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this is a film with an ambiguously subversive message, in spite of itself .
sometimes we need to be “above it all” and i’ve decided i’m going to try to spend a little more time there especially after experiencing this moment .
this above all is a wonderfully emotional romance set against wwii england. it examines the motives for patriotism and heroism both from the point of view ...
, says ,
this above all: to thine own self be true ,
after which an air raid siren is heard and darkness descends on the room .
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keaobaka makanyane, left, and khomotso manyaka play best friends near johannesburg in the drama “life, above all. ”
“life, above all” is rated pg - 13 (parents strongly cautioned). mob violence, rape and prostitution .
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this above all is tyrone power' s best early picture. he proves he is a sensitive, first - rate actor. like power i was and am a frustrated veteran ...
i' m not a fan of films that make statements, i have always believed the greatest art is observational without passing judgement, and this above all is a prime example of a film that is more or less completely ruined by a clunky and misguided message .
just discovered this movie recently, i thought i had seen all tyrone power movies. this is one of his best yet little known and a real gem. so beautifully ...
out of eric knight' s singularly skillful war novel ,
this above all ,
twentieth century - fox and darryl f. zanuck have derived a taut and poignant war film, which arrived at the astor last evening for a meticulously restrained world premiere. view full article in timesmachine »
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oliver schmitz' s
life, above all
sets out as a character - driven film about one of the nearly one million children orphaned by aids in south africa but its schematic structure oversimplifies the drama, despite an interesting, mostly debut cast .
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life, above all, a well - intentioned drama about the impact of hiv - aids in south africa, is the kind of film one wants to praise to the skies. with an all - black cast speaking in a subtitled local dialect, the movie is admirably lacking in pale - skinned film stars deploying their granite jaws to save the natives from themselves, a fantasy of white rescue that continues to plague most hollywood films about the african subcontinent .
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appearing in this film are no fewer than twenty performers who appeared in at least one of the sherlock holmes movies with basil rathbone and nigel bruce, including nigel bruce who played ramsbottom .
glenn close, from left, gemma arterton, paddy considine and fisayo akinade in the film
the girl with all the gifts .
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by directly dealing with the poisonous climate of rumor and gossip, the film takes a stand. but in nations where aids has been demystified ,
life, above all
will play strongly as pure human drama, and of two women, one promptly and one belatedly, rising courageously to a challenge .
movie review -' life, above all' - a' life' where hiv and ignorance are twin epidemics a village girl sets out on a journey to find her infected mother in oliver schmitz' s heavy - handed melodrama. but with inadequately fleshed - out characters and an incomplete depiction of societal struggles against hiv, life, above all fails in its effort to shed light on a serious issue .
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marc webb will direct and nick hornby is scripting this above all, based on the true - life story of megan phelps - roper, a former member of the westboro baptist church whose grandfather founded the group known for its hate speak and vicious protests. the film is being adapted from an article written by adrian chen for condé nast’s the new yorker and from phelps - roper’s soon - to - be - published memoir .
actually, every side of town in “life, above all” is the wrong one; the creaky homes are caked with dust and the residents all look perpetually unhappy. this may accurately represent chanda’s dreary point of view, but it also lends an unfortunate touristic air to the proceedings: watch chanda work through her hardships, feel good about it when she succeeds, and therefore feel good about yourself for paying attention .
rather than digging into the moral, ethical, scientific, or philosophical questions of these decisions or this contraption, the film mostly focuses on will, who is about as curious as a bag of a sawdust .
schmitz ends with a close - up of manyaka’s face and lets the music swell, while her eyes prove more affecting than any of the plot particulars. in those final seconds, “life, above all” finally comes alive .
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amid allegations of warholian - style literary hoaxes and identity scandals involving
jt leroy ,
the heart is deceitful above all things, adapted from
jt' s
second novel, comes to dvd june 6, 2006 .
in this film, tyrone power plays a conscientious objector, who deserts the british army because he doesn' t believe in fighting to preserve his country' s oppressive class structure. but power is no coward, and through the love of joan fontaine, he realizes that love of one' s country supersedes all social outrage .
it was in that moment that i somehow transcended all of it, “it” being the issues going on externally in my life and at that moment. somehow i found myself above it all, and in a sense just didn’t care about any of it. it was going to be there for me this time and i was ok with that. after careful consideration of what the exposure “might” be i made my best guess and tripped the shutter .
