Why 'jeen-yuhs' is a masterclass in documentary filmmaking and what makes a good movie soundtrack
This past week on the podcast, we talked about all things Kanye. From his stem player to his upcoming album to his Instagram harassment of his family, and the new Netflix documentary, jeen-yuhs. There was so much Kanye in the news, that we had to dedicate a whole episode to covering it all.
Continuing that thread we’re talking all about films and music!
This week in the newsletter:
Noah on why jeen-yuhs is a good example of what a documentary should be
Avery writes about what makes a good movie soundtrack
Ep. 79: For the love of Kanye
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Why ‘jeen-yuhs’ is the perfect example of how documentary filmmaking should be done.
Like everyone else, I’ve enjoyed the Kanye West documentary jeen-yuhs. It’s obviously been enlightening on Ye and his rise as a superstar, genius and trailblazer in the music industry. But it also shows Coodie’s Journey with Ye and how he grew along with him. But, it almost did not turn out that way.
Remember when Ye said he wanted to have a look at Coodie and Chike’s footage before the documentary was released? Although, Coodie said he denied that request and kept the footage he wanted to use. But lately, more often than not, when a documentary is done on an athlete, musician, artist or anybody of significance, they are directly involved in the making of it.
Which in some cases can be good, but I would argue that in most, it is a detriment to the final product.
I mean how many documentaries in the last year or so have you seen from celebrities where they are the producer for the project. Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Tom Brady. While they can still be entertaining and enjoyable, in these cases these celebrities will do their best to show themselves in a positive light, even if the documentary may not call for it.
It’s something about a filmmaker wanting to create a documentary genuinely and creatively that gives a sense of transparency and honesty to those watching.
This is what makes jeen-yuhs special, while this version of Kanye is easy to root for because there is still doubt on how successful he will be, he is in no way perfect or without flaw. Coodie was able to find the perfect balance of storytelling in his own unique way, but still, be true to Kanye’s story.
Something not all filmmakers have the ability to do
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What makes a good movie soundtrack
This past weekend I saw the film The Worst Person in the World by Joachim Trier, starring Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielson Lie and Herbert Nordrum. It’s a wonderful movie about a young woman navigating her way through relationships and careers, and how the two things inform each other, and the rest of her life. If you haven’t, you should definitely see it, it’s an incredibly beautiful movie.
Plenty of aspects of the movie has stuck with me like the visuals, pieces of dialogue, the themes, and especially the soundtrack.
To be clear, I am not writing about a score that a composer like John Williams or Ennio Morricone would make, I am talking about a soundtrack full of music that has already been made that is chosen to accompany a movie.
There’s a moment at the end of the film, where our main character, who has been impulsive and indecisive throughout the movie, finally feels at ease with her choices seeing something that confirms what we’ve known to be true. The song that plays under this is a Paul Simon cover of “Waters of March.” It’s a bossa nova song originally by Antônio Carlos Jobim, about the cycles of life and nature and existence. A beautiful song that soundtracked a beautiful moment in this movie.
At its very best, a good soundtrack matches the tone of the movie you’re watching, and at least the scene that it is playing under at that moment. To me, a good soundtrack should take you back to those moments in a film when you hear that song again. I think of The Pixies’ Where is my mind? playing at the end of Fight Club, The Crystals’ Then He Kissed Me playing while Henry and takes Karen to the nightclub in Goodfellas, and the Electric Light Orchestra’s Mr. Blue Sky playing as Groot dances at the beginning of Guardians of the Galaxy 2. This movie I saw this week, had multiple scenes like this, making me feel the moment even more than if there was something generic there. I can listen to this soundtrack and remember each scene in the movie as I get through it.
A soundtrack should never be intrusive either, it should always compliment what is happening on screen and never detract from it. You should be able to enjoy both things together as one cohesive element, rather than one dominating the other. I see it as a jigsaw puzzle, where usually there is only one song that would perfectly accompany that moment. If you saw that scene with a different song, it just wouldn’t hit the same because if Russell, Penny Lane and the rest of Stillwater were singing anything other than Tiny Dancer by Elton John in Almost Famous on that bus, it just really would not have had the same effect.
Lastly, to be simple, it should be able to stand on its own! You should be able to listen to a soundtrack and feel those emotions again if you so choose to do so. You should be able to go home, sit with it for a couple of days and decide that you want to listen to it again because you’re in the mood. You could think of it as an intricately cured playlist that should make you feel something. My favorite soundtrack of all time is from Garden State by Zach Braff. It won a Grammy after all. To this day, I can’t listen to Don’t Panic by Coldplay without thinking about the brilliant opening scene of this movie. Even if I haven’t watched the movie in a while, I can go back to this soundtrack and listen to it if I’m just in the mood to feel melancholy and solitary.
It’s hard to pull off a good soundtrack, but when it’s done right it’s a really beautiful thing to witness. Some of my favorite pieces of trivia are knowing that writers and directors have the soundtrack of a movie in mind as they write how the story will play out, as is the case with The Worst Person in the World. What are some of your favorite soundtracks?
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In: Telegraph Sunday magazine, 27 June 1982, pp.12-13.
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King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s most popular tragedies, exploring the role of power and deceit among families through the flawed relationship between King Lear and his three daughters. At the opening of the play, the ageing King Lear decides that he would like to retire, so he divides the country between his three daughters, Regan, Goneril. again. The king is coming. Sennet. Enter KING LEAR, CORNWALL, ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN, CORDELIA, and Attendants. KING LEAR Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester. GLOUCESTER I shall, my liege. Exeunt GLOUCESTER and EDMUND. KING LEAR Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there. Know that we have divided.
The aging king of Britain and the protagonist of the play. Lear is used to enjoying absolute power and to being flattered, and he does not respond well to being contradicted or challenged. At the beginning of the play, his values are notably hollow—he prioritizes the appearance of love over actual. In the end, his oldest daughter kills the middle sister and her self, over their desire for a man, and his youngest daughter is hung by that man. Although the war is won by the Brits, Lear loses his daughters, his kingdom, his sanity and last, his life. Book Summary. Act 1 Scene 1. King Lear’s Palace.
Okay, I'l give you a brief summary. King Lear has three daughters: Goneril, his eldest, Regan, the middle child, and Cordelia, the youngest and his favorite. Both Goneril and Regan are married to men of power: Albany and Cornwall, respectively. Cordelia is unmarried and assumed, like all unmarried women of that time period, to be pure. In the first scene of King Lear, the aged king asks his daughters a simple, yet loaded question: Which one loves him the most?The question is crucial, since Lear announces his plan to give the.
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King Lear and His Daughters. The analysis of father-daughter relationship in “King Lear” The story of King Lear, despite its original portrayal, is apocryphal. The mythological aspects that send us to the ancient origins of the story are the numbers of the daughters he had – three.
The play is focused around Lear, the aging King of Britain, and his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. When Lear wants double life of King Lears daughters book step down from the throne, he decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters and asks each daughter how much she loves him/5(2).
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The Daughters of King Lear In Edwin Austin Abbey painted a beautiful depiction of a scene in Shakespeare’s King Lear. The scene is of Cordelia leaving her sisters and all of court after her father, King Lear, divides his kingdom to her two elder sisters, Regan and Goneril, leaving her with nothing.
Because of this uncertainty and the textual references, the composition of King Lear may have taken place anywhere from to The story of King Lear and his daughters was a familiar tale in Elizabethan England, where it was generally believed to be based on historical fact, having been taken from ancient British history.
King Lear's daughters were: Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Asked in Books and Literature, William Shakespeare, Plays, Mathematicians What is the role of the fool in King Lear.
King Lear is the aging king of Great Britain who foolishly decides to retire and divide his kingdom among his three daughters, Regan, Goneril, and Cordelia. The two oldest flatter the king, and the youngest, who loves the King most, tells the truth.
As a consequence, the youngest is disowned and her inheritance is given to the other two. When King Lear asks his three daughters how much they love him in order to divide his kingdom, he falls for Regan and Goneril’s flattery, but banishes Cordelia for her honest answer. As conflicts arise once Lear begins to descend into madness, and the nobleman Gloucester worries about his two sons Edgar and Edmund, the British throne hangs in.
King Lear is a tragic hero. He behaves rashly and irresponsibly at the start of the play. He is blind and unfair as a father and as a ruler. He desires all the trappings of power without the responsibility which is why the passive and forgiving Cordelia is the perfect choice for a : Lee Jamieson.
This is Lear’s response when his daughters ask him why he needs his attendant knights. The line foreshadows that Lear will soon be living side by side with the “basest beggars.” One of the central themes of King Lear is the question of whether poor and powerless people can live with meaning and dignity, or whether wealth and power are the only things that make life bearable.
However, it is clear that Shakespeare relied chiefly on King Leir, fully titled The True Chronicle History of King Leir, and his three daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordella, the anonymous play published twelve years before the first recorded performance of Shakespeare's King Lear.
Inentrepreneur and theatre manager Philip Henslowe noted in his diary that King Leirwas performed at the Rose. King Lear decides that the time has come to pass on the burden of his responsibilities. Lear summons his beloved daughters, Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia to announce his intention.
What he wants most of all is to be loved, but instead, selfishness, greed and disloyalty bring disaster. This book is part of the Millennium Shakespeare series. Synopsis. King Lear is set in the court of an ageing British peare probably wrote it in aroundsandwiched between two other great tragedies, Othello and Macbeth.
Having reached the age of 80, the widowed King Lear calls his nobles together to announce his intention to pass on the cares and responsibility of monarchy to his three daughters, with whom he means to live on a. King Lear was old and tired.
He was aweary of the business of his kingdom, and wished only to end his days quietly near his three daughters. Two of his daughters were married to the Dukes of Albany and Cornwall; and the Duke of Burgundy and the King of France were both suitors for the hand of Cordelia, his youngest daughter.
The general plot of King Lear revolves mainly around the conflict between the King and his daughters, although there is a definite and distinct sub-plot dealing with the plight and tragedy of Gloucester as well. One of the main themes that Shakespeare chooses to focus on in King Lear is the dysfunctional nature of not only the royal family and Gloucester, but the heartache and emotional strain.
Plot Summary. Lear, King of Britain, in an attempt to avoid future strife, divides his kingdom between his three daughters. His eldest two, Regan (wife of Cornwall) and Gonerill (wife of Albany), respond to his request for a show of love, but Cordelia is unable to, not wanting to be hypocritical.
King Lear was broadcast live on the BBC Third Programme on 29 Septemberstarring John Gielgud, Barbara Jefford, Barbara Bolton and Virginia McKenna as Lear and his daughters. At Abbey Road Studios, John Lennon used a microphone held to a radio to overdub fragments of the play (Act IV, Scene 6) onto the song " I Am the Walrus ", which The.
At this, the king grew angry and he disinherited Cordelia and also banished her from his kingdom. Among the suitors, the prince of France married Lear’s dowerless daughter, Cordelia. Then the king divided the kingdom between the two daughters and decided to pass the rest of his life with his two daughters.
His eldest two daughters, Regan and Goneril, blindly flatter their father, but Cordelia, the only daughter to truly love Lear, remains silent. Lear flies into a rage and banishes Cordelia from England.
She moves to France and marries the king without her father’s blessing and without inheriting any power of. The aging King Lear decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, allotting each a portion in proportion to the eloquence of her declaration of love.
The hypocritical Goneril and Regan make grand pronouncements and are rewarded; Cordelia, the youngest daughter, who truly loves Lear, refuses to make an insincere speech to prove her love and is disinherited. King Lear becomes upset at his daughter’s ingratitude and proceeds to go to his other daughter Regan’s estate.
He complains to Regan of her sister’s ingratitude at Gloucester’s home. Regan, in turn, is on Goneril’s side on the matter and the two sisters coax their father to get rid of seventy five of the knights.
First performed aboutKing Lear is one of the most relentlessly bleak of Shakespeare's tragedies. Probably written between Othello and Macbeth, when the playwright was at the peak of his tragic power, Lear's themes of filial ingratitude, injustice, and the meaninglessness of life in a seemingly indifferent universe are explored with unsurpassed power and depth/5(5).
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Plot summary: Sherlock Holmes is introduced to ex-army doctor John Watson who he moves in with and then convinces to help him solve murder mysteries. Their first case together is one that looks, to police, like a case of linked suicides.


