Word: dourness
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Punk rock seemed to erupt from the dour social fabric of recessionary Britain in the mid-1970's. The blasphemous music was loud and furious, the clothes and hair were ripped and dishevelled, and the pioneering Sex Pistols lasted less than ten months...
...serve and honor spiritual texts, but it seems unlikely that its new fans are paying much heed to the Latin words. After all, would they really be out there dancing to Salve Festa Dies (Hail, Festive Day) if they knew that one verse of this hymn contains the dour plea "Break the chains of hell, the shadows of the dungeon/ And call up again whatever has fallen into the abyss...
...would like to embrace Savage Nights. Its dour attitude and grungy visual style are an antidote to Hollywood's reductive take on AIDS stories. Collard, who died of aids last year, a few days before his film was awarded a Cesar (France's Oscar) for Best Picture, comes across as a director showing real skill with his young cast, and as a skulkily seductive actor...
Perhaps Ives will make bigger bottles -- longer plays -- with the same effervescence he compresses into this six-pack. Meantime, here is an evening of great pleasure and promise. How delicious, in these dour theater days of revivals and stillbirths, to have something to look forward to -- again (ding!) and again (ding!) and again (blackout...
...Piano is Campion's coming of age -- a delivery on the promise of her first two features. Sweetie (1989), about the devastating effect a disturbed young woman has on her family, was bitter medicine; the movie double-dared its audience to find sympathy in its dour or manic characters. In An Angel at My Table (1990), a three-part mini-series based on the biographies of Australian novelist Janet Frame, Campion located her elliptical, microcosmic style. But % this lovely film lost its way before its climax, and before it could find a wider audience...