Word: sad
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...respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained. But the struggle for me does not come between politics and entertainment, because I know that if I succeed in making an entertaining and funny or sad film, that the things I want to say politically will come through very strong. If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble...
...like the United States. I've made many excellent friends there, I feel good there. I love junk food, and I always come home with a few extra pounds. I've always worked and supported transatlantic solidarity. When I hear people say that I'm anti-American, I'm sad--not angry, but really sad...
...four leads brought these sad characters alive and hurting. Bouquets all around: to Donna Murphy, as glamorous, tough-as-crimson-painted-nails Phyllis; to Victor Garber, as her successful, empty spouse Ben; and to Michael McGrath, as Buddy, the philandering schlemiel who loves his wife Sally even as she is slipping away from him into Ben's arms. But the revelation was Victoria Clark as Sally. Clark, who had toiled in Broadway obscurity for decades before earning a Tony for her role as the mother in The Light in the Piazza two years ago, was the one true singer...
...Eiffel Tower, the Latin Quarter - it's the anonymous streets where the food in the humblest bistro makes your mouth water, the women are always pert and smartly dressed, the men rueful and wise. Everything and everyone merely awaits further transformation by the cinematographer's glamorizing light. Even a sad story does not seem quite so doleful in this context...
...film. Its sets may be visibly false, but there is something truthful about its message: it is saying that big cities - even heartbreakingly beautiful ones like Paris - conspire to prevent us from making connections that in simpler contexts might easily be made. Private Fears in Public Places, is a sad, wry, yet not entirely devastating contemplation of the loneliness of cities and of the little, self-absorbed lives that they shelter...