boat people ( film )
boat people was commissioned by whitstable biennale 2016. boat people won best experimental documentray film at jihlava idff 2017 .
with the headline: film festival; vietnam' s' boat people' .
australia' s
boat people
debate... 200 years earlier .
this week. boat people at the the film society of minneapolis - st. paul and at the the newport beach film festival thanks for having us !
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bart testa examined ann hui' s politically - engaged boat people, and its key contribution to the emergence of the hong kong new wave .
family to escape by boat. and so we created the fictional japanese reporter ,
“i am hopeful it will inspire people who are interested to look into the stories of the real people who were actually there. ”
in the short clip people of nowhere, lior sperandeo, who previously directed the series people of mumbai, people of nepal and people of senegal looks at the human consequences of the syrian conflict and the resulting populations’ displacements. the video compiles images of the people he met and the scenes he shot on the greek island of lesbos .
but we went anyway. i tried to keep boat people a secret before the shoot, and it created a hell of a lot of trouble for
which romped through the in­ternational festival circuits in 1979 and 1980. she followed those in 1981 with her first
boat person
film ,
the florida fish and wildlife conservation commission has identified suspects in a disturbing video showing a group of individuals dragging a shark behind a boat at high speed, people confirms .
you said people could compare once to the commitments, but people have also compared once to everything you’ve done since. do you feel a pressure from that ?
john travolta, the people v. o. j. simpson (fx )
sarah paulson, the people v. o. j. simpson (fx )
boat people is an essay film that explores this question. taking as its starting point the historic version of britain as an island and seafaring nation the film counterpoints the surety of this assertion of identity with the contingency of movement. this movement isn’t only human. boat people is also a questioning of the role the moving image itself plays in the representation of human movement and the migration of ideas. just as the invention of the telescopic lens brought near and far together for the very first time, boat people is about the way in the twenty - first century the near and far are mediated and transformed by the new ‘perception accelerator’, the digital image .
a boat carrying migrants enters the port of lampedusa. photograph: filippo monteforte / afp / getty images
courtney b. vance, the people v. o. j simpson (fx )
, but it’s important for people to understand what is happening to us and why .
and my crew. we all have to con­tinue working in the hong kong indus­try. some directors backed away from boat people, but i didn' t, because i felt that it was a film i simply must make, whatever the personal cost. otherwise i would not be able to develop as a film­maker .
so i' m not damning the country for­ever. it' s just that i am trying to explain this particular phenomenon of the boat people and their fleeing from the coun­try, and to make people understand why they flee. and that has the immediate effect of making the hong kong people much more sympathetic. so it' s a posi­tive film rather than a negative. nega­tive is the very last thing i want .
at about 1: 03: 36, you can see the shadow of the camera on the boat .
prior to a screening of ann hui' s 1982 masterpiece boat people, bart testa, senior lecturer at the cinema studies institute, innis college, university of toronto, discussed the film' s status as a key work in the hong kong new wave. frequently cited by both critics and audiences as one of the best hong kong films of all time, boat people was an integral component of the a century of chinese cinema programme at tiff bell lightbox .
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cuba gooding jr. , the people v. o. j. simpson (fx )
sterling k. brown, the people v. o. j. simpson (fx )
the clashes left more than 90 people dead on all sides, but mostly red civilians .
watch the full seeking refuge series of real life stories of young people fleeing their homelands .
( clouston) has an incredible story we could not do justice to in the film ,
nolan says .
i am hopeful it will inspire people who are interested to look into the stories of the real people who were actually there .
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i was impressed by ann hui' s masterwork boat people (1982), which cast a critical eye on vietnam after its victory over the americans in their revolutionary war in which the communist came out on top. in this film a japanese photographer, who had a previous earlier successful experience in the country documenting the country' s early independence, . when he returns the endless successive tragedies of the people he meets builds to a final tragedy while a young girl and her younger brother whom he befriends manages to escape as
boat people
at the end of the film. apparently, hui had directed a tv series episode about vietnam and two earlier films. it almost seems as if the film was anti - propaganda about…
based on the true story of two scuba divers accidentally stranded in shark infested waters after their tour boat has left .
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the golden era dominated the 34 th hong kong film awards with five wins, including best film, best director, best cinematography and best art direction .
