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...Alper wrote controversial columns that some people may remember years from now—about the football team’s placekickers and the band, respectively. I’ll forget the columns in six months. I’ll remember the way Dan’s wit oscillated between the maddening and the endearing, and the time I trudged out to a rainy Harvard Stadium to watch him face much-maligned Harvard kicker Anders Blewett in a ludicrous placekicking contest. I’ll remember Eli kicking it Alper-style at a party in New Jersey...
...piece of work, our Liam. As played by a nonactor named Martin Compston, he's not exactly handsome, but there's something about his spirit--wit and energy and an often comical inventiveness. Given a break or two, he could have become, you imagine, one of those rough-hewn entrepreneurs whose rags-to-riches stories so enliven capitalism's history...
...contemplating young flesh. Amid the cinematic dross, a jewel emerged: Sylvain Chomet's Les Triplettes de Belleville (Belleville Rendez-Vous). This animated feature, about an old woman who battles the French Mafia to retrieve her kidnapped godson, possessed what other Cannes entries lacked: a vivid visual imagination, a generous wit, an understanding of the human impulse not just to survive but to save others. Dogville may have had the big buzz at Cannes, but Belleville was the great news. Von Trier disappointed his fans by getting shut out at award time. But another Danish auteur did have reason...
...Marlin is not even a fish. He's a computer-generated image attached to a famously fretful voice. But Marlin has all-too-human qualities: insecurity, suspiciousness, giant wrinkles of worry and a lot of saving heart. Endearing flaws like these, along with an unmatched graphic elegance and elfin wit, have made Pixar's first four features--Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc.--the gold standard in computer-generated imagination. Gold, as in $1.73 billion worldwide gross for that quartet, plus truckfuls more in video and DVD profits. Pixar owner Steve Jobs will need...
...pastiche of antique moral codes and Populuxe decor. The new film is conflicted about its subject--it both derides and adores what it means to parody--and it's miscast at the top. Still, the Eve Ahlert--Dennis Drake script has a gentle heart to humanize its sharp sitcom wit...