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Maxwell Anderson, the man and his plays
Barrett H. Clark
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The next year, Anderson again took the award for High Tor (). Other plays include Knickerbocker Holiday (), Key Largo (), Eve of St. Mark (), Joan of Lorraine (), Lost in the Stars (), Bad Seed (), and Both Your Houses () for which Anderson . Maxwell Anderson: A Research and Production Sourcebook The Life of Maxwell Anderson Dramatist in America: Letters of Maxwell Anderson Maxwell AndersonBibliography; Maxwell Anderson: The Man and His Plays Maxwell Anderson and the New York Stage Maxwell Anderson.
Maxwell Anderson ( ) was an award-winning American playwright and screenwriter. Best known for his Hollywood screen adaptations of his own plays including Key Largo, and Mary of Scotland, he was the most successful playwright of his time and most of his plays, including Mary of Scotland, enjoyed long runs on Broadway. A noted playwright who occasionally wrote directly for the screen, Maxwell Anderson also wrote original film scripts. His credits include the adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" (, with Del Andrews and George Abbott) and Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man" (); of his numerous plays adapted for the screen by others, "What Price Glory?".
He died at the age of 70 in Stamford, Connecticut, two days after suffering a stroke. He was cremated, with half of his ashes scattered at sea near his home and the other half buried at Anderson Cemetery, near his birthplace. During his lifetime, he wrote more than thirty plays, many of which were adapted for the screen and television. Maxwell Anderson died on Feb. 28, , two days after suffering a stroke. Anderson was truly one of the giants of the American theater, writing over 30 plays that were performed in Broadway theaters.
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Create Book\/a>, schema:CreativeWork\/a> ; \u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\n library. Maxwell Anderson, Writer: All Quiet on the Western Front. James Maxwell Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, on Decem to William Lincoln Anderson and Charlotte Perrimela (Stephenson) Anderson. The second child born to the couple, Anderson spent his formative years on his maternal grandmother's farm in Atlantic before the family moved to Andover, Ohio when he was.
Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, poet, and journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize in Drama infor Both Your Houses, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for both Winterset and High Tor.
Several of his plays were adapted into successful /5(12). After some years as a teacher and a journalist, Maxwell Anderson turned to drama inachieving his first success with What Price Glory. ina World War I comedy cowritten with Laurence Stallings.
During his long and successful career as a dramatist, Anderson produced historical dramas, the man and his plays book plays, musicals, fantasies, and a thriller. THE STORY: As told by Judith Crist in the New York Herald-Tribune; THE GOLDEN SIX is a colorful and cynical account of the four Caesars who ruled from 27 B.C.
to 54 A.D., stopping short of Nero The 'golden six' are the grandsons and step-grandsons. "High Tor" is a play by Maxwell Anderson (, 70). Twenty years after the original Broadway production of his play "High Tor", Anderson adapted the stage play into a television musical play with stage and film composer Arthur Schwartz providing the score.
Presented on CBS' Ford Star Jubilee () in a minute "color film" television special, transmitted electronically as a. More than thirty of his plays have been presented on Broadway. Many of the most successful, both with the public and with the critics, were verse tragedies.
In the light of these accomplishments, it is entirely fitting that studies of Anderson and his works should be undertaken. Maxwell Anderson was bom December IS,in Atlantic, Pennsylvania. Biography. Family. James Maxwell Anderson (Decem – Febru ) was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, he was the second of eight children of William Lincoln "Link" Anderson, a Baptist minister, and Charlotte Perrimela ('Premely') Stephenson, both of Scottish and Irish descent.
Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, poet, and journalist. He won a Pulitzer Prize in Drama infor Both Your Houses, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for both Winterset and High Tor. Several of his plays were adapted into successful /5(5).
Ma Maxwell Anderson Dr. Julia Marciari-Alexander is the Andrea B. and John H. Laporte Director of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.
In this episode she opens the director’s office door and shares insights about her career, the museum she directs, and her thoughts about a wide range of issues, from collecting to. THE LIFE OF MAXWELL ANDERSON. and Shivers certainly offers chunks of private-life detail--if little coherent study of the man or his work--in this hard-working but dullish and awkwardly overwritten biography.
the evaluation of the plays is spotty and the evocation of the show-biz milieu is thin. So, as a result, the personal material. Maxwell Anderson () was an award-winning American playwright and screenwriter.
Best known for his Hollywood screen adaptations of his own plays including Key Largo, and Mary of Scotland, he was the most successful playwright of his time and most of his plays, including Mary of Scotland, enjoyed long runs on Broadway.
Looking for books by Maxwell Anderson. See all books authored by Maxwell Anderson, including Bad Seed, and Famous American Plays Of The 's, and more on (James) Maxwell Anderson (15 December - 28 February ) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, author, poet, reporter and lyricist, and a founding member of The Playwrights' Company (which included, at various times, Maxwell Anderson, S.N.
Behrman, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sherwood, Sidney Howard, Roger L. Stevens, John F. Wharton, and Kurt Weill), and produced many notable plays.
Maxwell Anderson (), an American play wright noted for his verse dramas, tried to show men living by their beliefs even in a world where evil tends to dominate. Maxwell Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pa., on Dec.
15, Since his father, William, was a Baptist clergyman who changed parsonages frequently, Anderson attended 13 schools in. "^Barrett H. Clark, Maxwell Anderson, The Man and His Plays (New York, )* p.
* H 2Ibid., pp. 3-i|*. In spite of his unwillingness to talk about himself there are a few scanty pieces of information about Anderson's personal background. The son of a Baptist.
A career as a playwright happened by chance for Maxwell Anderson when John Howard Lawson invited him to the first reading of one of his plays. Anderson thought "If that's a play, I can write one." He began immediately writing White Desert, a tale set in verse in North Dakota (Anderson's former home) on the tragedy of obsessive jealousy.
Clark, Barrett H., Maxwell Anderson: The Man and His Plays, Samuel French, Inc.,p. This book outlines the structure and political influence of Political Action Committees. Gassner, John, "Introduction," in 20 Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre.
Once upon a time there was a playwright named Maxwell Anderson. From to19 of his plays wound up in Burns Mantle's annual ''Best Plays'' books - .The purpose of this thesis has been to study the dramatic methods evolved by Maxwell Anderson in his book of essays, Off Broadway, and their use in his plays in order to evaluate the playwright's contribution to the American theater.
To insure a thorough investigation of this problem, Anderson's early realistic dramas were also reviewed, and a survey of contemporary criticism on Maxwell.


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Continuing the series that started a long time ago with the end of this post.
7:00 Mike wake up and feels happy. He softly kisses his wife and wakes her up.
7:25 Mike wakes the kids by singing the theme from Barney.
7:30 Mike has made a three course breakfast for his family. It is delicious.
7:50 Mike helps the youngest kid with his homework.
8:15 Mike kisses his family good bye and asks them to have a glorious day.
8:20 Mike is alone and doesn't like the darkness of the house. He sings some Tina Turner to keep the scary thoughts away.
8:30 Mike takes a shower
8:35 Shower finnished. Mike looks into the mirror and starts to think about all the things that provoke him.
8:50 Not there yet
9:15 Not there yet
9:30 Mike feels like he is finally there. He goes out to the street and looks at a kid. The kid screams and runs for its life. Finally there, the death stare is on for today.
9:45 Mike leaves for work.
10:04 Mike stops at Starbucks. He walks in and stares at the employee until she gives him his usual.
10:10 The coffee was too sweet. Mike screams at her for a few minutes.
10:20 Mike gets stopped for speeding. He unleashes a verbal salvo at the officer and it ends with the officer booking himself for disturbance of the peace.
10:30 Mike arrives at JLA. All the players get angst attacks.
13:30 Meeting with Chris Osgood trying to explain why Ozzie won't play tomorrow either.
13:55 The meeting ends with Ozzie running out, crying like a baby.
14:00 Mike calls Kerry Fraser and screams to him for a few minutes.
14:15 Mike calls Gary Bettman. Gary pees his pants.
14:30 Mike and Kenny discuss the lineup.
15:00 Mike leaves the JLA.
15:20 Mike walks into a restaurant. Everyone else leaves. Mike gets a three course meal just by grunting and pointing at the menu.
16:00 Some guy cut Mike off on the way home. Mike cuts him off again and they stop on the side of the road. The guy starts yelling, but Mike just looks at him until he explodes.
16:15 Mike sees some teens smoking. He gives them a long and angry speech about the dangers of smoking. Sadly they get freaked out and runs away.
16:30 Mike tries to give some advice to some kids playing street hockey. They don't understand a word of his weird Canadian accent.
17:00 Mike comes home. He gets huge hugs from his kids.
18:30 Mike's wife come home. Mike has a large meal ready for her and the kids. It is fantastic.
19:30 The babysitter arrives. Mike spends 15 minutes saying good bye to his kids.
20:30 Mike and his wife watches the Opera. Mike thinks it is glorious.
22:30 They come home. Mike calls his mom and talks to her for an hour.
00:00 Mike and his wife goes to bed. Bet you want to hear more about that, but this is a hockey blog, not a porn blog.


