tough ( film )
my 2016 graduation film from kingston university london. original score by k. preston merkley
influential korean american actress margaret cho, who appeared in the film face / off with john travolta as well as television shows including sex and the city, accused the film of ‘yellowface’, which she describes as ‘when white people portray asian people. and unfortunately it’s happening in this film. ’
a cop goes undercover in thailand to avenge his brother' s death in this martial arts film .
sure, warner bros. broke the sound barrier with “the jazz singer, ” but in the early years of talkies it carved out its true turf as the home of gangster films. film forum’s “tough guys, tough dames … tough pictures” series, starting friday, sept. 22, includes 27 movies from the 1930s and ’40s; david thomson, author of a new history of the studio, introduces several screenings .
the film it chooses to bestow the best picture award on could very well show just how far the oscars have come .
some things can only be understood with maturity. new light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a chinese mother and her british - born daughter speak as adults for the first time. official selection sundance film festival 2017 - international documentary short film selection urltoken
celebrities including kate moss, emma bunton and jerry hall have been queuing up to perform cameos in the film version of absolutely fabulous .
my 2016 kingston university graduation film exploring ideas of identity, diaspora, culture and race. direction, design and animation by jennifer zheng original score by k. preston merkley i did a pretty in - depth interview about making this film on skwigly which you can read here .
“semi‐tough, ” dan jenkins' s best‐selling comic novel about bigleague professional football, has been slimmed down, beefed up and reworked to make a funny film that is as much satire as parody, as much about our time as it is about some of our more bizarre culture heroes .
it' s oscar weekend in hollywood and' la la land' is the favourite to win the most awards but still faces some tough competition .
for more gifs showing the process behind making the film look at my website here: urltoken with an original score by k. preston merkley urltoken
if the film' s various sketchpieces were not so funny, “semitough” would not have any story at all. as it is, we go along with it for the three leading players, who are good company, and for the wit that, though random, is consistent. for a film about football, “semi‐tough” spends comparatively little time on the field and makes no serious attempt to trap our interest in questions about winning or losing .
watching
tough guys ,
you begin to meditate. you look at kirk douglas and burt lancaster, and you remember years and years of moviegoing .
last month, tough filmed scenes alongside lumley in london while clad in over - sized cat’s eye sunglasses, a short black wig and a red coat .
pretty tough is a tv series starring dalila ali rajah, adelaide kane, and crystal young. set in the privileged and picturesque world of malibu, california, pretty tough centers on charlie and krista brown, two sisters at opposite ends of the popularity spectrum, who must learn... see full summary »
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…
tough has done very well on the festival circuit from sundance, sxsw to being bafta nominated. impressive achievement for a student film. jennifer zheng is now a junior animator at the previously short of the week featured moth collective (matter fisher, my mother’s coat & a kiss, deferred). we are all awaiting her next project .
new york - it' s oscar weekend in hollywood and the movie la la land is the favourite to win the most awards, but it still faces some tough competition .
but there is one well - known face that is proving somewhat controversial: scottish comedienne janette tough, best known for playing naughty schoolboy wee jimmy krankie in eighties tv shows .
tough is a story about an estranged father and son who reconnect after 11 years when they now discover that they share the same apartment complex. the cause for the disconnect was the father inability to deal with his sons lifestyle. this film confronts issues of identity, self awareness, fatherhood, and family. the title itself is a play on masculinity within the american society and within the african american community and asks the question' what does it really mean to be tough and also accepted for who you really are?'
growing up in northern ireland as a first generation brit, jennifer always felt “white”, with her cultural heritage only showing “on her face”. as she matured, she realized that her chinese parents grew up during the cultural revolution and this revelation prompted the animator to explore her origins in her kingston university london grad film. in the conversation she has with her mother in her film, zheng not only learns where she comes from, but also gets a better understanding of her mother’s ‘tough’ approach and discovers strength in her parenting decisions .
last year’s oscars ‘so white’ debate, prompted the academy to invite over 600 new members to vote and film critics are questioning if that impact will be felt at sunday’s ceremony .
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some pundits say, if the nostalgia - driven la la land scoops best picture over the more challenging film moonlight, it will indicate the academy has not fully received the message .