“it’s very interesting to see how political pressure can change the interpretation of the film itself, ” rosi continues. “nobody talks about the kid any more – and the kid is like 80% of the movie. the doctor is only 20% of the film, and people only talk about the doctor. people somehow grab what they can, and make their own conclusion. that’s fine – the film doesn’t belong to me. after the film is finished, the film belongs to the audience, it belongs to the public, it belongs to the journalists. anybody can write whatever they want. ”
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in the award - winning short documentary then i came by boat, tri nguyen shares his memories of when he left war - torn vietnam as a child to cross the ocean on a wooden boat, and the way he was received as a refugee in australia .
cannot survive in the ultra - materialistic, capitalist world he finds himself in. i think if people take woo
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vietnamese people fleeing a communist dictatorship crowd the deck of a freighter in manila harbour during the 1979 refugee crisis .
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“if you’re gonna shoot somebody, shoot me! ” hanks pleads in the film .
the boat people is a psychological thriller. jared is taken to the coast by his new girlfriend, alice. they stay in the seaside cottage she' s owed all her life with her sister, cleo. as... see full summary »
] alright,' kay, can we clear this area please! see that. i talk, people listen .
miss hui' s film, which is being shown tonight and tomorrow night at the new york film festival, is certainly powerful. but it could hardly be confused with either a political tract or a documentary. the central character of'' boat people'' is a japanese photojournalist named akutagawa (lam), who is on a lengthy return visit to vietnam under the watchful eye of a woman guide from the cultural bureau .
it was the fifth time the golden era' s helmer, ann hui, won the best director award, after a simple life (2012), the way we are (2008), summer snow (1995) and boat people (1982) .
when a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive .
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cambodia also gets smeared as the film' s imaginary, unidentified, land of evil .
this raised even more questions than it answered ,
nguyen, 51, said .
it makes me wonder how it will wrap up. do they focus on the saga of the boat people or the reeducation camps? really, to understand the war, you need to understand the before and after. the post - war is what our people are still dealing with .
the rest of the film gives the lie to this sunny image; before it' s over, the journalist has even returned furtively to the same zone and found the same children sleeping naked in appallingly overcrowded barracks. miss hui, who is from hong kong, made'' boat people'' with the cooperation of the chinese government and shot it on hainan island. the film' s view of life in communist vietnam is unremittingly and, given the chinese government' s emnity to the vietnamese, not unexpectedly harsh. and yet'' boat people'' isn' t as controversial as might be expected, since its criticism is very much in the service of its clear and simple dramatic needs .
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told me, stem from the hundreds of interviews she conducted with vietnamese refu­gees beginning in 1978, when the boats that made it were flooding into hong kong harbor. i asked her how many changes the boat people script had gone through before the final version was reached .
freedom stories is a documentary based project that brings together a collection of personal stories from former asylum seekers who sought asylum in australia at a time of great political turmoil circa 2001, but who have long since dropped out of the media spotlight. the people who have participated in our project are all now australian citizens. given the ongoing controversies over ‘boat people’ it is timely that their stories be heard .
first two feature films that propelled her into the heady jet streams of the film festival circuit .
13th dc shorts film festival (official selection, washington, d. c. , usa )
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it’s the film’s version of events — and hanks’ version of phillips — that will be immortalized .
he’s so convincing as a 14 or 15 - year - old. but part of that in the story is that he’s emotionally immature and even unpleasant when dealing with other people. were you concerned about how people would see him or relate to him ?
in a letter to fwc chairman brian yablonski obtained by people, florida governor rick scott calls the act “hateful” and “inhumane. ”
as the first ferry boat approaches in the movie, there’s one guy in a suit. that was me. i was commuting back from the city .
paul meschúh studied directing at the university for television and film in munich (hochschule für fernsehen und film münchen). since his youth he has written and directed more than fifteen short fiction films, many of which have been screened at national and international film festivals, including diagonale in austria, as well as hof film festival and max ophüls film festival in germany. in 2015 paul won the stepping stone award (sprungbrett preis) at the landshut film festival and the starter film award from the city of munich. he is currently working in munich and vienna on his feature film debut “mohammed huber” and two fiction films, “family vlogging” and “anna und die 3. welt”. the focus of his creative work is the connection between global political themes and personal, emotionally driven stories .
