Word: unfelt
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...worked for Altman but just as often left audiences adrift. The trouble with this kind of filmmaking is that we are encouraged to feel superior to the characters we are watching, but are not given any special justification for our misanthropy. There was nearly always something ugly, careless and unfelt about the way Altman struck his superior poses. An imitation of that style is an affront no one needs...
...jealous bitterness some vindication. “Opal Mehta” is, as my friend Leon Neyfakh ’07 wrote in Fifteen Minutes last month, “a fairy tale, more or less,” and a lot of its details are as unconvincing and unfelt as pre-Pixar Disney...
...should have been touched, charmed by the sweet innocence of a six-year-old. However, my reaction was the exact opposite—pangs of juvenile jealousy, unfelt for many years, rippled through my body as I mustered a smile and a high-five. Sure, I was “home,” but my home has been invaded by an imposter—one who is trying to replace...
...music for themselves and a handful of friends, without feeling the pressure to send demos to a variety of record labels—a frame of mind that spans all different genres of underground music in Boston. Perhaps this is why Whitman’s presence is still largely unfelt, despite his frequent performances at local venues; he is scheduled to perform at T.T. the Bear’s next Monday...
...Tears is a mindlessly violent, sex-charged flick shot in cine-verité style in a hellish-looking Seoul. Full of pimps, prostitutes and drugs galore, it's grubby stuff with girls furtively delivering hand shandies (though the filmmaker doesn't show the offending organs), and the cold, unfelt sex doesn't make for aesthetic delirium, but then neither should it. This is cinematic confrontation that resists escape. Kim Tae Yong's Memento Mori is a contemporary teenage-lesbo-horror-psycho casserole that keeps its clothes on and takes the time to show emotional need, longing and the denial...