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  • Just as the French New Wave broke with what it called the cinéma de papa, Five Easy Pieces is about the extended struggle of lead character Robert Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson) to flee the values of his upper-middle-class family: a mute father who has been felled by a stroke; an overweight, neurotic sister; a brother who sports a neck brace and seems to be impotent.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • It's fascinating to take in cinéma vérité of the '60s through our current freak-show norms.

    How's your nuns? 2009

  • It's fascinating to take in cinéma vérité of the '60s through our current freak-show norms.

    fourfour: 2009

  • Fortunately for Cutler and for us, his documentary method -- the technique known as cinéma-vérité, which involves direct observation and no narration, and strives to keep the filmmaker behind the camera -- is more about learning than about knowing.

    Salon 2009

  • But as a leading practitioner of the documentary technique known as cinéma-vérité, which involves direct observation and no narration, and strives to keep the filmmaker behind the camera, Cutler didn't go away.

    Salon 2009

  • S'pose some time me _mamook_ sick, me feel all same oleman -- no more grub stop, no more smokin 'stop -- mebbyso all rancher _potlatch_ grub, _potlatch_ smokin', send doctin ', send med'cin'?

    Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters 1916

  • A Yankee jedge jurisdiction our laws, a Yankee sheriff enfo'cin '

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) Various 1887

  • A Yankee jedge jurisdictin 'our laws, a Yankee sheriff enfo'cin' 'em, and a Yankee postmaster distributin 'letters and sellin' postage stamps. "

    Colonel Carter of Cartersville Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

  • "In the game between Mi … a … mi and Cin … cin … at … ti … we … must consider … many … things … The wind … is blowing … out of the … west … at five … knots …"7.38pm: Of course, the second most exciting thing about this evening is the programme of five Premier League matches.

    Transfer window deadline day 2012 – as it happened 2012

  • Bold but accessible, this is the kind of engagement with contemporary culture that will draw new audiences in without making longtime cin é astes feel left behind.

    Designed to Evoke the Future of Filmmaking... Julie V. Iovine 2011

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