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all above board is a horror comedy by the deranged madmen behind # drunkslikeus. when donna and mick arrange for a seance to be performed by the mysterious and seductive morgana the last thing they were expecting was for it to work too bloody well .
it seems that all of your books are based on auteur theory. do you think auteurism still holds its ground ?
geoff andrew wrote numerous books on cinema, including studies on krzysztof kieślowski’s three colours trilogy, on nicholas ray, and on american indie filmmakers. he is the film programmer for bfi southbank, london, and a programme advisor for the london film festival. he served on juries at cannes, istanbul, torino, sarajevo, and others, but this year he will judge tiff’s official competition .
with afi fest just a few weeks away, film - festival season is nearly over for the year. in addition to venice, telluride and toronto, another fest recently concluded: the 15th annual pyongyang international film festival, to which the new york times sent a correspondent. 60 movies from 21 countries comprised this year’s selection, with with 11 of them vying for the best torch award .
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yes. but i always believed that one should modify it, qualify it. because obviously a director is more of an author if he is also the writer. even then there are other people involved, there are producers, composers, actors, camera men, they all contribute to the film. the level of authorship is different from film to film and from director to director. if you have someone like cristi puiu, who writes and directs and produces his films, he has a lot of responsibility. so if we say if the film was good or bad it is mainly because of him, yet it’s not entirely because of him, there are other people, but…
oliver schmitz' s
life, above all
earns the tears it inspires. the film is about deep human emotions, evoked with sympathy and love. it takes place entirely within a south african township near johannesburg, one with modest prosperity and well - tended homes. it centers on the 12 - year - old chanda, who takes on the responsibility of holding her family together after her baby sister dies .
a society woman joins the waafs and falls in love with an awol soldier. what this film boils down to is two hours of a strong woman being treated like garbage by a man who doesn' t deserve her because reasons and stuff. if they wanted to cast someone to play the male lead, someone other than tyrone power would have been ideal. and poor joan fontaine tries her hardest, but can' t seem to read off power' s line readings which causes the chemistry to fizzle out almost immediately. and your head will ache by the end of the film after being beaten over the skull with
this above all: to thine own self be true .
it' s like the screenwriter isn' t even trying .
shakespeare is good, right? here goes nothing !
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the narrative is built around the idea of showing bitter, struggling ptsd - afflicted, recent dunkirk survivor, lower class rebel, socialistish, military deserter tyrone power that he is wrong and we all need to rally around mother england and all she stands for .
jt leroy was elevated into national celebrity partly due to the overwhelming power of his unbelievable childhood experiences. following the recent accusations by new york magazine and the new york times, which revealed the lengths one woman was willing to go to in order to gain entrance to the literary and celebrity world, the heart is deceitful above all things reveals with colorful and uncompromising filmmaking, the back - story of one character who rocked the world of literature, fashion, music and film... without ever existing. this is the unfathomable story of
jt leroy .
that’s partly because the movie is dedicated to children orphaned by aids. (in a 2010 annual report unicef puts the number of such south african orphans at an appalling 1. 9 million .) but the sense that this story doesn’t end when the movie does, and that what unfolds on screen flows into the world beyond, is due to how the director oliver schmitz has approached this tricky material. mr. schmitz first attracted notice in 1987 with “mapantsula, ” a gangster film that made the festival rounds. he went on to direct another gangster movie, a documentary and television projects, experience that seems to have served him well for “life, above all, ” which is at the intersection of fact and fiction .
