Word: restlessness
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...room, replace the romance of movies on a big screen? It seems likely that Reeves thought he could hide in plain sight on the contemptible small screen - do his part, collect his paycheck and go on dreaming about getting a still bigger break. He reckoned without the bored and restless kids who quickly made Superman must-see TV among the after-school set. He reckoned without their bemused parents who made his tacky little show a camp favorite (before the term became common coinage). Mostly, though, his problem was that he had never had a strong, starry identity before...
...suspect that's a spirit that she found in herself, that it's not something Altman coaxed out of her. There's no evidence, anywhere else in the film, that he is doing much more than making set-ups, mainly tracking shots, which give the film a restless, unsettled air that annoys the eye far more frequently than it pleases it. Mostly, the actors are left to their own devices and since none of them actually has a character to play - there are no back stories here and no discernable motivations - they are left stranded and wandering. Kline is particularly...
...better films (and they are not many in comparison to those he has messed up) Altman has used his peculiar style - mumbled dialogue often overlapped, a restless camera zooming, panning, tracking - to obscure the fact that they have very little to say. The lives he recounts are hopelessly muddled and ruled by chance and coincidence, with their outcomes generally a nasty surprise both to the players and to us in the audience. The way he encourages (or at least permits) his actors to improvise makes him a beloved figure to them, and permits his more impressionable viewers to feel they...
...goal that students know the words to the football songs, or even “Fair Harvard” (the University hymn is one bridge too far), we’d be in trouble. The real spirit of undergraduate life can be found in our students’ restless pursuit of excellence and innovation, in hundreds of different and not always intersecting ways—from the seminar room to the laboratory to the cramped, creative corridors where students stay up all night to put this newspaper...
Holman was a prodigiously restless world traveler in the early 19th century, a time before Ambien and JetBlue when the world was a dangerous, miserably uncomfortable place to travel. He circled the earth, traversed Siberia, roamed the Australian outback and the Brazilian rain forest, climbed Vesuvius during an eruption, hunted elephants in Ceylon and slave ships in the Atlantic and wrote best-selling books about it all. He did all this despite a grave handicap: he was blind...