People who discover Eminem for the first time in "8 Mile" won't see so much of his continuing self-commentary.
There is a more specific sense in which American anti-Europeanism functions as a kind of self-commentary.
And self-consciousness, which often takes the form of deliciously wry self-commentary, has been Ms. Baranski's stock in trade.
Not surprisingly, the elements of the play as self-commentary on its slippery theatrical nature are played up by its director, the troupe's founding artistic director, David Herskovits.
The daring hybrid genre that integrates into a grand narrative both flights of empathetic fictionalizing and the anxious, footnote-prone self-commentary of the obsessive, perhaps even neurotic amateur scholar.
But one thing that makes Sharpton endure is his style: unpretentious, self-effacing and ironic, as he offers a constant patter of self-commentary on the scenes in which he is a player.
She disrupts the disruptions, multiplying the film's modes and tones, its layers and methods of self-commentary, and then relies on these interjections — in the voice of Yvonne Washington — to analyze the anecdotal skein of Jenny's recollections and extract from them their dependence upon profound, and largely unexamined, societal divisions and social prejudices.
What's irresistible about Pacino is the way his career has served as this memoirish self-commentary, a glimpse.
She has continued to do so in all her public statements and in the self-commentary that appears her collection of autobiographical non-fiction writing Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey.
Meanwhile you are left wanting more time with Israel Broussard's Marc, his self-aware, self-loathing commentary hinting at nuances and motivations unexplored.
