Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down the hill and around the corner from Pigalle, however, is the Place Vendome. Rififi, a superb little French gangster film, proves that the Place Vendome really isn't much different from Madison Avenue. It's just as hard to rob a jewelry store at the Place Vendome as it is on Madison Avenue, and you have to wear a clean white shirt and pressed trousers to do it. And you get caught, too, for all your trouble...
...setting is the fictional island of Pharamaul, a British protectorate, which recalls Azania, the island invented by Novelist Evelyn Waugh as a basis for his superb and little-remembered tragic farce about Abyssinia, Black Mischief. It also evokes headline-real Bechuanaland, which recently welcomed back chastened Chief Seretse Khama after his six-year exile in London, imposed when Seretse married a white London typist. And finally, it resembles Kenya...
...movie is best when it sticks to bullfighting without trying to explain it; the most exciting parts of the movie come in the unedited and continuous sequences of bullfighting. These are superb. Bryant Halliday's narration, which includes lines like, "This is the moment of supereme danger and nobility," doesn't and much to these sequences. Such an approach hides most of the humor of a bullfight. Funny things happen as much in the stands as in the arena...
Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619), a butcher's son, was the eldest and founder of the Carracci's Academy, by preference specialized in religious subjects. Agostino (1557-1602), trained first as a goldsmith, was witty, handsome and erudite. A superb draftsman, he excelled in etching, and his paintings of broad-bottomed nudes are among the Carracci's best...
...kick it up, began to seem stale as well as brilliant. Less the work of a master than of a past master, The Apple Cart still had vital things to say and on occasion a great gift for saying them. There was still the fun of watching a superb showman up to his old tricks-but some of them did seem decidedly old. There was still some satisfaction in watching him chessboard his old ideas-and seem at first blush to contrive new gambits...