“semi‐tough” pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are perfectly healthy but often convinced they' re not .
during the last act of the film elmo' s facial hair variates, almost shot - to - shot, from full beard to five o' clock shadow to even cleanly shaved .
chris hemsworth kicks off filming for the star - studded men in black spin - off as he cuts a sharp figure in london... 21 years after the first film hit screens
an aspiring country / western singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a
tough man
amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. amazingly enough, he wins it, and is picked to go onto the national finals. he' s torn between his first love, music, and the glitz, glamor and money of the
tough man
world .
tough is a story about an estranged father and son who reconnect after 11 years when they now discover that they share the same apartment complex. the cause for the disconnect was the... see full summary »
an aspiring country / western singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a
tough man
amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills... . see full summary »
semi‐tough, directed by michael ritchie; screenplay by walter bernstein, based on the novel by dan jenkins; produced by david merrick; director of photography, charles rosner jr. ; editor, richard a. harris; music, jerry fielding; distributed by united artsts. runnng time: 103 minutes. at the crierion theater, broadway at 45th street, and baronet theacr, third avenue at 59th street. this film has been rated r .
winning or losing is not the concern of the film, which knows that there are always new seasons to improve old records. the film isn' t even too concerned about whether barbara jane marries billy joe or shake tiller. its interest is in the overall scene—in the shambles of her wedding ceremonies, a very nice sequence that begins as we overhear the minister and friedrich bismark, the mental‐health tycoon, standing at the altar solemnly discussing tax shelters .
set in the privileged and picturesque world of malibu, california, pretty tough centers on charlie and krista brown, two sisters at opposite ends of the popularity spectrum, who must learn to play together on the sports field and in life .
actors samuli edelman, teemu lehtilä, juha veijonen and the producer, markus selin, promised to stop smoking if the film was seen by 200, 000 viewers in finland. that number was reached on february 15th, 1999 .
with this film mr. ritchie (“the bad news bears, ” “smile, ” “downhill racer”) reinforces his reputation as one of those rare directors who is able to look at middle america critically without being especially outraged or even surprised .
a tough, honorable former navy seal gets more than he bargained for, but more than he can handle, when he accepts a job captaining a ship for a mysterious, sexy woman who turns out to be the wife of a ruthless drug kingpin .
the tough detective vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. his job is to find the real killer, but people aren' t talking. before he can get traction another homicide takes place - and things move toward a dire conclusion .
in previous years, the awards have overlooked films of a more political nature or social relevance, like the martin luther king drama selma and carol with cate blanchett, in favour of the artist, argo and birdman movies that speak specifically about the film industry .
‘i can’t believe it’s taken me nearly to the age of 70 to land my first film role, ’ she has said of the part. ‘but it’ll be no problem appearing on screen as a man, as i’ve spent a whole lifetime playing a schoolboy. ’
full and genuine access to a documentary subject almost always provides better material for the filmmaker. in the case of tough, the mother / daughter relationship means zheng gets her interviewee to bare all, with no restraint, making for a nuanced narrative that more people can relate to .
barbara _ lee _ olson and a1969cowboy heres the songs #
i was born a dreamer
performed by mickey gilley #
tough enough
performed by t. g. sheppard #
rainbows never touch the ground
performed by dennis quaid #
don' t they know who i' m gonna be ?
performed by dennis quaid #
motor city
( instrumental) performed by blue skies band #
tough man theme
( instrumental) performed by blue skies band #
cowtown rag
performed by blue skies band #
i was born a dreamer
( instrumental) performed by blue skies band #
more nights
performed by lane brody #
you' ve got the touch
performed by johnny tillotson an aspiring country / western singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a
tough man
amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. amazingly enough, he wins it, and is picked to go onto the national finals. he' s torn between his first love, music, and the glitz, glamor and money of the
tough man
world
it is something that was discussed but it doesn’t mean we talked like that all the time - - absolutely not ,
roessner recalled .
and indeed, they don’t talk like that in the film the entire time, but my journal is filled with little bits of dialogue of things that people would say to me. they weren’t intending to be philosophical at times. but i got the wisdom. it never left me, obviously, because it made it to the film a decade later. you’d be surprised at how intelligent people get when the bullet starts flying .
cheech and chong work briefly as car wash attendants and musicians before being hired to drive a car from chicago to las vegas. unbeknownst to them, their employers (themselves in double roles) have concealed five million dollars of dirty money in the upholstery. a series of adventures ensues, including the making of a porn film featuring' the guys' and their real - life squeezes .
