The director, known for his too-cool-for-school music videos as well as eclectic, high-concept movies such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Be Kind Rewind, reveals a far more mundane and everyday sensibility in this latest work.
The project was produced by Hal Willner, who is best known for a series of defiantly eclectic high-concept cover albums in the eighties and nineties: "Lost in the Stars," which let rock stars such as Lou Reed and Todd Rundgren take a crack at the music of Kurt Weill; "Weird Nightmare," which collected Charles Mingus interpretations by artists as diverse as Chuck D. and Keith Richards.
The tragedy is that the emotional resource they have fallen back on is an eclectic mix of concepts that will also fail them.
Idol groups are often celebrated when they can pull off an eclectic array of concepts.
Anarchism continues to generate many philosophies and movements, at times eclectic, drawing upon various sources, and syncretic, combining disparate concepts to create new philosophical approaches.
The province of Overijssel's choice to call upon private persons' willingness to get involved in an actual public interest (of environmental sustainability) seems to be well in tune with the regulatory state concept of an eclectic approach to policy definition and policy implementation.
A groundbreaking concept, Frog served eclectic, casual fare with bold global flavors and fostered a community of eager diners, enlivening the city and setting the stage for its vibrant dining scene today.
Perhaps in part because he was trained as a European historian, the wildly eclectic and innovative ideas and concepts that he brings to the study of the regional history of the Midwest (and local history in general) provide a kaleidoscopic kit of tools for investigating our particular places or regions.
The local council's concept of an affordable, eclectic northern music festival has led many to dress up in celebration: there are several pirates, a group of wizards and a posse of cavemen.
