Hooper's film is beautifully acted and curiously heartfelt.
It's wonderfully acted, deeply moving and curiously illuminating.
Much literature concerned with speech acts is curiously disconnected from research in the semantics of natural language emphasizing pragmatic factors.
Beneath the dazzling, sexy surface, this tale of social climbing in London (brilliantly acted by Jonathan RhyScarlett, Scarlett Johansson and Emily Mortimer) is ice cold and pitch black, which curiously enough makes it a superior diversion.
But in the end, curiously enough, my favorite Hoffman vehicle is the small, quintessentially bittersweet 2010 film, based on a play, that he both directed and acted in, called "Jack Goes Boating".
The picture is admirably acted, not just by Kidman at her most coldly waspish and Jason Leigh beguiling us with another of her drawls, but by the teenagers, and by Black, whose very lack of redeeming features makes him curiously sympathetic.
Curiously, Others (and their familiars) act as if institutions create themselves, that entry is by invitation only and that interactions should be policed by an approved code of etiquette.
Both possess the ability to make random acts of violence curiously attractive.
Similarly, the pay struggle that saw Kroll stand as a Women's Rights candidate in the 1974 general election led to the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act, but our curiously elastic gender pay gap is now widening again.
Curiously, although Binet performs like a postmodernist, he acts like a nineteenth-century positivist, with an almost religious respect for "reality" and the unsullied purity of "how things really happened".
