Under a cluster of illuminated cocoons, this band — also from Canada as it happens and with an enticing new debut album, "Shrines" (4AD) — played chilly and tender electro-pop, its singer Megan James's vocals a drizzle that starts sharp and ends sumptuous.
Tilda Swinton is a beautiful, coldly intelligent presence who was born to play the chilly White Witch, icy winter queen of Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Mr. Rees was a frequent guest star on "Cheers" as Robin Colcord, a British playboy and love interest of bar manager Rebecca Howe, played by Kirstie Alley; Ms. Neuwirth played the chilly psychiatrist Lilith Crane on the show.
Enter Queen Elizabeth, played with chilly imperiousness by Mr. Smith (looking strikingly like Diana Vreeland, but never mind), who puts an end to the play, which she sees as inculcating Catholic subversion. 1 2 Next Page » More Articles in Theater ».
He deftly illuminated the harmonic details of "Les Adieux," but in general the playing seemed chilly and overly eccentric.
Most of the choicest aperçus come from the superciliously pursed lips of Max, played with chilly, magnetic allure by Mr. Barnes in the festival's standout performance.
One is a wealthy widow played with chilly sophistication by Lola Albright; the other, her naïve young cousin, is interpreted by a kittenish Jane Fonda, already dubbing her own French dialogue in what was her first European film.
Fiennes is particularly great at playing a chilly brand of arrogant condescension, and Williams and Davis display alluring spikiness in their roles as powerful, cynical shot-callers.
It creates the mesmerising, unhappy worlds of Christian IV's Denmark, where his musicians play unseen in chilly cellars, and of crazed Count O'Fingal's Ireland, where he pursues a tune heard in his dream.
