the portrait ( 1993 film )
with the headline: reviews / film; a revisionist portrait of an apache warrior .
n is a number: a portrait of paul erdos is a 1993 biographical documentary about the life of mathematician paul erdos, directed by george paul csicsery .
the portrait trailer 1993 director: arthur penn starring: cecilia peck, gregory peck, lauren bacall, paul mccrane, william prince, mitchell laurance official content from turner home entertainment the complicated relationships of an elderly couple and their daughter, an aspiring painter. cecilia is the real - life daughter of the great actor! movie, the portrait movie, the portrait trailer, the portrait 1993, arthur penn, cecilia peck, gregory peck, lauren bacall, paul mccrane, william prince, mitchell laurance
cast: circé lethem, julien rassam, joëlle marlier dir. chantal akerman, 1993, 60 mins .
actually an american remake of the 1993 french film les visiteur. a french nobleman and his servant time travel from the 12th century and wind up in chicago in the ‘90s. christina applegate takes care of them; it’s terrible .
in the 1993 film, the roles were played by hugo weaving (tick / mitzi mitosis), guy pearce (adam / felicia) and terence stamp (bernadette) – so the lead cast have big, well, stilettos to fill .
‘the portrait’ (1993) is a poignant movie about the tie that binds – we love each other for who we are and not for who we are not. gregory peck, lauren bacall and cecilia peck star in this made - for - tv movie exploring the emotions that bond families together .
a riotous film that finds depth, clarity and refreshment in even the shallowest of pools .
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based on the 1993 road movie starring terence stamp, hugo weaving and guy pearce, this south african production has all the glitz, all the glamour and all the laughs. we go behind the scenes to talk to the cast and crew
donald bogle, a film historian and author, said that the film remains fresh even today because, as he put it ,
america hasn' t changed that much .
chantal akerman' s 1993 film… is a beautiful and haunting evocation of female adolescence and its discontents desire, loss and the complicated, ambiguous relationship to the transitions between girlhood and womanhood... portrait of a young girl is in many ways a coming out story, for the love of one girl for another moves the film forward... but it will come as no surprise to those familiar with akerman' s work that this is no transparent coming out tale, and that the film resists any of the simple oppositions between inside and outside, past and present, before and after, which are suggested by the very term' coming out' .
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commissioned by channel 4 for visions strand, which offered film makers and artists a carte blanche .
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by michael clark oil on card, 1993 17 3 / 4 in. x 13 1 / 8 in. (451 mm x 333 mm) purchased, 1995 primary collection npg 6322
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the great beauty is an utterly ravishing portrait of listless luxuriance, a fantasy of decadent wealth and beauty that evokes fellini' s la dolce vita by way of baz luhrmann .
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he said he was moved by the suffering, indignation and frustration of the characters in the film, adding that at the height of the drama television stations never failed to
stop the film and go to a commercial, to a woman worried about a ring around her sink and the concern of a woman about how clean her towels are .
like that film ,
bopha !
was shot on location in zimbabwe, and captures the beauty as well as the unhappiness of southern africa .
an interview with writer / director boots riley about his incendiary new film ,
sorry to bother you .
there was 1969, when he was the youngest director to get a long - term contract for television work based on the strength of a short film .
alfre woodard, who struggles to preserve her family in the middle of the rising anarchy, is also very strong here, and the film' s ending has some of the power of classical tragedy .
how can i rate it when all i got to see was a review? i was not able to get to the actual film. disappointing
according to the legend of the 1943 philadelphia experiment, the us navy managed to render the uss eldridge invisible to enemy devices. but in the film, the alleged philadelphia experiment has a much stranger result: it catapults to of the sailors to the year 1984, when scientists are trying to replicate the experiment .
after a long absence, artist margaret church returns to her aging parent’s home to finish a portrait of them. her parents, gardner and fanny church, unbeknownst to margaret have sold the family home and are moving .
