For Mr. McIntyre the word "serious" doesn't correspond so much to an overly grave performance approach as to a rigorous unemotional attack.
Portraying the sweetest masochist in musical-comedy history — Audrey, the Skid Row florist's assistant — Ms. Greene received the kind of entrance applause you might imagine greeting the resurrection of Maria Callas at the Metropolitan Opera for a beyond-the-grave performance of "Norma". But Ms. Greene, make no mistake, is very much alive.
Her grave performance as a shrewd cigarette-smoking nine-year-old who teams up with a bogus Bible salesman (who may be her father) to form an impressive con team in the Depression-set film won her critical praise and a Golden Globe Award for most promising new actress as well as the Oscar.
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Solti reflects and talks his way through a visit of homage to his grandparents' grave, a performance of music by children from his home village in the presence of its young mayor; he walks the corridors – and revisits students in the practice room – of his alma mater, the Liszt Academy.
The news that, on April 18, BAM will screen "Les Choses de la Vie" — "The Things of Life," which could hardly be plainer — is all the more welcome, for here is one of his gravest performances.
Some of the gravest performances this year have come from children — Shélan O'Keefe as John Cusack's daughter in "Grace Is Gone," and Dillon Freasier as Daniel Day-Lewis's son in "There Will Be Blood" — and Sanders, like them, has the extraordinary gift of appearing to age, in sorrow as in knowledge, with the unfolding of the film.
He led a grave and shockingly intense performance, one all the more remarkable considering that half of the opera's starring duo was a disappointment.
A graver problem is fiscal.
Though the film roots for her survival, the sparky, rough-edged zombie comedy Life After Beth Koch Mediaa, 15) makes the alternative case that undead girls have more fun; Aubrey Plaza's zappy performance as a grave-dodging girlfriend certainly bears this out.
