Word: broodingness
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Chaplin, the Hugh Grant-ish twinkie from The Truth About Cats & Dogs, makes an admirable about-face to become this brooding, swanky manipulator. As in his previous film, however, he projects a wheezy lack of mystery: a bad move in a role once played by Montgomery Clift. Finney and Smith...
At this point, the character of the movie changes noticeably. During one of Pitt's moments of apparent familial soul-searching, composer John Williams first unveils a full-bodied rendition of the theme he has been hinting at throughout the film. It is a brooding, melancholy, expressive and lilting string...
The mood of triumphant brightness in Symphony Hall quickly changed at the start of Anton Bruckner's brooding Ninth Symphony, which comprised the second half of the concert. An ominous and disturbing work, it swings violently from melancholy introspection to frenzied passages which verge on hysteria. Bruckner started writing this...
Folk art, outsider art, call it what you will, has always been one of the traditional American homes of the visionary. Perhaps its single most intense expression in American sculpture--or environment making--was the three-dimensional work assembled between 1950 and 1964 by a Washington janitor named James Hampton...
In what seems like an effort to compensate for the fact their star isn't, say, Daniel Day-Lewis, the creators of The Odyssey limn an even more brooding, contemplative hero than exists in Homer's epic. The original Odysseus is a heavyweight to be sure, but he is also...