if you like the adventure of priscilla, queen of the desert (1993) – an oscar - winning road movie that follows a trio of drag queens across the australian outback in a lavender - painted bus – chances are you will enjoy the musical that is stopping off in hong kong for almost a month starting on september 29 .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. what a space it opens…
the portrait was the last sanctioned by jarman and includes a quotation from lorca in mirror - writing. in translation this reads:' enjoy the luscious landscape of my wound... but hurry! ... time meets us, and we are destroyed.'
he revolutionized special effects with “close encounters of the third kind” in 1977 and in 1982 created a new sort of kids’ film with “e. t. : the extra terrestrial. ”
i had some problems with the very end of the film. it seemed to me there should have been one more scene, explaining how the policeman arrives at his final destination. the sense was that the viewer was required to read his mind. perhaps that was the idea .
after a long absence, artist margaret church returns to her aging parent' s home to finish a portrait of them. her parents, gardner and fanny church, unbeknownst to margaret have sold the... see full summary »
the main issue between the parents and mags seems to be the fact that mags has always resented her parents’ close relationship because she has always felt like the third wheel. fanny and gardner are always seen laughing and talking together. we see mags’ exasperation at their behavior during their portrait sitting. she has difficulty getting them to sit still and pose, which makes her think it’s because they don’t take her career choice seriously. i laughed when they held up a fork and teased her about their portrait being the next american gothic by grant wood .
' nothing but a man' suggests what you can do with a subject if the humanity is the first consideration ,
said stanley crouch, the writer and cultural critic .
then all of the politics and everything else can function, but you don' t think you' re being beaten over the head with a message. the film is about manhood, about assuming adult responsibility, whatever the demands might be. the question of adult responsibility is not a racial question; that' s why the film speaks to people .
a powerful and intimate portrait, joan mitchell: portrait of an abstract painter captures mitchell' s independent spirit and testifies eloquently to mitchell' s art. one of the great abstract painters of the twentieth century, mitchell was an active participant of new york' s dynamic abstract expressionist scene and hung out with fellow painters franz kline, willem de kooning and philip guston, as well as poets frank o' hara, james schuyler and john ashbery. in the mid - fifties, she moved to paris, where she was part of a circle of friends that included pierre matisse, samuel beckett and alberto giacometti. this elegantly edited documentary weaves together interviews with the acerbic mitchell and other leading painters and critics, while letting her stunning pictures dominate the film .
many israelis complained that “munich” inappropriately put the palestinian terrorists and israeli mossad agents on the “same moral plane. ” spielberg even hired the services of an israeli advisor to try and turn israeli opinion on the film. i personally recall staying up late into the night at a bar arguing about this masterpiece with people who were both more right - wing and left - wing than i. (consider me the ralph bunche of film critics that year .) none of this is mentioned in the new documentary .
mags church (cecilia peck) is an artist who lacks confidence in her artistic abilities. when she is given the chance to exhibit some of her artwork in a small gallery with an excellent reputation, she decides to go back to her childhood home to recharge her creative batteries after a break - up and to finish a portrait of her parents (fanny and gardner) she had begun long ago and never finished. however, we quickly discover that the portrait is not the only thing left unresolved in the church household. there are many complex emotions and miscommunications lurking just beneath the surface of this seemingly happy little trio .
an italian socialite, depressed with the high life, seeks moving aesthetic expression. so heavily influenced by fellini is this film that i was tongue - in - cheek surprised that it was directed by paul sorrentino, the great beauty is neo - realism at its best. the beautiful shots of jep staring at the giraffe, the party sequences, the crazy artists who dye their pubic hair red and shave the hammer and sickle into it, the luxuriant shots of the eternal city - - all these threads create a hypnotic fabric for the film. toni servillo' s jep embodies artistic ennui at its most pretentious and its most human, and the film' s story is slight and subtle but still captivating. overall, this is not the
next step on fellini' s road ,
but its a fitting homage .
as played by wes studi, who was so formidable and effective as magua in
the last of the mohicans ,
geronimo is more often made to seem gently perplexed than fierce. this is more a dramatic problem than a political one, since all the film' s actors share a placid, reasonable demeanor that becomes unexpectedly dull. as the film recounts the last battles, in the 1880' s, between the chiricahua apache and the american and mexican soldiers who overwhelmingly outnumbered them, it adopts an attitude of undifferentiated regret. almost no one dares play the villain in the fight that destroyed the indians' independence and altered their destiny .
bopha !