Ethan's Law Documentary Open Forum
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: The Arc of Frederick County, 620-A Research Court, Frederick, MD
Open Forum with Director Edward Rhodes about Ethan’s Law documentary
Attendees will have an opportunity to speak to the director about the film, ask questions and participate in an open discussion about topics concerning inclusion and others relevant to the film's direction and scope.
Attendees will also be able to screen a “short form rough cut" of the documentary. Since the feature is still in production this version will not be complete, but it is intended to give people an idea of the tone and stance of the film.


Yes, I know. The movie has been out for over half a year, and only now I get around to seeing and reviewing it. But I rarely go to the movie theater. The last movie I’ve seen at the theater was Silver Linings Playbook. Before that, it was No Country for Old Men. I just don’t much like watching movies at the theater, so I pick them carefully. (Just like I don’t like going to football games, and especially not ones that I can watch on television.) I watch a fair number of movies (but not during football season), but only go to the theater if I think I will really like the film. Les Miserables didn’t make the cut.
I rented “Les Mis” (shortening the name in the same manner as all the smart, sophisticated hipsters) at the Redbox down the street. It was last Saturday, July 6th, the third day of incessant rain in my parts, which had pretty much totally washed out any feeling of holiday exuberance for the Fourth of July holiday and weekend. I figured it was either rent Les mis or go bowling (a reference to a hilarious sketch by comedian Jim Gaffigan in which he explains that bowling is something you do on a rainy Sunday afternoon in lieu of committing suicide). Bowling could not possibly have been as bad as this movie.
I picked Les Mis out of the Redbox lineup for two reasons. I was sent on the errand of renting a movie by my wife and daughter (age 16). While I had only something like morbid curiosity about the film (what is the big deal about this book/play/movie?), I knew they would enjoy it. And would it be better to suffer through a lousy movie, or listen to a couple of caterwauling females bitch about my taste? And nobody I knew who had seen the movie or the play could ever provide any sort of satisfactory explanation of what the movie was about. If it was so great, then why didn’t anybody even understand the plot? Not even my wife, who has seen the play twice, could explain what the hell it was about. So I figured I could at least find out for myself.
So, at least I figured out the plot. But I still don’t know what the movie is about.
The movie starts in 1815. You know that because it tells you so on the screen, but just ignore the particular date that flashes on the screen which I can’t now recall (i.e., don’t scurry to find, like I did, whether the particular date on the screen was before or after Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo in the same year—it doesn’t matter) and all subsequent dates because the relationship of the movie to its historical setting is mainly irrelevant. This is not historical fiction. It just uses the backdrop of post-Napoleonic France as, well, a backdrop. Post-Napoleonic France provides the setting for some of the film’s conflicts, and conflict, of course, is the sine qua non of fiction. The film (and I assume the play and the book) uses the revolt of the late 1820’s/early 1830’s against the Bourbon restoration in France as the vehicle for examining life, love, honor and courage. Sort of. Mostly it just provides an excuse for blood and gore and wailing, sometimes melodically, sometimes not. But the setting makes the ridiculous sing-through dialog seem even more ridiculous.
Having only seen a few of the classic musicals (e.g., Oklahoma, The Sound of Music, etc.), I foolishly was unaware that some musicals pretend to be operas, and sing the dialogue. I thought the singing in a musical was something to release or express pent up emotions—that the plot carried along in dialogue normally like any other play, until there was an appropriate time to break out in song—like Sister Mother Abbess singing “Climb Every Mountain” in the Sound of Music as the finale to the first act. Boy, was I wrong. Does Russell Crowe (Javert) have any idea how ridiculous he looked and sounded singing threats to Hugh Jackman (Jean Valjean)? Did Hugh Jackman, whose voice was magnitudes better than Crowe’s (whose singing often sounded like a wounded creature of his namesake’s species) believe that he was so good he could sing replies without embarrassing himself? Jackman turns out does have a decent voice, but it’s not that good.
The movie starts with Jean Valjean in prison, where a group of prisoners are tugging on a rope that appears to be pulling a ship into a dry dock. Maybe. It all looks very surreal, which is amplified by all the prisoners singing, or chanting really, “look down”. Clever lyrics, huh?
Jean Valjean is in prison for stealing bread to feed his sister’s child (some would call it a niece or nephew, but Valjean doesn’t). He has been in prison for nineteen years, which is hard to believe, even in Napoleonic France (as the movie starts in 1815, and Napoleon ruled intermittently from the early nineteenth century). It is not much considered today, but the French could be outrageously brutal to each other. Witness the Huguenot massacres of the 16th century, when thousands of Protestants (Huguenots) were slaughtered by Catholics. And life in the era of the film’s setting was mostly nasty, brutish and short in France (never mind the rest of the world), to borrow from Hobbes, the 17th century philosopher who anticipated what life without a strong government, i.e., one against which a revolution was raging, would be like. Still, nineteen years for stealing bread and attempting escape seems a bit severe.
Valjean’s time has finally been served and he is let go by Javert. Then the film fast-forwards to Valjean, clean-shaven and respectable looking, as the owner of a factory and mayor of the small town in which it sits. One of the factory employees (Fantine, played by Anne Hathaway) is caught (by her coworkers?) sending money to her illegitimate daughter (Cosette) whom she had placed with a sleazy innkeeper. How this is a crime, today, then or ever, is beyond me, but she is let go from her job by the foreman. Fantine then turns to selling her hair and teeth (what did people do with other people’s teeth back then?) and, of course, her body, to provide money for her child. She is abused by her johns to the point of death, although exactly in what manner is left to the viewer to decide. Since this is a chic flick, the director probably knows that most women will figure she dies of disgrace and a broken heart. Whatever. Anne Hathaway won an Oscar for her portrayal of Fantine, who was dead before the movie was half over, but I think it’s mainly because she turned out to be a quite talented singer, and she really got ugly for the role—actually losing weight and having her hair cut off, it appears on screen. It’s hard to imagine the Princess of Princess Diaries as ugly, but there it was, in Technicolor for all to see. I suppose willingly disfiguring oneself for a film counts as acting in some quarters.
Valjean is haunted and pursued by Javert in his new and respectable life. Valjean had broken parole in order to start anew, but Javert recognized him in the streets of his new hometown one day when he lifts a cart off of a man (similar to something he’d done as a prisoner). How Javert and Valjean continually end up in the same places is, I suppose, attributable to literary license. Even in the 1800’s, France was a big enough country to make such a thing highly unlikely to occur fortuitously.
