Unfortunately, Life And Times Episodes 1-4 -- a Soho Rep production presented at the Public Theater -- is misguidedly ambitious, confusing length with importance and repetition with profundity.
In fact, when I go to film festivals or attend theater festivals, I often make a point of tracking down the lengthiest work under the working assumption that the most ambitious in length that makes it into the fest probably has some worth to it.
"As we move into our second year, we are setting our sights on more ambitious full-length events.
But "Hiroshima Rising From the Abyss," a recent, ambitious, suite-length work taking up most of the concert's second half, was the focus of the evening.
In this intimate new "electro-pop opera," his most ambitious full-length work so far, he's adapted a section of "War and Peace," set it around tables in a haimish, tavernlike space, and cast himself as Pierre, the awkward "warmhearted Russian of the old school" at the center of the novel.
In an ambitious book-length study of Reichenbach's theory, McMahon (1976) takes Reichenbach's proposal to be a progenitor of Chomsky's theory of syntax, and attempts to supplement Reichenbach's account with appropriate re-write rules.
Now I somehow find myself working on an ambitious feature-length documentary, The Elephant on Campus.
They are also in the midst of finishing an ambitious, feature-length Color My Skin documentary titled In Memoriam, a 90-minute peek into the world of iconic French tattoo artist Mikael de Poissy.
This Tuesday, on the occasion of its 15-year anniversary, the branded powerhouse known as Red Bull Music Academy released an ambitious full-length feature film, the existentially-titled What Difference Does It Make?
Pitchfork Media included the album at number 12 on its year-end list and called it a "hugely ambitious full-length debut more Sign 'O' the Times than Kid A".
