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...familiar terms. This shines through as he sings about a man in love with a supermarket worker in “Queen of the Supermarket.” This song, in collusion with a number of similarly heartfelt tracks on the album, smacks of classic Boss, poeticizing the seemingly banal and imbuing moments of tenderness into otherwise unnoteworthy situations. Surprisingly, Springsteen’s crowning achievement on the album appears as a bonus track. “The Wrestler,” which is featured at the end of the movie of the same name, paints a hauntingly beautiful picture...
...majority of viewers - the small-town moviegoer, the urban, Hindi-speaking market - looks for star vehicles, for masala," says Masand. "They won't care much for this one." For many Indians, the film's subject and treatment are familiar to the point of being banal. A lot of Indians are not keen to watch it for the same reason they wouldn't want to go to Varanasi or Pushkar for a holiday - it's too much reality for what should be entertainment. "We see all this every day," says Shikha Goyal, a Mumbai-based public relations executive who left halfway...
...period of rainfall and subsequent rejuvenation—dark, confused, populous, and ready to blossom again. One of its concluding passages explores a bundle of cherry blossom stems wrapped in plastic—one moment among many where Dorsky uses unconventional angles and framing to make the banal, well, beautiful.It’s a good word for describing Dorsky’s work. Aesthetically, his passages are stunning, and their sheer beauty would risk descending into sentimentality were it not for the vacuum-like silence that accompanies each of his films.“I realized that once...
...theaters. One type, he said, toward ambitious themes crept, But was “crippled by the fact that the execution was so technically inept.” The other bad poetry type is all About topics that are “inane” or “banal.” Galligan and Jon Haber, the other co-curato’ Are former hosts of the oddball TV show “Channel Zero.” Where the two men presented movie clips obscure. It’s similar to finding strange poems, for sure. A decade...
...aesthetic, but from early on, just like Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, he's been making pictures that are brilliantly open to the flotsam of the visible world, the little accidents of vision and oddball details that snapshots automatically gather up. He is fascinated by American junk-space, the banal stretches of tract housing and strip malls. But there's nothing camp or ironic about Eggleston's work. The power of his pictures rests on their casual but absolute sincerity, their conviction that small is beautiful. There's something very American about this, a valorization of the commonplace, carried...