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With Four Days in July (1985), the tone mellowed; Leigh was kind to both the Catholics and the Protestants of Belfast--though the Republicans had the funnier lines. High Hopes saves its venom for the hilariously rendered posh types and poseurs; toward its central couple of fuzzy Marxists, the film dares to be sweetly sentimental. In Life Is Sweet and especially Secrets & Lies, the working-class families are observed, warts and all, with an insider's love and forgiveness. "One way or another, all my films are about roots and families," says Leigh. "One of my cousins saw Secrets & Lies...
Nostalgia comes quickly in the '90s. We watch VH1's The Big '80s and laugh at the silly videos we thought were so cool only about seven years back; we yearn for the funnier, fresher David Letterman of, oh, about a year or so ago; perhaps some of us are already feeling misty-eyed in the wake of ABC's announcement last week that Daniel Benzali--who helped make baldness telegenic--will be departing from Murder One next season...
Letterman still has the funnier show by far, but his nightly psychodrama is getting harder to watch. The Oscar experience obviously continues to sting; Dave keeps obsessing about it in his jokes. The Top 10 lists are spilling over from self-parody into self-loathing. "Top 10 Insults for Dave Letterman," went a recent one. ("Letterman, let's face it--you put the 'suck' in success.") Clearly, Dave needs a lift, but The Late Shift isn't going...
...ought to work as well now as it did in the '50s; Cinderella stories don't date any more than Jane Austen stories do. And the new acting team isn't half bad. Ford's muttering misanthropy may actually be funnier than Bogart's harder, more sardonic take on Linus. Ormond is no Audrey Hepburn, but Hepburn was sui generis, and Ormond does have a shy charm all her own. And there is a wastrely weakness about Kinnear's good looks that suits David more neatly than Holden's square-cut handsomeness...
...which he invested metal objects such as lamps, unicycles and drummer-boy toys with life and heart. These films, forerunners to Toy Story, ingeniously show that things have wills and wits of their own and exist in intimate relation to their human masters. They're funnier...