Word: sentimentales
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The key to the channel's success is in capturing the tone of Gen X nostalgia, at once snide and affectionate. Executive vice president Michael Hirschorn calls VH1's focus not "nostalgic" but "retro," which he defines as less "sentimental and teary." (Although one could reasonably define it as "I...
A triumph at Sundance a year ago, American Splendor is among the best-reviewed (deservedly so) movies of the year. Narratively splintered, full of hilarious, but homemade-looking special effects, it never sells out to sentimental uplift. Giamatti deftly walks the same line. He and Pekar share a physical resemblance...
For 60 years, since the U.S. first Army marched into Nazi Germany in 1944, America's military footprint in Europe has been in the West. Today, more than 117,000 U.S. troops remain - the largest noncombat U.S. military presence abroad. But times have changed since Soviet tanks loomed on the...
The film version has a softer, woozily sentimental view of the bridal couple; it shows them running through a meadow in ecstatic slow motion - really. And it dispenses with the novel?s resolution. Woolrich?s killer was the best friend of two of the men; in the film (where he...
At 3 hr. 20 min., The Return of the King occasionally slows to a trot. There's a long middle passage where half a dozen characters in turn muse and fret at length. After the climax there's a plethora of meetings and farewells, most of them extended versions of...