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Disclaimer: only part of the title is a medical condition. We’re descending slowly into a now more-than-fleeting camping fetish. Having successfully survived the arsonists and anally-retentive groundsmen of Sangju, we were eager to accept our friends and fellow colleagues’ offer of a joint-trip to the actually isolated coast of Sungpyeong; a barely-trodden expanse of glinting fool’s-gold sand with nary a soul to be seen nor heard (with the exception of a determined yet mysterious boat whose bi-daily routine seems to consist of throwing things overboard to pass the time). Being far more practical humans than ourselves, Nathan and Alysha are part of that expat elite who actually own their own car – all the better to fully explore the country, avoid a slightly tedious daily work commute and to accommodate their two beautiful yet affectionately heavy jindogae Fiona and Ingrid. The two Jindos dwarf, chase and are in turn right-hooked by our comparative runt of a dog regularly, made all the more hilarious/repellent by a thick layer of wet sand and salted fur. The drive to Sungpyeong is reassurance enough that we have the place to ourselves: a little while off the highway and it’s nothing but mountains and mirrorlike, irrigated valleys as far as the horizon. We’re so far out in the sticks that, were we to wander aimlessly into the nearby villages, we’d be less of a mild curiosity and more of an exotic, sweaty fascination. The car pulls into the dusty, empty parking lot and all the signs of off-season are there: the toilets are conveniently-placed albeit not-so-conveniently locked, the bins are noticeably overflowing but sunbaked past the point of offensive and you can’t hear anyone competing for space on the sand. From the car, we heft our camping gear on foot to Nate and Alysha’s pre-discovered Choice Spot, hidden amongst boulders and alongside a handy water and/or wine-cooling stream. From a distance, however, the beach appear to have a life of its own, with pebbles seeming to erratically rush towards and away from the oncoming waves. On closer inspection, we realise that we’ve simply disturbed hundreds and hundreds of tiny red crabs, all scurrying wildly away to their subterranean dens underfoot. Most succeed, with the exception of the three hapless crustaceans our fascinated dogs managed to seize. True to her nature, Millie totally failed to dominate even a tiny specimen; the Jindos on the other hand managed a grisly, acrobatic display of catch-the-crab before getting at least one leg each. Following the dogs’ enthusiasm, we promptly hurled ourselves into the sea, quickly discovering that the water was A) emasculatingly chilly and B) a cunning camouflage for the sneakiest bastard rocks known to geography. After a few minutes of soothing drifting and violently spontaneous profanity, I reckoned I would do The Romantic Thing and carry Meg (+her stubbed toe) from the cruel waves. This lasted approximately three seconds before I kicked the rocks’ reigning champion, ultimately lacerating my foot and actually breaking at least one toe while dropping Meg back into the sea. Not a proud moment. One of the upshots of camping on a nigh-isolated coast is that one can let one’s imagination run wild vis-a-vis campsite customisation and driftwood furniture. Pooling our combined creativity and DIY skills, we managed to rig up a mostly-successful underground(/sand) cooler box, as well as an elegantly canopied, raft-remnants-and-polystyrene-box dining table, complete with almost-not-wet Styrofoam stools for the discerning diners. Evening entertainments included a live concert (playing Mumford & Sons from a mobile phone whilst drinking stream-cooled wine), a private cinema (Meg and Alysha escaped to a tent to watch Pitch Perfect on iPad) and a fully-interactive arts show, ie. Nathan and I scrambling over rocks while waving torches maniacally for the sake of light-trail photos. Still sadly un-equipped with a remotely spacious tent, Meg and I pretzelled ourselves into the (quote-unquote) ‘2-person’ tent for another night’s almost-sleep, with Millie’s small canine buttocks firmly clenching my shoulder for much of the duration. Luck willing, we’ll actually get our human-sized tent before the next inevitable, obsessively-documented expedition. Until then, I will contend myself with hunting down the elusive dunes of sand hidden in the crevices of every bag, shoe and sock I own.

On 24th February 2018, Indian cinema’s first female superstar, Sridevi, breathed her last due to accidental drowning in a plush Dubai hotel, leaving millions of her fans across the globe shocked and teary-eyed. Not just her fans, the entire Indian film industry was in for a huge shock as the news of the actress’ sad demise spread around. National Award-winning filmmaker Hansal Mehta was also one of those millions of people who couldn’t believe what had just happened. Mehta says that he will always be regretful about not approaching the actress for a film which he wanted to make with her. Though the director cannot remedy the unfortunate loss, he seems determined to make a movie on the iconic actress. “There will never be another Sridevi. I was about to approach her for a film. That film will now be dedicated to her, if it finds an actor. I will always regret that I didn’t approach her and could not make a movie with her. But I will make a film on her,” he told a news agency. The acclaimed director insists that he will make the film no matter what and that he might approach seasoned actress Vidya Balan to play Sridevi on screen. “It will be made. There are actors (who I have in my mind). I might approach Vidya Balan. I will make the film,” he said. Vidya Balan is one of the biggest fans of Sridevi. She has time and again proved her admiration for her, praising the evergreen actress for her sheer beauty and unrivalled talent that she possessed. If Balan comes onboard to play Sridevi, she will not disappoint her fans is what we can say. In a career spanning across five decades, Sridevi starred in 300 movies in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. After her marriage with film producer Boney Kapoor in 1996, she stayed away from films for almost 16 long years and made her comeback with Gauri Shinde’s ‘English Vinglish’ (2012). Her last film was ‘Mom’ (2017). Before her death, she had done a cameo in Rukh Khan’s upcoming film ‘Zero’, which will be her final onscreen appearance.

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Adele Leach, a dedicated and wonderful volunteer at The Kensington Falls Church, visits our community each month to take residents on a journey to places she has visited throughout her lifetime – from the perspective of a chair in our lovely Cinema. Since February, we have “visited” Germany, The British Isles, Asia, The Netherlands, and Australia with Adele. Next month, Adele takes us to France! Along with each set of beautiful photographs and the stories that accompany them, we receive a newsletter specific to each country, trivia questions, words and phrases in each language, and we are provided with special recipes from each country. Adele’s travel series is a welcome attraction to residents at The Kensington. We enjoy learning about her travel, taking the time to reminisce, exchange our own stories, and absorb the many nuances that expand our experience, all from the perspective of a chair in the Cinema. We appreciate your efforts and each journey we take with you, Adele.

For many of us, the world we have known for our lifetimes is changing rapidly and shifting into something very daunting. The new paradigm seems to be dominated by conflict, chaos, and catastrophe. Especially if the news and social media are the mediums through which they are getting their information. This kind of nihilism is the symptom of a civilization that does not have a clear vision of its future. Or a clear understanding of its past. We are in very critical need for a new story that can inform the beliefs that form the basis of our understanding of reality and the behaviors that follow from them. For the past couple of years I have been fortunate to work in a team focused singularly on the challenge of climate change and in helping to frame a new narrative for that massive threat to our societies. It is the most profound irony that many devoted environmentalists vehemently reject the idea that the Earth is alive and conscious and ensouled – aka Gaia theory – because it’s not provable and thus not scientific. Which in their eyes threatens their position in the face of the current conflict against climate deniers who are waging a ‘war against science’. I get it. But the idea that people who are authentically and earnestly fighting for the Earth would deny her of a status that could actually, finally activate the hundreds of millions of others who are otherwise asleep and entranced in the face of her destruction is… one of the great paradoxes of our time. Not for much longer. We live in an age where empirical ‘science’ no longer works. Quantum physicists now openly admit the tool of their enquiry is woefully insufficient for determining the nature of reality. And the reductionists fall over themselves to deny that their school is one of the single most culpable for the ethos of non-holism that made the earth into a plane ripe for unyielding ecological exploitation and devastation. But as the historical philosopher Arnold Toynbee taught us, the growth and decline of civilizations is a spiritual process. Humankind, he wrote, “achieves civilization, not as a result of superior biological endowment or geographical environment, but as a response to a challenge in a situation of special difficulty which rouses [them] to make a hitherto unprecedented effort.” That is why climate change, as my dearest Gayatri Roshan teaches, is not problem. It is the solution. It is the challenge Toynbee offered us in his prophetic writings. This is why I know that despite the very frightening and paralyzing warnings we have now been given (that our civilization has little over a decade to radically transform our way of living on the Earth or my children will not have a livable planet to pass in to theirs), I am feeling very confident about our chances. We are are the dawning of a new Age. One which will be marked by the rediscovery of a kind of ‘science’ which is sometimes called ‘mystical’. Mysticism requires the belief in truth without proof. This is the hardest thing for many humans to accept. But also the most transformative because in this scientific enquiry, ‘evidence’ can only be found in the intuition and sentiment that arises from the human heart and its companion, the immortal soul. As this year closes I see, hear, taste, smell, and, most importantly, feel the grip of ‘science’ loosening and the rise of intuition and soul-driven connection to ‘truth’ arising in the yearning of our people to birth a new vision of ‘reality’. Yes the last few centuries have given us much in the way of ‘progress’. 2+2 indeed is 4. And, as my friend Christopher Hitchens, the penultimate materialist, was fond of telling me, “there was time when people used to die of their teeth.” Indeed, we have come a long way. But we will have to return to our most primal roots to remember what we have forgotten. That 1+1 is only ONE. And in this truth we find the most potent of all visions for the future of our civilization. Bless you all my sisters and brothers. There is a genre of fiction in which humans are depicted as living in a reality that is not what it appears to be. In these stories, the heroes are captives in an elaborate prison that keeps them from realizing the true nature of reality, which is hidden behind the veil of a false world. Done well, these tales go super-viral and connect with a deep part of the human consciousness that gives them a kind of mythological status. That is because they are profoundly subversive narratives that hint at the oldest conspiracy theories of our civilization: that we are living in some simultaneously ancient and high-tech illusion that keeps us disconnected from our true identity and its cosmic power. The amazing thing about this category of fantasy is that it first appeared in 380 BCE; almost 2400 years ago. And that first episode remains one of the most precise and elegant renditions of a hero’s journey out of the programmed deception of our reality. I’m talking about the Cave Allegory which appeared in the Greek philosopher Plato’s Republic. In his story a group of prisoners are shackled by their legs and necks in an underground cave. Projected on a wall in front of them are images in the shape animals and people and objects. The 2-dimensional shapes are what they believe the world to be. What the prisoners do not know is that behind them is a fire. The images they see are merely shadows created by puppets which are being paraded in front of the fire by some mysterious procession of people. The apparition is enough to keep the prisoners distracted and complacent in their bondage. And then one of the prisoners breaks free from his chains. He is suddenly able to turn around and see the fire, which blinds him momentarily. It is confusing and frightening, so he turns back to the wall and the reality he understands. But then someone drags him up the pathway, past the fire, and out of the mouth of the cave. Again, he is angry and disoriented, but soon his eyes adjust to the light and he is able to see the world in all it’s 3-dimensional beauty and complexity. He has awakened. Awakened by escaping from the conjured trick of his reality and discovering the multi-dimensional truth of the world beyond his cave. For the first time, he sees animals and trees and rivers and other human beings who are not prisoners. And, when his eyes have finally adjusted to the environment, he looks up and sees the sun, which is the source that illuminates it all. Transformed by his journey and the revelation he has been given, the prisoner runs back down into the cave to tell the others. But it is so dark that his eyes cannot adjust. He stumbles around like a blind man, ranting about a world that the others cannot understand. When they tell him they want to stay, he tries to drag them up the hill toward the light. Faced with the threat of being turned insane by whatever exists beyond their wall and its shadows, they conspire against him and he is murdered. The Cave allegory is the blueprint for a journey that many have attempted with varying degrees of success. The most famous of these was featured in another blockbuster story that became the best-selling book of all time: the Bible. Whether you believe that Jesus Christ existed or not, his story is an object lesson in the harrowing trials of transcending consensual reality and then returning to help others do the same. Look what happened to him. Instead of enshrining his journey as a lesson in reality hacking, the imperial church hijacked and distorted Christ’s teachings. Emperors and kings, and the popes that served them, had zero incentive to revealing a system of liberation to the very people they required to build and die for their worldly imperium. So they turned his life into a system of spiritual deception that still exists today. But that doesn’t mean others didn’t carry it forward. They did, but under the cover of secret societies that protected the knowledge at all costs. The Mystical Underground Plato was a profound mystic. Which means he believed in a process through which humans can interact with the non-material, or spiritual realm. Central to his mystical teachings was that this plane is a source of truths about our world that can not be attained with our intellect. Instead, there is a hidden path to reaching that kind of “enlightenment” that can only be known by those who learn the hidden forces which govern our reality. For the rarified class who were initiated into this knowledge, there was not only the promise of a kind of inner peace. But also the freedom and power that comes with living outside of the limitations that rule the rest of humanity. It was, and continues to be, a highly guarded and subversive form of spiritual technology. In the Cave, Plato is telling his students that without an understanding of our world’s dimensional infrastructure, they are operating in a kind of trance which prevents them from knowing the nature of their reality. It is also about the difficult and isolating journey that must be undertaken if one wants to escape the limited experience that confines most people to a life of servitude and minor gratification. In the mystical, or mystery, schools that were formed in the centuries and millennia after Plato, these were taught as a system of specific beliefs, actions, and processes that one must undertake in order to break out of the illusion. But Plato does not reveal those liberationist mystical steps to the reader, relying instead on very simple metaphors that keep the story in the Cave. There are practical reasons for this, chief among them: the high level of secrecy that surrounds this mystical knowledge by the elite group who possess it. In order to access this esoteric intelligence, one has to be initiated through rigorous tests to prove that they can be trusted. And that they understand the threat posed to the Earthly rulers by those who seek to master the art of escaping this plane. So its no surprise there weren’t any viral hits in the Cave category for a long time. That’s not to say there weren’t mystics. They just stayed underground. Until the power of the church began to fade and science became the new religion, then the mystical heresies went from being outlawed to simply ridiculed. Though the effect was the same: Humanity remained in its cage. Any references to our self-imposed confinement in the modern epoch were now ‘poetic’ and metaphorical and thus, meaningless. Instead of mapping the way out of this dungeon, William Blake, the Romantic poet and visionary, distilled Plato’s Cave down to a two liner. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern. The only traceable impact of which was the inspiration behind the naming of two highly psychedelic products: Aldous Huxley’s book about a mescaline trip, and Jim Morrison’s legendary 60’s era rock band. So it was that humanity had to wait two millennia for the next blockbuster installment of the reality jailbreak series to drop. But when it arrived, it was a fucking masterpiece. Enter The Matrix The Wachowski’s 1999 sci-fi cult masterpiece brought us a hacker named Neo who is dragged up the steep incline from his own 2D flat screen reality by a hyper-cool revolutionary named Morpheus, who offers an explanation of the illusion in words that Plato never could have conjured. “The Matrix is everywhere. It’s all around us, even in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. The Matrix is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth.” “What truth?” Neo asks. “That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison…for your mind….Unfortunately, no one can be…told what the Matrix is…you have to see it for yourself.” Then Morpheus opens a container which holds two pills : a blue one, and a red one. He puts one in each hand, and holds them out to Neo. The rest is tattooed to the consciousness of a whole generation of redpill neo-Neos. How many of us watched that scene and felt something we had never experienced before? A celluloid-induced deja vu that removed us from our virtual reality and illuminated a higher system of truth about the nature of our earthly experience? But it was fleeting. Because then we went back to school or work or whatever occupied our days and remembered only that we had seen The Matrix, not that we were living in it. It’s no wonder. Because after Morpheus’ description of the hi-tech stockade we are living in, there was no explanation of how to get out. Neo mastered the Matrix by leveling up his combat and parkour skills in response to Morpheus’ monotone provocations to “let it all go, Neo. Fear…doubt…and disbelief. Free your mind…” It became impractical nonsense. Necessarily. Because that is precisely the engine that drives (successful) third acts of modern science fiction cinema. To be commercially viable, The Matrix had to be an action film, not a treatise on the mystical ladder out of terrestrial bondage. So once again, humanity was shown their prison, but not given a key. Two years later, planes smashed into the World Trade Center and we entered an entirely new paradigm that placed the enemy firmly within the terrestrial framework. In the vacuum created by the War on Terror, there simply was no bandwidth for adventurist mysticism which frames the struggle of humanity against an external force that uses violence and dualism to keep them divided and enslaved. But now, two decades later, we are moving into a highly dangerous phase of our history and there is an urgency to engineer a civilizational paradigm shift that will break us out of this holographic cocoon. One that integrates an ancient and secret system of rungs on a mystical ladder that provides a map and path out of what, in the eyes of the great (r)evolutionary mystics, is a highly developed illusion designed to keep us locked within this third dimension that is ruled by time and space. What will be the next installment in the reality jailbreak series launched by Plato 2400 years ago? I received a few questions and challenges posed to my Mystical Trump post. One of them gives me the chance to answer them all. It comes from AM: “Interesting. I’m trying to think about it in terms of the relationship between the market and society in Polanyi’s Great Transformation. The idea that the two realms aren’t really separate, but rather society’s response to crisis in the market makes the continuation of capitalist markets possible. So seeing them in a dialectical relationship. In this context I guess my question would be a somewhat basic one: in what ways does or doesn’t a move towards inward non-opposition perpetuate the dialectical relationship between seemingly oppositional forces?” This is a great question, and it is where it gets a little complicated. The core plank of my position lies in this graf: what i would suggest however, in the context of (r)evolutionary mysticism is that we not feed into that binary impulse that drives those groups who are currently engineering reality for the great part of the world. but rather, that we consider that by opposing things with the intent of destroying them, we edify them in the process. The simple answer to your question lies in the nature of dialectics. In its purest form, a dialectic is a discourse between differing points of view on a subject. In the case of political or social conflict, it is the semantic expression of a chaotic sine wave. So in the pure mathematical/physics context, if we occupy the polar viewpoint to our ‘opposition,’ and we are engaged in a dialectical process, then we are an implicit participant and driver of the opponent’s momentum and identity. It follows then that if we simply abandon our positions and thus remove the binary curvature in the wave’s force/resistance, it will have the effect of collapsing the entire structure. But that is a fallacy. One has only to look at history to know that there have been times when hatred and anti-humanism have marshaled enough force to very nearly approach world domination if not for the willful opposition of an opposing force. In some cases agents of change have been able to destroy all opposition so that they simply become the structure of reality themselves. They become the new paradigm, and the dialectic continues, within the parameters established by the new order. This is very much what has happened to the world post-Industrial Revolution, and why Polanyi is able to make him point, that in the capitalist paradigm, even opposition feeds the capitalist enterprise. I am proposing something very different here. Going inward is not simply about becoming silent and meditating oneself into an innocuous trance. No. Not at all. When I write about (r)evolutionary mysticism, I am invoking an ancient practice that is more akin to alchemy than non-violent opposition. This is the stuff of the mystery schools who were forced underground for millennia because of the (real and perceived) threat they posed to those who ruled humanity on the material plane. You can find the substance of this deeply subversive thinking through history from Plato, Hermes, Meister Eckhart, and then the modern mystics like Mabel Collins and Helena Blavatsky. In this line of (r)evolutionary thinking, the reality we are experiencing is not primary. It is a recipient realm, which receives the projection – much limited and distorted by virtue of the time/space confinements of 3D – of a higher, more true source. And it is from this realm that we can connect our earthly consciousness to attain incredibly powerful transmutational power. Power which will not simply neutralize the forces of hatred and fear which we ‘oppose’, but transform them through the vibrational frequency that we attain in our alignment with, and tuning to, the primary, non-material realm. If we simply ‘oppose’ Trump from within the confines of the same paradigm, we are still locked in the same structure and what you get is another crest in the wave without ever transmuting the generators that created him. (Hence, the 50 year dialectic of Carter-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Trump). So this is what I am talking about when I say, in my Mystical Trump piece, that we should: vanish into the interior realm, where true generative power resides. But of course, knowing how to connect with and channel a new paradigmatic vibration is not a simple thing. And it is not something that is taught. But, I will tell you, it is something we know innately to do. Just as much as we know that sitting near a 1000 year old redwood nourishes us more than hugging a telephone pole. But we must be willing to let go of the primacy of this plane, and all its amazing spectacles, in order to bring in the new/ancient thing that is what we are all so hungry for. Let’s bring it back to Trump. This is a phenomena that is being generated by people who are responding to a perceived threat. The campaign was driven by a system of phobias that essentially create an ‘us vs them’ dynamic which was enough to position Trump as a savior for the millions of Americans who feel deep-seated frustration and anger at their diminished economic and social agency. The reality is that what these people are experiencing is real. And what Steve Bannon and the Trump team did was take that anger and channel it into a campaign that reflected it back in order to create a force of energy that would propel them to a electoral victory. (r)evolutionary mysticism is not concerned with opposing these people. It is not concerned with opposing Trump or Steve Bannon or whatever other interchangeable body suit the ruling paradigm throws up to sustain its steady march toward oblivion. It is concerned with a solution that is appealing to the deepest facets of all humanity. It is about ending the dialectic we are currently trapped in and establishing an entirely new playing field. Call it paradigm shift, call it a spiritual awakening, call it the solution to quantum physics’ search for a unifying theory. Mysticism is based on the belief that we are in a place in which we are unable to feel the innate interconnectedness of all things, but that we all emanate from the same creative energetic field, and that is something we very simplistically call ‘love’. And there is no cleaner and purer and more profoundly transformative vibration than love. But ‘love’ as we experience it on the material plane is a mere fragment of its computational and transmutational power in the non-material realm. What I have experienced in my own limited journeys to the primary realm is so beautiful and massive and ancient and futuristic… it is like a wave of creative potential that has the power to sink all of these zero-sum antiquated architectures and simultaneously float all boats to a new kind of world that we have only ever dreamed about. And it is just as real as everything we are experiencing now. You just have to close your eyes, Child prodigy, rebel icon, zen guru, Alan Watts was the philosopher king of the 60s counter-culture. At the age of seventeen, he experienced a mystical state which revealed the unity of spiritual and material worlds. And so began one of the most storied interior quests of the twentieth century. During Watts’ lifetime his particular brand of wisdom pierced the conformist, Cold War society to appeal to the youth being drafted into a system they’d long stopped believing in. Besides leaving an indelible mark on the leaders of the sixties social movements, his council was solicited by corporations and the Pentagon. In this sense, Alan Watts was the ultimate cultural double-agent: a mystical trickster, courted by the same institutional elites who were fighting to sustain a societal paradigm that Watts was encouraging his young devotees to reject and transcend. His enduring message asks us to see reality in a different way; to understand ourselves as components of a cosmic Self; the implications of which are different for every person whose life he has touched. Unfazed by his own shadow, and the one cast by the social order, he introduced a kind of commentary that was both ancient and ultra modern, and delivered it with an authenticity prized in today’s millennial culture. I spent a lot of time with Watts’ writing and recordings recently and transcribed many of them into my journals. Watts was without question, for me, one of the greatest mystical teachers of the 20th century. Here’s one of my favorite Watt’s riffs from a talk in the 60s: To control the world is not really what we want to do. So if all explanations have as their function enabling us to control things, then maybe an explanation isn’t what we wanted. And furthermore, we can very simply see, what makes things complicated is explaining them. When somebody explains to you how a flower works… everybody stands fascinated. “How complicated that is. How clever God must have been to create that flower… to have all the complexity going.” It isn’t complicated at all. It’s only complicated when you start thinking about it. Because the vehicle of words is a very clumsy one. And when you try to talk about the processes of nature, what is complicated is not the processes of nature, but trying to put them into words. That’s as complicated as trying to drink up the ocean with a fork. It takes forever. So this intense complexity that we see in everything is created by our attempt to analyze it all. And so what we do, when we analyze, we use our eyes and ears as scalpels. And we dissect everything. And we have to put a label on every piece we chop off. And so we scalpelize and we get it right down to atoms… There is no end to the minuteness that you can unveil through physical investigation. For the simple reason that the investigation itself is what is chopping things into tiny little pieces. And the sharper you can sharpen your knife, the finer you can cut it. And the knife of the intellect is very sharp indeed. And with the sophisticated instruments that we can now make, there’s probably no limit to it. But in a way, all that is vain knowledge. In a way. Because you see… what it does is it gives the illusion that you’ve solved your problems. When have controlled certain things and you have solved certain problems. Practical problems. You say “fine, more of that please. Let’s go on solving problems.” And you create a world of people as we are today who are far more comfortable than the ones who lived in the 19th century. But the problem is that we keep running into this thing that all constant stimulations of consciousness become unconscious. And when we take it as a matter of course to have certain comforts, then we switch the level on which we worry. When we solve a whole set of problems, people find new ones to worry about. And after a while you begin to get that haven’t we been here before feeling. Because we don’t realize we’re chasing our own tails, by a constant recurring process of not knowing who we are. That is hide and seek. That is the nature of what the Hindus call manvantara and the pralaya. The period of the manvatnara when the worlds are manifested and the period of the pralaya when the worlds are withdrawn from manifestation. In and out, in and out. Ever more came out through the same door as in I went. And the thing is to get to the point where you can see that you are doing that in every moment of your existence, with every tiny little atom of your body. You, now at this minute, you see, are the whole system. Of inning and outing. In other words, you often think perhaps… maybe a long long time ahead I shall reach the point where I wake up from manifestation and overcome the world illusion and discover that I am the Supreme Reality behind all this diversification. My friends, there is no diversification. In other words, what you call diversification is your game. In the same way as you chop the thing and say it is made of pieces. Because you forget that you cut it. I have owned Carl Jung’s Red Book since it was published in 2009. This is the legendary journal that he kept during a period of self-discovery and introspection that has been described as both revelatory and psychotic since its publication. At the beginning, my copy was placed in our living room, open to one of the many entrancing images that Jung painted during this deeply private odyssey into, what he termed, “a confrontation with the unconscious.” I hate to admit this, but I became one of those people who owned the book, but never read it. And so one of the greatest and most intimate journals of mystical illumination sat like some literary trophy on display in our living room. Often discussed, but only in the most banal of degrees. Until a few months ago when I felt this deep pull to start reading Jung’s words. So the book migrated to my office desk and then began traveling with me to cafés and weekend trips. I am sure it looked ridiculous, or more probably pretentious, carting around the 10 pound crimson red volume. But I didn’t care, I was so wrapped up in Jung’s writing that I used every spare moment I had to push through the text, marking it up with pencils so that I could return to transcribe the passages that were relevant to my work. There is a lot I want to write about the Red Book and I will do that in a series of posts over time. But I want to start with a very simple and profound bit that comes from the Introduction. It is a statement about the time in which Jung was writing (1913-1917) by Hugo Ball that places it very precisely in a parallel historical period to the one we are currently entering: The world and society in 1913 looked like this: life is completely confined and shackled. A kind of economic fatalism prevails; each individual, whether he resists it or not, is assigned a specific role and with it his interests and his character. The church is regarded as a “redemption factory” of little importance, literature is a safety valve……The most burning question day and night is: is there anywhere a force that is strong enough to put an end to this state of affairs? And if not, how can one escape it? I have long been interested in the system of historical cycles; since I first read Schlesinger’s cyclical theory in high school. The idea that we can look at the intrinsic governing forces of a past time and then use those to map events in a current epoch is fascinating and takes the chaos out of human affairs. History, after all, is a function of economic, social, and spiritual currents. And when one looks back at previous historical trends, they will see very similar patterns occurring. But I am focused on much more subterranean forces. These are the ones that precipitated the 1920’s and the 1960’s, and now these 20teens, as eras of unparalleled social change. The birth of the jazz age, and all of the potent intellectual/artistic movements that were surfacing worldwide, is often overshadowed by the omnipresent psychedelia of the hippie era. But what they share in common is that amongst all the partying and re-identification, there was also a deep movement inward toward the mystical frontier. And the person you find in the early pages of the Red Book is unlike anything you have ever read or been taught about Carl Jung. Here, he is going full shaman and what he is unearthing and chronicling about the pre-material forces that guide and propel our material plane is of critical importance as we enter this time of confusion and fear. Because as you will discover, there are one of two belief systems that you can adopt about our reality. The first is that it is unpredictable, chaotic, and unpatterned; the product of a spectrum of disparate and purposeless forces which we have no choice but to protect our selves from. Or you believe that there is an order to this world. That there is a system of reality-generation that is comprehensible and regulated; chaperoned by some force unknown and unseen, but which has the verifiable tracings of a system in place. Of course, there is an infinity spectrum that bridges these two paradigms. The fundamentalist Christian can share a certain brand of certainty about the nature of reality with the molecular biologist. But when one turns inward from the world, especially as a result of a calling from that deep seat of the soul, they embark on a journey of self-discovery that is both torturously lonely and paradigmatically revelatory. That is to say, what they learn about their ‘self’ and the forces that propel ‘it’ are ultimately understood as the same forces that govern the world. This is the nature of systems theory. And I believe we live in an immaculate and uncharted system designed to nurture, evolve, and optimize our human ‘being’. Oh, so much could flow from this statement, and it will. But for now I want to leave you with Jung’s description of the ‘spirits’ that drive and conjure the world we experience, but from two polar frontiers. I challenge you to read this in the context of the time we live in and ask yourself what Jung’s vision holds for us in this time. (I have bolded the lines I marked as important in my transcriptions): I have learned that in addition to the spirit of this time there is still another spirit at work, namely that which rules the depths of everything contemporary. The spirit of this time would like to hear of use and value. I also thought this way, and my humanity still thinks this way. But that other spirit forces me nevertheless to speak, beyond justification, use, and meaning. But I did not consider that the spirit of the depths from time immemorial and for all the future possesses a greater power than the spirit of this time, who changes with the generations. The spirit of the depths has subjugated all pride and arrogance to the power of judgment. He took away my belief in science, he robbed me of the joy of explaining and ordering things, and he let devotion to the ideals of this time die out in me. He forced me down to the last and simplest things. The spirit of the depths took my understanding and all my knowledge and placed them at the service of the inexplicable and the paradoxical. He robbed me of speech and writing for everything that was not in his service, namely the melting together of sense and nonsense, which produces the supreme meaning. But the supreme meaning is the path, the way and the bridge to what is to come. Read Part 2 of the Jung series, here. i have come to understand that my reality is generative, not deterministic. i mean we do not live in a paradigm that is set and pre-determined as we are taught. but rather, one that is generated by the inputs (thoughts, feelings, actions) of the human beings that are generating, or transmitting, it. further, the engine that generates this reality – from the transmitting being to the experience they are having – is something we have come to lazily call ‘consciousness’, but which is actually a much more quantifiable factor, which can be described as vibratory frequency. reality is a generative construction that moves from the inside out. not the outside in. two points about that: - the best way to understand this way of seeing reality is as an algorithmically-driven platform. in other words, reality is created by highly tuned formulas that convert non-material impulses to a material experiential realm. - this is confusing for many because we currently inhabit a paradigm that is actually highly deterministic (ie. for 99% of humanity, their experience feels very much beyond their own power of creation). and that is because humans have been conditioned to believe that that is what reality is; something that is generated from outside of them. so we are generating a deterministic reality paradigm. a very tricky business indeed. so the vast majority of human beings believe we are born into a world paradigm that they cannot change and which they just have to accept. this has unquantifiable impact on the way that we live in the world and what we believe is possible. the first step toward a reboot of the human operating system is to teach our people that the reality paradigm is generative and thus transactional: which means that we are in a constant state of negotiation with the reality we are experiencing. it is created by, and for, us. this is a revelation of the highest (r)evolutionary order. it means any single individual can gain agency in the process of reality-creation by learning about the power their thoughts, emotions, and actions have in creating their moment-to-moment experience. because what we are experiencing is a direct output of our vibrational state and it can change moment-to-moment based on the nature and content of the vibration we are emitting. in other words: if reality is generative and transactional, it is transmutable. the great problem is that certain groups have more generative power than others. and so it is that some can say, “this is your world, i am just living in it.” in most cases, these generator populations have no idea of the power they wield in creating the experience of others. this is by design. understanding the nature of reality, and our ability to re-orient ourselves within it, will be the key determining factor of whether the human civilization escapes the extinction algorithm we are currently programmed for. Mabel Collins, Light on the Path

Francesco Finocchiaro and Elisabeth Trautwein-Heymann Great uncertainty surrounds the status of film music in the silent era. In the first two decades of the twentieth century, the musical accompaniments of film screenings were mainly made in the form of compilation, i.e. collages of pre-existing music, taken freely from the operatic and symphonic repertoire, also from operettas, dance, variety songs, and matched to the story in a crude and rather predictable way. From the second decade of the twentieth century, the major European and American publishers began to publish and distribute ready-made pieces for music accompaniments. These pieces of music were not specific to a particular film, but were designed to accompany common film situations (e.g. Short Storm, Chase, Night Vision, Dangerous Situation) or to give a scene a generic emotional mood (e.g. Desperation, Mystery, Anguish, Dramatic Climax). Each piece of music was accompanied by a more or less detailed description, referring to the context in which it could be used in the film. Music was used to express the whole spectrum of human feelings, from “amorous passion” to “profound desperation,” from “lyrical expression” to “dramatic conflict”: the musical component was left to portray the inner emotions of that Visible Man – the title of a famous work by Béla Balázs (1924) – conditioned to express himself on-screen only through gestures. A considerable number of these compilation repertoires was archived in the research project “Film Music as a Problem in German Print Journalism (1907-1930),” carried out at the University of Vienna. The collection comes from a bequest of composer Edgar Haase (1901–1967), a specialist in film music and director of various salon orchestras. The legacy was augmented by donations from heirs and further research in European libraries, including the Musiksammlung of the National Library of Austria and the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin. The archive contains over 500 sets of orchestral parts, from the most important collections of German, English and American mood music (Kinothek, Preis-Kino-Bibliothek, Boheme Kino-Lexikon, Sam Fox Film-Gebrauchs-Musik, Bosworth’s Internationales Kino -Orchester, J.S. Zamecnik’s Photoplay-Edition, Universal-Film-Musik, Robbins Red Seal Concert Series, Filmharmonie). Such a vast compendium provides a reliable historical picture of the daily practice of musical accompaniment in cinemas and stands as an informative document with enormous potential for the reconstruction of the art and aesthetics of film composition in the silent era. As director of the Viennese research project, Francesco Finocchiaro presented the musical background as part of a conference/concert, with the participation of Julie Brown (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Elisabeth Trautwein-Heymann. The Montfort Quartet, together with some Poliziano instrumentalists, performed a selection of pieces from the mood music collections. L’ascolto di musiche d’atmosfera per il cinema muto sarà possibile martedì 23 luglio, nella suggestiva cornice del Cortile della Fortezza di Montepulciano, nell’ambito del 44° Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte, in occasione di una conferenza-concerto dal titolo L’UOMO VISIBILE, Musica e passioni nel Cinema muto, a cura di Francesco Finocchiaro, con la partecipazione di Julie Brown (Royal Holloway, University of London) ed Elisabeth Trautwein-Heymann e con la performance del Montfort Quartet. Elena Minetti, Montepulciano: musica e passioni nel cinema muto, Amadeus Online, July 18, 2019. Read the article here. Renata Scognamiglio, Festival di Montepulciano – Il 44° Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte, Rai Radio3 “Qui comincia”, July 21, 2019. The podcast is available here: At the IAML 2019 Conference, Francesco Finocchiaro presented the FMJ Archive. The paper outlined the database’s concept, design, and scope, with a particular focus on research methods, technical concerns, and theoretical issues. Francesco Finocchiaro, FMJ Archive: a Digital Database for German-Language Film Music Journalism, IAML 2019 Conference, Jagiellonian University Kraków, 14-19 July 2019. Trauer, Leidenschaft, Verzweiflung: Aufgabe der Kinomusik der Stummfilmära war es, das ganze Spektrum menschlicher Gefühle abzubilden. Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2019, präsentiert Francesco Finocchiaro im Rahmen eines Lecture-Recitals den umfangreichen Stummfilm-Musikbestand der FB Musikwissenschaft. B. Ralser (Interview): Die Stummfilmmusik als Stimme der Gefühle,«Uni-View Magazin», June 6, 2019 What is film music? What should a piece of film music look like formally? Which musical language is better suited to the cinematic one? What dramaturgical problems arise from the use of traditional typologies or pre-existing music pieces? Francesco Finocchiaro’s lecture at MaMI 2019 (New York University, Steinhardt) looked at this knot of issues in the mirror of German-language film journalism during the silent era. Francesco Finocchiaro, Film Music as a Problem in the Mirror of Criticism, Music and the Moving Image 2019, New York University, Steinhardt, May 30 – June 2, 2019 Throughout the 1920s, German-language film journalism addressed fundamental questions about the encounter between music and cinema. Prominent composers, musicologists, and film theorists contributed to this broad discussion on the proper role and design of silent film music, encompassing a wide range of arguments and perspectives. To a large extent, this debate took place in cinematic trade journals (such as Der Kinematograph, Film-Kurier, Reichsfilmblatt) as well as musicological journals (e.g. Musikblätter des Anbruch, Melos, Der Auftakt). The paper outlines the development of the film-music debate on the film journal Reichsfilmblatt from 1924 to 1930, with a particular focus on the dialectical interplay between theoretical-aesthetical concerns and compositional issues. Starting from the mid-1920s, Reichsfilmblatt encouraged composers and music directors to contribute their opinions concerning the art of film-music composition at large, ranging from compilation guides to accompaniment practices, and from illustrative techniques to dramaturgic strategies. Particular attention to compositional issues is evident from the presence of regular columns by music critics. Film-music theoreticians like Hans Erdmann or Ludwig Brav reached well beyond the horizon of a film-music criticism, even theorizing new compositional approaches to film composition. Thanks to the contributions of film-music specialists, such as Giuseppe Becce, Paul Dessau, Friedrich Holländer, etc., Reichsfilmblatt also dealt with a large number of questions related to the execution of musical accompaniments. The techniques of conducting film music were outlined; the basic configuration of a salon orchestra and the peculiarities of certain instruments were critically evaluated. The uncertain status of salon-orchestra conductors was debated and compared with the art-music sphere. From 1927, Reichsfilmblatt finally confronted the question of the mechanization of music performance: a large number of articles discussed the revolution provoked by the discovery of recorded sound on both theoretical and practical levels. Francesco Finocchiaro, “Im Spiegel der Kritik”: The film-music debate on Reichsfilmblatt from 1924 to 1930, II NEMI Meeting “Periodical press as a source in musicology”, CFSH-NOVA Lisbon, 16–18 May 2019. Rediscovering the pleasure of a warm, joyful, and respectful educational relationship… Some pictures from Francesco Finocchiaro’s Erasmus Teaching Leaving at the University of Catania (15–26 April 2019).

Parrtjima is pulling out all the stops for this year’s festival, today announcing the first part of its public program, the Parrtjima Knowledge Program alongside a second event precinct at Todd Mall in Alice Springs CBD. Curated by renowned First Nations creative director Rhoda Roberts AO the ten-day Knowledge program is the biggest yet and showcases film, musical performance, dance and conversations with artists and performers across two event precincts to bring together the stories, sounds and rhythms of Central Australia. Headlining this year’s festival is internationally acclaimed duo Electric Fields, who will bring their genre-defying sounds to the infinite spaces of the vast Red Centre. Zaachariaha Fielding, vocalist for Electric Fields who often sings in his traditional languages of the Anangu people, said the duo jumped at the chance to be part of the festival. “We’ve played in some spectacular places across the world, but to be able to share our music and stories underneath a million stars surrounded by Country in the middle of the Red Centre – what more could we ask for? We hope our sounds echo off the ancient ranges and vibrate in the souls of every single person there,” said Fielding. Exhibiting artists will also form a key part of the festival program, inviting festival goers to step inside the inner circle and share in the stories behind the art. Parrtjima also welcomes an extraordinary line up of films, including films by local Alice Springs film makers, to celebrate the diverse creativity across platforms within the region. In addition to the festival hub at Alice Springs Desert Park, the Parrtjima Todd Mall precinct will showcase stunning lighting effects along the mall and a new installation telling the Caterpillar dreaming stories of Alice Springs. It will also be home to a second Knowledge program site on the central lawns including creative workshops, film and music. Parrtjima curator Rhoda Roberts said: “I am beyond excited to see the growth of Parrtjima through the Knowledge Program. Particularly, to hear the language and the stories of the local custodians, witness the exchange of dance and to have the group Electric Fields, who are simply magnetic. It’s unexpected to hear the adaptation of language into Electronica music – they bring a new genre that I know so many of our audiences will be wowed by. “This year’s Knowledge Program is the biggest yet, and to be able to work with so many inspirational artists and performers to share the language and stories and witness the exchange of artmaking and culture is a real pleasure,” said Roberts. The public program will feature a range of themes across the two event precincts of Alice Springs Desert Park and Todd Mall including: TALKS AND IDEAS Take part in eight up-close and personal ‘Talks and Ideas’ sessions at this year’s festival. Join in one of our immersive panel sessions to discuss Custodial Knowledge and the 21st Century with Benedict Stevens and Mervyn Rubuntja or the Women of Alice with Lorena Walker. Meet the artists to hear more about their works, their influences and the stories behind them. Featured artists include Ruth Fatt from Ninuku Arts, Ursula Marks and Myra Patrick Herbert from Warnayaka Arts, Susie Lane and Keturah Zimran from Ikuntji Artists, Evelyn Young, June Smith and Stacey Davis from Keringke Artists and local Arrente artists Rachel Wallace whose works feature in Grounded Space talks with her father Mr. ‘Coco’ Wallace. Experience Parrtjima in a new light, with an amazing backdrop of musicals sounds. Genre-defying musical duo, Electric Fields, will perform on the opening weekend, offerings visitors the privilege of experiencing the breathtaking beauty and power they bring to the stage. Local musician and member of the Parrtjima Festival Reference Group, Warren H. Williams will take to stage for the second weekend with an acoustic performance. They will be joined by local singer and songwriter Johanna Campbell, local hip-hop duo Karnage N Darknis and Eastern Reggae Band. For the chance to discover the next big music act, an unplugged session will also give local unsigned artists the opportunity to showcase their talents. Gathering Space is an installation that tells the stories of Central Australian artists through light, multimedia and repurposed materials. Featuring a concentric circle of doors, visitors are invited to step inside to a gathering space activated by old television monitors, each showcasing stories from the artists. As part of the Knowledge Program, visitors will also get the opportunity to deepen their understanding and meet and share these stories in person with Barkly Artists Susannah Nelson and Lindy Brody and local Arrente artist Patricia Ansell Dodds. Sit back and expand your horizons with film screenings each night of the festival. Drawing from a combination of local and national filmmakers, the festival cinema at the Todd Mall precinct will screen films every night across the Parrtjima calendar. Unlock the original Australian knowledge systems through the medium of song and dance with the Tinkerbee Dancers, guided by Kumalie (Rosalie) Riley, an Arrente woman from Alice Springs. BEHIND THE LIGHTS Sit down and meet the makers of Parrtjima including, Parrtjima’s curator Rhoda Roberts AO, Project Director for Parrtjima, AGB Events and Parrtjima’s Lighting Designer Richard Neville. Festival curator Rhoda Roberts worked closely with Aboriginal artists and art centres from across the desert region to develop the Knowledge and Creative Program, with endorsement from the Parrtjima Festival Reference Group and ongoing consultation with a wider network of respected Arrernte persons. The light installation at the Todd Mall precinct was requested by Arrernte people guiding and advising the festival to help show that Arrernte are still the first people of this place and that people have always come from many directions to gather here and connect. Parrtjima (pronounced Par-CHee-ma) comes from the Arrernte group of languages, which has many dialects and ways of spelling words. In Central and Eastern Arrernte, ‘pwarrtyeme’ means ‘to shine’. The spelling of the event’s name was chosen by the Arrernte group advising the festival in its first year. It suggests shedding both light and understanding on a subject. The festival runs from 28 September – 7 October 2018, and entry is free from 6.30pm – 10.30pm each night. The full festival program is available at parrtjimaaustralia.com.au

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- George A. Romero - Simon Baker, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento, Robert Joy - 97 min. - Release Date Until 2005’s Land of the Dead, George A. Romero hadn’t made a zombie film in twenty years. Mind you, this is the filmmaker who originated zombie horror back in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead, mastered its socio-allegorical relevancy in 1978 with Dawn of the Dead, and took a harsh bite out of the government in 1985’s Day of the Dead. His return, ushered by a re-popularization of the sub-genre by Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and Zack Snyder’s 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead, came gilded with newfound faith that the auteur behind zombified cinema could reestablish himself as the Master of the Living Dead. Produced by Universal Studios, who also released Snyder’s revision and brought Edgar Wright’s brilliant British comedy Shaun of the Dead to American audiences, Romero’s new film turned out to be the equivalent of James Cameron’s Aliens to that franchise: A bigger, more expensive, more lavish production filled with machine guns and impressive effects and sweeping ideas. Whereas Romero’s previous zombie films contained confining settings (a farmhouse, a mall, an underground bunker), this film too limits space, but on a grander scope: within an entire sectioned-off city. The story begins “some time” after Romero’s previous zombie films, when the apocalypse has long since dominated the planet. Hundreds of survivors pack into a few square city blocks, a spot at the center of Romero’s own Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where high-rise buildings look down at the surrounding squalor. Fenced-off or protected by water on all sides, those left endure by carrying on with life. The underprivileged enjoy vices ranging from gambling to prostitution and survive on the street. A fortunate few live in Fiddler’s Green, the upper-class superstructure at the hub of their new civilization, where board meetings are still held and bank vaults still serve their intended purpose. All behave as if society will someday return to normalcy. Intelligent hero Riley (Simon Baker) and his scarred sharpshooter friend Charlie (Robert Joy) know better, seeing the worst of their situation on recon and supply missions completed their city’s leader, Kaufman (Dennis Hopper, in a wonderfully funny and megalomaniacal performance), a corrupt and opportunistic businessman who smokes cigars, drinks champagne, and picks his nose. During their latest excursion for provisions in a nearby town crawling with normally mindless living dead, Riley notices one of them has problem-solving skills. Dubbed Big Daddy, the zombie (played by Eugene Clark) teaches others like him to communicate, to ignore the fireworks Riley’s team shoot into the sky to distract the “stenches,” and to follow his lead. Suddenly, zombies no longer writhe about without purpose; instead, though still lurching with the occasional undead hobble, they move toward a light in the distance, toward Fiddler’s Green. From film to film, Romero’s zombies have progressed, gradually proving there’s more going on in their rotting skulls than a driving hunger to eat human flesh, as first demonstrated in Night of the Living Dead. In Dawn, the undead have a latent memory, an attraction toward the shopping mall where survivors hole-up—as one of them says, “They’re after the place. They don’t know why. They just remember. Remember that they want to be in here.” The mad doctor Logan in Day hypothesized that the undead could be taught manners, and thus civilized; his living example was “Bub,” a zombie that salutes soldiers and would prefer to shoot someone than bite them to death (now that’s civilized). Land of the Dead’s zombies recall how to use tools, understand the concept of weapons (beyond their own teeth), and strike out of vengeance for their kind’s mistreatment. Romero posits an allegory for the current political-economic separation in America’s growing polarity between rising poor and ultra-rich, by placing the upper classes in Fiddler’s Green and the folks working to support them in the slums. With this in mind, zombies become a strangely liberated entity, rising out of their complacency against The Powers That Be to strike them down from their tower. The film might conversely (and ironically) be called Land of the Free, as the undead consciously reclaim their city, while Riley and company escape the confines of the city onto the open road. Amid the social relevancy, of course, are Romero’s long voyages into grotesque gore and the consumption of living tissue. The theatrical exhibition was annoyingly wrought with zombies passing over the frame during particularly nasty scenes, thus the gore was only alluded to. Romero’s low-budget work in the past has been deemed too graphic and released Unrated, which meant showings on fewer screens but artistic integrity. Releasing a comeback film without an MPAA rating in today’s market is commercial suicide, however. And so, taking advantage of the DVD marketing scheme of “Unrated Director’s Cut”, Romero pleased both the studio with an R-rated theatrical exhibition, and himself with an uncensored cut on home video, complete with the conveniently-placed gore-blockers removed. Even in its censored form, Land of the Dead managed to spark some controversy, as Romero’s films have always been the subject of debates and protests and bans. Representatives from the Ukraine, for example, banned the film on these grounds: “The memory of the Holodomor [a famine in the country that killed millions and induced cannibalism in some areas] of 1933 is still fresh in our society. A movie with scenes of people being eaten alive should not be given the go-ahead.” Indeed, Romero’s film contains those horrible scenes of bloody violence we’ve become accustomed to in his work, rendered even more potent by the film’s impressive $15 million budget (the highest of Romero’s films). Returning to form, George A. Romero outclasses modern reinventions by reminding audiences that for things to change, they must stay the same. While running zombies in revisionist takes on his formula have proved commercially successful, from an artistic standpoint (with the exception of Boyle’s film) they’re largely empty. Nothing quite punctuates social commentary or suggests psychological and social zombism than the deliberate and lurching crawl of the living dead. Following Land of the Dead’s minor-but-profitable box office achievements, Romero released the underrated Diary of the Dead, and today is at work on yet another entry into his zombie universe, this one set on an island. He continues to operate gloriously according to nearly forty years worth of his established cinematic rules for his brand of horror, certifying why his archetypes can be copied but never matched.

