Word: poignant
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...ability to touch us. One essay describes Schnur taking his crying baby outside into the warm summer night. He carries his daughter to the summit of a hill in order to show her the moon. It mixes wonders of life, the stars, fatherhood and infants in a delicately poignant...
...began to realize she could not control her scripts unless she became a director -- which she has just done, in the witty and poignant This Is My Life, which opened the Sundance Film Festival last week and will be released commercially Feb. 21. The script, which she wrote with her sister Delia, treats a comedian (Julie Kavner), caught between the conflicting demands of career and kids, who uses her daughters' lives in her routine. This kind of family cannibalism is something the Ephron sisters grew up with...
...idea that rivalry between British and American Macbeths could stir their New York City partisans to murderous riot seems almost unimaginably quaint. But in his witty and poignant evocation of the madness of 1849, TWO SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS, playwright Richard Nelson slyly suggests parallels to our era's battles over supposed Eurocentric cultural imperialism. The play's underlying debate: Is art universal, or does it belong exclusively to its nation of origin? Nelson touches on these matters in glittering moments rather than digging in with Shavian relentlessness. He focuses on three actors: William Charles Macready (Brian Bedford), the English Macbeth...
Sweet and sentimental and, yes, a little slow, this adaptation of a beloved children's book is gorgeous and Freudianly evocative to look at, melodic and poignant to hear, innocent and hugely satisfying in its emotional climax. The only worthwhile American musical...
Sweet and sentimental and, yes, a little slow, this adaptation of a beloved children's book is gorgeous and Freudianly evocative to look at, melodic and poignant to hear, innocent and hugely satisfying in its emotional climax. The only worthwhile American musical...