Just previously to being recognized by Javert, Valjean has promised to the dying Fantine that he will care for her daughter, so goes and buys her from the sleazy innkeepers she had left her with, played by Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen. Carter is as creepy as her husband domestic partner, Tim Burton. Cohen looks to be playing himself. The innkeepers have a daughter, Eponine, played by Samantha Barks in her grown-up form, who will prominently resurface later.
Fast forward another few years and, in a reversal, Valjean catches up to his pursuer, Javert, when Javert is captured by a rebellious/revolutionary youth gang, the leader of which has fallen instantly in love with Cosette, though Eponine is in love with him. How all these people keep showing up in the same places, well, I’ve already mentioned the improbabilities, but still, even a fictional plot (or perhaps particularly a fictional plot) has to be believable for the story to resonate. So I sort of lost what little interest the story held for me after this last fast-forward through time.
Valjean has the opportunity to kill Javert, but lets him go. Later, when Javert is presented the opportunity to kill Valjean, he is unable to do so. The moral ambiguity and conflict inherent with rejecting his duty to follow his heart does him in, and he jumps to his death into the icy waters of a river. In fact, only Cosette and her new husband, Marius Pontmercy, played by Eddy Redmayne (who, curiously, doesn’t have red hair), remain standing at the end of the flick. Everyone else is in heaven, or something like it, but we are told that to love someone is to see the face of God, so maybe those two are in heaven at the end, too. After Valjean learned that Cosette was in love with Marius, Valjean rescued him from near certain death during the revolt by smuggling him through the sewer system.
Eponine, in the person of Samantha Barks, returns to the plot a bit before the revolutionary zeal reaches its fever pitch, still as the daughter of the sleazy innkeepers, but also in unrequited love with Marius, whom she realizes has fallen for Cosette. She gives her all for the revolution (i.e., she dies) when she finally accepts she can’t have him, but renders the most beautifully sung lament along the way (“A little fall of rain”), before dying in his arms. Barks is the only actress in the film worth the trouble, and is far and away the best vocalist.
The movie ends as Valjean dies and is escorted to heaven (presumably) by Fantine, where he joins the rest of the cast, excepting Javert (or at least I didn’t see him). Javert, as Valjean’s tormentor and an official of the French government (maybe a soldier, or prison guard, or naval officer—it’s really hard to tell), did not, apparently, make it to heaven, or wherever it was that the tricolors were waving while everyone who died cavorted about.
I can understand why nobody could tell me what Les Mis is about. Even after watching the film, I don’t quite understand it myself.
Is it about the true source of morality? The film seems to have as something of a theme that morality is a product of the human heart which is often perverted and contorted by the edifice of the state and society. The Javert/Valjean conflict is an example of this theme, with Javert representing a twisted sense of morality with his idea, sung and not spoken, that whatever is the state’s impulse is the moral and good one.
But the film might be, at least accidentally, about the cruelty that man acting in concert with other men will inflict on his fellows, doing things in a crowd he would never dream of doing alone. Valjean’s factory hired girls who turned on one of their own when it was discovered she was supporting an illegitimate child. Surely no one acting alone would have treated Fantine in the manner they did, and since the factory belonged to Valjean, he does not escape culpability. Though he seems to be a paragon of virtue through the movie, and does right by Fantine in caring for her daughter after her death, he still can’t escape the immorality inherent in the social constructs of his new life.
Alas, there may not be any way to really know what the movie was about, and particularly without reading the book. Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was a French poet, novelist and dramatist of the Romantic Movement in literature and philosophy. The Romantic Movement placed primacy on emotion as being the proper prism through which human actions and impulses be evaluated. It was a push back against the ascetic rationalism sweeping the European Continent with the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution. The movement was an attempt to carve a place for the human soul to exist, after reason had all but obliterated the religious space which it had once inhabited.
But there was a latent vulgarity with the Romantic Movement, perhaps best explained by Bertrand Russell in The History of Western Philosophy:
The first great figure in the movement is Rousseau, but to some extent he only expressed already existing tendencies. Cultivated people in eighteenth- century France greatly admired what they called la sensibilite, which meant a proneness to emotion, and more particularly to the emotion of sympathy. To be thoroughly satisfactory, the emotion must be direct and violent and quite uninformed by thought. The man of sensibility would be moved to tears by the sight of a single destitute peasant family, but would be cold to well-thought-out schemes for ameliorating the lot of peasants as a class.
The movie is utterly dripping with emotion. The actors confront heart-rending emotional decisions at every turn. Thus, perhaps the movie is about the vagaries of the human heart, but from a decidedly Romantic perspective, one which basically proposes that the intensity of a feeling determines its truth. Actions taken that reflect the power of one’s emotions sanctify their veracity. For example, that Marius and his mates were willing to effectively commit suicide in revolt against the French state proves the validity of their belief that the French state was evil.
The particular meanderings in the plot of the movie seem Romantically inspired. Romanticism requires the suspension of disbelief, so it was perfectly okay for the plot line to require the characters to fortuitously appear in each other’s lives years later. In the Romantic ideal, the improbability of such a thing happening makes the emotionally fraught decisions presented to the characters even more compelling. Besides, a true Romantic believes all things to be connected in a karmic sort of way, and that actions will have consequences in unexpected ways, such as when Valjean is rediscovered by Javert in the town where he’d reinvented himself. For Romanticism, the past is never dead and buried, it isn’t even past. Yes, William Faulkner was a flaming Romantic, in the Southern gothic tradition.
All in all, I would imagine the book must be much better than the movie, but would still not be of much interest to me. I don’t view the world through a Romantic prism. I don’t much believe that the human heart is all that reliable an explicator of truth. I rather believe the human heart is more often an impediment than an aid to understanding. And I never much cared for Faulkner.
It was tortuous, watching all two and half or so hours of the movie. I think the length was of a piece with the Romantic ideal that belief is sanctified through committed action. The producers felt they should make the people suffer through an extraordinarily long movie to show how fastidiously they, and presumably everyone watching it, believed in the enterprise. To me, it felt like something like being beaten until one’s morale improves.
At least renting the movie bought me some peace on a rainy, mid-summer, Saturday evening. Had I rented something else instead—something that I might have enjoyed—I would have suffered the scorn and deprecations of my wife and daughter all evening. I traded one sort of pain for another. And at least now, I know why no one can tell me what Les Miserables is about—because no one really knows. And though I don’t either, I can now at least more or less capably explain the events that take place along the work’s meandering plot line, if not the reasons for them.


