Sentence examples for television portrait from inspiring English sources

There he was, decapitated by art and television: portrait of a murderer.

When inspirational director Alan Clarke cooked up an authentic television portrait of incarcerated British youth in the late 1970s, the resultant film was so alarming that it was promptly banned by the BBC.

In his series of "television portraits" and his 1999 book End of an Age, he produced a sequence of close-up portraits, in the first, some of his most tender pictures, of friends watching television, that offered the rare, intense experience of looking at people looking.

The second series provides a foil to the rainbow-hued television portraits of Live and In Color.

She played the main character in the 1980 CBS television movie "Portrait of a Rebel" about birth control activist Margaret Sanger, a serious turn that Franklin described as one of her most significant.

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During that period he also directed the television film The Portrait (1993), an adaptation of Tina Howe's play Painting Churches that starred Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall.

They used plastic knives to cut away at the air in their living room, bare except for the red two-piece furniture set, a small television and a portrait of a sunset.

It was to be Part 1 of a television series called "Portraits of Terror," Wood wrote in the letter, and a print had already been struck.

Shubert, 225 West 44th Street, (212 239-6200.(Brantley) 'STEEL MAGNOLIAS' Despite an ensemble featuring high-profile veterans of stage, film and television, sitting through this portrait of friendship among Southern women, set in a beauty parlor in small-town Louisiana, is like watching nail polish dry (2 20).