Word: impishness
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...Hollywood producer wants to turn into a film. This is an expression of Godard's distrust of Steven Spielberg and his film Schindler's List. "Mrs. Schindler was never paid," one character notes. "She's living in poverty in Argentina." Ah, that Godard: he is always serious, always impish. He lives up to his own maxim: "Every thought should show the debris of a smile." Elogie shows that smile as Godard's own: the rictus of the wise old ghost of modernist cinema...
...context for their past lives and current conditions, the film delves right into the music, leaving the studio performances as the true embodiments of emotion and personality. Eliane Elias expresses understated elegance with deft and shimmering touches of twinkling piano, contrasting with Puente's cheeky, overt showmanship as he, impish and seemingly carefree, works magic on the timbale. Trueba masterfully mixes styles and personalities; he conjures up a spread of sensations from the jarring fiery rhythms of the flamencos to the infectious, but more restrained and contained passion of samba and bossa nova...
Rodriguez, however, pushes into uncharted territory through the cotton-candy dreamscape world of his impish villain Floop (a marvelous Alan Cumming), a Pee-Wee Herman clone who serves as ringmaster for a Teletubbies-styled kiddie show and dreams of-what else-world domination. Some of the elements in his towering, Gothic seaside castle reflect a vibrant visual imagination, most notably a sprawling floor that proves to be composed of giant jigsaw puzzle pieces. Others, such as the robot minions whose limbs consist of nothing but thumbs, smack of watered-down Tim Burton...
CRANKY PRANKS They're not the first, but are they the worst? Rumors are flying around Capitol Hill of mischief wrought by Clinton staff members upon leaving the White House. Democrats dispute reports of serious damage and remind us that G.O.P.ers can also be impish...
...giddy pleasure. The Beatles' charm is easy and still disarming. The visuals exactly match the springily monochromatic music that the Beatles were creating at that time. Each Beatle was defined with a persona that became enshrined as the capsule version of their true-life characters. John the irreverently impish rebel; Paul, self-aware and cute; George laconic and Ringo the down-to-earth lad next door. (It was Ringo who prepared himself for the spiritual trek to India by shipping out crates of English baked beans...