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…
wow. . it' s a quite old movie but it' s very beautiful ^ ^ i love its romantic story and the cast was pretty good. the film is based on a superb book: eric knight - this above all. it' s a greatly composed philosophic - romantic story. i think if you liked the movie, you should read this book! it' s one of my favorite books, i simply love it ^ ^ you will be much poorer in feelings, if you don' t read this book... and thank you for the quotes... i think the book contains some more. . and more memorable ^ ^ by the way, does anyone know where i could find it in english? i' ve been searching for it on the internet, but i' ve found it nowhere... : (
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i’m reluctant to label t he discovery as science fiction, even though netflix’s new drama has what sounds like a classic isaac asimov premise: a scientist has found irrefutable evidence that after death, the human spirit goes somewhere; he’s just not sure where. like good science fiction, the film raises a handful of questions that could span seasons of television — can science really prove something like this? should it? — but the 110 - minute film largely ignores those questions in favor of melodramatic twists. for a film about science finding answers to life’s big questions, the discovery is surprisingly uninterested in how and why we learn the answers .
i’m left wondering what the discovery is. is it science fiction with no interest in science? is it a spiritual romance with a perverse misunderstanding of faith and love? or is it a movie that wanted to be all of the above, and in the end wound up being nothing? perhaps what’s most frustrating about the discovery is that its 110 minutes can be better spent with a story that is doing similar things, just with a sense of grace and skill the film is lacking .
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based on the book by allan stratton, “life, above all” never falls apart, although it comes close with a finale that finds virtually the entire cast implausibly knocking on chandra’s doorstep. then again, chandra looks realistically surprised by the sudden onslaught of attention, to the extent that she not only transcends the movie, but saves it .
german - born director oliver schmitz takes on the subject of aids in south africa without kowtowing to western images of africa in this somewhat simplistic drama. twitter
unfortunately, most of the good stuff is early on, when the details of this post - outbreak world are more mysterious than explained: how can kids born with this mutated fungus think, feel and appear normal, when the infected adults look typically decayed and robotic? melanie really likes miss justineau, but a teacher visit to her cell is problematic when the hunger pangs start. (zombies in this world are given the snack - ad - friendly sobriquet
hungries .
)
how will it play? sony pictures classics picked up the film several months ago and clearly has strong expectations for it. reviews have been decidedly mixed, but it stands a good chance of doing solid business due to the heartwarming hook, which should help with word - of - mouth. it opens this friday in new york and l. a .
the reason to care about “life, above all” doesn’t stem from its bleeding - heart plot, which constitutes a mild act of poorsploitation (the same critique leveled at “slumdog millionaire” and other tales that use third - world backdrops for dramatic shorthand). the reason to care is newcomer khomotso manyaka, who nimbly shoulders a role that places her front and center in nearly every scene .
oliver schmitz' s life, above all sets out as a character - driven film about one of the nearly one million children orphaned by aids in south africa but its schematic structure oversimplifies the drama, despite an interesting, mostly debut cast. it seems better suited for the small screen, which could work to give the film broader television sales. life starts with a quietly emotional blow: 12 - year - old chandra (khomotso manyaka in a promising acting debut) has to pick out a coffin for her infant sister. chandra lives with her mother (lerato mvelase) and younger half - siblings, the children of an alcoholic second husband who has abandoned them. the indomitable girl drops out of school since her mother is first too depressed then too sick to care for the family .
and maybe all of that would be fine, if this were a film about faith. lost’s finale was largely panned when it aired, but at least the episode committed to resolving the core’s big debate. the man of science and the man of faith reunite in a space disconnected from time, and along with the other characters, take a step into the glow of the afterlife. a show about, in part, the need of scientists to answer the questions of time and space, ends on a note that embraces the beauty and serenity of the unknowable .
although loaded with dramatic consequence, “ life, above all ” is slight. set in the outskirts of johannesburg, the movie follows a young girl faced with a broken family and communal rejection. her transition from pariah to fierce young adult energizes the story with emotional resonance, but director oliver schmitz pushes that effectiveness as far as it can go — and then keeps pushing, until it becomes shrill .
given that a staggering one - third of all south african women in their 20s are hiv - positive, it seems right to cast life, above all as a maternal melodrama, or even as a parable, yet schmitz, who mainly works in television, brings an unnecessarily heavy hand to his inherently incendiary material. for every turn of the dramatic screw, he brings on thunder and torrential rains. the script groans beneath a mass of symbolic winking and declamatory exposition that has the unfortunate effect of turning the villagers into credulous simpletons, ready to blow with any wind that carries them .
the film, set in and around a gloomy mansion - turned - research - facility, builds to harbor, will, and the audience seeing for themselves what the afterlife actually is. obviously everybody, viewers included, wants to know the answer, but the film isn’t prepared to deliver one in any satisfying fashion. the afterlife exists exclusively as a means to a narrative end, a tool to progress will’s personal growth .