( which means to arrest or detain in zulu) is based on a play by percy mtwa and is the first film directed by morgan freeman, whose acting career has included two oscar nominations (
street smart
and
driving miss daisy
) and who starred in
the power of one
( 1992), a much more innocent film about south africa .
mr. roemer said that in researching the film, which was made for $ 230, 000, he was struck by the systematic destruction of the black family in the south. as a german jew who had watched as his father and others he respected were humiliated by the nazis, he said he could identify with the experience of american blacks .
the father of the time travel story himself, herbert george wells (malcolm mcdowell) is the hero of this film, in which he pursues jack the ripper to the year 1979, like one does. the serial killer decides he quite likes the future and starts up his murders in san francisco. while wells works to stop the ripper, he also finds something in the future to love: a bank employee played by mary steenburgen .
( michael) derek elworthy jarman (1942 - 1994), film - maker, painter, stage designer, gardener and campaigner for gay rights. sitter in 16 portraits .
what transforms the musical into a glamorous spectacle are the lights, colours, energy and, of course, those tunes. as in the film, priscilla features an array of iconic drag - friendly pop songs spanning three decades including gloria gaynor’s i will survive and it’s raining men by the weather girls .
also in the film, and showing some of its few signs of life, is robert duvall as one of the story' s maverick characters, a veteran indian scout named al sieber. sieber sometimes voices a healthy skepticism that would have been welcome elsewhere in the story .
if the baby, so to speak, is geronimo' s dauntless fighting spirit, it has been thrown out with the bath water of outmoded film stereotypes regarding american indians. shooting evocatively amid utah landscapes that summon john ford' s westerns, mr. hill finds ample opportunities to settle old scores. the contempt and condescension with which indian warriors were so often treated has given way to a warm bath of noble sentiments, none of which advances this film' s dramatic purposes at all .
with all this land, why is there no room for the apache ?
asks geronimo, on one of the many occasions when the film' s characters seem to speak their lines in capital letters .
why does the white - eye want all land ?
commissioned by amnesty international as part of a portmanteau project to highlight the fate of the murdered, the detained and the tortured .
throughout the film, sorrentino delivers gorgeous images, crazy images, startling and sexy and serene images; it' s a visual bath of sorts - the great beauty is everywhere, jep (and we) just have to be open to it .
( eternal flame) in a synagogue. he was raised in a deeply religious family, denied his faith, then ultimately became one of its most important chroniclers thanks to the love of an outsider. sounds like something out of the movies? well, it is, and it’s one of the many fascinating narrative threads in hbo’s october 7 (lengthy) portrait, “spielberg. ”
mr. young, who was also the cinematographer, said the impetus for making the film came after nbc had refused to broadcast a documentary he and mr. roemer had made on a slum in sicily because, in his words ,
they thought it was too powerful for an american audience .
determined, he said, to make a
meaningful film that no one could take away from us ,
the two men, who are white, set out for the south. mr. young had been there earlier when he was making a documentary for the network on the sit - in demonstrations of the civil rights movement .
after a long absence, artist margaret church returns to her aging parent' s home to finish a portrait of them. her parents, gardner and fanny church, unbeknownst to margaret have sold the family home and are moving. while coming to grips with the loss of her childhood home and the memories it held, margaret must deal with many issues ranging from her father' s frequent and disturbing memory lapses, to her feelings of isolation from her parents. fanny and gardner are totally devoted to each other and absorbed in their love and life together, making their daughter feel left out. while struggling to get her parents to sit still long enough to paint their portrait, margaret thinks they don' t take her or her painting seriously. a conversation with her father makes margaret finally come to the realization that her parents love her, appreciate her painting career and that they can' t and won' t change at their ages. returning to ny for her premier art showing with the finished portrait, margaret ...
the problems the film addresses still go on ,
said mr. bogle, whose most recent book is
blacks in american film and television: an encyclopedia
( garland, 1988) .
