Few directors risk upstaging their movies with credit sequences as effervescent as the one with which Sacha Guitry (who also wrote the script and stars) opens this 1936 comedy: in a miniature satire on life behind the scenes on a movie set, he introduces the cast and crew, tipping his hand regarding the tricks of the trade.
The vivid scenes represent life in the souq, Islam, education, social life, architecture, costumes and jewellery, the desert and oasis, water and survival, and the popular "underwater" sea exhibition.
Do not miss the well preserved frescoes depicting scenes from the life of Christ.
The religious monuments are renown also for their evocative murals depicting scenes from the life of Lord Buddha.
Giorgio and Clara drift around scenes of his life at the military quarters, reading aloud their letters to one another across time and space.
There was no time to develop the sometimes inspiring, sometimes disheartening, but always memorable scenes of human life that the Titanic disaster continues to present.
Till then he combined Russian and French art in unique scenes of shtetl life at once realistic and magical, personal and archetypical, with floating brides, upside-down people, fiddlers on roofs and calves in cow's bellies.
His 80th birthday party, a grand picnic in the middle of the Champ de Mars, featured a cake depicting scenes from his life: a ten-metre tower of ganache and meringue decked in blown sugar, spun sugar and royal icing.
People gather to sip drinks in 1950s-style cafes, eat mango with sticky rice and pose for photos in front of murals depicting idyllic scenes of Thai village life.
But outside the ramparts are scenes of everyday peasant life.
The Met still puts on big, starry shows, with hundreds of gifted people laboring behind the scenes to bring them to life.
The four tapes show scenes of Saddam's private life in the late 1980s.
The only live wire is Shakur, with his deep wariness of life, who has a couple of sprightly scenes that prod the picture awake.
Amid its pious devotion to the woebegone, there are scenes that manage to twitch into life and hit a nerve, perhaps because they also bump the funny bone.
The Oscar-winning actress shares several scenes with the larger-than-life Brand, whom she says was "utterly disciplined" on the set.
In a culture that usually removes death from the public domain, such different places share a common link as scenes strongly associated with the loss of life, he says.
Since Ms. Bullock's character was a loner who lived her life on her computer, the film contained several scenes that involved staring at a laptop with nobody else to interact with.
Ms. LATIFAH: It was deep because most of the women who were sitting in that scene, in discussion, those support group scenes, you know, are actually from Life Force, which is the organization that "Life Support" is based on.
Then persons on the outskirts of Frey's life surfaced, taking issue with specific details of certain "scenes" in the book.
Goldblatt, who witnessed the system firsthand as the son of Eastern European immigrants, portrays life for the white population during apartheid, as well as scenes from South Africa today.
It takes a case of supreme arrogance to think that you can do better than the author of a book who spent a large chunk of his life writing and revising the story and go ahead and invent scenes and dialogue and alter events in the manner in which Peter Jackson has chosen to do.
Gogol's scenes light up their surroundings, his characters flame into life, his tragicomic vision touches the reader's heart.
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His broadcasting life is shot in bright soft focus tones, whereas the CIA scenes are in much harsher light, like Steven Soderbergh's Traffic.
Extras include a gag reel, a first for a Marvel Studios film, the chance to hear from the cast and Joss Whedon on their experiences in bringing these larger than life characters to the big screen, a behind-the- scenes look at the groundbreaking visual effects and stunning cinematography, the creation of S.H.
These sculptures depict biblical scenes such as the Creation, Adam and Eve, the life of Jesus and the Virgin Mary.
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He is heralding the advent of the new religion, and the wall-paintings above him depict Old Testament scenes regarded by medieval theologians as events that prefigure Jesus' life and fate.
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Many real life rock musicians reportedly failed to see the humour in the film as fictional scenes, which include the band getting lost on the way to the stage, so closely matched their own antics.
"Besides life-saving applications in fire and rescue, the potential to record dynamic scenes of a human body could have a variety of other biomedical uses including studying or monitoring breathing, cardiac beat detection and analysis, or measurement of body deformation due to various stresses during exercise, " Ferraro says.
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Produced on Broadway by Lincoln Center Theater, "The Nance" is a two-layered play in which authentic-sounding burlesque routines concocted by Mr. Beane and Glen Kelly, who wrote the original music, alternate with backstage scenes that show us in agonizing detail what Chauncey's emotionally starved private life is like.
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