His international reputation rests ultimately on his audacious, spare, challenging drama.
Matthew McConaughey stars in this startling, fiercely violent, superbly photographed and structurally audacious civil war drama, directed by Gary Ross.
In fact, so audacious was the drama's denial of climax that you could probably hear a muted roar of frustration as the credits rolled.
One of the most familiar operas in the repertory comes across like the audacious work of musical drama it was when new.
Though, like the other pieces, "Cloven Kingdom" is yet greater when seen as a whole, this dance has an audacious oddity and poetic drama that more than survive being seen alone.
Aaron Sorkin's script is based on Walter Isaacson's official biography of Jobs, but rather than sticking to the gospel, it reconfigures Jobs' life as a pacy, pithy, formally audacious piece of heightened drama.
SOTOGRANDE, Spain — Fire-engine red and cobalt blue add drama to the audacious structure at the top of the hill overlooking the entrance to the Mediterranean.
The sacred vows of motherhood are debased in several of the best films in MOMA's series, including "My Name Is Julia Ross," a terrifyingly claustrophobic drama by the audacious stylist Joseph H. Lewis, from 1945.
(Fox Searchlight, Blu-ray/DVD combo $39.99, DVD $29.99, R) MELANCHOLIA Lars von Trier's audacious end-of-the-world drama, centered on a pair of sisters with opposite reactions to impending doom: one (Kirsten Dunst) is a manic-depressive sower of chaos; the other (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is an anxious imposer of artificial order.
The next three sections deal with the drama surrounding the audacious plans to sequencing the human genome, the players and their labs, soft-power diplomacy and its celebration at the Whitehouse are well presented.
