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What I love most about it is that it is understated and low-key, but deeply heartfelt.
(Music in the 2005 version is far more understated, but very telling.)
It is 16mm film-making without proper light, money or any of the other factors that would make a film "slick", but its honesty can not be understated, a fact that would cause a room full of people to dismiss it and for Richard Linklater to give it an award as he did at SXSW.
The cinematography and editing are understated but inspired, enabling the visual storytelling to dominate through marvelous close-ups and framing of images, capturing loneliness and alienation in most memorable ways.
Goldie's character is so beautifully understated.
The period costumes and music are excellent and accurate, the bittersweet punchline at the end is well done and just understated enough.
While Eric Braeden delivers a superb, understated performance as Dr. Charles Forbin, the fact is that the real star of the film is the vast, omnipotent machine he has created.
Can only echo most of the comments here; peerless Bob Hoskins performance, with Helen Mirren showing a masterclass of understated support.
His style is so understated that you might not realize that he is one of the two or three greatest actors alive, but this film will nail that reality home for you.
Their understated performances are accompanied by some first rate support from JoBeth Williams and Alex Rocco.
He was unsure and understated, and being a reporter, being unemotional was in his well being.
It's a faultless performance, all the more impressive for staying understated, scaled down.
James Spader's acting ability is marginal at best, but here, he does a very effective and surprisingly understated job and he and Sarandon do make sparks (although Sarandon could make sparks all alone in a full-force hurricane!) as a couple in this.
I think it is subtle and understated and somewhat contemplative.
Hitch's problem was that the humour in the film was not the "in your face" type that was typical of comedy films of this era whereas overseas movies like "Kind Hearts and Coronets" and "The Ladykillers" (the original) had that subtle, understated humour similar to TTWH.
There was an understated menace in the air much as in the opening pages of a story by H.P. Lovecraft.
These casting choices were excellent, and all bring an understated core to their performances that are perfectly drawn out by Director Doug Sadler working from his own screenplay.
It's a true american classic involving a down on his luck man (Paul Le Mat, so great as Milner in "American Graffiti") who gives a ride to an injured hitchhiker in the desert that turns out to be none other than Howard Hughes (Jason Robards, who is brilliant in a small, understated performance).
Leigh Harline's music is understated and very useful, and the cinematography by Robert de Grasse and Nichloas Musuraca is high-contrast B/W and very good in a number of types of scenes.
I was warned this movie would be emotional, but I had no idea just how understated that was.
The scene in the bar with the barmaid when Bruce explains love -- and the final scene alone are worth the price of admission for eloquently filmed and acted moments of understated emotion.
Patrick Swayze does a good dependable job in this movie, but is outshone by the finely understated performances of the men playing his relatives from backwoods Kentucky.
This movie is rather understated, right down to being in black & white and having a single acoustic guitar do the background music.
Her understated delivery and honest portrayal made me want to see more films with her in a starring role.
One of the most understated of Cassavetes' main characters (compared with the more involving Myrtle Gordon, Mabel Longhetti, and of course Gloria) Cosmo is a guy who's gone through life treating his emotions as secondary.
I saw this film first soon after it came to cable and before I knew much about Jennifer Jason-Leigh or had come to appreciate the power this amazing young actress can exude in the careful and often understated nuances she brings to her craft.
Stacy is laconic and quite understated, though that makes him somewhat more believable.
And sargent's direction matches script and performances in being understated yet uncompromising -- surprising me at every turn.
In this one, as usual, he plays his role with a quiet, understated charisma.
This film is shown occasionally on IFC and is worth watching,some of the performances are quaint and subtle, and the romantic comedy is understated (Though I'm from the states I don't like over the top Hollywood "romantic comedies",actually find them saccharine and intolerable.)
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