This post is about one of the ten short films in the Open University/BBC Creative Climate short film competition, made by students from UK film schools. You can see them all here on the OU’s Youtube channel.
The End of an Era by Yousif Al-Khalifa, National Film and Television School
Human extinction is almost impossible to imagine, but the notion is never far away in environmental debates. This animation takes an insect-eye view to explore these deeply troubling themes with wit and generosity. Yousif Al-Khalifa describes his film thus:
Colin the cockroach and his grandfather seek a way to stave off the boredom of life beyond the apocalypse. For Colin, a trip to the cinema is the answer. But will ‘Cenozoic Park’ – a tale of homo-sapiens brought back from extinction – prove too much for him to face?
Our ambition was to create a film that asks its audience to reconsider the situation we find ourselves in today in an engaging and innovative way. To deliver the weighty message of the vulnerability of our species but in a light hearted manner.
When given the brief, one of the themes proposed by the BBC and Open University was ‘do we need ecology more than it needs us?’ I felt it was natural to explore a post-apocalyptic world where the near invincible cockroach has survived man’s extinction. Working with an amazing team of fellow students from the National Film and Television School and talented actors including Sir Tom Courtenay, we’ve captured a glimpse into a world where life goes on without us.
The use of a light touch comic device makes plenty of space for the viewer to pause and revise their thinking about the proper place of humanity on the planet. The storyline references the movie blockbuster Jurassic Park, but this time it is humans that have been brought back from extinction. Highly skilful animation, music, script and acting transport the viewer to a cockroach civilisation not many years from now. The cockroach Richard Attenborough character in the movie-within-a-movie reminds his tourists that humans weren’t entirely beastly – their culture had its sophisticated and sensitive side. Leaving the movie theatre, grandpa can reassure his grandson that ‘they’ll never be back’.
Yousif and team were responding to the ‘ecology’ brief, which invited ways of communicating the insight that ‘humans need trees and bees – but they don’t need us’. Environmental sciences show the many and varied ways in which all human activity is dependent on the non-human natural world. Food, water, resources – all the essentials of life – rely on the functioning of ecological systems.
Yet over the 250 years since the Enlightenment the dominant ways of framing the world have set humans apart from nature. Modern culture has placed people centre-stage and many theorists argue for a ‘de-centering of the human’. These philosophical concerns are about much more than playing with words. If we fail to place humans within their wider networks it is inevitable that our politics, economics and culture will continue to behave as if divorced from the environmental systems on which they depend. ‘End of an Era’ communicates this vital insight with a deft hand. Viewers are rewarded with an entertaining micro-movie, but take away nagging thoughts about the need for humans to accept a much more modest and considerate role in the world.


Overall, I was really impressed with the quality of the film, being that it was made around the 1920's. The actors were particularly convinving: they acted (and over-acted) in a convincing way and the desert scene was particularly well-done. The highlighting of the canneries and the gold gave the entire movie the uniquenesss that set it apart from other silent films I've seen: like The Great Train Robbery (I think that's what it's called). Also;--something about the camera angles gave the film a very dark feeling. It was like watching Citizen Kane for the firs time; a little bit. As we went through the score complimented the film very well and I'd never heard one like it before: the wedding scene had a great range of different melodies, and the kettle-drum work reminded me of the score from The Shinning: I loved it. The final scene with Marcus and McTeague came out much better than I thought it could--I prefer the silent movie interpretation than how I saw it in my head. The look on McTeague's face for the entire ending sequence was priceless (he seemed to be in limbo) and the highlighted death of the bird was more strongly felt when I saw it on film. While watching, I felt like I was experiencing something of a lost art: like no one today is capable of approaching that uniqueness of style because dialogue has always been completely dominant in major motion pictures. I'd definitely love to see the footage that was cut from the film, though, I'm sure it was a tough decision to make when they told him it was simply too long. I like what I've seen thus far.


‘Beyond Walls’: A Film Screening & Conversation On Abolitionist Filmmaking
Thursday, October 19, 2023, 6 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Austin Hall West
Harvard Law School
Inquest is excited to partner with Working Films and the filmmakers of the Beyond Walls anthology to host a public screening, followed by a discussion about how film can advance the fight to end mass incarceration—and engage responsibly with impacted communities. Registration is free, but space will be limited. Please preregister using the form linked here (and embedded below).
Panelists will include Working Films Director of Campaigns and Strategy Andy Myers, activist-filmmaker Sylvia Ryerson, and formerly incarcerated filmmaker Adamu Chan. Full bios can be found below. The panel discussion will be moderated by Inquest Coeditor-in-Chief (and Harvard professor of law) Andrew Crespo.
Beyond Walls is an organizing initiative featuring documentary films that define and amplify what prison–industrial complex abolition means, while inspiring people to imagine and take action toward a world without policing. Beyond a goal of simply changing hearts and minds, these five short films and screening events offer concrete tools and actions that can be taken to help create a world without police and prisons. Beyond Walls was curated by the Center for Political Education, Critical Resistance, MPD150, and Survived + Punished in partnership with Working Films.
The legacy of prisons and policing is built atop a long history of reinforcing oppressive social and economic practices levied by police officers, guards, ICE officers, and others enforcing state violence. Beyond Walls sheds light on the human spirit that cannot be contained by the carceral system. These films lift up stories of resistance through organizing, maintaining relationships with loved ones, and storytelling that help us demonstrate an abolitionist imagination.
Adamu Chan is a filmmaker, writer, and community organizer from the Bay Area who was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison during one of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks in the country. He produced numerous short films while incarcerated, using his vantage point and experience as an incarcerated person as a lens to focus the viewer’s gaze on issues related to social justice. In 2021, he was a recipient of the Docs in Action Film Fund through Working Films, and was tapped to produce and direct his film What These Walls Won’t Hold, which won Best Documentary Mid-Length at the 2023 San Francisco international Film Festival. In 2022, Adamu directed a documentary short for the doc-series Bridge Builders, partnering with ITVS/Independent Lens, about a community member working at the intersections of immigration, incarceration, and gender justice. He is also a 2022 Stanford University Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Mellon Arts Fellow and a 2023 Rockwood Institute Documentary Leaders Fellow. Adamu draws inspiration and energy from the voices of those directly impacted and seeks to empower them to reshape the narratives that have been created about them through film.
Andy Myers joined Working Films in 2011 and now serves as Director of Campaigns and Strategy. A longtime proponent of connecting film with activism, he led the development and implementation of Working Films’ state-based organizing strategy, and co-leads the Docs in Action Film Fund, and Rural Cinema program. Andy facilitates dozens of partnerships between local, state, regional, and national organizations and grassroots groups each year, using documentaries to advance their goals. Andy also appreciates music’s revolutionary role throughout history and currently plays saxophone in the Asheville-based radical marching band Brass Your Heart.
Sylvia Ryerson is a filmmaker, radio producer, and current PhD candidate in American studies at Yale University. Prior to graduate school, she worked at the documentary arts center Appalshop, in Whitesburg, Kentucky, where she served as a reporter and Director of Public Affairs Programming for Appalshop’s community radio station, WMMT-FM. There she co-directed Calls from Home, the station’s longstanding weekly radio program that broadcasts music and toll-free phone messages from family members to their loved ones incarcerated, and Making Connections News, a multimedia community storytelling project documenting efforts for a just transition from the region’s extraction-based coal economy. Her media projects & research questions build from this work and are informed and inspired by movements working to build meaningful solidarities between differently impacted communities on the frontlines of racialized mass incarceration, climate disaster, and economic abandonment. In 2021, she was a recipient of the Docs in Action Film Fund through Working Films to produce and direct her film CALLS FROM HOME, which won the Jack Spadaro Documentary Award for best nonfiction film or television presentation on Appalachia or its people from the Appalachian Studies Association. Her media & written work has appeared in the New York Times, American Quarterly, the Boston Review, Kentucky Educational Television, NPR, the BBC, the Marshall Project, and other outlets. She is a founding member of the Racial Capitalism and the Carceral State Working Group at Yale and of the Building Community Not Prisons coalition currently working to stop the construction of a proposed new federal prison in Letcher County, Kentucky.