Steve Clark attended the prestigious Art Center College of Design as a photography major. He worked for twenty-five years shooting fashion, still life, and beauty. His client base included Ralph Lauren, Shape Magazine, Patagonia, Los Angeles Magazine, Robinsons May, Target, Playboy, Spanish Vogue, Ottorino Bossi, Honda, L’Official Magazine, Moda Magazine, King magazine, Lorac Cosmetics, Olga Lingerie, Mervyn’s, Sebastian International, Carushka Body Wear, Baileys Irish Cream, IT Models, Elite Models.
In 1999 Steve decided to focus on underwater cinematography and works towards educating communities about habitats that are being threatened by over fishing and pollution.
His award winning underwater short film, Arc of a Diver, received high accolades including winning the Montana CINE for best children’s film, honorable distinction at Celebrate the Sea Film Festival and, Blue Ocean Film Festival and Kids First! Film Festival. Arc of a Diver was also a finalist at Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner, International Wildlife Film Festival and Los Angeles Children’s Film Festival.
Now, after twelve years of diving & filming all over the world, Steve has the experience and ability to create uniquely stunning imagery for any project.
Steve is in development on an underwater 3D IMAX film partnering with Sean Phillips, Days End Pictures, and Mark Krezien. DIVE! 3D was officially announced in September at the GSCA. Steve will be director of underwater cinematography, co-writer, and narrator the film.
As a PADI SCUBA instructor Steve’s diving skills are impeccable, he owns and maintains his own equipment including a Sport KISS rebreather. Steve films with a Sony EX1 HD camera equipped with a Nano Flash in a Gates housing with macro and Fathom Imaging super-wide ports with full HID lighting. He grew up around boats and had his first one at 9 years old. Since then he’s owned a 31’ Grady-White for shooting locally in Southern California. Later he bought a 43’ SAGA sailboat and sailed it from Los Angeles to Auckland, NZ. Steve also used it as a filming platform and lived aboard overseas for 2 ½ years while accumulating 9,000 sea miles.
Steve has done interviews about his unique underwater work online. They can be found at:
http://community.oceana.org/blog/2009/01/q-filmmaker-steve-clark Enter “filmmaker steve clark” in keywords search
Steve testified at the Navy Sonar Hearings and was involved in the creation of the Channel Islands Marine Reserves in California. More recently he testified at the California Fish and Game Commission hearing, which has now created a new suite of integrated marine protected areas in Southern California.
In addition Steve regularly give talks about the ocean at schools and film festivals offering kids in particular a non-threatening perspective of the sea.
Charlotte Vick and Sylvia Earle requested scenes from Arc of a Diver and Steve’s demo reel to be uploaded into Google Ocean. They have been submitted and can be found in the database.
Quotes about the filmmaker and the film, Arc of a Diver:
“You are of the same caliber as Howard Hall and David Doubilet. Your film is entertaining and educational as well. The BBC has got to see this film. It’s really wonderful.”
Barry Clark, CEO Mandalay Media Arts and owner of Telenova.
“I saw your Arc of a Diver film and think that you have terrific talent, and some fantastic footage. I love your voice, and your style of narration. I can see you as the next Cousteau. Your enthusiasm and voice are so different.”
Fergus Beeley, CEO of Ice Wolf Ltd. and executive producer of over twenty natural history films for the BBC.
“You are a GENIUS at talking to kids. The talent you have is one in a million.”
Iri Cermak, researcher, writer, and delegate at the International Wildlife Film Festival.
“That voice! It’s what we have been looking for. It’s what kids respond to… No one has ever kept the entire student body engaged for the full hour before. You have made a tremendous impact on their lives… thank you.”
Gene Fein, teacher at the Point Dume Marine Science Elementary School.
“You are giving me a terrible lust for your material to be in Google Ocean. These are marvelous. Each species featured in Arc of a Diver could be a post in Google Ocean and I’ll move Heaven and Earth to get them in”.
Charlotte Vick, Content Editor Google Earth (OCEAN) at Google, Inc.
Interactive Partnership Coordinator, Mission Blue Foundation.


Compare And Contrast Ten Things I Hate About You And The.
In the movie “10 Things I Hate About You”, there are a lot of similarities to “The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare. For example, most of the similarities have to do with power relationships, courtship and dating, and sisters. The main characters in both the writing and movie have the same personalities.
In 10 Things I hate about you, the couples are younger and the relationships are less serious than they are in Taming of the Shrew. However, in Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate about You, they both have the exact same plot. The plot of Taming of the Shrew is that Lucentio, Gremio, and Hortensio want to marry a girl named Bianca.
Bianca, in “10 Things”, is a cheerful but sometimes snotty sophmore that thinks her sister is the bane to her existance. Meanwhile, at school there is a new boy by the name of Cameron. Cameron sees Bianca while taking a tour through his new school, called Padua, and falls instantly in love.
The modern appropriation, Ten Things I Hate About You, goes along the same story line however it is quite evident that the different context has a significant impact upon the content. The most obvious indicator of the type of society is given through the medium that each text is presented in. The Taming of the Shrew is a play and was staged for audiences during the early 17th century. The fact.
Essay about 10 Things I Hate About You: the Taming of the Shrew.In the movie, the characters that resemble those of the play, The Tamingof the Shrew, have many similarities and many differences from the characters in the play. Also, the setting of the movie is very different from that of the play.
The many similarities are because 10 Things I Hate About You was loosely based on The Taming of the Shrew. However, there are some differences in some of the characters. One character that stands out from both, The Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You, is Katherine and Katarina.
Differences In Characters Differences In Character Relationships Differences In the Plot 2. Quote from Taming of the Shrew: Basta, content thee, for I have it full. We have not yet been seen in any house, Nor can we be distinguished by our faces For man or master. Then it follows.
Ten Things I Hate About Shrew William Shakespeare, as a major literary figure, wrote many forms of literature; one of the more popular forms being plays. Many of his works have been transformed to appear in film adaptations, and many of these adaptations are modernized to fit the current ge.
In the film “10 Things I Hate About You”. there are a batch of similarities to “The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare. For illustration. most of the similarities have to make with power relationships. wooing and dating. and sisters. The chief characters in both the authorship and film have the same personalities. Bianca is played as the perfect guiltless adolescent and Kate.
Composer Gil Junger, has appropriated William Shakespeare's text 'Taming of the Shrew' introducing film medium and visual techniques to create the teen film '10 things I hate about you'. The clever appropriation utilises both similarities and differences in values making the connection between the two texts noticeable whilst studying.
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Both 10 things I hate about you and the play Taming of the Shrew have a lot in common. One those things is the shared premise. An examples is the plot parallel and differences between Kate’s transforamtion inWIllian Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew and Gil Junger’s 10 things I hate about you are drawn through the use of characterisation and the strong tones generated by the use of.
Characters are interesting because they help the audience relate to the ideas and messages in the plot. 10 things I hate about you, a film directed Gil Junger, is a classical teenage romance about an inspirational protagonist, Kat Stratford, who is strong, independent and stands up for what she believes in. This character is a social misfit who is exposed to a high school society where.
However, Ten Things I Hate About You is set in an American suburban modern day high school named Padua. Bianca is the most popular girl in her school and Kat is the wild beast who everyone fears. The main problem that arises in the plot is that Bianca can't date until Kat dates. Kate is very difficult to be with at school as her fellow classmates and teachers find her disobedient and highly.
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The film 10 Things I Hate About You takes its primary plot from Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, in which Baptista forbids his younger daughter, Bianca, from marrying until a husband has.


When I was about 9 or 10 years old, my childhood friends and I watched the movie The Blob as the “creature feature” re-run on a local television station. The 1958 horror flick starred a young Steve McQueen, who had to help his small town stop a voracious and constantly growing Amoeba-like mass. When it crashes to Earth in a meteorite in the opening scene, the blob is the size of a person’s hand.
After consuming one unsuspecting victim after another, by the end of the movie, the blob is larger than the local diner. It is seemingly unstoppable, resistant to both electricity and fire. But McQueen’s character is the hero, and he eventually figures out that the blog is susceptible to cold.
What can the horror movie The Blob possibly have to do with climate change? Well, in the end, McQueen and his fellow citizens cannot kill the blob but they temporarily freeze it using fire extinguishers.
Then, the U.S. Air Force airlifts the blob to the frozen Arctic, where it remains to this day. The police lieutenant tells McQueen that they couldn’t kill the creature, but at least it is stopped. In the last line of the movie, McQueen portentously responds, “Yeah, as long as the Arctic stays cold.”
When I first learned about the science of climate change during my high school years in the 1980’s, I recalled the movie and remembered what is lurking at the polar ice cap, waiting for the planet to warm. Forget sea level rise, increased hurricane intensity, and expanding droughts, if the ice sheet over the North Pole melts, beware of the blob.
As purveyors of hope in the time of climate change, our role is to be the heroes of the climate story. Like the blob, climate change only gets more monstrous as you turn away from it. Running and screaming provide the opportunity for the blob of climate change to slowly consume us all. We need to be Steve McQueen and meet the threat, regardless of the odds. Imperative to rising to the challenge of climate change is to believe in our capacity to prevail.
If I had any sense, I would secure the rights to make The Blob II. The time is ripe for Hollywood to remake this classic B-movie. It would be a mega-hit because millions of people would want to watch humanity prevail in keeping the polar ice cap frozen and the indestructible blob contained.


