In a stroke of imagination characteristic of Yehoshua, the films are dubbed in Spanish, complicating the director's often vague or flawed memory of his own movies with another layer and another kind of opacity.
7. "In Your Eyes" -- Say Anything (Peter Gabriel) Any lovesick jackass can call a radio station and dedicate a song to the love of his life, but it takes a bold stroke of imagination to let Peter Gabriel serenade your lady through a boombox.
Writing in Q magazine, Phil Sutcliffe contended that it "does sound like a Pink Floyd album" and highlighted the two-part "A New Machine" as, variously, "a chillingly beautiful vocal exploration, a chorale of multitrack, echo and distortion broken into aching fragments by long moments of silence" and "[a] brilliant stroke of imagination".
This work, although pirated and filled with small errors, provides some evidence of Barley's editorial skill; musicologist Robert Illing notes that if Barley "is to be discredited for roguery, he must also be applauded for his strokes of musical imagination" for successfully compressing such a large work into a pocket-sized production.
In a brilliant stroke of camp imagination, Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine, the director, place him in 1930's upper-crust England and a Fascist regime that might have been.
But let's say, by some stroke of the imagination, Bing starts gaining more market share.
"I think the 3-D is an essential element, a real stroke of brilliance and imagination, and the slow revelation of the paintings themselves is staggeringly beautiful," she said.
Saariaho's stroke of brilliance and imagination in these pieces is to make the connections between the live musicians and the other world of the tape and electronic sounds as seamless as possible.
And a poverty of imagination.
