Word: smalltowner
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...twice to awkwardness to feign emotion. Despite the rare slow point (run-of-the-mill stories do come up, after all), Sayles is too honestly interested in filming his characters' story-telling and story-acting for the audience to become restless. As a relaxed murder mystery, a view of smalltown politics, and a not at all taxing study in intergenerational relations, the movie is well worth a look and should not be left in the dust of its bigger-footed, ham-handed cousins the blockbusters. In short, the movie's pace and generational eye tends to leave you giving lingering...
...little like playing up in Canton or Potsdam," Tomassoni says, referring to the similar smalltown atmosphere surrounding St. Lawrence and fellow ECAC rival Clarkson in the frozen north of upstate New York. "But our kids like playing in front of enthusiastic crowds like that, whether at home or on the road--these are the kinds of games they live to play...
From New York to smalltown Michigan to the English countryside, the three deadpan artists whose short films are featured in the Harvard Film Archive series Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright seem to be able to laugh at anything. If there is one feature that unites the shorts, it is a strange mixture of comedy and horror that reaches its crescendo in the final film. Two Mikes starts dark, turns black and gets blacker...
...give us a good show-tune conception of China. Venturing onto what the program tells us is "Main Street, U.S.A." (another Disney reference), the number "Only One Can Be the Best" sounds like it's being played by an unsynchronized high school band--we wonder if this sound characterizes smalltown America. In an impressive conclusion, Peters presents a charming ballad and Irish jig ("Chasin' the Rainbow"), beautifully sung by the poor Irish immigrant Maureen (Wynne Love). It is exciting to know that all of this music has been written by a Harvard undergrad; too bad we aren't told more...
...fourth track, "Shuffle It All," with its swelling Hammond organ a la The Black Crowes, captures the resigned realism of a life of loneliness and impermanence, such as a young Jeff Isbell must have experienced on his way from smalltown Indiana to the rock underworld of Los Angeles...