Word: warmth
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...forte. Playing to Firth's subtleties, he photographs the actor's handsome, mourning face in caressing close-up. (In his professor glasses, Firth looks like a young, more studious Michael Caine.) Ford is also attentive to the varieties of Southern California sunlight, which lends A Single Man an orangey warmth that should touch all who see the picture. But it's Firth's performance, as a man bereft, for whom solitude is a life sentence, that will win audience's hearts. Don't be surprised if he earns an Oscar nomination to match his victory in Venice...
...painting. His only request was that in exchange, they make an effort to smile at strangers. Bataclan was inspired by his perception that smiles were something lacking in everyday life. “I went to graduate school in the Midwest and when I came here I expected hyper-warmth and I didn’t feel it,” Bataclan says. “But then I saw people smiling at my work, and thought giving people my paintings was a way to make them smile. And then I’d get more smiles...
...wife told me a fragment of the story that he told her, and it sat in the back of my mind for several years.I was drawn to him, partly. He’s really charming, and there’s an ineffable quality to him—a straight warmth and enthusiasm. And there was a sense of someone who had been wounded. This is in part a story about courage and determination. The whole thing moves me and horrifies me. Unlike other things I’ve written in the past, this is much more event-driven.THC: What kind...
...Cutler says. “But she knew that I was interested in who she was a person.” The film also focuses on Wintour’s infamous professional relationship with creative director Grace Coddington, a fire-haired industry veteran who harbors enough warmth and emotion to fend off nearly all of her co-worker’s stinging barbs. Exercising “complete creative control” over the project, Cutler and his crew spent months in and around the Vogue offices during preparation for the September 2007 issue, which tipped the scales to become...
...final credits rolled and the house lights came up, the director and his star received the crowd's vocal warmth. Chávez went to the bleachers to greet a few people, then descended the steps to the orchestra area. Someone asked him a question, and he spoke for five minutes or more in Spanish, in a conversational voice that not many could hear. Stone, slightly behind, seemed to wonder, Hey, whose movie is this? and joined Chávez as he shouted, "Viva Oliver!" He made it sound almost like...