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With his regal posture, searing blue eyes, perfect jawline and a baritone voice bred for noble declarations, Heston was the ideal vessel for Hollywood grandeur. In the 1950s and 60s, the era of the movie epic - those three-hour extravaganzas with a cast of thousands and the passionate enunciation of high ideals - he was the epic hero; it's almost impossible to imagine the genre without him. To any of these films he added millions in revenue, plenty of muscle and 10 I.Q. points...
...Indeed, it seems to me the film works better as a comic love story than it does as a sports epic. In its early moments, it features some good, roughneck, on-field shenanigans. The players are simple jocks, content with playing a game of few, loosely enforced rules. But as attention shifts from locker rooms to board rooms, where the real struggle for control of the game's bright, yet much more respectable, future is waged, Leatherheads loses some of its formerly merry ways. It wants to make the case that there is more fun - maybe more simple humanity...
...also done a political doc (the 1970 Street Scenes, about antiwar protests), a loving portrait of his parents (Italianamerican, in 1974), a study of a very colorful friend (American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince, 1978), a doc on couturier Giorgio Armani (Made in Milan, 1990) and epic valentines to old American and Italian cinema. His curiosity is insatiable. What he loves, he films...
...piano tinkles in the background, and the whole song seems to swoon. In this same vein, the Yo La Tengo-esque “My Favorite Year,” with its pulsating drone, high-pitched echoes, and swirling piano, proves that Bejar can still write a six-minute epic that doesn’t sound a second too long.Closing track “Libby’s Sunrise”—a blemish on an otherwise pristine album—illustrates one of Bejar’s occasional problems: his endless flourishes can sound tacked-on when...
...viewer is left feeling much like the girl in the video, waiting for satisfaction that DeGraw simply can’t deliver. Eventually, the video looks like a tribute to Aerosmith, only without the daring, the cutting-edge feel, or the freshness that made their love story videos epic. “In Love with a Girl” takes the pain and the sex out of love and makes it look like a ride in a shopping cart. In one sentence, DeGraw lost sex, love, and rock ‘n’ roll in the department store...