a black man still has to struggle to be a man the way he would define it. we still live in a world where we constantly find ourselves struggling against attitudes and misconceptions and insensitivities. so' nothing but a man' doesn' t seem old at all .
based on the french short film la jetée, terry gilliam’s super dark dystopia is set in the 2030s, where humanity has all been almost wiped out. their only hope is to jettison future prisoners on possibly suicide missions back to the 1990s in hoping of stopping the plague that took out most of the world’s population. also, almost everyone is just a little bit crazy .
louise bourgeois: the spider, the mistress and the tangerine is a cinematic journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art .
when
nothing but a man
was first shown, in 1964, it was credited with creating a new sensitivity in its presentation of black life in the american south. now, nearly 30 years later, the film has again been released to theaters in the hope that it can speak to a new generation .
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we stayed with black families in their houses, going from family to family, in places where no white people had ever been as we wrote the story ,
mr. young said .
we wanted to take people into these homes where we had been so that all people, black and white, could experience black people as people. i remember in 1964 when we were showing our film, white people were surprised because they had never seen a black woman sitting on a black guy' s lap. or they were surprised when he lovingly put a piece of pie in her mouth or when they were in the bedroom. of course, we are all the same, and that' s what we were trying to make the film about .
film maker uses his memories
spielberg’s career was building to 1993. that summer he released “jurassic park, ” which some consider as good as “jaws. ” (i don’t, but it’s close. i mean, richard dreyfus vs. jeff goldblum is pretty evenly matched .) it was a major success but also a step forward in the use of digital technology. “jurassic park” represented advances in spielberg’s popcorn side, but that december — building on some of his more serious work like “the color purple” and “empire of the sun” — he released “schindler’s list. ”
things get worse. fanny and gardner won' t sit still for their portrait - making it clear they don' t take mags' career seriously. frustrated and furious, mags is already packed when gardner' s disappearance changes the family picture forever. directed by arthur penn, three - time best director oscar nominee for the miracle worker, 1962; bonnie and clyde, 1967; and alice' s restaurant, 1969 .
actor liam neeson describes the near manic drive spielberg had on that set. he did not work from storyboards and oftentimes hand - held the camera himself. (most movie directors don’t do this .) spielberg, who had so defined himself with clever shots and studio trickery threw all those techniques away and shot many sequences in the film as if it were a documentary .
revel in the art of the craft and in the occasional sublime monologue to stave off the feeling that maybe this whole thing is entirely as hollow as so many of the characters on display. full review later .
a cinematic tour through the effects of the technological revolution, specifically the invention of aviation, the creation of cinema and their interdependent influence on artists pablo picasso and georges braque .
“many musicals made today are what we call the jukebox musical, ” says anton luitingh, the resident director of the touring production .
“i can still see the big picture – it’s the little details that confound me. ”
these movies (and others) represented a string of popular successes that had never been matched, and perhaps never will be. but some critics suggested that spielberg was a whiz with “film grammar” (a snooty phrase meaning “where to put the camera” and “when to cut”) but dealt only in surface and sentimentality .
go behind the scenes of the mission: impossible movies, check out the latest videos and trailers, and see which spy movies topped the box office in our mission: impossible guide .
; a concrete cast of the inside of a victorian terraced house in east london. controversy was caused by the work itself, by it winning the turner prize, and by the decision of tower hamlets council to demolish the sculpture .
in 2005 spielberg and jewish - american writer tony kushner collaborated on “munich, ” which is half action - adventure film, half essay about the futility of vengeance. its subject is the aftermath of the 1972 terrorist attack against the israeli olympic team by the palestinian group black september. in “spielberg, ” this notch on the director’s resume gets significant attention for its brilliant use of blocking, editing and tension, but also points to an increasing ambivalence spielberg had about the post - 9 / 11 war on terror. (you can examine that further in 2002’s “minority report, ” 2005’s “war of the worlds” and even 2015’s “bridge of spies. ” )
after a nigh catastrophic shoot (the shark didn’t work !) his masterpiece “jaws” radically changed the business side of the movie business in 1975 .
