Mr. Tran's third film, "The Vertical Ray of the Sun" ("À La Verticale de l'Été"), which opens in New York on Friday, is Mr. Tran's visually stunning paean to Hanoi as well as to the glories of summer.
Made with the help of a physics student, using a computer program, and a craftsman, they are paeans to precision, as is Genzken's one readymade sculpture, from 1982, which is a touchstone in the show: a handsome multiband radio.
Providing a paean to 1960s Paris as much as a measure of vain, capricious Cleo, Varda enchants with her technical virtuosity, and offers a giggle with a film-within-a-film.
My basic assumption was that a couple of hundred strangers would read my little paean to pot - as well as my close friends and relations, who already know about my predilection.
It's worth adding that the movie also has a cockeyed charm as drama, as a streetsmart paean to New York wiles, as a feast of tunes (by the great songwriting team of the composer Harry Warren and the lyricist Al Dubin), and as a verbal joust of emblematic dialogue and rowdy performance.
How else can I win without being able to slap down The Economist's indicators on the table?John KimberSydneyAlways on my mindSIR – An article that is written as a paean to contemporary country music jangles one almost as much as having to endure the stuff every day in just about every shop, garage and (yes) bank that one is forced to frequent ("Middle America's soul", December 23rd).
She quotes several of these paeans, such as: "Male passenger sitting next to me on D train, powerful feet enwrapped by Earth Shoes...."....
But Diary bears that out, with swollen, emotional paeans such as Blood Sweat and Tears delivered with the hard edge of Skinner's dancefloor days.
She quotes several of these paeans, such as: "Male passenger sitting next to me on D train, powerful feet enwrapped by Earth Shoes...."....
And as Vastariner notes, you have to admire "the boldness of putting a paean to masochism as a B-side to a single [Stand and Deliver] that was going to be bought by hundreds of thousands of 11-year-olds".