' pitbull: tough women' sees two police departments in warsaw forced to work together against the most powerful criminal organisation in poland. the members of the mokotowska group are responsible for a string of kidnappings and murders throughout poland, and have the police force in their sights. mayan, the new chief of police and a veteran of undercover work, joins forces with the heroes of the original' pitbull' to fight back .
one of the very few things that make me appreciate being older, and slightly wiser, is having honest conversations with my parents. in tough, jennifer zheng sits down with her mother and finally has a grown - up talk about her origins. shedding light on cultural identity and raising a child as an emigrant, zheng’s animated documentary tackles its subject in the most heartfelt and touching way: a mother / daughter one on one .
other “characters” who move in and out of the film are big ed bookman (robert preston), barbara jane' s father, a hot‐tempered tycoon with a fondness for patriotic songs (gene autry records); friedrich bismark (bert convy), the hustling head of a terrifically successful “energy training” course called beat, and clara pelf (lotte lenya), a ferocious chiropractor who calls what she does “pelfing. ”
when you were a kid, they were the embodiment of heroism and charm and strength. and then comes this movie where they play guys 67 and 72 years old. and who, for that matter, is that middle - age guy in the audience sitting in your seat ?
tough guys
is the story of the last two train robbers in america, who stuck up a train in 1956 and were put away for 30 years .
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tough guys
might have seemed like a good idea for a movie. it certainly reminds us of what giants lancaster and douglas were - and are. but precisely because they have paid so many dues and bring so many of our memories to all the roles they play, they deserve something better than this. the movie makes the same mistake as some of the characters in it: it treats these two guys like lovable old characters instead of listening to what they really have to say .
“semi‐tough” is not a movie that forces a lot of plot on you. it' s under way for some time before you begin to grasp what is meant to be the story—the thing that is supposed to pull you along. this is about the rivalry that suddenly springs un between the selfassured biiry clyde, a role that effectively uses mr. reynolds' s television talk show personality, and shake tiller, a fellow who is a pared‐down, very hesitant version of mr. kristofferson' s identity as a musician‐singer. at the center of the quarrel is barbara jane .
tough guys
might have been better if douglas and lancaster had played characters who were a little more fallible, humble and realistic. for example, we don' t need the scene where they beat up a gang of muggers in an alley. we don' t need their utter cool and total confidence in the face of all dangers. maybe if they were scared, uncertain or filled with self - doubt, we might like them more. since they waltz through everything, there' s no suspense. since their victories seem inevitable, they generate no joy .
the movie, which opened yesterday at the criterion and baronet theaters, takes us on a sort of “through the looking glass” journey into the sunday afternoon television screen and beyond, into the lives of billy clyde puckett (burt reynolds) and shake tiller (kris kristofferson), prostars whose names are part of the film' s comic method, and barbara jane bookman (jill clayburgh), the pretty but failure‐prone daughter of the owner of their ball club. barbara jane shares a platonic friendship with the two players as well as their miami beach penthouse apartment, a gaudy nest that looks as if it had been decorated by the people who did our ziegfeld theater .
the first weekend features a fourpack of warner stars: edward g. robinson in “little caesar” (his character, rico bandello, may well have inspired the antimob law’s acronym, rico); paul muni in “i am a fugitive from a chain gang”; humphrey bogart in “high sierra”; and james cagney gone fully psychotic in “white heat. ” next week boasts a rare screening of “black legion” (1937), a bogart film that, the new york times review noted, was a fictional account “of the hooded organization that terrorized the midwest in 1935 - 36 cloaking its cowardice, bigotry, selfishness, stupidity and brutality under the mantle of ‘100 percent americanism. ’” (filmforum. org )
well folks if you liked up in smoke, next movie and nice dreams then you should give things are tough all over a try even though they didn' t smoke pot in this movie but there is a little drug humor in this movie. this movie is about the duo working at a car wash in a very cold freezing weather in chicago and they got fired and they decide to drive a limousine all the way from chicago to las vegas and there are two guys (cheech and chong in a double role) who are after them and what c & c didn' t know was that the limousine was filled with money. this movie was a different approach to cheech and chong cause it didn' t take place in l. a. and there was alot less drug humor than the previous movies and while it may seem a somewhat forgettable movie, it' s a pure classic compared the still smokin' and the corsician brothers and i think that all c & c fans should watch this movie. 6 / 10
some things can only be understood with maturity. new light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a chinese mother and her british born daughter speak as adults for the first time .
