Word: portraited
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...glasses sits on a bed, only the head of which is visible behind her. The center photograph presents another angle of the same room. A dresser is visible as well as a doorway, through which a portion of a darkened room can be seen. Through the doorway, a portrait of a mother and daughter is just visible. The last photograph depicts the same scene as the first, but the woman in this photo, although she looks similar, has gray hair. She is the first woman's mother. The three photographs are joined into one long, flattened panoramic shot...
Sitting beneath a portrait of former President Charles W. Eliot, class of 1853, Rudenstine and his wife Angelica Zander Rudenstine dined with members of the House, while being serenaded by a student string quartet...
...deeply depressive and conflicted Hartley, both morally and to some extent financially. And when you see the magnificent range of some 20 Hartleys in this show, you realize that the essence of the man is there: not only the profoundly felt abstractions of military uniforms and insignia like Portrait of a German Officer, 1914, done in mourning for his young German lover killed in the trenches, but also the New Mexico paintings, the Maine seascapes and the plangent, unnerving grief of Eight Bells Folly: Memorial for Hart Crane...
...Dickens in Cleveland! The Color Purple, but true and male and set in the 1960s! The facts of his life have a movie-of-the-week ring: relentlessly abusive foster care; redemption through military service; and irrepressible intellect. But detailed accounting distinguishes the tale, and Fisher's searing, luminous portrait of his childhood transcends the familiar, as does his retroactive (and likely hard-won) tenderness toward the boy no one else loved...
...moderately haunting, post-apocalyptic tale, fared more poorly. The film centers around a family’s reaction to the arrival of a man who has taken on the persona and the appearance of a dog. His desperate humiliation of himself for survival is wearily mirrored by the portrait of his host family turning savage in the face of society’s collapse. The cinematography is stunning, though...