2011-09-21T22:59:04Z In fact, the show's weakest elements are the set pieces, such as Mephistopheles's Calf of Gold song, and the universal waltz that ends the second act, neither of which is effectively staged. Faust 2010-09-20T21:00:00Z He has taken an unusual path — making the difficult transition from animation to live action, all while trying to keep complex plots churning underneath style-heavy set pieces. 'Tomorrowland' director Brad Bird's mantra: 'We have to bring in new ideas' 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z She even recently joined Michelle Obama on her book tour, interviewing the former first lady, a major career turning point for Robinson, one that also provides the set piece closing out her new special. Give Phoebe Robinson the Title She Deserves: Boss 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z It's telling that the broadest set piece, in which the women suffer some graphic effects from food poisoning while at the posh dressmakers', also was suggested by Apatow and Feig not long before shooting began. Kristen Wiig: Ironic maiden 2011-05-11T22:20:00Z They make the set pieces — especially the big climactic battle with the armies of monkeys — come to vivid, visible life. Theater Review: ‘Tender Napalm’ by Philip Ridley at 59E59 Theaters 2012-08-30T02:00:15Z Egerton’s archery skills are mighty impressive, but they’re augmented by chintzy effects, and obscured by set pieces so erratic that it’s hard to understand when they began, let alone why they’re happening. “Robin Hood” review: Revisionist history has never been dumber or more boring 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Call it setting as set piece, which is all well and good, but set pieces are rigid, not malleable. A Novel of the City, Alive to Its Hidden Connections 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Could Malick have pulled off the spectacular set piece of the Native American attack that becomes the trigger of subsequent events? The 50 best films of 2015 in the US – No 3: The Revenant 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z On one hand, shoehorning a set piece on Obamacare or climate change into a win for “Frozen” just seems like grandstanding. This Life: Speechmaking Lessons From the Oscars 2014-02-28T20:07:57Z Big set pieces are either casually tossed off — blink, and you’ll miss the scene where London is destroyed — or chaotically staged in bad 3D. ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’: Loaded with weapons, sequel misfires 2013-03-27T18:31:31Z Were your comedy skills helpful as you and your colleagues planned the action set pieces? Better Call an Ambulance: Bob Odenkirk Is Out for Revenge in ‘Nobody’ 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Some of it took the form of hokey set pieces that fizzled, such as a demonstration of what the T.S.A. now prohibits passengers from taking onboard a plane: hedge clippers, dynamite, Muslims. Review: Michael Moore, Bragging on Broadway, in ‘The Terms of My Surrender’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Yet Roma is a wonderful film, a thrilling journey into the past, all but defying gravity in its staggering set pieces and crowd-scene choreography with profoundly mysterious and moving moments. Oscars 2019 verdict: lovely surprises can't compensate for shock horrors 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z One set piece involving an emergency escape pod is so preposterous that even Bill Clinton spoke out to deny its feasibility. Clip joint: plane disasters 2013-01-31T12:58:00Z As far as the action set pieces go, I just wrote what seemed necessary to keep the pace up. ArtsBeat: Werewolves, Vampires and Shrinks, Oh My: Glen Duncan Talks About 'Talulla Rising' 2012-06-27T14:52:44Z In both plot and music, the opera combines the public and private, spectacle and intimacy, huge choral set pieces and quiet, heartbreaking duets. The Met's Don Carlo: Verdi's Masterpiece, for Everyone 2010-12-10T21:50:00Z "The show seems to have been driven by an imperative to produce more big moments, more arresting images and set pieces, more ... scenes that fans will talk about all week," he wrote. Low-key "Mad Men" finale gets record audience 2012-06-11T21:36:49Z In an especially vivid set piece, Graciela convinces Joe to mastermind the daring robbery of a weapons cache from an American warship. Lehane's 'Live by Night': an ex-con's destiny in mid-20th-century Cuba 2012-10-19T00:11:37Z Not for nothing do Wolfe and Hallberg both provide deliciously malignant set pieces portraying upper-crust soirees as vulgar variations on “The Masque of the Red Death.” Garth Risk Hallberg’s ‘City on Fire’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Ironmonger is also very good with set pieces. Not the Booker prize 2012: The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder by JW Ironmonger 2012-08-22T15:06:29Z The formal ball at which Eggs makes his clumsy debut in human society is a wonderful set piece, as is the open-air vaudeville re-enactment of his mythical abduction, performed by a chanteuse named Madame Frou-Frou. ‘The Boxtrolls’ Is an Adaptation of ‘Here Be Monsters!’