Word: cin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overheated ax murderer's job of acting. His nostrils perpetually flaring and his mannerisms obstinately childish even at "significant" moments (like the awful scene where his writer-pal dies), one thought sums Woods up: he gives great stereotypes. As Mr. Ackroyd would say: "The essence of ba-aa-ad cin...
...like almost all good documentaries in the cinéma vérité style, Say Amen, Somebody is a work of cultural anthropology. It is an exploration of a small, isolated world one would not ordinarily have a chance to penetrate, and it is exotic to the outlander's eye until the film makes the connections to our ordinary ways of life clear and uncommonly affecting. Take Dorsey, for example. He combines a holy man's zeal, a performer's ego and a revered older man's self-contentment, and the film's portrait...
...tickets in the first two weeks of its Paris run. The French are probably the most cosmopolitan fans in the world. "We will go see a Portuguese film one week and a Turkish one the next," says Marc Silvera, an official of the Centre National de la Cinématographic. "We are more open to films in other languages than the Americans or the British, and are willing to tolerate subtitles and dubbings. That makes the choice here much more diverse. There is something for everyone...
...comparison. For Heart of Glass Herzog hypnotized his actors, and on the receptive viewer his films have a similar effect: their spectral landscapes, brain-fevered protagonists and eruptions of lyricism can weave a mesmerizing spell. In achievement and originality his movies stand above and apart from most contemporary cin ema. They have the remote beauty of fairy tales decoded from a lost civilization...
...assure that the ice cream-loving factions could reach a compromise. Any soul who had trekked to the original store in nearby Somerville could attest: Steve's was quite simply the best. At last, many lovers of the creamy treat thought, the pleasures of an extralarge" up of homemade "cin-ana"-mixed-with-Health-and-Reese'stopped-with-triple-thick-hot-fudge-and-granola were close to home. How wonderful! How delicious! How this will revolutionize our culinary existence...