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This movie portrays a riveting historical account that tells the story of a visionary of his era who was wrongfully convicted of speaking his mind and not obeying military policy and procedure of the time.
If you want to see one of the last great visionary creations of the American 'new wave' that came out of the seventies, this is it.
It starts out as a slight horror comedy, gets increasingly more bizarre as it goes along, and finally adds up to something almost visionary.
Even to this day, six years after seeing it for the first time, I can't get over the freshness, originality, and overall boldness of Alex Proyas' visionary masterpiece.
There are some very clumsy moments, such as when our visionary shows a pal a symbol that has been perhaps tormenting him - difficult to tell with Karyo's complete lack of facial expression - which is of course a swastika.
She knew what kind of picture this would be, and Maddin seems more like a hired hand here than a true visionary.
Mr. Coppola is the visionary who tried to buck the system and almost succeeded only to be brought down by forces, real and imagined, that control the way things run.
The specific points of such a parallel biography need not be driven into the ground here -- suffice it to say that one can imagine a young Francis telling his younger, equally visionary associate and design nut George Lucas (executive producing here) to grow a beard -- just as Jeff Bridges, in a career-highlight performance, tells his engineer played by Elias Koteas.
It can be average, yet it can be visionary.
Labor’s Paradise LostLONDON – As people in the developed world wonder how their countries will return to full employment after the Great Recession, it might benefit us to take a look at a visionary essay that John Maynard Keynes wrote in 1930, called “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren.”
And leadership for this huge revolutionary effort will probably have to come from visionary business executives whose profits depend on education and rationality.
Macron’s Challenge for EuropePARIS – In an ambitious, visionary speech at the Sorbonne this week, French President Emmanuel Macron presented his plan for countering the tide of xenophobic nationalism in Europe.
At a time of strong and growing market competition, he must provide the kind of visionary leadership that characterized his father and grandfather, the company’s pioneering founder, who transformed a small local trading company into a global semiconductor and smartphone powerhouse.
Climate Action After ParisWASHINGTON, DC – At the United Nations climate conference in Paris, courageous and visionary leaders recognized that people rarely change the world when they work within the constraints of what they think is possible.
Reclus’s ideal was visionary, if premature.
None of them can be accused of failing to invest in R&D or other long-term, sometimes even visionary, projects.
The OIC’s basic documents, such as its Ten Year Program of Action and its new Charter, provide a visionary road map to meet the challenges facing Islam in the twenty-first century.
The rising tide of nationalism cannot be pushed back unless the European idea regains its positive visionary power.
Given the impracticality – financial and otherwise – of relying on top-down solutions, the creation of a cleaner economy should rely on visionary entrepreneurs who can transform challenges into opportunities.
He is a visionary, seeing the possibility of providing care where none is yet available.
But he will be remembered primarily as the visionary who provided the intellectual firepower for free-market enthusiasts during the second half of the century, and as the éminence grise behind the dramatic shift in the economic policies that took place after 1980.
But bold, visionary leadership will be needed to seal a successor deal to the Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen later this year.
Drafted by the poetic hand of my late friend, Mahmoud Darwish, the text is nothing short of visionary.
He was also a visionary and sly politician, who never fully shook off his East European origins.
This was the secret of his international stature: people expect the leader of Israel, the man from Jerusalem, to be just that type of visionary figure.
Likewise, Altiero Spinelli, another of the EU’s founding fathers, wrote late in life that without visionary Europeans there would be no Europe, but without pragmatic statesmen, the visionaries would have gotten nowhere.
As in the second half of the twentieth century, visionary leaders must direct the transformation – and civil-society movements must support them.
“Two-state condominialism” is as visionary as the name is clunky.
And, thanks to the visionary leadership of Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, this imperative is receiving the attention it deserves.
We need a visionary approach and active engagement on energy issues from our leaders.
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