There are certainly filmmakers these days whose work borrows flashy and banal styles with a pompous vanity, such as Luca Guadagnino or Nicolas Winding Refn.
As for the Sebring, all I can say is that the old one had a soft top and calculatedly banal styling, and it was the best-selling convertible in America in 7 of the last 11 years.
One of her strengths is to propose seemingly banal styles, like a thin, sleeveless gray pullover or a prissy knee-length skirt, and treat them both casually and elegantly.
Realism in the most banal poster style was represented by Richard Prince's "Millionaire Nurse" in inkjet print and acrylic.
Unfortunately, the script by Scott Stewart, who directed, and Peter Schink emphasizes stagebound melodramatics and banal television-style catharsis over action and humor; it's like "The Petrified Forest" (the 1936 film of Robert E. Sherwood's crisis-in-a-diner play) with assault rifles.
Patton, founder of Ipecac Recordings, has described his admiration for Morricone's writing, feeling that the composer turned "what could be banal, surface-style pop into really deep, orchestrated, tense and compelling music".
The singer has described his admiration for Morricone's writing, feeling that the composer turned "what could be banal, surface-style pop into really deep, orchestrated, tense and compelling music".
There was no excuse for Matthew Williamson's collection for Pucci, a banal pastiche of styles culled from designers like Mr. Jacobs and Sonia Rykiel.
Their day-to-day working lives are banal and technocratic in the style of Ridley Scott's Alien or indeed Duncan Jones's Moon, and perhaps inevitably, the film is easily at its most exciting before anything scary happens.
"It's impossible to think of something you can drag out from the land of naffness and make cool," Mr. Doonan said, referring to the process by which banal or out-of-date styles are brought back and, after much analysis and decoding and finally brand approval, become fashionable.
