A live television abridgment from 1957 shows how masterfully and unfussily she pulls the work together.
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Days earlier, Jacky O'Shaughnessy, 65, walked at Tome, her silver hair unfussily swept off her face.
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While critically laudable, this laissez-faire approach results in competing personal stories — unfussily captured in direct-to-camera setups — that yank our sympathies both toward Dr. Hurwitz and away from him.
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A tad overdetermined in its studied, snowballing ambiguities, "No Date, No Signature" is dramatized with an acute sense of the role of class in Iranian society, and is unfussily well directed, creating visual parallels between the two men.
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Written and directed by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone (600 Highwaymen is their nom de theater), in collaboration with Brandon Wolcott, Emil Abramyan and Eric Southern, the production intimately but unfussily incorporates audience members, who are ranged around a central playing space in rectangular formation.
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Though it's easy to notice the mechanics of a Carrère book — his characteristic inclusion of himself in the proceedings, his habitual inclusion of the process by which the book in question is being formed — what is genuinely original in Carrère's work is the sensibility that animates those varied approaches, infused as it is with Carrère's at-times-skeptical, at-times-maniacal way of thinking, his well-stocked intelligence, his spare, unfussily lyrical prose, his shameproof feed of uncensored interiority, his tireless storytelling energy and his unstinting attempts and, importantly, failures at maintaining sympathy for his subjects.
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Tom Petty's four-decades-long run as America's premier power-pop troubadour had plenty of unexpected phases: There was his late-'70s, working-class-hero years, in which he sparred with his record label, arguing that his music should be priced cheaper; his on-again, off-again stint as the youngest, most starry-eyed Wilbury; and his smash-hit solo-star era, thanks to Full Moon Fever, an album that unfussily fused '60s guitar-pop sparkle, '70s bad-boy bonhomie, and late-'80s weariness (and if you listen closely enough, you can even hear an early preview of the '90s in the surf-sludge guitar riff that kicks off "Runnin' Down a Dream").
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Battle Studies received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 64, based on 17 reviews. Mojo complimented its musical "breadth" and said that the playing is "unfussily superb throughout". AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine commended Mayer for his musicianship, despite a reliance on "texture".
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Nude per l'assassino has been met with mixed to negative reviews. Martyn Auty of the Monthly Film Bulletin, stated that "For all its clichéd direction (voyeuristic threateningly subjective camerawork) and perfunctory sexual diversions, this routine sex-ploiter is at least tolerably shot and unfussily plotted." Writing for AllMovie, Jason Buchanan rated the film two stars out of five, calling it "unabashedly sadistic". Budd Wilkins, writing for Slant magazine, rated the film three stars out of five, calling it "one of the more sordid examples" of the giallo genre.
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