![]() Parks And Recreation this season took place in an empty house in an episode somewhat misleadingly called "Halloween Surprise." It allowed its two characters their happiness but also their fundamental, undeniable weirdness, keeping in mind throughout that no two people are the same, so no two experiences between people are the same, however heavy the clichés that seem to apply. The pivotal moment in the pivotal episode of It's not the prettiest rendition of the song by a longshot, but it returns the grief and desperation to a number that somehow often comes off, quite wrongly, like a light, pretty sigh.ġ0. Even the film's detractors have generally noted that what Hathaway does here is the best use of what director Tom Hooper is trying to do with both the super-close-ups and the live singing. ![]() Anne Hathaway's "I Dreamed A Dream" in the divisive film adaptation of Downton has been at times uneven, but when it opens up the hoses and does the thing it does, it does it very well.ĩ. The film contains multitudes: sadness, joy, love, disappointment - and then comes this tag, this tremendous tag, which punctuates the story and reiterates its most important lesson: that you just never know about people until they sit down to tell you about themselves, and even when they do, they just keep surprising you.ĭownton Abbey Season 2 Christmas special, and particularly its swooning, snowy conclusion to one of the series' most tortured stories. Stories We Tell, which is the complicated story of her own family. A brief tag at the very, very end of Sarah Polley's documentary "The diary, yes!" I had no more purely pleasure-filled reading experience this year than Gillian Flynn's audacious, addictiveħ. ![]() I saw it in Austin at the South By Southwest Film Festival, and believe me when I tell you, the house exploded with glee and recognition to the point where I had to watch it later to hear some of the words I lost in other people's laughter.Ħ. Already out in the UK, it will be released in the US in February.īernie in which a Texas native describes the parts of the state. ![]() Rainbow Rowell's luscious, delicate novelĮleanor & Park, which tells as vivid a story about young love, mix tapes and comic books as you're likely to read. In the episode, the young dancers embrace and salute their grieving teacher, Fanny (Kelly Bishop), with a brief, gorgeous performance set to Tom Waits' "Picture In A Frame." Just in these two episodes, the show had established dance was the language all these people spoke, and that for some people, you make a cake, and for some people, you dance.Ĥ. The dance at the end of "For Fanny," the second episode of the first season of ABC Family's excellent new seriesīunheads. "You and me at the edge of the world," the words that introduced me to Kishi Bashi, a musician who began the year not even getting an official spot at South By Southwest and ended it in a Microsoft commercial for the best possible reason: the irresistibility of that song,ģ. While the film ultimately suffocates in its own self-seriousness, Malick remains a gifted purveyor of natural images.Ģ. Early shots of Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko, as then-blissful couple Neil and Marina, walking on the oddly elastic silt in Terrence Malick's
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