THE INTRUDER: Quaid goes full psychopath
Despite generally lousy reviews, I just had to catch “The Intruder” and see for myself whether Dennis Quaid could pull off a psychopathic villain.
The answer is yes, and very nicely too -- which is all the more impressive, as it’s tough to think of a single film in which this veteran has played a legitimate heavy.
The rest of the movie doesn’t quite live up to Quaid’s fine work, though it certainly does its job.
Usually when deciding whether to recommend a film, I simply ask whether folks who see it will get what they wanted -- and again the answer is yes, though “Intruder” doesn’t show much originality or imagination.
Quaid plays Charlie Peck, the seemingly likable owner of a quaint but sprawling multi-million-dollar home in Napa Valley. After selling this family estate to an upwardly mobile couple, Charlie can’t seem to stay away -- though his initial reappearances could be innocuous, perhaps even friendly: He tends the grounds, brings wine, gets invited for Thanksgiving and ultimately befriends the affable housewife.
Indeed, Quaid’s very likability drives these early scenes, as we legitimately wonder if -- and sometimes even hope that -- he’s actually as good-natured as he seems. It’d be nice if we could sit through movies like this without knowing the ultimate plotline -- but that’s just not why folks come to thrillers.
Since we know what’s in store, the film’s built-in dread factor holds attention pretty well -- though the standard plot tropes are often too predictable. And while the inevitable rock-em-sock-em climax is exciting, the final resolution feels boringly pedestrian. Surely there must have been something edgier that writer David Loughery and director Deon Taylor could have done to activate the brain along with heart-rate and respiration.
Meagan Good and Michael Ealy are solid as the couple, and their mid-film marital spat -- of which Charlie will take full advantage -- is surprisingly believable. “The Intruder” is also nicely photographed, with a strong feel for its Northern California locale.
Otherwise, though, the film is not terrific. But then, after a 45-year career encompassing roughly 100 roles, Quaid has earned the right to make a somewhat schlocky piece like this. He certainly seems to be having lots of fun with the part, and it’s almost as much fun to watch him.
As a long-time Quaid fan, that was good enough for me.
directed by Deon Taylor
Run time: 102 mins.
* * 1/2 (out of four)
Rated PG-13 for violence, terror, some sexuality, language and thematic elements


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Today we are delighted to be speaking with Johanna Lunn, director of the film In the Realm of Death & Dreaming, which is the first of four documentaries in a series entitled When You Die. In the film, Johanna asks the big question... Does consciousness continue after death, or is it lights out?
Johanna guides viewers on a personal journey to find answers by exploring stories of near death experiences, deathbed visions and mystical journeys. She also speaks with leading clinicians and researchers who have spent their careers studying these experiences and the nature of consciousness.
The documentary features: Dean Radin, PhD, Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences; Ann Marie Chiasson, MD, School of Integrative Medicine, U. of AZ; Anthony Bossis, PhD, NYU Medical Centre psilocybin trials; Penny Sartori, PhD author of The Transformative Power of Near Death Experiences; Peter Fenwick, MD, Neuropsychologist and author of The Art of Dying; Andrew Holecek, author of Preparing to Die; David Maginley, author Beyond Surviving, and others.
Johanna is an award-winning filmmaker who has worked in film and television for more than 35 years. In that time, she has helped start up a PBS station in Colorado; created a ground-breaking children’s film festival in Canada; and was Artistic Director of the Atlantic Film Festival. She was also head of CTV’s Atlantic Canadian Development Office; launched specialty channel IFC Canada; produced and directed over 150 hours of award-winning television; and directed five documentary films, one of which won Best Documentary in its class at Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival for Forgiveness: Stories for Our Time.


The latest Tweets from Joshua William Gelb (@joshua_w_gelb). Director. Performer. Librettist. New York, USA. Joshua William Gelb is a New York-based theater-maker, director, performer, and librettist, whose work ranges from devised physical theater, to stylized. Joshua William Gelb Hometown? Port Washington, NY. Where are you now? The Lower East Side, NYC. What's your current project?. Turn of the Daniel oss at 75 million. Bickwell, which has gone down in lore as being one of the first major American pop-songs. It was demolished in LMCC 16 hours ago. Join the Mailing List. If you come here often, you should tell us and the whole world, really about yourself in the bio section of your profile. How Much Have You Seen? The real answer is probably a lot more gradual and less definable than the inspirational story I usually tell, which involves a high school production of The Odyssey , hurricane storm-winds, a blackout, and an audience eagerly aiming flashlights. If you come here often, you should tell us and the whole world, really about yourself in the bio section of your profile. Are there any other historical shows that had a similar effect on you and your creativity? We also worked off of old silent films, which are really incredible resources for seeing old gestural performance in action. Why do you think audiences wanted to see it again and again until the s? Is it music that needs to be sung beautifully, or acted with real character to make an impression? Simon McBurney , Liz LeCompte, Ivo van Hove, Fosse, Bogart, Meyerhold, who am I leaving out? Some of the performers, like Kate Weber and Randy Blair, who play the comic duo Barbara and Puffengruntz, have been with the show for nearly 10 years. See which other movies and TV shows we're excited about this month. You have re-cast your play for the production. Watching your play made me wonder if there will be a film version anytime soon, because your script would make for a great movie. Do you have a demo reel? We also worked off of old silent films, which are really incredible resources for seeing old gestural performance in action. Joshua William Gelb Hometown? Are you primed for the " The Defenders " to make their small-screen debut? What do you want to change about theatre today? A paypazl with a built in elevator that lifts entire scenes, the likes of which only exists in New York at the Metropolitan Opera and Radio City. Currently, this noxwin the final resting spot for The Black Crook. Does a rediscovery of that aspect bring The Black Crook closer to our era?


Hi, need to submit a 750 words essay on the topic A Dolls House as a Comedy, Tragedy, Tragicomedy.
Tragicomedy is a genre where both the elements of a tragedy and a comedy are present. The importance of this lies in the fact that tragedy as a genre has been considered to be unfit to represent modern reality in most parts. There is, as in tragedy, a movement from a certain world order to another. At the same time, there is also an attempt at a resolution of the kind that occurs in plays of the comic variety. This kind of a neat resolution is not reached at. At the same time, there is also no death that becomes a ritual sacrifice for an old order. A Doll’s House talks of the co-existence of two or more world orders within the same society and this can be seen in the divergent views that Nora and Torvald present at different points in the play. Nora herself presents different worldviews at different points. For instance, there are occasions on which she advocates a life for women which is patriarchal. This is evident from these lines,
Yes—someday, perhaps, after many years, when I am no longer as nice-looking as I am now. Don’t laugh at me! I mean, of course, when Torvald is no longer as devoted to me as he is now. when my dancing and dressing-up and reciting have palled on him. then it may be a good thing to have something in reserve (Ibsen 16).
At the same time, the ending also makes clear the fact that there is a side to the character of Nora that is feminist. This can be seen in the way in which she leaves the house and her husband. There is however, no closure to the play and there is no final conclusion that is reached in terms of the narrative. This is a characteristic of a tragicomic play.
There is no resolution, either of the tragic or comic variety. At the same time, there is an attempt at both. At the point of time that Torvald initiates reconciliation, one that would lead to a conventionally comic (tragic from a feminist perspective) ending, Nora leaves the house. Whether the marriage has broken apart is left for the audience to imagine. The ending of the play is something that has been commented upon by many critics. People have lauded the action that Nora takes- that of leaving her husband. Such a reading however, fails to admit possibilities that are less radical. There is no indication that Nora leaves her husband for good. Nora’s different takes on the relationship and her changing outlook towards her marriage does not result in a radical rejection of marriage. It does however, lead to a change in the power dynamics of the relationship between man and woman as far as the two characters- Nora and Torvald- are concerned. This leads to an important ambivalence as far as the intention of the play and the playwright are concerned. This ambivalence keeps alive the possibility of a debate. This is something that both the feminist scholarship of the play and its tragicomic leaning needs to keep in mind. At the end of the play, Nora questions the very basis of marriage and the roles of gender that are prescribed for women in the world.


