Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The newest Aussie import Lonely Hearts bridges the gap between Australian film ingenuity and universal themes. This bittersweet romantic comedy confronts the budding relationship between two middle aged people with delightful sincerity. The film is of special interest because middle aged loneliness is something few of today's filmmakers seem...
Kaye's Peter is a romantic who loves to make other people happy. Kaye makes Peter young at heart despite his age through lively and energetic movement. Likewise, Hughes gives an excellent performance, accentuating Patricia's insecurity with her low, almost mumbling speech, and her down-cast eyes. Hughes makes...
The Right Stuff: that was the name we had been groping for. The phrase summarized the primitive and profound quality sensed beneath the space program's propaganda and the sometimes sleazy manipulations. It was, of course, Tom Wolfe who carefully defined a vague vernacular term and blazoned it as...
What makes Viet Nam: A Television History effective is less its grand scale than its telling detail. The opening hour, which concentrates on France's century of colonial control, offers chilling hints of why the Vietnamese nationalists were so implacable: in the first years of the 20th century, postcards...
Revolutionaries fall into two main types: the romantic and the quasi-religious zealot. Danton, as envisioned by Wajda and Writer Jean-Claude Carrière (Buñuel's sometime collaborator) and brilliantly portrayed by Gérard Depardieu, is the former. Lazy, sensual and, above all, egocentric, he...