One of the veteran movie actress who reigned through the 2000s was Rita Dominic. She was one of the most talented and active actress the Industry ever produced.
She bestrode the movie industry like a colossus. Nonetheless, Rita Dominic and some other colleagues were banned from acting.
Recently, she opened up to speak for the first time concerning what actually led to her ban and why Nollywood marketers clandestinely banned her from getting work.
In an interview with Chude, she was asked how she spent he 23 years in the movie industry and why she was banned.
“So let me tell you something, I don’t know if I’ve said this publicly. Many years ago we worked a lot with the marketers and they weren’t used to talking to management, they were used to easy access to us. So I started working with a manager who doubled up as my business partner Mildred because she manages my career as well and it was a challenge.” She Dominic.
“But I was bent on changing things at least for myself because I felt like we needed some sort of structure if we wanted this to go further or advance our career. We needed to start letting them understand that we have management. So obviously, they didn’t like it but they didn’t….. Let me put it this way. I think they gave me a silent ban without saying anything. I used to trickle down certain things that they would say, a few of them and I can understand,” said Dominic.


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Wow, I didn’t expect to enjoy so much the second episode of the original “Twilight Zone,” “One for the Angels” (1959), about a small-time pitchman trying to deflect Mr. Death. It’s a two-man show, and it’s the two actors (Ed Wynn and Murray Hamilton) who make the sale. Thanks again, Netflix.
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Ample of movies/TV shows have been shot in the UTs of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu so far, but a very few people are aware of the filming location of movies/TV shows in which it was used as a backdrop. When you’re visiting the district, ensure you explore the film tourism of the UTs of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu.
The following list explores the Film Tourism of the UTs of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu and showcases the filming locations of the Hindi, Gujarati, and Hollywood movies/TV shows which starred them:
1) Kai Po Che! (2013):
Diu has been featured in several films over the years. One of the popular films is the 2013 release “Kai Po Che!”. The movie’s popular song “Meethi Boliyan” was shot entirely at the Fort of Diu and its vicinity. The scene in which the main characters jump into the ocean from the fort wall was initially not in the script. However, the filmmakers added it upon witnessing the scenic beauty of the area.
2) Adaalat (TV show):
Two episodes of the TV show “Adaalat” (Hindi edition) starring Ronit Roy were based and shot in Daman. They were titled “KD in Daman”. Several locations such as Moti Daman Fort, Fort of Saint Jerome (Nani Daman) the churches, Nani Daman Jetty, and both the lighthouses were featured in the episodes.
3) Parched (2016):
The 2016 movie “Parched” is set in a rural area of Rajasthan. However, Diu’s Naida Caves were also featured in the movie.
4) Aakrosh (2010):
The song “Saude Baazi” from the 2010 film “Aakrosh”, starting Ajay Devgn, Bipasha Basu, and Akshaye Khanna was shot in Diu. Locations such as Zampa Gateway, Diu Fort, Khodidhar Beach, Panikotha Fort can be seen in the song.
5) Agneepath (2012):
The set for the fictional village “Mandwa” depicted in “Agneepath” (1990) was created in Goa. However, the filmmakers of the 2012 remake recreated it in Diu. The entire set for “Mandwa” was built near Khodidhar Beach, where the principal photography and major filming for the movie took place. The production team chose Diu for recreating “Mandwa” as it provided the authentic backdrop of a remote coastal area.
6) Love Ni Bhavai (Gujarati) (2017):
The song “Dhun Lagi” from the Gujarati movie “Love Ni Bhavai” was filmed in Diu. Various locations of Diu such as Diu Fort, Naida Caves, Ghoghla Beach, Nagoa Beach, Foreign Market, Sunset Point, etc. are featured in the song.
7) Mitron (2018):
Some of the scenes from “Sawarne Lage”, a song from the 2018 Bollywood release “Mitron”, were filmed in Diu. Locations such as Panikotha Fort, Khodidhar Beach and Diu Fort can be seen in the backdrop of the song.


It’s no secret. I have an undying love for the movie “RENT”. It took me a few viewings before I could get through the whole thing because my brain is like “Woop!” (your visual here is me quickly sliding my hand across the top of my head showing you that I have a short attention span/am slightly a ditz.) But, yes! This film is incredible, and I hope that some day I can see it performed live. Well, there are so many productions that I’d like to see live, but motion pictures are satisfying enough for now.
Back to “RENT”. I first saw this movie when I was staying with Chelsea back in ’07 when I spontaneously made a 45-minute trip into half an hour while extremely tired with two people I just met just so that I could break up with the assh*le slob I was dating at the time. Good times. Good times. No more of that insanity, though. I’ve got kids. Can’t be too crazy anymore. Anyway, that movie…it will always remind me of my girl, Chelsea, and starting to more responsibly become independent and breaking free of the metaphorical shackles and cage that were long ago placed by my then-a’hole dad.
But again…the movie itself is just amazing. The story. The music. The acting. I’m no critic and don’t really like going into reviewing things like songs and movies, so I’ll leave you with that. If you have never seen the movie (or the on-stage production, which I bet is possibly even more spectacular), I need you to. Because it’s great. That’s simply my reason.


A documentary experiment
Little Stars is an ongoing exploratory documentary project about Little Stars School, a "fee-free" school for underprivileged children in Varanasi, India. Started several years ago during multiple trips to Varanasi, India, Little Stars wishes to tell the story of its main characters through time, as the school develops and time tells its tale.
This 10 minutes piece filmed in 2010 in SD video introduces the school, several of the children and two of the main characters: Asha Pandey, Founder and Director, and Pierre Satjin, Administrator. The next round of filming will take place in early 2017.


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Alessandra Terni was born in Turin in 1967. She graduated from National Academy of Dramatic Arts "Silvio D'Amico" in Rome, and worked with directors and acting companies (such as Armand Delcamp, Martin D'Amico, Tiziana Bergamaschi, Teatro Stabile dell’Aquila, Quellicherestano acting company), in Italy and abroad, both as an actress and as a translator, director assistant, organizer. For more than ten years she has collaborated with the Academy of Dramatic Arts "Silvio D'Amico" as assistant to acting classes, assistant director and library supervisor; since 2002, she has held theatre courses and workshops for children and teenagers in collaboration with schools and cultural associations. She translated books from French for various publishers, such as La Confession d'un enfant du siècle by A. de Musset (Fazi) and Qu'est-ce que la pédagogie by Jean Piaget (Newton & Compton); she also translated plays as Ubu Roi by A. Jarry or Truculentus by Plautus (for the company Quellicherestano), Stratégie pour deux jambons of R. Cousse (directed by Martin D'Amico), Les fées ont soif of D. Boucher (directed by Tiziana Bergamaschi). Since 2007, she has been responsible for the translation and screen adaptation of documentaries, TV series and dramas for the dubbing company "Mix 86". She works as a narrator togheter with Italian writers and poets, and with organitazions as the Turin Book Fair. As an actress, she made several short films, debut works, music videos (such as Devo avere una casa per andare in giro per il mondo, Assalti Frontali), and had roles in several films as Volevo i pantaloni (directed by Maurizio Ponzi), Dove sei? Io sono qui (directed by Liliana Cavani), La famiglia Ricordi (directed by Mauro Bolognini). Between '93 and '94, she worked at the "Fund Pier Paolo Pasolini" of Rome, as assistant of the director Laura Betti.


