special people ( film )
with the headline: review / film festival: normal people are nothing special; directors series opens on a note of raw emotion .
special people is based on a true story of diane dupuy. diane dupuy creates a unique black light theatre company called famous people players. the cast consists of people who are... see full summary »
special people premiered at the 2007 edinburgh international film festival where it charmed both audiences and critics. it went on to win the best film audience award at britspotting film festival in berlin and open the london disability film festival in february 2008 with a gala screening at bfi southbank special people is released in uk cinemas later this year through guerilla films. starring: dominic coleman, jason maza, david proud, sasha hardway, robyn frampton
special people, a british, feature - length film with a cast of mainly disabled actors playing disabled characters, was given the label by the british board of film classification (bbfc) along with a 12a rating .
' i' d rather people loved it than hated it, but the more famous you get the more people love you and the more people hate you. if you' re doing anything that isn' t anodyne and watered - down then you will polarise people. and it' s good to polarise because some people are smart and some people are stupid.'
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the stars of special people hope to inspire younger disabled people .
it' s not even just to make them want to act ,
says hardway .
it' s to make them feel better about themselves .
5. it' s missing that special something that makes star wars what it is .
the exorcist iii director william peter blatty :
it was always meant to be a psychological thriller, not a special - effects horror film .
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disabled actors last night condemned a move by british film censors to label a new film featuring a disabled cast with a warning stating that the film contains
disability themes
.
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she sat down with diane sawyer in a caitlyn special ahead of her tell - all autobiography last week .
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changed my makeup so that they couldn' t use anything from the first film for the second film .
special people is an improvised comedy following a neurotic film - maker' s latest project - a pretentious film featuring disabled kids climbing a mountain. jasper slowly cracks up as he is bombarded with flak by his unco - operative students. in the end, however, we all need to find a way to work together .
the director, justin edgar, is angry about the
unnecessary
labelling .
i was really surprised to get this certificate ,
he said .
i couldn' t understand why a film censor thought it was necessary to make people aware that the film had disabled people in it .
we also run training schemes, short film programmes and initiatives for disabled film talent and are strategic partners of the british film institute and creative skillset. we work with other organisations such as bafta and the dcms to support their work in disability and film .
special people is based on a true story of diane dupuy. diane dupuy creates a unique black light theatre company called famous people players. the cast consists of people who are developmenatlly challenged. seven members of the cast play themselves in the movie as well as the man who discovered this talented performance group and gave them their start in show business mr. showmanship - - - liberace .
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winners will be selected by a panel of celebrity judges, and audience members will cast their votes for their favorite film. awards and monetary prizes will be presented to the top three films. a special people' s choice award will be presented based solely on audience votes .
a teenager in a wheelchair rolling off a cliff, two disabled people whacking each other with ping - pong bats - if it wasn' t so funny, there would be plenty of uncomfortable moments in special people, a low - budget british film that delights in confounding expectations, not least by having its disabled characters played by disabled actors, a revolutionary idea in mainstream cinema .
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struggling for funds, edgar found support in an unlikely source: a firm of builders in birmingham. why was it so hard to get backing elsewhere ?
people in the industry don' t know enough about disability to think it could be a commercial film ,
he says. astonishingly, special people was given a 12a rating - alongside a warning that it contained
disability themes
.
a film - maker takes five wheelchair - bound teenagers out into the country to make a short film about the
struggle
they go through every day, but they are sick of being treated differently from other people; they have other ideas .
a father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child' s special powers .
let’s face it. most people don’t bother to sit through the end credits past the first few names .
from left, nia jervier, teyonah parris and brandon p. bell in
dear white people .
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children and young people across the uk create short films to inspire their friends to use the internet positively .
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it' s a warm comedy ,
says edgar .
giving it a' disability theme', as though we have to be warned away from disabled people, is bizarre. you wouldn' t have the film censors saying' black themes' for a spike lee film .
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he says .
seeing the world in a different way is what excites me about film
.
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sasha hardway, one of the stars, who has previously acted in stephen poliakoff' s friends and crocodiles, felt that the warning may have put people off watching it .
the film is not based around disability ,
hardway said .
it' s got disabled characters but the film is based around their characters not their disability. if you put' contains disabled themes', people are going to think it' s about illness and that it will be negative or depressing .
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nada, a down - on - his - luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like
stay asleep
,
no imagination
,
submit to authority
. even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal - looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued .
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peculiarity
can save his new friends .
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exorcist director william friedkin :
i know that it is considered by a great many people as a horror film. i' ve never thought of it that way and i didn' t approach it that way. it' s a story about the mystery of faith .