Mr. Cozi and I recently attended the Birmingham Sidewalk Film Festival. We learned a thing or two and visited some places that we’d never been – although Birmingham is our hometown. Of all the films we viewed, I’ll take four. Three documentaries and one feature film.
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The Alabama School of Fine Arts was one of the venues that presented the films. One in particular has stood out in my memory for over a week. (That’s saying a lot with this mind.) A documentary called Happy Hands, directed by Honey Lauren was my favorite short.
The short film was the story of how Vietnamese-owned nail salons came to be so popular in the US. Tippi Hedron of Alfred Hitchcock fame, was instrumental in bringing refugee women from Saigon to safe haven in Los Angeles. IMDb describes it this way:
1975. Saigon was falling and the lives of thousands of Vietnamese would change forever… Displaced… a new country, a new language, America. Opportunity… but not a home, not a job. A dream. Hollywood icon, Tippi Hedren, gave her time and heart on the South China Sea, bravely helping Vietnamese refugees and eventually becoming a fixture in the camp known as Hope Village. There, Miss Hedren personally conceived and provided the means for twenty of the first refugees to establish themselves as manicurists. Together, they brought beauty to the masses, and established a new industry that became a Vietnamese American Dream for a people whose language has no word to describe it. This is the story of the Vietnamese ‘nail worker.’
– Written by Anonymous
Now every pedicure will have a new meaning.
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“All American High,” was a delightful look at teens during high school in the 1980’s. My own graduation was in 1978 and this film seemed to portray the backdrop of my life. Director, Keva Rosenfeld, filmed this in 1984 in California at Torrence High School, never knowing that it would strike such a cord twenty years later. A foreign exchange student from Finland is followed throughout the story and then interviewed to see how an American high school experience affected her life once she returned to her homeland. The audience laughed, oohed, awed and clapped at all the appropriate places resulting in Keva giving us acclamations at the end of the film. He called our Birmingham audience “one of the best he’d experienced.” Very fun film.
Two stars from Alabama.
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A feature film called Coherence. It was about a dinner party held during the passing of a comet over earth. (I have to admit that when we watched the trailer, I had doubts about liking this film. I am not a fan of science fiction or horror movies and this appeared to be both.) Director, James Ward Byrkit, did an excellent job keeping the suspense high without a single monster, alien or psycho murderer. If all thrillers were like this one, I’d be a huge fan.
Roll 1, Scene 1 – Take 4 – the best is last.
Out of Print, directed by Julia Marchese was my favorite for several reasons. The purpose of the film is to educate the public about the future of 35mm film and revival theaters.
As I entered the Carver Performing Arts Center to view this documentary, it was like history was being made in my personal life. As I was growing up, this facility was known as the Carver Theatre and was a location for the black community’s entertainment. Other movie houses in Birmingham were segregated and as the civil rights movement grew in the 50-60’s, many events were held here. Unfortunately, it later became a pornographic theatre and then began its decline in the 80’s. Thankfully, it is now part of the Birmingham Civil Rights District and home to the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame.
As Mr. Cozi and I walked down 4th Avenue North, I remembered being told as a teen that this was the place where prostitution was the corner business. Then an African-American lady, who was sitting outside of her beauty salon smiled and said to us, “Welcome to historic 4th Avenue North!” To me personally, she complimented my hair and told me I was a beautiful lady. Wow! How time has changed this part of Birmingham! I couldn’t help but put the shoe on the other foot. What would an African-American woman have heard from a white outside of a segregated theatre in the 50’s?
Choosing the Carver to show Out of Print was brilliant. This entertaining documentary could be changing the history of film as it’s made. A small theatre in Los Angeles called the New Beverly Cinema, has a similar history as the Carver. While it may not have been built as a result of segregation, it has been through several transformations. It began as a vaudeville house where acts like Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed and has had a merry-go-round of functions since. Everything from a movie theatre to a nude-dancing nightclub; it is now a revival theatre that plays 35mm film that may become extinct if not for people like Julia Marchese.
With the new age of digital films, 35mm film is in danger of being destroyed due to the storage dilemma their size creates. As the film depicts, even if some of 35mm films are digitized, they lose a lot of their quality and theaters like the New Beverly Cinema will be forced out of business. Revival theaters are struggling to stay in business all over the US, but this smart, energetic and lovely young lady has taken the campaign in hand to protect them.
The story of how she came to work at the New Beverly Cinema, as well as the camaraderie among the patrons/employees brings wistful thoughts of a time gone by. A time when we got all dressed up for the movies and a double feature was the only way to see more than one movie in a theatre. The employees of the New Beverly know most of their patrons by name and some are even cut off from popcorn and candy when they’ve had too much for their blood sugar to handle. See the film!
Heart-throbs from the 60’s such as Clu Gulager from westerns like The Virginian and producer/director John Landis are just two of those who might drop in at the showing of one of their films. Celebrity sightings are a regular occurrence. So if you are fascinated with making the old new again, show your support for saving revival theaters and 35mm films. You can see the trailer here.
Mr. Cozi and I have added a trip to The New Beverly to our bucket list! Yes, the film is that good. We will be making a trip to Los Angeles sometime in the future.
And that’s a wrap. (Wrap=Wind, reel and print) A saying of days gone by…


“Divorce” TV Show Highlights Mediation
I have a terrible habit I have to admit to you. I love television. I grew up in the 1980s. What can I say? That is why I get excited when I see a new show on television and especially excited when it is in our industry. A “Divorce” TV show has me intrigued. You?
So, even if a “Divorce” TV show sounds….well depressing? This one doesn’t seem to be. I didn’t even have to read two paragraphs into the storyline and I was hooked.
Top reasons to check out the new HBO “Divorce” TV show
- It stars Sarah Jessica Parker: She is a sell, period….from Hocus Pocus to Footloose to Sex in the City, she is incredible. The fact that the show starred such a cool gal gave me pause for the next point.
- It isn’t all miserable: Yes, that needs to be said, especially with a show about divorce. The plot follows Frances and Robert, a middle aged couple with two children as they figure their way through this murky water, called divorce. A “Divorce” TV show may be drama material. Turns out, it is also a comedy.
- It gives a real look at a family in breakdown. SJP said she took inspiration from War of the Roses. Remember that really unbelievably nasty movie with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner? Me too, great acting…. but, some things you can never unsee.
- This is by far the best reason to check out HBO’s new “Divorce” TV show….They mediate. What a coup in a world full of divisiveness and discord. And…even amidst the discord ripe in this show, the characters are supposedly going to go through the entire mediation process for us to witness.
You all will need to check out the show and then check back with the blog. We will have to check back in to see how close this new show mirrors reality. I can’t wait!


