Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first surrealist film and is probably the most powerful short film ever made. Bunuel's surrealism was abstract in the 20s, became a savage vehicle for social criticism in the 40s and 50s, and mellowed into a means for joking about the upper class in last year's Discreet Charm of the Bourgeousie. Un Chien Andalou was its first expression...
...many questions. The people in Don Giovanni could have been the people staring at you from the depths of Goya's portraits." As for the don himself, said Ustinov, he is "not really my kind of man. He has this superb kind of facile surface charm, like the Ferrari drivers of the world. Quite repellent underneath...
...Line, which brought a sample and measure of working class pure sport joy to an often-effete and growingly-decadent intellectual community, which brought the reality of teach tourneys and slapshots to university masses, ennervating and vitalizing bland and sterile intellectual pursuits with a vibrant and brutal vivacity and charm, pumping a living and athletic blood into a skeptical and cynical social atmosphere, fusing the gut response with the intellectual considerations, giving and enlightening more than laboratories and lecture podiums could ever hope to enlighten, bringing the street, the gouge-and-vindicate philosophy of the middle- and lower-class...
...began inching its way into memory like a balm. In recent years several entertainments have distilled that nostalgia-The Last Picture Show, for example, and the Broadway musical Grease. But none have had the vigor and precision of American Graffiti. This superb and singular film catches not only the charm and tribal energy of the teen-age 1950s but also the listlessness and the resignation that underscored it all like an incessant bass line in one of the rock-'n'-roll songs of the period...
...away. The saving grace is that the couple in question is Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, perfectly suited to each other and the roles, and thus this film has made grown people cry for more than twenty-five years. It is Love Story, but with talent, taste, and charm. Channel...