Word: stylishness
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Starring Robert de Niro and Joe Pesci, Scorsese's latest gangster morality tale continues a collaboration that began with the brilliant "Raging Bull" 15 years ago. Add to this mix the stunning Sharon Stone, whose acting ability is finally apparent, and stylish Hollywood cinematographer Robert Richardson and it is clear that any fault of "Casino" is not due to a lack of talent on the set. Rather it is this film's ambitious script which gambles...
...double perspective of B does not come across as well. Michael Learned is so self-assured and comfortable in the first act that, when she dons pearls and a stylish dress in the second act, except for a slightly more sophisticated and strict demeanor, she is basically the same. A major casting problem is Learned's physical appearance: she is not tall but instead rather shorter and squatter than both Seldes and Rouner. This takes away from the title and disturbs the continuity of the three in the second act. Still, Learned's performance is quite enjoyable, especially...
Douglas Keeve has made the film that "Pret-a-Porter" should have been: a sexy, stylish, neurotic docudrama that splits the seams of the fashion world. At the heart of "Unzipped" is Mizrahi--primping in the camera's glow and putting on a show that should make Carol Channing hang her false lashes in shame...
...friends are assertive and stylish. They blend tales, jokes, and bold assertions, ranging from shrewd to superstitious, more for entertainment than edification. Whatever boredom and immobility they feel in their lives--stuck in the cramped and cobbled lots of urban Pittsburgh (elaborately and meticulously rendered by set designer Scott Bradley)--they don't complain about it to each other...
...Stylish, in fact, hardly begins to describe Florine Stettheimer's work. It is besotted with style as an end in itself, and its delight in quotation naturally endears it to postmodernist taste. Sometimes it's tea-party Ensor, without the bilious satire; sometimes it's Rus sian ballet. There are traces of Elie Nadelman, Odilon Redon, Watteau, Hieronymus Bosch and an over-the-top capriccio of swimmers in some celestial spa titled Natatorium Undine, 1927. Her painting of a spring sale at Henri Bendel's, with ladies squabbling over the merchandise like angry hummingbirds, resembles a Pompeian grotesque translated into...