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Watching The Good German, you feel the unease, the discontent, of its makers with their basic material. They pile up style points as they flirt with quite sober issues involving loyalty and guilt. The result is a movie that is never quite amusing but never quite mordantly thought provoking either...
...free-spirited flirt who begins the movie in Berlin entertaining the meter-reader and ends in London in the arms of Jack the Ripper, Lulu brings out the worst in all her men - foremost among them a scrofulous pimp who may be her father and a newspaper publisher (Fritz Kortner) and his son (Franz Lederer). She marries the publisher, who becomes enraged on their wedding night and insists she kill herself. The gun goes off, and he's dead. At her trial she's a symphony in black in her widow's weeds, but she's able to flash...
...Cruz's trust seems daughterly, but, insists the director, who is 57, with a shock of gray hair, "I don't like when she looks at me like a paternal figure. I behave with her like if I were Orlando Bloom, a young, attractive man actor that can also flirt with her." At the mention of Bloom, whom she's rumored to be dating, the private Cruz screams like a teenager being teased. "Orlando doesn't flirt with me! He's just my friend!" But Almodóvar, as he always does with Cruz, gets away with it. "Oh," he says...
...calculatedly amateur--wiggly--style gives her drawings an unpretentious air that allows viewers to be surprised by their greatness. But however ardently they flirt with profundity, Chast's cartoons are always rooted in the regular humiliations of daily life. Earlier this year, a cartoon came to her full blown, right on the sofa where she's sitting for this interview. Her daughter was doing her homework and listening to a CD. "Sometimes you just kind of want to see if they're paying any attention to you, you know?" Chast says. "So I started to do a little dance...
...credit simply because they require a lengthy paper in lieu of a final. These courses, however, are better suited than Core courses to teach students how to analyze particular historical events. The term paper forces students to engage in the practice of historical analysis, something with which students merely flirt in a Core...