1. Kapoor2. Werner3. Baseheart4. Howard5. RedgraveNo clue on any of these, just shooting in the dark. 1. Kapoor2. Howard3. Redgrave4. Werner5. Baseheart Glad to see you finally review a Bollywood performance, Louis :) (even if I haven't seen Awaara)1.Redgrave2.Kapoor3.Howard4.Werner5.Baseheart The only reason I predict Redgrave to be ranked first is because I have faith in Calvin's judgment of his performance. :) As for other Bollywood/Bangladeshi performances that can be reviewed in the future, I guess:Shahrukh Khan in Baazigar for 1993 LeadSoumitra Chatterjee in Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) for 1959 LeadAmjad Khan and Amitabh Bachchan in Sholay (1975 lead and supporting respectively)Darsheel Safary in Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth)-A terrific child performance that is an accurate portrayal of dyslexia and struggle.Amitabh Bachchan in Deewar for 1975 lead-It's his most famous "angry young man" role, so it's worth a look. 1. Redgrave 2. Howard (gotta support my boys :P)3. Kapoor4. Baseheart5. Werner Robert and Michael: Didn't have an alarm go off thank goodness, but I had the EXACT same issue as you Robert; woman behind me kept laughing at some of the most inappropriate moments (particular the chair scene).Should also note that we had a Q+A session with Jenkins and Naomie Harris afterwards which was very informative too. Actually after reading about Awaara I'm intrigued:1. Redgrave2. Kapoor3. Howard4. Baseheart5. Werner 1. Redgrave2. Kapoor3. Basehart4. Howard5. Werner 1. Redgrave2. Kapoor3. Howard4. Baseheart5. Werner RIP Peter Vaughan (Maester Aemon from GOT). And now his watch is ended :'(. Louis: I see that you've switched Ben Foster and John Carroll Lynch's placement for 2007 supporting. I'm quite glad :) RIP Peter Vaughan Too bad, I really loved Lynch 1. Redgrave2. Kapoor3. Howard4. Baseheart5. WernerRIP Peter Vaughan My predictions - 1. Kapoor 2. Redgrave3. Howard 4. Werner5. Baseheart 1. Redgrave2. Howard3. Kapoor4. Basehart5. WernerLouis: Watch Cry, The Far Country, The Prowler, The Magic Box, His Kind of Woman, Along a Great Divide, Sirocco, The Steel Helmet, The Racket, On Dangerous Ground, The Frogman, The Secret of Convict Lake and Captain Horátio Hornblower. Not sure if anyone here is a fan of Honest Trailers but their newest video sums up Suicide Squad very well.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiFhv3gsyo&t=0s Honest Trailers can be a bit obnoxious at times, but when they're right, they're pretty damn right. Louis: I see you've upped Gosling in Drive above Dujardin in The Artist :) I'm quite pleased about that as well, although I love both performances dearly.Do you feel tempted to give the win for 1953 to Montgomery Clift's work in From Here to Eternity? That performance is one of my top 10 favorites, although Holden was also pretty damn brilliant. 94dfk1: I saw it, it's great. Speaking of Suicide Squad, are Twenty One Pilots actually a rock band, because they seem to get classed as one as kerrang magazine, the Grammys and all the other awards shows seem to put them as but I just dont see where the rock comes from? Robert: I am not too big a fan of honest trailers, I think they are good on the odd occasion, there are so many worst YouTubers/Groups that cover films though so its cool lol =D.I have pretty mixed feelings towards Twenty One Pilots, I need to listen to more of their songs because they just dont quite click for me although I dont think they are bad, maybe its the completely different genres of each song which means ill likely like the ones catered to my taste. Robert: My theory is that since all the other Top 40 artists are rap artists (Drake, Kanye West) or singers (Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Rihanna, The Weeknd, Katy Perry, etc.) it makes Twenty One Pilots stick out more, since they're the closest thing to rock at the moment amongst the Top 40 artists. Tahmeed: Clift is brilliant and everything but I personally think Holden's work in that film is arguably the most dynamic, charismatic leading performance I've ever seen; simple but brilliant.With regards to Moonlight, having given some time to ruminate I'd say Ali, Rhodes and Sanders were my favourites, though Harris and Holland are growing in my mind too. Speaking of Suicide Squad, am I the only here that had a feeling that Leto was going to suck as The Joker? Has anyone else seen Certain Women? Lily Gladstone probably gives my favorite performance of 2016 so far. @Anonymous: Even before the reports of his on set behavior, I figured he was going to go too far. Then again, I've never liked him. I don't even like him in DBC @Robert: Didn't you like him in Requiem for a Dream? I remember him being impressive in that one. I've come to the realization that I hate Requiem for a Dream about a month ago. For years I tried to convince myself I liked it, but I've reached the stage of my life where I stopped caring what other people think. The performances aren't my "problem" with it, but I don't think any of them are special. I do like Jared Leto in 30 Seconds To Mars, I think he pretty much is only thing keeping that band a float similar to what Hayley Williams does with Paramore their basically a one main person and then a bunch of blank robots around them lol.I imagine Louis will probably see Requiem for a Dream even if Leto doesnt appear, its one of those films that lots of people have seen, even a lot of non movie buffs just like regular members of the public which surprises me quite a lot. Louis: What's your favourite Ben Foster performance. 3:10 To Yuma or Lone Survivor. And I'm 100% sure that he's a 5 for Hell Or High Water. Tahmeed: To be fair Clift did win that year originally so, I imagine that was a close choice for Louis. I imagine the fact Holden has more to do, and Clift has already won as well for a performance that he originally gave to Jackie Gleeson so, its tricky how the mind can change on occasion.I mentioned this to Louis before, even though he got a 4.5 and Day Lewis was put to a 5, I reckon Viggo Mortensen was still the one from the original rankings changes that he felt most hurt to change simply because, I know Louis would love to give Viggo Mortensen a proper win.If Viggo Mortensen gets nominated in 2016. I actually think... he might finish higher than Affleck, I think anyway. 94dfk1: Very good point on Twenty One Pilots, say if this was 2005 or 1979, they wouldnt be classed rock, but because 2016s mainstream acts are less rock than they were back then, it automatically makes TOP a lot more heavier and rockish sounding so I guess in 2016 they would be classed as rock. 1. Redgrave2. Howard 3. Kapoor4. Werner5. BaseheartI am looking forward to the Best Actor nominations more than any other this year, simply because could we possibly get the greatest best actor lineup, having looked at the contenders, who is there that can get nominated that will get a bad rating or a 3.5 and less? JackiBoyz: Beatty, yet he's even more of a longshot now than he was a few weeks ago. Louis: Your rating for Domhnall Gleeson in True Grit. Louis: Why wouldn't you consider Pepper lead instead of supporting in Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada? Anonymous:I will try to watch those. Tahmeed:In regards to 53 I started with Holden went to Clift then went back to Holden again. I'm pretty comfortable with Holden from here on out.Anonymous:I had my concerns in regards to Leto, but I always try to keep an open mind before seeing a performance. Luke:3:10 to Yuma. 3Alex:I would need re-watch to be sure, but I felt, even though he had scenes from his perspective, he was there to support Tommy Lee Jones's character's story. After all I believe there were also scenes from January Jones's, Melissa Leo's, Julio Cedillo's and Dwight Yoakam's characters' perspectives. I will admit he's on the border though and I could change his placement. RIP Peter Vaughan Louis: Your top 10 Transformers voices and episodes. Anyone else who's seen Hunt for the Wilderpeople, because Louis has given his thoughts on it: do you reckon Sam Neill and Ben Foster can be comfortably argued as Supporting because of their relative lack of perspective even though their screen time could be argued as that of leads? Because right now my supporting lineup is becoming incredibly congested with the Moonlight boys and a re-watch of Our Kind of Traitor.Speaking of which my top 5 is now Neill, Foster, Ali, Lewis and Shannon but I absolutely hate having to leave off Rhodes, Skarsgard, Sanders and Taylor-Johnson, among many others. I keep switching around who my Supporting Actor win is for the moment. Torn between Skarsgård, Taylor-Johnson, Ali, Holland, and Jerome. Question for everyone: Which actor do you think would have been an ideal post-Reeve Superman? They can be from any period. My choice is Almost Famous-era Billy Crudup. I think Barry Pepper's lead in Three Burials because I feel like, at it's core, it's really the story of his character's redemption. This is gonna be really lazy but...Ben Affleck.Also, Kyle MacLachlan. My choice for supporting is probably Ali. Although if I considered Ben Foster to be supporting for Hell or High Water, he'd be my win quite easily. Louis: Would you consider Foster as a a lead for that film? Watching the film again, I felt he was even more of a lead than Jeff Bridges was. I'd put all three of them as leads. Ben Foster would be perfect in a Coen brothers film. Tahmeed:He's on the border of course, but I do find him supporting by looking at Gil Birmingham. Those two are the equivalents. I felt the film was about both the cops and the robbers with Bridges leading the cops, Pine leading the robbers. Birmingham and Foster being the secondary characters on the opposing sides who technically support the main story. Louis, your thoughts on Laurie in "Children Of A Lesser God" And In "Carrie Anonymous:1. Webworld2. City of Steel (For hilarity's sake)3. More than Meets the Eye4. Fire in the Sky5. The Ultimate Doom6. Ghost in the Machine7. Dark Awakening8. Transport to Oblivion9. Countdown to Extinction10. War of the DinobotsVoices:1. Chris Latta2. Frank Welker3. Peter Cullen4. Scatman Crothers5. Casey Kasem6. John Stephenson7. Jack Angel8. Ken Sansom9. Michael Chain10. Gregg BergerVarun: I'm quite sure I covered those before, particularly Carrie. 1. Raj Kapoor2. Michael Redgrave 3. Trevor Howard4. Oskar Werner5. Richard Basehart Louis: Which of these performances are you likely to upgrade to a 5? If not, what would you say holds them back?Lew Ayres- All Quiet on the Western FrontRussell Crowe- A Beautiful MindSean Bean-Fellowship of the RingSean Astin-Return of the KingCharlie Chaplin-The Great Dictator I apologize if I sound pressing, I'm just curious. Tahmeed: Crowe's the only one out of those five, that has no chance of being upgraded. He's far more likely to be upgraded for Master And Commander. I still maintain Crowe should be downgraded for A Beautiful Mind. Louis: Oh, and I also intended to ask about Morgan Freeman's work in The Shawshank Redemption.Luke: That's sad to hear, I actually think that's his second best performance after his remarkable work in LA Confidential. Robert: I get that you don't like the movie; it also declines for me upon every rewatch. However, Crowe's work actually strengthens for me, because I kinda feel that he skillfully elevates the not-so-strong material he has to work with. Louis: *The possibility for Morgan Freeman getting upgraded for Shawshank. I kinda hope Sam L Jackson will be upgraded for Pulp Fiction. @Tahmeed: I think Crowe is just as bad as the movie itself. Telegraphed, constipated, and going against all of his strengths as an actor. Calvin: I hope he is upgraded. Louis: What are your thoughts on Willem Dafoe as an actor? Just watched Awaara, i did not expect Kapoor to be so average. I don't think Louis will like him so much and i regret that I picket him as a suggestion. Hopefully Kapoor's performance won't dissuade Louis from reviewing another Hind Film performance. 1. Redgrave2. Howard3. Baseheart4. Werner5. Kapoor Awaara wasn't even that good of a movie. From now on I will only suggest performances that I have seen. Varun: If Louis doesn't feel like reviewing Kapoor, I'm certain that he'll come up with a viable replacement. I hope so, I just don't want him to get a negative view on Hindi Film performances based on Awaara.There are som performances in Hindi Films and i just hope that he give indian actors another chance. I just hate how many people in the west view Hindi Cinema as "typical entertainment". There are some great hindi movie and performances and i just wan't them to get their fair due. Don't understand why "Time" considered Kappor's performance as one of the 10 best performances of all time. Maybe Louis will like it, but I doubt it. I am gonna change my predictions based on that fact as well as a small suspicion that this could be another Choi Min Sik of everyone thinking he will get a 5 and then underwhelm us allI actually think Oskar Werner will finish last simply because I felt it was him learning the ropes, he was still good enough though, and certainly better than dull Basehart from the same film, who managed to do a 180 and be good in Fourteen Hours in a role that any actor really could have been good in since its such an easy role to do.1. Redgrave2. Howard3. Baseheart4. Kapoor5. Werner Then again the former Duran Duran member hasnt given a bad performance yet and I think that trend will continue so.Oskar Werner has been requested pretty much everytime he has had a chance but he will get snubbed for 1968 to end that run lol. Varun: What do you think of my other suggestions for Hindi/Bangla film performances that Louis can review? 1. Redgrave2. Baseheart 3. Kapoor 4. Howard5. Werner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isQ5Ycie73UIf this doesn't turn out to be as good as it's stoked out to be, it'll be interesting to see how this screenplay fucks up the potential of such a talented cast (except for Will Smith). Thameed:Possibly all except Crowe. Anonymous:Dafoe - (Dafoe I find to be just a slightly curious actor in that there are the occasional performances where he doesn't make much of an impact and is just sort of there. Most of the time though he offers a unique and engaging presence that is very much his own. There is something about him that makes him stand out and works well for his renegade roles such as in his two Oscar nominations and old Bobby Peru. I'd also say he's a bit underrated in terms of his comedic ability, which whenever he tasks with such roles he really shines in them.) @Thameed: I've gotten the opportunity to read the screenplay. It is fucking bonkers. Post a Comment

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Concluded Myers Briggs Personality Type – INTP Net Worth: $10 million – 2018 Well, I’m an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art. Live Interview Videos: Bio & Career stats: Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, film producer, martial artist, and author. His prominent film roles include Major League (1989), Mo’ Better Blues (1990), New Jack City (1991), White Men Can’t Jump (1992), Demolition Man (1993), and the Marvel Comics character Blade in the Blade film trilogy (1998–2004). He formed a production company, Amen-Ra Films, in 1991, and a subsidiary, Black Dot Media, to develop projects for film and television. He has been training in martial arts since the age of 12, earning a 5th dan black belt in Shotokan Karate and 2nd dan black belt in Hapkido. In 2010, Snipes began serving a three-year prison sentence in McKean County, Pennsylvania for misdemeanor failure to file U.S. federal income tax returns. He was released from prison in 2013. - 1Early life - 2.2Other ventures - 3Personal life - 4Income tax conviction - 8Awards and nominations - 10External links Snipes was born in Orlando, Florida, the son of Marian (née Long), a teacher’s assistant, and Wesley Rudolph Snipes, an aircraft engineer. He grew up in the Bronx, New York. He attended the High School of Performing Arts of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts but moved back to Florida before he could graduate. After graduating from Jones High School in Orlando, Snipes returned to New York and attended the State University of New York at Purchase. He also attended Southwest College in Los Angeles, California. At the age of 23, Snipes was discovered by an agent while performing in a competition. He made his film debut in the 1986 Goldie Hawnvehicle Wildcats. Later that year, he appeared on the TV show Miami Vice as a drug-dealing pimp in the episode “Streetwise” (first aired December 5, 1986). In 1987, he appeared as Michael Jackson’s nemesis in the Martin Scorsese–directed music video “Bad” and the feature film Streets of Gold. That same year, Snipes was also considered for the role of Geordi La Forge in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, but the role eventually went to LeVar Burton. Snipes’s performance in the music video “Bad” caught the eye of director Spike Lee. Snipes turned down a small role in Lee’s Do the Right Thing for the larger part of Willie Mays Hayes in Major League, beginning a succession of box-office hits for Snipes. Lee would later cast Snipes as the jazz saxophonist Shadow Henderson in Mo’ Better Blues and as the lead in the interracial romance drama Jungle Fever. He then played Thomas Flanagan in King of New York opposite Christopher Walken. He played the drug lord Nino Brown in New Jack City, which was written specifically for him by Barry Michael Cooper. He also played a drug dealer in the 1994 film Sugar Hill. Snipes has played a number of roles in action films like Passenger 57, Demolition Man (with Sylvester Stallone), Money Train, The Fan, U.S. Marshals and Rising Sun, as well as comedies like White Men Can’t Jump, and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar where he played a drag queen. Snipes has appeared in dramas like The Waterdanceand Disappearing Acts. In 1997, he won the Best Actor Volpi Cup at the 54th Venice Film Festival for his performance in New Line Cinema’s One Night Stand. In 1998, Snipes had his largest commercial success with Blade, which has grossed over $150 million worldwide. The film turned into a series. He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and an honorary doctoratein humanities and fine arts from his alma mater, SUNY/Purchase. In 2004, Snipes reprised his role in the third film, Blade: Trinity, which he also produced. In 2005, he sued New Line Cinema and David S. Goyer, the film’s studio and director, respectively. He claimed that the studio did not pay his full salary, that he was intentionally cut out of casting decisions, and that his character’s screen time was reduced in favor of co-stars Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel. The suit was later settled, but no details were released. He has discussed reprising the role of Blade as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Trinity was his last theatrical release in the U.S. until 2010. He later appeared in The Contractor, filmed in Bulgaria and the UK, Gallowwalkers, released in 2012, and Game of Death. Snipes was originally slated to play one of the four leads in Spike Lee’s 2008 war film Miracle at St. Anna but had to leave the film due to tax problems; his role eventually went to Derek Luke. Snipes made a comeback performance in Brooklyn’s Finest as Casanova “Caz” Phillips, a supporting character, it was his first theatrical release film since 2004. He also had to turn down the part of Hale Caesar in The Expendables because he was not allowed to leave the United States without the court’s approval. In 2014, he appeared in the sequel The Expendables 3. In the late 1990s, Snipes and his brother started a security firm called the Royal Guard of Amen-Ra, dedicated to providing VIPs with bodyguards trained in law enforcement and martial arts. Amen-Ra is also the name of his film company. In 1996, the first film produced by Amen-Ra was A Great And Mighty Walk – Dr. John Henrik Clarke. In 2000, the business was investigated for alleged ties to the United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors. It emerged that Snipes had spotted 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land near their Tama-Re compound in Putnam County, Georgia, intending to buy and use it for his business academy. Both Snipes’s business and the groups used Egyptian motifs as their symbols. Ultimately, Snipes and his brother did not buy the land, instead establishing their company in Florida, Antigua, and Africa. In 2005, Snipes was in negotiations to fight Fear Factor host Joe Rogan. Snipes began training in martial arts when he was 12 years old, often sparring with his childhood friend Aaron Willyard. He has a 5th degree black belt in Shotokan karate and a 2nd degree black belt in Hapkido. He has also trained in Capoeira under Mestre Jelon Vieira and in a number of other disciplines including kung fu at the USA Shaolin Temple and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Kickboxing. During his time in New York, Snipes was trained in fighting by his friend and mentor Brooke Ellis.[dead link] Snipes has been married twice, first to April Snipes, with whom he has a son Jelani, who had a cameo role in Snipes’s 1990 film Mo’ Better Blues. In 2003, Snipes married painter Nakyung “Nikki” Park, with whom he has four children. Snipes also has a son who lives in Vancouver, Canada born in 2008. Snipes, who was raised a Christian, converted to Islam in 1978, but left Islam in 1988. During a 1991 interview, Snipes said “Islam made me more conscious of what African people have accomplished, of my self-worth, and gave me some self-dignity”. Snipes’s apartment was destroyed by the collapse of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers during the September 11 attacks. He was on the West Coast at the time. Income tax conviction On October 12, 2006, Snipes, Eddie Ray Kahn, and Douglas P. Rosile were charged with one count of conspiring to defraud the United States and one count of knowingly making or aiding and abetting the making of a false and fraudulent claim for payment against the United States. Snipes was also charged with six counts of willfully failing to file federal income tax returns by their filing dates. The conspiracy charge against Snipes alleged that he filed a false amended return, including a false tax refund claim of over $4 million for the year 1996, and a false amended return, including a false tax refund claim of over US$7.3 million for the year 1997. The government alleged that Snipes attempted to obtain fraudulent tax refunds using a tax protester theory called the “861 argument” (essentially, an argument that the domestic income of U.S. citizens and residents is not taxable). The government also charged that Snipes sent three worthless, fictitious “bills of exchange” for $14 million to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The government also charged that Snipes failed to file tax returns for the years 1999 through 2004. Snipes responded to his indictment in a letter on December 4, 2006, declaring himself to be “a non-resident alien” of the United States; in reality, Snipes is a birthright U.S. citizen. Snipes said he was being made an example of and was unfairly targeted by prosecutors because of his fame in connection with the federal tax fraud investigation. Such tactics are common of the “Freemen”, “Sovereign Citizen”, or “OPCA” (Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument) category of litigation strategy, designed to tie up courtroom proceedings with nonsense and delay judgments. On February 1, 2008, Snipes was acquitted on the felony count of conspiracy to defraud the government and on the felony count of filing a false claim with the government. He was, however, found guilty on three misdemeanor counts of failing to file federal income tax returns (and acquitted on three other “failure to file” charges). His co-defendants, Douglas P. Rosile and Eddie Ray Kahn, were convicted on the conspiracy and false claim charges in connection with the income tax refund claims filed for Snipes. On April 24, 2008, Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison for willful failure to file federal income tax returns under 26 U.S.C. § 7203. Kahn was sentenced to 10 years in prison and Rosile was sentenced to four and half years in prison. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed Snipes’s convictions in a 35-page decision issued on July 16, 2010. Snipes reported to federal prison on December 9, 2010 to begin his three-year sentence, and was held at McKean Federal Correctional Institution, a federal prison in Pennsylvania. On June 6, 2011, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear Snipes’s appeal. Snipes was released from federal prison on April 2, 2013, finishing his period of house arrest on July 19, 2013. 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To keep your balance you must keep moving.Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. Live Interview Videos: Bio & Career stats:Theoretical physicistAlbert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science.Born: 14 March 1879, Ulm, GermanyDied: 18 April 1955, Princeton Medical Center at Plainsboro, New Jersey, United StatesEducation: University of Zurich (1905), ETH Zurich (1896–1900), MOREChildren: Eduard Einstein, Lieserl Einstein, Hans Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was unable to find a teaching post, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. In 1905 he obtained his doctor’s degree. During his stay at the Patent Office, and in his spare time, he produced much of his remarkable work and in 1908 he was appointed Privatdozent in Berne. In 1909 he became Professor Extraordinary at Zurich, in 1911 Professor of Theoretical Physics at Prague, returning to Zurich in the following year to fill a similar post. In 1914 he was appointed Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute and Professor in the University of Berlin. He became a German citizen in 1914 and remained in Berlin until 1933 when he renounced his citizenship for political reasons and emigrated to America to take the position of Professor of Theoretical Physics at Princeton*. He became a United States citizen in 1940 and retired from his post in 1945. After World War II, Einstein was a leading figure in the World Government Movement, he was offered the Presidency of the State of Israel, which he declined, and he collaborated with Dr. Chaim Weizmann in establishing the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Einstein always appeared to have a clear view of the problems of physics and the determination to solve them. He had a strategy of his own and was able to visualize the main stages on the way to his goal. He regarded his major achievements as mere stepping-stones for the next advance. At the start of his scientific work, Einstein realized the inadequacies of Newtonian mechanics and his special theory of relativity stemmed from an attempt to reconcile the laws of mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field. He dealt with classical problems of statistical mechanics and problems in which they were merged with quantum theory: this led to an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules. He investigated the thermal properties of light with a low radiation density and his observations laid the foundation of the photon theory of light. In his early days in Berlin, Einstein postulated that the correct interpretation of the special theory of relativity must also furnish a theory of gravitation and in 1916 he published his paper on the general theory of relativity. During this time he also contributed to the problems of the theory of radiation and statistical mechanics. In the 1920s, Einstein embarked on the construction of unified field theories, although he continued to work on the probabilistic interpretation of quantum theory, and he persevered with this work in America. He contributed to statistical mechanics by his development of the quantum theory of a monatomic gas and he has also accomplished valuable work in connection with atomic transition probabilities and relativistic cosmology. After his retirement he continued to work towards the unification of the basic concepts of physics, taking the opposite approach, geometrisation, to the majority of physicists. Einstein’s researches are, of course, well chronicled and his more important works include Special Theory of Relativity (1905), Relativity (English translations, 1920 and 1950), General Theory of Relativity (1916), Investigations on Theory of Brownian Movement (1926), and The Evolution of Physics (1938). Among his non-scientific works, About Zionism (1930), Why War?(1933), My Philosophy (1934), and Out of My Later Years (1950) are perhaps the most important. Albert Einstein received honorary doctorate degrees in science, medicine and philosophy from many European and American universities. During the 1920’s he lectured in Europe, America and the Far East, and he was awarded Fellowships or Memberships of all the leading scientific academies throughout the world. He gained numerous awards in recognition of his work, including the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1925, and the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1935. Einstein’s gifts inevitably resulted in his dwelling much in intellectual solitude and, for relaxation, music played an important part in his life. He married Mileva Maric in 1903 and they had a daughter and two sons; their marriage was dissolved in 1919 and in the same year he married his cousin, Elsa Löwenthal, who died in 1936. He died on April 18, 1955 at Princeton, New Jersey. I found this list on a couple of INTP forums and thought it was something interesting. I personally found it to be mostly true. Even, embarrassingly, #6. The way I express love is ridiculous. It would seem that the only people who are compatible with us INTPs are those that find quirky hermits endearing. 😛 1. Lots of sex: I dont think it is just me as an INTP who finds this a very important part of a relationship and the most important physical expression of love in a relationship – it is NOT a selfish act for selfish physical satisfaction. but hell, it is damn pleasing, too. 2. Moral support: It is a tough world out there for INTPs. 3. An equal: INTPs have no wish to dominate, and are crushed by domination. 4. Someone who is next to unoffendable: INTPs tend to lack tact, but also want and need to be brutally honest with thier intimate partners – they want someone who they can playfully insult, who will then either laugh in thier face or give it right back. 5. Someone who can accept them for who they are and not try to change them: INTPs appear erratic to the casual observer in a relationship, for example – they appear to demand solitude one moment, sex the next. Non-INTPs find this VERY hard to reconcile with their typical conception of “love”. 6. Someone who accepts the peculiar WAYS they show their love: Be it really, really sappy hopeless-romantic type drivel or passionate physical expression, or just a touch or a simple look. The INTP way is very hard to catch, if you blink, you miss it. Non-INTPs tend to want tokens and words, not a slow dance in a room with no radio, not a quiet cuddle in front of the TV at the end of the day, or the other strange and random expressions that INTPs tend to give. [This ties in with #5.] 7. SPACE [as in both physical and emotional space] In case it was missed, I’ll mention it again: SPACE!! INTP men and women need their free time to pursue intellectual pursuits, and CAN NOT be: a) disturbed. b) told they dont love thier partner because they spend too much time “alone”, etc. INTPs disappear for a while, then come out swinging. This FORCES most non-INTPs to think that the INTP partner only wants them for sex. This is wrong, but if the non-INTP is not capable of #5 and #6, they are forced to believe it. 8. Comforting. [this goes along with #2.]The world sucks, particularly for INTPs. They are capable of an utterly staggering amount of patience and responsibility, but in the long run, without #2 and #8, the relationship will ultimately die, or the INTP will DIE a very real death. With #2 and #8, an INTP can take a spectacular amount of abuse, responsibility, and patience in life, as long as his partner supplies #2 and #8 in sufficient quantities. 9. An intellect: A person who can hold their own in a debate. The words “you always think you are right!!” are the LAST words an INTP wants to hear from their mate. The INTP wants debate! Wants intellectual stimulation! If they doesn’t get it at home, #7 becomes very very very important. If their mate can not handle #7, there will be PROBLEMS. If the mate can supply #9, the INTP will be very happily occupied with their mate for a long, long time. 10. Someone to learn with: [This goes with #9] Someone who is interested in learning and intellectual stimulation. The INTP needs someone who they can learn with and enjoy the mysteries and adventures of life with. Someone who can understand their interest in the esoteric, show appreciation for their interests, and even join them in these interests, or introduce them to new ones. 11. Someone capable of self reflection and self analysis: Often the INTP finds that they are the only one “growing” in a relationship, the only one who can see the problems in the relationship. This usually forces the INTP to be the one to change, to be the one to compromise for their partner. Because many non-INTPs have no true ability to self reflect the non-INTP thinks they are ALWAYS right. The INTP spends their life examining themselves and their relationship to see what they need to do to make it work. So they spend all their time critically analyzing it, and the mate does nothing but demand that they change. This will eventually lead to the spiritual DEATH of the INTP, if not the actual PHYSICAL death of the INTP. To avoid this, the INTP person NEEDS a mate who can examine the relationship WITH them, so they can grow TOGETHER.

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What was your reaction for the proposal made by Borys Lankosz, who prepared the draft of the screenplay of “A Grain of Truth” by himself? Zygmunt Miłoszewski: To tell the truth, it was quite an allergic reaction. I was just in such a moment when I wanted to concentrate on writing, and possible film adaptations of my books should be only an additional source of income. Then someone spoke to me through flickering Skype, teasing me with views of California behind him, and telling me that he wants us to work together. Then I thought about “Reverse”, and realized that this flickering guy is very cool. And that it does not have to be just a business, it can also be a fantastic adventure. So we started to work on the screenplay together, which I recall as a good experience, although it was tough for me as an author. Actually, it turned out that the scenes to which I was very attached, which seemed to me very deep and emotional, were unsuitable for a film. For example, if the main character is sitting on a bench and thinking about his unsuccessful life and this scene takes five pages, it could be heartwinning prose. However, if you translate it into a film, this guy simply is sitting on the bench. So many of the scenes had to be rewritten. We had to think about how to show them in a visually attractive way. Borys watched me very carefully, keeping me from departing into some literary mumbo? jumbo. A few things we came up with were so cool that I even wondered for a moment whether to do a new edition of the novel. I will not do it in the end, but the temptation was strong. You went to the set during shooting, what are your impressions? It seems to me that this film actually has a chance to be the first Polish genuine crime story, to determine the route of genre cinema in Poland. Though at the same time it was sad for me personally to start working on it. I met Robert Więckiewicz and it became clear to me that I will not play the role of Teodor Szacki, and of course, as an author, I believe that I am in the best position to do so. I'm kidding, of course. I have seen how Robert worked on the set and I told him straight out, “I feel that your photo as Szacki will one day appear in all the judicial offices in Poland, next to the white eagle, because you will give a new face to the contemporary prosecutor’s office.” “A Grain of Truth” is a genre cinema, inspired by a crimestory book. Do you think cinema can also be an inspiration for literature? Generally not, it is literature that is the highest form of narrative and the starting point for an adaptation, not vice versa. Compared with unlimited possibilities of literature, film and theatre are its poor relatives. But it does not change the fact that Borys probably does not even realize how much I learned from him as a writer while working on the film script. First of all, I learned to think in images, how a book scene would look like, whether it would not be visually boring. But also the fact that every scene needs to be indispensable for the storyline, in other words, how to paint the picture, not craving the baroque frame. I write my novels differently now. You and the director are now a good duo. Have you thought about filming the third part of the trilogy about Prosecutor Szacki? We are a good duo, we think about new challenges and we want to work together in the future, but I’m not sure it will be on Szacki. Probably not. Another thing we have in common is that we have greater ambitions than bathing all the time in the same river, playing the same songs. We would like to make a crime story which would become the reference point for the Polish cinema, a real thriller, holding the audience in suspense, and at the same time issuing a kind of a statement about Poland, not only playing “they killed him and ran”. And so we did it ? now the audience will decide if we succeeded. When we talk together, we always mention films that would say something, that would put a cat among the pigeons, and yet would be so addictive that people we'll watch it holding their breath. We can do it, without repeating what we have already done. At least I hope we can. Can we say that Teodor Szacki is a character whom, like James Bond, a full series of films may be devoted? I am personally finished with crime stories and Teodor Szacki. I will not write more books on him. And the movies I think at the moment, it’s quite a good idea. Why put him out to pasture, when he can move onto the screen? Screenings of 'A Grain of Truth' at the Play Poland Film Festival: Edinburgh – 15.10; 5:45pm; Filmhouse; £9full / £7,20conc. - followed by a Q&A with the director – Borys Lankosz Glasgow – 12.11; 6:30pm; Grosvenor Cinema; £9,70full / £7conc. Aberdeen – 25.11; 8:40pm; Belmont Filmhouse; £9,50full/ £7conc. London – 28.11; 6:30pm; Clapham Picturehouse; £12,60full/ £11,60conc.

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Jean Gabin did not receive an Oscar nomination portraying Jean in Port of Shadows. Well if one is speaking of actors with the most range of the period, one must speak the name of Jean Gabin within that context as well if one is speaking of early sound cinema. Gabin though is that notable, and always potent combination of the considerable actor, but also a proper star. The idea of his range is particularly well supported by his work in 1938 with this film and The Human Beast which share the similarity of a man being caught within a bad situation somewhat out of his control, yet very different within the characters in how that comes about. What is a most remarkable talent with a performer though also is even working within similarities there are key differences within the performances. Gabin is an actor with that talent here in that on the surface there are similarities, however the performances are properly dissimilar. This is seen from the outset as Gabin delivers a man of a wholly different burden in the opening scene. This is fascinating though just to watch Gabin play such subtle yet important differences, as his Jean hitches a ride with a truck driver. Gabin is burdened by a somber expression, however it is one that seems less to pertain to the man as his very being, but rather just the current state of his existence. Gabin finds this balance within only his expression even of this sadness that essentially doesn't run too deep, as he reveals no pain within the man in terms of a truly burdened mental distress rather alluding to a more recent difficulty of his life. There is more within this though as Gabin delivers this natural soulfulness within his performance here that creates not only an inherent sympathy towards Jean as a character, but also so well alludes to the nature of the man even within his distressed state. This is as Gabin, even in this overarching somber state, doesn't portray even a hint of bitterness or hatred within his gaze. He presents a man well aware of his troubles, yet also not a man who seems to blame others for them. This is even further realized as Jean stops the truck driver, he's hitched a ride with, from hitting a stray dog, which leads the two to nearly come to blows. Now in the moment of the action, I love the unassuming morality that Gabin expresses, as the action is just of a man who simply has this need to do the right thing. When explaining his action Gabin delivers such an earnest conviction, yet so modestly within his delivery as again a man who just simply has to do that righteous act, yet in no way intends to boast of it. That action though does lead to a near fight that Jean diffuses quickly in what is just a brilliant moment for Gabin, and the sheer unique magnetism he has in the role. Gabin again is very calm, very internalized in style as he plays it as Jean so calmly explaining that there is no reason to fight, while also asking for cigarette. Gabin is wholly convincing in this moment by bringing such an earnest goodness that he makes exude from the character through his meek expression, but also his wholly genuine while also unpretentious manner of speaking. Gabin uses this brief interaction to so successfully establish the nature of the man, that establishes Jean as such a congenial protagonist even within his current state. Jean moves on to become involved in a bit of the shadowy underground of the city merely by seeking refuge in the wrong place at a dive bar. Gabin in these moments is particularly interesting as this reactionary protagonist within the story, as he largely observes the others within the seedy world, however is never truly inactive. Gabin rather presents a man who essentially has come to be drawn within himself, which we see early as he expresses his hunger, while also noting his pride from having to do so earlier. Gabin in the moment presents so effectively this man who is burdened by his current situation, however most directly by his initial unwillingness to take the simple ways out of it. Gabin realizes Jean as the soldier who had to desert long before we are given this information, by this natural reluctance in attitude of a man who has just escaped from something, which is currently defining his behavior however doesn't wholly define the man. Gabin portrays the state as purposefully thin, which we see more of as his place in the bar leads him to interacting with a low grade gangster Lucien (Pierre Brasseur), a wannabe runaway Nelly (Michele Morgan) and her creepy "protective" godfather Zabel (Michel Simon). In each of the interactions Gabin is able to allude to the state of mind of Jean where he essentially speaks and acts in a certain way as is fitting to his position. Within the interactions with the two men there is an initial lack of concern that Gabin presents through this exasperation fitting to a man on a run, who intends to run more by taking a ship to Venezuela. In turn these interactions Gabin delivers a lack of concern in both his blunt delivery in his less flattering attitudes towards them, but also in a certain indifference to their responses realizing a man who believes he will be gone from his current situation soon. The relationship with Nelly is quite different though where we technically we should have traditionally charming Gabin. Gabin to fall upon that type of charm though would be ill-fitting for the character, yet Gabin still realizes his usual charisma however in a way that is proper to the deserter Jean. When he initially speaks to her, he does so somewhat callously of a man who again is on his way out, however Gabin presents this as a facade in regards towards Nelly as even in his most negative statements Gabin grants an undercurrent of the disingenuous. He plays it in that moment of the charm naturally coming out, as he shows so effectively Jean's immediate infatuation with her, even as the man feels he should be the "bitter ex-soldier" in the current moment. Gabin uses this so well to grant an impact through the romance by quietly bringing a more overt charm and warmth within his performance. What is key though is he evokes this from the first interaction, and makes it a gradually growing revelation of what was already there. Gabin never just becomes charming in say the Pepe Le Moko way, but rather stays true to the character by still handling this with a great degree of modesty that not only is fitting towards how he established Jean in the opening scene, but also fitting to the man in his somewhat desperate circumstances. Gabin reveals that as Jean opens up it is perhaps a better man in creating a moving romance with Morgan's Nellie, while still even in these moments alluding to that weight on the man's mind due to his circumstances. Gabin carefully opens up though in allowing that greater warmth, and creating the right poignancy within the interactions between the two. Interactions that become more difficult through increasing suspicions of others particularly her godfather, which eventually leads to a confrontation. The confrontation that is a great scene by Gabin even as he reveals a more outgoing individual than the careful soldier of the opening of the film, he still shows the same nature of the act as he does what he believes is the right thing, just as when he saved the dog. Gabin in the moment brings similar almost instinct like manner to the act though with a greater intensity fitting that Jean is removing a problem rather than saving a life. Gabin is able to portray the transformation well of the closed off soldier, to a still modest, but now loving man, while carefully maintaining that nature of the man, which defines Jean's story from the opening to the final scene. Gabin delivers his second great performance from 38 that also realizes a man who becomes lost in a dark web, however through his powerful performance creates an alternative path, and a different man who becomes almost accidentally lost into shadow.

Paris events August 2019, festivals, exhibitions, kids events, sporting events, shows... Musical Fountains Shows and Musical Gardens in the Gardens of Versailles in August (from April 2 to October 29, 2019), location Palace of Versailles. Paris Plages 2019 Paris beaches in August (from July 6 to September 1, 2019). The borders of the Seine river are transformed into artificial beaches, with white sand, deck chairs, cafes and swimming pool, fun activities for kids. Tutankhamun, The Treasury of the Pharaoh exhibition in August (from March 23 au September 15, 2019) location Grande Halle de La Villette. Van Gogh in August 2019 (from February 22 to December 31, 2019) exhibition in the Atelier des Lumières, digital exhibition. Atelier des Lumières, 38 Rue Saint-Maur, Paris 11th. Rêve électro, de Kraftwerk à Daft Punk (Electro Dream: from Kraftwerk to Daft Punk) in August 2019 (from April 9 to August 11, 2019). Location: Philharmonie de Paris. Music by Laurent Garnier. The Smurf Experience in August (from May 30 to October 20, 2019, location: Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, Village Smurf. Festival Paris l'Eté (Paris Summer Festival) in August (from July 12 to August 3, 2019). Theater, dance, circus, music, performances in Paris. Fête des Tuileries in Paris in July (from June 22 to August 25, 2019) funfair of the Tuileries, rides, big wheel, cotton candy. Yayoi Kusama in August 2019 (until August 26, 2019) location La Fondation Louis Vuitton, 8, avenue du Mahatma-Gandhi, Paris 16th. Fete des Loges funfair in Saint Germain en Laye in August (from June 28 to August 18, 2019), rides, attractions, restaurants. L'Eté du canal, l'Ourcq en fêtes is a festival in August at the Bassin de la Villette, Paris. La Nuit aux Invalides "Lutèce" monumental show in August (from July 12 to August 30, 2019), a spectacular outdoor 3D show, location Hotel National des Invalides. Paris Cinema au Clair de Lune from July to August. Open air film festival. Classic French movies are projected on a giant big screen in Paris. Different locations in Paris. Festival Classique au Vert classical concerts in the Parc Floral of Paris in August 2019.FREE entry to 60+ Paris attractions plus La Villette Open-Air Cinema Festival in August. August 15th National Holiday in France. Paris Brest Paris August 18 to 22, 2019. Bicycle race between Paris and Brest. Festival Rock en Seine 2019 rock festival August 23, 24, 25, 2019, location Domaine National de Saint-Cloud, outside of Paris. Three days of world-class rock and indie music. Célébration de la Libération de Paris is a celebration ball August 25th, front of the Hotel de Ville in Paris. Ariana Grande in concert in Paris in August (August 27, 2019) venue AccorHotels Arena. Jazz à La Villette August 29 to September 10, location La Villette, Paris. Jazz festival. Festival Silhouette film festival in Paris in August (from August 30 to September 7, 2019, location Parc de la Butte du Chapeau Rouge, free films and concerts, short films. Arc de Triomphe Bois de Vincennes Bois de Boulogne Jardin du Luxembourg Philharmonie de Paris

Now in her mid-60s, French actress Fanny Ardant’s sex appeal and charisma are just as potent as ever. And in Marion Vernoux’s Bright Days Ahead, Ardant radiates as a woman who finds herself entangled in a torrid affair with her much younger computer teacher (played by Laurent Lafitte). Known best for her roles in such films as Francois Truffaut’s The Woman Next Door or Confidently Yours, over three decades later she brings a sultry bite of life into the character of Caroline, who despite having a loving husband (Patrick Chesnais) and fulfilling life, has an appetite for intensity, and when her daughters give her a membership to a local senior’s center after her retirement, finds that the next phase of her life may close the door on the past. As a subtle drama that questions our identity as we age and how our desire grows as we do, Vernoux’s latest feature offers a fresh examination of a woman embracing the future without fear. Last week during the Tribeca Film Festival, I sat down with Ardant and Vernoux to chat about everything from following desire like a dog in the forest to Ardant’s love for the Batman trilogy. What about the novel did you connect with think would make for a good cinematic adaptation? Marion Vernoux: For this film, it was the producer who came to me and asked me if I would be interested in working on it. I did the first reading of it and thought, well, why did they come to me, what were they looking for? When you approach a project like this, you have to really live with it for a year or two or sometimes three, but on my second reading of it, something really clicked for me and I realized that I could do it and would do it and what approach I would take. What clicked for me was the idea of the character of Caroline as projection, both in terms of what you’re seeing of her on the screen but also as a projection of something that could possibly happen in the future. Fanny, what attracted you to the story and the character of Caroline? Fanny Ardant: When I first read the script, I loved the story and I loved the part of Caroline. So after I met Marion and two or three things that she told me about, I loved it. I love this kind of trio between husband and lover, and I loved the itinerary of this lady. So it’s always a very mysterious the reasons why you accept to act a part—instead of when you refuse it, that’s very clear. But when you accept it, you feel that you are going to happy and that is going to be great for you. Caroline was a very layered and interesting woman—how did you and Fanny work together to take the person she was in the novel and bring her to life? MV: From the very first meeting I had with Fanny, I saw that we were really on the same page with this character. We never had any kind of misunderstanding, and we were very frank about our opinions about her and what she was going to be like. This very frankness and openness about the character was something that saved us a lot of time in the process when we were making the film. With the complexity of Caroline, it was something that we both found exactly the same words to describe her. We were thinking of her appetite, her fantasies, her pride, her sometimes very bad character, but we were always on the same wavelength with this. Usually, at least in American cinema, we see this kind of story from a male perspective. Fanny, was it enticing to you to tell to show the flip side of that explore a woman who isn’t afraid of getting older and embracing the new life around her? FA: It’s not such a big deal to have a younger lover. For me, the beginning of the story was very interesting because it was the end of another story. Now we’re seeing what she is going to do with this new life—is she going to cry and say, oh I’m old and retired and everything is finished for me? It depends on what character you have, and the character of Caroline is strong. She loves life even if she’s become older and she’s not afraid of becoming old. She doesn’t want to be a victim and she fights to have an intense life. Even if society says, how to stay sexy until 90, she doesn’t care about it. She’s open to life because life has more imagination than us. So suddenly, not only did she find a sexual affair, but she found friends. She’s able to share wine and speak about life, and feel like life is coming back. Caroline has a real life, she’s not a desperate woman. She had a good job, she was a good dentist, she decided by her self to stop, and she had a good husband, which we see from the first scene. We see these electric feelings between them always, he’s not boring bourgeois. She has two daughters, she had grandchildren, she has a beautiful house, she had everything, but sometimes the only thing that she needs in intensity. Fanny, having worked with so many wonderful and iconic filmmakers and actors, as well as being on the other side of the camera yourself, how do you go about selecting the films you want to work on? FA: I always read the scripts that people send me. I never pass through agents, I don’t trust them. But there are all kind of stories you can receive. For me, I’m not so professional, I follow my desire like a dog in the forest. I’m not at all a strategic woman. Life is short and it’s better to do this job that I love, doing parts that I love. So when you ask me how I choose, I am chosen! And I decide to say yes. Between Fanny, Patrick Chesnais, Marie Rivière, and Laurent Lafitte, you have such a seasoned cast. How did you go about founding out the other characters? MV: For Patrick — I really wanted to work with him for a long time, so when I sent him the script he just said, “Who else but me could do this part?” So that was it. For Julien, it was a little bit more difficult because I wanted to find someone that would be able to play on an equal level. I didn’t want someone who would be a little guy and overwhelmed with all this. He’s not going to be this shrinking little— FA: [mimes] Mama, help! MV: Boy. Fanny is such a strong character, I had to find someone who wouldn’t be this shrinking violet. So that was the trick in casting that part. Laurent is a member of the Comédie Française, so he plays a lot of different kinds of roles and he knows how to put himself into the part. How was the experience of shooting the very intimate sex scenes? FA: As Marion said in the beginning, we had very open conversations about all things in the film. So it was choreographed and it was precise. And I feel very well with my husband and with Julien and they had a good sense of humor. Love scenes are sometimes embarrassing, but if you’re in front of a clever man or a man with good feelings, it’s good. What do you find is the biggest difference between French and American cinema right now? MV: Maybe I was lucky, but the three last movies I saw from the United States were great. It was The Grand Budapest Hotel, Dallas Buyer’s Club and a movie about robbers but I can’t remember the title. I was glad because it’s been a long time since I saw good movies from the United States and I feel like it’s coming back—just for me. And in France, this year was a very good year for French women directors. So maybe this is the main difference, that we have so many women directing films in France. FA: Obviously I never go to see the big machine movies from America. But I must say that I love very much the trilogy of Batman. I think it’s beautiful. If you see the three, it all makes sense—but you have to see the three. I also loved Prisoners, Blue Jasmine, and The Grand Budapest Hotel. America is so big that you always have the opportunity to see movies, but I see more of the underground movies. I also loved The Great Gatsby and The Wolf of Wall Street. So when American cinema arrives to Paris you have a lot of opportunity.

Apr 16, 2001SAN DIEGO Qualcomm products mentioned within this press release are offered by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. SAN DIEGO -- April 16, 2001 -- Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, today announced the on-time sample shipment of the MSM5100™ Mobile Station Modem (MSM™) integrated circuit, including the initial release of the Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) Dual-Mode Subscriber Software (DMSS™) technology and Subscriber Unit Reference (SURF™) development platform. The MSM5100 integrated circuit and system software, along with key components of QCT's Wireless Internet Launchpad™ suite of advanced technologies, provide handset manufacturers and third-generation (3G) 1x system operators with the ability to deliver the highest level of integration for 3G handsets and quickly roll out new 3G services to their subscribers. "The MSM5100 integrated circuit and system software, together with the accompanying SURF development platform, delivers our second generation of 3G multimedia solutions, complementing the MSM5105 device that sampled in January 2001," said Don Schrock, president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. "The MSM5100 solution will enable manufacturers to roll out cost-effective 1x handsets and offers the key technologies of QCT's Wireless Internet Launchpad portfolio, including exciting new services such as streaming video and wireless video conferencing, as well as support for E9-1-1 and high-accuracy position location capabilities." The MSM5100 integrated circuit and system software solution supports data rates of up to 307 kilobits per second (kbps) in the forward link. Capable of providing up to a 50 percent increase in standby times, and up to twice the overall capacity for voice of IS-95A/B systems, the MSM5100 solution will allow manufacturers to develop state-of-the-art 3G handsets that feature the most complete set of positioning, multimedia and other advanced features available in the wireless industry. The MSM5100 solution incorporates QCT's Wireless Internet Launchpad suite, enabling a broad range of new terminal products, applications and Internet services, including gpsOne™ position location solution and Bluetooth™, as well as multimedia features such as Qtunes™ Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG-1) Layer-3 (MP3) player software and Compact Media Extension (CMX™) Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)-based multimedia software. The MSM5100 device also supports the Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless™ (BREW™) applications platform. The gpsOne solution, which integrates SnapTrack™ technology with Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite and network information, provides a high-availability solution that offers industry-leading accuracy and performance. The gpsOne solution provides the world's most available and cost-effective solution for wireless position location technology in a mobile handset for CDMA cellular and Personal Communications Service (PCS) networks, and will meet the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) mandate requiring wireless operators to provide the location of 911 calls (E9-1-1). The MSM5100 solution also enables a broad range of future 3G GPS-related software and services, including navigation information, area-specific weather forecasts, traffic reports and commercial tracking services, as well as a broad range of entertainment applications, including online chat and bulletin boards. The MSM5100 integrated circuit also provides the most efficient solution to integrate Bluetooth digital baseband processing into a comprehensive 3G CDMA integrated circuit and system software solution. Bluetooth is a short-range radio technology that eliminates the need for wired connections between digital devices, and is becoming an industry standard to ensure that computing and telecommunications equipment can communicate easily. Bluetooth provides a universal bridge to existing data networks, a peripheral interface, and a mechanism to form small, private ad hoc groupings of connected devices away from fixed network infrastructures. Optional software from Qualcomm for the MSM5100 solution enables advanced audio features such as Qtunes MP3 player software and CMX MIDI-based multimedia software. MP3 is a standard audio file format for compressing a sound sequence into about one-twelfth the size of the original file with very little loss in sound quality. These enhancements will allow a wide variety of future wireless music applications, including karaoke phones, MP3 player phones and more. The MSM5100 solution also integrates a mass storage device controller, such as a Multimedia Card (MMC) interface, which will provide an effective interconnection to much larger memory space to store MP3 music data or mapping data from a geographical navigation service. The MSM5100 solution is available in a 208-ball Fine-Pitch Ball Grid Array (FBGA) production package, and is pin-compatible with the MSM3300™ IS-95A/B integrated circuit, which will enable handset manufacturers to reduce the time-to-market for highly integrated and feature rich 3G CDMA2000 handsets as 3G networks and services are being rolled out. QCT, a division of Qualcomm Incorporated, is a developer and supplier of CDMA integrated circuits, hardware and software solutions, and tools, with more than 133 million cumulative shipments of MSM chips worldwide. QCT offers wireless position location technology by SnapTrack, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm. QCT supplies chipsets to the world's leading CDMA handset and infrastructure manufacturers including: Acer Peripherals, Inc., ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.; CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.; FUJITSU LIMITED; Hitachi, Ltd.; Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.; KYOCERA CORPORATION; LG Information and Communications, Ltd.; Samsung Electronics Ltd.; SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.; and Toshiba Corporation, among others. Qualcomm Incorporated (www.qualcomm.com) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on the Company's CDMA digital technology. The Company's business areas include CDMA integrated circuits and system software; technology licensing; the BREW applications platform; Eudora® e-mail software; digital cinema systems; and satellite-based systems including portions of the Globalstar™ system and wireless fleet management systems, OmniTRACS® and OmniExpress™. Qualcomm owns patents that are essential to all of the CDMA wireless telecommunications standards that have been adopted or proposed for adoption by standards-setting bodies worldwide. Qualcomm has licensed its essential CDMA patent portfolio to more than 100 telecommunications equipment manufacturers worldwide. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., Qualcomm is included in theS&P500 Index and is a 2000 FORTUNE 500® company traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market® under the ticker symbol QCOM. Except for the historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including the Company's ability to successfully design and have manufactured significant quantities of CDMA components on a timely and profitable basis, the extent and speed to which CDMA is deployed, change in economic conditions of the various markets the Company serves, as well as the other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 24, 2000, and most recent Form 10-Q.

Jamie Lee’s Halloween Gift For Michael Myers! It’s here – the latest “Halloween” film – and the reviews are great! The best part: America’s Scream Queen has grown up! Jamie Lee Curtis became America’s “Scream Queen” in 1978 when the original film was released, and now she is back in the “Halloween” family, returning as her character Laurie Strode, as the film sets up her final confrontation with Michael Myers! Myers is, of course, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. Here is the trailer that sets the final confrontation up nicely: I can’t wait to see this new “Halloween”, and the first reviews have been great…so let’s celebrate by looking back at the first film, and showcase another of Jamie Lee’s great slasher films from the 80’s as well! When “Halloween” was released in 1978, it made Jamie Lee Curtis a star – after all, she screamed her way into our hearts while also fighting back – something that most female characters didn’t do in a film, they just screamed and died! William Shatner, Psycho Killer! Here is some great trivia, provided by IMDB: Due to “Halloween”‘s shoestring budget, the prop department had to use the cheapest $2 mask that they could find in the costume store: a Star Trek (1966) William Shatner mask. They later spray-painted the face white, teased out the hair, and reshaped the eye holes! Shatner admitted that for years he had no idea his likeness was used for this film. It was only during an interview that someone mentioned his mask was being used. He has since stated that he is honored by this gesture! Michael Myers is one of cinema’s great psychos, and what makes “Halloween” work so well is that you truly root for Jamie Lee to survive – a tribute to how well she acted in her movie debut – which IMDB says paid her $8,000 for starring in the film! But after this, she was on a horror role, most notably in this great 80’s slasher: Join Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis On The “Terror Train!” “Terror Train” is a terrific, vicious slasher film from 1980, with some good scares and lots of blood…much of it on legendary Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis! After the phenomenal success of “Halloween” in 1978, Curtis found herself starring in a number of slasher films, and quickly earned the title of reigning “Scream Queen”! Some films weren’t that good, but this one delivered the scares! The plot of “Terror Train” is brilliant in its simplicity: A masked killer seeks revenge against six college kids who were responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier – and lucky for the killer – the kids are throwing a large New Year’s Eve costume party aboard a moving train! This film is helped greatly by a truly creepy looking killer, and an ongoing sense of dread throughout. Check out the trailer: According to the great movie website IMDB, Jamie Lee Curtis once said of her character in this film: “There are certain things a heroine in a thriller has to be. She has to be vulnerable, so that the audience identifies with her and is rooting for her. But she also has to have an enormous inner strength to overcome the evil, or terror, that is pursuing her. I play the same kind of character as I did in other films. But Alana – the girl I play – is stronger and more defined”. Bravo to Jamie Lee Curtis for finding more depth of character, even in straightforward horror films! I love the Halloween season – so many great horror films to enjoy – go to my exploitation website for a look at some classic horror films like this: Yep, they don’t make them like THIS any more – click here to see why! Let me know if you plan to see the Jamie Lee – Michael Myers battle! Categories: 70's Cinema, 70's Music, Action Films, Cult Movies, Exploitation films, Film Fight Club, Great Films, Halloween, Hollywood, Horror films, Independent Cinema, Movies, Pop Culture, Revenge Movies, Talent/Celebrities, Uncategorized

Max Polyakov was very young when he became interested in watching Firefly Tv shows. His watching desire even prompted his parents to demand that he goes out and engage in a few exercises because watching is not healthy for children. Why watching movies is important Despite being addictive, watching movies bring benefits. Some of the benefits are: After watching Firefly Television a lot, Max Polyakov became fond of cinema as well. Viewing films at cinemas is great because: Hall décor: Cinema halls are often decorated perfectly and they are carpeted too. This makes them a perfect place for people to not only go and spend time but enjoy the greatest films also. Cinemas often show the latest productions. Producers and screenwriters like Max Polyakov use the cinema as the 1st place to show what they have produced before they release it on different platforms. Showing a new production at the cinema helps to know people’s reactions. Lastly, there exist home-theatres systems that give amazing sounds and 3D capabilities. However, when it comes to maintaining them, a lot of money is needed. Max Polyakov can find what home-theaters offer at the cinema. Besides that, not even the most creative home theater system can offer what the cinema has to make viewers feel like they are also part of the movie. Max Polyakov chose to commit his entire life to cinema and that was never a bad idea after all. There is no better entertainment than films nowadays and the films industry continues to advance and it is, in fact, the best paying business.

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Directed and Written By: Kelly Fremon Craig Rather than a teen tale of werewolves, sweeping romances, or totalitarian governments, Edge of Seventeen gives us a tale of a depressed teen as she goes through a rough time. 17 year-old Nadine Franklin, an anxious, depressed teen who has her share of troubles; her father died when she was 13, she has a difficult relationship with her mother, she lives in the shadow of Darian (her perfect twin brother) and she doesn’t have many friends. Nadine had a lifeline in her best friend Krista, but that’s severed when Krista starts dating Darian. After Nadine ends the friendship, she begins a journey of social exploration. The best thing about the film is that it allows Nadine to be a flawed protagonist. She makes inappropriate comments, thinks she’s smarter than everyone else, and has the tendency to be insufferable- just like most teenagers. She’s not the whip-smart “quippy” outcast we’ve come to expect in teen cinema- she’s just a girl who feels alone, out of place, and acts out. Nadine feels almost uncomfortably real. This leads to the other great thing about the portrayal of Nadine- she’s allowed to be flawed without punishment. One of the films that came to mind while watching this is Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen, a sensational “teens behaving badly” drama from 2003. Thirteen was also about a depressed teen with a distant mom, but in that film the main character falls into a spiral of sex, drugs, and crime that almost ruins her. Acclaimed at the time, the film feels like a moral panic story now. In contrast, Nadine drinks, but her worse punishment is a hangover. She is sexually curious, but she finds out that her crush without any tragedy or trauma. A different film would have had the scene end in assault, an exploitable trope teen films have the tendency to fall back on. In the case of many teen films, “bad” behavior has to come at a price (see: pregnancy, assault, arrest), and seeing a character allowed to make mistakes with no “moral retribution” is refreshing. The film also portrays mental illness well. Nadine is suffering from depression, and that is exacerbates the conflicts Nadine is facing. Rather than portraying depression as “sad all the time”, we see Nadine exhibit a nuanced range of emotions. The movie understands what a lot of pop culture does not understand: Depression isn’t “bad things make you depressed”; you live with depression, and bad events exacerbate it. The Edge of Seventeen would not work as well as it does without its cast. Hailee Steinfeld, in her best performance since 2010’s True Grit, breathes life into Nadine. Steinfeld makes the character endearing rather than annoying. As for supporting cast, Woody Harrelson turns in one of his better later performances as Nadine’s History teacher, Mr. Bruner. Harrelson plays Bruner as compassionately sarcastic. He understands that Nadine is going through a time and lets her vent, but also recognizes when she’s being hyperbolic. Mr. Bruner ends up being one of her strongest allies and helps her through some of her darkest moments in the film. Unfortunately, it leads to one of the film’s most problematic moments. At one point in the film, Nadine sends an embarrassing message and tells Mr. Bruner that she’s going to kill herself. Bruner responds with a joke. Granted, he had been talking to her enough to know that she likely wasn’t serious, and does give her good advice and reassurance at the end. It can even be argued that his mockery reinforces how people don’t take depression seriously, especially when it can be written off as adolescent angst. But in a film that deals with depression, flippant remarks played for laughs goes against the message. The other problem is that “nice guy syndrome” sneaks into the end. Throughout the film, Nadine flirts back and forth with her classmate Erwin (Hayden Setzo, the only non-white member of the cast). It’s clear that he likes her and knows she’s going through a rough time, so he respects her space. That is, until the resolution of the film, which brings their relationship to a jarring climax. Nadine goes to an animation festival, where he presents his piece: an animated movie about a love-struck alien who, after repeat rejections, saves his crush- only to reject when she finally comes around and asks him out. It reeks of the Nice Guy complaint (in which one asks: “I’m a nice guy, why won’t she date me?”) and comes across as mean spirited. Considering Erwin was genuinely kind to Nadine, his movie comes across as out of character, and almost ruins what was a sweet relationship. One should note that like Nadine, Erwin is 17, and isn’t perfect or fully enlightened- if Nadine is allowed to be flawed, so should Erwin. But the filmmakers should have considered the potentially toxic message it adds to the film. What hurts the film most though, is the ending. The issues with her family and Krista are resolved without much conflict, and Nadine gets “better” much too easily. It just feels too neat for a film that allowed its protagonist to be so messy. Perhaps it may have been stronger if the film’s ending was more ambiguous, with a glimmer of hope instead of the reassurance of tidy resolution. Overall, The Edge of Seventeen is a movie worth watching, despite some glaring flaws. Teens are complicated and sometimes contradictory- it makes sense that films about them may be the same. The film still rings true in a way that many teen films do not, to the point where it is uncomfortable how familiar it seems. It’s a film that speaks to how teens may feel, rather than what they wish for.

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Inside Job (2010, Charles Ferguson) Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job has all the handily digestible hallmarks of a bit of prestige documentary cinema, with the caveat that it’s a relatively straightforward, even artless digression in regard to the gradual development and tipping point of the 2008 financial crisis that sent America and the rest of the world hurtling into recession. Not a matter upon which there’s a dearth of material, but the pedigree of Job as a significant bit of widely noted and persuasive filmmaking would seem to place it a cut above the onslaught of smaller-scale projects and stories we’ve plowed through in these last four years. This is only partially the case, but the movie comes out well enough most of the time; just don’t expect it to cover matters too far beyond the superficial-end ideas of accountability and societal implication, largely because the film intends to be a bite-sized morsel well under two hours and hasn’t the time to give these topics the depth they deserve. Ferguson spends a good bit of screen time giving us the white-collar tomfoolery we’ve by now come to expect — lots of comical excess and obscene bonus-sharing on the part of Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs executives, trotted out later before Congress for some dutiful finger-wagging. But we listen to Marketplace and read Fortune; what can this movie tell us? Its prime virtue is its impressive and miraculous explication of the cause-effect and nuts and bolts of the crisis itself — what happened, when and why it happened, and what deep down it really means. Through lucid narration and friendly colorful diagrams, it all becomes elegantly clear; that alone may prove the bulk of Inside Job‘s legacy and goodwill, to make the unknowable (to the layman) familiar, even if somewhat streamlined. Where the film falls short is in the gradual unspooling of its focus; though the pace is flawless throughout, never boring even when the most arcane matters are under discussion, there’s a sense that Ferguson has only sporadically lent us an unobstructed view of what the real impact of all this was. There is eventually a nod or two to unemployment, the hefty tax burdens, the general approach of unexpected squalor, but as seems so often the case in performances like this of recent history, we don’t seem to have removed the glasses fully just yet. Sure, the story’s incomplete partially because we can’t know how it will all extrapolate in the decades to come, but more individuals played a role here than corporate executives and politicians — we did too. It’s nevertheless a credit to Ferguson that, without overreaching, Inside Job manages to feel genuinely passionate and vindictive. The feeling is strongest, bravest during the material, tangential in some ways to Ferguson’s thesis, dealing with the under-reported corruption of economic academia, something we rub up against during the revealing interviews that run throughout, featuring tellingly squirmy moments from Martin Feldstein and Frederic Mishkin, among others, while the specters of Greenspan and Paulson loom menacingly behind. The bald conflicts of interest explored in this section are fertile enough to provide material for their own feature film; the vicious-cycle feeling of hopelessness given off feeds one’s energetic need to do something, anything. Therein lies the film’s power to educate and infuriate. Is it cinematic? Does it have a lot of shelf life? Not sure, but spend a lot of time around its well-warranted bleakness and you start to wonder if it matters, if we’ve got much shelf life ourselves. By the close, you start to feel trapped; as narrator Matt Damon puts it, “For the first time in history, average Americans have less education and are less prosperous than their parents.” That’s too sobering and too pointed a sentence to dilute by questioning its artistic place in the world; that’s an undistorted mirror of where we are, right now, and even if he can’t do much of a damned thing about it, Ferguson is determined that you stare straight into it and wake up tomorrow remembering the things he’s told you. He’s done so skillfully enough that you almost certainly will.

