Word: sweetest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like the beneficent San Lorenzo, the Tavianis grant each villager's wish by making no formal distinctions between reality and fable. Every one of Cinematographer Franco di Giacomo's images has the same cartoon clarity whether it documents the townspeople's journey or dramatizes their sweetest, saddest fantasies. A girl bumps into some soldiers and sees them as G.I.s, come to take her to America; in fact they are Germans about to slaughter her, and her vision is a dream flash the moment before she dies. Early in the film, the villagers hear a faint but rousing...
...Peter O'Toole, redeems his career and character by doing a guest shot on a '50s TV variety show. It's a great comic turn, and the film, written by Norman Steinberg and Dennis Palumbo and directed by Richard Benjamin, is the year's sweetest trip down memory lane...
...Cafeteria Line and exhorts his aspiring actors to "share a trauma with me." Beatts, Friedman and their writers pack solid laughs, a little sentiment and sidelong satire of such youth-oriented enterprises as Grease and Fame all into a fleet half-hour. So far, Square Pegs is the sweetest surprise of the season. -By Jay Cocks
Both Lola and Veronika Voss are set in 1955. Lola (Barbara Sukowa) works in a Coburg bordello: chanteuse for the early show, and after that "the woman with the sweetest ass in NATO" for the town's corrupt burghers. Von Bohm (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is an honest public official whose idea of an evening's entertainment is to watch the test pattern on his new TV set. Unaware of Lola's occupation, Von Bohm takes her on a date to church-such are the idealist's hopes for a spiritually healthy postwar Germany-and falls...
Italy 3, West Germany 1. It was the single most significant soccer score in 44 years for the Italians, whose team had just won its first World Cup since 1938. But the victory was surely sweetest of all for the club's champion striker, Paolo Rossi, 25. He had returned to the sport just two months earlier, after a two-year suspension when he was implicated in a betting scandal. Scoring six goals, Rossi displayed an almost mystical artistry with foot and ball that belied earlier fears. "I'd been morally depressed for so long," he said...