Word: verdant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with flowing hair and a penchant for dancing the volta. There may be something tenacious and unreadable in Cate Blanchett's Elizabeth, but Kapur doesn't help much, filming the young royal in pastel gowns with a bevy of handmaidens and a robust beau, prancing giddily in some absurdly verdant corner of the English countryside. This is the Virgin Queen before she was a virgin (to quote the preeminent Elizabethan scholar Groucho Marx)--and if this preposterous rapture is the best the film can do, one can't help but long for more chiaroscuro conspiracies and bloody assassinations...
Breathing life into the new movie's verdant vistas and insect masses presented precisely the sort of complex problems that digital innovators live for--that thrilling "You're kidding!" moment when the boss hands out a visual wish list for the tech guys to make come true. A recent tour of the Pixar studio, hidden in the freeway sprawl east of San Francisco, made clear how projects like A Bug's Life erase the boundaries between technology and art. Model builders sculpt clay facsimiles of the film's characters. Traditional animators act out roles before video cameras to decide just...
...terrain of Seamus Deane's new novel can be stunningly lovely, as green and verdant as one would expect the Emerald Isle to be. His young narrator, never named, frolics though ferns and splashes in streams in near-idyllic countryside whenever he gets the chance to slip off with his friends. Yet all is not serene in this seeming pastoral; each crossing of the clear and shallow brook is a violation of the law. The narrator lives on the border of the Irish Free State, and the river hems him into his native Northern Ireland...
...Harvard of the West may have a verdant campus, warm winters and Chelsea Clinton. But it no longer has a chance at the NCAA women's basketball title...
...want to sing out, in one of Carrey's trademark siren wails. As dreamed up by screenwriter Andrew Niccol and realized to sunnily subversive perfection by director Peter Weir, The Truman Show is so verdant with metaphor and emotion that it works on any viewer's level. You will laugh. You will cry. You will be provoked to ask yourself why you feel this way. And for once in a blue moon of movies, you will think. Isn't that one of the best buzzes you can get leaving a multiplex...