Opening with the euphoric yet menacing Burn the Witch, which swirls and winds with horror-movie string stabs, smashing you headfirst into the stunning Daydreaming – a contemplative and sobering adventure that leaves you hanging on every note.
Reading it was pure pleasure — it was so funny and clever, and the characters spoke like all the best dialogue from Whit Stillman movies strung together.
It is the director's contribution to 8, a series of movies strung around a weighty brief: the United Nation's development project on millennium goals.
Made-for-television Christmas movies are to movies what string is to string theory: the kinship is remote.
Saraband is a sombre chamber movie, a string quartet of a picture for four actors.
("New Girl" is the work of Liz Meriwether, who wrote the movie "No Strings Attached".
This clip is part of HuffPost Live's "Tell Me Why" series, featuring young enthusiasts discussing the subjects they're passionate about -- from horror movies to string theory -- with experts.
You can hear traces of ELO's trademark sound throughout "Alone in the Universe," in the shimmering guitars and movie-score strings and elaborate vocal harmonies.
Gerwig has been branded an "it girl" time and time again over the past several years, but her highest-grossing movies, "No Strings Attached" and "Arthur," aren't known as "Greta Gerwig movies".
Despite a number of high-profile failures in the faith movie market, a string of solid financial successes has kept Hollywood interested.
As a result the whole thing bristles with a wonderfully joyous drama – from the movie soundtrack-esque strings of the poetic Bachelorette ("I'm a tree that grows hearts, one for each that you take") to the industrial maelstrom of Pluto, a song she likened to being rip-roaringly drunk and wanting to destroy everything.