for all the crying the time travel aspect, this movie was both intriguing and had an enticing bit of time travel on the water planet. it also uses the long and arduous time gap between earth and the wormhole world quite beautifully .
we’re convinced that the only reason that will smith’s agent j goes back in time to stop an alien from killing a young agent k in the third men in black movie is because someone realized that josh brolin does a brilliant tommy lee jones impression and just had to commit it to film. it certainly wasn’t because they had a stockpile of great time - travel jokes lying around .
basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him. riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you. …
america just before and during the civil war, as seen through the eyes of an artist correspondent .
david dennis’ bernadette gives off an air of grace even in the most outrageous costumes. the award - winning shakespearean actor was approached by the creative team to audition for the role and is returning to the stage after a decade’s hiatus to act on screen .
the sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain' s self - destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, moby dick .
mags church (cecilia peck, torn apart) is an aspiring artist about to get her first manhattan gallery showing. but she needs to return home and complete an unfinished portrait of her parents, fanny (bacall, to have and have not) and gardner (peck, academy award winner, best actor, to kill a mockingbird, 1962). their lifelong - strained relationship surfaces when mags finds her parents have sold their house without telling her !
obviously, times have changed. the revisionist view of geronimo is apparent in
geronimo: an american legend ,
an earnest, leaden epic directed by walter hill from a reverential screenplay by john milius and larry gross. no matter that this film' s narrator is actually britton davis, played as a bland young west point graduate by matt damon and urging the story forward with colorless observations. the real flavor of davis' s account, and of the ferocity that earned geronimo his place in history, is nowhere evident on screen .
aurore clément is welcoming, above all eager to get chantal' s help with a rehearsing for her part in another film. the battle to pronounce' cheated' without the inevitable mispronouncing of a french speaker takes up all their energy. her american companion, an actress, complains bitterly about the casting process, usually a matter of intimate meetings late at night. meanwhile word is received: chantal' s uncle has gone to new york. like alice, chantal must chase her white rabbit .
this award - winning documentary recounts the remarkable life of john g. morris, the revered life magazine photo - journalist who was involved in the d - day normandy landings .
czechoslovakia is divided into two countries: the slovak republic (slovakia) and the czech republic. the division was peaceful and democratic and so became known as the' velvet divorce', recalling the' velvet revolution' of 1989 by which communism in czechoslovakia was overthrown through peaceful mass demonstrations .
i am so happy i grew up seeing gregory peck and lauren bacall throughout their careers. this is a wonderful family film with warmth and some comedy. i believe this was the last movie gregory peck made before he passed away. what a loss to all who loved talented respectful actors we don' t really see anymore on the screen or television. lauren bacall is one of the most talented actresses that does great work with any part she is to play. enjoy and add this movie to your library .
“the songs are chosen to make us remember a time or a feeling, ” says the play’s music director bryan schimmel .
marty and the doc reteam to go back to the future where everything is nike, pizza hut, pepsi cola awesome .
in his short career, jean - michel basquiat was a phenomenon. he became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker samo in the late 1970s on the lower east side scene .
this video is special to my sister debi and me because we both were extras in the movie. one segment of the movie was shot in the north carolina governor' s mansion. my late father mr. james otis blount also had a role as an extra. he played the role of the cab driver .
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a corporate raider threatens a hostile take - over of a
mom and pop
company. the patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife' s daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the... see full summary »
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directed by michael roemer and written and produced by mr. roemer and robert young, the independent production stars ivan dixon and abbey lincoln in the story of a young black laborer in the south who falls in love with and marries the daughter of a preacher. the movie follows him as he struggles to affirm his worth in the face of relentless racial prejudice and his own emotional conflicts. currently playing at the harlem victoria five theater, 233 west 125th street ,
nothing but a man
is scheduled to open in los angeles and chicago later this month and elsewhere in the country later in the year .
