After his ferocious abortion drama Vera Drake, Mike Leigh has given us something gentler and funnier, though with his unmistakable signature visible through and through.
But 15 months after the destruction of the World Trade Center, the simultaneous release of Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" and Spike Lee's "25th Hour" suggests that those tales are piddling subplots in a larger, more ferocious historical drama.
The ferocious family drama ensues....and we are witnesses to an epic battle of Old Testament proportions between two worthy opponents.
"La Chienne" is a ferocious, bitterly ironic drama, a diabolical satire on bourgeois hypocrisy that replaces complicitous laughter with accusatory roars of derision.
(Anita Gates) 'The Dance of Death' Daniel Davis and Laila Robins star in an underpowered revival of August Strindberg's 1900 drama of ferocious marital discord.
(Claudia La Rocco) 'The Dance of Death' (closes on Saturday) Daniel Davis and Laila Robins star in an underpowered revival of August Strindberg's 1900 drama of ferocious marital discord.
The fact that Majerle hit a couple of late, game-deciding shots, but did so with such difficulty -- one 3-point shot was drilled from so far away it would have been fair to award him 4 points -- illustrates the ferocious intensity, the delicious drama, the, yes, Dear Diary, sheer power, beauty and magic of the entertainment of this series between these two fabled rivals.
Eight different silent dramas, four ferocious tussles and four graceful dances are hidden behind the ceramic sculptures, tucked away in the darkened Nam June Paik room on the third floor of the Museum of the Moving Image's Sensory Stories exhibit.
Many had predicted recognition for Whiplash's editing and best supporting actor (JK Simmons), but Damien Chazelle's taut drama about a ferocious drum teacher also scored best picture, best sound editing and best adapted screenplay nominations.
On this question he is quite wrong, as the unfolding drama of 2016 has shown with ferocious clarity.