he sun is bright and hot as you break surface. you squint to see the outline of a boat. after 40 minutes of scuba diving you feel disoriented. you paddle round to see whether the boat is behind you, but there is nothing: just calm, blue ocean, stretching to the horizon .
yeah, he had lots of rabbits in his house, and they became kind of a mascot for the film. and i also asked myself ,
if i put a bunch of rabbits in a film and i don’t explain it, will people ask about it ?
and then they do, and that’s kind of funny .
speaking of jack reynor, he’s such a highlight of the film. how did that character develop ?
film credits reveal the story was copyrighted as
the coup
- - the original working title .
the ancient one as presented in the doctor strange comics is traditionally portrayed as an asian man. but for the film adaptation, swinton was cast in the role, which was changed along with her involvement. “anybody calling for more accurate representation of the diverse world we live in has got me standing right beside them, ” swinton told ew in 2016 before the film’s release. “i think when people see this film, they’re going to see that it comes from a very diverse place, in all sorts of ways. maybe this misunderstanding around this film has been an opportunity for that voice to be heard, and i’m not against that at all. but i do think that when people see the film, they’ll see that it’s not necessarily a target for that voice. ”
“to be there with a camera was very intimidating for me, ” he remembers. “i was very ashamed to take it out and film. you have people who have just arrived in this world – and they are so intimidated. to put a camera there is a very strong act. so it was very difficult to film. ”
there might be an expectation that people who have been serving the status quo will find ways to frustrate that interest. we found the exact opposite. it' s in the nature of things like this that the people who get public credit for this are the elected ministers, but the people who made this happen were public servants. these were people who were much more familiar with the nature of the red - tape obstacles than the ministers could be. their instinct was to find ways to solve them, and they did .
) with full cooperation from the government of the people' s republic. set in vietnam in 1978, three years after the liberation ,
after suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people' s home .
jonas carpignano adopted a similar mindset, but for a very different movie. to prepare for
mediterranea ,
his new scripted film about‎ boat refugees to europe, the first - time feature director thought about simply interviewing the people who made the treacherous journey of hundreds of miles across africa to ports in countries such as morocco and algeria. instead he decided on another approach: he took the journey himself .
, the prisoner who tries to escape on that boat. in the original script he gets away and most of the film is set at sea. but when we were location - hunting be­fore production began, our cameraman said we would probably need the set - up of
the first animation of the unfairy tales series malak and the boat, released for the launch of unicef’s global campaign on the syrian refugee crisis, brings attention to the stories of the youngest victims of the syrian conflict as they flee war. aboard a light boat, 7 year old malak explains her journey as she crosses the mediterranean .
' the french will have to make their own film if they want their national story properly told.'
capt. richard phillips, they say, is no hero, and the film is one big lie .
i do believe the girl in the picture was from the beginning and it' s possible that she was crying because maybe she was gang - banged on the boat .
if she had had sex with the guys on the boat then the... whatever it was would have chased them rather than her, wouldn' t it ?
to reach kurtz, willard joins the crew of a navy river patrol boat (abbreviated pbr, as in patrol boat river), who are to ferry him up the (fictional) nung river to cambodia. the boat’s crew consists of four men: chief, chef, lance, and clean. with willard on board, the crew makes its rendezvous with the ninth air cavalry, who are to escort the pbr to the mouth of the river. the crew members find themselves in the middle of a b–
every refugee from vietnam i know has reported incidents depicted in this film. nobody experienced all of them, and certainly not in the film' s timespan, but none of the incidents are especially far - fetched .
natural born killers, 1994. this film' s graphic portrayal of seemingly random acts of violence caused blockbuster, k - mart and wal - mart to refuse to stock the director' s cut of the film .
boat people is a short starring leon burchill, mark saunders, and maureen underwood. the year is 1788, australia. two aboriginal warriors capture three british shipwreck survivors: a naval officer, a maid and a convict, and take them back to camp. the aboriginals argue over... see full summary »
as the crisis intensifies over europe' s so - called boat people – at least 1, 500 have died since january, and officials estimate 1 million people are waiting on north african shores hoping for the chance to make the crossing –
mediterranea
takes their plight and examines it from the inside. in so doing, the film shows how prestige cinema, contrary to perceptions, doesn' t have to exist in a rarefied real of first - world problems but, with the right ambition and touch, can address and advance the cause of a global crisis .
