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...that Caramel is dopy. It may be a first film, but Labaki, employing a cast that is full of non-professional actresses, is a slick and knowing filmmaker. Her multiple plot lines are neatly braided and though her characters are conventionalized they are also charming and capable of surprising us. I suppose, in the end, you'd have to say that her film is no big deal - just another good-looking, gently humorous, pleasantly romanticized little comedy, which ends with everyone a little wiser than they began. But that reckons without the unique circumstances of its making and its implicit...
...Friday. Additionally, the unseasonably warm weather has given the team an unexpected challenge in its winter training regime. “We’ve been struggling with the weather for the past week or so,” Teng said. “The conditions have been really slick and not conducive to effective training.” However, the circumstances did not slow down the team. Freshman Margie Thorp finished 52nd in the giant slalom event. Freshman Brad Alvarez also completed in two giant slalom runs despite injuring his shoulder in training on Saturday. Kinner recorded the best...
...Throughout this whole election process, Richardson has stayed consistently positive, has avoided negative attacks, and has displayed his mastery of the issues. Any gaffes or lackluster debate performances are an unfortunate consequence of a more direct and honest approach to politics. He’s not slick and he’s not Washington, but then again, after the past seven years, I’m not sure that’s what anyone wants...
...years ago today - yet hasn't lost his stroke or his speed. Those deft directorial touches, and the intelligence the movie both exudes and assumes from its audience, put Charlie Wilson's War up there with Hollywood's grand old comedies: the Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder movies about slick schemers and their slicker women. The Nichols-Sorkin film is so much fun, you will not only forget all of Hollywood's serioso war movies, you may forget the international calamities that Wilson's largesse indirectly...
...suspended in the painless world of continuity editing—nothing dare disturb us from our slumber. How can the Hollywood orthodoxy of eyeline matches and the hackneyed methods of portraying space, continuous diagetic sound, and re-establishing shots (in short, everything that makes a movie feel slick and unreal) ever shake an adult audience as deeply as the subject matter calls for? When Washington’s character boldly writes the word “Revolution” on the chalk board the first day of class, the theater screen feels especially opaque. Vladimir Mayakovsky once asserted that there...