All That Jazz: Directed by Bob Fosse. With Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer. Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
If you’ve ever heard of the phrase, ‘every frame is a painting,’ then just know that we’re talking about Barry Lyndon. This masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick used natural lighting from candles and specially-made camera lenses to capture one of the most stunning films in history. It’s ...
You have to go back to the silent-comedy era of Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton to find the equivalent of Jackie Chan in his Hong Kong prime—a star who’d put life and limb at risk to get the shot he wanted. These days the phrasehe does his own stuntsimplies relatively risk-free ch...
You have to go back to the silent-comedy era of Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton to find the equivalent of Jackie Chan in his Hong Kong prime—a star who’d put life and limb at risk to get the shot he wanted. These days the phrasehe does his own stuntsimplies relatively risk-free ch...
catchphrase that made him a cultural icon. He scrolled past the sequences in which he was absent, and stopped right before Harry’s disappearance was discovered. He delivered his signature line out loud along with the video and basked in the explosion from the studio audience. He remembered ...
projecting each note with alternating tenderness and force, even layering his harmonies into cloudy chords. On its own, the track is a bit slight musically. But that simplicity feels earned onWind & Wuthering— the melodic payoff after the jazz-fusion fireworks of "... In That Quiet Earth."...
“The Blackest Day” embodies that coldness with graceful melodies and production. The song finds Lana going through the five stages of grief, as she attempts to process a breakup. Though she pens two intriguing turns of phrase, “I’m not simple, it’s trigonometry,” and “All I hear ...
The outfield fence still has its "Holy Toledo" sign honoring the catchphrase of announcer Bill King, who died in 2005. "It comes down to how we choose to remember this," a voiceover said in the scoreboard's montage. And before the game, the scoreboard showed a montage of "Coliseum Mom...
At Bayreuth a tradition has arisen that there is no applause after the first act of the opera. Wagner's spelling of Parsifal instead of the Parzival he had used up to 1877 is informed by an erroneous etymology of the name Percival deriving it from a supposedly Persian origin, Fal Parsi ...
origin depending on its location, all eventually evoke the disappearance of men. In Japan, the line between leisure and consumption is often blurry. Leisure activities that are deemed old-fashioned are disposed of – similar to those handkerchiefs, the “nuigishi,” given out for free on the ...