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Sticking fairly close to the source material for the most part, they have figured out a way of recounting it in a way that is straightforward enough for most attentive viewers to follow and yet complex enough to inspire them to want to go back and watch it again. It is this audience that Canby either delivers or doesn't. And this bridge is being built by perfectionists who place their workmanship on the bridge above all else. And the bullets are custard pie. Bernard And The Genie: Man loses everything, and, with the help of a man from first-century Palestine, gets his life back together. The Big Lebowski: Dude gets his rug peed on, and then has to fight a bunch of nihilists. Film remake that tries to prove all unmarried men are created equal? Lorna __ cookies: DOONE. Film remake that tries to prove all unmarried men are created equal crossword. In the Dark: The Difference between Journalism and Criticism. "Keep talking": GO ON.

Probably not, but then Mr. Truffaut probably never will make a film like Raiders. " But for Canby these are relatively blatant equivocations. Of course, such contextualizations have their value. Going past the fourth qtr., say: IN OT.

It's a Wonderful Binge. As his comments on "China Syndrome" suggest, Kauffmann (like Denby) realizes that every style (however "brilliant, " "clever, " or "exciting") is at the same time a trap, a limitation, a necessary betrayal or lie about experience especially the eminently portable, disposable, and deployable styles of so many fashionable cinematic tours de force. Bedknobs and Broomsticks: An old spinster and three wartime evacuees go searching for the other half of a damaged book. Meaning is always relative–as in the following description of Caddyshack, which reads like a parody of Canby's critical approach to even the most serious films. At times he seems almost willfully to resist the very energies of the medium to which he is supposedly devoted. Eventually Bianca is granted a divorce, she quickly hooks up new boyfriend, Dr. Herman Schlick (Elliott Reid), the charges of bigamy are dropped, and Ellen is declared legally alive, but she is refused a divorce, so she storms out. "The Coldest Rap" rapper: ICE-T. 44. Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale: An actress gets fired by her jerk director but her spirits are lifted when she runs away to Europe. The Big Short: 2 hours of people talking about finance. Film remake that tries to prove all unmarried. Balada Triste De Trompeta / The Last Circus: Two Spanish clowns fight.

After many names: ET AL. A Royal Christmas on Ice. The films of Lumet, Lean, Pakula, Malle, Allen, and Mazursky are almost always as eminently reasonable, sanely "humanistic" (in Canby's limiting sense of the term), and socially melioristic as Canby's own sense of life. Private Benjamin is funny, and every now and then, like Judy Benjamin, possessed of unexpected common sense. But then life insurance clerk Clyde Prokey (The Addams Family's John Astin) comes knocking at the door, he has information about another man stranded with Ellen on the island. Poker player's "pass": NO BET. A Big Fat Family Christmas. "The New Movie" is simply whatever Canby needs it to be at the moment, a stick of incense he can burn whenever his favorite reductive formulations– this movie is "about, " "says, " or "tells us"–predictably fail him for the umpteenth time. But Kauffmann goes on–to test and measure the experience in which he has been immersed; to express his reservations about the way all melodrama simplifies, distorts, and falsifies; to express doubts about how a particular film can presume to exonerate itself from the fiction-mongering it pretends to be exposing in others. Glory is achieved by having your son violently murdered and/or tearing out your son's heart with your bare hands. The Bourne Supremacy: Guy with amnesia is framed by ex-employers who also kill his girlfriend, triggering a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Film remake that tries to prove all unmarried men are created equal. Billy Madison: Idiot goes back to school.

On occasion the pairing can even be between two positives, as when we are told that Ed Pincus's Diaries "inevitably reveals a lot more and a lot less than meets the eye, " and the film itself disappears completely. Canby's techniques of intellectual hedging or equivocation are many. And his classic application of auteurism to Hollywood movies in his first book, The American Cinema, devotes hardly a page to the theory and philosophy behind the whole project. His charming and chatty style, his anecdotally autobiographical approach, and above all his thoroughly humane view of films, define both the special sensitivities of his criticism and its ultimate shortcomings. By reducing a narrative to its plot, and to a few psychological traits of its characters, the pressures of desire and imagination within it are forgotten. Christmas Masquerade. Barbie: Mariposa and the Fairy Princess: Xenophobia is bad.