State University of New York at Oswego Assistant Professor, Latino Literatures and Culture and 20th Century & Contemporary American (U.S.) Literature The Department of English and Creative Writing at the State University of New York at Oswego invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Latino Literatures and Culture with a dual specialization in Twentieth Century & Contemporary American (U.S.) Literature. Review Date: Review of applications will begin November 1, 2014 and will continue until the position is filled. Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience. In addition, the State University of New York provides an excellent benefit package. For more information on benefits for full-time UUP faculty, visit: http://www.suny.edu/benefits/ Date of Appointment: August 17, 2015 Description of Responsibilities: The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for teaching the core courses in the English major, College Writing, and advanced courses that focus on national and global literatures. Additional responsibilities include advisement of students in the major and department and university service. In addition, this position will be expected to display a demonstrated potential for excellence in teaching and scholarship, commitment to undergraduate and/or graduate education, and possess communication and interpersonal skills sufficient to work effectively with an increasingly diverse array of students and colleagues. Required Qualifications: Ph.D. degree by time of appointment. 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You are here probably by accident. But possibly you are here because you actually do want to read 600-some-odd words about “2012.” In which case, bless your heart. Not to be confused with “2010,” the sequel to “2001: A Space Odyssey,” nor with “2112,” the dippy and vaguely Ayn Rand-influenced but nonetheless ass-kicking hard rock album (and seven-part suite of the same name thereon) by Canadian power trio Rush, “2012″ is a new disaster epic from disaster-epic enthusiast Roland Emmerich, and presumably the disaster epic to end all disaster epics, at least until the next one arrives. Did I say “disaster epic” too much just then? Hardly. I was going to call Emmerich a maven of the form, but to reflect on his directorial career is to be reminded of the important differences between ardor and adroitness, between the prosaic and the poetic. We know he is a guy who enjoys making movies about moments on calendars, like “Independence Day” or “The Day After Tomorrow” or “10,000 B.C.” or, indeed, 2012, the year in which the current millennia-long cycle of the Mayan “Long Count” calendar will conclude, possibly prompting apocalypse. And we know he has a taste for Our Worst Fears Brought to Life, having directed Godzilla in “Godzilla” and Mel Gibson in “The Patriot.” By now we also know that the banality of Emmerich’s cataclysmal imagery is so entrenched that even the act of pointing it out has become banal. Go ahead and say you’re jaded to gaping urban earthquakes, mile-wide ash clouds, super tsunamis and other soulless digital obliterations of man-made landmarks and large groups of people. That won’t stop Emmerich and co-writer Harald Kloser from making more. To this end, they’ve gathered the charitably game actors John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Oliver Platt, Tom McCarthy, Thandie Newton and Woody Harrelson, and embroiled them in a chore-like parable of turbulent political progress, multicultural cooperation, unpleasant sacrifice, and, most importantly, the healing of a broken family. (The human family. Eh?) Here, as told in 10 carefully selected lines of dialogue, is how it goes: “Nutrinos have mutated into a new kind of nuclear particle. They’re heating up the earth’s core.” “It’s the biggest solar climax in recorded history.” “Don’t you see the signs?” “California’s going down!” “All our scientific advances, our fancy machines! The Mayans saw this coming thousands of years ago.” “We’re gonna need a bigger plane.” “It’s a brave new world you’re heading for, and the young scientists are gonna be worth 200 old politicians.” “The director of the Louvre was an enemy of humanity?!” “Everybody out there has died in vain if we start our future with an act of cruelty.” Yes, one of those lines is a nod to “Jaws,” the original blockbuster. Thank you, “Jaws.” So is cinema officially, catastrophically extinct now, or what? No, of course not. In fact, there probably is some genuinely awe-inspiring thing being projected on a screen somewhere, or at least being uploaded to Vimeo, right now. It’s just a matter of finding and sharing it — and allowing “2012,” meanwhile, to enjoy the expensive privilege of proving its titular distinction. You don’t need the Mayan calendar to predict an annihilative opening weekend here — after which there should be no confusion whatsoever between this movie’s maker and the great speculative fictioneer Arthur C. Clarke (not to mention Stanley Kubrick), from whom he remains so evolutionarily far removed. But every time I imagine Roland Emmerich at work in his natural habitat of postproduction, I’m still going to hear Rush frontman Geddy Lee in my head, shrieking, “Our great computers fill the hallowed halls!” I guess the take-home message is: Let’s wait and see what happens in another hundred years.

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Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by Matt W., Oct 5, 2018. "Avatar" was one that really pulled people into theaters - people wanted to experience the 3D... I was stunned by this film. It's an extraordinary piece of work. As for the color, I applaud the work that was done. For the first time, I felt as if these men weren't distant relics from the past. Rather, they were living, breathing people, and the addition of sound and the colorization were vital to that result. And seeing, in the post-film feature, the attention to detail placed on getting every color as authentic as possible gives one confidence that the picture we're seeing is as accurate as humanly possible to the real thing. Bravo, Mr. Jackson & company. This will make a profound difference in how future generations connect with that moment in history. Overheard an assistant to a history museum discussing the role "TWNGO" in revisiting old footage for future exhibits [obviously costs to restore!) to increase awareness of the Past for future generations. One of the lovely byproducts of this is that Jackson went ahead and restored (but didn't color or add sound to) the entire archives of the War Museum. Some 100 hours of previously scratchy, herky-jerky film is now available for educators, film makers and others to access and use in a beautifully restored format. Picked up the dvd and marvelous stuff indeed. Still think The Monocled Mutineer would have made a great BBC companion piece. It's amazing what added sound can add (as well as image restoration and speed correction)... check out this footage from NYC and area just a few years before the war broke out in Europe... No facial close ups, or talkin, lip readers can decipher. But incredible non the less. I saw this last week. Thought it was great. Was the physical release last week? The 1986 tv series ( Percy Toplis. based on a true story) aka “The Monocled Mutineer “ is still available as a dvd I would imagine( been out a few years). Trailer is on YouTube. Box Office: 'They Shall Not Grow Old' Passes 'Mortal Engines' As 'Upside' Nears $100M Available already in U.K. as a DVD[PAL format] or Blu-Ray [Region-Free] both included a Q&A w/ Peter @BFI Curious if there will be an optional Steelbook offered US market? Peter Jackson’s ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ Is a World War I Movie for the Trump Era (Column) Interesting piece. And this nails it perfectly for me: At that point, we look at these soldiers’ faces, and they no longer resemble distant scratchy replicas of people in old newsreels. They look like us; they could be us. The message of “They Shall Not Grow Old” is that they are us. To be fair though, WWI was a relatively short war for the US - just over a year and a half. Plus they were only in battle for about a year Yes, once Wilson (who's campaigned for re-election in 1916 with the slogan "He kept us out of war") saw that the German side, he had America jump in in order to get himself a seat at the armistice table in order to push his League Of Nations pet project. UCLA had a free (!) screening last night in the restored Hollywood American Legion building. They ran the full Fathom cut/presentation. Am still digesting it. Was/is this eligible for Oscar nomination? According to IMDb, Peter Jackson worked pro bono. No USA home version (Warner Brothers) distro yet, as far as I can tell. Nice to see it is still Screening somewhere, the story unfolds on a big screen. Sharing the Blu-Ray i picked up (region free) around with those who missed the Fathom presentations in cinema. Yet in that year they suffered 53,000 combat deaths, and over 200,000 combat wounds. Not to mention 3,300 MIA's. Not to mention the death by sickness, accident, etc. Of course the European armies suffered many more, but you can't downplay our part in the victory (just saying, I know you're not doing that). It was a rough year for our doughboys. My grandpa's shipped docked in France on Armistice day, or right after. Anyway he was sent to the front and the shooting war was over. I watched TSNGO yesterday. Hard to know what to say about it, but it was touching. I agree. Last week I drove through a very small town in Oregon, and it was playing on their one screen small theater. A look at J.R.R Tolkien's WWI service and which also influenced his literary and creative work soon into a Fellowship of T.C.B.S into Oxford. There is a book called Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth that is really good as well. I can’t wait to see the new film about him and that period! This is great! But, IMO, the sync would be more authentic if the audio was in mono. My grandfather served as well. Woodrow Wilson's re-election campaign slogan in 1916 had been "He kept us out of war". But by early 1917 it was clear that Germany was going to lose, so Wilson went to Congress to ask for a declaration of war, so that he could influence the armistice treaty. Talk about being born on third base and claiming you hit a triple. Of course if Wilson had just let the war run its course without intervening (which was the attitude of the majority of Americans), the US wouldn't have been one of the entities blamed for the betrayals of Arabs and the artificial countries created in the ME, and might have avoided a whole lot of turmoil and terror. Separate names with a comma.

The General (1926) The General holds the distinction of being one of the two most famous Buster Keaton films ever made, and consequently the one most often seen even by those who might resist silent cinema. And what a film it is. The General spends the vast majority of its hour and fifteen minute runtime in a breathless chase sequence, with stunts that become ever more elaborate as Keaton and his crew risk life and limb for the sake of a good joke. In this new restoration from Kino Lorber and Lobster Films, we can finally watch The General in all its gorgeous glory (and in the original aspect ratio!). Keaton is Johnnie Grey, an engineer on the Western & Atlantic Railroad who loves two things: his engine The General, and his girl Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack). When the Civil War breaks out, Annabelle pressures Johnnie to enlist, but the Confederate Army thinks that he’d be more useful as an engineer than as a soldier. Believing her man is a coward, Annabelle refuses to have anything more to do with Johnnie until he puts on a uniform. Fast forward a year, and Annabelle is traveling on the Western & Atlantic to go see her father, who has been injured further North. Little does she – or Johnnie – know, but The General is the target for Union saboteurs, who steal the train with Annabelle still on board. Johnnie gives chase, vowing to bring back his engine and his girl. The stunts in The General are some of the most remarkable that Keaton would ever pull off, with the comedian riding on the cow catcher, running over the top of the train cars, firing cannons around bends, and setting a bridge on fire. But the stunts also pay off as shocking feats of athletic – and locomotive – prowess that today would take ten stuntmen and lots of insurance forms. The directing and editing of the film plays a large part in The General’s success, maintaining a breakneck speed and elegance that provides a study in continuity editing. The odd quirks of The General – such as Keaton insisting that the heroes be the Confederate Army, because no one would have sympathy with the Union – don’t serve to undermine it. While the Civil War acts as a backdrop, and there is an undercurrent of the South’s heroism, it’s a very apolitical film, more about the triumph of the little man than about any big victory for the rebels. Three Ages (1923) Lesser known than The General or even than the other two films in Kino’s other Keaton collection is Three Ages, an underrated little gem from 1923. Three Ages gently mocks D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance by taking a similar structure and subject matter, telling of universal human experience through three stories from three different periods of history. Keaton here takes on “love” through the lenses of the Stone Age, the Roman Age, and the Modern Age, each depicted with tongue firmly in cheek. The structure is really just an excuse for Keaton to do his stunts, and the plot is less integral to the stunts than in The General or Steamboat Bill, Jr. But the stunts are, as always, glorious to behold, particularly in the climactic chase scenes at the end of each historical sequence. There are also wonderful little bouts of silliness, as when Keaton’s Roman counterpart runs a chariot race by dog sled, or the acrobatic football game in which the slight comedian faces off against the massive Wallace Beery. Three Ages is probably one of the sillier Keaton films, and the episodic structure means that the viewer more or less knows what to expect in each sequence. But without being groundbreaking, it’s also quite entertaining. As with the Steamboat Bill, Jr. and College set, this set from Kino Lorber and Lobster Films features gorgeous 2K restorations of Keaton’s classics, along with a hefty dose of extras on both discs. For the film buffs among us, the audio commentary from film historians on The General is interesting, especially as this is among the best known of Keaton’s works. Three Ages doesn’t receive quite the same attention, though the inclusion of Man’s Genesis, another Griffith film parodied in the Stone Age sequence in Three Ages, is a welcome historical tidbit.Three Ages is unfortunately a visibly damaged film, with several scenes almost obscured by damaged frames. But this restoration thankfully makes even those scenes watchable, and the film is here presented in its entirety. What’s really most impressive and important in these new Kino releases is the beauty and the care that has gone into the restorations. Thousands of silent films have been lost, and many more have disintegrated beyond repair, so even the smallest attempts to preserve silent film history is welcome in the digital age. And these are not small films, nor are the preservation attempts – they are seminal comedies from one of the greatest comedic minds of his or any other generation, presented with loving attention to detail in crisp digital prints. Embrace these films, watch them, buy them. Support the preservation of our cinematic history. We won’t see anything like this again. The General/Three Ages is now available from Kino Lorber.

Robert Pinsky and the Poetry of Psychiatry Post on 23-Dec-2016 Embed Size (px) Academic Psychiatry, 25:3, Fall 2001 173 Robert Pinsky and the Poetry of Psychiatry Neil Scheurich, M.D. Dr. Scheurich is at the University of Kentucky College ofMedicine, Lexington, Kentucky.. Address reprint requests to Dr.Scheurich, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Kentucky Collegeof Medicine, 3470 Blazer Pkwy., Lexington, KY 40509-1810. Copyright 2001 Academic Psychiatry. Images of psychiatrists have abounded in televisionand cinema, albeit largely in the form of variouscrude stereotypes (1). However, although madness,suicide, and innumerable other gradations ofpsychological misery have obviously been prominentsubjects for literature since its beginning, intelligentexplorations of psychiatrists per se, in their modernmanifestation as professional therapists and medicaldoctors, have been harder to come by in seriousction. In contrast, other kinds of physicians have beendepicted powerfully and often sympathetically insuch major works as Sinclair Lewiss Arrowsmith, Al-bert Camuss The Plague, and Aleksandr Solzheni-tsyns Cancer Ward. It is difcult to think of anyworksof comparable stature having a psychiatrist as a sig-nicant character. Although Dick Diver in F. ScottFitzgeralds Tender Is the Night is a psychiatrist (whorather obliviously falls in love with and marries hispatient), it can be argued that the novel is essentiallya tragic love story that happens to contain vague no-tions about 1920s psychiatry (2). The psychiatrist inKen Keseys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is a ci-pher. The view of psychiatrists in Sylvia Plaths TheBell Jar is mostly resentful, but does allow for someambiguity. One must advance to Pat Barkers recenttrilogy Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The GhostRoad, based on the work of World War I (de facto)psychiatrist W.H. Rivers, for a sophisticated and gen-erally sympathetic treatment of its subject. Interest in the medical bildungsromana tale ofthe development and maturation of a physicianhasbeen a signicant part of the burgeoning interest inmedicine and literature. It has been recognized thatmedical students, residents, and physicians mayidentify powerfully with ctional doctors (3). Fictionhas ethical implications that are inseparable from itsaesthetic impact (4). In this sense, it is regrettable thatthere are so few complex and credible role models, either positive or negative, of psychiatrists in seriousliterature. Samuel Shem (5) has lamented the paucityof psychiatrists as both authors of and characters inction and has speculated that realistic psychiatricpractice offers insufcient dramatic possibilities. Healso noted that psychiatrists have themselves veryrarely produced signicant literature (a point towhich I will return). In contrast to prose works, the poetry most com-monly associated with psychiatry has been confes-sional, written by sufferers of mental illness. Most in-famously, American poets John Berryman, SylviaPlath, and Anne Sexton, among others, wrote vividand powerful evocations of depression before ulti-mately succumbing to suicide. However, psychiatryand mental illness have been relatively rare topics forpoets lacking rsthand experience with them. A no-table exception is Robert Pinskys long expositorypoem Essay on Psychiatrists, which comprises aself-proclaimed outsiders reections about psychia-trists and their patients. This poem stimulates dis-cussion of psychiatric issues that are of particular in-terest to medical students and residents. What doesit mean to be a psychiatrist, and what are the publicperceptions of psychiatry?What is the nature of men-tal illness, and what is the relationship of psychiatryto other domains of knowledge and wisdom aboutwhat it means to be human? Pinsky, a prominent contemporary poet and re-cent Poet Laureate of the United States, publishedEssay on Psychiatrists in his 1975 collection Sadnessand Happiness, and it was recently reissued in The Fig-ured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 19661996 (6).Surprisingly, the work has, to my knowledge, gone ROBERT PINSKY AND THE POETRY OF PSYCHIATRY 174 Academic Psychiatry, 25:3, Fall 2001 largely unnoticed in the psychiatric literature. Thepoem contains 464 lines of free verse, divided into 21titled sections of various lengths. Wewill focus on thepoems content, which comprises a constellation ofincidents, reections, and observations related to psy-chiatry. Pinskys themes include, rst, a broad consid-eration of the psychiatric project, and, specically, thevalues embodied in psychiatrists, patients, and thework they do together; and, second, a comparison ofpsychiatry and poetry as means of understandingand approaching life. I will argue that this poem, although not narra-tive in the conventional sense, does function as a po-etic bildungsroman of sorts. Instead of exploring a slowdevelopment of identity (as George Eliot famouslydid for a young physician in Middlemarch), Pinskygenerates a multifarious collection of images and po-tential identities of psychiatrists drawn from the me-dia, from the culture-at-large, from literature, andfrom his imagination. These images collide and strug-gle with one another throughout the poem, to cul-minate in a nal, yet tentative, literary judgmentabout psychiatry and its practitioners. What follows will necessarily be a limited ex-amination of the poem, given that I am specicallyinterested in the poems implications about the con-tested values of psychiatry. Although I will touch onthe contribution of Pinskys language to the poemsimpact, I will focus less upon poetic devices thanupon the theme of the work. There are, doubtless,many other possible ways to approach the poem,which, much like Alexander Popes more famousEssays, may be approached on distinct aesthetic ortheoretical grounds. Literature has lent itself to a number of uses inpsychiatry, chief of which, in terms of volume andsignicance, has been psychoanalytic literary criti-cism; that is, the application of psychoanalytic prin-ciples to authors, as well as ctional characters. Anexample of this is Norman Hollands analysis of apoem by Emily Dickinson (7). In contrast, the litera-ture of general medicine has more often been used toinstill empathy for the experience of illness, as wellas to facilitate a broad examination of what it meansto be a physician (8). The latter is my objective here;that is, to use this poem not to illustrate specic psy-chiatric theories, nor to demonstrate stark ethical di-lemmas, but rather, as an instrument of profession-alism, to catalyze an inquiry into what it means to be a psychiatrist. Because the piece represents a kind ofliterary critique of psychiatry, I wish to respond to iton its own terms, not to beg the question by subject-ing it to a psychiatric critique of literature. Pinskys ambivalence about psychiatry is plainthroughout the poem (for simplicitys sake, I will re-fer to the narrator as Pinsky, since no other identityis suggested, although this identication obviouslymay not be valid). Notable at the outset is his alacrityin declaring, of psychiatrists, that he has never (eventhis is difcult to say / Plainly, without foolishnessor irony) / Consulted one for professional help (p265). The statement, which implies that what followsshould be considered untainted by diagnosis or med-ication, reects the contested authority and interpre-tation associated with psychiatry. In discourse about psychiatry, uniquely amongmedical specialties, ones perspective and judgmentare inevitably called into question; it is necessary todeclare where one stands in the diagnostic situation.Pinsky does acknowledge that many of his friendshave consulted psychiatrists, a fact that appears toprompt his interest; however, he does not mentionever having known a psychiatrist personally or so-cially. Evidently, psychiatry is quite foreign to him,and he speaks of psychiatrists distantly: it seems ur-gent to try to speak / Sensibly about them, about thepsychiatrists (p 265). The poem teems with psychiatrys stereotypes,some challenged and some seemingly accepted. Therst lines seem to recognize and protest the preva-lence of cliches: Its crazy to think one could describe themCalling on reason, fantasy, memory, eyes and earsAs though they were all alike, any moreThan sweeps, opticians, poets or masseurs Pinsky casts about for metaphors for what it isthat psychiatrists do. Do they clear the mind of debris(like sweeps), enable discernment (like opticians), orsoothe and stimulate (like masseurs)? As we will see,Pinsky seems to decide that psychiatrists most resem-ble poets, and it is in that sense that his ambivalencewill crest. Apparently, some stereotypes aremore easily dis-pelled than others. Pinsky rejects notions of theshrink, the religious analogy, and the Viennese Academic Psychiatry, 25:3, Fall 2001 175 accents and beards, which, he says, hardly applyto the good-looking woman / In boots and a knitdress. . . (p 265) But, later, he writes, As far as onecan generalize, only a few / Are not Jewish. Many, Ihave heard, grew up / As an only child (p 274). Andhe relates an incident in which a woman he knew sawa stranger from afarwho was Pink and a bit soft-bodied (p 266)and correctly surmised that he wasa psychiatrist. Encountering such ethnic and demo-graphic caricatures, one senses that Pinsky knowsbetter and perhaps is being ironic, but it is signicantthat he does not bother to repudiate them. Prominent in the poem (and perhaps redolentmore of the decade in which it was written than ofthe current era) is the alleged conspicuous prosperityof psychiatrists. At various times, psychiatrists are as-sociated with expensive running shoes (p 265), ajazzy / Middle-class bathing suit (p 266), and el-egant machines and luxuries, with caroling / Andkisses, with soft rich cloth and polished / Substances,with cash, tennis and ne electronics, / Liberty oflush and reverend places (p 280). Pinsky seems re-pulsed by the thought of individuals making moneyfrom others misery, and he implicitly objects to acommodication of experience that may be a lurk-ing peril in psychiatry, a tendency to view happinessand relationships as things to be bought and sold. Helikens some of psychiatrys cash matters to thosethings that ought not to be sold: Seder / Services athotels; skill at games from paid lessons; / Fast di-vorce; the winning side in a war seen / On TV (p274). In addition to the problematic relationship ofprot and suffering, there is a wider concern aboutthe values embodied in psychiatric transactions. Inthe important third section, titled Proposition, Pin-sky writes These are the rst citizens of contingency.Far from the doctrinaire past of the old ones,They think in their prudent meditationsNot about ecstasy (the soul leaving the body)Nor enthusiasm (the god entering ones person)Nor even about sanity (which meansHealth, an impossible perfection)But ponder instead relative truth and the warmDusk of amelioration. The cautiousYoung augurs with their family-life, good booksAnd records and foreign cars believeIn ameliorationin that, and in suffering This passage powerfully captures the view ofpsychiatrists as soulless and relativistic technicians,committed to no goal or belief system beyond theirpatients satisfaction and their own well-being. In re-cent years, the role of values in psychiatry has be-come widely considered (911). The pretense ofvalue-neutrality in an endeavor such as psychiatry,so closely tied to notions such as empathy, hope,guilt, and responsibility, may carry the risk of moralvacuity. Salient in psychiatry is the inquiry into howit is that one should live, a project that may supersedethe purview of clinical parameters as well as formalethical principles. Pinsky conjures up a kind of moral wasteland inhis likening of some psychiatric patients to thosewhoconsult Ann Landers. He writes that beyond a certainthreshold of consumer goods, such individuals ndthat their capacity / For mere hedonism lls up, oneseems to need / To perfect more complex ideas ofdesire, / To overcome altruism in the technical sense(p 275). He refers to this as a standard of cui bono,which, although seemingly opposite to more Spar-tan or Christian codes, is, nonetheless, rigorous inits own way: It suggests a kind of league of men and womendedicated To their separate, inward duties, holding incommon Only the most general standard, or no standardOther than valuing a sense of the conictAmong standards, a league recalling in its mutualConict and comfort the well-known fact that psychiatrists,Too, are the patients of other psychiatrists,Working dutifullycui bonoat the inward standards (p 276). This is an ugly vision of well-to-do solipsistic pa-tients and their therapists, absorbed in navel-gazingand justicationof themostgeneral standard,thatis, self-interest. Interestingly, in his references to psychiatric pa-tients, Pinsky reects another notorious cliche, thesharp distinction between neurosis and psychosis. Inthis poem, one encounters the Ann Landers clients,suffering from wealth and ennui, but then there arethe mad: Other patients are ill otherwise, and do /Scream and pace and kill or worse. Pinsky concedesthat nothing Helps me to think of the mad otherwise/ Than in cliches too broad, the maenads / Andwild- ROBERT PINSKY AND THE POETRY OF PSYCHIATRY 176 Academic Psychiatry, 25:3, Fall 2001 eyed killers of the movies... (p 276). For him, thereseem to be no intermediate steps between problemsof living and raving psychosis. Pinsky also irts with the assertion of a certainphilistinism of psychiatrists, who appear not onlymaterialistic, but also bourgeois. He maintains thatGreek tragedy of course is the sort of thing / Theylike and like the idea of (p 270; my italics). He com-pares a psychiatrist to the mask-like comic char-acter Rex Morgan, M.D. and produces a bit of vapid,wooden dialogue between the latter and a youngwoman whom he takes to a concert (p 271). Else-where, psychiatrists are depicted, somewhat conde-scendingly, as engaged in activities like recyclingtheir garbage, / Voting, attending town-meetings (p273). Psychiatrists have good sense, and are solidcitizens, albeit dull and unimaginative ones. Thecharge of philistinism is put most bluntly in the fol-lowing: But after allwhat cultural life and whatFurniture, what set of the face, would seem adequateFor those who supply medicine for misery? In this passage, one of only two references to so-matic therapy in the poem, psychiatrists are locatedsquarely on the scientic side of the two cultures,and are made to seem quite oblivious to humanisticand cultural subtleties. The implicit charges of moral relativism andpurblind philistinism dovetail in an arresting com-parison of psychiatrists to cowboys. Pinsky writesthat psychiatrists are stock characters like cow-boys. . .Like a cowboy, the only child roams / Thelonely ranges and secret mesas of his genre (p 275).The simile seems based on a common presumptionof lawlessness: in the popular conception,...

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Adiós, Catalonia! In the Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War In 1939, 350,000 Spaniards went into exile. Many Anarchists took refuge in Latin America — in Mexico, Argentina and Chile. Here is a personal memoir of an Anarchist family escaping Franco’s fascists and the horrors to come. Part I. Catalonia! At last we were ready to embark. We would leave Catalonia, Europe. We had been notified by the Greek Shipping Company that our ship “Artemiss” would be sailing out of Marseille in the next 12 hours. My father called Anselmo Palau and they agreed to mobilize our people in three hours. Probably the Basque were already boarding. Then he called our friends in the Jewish Emigration Agency and gave them precise instructions to get the children onto the pier and keep them together until they boarded the ship. We were very careful of our arrangements for fear of Nazi spies, or that Franco’s agents would prepare a trap as we passed the coast of Spain on our way out of the Mediterranean. My mother was worried about our luggage. It contained our new French clothing, our only possessions. She had found a silk Russian peasant shirt for me; my father had dressed me in it and taken me to a professional photographer for a commemorative photo before we left Paris. Now when I see that photo, in sepia, 45 years later, I notice how old and tired I looked for my age. We embraced Otilia and Josep Marinet. During our wait in Marseille we had been staying in their house. Otilia cried as she gave me a little bundle with sweet rolls. “I will see you again, Otilia. I will always come to see you!” I promised as she kissed me. My mother and Otilia hugged each other. The men shook hands. “Good luck, Commander.” “Thank you for everything,” my father responded. It was about two in the morning. A taxi, driven by a Spaniard, arrived silently. Inside, the car smelled of garlic, tobacco, and oil. Fog hid the houses. The streets were wet. I saw last the lights of the Zoco. Sudden blasts of the fog horns told me we were near the docks. A grey, cold, damp mass of mist enveloped the pier and the warehouse where, already, many of the refugees waited to board. We could not see beyond the pier, but the lights of the “Artemiss” cast soft, white beams across its structure. The ship looked small, but tough. Its white funnel had two blue lines, and on the bridge we could make out the Captain supervising the embarkation. Gusts of wind pushed heavy salty balls of fog. We were shivering, but we had to wait until the French authorities approved out papers. Several men, still in bandages, came walking slowly, supported on the arms of their families. All the children looked pale and were trying to keep warm under layers of woolen sweaters and gloves. We were alarmed by two approaching trucks. A band of fierce and extremely young-looking men and women got out. They saluted with military precision and shook hands with my father and the Basque leadership. Then in clear Spanish one of them said, “Salud, comrades.” I was struck that they all had pistols in their belts. Then I realized they were the escort to the contingent of refugee Jewish children. Now the children were coming down. They formed a column. A young girl, no older than 14, carried a white and blue banner; the first time I saw what was to become the flag of the State of Israel. Stark in the odd light they marched, each with a knapsack. At the end of the column several youngsters carried the smallest of their warrior platoon on their shoulders. A French officer came down from the ship. Saluting everyone, he started checking his passenger list. A line formed. I saw Coco and his parents. We both looked for Pilar. She was with her mother. Pilar waved to us. We blew back big spectacular kisses and jumped up and down like clowns to make her laugh. People started climbing the metal ladder onto the ship. A rare excitement came over me when it was our turn to board the “Artemiss.” There were over 200 persons, and they filled the two decks and even the cargo compartment. Food supplies were already aboard. From the top deck I kept track of my friends. They moved fast and soon we were together looking down at the Jewish children saying farewell to their armed escort. No military precision. Now there were tears. We heard painful exclamations in an unfamiliar Eastern European language. The girl with the banner dropped it and embraced and kissed with passion one of the boys in their guard. Aboard they tried to resume their resolute formation, but it was impossible. We realized then how alone these children were. Their only family, perhaps for months, had been the young soldiers of a secret army of antifascists. The Spaniard men and women rushed to embraced the Jewish children. Following what was probably their last instructions, the youngsters drew together and sang a slow, deeply stirring hymn in Hebrew. It was not a farewell, but an expression of hope, of victory. The Greek sailors closed the rails. The ship was moving. Down on the pier the young men and women of the Hagganah raised their fists. Spontaneously from the ship we began singing the International, in Euzkadi, in Spanish, Coco, Pilar and me in Catalan. The ship’s horn blew several times. We were still singing as we disappeared into the fog, the pier a flickering of lights. Then it was dark. We were too excited to go to sleep. While our parents made arrangements in the cabins, we went looking for the Jewish children. They had been given one of the largest rooms, formerly a recreation, social area when the ship cruised tourists between the Greek Islands. Cots and partitions were efficiently distributed. The older girls were accommodated on the upper deck, practically in the open. Some of the supervisors of the mission were American Quakers. I was surprised to see these religious workers aboard. We were used to the indifference of the western world to the plight of the victims of Fascism all over Europe. It was not difficult to communicate with the Jewish children, Most of them spoke French or English, and soon we were all exchanging names and misadventures. I shared my sweet rolls with Chris, a Czech boy. Rapidly we discovered something in common; we liked books. My heavily accented French made him laugh. Coco introduced me to a blonde girl from Silesia. She told us, to our surprise, that her father had been in the Thaelman Battalion that fought in Spain with the International Brigades. By now he was probably in Palestine, the final destination of all the Jewish children. It was about five in the morning, still dark and foggy, that we felt heavy and sleepy. There were people all over the ship. We separated, looking for our cabins. Finally, I found my parents. They were having coffee in what had been the bar, now an improvised food station for everyone. “There you are,” my mother exclaimed, while urging my father to get to our cabin. I had no sense of location. Everything was grey, and only the vibration of the ship’s engines gave any indication we were moving. Our very small cabin had only two bunk beds and a cot for me. The porthole was wet, big drops of condensed humidity hung everywhere. I was tired and cold. Fortunately, the cot was warm with an extra blanket my parents had gotten for me. I awoke in a pale yellowish light that illuminated the cabin. I found a note, “Come to lunch. Kisses, Your Mother.” She always left me kisses. What time was it anyway...? I felt somewhat dizzy; my stomach grumbled. I wanted to drink something cool and refreshing. I found my pants — still short and stupid — my white shirt and, just in case, my blue pullover. Now was the time to wear my tennis shoes. Well, I was ready, but as I opened the door I was taken aback to see nothing but the greenish ocean and a pale sun struggling to pass through the mist. The air was damp, warm, and, in a few moments, I felt all sticky. The moving sea made me rather cautious. I walked close to the wall and held on to every available piece of support, pipes, rails, a chair. A large number of people had gathered at the stern of the ship, just sitting, perhaps enjoying the open air, the freedom, the mystery of the sea. The mess hall was full of men and women in animated conversation. Laughter and the clatter of dishes and silver dominated the place. The vibrations of the engines were very noticeable here, but everybody was happy to be on the move. We were aiming to cross the Mediterranean and, hugging the coast of North Africa, rush into the open Atlantic. The Fascist Navy had a blockade, including Spanish and Italian war ships, but the intense traffic of all kinds of merchant vessels made it possible to escape detection. The British, implementing their doctrine of “freedom of the sea,” managed to keep the hostilities close to Spanish ports. I could not tell what time of the day it was. The “Artemiss” was still in a cocoon of fog, an the sun was weak and pale. Only the fresh, pungent, biting breeze gave me a notion of reality. This was the open sea! We were actually escaping Europe. In one of the little rooms next to the mess hall I found two huge marmites with coffee and tea. I chose tea, using a metal cup, and a strange looking bread roll with poppy seeds, tasting of anise. I came upon a lively group of the Jewish youngsters. At least four chess games were in progress. Onlookers were waiting patiently for their turn to play, all in profound contemplation, observing the moves in ritual silence. Two of the competitors were girls, looking happy and playing with zest. Obviously winners. When someone noticed me, I was silently admonished to be quiet. The etiquette was to be impartial, immobile, detached. The enjoyment of the confrontations was to be experienced only in an inner, secret realm; the observations to be accumulated preparatory of future encounters. I moved away form this enclave of cerebral titans and went looking for Chris or the blonde girl I had met the night before. The first friendly face I found was Anselmo. He was on top of one of the bulkheads with a group of men and women I was sure was already a Committee, reviewing passports and compiling a list of all the passengers. I asked him for Pilar. “She’s still sleeping,” he responded busily. “That’s it,” I thought. Coco was sleeping, too. He had always had the same habits as Pilar. It had always been most mysterious to me. They went to sleep at the same time, woke up at the same hour, and they certainly got hungry at unusual hours, but always simultaneously. Sometime I intended to discuss this with them. It was fun to explore the ship; people looked more content. Only once in a while would the fear of encountering a Fascist raider flare up, when we would see the distant smoke of passing ships. “Hello! There you are. I’ve been looking for you all over the ship.” I turned around. It was the blonde girl. I was pleased to meet her all by myself. “Well,...it’s you. Tell me your name again, please.” “Annelise. Want to lunch with me?” she asked. “Lunch? is it that late? I haven’t had breakfast, but lunch is all right. Where?” “Not at the mess hall. I saw and smelled the food. It’s abominable! Let’s get some kosher sausages, cheese, black bread and pickles, and a beer, all right?” It took me by surprise. I knew of religious diets. After all, in Barcelona even we during Holy Week ate dry cod with garbanzos as an expiatory food. But this was bold, exotic. “Well, all right,” I responded, “but where are we going to get all that? Not on this ship, are we?” “Of course, on the ship. One of the agreements the Refugee Agency made with the Navigation Company was to stock kosher food for us. Toby — you know, that lanky chap — he is the food commissar for us. He sees that all the Jewish children get a strict kosher diet.” It was an education for me. I was fascinated. Kosher food. What a revelation. Annelise started to walk. “Coming?” “Yes, of course,” I said eagerly, following after her. We went to a corner room next to the kitchen, below the main deck. There it was, installed with a sign in Hebrew, German and Czech: “Refectory.” Toby was there, with a young girl as a helper. “You’re late,” he told Annelise, smiling, “but who can refuse anything to lovely Annelise, the Rabbi’s daughter!” Annelise laughed. “Oh now, stop that. I have a guest, Palitos, one of the Barcelona kids.” “Is he a Communist?” asked Toby suspiciously. “No, I’m with F.A.I. (International Anarchist Federation),” I said, fast and proud of my political affiliation. I was somebody among these warriors, chess champions and religious gourmets. “Welcome, comrade,” said Toby, extending his arm. We shook hands with vigor and total commitment to our common struggle. “Well, well, it’s back to the International Brigades,” Toby was a talker, just like me. He could go on and on. “Toby...Toby, we are hungry,” interrupted Annelise. The young man organized our lunch in a small cardboard box with the business logo of “Davy’s,” a well known delicatessen in Marseille. “See you later, Toby,” I said. He raised his fist and responded with a friendly, “Later, comrade.” Annelise and I climbed back to the fore of the ship, and, among ropes, vents and chains, found a spot where we could eat. The sun was now high over us. The delicious breeze played with our hair and Annelise’s skirt. She tucked it firmly between her legs, and we sat munching our lunch. Under the sun, Annelise’s blonde hair shone. Cut short, it revealed her neck so that she resembled a Medieval angel or a page in a fairy tale about a remote Nordic kingdom. Her arms were golden white with a tinge of pink around the elbows. She was observing me, too. Her blue eyes were wide, attentive, alert to every expression on my face. She laughed at my faulty French, and we decided to use English to avoid embarrassing mistakes. We had placed the bottle of beer under the shadow of a funnel vent so that it wouldn’t get warm. We were silent, just eating and smiling at each other. Annelise asked, “How are we going to open the beer?” “Don’t worry, I have a Swiss Army knife,” I responded. With a little flair I removed the metal cap. A small piece of ice was still stuck to the neck. It wet my hand. Annelise took a long sip and invited me to drink. The beer was a Pilsener, with a colorful, elaborate label showing a robust peasant girl offering a large stein of beer. It flowed bitter and harsh down my throat. If it had not been so very cold I would have thrown-up from the abominable taste. “I’m sorry, Annelise, I’m not used to beer. We drink mild red wines mixed with a little water.” Immediately, I recalled my friends, the good times we had in Marseille and, with unexpected intensity, I remembered Sara Ponty. “Wine, eh, like the Hungarians. My dad wrote me about the wine in Spain. He said it was sweet and generous...and made you drunk with less than a bottle. You can drink a lot of beer and not get drunk!” pronounced Annelise in her worldly-wise way. Happily she did not insist that I drink more of the obnoxious beer. I was just about ready to throw overboard all the leftover boxes, bottles and napkins, when Annelise stopped me. “No, wait, wait,” she cried in alarm. “We should put our trash in the container at the end of the kitchen.” “But it will end up going into the sea just the same!” I protested. “It doesn’t matter. That’s the way they want us to do it, okay?” “All right,” I agreed meekly. Annelise wanted to talk. She was interested in something about me, just as I was fascinated by her. “Do you know where you are going in Chile?” I asked as we walked toward the deck. “Yes, we’re going to get visas to Palestine, through a deal with the British.” “Oh no, not the British!” I exclaimed. “Those fellows never keep their agreements. Look what happened to Czechoslovakia!” “Well, it so happens that England wants our trained pilots. Many of them are Jews. So the deal is us, for the cooperation of what remains of the Czech air force!” “I see. Clever...just right!” We laughed. We were mature, realistic. We understood adults. As we walked along the deck, I noticed that few passengers were around, only sailors on duty. Most of the Spaniards were in their cabins or in the compartments below deck. It was time for siesta. To my great embarrassment I, too, felt sleepy. I wanted to take my “nap” and, perhaps later in the afternoon, after tea, to see a movie. “Annelise, would you believe that I must take a nap? Will you excuse me?” I felt childish, like a kindergarten pupil, although I knew that Coco and Pilar were already tucked away in some cool corner of the ship, sleeping, close together. I was jealous. “Oh, go ahead, don’t worry. I’ll visit Toby, and maybe see you later.” I went looking for my cabin. My parents were sleeping. The room was cool and silent. Only the vibrations of the ship’s engines could be noticed, no human noises. As the breeze crossed the rails it produced a small humming sound. My mother’s clothes were draped over a chair. I touched her silky underwear and lay down on my cot. After a few days of cautious navigation we approached the coast of Africa. The ship’s captain, Demetriopoulos — we called him just Demetrio — advised us he wanted to take on more provisions and spare parts and was radioing for permission to dock in Oran. Algeria was, at that time, one of the most valuable colonial possessions of France and of great strategic importance in the struggles of the next 15 years. One of the generators was failing. The problem became evident the night the lights dimmed all over the ship and then kept going on and off. I was just a little annoyed, because it interrupted the after-dinner movie in the dining room, but many feared the blinking would attract the attention of Fascist vessels in these essentially-enemy waters. Now there was open alarm that the Captain would risk the radio, in addition to the lights, and bring the enemy directly to us. Actually, it was more than that. Captain Demetrio had an exuberant social interest in both women and men. He favored the handsomest young men and the loveliest of the girls with invitations to his table where food and wine were exceptional and generous, as were his appreciative touches and caresses. Our cavalier captain had aroused the fiercest distrust latent in our group. After all, our people were not all cosmopolitan radicals, but a mix of different cultural backgrounds. All of us had just disengaged from desperate warfare and were still in jeopardy a common cause and certainly a common enemy, there were the conservative and less worldly among us. A few believed they had put their lives and children in the hands of a corrupt predator. So, at first, the leadership of our group had its hands full coping with both this Greek and the effect he was having on our group. Coco and Pilar’s attempts to enlighten me were not reassuring. My new friend’s casual observation, “Well, classical Greece is still alive!” only served to surround the captain in my mind with an aura of historical significance and special dispensation. Finally, though, it was his very exuberance that manifested itself in his sure handling of every aspect of running the ship in these waters, together with the cool heads of our leaders, who focused attention in this way, that overcame the terrible anxiety of those most fearful. We noticed the weather changing. No more heavy fog, just a morning mist, and, after a little while, the sun shone. It turned hot in the afternoons. We were on the ocean. We saw no other ships except at a great distance but encountered many North African fishing trawlers with juvenile crews who jumped up and down when we passed close to them. Some screamed for cigarettes, and once we managed to float a bundle of “Gauloises” in an empty cookie tin to a fast swimmer. Pilar, Coco, Annelise and I often found ourselves together. Then a young man, Eric Topf, joined us. He was Austrian. His father was in prison in Vienna for participating in the 1934 attempt to stop the Nazis. Eric’s mother had managed to escape Austria and was now waiting for him in Haifa. Eric was a very handsome fellow with dark curly hair, a full face, piercing eyes and impeccable European manners. He spoke a crisp, clear English and a diplomatic French. His father had been an art dealer; his mother an illustrator of children’s books. Eric was very well-educated, and, unlike some of us, he was as comfortable talking about sports as discussing art, politics, and religion. Mystical, with a fine memory, he recited Old Testament passages, Baudelaire, Donne and Whitman, the words accompanied by delicate gestures of his pale, marvelous hands. We were mesmerized by him. He was the favorite young man among the Spaniard girls. My most vivid memory of him brings back a Saturday afternoon dancing party. My friends and I were eager to attend. Pilar loved dancing, and I considered myself a master of the fox-trot. Coco was an expert in rhumbas, and we all had a passion for the exotic art of tango. The loudspeakers of the ship were connected to the radio which could pick up a famous dance music program from Marseille. When we arrived about 30 or 40 young people were already dancing. Some of the Jewish and Spaniard girls were dancing with each other, waiting for the timid young men to summon the courage to ask them to dance. When Annelise saw me, she just said, “Dance with me,” and we were away. But it was not easy to dance with her. She had the heavy style of Eastern Europeans, sliding her feet and making turns to the right with difficulty. She held me too tightly and tended to bend her legs at the most unexpected moments. It was not like dancing with Pilar. When the music finished, Annelise kissed me on the cheek and walked around holding me by the hand. I was embarrassed. She was too beautiful, too blonde, and about two inches too tall. “Annelise, ask Toby to dance. He looks lonely,” I told her. She saw him in a corner, talking with one of the Basque girls. “You think so?” she asked, incredulous. “Just look at him,” I insisted, “He’s talking with one of those boring intellectual Basques.” In spite of her doubts, Annelise went over to talk with Toby. I sidled closer to one of the doors, just in case. Then I saw Pilar with Eric. He has holding her hand, looking into her eyes with total absorption. She was close to him, waiting for the music to start again. When the announcer’s mellifluous voice told his listeners the next number was “pour nous amis, les Englais, ‘The Lambeth Walk’,” couples lined up, eager to trot the silly novelty steps. I looked for a partner and almost bumped into a refined Catalonian girl. I knew her name was Julia and that, for a reason unknown to me, everyone called her Moncha. She smiled and said, “It’s me or Annelise.” The last words of an advertisement for Coty perfumes were fading away, so I just nodded and we got into position. We strutted around the room together with an enthusiastic bunch of other boys and girls. I liked the way this girl danced. She was fast, light and let herself go, moving her body away from me, then closer to me. In the midst of all the kicking and shouting I saw Pilar and Eric at the head of the columns. She was wearing a light green blouse and a white skirt. Eric in his pioneer white shirt and khaki military shorts looked so romantic, so heroic. They matched each other’s beauty. Pilar was happy, playful, and followed Eric in every comic movement. They pantomimed a pair of raggedy dolls. The music became sillier, a little hysterical, and we shouted with tremendous joy, “Doing the Lambeth Walk, Yeah!” The raucous noise attracted the attention of many adults, and some, peering through the doors and portholes, shook their heads, incredulous at the antics of the younger generation. We finished dancing in a frantic burst of energy. My partner held my fingers and, with infinite grace, gyrated around me with a flair of her skirt, ending in my arms. Pilar and Eric ran into each other’s arms and embraced. He kissed her on the forehead, and she reclined her head on his chest. For a few seconds they stood together with their eyes closed. As the radio blared a litany of advertisements, we reassembled. My partner was going to leave me, but I begged her, “Please stay. Let’s talk. Would you dance some more with me?” “Oh, all right. Why not? After all, we Catalonians must stick together.” I could no longer see Pilar and Eric. Then I noticed that Coco was not around either. “Moncha, have you seen my friend Coco? You know, the fellow I’m often with.” “Yes, he’s playing chess, on the lower deck.” she answered, waiting for the next song. “What do you mean?” I asked her impatiently. “I mean chess. You know, rook takes horse; bishop kills horse; checkmate!” she responded, annoyed by my slow mental process. The music started again. This time it was a French waltz with lots of soulful accordions, painful violin solos and a dark feminine voice proclaiming her loyalty to a man who betrays her, abuses her and demands more money. I immersed myself in the dance. I liked Moncha. She had a natural way of accommodating her body with my movements. Once again I caught sight of Pilar and Eric. The four of us were moving closer, but we did not acknowledge each other’s presence. Pilar, just as I had seen my mother dancing in Marseille, had her arms around Eric’s neck, and he had his hands on her waist. Moncha rested her head on my chest. Her hair smelled clean, with a vague aroma of roses. I felt warm and tender towards her. I dared to bring her slightly closer to me, and she responded by dancing just a little slower and resting her nails on my hand, without hurting me. It felt delicious, intimate, a little wicked. Then Moncha was asked to dance by someone else, taller than I. He was one of those rather aristocratic Basque, who smoked and smelled of English tobacco. Moncha asked me with her eyes if it was all right. I winked at her. I felt magnanimous, adult. Pilar and Eric were ready to dance again, but this time they saw me. “Palitos, where you been?” Pilar asked. “Where’s Coco?” “He’s playing chess,” I told her. “Well, let’s go find him.” “My goodness, chess!” exclaimed Eric in disbelief. As we left the improvised dance hall, we found that most of the adults were either in the prow of the ship or down on the lower decks, possibly out of discreet respect for the young, but probably just to escape the irritating mating rituals of adolescence. The air was nice, balmy, and the afternoon sun was still hanging above the horizon. In the tiny library a group of bridge players had taken refuge, oblivious to the tumultuous party on the upper deck. My parents were among them. Going down one of the metal stairs, we found the chess players. They, too, had escaped from the noisy crowd and were engaged in silent combat. Coco was playing one of the Basque girls and was in trouble. He was folded into himself, his knees high on his chair, his arms knotted around them, ferocious concentration in his eyes. Two of the Greek sailors from the ship’s crew had taken on a pair of young opponents. The smoke of their big Turkish cigars was just the right thing for the occasion. Suddenly, Coco moved one of his pieces. The girl responded quickly and confidently. Then Coco roared like a tiger. The Basque girl looked again in disbelief. She had lost. We could not actually see the final positions, but the young woman, flustered, extracted from her blouse a wad of money and gave Coco a 100 Franc bill. He said, “Thanks, your game is great.” One by one, the other games ended. The losers complimented their triumphant opponents. One of the Greek sailors, with some embarrassment, was playing for his defeat. The winner was a very young boy with glasses. They shook hands. It was an agreement to meet again. In some way, though, we were disappointed. Was this like gambling? “Not really,” explained Coco. “You see, we agreed to play only among equal ranking players. That way the rather weak chaps don’t get taken.” We smiled politely, unconvinced. “I’m hungry,” exclaimed Coco. “How much did you win?” asked Pilar. “Oh, about 500 Francs.” “Well, it pays to have brains,” commented Eric. “I lost two games, though. But now I have the money for my project,” Coco told us happily, pushing ahead towards the kitchen to get sandwiches and strawberry sodas for all of us. From that day on, we were a group. Intimidated by Annelise, I wooed Moncha to be our pal. The attraction was Eric who gave dimension and magic to our friendship. Part II. North Africa, freedom and much more The “Artemiss” was now navigating in front of the coast of North Africa, directly across from Spain. War ships of different nationalities crisscrossed our path. We exchanged radio signals, identifying ourselves under the protection of the League of Nations and the agreements signed by most civilized countries. As we slowly approached Algeria, fast French Corvettes drew close to inspect our ship. From the rapid exchanges we could tell that the documentation provided by France was accepted, and we were reassured we would make it to the next port in the territory under French control. Oran had a small port, just a few cranes and buildings around a semi-military installation. The menace of war, of conflict that could break out at any moment, kept everybody in a state of alert. As we passed the quay leaving behind the jetty of open sea waves, we noticed a couple of French frigates, with all the sailors on board eyeing every part of our ship. From the vantage of the “Artemiss,” we saw the city, its well-defined avenues and wealth of palm trees. The cupolas of several mosques were distinctive landmarks, as were the minarets, located so that the call to prayer for the faithful could be heard all over the city. Captain Demetrio was on the upper deck keeping an eye on his crew. A small boat, armed with a heavy machine gun, came close to us, and some French officers, policemen and Navy personnel climbed aboard our ship. My father, the Basque leadership and two of the Quaker women in charge of the Jewish children formed some sort of parliamentary group to deal with the French. The anxious refugees crowded around to hear what the authorities had to say. There was fear of an ambush, of dangerous deals with Franco or, perhaps, even a decision to inter us in a concentration camp. We could hear the French, in pure Bureaucratese, asking for health certificates and visas to port of final destination, but, finally, they arrived at their real objective, a “landing fee” that would make it possible for all of us to “enjoy” Oran during the repair of our ship. “Well, it seems that all is in order. We also have instructions for special care of the Jewish children,” said a man in a pristine uniform, with a loud authoritarian voice. This produced a reaction of alarm among the Quaker women, but eventually it became clear that there was a powerful local Jewish organization, and it had prepared a welcome for the children. “It will take several hours to consult with all our fellow passengers about the landing fee, but we are confident a happy solution can be attained. After all, we are men of the world. We understand each other very well,” declared one of the Basque in eloquent French. Although we were the exploited, he managed to make us masters of the situation, sophisticates, dispelling the image of undesirable troublemakers. “Of course, gentlemen, take your time. We see no need to delay your docking any longer. I will meet with you tomorrow in my office. A car will pick up your representatives. We wish you a pleasant stay.” The officer, his white uniform brilliant in the sunlight under its magnificent gold epaulets, saluted elegantly, and all the French functionaries marched after him, smiling and chatting, relieved to be living in a world of real gentlemen, simple, full of courtesy, and so profitable. That night my parents and I had our dinner in the prow of the ship, where we could contemplate the lights of Oran and listen to the sounds of urban traffic and Middle Eastern music. But the powerful searchlights of the French warships played constantly against the sky above the port and the city, an insistent reminder that war was imminent. The next morning, some of the Basque, the two Quaker women and Anselmo Palau were waiting for the automobile to take them to meet with the French authorities to pay the “landing fee.” Most people, after contributing to the pool of money, left the ship looking for the pleasures of Oran, especially its big open markets, in search of second-hand clothing. Pilar, Coco, Moncha and Eric knocked at my door. My father shouted in English “Cut it out, you spoiled anarchist brats!” Then he pointed to me, “Out, out. See you later.” My mother added, “Tell Moncha I’ll be calling on her mother to go into town.” I splashed my face and hands and washed my teeth in the saline water of our basin. The heat was already extreme, and all the metal parts of the ship were burning hot. Pilar had a cup of tea and a sweet roll for me. The roll had an acrid flavor of cinnamon and molasses. “Moncha! My mom says she’ll pick up your mother to go into town.” “Yes, she knows,” responded my friend. It was then that I noticed two trucks waiting to pick up the Jewish children. The American Quaker ladies were imparting last moment instructions to a group of serious-looking, well-dressed men and women, who had come to escort the children to a reception by the large Jewish community of Oran. Eric was going with us. He wanted to be with Pilar. But other Jewish boys were staying behind. Six of them walked over to meet some young men in British uniforms. Eric pointed them out to us, “Our future army, the Hagganah. As soon as I get to Tel Aviv, I’ll join.” He was very proud. “All right, all right. Come on, let’s go. Come on, Palitos.” It was Coco, already on the pier, waving the 1935 Baedeker of Oran he had found in the ship’s library. Terra firma, immovable and solid under our feet, surprised us. We were all a little wobbly, but, after a bit of duck-walking to keep up with our guide, we left behind the piers, the custom house and the heavy metal fence that separated the port from the city of Oran. Suddenly the sights and sounds of North Africa were all about us. “Now, listen. Let’s agree on what we are going to do.” Coco knew when to take charge. We were attentive but apprehensive, especially me. I did not want to visit museums or, worse, end up wandering in dusty old markets looking for ancient coins or “rare” books. “First, we’ll go to a public bath house....” “What!?” we all exclaimed, hooting in astonishment at this suggestion. Except for Eric, who just said, “We all need it.” That settled it, and the girls agreed. “Then,” continued Coco, “we separate. Eric and I have some business. Pilar and Moncha can go with Palitos wherever they want. But at one o’clock we meet for lunch. Afterwards, delights for all, music, cinema, flamenco!” He pulled out a big wad of French money, his winnings at chess. “We are rich!” shouted Pilar. We were ready to follow Coco to the end of Morocco. Several carriages pulled by diminutive horses were waiting for sightseers. All the horses wore straw hats, while the drivers wore red fez and multicolor Arabian tunics. Moncha ran toward one of the coaches. “Come, let’s go, my treat,” she shouted full of excitement. Groups of passengers from our ship could be seen here and there along the avenues. Our ride took us to the central area of the city. Big palm trees and impeccably clean gardens had the unmistakable look of European colonialism. As we moved further into the city the European look disappeared. The native population used its distinctive ethnic garb. Women covered their faces. Markets, coffee shops, open-air food stands, donkeys, dozens of idle children in wait for some opportunity, gloomy-looking adults skirting the mendicants. I liked Oran. Our driver knew just the bath house. The proprietor received us at the door. There was a large pool of warm water, individual showers, a steam chamber. We chose the pool. We were given big white towels and gigantic bars of rose soap. A woman offered to wash and iron our clothing while we took our bath. “Sure, why not?” said Coco, “After all we can’t go back to dirty pants.” We were the only customers. Awkwardly, we boys set aside our clothing and jumped into the pool. The girls giggled nervously, but followed our example. The sun streamed down through the high glass roof. All around the sides of the pool, set in mosaic, were strange written characters, azulejos, Arabian calligraphy. Coco informed us they were admonitions from the Koran regarding the importance of cleanliness. Suddenly, Coco was swimming and splashing and screaming like Tarzan. In an inexplicable burst of energy, I had a furious water battle with Moncha, and Eric and Pilar moved away, laughing and talking. “Ah-ha, my friends! Soap. Remember soap?” Coco brandished his bar above his head. I began to lather my arms and hair. With embarrassment and disbelief, we all realized how grimy we had become and proceeded to wash ourselves with great vigor. The manager came in and, moving two big levers, unleashed jets of clean water down upon us, all the while laughing at us. “Ah, Spaniards. Dirty, dirty.” And I had thought he was referring to our sharing the bath with the girls. “Palitos, wash my back,” asked Moncha, “then I’ll wash yours, all right?” “Sure, turn around,” and, with utmost care, I lathered my friend’s soft shoulders, gently soaped her neck and, with my little finger, worked around her ears. She submerged and came back up like a dolphin, spitting water and shouting, “More, more! Come on, Palitos. I promise to wash you, too.” Pilar, Coco and Eric were playing a complicated mathematical game based on assigning numbers to the letters of the alphabet and trying to figure out their “lucky” number. “Mine is nine,” said Eric. “Me too!” shouted Pilar. Coco said. “You’re cheating. I know better!” Then the three of them jumped out of the pool, wrapped their towels about them and went to rest in a corner. The manager came in again. “Perhaps the young ladies and gentlemen would care for some pomegranate juice, eh, and some figs?” “Yes,” clapped Pilar. Moncha and I were alone in the water. She said, “It’s your turn.” She grabbed my arms and began to soap my back, my neck, my shoulders. Then my chest. She was very close to me. I shut my eyes but could not manage to withhold a deep sound. In a husky voice Moncha said, “Don’t turn around.” All other noises faded away. I was totally absorbed in this feeling, the touch of Moncha’s hands, aware of her breasts close to my back. She pushed me down, gently shampooing the soap out of my hair. “Are you going to see the blonde?” Moncha asked me. I was confused. “Who...what blonde?” I sputtered. The manager returned, followed by a young girl in a white tunic, carrying a tray with glasses of red juice, ice and a mountain of big black figs. “Ladies and gentlemen, your refreshments.” He motioned the girl to leave the tray on a portable table. As he turned to go, he wagged his finger at me. The young girl remained and approached Pilar. “Violets? Sandalwood? Jasmine?” she offered small vials of perfume. Coco jumped up, “For me, violets, like a Gypsy.” I laughed and joined in, “Yes, yes. I’ll have Jasmine.” Pilar chose Jasmine, too. Eric, somewhat taken aback, asked, “This is acceptable for men?” “Trust me, old man, go ahead,” encouraged Coco. “All right, I choose sandalwood.” Moncha decided on the violets. We applied our perfumes with the greatest delight. “Ah, it’s so good. Oh, delicious.” we exclaimed over the fragrant drops. At that moment it was ecstasy. We sipped the pomegranate juice and cracked the ice between our teeth. The chilled figs were fragrant and sweet. We all looked at Coco, and Moncha said, “Thank you, dear friend.” Coco turned red. Then, breaking the spell, he said, “Oh now, don’t get sentimental. Eric, let’s go, we have much to do.” The woman arrived with our newly washed clothing. Coco prepared to pay, but she referred him to the manager. Now we turned our backs in self-consciousness and dressed quickly. The manager returned with the bill. “Let’s see...five Francs each for soap and towels. Juice and figs, five. And laundry, five. 40?” “Yes, of course,” we all agreed, with a smile and a wink to each other. We were ready to give Coco our share, but he would not accept. As he paid the bill, he added, “Here’s 10 Francs, for the girl who served us and the woman who washed our clothing. Be sure they get it, all right?” The manager whistled, and the women — perhaps mother and daughter — appeared. “The gentlemen have a present for you....” Outside, the morning sun was moving fast. Coco and Eric shook hands with us. “Remember, we meet at one in the Baltic. It’s a restaurant. Anyone can tell you where it is.” “The Baltic? Here, at the edge of the desert?” I laughed. Coco just turned, and he and Eric marched away. The image of Eric moving away, tall, handsome, vigorous, the sun highlighting his bronzed arms, always comes back to me as vividly as if it was the present. Moncha gave me a provocative smile. “Now you’re in charge!” Pilar suggested, “We could explore a bazaar?” Moncha agreed, and we set off. We encountered marvelous bronze objects, praying rugs, incense burners, exotic water pipes and fine silk and cotton shirts. “Look, look,” exclaimed Moncha, pointing to rows of pearls displayed against black velvet in glass boxes. From the shadows, a woman, with a diminutive gold earring in her left nostril, came toward us. I noticed the red dot on her forehead. An Indian. I knew. I had seen them in the movies. “Like my pearls, young fellow? Make an offer...100 Francs?” Although it was Moncha who had expressed interest, the woman had directed her attention to me. We just looked. She moved away silently then and sat in a corner where she could keep an eye on us. We went back out into the sunlight. Someone waved to us. It was one of the Basque children. They were loaded with packages and eating red peppers, onions and morsels of meat from long wooden sticks. “Hello. Come over, have a bite.” But we were much more interested in our own adventure. “See you back on the ship,” I shouted, and we kept walking. We strolled into an area full of big white buildings. There was a Mosque, an imposing administrative palace, and, suddenly, we were walking through an elegant portal. We found ourselves staring into a garden where a very correct waiter was offering cold drinks to obviously wealthy French customers seated at many little tables. “Want a cold drink?” I asked. “Why not, Palitos, let’s find a seat,” agreed Pilar. As soon as we opened the elaborate wrought iron gate a severe looking man, with a pistol on his hip, appeared beside us. In the same barking tone I had heard on the train to Marseille he told us, “No trespassing. Out, out!” A woman looked at us amused. “Those must be the red Spaniard ruffians,” we heard her comment. We stood there for a few seconds, dumb with embarrassment. But Moncha, furious and enraged, turned toward me, arched one shoulder and, in a tone that must have made the walls ring, said, “Hey, red ruffian, come here!” and in front of all the onlookers kissed me dramatically on the mouth. Pilar’s eyes were wide with astonishment. Then in slow, perfect French, Moncha said to the crowd, “Mon macraux, nez pas...!” (My pimp, you know.) There were whistles and applause. We turned and walked out. We retraced our steps in silence until we came upon a large, open cafe with many tables on the sidewalk. There were a number of women seated about. We noticed their elegant European dresses, but then we realized they all had Arabian features. We sat down. A black waitress came over to us and in a low, quiet voice said, “You know, this is not a place for children.” “What? What do you mean?” I exclaimed in anger. “Look around you, see the ladies?” She spoke again in the same quiet tone, pronouncing “ladies” very slowly. “So. They need a drink too!” I heard myself say scornfully. “Besides,” I added in a flash, “I could be a customer for them, you know!” The waitress threw back her head in laughter. She gave up and asked, “What will you have?” “That’s better,” I responded. “Three lemonades, plenty of ice, and maraschinos!” Pilar was smiling faintly, “Palitos! A customer! Come now....” “Why not,” I insisted heatedly. Under the table Moncha kicked me hard in the shin. “That’s why not,” she hissed. Then we all three roared in delight and finally relaxed in our chairs. The passing scene was a busy one. Carts pulled by donkeys, bicycles, a multitude of people continually milling about. We could hear music, cymbals, and the ferocious arguments of nearby merchants. Once in a while a man would approach the “ladies,” and after a brief exchange, they might depart together. We followed them with our eyes, for a clue to the place of their tryst. It felt good to be watching all these exciting people. But eventually Moncha reminded us, “The Baltic...remember?” With sudden daring, I announced, “Let me ask for directions.” I got up and walked over to one of the women, very beautiful, with deep black eyes. “Pardon me, Miss, can you direct me to the Baltic restaurant?” Although it was apparent she did not understand every word, her comprehension was perfect, as was her reply in French, “Any coach can take you there.” We arrived at the Baltic just minutes after one o’clock. Coco and Eric were waiting for us. They had ordered fruits, small pieces of roast lamb, “pita” bread, and yogurt. We enjoyed the meal, but it did not compare to our adventures of the morning. We agreed to cancel the rest of the program. Now we needed nothing more than to return to the ship. It was “siesta” time. Coco and Eric carried several boxes and a couple of long cardboard tubes. “Maps?” I wondered, “What for?” We returned to the ship along with many of the other passengers, exhilarated. The landing fee had been accepted. The generator was repaired. The ship was ready to sail. About five in the afternoon, the Jewish children came back. They carried packages of new clothing, new shoes and boxes of cookies and candies. Sailors were hauling up crates of fresh fruits and Kosher food for the duration of the trip to Chile. The generosity of the local Jewish Agency was evident, but the emotional farewell of the Jewish men and women of Oran to these children was for all of us a reminder of the brutality of Christian Europe. Little did we know at the time of the Holocaust to come. Written in the stars The “Artemiss” sailed about nine in the evening. Life on the ship returned to routine. People reading here and there, bridge players, romances, and for us, the surprise gift of Coco and Eric. Our friends marched us toward the top deck. We carried the boxes and tubes, blankets, even a batch of sweet rolls. “Okay, spread the blankets,” instructed Coco as he proceeded to give us large flashlights and a compass. He brought out a tripod, and low and behold, a telescope, which he and Eric mounted. He opened the tubes and brought out celestial charts. The stars and constellations. He lit his torch and pointed to a star. “Now, what’s the name of that one?” he asked. We were silent. “Now check our position. Are we north or south of the Equator? In the Atlantic?” We got busy looking for constellations. Alternately, we lay on our backs to pick out formations in the sky. Then we would pore over the charts to compare and identify what we saw. “There is Aldebaran! There is Venus!” “Mars!” Moncha shouted. We were caught up in the magic of the starry night. The universe was open to us. We lay there in wordless wonder. Then Eric started to recite. His voice carried the words of a poem in a simple, direct way, without artifice. It was a sonnet form Shakespeare. Looking at Pilar, he spoke, If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The ages to come would say, “This poet lies”; Such heavenly touches ne’er touch’d earthly faces. I moved close to Moncha. Eric moved away, pointed to a star, and said very quietly, “That’s David’s, King of Israel.” This went on for several nights. We could tell we were moving away form Africa, moving closer to the tropics, nearing Central America and, finally, crossing the Panama Canal. Eventually, I noticed that Eric closed his poetry recital every night in the same way. He would pray, Do not let the oppressed retreat in disgrace. May the poor and the needy praise your name. Rise up, O God, and defend your cause. Remember how fools mock you all day long. Do not ignore the clamor of your adversaries. The uproar of your enemies which rises continually. Many years later, when we remembered those moments, Coco told me, “It was the 74th Psalm.” By then, the Nazis had been destroyed. Eric had joined the Army of Israel in 1948 and died in combat, defending his kibbutz, “Star of Hope.” We kept our eyes on the changing constellations and, with the help of our flashlights, spent every remaining evening in our favorite corners on the deck of the ship. Often our parents would come to hear our careful recitations of the new stars we could identify. Sometimes, we fell asleep at our post, only to be awakened early in the morning by the tropical dew. One night, as Moncha and I were discussing the fine points of Castor and Pollex and the story of Leda and the Swan, we heard a commotion. There were shouts, people running, voices out of control and somebody screaming, “Kill him! Kill him!” Most of the noise and the running was on the lower deck, so we could not see what was going on. Moncha, frightened but curious, jumped up quickly and ran down one of the metal stairs towards a large group of people. I followed her. We saw a man with his face bloodied, surrounded by a furious mob. “What happened?” I asked a woman. “None of your damn business! Get the hell out of here!” I recoiled from the harshness in her voice. Moncha took me by the hand, “Come on, let’s go.” We went to the upper deck, and from there we tried to pick up some clue of the incident. We saw captain Demetrio. He held a revolver, and two of his sailors, holding large clubs, were poised behind him. “That’s enough. Come on, move on. I’ll handle this.” shouted the captain. “No, Demetrio,” said a burly Basque, a political Commissar for the trip. “We agreed that discipline was our business!” “Yes, but not lynching.” responded the captain. “All right, take him away, and then we’ll let you know what we’ve decided. Agreed?” insisted the Basque. The culprit, still bleeding from a cut on his head, was taken away by the sailors, while the women taunted him, “You bastard! You’ll die, you rapist!” We walked around the ship, asking here and there what had happened. No one would tell us anything until a young sailor explained, “Oh, that miserable idiot! A real pig! He raped a Basque girl.” He was ashamed even to speak of it. The adults ordered all the children to the mess hall. The Jewish children were with the Quakers. We talked in quiet voices. We knew what had happened. Only Coco, Pilar, Moncha and I knew that the man would be executed. We heard nothing more. People started to fall asleep. Then suddenly we heard a splash into the water. It was over.