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... but a poor one. every single narrative solution is already seen and the plot gives no surprise. not at all. unfourtanely this gives a constant sensation of' premonition'. sport scenes appear fake (more than usual sport movies already are), and most of the second part takes place in a' sunset effect' light, that has the result to make even more difficult to' feel' the story. if you like soccer and love stories about girls trying to make their dreams true, maybe you could find something nicer, or at least more original. average rate is (at the moment) really high, so maybe there is something in the movie i cannot see and makes it special. not in my opinion .
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walter bernstein, who wrote the screenplay, and michael ritchie, the director, haven' t been successful in giving dramatic structure to the episodic novel, but they do succeed in restraining a terrible tendency toward cuteness, not an easy thing to do in a comedy in which all men are recognized as just overgrown boys .
mostly he is amused, not as someone who sets himself apart from the scene, but as a man who recognizes his own place in it. he may wish it were other than it is, but he doesn' t rage that it isn' t. he' s a humanist fascinated by the manners and mores of a society in which everything, from food to mental health, has been merchandized for the take‐out trade .
miss clayburgh, who' s been asked to play zany heroines in “gable and lombard” and “the silver streak” by people who failed to provide her with material, has much better luck this time. she' s charming .
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i caught this movie on cable today and was fairly impressed. not with the action or special effects, but how well piper and banks played off of each other. piper was more believable in his character than banks, but banks held his own. the action was ok, but nothing to get excited about. this actually turned out to be a really good buddy movie with a good mix of action, drama and a fair mix of humor. this is one that is worth watching just for the heck of it. remember... it' s not an a movie... it' s a b movie at best .
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: kick him right square in the nuts, and then tell him his mother' s whore .
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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. …
roger ebert' s speech on empathy for the
11th hour
series on april 9th, 1994, being republished here in honor of his birthday june 18 .
roger ebert was born on this day in 1942, and died a little over five years ago. i owe a good part of my success…
a look back at robert zemeckis' half - animated classic, who framed roger rabbit, on its 30 - year anniversary .
a tribute to the late tab hunter, a gay matinee idol and hollywood trailblazer .
now they' re back on the street again, two old ex - cons trying to go straight and preserve a certain level of self - respect. these guys are not just any old cons, however, and that' s the basic flaw in this movie: they' re both living legends, and they know it .
the opening shots of the movie establish the tone. in the prison cell, douglas is pumping iron. he has his shirt off and, good lord, he' s got muscles like sylvester stallone. (douglas may be the first male movie star in history willing to be photographed bare - chested in his late 60s .) he and lancaster put on their carefully preserved, tailor - made suits, position their fedoras on their heads and walk out the prison gates. then, for the next hour, we see them in a series of scenes designed to demonstrate that they' ve still got the stuff .
they try to cash their prison checks in a bank and single - handedly stop a bank robbery. douglas is picked up by a perky young aerobics instructor, who gives private classes in her bedroom. lancaster miserably checks into an old - people' s home and meets an old flame there: she' s an aerobics instructor, too. douglas gets a job as a bus boy, but can' t take the insults from the customers. lancaster resents being treated like a senior citizen .
finally, they do the inevitable: they return to crime. they stick up an armored car, and that leads to a momentus decision: they' ll take the flyer again, the same train they robbed 30 years ago. it' s scheduled for its farewell run, and so are they. but they take far too long to arrive at this decision, and the movie suffers because of the long buildup. it would have been better as a caper movie right from the start. instead, it plays like a series of cute situations in search of a plot. and by the time we arrive at the truly sensational climax, it' s too late .
the movie is further muddled by the introduction of two unnecessary supporting characters. charles durning plays the cop who arrested them 30 years ago, and eli wallach, in an utterly thankless role, plays a nearsighted old hit man. wallach' s scenes are awkward, would - be physical comedy, and there are such long time gaps between his appearances .
an interview with terry gilliam, director of
the man who killed don quixote .
