Although it was conceived as a parody, it contains wondrous images.
Without his lifelong love of his wondrous images and storytelling it would never have been made – not by me at least".
A cinematic poem full of wondrous images, the 2002 Mauritanian film "Waiting for Happiness" focuses on modern life in a small coastal village and all its apparent incongruities.
Despite how wondrous this image is, it didn't make the cut for the top 10 Hubble images of 2018.
The painting, which is monumental in scale, shows in vivid detail girls being auctioned off as wives in a Middle Eastern bazaar, a wondrous fantasy image for the 19th-century male gaze.
Still, for all the clever theatrical trappings, bizarre sci-fi costumes and special effects, which included, naturally, wondrous video images of the starry cosmos projected on the domed ceiling, the production indulged in stock comic bits and lame overacting.
She told pupils the school, which charges $28,600 Australian dollars (£13,800) a year for Year 12 students, was trying to sell the image of "wondrous perfection".
Although Smith strains to do so -- Alex, she writes, finds Kitty's projected image as wondrous as "the stained-glass window in a church" -- she understandably can't hide her contempt.
It's when the narrative dries up or goes astray that the images, however wondrous, tend to get stranded and stuck.
The resulting Hubble Deep Field image yielded a wondrous display of galaxies, many of them very small, faint, and distant.