Warriors - Jet Li portrays the inventor of T'ai Chi. A bit
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the monks of the Shaolin Temple. Jun-Bo is thoughtful and kind,
but is easily swayed to misbehavior by the bullying, rebellious
Chin-Bo. The young troublemakers are thrown out of the school
after a fight with the entire school. They meet up with two
young women who are part of a rebel band fighting a corrupt
overlord. Chin-Bo joins with the evil overlord. Jun-Bo instead
develops tai chi, with which he ultimately topples the overlord.
The film is filled with one fight scene after another. The final
fight may be one of the best best endings and fight scenes ever
for the genre martial arts films. All the fight scenes by the
legendary Yuen Woo Ping (''The Matrix'', ''Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon'', ''Drunken Master''). Yuen Woo-ping, Jet Li,
Michelle Yeoh. DVD
Tai Chi Master - The best Tai Chi fiction film of all time.
Directed by Yuen Woo Ping and starring Jet Li (One of Mike Sigman's
favorites) A different release of Twin Warriors.
II - Starring Jet Li and Brigitte Lin. Mike Sigman's Favorite
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Mike Sigman. DVD.
Tai-Chi - The good guy learns Tai Chi and overcomes the
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Chi II - Self-taught Tai Chi fighter helping Chinese revolutionaries
Directed by Yuen Woo Ping and starring Jacky Wu DVD,
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Chuan masters, whose lineage is from the Chen Family, creators
and preservers of Chen Style Tai Chi Chuan. Additional documentary
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The Riverside County Film Commission (RCFC), a division of the Riverside County Economic Development Agency (RivCo EDA), is recognized by the California Film Commission as the official advocate for filming interests in the region.
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LEGO Friends Andrea's Theatre School Playset 41714
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Matthew P. Scott
I am a self-taught cinematographer who has filmed a wide range of projects, from short experimental films to longer form projects and documentary. I don't shy away from experimental techniques and vintage technology. I have worked on numerous short and feature films, both with international cinema releases and shown on streaming services such as Amazon Prime.
Here are some further examples of my work these include excerpts from larger projects, video dailies and trailers for yet to be released projects.
If you want to see some more of my work or my other credits, have a look over on my IMDb.
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For some years now from fairly low levels upwards I have been using clips from soap operas both to practice listening skills and also because they can provide highly effective and engaging vehicles for meaning-focused communication. Soap operas exist in many cultures so many learners can relate to them. Tasks where students create their own soap, producing a scene from it, can provide a good basis for a creative task.
Show the group a brief arresting scene, from a typical soap opera, in this case Neighbours. With a fairly high level group you could show the scene without sound, get students to predict what is being said, then watch to check. (This can be more easily done with subtitled shows on Netflix.)
Establish that Neighbours is a soap opera and brainstorm some of the characteristics of soap operas – multiple story lines, diversity of characters, colloquial use of language, cliffhangers to end episodes, etc.
Pre-task (2) Jigsaw Viewing
Tell the students that they are going to watch scenes from two more soaps.
Group A. scene from Eastenders
Group B. scene from Neighbours
- Divide the class into two groups and give each group a link to a scene from their respective soap opera and a task to help their comprehension and support them when they report what they have seen. They then go off to different breakout rooms to watch the excerpts and work on the tasks (see worksheets above).
- Now pair up the “Eastenders” and the “Neighbours”; they should tell each other a summary of what they have seen. The idea of the jigsaw viewing is both for receptive skills practice and to generate ideas for the soap opera scene they are going to produce in the main task.
Main task: create a scene from a soap
- Tell the students that in their groups/pairs they are going to devise a soap opera scenario and produce an abstract/outline for it. They can base these scenes on the characters above (Chantelle; Chloe and her husband) and continue one of the stories. Alternatively, they can choose characters from a soap opera that is current and popular in their country.
- Their first task is to create an “abstract” for a scene i.e. an outline of what happens between the characters. Give them some time in breakout rooms to do this. If they finish, they can begin writing the dialogue.
- They are told that in the next lesson they are going to write / perform the dialogue for a scene from their soap opera on Zoom. (Fairly small scale intimate scenes work best on Zoom). In this subsequent lesson they write and rehearse their scenes in breakout rooms with an agreed time limit.
- In the final part of the lesson the groups present their abstracts and perform their scenes. Tell the other students to imagine that they are executives on the board of a TV production company and they have to choose the most promising soap to give funding to and give reasons for their choice.
Language focus: fixed expressions
Soap operas are ideal to situate formulaic chunks of lexis that we use in common archetypal situations. e.g. It’s up to you; Come off it/you’re joking! I couldn’t care less, Don’t get me started! etc.
As examples, some useful expressions from the links above are:
I decided against it; Fancy ___ing? I’ve got to go and + V; I was the same; I’d best be off then; I can’t tell you how much I …; Anytime – no rush; in his element; miss him like crazy; not his/her sort of thing; I’d love to; We’d better head off.
Have you noticed anything going on with _____? no _____ than usual; That’s it. Wanna have a coffee with me? We need a break; X didn’t go so well; you threw it back in his face; Why can’t you just + V? I’m sick of X; in the doghouse; X does whatever she wants.
- If you want to make larger groups, those learners who are not actually performing can be involved as writers, directors or possibly even costume consultants.
- If there is a film or non-soap series (more recent equivalents of Twilight and The Hunger Games) popular with your classes currently, you could use this instead.


In the risky business of film making only an exceptional few survive and only the truly outstanding can claim success. Christopher is certainly a success having directed, edited and or written over 40 short films, more than 150 TV commercials,100 music videos and numerous documentaries,TV dramas and corporate films over his 15 year career.
Christopher’s films are superbly crafted using the powerful marriage of creative experience and the latest technology. With imaginative use of camera movements and music, the amalgam of image and sound creates stylish, colourful, atmospheric, dramatic films, tinged with a European flavour. An effective communicator and delight to work with, he has an ability to elicit strong and emotive performances from all actors regardless of their experience. It’s no wonder that England's Face Magazine’ described him as “one of the top ten directors to watch out for”.
Always modest regarding his achievements but with reluctance Christopher can be encouraged to name-drop. During his impressive film making career he has enjoyed working with many of Australia‘s finest actors, such as, Geoffrey Rush & Bryan Brown.
He has created video clips for many stars of the music world including Chris Rea, Everything But The Girl, Howard Jones and Sam Brown. He has also globetrotted to film in exotic locations such as Alaska, the USA, Venezuela, Paris & London.
Christopher’s talent is remarkable in it’s versatility, shifting between the roles of Director, Editor, Director of Photography & Script Writer with enviable skill in all areas.
This outstanding talent in all areas of film production has been recognized by the bestowal of several high profile international awards. However, Christopher would regard his greatest achievement as the formation of ‘Flickapolitan’ seven years ago. The creation of ‘Flickapolitan’ realized the dream for Christopher of leading a successful one-stop shop for the production of imaginative, stylish and creative media.


With a Terminator-like sci-fi theme and a budget of more than $200 million, Tomorrow War could turn out to be this summer’s biggest hit.
Unlike other blockbusters, the movie won’t be released in theaters. Instead, the Cris Patt starer will be available on streaming on Amazon. Back when all movie theatres were shut down indefinitely in California, the movie was sold to Amazon. It will be one of the biggest movies that will entirely skip the theatres.
People from every corner of the globe will be able to stream the movie starting July 2. The director of the movie, Chris McKay, who has also directed The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie, said,
Please do not watch it on your phones. Watch it on the biggest screen you possibly can with the loudest sound – crank it up. Invite the neighbours over so that they are not annoyed that you are cranking it up – but just watch it with a lot of people because you are going to have a good time.
The plot comprises of a group of time travelers coming from the near future when an alien invasion is about to wipe humanity off the face of earth. What may sound weird enough is that instead of helping people in the past, they ask their grandparents to fight for them in the future.
McKay also added,
When we were making the movie, there were existential threats that we had in the back of our mind, like ‘What is your responsibility for future generations?’ And then Covid came along.
In an interview with AFP, he said,
I think a lot of people respect that Chris went from that (sitcom) guy to Guardians Of The Galaxy. He is a movie star, but he can do so many different things and be so incredibly vulnerable.
Chris plays the role of a former special-ops soldier who is then called to battle aliens in the future. Will you stream The Tomorrow War when it comes out? Let us know in the comment section!