In January of 1992 “Juice” hit theaters and in a about ninety minutes introduced the world-at-large to the acting talents of Tupac Shakur, established Ernest Dickerson as one of the most promising young filmmakers of his time, presented the grimy, pre-Giuliani “Rotten Apple” version of New York City to the rest of the country and created a perfect time capsule of early-90’s East Coast Hip-Hop.
“Juice” has not only stood the test of time but is held in the same esteem as “Boyz N The Hood” and “Menace II Society” as a classic representation of the period that also tells a timeless story. The story of Bishop, Q, Raheem and Steele getting pushed around and taking drastic measures to get some “juice” in their neighborhood could take place at nearly any point in history (the story resonates enough with young people that Soulja Boy was attempting to do a remake in 2011 … thankfully for everybody this didn’t happen), but Dickerson (Spike Lee’s former cinematographer) expertly captures the early 90’s NYC era to which the film is inextricably linked. From the classic soundtrack to the attention to detail in dialogue and wardrobe (bucket hats, Reebok Pumps, haircuts, etc.) the movie is simply the best long form time capsule of the era ever committed to film.
The movie captures Harlem at the height of the crack epidemic when the murder rate was at an all time high and NYC teenagers were viewed by the rest of the world as nihilistic, emotionless killing machines. This was the New York Jay-Z referenced in the line “The murder capital,where we murder for capital.” Where the movie really excels is putting stories behind the statistics and illustrating the thin line between being a productive citizen (Q) and a murderous psychopath (Bishop) and the decisions and circumstances that separate the two. In addition to having a compelling story the film is shot in a way that is almost magnetic in it’s ability to draw the viewer’s attention, the chase scenes are furious, the confrontations are intense and the club/DJ scenes are as good as anything in a big budget video. The acting is also first rate, in addition to casting 2pac in the career-defining role that would propel him to star in several other movies before his life was cut short in 1996 , “Juice” contains great performances by Omar Epps, Khalil Kain and Jermaine Hopkins in addition to early appearances by Oscar-caliber actors Queen Latifah and Samuel L. Jackson.
The movie’s authenticity is aided by a near perfect soundtrack. In addition to Hank Shocklee’s (of PE/Bomb Squad fame) compelling score the soundtrack not only offers some of the best music of early ’92, but also illustrates a unique time in Hip-Hop and in some ways was the changing of the guard from the 80’s to the 90’s. The soundtrack contains the last great tracks by golden era heroes Eric B. & Rakim (“Know The Ledge”) and Big Daddy Kane (“Nuff Respect”) and one of the last recorded performances of EPMD’s first run (“It’s Goin’ Down”). In addition to providing the last hurrah’s for some of the 80’s best it also provides an introduction to Naughty By Nature (“Uptown Anthem”), Cypress Hill (“Shoot ‘Em Up”) and of course 2pac, who would all go on to define the early 90’s.
Two decades after it’s theatrical release “Juice” remains as compelling as ever. With it’s gritty version of NYC, timeless story, thrilling cinematography, multiple career-defining performances and perfect soundtrack. “Juice” still has an incredible amount of Juice twenty years later.
-Angelo (Twitter: @Mr5thround)


Homeless boy and deaf mute man story
The film with the workshops of a man who calls himself OMELETO points to the different life values of a healthy young homeless man and a deaf-mute man who got a little lost. Don't expect a fairy tale epic. No fairy tale. It is a real story of today's world. Seemingly ordinary, but if you understand it, it can be magical, reassuring, enlightening, quiet ... A film from the dark streets of the big city ...
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If you keep a diary of gratitude, you will have a wonderful and rich life, no matter where you live and how much money you have in your bank account. With a diary of gratitude, it doesn't matter anymore. With a diary of gratitude, you will have more money than less. That's just the way it is.
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Yesterday I made one of my infrequent visits to the local multiplex cinema in Huddersfield to see the latest “sic-fi” film doing the rounds at the moment. I do not go very often these days because I seem to have lost interest in the filmmakers of today and also the sound in the theatres can be either muffled or too loud (or a combination of the two).
The film itself is called “Arrival” and without giving much away about the plot it has been summarised neatly by the Rottentomatoes website as “when mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team–lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams)–are brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers–and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.”
I had read no reviews of the film prior to viewing so had no idea of even the basic outline of the story. However, as a sci-fi enthusiast of over 50 years I thought I would give it a try. Although the story starts rather slowly, and it was at this point I thought I wasn’t going to enjoy it, I gradually got sucked in by the concept of the film and not least a brilliant performance by Amy Adams (shoe in for an Oscar nomination) whose voice is that of sanity and reason during the film.
If you are expecting “flash, bang, wallop of a Star Wars kind” you will be sadly disappointed. However, if you are into such films as 2001, A Space Odyssey, Solaris (the original version), Contact or the wonderful Ken Russell film Altered States then I suspect you will enjoy a wonderful cinematic experience.
I came away having enjoyed an excellent film, astutely directed, and with excellent performances from all concerned. One film critic has said it is “the thinking persons sic-fi” film, a comment with which I would concur.
It was also very positive to see a woman playing the lead role (Amy Adams) and who carries the film magnificently with her excellent performance. It is a film worth two hours of anyones time.


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When I heard that The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins was going to be a movie I was SO EXCITED! But as we’re getting closer, I’m feeling a little bit ambivalent about it.
There have been a lot of books into movies over the years. I don’t know if it’s just my current reading list or a coincidence, but a lot of the books I’ve read in the last few years have become movies. Unfortunately, I’ve been pretty disappointed in all of them. The one that I thought did it best, recently anyway, was Eat, Pray, Love. Even that one didn’t do the greatest job following the book, but the general gist of the story line was the same.
As a reader, when a book really resonates with me, I have a very clear movie of it in my head. In a lot of ways it’s disappointing to find out that my movie version didn’t match with someone else’s (or that it was just too expensive to make it!). But there are real contstraints of time and money when making a movie based on a book. And there is the visual element: everyone’s vision of what’s happening and what characters look like is somewhat personal, established by their own life experiences. It’s all about perspective.
The Hunger Games is a powerful book with some incredible imagery. It’s also incredibly disturbing and violent in some areas. I honestly don’t know how they are going to portray the horrors of the story without making a rated R movie.
What do you think? Which of your favorite books have become movies. Was it done well? If you’ve read The Hunger Games, are you looking forward to the movie?


donderdag 19 maart 2015
Today's Review: Cinderella
Finally, another review up!
Okay, so this movie serves us a most oldfashioned fairy tale imaginable and displays a shockingly conservative view on the role of women. Nobody will deny it. But if you can swallow that, it's indeed quite as magical a movie experience as it aims to be (and not even in obnoxious 3D, for a change!). I don't think the studio is excusing reverting to old social values, it just acknowledges a classic tale without feeling the need to utterly change it by updating it to appease a modern audience. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, as this movie proves much more enjoyable than similar recent rehashes of old glory like Maleficent and Alice in Wonderland, which were quite bland and forgetful despite making the female protagonists tough and independent. Both qualities are sorely lacking in the victimized Cinderella, I admit. But this movie seems to say 'Oh, the heck with it! Let's embrace such ridiculously backward gender patterns for a change and acknowledge our true classics as they used to be, not as they should be today!' If Disney meant to say explicitly that women are either weak willed victims or total bitches with this movie, you honestly think grand dames of cinema like Cate Blanchett and Helena Bonham Carter, let alone promising new faces like Lily James, Holliday Grainger or Sophie McShera, would voluntarily have signed up for this slap in the face of their sex? I think they just recognized the obviously outdated romantic plot for what it was and decided to run with it just to enjoy getting a chance to play such outrageous roles, so seldom seen today. And for the better, since if they occurred more often, that would indeed be suspicious and uncalled for. But it's not wrong to indulge in reactionary storytelling every once in a while, to appreciate just how much female roles have changed since the days these types of women were seen everywhere on the big screen.
Plus, the movie is at least a little modern in other regards. There's a black guy playing the captain of the royal guard in a court full of white folk. And him and the prince certainly seem like close chums. That wouldn't have happened in the original animated classic for sure. What a long way we've come!


Laughter is the best medicine
So i’ve been kind of down in the dumps lately and nothing has seemed to cheer me up until today. I spent most of my time today after class watching youtube videos. My favorite videos to watch are: Macel The Shell with Shoes On and it’s sequel. Marcel is a shell who wears shoes, he is directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp and his voice is performed by actress, comedienne, writer and 2009-2010 SNL cast member Jenny Slate. The short films were written by both Jenny and Dean and the videos have both become a huge hit on youtube. I suggest if you would like to smile and perhaps even laugh, to check them out!


