Word: crashing
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...Downfall We're in the bunker with Hitler and his toadies as, above ground, the remnants of The Third Reich crash in flames. Bruno Ganz gives a towering performance as the Fuhrer, moving imaginary armies around on the map, succumbing alternately to grandiosity, rage and self-pity, while the rest of his court dreams either of suicide or escape. What's truly frightening about director Oliver Hirshbeigel's movie is that no one in it is portrayed as a monster; they're all recognizably, if sickeningly, human. We don't identify with them, let alone sympathize with them...
...Crash The Los Angeles car culture comes to a series of screeching interrelated halts as various forms of vehicular unpleasantness occur at every socio-economic level of the city. Show folks, politicians, criminals, and, yes, the cops who have to untangle the messes the make, work out their fates. To say that Paul Haggis's film is multi-layered understates the case. But there is great clarity in his direction, shrewd observation in the screenplay (which he wrote with Robert Moresco and rafts of terrific acting-most notably by Matt Dillon as a racist cop who becomes the reluctant hero...
...Darkly handsome, like the hero of a Bront? novel, Dorrington is also as haunted as Heathcliff or Mr. Rochester. As a 14-year-old experimenting with explosives, he had lost parts of two fingers; later, in Sumatra, a colleague died in an airship crash for which the aeronaut still feels guilt. Occasionally oppressed by his melodramatic mien, Herzog turns to Dorrington?s Guyanese assistant, the gentle, mystical Mark Anthony Yhap. But the attempts to get the White Diamond up are at the heart of the film. And when, accompanied by beautiful choral music, the airship finally rises to soar over...
...Alone Again Or,” with bouncy chords and exuberant trumpets exciting the crowd, who eagerly followed Burns’ lead in providing a hand-clap accompaniment. The explicitly political “All Systems Red” ended with a burst of crash cymbal, driving bass, and squealing guitar, providing a wall of noise that accentuated the frustration of Burns’ lyrics. This somber spirit of protest was countered by an extended version of “Güero Canelo,” featuring high, rolling trumpet solos, Richie Valens-esque guitar, and a dance-happy...
...Crash! Green whirled around to see Lowrey hysterically laughing, lying atop the remnants of a human pyramid...