The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.

It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.

We are drawn to Twitter the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.

Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are perfectly healthy but often convinced they're not.

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.