I just feel really lucky, as an actress it's a very full, creative time, especially with television -- there are so many remarkable female protagonists.
Charlie Kaufman's supremely self-absorbed opus Synecdoche, New York captures the feeling of a trivial malady with remarkable precision, introducing its protagonist Caden Cotard in the midst of a flurry of psychical imperfections, from cosmetic head wounds to worryingly yellow bowel movements.
Jonathan Derbyshire, culture editor of the New Statesman called it "a remarkable novel" and its protagonist "a convincing witness to the defining moral catastrophe of the 20th century".
His most recent trilogy of films (and it's not odd to think it so)—"Zodiac," "Benjamin Button," and "The Social Network"—with their odd recursiveness and their out-of-sync protagonists, makes remarkable use of digital technology to evoke the disproportions of inner and outer experience that have become so familiar as to escape attention.
The directors launch the plot with a remarkable hairpin turn early on, when the protagonist, John John C. Reillyy), a lonely, divorced man, is persuaded by his ex-wife (Catherine Keener) to join her at a party.
That's the question that comes to preoccupy Jules Jacobson, the ambitious protagonist of Meg Wolitzer's remarkable ninth novel, "The Interestings," whose inclusive vision and generous sweep place it among the ranks of books like Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom" and Jeffrey Eugenides's "Marriage Plot".
If what the protagonist of the latest one said during his remarkable press conference this afternoon is true, if it's essentially the whole story, then Weinergate breaks new ground: it's the first entirely virtual political sex scandal, the first to have been conducted entirely via e-mail, and online social media.
The landmark AMC program, whose final episodes begin airing on Sunday, illuminates a decade of remarkable social and political change through its inscrutable, hard-drinking protagonist.
The Coens make no mistake in the discovery of a very remarkable human being behind an average artist, and they look upon their protagonist — a struggling folk singer in the Greenwich Village scene in 1961 — with extraordinary sympathy and curiosity.
What is most remarkable about Moon Tiger is its narrative method, scrambling chronology in imitation of its protagonist's own recollections.