rather, this explores how lesbian desire is both shaped and repressed by the codes and conventions of heterosexual romance. on the surface, the could be described as a somewhat conventional girl - meets - boy tale. but what shapes the girl - meets - boy story is the simultaneous desire, for the girl, to connect to another girl and to tell stories. ln other words, this is a lesbian narrative with a difference; girl still meets boy, but that classical and timeworn plot is the pretext for the connection between two girls .
bacall and peck are absolutely wonderful together. what i enjoyed most about this movie was seeing this couple who was still crazy in love despite their age. in a world where so many marriages end in divorce, it was refreshing to see two people who could make it work and keep things interesting and fun after so many years. it was a beautifully honest portrait of a happy marriage and two people who truly cared about one another. for example, they kid around about sick people they know and how much money she spent on a fancy french designer hat she found in a thrift shop. it was the type of relationship and marriage i’ve always wanted for myself .
another highlight of the show will have to be the 500 - plus outlandish costumes, including the iconic flip - flop sheath dress, designed by tim chappel and lizzy gardiner, who won an academy award and a bafta for best costume design. they also took home tony awards in 2011, when they recreated the costumes for the broadway production .
the great beauty is an alleged condemnation of the decadence of rome and its high society, but inasmuch as it approaches coherence at all .
set in the future where time travel is outlawed, but still used by the mob. a looper is a hit man in the past who waits for future bosses to send back whomever they want to kill. but the looper’s job is a short one as they all eventually end up “closing their own loop” and killing their future selves to keep things tidy for the people in charge. but eventually one gets away, and it’s up to the younger version of the target to hunt him down .
the conservative party is attacked in the media for' sleaze'. two mp' s resign over sex scandals, two over the' cash - for - questions affair', and one dies in bizarre and embarrassing circumstances. journalist max clifford was responsible for exposing many of the scandals .
in one of the most poignant scenes, mags and her mother bond over the seriousness of the situation. fanny explains to mags that she felt something physical when she married gardner, saying that the emptiness she had always felt as a child was finally filled. she was a happy child, but she became an even happier adult. i almost cried when she explained that she could still look across the room and marvel at the fact that he married her out of all the women he could have possibly chosen .
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the dialogue (
it is good to see the great warrior
) does not seem any weightier by virtue of its having been translated into the apache language in some places. the scenery is automatically vivid, especially when it takes advantage of the landscape' s stark contrasts, but lloyd ahern' s cinematography is sometimes suffused with dusty reddish tones. even the musical score by the resourceful ry cooder has a droning, authentic quality, suggesting that earnestness has taken precedence over energy. it has, every time .
jean - claude van damme is a member of the future time traveling crime fighting organization time enforcement commission (tec). at one point he does the splits in his kitchen to avoid getting shot at. the end .
it’s the future and all the animals are dead. meanwhile, rich people get their kicks traveling back in time to kill a real - life dinosaur. the tour group that runs the show picks a specific t - rex that is going to die anyway (so as not to disturb the future), but on one trip back a guest steps on a butterfly, thus changing the future into what could only be described as a jumanji world .
then there is trouble. the local students strike against a government decree that they be taught in afrikaans instead of english. both are european tongues, but afrikaans is spoken only in south africa, while english seems to them the language of the winds of change from outside, the language of freedom .
a gigantic, human - hating killing machine is sent back in time to kill the woman who will one day give birth to the savior of humanity in the future human vs. robot wars. don’t worry, the humans send back their own warrior, michael biehn, for sexy times and fighting .
mangena gets orders from his boss to raid a secret protest meeting they' ve heard about - a fairly innocent meeting, they' re sure .
use minimum force ,
the white man says. the raid goes as planned, and the area would probably have remained relatively tranquil, but a few days later new faces appear in the district: de villiers (malcolm mcdowell), the hard - line officer from the special branch, and his thuggish assistant. they insist on extreme measures, eventually involving torture and death, to put down the protests. and then the black policeman' s whole world comes crashing down around his ears. for his son is one of the protesters .