as the film opens, chanda (khomotso manyaka) visits an undertaker to examine the inexpensive coffins on display. this is a task no 12 - year - old should ever have to endure. but her mother, lillian (lerato mvelase), is immobilized by grief and illness and her father by drink. the next - door neighbor, mrs. tafa (harriet manamela), helps her care for two younger siblings .
not included in the lineup this year were any movies from the united states of america or south korea, though countries like india, germany and france were represented. read the full new york times piece here .
her life, she said in a ted talk this year, “was framed as an epic spiritual battle between good and evil. the good was my church, and its members and the evil was everyone else. ”
set during a time when homosexuality was illegal in britain, this is a powerful and heartbreaking love story between two women of the 1940' s. their love is pushed to the boundaries and ultimately leads to tragedy .
stolid soaper miscasts ty as an english deserter, he exerts zero effort to seem british, and saddles joan fontaine with a lot of flag waving speeches which stop the film dead in it' s tracks. professionally made with a good supporting cast but uninvolving .
“life, above all, ” a grave and quietly moving story about a south african girl of extraordinary character, does something that few painful dramas accomplish: it tells a tale of resilience without platitudes about the triumph of the human spirit or without false promises about an unclouded future. the battle fought by its 12 - year - old heroine, who struggles to save her family and best friend from prejudiced neighbors who often look like a mob, may be over when the movie comes to its stirring close, but there’s no end to the fight .
written and directed by asia argento (scarlet diva, xxx, land of the dead) and shot by eric alan edwards (kids, my own private idaho) the heart is deceitful above all things boasts a stunning cast including marilyn manson, peter fonda academy award® nominee, michael pitt, (hedwig and the angry inch, last days), jeremy renner (north country), john robinson (elephant, lords of dogtown), jimmy bennett (poseidon, polar express, daddy day care), and cole and dylan sprouse as jeremiah .
the film plays this as if it’s touching, like some unholy mishmash of t he t wilight zone and chicken soup for the soul. but it’s neither as intellectually fascinating as the former or emotionally soothing as the latter. its afterlife, painted as an opportunity, is actually a sisyphean hell. it’s also bizarre on the top, most obvious level. will’s father made the discovery that led to millions of suicides, and we’re supposed to believe will’s biggest regret is not saving a woman with whom he shared a short ferry ride ?
well, i don’t agree with that. if you have an interesting director, quite often his failures will be interesting. but i have friends that are auteurists and say: “this is an auteur. he cannot have bad films. ” that’s ridiculous .
rather than get bogged down in philosophical conversations, the discovery focuses on the domestic toll of its scientific progress. jason segel plays will, the estranged son of dr. harbor (robert redford), the man who made the scientific breakthrough. when dr. harbor’s findings were made public, a global epidemic of suicides followed. feeling an acute responsibility for the millions of deaths, will returns to his father in hopes of convincing him to recant his life’s work. but dr. harbor, in pursuit of knowledge above all else, intends to go forward rather than backward .
the film' s ending is improbably upbeat: magic realism, in a sense. it works as a deliverance. dennis foon' s screenplay is based on the novel chanda' s secrets by canadian writer allan stratton. it is a parable with biblical undertones, recalling cry, the beloved country .
chanda does what she can to care for her siblings, attend school and keep up appearances. her own good heart is demonstrated by her friendship with a schoolmate named esther (keaobaka makanyane), who is forced into prostitution to earn the funds for survival. it goes unspoken between them that this could lead to aids for esther herself. the south african tragedy was that former president thabo mbeki persisted in puzzling denial about the causes and treatment of aids, so many who suffered and died of aids need not have. this contributed to a climate of ignorance and mystery surrounding the disease, which only increased its spread .
but time and again, lost argued with itself, not merely about the mysteries of the universe, but the tools that guide us through it. can science prove the assumptions of faith? can faith answer questions science cannot? are science and faith truly so different in their existential goals? this was network tv !