Introduction:I love the movies. My friends often ask "how is it you know so much about Hollywood's Golden Age?" "My mom," I tell them. If there is a flat-screen TV in Heaven, these are the leading men whose Hollywood classics my mom is watching.
Newman was my mom's absolute favorite actor. Blue eyes and good looks -- she couldn't get enough of him. Her favorite Newman film was "Hud." "Hud" told the story of the mean-spirited Hud, a young man constantly at odds with his father in this 1963 modern-day Western. The movie was based on the Larry McMurtry novel.
As seen in the above example with Paul Newman, my mom was drawn to movies that focused on alienated young men. James Dean's 1955 classic "Rebel Without a Cause" may have been her all-time favorite movie. The first and best of Hollywood movies to focus on troubled teens, "Rebel" won writer Nicholas Ray a screenwriting Oscar.
My mom loved the classy, urbane Grant in his role in "The Philadelphia Story." She went along for the roller-coaster ride with Grant in Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest." But her favorite Cary Grant movie was the India-set classic, "Gunga Din," based on the Rudyard Kipling story.
With Montgomery Clift we're back to the moody leading man. My mom's favorites were 1951's "A Place in the Sun," the movie version of the Theodore Dreiser novel "An American Tragedy." "The Misfits," 1961, was an emotional movie for my mom. It was the final movie for Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe prior to their untimely deaths; Clift himself was to die a few years later at age 45.
Matinee idol Tyrone Power made my mom's list as Number One Swashbuckler. Her favorites were Power's portrayal as Zorro in 1940's "The Mark of Zorro," and as the dashing bullfighter, Juan Gallardo, in 1941's "Blood and Sand." This bullfighting classic was based on the novel "Sangre y Arena" by renowned Spanish novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez.
Thank you, all, for your kind comments. I'm glad this prompted some trips down memory lane for some. @listmaker My regards to your 94 year old mom.
I LOVED this list and read it to my 94 year old Mom. We had a wonderful conversation due to this list. Thank you SO much - you gave me a great memory with my mom.
LOVE this list! What a great idea to list the top leading Hollywood men my mother adored.
What a pleasure to read this list of wonderful actors. I learned a lot about the films, too! Thanks!
I can't say much about my mother liking these guys, but I sure did! Another great list, my friend.
....I didn't quite read the intro on your mother...this is a nice tribute to her and her good taste!
Wow. You nailed five of the best. They were cool guys. Thanks for sharing.
Wow, this brings back some great memories! My mother did love Tyrone Power especially. Do you happen to remember The Black Swan? Sweet tribute to your mother.
These were great leading men that my mother also adored. Wonderful ListMy5!
Good actors and bless your mother! I thought Paul had great eyes, too.
This is a fantastic list! Not only is it a neat resource for people who don't know a lot about these classic actors, but it is also a touching tribute to your mother, which is beautiful. Thanks for sharing! :)
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I got hired to cover the SUPER 8 red carpet premiere event here in L.A. Watch as I totally geek out about film music with Acacemy Award Winning film composer Michael Giacchino and got some great interviews with the stars of the JJ Abrams/Steven Speilberg movie SUPER 8. We even get a few brief moments with JJ Abrams, Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise. Steven and Brad, watching the live feed back at the studio add some hilarious comments as well. Don’t miss this. Check it out!
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth – something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
Directed by J.J. Abrams from his original script, the Bad Robot / Amblin Entertainment Production is produced by Steven Spielberg, Abrams and Bryan Burk.
The film stars Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney, Gabriel Basso, Noah Emmerich, Ron Eldard, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee and Zach Mills.


In 2013 I created a short film about him. While doing research for the project I became aware of a serious fling he had in the year prior to his death. Her name is Billie and she is still living, I interviewed her for the film.
WHEN BILLIE MET KENDALL features the voice of Nick Marcotte reading my uncle's words. Nick is the son of Michael Marcotte, a news consultant, writer and teacher known to many folks in NPR Newsland.
Hope you enjoy the short film.


“There are those who miss being in-depth with the world,”
“There are those who miss being in-depth with the world,” explains Nikolaj Lie Kaas in an interview with Politiken on April 29th 2001, “but for me superficiality means a lot – that’s where I get my drive.” This is an interesting comment from an actor, whose acting always strikes a deeply personal cord. While other actors strive to close in on life, Kaas – who experienced tragic loss at an early age – seems eager to escape the eye of the storm. It is a disturbing quality that etches his characters in the audience’s mind.”
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It surprises no one who has enjoyed Laurence's quick wit, that he began his career as a stand-up comedian working the various comedy clubs in Australia and around the world.
Beyond stand-up, his acting and singing talents see him in big demand for theatre, musical theatre, television and film.
Laurence has worked for all the State Theatre Companies in Australia including Bell Shakespeare, Ensemble Theatre, Belvoir St, Darlinghurst Theatre Co., Hayes Theatre Co., Perth, Adelaide and Sydney Festivals.
In musical theatre, his credits include Summer Rain, Calamity Jane, The Fantasticks, High Society, The Man Of La Mancha, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sunday In The Park With George, and Buddy.
His feature film credits include The Appleton Ladies Potato Race, Ladies In Black, San Andreas; The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Fool’s Gold, The Three Stooges and Doing Time For Patsy Cline. On television, his credits include Mr Inbetween, RFDS, Black Comedy, Devil’s Dust, Wild Boys, Rake, Crownies and Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo.
Laurence also co-wrote and directed two series of Tough Nuts - Australia’s Hardest Criminals for Foxtel and The Kangaroo Gang for the BBC.


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There can be no good without the bad. Either I’ve heard this wise sounding line or I’m just making it up. In that case, it happens to sound pretty good.
The same goes in the movies. The villain makes the lead star look so much better. So it pays to do a nice job on casting.
In appreciation of the joy that the baddest action movie villains have given us, karate vs. cheeseburger brings to you the top 10 bad guys in martial arts movies and popular culture:
10. Ivan the Russian. What’s Jean Claude Van Damme’s first movie? It was No Retreat, No Surrender. And he wasn’t the good guy there. He was Ivan the Russian and he was as bad as any villain could be. Arrogance and a dozen kicks in mid air within 2 seconds personified in the silver screen. It was an awful movie too with the worst actors at that time. But it has to be top 10. Van Damme as the bad guy is priceless. Plus he was the only guy he knew how to act in that movie.
9. Johnny Lawrence. If you were around during the days when all martial arts were called Karate, you should know Johnny of Cobra Kai. He’s unforgettable. He was the guy responsible for transforming Daniel Larusso from a wimpy kid to Karate champion. Thanks to his bullying and his sleeveless kimono which my sensei would never approve of. But seriously, he’s the last guy you want to cut off in the cafeteria line in high school. He just might take the heed of his Cobra Kai buddy and put you in a body bag.
8. The Terminator (first movie). Arnold Schwarznegger was scary as hell in that movie. A big hulking cyborg from the apocalyptic future. Imagine him hunting you down, asking, “Are you [fill in your name]?”.
7. General Zod. The nemesis of Superman must be as strong and as super as the world’s favorite hero. Imagine him having all the possible powers available from the superpower convenience store and dressed in black spandex with slick back hair and goatee. When he battles, he doesn’t care if the whole world is destroyed in the process. If you don’t know him, the new Superman movie will be showing soon. Go see that movie.
6. Chong Li. When I think of him, I hear the never ending chanting of “kumite! kumite! kumite!” in the background. Never mind that the setting of the movie was in Bangkok and not in Japan. They probably had their reasons for the chant. But seriously, this guy is like a bad incredible hulk with even badder intentions. He is out to hurt Frank Dux and play dirty. Watch out for the blinding powder.
5. Chuck Norris in Way of the Dragon. Mr. Norris is a hero. If you have seen him defeat a hundred commandos in his past movies, you know that he is unstoppable. The Michael Jordan of guerilla warfare. And he did that again in the Expendables 2. Now if you can picture him kick the asses of a whole army while on bad guy mode, the good guys should be heading back to their grandmothers. In Bruce Lee’s Way of the Dragon, he was the bad guy. And anybody with the guts to square of with Bruce Lee in the ruins of an ancient coliseum without hope of anybody stopping the fight is baaaaad.
4. Tong Po. Jean Calude Van Damme is probably the most talented bad guy talent scout out there. From his movies, there are three villains on this list. That includes Tong Po from Kickboxer. If looks could kill, this guy would have been a mass murderer. He is out for blood and just make sure you don’t bleed like Mae Li.
3. Twister from Ip Man. This movie is probably one of the greatest martial arts movie ever to come out in the last few years. It connects very well and gives you a feeling of inspiration and triumph at the end. Twister, the british boxer helped a lot. The actor did a very good job of making sure the viewers hate him. Specially if you love Samo Hung, you will hate the Twister. He is mean, arrogant and ruthless. And if you are winning by kicking, he will change the rules in the middle of the game.
2. Lizardo from Ang Panday (The Blacksmith). Since I am from the Philippines, I can’t help but include my all time favorite villain on this list. Lizardo played by the late Max Alvarado is probably one of the most memorable bad guys in the movies of The King, Fernando Poe, Jr. Aside from having mystical powers, his flair for drama is unmatched in local Philippine cinematic history. To top it all, his sinister laugh is unmatchable by any movie in the world.
1. Kareem Abdul Jabaar from Game of Death. Finally on the top spot is a basketball legend and hero. Kareem Abdul Jabaar is the most unlikely bad guy that you can probably think of in action movies. But he has done it. I am sure many will contest his spot on this list but to me he has to be number 1. A guy that is probably as tall as our acacia tree, his kick will reach you even if you go to the next city. That’s why he is the baddest. You got nowhere to hide.
Who is your favorite action movie bad guy?