Lani Harms is an actor/writer/comedian who is insanely pumped to be an actor on BoogieManja. Her late night variety show, Late Night with Lani, ran at the PIT Loft for 2 years and was featured multiple times in Time Out New York’s Best Events in Comedy. She’s written for Sketch Cram at UCB, has been featured in various videos on FunnyOrDie and has acted in short films for Columbia's MFA Film program. She studied theater performance at Fordham University and currently studies improv/sketch/characters at UCB.
She’s originally from Minneapolis and currently lives with her cat, RiRi. She would love to talk to you about either of those two things: www.laniharms.com/contact


Round 14 of the original Rocky movie is one of the greatest scenes in popular cinematic history. Listening to the song from that scene, The Final Bell, is still inspirational because it brings to mind a character that will not be beaten.
Rocky was the highest grossing film of 1976. It was nominated for 10 Oscars and won three, including Best Picture against heavy competition in 1977 (Network, Taxi Driver and All the President’s Men, films that have proven their worth over time, were also contenders that year). But Rocky deserved to get it. Sylvester Stallone is one of only three people in history to be nominated for both Best Actor and Best Writing in the same year. The other two were Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles. More than 40 years later the emotional impact of Rocky is still there.
Rocky is great and this particular scene it great because we still feel it and we still believe it. We believe in the ferocity of Apollo’s punches. We believe that Rocky is defeated. He looks defeated. He should be defeated. He has been beaten to a bloody pulp by the world champion for 14 punishing rounds. “What is keeping him up? He can’t even get his gloves up to protect his face,” says the incredulous announcers. And Sylvester Stallone looks utterly fatigued. Rocky is beaten up, but he is not beaten.
When he knocks Rocky down in the middle of round 14 Apollo thinks he has won. His arms are lifted above his head in triumph. No one would blame Rocky for giving up. He should stay down. His coach is telling him to stay down, but he struggles to his feet. And when Rocky gets up Carl Weathers shows in a millisecond of great acting the feeling of despair in fighting a man that will not be beaten.
Rocky is swaying, but he signals that he is ready for more. Apollo shakes his head in disbelief. In the final seconds of round 14 Rocky gets in some solid punches. He hurts Apollo and comes back to win final round. Rocky lost 14 rounds, but he wins round 15. Apollo, the champion, is out on his feet. Just a few more seconds… In the end, Rocky winds up losing the overall fight, but he accomplishes his goal of going the distance with Creed. And we all know that if there had been one more round Rocky would have won.
I believe that our lives can be like that. We can experience defeat and come back. We can be down, but not out. Last year I had a Round 14. It was one of the most difficult years of my life. I experienced severe challenges personally, physically, financially, emotionally and professionally. I will share more about what I have learned through those trying times in future post. But suffice it to say that this year I’m back for more.
Here’s hoping this year is round 15.


Comedy, Controversy, and History Featured in New Play
Individuals of all political persuasions invoke the “Founding Fathers” to justify their positions – but have you ever wondered what the Founding Fathers themselves would think?
That’s the question at the heart of Ben Franklin & Baron von Steuben vs. the Paine County School Board, the latest play from TAPIT/new works Ensemble Theater opening Friday,
May 6 and running through Saturday, May 21 at TAPIT/new works Theater, 1957 Winnebago Street on Madison’s east side.
The play is inspired by a little-known historical fact – Baron von Steuben, the Revolutionary War hero credited with transforming the Continental Army into a force capable of beating the British, was a gay man. When a history teacher in the fictitious Paine County School District teaches this, and conservative school board members get wind of it, the stage is set for dramatic confrontation.
All this proves a bit much for Franklin and von Steuben, who’ve been observing the action from the Great Beyond. They decide to risk intervening in contemporary affairs to set the record straight, successfully transforming controversy into comedy and demonstrating that even if history doesn’t repeat itself, it will still try almost anything to get your attention.
Outreach sessions, combining excerpts of the performance with facilitated discussions, will give students from West High School, LaFollette High School, Whitehorse Middle School, O’Keefe Middle School, and Wright Middle School an in-depth and up-close experience with both the performing arts and history.
Written by Danielle Dresden, Ben Franklin & Baron von Steuben vs. the Paine County School Board is directed by Stephen F. Murray and performed by Francisco Torres, Krystal Lonsdale, Liz Light, Issac Brieske, Donna Peckett, and Dresden.
Peckett and Dresden, TAPIT/new works’ producing artistic directors, will play the parts of von Steuben and Ben Franklin in drag. Stage manager Emily Morrison-Weeks, costume designer Rebecca Sites, lighting designer Patricia Micetic, and graphic artist Michael Duffy round out the production staff.
Performances are May 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $20 for general audiences and $17 for students. Tickets are available at brownpapertickets.com. All performances are at the fully accessible studio theater, TAPIT/new works, 1957 Winnebago Street. Contact TAPIT/new works Ensemble Theater, 608.244.2938, email@example.com for more information.
This production is supported, in part, by the New Harvest Foundation; the Wisconsin Arts Board, with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts; DANE ARTS; the Neil Allen Peckett Memorial Fund of TAPIT/new works.


The first season of Yellowstone was broadcast on Paramount Network in June 2018, followed by the second season in September 2018. Producers of ‘The Walking Dead’ announced in February 2022 that the program would be updated for the fifth season, which will be broadcast in 2023. According to insiders, the new season will be released in two parts, the first being the premiere and the second half of the season. You can see the cast of Yellowstone Season 5 below.
Yellowstone Season 5
Yellowstone was a huge international success, even though it entered its fifth season. Nielsen’s reviews show that the end of the series’ fourth season, airing on Paramount Network in January 2022, surpassed all previous ratings on the show, making it the most watched episode since then.
So it’s no surprise that Paramount is planning a much longer fifth season than the usual 10 seasons. The first episode of the fifth season will be broadcast this summer. The fifth episode follows this fall.
Yellowstone Season 5 Release Date
The second half of Yellowstone Season 5 will air in the second half of 2022. Let’s look at the Duttons through Prohibition and the Great Depression in the final spinoff. Each episode of Season 5 will be presented in two parts, with 14 episodes.
In the summer of 2022, Season 5 will air seven episodes, and the second part will follow later. According to various sources, Yellowstone Season 5 will release new episodes in late summer or early fall, as production is likely to begin in May.
However, the release date has not been officially announced. In the season 4 finale, Jamie Dutton (Wes Bentley) is seen killing his biological father, Garrett Randall (Will Patton), in the final scene.
The plot of the 5th season of Yellowstone
While this may seem like a brief look at the life of a ranch manager, the story is much more complicated. Throughout the film, John Dutton (Costner) has to avoid various attempts to push him and his family out of their country or invade the boundaries of what is probably America’s largest living ranch. With the involvement of foreign politicians and the involvement of his children, Beth (Kelly Reilly), Kayce (Luke Grimes) and Jamie (Wes Bentley), things can often get more complicated than John expected.
Now that he is running for governor, the relationship between the younger generations of the Dutton family has reached its lowest point. Kayce, on the other hand, planned his course by participating in an initiative for his wife’s Mo tribe. Between that and Beth’s intricate manipulation of Jamie and John’s political ambitions, Yellowstone was exciting last season and we have all the information you need. Please wear your best shoes as it is time to confuse.
Yellowstone is an American drama television series created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson, which aired on Paramount Network on June 20, 2018. It was produced by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson. Kevin Costner, Wes Bentley, Kelly Reilly, Luke Grimes, Cole Hauser and Gil Birmingham are among the actors in the series.
The war between the central cattle farm, the Indian reservation and real estate developers is the focus of the series, which takes place in the American West. The fourth season begins on November 7, 2021 with the broadcast of the first episode. The series is being edited for the fifth season in 2022, which will be divided into two episodes of seven episodes. The season will air in 2022.


