Deborah Voigt, who sings the title role splendidly, is making it her own.
But the film tells the human story splendidly, and makes a companion piece to Tate Britain's breathtaking exhibition, Late Turner Painting Set Freee.
Now, he gives us that period made splendidly garrulous: forced, through a series of competing, disintegrating and renascent narratives to speak endlessly about a fiercely contested experience.
The former prevailed by playing splendidly, although Djokovic made his task easier with some uncharacteristic errors, none sloppier than a wildly missed overhead to save a second break point when the all-important second set was tied at 5-5.
In his absence, Roy Dower, the Wenlock captain, made a splendidly Olympian speech in which he congratulated the victors on 'great individual performances', adding that, 'the Olympics is not about individuals, it's about bringing people together'.
It should be an alluring adaptation of Dreamland and Luna Park and the other exotic places that always made Coney Island splendidly odd, a New Yorker's kind of unreality.
There are his school days at Eton (who would have thought a fresh account could still be made?), his splendidly thoughtful discussion of a biographer's ethics -- brought to ground dealing with his own family -- and his patient, wryly painful care of his parents in their declining days.
These cameras were about the size of a digital recorder, which made them splendidly discrete.
Through May 2 Steve DiBenedetto makes splendidly gnarly, infernally incandescent paintings.