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“he had the entire weight of his tribe on him, ” neeson recalls .
with the release of yet another time travel movie this week (terminator genisys), it’s time for us to look back at the great time travel movies of our past. here are all the major time travel movies ever, ranked .
a complicated and very messy look into time travel. the premise is simple: two friends build a time machine. but the result is infinitely more complicated .
a young man discovers that he belongs to a family of time travelers. and while this seems pretty simplistic, the way in which this drama / romantic comedy uses the time paradox is pretty great. as the character gets older, there are certain times in existence he cannot cross or he will forever change the his own future. for example, crossing past the birth of your child might mean you come back to the present and discover you have an entirely new child .
and plenty of humour, too. filled with sassy lines, foul language and offensive jokes, the show had audiences in johannesburg howling with laughter throughout the performance .
biopic of general douglas macarthur covering his war exploits during ww2 and the korean war .
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first adapted for stage in 2006 by the original director, stephen elliott and co - author of the musical’s script (known as the book), allan scott, this production comes from south africa, where it ran between april and june this year .
a 14th - century boy believes he can save his fellow townsfolk by tunneling into the earth. when they emerge on the other side, the ancient people have been transported to 1988 new zealand. naturally, they lose their shit. it’s so great .
four friends get drunk in a hot tub in their old ski resort high school stomping grounds. the next day they wake up in the bodies of their old selves back in the ‘80s. and they take advantage of this in really wonderfully horrific ways .
a chronicle of the work and times of an american artist, taking us from searing images of interrogations and torture to the ironies and dark humor of old - age .
director susan lacy (an executive behind 80 + pbs “american masters” specials) frames her film with a quote from spielberg about his life - altering screening of “lawrence of arabia” as a young man. he recognized that movies weren’t just about story, they were about themes. this revelation allows lacy room to use interview footage and clips to riff on recurring topics. it doesn’t lead to any grand epiphany, but there are enough “ah, would you look at that” moments to keep things interesting .
critics have said that unlike other movies about blacks made at the time ,
nothing but a man
avoided the conventional pitfalls of sentimentality, preachiness and demeaning stereotypes and instead presented its characters with the full range of human qualities. humanity first, then messages
“i love the story, particularly the relevance with the world we live in today. i’m tired of paying lip service to gender and racial equality. we as creative people... can change notions and perceptions, it’s our job to do that, ” says dennis, who sees the role as an opportunity to fight prejudice against sexual minorities .
in a twist, an ape from the planet of the apes future is sent back in time to the human world. it does not go well. (planet of the apes could also be included here if we want to but we thought this was more time - traveling back in time being aware of it so we chose to highlight escape. )
possibly the best plot premise ever created. rich people from the future are kidnapping folks from the past (right at their moment of death) to harvest their bodies for themselves. race car driver emilio estevez is taken and escapes his future captors. but now he has to survive in the future world. also, mick jagger is in this movie .
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a heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 nazi invasion of russia .
an interview with terry gilliam, director of
the man who killed don quixote .
“nobody’s safe, nobody is free from ridicule. but that’s all it’s about, ” says luitingh. “you wouldn’t be able to find a platform out of the theatre and say these things. but when you’re in the magic of the theatre space, anything goes. ”
the role of tick went to daniel buys, who took hints from his drag queen friends on how to craft his persona, mitzi. “i watch them with closer scrutiny and try to understand and see all the nuances they bring to their performance – the gentle hands and eyes, the subtle looks and even how they shape their mouths, ” says buys .
funny and sad, poignant and profound, elegant and elegiac, ambitious and ambiguous, the great beauty is one of the most utterly enjoyable movies i' ve seen in years .
the less exciting sequel to bill & ted’s excellent adventure where ted and bill are murdered .
us president barack obama presents the presidential medal of freedom to movie director steven spielberg at the white house, washington, dc, november 24, 2015. (afp / nicholas kamm )
after i recovered from initial
hey, this is just fellini in color
i realized that fellini is fellini because he' s italian, as is sorrentino and there is just no escaping the beauty that is rome. that said, this is a profound look at what early success means in the arts, especially the literary arts: can you ever top it? can you ever see the world fresh, or is it always through the glasses of the previous work that made you? or, as the character himself says ,
i was waiting for the great beauty
and in the meantime i decided to have a party, i guess. i especially liked the mysterious man upstairs who (spoiler alert) turns out to be a high class crook, but who cried out as he is being taken away ,
i work hard so bums like you can just party
or something like that. it' s an interesting take on how the money manipulation crowd sees artists. only nit - pick: i could have used a smaller dose of the nun / saint. i want to see it again .
this screening of shorts is part of the continuing chantal akerman retrospective presented by a nos amours .
in addition to changing costumes, the performers also have to frequently switch in and out of drag, and to reveal an industry trick, they are in fact masks the actors put on .