Thursday, February 18, 2016
How to be Single (movie review)
When I saw the posters up of this movie I wanted to go. I enjoy Rebel Wilson and couldn't wait to see it. Little did I know I would actually be accompanied by my husband to this chick flick.
How to be Single runs for 1 hour and 50 minutes with an R rating. A show stopping cast to include Rebel Wilson, Dakota Johnson, Leslie Mann and Alison Brie. All four women make their own statement in the movie.
This movie follows all the women on different paths of their declared independence, desperately seeking, career woman and happily single. Some moments are funny than others. Good times just hanging with your girlfriend. Discovering a new place with a new found friend.
This movie allows us to be envious of the single ladies doing there thing as well as appreciate our married days. Not all days are good. Noone likes to be dumped, or go through a variety of men to find the right one or not find one at all. However this movie brings light to make the most of what you have. Take full advantage of the present time; no matter what part of life your in.
Some points in the movie seemed pointless and could have been left out but I did appreciate the follow through from aspirations to the overall idea that it is ok to be single. No pressure, no stress. Living single, being single has its benefits just like anything else.
I enjoyed this movie and might even view it again when it's made available on dvd. This movie does follow through with laughs as promised and it definitely made a nice chick flick for the Valentine's Day weekend.


After 3 years of much anticipation, the sequel to Joss Whedon’s The Avengers is finally out! The various movie trailers (especially the one featuring the awesome Hulkbuster) which I’ve watched countless times already have definitely got me hyped up for it. However, this may have caused me to enjoy the movie a little less than I did; after all, I did walk in with extremely high, and hence, unrealistic expectations.
In the opening scene the Avengers team swoops in for a raid. Lots of fighting and action all around, explosions almost everywhere. Age of Ultron takes no prisoners, kick-starting the movie with a bang.
The movie plays around with the idea of a constant switching of alliances. Usually, the Avengers would be working as a unit to complete a mission, such as they did in the first movie or even the first scene. But in this movie, a sense of Hydra vs SHIELD results in two opposing views developing within and potentially splitting the Avengers’ ranks. While not exactly being a terrible idea (actually, I thought it was an amazing idea!) it does cause quite a bit of confusion and makes keeping track of the different characters’ intentions unnecessarily difficult to follow.
The scene with the Hulkbuster is at the top of my list. I mean, how often do you see the Hulk being challenged to one-on-one combat? Despite the promise of an all-macho display of brawn and carnage, the scene is also really amusing in the way it does when two muscle-bound meatheads get together to beat each other’s brains out.
As with every Marvel movie to date, the use of humour in this movie is spot-on. While the scene in which each of the male Avengers hilariously take turns to lift Thor’s hammer has been in the public domain for months as a teaser trailer, it is just a warm up for another scene which, although equally comical, has lots of significance to subsequent events in the movie. In setting up and foreshadowing plot details, I feel that the sequel has more to offer when it comes to the aptness of the humour.
However, when it comes to the closing scene, I found that the original had a way more satisfying ending. Although both movies end in a similar fashion, there was less ‘What the..?’ and ‘Huh, that’s it?’ at the end of the first movie. The closure of Avengers: Age of Ultron, in contrast, feels a little less complete and a little too abrupt [it’s probably suffering from middle-movie syndrome. Ed.].
I love the choreography of the fight scenes. While each member of the Avengers has their own unique fighting style, they complement each other really well, such as Thor and Captain America’s combo attack. I won’t elaborate any further, ‘cos, y’know, spoilers.
On the whole, Age of Ultron is a thoroughly enjoyable movie that is well worth the price of admission. I’m no movie expert but I’ll give it a strong 7 out of 10 anyway. So, if you’re looking for a movie to watch this weekend that is full of action and humour, buy yourself a ticket to the Avengers: Age of Ultron… and hail Hydra!


The Flicker of Projected Light
In recent years, Academy Award-nominated documentary maker Sam Green has grown increasingly interested in cinema as an ephemeral practice. Going to the movies, writes Rebecca Solnit, “which was once a great banquet in a dream palace is now often a snack devoured absentmindedly in isolation.” Inspired by the utopian qualities and evanescence of cinema, Green has created a form he calls “live documentary,” a mashup of film and performance. No two screenings are alike, and the films are never fixed, never to be watched on Youtube or streamed on Netflix.
With The Flicker of Projected Light, Green will create a custom cinematic experience for the buyer. Green and the buyer will enter into an extended conversation over email that will lead to a screening. Green will travel to a city of the buyer’s choice (within the continental United States) and create a unique and ephemeral cinematic experience—it could be a film projected at a massive scale on the side of a building, or a backyard 16mm screening on fog, or a film viewed on a laptop while traversing the city in a taxi. Whatever form the screening takes, the experience will reach for the sublime and aims to linger in the buyer’s thoughts for some time after. The screening will be for the buyer and one guest only and will not be documented in any way other than that the buyer will receive a framed certificate stating that he or she is the owner of the memory of the experience.
This is an edition of 1. This work is only available within the continental United States.


Really, that's all I can think to say. Last night, I went to see Serenity, the Joss Whedon movie that was made as a part of his late lamented Firefly TV series.
I've known that it was going be be heart wrenching for a while, one of my friends got to see it in a sneak preview in late May. But somehow, amazing actually, she didn't give me a spoiler. I totally would have broken.
I usually attach to characters, and am completely broken when characters I love die. When I watched it, I completely didn't react, it wasn't real. Until later, and then it was.
Despite the heartbreak, the movie was perfect, basically. I have a few complaints. Like, why there wasn't more Chinese spoken. (One premise, is that humanity was united by an anglo-sino alliance, so the characters pepper their speech with chinese phrases, much like I use yiddish.) Why did you have to do it Joss, why?
Other than that... amazing. I really think that it was a pretty damn perfect job with the movie. I don't know what more to say, so there.


Today’s Tea: Tower of London
Oh, The 10th Kingdom, you odd, endlessly quotable, magnificent beast. When the miniseries aired in 2000, I was immediately obsessed. An adventure story that takes place in a world where the fairy tales we know are part of history plus a fantastically weird love story? And Dianne Wiest plays the bad guy? Um, yes please.
A predecessor to Once Upon a Time, the fairy tale references are sprinkled throughout the ten hour (!) miniseries. While the plot draws a lot of inspiration from Snow White there are nods to a multitude of other fairy tales from Cinderella to Rumpelstiltskin.
The 10th Kingdom follows the story of Virginia and her father from their home in New York to the magical ten kingdoms where they are tasked to help a prince regain his throne from his wicked stepmother. There are trolls, curses, really awkward “pop culture” references and most importantly, Wolf. Wolf is my favorite part of The 10th Kingdom. He’s a wonderfully weird character, who acts as both Virginia’s guide and her love interest. He also has some of the best lines in the miniseries, including his occasional exclamation of “huff, puff!” Did I mention he’s played by Scott Cohen, who in my humbles, is not so terrible to look at.
Though parts of The 10th Kingdom are dated, the mini-series is pretty darn fun to watch. If anything, you’ll be able to incorporate some fun fairy tale-esque catchphrases into your every day vocabulary. Huff, puff.


|What's going on in Mr. Solarz' Class?||
Once we finished our book, we made 3 over dramatic videos that were all from scenes in our book. (NOTE!!! THESE ARE VERY OVER-DRAMATIC! MIGHT WANT TO TURN DOWN THE VOLUME!) Here they are:
This is the first video we made where we were acting out the dinner scene with Rick, Steve, and Steve's mom.
This is the 2nd video we made. This is the scene where we were pretending to be attacked by Nate, the bully in the Brixton Brothers.
This is the final video we made where we were acting out the scene where Rick leaves Steve and Dana his car keys, and followed the B. Syndicate.


[…] The standard version of the Omega Seamaster Diver 300M 60 Years Of James Bond watch features a design that aBlogtoWatch describes as, “a blend between the original Omega Seamaster Diver 300M that appeared in GoldenEye and the latest edition from No Time To Die.” In other words, it’s a not an exact recreation of the piece that Brosnan wore in GoldenEye, but incorporates elements from several watches featured in various Bond films. On the front, the only hint that this watch is in any way Bond themed is the number 60 appearing at top of the dial, where there is normally a triangle.
It’s only when you flip the watch over that its Bond theming is far more apparent. The caseback features a sapphire glass window revealing an animation recreating the iconic opening of Bond films where the silhouetted character walks on screen as seen through the barrel of a gun. But there’s no LCD or OLED screens here. The Seamaster Diver 300M is a purely mechanical timepiece, so to create the animation, Omega leveraged the moiré effect where interference patterns from spiral patterns on spinning discs reveal the sequence of a simple four-frame animation of Bond walking in. And because the animation mechanism is tied to the watch’s moving second-hand, it perpetually plays in a loop as long as the watch has power and is keeping time.
It’s a fun design element not only because of how subtly it’s executed, but also how it leverages what makes traditional timepieces appealing to many collectors: the complicated mechanics inside that make them work. Unfortunately, with a $7,600 price tag, the Seamaster Diver 300M 60 Years Of James Bond is not really affordable for most Bond fans.


