Word: sentimentale
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In Joe Hill director Bo Widerberg commits the worst of all artistic crimes: dishonesty towards his subject. In what purports to be a dramatization of Joe Hill's history, he has invented, deleted, and rearranged the life and times of the IWW bard. Such exploitation might be forgivable in the...
Edouard Vuillard was not a simple painter, and his subtle, qualified vision endeared him to some of the most complex minds in France. "Too fastidious for plain statement, he proceeds by insinuation," André Gide wrote of him in 1905. "There is nothing sentimental or highfalutin about the discreet melancholy...
They move to a large, tumble-down cottage in Yorkshire, where the children encounter all manner of strange people and wonderful adventures. A stationmaster named Perks (Bernard Cribbins) answers their questions about trains. An elderly passenger (William Mervyn) waves at them from the dining-car window and eventually befriends them...
Joe is memorably played by Thommy Berggren (the lover in Elvira Madigan), whose diffident yet forceful manner and ingratiating uncertainty with the English language make him the perfect incarnation of Hill. Kelvin Malave is also charming as The Fox, but the rest of the cast is distractingly nonprofessional. What is...
Unlike "Dirty Business", "Henry" comes off as well on the album as it does live. The song jumps and moves as "fast, fast, fast" as its hero does. The most characteristic part is the guitar riff just before the end of the song. "All I Ever Wanted", as noted above...