“they are all based on one famous singer’s songs... or a combination of pop songs, hence the jukebox reference. very often they fall flat because they rely heavily on the music .
a south african political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. ten years later, the head officer in charge of the questioning is similarly held as prisoner... see full summary »
i was looking for the great beauty, but... i didn' t find it !
wonderful franchise back to the future runs out of ideas and decides, “fuck it, let’s just make a western. ” and it’s almost worth it just for the zz top old - timey band .
all movies that bring people back in time to fictional realms of the past are all equally terrible .
adrien brody plays a struggling veteran who is mistakenly blamed for a murder and imprisoned in a mental hospital where the doctor runs odd experiments on him by tying him up in a jacket and locking him in a morgue shelf. imprisoned in the jacket, brody begins to travel to the future… or does he ?
once the father returns home from the hospital, mags has a heart - to - heart with him. i think it helps that this is a real - life father and daughter on the screen, as it makes the emotions seem more genuine. mags asks what her father thinks about her art and he tells her that he believes she is on the verge of finding herself and that crazy courage we all need to invade our privacy if we’re going to hold nothing back in our work. she seems pleased with this answer. the movie ends at her art show in new york and her parents coming to support her .
this was a treat... . loved the movie, and would love to see it again !
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also quite a daunting role is that of adam, portrayed by phillip schnetler. he won the role as he has a decade of experience as an acrobat and hence the flexibility and strength required of his character .
a remake of the original time machine movie, and while it’s not bad… it’s not very good either .
journalist jep gambardella (the dazzling toni servillo, il divo and gomorrah) has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of rome for decades. since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city' s literary and social circles, but when his sixty - fifth birthday coincides with a shock from the past, jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. (c) janus
a modern aircraft carrier goes back in time to 1941, just hours before the japanese attack on pearl harbor. what do you think happens next? update: apologies sorry this wasn’t on the first list, added !
he is a proud south african police sergeant, the second generation in the job, and he wants his son to follow him onto the force. in classes for new cadets, he tells them they' ll be called
pig ,
and then he explains that the word' s initials stand for pride, integrity, and guts and glory. he is good at his job and believes in it. and he is black .
barbra streisand turns 75 - we look back at the singers fabulous career from broadway shows to sell out concerts .
in “spielberg, ” the director (and his sisters) explain how he was ashamed of being in the only jewish family in their phoenix, arizona, suburb. it wasn’t part of the american dream vision he had of himself. he recalls when his russian - jewish grandfather shouted for him across the street using his hebrew name shmuel, and how the other kids teased him. it was after his marriage to capshaw that he decided to finally make “schindler’s list” and that experience made him, as he puts it, “so proud to be a jew. ”
the portrait is a 1993 american made-for-television drama film adapted from the play painting churches , directed by arthur penn , and starring gregory peck and lauren bacall . cecilia peck , who plays the daughter in the film , is the real-life daughter of actor gregory peck and his second wife veronique peck . the film was broadcast on tnt on february 13 , 1993 . 
the portrait is a 1993 american made-for-television drama film adapted from the play painting churches, directed by arthur penn, and starring gregory peck and lauren bacall. cecilia peck, who plays the daughter in the film, is the real-life daughter of actor gregory peck and his second wife veronique peck. the film was broadcast on tnt on february 13, 1993.
the portrait is a 1993 american made-for-television drama film adapted from the play painting churches, directed by arthur penn, and starring gregory peck and lauren bacall. cecilia peck, who plays the daughter in the film, is the real-life daughter of actor gregory peck and his second wife veronique peck. the film was broadcast on tnt on february 13, 1993.