The USPS has issued a set of four stamps honoring great film directors and the films for which they are most remembered. The four selected are: John Ford (The Searchers), John Huston (The Maltese Falcon), Frank Capra (It’s a Wonderful Life), and Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot). We will be exploring the lives and work of these directors over the next several weeks. In this post LR Simon reviews The Grapes of Wrath.
John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath, based on John Steinbeck’s novel, is a study in deliberate use of camera. Ford has a reputation for not moving the camera, to the point that any camera movement is quickly forgotten. Orson Welles has been quoted as saying that “Ford never moved the camera”—clearly an exaggeration. In The Grapes of Wrath, camera movement is minimal, but present. A few examples include: the second unit pans to follow Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) as he walks to a general store, and again as the truck in which he rides drives away; Ford mounted the camera to the front of the Joad family truck as they drove into a camp in California, efficiently showing the size of the camp and the extent of the squalor.
Throughout The Grapes of Wrath, Ford uses 2-shots to depict the relationships of the characters, while using close-ups only to emphasize the importance of what a character says. These techniques are on display in all of Ford’s films, of course, but their use seems particularly seamless here.
Ford also uses light deliberately. When Tom Joad and Casey (John Carradine) arrive at the old Joad home, candlelight creates tension and a sense of mystery and uncertainty. Later, when Tom and Casey are reunited in California, Casey moves in and out of shadow as he tells Tom what he’s learned about the way businesses treat their workers. Casey’s fidgeting and his moving in and out of light create another kind of tension—not just of uncertainty, but of danger.
In 1958, John Steinbeck wrote to Henry Fonda of his fondness of Ford’s adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath. “It’s a wonderful picture, just as good as it ever was,” he wrote. “It doesn’t look dated, and very few people have ever made a better one…” (p.603). While it might look dated now, compared to modern cinema’s apparent requirement of quick cuts and extensive camera movement, it still tells a difficult story clearly and well.
Watch the trailer here.
Steinbeck, John. 1975. A Life in Letters, Penguin Books, New York, NY.


THE STRINDBERG PROJECT
In a past collaboration with playwright Laurence Carr, some of Strindberg's plays were translated into English for the first time and adapted to a contemporary audience, as well as new translations of his better known plays. Apparently, most of Strindberg's works have already been translated into English, but the editions are usually quite dated, and amazingly enough both works of prose and fiction can be found that have yet remained quite hidden form the world outside of Sweden.
I and Larry Carr at Suny New Parltz Honor Center.
On April 27th 2008 we made a speech about the process and difficulties of translating in the Honor Center at Suny New Paltz.
To read briefly about August Strindberg and the plays translated or in the works look on page: Strindberg & The plays.
In our translations we strived to keep the tone of language truthful to Strindberg, while simultaneously accessible to a modern audience. Strindberg could be very sharp and blunt, but also extremely lyrical in his language. One of the difficulties is that Swedish words often express both a visual image and a literary meaning at the same time, thereby implying dual significance. Moreover, the language is very specific and words with the same meaning are used differently depending on degree of intensity and type of relationship. Usually, when translating into English, only one meaning of the word can be chosen to keep the language sharp, and sometimes another corresponding expression must be found that an English speaking audience can relate to. To have a native speaker of each language was truly an advantage. Plays translated are Playing with Fire, a one act play, and Mr. Bengt's Wife, a full length play translated into English for the first time. Currently in the works are The secret of the Guild, another full length play never before translated into English, and one of his short stories.
Poster for the reading on Aug 27 2011.
While working on a play it's always useful to hear actors read the play out loud and have them bring their creative input to the characters. It can provide invaluable input to how the play reads and is working.
In the process of working with the plays we had an informal reading with actors for both Playing With Fire and
Mr. Bengt's Wife. At an informal reading there is no audience but just the actors and the writers. The next stage is to do a simple staged reading in front of an audience to see how they respond. This is the process of developing the play and find the places where certain rewrites may be necessary.
On August 27 2011, Mr. Bengt's Wife had a staged reading for the public in
Newburgh. It was produced by the Railroad Theater Company and directed
by Seth Soloway.
For more information about the plays and to inquire about possible production of these plays, please contact: Laurence Carr at: http://www.carrwriter.com/


The Oscar nominations got me thinking … about movies.
I think they do it on purpose.
Inspired, I decided to compile my Top 10 movie list.
But first, a few thoughts on compiling such a list. It’s not an exact science. It’s more a feel. And it’s very personal. And evolves over time as you evolve over time.
OK, enough stalling, here’s my list…
1.Rocky (1976): I’m from Philly, so it’s a law that Rocky is on my list. Never had a pet turtle, but could still totally relate to Rocky. Everyone wants to be someone … and find true love. Plus, Rocky introduced “Yo!” to the world and made it cool to be from Philly. And yes, I’ve run up the steps of the art museum.
2.Diner (1982): A coming-of-age movie for immature men (but who have potential in life – and in their acting careers). There was football and football trivia, lots of male bonding – and eating – at the diner, and the famous popcorn scene at the movie theater. And a main character named Boogie. See, I told you Diner was for immature men. Plus, everyone has to have one Kevin Bacon movie on their list. I have two.
3.Animal House (1978): I was in college when it came out, in a fraternity and went to see Animal House in the theater with about 30 of my frat brothers. Every frat has a Bluto (ours was Frank – and oh, the stories!) and I could totally relate to the getting paddled scene, the toga party and road trip. And, yep, Kevin Bacon was in it.
4.Paths of Glory (1957): The greatest anti-war war movie of all time. The complete absurdity, inhumanity and devastation of war is so totally and heartbreakingly real in this movie. This is probably the most obscure movie on my list, so if you haven’t Paths of Glory … watch it ASAP.
5.Groundhog Day (1993): This is one of those movies that, if it’s on TV, you just have to watch it. To the end. No matter how many times you’ve seen it. So many great scenes and Bill Murray at his Bill Murry-ist. And, who wouldn’t fall in love with Andie MacDowell?
6.Wizard of Oz (1939): A blast from my childhood. Back then, it was on TV once a year and was a very big deal in our house. The first few years, we didn’t have a color TV and went to a neighbor’s house to watch. We had the vinyl record (no DVDs back then), played it all the time and knew the words to all the songs. And knew that as soon as the Cowardly Lion ran down the long hall and jumped through the window … cut to commercial.
7.Saving Private Ryan (1998): This one’s on my list because I have a personal connection to the movie. When it came out, I was a reporter in the Philadelphia area and found, interviewed and got to be friends with Sid Solomon. Sid was there on D-Day, in the same 2nd Ranger Battalion and Company (C Company) as the Tom Hanks character. And the next year, 1999, I went with Sid and the Rangers to Normandy for the 55th anniversary and got to write about this amazing experience. These guys were actual, real heroes. (This photo is of Sid on the cliffs where he landed on D-Day).
8.The Princess Bride (1987): Total, complete and perfect fantasy. And so many memorable lines. My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die. When I was your age, television was called books. Get used to disappointment. Plus it had Andre the Giant in all his gigantic, rhyming glory.
9.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969): It’s a western, but seems so modern. It’s funny, it’s sad, it’s got action, adventure, foreign travel, Redford and Newman at their superstar best, and so many great quotes. I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals. Redford: I can’t swim. Newman: Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you. BTW: William Goldman wrote the screenplay for this and The Princess Bride.
10.Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017): Think this is on my list because I just saw it … and am still a little numb from the experience. So raw and visceral and real and emotional. Great writing, well-developed characters and an amazing cast. Wonder how I’ll feel about this movie in 10 years?
OK, there you have it. My list. What’s your Top 10?


