Word: craftsmanly
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...less ambitious context this combination of inventive slackness and intellectual slipperiness would not much matter. We could simply relax and enjoy a rattling good yarn--Braveheart without the kilts, Viva Zapata! without the sombreros--by a director who is shot for shot and scene for scene a masterly craftsman. But Neil Jordan, who is of course Irish, claims this is "an examination of conscience." He is also volubly aware that the culture of violence that has haunted his country's history was embodied by Collins and his cohorts. Jordan therefore owes to the present, as well as to the past...
...bomb came disguised in a book called Ice Brothers, published by Arbor House, whose symbol is a leaf. He polished and sometimes varnished his wood pieces, but it was clear, from the skewed corners and amateurish joints, that he was not a trained woodworker. "He's not a craftsman," Don Davis, a top postal inspector in San Francisco, said months ago. "His cuts aren't straight. They don't make right angles. He spends a lot of time; he does a lot of polishing and sanding to make it feel nice; but they don't look really craftsmanlike...
...been here 23 years and this is the first time anything like this has happened," said Dennis Chin, the owner of the store, Craftsman's Corner. "People have tried other ways of breaking in--never successful--but nothing like this...
...director, Lasse Hallstrom (My Life as a Dog), is an unobtrusive craftsman who lets his actors breathe in an easy, unforced way, as if they were engaged not in a movie but in real lives. Roberts' willowy vulnerability and watchful intelligence have never been shown to better advantage. And Rowlands is simply great in a scene where she breaks the silence of the years in a richly emotional encounter with her husband. It is not, mostly, about anger; it is about self-astonishment--at all she had inside her; at her unexpected (and scary) bravado in letting...
...just the way Mary Richards does in the MTM credits. This is the first time out for Keeve as director, and he does a poised job of presenting a warts-and-all portrait--Mizrahi the show-off, proud of every clever phrase he coins, and Mizrahi the serious craftsman, determined to build on his considerable gifts. Show-off and craftsman have one thing in common: they're both catnip to the camera. Unzipped could be the genesis of a second line for Mizrahi...