Jesse hails from Canada with a wide resume covering a variety of work across Cirque Du Soleil, Disney, Cameron Mackintosh Ltd., Mirvish Productions, Momix, Prime Video, Opera Philadelphia, RWS Entertainment Group, and Turner Classic Movies. On Broadway, Jesse was the associate choreographer to Bob Avian for the Tony nominated revival of Miss Saigon and staged the subsequent North American tour and Austrian companies. Jesse is also the Associate Musical Stager for the North American tour of Les Misérables and will stage the upcoming South Korean production. His work has been produced regionally at Theatre Calgary, Ogunquit Playhouse, The 5th Avenue Theatre, The Ordway, Cape Playhouse, and the Berkshire Theatre Festival among others. His production of Spamalot is currently running through November 2023 at The Stratford Festival of Canada. Jesse is thrilled to help bring Water for Elephants to life. Many thanks to his parents, Les and Roberta Robb, for their unwavering support.


Those of you who've followed my blog for a while will know I'm involved in an independent film 'Jet Slade', playing the lead role of Jet, a highly trained agent who must track down a team of assassins targeting her team.
Work on the film is progressing at a steady pace, and co-ordinating such a big project around all the cast and crew involves a huge amount of time, effort and organisation. But I'm happy to say today I have a promo clip to share with you... from one of my fight scenes!
How much did I love filming this scene with fellow actor Chris?!
Jet looks bad ass - don't mess!
I'm not a martial artist, and had to learn all these moves from scratch. But this is where I really appreciated the training and body conditioning I'd done for The Wag Doll Protocol, my fitness regime. It meant I had the strength and co-ordination to concentrate solely on the technique, and be fit enough to do the moves over and over again in rehearsals and on set without getting tired.
I can't stress enough how preparation for a role like this is so important to avoid injury and ...well, I'll just admit it, I just love training and learning new things!


Among a small village of survivors in an isolated weapons facility, a reluctant young woman must decide how to keep her loved ones safe when she unwittingly finds the key that may change the course of Earth’s future.
The Wake is a 5-season long miniseries designed for online distribution. It’s epic scale with sci-fi intrigue and gritty, first-person drama. As technology advances by leaps and bounds each year, epic genre television is no longer solely the property of established studios and networks. The Wake is proof that thoughtful, dramatic, and polished looking programming can come from the hands of independent content producers.
The story of Alan Cartwright, a distinguished stage magician, whose wife and stage partner of 40 years has died. Alone and grieving, Alan can no longer bring himself to perform, and begins cutting himself off from a world that he no longer cares about. Then he meets Mikey Taylor, a shy young boy from next door who desperately wants to learn the secret art of illusion. It is through this friendship that Alan begins to realize that he still may have a reason to believe in magic.
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A fake movie trailer made by a group of Columbia College Chicago film students on a whim, in less than a week, without a budget.
“It’ll have you locking your doors and blocking off your chimney this Christmas Eve!”BloodyDisgusting.com


|France in American film, America in French film|
|The two countries most associated with the birth of cinema are France and the United States.|
|The American Library in Paris | Grant Rosenberg|
Though there were inventions and inventors along the way from Germany and Britain with their variations on film projection, it was Thomas Edison in the U.S. and the Lumières brothers in France who established the building blocks for what has come to be the film industry. The first projection of a film for a paying public was in Paris on December 28th, 1895 in the Grand Café, next to the Opéra Garnier.
The industries in Paris and Hollywood continued apace over the decades that followed, as fictional films became a major pastime and France and French culture a major subject for American movies. In the teens and twenties, Hollywood produced countless silent films on its back lots based on French classic books and history. J. Gordon Edwards, many of whose 54 films have no surviving copies, took on adaptations of books such as Alexandre Dumas fils’s La Dame aux Camélias (for his 1917 film Camille), and the same year also made not only the film Madame du Barry, based on two novels by Dumas père father, about the famous mistress of King Louis XV, but also The Darling of Paris, based on Victor Hugo’s novel Notre Dame de Paris. Frank Lloyd made a film of the Hugo novel Les Miserables the following year. This period featured a cluster of remakes as well—only three years later there was another version of Camille, this time starring Rudolph Valentino.
As time and technology advanced and the studios’ film budgets grew, American films about France began to shoot on location in the country, particularly after World War II. Some films, even iconic ones like Vincente Minnelli’s An American in Paris (1951)and Gigi (1958) and Billy Wilder’s Irma La Douce (1963), only included a few exterior shots in France. Others, such as Stanley Donen’s Charade (1963) and Otto Preminger’s 1958 adaptation of the landmark Françoise Sagan book Bonjour Tristesse, were largely or entirely filmed on location, while featuring mostly or exclusively English dialogue.
Some American writers or studios have set films in France as a way to explore issues that were possibly controversial in the U.S. One example is Martin Ritt’s Paris Blues (1961), with Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier. Set in the Paris jazz scene made popular after World War II, it explores how African-American musicians flocked to Paris, where they could flourish in music without the bitter racism they faced in the U.S. at the time. The film, in addition to its two marquee stars, also featured Joanne Woodward, Dianne Carroll and Louis Armstrong, and was shot entirely in Paris.
Films like Last Tango in Paris, made by Italian Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando, contributed to the arthouse image of Paris as more than just a postcard vision of romance, but more in keeping with the atmosphere created by cineastes like Jean-Pierre Melville and other filmmakers’ visions of a brooding, at times desolate city. The infamous mostly-English-language film, rated X upon its release in 1972, has no shots of any famous landmarks (indeed, most of the film takes place in Passy, within walking distance of a deliberately never-shown Eiffel Tower).
Sophia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette, shot in English, was the first film to have extensive access to the interior of the Palace of Versailles. (A 1938 film of the same name was given partial access to the grounds). Coppola’s film, with Kirsten Dunst in the title role, uses contemporary pop music on its soundtrack and a decidedly modern sensibility despite the period surroundings.
In recent years American films have continued the tradition of presenting France as a romantic, exotic place in thrillers (such as The Bourne Identity) or idyllic tourist attraction. Lawrence Kasdan’s French Kiss and Billy Crystal’s Forget Paris (both 1995) present an American tourist’s vision of the French capital, and Nora Ephron’s Julie and Julia (2009), which partially recounts cooking personality Julia Child’s experience in post-war Paris, was shot in the city and presents both the city and its cuisine exquisitely.
While an increasing number of French actors (Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard, Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Amalric and Mathieu Kassovitz) are finding fortune in Hollywood like the Maurice Chevaliers, Charles Boyers and Leslie Carons of yesteryear, French films set in the U.S. are rare. Some French filmmakers, usually genre directors, make American films for American studios, but they are films in English. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, for example, in between his singular, very stylistic French films like Delicatessen and Amelie, made a fourth film in the Alien franchise. Luc Besson, a filmmaker and producer often scorned as “too American” by French critics for his Hollywood-style action films, has made several successful English-language blockbusters like The Professional and The Fifth Element. He is presently overseeing the construction of a full studio in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, which will be France’s first large-scale studio with soundstages and back lots. The lack of these facilities until now has restricted the possibilities for French filmmakers wanting to make films that necessitate elaborately-built sets of American locales.
However, there are examples: Chicago has served as the location for two French films—Just Visiting, a sequel to the popular Les Visiteurs series about time-traveling Gauls, starring Christian Clavier and Jean Reno, and Crime Spree, a caper movie starring major French figures Gerard Depardieu and singers Johnny Hallyday and Renaud, as well as Harvey Keitel.
The 2009 film Lucky Luke, from the immensely popular French comic book series, features Calamity Jane, Billy the Kid and other assorted American-style cowboys. However, it was filmed in Argentina. Americans might find it strange, sitting down for a Western with all its tropes and familiar imagery, to see legendary American outlaws in a saloon conversing in French.
Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline in the movie French Kiss
Merryl Streep going to the market in the movie Julie and Julia


Jessica Hayes after discovering her boyfriend, Ryan, had cheated on her and her father humiliated her in front of a load of people fled to Cleveland to live with her grandmother. After four years and the past still not completely behind her she has to return to Lexington as her father is dying. Once there she realises you can't run from your past, especially when there's love thrown into the mix.
This was an interesting read. Although it starts off pretty slow it picks up speed quickly leaving you not only wanting more but keen to find out what will happen next. There were some grammatical errors but they weren't very noticeable and were few and far between.
I loved the characters, especially Ryan and Jessica. I couldn't get enough of them and was rooting for them from the start. I love a feisty but sweet heroine and Jessica was definitely that - more so after a few tequilas. Ryan just sounded like a hunk. Their turbulent relationship the moment Jessica arrived back in town was rocky to say the least. Jessica avoided him so the past could remain hidden and he avoided her for his own reasons. It's not until he eventually tells her how the past four years has affected him that she realises she wasn't the only one hurting. Their love story was brilliant, sometimes cheesy, but brilliant. The supporting characters were great. The friends of both protagonists were supportive through and through.
The story once it really got started was one that kept you hooked and wanting to turn the page, even if it was just to find out that it got better for either protagonists. You were definitely left guessing - cheesy it might have been but it wasn't generic.