Zachary John Quinto (born June 2, 1977) is an American actor known for playing Sylar on Heroes, various characters on American Horror Story (Murder House and Asylum), and Spock in the recent Star Trek films.
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The story took place in the nineteenth century, and the main character of the story was Miss Emily who lived in the fictional town of Jefferson in the State of Mississippi. The story begins with Miss Emilys death. She died alone without nobody assisting her during this sadness. The Funeral was attended by the whole town. Many people want to visit her house out of curiosity, which also shows that Miss Emily’s direct relationship with her neighbors was confrontational. It also laid the groundwork for the promotion of the story.
As I see, even though miss Emily is a part of the community of Jefferson, she tries to keep herself separate from it. Indeed, after her father’s death, she’s rarely seen in town. Miss Emily has not been seen in town for almost six months. When she stops giving china-painting lessons, she stays secluded until her death. Isolation certainly makes her life worse and contributes to her abnormal psychology.
Miss Emily’s mental state can be linked to her previous endurances in which she went through. One, already mentioned, was keeping her dead father’s body for three days. Everything starts changing after Miss Emilys father died, and Miss Emily denies her father’s death. Even Miss Emily acted normal no mood on her face, telling everyone her father was not dead for three days. She refused to take the truth. Miss Emily knows no one going to protect her anymore. When Miss Emily’s father died in 1894, the mayor, Colonel Sartoris, waived all her future taxes out of charity, but on the fiction that this would repay a loan from her father. Years later, a new body of politicians mail her a tax notice. She maintained a lovely relationship with Homer who led a construction company that oversaw pavement in Jefferson. Miss Emily who was sick reappeared with a short haircut. There are whispers in town about the relationship. However, when Homer left, some ladies called on her. She doesn’t receive them. She isn’t seen in town for almost six months. All the things Miss Emily is going through are made her life stressful and hopeless. She bought poison when gossip spreads this rumor, townspeople thought Miss Emily killed herself. Overall, Miss Emily’s experience was sad, the unfair treatment she received was not deserved, and the vitriol of people in the town ruined Miss Emily’s life.


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- 1.Black Widow
Black Widow is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is intended to be the twenty-fourth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Cate Shortland, written by Jac Schaeffer and Ned Benson, and stars Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow, alongside David Harbour, Florence Pugh, O-T Fagbenle, and Rachel Weisz. Set after the events of Captain America: Civil War (2016), the film sees Romanoff on the run and forced to confront her past.
Upcoming Hollywood Movies
Development of a Black Widow film began in April 2004 by Lionsgate, with David Hayter attached to write and direct. The project did not move forward and the film rights to the character reverted to Marvel Studios by June 2006. Johansson was cast in the role of several MCU films beginning with Iron Man 2 (2010). Marvel and Johansson expressed interest in a solo film several times over the following years before Schaeffer and Shortland were hired in 2018. Benson joined and further casting took place in early 2019. Filming took place from May to October, in Norway, Budapest, Morocco, Pinewood Studios in England, and in Macon, Georgia.
Black Widow is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on May 1, 2020.
|Genre:||Action & Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy|
|Directed By:||Cate Shortland|
|Written By:||David Hayter|
|Cast :||Florence Pugh, Scarlett Johansson, David Harbour|
|In Theaters||May 1, 2020, Wide|
- No Time to Die
Recruited to rescue a kidnapped scientist, globe-trotting spy James Bond finds himself hot on the trail of a mysterious villain, who’s armed with dangerous new technology.
|Upcoming Hollywood Movies 2020|
|Directed By:||Cary Joji Fukunaga|
|Written By:||Neal Purvis, Robert Wade|
|Cast :||Ana de Armas, Léa Seydoux, Daniel Craig|
|In Theaters||Initial release: April 3, 2020|
|Studio:||Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Universal Pictures, Eon Productions|
- Wonder Woman 1984
Wonder Woman 1984 (also marketed as WW84) is an upcoming American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Wonder Woman, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is a sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman and is the ninth installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). The film is directed by Patty Jenkins, from the script she wrote with Geoff Johns and David Callaham, from the story written by Johns and Jenkins. It stars Gal Gadot in the title role, with Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, and Connie Nielsen in supporting roles. It is the fourth live-action theatrical film featuring the title character, following Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Wonder Woman and Justice League (2017); it will be the second full-length feature film centered around the character.
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Discussion of a sequel began shortly after the release of the first film in June 2017, and the decision to proceed was confirmed the following month. Principal photography began on June 13, 2018 – with filming taking place at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden in England, as well as the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia in the United States, London and Duxford in England, Tenerife and Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands, and Almería in Andalusia, Spain – and finished on December 22, 2018, after a six-month shoot. Additional filming took place in July 2019.
Wonder Woman 1984 is scheduled to be released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures in RealD 3D, Dolby Cinema, IMAX and IMAX 3D on June 5, 2020.
|Genre:||Action | Adventure | Fantasy|
|Directed By:||Patty Jenkins|
|Written By:||Geoff Johns (story), Patty Jenkins (treatment) | 4 more credits »|
|Cast :||Pedro Pascal, Gal Gadot, Connie Nielsen|
|In Theaters||5 June 2020 (USA)|


Segment 1: introduction, "The Lady Eve," movies as an art form, teaching as self-expression, philosophy in film, How can films be philosophical?, savoring films, myths and mythmaking, an overview of the semester, course expectations
Philosophy in Film and Other Media
This course examines works of film in relation to thematic issues of philosophical importance that also occur in other arts, particularly literature and opera. Emphasis is put on film's ability to represent and express feeling as well as cognition. Both written and cinematic works by Sturges, Shaw, Cocteau, Hitchcock, Joyce, and Bergman, among others, are considered. There are no tests or quizzes, however students write two major papers on media/philosophical research topics of their choosing.
Session 2: review of previous session, applying philosophical analysis to art, tree of knowledge, overlap between science technology and art, Reality Transformed, Three Philosophical Filmmakers, myth making, Hitchcock, "The Lady Eve," myth of the whore/virgin
Session 3: Edward Song, David Levinson, focusing attention, camera work, the nature of love, ideals of romantic love, selling out in "The Lady Eve"
Session 4: Student papers


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Hex Yang is a Chicago based DP. She was born and raised in China; moved to the U.S. when she was 17. In 2014, she enrolled in Columbia College Chicago, studying cinematography, and later graduated with Film and Television BA degree in 2018.
Hex was trained on 16mm, 35mm, and digital formats in the college, furthermore she shot multiple projects in all formats.
She started working on professional sets since 2015. Many movies she has DPed were selected in film festivals and won awards. Some of them were nominated for Best Cinematography Award.


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My film experience includes; acting as the lead filmmaker on a pioneering Arctic expedition and several short films on commission for online viewing. I also produce short wildlife films in my spare time and hope to convey the wonder and intrigue of the natural world through my work.
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I recently graduated from the University of Exeter with first-class honours in Conservation Biology and Ecology.
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“I have always loved film and any chance I have been offered to work with good film projects and good directors I have jumped at. This is a mixture of songs that have been written for specific films, and existing songs that found an appropriate place in a story. Consequently, there is a mix of different styles and moods.” – Peter Gabriel
Rated PG is a collection of Peter Gabriel songs from the movies. Released 12 June 2020.
The album is an opportunity to bring together in one place a selection of songs written especially for, or used to notable effect in, movies and includes new and previously unreleased versions, otherwise unavailable songs and a new track.
The album was first released for Records Store Day in April 2019 as a limited edition picture disc, which is now sold out. This standard version sees the the album released on digi-pack CD and heavyweight black vinyl. The vinyl is 1LP, cut at 33rpm and comes with printed inner bag and a hi-res download code.
Having always loved the combination of film and music (aged 17 he gave up a place at film school to pursue a career in music) Peter Gabriel’s first opportunity to really marry these twin interests came when he was asked to create the music for Alan Parker’s film Birdy in 1985. Further film work, including his music for Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ (that became the album Passion) and the soundtrack to Philip Noyce’s film Rabbit-Proof Fence (released as the album Long Walk Home), has continued to feed that interest.
Alongside those longer soundtrack commissions Peter Gabriel has also regularly contributed songs to a diverse range of movies and Rated PG explores this other connection forged by Peter between his music and film.
This is the European black vinyl pressing - remastered at half speed by Matt Colton at Metropolis - and digipack CD version of the album.