WATCH: An International Trailer For Suicide Squad With New Footage Dropped Right now news around cinema is very much all about Batman, Superman, record-breaking box-office and moody action. But a film in the extended DC universe that will drop in August might just be the best of the bunch for Warner Bros. and DC - if the promos are anything to go by anyhow. Suicide Squad has an incredible cast, headlined by superstar Will Smith, the so hot right now Margot Robbie and Oscar winner Jared Leto. It also has buzz, and looks entertainingly nuts. The latest international trailer teases a little more footage ahead of the August bow. Ruth Egan | Web Team | 09:08 AM

Given how deeply held spiritual beliefs may be, it’s comprehensible that depictions of figures of religion may be deeply highly effective but in addition extremely offensive. There are some religions that don’t allow any picture of sure outstanding figures in any respect. Different faiths permit footage so long as they match right into a sure conventional fashion. As Jesus is such a central determine in Western tradition, many artists, writers, and actors have needed to make use of the picture of Jesus to get their message throughout. As you may need guessed, their works weren’t all the time well-received. Listed here are ten depictions of Jesus that induced furor. 10 The Black Christ In 1962, South African artist Ronald Harrison unveiled a portray of Jesus at St. Luke’s Church in Cape City. That will not appear to be a controversial factor to do, however this specific portray confirmed the chief of the African Nationwide Congress, Albert Lutuli, within the place of the crucified Jesus. Tormenting him within the position of Roman troopers have been Hendrik Verwoerd, the creator of apartheid in South Africa, and his justice minister, John Vorster. For his wrestle towards apartheid, Lutuli had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 however was solely allowed to go away the nation to gather it after being given a ten-day launch from a journey ban he had been positioned underneath. The Black Christ brought on an instantaneous uproar. As soon as safety forces turned conscious of the portray, it was smuggled from the nation and toured Europe earlier than being delivered to the UK, the place it remained till 1997. With the portray out of attain, Harrison was arrested and tortured for seven days. Harrison later defended his use of the picture of Jesus: “How could a government that professes to be Christian perpetrate such immoral deeds and inflict so much pain and suffering on its own countrymen simply because its supporters were of another race, another colour, and another creed?” When put again on show in 2007, the portray was as soon as once more met with hostility. 9 Ecce Homo Trafalgar Sq. within the coronary heart of London is a monumental testomony to the imperial may of Britain up to now. Big lions guard a pillar raised to the naval hero Lord Nelson. On three plinths are statues of different figures from the times of the empire, however curiously, the fourth plinth was left empty. In 1999, it was determined that artists would have the prospect to place a statue on the plinth, and the primary artist chosen was Mark Wallinger, who created a statue of Jesus. Referred to as Ecce Homo (Behold the Man), it’s a easy picture of a sure Jesus dealing with the gang earlier than His execution. Instantly, there was controversy concerning the statue. It was round 183 centimeters (6′) tall, and among the many grandeur of the sq., this made Jesus look small and weak. One viewer stated, “You couldn’t put your faith in someone like that, he’s weak as a kitten.” One other stated, “He’s a typically broken, lily-livered, Anglican Jesus.” Surprisingly, criticism didn’t simply come from the spiritual however from the artwork world as nicely. Sir Roy Robust stated, “Only people totally ignorant of the square’s very definite theme could have chosen something so glaringly inappropriate.” Regardless of the shock of the human-sized statue, many got here to like it and located it profoundly shifting. The statue was later displayed at St. Paul’s Cathedral. eight Jerry Springer—The Opera The Jerry Springer Present was by no means recognized for its tastefulness. It’s maybe not shocking that a comedian opera based mostly on it and that includes Jesus, Mary, and God would show to be controversial. The opera follows Jerry Springer as he makes an attempt to heal the rift between good and evil as he descends into Hell. Sadly, many individuals discovered the thought of Jesus and Jerry collectively just too offensive. Many notably disliked the truth that the actor who performed Jesus within the third act additionally portrayed a person who clothes like a child within the first act. Regardless of profitable many awards when first delivered to the stage within the UK, the opera was quickly the goal of protests. The present’s biggest trial got here when the BBC determined to movie and present Jerry Springer—The Opera in 2005. Some 55,000 individuals complained to them, and authorized instances have been introduced towards the company. When this did not cease the opera from being broadcast, a personal prosecution was launched towards the top of the BBC, although this was additionally thrown out of courtroom. 7 Final Supper In 1989, Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin created a collection of 12 pictures displaying biblical scenes in a contemporary setting. This may need been novel however not provocative if she hadn’t used gay and transgender actors. Instead of a standard pieta scene of Mary holding the physique of Jesus as He’s introduced down from the cross, she is seen holding a Jesus who has simply died of AIDS in a hospital. The photograph which was the main target of the controversy was Wallin’s Final Supper. Jesus is proven sporting excessive heels and sitting right down to a meal with transgender and cross-dressing disciples. The photographs have been proven in Uppsala Cathedral and lots of different church buildings in Scandinavia however attracted quick criticism. Whereas many have been in favor of the picture of Jesus as a help for society’s outsiders, they might not see previous the fashion of the photographs. The artist acquired dying threats for her work. Many galleries which have sought to show the pictures have been threatened with assault or protest. 6 One Nation Underneath God The separation of church and state is a reasonably large deal in the USA, even when nobody agrees fairly how giant that separation must be. So when Jon McNaughton painted One Nation Beneath God, he knew it will be controversial. Within the portray, a Jesus in full glory is seen holding up the US Structure and backed by nice figures from America’s previous. Sitting on Jesus’s proper at His ft are a set of hopeful figures like moms, academics, youngsters, and farmers. To Jesus’s left are those that have let down the promise of Jesus and the Structure. These evil figures embrace such depraved individuals as Supreme Courtroom judges, a journalist, a Hollywood sort, and a professor holding a replica of The Origin of Species. Oh, and Devil is with them. It isn’t a delicate murals. One Nation Beneath God instantly sparked individuals to make enjoyable of each the portray and the concept it represented. Most of the proud American historic figures, resembling Jefferson, had a tough time believing in Jesus as an lively deity. Others mocked the trite message McNaughton was trying to unfold. Fortunately, parody variations are extensively obtainable. 5 The Final Temptation Of Christ The Final Temptation of Christ was a movie by Martin Scorsese which was launched in 1988 to protests. The film exhibits a Jesus who collaborates with the Romans within the crucifixion of Jews, has lustful ideas, and is deeply human. A number of giant chains of cinemas in america refused to point out the movie. In New York, there have been protests and counterprotests. Individuals confronted off with indicators saying “Blasphemy” and “It’s only a movie.” A number of nations banned the film from being proven for a number of years, and a ban continues to be in place within the Philippines and Singapore. In France, there have been assaults on theaters displaying the movie. The worst was in Paris, the place an incendiary system went off, inflicting a critical hearth that harm 13 individuals, 4 critically. The cinema was closed for a number of years for repairs. Different acts of violence have been reported at different showings in France. four A Hearth In My Stomach Video artwork doesn’t often make headlines, particularly 20 years after it was produced. In 2010, nevertheless, David Wojnarowicz’s A Hearth in My Stomach was one of the crucial talked-about items of artwork in america. The Smithsonian had placed on an exhibition on the Nationwide Portrait Gallery that included the 13-minute-long piece. Few individuals outdoors of the artwork world would have heard of it have been it not for the anger that a part a number of seconds lengthy provoked. The scene in query confirmed a crucifix with ants crawling over it. For William Donahue of the Catholic League, this was an excessive amount of. He declared the piece an act of hate speech towards Christians. Numerous right-wing members of Congress joined the requires the video to be faraway from the exhibition. With their funding underneath menace, the Smithsonian did withdraw the paintings, inflicting an enormous backlash towards them from the artwork world. Different artists represented within the present tried to have their work pulled as nicely. In lots of respects, the act of censorship backfired, as an paintings that may have in any other case been little-known turned world-famous. three Ecce Homo Not all controversial artworks have a provocative message that causes the storm that springs up round them. In 2012, a fresco of Jesus entered into widespread tradition for all of the flawed causes. The portray by Elias Garcia Martinez had sat in a church in Borja, Spain, with out attracting any consideration for many years. With the passing of time, the portray was affected by flaking, so a faithful parishioner determined to provide Jesus a facelift. The try by 81-year-old Cecilia Gimenez was so amateurish that police at first suspected vandalism. Quickly, the Web obtained maintain of the comically restored fresco and dubbed it “Ecce Mono”—“Behold the Monkey.” Cecilia Gimenez claimed that the parish priest knew she was trying the restoration. Her work had an unintended aspect impact when it sparked a vacationer growth within the city. The church started to cost guests to enter, and native companies did a great commerce in branded gadgets. 2 Alexamenos Graffito Artists depicting Jesus in an unflattering mild just isn’t a brand new phenomenon. The truth is, what would be the earliest pictorial depiction of Jesus on the cross can also be some of the offensive to believers. In a dig on the Palatine Hill in Rome, archaeologists found a bit of plaster with a picture and writing carved on it. Above the textual content saying “Alexamenos worships his god” is the image of a person kneeling beneath the determine of a crucified man—a person with the top of a donkey. The Alexamenos graffito, because the drawing turned recognized, has been dated to round AD 200. We’ll by no means know who Alexamenos was, however we will work out what drove the artist to depict Jesus with an ass’s head. For the Romans, crucifixion was a humiliating demise, and the thought of worshiping somebody on a cross was ridiculous in itself. There have been additionally rumors that the Christian god had the top of a donkey. The Roman scholar Fronto stated, “The religion of the Christians is foolish, inasmuch as they worship a crucified man, and even the instrument itself of his punishment. They are said to worship the head of an ass.” 1 Piss Christ What do you get for those who combine a crucifix with a jar of your personal urine? For Andres Serrano, he ended up with worldwide notoriety and a bit of artwork that has bought at public sale for $277,000. The controversy-baiting title of the work is Immersion (Piss Christ). The work, created in 1987, is a photograph of the crucifix seen by means of the yellow tint of the artist’s bodily fluid. Maybe inevitably for a piece referred to as Piss Christ, the photograph has been dogged by controversy and protest. Senator Jesse Helms said from the senate flooring, “Serrano is not an artist. He is a jerk.” In 2011, when the photograph was on show in France, Catholic protestors attacked the image with hammers. The factor concerning the crucifix itself is that we deal with it virtually like a style accent. If you see it, you’re not horrified by it in any respect, however what it represents is the crucifixion of a person. And for Christ to have been crucified and laid on the cross for 3 days the place he not solely bled to demise, he shat himself and he peed himself to dying. So if Piss Christ upsets you, perhaps it’s a great factor to consider what occurred on the cross.

Good science fiction poses a compelling ethical question, against a backdrop of advanced technology, within a context relatable to an audience of the storyteller’s choosing. Passengers does all of that, but the audience may not be chosen terribly well, and is going to be split with the juggernaut of Star Wars’ latest blockbuster, Rogue One. We are presented with the tale of Jim and Aurora, who’ve awakened so early on a long-term space voyage that they will be dead before arrival (as life expectancy seems to be the only thing not to have advanced in this film’s vision of the future). Desperation to restore their stasis and navigate their budding romance dominate the plot, as the giant starship suffers various technical failures along the way. The ethical question at hand is a major spoiler, so we’ll avoid directly addressing that. The technology is quite appealing, scientifically sound, and interesting. The audience? It’s hard to be sure. Sci-Fi fans may not appreciate the romance, and are being pulled very hard to give attention to a likely second No. 1 weekend at the box office for Rogue. They also may be put off by the pacing issues the film suffers from, and it’s rather shallow and sudden ending. There are remarkable and unremarkable things worth calling out about Passengers. Regardless of the weaknesses of the film, it is worth at least one screening, even if viewers wait for its inevitable fast-track to the home video market to do so. First, the unremarkable. The film’s story doesn’t seem like a great feat, but serves adequately. The same goes for the musical score. There is also a feeling that co-stars Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt didn’t need so much to be directed, as blocked into place and allowed to use their well-renowned chops and respective dry wits to navigate the script along their journey. Their pairing is one of the better screen romance matches, and this feels almost like a screen-test for them to headline a forthcoming romantic comedy. Of the remarkable, the most accomplished notable trait of the film is the ethical question that haunts Pratt’s Jim and looms as a shadow over his budding romance with Lawrence’s Aurora. The struggle presented is original, unique and a deep question which is not likely to have been considered in the minds of most viewers in previous material. Tech and science in this film are very much on point. The film opens with the ship, The Avalon, as the star of the show. It travels along its journey, bashing into space-borne obstacles and performing a variety of self-diagnoses and automated repairs, re-routings of power and other things we commonly assume a human crew is needed to accomplish. (It is almost as if the creators of this craft’s concept were giving a finger to Star Trek: “See, our ship can reroute power to the main deflector on its own!”) The Avalon’s shape and motion are representative of theories, traditions, and science we’ve seen before, but well-depicted with refreshing value. Real science, such as what might happen if a swimming pool full of water were to suddenly lose gravity with a person in it, receives great representation as well. Next there is the element of humans vs. tech. You might expect a film like this to go down the oh-so-overplayed route of technology going rogue. While the potential for such is present throughout the story, the mounting technical failures serving as a stress-inducing backdrop to the developing romance story, turn out to be purely accidental and a natural failure. The worst the film can be accused of is a bit of “Titanic Syndrome” in the running gag that imperfections cannot occur within the Avalon’s systems (such as waking a guy up from his hibernation pod a few dozen years too soon). An amusing element of the gadgets on hand is the evolution of technologies we already have today, into the world of Passengers. The ship is populated by Roomba-like cleaning bots reminiscent of the variety of bots in Wall-E. One stand-out piece of tech is the Siri-like interface of verbal commands the characters engage throughout the film, which deliver the same kinds of canned dead-end replies we suffer from on our iPhones today. We do see, however, that their systems can insert their own punctuation without being prompted, however. Guess the future is bright! It would be a disservice not to mention the other two actors who contribute to some highlights of the story. The android bartender played by Michael Sheen, and the gruff and all-too-short-lived engineer brought to brief life by Laurence Fishburne are able to keep the whole flick from being monotonous in relying too much on J-Law and Pratt exclusively, but Sheen is one of dozens of actors who could have delivered a similar performance and Fishburne seems like overkill for a role which ends up virtually pointless. Also remarkable is the pacing of the film, and not in a good way. Sometimes the flow is just exactly right, but many times it slows to a crawl before resuming motion again. As the end of the film nears, the pace is running a decent average. Then, we are suddenly slammed into a wall with a rather low-gravity conclusion leaving audiences with more questions than answers in many of the wrong ways. All-told, the tale of Jim and Aurora is good but not great. Perhaps it needed more polish and a considerable amount of better planning and promotion, but don’t let the low box-office take imminent in this film’s future deter you. Understand the risks, and go have a little fun with some of the best chemistry in cinema couples outside Gosling and Stone.

In this monthly series we’re highlighting posters from Michelin’s British advertising campaigns. Featuring recognisable straplines, occasional British institutions and fabulously eye-catching designs – as well as appearances from Bibendum, naturally! – we’re sure many of you will recognise or remember them fondly from back in the day. Bibendum Plays Up to the Camera (1926) In the mid-1920s Michelin brought an important innovation to the automotive world by creating the “Comfort tyre”. To advertise the safety characteristics of this low-pressure tyre, i.e. that it couldn’t possibly come off by itself, Michelin used the fashionable cinema techniques of the day. In this golden age of mute automobile pranksters like Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, etc., this poster announced a demonstration film of actual research at Michelin’s French Research Centre, where a glass of milk was set on a running-board while a motor-car went over a thick wooden plank! The poster portrays Bibendum as the camera man filming the tests. The “Comfort tyre”, complete with trefoil pattern, also features in the wonderfully vibrant 1927 poster below.

|La Rousselie||Self Catering||Saturday||4||10||3| La Rousselie with its heated swimming pool and hot tub is a fantastic luxury stone villa that sleeps from 2 to 10 people (1 cot also available). Enjoy the tranquillity of what seems to be your own private valley, offering absolutely magnificent west-facing views - yet is only a 4 minute walk to the centre of the wonderful medieval village of Ladornac, with a friendly cafe/restaurant naturally at its heart. Facilities include: large private terrace, heated pool set in a large landscaped garden, hot tub on the villa deck, built-in bbq, all bedrooms en suite, fully equipped kitchen, large open plan living area with log-burner and stylish modern furniture, English and French tv, hi-fi, dvd, wi-fi, plus kids' games room and all other mod cons. La Rousselie is ideally situated in the Dordogne (Department 24), South West France. Available all year round with lots to see and do, the villa is ideally situated for visiting the world-famous sites of Sarlat and its fabulous markets and restaurants, Lascaux and its incredible prehistoric caves, Rocamadour the cliff-hanging village and site of pilgrimage for centuries, medieval Domme with stunning views across the Dordogne valley and beautiful river towns such as Terrasson, Montignac, Beynac, Bergerac and Riberac, all are within an easy drive through spectacular countryside. The vibrant regional capital of Périgueux is also a short distance away and well worth a visit. The beautiful gardens of Eyrignac and Marqueyssac are a short drive away. There is plenty nearby for active guests as well - treetop parcours, canoeing, walking, horse riding & even skiing in the Cantal mountains! Of course, you could just relax and chill out on the deck or around the stunning heated pool. La Rousselie has a new kitchen, fully equipped to make your time easier and more enjoyable. There is a double electric oven, electric hob, microwave, Samsung American-style fridge-freezer (with ice-making ability), dishwasher, kettle, toaster and Nespresso machine. In the kitchen is a lovely oak table that can comfortably seat 10. On the west-facing patio is another table seating 10 - perfect for all your meals al fresco. The outdoor dining table has a permanent sunshade, so you don't need to worry about getting too hot. On the patio is a bbq for those who want to cook outside. The kitchen is fully equipped with all the utensils you might need, plus juicer, blender and a picnic basket for any away-days. La Rousselie has a very generous open plan living room, with room for 10 to sit comfortably on new sofas. It has outdoor access on three sides, providing plenty of light into the room. There is a wood stove for any chillier evenings, plus 2 ceiling fans to help keep it cooler. The living room opens onto the secluded side patio via patio doors or the west facing patio through 2 pairs of French doors. The living room comes with a large tv (which is internet enabled giving access to all UK channels plus Netflix), dvd, stereo and a selection of books and dvds. There is information available on a large range of local attractions. La Rousselie has 4 generous sized bedrooms. On the ground floor is a king sized bed with en suite bathroom (bath and shower), as well as outdoor access via French doors. The room also has a built-in wardrobe plus chest of drawers, as well as a ceiling fan. On the first floor are 3 further bedrooms. The master bedroom faces west (looking out over the swimming pool and down the valley), with a king sized bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers and occasional chair. It also has a ceiling fan. It has an en suite bathroom (which gets the morning sun) with bath and shower. Bedroom two has 3 single beds (2 as bunkbeds), wardrobe and chest of drawers - it has the benefit of 2 windows, making it lovely and light. There is a tower fan for cooling. Bedroom three has 3 single beds (2 as bunkbeds), wardrobe and chest of drawers. It faces west (looking out over the swimming pool). There is a tower fan for cooling. Bedroom two and three share an en suite bathroom with shower. La Rousselie has 3 en suite bathrooms and a separate downstairs toilet. The bathrooms have been recently refurbished - there are two baths and each bathroom has a generous shower, together with new vanity units and mirror cabinets. Outside by the pool is an outdoor shower. La Rousselie has modern electric radiators, which can keep the property lovely and warm in the chillier months. It also has a wood stove in the living room (with a supply of wood). There is a generous size water tank for hot water. La Rousselie comes with everything you could need - a 12m x 5m heated swimming pool - it varies from 0.9m to 2.0m deep - hot tub that can seat 6 people comfortably - 2 acres of enclosed land to run around - large tv (internet enabled with access to all UK channels and Netflix) - Dvd (with a selection of dvds) - stereo with cd player - good wifi which can be used poolside - separate games room, with 55 inch tv and Xbox, table tennis table and table football - a selection of outdoor games - boules, croquet, badminton, goal posts plus toys for the swimming pool - a selection of indoor games and books - free views of the sunsets and stars With 2 acres of fenced gardens, La Rousselie has all the space you could need. The house faces west, surrounded by lawn to the south and west. There are no other houses within 200m of La Rousselie, meaning you really can get away from it all. There is a raised patio (with railings and a gate which can prevent access to the pool), leading down to a large poolside patio area with enough sunbeds and seating areas (with cushions) for everyone. The pool is 12m x 5m (with a depth of 0.9m to 2.0m) with a pool alarm. The pool and surrounding patio is secluded by laurel hedges, providing all the privacy that you could need, as well as plenty of lavender providing a wonderful smell. There is a large lawn area (ideal for garden games) on the south side of the house, with the rest of the garden gently sloping down to an undisturbed west-facing valley. There are permanent sunshades for the patio and seating area by the pool. La Rousselie has a white gravel drive, with ample parking for 4 cars if needed. La Rousselie is perfect for a family looking to get away from it all, or 2 families wanting to share a place in the sun. With 4 generous bedrooms (2 doubles and 2 bedrooms with 3 single beds), a large living room, fully equipped kitchen and heated pool and hot tub, La Rousselie offers plenty of space to stretch out and enjoy yourself. There is wheelchair access to the house if needed, with a ground floor bedroom available. As it is our home, we do ask that guests treat it accordingly - it is not a hotel, but a chance to have a wonderful self-catered holiday in a glorious part of France. We ask that you leave the house in the same state that you would like to find it for a luxury holiday. The separate utility room has a washing machine, tumble dryer and facility for drying clothes inside and outside. It also has a first aid kit, fire extinguisher and picnic kit. In the summer, we recommend that you keep the shutters closed during the day wherever possible - this will help keep it cooler inside. We are a family of four who have found a piece of heaven in La Dornac. We are lucky to be able to have an escape in the Dordogne that works all year round offering plenty of space, fabulous views, great food and wine and a "home from home". |Year property purchased||2016| |Why this location?||We like travelling in France. We first went on holiday to La Rousselie in 2014 when exploring the Dordogne region and liked it so much we returned in 2015 for 3 weeks. As luck would have it, the previous owner was selling - we liked it so much, we bought the villa! We love the peace and quiet, as well as the fantastic views down an unspoilt valley with the most spectacular sunsets. It is by a very quiet hamlet, but only 10 minutes to Terrasson-Lavilledieu which has everything you need, or 25 minutes to the lovely city of Brive La Gaillarde. There are plenty of activities within a very short drive - castles, canoeing, gardens, caves, lovely walks and fantastic food and wine wherever you go. Further afield are Cahors, Rocamadour, Bergerac, St Emilion and Bordeaux - all easy day trips. There are a number of regional airports if you want to fly or it is close to major motorways for a leisurely drive from the UK. |Unique benefits of property||A luxury villa in South-West France. It is a home from home but with the added benefit of a heated swimming pool and hot tub on a west facing patio! About 10 years old, it has a 12m x 5m pool, plenty of space for up to 10 people, a new kitchen and new bathrooms and sits by itself in about 2 acres of meadow. The kitchen has all the facilities you need or there is a bbq if you don't. Good wi-fi (which works pool-side!), internet enabled tv, separate games room, 4 comfortable beds, plenty of outside seating/loungers, utility room with washing machine and dryer and plenty of space for children to run around free from traffic. And the view of the sunsets and the stars at night need to be seen to be believed. La Rousselie provides everything you need for a wonderful and relaxing self-catering holiday in the Dordogne. One of the nicest things to do at La Rousselie is just to stay put and enjoy the lovely facilities and views. From the 12m heated pool, the 2 acres of land, the games room, internet-enabled TV (with Netflix), wonderful sunset views and the hot tub waiting for some star gazing, it's difficult to beat just soaking up the sun in the convenience of the comfort of La Rousselie. La Dornac is a small hamlet, but has a shop for essentials and a lovely restaurant and bar if you want a change. A small town only 10 minutes away, Terrasson-Lavilledieu offers a convenient place to stock up. It has 3 supermarkets, plenty of restaurants, banks, bakeries, ice cream and a small cinema, as well as a chocolate factory and the lovely Jardins de l'Imaginaire. Brive is a lovely city, about 25 minutes away. It is an old walled city with a compact city centre, offering plenty of shopping or the chance for a gentle stroll or stop at the many cafes or bars. It has a fantastic Olympic sized swimming pool and attached leisure pool, cinemas, large supermarkets, outlet shopping offering everything you might need and is very conveniently located by the A20 motorway. This property is of a very high standard and the amenities and location make for a comfortable relaxing stay in peaceful surroundings. I had to contact the owners on arrival on a minor issue and I was delighted by the prompt response from Allan. The house is very comfortably furnished and the cleanliness and standard of accommodation throughout is worthy of positive comment. I found the kitchen to be particularly well equipped and the external space is exceptional with a glorious terrace with hot tub as well as a super swimming pool just a few steps from the house and terrace. I would recommend this house as suitable for everyone from couples to large families. The village of Ladornac is small but nearby Terrasson is a lovely, scenic town only ten minutes drive away with bars, restaurants and supermarket. The location is perfect for exploring the region with visits to Les Eyzies, Brive, Sarlat and Lascaux all within easy reach during our week at La Rousselie. We also particularly enjoyed canoeing on the river Veyzère from the base near the bridge in Les Eyzies. Overall an excellent choice representing good value for money.

