Word: poeticisms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...impatience becomes endearing when directed at her impossible customers, like Madame Buisse, who struts around Paris in nothing but a trenchcoat which she removes whenever possible. When a young French hooligan solicits Marie (pretty, seeing the widower) for "the finishing touches," Angele bluntly shows him to the visually poetic door. "I speak to be heard," she replies to Marie's shock at her language. This is one of the lines i remember verbatim...
Admittedly, the pace of the second act slows somewhat with the incorporation of the two additional characters and the plot complications they provide. In part, this is due to the nature of the script. Yew includes several poetic monologues which, though eloquently written and sincerely delivered, do not cover a lot of new ground. On the whole, the best moments of A Language of Their Own come not when the characters elegize to the audience over the successes and failures of communication with each other, but when they literally establish (and at times destroy) an intimate and mutual working language...
...awarded the Academy of American Poets' Tanning Prize for established mastery in the art of poetry. Her support for feminism has lasted at least as long as her poetic career, and her work is known for its powerful denunciations of gender injustice...
...Wagon Wheel Joe," they used to call him. His name is known only to hardcore devotees of B westerns and films noirs. But cult phenomenon Joseph H. Lewis truly had a flair for directing meagerly budgeted genre movies - a flair he demonstrated in two seminal noirs, some memorably poetic westerns, and a pair of unforgettably twisted thrillers...
...William Eadie) in an infested slum during the 1970s Glasgow garbage collectors' strike, you may bolt from the theater, saying, "I gave at the office." Stay, all the way to the magical-tragical ending. Writer-director Ramsay neither sentimentalizes nor garishes up the lost children in this observant and poetic drama. She sees that kids aren't good or bad; they are exactly as weak, dreamy, vicious and stranded as the rest of us. Ratcatcher sears; it is hard to take, hard to shake...