"Saffron Days" otherwise offers an unusual and charming glimpse into the life of one of those smiling men in saffron robes and his pastoral mission in the heart of a modern Western city.
Film Forum is now screening a restored digital version of the film, which, for all its charming glimpses of a bygone era, feels unnervingly contemporary.
As it happens, the treachery of time — the unwelcome intrusion of the past, the empty languor of the present, the terrifying uncertainty of the future — is one of Rossellini's themes, and part of what makes this film, for all its charming glimpses of a bygone era, feel so unnervingly contemporary.
We hired a little phaeton one day, and drove out to Mustapha Supérieur, catching charming glimpses of walled gardens and Mauresque villas, and meeting omnibuses crowded with wild-looking figures, and driven at a headlong pace down the muddy suburban roads.
That might also be said of the works by her three colleagues, which nevertheless offer charming glimpses of regional subjects.
Neither Tomalin nor Douglas-Fairhurst, in "Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist," sees fit to show us Dickens dancing the hornpipe in his sailor suit, though Ackroyd and Slater apparently found it a charming, perhaps significant, glimpse of the young man at play.
But Popek's site itself is a charming and moving glimpse into other people's reading lives – the advertisement for a roach exterminator found in Backgrounds of American Literary Thought; the family photographs left behind by previous readers; the small and intriguing key found in Ocean Grove Christian Songs.
Except while Candid Camera was a charming and delightful glimpse into human nature, The Yes Men Fix the World is an astounding and alarming full look into corporate nature.
And the other papers, including a charming line drawing, a self-portrait, provide a glimpse into the life of a complex artist.
A charming look at what it means to fall in love with someone you're not supposed to, and a brilliant glimpse at all the different worlds that exist alongside each other in the boroughs.