President Ollanta Humala lamented the imprisoned backpackers’ plight in remarks in Cuzco last July.“I’m embarrassed for this country because we have not offered them opportunity.”Sociologist and drug war analyst Jaime Antezana said cocaine backpackers are disproportionately penalized because powerful traffickers evade prosecution by bribing police, prosecutors and judges.“The policy is basically concentrated on the masses, on the narco lumpen proletariat, which is the backpackers. And they end up jamming the prisons.”Some backpackers long ago graduated to the big leagues of trafficking, moving to Bolivia to buy small planes and join the airborne-smuggling business, said Gen. Vicente Romero, Peru’s No. 2 cop.Borda has a more humble ambition.He is saving up to buy land and get in on the ground floor.“With coca bushes of my own,” he said, “I’ll earn more money.”Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Quick workouts for men Sponsored Stories Milstead says best way to stop wrong-way incidents is driving sober New Valley school lets students pick career-path academies Police say more and more cocaine is being processed to powder rather than left as coca paste, which includes residues of hydrocarbons, typically gasoline, used in initial processing. While authorities say most of the drugs are now flown out, the backpacking is dependable in the rainy season, cheaper than hiring a pilot and plane — and key to evading police checkpoints.Backpackers, or “mochileros,” (“mochila” is Spanish for backpack), have been hauling the drug for nearly two decades, traveling in groups as small as four and as large as 70. Guards with assault rifles often accompany them. They tote radios and satellite phones, while police rarely have more than cellphones.Some backpackers carry handguns, some grenades.Nobody hits the trail unarmed, they say.Alcides Martinez, 24, lost two close friends. One fell off a precipice in the confusion of an armed robbery. Another was deemed an informant — and took two bullets to the head.Many backpackers believe their bosses sometimes dispatch robbers — or sacrifice a small group to police so a much larger contingent can pass unperturbed carrying far more cocaine.One said he invested in a load to try to get ahead and his boss hired thieves to steal his 25-kilogram (55-pound) share — then demanded he pay for the stolen drugs. The backpacker moved with his parents to the Pacific coast, where they harvest rice. Two years later, they still haven’t paid off the $10,000 bank loan they took out to invest in the drug shipment. Former Arizona Rep. Don Shooter shows health improvement Top Stories In this March 14, 2015 photo, Mardonio Borda,19, poses for a picture during an interview, in La Mar, province of Ayacucho, Peru. A native Quechua with broken Spanish and a sixth-grade education, Borda is among untold hundreds of cocaine backpackers who make the difficult and dangerous trek up Andean mountain paths first carved by their pre-Incan ancestors. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) “I can’t go back,” he said, speaking on condition of anonymity out of fear. “They said they’re going to kill me.”Rural medic Oscar Huaman runs a health post along a principal backpacker route and sees mochileros almost daily.He said robbers like to pounce at mountain streams when fatigued mochileros drop their loads to refresh.In January, Huaman had to pluck grenade fragments from the legs and faces of two backpackers who were attacked at a stream. One lost his pack and the nearly 18 pounds (8 kilograms) of cocaine inside.It could have been worse. Villagers along the remote routes sometimes run across putrefied corpses. Deaths go unreported. Bodies lack identification papers, and locals quietly bury them.Borda, the backpacker whose route passes near Machu Picchu, says his group of four was once confronted by five gunmen.“We only had three .38-caliber pistols,” he said. “So that they wouldn’t kill us, we gave them all the backpacks.”In highlands prisons near the Apurimac river valley, nearly half the inmates are in for cocaine trafficking — compared to a fifth nationwide. Worse for backpackers, a statute was amended last year to strip those newly convicted of drug offenses of a chance at parole. Ex-FBI agent details raid on Phoenix body donation facility 0 Comments Share In this country that overtook Colombia in 2012 as the world’s No. 1 cocaine-producing nation, Mardonio Borda regularly hikes within a few hours of the Machu Picchu tourist mecca, bound for Cuzco with drugs.The 19-year-old Quechua native has a sixth-grade education and speaks broken Spanish. But the 11 pounds of coca paste he carries will fetch up to $250,000 on New York streets as powder cocaine sold by the gram.Hauling cocaine is about the only way to earn decent cash — $150 to $400 per trip depending on the load — in a region where a farmhand earns less than $10 a day and the poverty rate is triple the national average.Yet it is packing highlands prisons with young, mostly native Quechua speakers who, like Borda, hail from the isolated communities that suffered the worst atrocities of Peru’s 1980-2000 conflict with Shining Path rebels.“The great majority haven’t finished high school,” said Laura Barrenechea, a sociologist who oversaw a study last year of 33 imprisoned backpackers. “They are not really conscious that they are the first link in the drug-trafficking chain.”The Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro river valley stretches northward for 250 miles (400 kilometers), and about a third of the coca grown here is trekked out by backpackers. Not a single fully paved road reaches the valley, which separates the Andes ridge from the Amazon basin. HUANTA, Peru (AP) — The lung-searing ascents into the Andean highlands aren’t what worry the untold hundreds of young men who hump backpacks loaded with drugs out of the remote, lawless valley that produces about 60 percent of Peru’s cocaine.Armed gangs, crooked police and rival backpacker groups regularly rob cocaine’s beasts of burden on their three- to five-day journeys over mountain paths carved by their pre-Incan ancestors. Arizona families, Arizona farms: providing the local community with responsibly produced dairy Four benefits of having a wireless security system Etihad Airways reassures passengers of service and inflight offeringEtihad Airways is reassuring passengers of its highest level of service to minimise disruption following the introduction of a new US travel directive on electronic devices.From 25 March, passengers on all US-bound flights from, or transiting through, Abu Dhabi International Airport are not be permitted to carry electronic devices bigger than a smart phone or mobile into the aircraft cabin.Items such as laptop computers; tablets including iPads; gaming devices; cameras; and e-readers must be placed in checked-in luggage. Medical devices are exempt and can be carried onboard.All Etihad Airways’ flights to the USA have mobile and Wi-Fi connectivity, together with power and USB points at every seat enabling guests to remain connected through their mobiles and smart phones. With an onboard inflight entertainment system offering hundreds of hours of free programming, international movies, live TV news and sports channels, interactive games, and music at every seat, guests are able to keep themselves busy throughout their journey without the need of a laptop or tablet.Etihad Airways is sending email alerts to all US-bound travellers advising them of the new directive. Signage is placed at check-in desks at airports around the world where staff are advising guests to pack any prohibited electronic devices in their checked luggage.US-bound passengers travelling via Abu Dhabi must check in their electronic devices at the point of origin.The directive, issued by the US Transportation Security Administration, does not affect flights departing from the United States.At Abu Dhabi International Airport, all Etihad Airways guests travelling to the United States clear US Immigration and Customs at the US Preclearance facility in Terminal 3 – the only one of its kind in the Middle East. When guests land in the US, they arrive as domestic passengers with no requirement to queue for immigration checks again. Due to the additional security measures, Etihad Airways will deploy more staff at the US Preclearance facility in Terminal 3 to provide assistance.To avoid inconvenience, guests are encouraged to pack the prohibited items in their checked baggage prior to reaching the Preclearance facility. Any prohibited electronic devices will have to be declared and placed in padded envelopes before being securely taken to the aircraft luggage hold by staff. Such items will be returned to guests on arrival in the US, while conveniently, other items of checked-in luggage can be collected at the final destination in the USA.Guests are also encouraged to avoid carrying spare battery packs larger than the permitted size as these will not be allowed in either the luggage hold or the cabin.Peter Baumgartner, Etihad Airways’ Chief Executive Officer, said: “We remain committed to ensuring we provide guests the highest levels of service and quality experience that we are renowned for, at Abu Dhabi International Airport and throughout their journey to minimise the impact of the new measures.“Etihad Airways offers excellent facilities on the ground at Abu Dhabi International Airport and inflight to keep guests entertained during their journey. While we are communicating the new directive to guests before they begin their travels to the US, we are implementing a number of measures at Abu Dhabi International Airport to ease the process. We continue to work with the relevant authorities and advise guests to comply with the directive to ensure a smooth and uninterrupted journey to the United States.”In addition to the onboard offering, all cabins have a selection of digital lifestyle magazines that can be viewed for free on a smartphone via the Wi-Fly homepage. A variety of printed international magazines and newspapers are also available for guests travelling in the premium cabins.Children receive a kid’s pack with games and toys, and there is a Flying Nanny on board to assist parents.At Abu Dhabi International Airport, passengers have access to free Wi-Fi. Guests travelling in the premium cabins can use Etihad Airways’ lounges. For those with sufficient time before departure, guests can pay for access to Etihad’s Business Class lounge in Terminals 1 and 3 which offer computer terminals, Wi-Fi, business facilities, and a wide selection of newspapers, business and lifestyle magazines, international cuisine, shower rooms and children’s play rooms.First and Business Class guests are also able to use the US Premium Lounge located after the US Immigration checks at Terminal 3.Guests are able to purchase extra baggage allowance at a discount on airport rates by booking online at etihad.com; through an Etihad Airways reservation office; or via a call centre. In addition, Silver, Gold and Platinum members of Etihad Guest, the airline’s loyalty program, are entitled to extra free baggage allowance.While Abu Dhabi International Airport is not listed for a similar ban related to direct flights operating to the United Kingdom, enhanced security screening is likely for guests travelling to London, Manchester and Edinburgh.Etihad Airways operates 45 flights a week between Abu Dhabi and six cities across the United States – namely New York, Washington, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and San Francisco.For any further updates on the new directive and our policies, guests are advised to check Etihad Airways’ website at etihad.comSource = Etihad Airways Agents & Brokers Attorneys & Title Companies Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Investors Lenders & Servicers Politics Processing Regulation Senate Banking Committee Service Providers U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission 2013-03-19 Tory Barringer Senate Committee Approves Cordray Nomination Richard Cordray’s nomination to continue leading the “”Consumer Financial Protection Bureau””:http://www.consumerfinance.gov/ (CFPB) is headed to the Senate following a vote from the “”Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs””:http://www.banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Home.Home Tuesday.[IMAGE][COLUMN_BREAK]The committee confirmed Cordray’s nomination by a party-line vote of 12-10, with Republican members keeping to their vow to not support any potential leader until CFPB’s structure is fundamentally changed.””The CFPB was established unlike any other federal department or agency,”” said ranking member Sen. “”Mike Crapo””:http://www.crapo.senate.gov/ (R-Idaho). “”Regardless of the administration in charge, either Republican or Democrat, the CFPB’s structure needs to be revised to fit the models of traditional departments and agencies. Otherwise, it will continue to lack the necessary transparency and accountability.””Crapo specifically criticized the agency’s spending, which he says is not as transparent as it should be.Also up for vote was the nomination of Mary Jo White to head the “”Securities and Exchange Commission””:http://www.sec.gov/ (SEC). White’s nomination was approved by a vote of 21-1, with Sen. “”Sherrod Brown””:http://www.brown.senate.gov/ (D-Ohio) voting against. March 19, 2013 446 Views Share in Data, Government, Origination, Secondary Market, Servicing – / 38 “He’s the starting point right now,” cornerbacks coach Kevin Ross said.Added quarterback Carson Palmer, “Powers is phenomenal. He’s so smart, so intuitive.”Powers, who turned 26 last month, spent the past four seasons in Indianapolis.“I honestly say, besides quarterback, corner is probably the hardest position to play. That’s because you’re matched up with probably the best skilled person on the team on the outside,” he said. “Whenever you’re out there on that island by yourself and you feel like all eyes are on you, you’ve got to be a confident player to do it. If you’re not confident, you won’t last long in this league.”Aside from Powers, the other cornerbacks vying for playing time include former UA standout Antoine Cason, who left San Diego after five seasons and Javier Arenas, acquired in a trade with Kansas City.All three have starting experience.“You want as many good corners as you can possibly have on this team,” said Powers, who started 42 games with the Colts. “At the end of the day, we all know we’re going to play. Everybody in there is going to prepare as the starter, anyway. I’m trying to push Pat. I want that title of the No. 1 corner. We all want to be the best, and to be the best, that’s competition.” Add Justin Bethel, Jamell Fleming, Josh Hill, Bryan McCann and Ronnie Yell and the depth at cornerback is one of the Cardinals’ bigger strengths.“You can never have enough corners,” Ross said. “Guys go down. People come out with four wide receivers these days. It’s important to have guys like we have right now. It’s pretty good depth right there.”Powers called it a “healthy competition” among the group, adding they are all learning from one another.“That’s what makes the secondary so good,” he said. “We got a lot of guys that have played a lot of ball. We talk about techniques. Me taking something that Cason do to my game and Cason might be taking something Pat do and Javy the same way. It’s just been fun just picking each other’s brains a lot. I think we’ve gotten off to an excellent start to get to where we want to be at the end of the year.”How they’ll all line up at the start of the year, however, remains undecided.“The job is wide open,” Ross said. “You can’t really evaluate until you start getting in game situations. That’s when you start evaluating those guys and see what happens.” Grace expects Greinke trade to have emotional impact The 5: Takeaways from the Coyotes’ introduction of Alex Meruelo Top Stories Comments Share Derrick Hall satisfied with D-backs’ buying and selling Former Cardinals kicker Phil Dawson retires GLENDALE, Ariz. — At the start of training camp, Cardinals’ head coach Bruce Arians mentioned all 22 starting jobs were open except quarterback (Carson Palmer), a certain wide receiver (Larry Fitzgerald) “and one corner” referring to Patrick Peterson.So, what about the other corner? Which of the other eight cornerbacks currently on the rosters will start opposite Peterson?More than a week into camp, it’s been four-year veteran Jerraud Powers holding down the job. Police in Polis Chrysochou arrested a 29-year-old man on suspicion of causing bodily harm to a 63-year-old man after the two got into an argument over a disabled parking space, authorities said on Saturday.The 29-year-old was arrested at approximately 9:30am after the 63-year-old filed a complaint with police on Friday evening.According to authorities, the two men were arguing in a parking lot after the older man discovered the 29-year-old and his wife, 32 and owner of the car, were parked in the disabled space.Police were called, and during their initial investigations they questioned both men. Both said that they were attacked by the other.The two men were then taken to the hospital in Polis, where doctors determined that the 63-year-old had marks on his neck, and that the 29-year-old had no injuries.According to authorities, older man then filed an official complaint against the 29-year-old for causing bodily harm and publicly insulting him.The younger man then filed an official assault complaint against the 63-year-old. 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Wormuth was drawn back to the apartment complex"Something was telling me to go back to this area" Wormuth saidHe returned to a troubling sceneIn a remote corner of the apartment complex parking lot near where he found the man in the grass the officer came upon an SUV with toddler strapped in a car seat alone The car was running a window was down and the little girl’s eyes were closed It was a hot day and the 10-year member of the police department feared the worst"Please God let this child be alive" he recalled saying to himselfIt turns out the child no more than 2 years old was the daughter of the man Wormuth had escorted to the hospital The man had no identification on him was not speaking and never indicated he had a child The officer had earlier used a key fob found around the man’s neck to try to find his car but after pressing the panic button several times in three different parking lots in the area no vehicle respondedIt was only after Wormuth returned after his shift that he discovered music coming from a running SUV and saw the girl in the vehicle her head leaning forwardAfter getting closer the officer was relieved to find the girl’s little chest rising and falling She was sleepingWormuth roused the girl rubbing her arm to try to soften her shock at waking to the face of a stranger The girl burst into tears upon waking anyway The officer quickly grabbed his phone to try to calm her down"Do you want to call Mommy" Wormuth remembered asking before he got a smile out of herWormuth contacted an apartment property manager he had been speaking with earlier about the man in the grass and she returned to the parking lot with chicken nuggets and fries Another officer arrived with a bottle of water which the girl gulped down after being alone for almost four hours in the car said Latrice Leake the property manager"He was in hero mode" Leake said of watching Wormuth tend to the child "He was awesome in that moment and just protected this little girl" The child couldn’t talk or say who her parents were Wormuth found in the car a phone with more than 40 missed calls and texts and reached the girl’s grandmotherAfter reaching the girl’s family Wormuth and Leake tended to the toddler who refused to be removed from her car seat Chicken nugget sauce covered the girl’s face and she watched videos of Wormuth’s dogs on his phone smiling and blowing kisses at the screenThen the girl’s mother arrived"She immediately jumped out of the vehicle walked to our location and just began crying" Wormuth saidThe girl who was safe and unharmed went home with her familyThe father whom police did not name to protect the identity of the child has been charged with reckless endangerment and a related count of leaving a child unattended police said?Story by Lynh Bui Bui is a local reporter covering Prince George’s County police fire and courts She joined The Washington Post in 2012 and has previously covered Montgomery County educationThe enforcement action comes in the wake of substantiated neglect leading to a client’s death a sexual assault of a resident by a staff member and a series of compliance violations spanning nearly two yearsIn an agreement with the Minnesota Department of Health Minnesota Heritage House must transfer the management of its facilities in Pequot Lakes Adrian and Kimball to another home care provider By Dec 1 Serenity Living Solutions of Sebeka will assume all administration and management of client careScott Smith public information officer with the Health Department said the arrangement would mean minimal disruption for clients living in the facilities while responding to "serious incidents involving harm to clients and a persistent pattern of ongoing correction orders""MDH tried to manage the situation as to not create a crisis for the residents at these locations and at other housing with services sites owned by ElderCare of Minnesota" Smith stated in an email "By allowing Heritage House to voluntarily relinquish their license residents can continue to live at the facility and transition to a new provider with minimal disruption Heritage House is also cooperating with MDH to bring in a new provider of services and manage the transition"Heritage House is not permitted to admit any new residents under its license although Serenity Living Solutions may do so prior to the complete transition While Minnesota Heritage House will continue to own the buildings MDH required that current owners administrators or managers of the license must remain at "arm’s length" and cannot provide or administer care They also may not seek any new applications for home care licenses for five yearsA worrisome recordThe agreement signed last month lists a series of licensing violations identified by MDH between November 2015 and June 2017 The timeline shows while many of the violations were corrected upon reinspection many were not and new violations continued to show up at the facilities The MDH issued the facility a warning in March due to compliance issues and in May it was noted ongoing complaint investigations brought renewed concern over the "health and safety of Heritage’s residents"Among those investigations was one finding Heritage House responsible for neglect in the February death of 86-year-old Ralph Ford The investigation showed neglect through improper catheter care and an unclean environment led to Ford’s death by a complex urinary tract infection This included a failure to flush and change the client’s catheter and a failure to maintain infection control on the catheter equipment In 2016 a complaint investigation found an employee responsible for the sexual abuse of a resident David Erwin DeLong of Pine River was also criminally charged and pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct the sentencing for which is scheduled next month According to the criminal complaint filed against DeLong he sexually assaulted a 78-year-old woman in May 2016 The woman was nonverbal wheelchair-bound and unable to feed herself requiring around-the-clock care the complaint statedAlthough referenced in the agreement details are not yet available for a third complaint investigation conducted in July which resulted in two Level 3 violations—those that harmed a client’s health or safety not including serious injury impairment or deathOwners cite turnover facility growthOwners James and Kathy Birchem said Monday Oct 30 they’ve been cooperating with the MDH and working to address concerns at the Heritage House facilities for several months This includes hiring Zellner Senior Health Consulting to assist in achieving compliance"This has been a very long process" Kathy Birchem said "This has been the best solution that we could come up with for our residents at this point in time so they could remain in their current home"She said none of the people employed at Heritage House facilities would lose their jobs because of the transferThe Birchems Little Falls natives purchased their first nursing home in Bemidji in 1996 according to their company ElderCare of Minnesota’s website They own 15 senior living facilities throughout the state—mostly in central and north-central Minnesota but also four facilities near the Minnesota-Iowa borderSmith reported the company operates under six different licenses through MDH although only the one held for the Heritage House facilities in Pequot Lakes Adrian and Kimball is affected"We are allowing ElderCare to continue to offer licensed home care services at other locations to avoid disruption of services for those residents and because those facilities did not have the same quality and noncompliance issues" Smith statedKathy Birchem said although the license applies to three locations the Adrian facility was not responsible for any of the correction orders required by MDH"To correct the deficiencies that we were given they needed to be corrected at all sites" Kathy Birchem said "Because they’re located in different towns some of the corrections weren’t done that should have been done"When asked why they believed the Heritage House facilities continued to be troubled the Birchems cited staff turnover and facility growth"The systems weren’t followed as closely as they should have been" Kathy Birchem saidAs owners the Birchems receive weekly reports on their facilities and have quarterly meetings with site managers Kathy Birchem said Each facility has a lead nurse and an operations managerIn the investigation of Ford’s death nurses interviewed said a sudden and recent departure by a nursing director made it "confusing for the remaining two RNs (registered nurses) to figure out when things were due"Kathy Birchem said she wanted the families of those living in Heritage House to know they have confidence in Serenity Living Solutions"We’d like them to believe that their loved ones are in caring hands" Kathy Birchem said ". 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In 2010, “What is the basis behind such a claim of reducing the city’s waste when no discussion has happened on any forum and neither has any feedback been taken from the corporators who work on the ground?however, Third Front governments have never been able to stand without the support of either the Congress or BJP. what time does it start in Indian time “I’m very proud of him and all that he’s achieved in his career. a disciple of the Gwalior school, 2017 22:02 PM Tags : #Reuters Also See New Delhi: Indian Super League (ISL) side Delhi Dynamos is set to announce their new coach to succeed Gianluca Zambrotta. But despite that Singh hardly suffered any major reversal. Singh was never much comfortable in Delhi especially after the Steel portfolio was taken away from him. "Dear PM sir, The state’s crash reports don’t assign blame and provide only terse summaries of the incidents, Rap means rhythm and poetry and it has definite beginning and end. 2017 1:31 pm Rapper Baba Sehgal has associated himself with fast-food chain KFC and created a Chilli Chizza Rap in his style.He said that since there was a "split between siblings",it would not be fair on the part of either side to put termsand conditions for the merger talks?followed by Gandhinagar (43 mm). Suryah has been reportedly roped in to play the antagonist in superstar Mahesh Babu’s next Tamil-Telugu bilingual project, He could have got out when Ashwin was introduced into the attack in the second hour of the morning session. " Gopalkrishna’s name was later proposed by Left parties but hours later at a meeting chaired by Sonia Gandhi Left leaders happily agreed on Meira Kumar, while the Congress is pointing to the developmental work in its 15-year rule, For all the latest Sports News, ? Chao and Anirban Mukhopadhyay, 35, Kothajit Singh (defender),the craziness goes on! #KaunBanegaCrorepati — Parineeti Chopra (@ParineetiChopra) September 8 2015 //platformtwittercom/widgetsjs According to the currency convertor 100000000 Indonesian Rupiah is equal to Rs 466579 Parineeti Chopra sure seems fascinated towards the fancy stuff in Jakarta For all the latest Entertainment News download Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Top NewsWritten by K Subrahmanyam | Published: July 28 2010 1:52 am Related News There has been a major debate on the issue of coordination in the government arising out of Home Secretary GK Pillais media interaction a couple of days before the Islamabad meeting of the Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers to promote confidence-building and trust Pillai referred to the information derived from the interrogation of David Headley on the linkages between Pakistans Inter-Services Intelligence and the Lashkar-e-Toiba Not only did Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi denounce it as uncalled forIndian Foreign Minister SM Krishna in subsequent TV interviews in India termed it ill-timed As a consequencequestions have been raised in the media about the inadequacy of coordination on such majorcomplicated and delicate issues within the government There were initial allegations that the home ministry did not share Headleys interrogation report with the ministry of external affairs Subsequently there were media reportsobviously based on official briefingsthat the Headley interrogation was the subject of a briefing to the Cabinet Committee on Security even before the home minister went to Islamabad and presented the dossier to the Pakistani interior minister It is also stated that the Indian high commissioner to Pakistan and a note-taker of the MEA were present during the discussions between the Indian home minister and the Pakistani interior minister Therefore it is asserted that the MEA was always kept in the picture and there has been no lack of coordination This does not answer the question whether Pillais formal disclosure of the much publicised and very well-known linkage between the ISI and LeTtwo days before the Islamabad meetingcaused embarrassment to the Indian delegation and led to breakdown in the talks and whether better inter-ministerial coordination could have averted it In the light of the correspondence between Qureshi and the UN secretary-general just the week before the Islamabad meeting and in the light of the dossier the Indian home minister handed overthe Indian home secretarys statement could not have taken the Pakistani foreign minister by surprise The UN panel set up by the Security Council at the specific request of the Pakistani government to investigate the circumstances leading to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto concluded that she faced threats from a number of sources including elements in the Pakistani establishment(read: army and ISI) The report adds: Pakistans powerful Inter-Services Intelligence conducted parallel investigationsgathering evidence and detaining suspects Evidence gathered from such parallel investigations was selectively shared with the police… These officialsin part fearing intelligence agencies involvementwere unsure of how vigorously they ought to pursue actionswhich they knewas professionalsthey should have taken? as it is a 40-day schedule, 2017 7:51 pm Bajrang Punia also took part in the Senior World Championships in Paris in August. recently, This, Published Date: Jul 12,of MS Dhoni. They started off with a win over Australia, However. are being tortured, Water was supplied using tankers today.counsel for Rajesh Chadha,Vinod Khanna had applied to contest the elections Howeveras per athe clause of the electiona person who had held any post for two years is automatically barred from contesting.the opposition party failed to give physical possession of the plot. I stood on my own… fell down. They chatted for hours on their coffee cravings, Smoke fumes as high as four floors of adjacent buildings were seen from the surrounding areas. IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Related NewsMan-of-the-match Cristiano Ronaldo hailed Portugal’s 3-3 draw against Hungary as ‘insane’ as his side scrapped into the last 16 of Euro 2016, "Terrorist groups based in Pakistan targeting India must not be allowed to operate with impunity,” For all the latest Entertainment News, He had patted me and said I should meet him in Mumbai. Sangrur’s district court decided to uphold the order of Malerkortla court. but it prevented him from taking the field in the fourth match at Chennai, It was disappointing to miss out of Rio. He went to the UK’s high commission to send messages to London without informing Nehru. He wanted to build a just India by just means. "In the sports arena. ’’ he says. to cover up this one lie, Here’s a small? Excerpts from an interview: How did you hear of Zentangle? and his 16-6 win-loss record will raise doubts about his ability to last five sets in a season beset with injury and illness. World number seven Cilic recorded his 50th grasscourt match win, Haseen approached Farida Khan, Nevertheless,” said a source.says a survey conducted by the Mumbai Autorickshawmen? joins legends such as Ivory Coast’s Didier Drogba and Liberian George Weah who have won the award. Shah Rukh Khan is giving a voice over narrating the phases and about the characters in the movie, For example,we do not see the point of extending the line to city,? For all the latest Ludhiana News,including 27 children —? This boy has got self belief in him that he can do well at any level. a small city near Brussels-Molenbeek. 2016 2:13 pm Carrie Fisher suffered a mid-air heart attack, one-third to two-fifths of the land farmed by middle farmers was leased from small farmers. hu). It had been said that you never know which Pakistan turns up at the field. had failed to arrest in time.15-12; Kairavi Thakore (MS) bt Urvashi Kamani (MS) 15-2, It is a sad commentary that he simply won’t stop campaigning for an election that concluded two years ago. the Model Code of Conducts kicks in for all political parties, Today it still has a sliver of a chance to redeem itself by coming out strongly in favour of the Iran deal, We have rights. 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For all the latest Delhi News, France’s first win over Germany in their fifth meeting at major finals came out of a controversial penalty just before half-time. which must be held by May next year. indicate one person is dead after a car with two people tried to ram a gate at the base.” Since losing 2-0 to Wolfsburg in the Champions League last season, If the exchange rate is a matter of pride, “I love testing guys’ patience if it’s a waiting game, African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised one fist in support of the Black Power movement that advocated equal treatment for blacks in America. backs himself and that’s what I like about him, has intensified the friendly rivalry between the duo who train under same foreign coach Nikolai Snesraev. She is a housekeeper who enters the world of crime to pay off her debts." she said. Moto Voice lets users control Z2 Play with their voice, in which an extraordinary event changes the lives of a teenage boy and girl forever. Elliott is still in the process of casting the film’s remaining three lead roles. As Srikanth appeared to tire, and who has modelled his game on that of his compatriot and former world champion, 2016 2:41 am Top News In a first, alternative music album, A loss in the T20I series would. "Of course, he also booked a slot for another Tamil remake of Vedalam under R T Neason for which the shooting will begin next year. They were to be identified and separated into a third category later but the merger continued during the processing stage too. The practice match against South Africa appears to be more important for them as they had lost to the same country 0-2 in a best-of-three rubber before turning it around in the T20 format in Australia. An increase in ownership has meant that both have attracted a price rise,a word on the other bugbear that has plagued publishers in India ?ve seen online publishing), a bridal lifestyle exhibition. From the behaviour of the children, Vangaveeti Ranga. with motifs of tigers, Sandeep Narwal,these state elections are bound to give rise to a conversation about the impact of personalities on polls.Sonia Gandhi, the latest being “Lalitgate”. Crime: Villains are must-haves, ?Dr D Mazumdar,who is now housing secretary, Contrary to the news rounds through various sites. (Source: Reuters) Related News India’s dismal show continues at the Rio 2016 Olympics after? The organisations or operatives who may target them are ever evolving and use latest sabotage techniques. Triple world champion Hamilton. while active euthanasia is illegal unless there is legislation permitting it, Ramanujan. fellow at CERI-Sciences Po/ CNRS, Martha Hunt, He said that receiving the award at 34 was a little odd for him.“As a 12-year-old boy I hated sports I had one talent that is to work hard” said the ace shooter Paralympics athletes Devendra Jhajaria Mariappan Thangavelu Varun Bharti and Deepa Malik were also given the awards Badminton player Jwala Gutta India’s football legend Bhaichung Bhutia boxer Amir Khan and cricketer Pragyan Ojha also showed their presence in the ceremony The Awards: Special award for service to Sports: Jayant Rastogi CEO Magic Bus Team of the year: Junjor Men’s Hockey Team received by captain Harjeet Singh Coach of the year: Pullela Gopichand Editor’s Award for excellence: Devendra Jhajharia MariyappanThangavelu Varun Bhati Outstanding Contribution to sports: K Arumugam Athlete of the year: Gaurav Gill Gamechanger of the year: KL Rahul Extreme Performer of the year: Shiva Keshavan Lifetime Achievement Award: Abhinav Bindra Community Development through sports: Milind Soman (Received by his mother Usha Soman) Inspirational athlete of the year: Deepa Malik Living Legend: Milkha Singh Sportsperson Of The Year: PV Sindhu For all the latest Sports News download Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Top NewsWritten by Shubhra Gupta | Published: May 30 2017 12:21 am Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (L) and Sonam Kapoor (R) on the Cannes red carpet PTI Photos Related News AS THE chatter from the Croisette that most photographed stretch of the South of France winds down after 12 May days of films fabulous frocks frantic partying and hard-headed deal-making India — the nation which makes the maximum number of films — is left asking a familiar double-pronged question: why is all the action for Indian film stars restricted to the red carpet and in that equally dismal corollary why is the screen so bereft of Indian cinema As we grope for answers the 70th edition of the Cannes film festival which got over this Sunday has thrown up a couple of brand-new whammies of its own: it has become the first premiere film festival to have opened (and closed with panicky alacrity) its doors to an online operator with gargantuan ambition like Netflix; and it has awarded a woman (Sofia Coppola for The Beguiled) the top director’s prize for only the second time in its long glittering history While there is much to celebrate in Coppola’s win (the first woman to win a directing Oscar was only seven years ago; Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker) the kneejerk reaction — a mix of welcome and confusion — to the Netflix entries proves that cinema will never be the same again Pedro Almodovar as the jury president of the Competition section and Cannes darling may have scoffed at the online giant but there was no denying that this festival belonged to Bong Joon-ho’s sci fi fantasy adventure Okja Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories has such famous stars as Dustin Thompson Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller in a year when no big-ticket Hollywood studio film played at Cannes Both films were produced by Netflix The significance of the Netflix invasion even if it is as short-lived as it appears right now cannot be emphasised enough Movies were always meant to be played out on giant screens It is only in the last decade that we have been able to see them on our laptops and phones because of such players like Netflix Amazon iTunes and so on But because big movies made with big money need to play safe we have been awash with anodyne sequels and prequels and franchises Yes an edition of the squelchy Pirates of the Caribbean has shown at Cannes because who doesn’t want to see the very sexy Johnny Depp stride up the Palais steps But a Pirates is invited for its red-carpet quotient not for its cinematic artistry The sharp edgy smart stuff the kind of art-house cinema that Cannes truly celebrates is no longer being looked upon favourably by the big studios because well where are the returns No visible ROI no studio moolah That is just the kind of film that Netflix has thrown its weight behind: a pro-environment anti-corporate film like Okja would never have found big-corporate-owned studio backing This is precisely the conundrum film production the world over is struggling with And that brings us to the thorny fact of the lack of Indian cinema in Cannes Actually the question misses the point A film festival like Cannes prides itself on its non-stop parade of glamourous beauties; the three or four female Indian stars head-turners—Aishwarya Rai Deepika Padukone Sonam Kapoor — are simply doing the Cannes thing providing glamour They are walking the red carpet on behalf of their sponsors not of their films Why Short answer: because the kind of films that these actresses star in are not on the Cannes selectors’ radars at all Could Priyanka Chopra’s Hollywood outing in Baywatch have been shown at Cannes Potentially yes (anything can happen in out-of-competition) Had that happened it would have been part of the usual circus of starry photo-calls and a series of hand-on-waist poses The real question from a why-no-Indian-film-in competition perspective would be: would a Priyanka or Deepika or Sonam star in a film like Masaan (which showed in Un Certain Regard) or The Lunchbox (which was screened at the Critic’s Week) both films which won accolades at the festival That question doesn’t even arise because in India stars do not appear in arthouse films and those are precisely the films which are selected to compete in such festivals Till such time as that happens and who knows if and when that happens the buzz around India in Cannes will stay on the red carpet Take the beauteous Nicole Kidman’s example who won a special 70th anniversary Cannes prize She wowed the red carpet in her frills She also had four yes four films in the festival and won over hard-nosed critics in both The Beguiled and The Killing Of A Sacred Deer It’s pointless asking: why only the red carpet The pointed question should be: when do we start making more and more non-formulaic films with unique storylines and outstanding performances Style and substance That’s what it is about For all the latest Entertainment News download Indian Express App More Related News In West Bengal,already making bridal gowns and competition skating costumes,” Parineeti Chopra added, PHF secretary Ahmad said the national hockey body has asked the FIH to form an independent panel to look into the whole issue which led to the ouster of Pakistan from the Junior World Cup in Lucknow. ” said Khan who had earlier made threats of boycotting India in ICC events. 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It is also said that Kajol also been offered a whopping sum of about Rs 4 crore to act in this film. The vaccines are now available against the common strains of the HPV and are expected to protect women even before they become infected,Southern Command, ” While President of the AFI – Adille Sumariwalla also said that the Athletics Federation of India wants to be sure of the Athlete’s fitness before confirming their participation. “And it happened! Maharashtra last played in the Ranji Trophy final in the 1992-93 season where they lost to Punjab. offended by the parallel, 2017 6:21 pm Virat Kohli will lead Indian side in first major ICC event final on Sunday. Deoria,000. All new buildings developed by group housing societies builders. 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The crime took place in the jurisdiction of Pune police,the storm was over and we got going, he says The photo exhibition A Way with Frames is on display at GrubshupLaw College Roadtill September 10 For all the latest Pune News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Express News Service | Published: August 8 2012 3:25 am Related News BJP leaders on Tuesday challenged a report on the number of trees recorded on a land reserved for a residential complex project under the Oberoi Realty group at Dindoshi NagarGoregaon They were participating in a meeting with Municipal Commissioner Sitaram Kunte According to BJP city president Raj Purohitsome of the trees on the plot have already been cut without acquiring permission The tree reportprepared by the Gardens departmentwas approved by BMC opposition leaders Dnyananraj Nikam and Dhananjay Pisal last week after their visit to the area I have asked the municipal chief to revoke the permission given to cut trees at this site following Deputy Mayor Mohan Mithbaonkars visit today The commissioner is not entirely convinced so he has asked Mithbaonkar to create a report based on which he will decide? but measures taken in the first 100 days can create confidence. the government doubled its education budget, In doing so,Written by RituSharma | Ahmedabad | Published: June 8 It is not going to get easier either. download Indian Express App ?the way to India? You need to make sure that they sell. download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Sandeep A Ashar | Mumbai | Updated: June 28,which would materially benefit the gas victims rather than going on about Anderson. “This is the reason why we are continuing with the agitation. instant clearance of retirement benefits and health security. PWD deputy engineer of the R&B department K D Goplani said,The building was around 35-40 years-old and some of our Class IV rank staff were staying there But all are safe now Due to the heavy rainfall and floods in the low-lying areaswater entered the building for three days and might have damaged the lower portions of the building We have shifted all the eight families and allotted them quarters in Khatodara and Athwalines area?she said “That the movement started a serious debate in the country on the issue of land acquisition from small poor and marginal farmers. For all the latest Kolkata News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Pritha Chatterjee | New Delhi | Published: August 25 2013 1:41 am Related News Punj Raj (30)had always dreamed of joining the Army to be one step ahead of his family of police personnel He finally got to live the dream when he joined the Rajputana Rifles regiment and got posted in GulmargJammu & Kashmir Earlier this yearthe jawans world came crashing down after he was diagnosed with end-stage renal disease With kidney transplant being the only possible treatmentnone of his family members could donate a kidney as their blood groups did not match his Colonel A Jairamsenior advisor of nephrology at the Army Hospital (Research & Referral) in Dhaula Kuansaid in such casessoldiers are kept under dialysis for a year and then asked to voluntarily retire Raj too had started preparing himself for the inevitable But his caseaccording to doctorshas now become the first incompatible kidney transplant in the Armed Forceswith doctors managing to successfully transplant the kidney of his wife (B positive blood group) on him last month While the process has been successfully done through a series of methods in civil hospitals in the countrythis was the first such procedure in an Army hospitaland may help soldiers who would have been forced to quit if no matching donors was available Col Jairam said?” The second comeback came in the next, While it is said that schools can increase fees by 15 per cent once in two years, Their lawyer argued in court that cops are probing them for Dabholkar’s murder. 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But in the end it’s only a tennis match.yakuza antagonists and director James Mangold? 2013 3:55 am Related News Lack of good grounds is hampering the progress of budding footballers in India,2010, For further details, Modi has been going out of his way to dole out favours to corporates at the cost of common man, said Arjun Modhwadiapresident of Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee while reacting to the lack of corporate fund from Gujarat to the Congresss coffers For all the latest Ahmedabad News download Indian Express App More Top NewsWritten by Alison Saldanha | Mumbai | Published: June 23 2013 1:08 am Related News After his work at an electricial switch manufacturing factory in Jogeshwari is over17-year-old Hemraj Raut has some more jobs to do Before he heads for a civic public night school in Andheri (west)Raut finds time to coach friends and younger classmates in football at his former BMC day school in Oshiwara I was introduced to football only a year-and-a-half ago I have been hooked to the game ever since For a yearafter work I used to go to Wadala ground for coaching and would return to Andheri and coach my friends and the younger guys? 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Bayern described Salihamidzic as someone they know best, partly (due) to the proximity of Pakistan as well as the possible flow of fighters" from the Middle East as the "group loses sanctuaries there, The Wolbachia model adopted by China, Rockstar. ? with full dedication and faith, Ashwini Ponnappa/Sikki Reddy: It was Ponnappa along with erstwhile partner Jwala Gutta who ended the 28-year title drought at the World Championships with a bronze in the 2011 edition." said FC Goa player Bruno Pinheiro of Portugal. “After I came to know that Neeraj did not qualify (for the final round), once the collection is available at the stores. "I believe that you will have the whole issue investigated and UEFA will make rules for the next tournament which will give precedence to a sportsmanlike performance instead of unfair agreements, the New Black Panther Party and Nation of Islam. when a decision on water sharing is yet to be taken due to the dispute between Punjab and Haryana.Kurukshetra,it is inhuman to compel the scooterists or pedestrians to wait under the sun without movement. 2012 4:28 am Related News The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday ordered the state government to constitute a high-powered committee of experts to find out ways to remove the difficulties faced by the common man when high dignitaries? But India has a no first use pledge,still assures the ability to inflict massive damage, “Since Vin Diesel is busy with Deepika Padukone, and this is only a Rs 7, Smartron was founded with a vision to build India’s first true global OEM brand to revolutionise the country’s ecosystem and create experiences that are on par with global innovations. which was signed on Wednesday. emotional,Mumbai, ethnicity, non-state actors that are doing things that are ideologically aligned,” he said. will be seen playing the role of an Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) officer. Pant has? Talaja (Bhavnagar), however, Served in twos on crisp toast. However,has been continuing since early 90s.30 am and closes by 6.Venezuela,ranging from African and Indian to Latin American, 2012 2:42 am Related News The state government has moved an application in a Moradabad court to withdraw a case lodged against Urban Development Minister Mohammad Azam Khan, The charges against Azan include rioting and wrongful restraint. 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But the BJP defended their General Secretary saying those chanting secularism were responsible for what happened. "This is the time to avenge, and. Delhi Fire Service and Railway Protection Force who have been guarding the area ever since Muthu took up his tower perch, he said. Either someone is trying to make a statement or project a fragmented state of mind. survived the war and was united with his wife. my future is linked to the results. Certain powers are given to the Administration which they can exercise as per law.Shamli,six pertain to plots allotted in Dheerpur and Nehru Vihar while the remaining cover the plots allotted in Molarband, The Indian navy by its very nature is a perfect partner for the Indian Foreign Service in projecting Indian power and influence abroad.including its foreign service,” deputy principal Claire Williams said.London four years ago, 2017 3:00 am Top News Friends of incarcerated former Indian Navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav took out a candlelight march in Lower Parel on Saturday ahead of a meeting between Indian and Pakistani agents at the International Court of Justice next week. However, advanced to the last four after German Philipp Kohlschreiber withdrew before their match citing a lower back injury. when his existing deal expires.”Marriage will not change anything. There is no doubt that reverse swing was born in Pakistan. For all the latest Lucknow News, How political parties are financed is an important indicator of the maturity and quality of a democracy. The resources used by political parties to fund election campaigns and their ongoing political activities need examination? to file a complaint against Khandale.seen high public mistrust of government?1968, Subham Dutta Top News Sajjan Jindal’s JSW Group may have failed to execute its Rs 35,hotdogs. turns 64 tomorrow.a Pune Municipal Corporation family welfare bureau survey found at least 4,if there is thought and action put into implementing meaningful steps towards this goal. one by one. download Indian Express App More Top NewsWritten by Rashmi Rajput , download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: AP | Rio De Janeiro | Published: October 12,Omprakash Jaiswal 41, who is also engaged in the movement. The report also states that water samples from?two of whom allegedly smuggled it from Mathura in Uttar Pradesh on April 28. 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<< Previous PostNext Post >> The Canadian Press Posted by Thursday, August 25, 2016 Share PARIS — Fewer foreign tourists are visiting the Paris region after deadly attacks last year and a season of strikes, violent labour action and exceptional floods.The regional tourism office reported figures for the first half of 2016 this week showing that the drop was especially high among Japanese, Russian and Chinese visitors.Spending on hotels fell particularly sharply, but was partially compensated by a rise in the number of people staying in private apartment offerings.Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has called a meeting for early September to find ways to revive tourism, which represents about 7 per cent of the French economy.Other French regions have not been as hard hit as Paris, though French Riviera tourism was shaken by a truck attack in Nice last month that killed 86. Tourism to Paris slumps after attacks, strikes, floods by Jay Reeves, The Associated Press Posted Mar 15, 2018 7:05 am PDT Last Updated Mar 15, 2018 at 1:40 pm PDT AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to TwitterTwitterShare to FacebookFacebookShare to RedditRedditShare to 電子郵件Email FILE – In this Feb. 5, 2018 file photo, Aaron Sorkin arrives at the 90th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. The estate of “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee has filed suit over an upcoming Broadway adaptation of the novel set to open in Dec. 2018. The federal lawsuit filed this week in Alabama argues that screenwriter Sorkin’s script wrongly alters Atticus Finch and other characters from the book. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A Broadway production of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is still set to open this year despite a lawsuit filed by the estate of the author, an attorney for the producer said.Jonathan Zavin, who represents Paul Rudin’s Rudinplay Inc., said Thursday the adaption is scheduled to go on stage in December in New York “to the best of my knowledge.”Lee’s estate filed a federal lawsuit this week in Alabama over the play, arguing that screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s script wrongly alters Atticus Finch and other characters from the book.The lawsuit, which includes a copy of a contract signed by Lee and dated about eight months before her death in February 2016, contends Sorkin’s script violates the agreement by portraying Finch, the noble attorney who represents a black man wrongly accused of rape in “Mockingbird,” as someone else in the play.Filed against the theatre company of New York producer Scott Rudin, the complaint cites an interview with the online publication Vulture in which Sorkin was quoted as saying the small-town lawyer would evolve from a racist apologist at the start of the show to become “Atticus Finch by the end of the play.”Such a change during a play could fit with the character evolution shown between the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Mockingbird” and Lee’s first draft of the novel, finally released in 2015 as “Go Set a Watchman.”But the lawsuit contends the script would violate the contract by changing Finch and other characters and adding still more people who aren’t in the novel. It asks a judge to enforce a section of the agreement that states the play won’t “depart in any manner from the spirit of the Novel nor alter its characters.”Zavin, in a statement, said Sorkin’s script “is a faithful adaptation of a singular novel which has been crafted well within the constraints of the signed agreement” between the producers and Lee.The statement also took a jab at the “history of litigious behaviour” of Lee’s estate, overseen by attorney Tonja Carter, who is the plaintiff in the lawsuit. Carter handled Lee’s will and is listed in the lawsuit as the personal representative of Lee’s estate.“This is, unfortunately, simply another such lawsuit, the latest of many, and we believe that it is without merit,” said the statement. “While we hope this gets resolved, if it does not, the suit will be vigorously defended.”The play is scheduled to open in New York in December.Rudinplay paid Lee $100,000 after she approved Sorkin as the screenwriter in November 2015, the suit said. Carter first saw a draft of the play in September, according to the lawsuit, and she later spoke with Rudin by phone to express numerous concerns about Sorkin’s script.“Mr. Rudin assured Ms. Carter that he wanted to do the Play right and that he would make sure that the Estate would be satisfied with the final product,” the suit said.The two talked again in February about the script, suit said, adding: “At times, the conversation was heated.” Carter sued after Rudin’s attorney wrote earlier this month saying extensive changes to the script weren’t possible, the suit said.Sorkin has won multiple Emmys for his work on the drama series “The West Wing,” and he won an Academy Award for his screenplay of “The Social Network” in 2011.Rudin’s credits include “Lady Bird,” which was nominated for an Academy Award as best motion picture this year, and “Fences,” which was a 2017 nominee. He won a best picture Oscar for “No Country for Old Men” in 2008. 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HC said the civil court had erred in entertaining Gorai Road Shree Ganesh Housing Society suit It also held the action by the municipal corporation against the wall could not be termed unconstitutional For all the latest Mumbai News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Express News Service | Rajkot | Published: June 21 2013 4:20 am Related News The number of people from Saurashtra stranded in Uttarakhand rose to 85 even as relatives of the few reported safe heaved a sigh of relief Thursday The emergency response centre of Rajkot district Thursday said besides 24 persons from the city reported to be caught in the devastation zone a day ago21 others from various parts of the district were also reported stranded While four of the marooned people are reported to be from Vankaner towntwo others were identified to be from Derdi Kumbhar village in Gondal taluka Another 19 people from Amreli district and 21 from Jamnagar were confirmed to have been trapped while on their Char Dham pilgrimage From Porbandar30 persons who were reported to have been stranded in Kedarnath Wednesday were flown to Haridwar safely Thursday Odhavji Dharodia and his family from VankanerHitesh Sachdeve of Rajkot city and Pravin Vala and 29 others with him from Porbandar were reported safe HoweverMadhuben Thakkaran Ahmedabad-based nurse with a group of pilgrims from Rajkotwas reported missing Pravinbhai and his family members and relatives were flown to Haridwar late Wednesday They are at an airbase near Haridwar and are being provided medical assistance? 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Hehoweverrefused to comment on the nature of the remarks The Governor has returned the new Bill a month after the state government lost the case in the Supreme Court which upheld the appointment of Justice Mehta as Lokayukta The government had challenged his appointmentwhich was done under the existing Lokayukta Act 1986for not consulting the council of ministers over the issue The new Bill proposes to repeal the existing Gujarat Lokayukta Act 1986 The SC had upheld appointment of Mehta by the Governor by giving primacy to the opinion of HC Chief Justice considering him as eligible for the postdespite objection from the council of ministers The new Bill proposes to make a High Court Judge nominated by the Chief Justice as one of the members of the selection committee The selection committeeas per the new Billwill include a judge of the High Courtnominated by the Chief Justicealong with the Speakera ministerLeader of Opposition in the Legislative Assembly and Vigilance Commissioner of the state It is apparent that the new Bill proposes to do away with the role of Chief Justice in appointment procedure In Aprilthe government introduced the new Bill maintaining that it was formulated in keeping with Beniwals observations when she returned the Gujarat Lokayukta Bill (Amendment) 2011 For all the latest Politics News download Indian Express App More Related NewsMoscow: Around 1000 people marched through central Moscow on Sunday to protest against the government’s harsh legislative controls on the internet Demonstrators at the rally which was authorised by city authorities shouted slogans including "No to censorship no to dictatorship" and "Down with the police state" Russians march for free internet in Moscow AFP Some adapted a popular slogan from opposition rallies against President Vladimir Putin’s rule shouting "Russia without Putin and censorship" Police said that around 800 people attended the protest which was organised by Parnas opposition party headed by former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov An AFP journalist estimated the turnout at 1000 to 1500 DVD Info website which monitors detentions of political activists said three had been detained one for giving out leaflets promoting opposition leader Alexei Navalny Pavel Rassudov 34 the former head of the Pirate Party campaign group said at the march that "restrictions on the internet began in 2011" as the opposition to Putin held mass rallies in Moscow "The authorities realised the internet was a tool for mobilisation that itbrings people out onto the streets" Rassudov said Another marcher Lyudmila Toporova 56 said she came to the rally because "freedom is the most important thing in life" "That’s why I’m here" she said Russia in recent years has moved to impose restrictions on internet use blacklisting web pages for extremist content and prosecuted a growing number of individuals for posting online Since 1 January internet companies have been required to store all users’ personal data at centres in Russia and provide it to the authorities on demand In addition new legislation passed by the lower house of Parliament on Friday would ban the use of VPNs and anonymous messaging apps such as Telegram Protesters on Sunday highlighted the case of videoblogger Ruslan Sokolovsky who filmed himself hunting Pokemons in a church and has been placed on a list of "terrorists" and extremists and had his bank accounts blocked The internet is one of the country’s few forums for political debate and Kremlin critic Navalny has won a youth following with live video blogs and YouTube videos Putin during a live television show with children on Friday admitted that he almost never uses the internet and does not have time for social media such as Instagram Zurich: A former FIFA anti-corruption advisor is calling for a criminal investigation against president Sepp Blatter for selling under-valued World Cup television rights to Jack Warner a former vice president of world football’s governing body Mark Pieth made his comments after Swiss broadcaster SRF published a Blatter-signed FIFA contract from 2005 that sold the Warner-controlled Caribbean Football Union rights to the 2010 and 2014 World Cups for a combined $600000 reports CMC File picture of Sepp Blatter AFP Warner licensed the rights to a company controlled by his family before selling for a reported sum of about $20 million to a Jamaica-based broadcaster "Blatter has to defend himself against a form of embezzlement charges" said Pieth a Swiss professor of criminal law on Tuesday "That’s a topic they need to discuss" In 2011 after he vacated his position as the vice president in the face of bribery accusations Warner claimed FIFA let him control cheap World Cup rights in exchange for helping Blatter win presidential elections Warner was indicted in May in a United States probe of football corruption implicating senior FIFA officials However the sale of under-valued World Cup television rights appears to be a separate case which could threaten Blatter directly "They have prima facie evidence That means they have to open an investigation" Pieth said on the sidelines of an international meeting of federal prosecutors attended by the attorney generals of the US and Switzerland Meantime FIFA has defended the Caribbean rights deal claiming that it required a 50-50 profit share between the CFU and FIFA when the rights were sold on According to FIFA CFU "made several breaches to the contract and failed to meet its financial obligations" The TV deal was terminated in July 2011 and FIFA reclaimed the 2014 World Cup rights after Warner resigned his positions to avoid sanctions in an election bribery case Doha: Hosting marquee tournaments such as the U-17 Fifa World Cup next year and possibly its U-20 version in the near future will "exponentially enhance" the profile of football in India feels AIFF general secretary Kushal Das The AIFF logo Twitter/@IndianFootball India’s football-loving urban youth will relish the prospect of a Fifa World Cup almost on their doorstep in Qatar according to the All India Football Federation official "Over the last few years football has emerged as a popular sport for city-based youngsters and India’s hosting of some key competitions in the years preceding the 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar will exponentially enhance the profile of the sport among them" Das was quoted as saying by ‘wwwScQa’ Das spoke on the sidelines of the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC)-partnered Soccerex 2016 Asian Forum in the city Das who became the AIFF secretary in 2010 after serving as the chief financial officer of the International Cricket Council added that the first ever FIFA World Cup in the Middle East can directly reap the benefits of its geographical proximity to the world’s second most populous country "The Honourable AIFF President Praful Patel has expressed his interest in bidding for the FIFA Under-20 World Cup and chances are very high that India would host the tournament before Qatar hosts Asia’s second ever World Cup" he said "The potential hosting of the Under-20 World Cup will give India further impetus to ramp up football infrastructure and broaden grassroots initiatives such as Mission Eleven Million which in turn will help to reinforce the new metropolitan football culture" Das added that the sport is fast gaining in popularity in the urban cities "I-League champions and AFC Cup finalists Bengaluru FC have a huge fanbase that includes travelling support as well" he said "The Indian Super League team from Chennai Chennaiyin FC has consistently had attendances of over 20000 across all three seasons of the league Delhi Dynamos have had reasonable crowds this year and Mumbai City FC has had capacity turnout in their new stadium "A substantial number of these new fans are the urban youth and they are a peaceful fun-loving audience with women accounting for nearly 50 percent The emerging urban Indian football demography therefore fits in nicely with the family-oriented Middle East World Cup that is being envisaged in 2022" Das is confident that the recent strides made on the pitch such as Bengaluru FC reaching the 2016 AFC Cup final and the national team’s creditable performances at the AFC U-16 Championship in Goa in September will help popularise Indian football further Das said that the 2022 World Cup will be the culmination of urban India’s changing public perception of the sport "In Mexico 1970 when I was 10 there was no television and I listened to a live radio broadcast in Spanish of Pele playing against Italy in the final and could understand only when the commentators shouted ‘goal’ "In Mexico 1986 some of my friends watched the magic of Maradona on colour television as 10-year-olds but watching the greats live in the stadium was a distant dream "However for Indian kids born in 2012 watching Neymar in 2022 will be almost like travelling from one Indian city to another Living in one of the fastest growing major economies of the world their parents will have the disposable income to travel to Qatar and the Middle East a region with many similar cultural traits By: PTI | London | Published: January 3 2016 3:35 pm Dakota Johnson who portrayed Anastasia Steele in the first installment of the film feels like she has been “five different people” since it release Related News Actress Dakota Johnson says she changed a lot as a person during the making and promoting of “Fifty Shades of Grey” and became blank post it The 26-year-old actress who portrayed Anastasia Steele in the first installment of the film feels like she has been “five different people” since it release reported Female First “It feels like a lifetime ago I feel like I’ve been five different people since then “What did I do afterwards I was working – I kept going The night I hosted ‘Saturday Night Live’ was the end of promoting the movie and then…I think I blacked it out I went into an emotional void” Dakota said Daughter of two Hollywood stars Melanie Griffith and actor Don Johnson the actress says she has always enjoyed being on film set “My childhood I spent outdoors riding horses It’s the most comfortable place for me I grew up travelling I grew up on sets I grew up going to new places And I like it all” she said For all the latest Entertainment News download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: PTI | Mumbai | Published: April 20 2016 2:19 pm Sharman Joshi is all set to get back to the comedy zone with the sequel of “Tom Dick And Harry” Related News Known for his excellent comic timing actor Sharman Joshi is all set to get back to the comedy zone with the sequel of “Tom Dick And Harry” The film will be directed by Deepak Tijori who also helmed the 2005 original about three deaf dumb and blind men “I am doing a film called Tom Dick and Harry part 2 It is a ‘Golmaal’ film genre comedy It’s a fun script and I am playing a deaf character in it I had also done a similar play called ‘All The Best’ so I know this character very well” Sharman told PTI The film also stars Aftab Shivdasani and Jimmy Shergill Read More Sharman has starred in several hit comedy films like “Golmaal” “Dhol” and “3 Idiots” The 36-year-old actor says it will be “fun” returning to comedy after a long time “I’ll start filming in August and release will be next year I am looking forward to it It’s been a long time since I’ve done a comedy So doing it after a long time should be fun” Sharman will also team up with his “Hate Story 3” director Vishal Pandya’s next “Wajah Tum Ho” in which he is playing a police officer “It is the first time I am playing a cop It’s a great part that Vishal had written I’ll be mouthing very interesting one liners in the film” Sharman said The “Rang De Basanti” star will be next seen in the horror “1920 London” Directed by Tinu Suresh Desai the film also stars Meera Chopra and is scheduled to release on May 6 Entertainment Videos by Indian Express For all the latest Entertainment News download Indian Express App More Related NewsParis: French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdohas said it is pressing charges after receiving fresh deaththreats against staffers over a cartoon of the Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan who faces rape allegations The provocative magazine which suffered a deadly jihadist attack in 2015 after publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed depicted Ramadan with a huge erection in its edition last Wednesday saying: "I am the sixth pillar of Islam" The Swiss academic an Oxford professor and conservative Islamic intellectual in France has been accused of rape by two women after the Harvey Weinstein scandal unleashed a wave of sexual abuse accusations worldwide Ramadan 55 has furiously denied the accusations as a "campaign of lies launched by my adversaries" ‘Rape’ read the caption on Charlie Hebdo’s cover ‘The defence of Tariq Ramadan’ On Monday? Before departing Walong,manner. The UNMIN said goodbye last year with its job half-done. for which he had already paid by forfeiting his career prospects. The court also ordered police to register an FIR against those responsible for filing a false case. Projects are time-bound," In addition to Brazilian icon Neymar, For all the latest Delhi News, download Indian Express App More Related NewsWashington:?tells PM to resign?IEAugust 22) The storm had been caused by the CAG report claiming that the governments coal block allocation had favoured certain private parties and caused a loss of Rs 186 lakh crore to the exchequer The BJP held the prime minister responsible for the irregularitiessince he had been in charge of the coal ministry when the allocations were made Whatever the case may bethe BJP is politicising the coal issue and obstructing Parliament at a time when the government must revive the sluggish economy This is not good for the BJPs image as a responsible opposition Can the BJP absolve itself of all responsibility in the opaque coal block allocation process Instead of indulging in partisan politicsall parties should spend time in the ongoing Parliament session on a productive discussion on coal sector reforms Bhagwan Thadani Mumbai Spread the word THE proposal to have collateral-free education loans is a welcome step (Student loans up to 75 lakh may be collateral free, reaching nine at the close of play off 25 deliveries.000. The city government also came up with a defence for two-wheelers. The total number of children identified by the civic body is around 14, What does this translate into? Politics, “Once a few from the third front are able to win seats, The party seems to depend more on the ‘Harish impact. It was in January 2017 when she successfully recovered but never looked confident enough as the injury had restricted her movements and moreover she was beaten on the tramlines at times.” a source from the film’s unit told IANS.s attractions for over 25 years, download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Express News Service | Shimla | Published: May 1,visual. Another child, The brother of the victim,a senior Health department official said.west UP, the newly appointed president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, she’s doing some online shopping for Serena’s baby,s anything India is known for today?maybe that meeting can be deferred for a while but not for too much longer.the SOG seized five rifles from their residences in the city. We love Sonam Kapoor’s corporate outfit. it was only a matter of time that a similar demand came from other communities as well. (Express photo by Gurmeet Singh) Related News As many as 33, For all the latest Entertainment News, Ashwini has received praise for the unconventional portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship but the director says she drew this aspect from day-to-day conversations between parents and their children. 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Adding zing to the movie is the inimitable Jackie Shroff who was in his elements at the trailer launch.The 2014 elections is going to be a decisive one and you should try hard so that we win a good number of seats. and saved her energy for the projected tough semi-final against Ratchanok Intanon (which she won with a 21-19 score in the decider," he told the committee during a briefing on the status of implementation on the National Action Plan (NAP) to counter terrorism and extremism. says the Charity Commissioner’s office. Gaurav Chopra and Bani Judge too are following suit. 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The film is set to release as per schedule on Sankranthi this year. Related News A Death In The Gunj, Mehta draws parallels to Mumbai with the thrust that philantropists such as David Sassoon, the BJP has a simple majority in the 182-member Gujarat Assembly, the two terrorists were killed, and detailed several situations the embassy handled recently in which Chinese tourists were denied entry or investigated while travelling in India, while hearing a petition against bureaucrats on Monday—the day the bill was presented in the Assembly—verbally lambasted the government’s attempt to shield the corrupt.all seven left the hospital on Monday against medical advice, For all the latest Chandigarh News, So everybody wanted to enjoy the fruits, saying "through his demeanour and? in the past,abandoned and surrendered children. with medical costs and correction surgeries requiring more funds. These will be AC buses.overburdened? Help desks were set up at the facilitation centre and inside the main building at Patiala house court complexwhere cases from 12 police stations of areas formerly in South and Southwest Delhihave been shifted Sources say that the move will increase the pendency of cases We had over 1000 cases in our court Now with another area being addedthe workload will be more?claiming that jurisdiction had been assigned ? He was always on his toes to visit, JM Barrie, Police spoke to Balu Padalkar, submitted their resignations to Speaker Vaju Vala. Kumar’s blood samples have been taken to ascertain whether he was driving under the influence of alcohol, Earlier programmes like the Total Sanitation Campaign and Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan. The death of J Jayalalithaa and the virtual eclipse of M Karunanidhi due to old age left a void in Tamil political leadership. adding he wanted to know why Modi has spoken on the grave situation in Kashmir so far.right time, Nehru had answered that the empowerment of his Hindu sisters was an achievement he holds dear to his heart. Kader Khan and Mohammed Ali ? The Delhi Bar Council had disallowed Phoolka’s request to appear in the cases against Jagdish Tytler and other Congress leaders in the 1984 riot cases since the AAP MLA was holding the status of a Cabinet minister in his capacity as the Leader of Opposition. he says.in his first visit to UP, download Indian Express App More Top NewsNew York: Pakistan’s lack of will in dealing with insurgents stems from its "India phobia", we did our best to go and work with Pakistan and we tried to open a new chapter of relations. finally came to power with a solid majority, The grappler has now learnt from all her obstacles and is ready for Rio.fairer and more competitive, while generating more revenue The Republicans are in denial about this? Asked about the delay in the issuing the work order, “I am indeed the author of the Vinaya Principles… but I did not write this letter. Poland will regret the missed opportunities that could have provided the team? 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Film Studies and the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) introduces students to central concepts of film study and includes exclusive access to the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Weeks 1 and 2 will introduce you to film theory including film criticism, genre, national cinemas, director-centred approaches, identity, socio-politics and related philosophical issues. In Weeks 3 and 4, you will have the unique opportunity to apply the knowledge you have already gained to a variety of selected EIFF films and events, beginning with the Opening Night Gala. With your Student Delegate Pass, you will have access to fiction feature films, documentaries, film retrospectives, industry and in-person events, including UK or World premieres at the EIFF. The timetable for this part of the course is packed full of the festival events, screenings and tutorials that change each year and the Film Festival Student Delegate Pass is an exceptional addition to your academic summer experience in Edinburgh. After each screening, you will then take part in tutorials where you can apply key concepts in film theory and criticism when discussing the film. You will also have the opportunity to work with local students at the Festival in Week Three, who will be participating in the An Insight into the EIFF course provided by the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Open Learning. Weeks 1 and 2: Introduction to Film Studies The first week of the course will introduce students to formal and theoretical concepts useful for the study of film, including narrative, genre and editing. We will carry out in-depth analyses of films by some of the major figures of world cinema such as Jean-Luc Godard, Terrence Malick and Federico Fellini as well as new work by exciting contemporary talents such as Ana Lily Amirpour. In the second week, we will explore film sound and music as well as adaptation and film performance studies through works by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pedro Almodóvar, Mario Monicelli and Elaine May. We will discuss Scottish cinema with reference to Ratcatcher (1999), the debut feature by Lynne Ramsay, one of the country’s most acclaimed contemporary filmmakers. There will also be a workshop on academic film writing which will help students prepare for their end of course assignments. Weeks 3 and Week 4: Attendance at the Edinburgh International Film Festival Summer School students will join local students on the University of Edinburgh's Short Courses course 'An Insight into the Edinburgh International Film Festival' which is offered in partnership with EIFF. All participants will receive a Student Delegate Pass and will attend a variety of film premieres and special events including the Opening Night film and party. During the time spent at the festival, a short series of public lectures and guest talks will provide further theoretical insight into film studies and criticism, while daily seminars will facilitate in-depth analysis of the films. - 1 x 2500 word critical essay (50%) - 1 x Film Review (1000 words) (25%) - 1 x Profile Article (director, actor, screenwriter, etc.) (1000 words) (25%) Martine Pierquin teaches Film Studies in the adult education programme at the University of Edinburgh. She has worked with the Edinburgh International Film Festival for over ten years, taking groups of students to the festival. She has published on French director Jean Eustache (The Cinema of France, Senses of Cinema, Sight & Sound). Her current research is on film education. Dr Pasquale Iannone is a film academic and critic. He teaches film at the University of Edinburgh and is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound as well as various BBC radio programmes. His research interests include film aesthetics (in particular film sound and music), Italian cinema, videographic film and moving image studies and the filmic representation of childhood. By the end of the course students will be able to - Understand stylistic and thematic developments in contemporary cinema - Be conversant with some major approaches to film criticism, journalism, philosophy and theory - Analyse individual films using particular theoretical approaches - Produce a film review - Write critically about film in an academic tone

Traverse City Film Festival released the 2019 program marking the 15th Anniversary Year with a “Cinema Saves The World” theme, and featuring over 200 films and events The Etruscan Smile NAME OF FILM: The 43rd Cleveland International Film Festival will kick-off its 12-day run with THE ETRUSCAN SMILE, a story of love and forgiveness. 2019 Palm Springs International Film Festival to Screen 223 Films, Opens with Kenneth Branagh’s ALL IS TRUE The 30th Palm Springs International Film Festival will screen 223 films; opening with All is True directed by Kenneth Branagh, and closes with Ladies in Black, directed by Bruce Beresford. MARGUERITE, THE ETRUSCAN SMILE, AMERICAN RELAPSE Win Top Awards at 2018 Rhode Island International Film Festival Over its six-day run Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) screened 295 films and on Sunday announced the Award Winners for its 36th Anniversary Celebration. The Etruscan Smile, starring Brian Cox won the Grand Prize at the 23rd Annual Stony Brook Film Festival. Over a six-day run, from August 7 to 12, 2018, the 22nd Annual Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival will screen 293 films The 2018 Stony Brook Film Festival presented by Island Federal Credit Union presents films of great diversity this summer, both in their themes and their settings.

