No vision, ladies and gentlemen, no originality, style, no subversion!
When the Scottish football team Partick Thistle revealed its new mascot this week, presumably it was expecting plaudits for originality, style and good taste.
Born to be Blue is a curious mixture of fact and fiction, cliche and originality, style and emotion – it never truly soars but by throwing the ingredients of Baker's life together and producing something different, it's never less than intriguing.
This is a film of pungent and distinctive flavour, maybe not to all tastes; but, for its originality and style, it must be seen.
There are many instinctive romantics among popular artists, the Gershwins and the Chaplins who, through force of spirit and originality of style, take by storm the balcony and the boxes alike.
In the years after his death, his novels, especially Memórias Sentimentais de João Miramar (1924; "Sentimental Memoirs of João Miramar"), came to be appreciated for their originality of style, rather than solely for their ideological or historical significance.
The originality and style found in those tiny shops, is evident on a grander scale as soon as you step outside where adventurous modern architecture sits comfortably alongside the doyennes of the Victorian era.
The staunchly Zionist film offers a keen perspective on Israel's social and political conflicts, but, in an era marked by the work of such documentary innovators as Frederick Wiseman, Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker, Shirley Clarke, and the Maysles brothers, it hardly stands out for originality of style — and certainly didn't prepare the world for the shock of "Shoah".
It is, in other words, an imitation of generation's worth of imitations (most conspicuously, those of Quentin Tarantino's neo-heist-ism), each of which exists solely as a vehicle for the personal obsessions and originality of style with which a director infuses it.
The longlist was selected by a jury of more than 120 music, film and media arts professionals, and is based on the criteria of originality, creativity, style, innovation, and effective execution.
At a ceremony in Toronto Sunday night, the director took home the award and $15,000 cash prize, given to the best Canadian video of the year as decided by a jury based on "originality, creativity, style, innovation, and effective execution".
