Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film even the madcap Pythoneers seemed to hold themselves back under the weight of their own irreverence. Modeled after a Lewis Carroll poem. Jabberwocky deteriorated into nerve-deadening blood and gore. A romp through time and space with a seven-year-old (Time Bandits) fell into the saddest trap of all--it was cute. And a couple of truly limp filmings of live shows made even the most adoring followers doubt any future theme movie could recapture that early perfect match between spooter and spoofee...
Like the beneficent San Lorenzo, the Tavianis grant each villager's wish by making no formal distinctions between reality and fable. Every one of Cinematographer Franco di Giacomo's images has the same cartoon clarity whether it documents the townspeople's journey or dramatizes their sweetest, saddest fantasies. A girl bumps into some soldiers and sees them as G.I.s, come to take her to America; in fact they are Germans about to slaughter her, and her vision is a dream flash the moment before she dies. Early in the film, the villagers hear a faint but rousing...
...Yugoslavs-into a mammoth grave, where they are to be shot. As the cameras started to roll, the peasants began to wail. "No one told them to," says Steele, "and you couldn't have dreamt of such a sound. It was just devastating, strange and keening, like the saddest tone in history. The Yugoslavs hate the Germans, and maybe something surfaced from a collective unconscious...
...they understand it has an effect on sleep and nutrition, and at practice they can guess which players have been up all night. "I can pick them out," Walsh says. "One, two, three, four-it's not the biggest part of football's story, just the saddest part...
...theater (Sizwe Banzi Is Dead), dance (Twyla Tharp's Confessions of a Cornermaker), film (The Tree of Wooden Clogs), music (a series on Broadway composers) and conversation (Gregory Jackson's Signature). After losing an estimated $30 million, it expired on Dec. 16-one of 1982's saddest death notices...