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when iraq war veteran and pat tillman military scholar chris roessner sat down to write his debut screenplay
sand castle ,
he wanted it to be personal and to reflect the just over 12 months he spent in iraq .
most movies about war are mission oriented, about taking a hill, or a village, or capturing enemy troops. roessner' s movie is also mission oriented, but it’s a different kind of mission .
i wanted to talk about what it feels like to be a young man or woman at war and what it feels like to need the local population [ to work with you ] to be successful ,
he told fox news .
set in the early days of the second gulf war ,
sand castle
is the story of inexperienced private matt ocre (nicholas hoult), whose unit is ordered to the outskirts of baqubah to repair a water pumping station damaged by u. s. bombs. but as ocre quickly discovers, winning over the locals is a job fraught with danger and extreme frustration .
ocre' s war experience, very much like roessner' s, is dependent upon his ability to work with the iraqi people, and he soon finds out that if the locals were willing to help, they paid a high price for that .
not by us, but by insurgents ,
roessner explained .
they were killed for helping us and they were well aware of that. that’s not something that we realized right away. we learned it quickly, but the price that people paid for helping us was very, very high .
even though
sand castle
filmed in jordan, not iraq, it was still emotionally battering for roessner to revisit certain aspects of his time in the war zone, especially scenes where they were filming the deaths of men who had been his friends .
i was surprised to find that, even though i’d lived with the script for seven years, watching it happen, i really wanted to change it ,
roessner said .
i really wanted to make it happen differently, and that feeling was surprising and overwhelming. but ultimately, if i changed it, i think i would do a disservice to the folks that i’ve served alongside. it was much too important for me that i stay true to those moments, but it was very, very hard .
another way roessner, who knew he wanted to be a filmmaker before he joined the military but couldn' t afford the tuition, stayed true to his experience was by referencing a journal he kept during his tour in iraq .
i came back from iraq when i was 20 and i said,' what’s fascinating about war is that if you’re a 19 - year - old kid from arkansas with a ged, war will turn you into a philosopher,' and that is absolutely true .
an example of a scene reconstructed from his journal is a conversation in which one of the men in his unit tells ocre that
there' s a bullet out there for everyone .
sand castle ,
also starring henry cavill, glen powell, logan marshall - green, neil brown jr. , and beau knapp, premieres on netflix on april 21 .
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number of refugees accepted into the u. s. falls below the rest of the world combined for the first time since 1980
the big - screen adaptation will see joanna lumley and jennifer saunders reprise their cigarette - smoking, champagne - swigging characters patsy and edina .
the 68 - year - old plays a male japanese fashion designer called huki muki in the forthcoming ab fab movie, set for release next summer, which has caused a number of fans to call the casting choice ‘racist’ .
‘i am f * * * * * * sick of yellowface. have some respect. hire asian actors for asian roles, ’ cho fumes online. ‘i’m disgusted. yellowface is racism. sorry. it’s unacceptable. not now. i was thrilled about [ the ] ab fab movie, but now i just can’t be. i’m very disappointed. ’
she added: ‘when roles written for us are played by white actors — it’s an outrage. we’ve tried to shame racism out of existence but i guess some people really don’t care. they’re shameless but not blameless. ’
many of cho’s 400, 000 - strong twitter following chime in with their disapproval, with one replying: ‘massively disappointed about this too, ’ while another commented ‘not ab fab? ! that’s disappointing. ’
yesterday, executive producers jennifer saunders and dawn french declined to comment, as did bbc films, which is producing the movie .
michael dugher, shadow culture secretary, is a self - taught banjo and ukulele strummer. so who better to pass judgment on adele’s musical abilities ?
‘her voice is better than the songs, to be honest, ’ dugher says. no doubt, he can rustle up some better tunes than the ones he feels multi - million selling adele is so signally lacking .
porcelain - skinned model sophie dahl posts a picture of herself on social media next to harry potter’s pet snowy owl hedwig. ‘separated at birth, ’ she hoots. it’s certainly an uncanny resemblance .
and i hear wise old bird sophie likes to keep her hubby, pint - sized pianist jamie cullum, firmly in her clutches.
tough is a 1974 blaxploitation film about a young teenager who rebels against authority . it was also known as johnny tough . the film is a homage to the 400 blows ( 1959 ) . 
tough is a 1974 blaxploitation film about a young teenager who rebels against authority. it was also known as johnny tough. the film is a homage to the 400 blows (1959).
tough is a 1974 blaxploitation film about a young teenager who rebels against authority. it was also known as johnny tough. the film is a homage to the 400 blows (1959).