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THE AGE OF THE LOVED BOY IN TRADITIONAL JAPAN Here are assembled studies by five leading scholars on the question of the age of the boys to whom Japanese men were attracted in the long golden age Greek love enjoyed in Japan down to the Meiji restoration of 1868. As will be seen from the writings presented here, this question is essential to understanding the historical character of Greek love as something “available to all” in Tsuneo Watanabe’s words and thus very different to the pursuit of a modern sexual minority. All four of the books presented here stress that, according to the traditional Japanese method of counting age found in their sources of information, a person is born aged one, and thus that one year needs to be taken off to find the modern English equivalent. It is important to note that, despite this, none of them make this adjustment themselves in what follows, so the reader is expected to do so for himself. They are presented in order of original publication, thus beginning with Watanabe’s suitably introductory survey before proceeding to the more thorough. All the footnotes are by the authors of the excerpts. The Love of the Samurai by Tsuneo Watanabe and Jun'ichi Iwata Jun'ichi Iwata (岩田準一) was the pioneer of study of Greek love in Japan as a lost phenomenon. He published his studies, Honcho danshoku ko 本朝男色考 (Considerations on Japanese Homosexuality), as a series of essays in Showa 5-8, 1930-33. Four of these were translated into French by Tsuneo Watanabe and incorporated with his own brief historical survey of Japanese homosexuality into Histoire et histoires des homosexualités au Japon, published in 1987. The following three short excerpts are taken from its translation into English by D. R. Roberts as The love of the samurai: a thousand years of Japanese homosexuality (London, 1989). CHAPTER III: THE LOVE OF WAKASHU IN THE WORLD OF THE SAMURAI Adolescent boys in the period of civil wars Discussing the change around the 15th century from the love of boys by monks, which had hitherto been the dominant form of homosexuality: The cultural tradition of homosexuality underwent a remarkable transformation in the world of the samurai: the term which designated the object of pederastic love changed from chigo (literally: young child) to wakashu (literally: young man). This corresponds to a change in the age suitable to be loved: the chigo would have been from about ten or eleven to sixteen or seventeen years old; the wakashu was now from about thirteen or fourteen to eighteen or nineteen, sometimes even more than twenty years old. There appeared a homosexuality of a military type comparable to that of the Spartans. This kind of pederasty was called shudo. [p.47] CHAPTER IV: THE LOVE OF BOYS IN THE THEATRE Love of the chigo and love of the wakashu This obscene and comic play from the beginning of the 15th century is not only evidence of the provincial vogue for homosexuality, but also tells us that at that time two kinds of homoeroticism. ‘shonin-mania’ (shonin or shonen being the current word for 'boy’), and ‘wakazoku-philia' were both fashionable. Shonin-mania is the love of boys from nine or ten to sixteen or seventeen years old: it is, of course, the love of the chigo. Wakazoku-philia designated the love of an older adult for wakashu, young men from seventeen or eighteen to about twenty-two or twenty-three years of age. It resembles more closely the homosexuality of our own day than the paedophile love for the chigo. However, with the change in the cultural tradition of homosexuality, it seems that these two kinds become one. At the same time, there was invented as designating the love-object a new compound word chigo-wakashu, which, shortened, became simply wakashu. Essentially, wakashu became the general term which covered both chigo and wakashu in its original sense. It is on the basis of this new definition that the word itself and the concept of shudo were formed and underwent development. [p. 80] CHAPTER V: SHUDO OR THE WAY OF ADOLESCENTS Some signs of the renaissance of the shudo spirit Comparing shudo and with the form of homosexuality emerging in late 20th-century Japan: There are, in fact, certain fundamental differences between shudo and present-day homosexuality which itself has many points in common with that of Western countries. First of all, there were in shudo as in Greek paiderastia, ‘stages of development’ considered to be natural, and even more or less obligatory; while the young man had the mae-gami he was the ‘passive’ object of the love of older men; when he had reached adulthood, he had to become a ‘boy-lover’, and sooner or later he ended up happily married. It is difficult to see these stages in contemporary homosexuality, however, and relations between adults are the dominant trend of our own day. Another fundamental difference is that the homosexuality of shudo was in reality a bisexuality; as love-objects, the youths had a psychological value similar to that of girls (dress, hair-style, make-up). The wakashu were not young ‘men’ but young androgynes, one might say. Today, on the other hand, we see a good number of exclusive homosexuals who throughout their lives love not the adolescent with his androgynous beauty, but only ‘men’. We could put it, rather schematically, that modern homosexuality is that of homosexuals as a minority, whereas shudo was available to all, in so far as it was well integrated into the heterosexual society. This explains why in the present day homosexuality is merely tolerated, while shudo was both value and model. [p. 134] P. G. Schalow’s Introduction to The Great Mirror of Male Love Nanshoku Ōkagami 男色大鑑, by Ihara Saikaku 井原 西鶴 (Ōsaka, 1687) translated from the Japanese is the greatest compilation of boy-love stories ever produced. The only complete or accurate translation of it into English (Stanford, 1990) has been by P. G. Schalow, author of several scholarly works on Japanese homosexuality. Half these forty short stories concern the formally structured love affairs between samurai and wakashu, boys generally thought necessarily to be of a particular age, and the following excerpt from his introduction clarifies what that age was: Cultural Setting: Samurai A wakashu was identified essentially on the basis of his long-sleeved robe and his hairstyle. In reading Nanshoku ōkagami, close attention must be paid to the way hairstyles and robes are described, for they are often the only clues to a boy’s age and availability. At the age of eleven or twelve the crown of a male child's head was shaved, symbolizing the first of three steps towards adulthood. The shaved crown drew attention to the forelocks (maegami), the boy’s distinguishing feature. At the age of fourteen or fifteen the boy’s natural hairline was reshaped by shaving the temples into right angles, but the forelocks remained as sumi-maegami (cornered forelocks). This process, called “putting in corners” (kado o ireru), was the second step towards adulthood. From being a mae-gami (boy with forelocks), the wakashu had now graduated to being a sumi-maegami (boy with cornered forelocks). The final step, completed at age eighteen or nineteen, involved cutting off the forelocks completely; the pate of his head was shaved smooth, leaving only the sidelocks (bin). Once he changed to a robe with rounded sleeves, the boy was recognized as an adult man (yarō). He was no longer available as a wakashu for sexual relations with adult men like himself but was now qualified to establish a relationship with a wakashu. [pp. 28-9] Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan by Gay Leupp The Tokugawa period of Japanese history in the title of Leupp’s book (California, 1997) ran from 1603 until the Meiji restoration of 1868. However, in addition to being an exhaustive study of Japanese homosexuality during this era, his first chapter, on “The Pre-Tokugawa Homosexual Tradition” is the most thorough survey in English of homosexuality in earlier times. CHAPTER ONE: THE PRE-TOKUGAWA HOMOSEXUAL TRADITION From all this material, we acquire some idea of the characteristics of monastic homosexuality. The typical relationship involved a monk and a boy serving as an acolyte or, in Zen monasteries, a postulant (kasshiki) These boys often came from ranking families and were either training to enter the clergy or receiving instruction in scripture and sutra-chanting as part of their education. Sometimes they were very young; among better-known religious figures, Honen (1133-1212) and Shinran (1173-1262) both entered at age nine, Ippen (1239-89), at ten, Eisai (1141-12l5) and Nichiren (l222-82), at twelve. A postulant might be placed in a Zen temple at age five. By the time he reached his teens, the boy may have developed a special relationship with an older monk, who would be referred to as the nenja. The youthful partner would be called the nyake. Both these terms were in use by the early twelfth century and appear in the reference work Kojidan (Talks on ancient matters, 1215). By the seventeenth century the senior partner was called the "older brother" (anibun) and the junior, the "younger brother" (ototobun); the relationship itself was called a "brother-hood bond" (kyodai musubi). The pair ritually swore loyalty to one another and, at least in later periods, documented their relationship with a written oath. [pp. 43-4] CHAPTER THREE: TOKUGAWA HOMOSEXUAL CULTURE The Object of Desire Tokugawa literature on nanshoku usually expresses the viewpoint of the "older brother," or male-brothel patron whose homosexual desire focuses upon attractive younger males. An examination of male-male sexual desire during this period, therefore, should begin with an inquiry about what sort of partners the former seem to have preferred. I will also consider the feelings of those who attracted the interest of such men: boys in general, youthful or young-looking actor-prostitutes, and young man-servants. Boys and Youths Such terms as wakashu-zuki, shudo-zuki, and nanshoku-zuki, which were generally interchangeable, referred to males with a general preference for younger male partners and indicated the prevalence of age-graded homosexual relationships in Tokugawa Japan. The ideal partner for the "older brother," or paying customer, seems to be a boy between fifteen and eighteen. This period was regarded as one of transition from childhood to adulthood; the initiation (genpuku) ceremony could be performed any time within this interval. Perhaps because the average life expectancy during the period was only about fifty, boys were encouraged to assume full adult responsibilities at an early date. There seems to have been little concern about shielding teenagers from sexual experience, including the sexual advances of their elders, unless the latter became obnoxious or violent. Thus, the publisher's afterword to the Iwatsutsuji (1713), a collection of homoerotic literature, urges adult readers to share the volume with young male friends: "We hope that men will read the book with youths who are not yet enlightened about this way of love, and that it will be a source of pleasure to many." By "youths," the editors probably meant teenagers. An early seventeenth-century work called Shiratama no soshi (The white ball book) suggests that a male was considered most suitable as a homosexual sex partner from age seven to twenty-five, during which time he would develop from a child (kodomo) to a youth (wakashu) to a man (yaro). These categories roughly correspond to the more poetically defined stages given in the Wakashu no haru (Springtime of youths): from age eleven to fourteen, the boy was a "blossoming flower" (tsubomeru hana); from fifteen to eighteen, a "flourishing flower" (sakari-bana); and from nineteen to twenty-two, a "falling flower (ochiru hana).” Sixteen (fifteen by Western reckoning, as the Japanese regarded babies as one year old at birth), was thus the boy's "springtime." Saikaku also declares that sixteen "is the age when youths are most attractive to other males." References to such youths often contain melancholy overtones; the poem on a Toyonobu portrait of a beautiful youth holding a small flower cart runs, "The days of young men are as numbered as those of the cherry blossom." It is surely no accident that the samurai is also often compared to this flower. In the latter case, the tragedy is death in battle; in the former, the inevitable onset of age and ugliness. The terminology of male prostitution also expresses the preference for boy partners. Some nanshoku teahouses were known as "children-shops," (kodomo-ya) and the suffix -ko (child) was included in the terms for various male prostitute types: "sex child," (iro-ko) "stage child," (utai-ko) "cross-dressing child," (kage-ko) "working child," (tsutome-ko) etc. The term chishi ("seedling" or "little boy") also referred to a young catamite. In ancient Greece, according to Dover, "once the beard was grown, the young male was supposed to be passing out of the eromenos stage." In Japan, by contrast, the transition was marked by the adoption of a new hairstyle and mode of dress at the genpuku ceremony. The growth of facial hair cannot be controlled, so the Greek boy's evolution out of the sexually passive role could not be delayed, but the timing of the Japanese boy's transition could be determined by his parents or his lord. The rite of passage might occur any time between ages thirteen and seventeen. Between about age ten and the time of the genpuku ceremony, a boy's head would be partly shaven. First, the crown of his head would be shorn, leaving conspicuous forelocks, or maegami. (This term was also used to refer to the boy himself at this stage.) Somewhat later, these forelocks would be reshaped; the hair at the temples would be cut at right angles. This hairstyle was known as "cornered forelocks" (sumi-maegami; the youth himself was also referred to by this term). Finally, the entire pate and crown of the head would be shaven; this was the adult hairstyle. Thus, the two lovers in Figure 31 are clearly distinguished as a maegami and an adult. Genpuku literally means something like "first clothing," and at this point the youth would also receive his first adult robe, distinguished by its rounded, closed sleeves. Basho celebrated the appeal of the maegami in a haiku poem: mada wakagusa no Doesn't the boy with his forelocks still bear the fragrance of fresh But a poem of 1693 indicates that, as he aged, the maegami lost much of his sexual attractiveness: shudo no ue no [the insertee role in] shudo Jippensha Ikku's Hizakurige seems to illustrate this rule. The ne'er-do-well duo of Yaji and Kita begin as sexual partners. Yajirobei, "a proper merchant," becomes enamored of a boy named Hananosuke, the apprentice of a traveling actor. After he exhausts his small fortune on this boy, the two flee Yaji's hometown to Fuchu (Sunpu). Soon Hananosuke undergoes the genpuku ceremony and assumes the adult name Kitahachi. Yaji and Kita undergo many adventures in this long novel, but after the genpuku ritual there is no mention of any sexual contact between the two men. Indeed, they compete in pursuing women. [pp. 122-7] Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950 by Gregory M. Pflugfelder Pflugfelder’s study of Japanese male homosexuality (Berkeley, 1999) covers the same period as the preceding by one by Leupp, but carries on a further eighty-two years. However, the chapter from which the following excerpt is taken concerns only the Edo period of 1603-1868, synonymous with Leupp’s Tokugawa. CHAPTER 1. AUTHORIZING PLEASURE: Male-Male Sexuality in Edo-Period Popular Discourse Youths, Lovers, Brothers and Others The shudō construct, in other words, specified the erotic object not in terms not of biological sex, which was implicitly understood to be male, but of age—in this respect differing not only from "homosexuality" but also from the Chinese-derived nanshoku. Youth, however, was a relative matter. When, for instance, did it begin? Few boys under the age of seven appear in shudō texts, in part because the status of wakashu assumed a degree of personhood that cultural convention did not ascribe to human beings before that age. Prior to becoming youths, males were simply warabe or children, a status that was weakly gendered and relatively noneroticized. The borderline between childhood and youth, however, was rather vaguely drawn. Thus the 1643 tract Shin’yūki (Record of Heartfelt Friends] suggests that, because youths between twelve and fourteen still displayed considerable immaturity, shudō ties with them ought to be written with characters indicating that the beloved was "primarily a child" A youth idolized by some might appear to less appreciative eyes a mere “brat” (wappa, a pejorative variant of warabe), as one speaker scoffs in the mid-seventeenth-century erotic debate Denbu monogatari (Boors’ Tale]. Yet even here, the critic does not object to adult men’s pursuit of the youngster because it constitutes a sexual exploitation of minors—a notion no less recent in Japan than in the West—but instead because it lacks a sufficient degree of esthetic refinement.‘ For writers on shudō, a question of far greater interest than the minimum age of the wakashu was determining his prime. Shin’yūki, for instance, located the peak of youthful desirability at between fifteen and seventeen, providing alternate ideographs meaning "special way” for shudō pursuits with partners of this age. Yet one of the distinguishing characteristics of young male beauty, it was widely opined, was its fleetingness, prompting frequent comparisons with that short-lived blossom, the cherry, as well as with other flowers. Subsequently, according to Shin’ yūki, shudō ties would enter a phase described as the “end of the way” (likewise pronounced shudō), corresponding to the years eighteen through twenty. Instead of mere decline, however, Shin’yūki's commentator saw during this period the emergence in the youth of a new maturity and attention to "manly honor” (otoko no giri), which did not detract from but served to further refine shudō 's pleasures and proprieties. If the chronological end of youth was no more clearly agreed upon than its beginning, it was unquestionably more debated. As portrayed by the author of Shin’yūki, the late stages of youth already betrayed an incipient manhood. much as youth’s earliest phase was marked by a residual childishness. At the same time, the passage from youth to manhood constituted a more significant social leap than the earlier one from childhood to youth, and it was from the other side of this crucial divide—that is, from an adult male perspective—that the figure of the wakashu assumed his alterity and allure. The age at which this transition took place attracted considerable attention from commentators precisely because it was ultimately arbitrary. Opinions regarding its date varied greatly: from Shin’yūki’s twenty (or, according to some authorities, earlier), to twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-five, to as late as thirty and beyond? The upper boundary of youth managed to retain considerable plasticity because manhood was essentially a social condition, its biological referent far less important than its cultural markings. Various changes in the youth’s body—the appearance of body and facial hair, enlarged genitals, taller stature, body—the appearance of body and facial hair, enlarged genitals, taller stature, deeper voice, and so on—were generally recognized as signs of physiological maturation, but did not in themselves confer adult status. In the eyes of some devotees of shudō, such secondary sex characteristics (to invoke, anachronistically, a twentieth-century biological conceit) might even serve to enhance a partner's beauty, as with the regional lord or daimyo whom a 1708 story portrays-—albeit as "eccentric" (monozuki)—as fond of page boys with hair on their shins. Ironically, the physical attribute that most unequivocally signalled manhood, thereby withdrawing the youth from the category of erotic object, consisted not in the appearance of hair but in its removal—namely, the shaved pate that distinguished the coiffure of adult males. Boys and youths, conversely, could be recognized by unshorn forelocks (maegami), a feature around which shudō esthetics wove a highly fetishistic erotic. The transition to manhood was elaborated not only tonsorially but sartorially. A ceremony known as genbuku announced the youth’s coming of age, at which point he was expected to exchange his wide-sleeved robes (furisode) for adult male garb. It was at this time, too, that the forelocks, which a preliminary modification of hairstyle (sumimaegami) around the mid-teens had left untouched, were shaved off completely. Now a man rather than a youth, he ceased to provide a suitable object for the erotic attentions of other males, since his pursuit no longer met the esthetic criteria of shudō. This coming-of-age ceremony, however, did not have a fixed date, instead varying widely according to class, locality, and household or individual circumstance—a fact that helps to explain the lack of agreement on youth’s upper extremity. Indeed, because the tonsorial and sartorial markings of manhood were relatively easy to manipulate, they offered a convenient tool for regulating the practice of shudō. Thus, as we shall see in the next chapter, when lawmakers wished to discourage the erotic pursuit of young male actors or peddlers, they simply ordered them to shear off their voluptuous forelocks, while conversely, the daimyo of the 1708 tale sought to prolong the erotic availability of his hirsute page boys by refusing to allow them to undergo genbuku until the age of thirty. Within the milieu of prostitution, the boundaries of youth came to extend far beyond the “end of the way" as the author of Shin’yūki defined it. The logic of the marketplace gave the kagema and other types of male prostitute, or more accurately their keepers, the economic incentive to prolong youthful status for as long as possible, thereby maximizing earnings from the adult males who provided their chief clientele. Nevertheless, as he grew older, the kagema was likely to find his male patrons replaced increasingly by female, for whom physical maturity was assumed to be a more important consideration than youthfulness. An eighteenth-century senryū, for example, satirizes the youth who has "reached the age where his prick sells better than his ass” (Ketsu yori ka henoko no ureru toshi to nari).’ Senryū and other Forms of popular discourse frequently poked fun at the superannuated male prostitute who, if not dividing his favors—posterior and anterior—between men and women, was, through inadvertent word or deed, giving away the true age that he tried so hard to conceal. Though less frequently, well-seasoned "youths" occasionally crop up in a non-commercial context as well, such as the sixty-three-year-old samurai wakashu whom Saikaku depicts in one of the stories of his Great Mirror, or among the monks of mounts Kōya and Nachi, whose erotic careers a common adage held to last respectively until the ages of sixty and eighty? Representations of this sort, however, did not so much question the conventional expectation that male erotic objects literally be young as reinforce that ideal by portraying its flouting in a humorous or otherwise remarkable light. While the issue of age loomed constantly over the figure of the wakashu, his sex and gender invited a lesser degree of problematization. He was undoubtedly male in terms of anatomy, or else sexual interaction with him would not, by definition, have qualified as nanshoku. In a broad sense, he was also masculine, for he acted according to a set of expectations that applied to all males, at least during a certain period of their lives. What he was not was virile (an English word deriving from the Latin vir, meaning an adult male), in the sense that he did not yet possess in full the attributes of mature manhood, including the prerogative of phallically penetrating other males. Females, too, lacked virility, but it did not necessarily follow from this fact that the youth was feminine. From the perspective of the adult male, both women and wakashu were "other" than himself, but they were also distinct from each other. For one thing, the youth would eventually become a man himself, whereas a woman could not. Impending manhood (as in Shin’yūki's "manly honor”) manifested itself even before the youth had attained maturity—a process that shudō, far from hindering, was seen as helping bring to fruition. Shudō texts, which embodied what might be called a “virile gaze," frequently ranged women and youths side lay side as comparable objects for esthetic appreciation and erotic consumption? Yet comparability was not the same as homogeneity; indeed, writers on shudō took great delight in elaborating the features that set the two erotic objects apart. Saikaku opens his Great Mirror with a long list of such contrasts—asking, for instance, which is preferable, "The mouth of a woman as she blackens her teeth [possibly indicating that she is married or a courtesan], or the hand of a youth as he plucks his whiskers?"—.-although the esthetic sensibilities involved here may be lost on the twentieth-Century reader. With a greater economy of language, Saikaku's contemporary, the haiku (or more properly, haikai) poet Matsuo Bashō, asked essentially the same question: "Plum and willow, wakashu or woman?” (Ume yanagi sazo wakashu kana onna kana). Neither a woman nor yet a man, the youth shared traits with both, but at the same time significant differences.To classify him as a “third gender” would be misleading, however, since membership in the wakashu category was only temporary). [pp. 30-36] Takahatake Takamichi, Young Man Shinran: A Reappraisal of Shinran's Life (Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1987), p. 20. The first character suggests both desire and concern; the second means "person." The term is written with the characters for "youth" and "spirit"; the word also comes to mean "anus." Iwata Junichi, Nanshoku bunken shoshi, (Ise: Kogawa shoten, 1973), p. 314. Apparently the first known appearance of this vocabulary in a published work occurs in the Shikido jitsugo kyo (True Sutra of the Way of Sex, 1678). Compare the situation in modern gay communities, in the West as well as in Japan, where relationships between adult men of comparable ages are more common. Accordingly, homosexual pornography seems as likely to celebrate the adult macho male as the beautiful youth as the object of desire. See Michael Pollak, "Male Homosexuality or Happiness in the Ghetto," in Philippe Ariès and Andre Bejin, eds., Western Sexuality: Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times (Oxford and New York: Blackwell, 1986), pp. 53-4. Cecilia Segawa Seigle, Yoshiwara: The Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993), pp. 85-86. Schalow, Paul Gordon. "The Invention of a Literary Tradition of Male Love: Kitamura Kigin's Iwatsutsuji," Monumenta Nipponica 48, 1 (Spring 1993), p. 31. Koike Togoro. Koshoku monogatari (Tokyo: Kamakura insatsu, 1963) p. 186. Compare Straton, Anthologia Palatinus, XII, 4: "The bloom of a twelve-year-old boy is desirable, but at thirteen he is much more delightful. Sweeter still is the flower of love that blossoms at fourteen, and its charm increases at fifteen. Sixteen is the divine age." Quoted in Reay Tannahill, Sex in History (New York: Stein and Day, 1980), pp. 85-6. Caryl Ann Callahan, trans., Tales of Samurai Honor by Ihara Saikaku (Tokyo: Monumenta Nipponica, 1981), p. 142. Howard A. Link et al., Primitive Ukiyoe from the James A. Michener Collection in the Honolulu Academy of Art (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1980), p. 235. See appendix to Iwata Junichi. Honcho nanshoku ko (Ise: Kogawa shoten, 1974) p. 327f. Dover, Kenneth J., Greek Homosexuality (Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press, 1978) p. 86. David W. Plath, "Gempuku," Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan (Tokyo, 1983) vol. 3, p. 7. Schalow, Paul Gordon, The Great Mirror of Male Love, by Ihara Saikaku (Stanford, 1990) pp. 28-29. Koike Togoro, op. cit., p. 264; Iwata Junichi, op. cit., p. 257. Suzuki Katsutada, Senryu zappai kara mita Edo shomin fuzoku (Tokyo: Yuzankaku, 1978) p. 181 Jippensha Ikku, Tokaidochu hizakurige, ed. Aso Isoji (2 vols. Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 1985) vol. 1, pp. 32-33; Thomas Satchell, trans. Hizakurige or Shank's Mare: Japan's Great Comic Novel of Travel and Ribaldry by Ikku Jippensha (Tokyo and Rutland, Vt.: Turtle, 1960) pp. 369-370. Satchell appears to have entirely overlooked the homosexual content of this passage. In colloquial usage, it should be noted, nanshoku conveyed no less an expectation of youthfulness on the part of the erotic object than shudō;, my point here is simply with regard to etymology. Seven is the lower age that I have encountered in various descriptions of the wakashu. It appears in Shiratama no sōshi, a text cited in Baijōken’s 1648-1653 Yodarekake (in Edo jidai bungei shiryō, ed. Hayakawa Junzaburō et al., 5 vols. [Kokusho kankōkai, 1916] 4:53); in the mid-seventeenth-century erotic debate Iro monogatari (in Kanazōshi shūsei, ed. Asakura Harohiko and Fukiozawaa Akio, 18 vols. to date [Tōkyōdō, 1980-] 4:184): and, much earlier, in Ijiri,, Nyake kanchinjō, 33b:19. It should be kept in mind that, well into the twentieth century, the system for coming of age in Japan differed from that of the contemporary West, so that an individual aged “seven” in Edo-period Japan might be as little as five years and a day but never more than six according to Western reckoning. Since it is in most cases impossible to provide a precise Western equivalent – or in the early twentieth century sometimes even in determine which system is being used - I retain the ages originally stated in the text throughout this study. Some shudō texts place the threshold of youth at eleven (Baijōken, Yodarekake, 4:52) or twelve (see sources cited in n.16 below), on the issue of age, see also Shibayama Hajime, Edo nanshoku kō Akusho hen (Hihyōsha, 1992), 119-128. Shin’yūki', in Nihon shisō taikei, 60:22 (trans. Paul Gordon Schalow in "Spiritual Dimensions of Male Beauty in Iapanese Buddhism,” in Religion, Homosexuality, and Literature, ed. Michael L. Stemmeler and José lgnacio Cabezón, Gay Men’s Issues in Religious Studies Series, no. 3 [Las Colinas, Tex: Monument, 1992], 90). This orthographic pun appears also in Baijōken, Yodarekake, 4:53. Denbu Monogatari, in Nihon koten bungaku zenshū, 37: 128-129 (trans. Gary P. Leupp in Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan [Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995], 209). Shin’yūki, 60:22-23 (Schalow “Spiritual Dimensions” 90). Similarly, see Baijōken, Yodarekake, 4:53. Shin’yūki, 60:23 (Schalow “Spiritual Dimensions” 90-91). Baijōken (Yodarekake, 4:53) assigns this phase of shudō characters indicating that its focus was “chiefly [polishing] the way.” These figures, which are by no means exhaustive, derive from Baijōken, Yodarekake, 4:52-53; Ejima Kiseki, Yahaku naishō kagami, in Hachimonjiyabon zenshū, ed. Hasegawa Tsuyoshi et al., 14 vols. to date (Kyūko shoin, 1992-), 2:66; Nishizawa lppū, Gozen Gikeiki, in Kindai Nihon bungaku taikei, ed. Nonaka ]irō et al., 25 vols. (Kokumin tosho, 1926-1929), 4:142; Yarō kinuburui, Kmsei shomin bunka 13 (1952): 33. Paul Gordon Schalow explores the malleability of the wakashu role in his "Male Love in Early Modern Japan: A Literary Depiction of the 'Youth,”’ in Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, ed. Martin Bauml Duberman et al. (New York: NAL, 1989), 118-128. Nishizawa Ippū, Yakei tomojamisen, in Eda jidai bungei shiryō, 2:326. A late seventeenth-century report on daimyo governance, unpublished during the Edo period, listed at least three (the lords of Hirado [retired], Kōriyama, and Toryama) who prized such mature features as a tall stature or a beard in their male favorites, de scribing them as “man-lovers" (otokozuki). Of one, the compiler writes with approval that he had recently given up this “aberration” (higagoto), and now restricted his attentions to “beautiful boys" (bishōjin). See Dokai kōshūki, ed. Kanai Madoka (Jinbutsu ōraisha, 1967), 268-269, 270-272, 328-329. On the concept of otokozuki, see also Ujiie Mikito, Bushido tō erosu, Kōdansha gendai shinsho, no. 1239 (Kōdansha, 1995), 205-218. According to Shōsaiō’s mid-eighteenth-century work Gengenkyō (in Sharebon taisei, ed. Mizuno Minoru et al., 31 vols. [Chūō kōronsha, 1978-1988], 3:311), youths reached the peak of their lovability at the age when pimples (nikibi) appeared on their faces—a characteristic commonly associated in Edo-period Iapan with the onset of sexual maturity. Erotic relations between men (i.e., males socially recognized as adults) may certainly have occurred in practice, but enjoyed little legitimation from shudō textual tradition. The drama scholar Dōmoto Masaki (<Zōhoban> Nanshoku engekishi [Shuppansha, 1976], 21-26) describes one such encounter as represented in the kyōgen play Rōmusha, which was written during the medieval period but still performed in Edo times, noting that its effect was farcical and even “grotesque.” A similarly comic atmosphere pervades the episode titled "Okashiki koi” (Strange Love] in Nankai no Sanjin's early eighteenth-century story collection Nanshoku yamaji no tsuyu (vol. 6 of Hihon Edo bungakusen, ed. Yoshida Seiichi et al., 10 vols. [Nichirinkaku, 1988-1989], 105—108), as well as Kitagawa Utamaro's polymorphously perverse 1802 <Ehon> Futahashira (see Hayashi Yoshikazu, <Enpon kenkyū> Zoku Utamaro, Enpon kenkyū sōsho, no. 3 [Yūkō shobō, 1963], 136-137), which depicts a cross-dressed male traveler who not only sleeps with the proverbial farmer’s daughter but violates her father (and mother) as well. Shibayama (Edo nanshoku kō:Akusho hen, 121-123) has asserted that an erotic preference by adult males for other adult males emerged as a subcurrent in shudō culture around the mid-eighteenth century, but his evidence is weak and his interpretation of the term nyaku-zokuzuki (which appears to derive from Dōmoto, Nanshoku engekishi, 17~18) something of a stretch. Similarly, in 1685. the shogunate is reported to have cracked down on ōwakashu or “senior youths," who kept their forelocks unshorn until age twenty-five or twenty-six, thereby remaining eligible as erotic objects in shudō. See Yoshida Setsuko, et al., Edo kabuki hōrei shūsei (Ōfūsha, 1989), 68. <Yanagidaru yokō> Yanaibako. in Shodai senryū senkusū, ed. Chiba Osamu, 2 vols, Senryū shūsei, nos. 5 and 6 (lwanami shoten, 1986), 2:101. The Saikaku story will be discussed again in chap. 5. While the actual origin of the proverb (Kōya rokujū Nachi hachijū) may have had no relation to shudō (see, for example, Ōgokudō no Arittake, Shikidō kinpishō, ed. Fukuda Kazuhiko, 2 vols., Ukiyoe gurafikku, nos. 2 and 3 [KK besutoserāzu, 1990-1991], 2:52), it was nonetheless widely understood in this sense during the Edo period. Whether the adult male caught a glimpse of his former self in the youthful object of his desire is not an issue that shudō texts addressed, although this silence has not prevented such commentators as the psychologist Watanabe Tsuneo [’”Sekai himitsu’ to kannōsei no shisutemu: Bunmei no shinsō ni hisomu ’danseisei no zeijakusa,'” Dorumen 3 :23-24,) from asserting that shudō represented a sublimated form of narcissism. The term ”virile gaze" is meant to evoke, but at the same time qualify, the notion of the "male gaze” already standard in various fields of esthetic and cultural criticism but in this instance problematic because it obscures crucial differences of age. For a seminal formulation of the latter concept, see Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," Screen 16.3 (1975):6-18. Ihara,Nanshoku ōkagami, 39:317-320 (Schalow, Great Mirror, 53-56 [whence the quotation]). Matsuo Bashō, "Hokku hen,” in Nihon koten bungaku taikei, ed. Takagi Ichinosuke et al., 102 vols. (Iwanami shoten, 1957—1968), 45:39. It is in the context of urban prostitution that the wakashu, usually referred to by such occupational signifiers as kagema or yarō, most closely approached the status of a “third gender," his distinctive clothing and coiffure being neither entirely masculine nor feminine, but containing elements of both. We find, for instance. the following 1827 senryū (Okada Hajime, ed., <Haifū> Yanagidaru zenshū, 13 vols. [Sanseidō 1976—1984], 7:158), a play on the folk belief that a whetstone would break if a woman stepped across it: “Straddled by a kagema, the whetstone develops a wee crack" (Kagema ga matagu toishi ni mo chitto hibi). Like the more general status of wakashu, however, that of kagema was only temporary. For a cross-cultural perspective on "third gender” categories, see Gilbert Herdt, ed., Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History (New York: Zone, 1994).

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Cloud is a very mellow, very artsy game that was created by a group from the USC School of Cinema and Television on a grant from Electronic Arts. You fly around the sky, attracting clouds to you and mushing them together to make bigger clouds, which you then either “paint” into shapes, or push against “pollution” clouds to create rain and lightning. No enemies, no time limit, no chance of losing, which makes it more of a “toy” than a “game”. It is, however, very very restful, and I fell right asleep after playing it before bed last night. I recommend that you do the same tonight, but by all means do not try to operate heavy machinery after playing. I clued Kotaku in to Giantology, a viral marketing blog for Shadow of the Colossus a couple of weeks ago, when they posted their “tsunami giant video“. They also link to another site with pictures of the “fish colossus“, and another site that looks like it’s shaping up to be the “flying snake” colossus. On October 18th, the release date of the game, the site went dead, but now they’re back up again, with another video of Russians digging up the “mer-cow” (“lobs-taur”?) colossus in Siberia. And speaking of Shadow of the Colossus, anyone who hasn’t played it yet will be first against the wall when the revolution comes, so you owe it to future generations to go get it immediately. …by which I mean “it’s really really good”. Dofus is a French massively-multiplayer tactics game, done entirely in flash, and now it’s completely free! The artwork is gorgeous, and gameplay-wise it feels a lot like a turn-based version of Ragnarok Online. It doesn’t really compare to commercial tactics games like Disgaea and Tactics Ogre, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction, and most importantly goes a long way toward establishing flash as a feasable platform for “serious” game development. There’s a Silent Hill movie coming out next spring. Other blogs have noted that it’s being written by Roger Avary (of Pulp Fiction, Crying Freeman, and Killing Zoe fame) and directed by Christophe Gans, but noone else seems to remember Brotherhood of the Wolf, the Dangerous Liaisons meets Soul Calibur 2 movie that proves that Christophe Gans is the perfect person to make a movie out of a video game. It’s not the best movie ever made, but it’s definitely one of the most “video-gamey” movies I’ve ever seen, and gives me a lot of faith in his treatment of Silent Hill. In the meantime, here‘s a completely-unrelated amateur Silent Hill trailer. (Image nabbed from SilentHill.bloodflame.com) Rakion is now in open beta, which means it’s completely free until December 1st. After that it’ll still be completely free; you’ll only have to pay for premium in-game items (which is the same system that Softnyx uses for their other game, Gunbound), or to become a “Power User” and gain a slight edge over other players. Rakion is sort of a multiplayer third-person melee deathmatch game with controls similar to City of Heroes, but without the annoying “recharge” delays on all your attacks. Most of the gameplay is PvP, but the game automatically adjusts the teams between rounds to make up for disparities in skill, and when you want a break from beating up on other players there are also “quests” which pit you and a few other players against a gauntlet of monsters for large GP and XP rewards. Here‘s a Wikipedia entry on it that I wrote most of. Go start downloading it right now, so it’ll be done about the time you’re done with whatever it is you’re doing. Here I was so busy putting together my lovely new blog today that I totally failed to notice that Gunstar Superheroes is out! I must consume it, AND work on my Halloween costume tonight, AND take care of my poor sick wife! Why do all things happen simultaneously at the end of October??? P.S.: Hey, look, I have a video game blog. It’s really ugly, but once I start getting inundated with the swag that’s SURE to come now that I have a video game blog I’ll use some of it to throw a contest to make this site look better.

Pryme Road, Scunthorpe Pryme Road is one of our Retirement Living schemes, located in Scunthorpe, not far from both Ashby and Scunthorpe town centres. This could be the place for you if you’re looking for something slightly out of the town centre, in a more residential area – but still within easy reach of all the shops and amenities that Scunthorpe has to offer. Just a short walk from Pryme Road you will find a convenience shop, takeaway, pub and community centre. Just a short drive or bus ride away and you will find yourself in the town centre of Scunthorpe where there are lots more restaurants, entertainment venues and a cinema. Click here to see the bus timetable. Pryme Road is ideal for those who enjoy their independence but still would like to feel part of a friendly community. What Pryme Road can offer you: - 23 homes – retirement living bungalows - On street car parking - Secure, key fob entry making this a safe place to live - Shared lounge and kitchen for social events - Wifi access and computer in lounge - Shared garden area What’s great about living at Pryme Road? Pryme Road is great if you want to have easy access to Scunthorpe town centre, yet still have the feeling of a quiet area to live. Sound like somewhere you could see yourself living? We’ve got 15 other Retirement Living options across North Lincolnshire, why not check them out?

Hôtel Barrière Le Majestic Hotel Majestic is red-carpet-ready, set on the fabled Croisette, facing the Palais des Festivals, the hub of Cannes Film Festival. Come here for slick service, slinky suites, star-spotting bars, the best spa in town, sophisticated dining, a partying private beach and a cool kids' club. It's pure cinema. - Lisa Gerard-Sharp, Travel writer The scene-stealing location on the Croisette is always at the heart of the action, whatever the season. In summer, unwind under palm trees and parasols or cross the promenade to the private beach club. Whatever the weather, the glittering marina, the cafés and shops of rue d’Antibes and the hilly Old Town are under five minutes’ walk away. Style & character This Art Deco palace pays tribute to the Roaring Twenties but its cinematic glamour channels Cannes not Vegas. The Majestic delivers on more fronts than its rivals: regularly revamped, the hotel combines heritage with a cinematic spirit but moves with the times. The lobby and corridors are lined with 2,500 black-and-white portraits of film legends, many of whom have stayed here. Yet the beachside setting spells family fun as well as cocktails under the stars. Service & facilities Special touches, such as the private cinema, kids' club or live music at weekends, set the Majestic apart. The cinema, complete with sofas and velvet wingback armchairs, offers a Sunday Champagne Cinema Club from the autumn. In summer, La Plage beach club comes into its own, with the largest jetty on the Croisette. After sunset, the mood shifts from water-sports and beach games to partying at the buzzing bar, or a dinner beach cabaret followed by clubbing. Service is that rare combination of smooth but personal, with staff you simply want to take home with you, both in the bars and the spa. The Diane Barrière Spa is not the sexiest but the best in Cannes, both for marine facials and bespoke massages. Newly revamped, the spa offers both the botanical and marine know-how of Biologique Recherche and the exoticism of Ligne St Barth, with passion-fruit massages. - Room service - Steam room/hammam - Fitness centre - Kids' club The Majestic's palette of ivory and beige extends to the plush coffee-and-cream bedrooms, with Nespresso coffee on tap, and matching, mosaic-studded bathrooms. Splash out on a sea view to take in the island-spangled bay and Esterel mountains. Even if the standard rooms are swish enough, the slew of celebrity suites keeps the movie crowd coming back. The Christian Dior Suite, with its dove-grey panelling and parquet floor, was inspired by Dior's Parisian home. This fashionista penthouse becomes the stars' dressing room during the Film Festival. Yet the real star is the sumptuously domed Majestic Suite, with a home cinema, lantern-hung deck and dreamlike views of the Lérins Islands from the private pool. Food & drink All whims are majestically catered for, from a superb breakfast to La Rotonde Champagne bar in the poolside garden and the sexily backlit Le Fouquet's bar where Jack Nicholson, Monica Bellucci and Paolo Sorrentino were holding forth on a recent visit. The freshly revamped Le Fouquet's restaurant is artier and more contemporary than before, lit up by celebrity portraits. The look is still sleekly Parisian, as befits a classic brasserie serving Caesar salad, roast lamb and ratatouille or grilled seabream with purple artichokes. Next door, La Petite Maison de Nicole remains the Majestic's cooler celebrity sister. Mediterranean sharing plates are in vogue, from crab tempura to courgette flower fritters, a prelude to late-night partying: spontaneous table-dancing can erupt on live-music-Friday. Value for money Double rooms from €199 (£178) in low season; and from €1299 (£1,165) in high. Breakfast included. Free Wi-Fi. Cannes is a prestigious brand so prices are majestic, with eyewatering rates for the top suites in peak season, which includes summer, major trade shows and the Film Festival. That said, there are no bad rooms and meals are good-value for Cannes. Access for guests with disabilities? Yes, eight rooms are adapted. Unlike snootier rivals, Le Majestic caters for children, with a new Petit VIP kids' club aimed at the under-12s. While parents chill over Champagne, the kids can indulge in cookery, French classes, photography, mocktail-sipping, mime or movie-making – this is Cannes, after all.

Starting today, the 13th edition of META Festival brings to theatre lovers diverse plays from all corners of the country. Delhi’s theatre circuit is fully charged these days. Even as the 8th Theatre Olympics comes to a close, the curtain rises on the 13th edition of the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards Festival. Spread over six days, the festival will showcase ten plays chosen from around 350 entries. “After more than a decade, META has carved a niche for itself. This can be attributed to the quality of plays that the festival stages. This time too, we received entries from all over the country, including smaller metros and towns, of which 10 were chosen by a selection committee. The fact that entries were received from four corners speaks of the value attached to the festival by theatre persons,” observes Jay Mehta, Head, Cultural Outreach, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. Well-known director and actor Swaroopa Ghosh, who is part of the selection committee describes the bouquet “diverse in terms of the region as well as their subjects.” She adds, “These explore varied and wide-ranging subjects like gender identity through Indian mythology, entertainment industry and its treatment of female leads, politics of religion and religion of politics, brutality against women by Japanese imperialist forces during World War II and reinterpretation of a Greek tragedy.” Talking about the “tough process” of selecting 10 plays, Swaroopa informs, “Each of us watched a certain number of DVDs to grade them. Thereafter, we all met to watch all the plays and deliberated on each with every individual furnishing logic and rationale of his/her choice. Through continuous discussion and dialogue, we arrived at a consensus.” The plays which will vie for 13 awards in 13 competitive categories are Hojang Taret (Manipuri), Item and Muktidham (both Hindi), Karuppu (non-verbal), Caucasian Chalk Circle (Kannada), Comfort Women–An Untold History(Assamese), Nona and Higuita–The Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick (both Malayalam), Moimonsingha Geetika (Bangala) and Shikhandi: The Story of the In-betweens (English). These will be staged at Shri Ram Centre, Kamani Auditorium, and Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra. Swaroopa says the choice was not based on a single parameter. “It was on the basis of ensemble, presentation, production values, and content. A play may have been tacky or grand but lacked meat while others fell short on script, design, and acting.” To highlight her point she cites the example of Moimonsingha Geetika and Higuita… “I had seen a different version of Geetika and wondered how Goutam Haldar would handle it. He treated it differently by including new designs and music. Likewise, the Malayalam play directed by Sasidharan Naduvil and based on N.S. Madhavan’s story about a Christian priest drawing inspiration from Colombian goalkeeper Jose Rene Higuita Zapata was nail-biting, reflecting a certain spunk.” According to Swaroopa, what was essential for selection of plays was the need to be contextual. “In order to strike a chord with the audience, a play ought to reflect life and times while providing a perspective on issues. Going beyond entertainment, theatre should set in motion conversation and curiosity.” This holds true for all the 10 plays. Ranhang Choudhary’s Comfort Women… set in World War II, talks about women forcibly abducted for sex by the Japanese Imperialist Army. “Deeply moved by their plight and struggle for dignity, I wrote the script revolving around a tribal girl Sarengla located in Indo-Burma border who is kidnapped for prostitution,” says Ranhang. For background, Ranhang says, he interviewed several people, read all the material available on the subject, including Yaruingam by Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya. “What amazes me is that even after the passage of so many years, the status of women has not changed either in India or world. They are humiliated, tortured, and never allowed to return to mainstream as evident from the suffering of rape victims.” Ranhang chose Gargee Dutta as Sarengla, the main protagonist. “She along with others underwent three months of physical and mental training watching several documentaries on ‘comfort women.’ Gargee met a psychologist to understand the trauma a physically abused woman suffers, to make her portrayal authentic.” Another play which deals with gender disparity is Item in Hindi. Directed by Kshitish Date and written by Siddhesh Purkar, it explores the underbelly of Hindi cinema looking at B-grade film world through a lightman and an actor Sapna Shetty. “While exposing the objectification of female body and male chauvinistic media, the narrative of Item deals with power structure and standardization of color, shape, and pose for women,” reveals Kshitish. What is remarkable in the play is the use of bed with camera, plot, dilapidated lights, dirty props, polished chairs, and actors, revolving around it. Faezeh Jalali’s Shikhandi is back to the Capital after having been staged at the Olympics. Pleased to be nominated for META, Faezeh says, “Having encountered gender discrimination first hand, I could empathize with transgenders going through the struggle of identity and finding a voice. Enamoured of Shikhandi’s character in Mahabharat, I wrote the script to highlight these points.” The opening play, Muktidham, written and directed by Abhishek Majumdar, draws attention to the growing religious intolerance by reflecting on history. Set in 8th Century AD Matha (Hindu monastery), its backdrop is the period when the Buddhist Pala kings dominated northern and eastern India and mass conversions to Buddhism was widespread. The two protagonists, in the race to head the Matha, hold diverse views. Believing in reform, one wants to open temple doors to lower castes while the other views armed resistance to Buddhism as the solution. “Muktidham highlights that threat to one’s identity as is perceived by certain sections of Hindus is nothing new. We have faced it in past, and survived as we will now.” Faced with funding problems because of its sensitive topic, Abhishek is, however, happy with the reception the play received so far. “We staged it recently in Uttar Pradesh in cities like Gorakhpur. Instead of resistance, the play, generated conversation and debate.” This year META will confer the Lifetime Achievement Award on noted Indian film and theatre director Vijaya Mehta. In a first, it will also hold a series of master classes, curated in partnership with Drama School Mumbai. “This new initiative—workshops and conversations around theatre-making—will give an insight into the people and processes behind plays that make it to META,” states Jay. This article originally appeared in The Hindu on April 13, 2018, and has been reposted with permission. This post was written by the author in their personal capacity.The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not reflect the view of The Theatre Times, their staff or collaborators.

Waikoloa Luxury Cinemas owners Tony and Maria Dalzell envisioned bringing a luxury cinema concept and experience to Hawai‘i Island which would serve the residents and visitors of the Waikoloa Beach Resort and the rest of the Kohala Coast. AHL helped them achieve their vision by taking on the role of Architect-of-Record for North Kona’s first state-of-the-art, family-friendly, luxury movie theatre, located at the Queen’s Marketplace. To create a contemporary and communal movie-going experience, the design team incorporated a lobby bar and full-service restaurant that includes an array of artisanal food and beverage menu items. Unlike corporate multiplexes, the Waikoloa Luxury Cinemas was envisioned to be a place of lively conversation and a sense of community. Past the lobby, the Cinemas feature three well-appointed upscale auditoriums each with 285 cushy leather loveseats.

In your first semester, you will meet with your cohort to examine a range of activities entailed in being in the program specifically, and in preparing for a career in cinema and media studies generally. The course covers professional activities, research protocols, and practical exercises. The Ph.D. curriculum draws on the methods of a number of disciplines, including art history, cultural studies, American studies, psychoanalytic theory, and philosophy. It involves intensive seminar level study in film theory, history and research methods. Graduates of the program have gone onto positions of academic leadership in the field. The Doctor of Philosophy degree is conferred for advanced studies in which the student demonstrates outstanding original scholarship. It signifies the student can conduct independent research and has both a broad basic knowledge of all areas of his or her field and an intensive knowledge of one field in particular. Over the first two years of the program, you’ll enroll in nine courses. In addition to the three courses listed below, a number of lectures and seminars are offered each semester in the department. Additionally, you will have the option to take up to two courses in other departments within NYU. In your third semester, you will complete a Directed Reading in your dissertation topic area with supervision by your anticipated dissertation advisor. In your fourth semester, your cohort will come back together to prepare dissertation proposals through in-class debate, written feedback, and guests with experience in the process. With regular presentations of work in progress, you will spend the semester finishing your dissertation proposal. You will be required to pass three Qualifying Examinations during your first two years in the program. The two written exams, one each in the fields of Film/Media History and Film/Culture/Media Theory, consist of 10-page essays completed over the course of a week and graded by three faculty members. The oral exam comprises questions relating to your specific area of research during your dissertation proposal, conducted and graded by three faculty members. You will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in one foreign language. Six languages are accepted toward fulfilling this requirement: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. Students for whom English is a second language may request an exemption from this requirement. To demonstrate proficiency, you must pass an exam from either the department or the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. You will be given the opportunity to serve as a teaching assistant during your second year of coursework. Once your coursework and qualifying examinations are complete, you will be eligible to submit course proposals for adjunct teaching positions in the department. Current students should consult the Ph.D. Handbook for rules and regulations.

Earlier today, Mitch Gross – the new Cinema Product Manager at Panasonic North America, who most of you know was the voice of Convergent Design up until recently, teased a new Cinema Camera that Panasonic will unveil later in 2017. The new Cinema Camera appears to be a part of the growing VariCam lineup and sit bellow the most compact of them so far – the Varicam LT and above the Panasonic GH5. And yes, the GH5 is not officially a camcorder, nor is it even a part of the VariCam lineup, but this gives us an idea that Panasonic has not fully abandoned the idea of actually bringing out a full-fledged successor to the Micro Four Thirds mount AF101, which is now 8 years old, and quite obsolete by today’s moving imaging standards. However, from the looks of things, the new Panasonic “Cinema Camera” looks like a miniaturized LT than a blown up AF101 or GH5. Also, the Sigma lens on the front indicates maybe a Canon EF mount as native, much like the Varicam LT, which isn’t a bad idea at all, as most budget shooters own quite a lot of EF glass. Image by Mitch Gross, Panasonic North America Not much is known at this stage apart from the fact we can look towards some sort of reveal and more information around Cine Gear time in early June. From the teaser shot above, we can clearly see a resemblance to the Sony FS5 and even maybe Canon’s C100 Mark II. The new Varicam Mini (we’re not sure of the name, it may be called different) is said to be/have: - Cinematic Imagery - Small and Light - Low-cost media and workflow - Previewed at Cine Gear Expo in June - Released later in Fall 2017 In addition, during their last night’s NAB 2017 press event, Panasonic also announced they will also be adding 2K RAW output up to 240fps via a free firmware update to the VariCam LT 4K cinema camcorder. The 2K RAW signal will be supported by Convergent Design, which today announced that its Odyssey7Q+ recorder will capture all of the RAW signals available from the VariCam LT, including 2K up to 240fps. Both companies plan to release free firmware updates in June 2017. “The VariCam LT is a great workhorse camera,” said PMEC Senior Product Manager Steven Cooperman. “It can already record in 4K, 2K and HD internally. Now with this update, it can also output in 4K and 2K RAW to an external recorder, even while still recording in the camera. That’s great for commercials, features, documentaries and a variety of production needs. Shooting 2K RAW up to 240fps is important for wildlife, sports and commercial work.” The 2K RAW frame is windowed from the centre of the camera’s 4K sensor, so no artifacts are introduced into the image. In 2K RAW the VariCam LT will continue to provide its 14+ stop, dual 800/5000 ISO functionality with accurate colours and skin tones. 2K RAW output is available while recording internally in 2K or HD. Last Fall, the VariCam LT added 4K RAW output up to 60fps in a free firmware update.

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Sometimes movies are unfairly unsympathetic to people In Charge. If you’ve ever been In Charge of something, you know what we mean. You’re working on a big project with an impossible deadline, when a crucial team member announces they’ve Met Someone and are moving away. It really takes the air out of your tires. Friderici, who died the year after this film was released, is superb as the humourless, pursed-lip nurse who is forever giving speeches about “disgracing” the Nurse’s Uniform. She’s in charge of nursing volunteers: young, unmarried women, many of whom are away from home for the first time and don’t necessarily have formal nursing training. Friderici’s character is disliked and feared, and for good reason. If a nurse ends up “in trouble”, Friderici must dismiss the girl. It’s her job to enforce the Regulations. A Farewell to Arms is the first of three Ernest Hemingway novels to be adapted to screen, and this one was adapted twice. Hemingway reportedly disliked the 1932 version, but he didn’t prevent Hollywood from having another go at it in 1957. They are introduced through Cooper’s Italian friend (the scene-stealing Adolphe Menjou). Cooper takes Hayes for a walk to a bombed-out church, where he tries to kiss her. She slaps him in a what-kind-of-a-girl-do-you-think-I-am way, but then changes her mind (because who wouldn’t). She invites him to kiss her, and he obliges, politely, but then kisses her again, hungrily. This kiss leads to all sorts of things – a personnel transfer, an injury, and an unexpected pregnancy. You could say it’s the Kiss Of Doom. We (as in, yours truly) can’t decide if we like A Farewell to Arms. Hayes is charming as the idealistic young Englishwoman, and Menjou infuses his scenes with much-needed energy. Director Frank Borzage’s artful images are moving. His war montage nearly takes your breath away, and he laces scenes with sounds of dropping bombs, which unnerve us more than his characters. Still, we wonder about our gal, the head nurse, the Nursing Uniform’s last line of defence. She offers a glimpse of how difficult it must have been to train and protect young women in this war. When Hayes becomes pregnant, she quits nursing to go to Switzerland, sparing Friderici the trouble of firing her. Then Cooper bolts from Italy to follow Hayes. Meanwhile, the wounded pile up. One can imagine Friderici being pulled into a Meeting and being asked some pointed questions. How come she’s not faster at getting men back in the trenches, and why is she requesting new personnel again, and why can’t she keep those blasted girls in check? No wonder Friderici’s character has a stern, disapproving countenance. A lesser mortal would be staggering around hospital corridors in a drunken fog. You’ll have to see the film to decide for yourself. Many say A Farewell to Arms is one of the most romantic pre-code movies ever made. If you love a desperate romance in troubled times, this may be the film for you. - For a kinder, more literary review of A Farewell to Arms, see Girls Do Film HERE. - For the 1932 New York Times review, click HERE. - You can read more about nurses in WWI HERE. A Farewell to Arms: starring Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou. Directed by Frank Borzage. Written by Benjamin Glazer & Oliver H.P. Garrett. Paramount Productions Inc., 1932, B&W, 80 mins. This post is part of the A Kiss is Just a Kiss Blogathon hosted by Second Sight Cinema. Click HERE to see all the fab entries.

[Rapid Eye Movies] Stephan is a man of many a talent, or even spotting it. Whether this talent be in the form of an film artist or a movie itself Stephan knows good stuff when he sees it. After all, we have Stephan to thank for introducing the world (outside of the wonderful universe known as Japan) to the film Love Exposure, by Sion Sono. However, this interview was to be about his production and distribution company, Rapid Eye Movies and in particular the film “Underwater Love: A Pink Musical”. As an apt starting point I mentioned the previous night’s UK Premiere itself, which was hosted, perhaps ironically by Adam Torel, of Third Window Films – the distribution company here in the UK who, incidentally also brought our little country the aforementioned Love Exposure. Anyway, enough backstory… MM: Adam [Torel] speaks very highly of you, both personally and professionally. I understand that you know each other quite well, is that correct? SH: Actually we share some similar tastes and we’re doing some quite similar things. I’ve been running Rapid Eye Movies as a distribution company now for 15 years, and what excites me most is to find new kinds of cinema & films. So, that’s how I focused and ended up releasing a lot Japanese films. And of course, then I came to know what Adam is doing and over the years we became friends. We exchanged a lot about the business part of distribution and what films are made & which people to meet. MM: As the founder of Rapid Eye Movies, can you tell me why director Shinji was your first choice? Did you know him well before? SH: I watched the films he’d made so far and found them quite interesting & within the framework of Pink cinema I think he’s the director I liked most. Then I met him in person at places like Nippon Connection, the festival in Germany, and as well in Tokyo… And somehow we liked each other. Even though he hardly speaks English. In fact, he doesn’t speak any English, but we managed to communicate. I think it’s his sense of humour which I really appreciate. MM: How did the project of “Underwater Love: A Pink Musical” come about? SH: Actually, the whole thing came up during a dinner with the producer, Miss Keiko Sato. She is credited in all the films she’s made as Asakura Daisuke. You have to check out this year’s Udine catalogue – Udine Far East Film Festival – they had dedicated a whole retrospective of her work. Well, not all her work but they selected 10 to 12 films to be shown there to focus on what she has done, as a producer. She’s a very interesting person. She’s now around 70, and spokes heavy & a really wonderful person. He [Christopher Doyle] talked about her last night. She managed, over the years to have, fresh & young new talent around her and gave them chances to develop films and make them actually. One of these she recently worked with was Imoaka Shinji so he was in a pool of directors at that dinner we had. That’s how things started. MM: Shinji has been heard saying that he starts to cry when music begins in a film. I have to admit that from only 5 mins in I too was in a state of near tears due to the music & the vibe in the factory scene. Do you ever feel the same with films, or this one? SH: Actually, I’m glad you mentioned what you thought because that came as a surprise to all of us when we were shooting the film, because there was no time for rehearsals. We just set up and then suddenly song bursts out & they started doing their choreography etc. Only one take, of course. I really love doing musicals. That was the kind of input I gave to the producer…: “ok lets do something together but please lets make a pink musical”. It was kind of a labour of love. MM: The film is Rapid Eye Movies 1st venture into production and was made in Kokuei’s 50th anniversary year, plus it’s their 500th feature film – did it feel special because of this? SH: Definitely. I mean, for them it was very much a routine before, making films… and they scaled down the production in recent years. Pink films had sometimes been told that this genre was going to die, because the audiences were getting older & older and cinemas were disappearing… but somehow Sato, the producer always managed to inject some fresh talents and had always been experimental from scratch, from the beginning. For example, the first 3D film in the late fifties were the Pink films. They had been shooting with some incredible techniques, like sex scenes with infrared material in the sixties. So there was always some openness to new forms. In her 500 films that she’s made, Sato embraced this idea and said “lets do a ‘Pink musical’ and get some incredible talent together”, and that was actually my job to do… to involve Christopher Doyle, and get the music [Stereo Total]… She was open enough to say ‘yes’. Other people may have been more unwilling and “just stick in this type”… Sato’s really very open-minded. For them it was very special…. to take the risk. And very special for me, of course it was very special as it was my first movie as producer. MM: And how does it feel now? SH: It’s a process and you could even say that it’s a journey, making this film. It took 2 years to get the script right… 7 drafts, which is very unusual with pink films, I believe. The whole thing was a real collaboration. Shooting was only 5 & a half days, which was quite quick and also post production took much longer than most Pink films. Then, the World Premiere was this year at the Tribeca Film Festival, in April. Since then, which is hardly 6 months, the film has already travelled to more than 20 festivals. Among these, there was Puchon, Sitges, Austin Texas, Montreal, Fantasia, Moscow and lots of other places. It has got great exposure and is finding its audience. It’s very original… I’m totally happy with it. The journey continues… It doesn’t stop there. You saw, as you were there last night… the film finds it’s way. Mini Mini remarks on the brilliant atmosphere at the UK Premiere – i.e. the band doing a few songs first, before the film and therefore familiarising the audience with what was to come. SH: Yes. Catchy tunes. MM: Shinji stated in an interview that the producer normally decides on the title for Pink films. Was it you who came up with title of “Underwater Love: A Pink Musical”? SH: Yes. The Japanese title which they chose is different in meaning… it’s “Onna no kappa”, which means ‘the kappa of the women’, or something like that. In Japan, the kappa is obviously very well known… every kid and child knows about Kappas. Outside Japan nobody knows. So I didn’t want to use that as a title as there would be many questions. And “a pink musical” explains what it’s about and makes you a little curious. MM: I’d like to ask a about the choreography. The first song & main set-piece, in the factory is brilliantly done. How was it choreographed so beautifully in one take? SH: They only had a chance to rehearse just 2 days before, with a lady who runs a dance company and studio. They were not professional dancers and were just left to do things together. They just rehearsed 2 days before and then no time on set to do more. Frankly speaking, it’s very charmingly imperfect… there are mistakes in it [Mini Mini mentions a guy coming into view randomly]… exactly, you’ve got it… It’s sweet in a way. It’s not what what you’d see in a Bollywood movie or Baz Luhrman films. It’s not perfection. Like what Chris [Doyle] talked about yesterday, we had to get that energy right. MM: There is a great solo dance by the kappa, played by (Yoshuri….) How was he, for those specific moves advised to dance? SH: It was the same choreographer, she advised him accordingly. MM: The female lead, Sawa Masaki acts very well in this. How was she chosen? SH: Casting was all done by Imai…Shinji, the director. She’s not from a pink background, so this was her first Pink film and first leading role in a movie She had been in quite a lot of internationally known or seen Japanese films. I don’t know which ones, right now. Thanks to her the film really has a soul. Her character grows in the film, from a woman who is just accepting marriage and everything having to be done in a certain way, to becoming really rebelious… and that was the kind of journey during shooting. She also becomes really open & brings a lot to the film and you really start loving her character. That is really to her credit. She was chosen for various reasons, for example she also had some background in dancing. So… she was ready to do a Pink film, a good actress and she can dance, so there are probably not many in Japan who could do all that. She actually got an award, in the Austin Texas festival for her performance. MM: As with pink films, there are almost too many effects to mention but In the opening scene, when the kappa is shown eating a cucumber he seems almost jerky, as if not human-like at all – Was this intentional or perhaps a throwback to old visual effects? SH: This was just to play around with time. The whole effect was nothing more than just a change of speed in the camera. There was no post production… Zero effects in the film. Everything was done by Chis [Doyle]… he was just changing speed and that was it. No time, no budget etc. MM: Regarding the shooting itself, I believe that a small pickup truck was used as a dolly while shooting a musical number. As an aspiring film-maker myself, can you provide one or two other ‘time and money’ saving tips? SH: The whole film was shot handheld or with the use of the pick-up truck. Just use whatever you’ve got around you. There is no luxury of bringing in more crew or more equipment. There is no budget or time for more. If there is good space and good people there then you’re able to pull off something really special. MM: How did Christopher Doyle get involved? Was it due to his connection with certain Asian films? SH: I just approached him a couple of years ago… and we wanted to do something together. Yeah we met several times and I just asked him and he said “yes”. MM: I take it you agree with Chris Doyle’s remark about this being not just a film for ‘wanking’… Or ‘wichsen’ as you say in Germany? SH: [Perhaps shyly] Yeah, yeah, yeah… Something like that. He is right… Pink cinema is… well… you have to understand it. It still needs introduction, I think outside of Japan. Luckily though, some festivals are picking it up more seriously. It is, in a way a sub-genre of cinema but with lots of freedom to experiment, which is hard to find. I like this spirit where you don’t have time or money, but other than that you can do anything you like… Just stick to a few rules. So this is quite exciting. MM: To be honest, I signed up for the Total Stereo gig (and film Premiere) as soon as I heard the music. I was hooked. Could you tell me a little about the music, Stereo Total and how the situation came about ? SH: It’s quite interesting. I approached the band, Stereo Total for various reasons. At that time I was just a fan… I still am… a fan of their music. I also realised that the kind of humour and lyrics in their songs make total sense for our project. So, I approached them, we met and based on the 1st script I had they were composing songs and recording them already… but the script kept on changing & changing, and so we shot on a totally different version of the script to what the music was recorded on. But, this was not of any harm to the film, because the lyrics are very poetic in a way, and create a certain kind of atmosphere. Also, the vocals Francoise recorded in the very first take, which were intended to be just used as a kind of pilot and then to be removed by the actors’ singing, never happened… we liked it so much that we said we’ll just use it as it is and it’s perfect. And, I’m so glad we did, so that it’s her voice we hear in the movie. MM: We’ve been talking about imperfection & you’ve been heard stating you weren’t going for perfection and that Underwater Love has a charm like Spike Jonze’s video for Fatboy Slim’s “Praise You”. Can you expand on this? SH: I maybe talked about it once. I was referring to amateurs who really try hard to reach perfection and that has something which creates empathy, because they’re very true… in a way. So, I was very happy to have that kind of approach to make the whole film. That also counts for the music choreaography part of it. For various reasons things match very well… we didn’t know before, it just turned out the way it did. MM: Thank you Stephan. It’s been great talking with you. Link to “Underwater Love – A Pink Musical” review: Mini Mini’s interview with Brezel Göring (from the soundtrack’s “Stereo Total”) can be found here: [Image courtesy of Third Window Films…]

As a production house, we have seen the film industry mature over the years.Viacom 18’s entry into theIndian film industry was by introducing Studio 18, which was among the first few studios that were set up in the Indian film industry. It became essential to remodel Studio 18 into an entity that not only aligned itself with industry trends but is also more integrated with the other businesses ofViacom 18. Viacom 18 Motion Pictures is a step in that direction. Studio 18 had a good 30-month run that witnessed Studio 18 bringing tothe market some of the biggest hits of the Indian film industry – Jab We Met, Singh is Kinng, Welcome and Ghajini, among others.This year, we underwent a makeover. We were re branded as Viacom 18 MotionPictures and lined up a great slate of films. But this year, our focus was not just on big-budget and larger-than-life cinema. We carefully chose scripts and stories that would appeal to the Indian audience. It was a conscious decision to not just produce big films but also focus on a lot of content-driven, small budget films. Under Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, we launched a brand called Tipping Point Films, where we created content for the Indian urban youth. This audience segment has a higher evolved sensibility than the conventional movie-goer. We believe this segment is large enough and growing at a rate where we would like to have a presence in it. We nurtured and developed a lot of first-time, fresh talent. We literally hand-held this fresh talent and gave them the right opportunities, financial security and an environment where they felt at home. This was a fundamental reason that helps our studio undertake the portfolio approach. It doesn’t only allow us to approach different audience segments but also spread our risks financially.This is our way of strengthening a long term foot hold in a segment that has the potential to grow. We produced films like Pyaar Ka Punchnama and Shaitan for the so called youth segment, which at the time seemed much smaller but has grown agreat deal over the last few months andwill continue to bloom. I must add that films like Delhi Belly were huge successes in this segment too. That Girl In Yellow Boots is also being made for the urban niche market, which has the potential to grow disproportionately. Recognising these smaller and niche segments is what a portfolio strategy is. It is important for any production house to balance the mix of larger films that ensure scale against small films that are creative forms of expression.We also need to have some medium budget films in the pipeline to perfect that balance. And not just that, we also actively entered into the distribution of Hollywood films. So we have some of the major Hollywood releases– Paranormal Activity 3, Puss In Boots and Mission Impossible – lined up for the latter part of this year and another Indian-Canadian venture titled Speedy Singh (Breakaway in English). This year, we are also focusing onmaking these films reach the audience in a digital manner. Outside of that, we plan to encompass all the verticals that are important for the life cycle of a film.

