The problem with "The Founder," John Lee Hancock's vigorous but blinkered drama about Ray Kroc's expansion of the company from a single hamburger stand into a national behemoth, is that it never asks.
In much the same way that seismologists consider the sudden scarpering of wildlife to be a precursor to a mighty earthquake, seasoned World Cup forecasters know that there is no surer sign of imminent drama than vigorous limbering-up by a confident squad of players from France.
The Institute's selections have the virtue of relative unfamiliarity, though: Jean-Paul Rappeneau's vigorous, dopey 1995 costume drama, "The Horseman on the Roof" (screening March 14), and two of Leos Carax's wild exercises in morbid romanticism, "Mauvais Sang" ("Bad Blood," 1987; screening Feb. 29) and "The Lovers on the Bridge" (1991; screening March 7).
The performance of the Beethoven overture, though solid and vigorous, lacked some tension and drama.
Union with England and other factors caused English gradually to be adopted as the official and standard language; however, Scots survives in the Lowland areas, in a vigorous tradition of poetry and drama, and in aspects of the English spoken by most Scots.
Though morality plays on the whole failed to achieve the vigorous realism of the Middle Ages' scriptural drama, this short play (about 900 lines) is more than an allegorical sermon because vivid characterization gives it dramatic energy.
Most of these 70- to 80-minute features are swift, hard, topical dramas, filmed in the vigorous, headlong style epitomized by his best-known picture of the time, "The Public Enemy" (1931).
January 3 2016 January 23 201616 Potentially effective as agitprop and blundering as drama, Susanne Sulby's piece channels vigorous opposition to war into a one-woman show.
From 2007 to 2010, he portrayed a decidedly fit, vigorous and boil-free Henry VIII in Showtime's historical drama "The Tudors".
Thus the Naturalistic movement in drama, though still not dead, had a short but vigorous life.
