Word: sentimentale
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Some of the classics in the world of the arts are like family heirlooms, objects of lingering sentiment rather than pinnacles of aesthetic quality. Is the Mona Lisa a great painting, Les Sylphides a great ballet, or Clair de Lune a great piece of music? Not really, but they are...
HE IS THE PERFECT NARRATOR: as a journalist he feels he must be painstaking, as an ambitious writer he can't help showing off the only style he knows -- the kind of style that anyone would resort to after writing about baseball games every day for a generation, and as...
The words Williams places in the mouth of his narrator, Tom Wingfield, in effect give permission to the audience to become caught up in this nostalgic dream world without embarrassment: "The play is memory. Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic." Williams...
In this setting, the actors would and comfort each other with a natural delicacy that testifies to Arthur Feinsod's patient direction. Feinsod has allowed certain adaptations to develop during rehearsal -- like Mueller's entertaining monologues as she tries to persuade her friends to renew their subscription to The Homemaker...
Kid Blue is a quirkish, laid-back, jolly film, rich in resonance, full of scrupulously affectionate detail for a West that changed too fast and too often ever to be called "Old." It is a wry paean to a life of crime, and displays a robust contempt for law, order...