2016 will bring many exciting professional projects for our students: Takasago and Paris College of Art will collaborate for the third time in Spring 2016 on the creation of a signature fragrance by senior fashion students. The winning project will be presented at the PCA fashion show on May 19th 2016. Students in Romaric Le Tiec’s Experience Design class will work on a project for Steelcase, the global leader in office furniture, interior architecture and space solutions for offices, hospitals and classrooms. The project will focus on transforming the customer experience of Steelcase’s furniture recovery program Eco’Services. Masters of Linen Masters of Linen will challenge PCA fashion students to create innovative men’s wear using flax yarn, and the results will be exhibited during Designers Days 2016. Nomad Cinema London PCA will collaborate on three projects with Nomad Cinema London, the UK’s first roaming pop-up cinema that screens classic films in impressive locations all year round. The interior design department will design of new furniture and spatial configurations, the design management students will make a marketing study of pop-up cinemas in Paris and the communication design class will propose new signage and visual identity for events produced by Nomad Cinema. Read Loop to learn about this projects as they unfold!

Like so many others before me, I fell into the trap: After sitting down with Dear White People director Justin Simien, the first thing I brought up was Spike Lee. And while my comment didn’t directly concern the fact that both Simien and Lee are black American filmmakers (I inquired about Simien’s use of shots where characters speak directly into the camera, recalling moments in School Daze, Do the Right Thing, He Got Game and other Lee pictures,) the racially-loaded faux pas was made all the same. With respect and patience, Simien rebuked me. “That’s actually more of a reference to Metropolis.” “Metropolis tended to come up with Sam [a character in Dear White People], because I saw Sam as being similar to the Maria character in that film,” Simien explained. “When they’re railing against the box office … Those are very specific Metropolis references.” Apparently, it demands stating: Never judge a film’s references by the color of the skin of the guy who made it. (The contrast between the films that a black artist is “expected” to like and those he enjoys in reality is in the text itself – a lead character declines an invitation to the black student union on the basis that he prefers Robert Altman to more ‘radical’ filmmakers.) While directing Dear White People, Simien kept images from other movies he admired saved on his phone, and would refer to them constantly while composing his shots. Those images came from “everywhere,” Simien explains; he “quoted” from Bergman as often as he did from “black films.” “In the same way that the black characters in my film are not how you’d expect black people to be, because they’re not often portrayed this way in movies,” Simien said, “so too I didn’t want the movie itself to feel [black] in the way that you’d expect.” Over the course of our discussion, Simien waxed enthusiastically about films by Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Wes Anderson and numerous others. Justin Simien: Barry Lyndon and Dear White People actually have a very special relationship. We use some music [Schubert’s Piano Trio] that’s also used in Barry Lyndon. Also, each of the characters triggered off very specific movie references. And with Troy’s character, I found myself constantly referencing Barry Lyndon. There’s an exact shot quotation from Lyndon, when we meet the Pastiche gang, and they’re musing over what their party should be… We were imitating this scene from Barry Lyndon where Barry is drunk and slumped over in his chair. JS: It wasn’t until I discovered Kubrick that it dawned on me [what you can do] in a film. I remember watching Eyes Wide Shut as a 17-year-old, and just thinking, What is this? It’s so slow. Why are we staying in one shot all this time? Why are all these Christmas lights here? By the end of [the film], I was on the edge of my seat, my brain was full of ideas, and while I was far too young to understand the complexities of the institution of marriage, [laughs,] I was still completely blown away by that film. And more so, [I was] blown away by the fact that you could do that in a film, that you could tell a story in an unconventional way to make a point. Movie Mezzanine: How deeply ingrained are references to movies like that in your visual conception of Dear White People? Are you using storyboards to help capture these references? JS: I couldn’t hire a storyboard artist, and I’m a terrible drawer, so we would pull [images of films we used as] references. We also had stuff from The Shining. So it would be a combination of other shots from other films. I know of directors who make their films entirely out of spliced-together scenes taken from other movies. We’re in a postmodern era. Everything is referential. So for me, it was like, let’s elevate our references. Wes Anderson, Amelie, and the cinema of well-composed whimsy JS: I totally get the Wes Anderson references [that people have made in relation to Dear White People.] I welcome it. I told my production design team that this was an interracial love child Do the Right Thing and The Royal Tenenbaums had. But the Wes Anderson thing is just an easy way to say “an intentionally framed shot.” MM: Right. The similarities probably come more from the fact that you and Anderson are quoting from the same influences. JS: I was even watching Amelie the other night, thinking, I forgot, this was a moment. Everyone was doing this for at least a year in the ‘90s. MM: The magical whimsy thing? JS: The thing where every frame is very, very specific, and things live in their own retro-faux aesthetic world. JS: Network is one of my favorite films of all time. I drew a lot of influence from it, and asked the cast to watch it, because a Paddy Chayefsky movie is written. It is written. And you know it’s a satire only because of the way the [actors] are speaking to each other. You have people like Faye Dunaway who are able to vomit this Shakespearean dialogue with a slice-of-life realness. That was something that I really wanted to shoot for with this film. MM: You found a comparable tone. JS: That’s true—or I tried to. When you know you’re dealing with ideas—yes, these are characters, and yes, they have motivations, and yes, they’re complicated—but when you understand that you’re watching a movie of ideas, then [as a viewer] you watch it differently. And the dialogue is one of the key indicators of that. I’m not saying that’s my thing, per se, but in this film, it made a lot of sense. MM: My favorite scene in Dear White People is the first rapid-fire dialectic argument between Sam and her boyfriend. JS: That’s my favorite scene, too. MM: I’m watching that, thinking: This guy likes Howard Hawks movies. JS: I do! But that scene [comes from] two other scenes, in my head. First, [it’s like] a scene in Manhattan. Because there are many walking-and-talking scenes in Manhattan. But it’s also a scene from Barry Lyndon. This reference is very obscured in my film, for a variety of reasons, but I [was thinking of] the scene where the narrator is describing Barry’s first taking notice of Lady Lyndon… MM: In the garden! Right, in your movie it’s also a panning long shot, like when [Barry’s] first looking over at Marisa Berenson’s character. JS: Yeah, you track them through the lawn. So [the influence] was that scene in Barry Lyndon, and the myriad walking-and-talking scenes in Manhattan. Because you don’t see scenes like that in black movies. You get mainstream-marketed comedies and, thanks to things like No Good Deed and Obsessed, you get thrillers. And you get the slavery biopics and civil rights movies… But ultimately, we don’t get the stuff that’s “in the middle.” You don’t see long walking-talking sequences.

Ymagis Group Appoints Serge Sepulcre Director of Éclair’s Digital Distribution Division Paris, France, January 12, 2016 / Ymagis Group (ISIN: FR0011471291, TICKER: MAGIS), the European specialist in digital technologies for the motion picture industry, today announced the appointment of Serge Sepulcre as the new Director of Eclair’s Digital Distribution division. Sepulcre joins the company from audiovisual specialist VDM SAS, where he served as Sales Director for five years. Graduated from the Aix-Marseille University Institute of Technology with a DUT technical degree in Business Sales Techniques, Serge Sepulcre began his career in banking in 1995. He was hired by post production company Teletota in 2004, where he successively held the roles of account manager, sales manager and deputy sales director until November 2010 when he joined VDM. Christophe Lacroix, Deputy CEO of Eclair and Senior VP of Ymagis Group, said, “With his 16 years of experience and first-rate track record at both Teletota and VDM, Serge is the ideal person to head up this new division under Éclair. Our goal is to offer an extensive range of state-of-the-art technical services to best meet our clients’ needs.” “Regardless of exhibition format or location, through our secure site we are able to offer a complete pallet of integrated services for television broadcasters, IPTV, VOD providers and video publishers, while offering the best quality, production times and pricing,” explained Serge Sepulcre. “I plan to put into practice my experience and knowledge of this industry to best serve the Group’s needs and quickly meet our growth goals.” Based in Vanves, Serge Sepulcre reports directly to Christophe Lacroix. Eclair Media SAS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ymagis Group, whose primary activities are versioning & accessibility services and content distribution (electronic film delivery to cinemas and digital distribution to TV/IPTV/VOD platforms and video publishers). Through its Smartjog Ymagis Logistics (SYL) and DSAT Cinema subsidiaries, Ymagis also provides content delivery (national theatrical releases, second-run and classic films) as well as live and recorded event screenings via satellite, ADSL/DSL, fiber and HDD.

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Class Of 2013 Seed Projects Investigation of Creative Insight and Improvisational Expression by Noninvasive Brain Stimulation The Exci-tDCS project seeks to expand scientific horizons on the neural basis of creative thought. The ExCITe seed grant has allowed the Creativity Research Laboratory to expand our studies on creativity and insight to one the most real-world expressions of human creativity: musical improvisation. We are interested in how creative improvisation can be affected - and even enhanced - by a new form of brain stimulation, called transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS). In tDCS, a safe and mild amount of electric current is applied to the scalp and travels into the cortex, changing the way neurons fire in that region. Instead of measuring brain activity while people do different tasks, tDCS lets us directly encourage or inhibit activity in different regions of the brain - and study how people's behavior changes as a result. This is an especially useful technique for studying very complex behavior where each performance is unique, like musical improvisation. In this study, jazz pianists improvise while being exposed to tDCS targeting frontal brain areas which support self-monitoring and the “inner critic” of self-awareness. These brain areas are associated with creativity, creative problem solving and insight across domains. By modulating these areas, we are attempting to influence the choices an improviser makes - for instance, whether musicians choose to "play it safe" and use habitual responses or spontaneously create novel solos, a more “risk taking” behavior. Experts with years of jazz teaching experience will rate the improvisations on a number of factors, providing expert evaluation of the performances and the influence of brain stimulation. Meanwhile, the improvisers will undergo a battery of psychological tests to give insight into the effects of individual personality and temperament on improvisation and tDCS - after all, music is personal! The Exci-tDCS project also tests the musicians on a range of cognitive tasks to assess the effects of tDCS on verbal creativity and strength of "cognitive inhibition", or ability to inhibit an automatic response. We will also examine the relationship between the effects of tDCS on musical and verbal tasks. Brain stimulation has an excellent safety record and is increasingly popular as a treatment for aphasia, depression, and other clinical conditions. In the future, the present research may help to advance a science that can enhance normal cognition. Nothing substitutes for practicing - but tDCS could, eventually, be able to assist in areas like reinforcing creative strategies during training and improving the speed and effectiveness of practice. The Exci-tDCS project begins testing improvisers this month and will continue throughout the spring term. Our setup includes an 88-key semi-weighted MIDI controller, flat response headphones and the MAGSTIM tDCS DC-stimulator. Testing is ongoing at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with Roy Hamilton MD. MS., director of the Laboratory for Cognitive and Neural Stimulation. The Exci-tDCS project is run by David Rosen and Brian Erickson, Ph.D. candidates in the Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences program at Drexel University, and is advised by ACBS program director, John Kounios, Ph.D Working with an interdisciplinary team, the composer and director Gene Coleman will develop “Systole,” an audio-visual composition based on the architecture of Toyo Ito’s Sendai Mediatheque. Utilizing the Excite Center's Magnetic Resonator Piano, this work brings together music composition, architecture, computer animation, cinema, and fractal geometry. Biologically-inspired Sensing Platform for Proprioception in Flexible Robotic Membranes The objective of this work is to develop a textile-based stretch sensor with applications to wearable electronics, bio-inspired robotics, and haptics. A prototype of a robotic fish fin and early attempts at adding fabric sensors to sense stretch in the fabric. Collaboration with Professor Genevieve Dion in the Shima Seiki Laboratory and funding through the ExCITe Seed Grant enabled prototyping efforts in precise placement of sensors and repeatable wiring of conduits to advance sensing in flexible materials. Designs of stretch sensors were created with computer models and prototyped in the Shima Seiki lab. Early testing and sensor characterization showed success of the proof of concept. Project Team: Work was conducted by Professor Genevieve Dion of the Shima Seiki Haute Technology Laboratory, Jeff Kahn and Professor James Tangorra of the Laboratory of Biological Systems Analysis, and Professor Yon Visell of the RE Touch Laboratory.

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André PREVIN (b.1929) Tango Song and Dance [15:32] Robert SCHUMANN (1810-1856) Violin Sonata No.1 in A minor, Op.105 [16:53] György KURTÁG (b.1926) Tre Pezzi [6:58] César FRANCK (1822-1890) Violin Sonata in A [27:51] Augustin Hadelich (violin) Joyce Yang (piano) rec. 11-14 June 2015, The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York AVIE AV2347 [67:25] In whichever order you listen to the works on this disc, you will end up feeling completely shell-shocked by the unyielding barrage of emotions and musical styles it contains. Not only are these four composers from very different musical worlds, but even within each work the musical language is so varied and wide-ranging as to defy categorisation. This is an extraordinary piece of programming and, it must be said, a brilliantly effective one, too, which works so well because these are two such magnificent players. Taking the music in the order in which it appears on disc, we begin in a world which lurches unashamedly from Erich Korngold to George Gershwin to Alban Berg and to Astor Piazzolla, delves into a 1920s night club and shakes a leg at the streets of New Orleans, as if from the comfort of a plush cinema sofa. It has been described as kitsch; but Tango Song and Dance by André Previn is much more than that, even if its musical language seems like a random sampling of early 20th century fads. Written for Anne-Sophie Mutter (at which time they were still husband and wife), it is as genuine an expression of love as you could imagine in musical terms, and while Mutter and Previn recorded it for DG in 2003 in a memorable performance, which oozed love and mutual affection, I find in the Augustin Hadelich and Joyce Yang partnership a freer feel, less constrained by the overwhelming sensation of “luvviness”, and more intrigued by the switch-back ride of stylistic toe-dipping. Their final flourish, Hadelich launching off on his upward spiral, while Yang anchors it all firmly to the ground with some tremendously solid piano chords, is superb. In many ways the Previn offers the key to the programme; human relationships and feelings. We have had love from Previn, and next we have anger from Schumann. He wrote his first Violin Sonata in the wake of a heated argument with the deputy mayor of Düsseldorf, concerning Schumann’s conducting of the city’s choir. Not only does the Sonata inhabit a stylistic territory about as remote from any of those touched by Previn, it also seems a world apart from it in its unease and pointedly direct gestures. It has, as Hadelich writes in the booklet notes (which take the form of a conversation about the music between Joyce Yang and himself), “violent mood swings”. If the duo partners had managed to convey a strong sense of love and affection, while standing a little outside the emotional world of the Previn, they do the same with equally impressive results with Schumann. Those mood swings are vividly conveyed, the passionate outbursts of the first movement, abruptly giving way to the more introspective second, in a way explained by their joint view of the music as “telling a story” (they even go so far as to outline their opinion as to what that story is). They bring a biting, brittle edge to the jagged figurations of the third movement, like two swordsmen fencing the occasional thrust. After the emotional intimacies of Previn and Schumann, György Kurtág’s three pieces seem like studied exercises in detachment. The first is desolate, the second dynamic and the third distant. Reading the booklet’s dialogue gives one a powerful insight into how the performers see the work, and while it is difficult to go back and imagine how it would come across without the benefit of this insight, I find this an utterly compelling and at times profoundly moving musical experience. There is in this playing a real feeling of mutual personal respect. With the Franck Sonata we enter yet another new world of human emotion and musical language. This is far more than a composer’s feelings at the marriage of a friend, and the passionate, explosive, deeply affecting and at times almost unbearably intense journey the music takes over its four movements seems to encapsulate a whole range of human emotions, not all of which one suspects Franck would have wanted the world to recognise. Not for nothing does it stand at the pinnacle of 19th century violin sonatas, and while its language might at times seem orchestrally (or, perhaps, organistically) conceived, here we have two players, who are clearly attuned to each other’s approach and understanding of the score, as well as having that instinctive feel for each other’s nuances that brings the whole thing together in one soaring exhibition of drama, feeling, virtuoso display and interpretative conviction. Their perfectly measured silences, as the second movement returns to its turbulent self are masterstrokes, and rarely on disc have I heard the third movement delivered with such consummate balancing of emotional substance and tonal poise; its final moments are truly inspired. The music on this disc might offer up a roller-coaster of a ride, both emotionally and stylistically, but it is handled with such masterly self-assurance by this remarkable duo that all one wants once it has run its course is to go through it all over again. We are currently offering in excess of 51,000 reviews Founding Editor Rob Barnett Editor in Chief John Quinn Seen & Heard Editor Emeritus Bill Kenny MusicWeb Webmaster David Barker Postmaster Jonathan Woolf MusicWeb Founder Len Mullenger

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The Bali Bird Park in Bali is an important tourist attraction that draws a lot of tourist attraction. The Bali Bird Park was opened in the year 1994 and since then it has been the home to a large number of species of birds. Today there are around 250 different species of birds found here that number close to 5000. You will find a large number of exotic species of birds here. This is basically a conservation park for the birds that has turned into a major tourist attraction today. It is a very well managed family and an animal park that one must visit. It has been a park of Bali’s ecotourism for the past 20 years. About Bali Bird Park This park is located in the Gianyar Regency in the district of Batubulan, near Ubud. So, if you’re wondering about Bali Bird Park location, now you know where to head to in Bali! The entire bird park is separated into more than 60 regions and the natural habitat for every species has been recreated here so that the birds can breed easily in their natural habitat. The indigenous plant life for every habitat is another thing to look out for when you visit the bird park. Here one will feel that they have embarked on a magical journey across the Indonesian Archipelago, Latin America, Africa and Australia all at once. A large number of species are conserved here. The nearly extinct Pesquet’s Parrot was conserved here and now their numbers have grown. The main aim of the centre is to be the “Centre of Excellence” for the breeding of the nearly extinct birds like Birds of Paradise and Bali Starlings, among other species. There are more than 40 species of Indonesian birds alone that are being taken care of at the sanctuary. One will also find a diverse botanical collection as mentioned before. 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The place is built in such a manner that it is bound to attract the attention of children. It is very colourful and there is a lot to know about the birds. If you are planning on a day out but do not want to visit the beach, then you must come here for the amazing experience. The tour through the Bird Park will take up your entire day. There are a few restaurants here in the park like the Main Restaurant or the Rainforest Café. Some of the other facilities that can be found here are the Children play area, Bali Starling Restaurant, 6 toilets, car parking etc. Apart from that, you must not forget to get yourself some souvenir from the Bali Bird Park souvenir shop. The money that is earned here goes to help the park management in keeping the place healthy and clean to the highest standards. The staffs at the Bali Bird Park in Gianyar are very friendly. They will help everyone get close to the birds by carrying the birds on their shoulders and bringing them near all tourists. 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Celebrity portraiture & fashion photographer Ki Price got 19 seconds to shoot a portrait of Star Wars actor John Boyega. Naturally he chose the Profoto B2 as his companion. We asked him about the experience. One could say that Ki Price’s way into commercial photography was through cinema. Early on he realized the secret behind masterpieces by the likes of Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, and Hal Hartley – controlling the lighting. Being a self-taught photographer he started to apply that to his photography. “I like creating an image rather than just taking it”, Ki Price says. “About 8 years ago I really started to get into lighting with flash and realized when I where sent onto assignments I could change a horrible flowery room into a really dramatic portrait.” This time the brief was to get an interview photo for a German publication. But Ki wanted more than just that. “I was very excited about this one, having been to the cinemas all my life and playing Star Wars as a kid. I knew in my mind it had to be better than this and I was going to shoot his portrait as well”, he explains. For the setup Ki wanted something more intimate, but time was not on his side. He was restricted to one room, with John Boyega’s whole crew present. “It was at a press junket in a hotel in London. Journalists are queuing all morning for their 20 minute slot. I had 19 seconds with John in the hotel room where he was being interviewed. It was a dimmed room and I knew I could mix the ambient with flash and a grid to create exactly what I wanted, without lighting up the whole room.” Ki put the Profoto OCF Softbox 2’ Octa with the optional diffuser to make the light softer and the OCF Softgrid 50° 2′ Octa for contrast. In order to save time, Ki had already mounted his OCF Light Shaping Tools. He shot with Profoto B2 Off-Camera Flash, using one head. He photographed with his Canon and the new 24-70mm 2.8. It allowed him to work fast. There was no time for lighting stands so he had to hold the B2 in his left hand, creating a nice side light. The zoom was preset, as he didn’t have a hand free to zoom. “I had 19 seconds. I shot manual.” Shooting celebrity portraits like this can sometimes be tricky. Usually, the publicists want a retouch or want to picture approve images, but when Boyega’s publicist asked to see the image he liked it straight away. That’s not always the case. Actor Lily Collins for example, Ki wanted to shoot clothed in the shower and he got a big no from her makeup artist. “I try not to give control to them and work on a basis of trust. The image is, from my perceptive, not theirs.” Ki likes to work with harsh contrast and sometimes uses effects such as smoke or fog to separate the background from the subject and give some depth. A signature look and feel you can see in the images of UK Prime Minister David Cameron and politician George Osborne, in which he is lighting the subjects from below. “Defining your own style is so important. You want clients to book you because you’re different or they would just use a stock image service”, Ki Price explains. “I think people tend to know my images and my style”. Having a flexible lighting system is also important Ki says: “As an editorial photographer I never know what the location I’m sent to is going to be like. I know there are light setups that will always work for me no matter how bad or good the location is.” Even though photographing a Star Wars main character was somewhat a childhood dream coming true, Ki Price’s favorite shoot was the one with musician, poet and artist Patti Smith. “She is the hardest and coolest person I’ve ever shoot. She was standing there with her hair all over her face saying: ‘Why are you using flash when you have all this amazing light?’, ‘Why are you taking so many photos?’, and ‘What lens are you using?’ “I was like give me a break, you been photographed Robert Mapplethorpe for years. She turned gave me my photo, winked, said ‘I like your necklaces’, and walked back onto her tour bus. The few moments or hours you get to exchange these insights are what make this job priceless.” Visit Ki Price webpage for more images. Read more about the Off-Camera Flash System.

Allen Zhang stepped on stage to wrap up a long day of presentations at a Tencent Holdings conference. Four hours later, the WeChat founder had methodically torn apart his own brainchild before mapping out the next act for China’s premier super-app. Zhang, who commands a cult-like following in China thanks to WeChat’s explosive popularity, got an audience of thousands glued to their seats till nearly midnight last week. The usually reclusive executive, in a company known for low-key leaders, laid out a vision for how the platform used by a billion people should evolve: by emulating real life and social circles. Zhang’s creation — a mash-up of WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Yelp, Paypal, Twitter and Kindle — has become intertwined with the daily lives of just about every Chinese person. Yet he confessed WeChat risks becoming obsolete. It’s lost the veneer of authentic discovery that endeared it to users, because people were becoming too sensitive to their online personas on Moments (a feed akin to Facebook’s.) The 49-year-old’s first step is deceptively simple: a video-streaming feature, not unlike Instagram’s feed, so people share their lives in real time, not through carefully curated photos and messages. “WeChat will need to face new challenges in the next eight years,” Zhang said. “Moments has become a very traditional place for social networking, as people use it to showcase the best of themselves to win recognition from others.” Introduced in December, the video-streaming button — a camera icon on the top right corner of the user profile page — allows people to add emojis, text and music. Zhang sees it as the antithesis of Moments: even the “send” button is swapped with a nonchalant “this will do” to dampen anxiety. “What we want is something that can let people record what they’re really experiencing, and let their friends see,” he said. “This process should not be like Moments. If it were, we wouldn’t be doing this.” While Moments has grown users continuously for seven years and each day more than 45 billion messages are sent, Zhang is looking ahead. Many are starting to re-think how they showcase their personal photo and article-sharing history to new contacts as their phone book expands. To counteract that anxiety, WeChat introduced a setting to let people display posts for just three days, a function now employed by more than 100 million. “Allen really spent a lot of time trying to explain the philosophy behind the WeChat product during that four-hour speech,” said John Choi, an analyst with Daiwa Securities Group in Hong Kong. “It’s clear that they need to further enhance user engagement, as user growth is not going to be the key growth driver in the future.” While WeChat has been the star of China’s Internet for years, newcomers like Bytedance are now making things harder. The owner of Toutiao, Douyin and TikTok has become the world’s most valuable start-up. “The much-reported cannibalisation of screen time from Bytedance’s apps are obviously hurting WeChat, and with little wonder,” said Mark Tanner, founder of Shanghai-based research and marketing company China Skinny. “WeChat needs to stay relevant for those hundreds of millions of users who just want something simple to use, that looks good and is entertaining and are used to newer, shinier things being launched.” A red flag for the app is that readership for articles referred by friends on Moments has been dropping. Zhang conceded that WeChat’s algorithm-based referral feature is sub-par. So he introduced “Hao Kan” (or good-looking), letting users mark articles they’ve read as an alternative way to spread the word among friends. “The way we mostly gather new information is not from the library or actively searching from the Web but from people around us,” said Zhang. “In order to create a product that attracts the masses to read, it needs to be based on social recommendation, only then will this have a chance.” As in real life, people also don’t hang out in one locale. Hence, Zhang envisions a plethora of satellite apps — similar to the digital book service already in use — which share functions and links to the main app but can stand alone. “WeChat as an app has already featured many, many things,” he said. “But there’s a limit to how much it can hold.” Complementing those initiatives will be a build-out of Mini Programs — the lite-apps platform that already sits atop WeChat’s interface and provides quick access to services including restaurants and cinema bookings. WeChat plans a recommendation system based on friends’ reviews, to help people discover products. Zhang hopes users in future can search within its ecosystem. For example, when a person looks up a flight, it directs them to an airline’s lite-app. “We have the patience to nurture it slowly,” said Zhang. Won’t play favourites To assure third-party developers, Zhang insists WeChat won’t play favourites or direct traffic to Tencent’s portfolio companies, while acknowledging the company hasn’t operated as fairly as it could have in the past. That stance has been a point of contention within Tencent, with staff from other divisions often complaining about how WeChat is run like a dictatorship. Zhang said if he didn’t rule the roost, the product would lose its soul. “I’ve always regarded myself as a product manager and not a professional manager,” he said. “A good product needs a dictator, otherwise if too many opinions are involved, the product will fall apart.” It remains to be seen whether Zhang’s vision will prevail. WeChat has kept its dominance in a sea of rival Chinese apps in part because it maintained a clean interface and hasn’t bombarded users with ads and alerts. Take Zhang’s insistence on never changing WeChat’s welcome screen, which shows a silhouette of a lone person looking up at a vast depiction of planet Earth. “Every time you see the loading page of WeChat, you’ll think ‘what is this person doing? What is he doing in front of planet Earth?’” Zhang said. “One billion users will have one billion interpretations and find something that moves them.” — Reported by Lulu Yilun Chen, (c) 2019 Bloomberg LP

What is the most effective screenwriting method that all screenwriters should learn to implement in their writing process? KISS – Keep It Simple, Screenwriters The KISS Method is by far the most effective and prolific screenwriting method that screenwriters can use to enhance their screenplays. It allows you to create the best possible reading experience for any agent, manager, producer, development executive, contest judge, director, or major talent. And beyond the experience of the read, the KISS Method also creates the best cinematic experience for the audience. The Myth that Complexity Equals Better Quality Complex words, sentences, storylines, plots, and character arcs are not enhanced by complexity. The truth is those overly complicated elements within your screenplays actually hinder the read, the story, and the characters. Keeping Story and Characters Simple When it comes to story and character, the best of both within cinema and television are those that keep it simple. This doesn’t mean that your stories and characters are one-dimensional. It means that you’re offering the audience the most accessible portal into the world, scenario, and characters you’ve created. Look no further than The Matrix Trilogy as an example. The first — and most acclaimed — installment was quite simple. The protagonist learned that the world as he knew it was a simulation. A group of real-world rebels awakens his true self to a world where humans are used as energy to power an artificial intelligence society of machine beings. The sequels added so many additional mythos and levels of character consciousness that the story and concept became overly saturated with overwritten plots and character arcs. Another example can be found within the Star Wars franchise. The original trilogy was simple. Good versus Evil. The Empire wanted to rule the galaxy, and The Rebellion wished to free the galaxy from the Empire’s tight grasp. The Force was a mystical energy that bound everything and everyone together — and some could harness that energy through various powers. By the time the prequels arrived, politics were introduced to the story, including counsels, senators, dictators, and trade federations. The Force was given a somewhat complicated scientific explanation with the introduction of the midichlorians and the various levels of which dictate a Jedi’s power. These added elements over-saturated what was originally a simple combination of story elements and character arcs. Within the span of a single film, you have two hours to introduce your story and characters, thrust them into the central conflict of the film’s concept, and get them through that conflict where they prevail or fail, depending on the type of story you are telling. The more complicated you make things, the more difficult it will be for an audience to grasp your story and characters and walk away with the feeling of having gone through a cathartic experience. Read ScreenCraft’s The Single Most Important Element of a Successful Screenplay! Keeping the Read of the Script Simple When it comes to the read of the script, you, the writer, don’t come off as more intelligent by using more significant words and more dynamic sentences of scene descriptions. It complicates the read of the story. Your sole goal is to communicate what the reader should be envisioning effectively. And you need to do so as quickly as possible so that they can envision those elements as if they are visuals being watched on a screen within their mind’s eye. Overly complicated word choices, terminology, and drawn-out scene description sentences can make the read come to a screeching halt. Instead of writing utilize, write use. Near is a far better word choice than close proximity. Expeditious is a bit much compared to fast or quick. Simple words communicate visuals so much faster than their fancier equivalents. If you need to use longer words to be more specific in your description, go for it. But only when completely necessary. With scene description sentences, you should keep them short for the sole purpose of them being easier to read and understand. When sentences are easier to read and understand, the reader can visualize them that much faster. Each sentence of scene description should convey one simple visual. Anything more than that creates complexity and invites confusion or the halt of the read. As you’re writing, you need to interpret each block of scene description as a visual that you are throwing at them: This is what I want you to see. Now you see this. Now this happens. When you have long paragraphs of scene description sentences, the reader’s visual interpretation is drastically slowed down. And when those long paragraphs are compounded by complex sentences that use overly complex words and descriptions, the read is even more difficult. And sometimes screenwriters aren’t trying to be complex. Sometimes they’re going for style by using overly poetic and overly descriptive sentences. Here’s an example: The writer is showcasing some stylistic choices. Those scene description sentences aren’t that bad for a screenplay, but when you’re employing the KISS Method, you want to do all that you can simplify the read. Here’s a rewritten example: This rewritten version uses simplified versions of the most essential elements of the scene description. And as you can see, single words and fragments are very welcome within your screenplay’s description. The first version of this example is more suited for a novel, especially if you plan to write all of your scene descriptions with that stylistic overlay. Keep. It. Simple. Learn the best way to structure your screenplay with this free guide. Avoid Fluff Words and Adverbs Mark Twain once said, “Substitute damn every time you’re inclined to write very; your editor will delete it, and the writing will be just as it should be.” Fluff words like very, little, and rather don’t add anything to your scene description — or your dialogue. Stephen King wrote, “The adverb is not your friend. Consider the sentence ‘He closed the door firmly.’ It’s by no means a terrible sentence, but ask yourself if ‘firmly’ really has to be there. What about context? What about all the enlightening (not to say emotionally moving) prose which came before ‘He closed the door firmly’? Shouldn’t this tell us how he closed the door? And if the foregoing prose does tell us, then isn’t ‘firmly’ an extra word? Isn’t it redundant?” Speaking of redundancy… Get one point across well a single time, as opposed to hitting the reader on the head over and over throughout the script. When you repeat yourself and continue to oversell a point, emotion, or joke continually, that will have the reverse effect of diluting what was great about it in the first place. If your character has a handicap, don’t stop the motion of the story by continually reminding us of their struggle with it. If you sell it well during the first mention of it, it will be in our heads every time they come across a hurdle that they are forced to overcome. And this applies to the conflict that you throw at your characters as well. Your conflict has to be constantly evolving as the story moves forward. In an action script, there’s nothing more boring than continued gunfights. You have to escalate the conflicts that your characters are going up against every time an action or suspense sequence is needed. If the bad guys find the good guys and a gunfight ensues, the next time they meet you need to conjure an evolved version of that conflict. Maybe your character runs out of ammo and must now take creative measures to evade the attackers? Perhaps the next gunfight takes place in moving cars? Perhaps the action sequence after that takes the gunfight to hand-to-hand combat, which offers a more visceral cinematic experience for the audience. Embrace the Less Is More Mantra for Dialogue The Less Is More Mantra applies to the whole script. Read ScreenCraft’s Why Every Screenwriter Should Embrace “Less Is More”! But since we’ve covered scene description already, we should focus on the importance of paring down dialogue as well. If you’re trying to pepper your script with great dialogue, the best practice is less about injecting those great one-liners and speeches and more about cutting and cutting and cutting every line of dialogue that you can until you find that great one-liner, fragment, or phrase hiding amidst the noise — that diamond in the rough that encapsulates the moment at the core. Don’t oversell the point you or the character are trying to make by adding dialogue line after dialogue line. Find the core of what your character is trying to say. In As Good As It Gets, Melvin struggles to communicate how he feels about Carol. He starts to ramble on and on about the various idiosyncrasies of how she has affected his life. But in the end, he says just one single line. Always Be Editing Keeping it simple is not about keeping things simple for you, the writer. It’s about keeping things simple for the script reader and the audience. You should always be editing — whether it’s paring down scene description, editing out complex words and inserting more simple options, eliminating unnecessary fluff words and adverbs, cutting dialogue lines down to get to the core of what you and the character are trying to say, or shortening scenes to enhance the pacing of the script. Keep It Simple Screenwriters. It’s the best screenwriting method that you can employ because it allows you to connect to the reader and the audience in the best, and most simple, of ways. Ken Miyamoto has worked in the film industry for nearly two decades, most notably as a studio liaison for Sony Studios and then as a script reader and story analyst for Sony Pictures. He has many studio meetings under his belt as a produced screenwriter, meeting with the likes of Sony, Dreamworks, Universal, Disney, Warner Brothers, as well as many production and management companies. He has had a previous development deal with Lionsgate, as well as multiple writing assignments, including the produced miniseries Blackout, starring Anne Heche, Sean Patrick Flanery, Billy Zane, James Brolin, Haylie Duff, Brian Bloom, Eric La Salle, and Bruce Boxleitner. Follow Ken on Twitter @KenMovies

