Word: poignant
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...retreated to an abandoned Navy bunker on the northern coast of Iceland, where he spends his eternity drinking, skulking and occasionally eating a nearby villager. The film opens with a close-up of his ranting face, setting the tone of the whole story—erratic, rambling and poignant in spite of incoherence. Both the monster and the movie speak with the same intensity and the occasional wisdom of a lonely bum in a bus terminal...
...rants are still as loquacious as ever, but carefully, rationally edited down. Although she criticizes self-absorption in “Narcissus,” Morisette is the very picture of the self-centered diva. “So Unsexy,” the most poignant track, is a gorgeous watercolor of the new Alanis Morissette. In 1995 screeches and finger-pointing would have dominated, while in 1998 she projected a self-reflective Zen mentality. However, 2002’s Under Rug Swept brings her inner conflict to a conscious level where Morisette herself can contemplate the ironies of being...
...from anywhere, perching on the Barents Sea above the Arctic Circle in Finnmark, Norway's northernmost county. Despite the remote location and frozen terrain, Berlev?g has something to warm hearts across much of Europe - a 30-man amateur choral ensemble starring in a poignant and quirky film called Heftig & Begeistret, or Cool & Crazy...
...suite is a passionate outburst that is moving and poignant when considering individual panels and overwhelming when experienced in its entirety. While each concentrated gathering of paint and drips is reference to the violence and destruction of Lepanto, they are also a string of erotic encounters, an invocation of sexual climax and release. Twombly brilliantly makes us see the aggression in love and the eroticism in violence...
...Gene Kelly were around today (he died in 1996), he might find this poignant. What is the most popular movie genre in the world today? Not melodrama or comedy or horror or teen pop-star showcases. Correct answer: the musical...