Fierstein's treasurable career, and this performance, are evidence that in some ways "Battling Bella" did win, eventually.
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JOSHUA BARONE My disappointment with "Das Lied von der Erde" on Sunday, part of the London Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle's three-concert Mahler series, came from an unexpected source: the treasurable baritone Christian Gerhaher.
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I saw that each set of feet left an idiosyncratic, treasurable trace, my own feet included: with every step I took, a boot stamped into snow densely grouped oblongs and polygons, fragments of spirals, and, at the center of all these figures, seemingly exerting an orchestrating or centripetal force, a star.
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Whatever appertains to the record of his appalling fall is treasurable as an addition to the narrative in our popular histories.
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The name originated from the members' attitude towards supper. Supper means dinner. They believe that dinner time is treasurable and pervious for Hong Kong people as they are busy and do not have much time to back home. However, supper should be the warmest moment of the day which many people may neglect of it.
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He betrays very little emotion, and certainly his thoughts cannot be read in his eyes." The Times newspaper of London called the film "a thing of heart-stopping beauty . . . There will be critics who will be unable to get past the director's background, but rest assured: Tom Ford is the real deal." Variety's verdict: "Luminous and treasurable, despite its imperfections.
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The whole thing is only 45 minutes long, not a second of which is wasted. In an age when most comedies are all windup and no punch, this is the most treasurable of virtues." Film critic Dennis Schwartz wrote that Sherlock Jr. is "one of Buster's superior silent comedies that's noted for his usual deadpan humor, frolicsome slapstick, the number of very funny sight gags, the many innovative technical accomplishments and that he did his own stunts (including the dangerous one where he was hanging off a ladder connected to a huge water basin as the water poured out and washed him onto the railroad track, fracturing his neck nearly to the point of breaking it. Keaton suffered from severe migraines for years after making this movie).
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The film has received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator site Metacritic has given the film a score of 60 out of 100, signifying "mixed or average reviews". In his June 2013 article in The Telegraph, Mick Brown wrote that "Phil Spector is a masterfully executed piece of drama. The dialogue crackles in vintage Mamet fashion, and the performances are uniformly excellent. In his jittery, trembling demeanour, and his flights of self- aggrandising, wounded rhetoric...Pacino seems to be channelling Spector, albeit a Spector possessed of Mamet’s considerable erudition and articulacy." Reviewing Phil Spector for TimeOut, Ben Keningsberg wrote that the film makes "an essentially Socratic argument about the legal system’s potential to try someone on perception," and that the real pleasure in watching the movie came from seeing Pacino and Mirren deliver Mamet's dialogue, which he described as including many "treasurable retorts."Keningsberg, Ben, "Helen Mirren and Al Pacino spar in David Mamet’s HBO legal drama," timeout.com, March 19, 2013.
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