the escaping americans try to row a boat
to vietnam .
they row under a huge sign that reads
vietnam
on a bridge that forms an international border .
said brusquely, in answer to a question, as we sat on the sun - flecked terrace of the carlton hotel in cannes .
all i know is that i stand by the statements i make in boat people, the things i say and present in it. i have been under a lot of attack in hong kong, as well as here, for the movie and its politics. i' ve been bandied about by one party and another as anti - communist – which i firmly state that i am not. the film has been shamelessly used by political parties as a weapon for attacking other parties. but boat people is a survival story set in a tragic moment in history. it' s not a propaganda state­ment against communism .
a boat with immigrants on board arrives at lampedusa, southern italy. ‘i said my last prayer – i felt like i was dead already. ’ photograph: ettore ferrari / epa
political film. i always believe that it isn' t the system that mat­ters in a country but the people who run it. it' s a more optimistic way to see things and, i believe, a more realistic one. the film is set in 1978, which means that the situation we' re showing could have changed even now. i re­member reading in
the subject of ann hui' s'' boat people'' would not seem to lend itself to ordinary movie - making tactics, since the film depicts the horrendous living conditions to be found in the northern part of vietnam in 1978, three years after the war ended. however, miss hui brings a conventional - and for the most part highly effective - storytelling talent to bear upon this material. she' s able to create both sensationalism and drama, even if her film never generates an air of realism, or frees itself from coincidence and cliche .
the short film when you don' t exist imagines a scenario where migration flows would be reversed from those commonly perceived in europe: as violent unrest causes people to flee europe in mass and reach africa, they are forcibly taken by authorities and jailed in refugee camps .
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he opted for a slim - fitting tan suit at the film' s dunkirk premiere on july 16, 2017 .
at the film' s london premiere on july 13, styles chose a double - breasted jacket and tan shoes .
acres continued to take the elevated route, presenting a film performance at marlborough house on 21 july 1896 by royal request, where he was assisted by cecil hepworth. but his position within the burgeoning british film business diminished. he turned to the production of celluloid film through his northern photographic works, and in 1898 launched an ingenious miniature camera / projector, the birtac, which employed 17. 5mm film, hoping vainly to capitalise on a potential home movie market .
in the run - up to friday’s release of “captain phillips, ” hanks has appeared on the cover of parade magazine with phillips and the headline “the making of an american hero. ” the film won the opening - night slot at the new york film festival on sept. 28 and opened the london film festival last wednesday. it has won raves, all of which note the film is based on real events. the two men have walked the red carpet together .
golden chicken sss' ivana wong won both for best supporting actress and best new performer. the singer - songwriter' s foray into the film industry has garnered her three nominations in the best new performer category, plus a nomination in the best original film song category, marking a record for the most - nominated performer at the hong kong film awards .
the last picture show, 1971. this film, featuring a scene of cybil shepherd skinny - dipping, was banned in phoenix in 1973 for violating a state obscenity statute. a federal court later held that the film was not obscene .
good, clean, wealthy, intellectual and sensitive white people are brutally bullied by a cruel, yelling, bloodthirsty, darker - skinned, generic third worlders .
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@ what really makes you think that she didn' t have sex with the three boat guys? i just thought they got killed by it pretty quickly, so it came back for her .
he continued ,
i think it' s important this isn' t some transient, fleeting thing — the migration of the 2000' s or whatever it will be called. these people are building relationships and becoming part of the social fabric. i want to step into their world and bring other people with me .
ordinary heroes is a 1999 cantonese - language film directed by ann hui. it was co - produced by hong kong and china. it concerns social reform activists in hong kong. the film' s chinese title... see full synopsis »
the african queen, 1951. among the many scenes and exchanges that the censors objected to in this classic were an
immoral relationship
between a missionary and a hard - edged boat captain during wwi, the
questionable taste
of the sound of stomach - growlings, and the film' s depiction of
ridiculed missionaries
which may be offensive
to people of serious religious conviction .
