Word: britishly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well-told story about a mixed Asian marriage and the cultural struggles it creates, and The Ice Storm, a subtle and powerful film about WASP culture in the '70s. Both films, the latter especially, emphasize the unhappiness and ennui that infects suburban existence. Directed by Sam Mendes, a British theater director, American Beauty continues in this burgeoning tradition, framing, with a keen eye, the miseries and peculiarities of American life...
...Sensation," the Brooklyn Museum of Art's sprawling show of young British artists that has opened up the latest front in the culture wars, is a sheep in wolf's clothing. That was bound to be. Not even an ad man's dream of a drop-dead one-liner can hold its shock past the listener's double take. And "Sensation" is precisely that: a vanity showcase from the collection of British ad mogul Charles Saatchi--loud and "naughty" works juxtaposed with the occasional better one--that has generated more noise than it deserves...
...social issues at the expense of classical ideals of beauty, and the art here follows that vogue with a vengeance. That's not to say that the work doesn't have jolts of visual energy, corrosive or not. It is an energy that was new to the somnolent British art scene and brought these artists local and then international attention throughout...
...PREMISE: One of the sharpest satires of the English language, this masterpiece continues to delight and astound audiences years after its author's death. Poking fun at British aristocracy while keeping onlookers in stitches, Oscar Wilde's wittily constructed story of foolishness, deceit and cunning strikes an admirable balance between criticism and comedy...
...residence, a classy restaurant, a low lit dock). Such scenes are more accurate depictions of Wilson's mentality and fantasies than his interactions with others or even reality itself. Into these prisms of then and now, Soderbergh splices actual footage of actor Stamp in his role as a young British thief in 1967's Poor Cow. Though these montages seem disorienting and self-conscious at first, such sequences gradually reveal the cyclical nature of Wilson's life and the truth behind Jenny's death...