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Perhaps the subtlest of Probst's pictures are her portraits, in which people look into the camera in one shot and are photographed from a few degrees off to the side in another. "When they're looking at the camera, they're able to defend themselves," Probst says. "From the side, it's as if we're seeing them secretly...
...marginal improvement can only be that—marginal. His characters, his versatility, and—oh, God—his language are as mesmerizing as ever. But Wolff’s greatest strength is the way in which he ponders the complexity of contemporary issues through the subtlest and simplest instances of the everyday. In “Our Story Begins,” he extends this deceptive banality to an impressive breadth of fresh topics.The collection features an array of gems. In “A White Bible”, a father kidnaps a high school teacher...
Charlie Chaplin and the other great silent-movie clowns knew how to express the deepest, subtlest emotions through gesture. Remy, too, in the hands of director Brad Bird and his gifted animators, is a veritable Shakespeare of shrugs. The suppleness with which Remy scoots through both human and rodent worlds lends Ratatouille the believability at the center of Pixar classics like John Lasseter's Toy Story, Andrew Stanton's Finding Nemo and Bird's own The Incredibles...
...subtlest eco-friendly feature may be the verandas that open from each house onto a large, grassy courtyard shared by the entire community. The hope is that the shared space will encourage shared environmental awareness. "Building green homes is easy," says Jeeth. "Building green communities is incredibly difficult. You have to convince a group of individuals to buy into the same ideologies...
...where brutality often masquerades as farce?these will abide to delight and possibly even haunt the future. Some distant day, audiences may even come to agree with a minority of Grant's contemporaries that he was not merely the greatest movie star of his era but the medium's subtlest and slyest actor as well...