also, kissing should not be
passionate, lustful, or open - mouthed .
with poverty and tyranny, in an attempt to explain just why hundreds of thousands of vietnamese have put their lives at risk to flee by boat to hoped - for safety and freedom in hong kong .
for someone extremely knowledgeable, they will see the differences. it’s a bigger boat, and longer ,
says nolan .
but we dressed it to make it look like a british destroyer .
the pre - production for the film took three years, what with building a boat and a camp that would house a thousand extras plus the crew. plenty of injuries were incurred in the name of art: herzog’s cinematographer, filming on board the steamboat, had his hand cut open (and it had to be stitched up without anesthesia). another crew member was bitten by a venomous snake, and then cut off his own foot with a chainsaw in order to avoid cardiac arrest. but in the end, the boat made its way successfully over the mountain, and herzog captured it all on film—challenging the basic laws of nature, and triumphing .
“we had two pirate attacks over 18 hours, ” says this crew member, not just the one shown in the film .
it’s too early in the investigation for the fwc to speculate “what, if any, violations took place in the incident, ” they say in a statement to people .
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it is 22 years since the introduction by australia of mandatory detention for asylum seekers arriving by boat and this country remains the only united nations refugee convention signatory with a policy of indefinite mandatory detention. freedom stories explores what is was like for people to experience mandatory detention and the uncertainty of temporary protection visas. how have they coped and what have they managed to achieve since ?
showed a young viet­nam refugee who leaves a camp in hong kong to go to america, only to be trapped on the way in the philippines. because the film is very adventurous, very melodramatic, and uses american b - movie visual styles and techniques, people wouldn' t take it seriously as a social comment. but if you look at the film' s story, the message is very clear. this man woo
publicity surrounding the case spelled disaster for the queensland dive industry. nearly 50, 000 people work in queensland' s barrier reef tourist trade, which is worth a $ 4. 3bn and hosts nearly 4m day trips every year. high - profile horror stories could irrevocably taint the image of local operators. worse still, this had not been simply an unavoidable accident. dive boat crews are meant to count every diver into and out of the water and then carry out a further count when the boat leaves the dive site, but somehow the lonergans had slipped through the net .
the netflix film adaptation of the popular japanese manga was criticized for whitewashing the story (nat wolff plays the film’s lead, a character who is japanese in the source material). but producers argued shifting the story to seattle turned it into an american story .
an adventurous young girl sets out with a demi - god to solve the mystery of her people in moana, the upcoming film from disney animation. it sounds like a simple story, but as directors ron clements and john musker can tell you, putting it on - screen is anything but simple .
he boy next to me fell to the floor and for a moment i didn’t know if he had fainted or was dead – then i saw that he was covering his eyes so he didn’t have to see the waves any more. a pregnant woman vomited and started screaming. below deck, people were shouting that they couldn’t breathe, so the men in charge of the boat went down and started beating them. by the time we saw a rescue helicopter, two days after our boat had left libya with 250 passengers on board, some people were already dead – flung into the sea by the waves, or suffocated downstairs in the dark. it’s very difficult for me to think about this, nearly four years after i paid a smuggler to get me out of
to his people, saying that he finds the economy unbearable and that the state of corruption must be revised. and so by admitting it, he means it might change .
you know, america still has not recovered from the vietnam war. the divisions that existed then still make many people suffer today. but we' ve reached a point where we can gain from their wisdom ,
he said of the people who experienced the conflict firsthand .
you combine that wisdom with emotion, with scholarly work .
les amants (the lovers) 1958. it was not so much the graphic portrayal of sex in this malle classic, since the film only shows a glimpse of the protagonist' s naked breast, but rather its celebration of adulterous liaisons. ohio enforced an obscenity law to ban the film, but in 1968 the supreme court reversed the obscenity conviction of the ohio theater that exhibited the film .
bonnie and clyde, 1967. this film, released shortly after the end of the hays code, was notable for its portrayal of graphic violence. critics and the general public were concerned that the film glamorized violence because the main characters were highly engaging and likeable .
