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...huge smile create the movie’s most touching moments, while Vale—brought to life by Jenkins—is the only character given a chance to fully develop. Their relationship is the movie’s best theme and produces nearly every poignant moment. The wordless final scene, in particular, proves that the things left unsaid can still speak volumes—an idea that McCarthy clearly remembers but doesn’t always practice...
...Jules Dassin, who died this week in Athens at 96, you could say he was the prime developer of the movie crime caper, and leave it at that. His 1955 Rififi, with its wordless, minutely-detailed, half-hour jewel robbery, and the 1964 Topkapi, with an even more elaborate heist, inspired dozens of imitations, in films from The Killing, Ocean's Eleven and The Italian Job to The Usual Suspects, Mission: Impossible 2 and that mini-masterpiece of stop-motion animation, Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers. If some star is hanging from a rope over riches protected...
...decades Spain's athletes have stood awkwardly on awards podiums, forced to hum their wordless anthem while winners from elsewhere sang their paeans to national glory. In October, the Spanish Olympic Committee, seeking to bring an end to their suffering, launched a competition to put words to the Marcha Real, Spain's official tune since the 18th century. When the contest opened, doubts ran high that a country with so many distinct - and antagonistic - political identities would be able to settle on a single set of lyrics. But when the winning words were leaked to the Spanish newspaper...
...with harps and celesta. In Jupiter, the “Bringer of Jollity,” shimmering sounds glittered with high-pitches. The final movement, “Neptune the Mystic,” however, was the piece that truly captivated the audience. With the silent entrance and gentle, wordless vocal performance of an all-female choir on the balcony high above the orchestra, this final movement proved to be the grandest of finales. The choir acted as another of Yannatos’ instruments as the members alertly watched for his cues and perfectly complemented the orchestra with their voices...
Some of the vocals were wordless, just these howling chants...