The realist tradition in British cinema continued to bear fruit with Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, a gripping drama about bleak lives on a housing estate, told observantly and tautly, without moralizing judgments.
After a few minutes of my kicking and struggling, one of them said, observantly, 'This is weird.' Both retreated and I only stayed a few more minutes before heading elsewhere.
But observantly baby-sitting the cheese?
Out of It (Bloomsbury £7.99), Selma Dabbagh's first novel, takes us, observantly and deftly, into the lives and feelings of those who live in Gaza and want ordinary lives.
Shatner does the charisma bit, larger than life, the gusto turned up to 11. Meanwhile Nimoy faces him with his urbane, reflective stillness, someone observantly in abeyance.
(If and when you do move, do so methodically and observantly).
Winterbottom conjures up the era and locale of 1950s Texas, and creates a film observantly derived from Hitchcock's Psycho and Capote's In Cold Blood, and perhaps the Coens' Blood Simple and No Country for Old Men, with touches of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.
So I am told, anyway; I got that information either from reading secondary material or from those who watched the film more observantly than I did.
Mr. Hensley writes observantly about the killing and cleaning of seals, about constructing sod houses, about making toys from the talons of an owl and brooms from its wings, and about the intricacies of making coffee each morning by first chopping chunks of ice to make water.
He's an old-fashioned folk-rocker who writes mournful tunes and broods observantly about troubled romances and family strife; in "The Garden That You Planted," that garden remains after the lover has left.
ARTS & LEISURE Time With the Sioux In "On the Rez," Ian Frazier observantly hangs out at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and returns with an enlarged vision of humanity; reviewed by Tracy Kidder.
