Word: emotionated
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In one scene where he is trying to convince Gus to check out where some noise is coming from, he waves his arms and stiffens his body, exaggerrating what should be a sly, tenacious and carefully forceful motion of convincing. During the last scene with the microphone that appears in...
Cataloged like this, the plot may sound like little more than anti-agitprop. And indeed The Blue Kite is by far the most excoriating depiction in Chinese film of Mao's ravages. But at its heart it is about domestic dreams, about a hope for better days that flies above...
Two years later, the 20-year-old Jones, who goes by the name Nas, is breaking through as a rapper. His debut album, Illmatic, captures the ailing community he was raised in -- the random gunplay, the whir of police helicopters, the homeboys hanging out on the corner sipping bottles of...
Out of these excursions came show-business magic. Disney's handsome fantasies satisfied as master lessons in the storytelling craft. They rekindled the art and emotion of the studio's classic animation style; they showed Broadway what it had forgotten about integrating popular music into a potent story; and they...
Any old hack can direct movies that make you cry. It's a simple matter of putting onscreen some wrenchingly sentimental image (sad-eyed dog with broken leg, widow on deathbed, noble peasant gunned down by soldiers) while a dozen violins tremble on the sound track. A filmmaker's real...