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normal people are nothing special
is greatly helped by the bristling intensity of ms. bruni - tedeschi, a blunt, strong - jawed actress with a muscular and insistent presence. even when the film goes soft, threatening to turn into a french
awakenings
( one cute character builds an eiffel tower out of popsicle sticks), ms. bruni - tedeschi sustains her nervous energy. the viewer never quite knows what martine will do next, which is just the point. martine doesn' t know, either .
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thanks to neuroscience we now know that edited films like méliès' s lead to similar changes in brain activity across audiences. edited films increase activity in areas of the brain responsible for vision, sound, language, emotion, facial recognition, and conscious thought. even eye movements match up when a group of people watch an edited film. unedited scenes of daily life don' t have this effect – everyone’s brain reacts differently. so the more tightly you edit your film, the greater influence you will have on someone' s brain. that' s probably why film edits have become quicker and faster throughout the 20th century .
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i' m going to move chronologically and start with the first science fiction film ever made – georges méliès' s 1902 le voyage dans la lune (a trip to the moon), a film that unravels how cinema works and highlights the elements of all successful science fiction movies .
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easily the most off - putting moments of the film were the scenes with the cgi version of grand moff tarkin. the actor who originally played tarkin in the original films, peter cushing, passed away in 1994. this would have been a good reason to either a) not include tarkin in the film (which would have been fine and easy) or b) find some other way to include him that wasn' t so glaringly digital. while the special effects are remarkably good, tarkin still looks fake compared to the real humans around him, fake enough to make his inclusion puzzling .
people like watching movies where the hero wins, appreciate films that make us think, and feel enriched by stories that make us ask big questions. what makes the science fiction film genre so amazing is that it’s capable of achieving all of these goals in one story. a trip to the moon wasn' t just an enjoyable experience; it made audiences reflect on the possibilities of spaceflight and dream of what would happen if we met an alien life form. you can connect the dots between this film and the apollo 11 moon landing .
photographed in suitably muted tones by the gifted pasqualino de santis, the film was both a commercial and critical success, and perhaps the highlight of scola’s long career, winning the golden globe award for best foreign language film, nominated for academy awards for best actor in a leading role (marcello mastroianni) and best foreign language film, winning three nastro d’argento awards for best actress, music and script, along with two david di donatello awards for best actress and best director .
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tricking your eyes into seeing motion isn' t enough to create a good film though. méliès pioneered film editing for the purpose of telling visual stories rather than just documenting reality. he wasn' t the first to do so (see alfred clark' s the execution of mary, queen of scots), but his films popularized cinema in a way no other filmmaker had ever achieved up to this point in history because méliès created stories that could only be told in film .
after that, the opening credits proceed through a list of the most important contributors to the film, starting from the least important, ending with the most important .
camera obscura suffering from post - traumatic stress disorder, a war photographer begins to see real premonitions of deaths in his pictures. it’s a horror film, naturally .
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14. director john boorman (deliverance, zardoz), set out to make a film that would be the exact opposite of the first film. and that was a mistake .
millions of people had enjoyed watching a child being tortured in the exorcist ,
wrote boorman in his autobiography adventures of a suburban boy .
the heretic would be the antidote, a film about goodness rather than evil. i should have known better. kubrick told me that the only was to do a sequel to the exorcist is to give them even more gore and horror than before. no one is interested in goodness. ” years after releasing the film, boorman reflected on it, saying, “the sin i committed was not giving the audience what it wanted in terms of horror … there’s this wild beast out there which is the audience. i created this arena and i just didn’t throw enough christians into it. ”
after pressure from the director and the film company, the label was removed, but not until after the company had paid for promotional material which still contains the label .
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the evening begins when chamber music on the fox presents a live performance of a new score to accompany the screening of charlie chaplin' s silent film ,
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22. blatty filmed a tight psychological thriller and executives hated it, especially because it had no exorcism of any kind .
they had come for slashings, for blood and guts ,
said blatty .
obviously i never wanted the film to be characterized in that way, and that is one of the reasons why i personally resisted using the title the exorcist iii. i wanted the movie to be called legion but the producers disagreed .
jason miller, who played father karras in the original (a character who died, by the way), was brought in and a special - effects heavy exorcism was tacked onto the film' s end .
dominion: prequel to the exorcist director paul schrader :
i had a different film in mind, more one about merrin' s journey than strictly a horror vehicle .
lucky lucky, played by the film’s writer and director, bari king, is an undocumented immigrant who gets enmeshed in a crime web and has to fight his way out .
