Word: slouching
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Each of the actors has little moments like this: the slouch of Law's shoulders when his ego takes another sandbag, the tightening of Owen's smile to signal he's morphing from victim into avenger, the sting Roberts reveals behind her eyes when she's chastised. (Nichols compliments Roberts as "the CNN of actresses: on the close-up you actually see a crawl--noun by noun, adjective by adjective--of what she's thinking.") They keep Closer alive and lively, worth watching for clues even as we attend to the wit of Marber's dialogue. It's a film...
...What Nichols and his cast bring to the piece is the eloquence of gesture. Each of the actors has telling little moments: Portman's busyness with a stranger's glasses; the slouch of Law's shoulders when his ego takes the impact of another sandbag; the tightening of Owen's smile to signal he's morphing from victim to predator; the sting Roberts reveals behind her eyes when she's chastised. (Nichols flatteringly calls Roberts "the CNN of actresses: on the closeup you actually see a crawl, noun-by-noun, adjective-by-adjective, of what she's thinking.") They keep...
Talking pictures were barely a year old when anarchy broke loose at the movies. At the start of The Cocoanuts, Groucho Marx stalked down the steps in his Neanderthal slouch and spat out a flood of puns and insults. It was a new cinema art: rude descending a staircase...
...Princeton defense, however, is no slouch either—the Tigers lead the Ivy League with just four goals allowed this season...
...fashion designer wife of hard-rockin’ Brit, Thorne Jamison (Michael Sheen) who wants a lawyer to “rip his balls off,” not necessarily metaphorically speaking. Posey seems to have forgotten that to convey independence of spirit it is not enough simply to slouch in a chair. The one contested item in the divorce is the pair’s love nest of an Irish castle...