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Jagga Jasoos film grabbed the attention of the audience ( Especially Kids) with trailer and songs.
Basu retweeted the "Pink" star's post. In total, the film has released to 2500 screens worldwide. "It's a Disney film catering to children and families", Girish Johar said. The film is an adventure drama where Ranbir's character is on the look for his missing father. But as The film budget is 100 crore, to recover the money it has to sustain and keep growing over the first week. In fact so ugly was their parting that Ranbir moved out of their love-pad immediately after their break-up giving Katrina time to find another accommodation.
Arsenal unwilling to pay £50 million for Riyad Mahrez
Beyond that Shakespeare said he is "open-minded" about selecting Mahrez. The players understand the reasons why he came out with what he did.
Owing to the business in big cities, Jagga Jasoos saw a 30 percent growth in collections on Saturday raking in Rs 11 crore as against Rs 8.25 crore on Friday.
Anurag Basu's directorial is also being compared to his last film Barfi, given some uncanny similarities in the texture and feel of both the films. Jagga Jasoos has earned a total of Rs 20.10 crore so far. Things went so bad that Katrina once even yelled at Ranbir Kapoor.
Says a source, "The Jagga Jasoos team approached Ranbir and Katrina to forget their differences and salvage the situation".
This also must have been an extremely hard film to make and that's not just because of the canvas that it boasts of but also the treatment that is specific to the kind of mode and setting that Jagga Jasoos belongs to.


29/06/2018 · Rajeev Masand’s Movie Review of Sanju. Rajeev Masand June 29, 2018. Hindi Movies Reviews 0 Comments 0. Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Vicky Kaushal, Manisha Koirala, Dia Mirza, Anushka Sharma, Sonam Kapoor, Boman Irani. Director: Rajkumar Hirani. 07/01/2017 · Sanju Movie Review Taran Adarsh, Rajeev Masand, Anupama Chopra, Komal Nahta Raja Sen Indian Critics Sanju: mind-blowing film! Memorable performance by vickykaushal09 as Kamli, Paresh Rawal as Sunil Dutt. Movie belongs to RanbirKapoor, an award-winning performance! 5 min into movie you forget it's not duttsanjay! WOW! RajkumarHirani proves. 01/07/2018 · CNN News18 film critic Rajeev Masand reviews this week's new Hindi film Sanju, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal and Paresh Rawal, and directed by Rajkum.
29/06/2018 · Rajeev Masand – movies that matter: from bollywood,. In Sanju, the filmmakers choose to side with their subject, telling his story from his point of view, humanizing the controversial star, letting him off a tad lightly. This review first aired on CNN News18 Leave a Reply. Click here to. Sanju, directed by Rajkumar Hirani, is a sympathetic portrait of a controversial, polarizing star. Ranbir Kapoor practically disappears into the. BollyTalkies: Bollywood Video Magazine; Scoops, Scandals, Reviews & More. Home; Reviews. Rajeev Masand. Rajeev Masand Movie Critic Reviews and Ratings. Rajeev Masand is an Indian film critic and entertainment reporter for CNN-IBN and the host of To Catch a Star. Masand started his career as an entertainment correspondent at the. The latest Tweets from Rajeev Masand @RajeevMasand. Movie-geek. Mumbai, India.
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Rajeev Masand’s review of Saand Ki Aankh. Rajeev Masand. 2,771 Views · October 24. 4:38. In this excerpt from The A-List, 2019’s Streaming Stars - Manoj Bajpayee, Shefali Shah, Sobhita Dhulipala, Dia Mirza, and Ranvir Shorey tell me what they wouldn’t do as actors. 29/06/2018 · Sanju Movie Review: Presenting a biopic on a man with so many shades and one who's lived a life of such extremes is a no mean feat. Hirani, in his signature style, takes you through Sanju's remarkable journey with the finesse and commitment it needs. 29/06/2018 · Sanju Review – Get Sanju Movie Review, Film Ratings, Sanju Review, Sanju User Review, Sanju Critic Review 4.5 and Latest Movie Reviews and Ratings on. Sanju Film Review: Know More about Upcoming Movie Reviews, New Movie Rating, Film Review and Movie Release Date. Rajeev Masand, writing for CNN-News18, gave the film three and a half stars out of five, believing that the "shrewd writing, and Ranbir Kapoor’s extraordinary performance makes it hard not to empathize with the protagonist." Rohit Bhatnagar of Deccan Chronicle labelled Sanju as "enjoyable", while noting that it tries to clear Dutt's image.
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The main reason we went up town was to visit the Bond In Motion Exhibition at the London Film Museum in Covent Garden, which was displaying a number of vehicles and other items from the iconic movie series.
Having grown up with James Bond throughout my life, hearing that there was a chance to see some of the cars and other props that have been used in the films over the years was an opportunity that just couldn’t be missed. Whilst I’m no car buff, it was good to see the Aston Martin DB5 and the Lotus Esprit S1, the car that could drive underwater.
Roger Moore has always been my favourite so it was particularly pleasing to see that many of the exhibits of the films that he made. I know that many think Sean Connery was the iconic Bond, but for me Roger came along at a time when I really was most impressionable and I loved the comedic element his films brought to the franchise.
His second film, The Man With The Golden Gun, was particularly memorable and when I saw a hand-drawn storyboard of the scene where he jumped the river in a car. This has to be one of my favourite and best remembered scenes and to see it sketched out in its original concept was great. Whilst the actual jump was pretty corny, I loved the comedy element of the scene so it was equally pleasing when we continued through the exhibition to find the actual car on display, with the movie clip playing behind it. Great!
After spending a good hour or so in the basement, we then had a browse around the small shop selling lots of Bond memorabilia, and I shelled out for a book called ‘The James Bond Archives’, a compendium of 1000’s of pictures and articles on all 24 films made by EON, the production company responsible for the franchise and putting on the exhibition.
As we walked back to the station to come home, we both agreed the visit was enjoyable and decided that a Bond-fest was in order so we could spot the various cars and other props we’d seen.


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A love letter to Los Angeles from Billie Eilish. In this first of its kind collaboration between Nexus Studios, Interscope Films, Disney+, Robert Rodriguez and Patrick Osborne, we helped bring to life Billie’s ambitious creative vision of producing a multimedia concert feature film, paying homage to classic Hollywood.
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Cole Porter in Hollywood: What A Swell Party It Was
Cole Porter, the musical toast of Peru Indiana, Paris and New York City, also had a profound effect on Hollywood and the movies.
Like his peers Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Oscar Hammerstein, Lorenz Hart and Richart Rogers, his songs brought Broadway and Hollywood together in diverse and wonderful ways. Mary Martin, for instance, became an overnight star on Broadway in the Porter vehicle “Leave It To Me!” The woman who would eventually fly thru the air on wire cables as “Peter Pan” stopped the show with a mock strip tease performed on top of a cabin trunk while singing “My Heart Belongs To Daddy”. She would later appear as herself in the 1946 Porter biographical musical epic “Night and Day,” auditioning for Cary Grant, who played Cole Porter in the film.
“DuBarry Was a Lady,” which starred Bert Lahr and Ethel Merman on Broadway in 1940, was made into a 1943 movie with Lucille Ball and Red Skelton in the leading roles, but used very little of the original Porter score.
But Hollywood would soon be further Porter attenuated. His “I Concentrate On You” was one of the big hits from the movie “Broadway Melody of 1940,” while the 1943 film “Something to Shout About” contained the lovely “You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To”.
Another Porter tune, “Don’t Fence Me In” provided enjoyable moments in the 1944 film “Hollywood Canteen.” That same year, Porter’s “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye,” was heard on Broadway in the 1944 show, “Seven Lively Arts.” It would become Ella Fitzgerald’s favorite song of all time.
The amazing “Kiss Me Kate” opened on Broadway on December 30, 1948, starring Alfred Drake and Patricia Morison. The fabulous score included “Why Can’t You Behave”, “Wunderbar”, “So In Love”, “We Open In Venice”, “Too Darn Hot”, and “Brush Up Your Shakespeare”.
Hollywood, not to be outdone, followed with the movie version in 1953, starring Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel and Ann Miller — with a cameo appearance by one Alfred Viola, dressed in a strange costume and playing the guitar. When I asked Al why he had never told me about his bit part in the movie when I had heard all of his other stories many times over, he replied: “How could you tell it was me?” and Howard Keel. “Kiss Me Kate” is and was one of my favorite movies ever, followed closely by the 1956 film “High Society,” which would be one of Porter’s last projects.
The film stars Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm and Louis Armstrong as himself. Musicians appearing as part of Armstrong’s band included Edmond Hall (clarinet), Trummy Young (trombone), Billy Kyle (piano), Arvell Shaw (bass), and Barrett Deems (drums).
Notable not only for Grace Kelly’s last acting role before she became Princess of Monaco, and for being the first on-screen pairing of Sinatra and Crosby, it was also Porter’s first new film score in more than ten years. Noboby who has seen the film will ever forget the scenes and scoring of the classic “True Love,” “Well Did You Evah?” and “Now You Has Jazz,” a bonafide improvisational take on the interaction between singer and instrumentalists that has not been topped yet in a movie. Orchestrators Conrad Salinger and Nelson Riddle and bandleader Johnny Green must have had a lot of fun recording the soundtrack. Armstrong looked like he was having a deliciously time throughout, especially when he and the band launched a glib “High Society Calypso” in the movieland version of a band bus road trip to the Newport Jazz Festival, then in it’s debut infancy stage and the catalyst for this extraordinary romp.
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On Friday night we had friends over to watch the Oscar nominated animation “Loving Vincent”. I recommend it. A true labor of love, over 100 artists worked for several years to create an absolutely amazing film. Before I saw the film the first time (I’ve seen it twice), I had hope, but with reservations. I didn’t think it’d be great but I was more than satisfied, I was moved nearly to tears.
The film-makers Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman (both are credited as directors and writers) deserve a big thumbs up for creating a dynamic story line that is plausible in a historical context to tell the story of his life, using Vincent’s portraits and landscape paintings as the actors and scenes in the story. What a delight to see paintings I recognize drop into the film and start speaking and walking around.
Kobiela and Welchman, and all of the artists who worked on it, pulled off the painting style of Van Gogh magnificently. Van Gogh’s best work pulses with the life of the cosmos, (think Starry Night) whether he was painting trees, flowers, clouds or a face, the level of empathy was astonishing. Not merely describing movement, he absorbed what he saw when he was painting and he became an extension of it and it became a part of him.
The filmmakers did a brilliant job of taking advantage of how he painted, incorporating the movement of the paintbrush and paint into a driving force in the storyline, pulling us along. Taking a most logical next step: making those brush marks full of paint actually move, seems obvious now that they’ve done it. That they did it was such respect for Vincent and his art makes it a real, very loving tribute.
Loving Vincent can be seen on Amazon Prime. The film makes the case for Van Gogh having been shot accidentally by boys taunting him, rather than shooting himself, as the popular myth would have it. I heard that theory several years ago on a 60 Minutes interview with the authors of Van Gogh: The Life. Which I haven’t read, but, for what it’s worth I believe them.
I saw it in a very small theatre with about 10 people and loved it too.