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Some severed feet remain from a statue once collaged into the image, then removed partially — evoking, perhaps, experimentation with which set pieces to use. How a Family Transformed the Look of European Theater 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z FOX News spoke with Sawaya, who is also the show's artist in residence creating set pieces and series' challenges. 'Lego Master' artist explains his job creating building challenges for contestants 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The videos are largely unscripted, though there tend to be themes, or set pieces, especially with rappers who’ve appeared in several. Rappers Come Shop for Jewelry. Icebox Turns the Cameras On. 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The show begins as the audience explores these set pieces. Review: In ‘Chambre,’ Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson Refract a Tale of Murderous Maids 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Streep’s switches from accented English to Polish and German are a technical triumph and her set piece scenes are masterly. Who is the best Oscar-winning lead actress of all time? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z But mostly, the film is one action set piece after another after another. Netflix's "The Gray Man": Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans go loud in Russos' propulsive action flick 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The latest movie in the Shailene Woodley-Theo James franchise — adapted of course form Veronica Roth’s book series that kicked off with “Divergent” — contains some huge action set pieces. Can 'Insurgent' spark a male rebellion too? 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Sulfur yellow is everywhere, from the audience’s stadium seating to a set piece for the“stokehole”of the ocean liner. An Industrial Hellscape With You at the Center 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z An assortment of comic set pieces follows, many of the very edgy variety. SXSW: Will Ferrell-Kevin Hart comedy 'Get Hard' divides fest audience 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z As he roams his seemingly boundless terrain, Winchester provides us with set piece after set piece. Looking at History Through the Deadly Conflicts Over Territory 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z But not before De Palma unleashes one of the great set pieces of his career. Dressed to Kill at 40: Brian De Palma's thrilling yet problematic shocker 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z The drama benefits from being based on real life, circumventing the cliches and set pieces mainstream TV would demand. Isle of MTV 2010-09-04T05:45:00Z The piece, shot in 1983, will be displayed in an installation alongside related set pieces immersed in synchronized lighting. The Broad acquires 29 new works, keeping an eye on local artists 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The red-band trailer surpassed 45 million views in its first 24 hours online — a testament, perhaps, to moviegoers’ too-long-untapped appetite for cheerfully slapstick set pieces and “Can I touch your wiener?” jokes. Bringing Sexy Back to the Movies, With a 2023 Twist 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z He delivers any number of well-observed set pieces, such as the time Clark visited Andy Warhol’s Manhattan studio and found the art so bogus he had a sneezing fit. ‘Kenneth Clark’ Paints a Portrait of a Cultural Titan 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z But these set pieces are not very compelling. With "Midnight Sky," George Clooney directs a visually arresting post-apocalyptic yawnfest 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z It also spares no expense in the telling with the cast of primarily Hindi actors gnashing their way through a beautifully stylish production and several large-scale action set pieces. 'Kites': a star-crossed love story, Bollywood style 2010-05-20T20:10:00Z Singers wander on and off, pushing around set pieces of hall lockers and girls’ rooms, while performers erupt in rudimentary break-dancing and the sign flashes graphics that remind us of high school subjects. Review | Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan in ‘Candide’? I had to go to Philadelphia to catch this. 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z And Ms. Calderoni gives vivid life to some of Mr. Eugenides’s most startling set pieces, including a climactic sequence in a freak show. Review: Shedding Skins in Motus’s Genre-Blurring ‘MDLSX’ at La MaMa 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z The group started backstage, then went above the stage to understand the complex rigging system that “flies” set pieces, backdrops, and scrims on and off the stage. Before his final bow, a Kennedy Center veteran hands out one last backstage pass 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z I don’t really conceptualize the right big-action set pieces very well. Q&A: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Writer on Literary Mashups and the Movie that Shouldn't Exist 2012-06-22T10:45:10Z “Folk Couture” also proves that museums can explore fashion on a budget, without the need for celebrity designers, brand sponsorships and elaborate set pieces. Art Review: In ‘Folk Couture,’ Fashion Designers Buck Constraints 2014-02-27T23:02:24Z |
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