the first day of filming, clint eastwood boarded my boat. he knew my name. i guess as a joke he called me coach lombardi. i put my hand out and said, “gunny highway. ”
the boat continues upriver, only to meet another surprise attack. primitive natives onshore shoot a storm of arrows at the pbr. chief is impaled with a spear and dies. with two men gone, the survivors at last reach kurtz’s camp, a macabre site in which countless dead bodies and severed heads are strewn about seemingly at random. a hyperactive american photojournalist, unabashed in his worship of kurtz, greets the boat .
a lot of people say, “oh, is it going to bring bad memories? ” not at all. the best memory i got is that i’m alive to see it .
there is a scene in it follows where jay drives to the sea and looks at 3 men in a boat. she enters the water and, in the next scene, is crying as she drives home. i assumed she had swum out and had a sexual encounter with them but the rest of the film would imply this is not the case .
and you’ve said eamon’s rabbits in the film came right out of real life. the actual eamon you knew as a teenager kept rabbits .
1969 midnight cowboy wins three academy awards. it is the first and only x - rated film to receive an oscar for best picture .
carnal knowledge, 1971. although the film explored highly nuanced themes and characters, the censors were blinded by the titillating title and suggestion of sex. in 1972, the film was seized and a theater manager was arrested in georgia. the supreme court eventually overturned the conviction .
i think it’s lazy journalism. but i’m completely okay with it! i think it’s obvious that i think it’s very tiresome. it’s an easy way to make copy, to say ,
it’s not as good as his first film ,
or compare it to my first film. i think people thought i was an amateur when i made once, because it looks so amateurish. that they were delighted with the idea that someone made something on a camcorder. that’s not the real story. i’d been making film for 10 years before then. i’d been making tv professionally for four years .
in fact, says this crew member, the maersk veered off course by 180 degrees south — this was during the first attack, on april 8. phillips denies this, and says the boat only picked up speed .
i could see sing street happening in that sense, but that’s academic until it does well at the box office as a film. i think it has to be something before it’s a play. but i would love to do that. i don’t think that would have worked on begin again, even though people wanted it .
i think it sounds very practical — you walk across the desert and get on a boat ,
carpignano said .
but most people in europe or the u. s. don' t think about the nuances. you think,' well, yeah, there' s a lot of sand and it' s uncomfortable.' and that doesn' t really describe what they go through .
it wasn' t very therapeutic making the film because it meant reliving all that had happened ,
seihon said in an interview tuesday night via a translator, noting that he had been told he had to pilot the boat on the crossing despite having no experience in that department .
but i want people to understand the frustrations we had, and still have in europe - - how african women are mistreated, how we' re not given the paperwork to allow us to have jobs, how we' re kicked out of our homes .
freedom stories is a collaborative documentary project from flying carpet films. it explores the achievements and stories of former ‘boat people’ who arrived in australian waters seeking asylum from the middle east around 2001, a defining year in australian politics. locked in remote detention centres and then placed on temporary protection visas, their limbo lasted for years. now australian citizens, they are finally building secure lives and contributing to their new country .
damon plays one of the heroes in the china - set film, a casting choice that was slammed as perpetuating the white - savior myth. “we have to stop perpetuating the racist myth that [ only a ] white man can save the world, ” fresh off the boat star constance wu wrote in a widely circulated tweet. “our heroes don’t look like matt damon. ”
of course she had sex with at least two of the guys on the boat because the evil often times shows up as the prior victims stalking the
passed to
person. so in the pool scene you see one guy throwing the tv at the pool that is one of the guys on the boat. the scene before it when they drive away to the big swimming gym, there is an old guy standing on top of the house, and he is another guy from that boat... hope this helps. i mean obviously you recognize the girl who died at the beginning of the movie shows up as one of the evil possessed walker in the middle of the movie .
1961 in times film corp. v. chicago, the supreme court says that chicago' s licensing scheme, which required film exhibitors to submit films for police review before screening, is not a prior restraint on speech, leaving courts to rule in individual cases whether the result is constitutional .
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all is lost was shot on three 1978 cal 39 sailboats purchased from their owners in southern california. these three boats generously gave themselves up for art: tahoe, tenacious, and orion. they took their final sails in the pacific ocean and performed beautifully in the film as our mans' s boat, the virginia jean. rest in peace .
i’m one of several hundred thousand people who, since the arab uprisings of 2011, have arrived in europe across the mediterranean. it is now the deadliest border in the world. we all have different reasons for doing it: some people think they’ll find a better life in europe, others just want to get away from a war zone. but everyone feels they have no other option .
another example is the british destroyer seen in the film. functional destroyers are hard to come by, and the one used on location is french .
