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Some see Gallo as the heir to Scorsese and the '70s neorealists, with the "audacity and flair of a major filmmaker" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). They applaud his stylistic flourishes (collage shots, freeze frames), his self-deprecating humor, and audacious premise--a newly released prisoner kidnaps a teen tap dancer (Christina Ricci) to be his fake wife.
The emotion aroused by the closure of Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport Sunday night (to be replaced by the "modernistic marvel" of the huge new airport of Chek Lap Kok) came "close to rivalling the events of a year ago," when the former British colony was restored to China, according to the SCMP . Referring to the old airport's hair-raising, rooftop-scraping approach and its environmental deficiencies, the newspaper said that "the sheer audacity and improbability of the place so perfectly captured the spirit of the city that Hong Kong will seem lost without it."
South Park is a reminder of the great moments from the old Henry Beard/Doug Kenny National Lampoon , where the audacity and smarts still leave you tearing up helplessly when you try to explain what you love about the work months later.
Moviegoers knew his name and his legendary audacity.
Bakis, with admirable audacity, has set herself the almost impossible task of making these dogs 'human' and just misses the mark," says the Journal . Fugitive Pieces is a poetic telling of the life of a Holocaust-survivor-turned-poet.