Word: milieus
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...contrived for the movie to be emotionally gripping. We are too aware of Writer Toback's undigested intellectual debts as well as his rather adolescent romanticizing of his subject. Nor has London-based Director Reisz (Morgan, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) fully absorbed any of the milieus through which The Gambler moves. Most of the time he seems to be taking snapshots for an album to be called something like "Colorful Habits of the Natives...
...least the new, desperate openness of the film companies did allow, for a time, the chance for an art of depth to be developed, and more realistic milieus to be delineated. The Graduate or Easy Rider might have been pretty terrible movies, but their audiences were presented with types they recognized from their own experience...
Adds Mr. Nagasaka: "We dress the Western way, we eat Western foods, we work in Western milieus, and we even dance gogo. The trend toward Westernization has at long last begun making us sleep the Western...
...nuances, based solely on black-and-white pictures." Cordovado, tried in absentia, was sentenced to one year. In effect, the art experts had been held legally responsible for carelessness. Said France-Soir: "Professor Réau's condemnation has caused a profound stupor in university and artistic milieus." Réau professed himself "profoundly troubled...
Dekker was an unsurpassedly keen observer of contemporary London life, if not a peeping Tom; and he gave us here a vivid picture of the artisan and aristocratic milieus. The finest social comedy of its age, Holiday has special appeal for us today: it presents pre-echos of the Horatio Alger story, champions the ideals of democracy (even the King proclaims that "love respects no blood, cares not for difference of birth or state"), and contains the first labor sit down strike in drama...