“i’m not a migration expert, ” he sighs, settling for a table two metres from the sunbather. “i want to talk about film. ”
“anybody who is familiar with the history of the pacific islanders in film, there’s cause for worry, ” said dionne fonoti, an anthropologist and filmmaker from samoa who was part of the trust. even the film’s young star, auli’i cravalho, a hawaiian teenager making her film debut, admitted that she wasn’t so starstruck by disney’s interest to approach moana without concerns. “i was wary, ” she admits. “i think that everyone can say they might be a little afraid of it, because when we have a film that is inspired by a culture we want to feel good about it. ”
“no, it’s probably not, ” he replies. “but there’s so many types of documentary. documentary has so many different elements. but for me the word documentary is important because it starts with reality – and reality is my main source of telling the story. i don’t change that, i stick to that, i don’t make people interact with other people that they don’t in real life. ”
director christopher nolan' s dunkirk is earning rave reviews for its you - are - there depiction of the battle of dunkirk — the heroic small - boat evacuation of british and allied troops pinned down by german forces early in world war ii .
katie and guy take a sea cruise in their sailboat and discover a couple on a wrecked boat, victims of a brutal attack by their crew. they take eliza and nick on board. the new boarders... see full summary »
was given a choice be­tween screening it in the directors fort­night or as the film surprise. in either case publicity was to be kept to a mini­mum .
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in the real story the boat was sunk. what happened was that the viet­namese had two patrol boats which fired into the hull of the refugee boat and then went around and around it, until they created a great whirlpool, so that the whole boat was sunk. it was in all the newspapers in hong kong at the time. but we couldn' t shoot the whirlpool, be­cause technically it was impossible for us. it' s a pity, because it would have been a much more impressive scene. but we kept the real point of the incident, which is that vietnamese officers deliberately' set up' escape attempts – pocketing the bribes beforehand, of course – and then ambushed the boats .
i wish they had, in a way. i’m sorry! but there is a side of me that wishes they had. given the difficulty of people who are making journeys, and end up dying .
when the ship set off, we were worried about the engines breaking down, but we soon realised the biggest problem was the waves. the boat wasn’t built for the journey and it was flipped up every time a big wave hit. all i could do was say my last prayer – i felt like i was dead already. this was in 2011, but now there are many more people camped on the libyan coast, waiting for their turn .
despite increased critical attention in recent years, birt acres remains a comparatively neglected figure among the pioneers of british film. as a creative film - maker his contribution was negligible, but as an inventor and innovator, and simply as someone who was especially active at the start of things, his importance is certain .
if you love this planet, 1982. this canadian documentary on the medical and social effects of nuclear war triggered concern because it interspersed short clips from ronald reagan movies. after the u. s. justice department labeled the film
political propaganda ,
the film gained notoriety, eventually leading to an oscar for best short documentary for director terri nash. in her acceptance speech, she thanked the u. s. government for so effectively
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you said the family in the film was completely unlike yours, and i wanted to talk about them a bit. people keep comparing sing street to the commitments, partly because it’s about a band in dublin, but also partly because you cast maria doyle kennedy as conor’s mother. i’m curious how that came about. how you decided you wanted to do that .
1915 the naacp and others protest against birth of a nation, d. w. griffith' s film about the civil war and reconstruction, which incites riots in ohio, massachusetts, pennsylvania, and colorado. it will become the most banned film in u. s. history because of its controversial racial content .
perhaps in an effort to protect its relationship with thailand, where the film was shot ,
no escape
trashes cambodia, which subsequently banned the movie .
i think jack reynor [ who plays conor’s brother brendan in the film ] liked her for the role, and i listened. when i’m talking to actors in my films, and they’re like ,
what about this? what about this ?
i like to listen to them as they connect to their characters, and to the film. she was on a list, and i knew her through friends, but there was no nod to the commitments in casting her in the film. someone even said the other day that there are rabbits in my film, and the main character in the commitments is called jimmy rabbitte. well, okay…
it’s made for hollywood: the story of an average american family man, captain of a cargo ship in dangerous waters, his vessel overtaken by armed somali pirates demanding ransom, saving his crew by allowing himself to be removed from the boat and taken hostage .
