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The Black Balloon opens with an awkward dance between filmmaker and audience, the latter trying to suss whether the able-bodied actor is playing an autistic character or is lazily impersonating the illness, all obvious ticks and embarrassingly broad gestures.
As much as Kate Hepburn's quivering chin and teary eyes are an annoyance to devotees of serious acting in film, Connie Selleca's wooden gestures and her inability to deliver a line with any meaningful emotion are enough to invoke the "throw-up" doctrine for evaluating films: If an actor's inability to act creates such nausea that vomiting in unavoidable, then the film itself should be consigned to the nearest trash-bin.
The deliberate slowness of the camera as it moves throughout scenes; the way characters react to one another with little more than glances and smiles and polite gestures who imply much more than what they say; the theme of a rigid society and the woman who unknowingly disrupts it with her "scandalous" conduct; the story of a repressed love affair: this is not the stuff that makes Martin Scorcese films as he's more known as a filmmaker of aggressive, extremely violent films depicting mainly Italian-Americans in a gritty New York City.
Although the romantic, suave and serene Rajesh Khanna has other big hits to his credits like AMAR PREM, ANAND, SAFAR and ARADHANA but in KATI PATANG, his inherent and innate acting prowess shot to that vintage point from where, the exact reflection of his acting skills that were imbued in mystic, elegant and romantic gestures emerged supreme.
"Ray of Light", "Frozen", "Rain", "Fever" and "Secret" show her talent for dramatic gestures and effect.
After watching a successive trend of boring movies which promised to be wonderful comedies I did not have very high hopes from this one but it seems I was totally wrong for this movie as it does wonders with comedy, it really proves how a clean entertainer can be made and enjoyed without going through vulgar gestures and cheap jokes.
The facial expressions and body gestures were unbelievably funny.
I thought Atlanta was cute, too, but given to cartoonish gestures that were jarring in a movie like this.
I should add that Mae Murray seemed to be imitating Mary Pickford when she was in her comedy cups, down to gestures, mannerisms, facial expressions, it was uncanny.
Yes, it does "period" in the same broad sweeping comic-book gestures as the Hollywood of yesteryear.
The action is splendidly realised in this picture which captivates from the start with its magnificent score by Max Steiner which accompanies the fight sequences with gusto.Flynn is at his fencing best here,using mannerisms and gestures in his fighting scenes which look both comical and threatening at the same time.A fine and witty script is well served by the entire cast and it is always good to see Alan Hale as Flynn's companion in arms especially in a role like this which is Little John in all but name.
His thick accent adds a lot to the whole suspicion business, but Lugosi mostly acts his way to greatness with his ominous facial features and his subtly perverse gestures.
Third, do not appall the audience with lackluster, passionless actors who mete out stilted lines and gestures.
The way he says his lines, his facial expressions, his gestures.
It was an odd sight to see him in this role, the patriarch of one of Hollywood's most liberal families giving the sign of the cross and other such playing-against-type Fonda gestures.
A film about the fight against the traps of past, the search of gestures sense and about the truth like puzzle.
Karloff is VERY creepy as the devil-worshipping madman whose cold, concrete Bauhaus sits atop the site of a bloody battle (it even overlooks a field of crude grave markers); his almost effeminate makeup and mannerisms further his creepiness (his black gown hangs like a dress on him and he often gestures with wrist limp).
The bad news is that Trump is sticking to his “buy American, hire American” credo, and his protectionist gestures will hurt growth more than they save jobs.
The real problem is that the expectations concerning meaningful action on climate change, as opposed to gimmicks such as US President Barack Obama’s last-minute arrival and minuscule gestures in Copenhagen, are now lower than ever.
Both gestures have eclipsed even former British Prime Minister David Cameron’s kowtowing to Chinese President Xi Jinping during Xi’s visit to the United Kingdom in 2015.
How would Trump – who questioned the value of NATO during the campaign – react if Putin committed aggression against one of the Baltic states, NATO allies toward which he’s already made threatening gestures?
It can be human gestures and actions, even when they are futile or squandered on the wrong people.
Whereas such gestures are typically criticized as too little too late, this might be a case of too much too soon.
I doubt that Alexeyeva was much moved by such gestures.
Dogs are able to follow human pointing gestures to find hidden food, and they can indicate successfully to their owners by their own pointing actions where a hidden toy is located.
Both countries are seriously wrestling with ways to move beyond gestures.
Football can also be the occasion of positive gestures.
These gestures are all the more remarkable given the growing number of refugees flooding into Uganda.
Those symbolic gestures spoke to the core of our entire political program.
Are pointless gestures really the way to secure a greener future?
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