Rehm describes The Odyssey as a fantastic tale centered on intimate, human values.
To put it crudely (and I admit there are many exceptions), we now have a spectacular mall cinema that favors sensation over emotion, and a small, intense art cinema, for the remaining art houses (and, more recently, cable and the Internet), centered on intimate relations and difficult, crabby, even painful themes.
I knew, as everyone does, of her close friendship with her sister-in-law, Susan Gilbert (played in the film by Jodhi May); but in "A Quiet Passion," that relationship, though crucial (because it's centered on intimate matters), is second, intellectually, to Emily's bond with Vryling, a name that will be far less familiar to viewers with only casual knowledge of the poet.
But Gorky's ambition centered on an intimate and desperate grappling with Picasso, whom he didn't so much emulate as channel, in a spirit nicely characterized by the critic Robert Storr in the show's catalogue: that of "a gifted pianist who habitually forgets in the middle of performing a canonical sonata that he has not composed it himself".
Her subject is both intimate and enormous, centered on one woman, one family, one small town no one has ever heard of — until Dellarobia stumbles into a life-altering journey of conscience.
Manhattan's cabaret scene is centered on a handful of intimate clubs filled with aficionados often willing to pay high cover prices to hear the sort of polished, stylized music that fell off the best-seller charts decades ago.
But even "Napoléon" seems modest compared with Gance's 1922 film "La Roue" ("The Wheel"), an intimate epic centered on four main characters that in its original Paris screenings was 32 reels, presented in four parts spread over three days.
This passionate, intimate, analytical documentary, centered on residents of Ferguson, Missouri, in the aftermath of the killing by police of Michael Brown, considers the political conditions that led to it and efforts to seek change.
It feels just the opposite: direct, intimate, even vulnerable, and centered on a few main themes.
The second part is centered on the women of the Asano clan, whose great intimate sacrifices are borne as nobly as those of the warriors.
The worlds Ms. Arnold creates, often centered on a lone female protagonist, aren't bleak or preachy, but intimate and laced with unexpected humor and the power to shock, particularly when it comes to sex.