ultimately there were simply too many characters and all the new ones were created just to be killed off in the end. the combination makes it both hard to care about these people, and hard to want to go back and watch it again .
of course, retaining control is much easier if the hits keep coming, which is why working with netflix, which refuses to give out viewing figures, was appealing. ricky says there was a' feeding frenzy' among hollywood studios when his agent put out his plans for special correspondents, based on a french film about a radio journalist and his sound man who are unable to reach a warzone so make up all their reports from a hideout above a restaurant across the road from the radio station .
if this credits guide hasn’t answered all your questions, i encourage you to try something that i do with most of my indie film credits ordering. find a recent and similar film of the same genre, and look at its end credits as a guide. art of the title is a great resource to study great title sequence designs that spans television and films .
we had such a good experience here with respect to the craftmanship, the spirit, the work ethic and all of that, there was absolutely no dearth of trained experienced people at all levels of production, we just look forward to doing it all again .
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the story might sound simple now, but audiences back then loved it. we don' t know much about the film' s early reception (there' s a story about how its first audience applauded for hours after seeing the film) but we do know the film was in high demand. so much so that negatives were stolen and pirated across the world. nearly all of the copies shown in america were illegally duplicated by thomas edison and removed any mention of méliès. rival studios made similar films about trips to the sun and jupiter. then there' s “ an excursion to the moon ” which is a complete plagiarism of méliès' s work. sadly, méliès never saw any of the profits from the illegal duplicates of his film .
miss peregrine' s home for peculiar children is a movie starring eva green, asa butterfield, and samuel l. jackson. when jacob discovers clues to a mystery that stretches across time, he finds miss peregrine' s home for peculiar children. but the danger deepens after he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers .
in all, scola was responsible for some 87 screenplay or writing credits on both his own films and those of other directors, including the script for dino risi’s memorably acidic comedy / tragedy il sorpasso (1962). as a director, he has at least 42 credits, both short films and features, starting with se permettete parliamo di donne (let’s talk about women, 1964), but without a doubt, his relatively late film una giornata particolare (a special day, 1977) is one of his most transcendent and trenchant films .
11. the sound design in the exorcist is really an essential part of the film, equally important to the special effects and the performances, so one more sound tidbit is necessary. friedkin writes ,
during a recording session, [ music producer jack nitzsche' s ] girlfriend was sleeping facedown on a couch. he placed a microphone on the floor next to her and ran across the studio and jumped on her back, landing with both knees. her shocked reaction is the sound we used when regan throws up on father karras. ”
the deeply flawed film version of frank herbert' s novel was universally hated when it premiered 30 years ago, but it still successfully brought much of the classic sci - fi novel to life .
and sources report that the kardashians are so outraged by caitlyn jenner' s plans to out the family secrets, they are planning to film their reaction for the upcoming keeping up with the kardashians series .
4. the film' s prologue, set in iraq, was actually shot there in 1972 / 3. the u. s. had no diplomatic relations with the country, and so friedkin had to take a british crew to work on scenes with actor max von sydow. the iraqi government agreed to the shoot under three circumstances: (1) friedkin & co. had to train local iraqis in film techniques, (2) they had to teach local iraqis how to make movie blood, and (3) friedkin had to donate a print of his oscar - winning film the french connection .
valerian and the city of a thousand planets twenty years after “the fifth element, ” luc besson returns to flying cars and futuristic cities with this adaptation of the long - running french comic “valérian and laureline. ” dane dehaan and cara delevingne play special agents. there are appearances by rihanna and herbie hancock, along with ethan hawke, rutger hauer and kris wu .
”it was very tasteful, and now i’m really looking forward to seeing the movie, ” lisa baragiola, a survivor of the bombings told the new york times of an early trailer. “i liked that they focused on people and not the bombing. it brought tears to my eyes. ”
the special issue features exclusive interviews with the cast, including capt. cassian andor (diego luna), bodhi rook (riz ahmed), orson krennic (ben mendelsohn), saw gerrera (forest whitaker), chirrut îmwe (donnie yen), baze malbus (jiang wen), galen erso (mads mikkelsen) and k - 2so (alan tudyk) .
wahlberg and the filmmakers behind patriot’s day have been careful from the beginning to tell the story sensitively. early promotional teasers for the film steered clear of explosions and carnage in favor of images depicting the community’s strength .
jesús after committing an assault, a teenager (nicolás durán) in santiago is forced to confront his father (alejandro goic) in a film inspired by a real - life hate crime in chile in 2012 .
in the tv station frank and nada shoot at the two aliens and claim that the glass in that room is soundproof. there is a regular door 2 or 3 steps away though (which they explode a moment later), something that would certainly allow the people on the other side hear the gunshots .
remember to check if these are required by your contracts, and note them in your film crew database. if they are not required it’s possible that you’re actually not allowed to include the logos in your end credits .