Back in February 2009 Universal bought the movie rights to Candy Land, the popular racing board game by Hasbro. Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder) was then hired to write a script for the film. And Director Kevin Lima (Enchanted) was set to helm the project. But it's now 2011, and it seems the project has fallen into development limbo. Been searching around, and haven't found any update.
For those who don't know the game Candy Land: players race around a board full of colored squares in order to reach the Candy Castle and King of Kandy. To better understand, take a look that 1980s commercial:
I used to play Candy Land when I was a kid and I'd be glad to go watch a movie adaptation of the game. Hoping the project hasn't been canceled.
Anyway, more details about the movie Candy Land soon!
Update - May 24, 2011 - The Candy Land is back on track, with two new scriptwriters, Glenn Berger, and Jonathan Aibel:


Your Guide to Feel Beautiful, a season of dramatic hair makeovers
These international celebs are breaking the internet with their striking new hairstyles. Here’s a low-down on their changed appearances.
Kim Kardashian Kim Kardashian knows how to grab attention. Be it by shedding clothes, flaunting her ample assets or altering her hairdos. The normally dark-haired reality star stunned everyone by stepping out with a platinum blond bob. Fans were quick to point out that she now resembled Tom Felton aka Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter film series.
Jared Leto Known for undergoing dramatic transformation for his film roles, Jared Leto again took his fans by surprise by shaving his beard, chopping his enviable long locks and dyeing his hair platinum blond for his role (Joker) in Suicide Squad. The makeover has garnered a huge response, with many finding it similar to Karl Lagerfeld’s look.
Chris Hemsworth Aussie hunk Chris Hemsworth chopped off his shaggy blond locks after years and opted for a buzz cut recently. The actor shed his Thor image and told the media that he can now ‘wake up and roll with the day’. He reasoned, “I needed a trim. I have had long hair for like six years. And I got sick of it. Anyone who has long hair knows it takes a lot of work.”
Dev Patel While most have gone shorter and lighter, Dev has gone the other way. The actor is no more the lanky, clean-shaven guy he used to be. He now sports a beard and significantly longer unkempt hair. The scruffy look has upped his hotness quotient for sure. When asked, he told us, “It’s a funny thing when people react differently, when you transform yourself from role to role. I guess I am maturing.”
Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Johansson, who has just become a mom, makes the razed undercut Mohawk look way classier than Miley Cyrus’ famous hairdo.


I was wondering what would two woman on a date do together? well as i was browsing through the internet i found this site called lesbian dating, read trough a few profiles and found out some very interesting and exciting stuff.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
Ummm...BoredOnce again, i've got time to kill before class. I figured I would take this time to tell you all about Batman Begins, because it is a damn good movie; the best out of all the Batman movies ever made i would say. They could not have picked at better guy to play batman. Not only is christian bale hot, but he is a damn good actor too. Cinematography was great, and the FX weren't overdone at all. This totally beats the cartoony style of the previous batman, with lame villains and whatnot. The villain in this one was actually believable!! The evil plot in this movie is a bit inconcievable...but if you can get past that it's not so bad. It's a superhero movie, an inconcievable plot is to be expected. Oh, and where is batman without the batmobile. This thing is a sexy beast! Anyways, go see Batman Begins...or I will come after you in my electric wheelchair....Ciao!


Staging War Horse Exhibition
Staging War Horse is a new exhibition which, for the first time, tells the full behind-the-scenes story of the creation of War Horse. It takes visitors through each stage of the production process in detail using designs, costume, models, puppets and film.
From the earliest rehearsal images, reviews from the very first press night, technical drawings and interviews with the creative team, to shadow puppetry activities, costume displays and Handspring puppets flown in specially from South Africa.
In October 2007 War Horse had its first performance in the Olivier Theatre, the culmination of a process that began nearly two years before, involving every production department in the National Theatre and a ground breaking collaboration with the Handspring Puppet Company. Since that opening night the play has gone on to become an international success - this unique (and free) exhibition charts the journey of the production from the first early workshops.


Thanks to this movie, you can start praising it before the year-end lists drop and then say “I told you so”.
Are you there god? it’s me margaret… what can one say? This is a beautiful, very beautiful movie. One of the best movies I’ve seen so far in 2023. When the year ends, it seems certain that it will be on the “best movies of the year” lists. The production will not return empty-handed from the award ceremonies. The story of 11-year-old Margaret is warm, fun and sincere.
Adapted from Judy Blume’s 1970 novel of the same name, the film is a project whose script was written by author Blume and the director of the film, Kelly Fremon Craig. The production, which is director Craig’s second feature film, tells the story of a young girl (this time at a younger age) trying to cope with the signs of socialization and growth in the transition to adolescence, just like in the director’s first film. I can describe the movie as follows; It’s better than Licorice Pizza, produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, one of last year’s quality productions. because it is more concrete, more entertaining and more sincere than that movie.
Let’s write the rest of the article under the title of spoiler since it contains details about the story;
Warning: Contains spoilers beyond this point.
No matter where the child in question lives, “moving” is always a cause for distress for children. Your house and room will change, your neighborhood will change, your school will change, and most importantly, even your circle of friends will “necessarily” change. We all know very well that the bonds of friendship established with a child’s heart are unlike anything else. You think that you will remain friends with the person you were friends with at that time until you die. Therefore, having to leave is a heartbreaking experience for every child. Like little Chihiro in the great master Hayao Miyazaki’s 2001 masterpiece Spirited Away, Margaret is in a similar unhappiness.
11-year-old Margaret, who has to move from New York to New Jersey due to her father’s job, becomes friends with Nancy, who breaks into her new house. Margaret, who also met Nancy’s brother and whose heart fluttered towards him, has a different habit. Margaret does not keep a diary, instead of keeping a diary, she talks to God about whatever she experienced that day and pours out her inner thoughts to God. He realizes this as a dialogue and thinks that God is listening to him. Therefore, we understand Margaret’s feelings in every event she experiences not only through her facial expressions and gestures, but also through her daily God monologue.
Speaking of keeping a diary, let’s remember the 2001 movie Bridget Jones’s Diary. The diary kept by adult Bridget was very popular at the time, especially among female audiences. Margaret in this movie is like Bridget Jones entering puberty. Of course, as an adult woman, Bridget has to deal with bigger problems.
Margaret, the only child of a Jewish father and a Christian mother, is caught between these two religions. She sometimes participates in religious rituals in the Jewish synagogue and sometimes sings with Christians in the chapel. However, she is undecided about which of the two religions she should choose. Since his family leaves the choice up to him, he does not confide in his family about his choice of religion. When a child tries to find the religion he thinks he belongs to, we immediately think of Ang Lee’s 2012 movie, Life of Pi. In that movie, Pi tries to feel like he belongs to a culture and strives for this throughout the movie.
Margaret joins a group led by Nancy, her first new friend in her neighborhood, where they talk about secret things. 4 teenage girls talk all about puberty. such as breast enlargement exercises, wearing a bra, first menstrual experience and men’s genitals. I also laughed a lot when one of the elders of the family compared the smell of menstrual blood to a “chin-up bar” 🙂
Upon the invitation of a not-so-liked boy in their class, four girlfriends go to his house, dressed up in an extravagant way, and experience their first excitement with the games they play there. Spin the bottle and 2 minutes games in the toilet will result in girls having their first kissing experience with the opposite sex. (The resemblance of the young actor Zach Brooks in this scene to Edward Furlong, the child star of Terminator 2, is quite surprising.)
The breaking point of the film is that Margaret, who is very attached to her grandmother, wants to meet with her maternal elders after the speech of her valuable teacher who opened her horizons. Because as a result of Margaret’s insistence on her mother, we understand that the reason why they do not meet is not the distance, but that their grandfather and grandmother do not want a Jewish son-in-law and grandchild. The scene where little Margaret had to meet two families in their own home and eat together was magnificent. The last thing a girl should do is fight over religion. “You are a Jewish girl!”, “No! How can a person whose mother is a Christian be a Jew?” Margaret, who gave the best answer to all the big people, was literally giving them life lessons in this scene.
It was very emotional when Margaret, who learned that many women in her family started menstruating at a relatively late age and was afraid that she would be too late, hugged her mother with joy when she suddenly saw the color in the toilet at the end of the movie. It was a perfect ending to the movie, when the young rookie girl, Margaret, who realized that she was in an unnecessary rush, received an answer from the god she called out to and thanked him at the end of the movie.
In the movie, I watched with my mouth open as Rachel Mcadams played the mother Barbara, who couldn’t say no to anyone at first and then learned to say no. Mcadams, who literally offers us an acting recital, will definitely receive awards and nominations with this film. Kathy Bates, who plays the grandmother, is already a very experienced and Oscar-winning actress. This movie does not surprise either. The young actress Abby Ryder Fortson is also very successful in the role of Margaret, which is positioned at the center of the film. We can say that a good career awaits Abby. In addition, the film winks at the Oscars in adapted screenplay and many other important categories. With this film, director Craig will be on the list of “directors whose works should be followed”.
Are you there god? it’s me margaret ; It is a very successful movie with its reasonable duration and drama delivered in the right dosage. I recommend this beautiful film, which is decorated with quality acting and stands out with its naturalness, not only to female viewers but to all cinema lovers who love to watch quality movies.