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5 edition of Tom Stoppard"s plays found in the catalog.
Tom Stoppard"s plays
Bibliography: p. -217.
|Series||An Evergreen book ;, E-825|
|LC Classifications||PR6069.T6 Z68 1982|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||viii, 258 p. ;|
|Number of Pages||258|
|LC Control Number||82047988|
The gripping Tunnel 29 has gained 3 million listeners to date, Tom Stoppard’s new play is his most personal, and the Turner prize gets woke Published: 8 Dec Published: 8 Dec Night and Day is a play by Tom sets and costumes were designed by Carl Toms and it ran for two years at the Phoenix Theatre in central London, UK. The lead roles of Richard Wagner and Ruth Carson were created by John Thaw and Diana Rigg, respectively.. The play is post-colonial in nature, a satire on the British news media, and an exploration of its premiered: Phoenix Theatre, London.
“Leopoldstadt,” the most slow-burn and personal work of year-old Tom Stoppard’s long stage and screen career, is an intimate epic. It springs to astonishing dramatic life in a now bare. Jumpers is a play by Tom Stoppard which was first performed in It explores and satirises the field of academic philosophy, likening it to a less-than skilful competitive gymnastics display. Jumpers raises questions such as "What do we know?" and "Where do values come from?" It is set in an alternative reality where some British astronauts have landed on the moon and "Radical Liberals.
Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit con4/5. “Tom Stoppard [is] the English-speaking world’s brainiest playwright.” — Wall Street Journal “Oozes learning [Stoppard] proves that it is possible to construct a tight minutes of drama around neuroscientific conceits He has succeeded this is a play to admire.” — EconomistBrand: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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In Tom Stoppard's Plays: Patterns of Plenitude and Parsimony Nigel Purse assesses the complete canon of Tom Stoppard's works on a thematic basis. He explains that, amongst the plenitude of chaotic comedy, wordplay and intellectual ping-pong of Stoppard's plays, the principle of parsimony that is Occam's razor lies at the heart of his works.5/5(1).
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Stoppard’s play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (–65) was performed at the Edinburgh Festival in That same year his only novel, Lord Malquist & Mr. Moon, was published.
His play was the greater success: it entered the repertory of Britain’s National Theatre in and rapidly became internationally renowned.
For me, Stoppard’s plays have always presented an enjoyable piece of literature regardless of whether I read them in book form or saw, at least some of them, in our National Theatre.
Few years ago I saw the guest performance by the Prague National Theatre of Rock’n’Roll and since then I’ve often found myself getting back to it in my mind and remembering how I felt after the by: The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire.
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The first edition of the novel was published inand was written by Tom Stoppard. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format.4/5. Launching The Remote Read, a new series of live one-off play readings to raise money for charity, this star-studded revival of Tom Stoppard’s play deployed the peculiar mix of presence and.
About the Author. Tom Stoppard's other work includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tony Award), Jumpers, Travesties (Tony Award), Night and Day, After Margritte, The Real Thing (Tony Award), Enter a Free Man, Hapgood, Arcadia (Evening Standard Award, The Oliver Award and the Critics Award), Dalliance and Undiscovered Country, Indian Ink (a stage adaptation of his own play, In the Native /5(20).
“Tom Stoppard’s first play for nine years is typically witty—an intellectually charged piece that delights in the slippery nature of language and pulses with interesting ideas.”—London Evening Standard “ minutes of condensed brain-ache, marbled by wit and some camisoled sexiness.
Cited by: 4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is one of the most enduring and frequently performed plays of contemporary theater and has firmly established itself in the dramatic canon. Acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play/5(65).
Arcadia is a play by Tom Stoppard concerning the relationship between past and present, order and disorder, certainty and uncertainty. Inthe Royal Institution of Great Britain named it one of the best science-related works ever n by: Tom Stoppard.
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Moon, by Tom Stoppard, from Grove Press, published first in and with an introduction in /5. Internationally award-winning writer Tom Stoppard’s plays include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Jumpers, New Found Land, Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth, Travesties, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (a play for actors and orchestra written with André Previn), Night and Day, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love.
The Real Inspector Hound Tom Stoppard. The Real Inspector Hound is a one-act play modeled after the parlor mystery genre that was extremely popular at the time.
Written betweenit is considered one of Tom Stoppard’s early works. The play is actually a play-within-a-play: the. pre-revolution Russia The Coast of Utopia is a trilogy of plays: Voyage, Shipwreck, and Salvage, written by Tom Stoppard with focus on the philosophical debates in pre-revolution Russia between and It was the recipient of the Tony Award for Best by: 4.
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Find more information about: ISBN:. Tom Stoppard Plays 1: The Real Inspector Hound, Dirty Linen, Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth & After Magritte Tom Stoppard The plays in this collection reveal in combination the 'frivolous' and 'serious' aspects of Tom Stoppard's talent: his sense of fun, his sense of theatre, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire.
In Tom Stoppard's Plays: Patterns of Plenitude and Parsimony Nigel Purse assesses the complete canon of Tom Stoppard's works on a thematic basis.
He explains that, amongst the plenitude of chaotic comedy, wordplay and intellectual ping-pong of Stoppard's plays, the principle of parsimony that is Occam's razor lies at the heart of his : Nigel Purse.Tom Stoppard’s haunting new play about the Holocaust.
Set in Vienna from to“Leopoldstadt” tells an acutely personal story. T HE ORIGINAL title of his haunting new play, Sir Tom.


Translation and Video Media: A Dialogue with Beth Cary and Taro Goto
Date: April 15, 2017 (Saturday)
Time: 4:00–6:00 p.m. (doors open, networking at 3:00)
Place: Room 205, Wesley Center, 6-10-11, Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107-0062. Access map here.
Fee: ¥500 SWET/JAT/SCBWI members; ¥1,000 non-members
Reservation and Inquiries: SWET
From opposite shores of the Pacific, Taro Goto and Beth Cary support the presentation of Japanese filmmakers and works on Japan. Cary has translated background works and interviews that delve into the thought process behind films of directors; while Goto has worked on production and subtitling, and often interprets at film showings. At times they have happened to work on the same films, at different stages. Cary will relate her experiences with directors such as Shinoda Masahiro, Itami Juzo, Koreeda Hirokazu, Miyazaki Hayao, Takahata Isao. Goto will also discuss his approach to subtitling, keeping in mind knowing the audience, readability, characterization, and serving the vision of the film.
Profiles of the Speakers
Interpreter and translator Beth Cary, who was born and reared in Kyoto and now lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. She has interpreted for many Japanese filmmakers, including Studio Ghibli’s Miyazaki Hayao, Takahata Isao, and Suzuki Toshio, at their presentations and programs related to the Academy Awards for the past four years. She co-translated Miyazaki’s two giant volumes of interviews and essays, Starting Point: 1979-1996, and Turning Point: 1997-2008 with Frederik Schodt. Her editing work includes Anime Encyclopedia 3 and several other books on Japanese film and culture.
Subtitlist, interpreter, and film producer, Taro Goto is a Japanese American from southern California who is now based in Tokyo. He has subtitled over 70 Japanese feature films and 30 TV documentaries, and has interpreted for directors, actors, and other film professionals at film festivals and press conferences as well as on set. He has been involved in the production of films in various capacities, including the documentaries White Light/Black Rain (co-producer) and Mifune: The Last Samurai (producer). He helped develop the Japanese-English curriculum at the Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy, where he also served as instructor.