21. william peter blatty, who wrote the novel on which the original film was based and won an academy award for his screenplay on the exorcist, directed this film based on his novel legion, which picked up with the character of detective kinderman (played by lee j. cobb in the original and here by george c. scott) investigating a series of murders that bear the imprint of a long - dead serial killer .
over the years, it was reportedly murray’s reluctance to do another “ghostbusters” that kept a new movie featuring the original cast from going into production. after all, murray' s peter venkman is the face of the franchise. producers eventually decided to move on, rebooting the film with a new cast – but murray did agree to play a role, portraying a professional debunker who tangles with the new crew about midway through the film .
dean demetri martin, a former fixture of “the daily show, ” directed, wrote and stars in this film, playing an illustrator who, after his mother’s death, works through a complicated relationship with his father (kevin kline). from last year’s tribeca film festival, mike hale wrote in the new york times that mr. martin “delivers a winning combination of winsomeness and rue. ” gillian jacobs and mary steenburgen also star .
and yet... something was missing, both as a film on its own merits and as a star wars movie. the more i went over the movie in my mind, the more problems i uncovered .
the smaller characters were all more interesting. the droid k - 2so was a wonderful change from weaker droids who couldn' t fight, bringing both humor and some great action to the film. saw gerrera was wonderfully crazy in his paranoid militancy, though we didn' t get nearly enough of him, and i wonder if this film would have been better as an apocalypse now knock - off than a straight - up war movie .
hearing is believing the star of this documentary is rachel flowers, who was born prematurely and went blind, but learned to play music and grew into a vibrant performer. the film follows two years in her family’s life .
i saw the film on friday afternoon, and came away feeling mostly happy about it. the movie was action - packed, had some great characters, and ended with a bang. it was funny and visually striking .
pop music variety film with a slender plot to link the musical numbers together. two young women, judy and ann, catch the six - five special train from glasgow bound for london, with the intention of making a singing career for the latter of the two upon arrival. once on the train they find that it is full of singing stars travelling down to london to appear on the tv show' six - five special'. they also meet actor finlay currie who tries to dissuade ann from going into the business. also on the train are the show' s presenters, pete murray and jo douglas, for whom ann auditions. impressed with her voice, she is offered a spot on the show in the chorus. after watching a number of acts, ann' s big moment arrives as a supporting singer for dickie valentine. as the show moves into its finalé, jo douglas informs ann that she has made enough of an impression to be offered a solo spot on the show the following week .
after all that, it probably doesn' t sound like there' s anything worthwhile in lynch' s film. that' s far from the truth. it’s certainly a different kind of sci fi than star wars, which was created to comfort and entertain. dune wanted to challenge, and though its stumbling attempts to pontificate on religion and ecology may have been its downfall, those attempts also produced some of the film' s most resonant moments .
dawson city: frozen time in the silent era, the gold rush town of dawson city in the yukon was the last stop on the film - shipping circuit. the creative solutions used to dispose of flammable nitrate stock resulted in the inadvertent preservation of 500 films — forgotten reels were excavated in the 1970s. bill morrison (the found - footage collage “decasia”) uses those clips to tell a story that interweaves film history and a sociological history of dawson .
to sum it up, the only way to fully understand a visual story is by either watching a lot of television and movies or being very familiar with the ideas in the story. for a trip to the moon, most of the audience didn' t have much experience watching films, but they were very familiar with the ideas in this film. jules verne' s from the earth to the moon, released 37 years before this film, had popularized the idea of space travel. h. g. wells' s the first men in the moon expanded on verne' s work by introducing a race of insect - like moon aliens called
selenites
. the tone of méliès' s film mirrors that of jacques offenbach' s a trip to the moon operatic parody of verne' s novels while the structure of the film follows that of an attraction at the 1901 pan - american exposition in new york.
special people is a 2007 british film was directed by justin edgar for 104 films . the film received widespread press coverage as a result of censorship of its disability themes . 
special people is a 2007 british film was directed by justin edgar for 104 films. the film received widespread press coverage as a result of censorship of its disability themes.
special people is a 2007 british film was directed by justin edgar for 104 films. the film received widespread press coverage as a result of censorship of its disability themes.