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She completely dominates the amiable Mr J.Stewart who seems resigned to handing her the movie.Misses E.Lanchester and H.Gingold offer comic relief along with Mr E. Kovacs whose peculiar talents are strictly proscribed.Mr J.Lemmon plays Miss Novak's brother.He is a beatnik,a species that disappeared as soon as it realised that its existence was being acknowledged by the mainstream.Some of the more hardcore beats reinvented themselves as hippies a few years later.Certainly they had become figures of fun by 1958 and Mr Lemmon does not appear overly concerned with restraint in portraying one.
Dixon cannot reconcile these calls for restraint with his own extreme and irrational hatred of all criminals.
Why are we not surprised at Auster's lack of restraint?
One of Ford's better (and lesser known) films, notable for the restraint exercised towards the characters and story.
Then it uses gym scenes and even locker room and shower scenes, but once again with restraint.
She acts with restraint, and her feelings are perfectly understood thanks to her expressive eyes.
This is what the 'Carry On' movies would be like if they lacked any jokes, innuendo or restraint.
failed to avoid i.e.endlessly re - cycling the same old stuff with only the names changed to protect the Swiss bank accounts.With "K & P" the signs were not good,but seven years down the line it remains the sole attempt by Mr E and Mr W to squeeze a few more bob out of their former TV audiences and I applaud them for their restraint.
The script of "Petulia" is a guide to moderation and restraint: the film does not emphasize nor is it redundant, but paints all those aspects as integral parts of the portrait of a British woman trapped in (and adapted to) the life of her rich and influential in-laws, and whose intent of rupture is as fragile, fragmented and banal as her personal structure.
Yet another from the jokily hypothetical: Have you ever been watching Witness and thought, This film would be so much better if Harrison Ford was a ditzy blonde with no concept of respect, restraint or modesty?
George Brent as Buck represents a final flowering of the Old South's aristocracy and even chivalry (and again demonstrates that Brent could act - note the heavy restraint when he confronts Richard Cromwell's Ted toward the end of the film).
The demented and hilarious re-working of what appears to be originally a dreary Filipino wrestling movie/crime drama, the Troma team does what Woody Allen did in "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" but with less restraint.
For the finale he throws all restraint out the window and indulges himself in over-the-top histrionics, as if to compensate for a script that didn't rise to the occasion.
While "Sisters" isn't necessarily boring, its restraint and overall lack of innovation doesn't make for exciting viewing.
Whilst Rob Pratten has to be commended for making a truly independent british horror film, the end result, like most British independent horror films is a mixed bag in which the film makers undeniable talent and ambition is compromised by a lack of resources and self restraint.
However, with Kinki's constant putdowns and desperate antics, this character makes Ally McBeal look like a model of feminist restraint.
The first movie was made with gross out humor but also with restraint that things never got too out of control.
Some day a filmmaker with more restraint should take the idea and do it right.
But the film's restraint makes it easy to take for the most part as a low-key, well-observed black comedy, thriving on the contrast between the ultra-orderly dry cleaning business and the flashy excess of the cross-dressing scene.
The actors behave far too freely and with hardly any attempt at the formal dignity, stiff social restraint of the time, and no apparent attempt to represent the social mores and customs of the era.
Above all, it will require integrity, honesty, trust, courage, and sometimes restraint.
Such an approach will require that each side exercise broad restraint and live with the ambiguity of working with a strong adversary to manage profound differences.
With some luck, this time will be different - the inflation problem is not yet acute and hence early and gradual restraint may produce slowdown rather than a recession.
Just as determined monetary restraint 30 years ago ultimately overwhelmed cost-push pressures, an equally determined policy in the other direction could, in theory, boost nominal demand growth today.
He was widely criticized for this restraint, but he managed not to trigger just the sort of nationalist reaction that we are now seeing in Russia.
Indeed, President Nicolas Sarkozy’s willingness to intervene (alongside British Prime Minister David Cameron) helped close a dangerous gap between the world of “values,” which would call for direct American intervention against Muammar el-Qaddafi, and the world of “interest,” which impelled President Barack Obama to restraint.
Regional VAT rates might be increased slightly if expenditure restraint is not sufficient to offset the loss of tariff revenues due to the customs union.
Should Iran possess the ultimate weapon, it might embrace a new restraint in its foreign policy; nuclear-weapons states, precisely because they confront the prospect of nuclear retaliation, have historically tread with caution.
But the Iranian regime is no ordinary government; it may not adhere to the normal practices of nuclear restraint.
There is still time for governments to embrace restraint, explore diplomacy, and reconsider policies that threaten to undermine stability.
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