Bringing the tinsel to town
By Steve Vaughan, The Virginia Gazette (09/19/07)
A resident of New York with a home inn Ford’s Colony, she’s made it her mission to bring arts events and “name talent” to town.
Racimo is a former actress. She parlayed her exotic looks into a career inn film and television in the 1060’s and ‘70s, often playing Native Americans. She appeared with Charlton Heston in “The Mountain Men,” and with George C. Scott in “Day of the Dolphin.” She had regular roles on the TV series “The Chisolms” and “Falcon Crest.”
She’s perhaps best known locally for writing and directing “Journey of Destiny,” the play on the Jamestown story that climaxed the closing festivities of Anniversary Weekend in May.
She also produced a series of “radio plays” at the Williamsburg Library, including a sold-out “War of the Worlds” in 2005 that was so successful it will likely be repeated.
In addition to her acting, writing and directing talents, it wouldn’t be surprising if Racimo is an accomplished juggler – she manages to keep a number of balls in the air simultaneously.
Next month, she will bring two event to Williamsburg.
Opening Oct. 2 at the Kimball Theatre is a film Racimo executive produced called “Casi Casi.” The showings here are the film’s theatrical premiere.
romantic comedy,” she said of the film and its PG-13 rating. “It’s what movies
should be: good, wholesome family fun.”
The dialogue is in Spanishe with English subtitles. It won three Best Film awards at festivals, beating out “Akilah and the Bee” at the Philadelphia Film Festival and Antonio Banderas’ “Take the Lead” at the San Diego Latino Film Festival in 2006.
The film has been sold to HBO, which will air it later this year.
Later in October, Racimo will bring high culture to the Historic Triangle, directing a performance by stars of the New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, Tonna Miller and Jennifer Hines. The performance, dubbed “Opera Times Two and Sondheim, Too” will be at the Williamsburg Library, part of the annual Dewey Decibel Concert Series. In addition to opera, Miller and Hines will perform show tunes.
Opera is one of Racimo’s enthusiasms, and she’s working on a new opera project. “My partner and I have obtained the rights to make an opera based on the classic film, “On The Waterfront,” she said.
The 1954 Elia Kazan classic earned Marlon Brando his first Academy Award for his portrayal of an ex-boxer caught up in the world of the mob-controlled New York docks.
Racimo said she is in early talks with composer David Carlson, who wrote the music for the operatic version of “Anna Karenina,” and with financial backers.
“These days one needs a consortium of opera companies to commission and debut a new work,” she said.
Racimo has more planned for 2008. In February she’ll produce a concert by Chinese pianist Xiayin Wang at the Kimball. Racimo’s company, Palomino Entertainment Group, produced the pianist’s debut at New York’s Carnegie Hall in April.
“She’s an extraordinary talent,” Racimo said.


A friend of mine from the year I spent at the American University in Cairo in 1989-90, Maha Maamoun, became an artist who uses photography. She is also a curator. We re-met in Beirut in 2007 where she was organizing the Meeting Points 5 arts festival and now I see her work has been in the 9th Sharjah Biennial. There is a statement by her in the most recent issue of Nafas art magazine. Her recent work, Domestic Tourism I and II, is described there, with photos.
For Domestic Tourism II she searched for scenes in movies that featured the pyramids as backdrop and put them together. She explains the chronology and rhythm she chose for the resulting film, which sounds evocative:
"I wanted to start and end with the present so that the film does not end up as a celebration of a romantic past vs. a rough present. Instead, it visits the past and shows its various formulations by a changing present.
The film starts with recent scenes, from the 2000’s, with their lighter and more superficial engagement in social and political issues, then the tone of the film heightens as we move backwards through the 90’s, 80’s, and 70’s, with cinema’s deeper engagement with the harshness of political and social realities. The tension is then released with the celebratory scenes of political and social glee from the 60’s and 50’s, where the pyramids act mostly as a backdrop to a celebrating and celebrated middle class. Here we reach the oldest scene I have, the turning point, after which the tension gradually builds up as we move up again through the traumatic political and economic upheavals of the late 60’s, phasing out to the present."


In 2007, Ruta starred in the hit Showtime series The Tudors alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Henry Cavill. It was also picked up by the BBC and CBC and aired in October 2007.
In January to March 2009, she performed in the Olivier Award-winning stage production of Spring Awakening. Ruta played Ilse, a childhood friend of Melchior who runs away from a sexually abusive home to become a Bohemian.
In August 2009, Ruta filmed the dark British thriller, Prowl, directed by Patrik Syversen. The film is slated for a late 2010 release.
In July 2010, she was cast in the female lead role of Ursula in the new television series The Borgias. The Showtime epic starts shooting in August in Budapest and Ruta stars opposite Jeremy Irons with Neil Jordan directing. The series is set in 1492 Rome and tells the story of the noble Borgia family who came into power and became infamous for their abuse of their authority, leaving an enduring legacy of their corruption.
Also in July 2010, Ruta completed filming T In The Park, set at the Scottish music festival in Scotland. The story follows an indie-rock singer who finds himself handcuffed to the leader of a big U.S. rock band.
Ruta will next hit television screens in October 2010, where she plays the central role in the new BBC series Lip Service. Reminiscent of the US phenomenon, The L Word, this bold new six-parter about the sex lives and relationships of a group twenty-something lesbians living in contemporary Glasgow, has been written and created for the BBC by Harriet Braun. Ruta plays Frankie, an irreverent and provocative photographer who avoids commitment at all turns.
Your favourite virtue?
Your main characteristic?
What draws you most to your friends?
Humour and understanding. A little bit of geek somewhere.
Given the opportunity what would you most like to change?
I think it’s important to not change things about yourself, but strive to improve on who you are.
Who would you most like to take out for dinner?
Your idea of happiness?
My family and friends all happy and content.
What is your favourite way of spending the day?
I love my job. So a bit of acting, then discovering something new. Then finishing off with some friends some rum, and some good music.
Whose life other than yours would you most like to have lived?
Where would you most like to live?
Everywhere. for a bit at a time.
Who is your favourite author?
Do playwrights count? If so, Arthur Miller or Tenessee Williams.
Who is your favourite poet?
Your favourite heroes in fiction?
I think James Stewart in ‘it’s a wonderful life’
Your favourite heroine in fiction?
I just got a new favourite. San in princess mononoke.
Caravaggio, Klimt, Jack Vettriano, Waterhouse, Alice Neel
Has become a recent favourite. She did a great portrait of Andy Warhol, who also intrigues me
Who is your favourite composer?
Chopin has featured throughout my life. But if i could have a contempory pop/folk composer i would say Andrew Bird also.
What is your favourite film?
I have no single favourite, as i like a selection from all genres. But if you forced me to choose one. It’s a wonderful life.
I will always love roast dinner. Just without the meaty bits.
I’m a whiskey and rum girl.
Who do you most admire?
What is your present state of mind?
Scatty. What country am i in?
For what fault do you have most toleration?
I tolerate a lot of faults, because they are part of what individualize us. Our faults are our quirks.
Your favourite motto
It’s written in ink on my arm.


The January question asks us to reflect on the life and times of Shakespeare.
My lazy summer schedule has not allowed for serious reflection on any topic whatsoever. But I felt the urge to participate, so I've decided to go for the cheats post on Shakespeare.
In 2007, Mr Books & I had a wonderful 2 weeks travelling around the UK.
We both love seeing Shakespeare performed live, so I arranged tickets for us to see The Merchant of Venice at the new Globe Theatre in London for Mr Books birthday.
We also spent a day in Stratford-on-Avon where we soaked up as much Elizabethan culture as we could handle!
The first 4 photos are of the Gower Memorial in Bancroft Gardens in Stratford (1888). Shakespeare sits on top of the pedestal and is surrounded by bronzes of Lady Macbeth, Hamlet, King Hal & Falstaff (Philosophy, Tragedy, Comedy & History).
The half-timbered house in Henley Street (below) is supposedly where Shakespeare was born in 1564. It has been lovingly restored whilst retaining original details like sloping, uneven floors, narrow steps, dim lighting and low beams. Each room is furnished in the style of the time with lots of information points for the dedicated. The gardens (in September) were a glorious riot of colour.
New Place on Chapel Street was Shakespeare's home from 1597 until his death. Sadly the house was demolished a hundred years later, but the foundations & grounds can still be viewed. Nash House (next door) is now the entrance to the site. It was owned by Thomas Nash who married Shakespeare's granddaughter, Elizabeth. It has a display of furniture and information about the history of Stratford. The second photo (below) also shows the beautiful Guild Chapel in the background overlooking New Place.
The original Globe Theatre, in London was built in 1599. The modern Shakespeare Globe was opened in 1997, about 230m from the original site. We payed a little extra to sit in one of the bays (they're undercover & we didn't want to trust to the English weather!), but you are allowed (& encouraged) to move around before, during and after the performance.
It was incredible to be so close to the action and was definitely one of the highlights of our trip. For anyone travelling to London from overseas, I cannot recommend this experience highly enough. It was easy to book the tickets online, before our departure. And we were very fortunate that Mr Books all-time favourite Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice) was being performed the week we were in London.
I must confess that I don't enjoy reading Shakespeare anywhere near as much as I enjoy watching Shakespeare.
Since my highschool days when I watched numerous versions of Romeo & Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth & King Lear for my studies, I have seen untold numbers of Shakespearean performances on stage, in the park and at the movies.
Some of the highlights have been Romeo & Juliet in the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Kevin Spacey as Richard III at the Sydney Opera House, Baz Luhrman's movie of Romeo & Juliet and The Merchant of Venice at the Globe Theatre.
Do you have a favourite performance?