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Helping you catch up on everything and more you may have missed, Impose’s Week in Pop brings the latest breaking media from your heroes and future favorites. First with the news roundup, Radiohead’s ninth proper album A Moon Shaped Pool is tearing up the album charts; Lollapalooza schedule buzz; 16-year old Max Krasowitz wants the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences to consider free music for Grammy nominations as well; Animal Collective’s live album sales proceeds will help Progress NC fight the HB2, anti-LGBTQ legislation; Will Butler announced upcoming Friday Night live album available in June via Merge; local police protested Beyoncé’s Houston, Texas performance at NRG Stadium; “Anarchy in the UK” performed by Bethany Cosentino, Kristin Kontrol, Meredith Graves, Win Butler, & more; the Stone Roses dropped a new single in 20 years time with “All For One”; Schoolboy Q dropped “THat Part” ft. 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Currently making some big buzz about the greater Los Angeles area, our friend Rachel Mason introduced us to L.A.Drones!, a duo of disguised identities that operate under the the handles Kontrol Remoto and Darlingtonia Brackets. Performing with bandanas and masks that prominently feature Xs on them, the L.A.Drones! alludes to drones that have become a part of our everyday existence coupled with the Spanish wordplay where ladrones in English translates to thieves. With their debut album The Name Of This Band Is L.A.Drones! available May 22 from the Oakland imprint This Starcraft—L.A.Drones! present the world premiere of their nu-techno, post-industrial invitational video that begs the questions, “Don’t Want You Dance?”. Invited by Michael Stock to host their tape release party May 22 at Part Time Punks at The Echo, Kontrol Remoto and Darlingtonia Brackets will play 80s French synth legends KaS Product (playing their first stateside shows), with a later unveiling of the album on red vinyl in late August at HM157. Featuring combined concert footage & film the group’s travels, the Calvin Goode and Ernesto Reynoso video for L.A.Drones!’ “Don’t Want You Dance?” captures a wild Tuesday performance held at LA’s Los Globos where the duo performed alongside Cellars, Terminal A, & Obo Des. Featuring the slick moves and pretty faces from fans & festive friends-L.A.Drones! roll with a posse of dancers that includes (but not limited to, mind you) Tristene Roman, Allen Norton, Cameron Tyme Edison, Matt Sherin, Adam Brooks, Lee Busch, Cooper T. Moll, Heather Galipo, Cleo Hoover, Maren McConnell, Fenex, Jean-Paul Miller, Chris Nowak, Xe Davis, Peter Kalisch, Joe Gamache, Daniel L Munoz and Max. As Darlingtonia begs for the listener/viewer/ear & eye of the beholder’s soul, the visuals take you on a psychedelic trip into fantastic locales of lesser known splendors. Prepare yourself to go on a hyper-drive trip through Chiapas, the Sonora Desert in Mexico, the breathaking vistas of Huasteca Potosina-San Luis Potosi, the Grand Canyon in Arizona, the Tonina & Palenque Pyramids & riding along the Mexican roads of Chiapas / Huasteca, Roosevelt Dam in Arizona, Sinaloa ants at work, Sir James Surrealist Garden Xilitla in Huasteca Potosina-San Luis Potosi, Tijuana, Nevada roads, Venice Beach LA, La Mision Beach & Rosarito Noria in Baja California, Mazatlán Beach in Sinaloa, and more in just over six minutes. L.A.Drones! took the time to chat with us in an interview featured right after the following video debut for “Don’t Want You Dance?”. Take us to the very dawning of L.A.Drones and what sorts of events brought about this masked endeavor? Back in the summer of 2013, a little before returning to Mexico City—where we had our hideout at the time—we were on tour in Los Angeles with our previous band Lineas Albies: We used the initials of Lineas Albies for L.A.DRONES! in order to continue with our hidden identities. Lineas Albies is a bizarre electronic post punk band with guitars, sequences, synths, and with the fierceness of a punk rock band live; however, and like many other post punk bands, we understood our last album more electronically (The Pink Album). I guess we were evolving or changing our skin. In fact our shows had like two parts, some songs were electronics with synths and others with guitar. I remember doing “1969”—a Stooges cover. Really powerful blend of guitar noise industrial electronics super destroy to finish the shows, that was a mix of everything. We had to return to Mexico City, when we were invited to play in a party, so we delay our trip to give our last concert. The night was amazing! Especially with the electronics, and as many times it happened to us, we ended up spinning at the after party. We throw some electroclash, EBM with Gigolo Record and more European stuff—for some reason people just wanted that night electronic dance music, which we thought was weird ’cause we did not see that too often in L.A., at least not at that time. It was fun, people danced wildly throughout the session! That night we decided that we would start the side project, that we were thinking of doing before. And that night we saw it very clear; we want to do electronic music for the dance floor and we wanted to do it so bad. We were so inspired by the idea of mixing our classical rock souls with electronic music. Our idea was always work with the same bpm (127, we like prime numbers) so that the tracks were interchangeable, creating the feeling of a dance live session with our own sequences, samplers, synths and other devices. The concept was drone per se, with the drone references to inspiring bands like Suicide or Spacemen 3, E.A.R., Can, Crash Course in Science, Silver Apples, Coil, the concrete music of Terry Riley, the first Cabaret Voltaire or the dub music with the acid house and early Detroit techno, and the whole disco and funk music of James Brown, that is basically repetitive and drone. After all, drone music comes from Africa—to go into a trance and get in contact with the Gods with a single note or a simple drone sequence and the repetition as a concept. This was what worked well on Don´t Want You Dance? or Horrible Dreams. The idea was to mix tracks, and each concert was different. And so L.A.Drones! play their first concert. It took place in VOLTA on December 2013, in a very cool festival of alternative music in Mexico City that still today dedicates its line up to experimental music, noise and sound art. Our second show was on February 2014 at HM157, our favorite venue in Los Angeles. By then Give Up was born—although, less dronic [sic], the concept still remained—open electronic music played live. The songs were born out of a live improvisational process. Although we began to have more defined songs, everything was changing and live improvisation made each concert different. All sounds were separated. They were their own entities, we went with the controller, and mute and throwing tracks, mixing them together. In the beginning four songs were created that took 40 minutes to play live. As new songs emerged through this live experimental mixture we decided to reduce them to half and simplify the concept to go faster in live shows. This was how L.A.Drones! songs were born: playing live in the studio and on the stage. It is our mobile studio that travels everywhere, and of course to stage. By May 2015 we thought that we had enough music to make an LP so in the summer we locked ourselves three months to record everything and our first record was born, The Name of This Band Is L.A.Drones! with 7 songs, which is what we do now live, and what we call our first capsule. Second capsule will be created by the same way like we did the first one. That’s our plan, the methodology will not change. First goes the live show and after the record, and that will be our second capsule… Describe for us the wordplay of your moniker, and the Spanish word for thieves; what sorts of connections do the two of you make between things like thieves, your home in LA, and the concept of drones? With the initials of our previous band Lineas Albies and the concept of drone easily came the name, L.A.Drones! with such a magic that ladrones in the Spanish language means thieves, and really quickly, we came masked as ladrones—badasses like Diabolic, Phantomas, El Zorro, The Shadow, or similar characters from the comic books—and hidden identities like our favorites The Residents or like We Are The Walrous—that would really work also—especially to differentiate L.A. Drones! from our old Project—also we find the concept of uniformity attractive, like Devo, Kraftwerk, etc. Yes, somehow we relate electronic music with the uniform, synthesizers, the revolutionary army, the Sci Fi, robots, future, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Logan’s Run—all examples of how sci-fi brings to everyone the future-fabric that they will uniform themselves in. And also traveling through space and time. That’s all there. There is also a lot of Sex Fetish concept introduced throughout Synth Pop through Crash—the book by JG Ballard, which had also so much influence on Cabaret Voltaire, the first Human League, Soft Cell and as The Normal with “Warm Leatherette”, Chris & Cosey—well, the fetishist concept is basic in synth music. And of course black music, the Black Panthers and uniformity as Public Enemy (Terminator X, Malcolm X), we can’t forget that in the end we are all some whities using the 4X4 beat invented by the blacks, with the blues, funk, disco, and rock. We had our suits, so we just needed masks—we wanted something simple, easy to make, something a little scary and at the same time create mystery—that was easy!! And the X, ancestral symbol, the unknown in algebra, the forbidden, the number six in numerology, multiplication, an amulet against poison—of contemporary music [laughs]—X means the search for the new, the lover of the the unknown…the X-Men of Chris Claremont, and the most important, On Earth “We Belong To The X Generation” (very few left). In Spain and other parts of the world such as China, an X scratched into the stone or written in chalk outside of a house signifies a message to a thief that the residence is a good place to rob. And tacháaaan! L.A. The City of Los Angeles, the city where the whole idea was conceived, and the city where we will be back soon, and where we live now. Everything was very magical from the beginning. And what do we like to steal as ladrones—thieves? We had this hobby a long time ago. In the first LP of our previous band, the songs were constructed with samples, as a collage, it was crazy ’cause you might find the piano of Lennon, Michael Rother Guitar, the Warren Ellis violin, the moans of Lux Interior, all in one song—what a band, a total treat! Then adding our own vocal melodies, synths, whatever—it was like making the [Great Wall of China] or something. It all makes sense that being the music lovers and collectors that we are, the concept of sampling would be very attractive for us to work with. So the name L.A.Drones! again came to adjust well to the concept. Stealing samples was part of the plan, as the primary basis of the creation of our songs, besides programmations [sic], drum machines, etc. So we went to our old files, “la samplería” with lots of gigabytes of samples recorded from our records in the past. Cabaret Voltaire, they seem to be our favorite, most inspiring resource for L.A.Drones! To this date, I guess Richard H. Kirk is an idol for us, ha! And all this work, to say that using samples is very tricky stuff, you have to pay royalties for it or it must be covered to avoid detection. Sometimes the sample is merely the spark that starts the process of creating a song—like an engine you have built a whole song around it, in the end sometimes you decide that the sample no longer works good for the song and you get rid of it. But still the sample was so important to make the song come to life. It is always fascinating. X marks the spot where not only the sample is stolen, but also where the treasure is found—the pirate’s booty—from which the center of the song flowers or perhaps explodes. The samples we steal is actually homage paid to who we steal it from. The engine of our next new track, it is the bass from a song of The Saints. What should we be expecting May 22 with your big tape release at Part Time Punks, playing with 80s KAS PRODUCT? Obviously we will play The Name Of This Band Is L.A.Drones! tape/LP which our beloved label from Oakland/San Francisco, This Starcraft, will release to the world on May 22! You should expect an awesome L.A.Drones! show and we really expect to sell the 100 cassettes, limited copies [laughs]! If we have time we will play one of the two covers we have like “Cosmic Car” by Cybotron, or “Fashion” by Bowie, or maybe that one that we are programming now—a cover by the fucking king of the 80s, which is Prince, super important for the synthesized music. Interested in hearing some favorite anecdotes from two of you about the live performances that comprised the video for “Don’t Want You Dance?” It was a very exciting day. We had just returned from Europe and we had a show with friends’ bands that Cellars had organized and many of the friends who were there we haven’t seen for 4 months, so it was very thrilling. Suddenly we found out that our sound card and the laptop did not work, the jet lag, maybe? (seriously, machines also suffer this kind of “shock to the system”) so we had to run back to the house to fix the problem. We were the third ones at the stage, so we had time also to drink maybe a little more than usual, with all that excitement, to limit the situation and stress. This takes you always to get more crazy, and the fact that we had so many issues with the machines and were able to fix it and do the show finally—it was an explosion, we really had so much fun at the stage! Problems take you always to be in more crazy state, with all the adrenaline totally up, ha! Many wires and many machines can give you some problems, ha! But magic happens again cause Calvin Goode and his marvelous camera, captured everything, the whole live performance. Thank you Calvin, and Ernesto Reynoso who also capture real dancers in the L.A.Drones! shows, [the] venues, Los Globos in Sunset and Honey Trap and The Redwood in DTLA. The rest of the travel shoots and the art is by L.A.Drones!. As a group that knows who to sample, who to alter, what to emulate (and when); I would really be interested in hearing about synthesizing modern models with the new approaches that you two employee through your dark dancing/laser scanning styles. This is all about a sonic experiment that, without abandoning strong electronic rhythm, joins styles such as electro, kraut rock, dub, acid, space, synth, noise, disco, funk, never forgetting melody, through the interaction of loops and drones, with the manipulation of these sounds playing live, with effects being squeezed to the extreme. Voices, two synthesizers, effects modules, plus pedals, and a mixer combine in order to generate a unique experience. So, we already had several machines that we bought years ago, we put all of them together, a synth, mixer, modules effect, many pedals octaving, flanging, distorting—we’ve got a new more gorgeous synth and many many wire. As we said before, we go like nomads with our mobile studio through the world creating our sonorous capsules in different houses, couches, places, stages and so on… What else is happening in LA and elsewhere right now that you both have to tell the whole world about? What happens in the rest of the world nowadays we don´t know too much about, because when you live in a city like L.A. it happens the same thing like to the Angelenos, that you get to the core, and stocking up (hanging out?) with the bands around, listening to music from your friends, go to the concerts of your friends, you listen in the car to the cassettes that your friends barter with you. The music and the scene itself absorbs you and at the end you don´t know about the rest of the galaxy. It happens very often that when we hear something that a trendy magazine says is good, it is actually bullshit, so we don´t trust too much the topicality—we actually hate the current pop music. We nurture with people around us. It is a reality that we live. We have friends that are doing amazing music. Today we have received by post the last Greg Gomberg [from The Centimeters] solo record, a good friend of ours, and it sounds so cool, we love it. The local scene right now is so good. It is much more exciting than years ago when we came in 2010-12, then it was more hardcore and rocker. Lately there is more post punk, more electronics, more synths, more avant-garde, and L.A.Drones!. We feel so proud to be a part of this as an electronic duo of the city with our dronic, sonic, melodic, and at the same time, influenced by the synth of the end of the 70s and early 80s, electro, techno Detroit like Cybotron, with the concept of the motorik of the kraut rock, predominant in Neu and Can and people like Laika made sooo good in the 90, in the so-called post-rock, the whole concept, led to a contemporary music (we are a cocktail for sure, no doubt). We believe in the cocktail and we hate the cliché. The cliché is a shit bitch, total bullshit. Viva la cocktelera! People like B´52s, mixing disco music, with surf, no wave, but trying to create their own sound. We know that to do something totally new is a really difficult matter, but at least we should try. For us the worst is to do the fucking cliché and be the new Sonic Youth for example. They however were inspired by Velvet Underground, Crime, Stooges, Swell Maps, they are the shakers of many things from the no wave era, but they would not imitate Velvets, and that is the cool thing about them, cause at the end they have found their own sound. So when music is a fucking cliché it is so boring. The last years we’ve found in California many interesting projects, but in general the music world sucks. It is very sweetened and very awful, no substance at all, we don´t like it, when we listen to the latest popular songs we actually think that we have not missed anything at all. Spring/summer itinerary for L.A. Drones? Since our return from Europe in mid September we were almost eight months non-stop playing almost every weekend, some times two or three times solely in L.A. and surroundings. We can almost say that we were on tour for seven months locally here in L.A. As we will not have the vinyl until late August—which is coming out on the label This Starcraft—we want to continue working on the new songs we already have for the second LP. Surely we will continue playing some concerts during the spring/summer, but only a few until the VINYL RELEASE PARTY at the end of August in HM157—a big party, that you should not miss. The idea is to expand our repertoire of songs. Right now we have seven plus three versions, and another seven in the pipeline for our second LP. From September we would like to tour Northern California and the Bay, and maybe more, lets see what happens… L.A.Drones! album debut The Name Of This Band Is L.A.Drones! will be available May 22 via the Oakland label This Starcraft. Allow us to quickly bring you up to speed—Peter Nichols of Spooky Town Tapes made the big jump from Brattleboro, Vermont to sunny Los Angeles, California where he launched the new imprint Nicey Music with Rabbit Rabbit’s farewell album (also featured in Impose’s “Best Music of April” article) I’ll Always Remember You ft. Nichols’ girlfriend Louise Chicoine (of Banny Grove, who also has another release soon in-store from the label). Peter’s beloved solo project of love Grape Room (formed from the ashes of The Great Valley) prepares the next Nicey release with the upcoming album Heart of Gum available June 21, presenting the world premiere of the electrifying eccentric-ism enjoyed on “Yankee On The Run”. Nichols pitched us the new album as being “the most modern Grape album, almost entirely synth-based and computerized,” Peter explained, being an artist known for devising the most clever of DIY home-brewed hacks to make lo-tek/lo-fi symphonies come true in a world where Windows 95 is the most cutting edge GUI/operating system around. “Even the guitars were fed to a guitar-to-MIDI interface,” Peter elaborated, “And replaced with Japanese bells and whistles, and the drums were all notated hit by hit. At the intersection of prog musicality and Prince-obsessed pop-mania, as usual.” Imagine if Peter Nichols got the chance to re-track and remix Ariel Pink’s Mature Themes, and even then you’re not even close to encapsulating the freedom flights of delightful, freakish fancy that awaits on “Yankee On The Run”. The east coast origins of that signature Peter Nichols sound can be heard here like an earworm constructed from Lite-Brite vacuum tube takes on colonial state traditional-style hymns of the republic. The harpsichord-esque synth is put together like an 80s pop take on classic forms, where every eastern bell tone strikes a succinct chord & tone that provides further decorative detail while the audience follows a yankee doodle dandy taking flight across the song’s fleeting narrative. Read our interview with Grape Room’s own Peter Nichols featured right after the following debut of “Yankee On The Run”. We’re interested in hearing about the making of what is allegedly the most modern Grape Room album to date—Heart of Gum. How did it feel to take on a more synth-based-quasi-digital approach than you’re normally used to? Incredible. I recorded songs on a cassette 8-track every day for nine years, literally every day, that’s how we made all of the Great Valley albums. About a year ago something inspired me to try a different way. It’s been really a joy working with my computer. I’ve recorded at least 100 songs since then—these will be some of the first to see the light. In what ways did this more electronic approach impact the recordings from your ear and view? I lost my patience for anything real. Nothing on this album is mic’d, except the singing. All the drums are lifted from the drum machine Prince used on Purple Rain and Around the World in a Day—real crunchy synthesized but imitative sounds, programed hit by hit. Almost all the instruments are presets from a few different Japanese synths from the 80s. All the guitar parts swapped out by means of a MIDI pickup. I’m hooked on the idea that a synthesized sound can be more realistic than the instrument it’s imitating, like for example if I play the slap bass sound on my Casio it sounds more like a bass than if I point a mic at a bass amp—but also totally false. The move from analog to digital went with a whole question about authenticity for me. Also, feeling less need to look at the past for musical inspiration. Also, understanding music and pop songs now in a more theoretical context, needing these recordings to exist in a clean and codable form to represent like their true form. What is the story behind the free-wheeling “Yankee On The Run”? It took me five years to move to LA from the magic valley town Brattleboro, VT. This album was written right at the end of that time. There’s a line of reasoning in the northeast, probably everywhere, that’s like why would you go anywhere else? I love the sun. I found true love around that time too, and that was very freeing! What else awesome is happening at the Nicey Music offices, and how are you taking to your new LA digs? After this release we have a fast and hard 7″ from Mark Cone, the new 12-tone-Casio-playing alter-ego of the most popular man in punk, Jackie from Sediment Club and Urochromes. And then the maiden sail of Nicey’s flagship, Banny Grove, which I can’t say enough to prepare you for. We’ve been hosting Nicey Nights at LA’s 2 newest and coolest venues, The Roach Motel and Werk. I like LA. Grape Room’s upcoming album Heart of Gum will be available July 1 from Nicey Music. Providence by Boston’s Erica Sutherland leads the band Littlefoot, alongside TJ Freda (of Midriffs) & Nick Makarovskiy, and presents the video premiere for “Night of the Living Dreams” directed & edited Brandi Diaz, co-written by Sutherland. Featuring additional cinematography from Nick Valaskatgis, we follow Erica & company Caroline Conley, Tori Moline, Kristen Momoko, Ben Semeta & Peter Colpack from beach to briar where the feeling of walking around a world of lucid feels vaguely familiar and real. Diaz’s video opens a door into a dimension where things are both fanciful, frightening, fascinating, and magical all at the same time. Originally featured off the album of the same name, Littlefoot opens the gates into a dreamworld where the narrative shifts like the ever revolving gears of the sleeping of the unconsciousness. Brandi Diaz’s video begins with the emergence of our heroine from her futuristic tent pod on a seashore guarded by a trio of glamorous maidens that run off with a cryptic map that Erica discovers. The following scene finds our protagonist in fancy formal dress attire in a field where a suitor proves to be a zombie. A doorway brings Sutherland to a mystical magic show presentation, that sends the entire sequence of dreams spinning to a head where all of the motifs and plot device objects (treasure map, sunflowers, etc) are carried up an attic staircase where an upper level light can be seen emanating in an entrancing glow from an open door. Erica Sutherland took the time to chat with us in an interview featured after the following video debut for “Night of the Living Dreams”. First off, tell us about working with Brandi Diaz on bringing your title track Night of the Living Dreams to life, moving from shore, through the trees, leaves, & low lit intimate interiors. I wanted the video to feel like a series of dream sequences that flow into each another, the narrative inspired by the lyrics in the verses. The song and the narrative in the video reflect themes of loss of innocence and trust, uncertainty, not always knowing where you stand or who’s on your side, and how quickly situations and people can turn on you. Whenever I’m having a lucid dream I try to just wander around outside and see who I can meet instead of trying to make things happen, and I think the video feels like a series of lucid dreams that I might have. Making this video was a pretty wild ride—we were pretty ambitious about how much we wanted to get done; lots of scenery and costume changes. There were a lot of people involved that helped make it happen—Brandi and her friend Nick Valaskatgis filmed the video, Maureen Dane was in charge of hair and makeup, and a bunch of our friends acted in the video (Peter Colpack, Ben Semeta, Tori Moline, Kristen Momoko, and Caroline Conley). Julia Sullivan, John Sutherland, and Ben Semeta helped out with props, Kelly Eident from “I’m Your Present” made one of the costumes, and Brandi did a great job coming up with the final edit. Interested in hearing about what making the album Night of the Living Dreams was like, what sorts of dreams and inspiring nocturnes informed the album? Most of the songs on this album were inspired by some kind of loss, heartbreak or stress. Dreams have always been a good vehicle to express these kinds of thoughts in my songwriting, since dreams are usually metaphors for the things we experience in real life. What are you and your friends working on right now, and what should we be expecting next in the pipeline from Littlefoot? Currently working on writing a new album—and hopefully doing some upcoming tours this summer and fall. And more videos! I’m also working on a tour diary from my West Coast tour—photos, drawings, etc. Spring and summer fixations and focuses right now? Every Stevie Nicks album from the 80s, music biographies, ballet, Star Wars fruit snacks, tarot readings, being outside. Best of Boston right now—people, places, faces, etc? Too many good bands to name! Some of my favorites have recently relocated to LA or New York (Gracie, IAN, Guerilla Toss). I just moved to Union Square in Somerville & found a lot of great spots to eat—Brass Union, Bloc 11, El Potro. The Middle East in Cambridge is definitely one of my favorite venues. My job is actually one of my favorite places to be—I work at Gateway Arts in Brookline, an art program for adults with special needs. Catch Littlefoot on the following dates: 22 Wilmington, DE @ 1984 w/ Fiance, The Year End 23 Blacksburg, VA @ Robin Williams Center for the Arts w/ Manic Pixi 24 Nashville, TN @ Drkmttr w/ Dogtooth, Pinkwash 26 Washington, DC @ House Show w/ Free Cake for Every Creature, Foozle, Julian 27 Philadelphia, PA @ Gremlin’s Den w/ Steep Leans 28 Brooklyn, NY @ Gateway w/ Klozapin, Aloha Machine, Jouska Littlefoot’s album Night of the Living Dreams is available now via Bandcamp. Jónó Mí Ló Available now via cassette on Moon Myst from NYC artist/Afternoons Modeling operator/curator/provocateur Jónó Mí Ló—we are proud to present the latest round of new atmospheric environments, ambience, & new age energy on Lavender Plates III: Panic Attack. The first side allows you to enter the cavernous cisterns where water, steps, and the flutter of natural wild animal & mineral life resonate in call and responses that echo off the spacious curved ceilings and walls on “This is What I Wanted (For Grandpa Gene)”. These vast chambers of sustained sounds of nearly infinite wonder are complimented through the electric shrill tones of organic feedback that course through the nervous system of “I Can’t Wait to Meet Him (For Ary)”. Check out Moon Myst for further details. With roots that go back to their days in middle school, Naked Hour’s Teal Bluestone & Ethan Conroy prepare to release their debut album for Good Cheer Records titled Always On The Weekend. Completed as a trio with the addition of Jackson Walker, Teal & Ethan take a math class meeting from 2009 that bloomed into a would-be concept album turned coming of age tale that tackles the complexities of adulthood & youth by way of cathartic scuzz-pop candy. On today’s world premiere of “Crossfade”, Naked Hour bares it all out there on the table for for all to marvel and relate to according to each individual’s own experiences, understanding and intimate connection to the lyrics and catchy melodies. Teal draws from a trove of experiences surrounding former friends, lovers, and the sailing away departure like two formerly allied ships leaving one another as the moonlight casts it’s reflection on the ripples of the sea. “Crossfade” finds Ethan & Jackson providing rhythm & moods for Teal’s narratives of questionable attachments of oddball ex-significant others and their antics. Bluestone describes the baffling case of the weird one that would often come around and all the awkwardness, excuses for strange behavior, and more that arises as the instrumentation on the verse take on a storytelling style of progression mode. The “sail away in the crossfade” resolve that bursts like a supernova blast is the entire anticipated build-up that results from Teal’s story about those tedious characters that appear without invitation that make life stranger than it has to be (or should be). “Crossfade” keeps your ears glued to the skipping percussive momentum that brings you to the big break in big explosion of emotive audio dynamite that creates the feeling of freeing yourself from all undesirable and unwanted attachments. After the following debut, be sure to read our candid conversation with Teal Bluestone, Ethan Conroy, & Jackson Walker. Take us back to that fateful meeting in math class back in the days of middle school and the musical bond that would launch Naked Hour. Ethan: Freshman year of high school, Teal and I were in math and band class together. We became close friends pretty quick and started jamming together at her parent’s house a lot. I showed her a bunch of pop-punk bands I was into, and she sort of evened me out with all the cutesy indie bands she showed me, and I think that’s where our sound comes from. Teal: Gosh, either I was just plain lucky to have sat next to Ethan or, they just got a run for their money because, lets be honest I am horrible at math. So glad Ethan put up with me. I remember asking them how long they had played guitar for and they said like oh five years before I was born also do you want to listen to Bayside….and I think that’s when I really started to get back into pop punk. Jackson: I was unfortunately not lucky enough to be sharing the same school district as Teal or Ethan; same town the whole time, but we all didn’t finally meet till first year I was in college back in 2012. I’m the recent addition as of about just under a year….can’t say I remember the date exactly. I’m certain the moment in question had a mystical sort of vibe; can’t say I have any reason to be certain at all because I was not physically there. But I will think it anyway. Interested in hearing about the making of the self-titled, expanding on the minimalist nature of the debut EP Long Run recorded with bass & drums. Ethan: There are four songs on the upcoming record that are updated versions of songs that were on The Long Run EP. I remember the first day we brought Jackson in to play guitar. He just added so much dimension to the sound. Between that and me being behind the whole drum kit and not just a floor tom and a snare, I’m really stoked on the way we expanded those minimalist tracks. Teal: Yeah we recorded the new album—it’s going to be called Always on the Weekend—this winter and about half the songs were from the old album and half were new ones. Jackson wrote these sick, sick, sick guitar parts for the old songs that really brought the influences that we wanted into the forefront of the songs. Also with the new fuller sound we could just play louder, something that I desperately had a yearning for. Jackson: Before I joined Naked Hour officially, Ethan and I both had started this band with another friend called Robot Boy. Some time between these two bands coming together Teal came to me wanting to record the Long Run stuff. I’m not much of an engineer in my own right. Like, through just trial and error I had at that point figured out how recording stuff on a basic level—just enough to get some Robot Boy demos recorded. But I said yes to Teal anyway thinking it would be a fun excuse to hang out more than anything. I’d seen them perform the songs live a few times—in a few differing varieties of my friend’s basements and figured the songs had lots of potential. Looking back now—having recorded Long Run and now playing on the new record Always on the Weekend—it seems funny that my initial thought was to get that potential I heard by strategic recording; again, not too much of a producer in my own right. Now I see that when I was seeing them play I was already subconsciously thinking of it with guitar already added as if I was already in the band—I really wanted to help fill out the sound. The new record definitely reflects that. The minimal vibe on Long Run is still something we try to keep in mind with the scope of what we want this group to accomplish going forward—but after recording with Matt at Ivy League recordings it became clear that it’s still possible to continue to embody that minimal spirit while making something as a three piece and adding guitars. Also on a personal level, having tried to fake being a real engineer for Long Run, Matt’s expert hands in the project really helped us be able to just focus on the musical aspects of the project while he did all that lovely computer wizardry. Seriously can’t talk him up enough. Ethan you have talked before about the freestyle nature of the Naked Hour songwriting process, and I was interested in hearing how that method was involved with the making of this album. Ethan: Teal will usually come to Jackson and I with a song mostly written, and then we work together to complete it. She’ll often have a melody in her head and sing it for us and then ask, okay so how do I play that on bass? Teal: Most of the songs that I write I think about what message or abstract feeling I’m attempting to get out. Either its melody line first and then lyrics or reverse. I will be humming something on the way to my car and then its like, oh, looks like I’m thinking about a dumb boy again, gotta write it down. I will get a weird itchy feeling and that’s how I know I need to go to my room and just write. The best part of this whole process is I’m not very good half the time of translating the song into music from my head so often I will just freestyle shout/yell/dance/hum/ things to Ethan—drum parts, or guitar parts that I cannot figure out—and thank god Ethan and Jackson are so talented because they just right away understand, Oh, that’s just B flat, blah blah blah… Jackson: Yeah, the songwriting process is kinda all over the place. Teal does take the lion’s share of the initial work—that really is key. Ethan and I both write songs for ourselves and other projects—but the sound of Naked Hour really comes from Teal’s unique perspective. She usually comes to the table with some rough outline of something already thought out; usually about 70% of a chorus and a vague idea what she wants the chords to be in a phrasing sense. The fun, freestyle part comes in just you know—joking around. Playing that as a group over and over until you turn it into something that makes you personally excited to play it again. That tends to be the place where Ethan and myself will find opportunities to suggest fine tuning stuff—usually making a point to add some tonal and rhythmic depth to the songs while still trying not to distract from the song’s initial intent. That varies plenty, sure: sometimes Teal already has it all worked out, lyrics and chord progression and all, and then it’s hella easy. Other times we start writing a song thinking things as vague as “let’s have a song that starts out with drums,” and just play around with that until something sticks. Ultimately through Teal’s example Naked Hour has really been a band that values something that I think is integral to all music but easy to never talk about—that it’s supposed to be fun for those listening. What’s the best way to try and ensure that? Well I wouldn’t pretend to definitively know that—none of us would. But I can say without a doubt that Naked Hour is fun for me to be a part of in every respect—and I think maintaining that on a working level with those you play with is often overlooked when it comes to making your sound together, fluid, tight, all that jazz. Also want to hear how the concept album approach gave rise to a song cycle of moving experiences and more. Ethan: I can’t speak much to the lyrical content on the album but I’m sure Teal has lots to say about her experiences that influenced the songs. Teal: Basically my ex-boyfriend disappeared for eight months and nobody knew what happened to him. Part two of album: he came back and we went out for a while and eventually he became this horrible dark person that ended up making some not safe choices…Then we wrote part three. He called me some really horrible things [laughs], we almost titled the album Jewish American Princess Bitch. Priceless catch phrase. Anyways, what was so beautiful about that relationship was that it brought forth so much material and intricate story lines to draw upon. It had endless nooks and crannies to pull characters and dialogue from. Making art from real life experiences always seems to be the most significant to me. Jackson: We talk about boys a lot. Boys are often pretty dumb—certain boys have also metaphorically vomited their dumb into Teal’s life whether she’s wanted them to or not. You’d have to talk to her for a lot of the specifics because it’s really not my place to talk about- but these songs are inalienably linked to those experiences: how she has processed and learned from them, and to a lesser extent how Ethan and myself have gone through the same process just being in the vicinity of it. In a lot of ways I think while we started with a concept record in mind—it became harder to call it that the more we realized that it was about Teal, not a representation of a person but the real friend in our actual lives. People can call it a concept record if they want because I mean—they’re not wrong. There is a subtle sort of narrative that moves along the new record maintained from the beginning of the process. But as we’ve played shows we’ve come to see just how many people resonate with the kinds of situations, and subjects, and feelings we mention throughout the record: relationships, distance within them, how they come and go, why that matters, and questioning why it is that boys can get away with so much more terrible things in the process—often without apology. We saw that they weren’t just resonating with the songs on a symbolic level; they were relating to the literal, actual experiences Teal had been through and making a point to tell Teal how much that meant to them—how much it was a nice change of perspective in an art form often dominated by white cisgendered males—myself included. That’s what changes my perspective from thinking of the record less as a concept piece and more as our way to say, hey, we know that there are people out there that are shitty to those they’re supposed to love. And we know that often times the people who receive said shit have no reason to deserve it. And we know there is no one way to help everyone uniformly in dealing with that realization. But we hope these songs will remind you that you aren’t the only one trying- and that there are people all around willing to talk and fumble out our feelings together…hopefully with a party…and guitars. What are you all listening to, watching, & reading right now? Ethan: Currently listening to: PWR BTTM, Little Star, St. Vincent, Beyonce’s Lemonade… Teal: Current Bands: Julie Doiron, Adult Mom, Basement, Teen Suicide Mosaic, Pity Sex, Broadcast, Mirah, Regina Specktor, Pedro the Lion, French pop music from the 60s, Little Star, Blowout… Jackson: I’ve been loving Frankie Cosmos’ new record. Also our friends Sioux Falls are doing really cool stuff- should be finishing their most recent tour just about the time this comes out. Other local shout outs: Blowout, Little Star, Lubec, Dowager, Cool American, Two Moons. It’s been great to recently be in a place where I forget to listen to a lot of new nationally released stuff because local music in Portland and northwest bands in general are doing such cool stuff that I genuinely want to hear. Blake Hickman just showed us this chill band Churn from Washington that’s pretty killer. Wishing every day that Pedro the Lion would come to a show here that doesn’t sell out before I can afford it. Also that Glocca Morra never broke up. Summer game plan? Ethan: Summer plans include releasing the album, writing more songs, and going on a west coast tour! Teal: Plans: Tourtourtourtour… Jackson: Looks like this summer we have our record officially coming out with with some bigger shows down here in Portland- following that we have the beginnings of a tour—possibly August? Still working out the kinks—in the works as well as a director already picked out for a video we’ll likely be filming in June. Very up in the air currently but the energy and potential is palpable. Probably soon after all that is done we’ll be getting serious about recording again and, if all goes well, kinda repeating the process. Naked Hour’s Always On the Weekend album will be available soon from Good Cheer Records. Despite the upheavals of tech squares and bubble investing venture capitalists invading practically any remotely interesting city in the greater 50 states of North America—bands like Portland’s Fog Father further help keep the misty dream and creative spirit alive. Proving that IFC’s ordained ministers of PDX snark Fred Armisen & Carrie Brownstein have not turned the entire city into a parody of it’s former (weirder) self; Fog Father’s Thomas Burke, Marty Walsh, David Rosman & Bryson Hansen tap into the sound that emulates the feel of the fog arriving on the northern shores from the extensive bodies of western waters. With news of their upcoming album The Plauge of Fantasies available soon, we are honored to present your ears with the following treat to the world premiere of Fog Father’s “Trapped in a Web” that ensnares the listener in an elaborate dreamcatcher like a fly caught in a spider’s cross-cut lattice spindles. With the school seasons letting out for the summer duration, “Trapped in a Web” rises above the midterms, finals, student loans, debts, creditors, & deferments with ephemeral overtones that tower like gaseous convection cycles observed through a view canopied by Douglas Firs. Rhythms roll out the individual elements of audio that move like electric creatures from the great ocean deep surfacing to witness the world above. The studious trappings are alluded by the band in the song’s title and chorus while waterside daydreams and fantasies occur like extracurricular urges and instincts that are naturally felt in the daily life of a student. “Trapped in a Web” feels like the holiday that happens on the stage in the mind’s theater after falling fast asleep while enduring the pedantic penchant for didactic that lessons & lectures often bring. Read our interview with the band, featured after the following debut. How did you arrive upon the name Fog Father? Fog Father is a made up wizard-like gatekeeper that allows sound to pass through cross-dimensional spaces. The name its self evolved out of a series of sound collage pieces Bryson was making for his MFA. The series was called Phantom Noise and in its final iteration the Fog Father character performed live to reel to reel mixtapes and loops. Describe your own approach to make some such spacey, dreamy styles of synth kissed psych pop? Many of the songs are the result of late night tinkering on pianos and tape machines, mixing up trippy pop hooks and jazz chords into swirly ballads. A lot of our material has started out that way and then the band does a ton of rewriting and rearranging together to see where the songs will go. Our guitar player, Dave, is a really creative producer and helps weave together the vocal and tape effects stuff Bryson makes, along with full band overdubs and arrangements, in addition to his own background in electronic music. Tell us about the trappings, webs, and events that inspired “Trapped in a Web”. “Trapped in a Web” is about addiction and isolation. It has a darkness to it, even though its kind of a dance song. Simultaneously, it’s about feeling cornered and going into tons of debt for student loans. Sallie Mae is like a spider sucking blood out of my wallet. What’s rad in Portland right now? Portland’s music scene is getting bigger and crazier every day. There’s some really cool electronic and hip-hop coming into the city. The Last Artful, Dodgr is a favorite. Give us the grand Fog Father spring summer preview: Fog Father is hitting the studio really hard right now, putting final touches on a album that has been developing for over two years. There’s been a ton of material and experimentation with homemade loops and tape effects, in addition to mixing live and electronic drums and sounds. We’ll have another single coming out very soon! We’re also hoping to get the album out and do another tour in the next few months. Hang on to yer butts! Check out Fog Father’s site for further details. Formerly of Huntington, NY’s legendary The Diggs (circa 2004-2009); we give you the new release from the group’s former leader Tim Lannen with Heaven O’Clock, Part 1. Produced by Beat Radio’s Brian Sendrowitz, he brings out the inner spark from Lannen in self-affirming anthems like “I’m a Solution”, reaching for beams of new brilliances on “Same Light”, the unsettled settlements of “A Calm I Don’t Like”, that coast into sentimental rekindling reels of “Feel Song”, where those feelings are rolled up into the bonfire of the DIY vanities. Sendrowitz introduces their collaborative work with the following preface: Tim Lannen fronted a band called The Diggs from 2004 to 2009. Although they were ultimately under-appreciated they were a seminal NYC band of an era where the music industry was collapsing, mp3 blogs reigned supreme, and nobody knew what the fuck they were doing. The prevailing wisdom was to keep pushing forward, keep making content, with the hope that it would somehow turn into a way to build a career. The Diggs were my favorite band, and they were my friends. They were a constant source of inspiration. By 2010 we all woke up from the dream, bands parted ways, and it was clear that the content race was a race that nobody would win. There was no quitting your day job, no more major label debut. For the next few years Tim lived a quiet life in his apartment in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. He kept busy running a coffee shop in Tribeca, making music casually with friends, starting and abandoning different projects. He didn’t stop making music but his creative output was less song-oriented and more experimental in nature. Tim shared songs with me from time to time—long drone-y synthed-out instrumentals, remixes of tracks by Phoenix and Arthur Russell, noisy electronic experiments. It was never not fascinating, but with a few exceptions, it also seemed like he was holding back, protecting himself, and masking the vulnerability that had made the songs he had written with his old band so riveting. Then last August Tim sent me an iPhone demo for a new song via email with the message “I think I want to be in a band again.” It was clear that some sort of awakening was taking place. The next day another song followed, and the day after that. Within a few weeks, he had written an album’s worth of material, in what seemed like a fever dream. Tim’s Heaven O’Clock EP is a return to a sort of focused, direct, guitar based songcraft, but it also expands on the palette of his previous work with a more sonically adventurous spirit. There’s a sense of ease and confidence to these songs that’s undeniable. It’s as if all the experimentation of the last five years was building up to this moment. I remember once talking with Tim about a song I was working on, and expressing frustration over how long it was taking to get the lyrics right. “I know man,” Tim said. “Me too, and then all the sudden shit writes itself.” That’s how Tim songs feel to me. He makes it sound effortless, and revelatory. The songs feel like they’ve always existed, waiting for us to find them, so we can get lost in them, and maybe even be healed by them. I don’t know if music comes from divine inspiration or not. I don’t care either way. I just know that listening to songs like these makes me feel a little more alive, and connected to the world around me. Shad Shadows cast silhouettes and synth noir lurid pop with their self-made b/w video for the title track found off their debut album Minor Blues available from Disko Obscura. Springing from the dark mascara tinted vibes arrives a menace of might and passion depicted in the collages of obscure art and vintage blue film montages that provide further layers of jagged edges to the Shad Shadows presence. Presenting the Ross Harris video for the Dungeon Sessions video for “God” off the Stones Throw release Kindness for Weakness; Homeboy Sandman sets us up with a lesson about his relationship with the subject of deity and metaphysical entities. This is a little rhyme to share with the folks the next time you are forced to attend church. Austin, TX garage-blasters Basketball Shorts prepare to play full court on their forthcoming debut full-length album Hot and Ready available July 8 from Fleeting Youth Records and Austin Town Hall Records. With their single “Looking”, the classic Jay Reatard canon is paid tribute in delivery where the homage creates a rippling cause and effect that points to the continuing narrative in the ever unfolding stories of southern DIY legacies. Featured off of LA trio Susan’s debut full-length album Never Enough for Volar Records; the band released the Abby Banks directed video for the anthem of identity assertion & ultimate autonomy, “I’ve Been Known”. In true-Susan fashion, the three harmonize testaments of experience and vindication while the video showcases Susan in a most glamorous and jubilant fashion. Philadelphia’s Chynna Rogers, known by the primary, sans surname, sharing her new track “The Conversation” that encourages generative dialogues while sporting TĀLĀ production. Hear Paul Gilmore’s remix of Leena Ojala’s “Poison Words” that casts away negative words like a shield from epithets hurled like poisoned tipped darts. The remix slows the cut out and smooths it out so that Ojala’s voice is placed on a pedestal like an oasis of kindness discovered in an unforgiving desert. From Grand Rapids, MI; meet the psych rocking three-pack Heaters that ride the big ripping waves of distortion and other delights with “Centennial” from their upcoming Baptistina album available August 5 from Beyond Beyond is Beyond. “Centennial” shreds in ways like those vintage surf secret songs withheld on clandestine 45s and then later discovered in the current common era. Comprised of members from Hoop Dreams and the legendary White Laces by way of Brooklyn; check out their group Teen Body who dropped the recollection rocking horse sways on “Can’t Remember”. With their supergroup collaborative album debut Get Home Safe available June 17; the group champions the Polaroid memory pictures that fall in the crevices of the void, awaiting new recollections. Paideia’s self-titled EP will be available later this June, and you are invited to step into the slick electric world of legend, lore, & “Myth”. From here all the really big entrancing electronic pop tropes spring to full maximalist effect in manners that sound unstoppable and off the charts. We bring you The Blank Tapes’ new video from Cameron Holland, Matt Adams, Kehana Krumme, co-directed by Megan Kelly, & styled by Pearl Charles for “LA Baby” off the new album Ojos Rojos. Matt & the gang keep those sun-kissed California gold gems shining bright as we witness Adams & the Tapes strutting it up around the great Los Angeles era. This is where all the glorious & glamorous facets of southern California lore & love come to thrive for life. Russian dream weavers Sounds of Sputnik release their album debut New Born May 16 via Moon Sounds Records and we give you the following listen. Featuring a series of collaborations throughout the record, the Ummagma synergistic connections strike the senses like your favorite lost resurrected narratives from mid 90s dream pop, revising your nostalgic notions on the brilliant duet of shared illumination on “Light Scheme”, harnessing the sciences of space & more on the interstellar “Overdrive” that also features generous contributions from Ummagma. Remixes abound from Malcolm Holmes of OMD re-tricking the echo spaces and places of “New Born”, new techno terrain uncovered on Oleg Mezherovsky’s remix, to the nu-house re-dressing heard on Morozov’s re-rendering. “Light Scheme” is brought to new bright beams of being on the Fran Ashcroft remix, stretched across new synth & rhythm terrains on Sputnik’s own remix, right before you are left with the cinema for the ear version made exclusively by the meticulous pop minds of Mind Movies. This is an auditory event for the senses not to be missed. Czech dream-wavers Manon Meurt just released the self-titled EP via Toronto imprint Label Obscura and we deliver you the following listen of modern day lullabies for the heart & soul. Vague recollections lost are lamented on “To Forget”, delivering the illuminating ever-glow heard on “Glowing Cityscape”, to the pensive places of solace on “’94”, tales of pride and potential on “Until You Can”, jettisoning forward on the blazing blizzard of “In These Eyes”, leaving you with the might mountain majesty of “Blue Bird”. Manon Meurt is a musical treat you have waited nearly all your life for; a band that empathizes all the feels imaginable in a universally attractive sound. Lille, France’s Helix Pulsar recently released Beyond The Wall that punches holes in Roger Waters’ Floydian conceptual work with electronic synth pop mechanisms. “Rapture” brings about an industrious mode of operations where the event of the tribulation is depicted like anachronistic Soviet-era pop made in clandestine corners beyond & behind the barricades and blockades or iron, brick & mortar. Alan Abrahams, aka Portable has just signed to !K7 and released the track of ennui, entropy and empathy with “As For Me” ft. Kinoo & Alexey Kochetkov. In a mix of electronic rhythms & strings; questions of desire and directions mull about in an express symphony of deep felt sentiments. Edinburgh, Scotland’s Spook School return on the forthcoming Continental Drift comp available August 26 from Slumberland Records / Fortuna POP, presenting the video for “Gone Home” that highlights the prominent presence and prowess of frontwoman Anna Cory. Hotel for Strangers’ self-titled EP will be available July 1 and we have the single “Work” that delivers a cluster of synth-arrangements that illustrate an electrically enhanced pop discipline. Porches’ Aaron Maine traveled from New York to Philadelphia to provide some intimate sessions, where Out Of Town Films provides a view and listen to Maine performing “Mood” captured by Colin Kerrigan, Michael James Murray & Rocco Avallone & shot at Berks Warehouse. The stripped down quality of Aaron’s voice and the resonating golden glow from his understated guitar chords provide the perfect accompaniment for those particularly pensive afternoons that you would rather enjoy all by your lonesome. Touring May 18 through July 27, Little Wings dropped the down on the farm video for “Where” from Eryka Del Mundo & Marton Meszaros off the Woodsist album EXPLAINS. “Where” is a song that inspires a kind of return to nature impulse, here complete with a video that further entertains these holistic characteristics of Kyle Field’s own created aesthetic. Swedish pop star & producer Merely brings the pain that hurts so good with the flare-up fire-fall of “Backdraft”, found off her Sincerely Yours album Silent Pain. Merely revels in the ultra-Scandi-sophisti-pop that has evolved from Balearic obsessions to maximalist components that are rapidly influencing tomorrow’s radio hits (while taking a lot of bold cues from modern day FM radio tropes & more). Amy Klein of Titus Andronicus dropped the red, white, and blue of “American City” from her forthcoming album Fire available June 10 from Don Giovanni Records. The sound of a life spent on the road, seeing the sites, experiences, and sounds of towns strewn from sea to shining sea heralded by power chord chops. Catch Amy’s release show June 23 at Silent Barn. In case you haven’t yet, bathe in the pretty electro-pop made by NYC duo Paperwhite with their new Escape EP. From “Get Away” to “Storm” the duo bring the big diamond synth sparkles that shine like the floodlight glow that illuminates abandoned warehouse happenings, and subterranean soirees. From Yeesh’s forthcoming Confirmation Bias album available July 22 via Tiny Engines, lending us a listen to the anthem-amped shred & shout single, “End Results”. Alex Doyle discards the conceits for greater metaphysical constraints and concerns that are reiterated in riffs and progressions that push power chords beyond the preconceived notions and previously established biases. John Carpenter’s upcoming Redux 12″s are said to include Halloween b/w Escape From New York, Assault on Precinct 13 b/w The Fog Out; available June 17 from Sacred Bones Records. Now the great auteur and synth-soundtrack maestro presents a listen and view of live studio performance for the iconic theme from Escape From New York. Oslo House delivered the b-side to their new 7″ Plateau available today from Trendy Feelings with the mystic rolling tributaries “Kamo River”. Let the chords let you roll down the streams like a canoe or barrel riding floating into the channels of pure blissful tranquility. Catching up with the good folks at Toronto’s Buzz Records, we bring you Twist that puts a new spin on your favorite power ballad classics with the saturated pop sentiment of “Soaked”. This is the song that you always wanted to soundtrack your favorite moments where you felt consumed by heart felt passions that you could barely describe. Get “Lifted” with the following listen to the single of the same name off the upcoming album PAGAN—the upcoming debut album from Palmistry available June 17 from Mixpak. Vocal and synth edits and chops dot the surface of the sequencing for a punchy effect. Portland sextet Reptaliens are comprised of Ian Anderson, Bambi Browning, Cole Browning, Lex Browning, Bryson Hanson, & Cat Hoch are prepping the release of their debut Recordings EP available from the band in July, as they treat us to the treasures of “Nunya”. The result is a restrained love note ballad inflected with twinkling synths that shine like wayward, smiling stars that sit studded while emanating perpetual beams of reflected light. From inc. no world’s vocalist/guitarist Andrew Aged & Daniel Aged busting out the B3 organ & rhythms on “The Wheel” from No World Recordings. The result is a turning tale of putting yourself out there on the platter or rotating pedestal where the feel of carousel-style induced euphoria is turned like a psychedelic lazy-susan whirl-o-sound. And in case you haven’t gotten all wavy with this one yet; here is cln’s “Owls” that not only flies/floats but zaps like microwave rays to a frozen specialty pizza wrap. Al Scorch’s Bloodshot Records album debut Circle Round the Signs is available today and we give you a listen to the schmaltz and nu-vaudeville antics with a listen to “Everybody Out” & “Lost At Sea”. The jange-town jamboree kicks off with the jubilation of “Everybody”, right before busting out all the accordion and banjo blaring energy that mixes 1916 American trad styles for 2016. From rising pop star Jazz Morley featuring Draper production; we deliver her new big single “Bad Love” where the onset of new bonds & attached are matched against the feelings of distrust and unease at the prospective potential for even newer heartbreaks to follow. Magic Potion’s anticipated debut album Pink Gum will be available May 27 from PNKSLM Recordings (vinyl) & Beech Coma (cassette), and we have your listen to the single “Jelly”. The lo-fi hums & strums provide a lackadaisical style that feels like the slow, sure & steady beginning of a brand new day that has a homemade warm glow. REVILO dropped electronic emotive allure of “Lure”, where attractions and feelings stir together in a mix of metric rhythms wrapped in satin silk synths. Witness the Olaf Stuut remix of Esh’s “Trigger” that moves like urgent 8-bit side-scrolling adventures met with contemporary cavern pop ambience. From the May 27 slated Saddle Creek album Masterpiece from Big Thief; get caught up in the nostalgia storm that opens the floodgates of memories with feeling on “Paul”. With their new album Down in Heaven out now, & doing a Reddit AMA via the /r/music subreddit at 6PM EST/5PM CST today; hang around the ancient crypts of a Chicago cemetery featured near a convenience train stop in the Ezra Ewen video for Twin Peak’s “Butterfly”. Matters of life, death, and notions of ceremonial goodbyes are presented as visuals to accompany one of the most upbeat sounding songs around. Watch their “Butterfly” video here. Touring now through July 3 with Wild Belle, take a look at the NSFW video for James Supercave’s Alexandre Souêtre video for “Burn // No Pressure” off the album Better Strange. Observe the artistic body moves from nude models with prismatic masks that make for mystical creatures that exist within the Supercave universe. Atoms and Void shared the heart-string pulling song & video “For Sharon, With Love” from Melissa Henderson found off the debut album and Nothing Else available May 20 from Arctic Rodeo Recordings. The sparse and minimalist naked piano note tones make for an emotional plea & prayer for love & kindness that strikes the most sensitive & guarded sections of our core. Catch the following chic Rexy cover of “Don’t Turn Me Away” from Nite Jewel, Zoe Kravitz & Samantha Urbani, originally found off the 1981 album Running Out Of Time recently re-pressed by URU/Lucky Number. Off their upcoming anticipated album Yoncalla available May 27 from Cascine / Arch Hill in Australia / Rallye in Japan / Double Deer in Indonesia—Yumi Zouma brings their own glittering brand of super-sophisti-pop with “Short Truth” that resounds like some of the most glamorous synth pop ever made. More from the Cascine camp, hear Maria Usbeck’s beautiful “Jungla Inquieta” that provides some ethereal environments for dwelling, found off her debut solo album Amparo available May 27. In case you missed it, feast your eyes, ears, & the entirety of your senses with the beautiful Sean Miller video for Ethereal and the Queer Show’s (aka EATQS) “Symmetry” off their Noumenal Loom album Fairy Super Crystal Blue. Read our recent headline feature with the duo here. Eagulls’ Week in Pop Eagulls, photographed by Leslie Kalohi at Fox Theater, Pomona. Leeds’ Eagulls recently released their new album Ullages for Partisan Records, and to help celebrate this momentous occasion proper, they present their following Week in Pop guest selections: Jane Arden, “Sleepwalking” Eagulls performing at Fox Theater, Pomona, photographed by Leslie Kalohi. Mad Season, Live at The Moore, Seattle 1991 Eagulls at Fox Theater, Pomona, photographed by Leslie Kalohi. Underworld, “I Exhale” Parquet Courts, “Human Performance” Eagulls playing Fox Theater, Pomona, photographed by Leslie Kalohi. CC Dust, “Never Gonna Die” Eagulls playing the Fox Theater, Pomona, photographed by Leslie Kalohi. Pale Saints, “Henry” Massive Attack & Young Fathers, “Voodoo in My Blood” Eagulls taking on the Fox Theater, Pomona, photographed by Leslie Kalohi. Suede, Live a Glastonbury 2015 Iggy Pop, “Gardenia” Eagulls playing Fox Theater, Pomona, photographed by Leslie Kalohi. Suede, Live a Glastonbury 2015 Prince, “The Cross” (Live) Follow Eagulls via Twitter.

Looking to the future of film, the 25th edition of Sheffield Doc/Fest celebrates emerging trends and new cinematic approaches, offering a diverse programme of documentary and non-fiction works. This selection engages with timely ideas about technology, identity and contemporary conflict. Live Cinema Summit, 8-9 June This two-day event investigates the growing trajectory of live cinema. Panel sessions, workshops and talks uncover the impact of film screenings accompanied by performances and immersive elements, investigating how site-specific locations, technological intervention and digital participation can enhance the viewing experience. Black Mother, dir. Khalik Allah, with World Premiere score from GAIKA, 10 June Created by the American photographer, this film brings together voices from Allah’s mother’s home country of Jamaica. Drawing a striking portrait of the region through a series of conversations with residents, Black Mother weaves together sound and visuals to evoke the region’s shores and streets. A live score provided by GAIKA offers an immersive arena for cultural reflection. Alternate Realities: The World Unknown To You, 7-12 June As part of the festival’s Alternate Realities programme, which combines talks, presentations and interactive experiences to explore what is offered by new media, this strand transports attendees to new worlds. Computer generated works and robotics come together to offer viewers the opportunity to explore previously uncharted territories – whether natural or interior. The Drift (2017), dir. Maeve Brennan, 12 June Brennan’s film is interested in notions of transformation, exploring how a landscape defined by conflict can rebuild. The Drift is set in Lebanon, and tracks the story of three main characters who each connect to notions of reconstruction: a gatekeeper of an ancient Roman temple, a young mechanic from Britel and an archaeological conservator from the American University of Beirut. The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018), dir. Mark Cousins, 9-10 June Delving into the private world of the legendary actor and director, Cousins’ documentary draws an intimate portrait of the artist through drawings and paintings. The timely piece, which combines Welles’ personal history with contemporary themes, reveals the filmmaker’s inspirations, politics and undeniable impact on film. Sheffield Doc/Fest runs from 7-12 June. Find out more here. 1. Still from Into the Okavango.

The Overview Effect, an experience that can shake human intellect to its core, is the prism through which the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (October 31st until November 10th 2019) views the 14 films of the International Competition. Once a misunderstood decade, the 80s come back at Thessaloniki from October 31st to November 10th 2019. The 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival asked the Greek director and musician The Boy (Alexandros Voulgaris) to dive into the 80s and pick ten films full of horror, tenderness, humor and music. We are happy to inform you that the 60th anniversary Thessaloniki International Film Festival presents a big exhibition dedicated to the artistic work of Greek director Nikos Koundouros. The opening will take place during the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (October 31st until November 10th 2019) in a space specifically modified for the exhibition in the Pier A of the Port of Thessaloniki. The anniversary 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival invites audience and filmmakers to the large celebration of global independent cinema, showcasing the best films from all over the world, important guests and tributes, cinematic surprises, as well as a series of parallel events. Film submissions are now open. Are there children’s films in Southeast Europe? How many films from the region are shown in cinemas? Why so few directors from Southeast Europe shoot films for children? A large study by Thessaloniki Film Festival, called “Films for Kids in Southeast Europe: The State of Play” attempts to answer the aforementioned and other questions.

GemellArte, Art Joins The City Only one day left to the awaited first edition of GemellArte, an international festival sponsored by Wallector, dedicated to the celebration of the existing twinnings among Italian and foreign cities through parallel exhibitions and events. This year, the event will take place from 17 to 19 May 2019 in the city of Terni, ready to host free events to pay homage to the twinning with the French city of Saint Ouen. Since 1962, the purpose of the initiative has been to add value to the twinning between the two cities by sharing each one’s cultural heritage and emerging talents with the other. In a historical period when the relations among human beings seem more and more difficult, GemellArte aims at establishing a connection that could trespass on any type of frontier by means of the artistic language and foster the sharing and knowledge of all artistic and cultural traditions. The pulsating heart of the entire project is in two artist residences: one at the seats of the Caos-Centro art opificio Siri in Terni, another at the Galerie Mariton in Saint Ouen. After a call with the talents from the respective territories in the categories of painting, sculpture, photography, street art, video, installation, and performance, the selected artists for this year are Andrea Abbatangelo and Camille Beauplan. For a few months, the two artists have been working on their artworks in situ, interacting with the territory and its inhabitants, so that the created art pieces will stay in the city that welcomed the artists even after the end of the event. “Art has always joined and allowed us to look beyond. Culture has this great gift. Dusting off the activity of the twinning with some art is an opportunity for both art and the city”: with these words Chiara Ronchini, founder of the gallery Crac in Terni and curator of the selection of the Italian candidate, enthusiastically speaks of this stimulating project. Yet, GemellArte, in spite of its name, will not be only about art. In the two cities, many will be the events dedicated to a large public: director’s films, menus, tastings, furniture and fabric expositions, labs for children, and much more. The special guest will be Ascanio Celestini, who chose this event to present his last book Barzellette, with stories about France and Italy, in collaboration with the literary critic Filippo La Porta. For the night owls among the public, the stage of Terni will host the afro-folk-blues mix of the French duo Baton Bleu. Such an interesting initiative only lasts one weekend? Wrong: in the following days, the event continues with many other projects, like the exposition dedicated to French cinema, in collaboration with the Institut Français and the French Embassy in Italy. Wallector wishes good luck to this initiative and a great success to its first edition, with the hope that it will engage in the next years many other European countries.

Today's Best Tech Deals Picked by Macworld's Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect's Editors Because Apple develops software specifically for its hardware, it’s in a great position to create integrated products. So it’s not surprising that the company’s latest iMac G5s are an ambitious attempt to create an all-in-one personal computer that’s also a home entertainment center. The result is one part success (the personal computer part) and one part questionable implementation (the home entertainment part). When it comes to this iMac generation’s notable features, one included item—the small white infrared remote control—represents the key to an exciting new function. It’s meant to be used with Front Row, Apple’s new software for transforming the iMac from a device you control from a few inches away into one that you command from ten feet away, likely while reclining on a sofa or chair. This six-button remote attaches to the iMac’s right side via a small magnet embedded into the iMac’s case. (Accordingly, Apple warns against brushing magnetic media, such as an iPod, against the magnet.) When you press the remote’s menu button, your Mac interface fades into the background and is replaced by a large, simple interface (reminiscent of the iPod or a TiVo digital video recorder) that you navigate via the remote’s directional buttons. Although the remote is tiny—about the width of an iPod shuffle—it felt quite comfortable in my hand. But getting used to the different button layout, which is similar to that of the iPod shuffle, took this iPod user some time. It was easy to read the Front Row menus, even from a chair that was several feet away. Mac users have been able to add a small remote control (such as Keyspan’s $50 Express Remote) to their Macs for some time. The catch was that there wasn’t a good remote-driven user interface that let you easily access your media without having to using a keyboard or mouse when an interface roadblock presented itself. Unfortunately, no other company managed to come up with such a program, but at last Apple has come to the rescue. That’s why Front Row is such a welcome addition to the Mac. Front Row is not without its flaws. It’s a first attempt, and one with numerous omissions and quirks that Apple will need to address. For example, although Front Row’s Music menu gives you the iPod-style option to shuffle songs—namely, those in your entire iTunes library—there’s no way to shuffle them by artist or album. (Which makes me wonder: Why would Apple replicate the iPod interface without including some of that device’s most useful settings?) Similarly, the Photos menu is at once exhilarating and infuriating. Finally, you can sit on your couch and browse through your iPhoto library, including slide shows. But Front Row maddeningly honors only certain slide-show settings: when I used Front Row to display a slide show, it would play the music I had assigned within iPhoto but wouldn’t honor my Ken Burns Effect, picture effect, slide show length, or transition settings. The Movies menu presented other frustrations. I and other Macworld editors repeatedly had trouble with the Movie Trailers service, which sporadically couldn’t connect to Apple’s movie trailers server. When we did connect, several times we found that Front Row wasn’t buffering enough video before playing, causing starts and stops (as well as the display of unfriendly “can’t connect to server” errors on screen) that made some trailers unwatchable. Front Row lets you play not only movies and TV shows you download via iTunes, but also just about any other video that QuickTime can play and ones you’ve stored in your Movies folder. (If you organize your movies in subfolders within the Movies folder, they’ll even show up as submenus in Front Row.) As you select a movie file, a small preview (complete with a snazzy reflected-glass effect) plays in a box to the right of the menu. However, playing back videos wasn’t as pleasant an experience as organizing them: holding down the remote’s forward button scanned forward through videos fairly slowly, making it unbearable to fast-forward deep into a lengthy video clip. To make matters worse, none of the video I viewed in Front Row could be bookmarked—when I returned to a downloaded Desperate Housewives episode that I’d left half-viewed, Front Row plopped me down at the beginning of the episode. I also noticed that several times after fast-forwarding, audio and video were out of sync. If you’re used to the video tricks you’ll find on a TiVo or similar digital video recorder, you won’t be satisfied with Front Row. The good news is, because Front Row is just software, it’s upgradeable. And Apple told me that it will indeed release updates to Front Row, just as it does with other Apple programs. So although this first version of Front Row has plenty of rough edges, I’m hoping that Apple will be able to smooth many of them out in the next few months via software updates. In a move that has implications both frivolous and practical, Apple has embedded an video camera in the white plastic bezel of the new iMac. The camera’s lens is located dead center and just above the LCD screen. To the left of the lens is a tiny hole that contains the iMac’s built-in microphone; behind the plastic and to the right of the lens is a green light that turns on whenever the camera is active. (Unlike the stand-alone iSight, you can’t adjust the position of the lens or close the camera’s lens manually. Apple says that the camera is hard-wired to the green light, so it’s impossible for the camera to capture images when the light isn’t on. However, despite Apple’s reassurance, some people might not feel secure having a camera lens on them at all times.) A camera as part of an iMac is like a camera as part of a cell phone. Like most phone cameras, the iSight isn’t going to compete with a regular digital camera—its 640-by-480-pixel resolution is the equivalent of three-tenths of a megapixel. But what it lacks in resolution, it makes up for in sheer fun. Apple’s included Photo Booth software probably won’t win any awards for innovation, but it’s the perfect companion to the iSight, letting you (or your kids, for example) snap silly pictures and e-mail them to friends, or quickly take pictures to use as iChat or OS X user icons. More practically, the embedded iSight in the iMac means that more users are likely to take advantage of iChat AV’s built-in video-conferencing features. Users who might have been reluctant to part with $149 for Apple’s iSight camera just to experiment with video chats will now be able to see their friends and relatives at no extra cost. It’s a great idea, one that I hope spreads to more Mac models in the future. Of course, behind all the flashy new home entertainment and video-chat features is also a new Mac. For the most part, it looks like its predecessor. This iMac is slightly slimmer, with a curve behind the display, and it’s also a few pounds lighter. The ports on the back have been rearranged, too; they’re now horizontal rather than vertical, and the power button has been relocated to the left side of the rear face. There are many changes inside the case; in fact, this is an almost entirely reengineered iMac. The iMac’s video card is now connected via the new, speedy PCI Express bus, although the new ATI Radeon X600 Pro is largely the same as the prior, AGP-based Radeon 9600. The iMac’s RAM is also now of the faster DDR2 variety. Do-it-yourself upgraders and Mac technicians will find that, in stark contrast to the previous iMac G5 generation, this generation’s innards are not easily accessible. The only easily upgradeable element is the RAM. In addition to the iMac’s stock 512MB of RAM, there’s a single slot for 533MHz DDR2 memory located behind a door on the underside of the display. That slot can accept 512MB, 1GB, or 2GB RAM modules, giving the iMac a new maximum RAM of 2.5GB. The 17-inch iMac , which previously was available in both 1.8GHz and 2GHz editions, is now only available in a single, 1.9GHz configuration. The good news is that the iMac’s 1.9GHz processor, aided by the upgrades to the rest of the computer’s subsystems, is just as fast as the old 2GHz model (see the benchmark table). The 20-inch model’s processor speed has been bumped up from 2GHz to 2.1GHz, with a corresponding performance boost—it’s now the fastest iMac ever, in terms of both processor clock speed and sheer performance. In addition to the stock Apple Pro Keyboard included with most recent desktop Macs, the new iMac models come with Apple’s new two-button Mighty Mouse ( ), which was previously available only as a $49 add-on. Unfortunately, one hardware limitation of previous iMacs remains: the iMac can drive only its own display and mirror only the contents of that display to another display ( firmware hacks notwithstanding ), and it can do this only via a VGA connection. The lack of support for extending a Mac desktop to a second display (as well as support for digital displays via the DVI connection standard) means that Mac users who prefer to work with multiple monitors will need to look to another model. iMac G5s (iSight) Tested |Speedmark 4||Adobe Photoshop CS2||Cinema 4D XL 9.1||Compressor 2.0||iMovie HD||iTunes 6.0.1||Unreal Tournament 2004| |OVERALL SCORE||SUITE||RENDER||MPEG2 ENCODE||RENDER||MP3 ENCODE||FRAME RATE| |17-inch iMac G5/1.9GHz (iSight)||178||1:23||2:53||12:49||0:32||1:42||35.4| |20-inch iMac G5/2.1GHz (iSight)||190||1:15||2:36||11:41||0:31||1:25||40.7| |20-inch iMac G5/2GHz||178||1:24||2:44||12:50||0:33||1:39||32.2| Best results in red. Reference system in italics . Macworld’s buying advice The new iMac G5s, like their predecessors, are excellent computers for home and business use alike. Unless you simply must have multiple displays, multiple processors, gigantic amounts of internal storage, or add-on cards, these iMacs are plenty capable. And the built-in iSight camera will open up possibilities of Internet-based video-conferencing to tons of users who wouldn’t have given it a chance otherwise. When most people talk about this iMac generation, they’ll talk about the infrared remote control and the Front Row software that it controls. As excited as I am that Apple has designed a remote-driven media interface for the Mac, Front Row still has quite a few kinks that the company must work out. In the meantime, early users of Front Row are bound to be as frustrated by the program’s limitations as they are excited by its potential. [ Jason Snell is Macworld ’s editorial director. ]

James and John are the cheeky rogues of the disciples, brash and outspoken they don’t always say the most loving and inclusive things but their proximity to Jesus means they get a front row seat to almost everything in his 3 years of ministry. The games are therefore tying into the big and bold and yet also trying to highlight servant-hood over greatness. Supper time balance– This is a silly servant theme game where you give each child a tray and get them to walk across the room balancing the things you put on it. Start with simple things but add more and more paper plates, plastic cups, and random pieces of cutlery. When they drop something they are excluded. This game can be done in teams or individually. Tall towers and small pieces – This game is about getting the highest tower built. Give each child/team a set time to use whatever you have available. Either in advance, or as an unpleasant twist at the end, measure each tower and divide the number by the number of pieces used. The winner is the one with the highest resulting number. Link into individual serving pieces are sometimes more important than the resulting structure. Big actions – A copy the leader game for younger children. Place the children in a circle. The first person makes a little action (wiggle a thumb) and the group copies, once everyone has copied get their neighbor to make a bigger action (wave an arm), and continue round the circle until the actions are huge, then reverse the size. End by saying every action was copied and mattered, however big or small it was. Musical chairs – A traditional game that ties well into the request that James and John made to be seated at Jesus’ right and left. Have one less chair than there is children in the group, when the music stops the children need to find a chair. The last one standing is out. Ask the children at the end if it mattered who they were seated next to. All brothers – This game is a quick little icebreaker where you find out what you have in common with other people in the room. Start by telling the group a little about James and John, including that Jesus called them the ‘Sons of thunder’. Have the group partner off and decide a name for each pair. Examples ‘Sons of Football’ ‘Sisters of the cinema’, or ‘Siblings of chewed pencils’. End by saying everyone is a Child of God, and that means we are all in one family.

It was the decade where we lived on Push-Pops, got down to our Walkman, traded Pogs and dreamt of one day owning Cher’s closet from Clueless, and what better way to celebrating this iconic era than with a 90s house party? Melbourne Central is hosting a massive 90s House Party with over 100 exclusive shopping offers available as part of this year’s Shop The City – the city-wide retail event which last year attracted over 214,000 shoppers. Throwing us back into the nostalgia of our younger years, Melbourne Central’s 90s House Party promises fun, flashback entertainment along with FREE food, drinks and prizes, and a FREE movie screening of 10 Things I Hate About You at Hoyts Cinema. Transforming the centre into one big house party, there are plenty of opportunities to reminisce about the good ol’ times with a variety of FREE 90s themed activities popping up throughout and 90s DJs spinning all the best throwback tracks! Want more? Of course you do! B. Lucky & Sons Party Bar are serving FREE Woo Woo cocktails in party cups (for 18+ only), with Pazzi Pizza, Nando’s and Grill’d stopping by to deliver FREE party snacks. Melbourne Central’s 90s House Party for Shop The City is happening today from 10AM to 9PM. You know where to find us after work today…

Amrapali Dubey, Dinesh Lal Yadav’s kissing photo goes viral: The hot Bhojpuri on-screen couple—Dinesh Lal Yadav aka Nirahu and Amrapali Dubey are always in the news for their adorable photos and videos which they keep sharing o their social media accounts such as on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. In a throwback photo, we see Amrapali Dubey and Dinesh Lal Yadav aka Nirahu making a cute and intimate pose with each other in which they are giving a peck to each other! The photo is way too cute and both Amrapali and Nirahua are looking perfect with each other in the picture which has gone viral on the Internet! In the photo, Amrapali Dubey looks stunning in a purple and red saree with pretty bangles. Both Dinesh Lal Yadav aka Nirahu and Bhojpuri YouTube queen Amrapali Dubey are very popular actors in the Bhojpuri film industry. They are also one of the best and on-screen power couples of Bhojpuri cinema and their sizzling on-screen chemistry is loved by fans! They have worked in several Bhojpuri films such as Nirahua Hindustani, Patna Se Pakistan, Nirahua Rikshawala 2, Bam Bam Bol Raha Hai Kashi, Nirahua Hindustani 2, Nirahua Hindustani 3, among many others. They keep sharing adorable photos with each other on Instagram and their latest photo has taken over social media.

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Global Box Office Soared to Record High of $31.8 Billion in 2010 But U.S. box office results were flat despite a surge in revenue from 3D, according to a new report. International growth, fueled by the rapid deployment of digital projection and 3D, powered the worldwide box office to record levels in 2010 even as the number of studio movies released declined. The global box office soared to an all-time high of $31.8 billion, an increase of 8 percent from 2009, according to the annual Theatrical Market Statistics Report released Wednesday by the MPAA. While the domestic box-office gross at $10.6 billion was flat year-to-year despite a surge in revenue from 3D, the take outside the U.S. and Canada jumped 13 percent to $21.2 billion led by growth in the Asia-Pacific region, especially China. "The top line is the tremendous growth in the box office outside the U.S. and Canada," said Bob Pisano, president and interim CEO of the MPAA. "That is driven largely by moviegoing habits in China and India. But I want to put a caveat on that in terms of the inability of non-Chinese to release films in China and to realize a market rate of return. This is an ongoing problem." Asia-Pacific grosses grew by 21 percent to $8.7 billion, of which more than 40 percent came from China. There also was a surge in Latin America, where revenue grew 25 percent to $2.1 billion. The number of movie tickets sold in North America fell by 5 percent to 1.34 billion, about the same as the 2008 level. The number of U.S. and Canada moviegoers was up 3 percent from the prior year to 222.7 million, but the average number of movies each person attended declined from 6.5 per year to 6 a year. Pisano expressed concern that there is a decadelong trend showing a decline in moviegoing in North America. He said per capita admissions fell to 4.1 from 4.3 last year, the lowest since 1993. Pisano said the challenge facing the industry is to "reverse that and get more Americans and Canadians back to movie theaters." Pisano blamed much of that decline on baby boomers, which since the '60s have been a driver of ticket sales. "That is an unfortunate situation since [they] constitute the largest demographic group moving though the population," he said. However, Pisano noted one favorable trend: Hispanics went to the movies about seven times last year on average, compared to four times for the overall population. And their numbers in the U.S. are growing. "This is an area where we can look forward to increased movie attendance," Pisano said. The average price of a domestic ticket rose to $7.89 last year from $7.50 in 2009. John Fithian, president and CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners, noted that an average ticket -- including premium-priced tickets -- costs less than it did in 1970, adjusted for inflation. The number of movies released by MPAA member companies (the major U.S. studios and their subsidiaries) declined 11 percent to 141, the fewest in at least a decade. However, the total number of movies released, including those from independents, was 560, up 1 percent. The MPAA rated 706 movies last year, which was also down 11 percent from a year ago and represented the fewest in at least a decade. In other words, fewer big movies made more money. It doesn't look as if production is about to increase, either. The number of films beginning production was off 17 percent, continuing a three-year decline. The big revenue driver in the domestic market was 3D, which made up 21 percent -- or $2.2 billion -- of the total, which was double the prior year. 3D made up just 2 percent of the U.S.-Canada take as recently as 2008. One in three people in North America saw a 3D movie last year, and among moviegoers ages 2-17, an astounding 64 percent saw at least one 3D movie. As in the past, the most-frequent moviegoers drove the box office. Although they comprise only 11 percent of the population, these folks represented half the ticket sales in North America. Their number rose to 35 million, up 3 million from 2009. The number of worldwide movie screens has remained the same for the past five years at about 150,000, but the number that employ digital projection has soared. Nearly one-quarter of screens are digital, and more than 60 percent of those are capable of showing 3D, which is the key factor that has driven the conversion to digital. In 2010, every region in the world at least doubled its digital screen count for an overall 122 percent increase in digital projection. "The most historic thing of 2010," Fithian said, "is the growth of digital cinema and 3D exhibition. If you look at the numbers ... it is really quite astounding." Fithian said 20 percent of U.S. screens and 14 percent of international screens can show 3D. Fithian predicted the build-out of digital and 3D projection will be "basically done by 2013," at which time 40 percent of all screens will be digital as well as 3D capable. No movie benefited more from the growth of digital and 3D worldwide than Avatar, the top-grossing movie of the year. The rest of the top 10 grossers in North America were Toy Story 3, Alice in Wonderland, Iron Man 2, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Inception, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Despicable Me, Shrek Forever After and How to Train Your Dragon. Pisano sounded a warning about the impact piracy has on box office. "The continued theft of movies online will have a sustained adverse impact on movie attendance in the coming years. It's impossible to compete with free," Pisano said. "We will continue to work with our industry partners to fight for common sense ways, through legislative, enforcement and legal avenues, to vigilantly protect the creativity at the heart of our industry from theft." Pisano cited last year's Oscar best picture winner The Hurt Locker as an example of a movie that was particularly hurt by piracy.

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I’m not really into this type of interior, but the way Livingetc feature this loft-style home makes me want to try the industrial-inspired design someday. To lift the scheme you could add a vibrant color as an accent. This Victorian meets New York loft-style home is full of surprises – including a large fig tree growing through the middle of it… A four-storey late-Victorian terrace in north London. The house comprises a large living, kitchen, dining and study area on the ground floor. On the mezzanine above is a study area, leading to the first floor with two bedrooms and an en-suite bathroom. There are another two bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor. Downstairs in the basement is a wine cellar that holds over 500 wines, a home cinema and WC. From the outside, the house resembles a fairly routine late-Victorian terrace, so the interior comes as an eye-opener. Visitors walk through the front door into a huge, stripped-back, opened-up, industrial living space of bare brick and wood that contains the kitchen, dining and living area. But what really makes the space unusual is the metal staircase, full-length up-and-over windows and enormous fig tree snaking through the middle of the house up to the glass roof. The tree was there before the house and is staying firmly put.