By Sean Murphy
While we wait for the world to be open enough for us to enjoy hiking, camping and generally being outside, now is the chance to catch up on the best movies that feature hiking and the outdoors. Hollywood and production companies around the world have embraced nature as being the backdrop to countless films and TV series.
In the more well-crafted productions, the outdoors can become another character. Not just a setting, but a tangible presence adding mystery, menace and salvation for the characters who find themselves thrown into the adventure. It’s a setting that can encapsulate all genres. Not just adventure, but romance, horror, sci-fi and comedy. It can be bleak and desolate, or snowy and windswept. There could be a sandstorm or torrential rain. Whatever adds to the drama by pushing characters to their limits.
We’ve seen the cruel New Zealand coastline in The Piano, the raw and lonely vistas in Brokeback Mountain, the haunting woods that made Twin Peaks memorable television and drag queens blazing their way across the Australian outback in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. We know how locations can solidify a film or television production’s identity. Where the drama is centralised and what the surrounding are doing to develop the story and the characters involved.
Let’s take a look at the best films that have utilised the outdoors and celebrate them for their bravery and scope.
10) The River Wild
This 1994 adventure thriller saw an escape to the outdoors turn into a cat and mouse chase down a treacherous river. Filmed on location Kootenai River in Montana, Merryl Streep faced off Kevin Bacon. The whitewater rafting sequences became the source of action and tension as the Hartman family battle to survive an encounter with Wade and terry, two violent criminals with penchant for robbery and murder. Additional locations used were the Colorado River, the Rogue River (Oregon) and the Flathead River. The natural beauty of Montana and Oregon providing a picturesque backdrop to the Hartman’s fight to remain alive.
Reece Witherspoon received a Best Actress nomination at the 87th Academy Awards for her portrayal of Cheryl Strayed in the auto-biographical film Wild, based on the 2012 memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. Recently divorced, Cheryl goes on a journey of self-discovery, despite not having any hiking experience, and hike the Pacific Crest Trail which passes through the states of California, Oregon and Washington. Along the way Cheryl meets hiker Greg, camper Ed and is later forced to wear sandals strapped with duct tape during one leg of her hike. She ends her 94-day journey when she reaches the Bridge of the Gods on the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington.
As with Wild, Tracks centres on a young woman who leaves her urban life and turns to the wilderness, this time it’s the Australian Outback. This film as well is based on a novel, Robyn Davidson’s memoir of the same name. Starring Mia Wasikowska in the lead role and featuring a pre-Star Wars Adam Driver, the film was directed by John Curran. Both South Australia and The Northern Territory were used as locations showing Robyn’s journey from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean with her dog and four camels.
7) The Motorcycle Diaries
A young Che Guevara takes a road trip with his friend Alberto Granado, a journey that would shape his political views, with the aim of working in a leper colony in Peru. The eight-month journey takes Che and Alberto from Argentina through Chile, Peru, and Colombia to Venezuela. Locations included Machu Picchu, the Atacama desert, Patagonia and Nahuel Huapi Lake. At the end of the movie Che gives a birthday speech which inadvertently also becomes his first political speech. The film won a slew of awards ranging from the François Chalais Award at the Cannes Film Festival, an Oscar, and a BAFTA for the Best Film Not in the English Language.
Deliverance is a film that raised many eyebrows on it’s 1972 release and synonymous for duelling banjos and the line “squeal like a pig”. The film is an adaption of the novel with the same name by James Dickey. It tells the story of four businessmen from Atlanta played by Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox decide to go on a canoe trip in the remote north-western Georgia wilderness. What unfolds is an encounter with locals that would leave a dramatic impression on the men. Deliverance was the fifth highest grossing film in the US in 1975 and was nominated for numerous Academy Awards and Golden Globes.
5) Into the Wild
Sean Penn produced, directed and wrote the screenplay for this 2007 film which was based on the book by Jon Krakauer. It tells the story of Christopher McCandless (played by Emile Hirsch), a man who hiked across North America into the Alaskan wilderness, set in the early 1990s. Into the Wild shows the beauty and the harshness of nature as we follow McCandless journey, right to the bitter end. The movie was filmed on location in Alaska and proved to be a box office success upon release. Eddie Vedder provided an original song “Guaranteed” which won a Golden Globe. Into the Wild also went on to receive two Oscar nominations for Best Editing and Best Supporting Actor for Hal Holbrook.
4) The Way Back
As with Sean Penn and Into the Wild, Australia’s own Peter Weir took producing, directing and writing credit for his 2010 film, The Way Back. Set during World War II, the story starts with a group of prisoners who escape from a Soviet Gulag and then embark on a dangerous trek out of Siberia, through Mongolia, China and into to the Himalayas. Not all the group survive as they are exposed to freezing conditions and harsh landscapes. Location filming took place in Bulgaria, Morocco and India and boasted a star-studded cast featuring Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess and Ed Harris.
3) The Revenant
Adapted from the 2002 novel of the same name, The Revenant was a box office smash hit in 2015 when it was released. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy the film is based on the experiences of Hugh Glass, the real-life frontiersman who explored Montana, North and South Dakotas and Nebraska in the early 1800’s. After being left for dead after being mauled by a bear, the movie depicts Glass’s battle for survival and his revenge on those who abandoned him. Months of difficult filming conditions paid off with the film receiving 12 nominations at the 88th Academy Awards, with DiCaprio winning the Oscar for Best Actor.
2) 127 Hours
Hot on the heels of his success with Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle embarked on his next film 127 Hours based on canyoneer Aron Ralston’s 2004 memoir Between a Rock and a Hard Place. The 2010 film depicts the events after Ralston becomes trapped by a boulder in an isolated slot canyon in Bluejohn Canyon, south-eastern Utah, in April 2003. He then faces the dilemma of whether to amputate his own arm or remain trapped in isolation and without help. With food and water fast running out, Ralston does the unthinkable in scenes that push the viewer’s anxiety levels. James Franco played Ralston in the film and it was a role that earned him an Oscar for Best Actor.
Narrated by Willem Defoe, Mountain is an Australian film by Jennifer Peedom that explores the relationship between humans and mountains across time and our obsession with high places. Mountain quickly drew accolades for it’s visually stunning photography and scope. The movie goes from Nepal to New Zealand and Austria to Antarctica and showcases some of the strongest adventure sport cinematography with mountaineers, ice climbers, free soloists, heli-skiers, snowboarders, wing-suiters. Accompanying the imagery we hear Defoe read passages from Robert Macfarlane’s book Mountains of the Mind.