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Dining Hall: Geriatric. Cabot, its dining space marked by a horrific “retirement home” ambiance, impresses as Havard’s most reliable example of d-hall fail. And while the staff always manages to maintain a chipper demeanor, it’s rarely enough to kick the feeling that you’re eating in Pfoho’s afterthought of a basement...
...actually Henry Selick's; he directed the film under Burton's supervision. Selick next directed James and the Giant Peach, which managed to improve on the Roald Dahl children's book, and Monkeybone, a pretty frantic mix of live-action and animation. All these films owe less to the chipper confections of Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks than to Euro-cartoonery like The Triplets of Belleville and the work of Czech animator Jiri Trnka...
...grace notes, however, begin to sound softly in her life. Her parole officer is notably sympathetic to her. Her nieces are chipper and accepting of her - and they occasionally ask her the direct questions about her past that the adults prefer not to bring up. The speechless grandfather establishes a benign connection, mainly through the love of reading he shares with Juliette. A man even appears - patient, unglamorous and someone who, like Claudel himself, has worked in prisons and understands the devastation that long-term incarceration can cause. Most important, there...
These critics have a point. Whether she's dealing with a depressed book store clerk or the fact that her bicycle is stolen while she visits his shop, the young woman remains indefatigably chipper. And that's just the beginning of Leigh's film. As it develops she brings her good cheer to all kinds of situations - an encounter with a homeless man, a bully in her classroom, a difficult relationship with her more bourgeois sister and her dismal husband. Poppy's peppiness sustains her in other, less dramatically pointed ways as well. Like a lot of single working women...
...dark-humored whimsicality. Collectively, these elements are fitting for a New Pornographers’ video. A.C. Newman’s power poppy voice can either draw you in and make you want to have your own weird little party or else repel you by being just a tad too chipper for an ordinary day. Either way, the video at least borders on entertaining. Fortunately for the play-acting band members, this party has a happy ending. “And here’s the mutiny I promised you / And here’s the party it turned into...