Lauren Graham to Appear in 'The Mighty Ducks' Reboot Series
Published Feb 12, 2020Gilmore Girls and Parenthood star Lauren Graham is slated to appear in the upcoming Disney+ reboot of The Mighty Ducks.
As Variety reports, the actress has been tapped to play a mother named Alex, whose son Evan (played by Brady Noon) is cut from the Mighty Ducks' hockey team. The mother and son duo then set out to build their own team of misfit hockey players.
In addition to her acting role, Graham will also co-executive produce the series.
As previously reported, Emilio Estevez is also expected to reprise his role from the original Mighty Ducks movie trilogy as Coach Gordon Bombay.
Other casting decisions have yet to be revealed, though a number of the original castmates did reunite IRL and on the ice last year, including Kenan Thompson, Danny Tamberelli, Colombe Jacobsen, Vincent LaRusso and Garette Ratliff Henson.
Production on the new series is scheduled to begin in Vancouver this month.


The Alhambra Theatre is widely recognised as one of Scotland's finest theatres, bringing world class entertainment to Dunfermline. Some of this years line up include; Jason Manford, The Ratpack Vegas Spectacular, The Mousetrap, Anne, The Rocky Horror Show, The Bootleg Beatles, Jimmy Carr, Roy Chubby Brown, The Red Hot Chill Pipers...
Carnegie Hall is a performing arts and live music centre with a 540-seat theatre, ideal for music, drama, dance, comedy and children's entertainment. Local amateur productions as well as acts such as Dominic Kirwan, Elkie Brookes and Ben E King.
The Odeon Dunfermline is situated in the Fife Leisure Park and offers 10 screens for you to choose from.


Opposites attract, but can this union survive?
Earthbound Sisyphus and flight-obsessed Icarus meet and fall in love. Two years later, they find themselves in couples therapy.
Or see EXCERPT below.
LENGTH: 20 minutes.
CAST: 3 (2M, 1F)
Scene 1: Sisyphus's workplace
Scene 2: Libra's office
Scene 1: Once upon a time.
Scene2: Two years later.
Sisyphus. Male. 37. Hard working. Earnest
Icarus. Male. 29. Beautiful. Exhibitionist.
Libra. Female. 40. Marriage counselor.
2019. LaBute New Theater Festival, St. Louis Actors' Studio, St. Louis, MO, July.
2020. Livestream production: Digital Dionysia Festival, Third Citizen Company, December.
SCENE ONE: (Projection or announcement) “Once upon a time.”
Sisyphus enters stage right pushing a giant round rock slowly and with great effort. (If preferred, this can be staged minimally—and comically—perhaps with a stagehand carrying a drawing of a large rock.)
Cursed boulder! Hast thou gained weight? Or do I with each day’s labor feebler grow?
ICARUS flies in from stage left, hovers over SISYPHUS for a moment, and then flies off stage right. (If preferred, this, too, can be staged minimally—and comically—perhaps with SISYPHUS, wearing wings, carrying a chair on stage, standing on the chair momentarily, and then carrying the chair offstage.)
(without looking up)
And now my sense of hearing is askew, for I do the flapping of birds’ wings so strangely hear, as if their size to mammoth extent hath grown.
ICARUS flies back in stage right (or carries his chair back in and stands on it.) Hovers again.
(still not looking up)
Alas, the sound grows louder still. Methinks my labors suit me not and will the end of me cause. Or perchance, I have the spiral to death already begun and angels now do hear.
SISYPHUS finally looks up.
By Zeus, tis no angel!
Well, hello there.
Tis a god! A god with a body most beautiful and wings most monumental!
Please cease thine effusions, lest the blood surging through my muscle-toned body most suddenly my visage flood!
I am sorry, your godship.
Thou needst not apologize. And I like thee am just a mortal.
Alas not just like me, for I be but a simple laborer.
Thy humility is most pleasing and doth my interest in thee greatly justify. For in truth, twas my intention to attract thine attention.
Wherefore wouldst thou my attention pursue?
Thy fortitude in tending to thy labors doth me most impress. Forsooth, no creature hath e’er touched my heart in quite this fashion.
Thy skill in flight doth likewise my soul excite. No mortal or god hath e’er so moved me.
That is why I did a strategy of flight in these environs pursue. Around thee have I soared; have I hovered; have I glided—but thou with nary a glance at me thy work did continue so to practice. I would this futile pursuit cease and off to lesser objects of potential affection fly, but thou didst all at once look upward.
THEY stare longingly at each other.
And now our eyes do like two pieces of magnetite lock.
Thy tongue is most lissome. Thy words most gilded. But thou speakest truth—methinks henceforth our eyes shall ne’er be unglued.
Tell me thy name, earnest laborer.
(hissing the name luxuriously in all its ess-ness)
“Si-sy-phus.” Tis like a breath of air cleansing the mouth. My name is Icarus.
(pronouncing the name with great strength)
“Icarus.” A name as imposing and monumental as its bearer.
Pleased to meet thee, Sisyphus.
ICARUS extends his arm down as if to shake hands. SISYPHUS lets go of the rock and reaches upward. Before their hands touch, the rock rolls backwards offstage. We hear a thunderous crash.
Woe be me! Look upon it and weep’st! The gods have cursed me for letting loose my work, like a distracted seagull letting drop the day’s catch of fish.
No, the fault tis mine. To see this mammoth orb of granite, the very one against which thou hast toiled and up that steeply tilted mound of earth pushed for hours of the day all at once backwards roll and with a crash come to a halt is most deflating.
Berate thyself not. If to meet thee be the outcome, I suffer this setback most gladly.
Oh, extraordinary Sisyphus. I feel a pang of contrition more extreme than any here before in my luck-kissed short life.
ICARUS flies down. Lands beside SISYPHUS.
Let me make amends for this most perturbing consequence. Wouldst thou dine with me this evening?
Most happily, fairest Icarus.
SISYPHUS and ICARUS exit arm in arm.
END OF EXCERPT


King's Landing hosts a wedding, and Tyrion and Sansa spend the night together. Dany meets the Titan's Bastard. Davos demands proof from Melisandre. Sam and Gilly meet an older gentleman.
Tywin counsels Joffrey; Melisandre shares a secret with Gendry; Daenerys exchanges gifts with a slave lord near Yunkai; Brienne battles a formidable adversary in Harrenhal; Shae isn't happy with Tyrion's new situation.
Robb considers a compromise to mend his alliance with House Frey; Melisandre visits the Riverlands; Tywin plans strategic unions for the Lannisters; Jaime's fate is in Roose Bolton's hands; Jon prepares for a dangerous climb with the Wildlings.
The Hound is judged by the gods; Jaime is judged by men. Jon proves himself; Robb is betrayed. Tyrion learns the cost of weddings.
The Night's Watch takes stock. Varys meets his better. Arya is taken to the commander of the Brotherhood. Dany exchanges a chain for a whip.
Tyrion shoulders new responsibilities. Jon is taken to the Fist of the First Men. Daenerys meets with the slavers. Jaime strikes a deal with his captors.
Arya runs into the Brotherhood Without Banners; Jaime finds a way to pass the time.
Jon is tested by the wildling king; Tyrion asks for his reward; Dany sails into Slaver's Bay.
A behind the scenes look at HBO's hit series 'Game of Thrones.'
Join the cast and creators of 'Game of Thrones' on the set for this informative glimpse at Season 3 of the hit HBO series.