On March 17th, 2023, the world lost a Hollywood icon, Lance Reddick. The star of hit shows like "The Wire" and "Fringe" passed away at the age of 62, leaving behind a legacy that will be remembered for generations to come. In this article, we'll take a look at the life and career of Lance Reddick, paying homage to his immense talent and the impact he had on the entertainment industry.
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My Oscar Dress Picks
I can hardly believe my 85th Academy Awards (A.K.A. – Oscars) invitation never arrived. I had a few dresses picked out just in case.
Oscar de la Renta/ Monique Lhuilllier / Gucci / Roland Mouret / Naeem Khan / Oscar de La Renta / Oscar de la Renta / Oscar de la Renta / Stella McCartney / Oscar de la Renta / Roberto Cavalli / Kaufmanfranco
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I look forward to my dress to room pairings for the Oscars. You can see past ones HERE.


Act One Scene One
- What is Lear saying in this excerpt? Is he being honest about his intentions here? Support your answer with evidence from the text.
He is asking his daughters to spell out their love for him, as he is about to divide his kingdom. His excerpt, or piece speech is about how he wants to give majority to one of his daughters however in front of the whole court they must deliver a speech on just how much they love their father. I believe he is being dishonest as he and everyone knows his youngest Cordelia was his favourite so he was already prepared to give it to her, however in a shock to his Lordship she refuses and declares what a selfish a stupid idea this is. In return she is banished and cut from the family. “Which of you shall we say doth love us most? That we our largest bounty may extend, Where nature doth with merit challenge.” this support his selfish and dishonesty. He just wants his daughters to sing his praises to the whole court and build his ego. He wants to enjoy being king without the responsibility, so his speech is filled with lies disguising this.
- List Lear’s reasons for wishing to divide up his kingdom.
The King wants to divide his kingdom because of his age, “To shake all cares and business from our age,” this meaning he is getting old and can no longer perform the duties required by a king. This also show us his character as selfish as deep down he just wants to be able to still be king yet just pass on his responsibility to someone else. His age is a disguising his selfish motive.
- What does Cordelia say in response to Lear’s question? How does this set her apart from her sisters?
Cordelia sister all flatter and lie to their father. Cordelia speaks the truth, and when speaking the truth that will always set you apart from others. “Unhappy I am, I cannot heave, My heart into your mouth. I love your Majesty According to my bond.” Basically saying she loves him for the fact she is his father and not for what he has done, she obviously doesn’t admire him as a person or a leader, she only sees him as her father and nothing more. At first we she she tries to say nothing, to protect her fathers image even though he is selfish, her father insists and she tells the truth making her father look stupid, so in rage from King Lear banishes her.
- Lear has a bad reaction to Cordelia’s response. What does he do? What personality trait is he displaying when he does this?
He responds ‘dump’ founded to her “nothing”. He expected to give her most of the kingdom due to her being the favourite. He responds by banishing her from the kingdom and from his family. He shows traits of evil, lack of respect, and his ego is so large he cannot take negative feedback, I suspect later on he will regret his rash decision to remove his own daughter and come to realise who he has really become.
- Kent attempts to reason with Lear. It does not work. What happens to Kent as a result of this conversation and how do you think this decision will impact Lear in the future?
Kent tries to reason with King Lear as any reasonable man would, as the king has just expelled one of his daughters for no good reason other than to maintain pride. Kent as a a result of this is also banished and force to leave. This I believe will also come back to haunt the king as Kent was a noble man and was an asset to the kingdom and just might later find out he needs his help.
- Explain what is being discussed between Regan and Goneril. How do they feel about their father? What personality traits of Lear’s stand out from this conversation? What personality traits of Regan and Goneril stand out in this conversation?
- Wipe thine eyes;
- An turn our impress’d lances in our eyes
- hat eye that told you so look’d but a-squint.
- Lend me a looking-glass;
- This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?
This shows us that King Lear’s eyesight has not really improved at all, even when his daughter dies he is still unable to make sense of reality, “Lend me a looking-glass;”, this is what he says, proving his sight has not improved. Edmund on the other has does improve, as he is on the sister’s side, but finally after being stabbed by his brother he realises what his has done is wrong and in his last moments realises and does the right thing, however, it is too late, Cordelia dies anyway. Any others who were on the evil side also realise their mistakes and in their dying, moments make the right call, however, everyone is too late, and only two people end up walking away alive, as everyone else is killed or kills themselves.


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Growing up in the entertainment industry meant spending lots of time on set. I would try and visit my siblings as often as possible. When I graduated high school, I was offered a “stand-In” position on the set of Full House. A “stand-in” is someone who fills in for an actor while they are in hair and makeup, wardrobe, or school for child actors. Since I am a petite 4″11′, I was able to have a very successful career as a stand-in and that career started on Full House.
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After 6 years, Full House ended their run and I moved to over to the show Home Improvement. I was hired to stand in for the boys and YES, Jonathan Taylor Thomas is super cute and super sweet!! I worked there for 4 years, with lots of commercials and movies in between. 20 years as a stand-in was a wonderful career.
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``Brad`` Zachery Ty Bryan
Time and me.
Lots of time passed and it wasn’t until recently that I was asked to be apart of the crew on a film in Chickamuga, Ga, “The Farmer and The Belle saving Santaland“. I was so excited to be on set again after so long. The lights, cameras, craft service, all the fun stuff that goes into making movie magic. This time around I was asked to be a set production assistant. It was great learning new skills, and I also had a small acting part playing a contestant in Santaland. This was a highlight for me as I got to wrestle piglets in a real pig pen. Mud, poop and everything in between… YUCK!!!!!
Thank you to the small community of Chickamuga, Ga and Camp New Dawn for your hospitality during production. My heart belongs on the farm.
I loved being a stand-in. I have met some wonderful cast and crew and my memories will never be forgotten. I am so thankful that I am venturing into bigger areas of entertainment, and I can’t wait to share what is on the horizon. ~ Bridgette


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