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...wrote a book on Hitchcock's oeuvre (with fellow critic and budding director Eric Rohmer). Of all the new-wave auteurs, Chabrol was the one who took Hitchcock's fancy for cinematic dread most to heart, then gave it his own twist. In deadpan tragedies like Le Boucher, La Femme Infidčle and The Beast Must Die, passion leads to crimes of passion, and crime to self-lacerating punishment. These films are all the more potent because they speak their evils and ironies in a Gallic whisper...
...from the special economic zone.” Their relative obscurity is particularly frustrating because the Jews are more “authentic” than Adams (who is more of a pastiche artist than a true country troubadour) and they never belabor listeners with ponderous sonic experiments a la Wilco (see the last ten minutes of their 11-minute long krautwank epic “Spiders (Kidsmoke)”). If any album were to break through to the other side of popularity, this is it. “Punks In the Beerlight” is a rollicking honky...
...term “literally” is also used, à la middle school, on occasions where something is not at all literal, such as “she is literally crazy” or “she literally LOVES everyone...
Some of these films broke out of the art houses to the general audience. A Man and a Woman, I Am Curious (Yellow), Z--all were hits. Fellini's 3-hour La Dolce Vita, released in subtitled and dubbed versions, grossed the 1961 equivalent of $80 million. Part of its appeal was in the panoramic views of Roman naughtiness and Anita Ekberg's cleavage. But Fellini, along with many other directors, was experimenting with visual language. Imagine: here were new ways of seeing the world on film...
...Sure, hip-hop legends like De La Soul have been known to pull off entertaining skits (“Brain-Washed Follower” is a stand-out example), KMD’s albums are peppered with them, and even “Madvillainy” features a somewhat light-hearted paean to the glories of “grass.” But having almost every track either begin and/or end with a skit seriously impacts the repeat listening capacity of the album...