Word: sordidly
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...hybrid of U.S. and Latin American storytelling values," says University of Miami film professor Rafael Lima. "This wave will last - in fact, I'd say it hasn't even exploded yet." The breakthrough list of recent years also includes Mexico's Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch), whose sordid, interwoven stories of Mexico City life made it one of the smartest movies of 2000, in any country; the hauntingly beautiful Behind the Sun (Brazil, 2001) and Argentina's bittersweet, Oscar-nominated Son of the Bride (2001). The leap, however, is most evident in City of God, whose driving samba...
...limited immortality is what makes annotating books so appealing. When I was in elementary school, all the dirty words in the classroom dictionaries were double-underlined—the legacy of some tough kid who had flouted the rules; afterwards, writing in books struck me as a minor but sordid crime—an impression reinforced by the prickly anti-annotation posters in Lamont. Reading used books has changed my mind. I have become an extravagant annotator, running pencil commentary up the margins and between paragraph breaks, covering every morsel of blank in the hope that, years hence, someone will...
...problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of corpses when anarchy breaks loose. This daring, perhaps confusing declaration of irrelevance suggests that the epic is a form a director like Scorsese must subvert even as he invokes it. But it doesn't erase the sordid splendor of Scorsese's congested, conflicted, entrancing achievement. --By Richard Corliss...
What does the former butler of Princess Diana, Paul Burrell, hope to accomplish by selling sordid stories that malign the Princess to whom he professed devotion [PRESS, Nov. 25]? The trashy material brought scandal to the royal family and besmirches the reputation of the Princess, who was truly loved by the world. Could Burrell's motive be greed? Princess Diana touched everyone with her charm and compassion, and that is how she should be remembered--not by the words of a servant who betrayed her trust. Helen W. Joffe Hamilton, Ohio...
...spectrum was the brooding, unsettling realism of Lou Ye’s Suzhou River, a tale of doubled romances which eventually intersect and is startlingly reminiscent of the French New Wave in its visceral vision and edgy production. The work nonetheless captures the raw beauty of Shanghai: its sordid, lurid nightlife, its dissolute youth, its sprawling chaos...