As Aston, the timid, supposedly "work-shy" soul who offers Davies space in his dilapidated flat, Michael Salconi is quite telling for the most part, especially in the great passage when Aston recounts a dark memory of hospitalization.
With this neat twist, Kanon pulls us into his noir world, where men's motives may be as shabby as the dilapidated city that surrounds them, and no one is quite all he seems.
His second, "The Hundred Brothers" (1997), was about, quite literally, 100 brothers who gather one night in their family's dilapidated library to eat, drink and viciously settle old scores.
When he was still working at the dearly dilapidated and now departed Shea Stadium, Randolph said his focus on the job almost — not quite — blinded him to dangers lurking within.
Well, I can report The Canyons isn't quite a disaster: in fact, it starts off rather intriguingly, with a series of still shots of dilapidated, boarded-up movie theatres – clearly Schrader's way of mourning the communal film-going experience in which he flourished in the 70s and 80s.
Visitors to Nanjie have only to look at some of the neighbouring villages, where there is little industry, houses are dilapidated and land is farmed in an inefficient patchwork of household plots, to realise that this is quite an achievement.
Again, the kitchen was dilapidated.
"It looked dilapidated," she said.
It renovated dilapidated clinics.
Some museums are dilapidated.
