Given the economic challenges that Time Inc. and the rest of publishing face back in New York, the one-year project in Detroit seems all at once ambitious, oddly timed and ironic.
It is obscene, hateful, pretentious, half educated, funny, ambitious, and oddly moving.
His second feature, the ambitious but oddly leisurely thriller Pulp Fiction, premiered at Cannes, where Clint Eastwood's jury awarded it the Palme d'Or.
The series culminated in an ambitious, confused but oddly moving collaboration with the Theatre de Complicite, "The Noise of Time," a multimedia portrait of the composer built around a performance of the last quartet.
We descend on Paris with an agenda: guidebooks in hand, we throw ourselves into architectural tours of Montparnasse or ambitious visits to the collection of follies outside Paris oddly named the Désert de Retz.
Smith might have particular reason to feel that NW, her highly ambitious and accomplished novel of London life, has thus far been oddly overlooked.
There was also a Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), a version of Dracula and then, rather oddly, two collaborations with Jim Henson's puppet workshop, The Great Muppet Caper (1981) and the ambitious fantasy Dark Crystal (1982).
It is worth seeing for its attention to visual detail and ambitious filmmaking, but as a psychological portrait of a compelling historical figure, it is oddly bland and unrevealing".
