Word: poignant
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...Aerial Gilbert and Sarah M. Jones, the Head of the Charles was a particularly poignant experience...
...Incredibles has those characters, that heart. And after that poignant stretch of family dysfunction, the movie brings on its supervillain--Mr. I's onetime groupie Incrediboy, now the cunning, gadget-obsessed Syndrome (Jason Lee)--and explodes into the year's wittiest, zippiest adventure, with each knockout action sequence eclipsing the last and with echoes of '60s James Bond films and Fantastic Four comic books. But it's still unusual: in its length (nearly two hours), in its rating (PG for "action violence," a first for G-loving Pixar) and in its cast of human characters...
...center, who was based on Kerouac's soul mate, Neal Cassady. On the Road made Kerouac the spokesman for the Beat Generation, an icon of hip. But that's not the man you meet in Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (Viking; 371 pages), a poignant selection of Kerouac's diaries edited by the historian Douglas Brinkley. The journals begin with Kerouac at 25, anguishing over his first novel, The Town and the City ("Why doesn't God appear to me to tell me I'm on the right track?"). They follow him through travels he made...
Pierre-Yves Massip, another company member, likens the difference to the fine line between speaking and singing or between painting and sculpture. Marceau prefers to liken mime to writing, in the sense that both are about concisely creating poignant images...
...fighter who is missing in action. Their mother has been imprisoned, and each night they try to break into jail to be with her. Like so many Iranian movies, these two paint the region's political and social chaos on the faces of beautiful children. Both films are painful, poignant, hard to look at, harder to forget...