Its intimate premise balloons to haunting proportions when a couple is invited to a dinner party, only to discover their hosts are a bit more, um, cultish than expected.
More or less his entire body of work diversifies and recomposes movie narratives in order to fuse intimate experience, political premises, and philosophical speculation, and one of the crucial films in that mode — "La Chinoise," from 1967 — comes to the Quad this Friday for a weeklong run in a new restoration (I'll be introducing Saturday's five-thirty show).
I argue that intimate intergenerational relations constitute the premise of the power relations of yan mu ci zu, mediating the individual negotiation of power in the family.
Since taking office in 2002, the mayor has closed 91 schools that regularly posted low test scores or graduation rates and has replaced them with smaller schools, on the premise that the more intimate environments served struggling students better.
Despite the sci-fi premise, Boyle works toward an intimate portrayal of the contingencies of character, shifting perspectives among the father-to-be, the mother-to-be, and the mother's bitter frenemy on the outside.
First, in the intergenerational collaboration, the establishment of intimate relationship between family members is the premise of the exercise of power.
Sept. 19 THE LAST WINTER The director Larry Fessenden has found an interesting niche for himself, turning the premises of classic horror movies into intimate, actor-oriented indie films, like "Wendigo" and "Habit".
Its ingenious premise visualizes a culture where those seeking intimate contact with the young, beautiful and famous can visit a clinic and pay big bucks to be injected with viruses drawn from the bodies of the elite.
BRITS OFF BROADWAY "Rosebud: The Lives of Orson Welles" closes June 10, and Alan Ayckbourn's "Intimate Exchanges," a series of sixteen variations on one premise, with a different play each performance, continues its run.
The premise of Columbia University's free Lunchtime Concerts, presented at Philosophy Hall, an intimate reading room ideal for chamber music, is that only one work should be played per program.
