Word: wanness
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...Hollywood extravaganzas blow into Cannes every year, and among all the serioso European and Asian fare that dominates the Competition they're like a clown visiting a children's ward: colorful, noisy, oversize and full of professional pep, compared to the wan, torporous little things languishing immobile in their beds. So today, when Ocean's Thirteen was the main attraction, many critics anticipated it with pleasure- if only as playtime after a week's homework studying and reporting on the worthiest art films...
...many of those campaigning to save the Pier, it is a symbol of something lost. "The British took away a lot of from us, but they knew how to leave space for people," says Mary Ann King, a district counselor for the neighborhood of Wan Chai. "You'd think to yourself, at least I have freedom, if I don't have democracy...
...Blow-Up,” and “Pulp Fiction.” The newest entry added to this list of historic cinema is Ken Loach’s “The Wind That Shakes The Barley,” an incredibly wan and uninspired drama chronicling the Irish Civil War of the 1920s. Although the Cannes jury embraced the film, the latest offering from the veteran British award-winning filmmaker falls far below expectations. Named after a 19th century Irish folk song, “Barley” follows Damien (Cillian Murphy...
...where you go to donate your pint and nobody takes the needle out and you're strapped to the gurney unable to do anything but watch your life drip away. It's that kind of movie: enervating, draining, sucking. Though the movie has some laughable lines, it's so wan you will not be roused to so much as a snicker...
...confident are the assembled san hu that they don't regard their activity as serious business. They use wan, Chinese for "play," to describe it. If the market tanks, the san hu won't be the first to discover that investing is not a game...