Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important secrets.'' Certainly the secrets in this poet's heart were well known by the time he died two falls ago. Auden's evolution from anger to acceptance, from wrathful condemnation of prewar society ("that confabulation of weasels at the next table") to rueful contemplation of self, was one of the best articulated literary odysseys ever taken...
That'll Be the Day has mostly the music in common with any of these. It is an intelligent, rueful attempt to get at the roots of pop culture by dramatizing the shaky beginnings of one musician's career. Director Claude Whatham and Writer Ray Connolly also succeed nicely at something that has hardly ever been tried: to say and to show just how rock gave a voice to a generation...
...developed that negative anyway, and it proved another picture entirely. Rhoda turned out to be a close relative of Tevye, a fiddler on the rueful whose face could shine with puzzlement as well as wisdom while she searched for career, meaning, laughs, irony and that sine qua non of the not-quite-liberated Msfit, a husband...
...ragged but forceful, is said to be based on a true story. It sometimes seems much too pat in its converging ironies, but it is a credit to Baer and the deft action directing of Richard Compton that County Line at least assumes, in its strongest passages, the rueful sting of fact...
...script sometimes strains coincidence and leaves some loose ends dangling. But as a study of a decent man twice victimized by megapolitics, Director Pinoteau's first feature rings with rueful truth. Escape to Nowhere is, in cinematic terms, aptly named. It represents a rare movie journey away from the Bondian glamorization of espionage toward that cold, perpetually drizzling landscape that Novelist John le Carré has mastered. Like him, Pinoteau sacrifices nothing in the way of suspense as he pursues his harried hero to a brilliant climactic confrontation with the enemy in the Swiss Alps. And he gains much...