Word: understatedness
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We, meanwhile, are free to settle down with the Coens in their best environment, which is provincial America. Their most delicious films (Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou?) are populated by curiously likable boneheads, obsessively committed to miscreant conspiracies far too complex for them to really master. Opposing them are...
In Pier Pasolini’s seminal work The Gospel According to St. Matthew, the vast majority of the film is committed to imparting the teachings of Jesus, as he serenely strolls from parable to parable uttering the familiar sacred idioms that have now been fully disseminated into secular vocabulary...
In Pier Pasolini’s seminal work The Gospel According to St. Matthew, the vast majority of the film is committed to imparting the teachings of Jesus, as he serenely strolls from parable to parable uttering the familiar sacred idioms that have now been fully disseminated into secular vocabulary...
“My initial reaction was that I felt that the critics of the movie had, if anything, understated the degree of anti-Semitism of the movie,” he said. “At every juncture where there was some ambiguity in the Bible, he chose to...
Credit Where Credit Is Due: Why be uniformly negative when you can find one semi-positive aspect of this year’s awards which can be given at least some halfhearted partial praise? In a year when the third Lord of the Rings movie will win Best Picture despite...