at 3 a. m. , the pirates radioed the boat to stop; phillips had left the stern light on and the bridge open. at 7 a. m. , came the third and final attack: four armed somali pirates stormed the maersk .
but fire at sea is attracting fiercer attention than rosi’s earlier efforts. not just because it won the top prize at the berlin film festival in february, and is currently frontrunner for the best documentary oscar next year, but on account of the scenes in between the mundane and the domestic. first is pietro, the island’s doctor, who alternates checkups for locals such as samuele with emergency care for the migrants passing through. late in the movie, rosi shows the rescue of a stricken smugglers’ boat, way to the south of lampedusa. there are perhaps 500 teetering on its deck, or crammed below – and some 50 have already suffocated to death. in the film’s most shocking and surreal scene, italian rescuers – dressed in white jumpsuits, and looking like spacemen – drag from the boat the limp and sometimes lifeless bodies of african passengers .
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nguyen said that if the film had been screened on bolsa avenue, the main drag of orange county' s little saigon, the reaction might have been different .
while working on the infamous film “fitzcarraldo, ” herzog demanded that a real ship be pulled over a real mountain in the jungle (as the script called for), and refused to shoot the sequence in a studio with special effects. fitzcarraldo, the protagonist of this film (played by klaus kinski), is driven by his love of music, concocting a grand plan that seems bound to fail: building an opera house in the jungle, and thus bringing the power of caruso, verdi and wagner to the ignorant natives. in order to raise money and construct his opera house, fitzcarraldo takes a ship up a tributary and, with the help of a thousand natives, pulls this boat over a mountain and into a parallel river. typically, enormous sea vessels are not meant to be dragged over mountains. twentieth century fox was originally interested in producing the film, but they wanted herzog to use a model boat and a model mountain — and herzog, unsurprisingly, was unwilling to make such compromises.
boat people ( chinese : 投奔怒海 ; pinyin : tóubēn nù hăi ; cantonese yale : tau ban no hoi ; literally : " into the raging sea " ) is a hong kong film directed by ann hui , first shown in theatres in 1982 . the film stars george lam , andy lau , cora miao , and season ma . at the second hong kong film awards , boat people won awards for best picture , best director , best new performer , best screenplay , and best art direction . it was also screened out of competition at the 1983 cannes film festival . in 2005 , at the 24th hong kong film awards , boat people was ranked 8th in the list of 103 best chinese-language films in the past 100 years . boat people was the last film in hui 's " vietnam trilogy " . it recounts the plight of the vietnamese people after the communist takeover following the fall of saigon ending the vietnam war . 
boat people (chinese: 投奔怒海; pinyin: tóubēn nù hăi; cantonese yale: tau ban no hoi; literally: " into the raging sea ") is a hong kong film directed by ann hui, first shown in theatres in 1982. the film stars george lam, andy lau, cora miao, and season ma. at the second hong kong film awards, boat people won awards for best picture, best director, best new performer, best screenplay, and best art direction. it was also screened out of competition at the 1983 cannes film festival. in 2005, at the 24th hong kong film awards, boat people was ranked 8th in the list of 103 best chinese-language films in the past 100 years. boat people was the last film in hui's " vietnam trilogy ". it recounts the plight of the vietnamese people after the communist takeover following the fall of saigon ending the vietnam war.
boat people (chinese: 投奔怒海; pinyin: tóubēn nù hăi; cantonese yale: tau ban no hoi; literally: " into the raging sea ") is a hong kong film directed by ann hui, first shown in theatres in 1982. the film stars george lam, andy lau, cora miao, and season ma. at the second hong kong film awards, boat people won awards for best picture, best director, best new performer, best screenplay, and best art direction. it was also screened out of competition at the 1983 cannes film festival. in 2005, at the 24th hong kong film awards, boat people was ranked 8th in the list of 103 best chinese-language films in the past 100 years. boat people was the last film in hui's " vietnam trilogy ". it recounts the plight of the vietnamese people after the communist takeover following the fall of saigon ending the vietnam war.