when lillian exiles herself from the village, chanda sets off on a hero' s journey to find her mother, helped and hindered by representational figures who sketch the plight of all such afflicted communities, yet barely qualify as characters. a female witch doctor brandishes spells and snakes. a drunken stepfather (aubrey poolo) proves of little use to anyone, least of all himself. chandra' s loyal best friend, esther (keaobaka makanyane), is drafted into child prostitution, while the village gossip mrs. tafa (harriet manamela), a matriarch who is pivotal to the plot, fans the flames of hostility toward chanda' s mother .
schmitz uses the wide - screen frame smartly, often to isolate chanda from her adversaries, occasionally to create dynamic intimacy between chanda and those she loves and wants to save. the director and his splendid cast assure that this tale about a strong little girl fighting to keep her family alive and together has both high art and a big heart, audience appeal and gut impact .
the fog crept in and softly blanketed the mountain tops below me, “amazing! ” went through my mind as i prepared to still this moment; but the light meter had died. i was literally in the dark and there was no way for me to calculate the proper exposure! “you have to be kidding me! ”, was the thought that went through my mind .
in large part, that' s because a crucial player is strangely missing from this scenario. from the start, the spread of hiv - aids in south africa has been a political problem to its core. like many liberal whites who supported the black struggle to end apartheid, schmitz — who made the 1988 film mapantsula, about a petty thief who is radicalized in prison — seems unwilling to point the finger at a post - apartheid government that, under former president thabo mbeki, willfully discredited anti - retroviral drugs for years while advocating wacky dietary remedies and feeding tribal superstitions about the disease. mbeki' s successor, jacob zuma, has promised better, but as someone who admitted at his own rape trial to having sex with an hiv - positive prostitute then showering to avoid infection, he' s hardly a role model .
suspicion spreads in the neighborhood that the real cause of the family' s problems is aids, although the word itself isn' t said aloud until well into the film. its absence forms a fearful echo chamber — reflecting south africans' own insistence, until recent years, of denying the reality of aids. a family linked to the disease by rumor or gossip is ostracized, which is why mrs. tafa fa­cilitates lillian' s
visit
to distant relatives .
as for harriet manamela as mrs. tafa, she has a central role. this township is far from the poorest in south africa. in the terms of that neighborhood, many households are middle class; mrs. tafa embodies authority. she is fiercely proud of her son, a star athlete. she shares the general taboos about aids, but she is a good person, kind, with sympathy that she sometimes keeps concealed .
personally, i think the older i get the more i look for films that are honest about life. that doesn’t mean that they have to be realist films. but i don’t like to feel manipulated by the filmmaker. i like a film to be emotionally honest, to be truthful in the way that it depicts life and people. as i got older i liked genre films less. genre seems to be a limitation to me. the most interesting films are those that you can’t put into a genre .
and yet will’s turn is worse. when will tests the machine, we discover that the entire movie has been set in his afterlife. in fact, will has lived countless versions of this afterlife, trying again and again to repair it. his goal has been to save isla, who in another lifetime was just a stranger he briefly met on a ferry, and went on to drown herself. will has lived life after life with just the faintest sense that he must save her. and presumably every human is doing something similar .
i don’t really search, but i always welcome the discovery. one of the pleasures of being on a jury is having to watch a lot of new films. it can be very interesting. i was on a jury in istanbul a few years ago and i was asked if i wanted to be on the jury of the official competition or on that of the turkish competition. instantly i decided for the turkish one. we gave the prize to a young woman and she went on and did three feature films. all good films .
hbo’s the leftover s, which premieres its third and final season this month, and which shares one of lost ’s creators in damon lindelof, tells the story of humans left on earth when a small percentage of the population seems to have been raptured. it begins as a stunning mediation on grief, and spirals into a weird, funny, cosmically bizarre exploration of the unknowable. lindelof seems to have learned from lost, as leftovers isn’t so caught up in narrative contortions that it chokes itself to death, nor is it concerned with scientific justification .
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melanie, played by appealing newcomer sennia nanua, is ostensibly the titular figure in the british dystopian horror yarn
the girl with all the gifts .
to miss justineau, she' s a figure to nurture, even shed a tear over. but to the soldiers in charge, melanie is evil personified. that' s because, as we soon learn when sergeant parks (paddy considine) interrupts the lesson to spit on his forearm, hold it in front of one child' s face and watch it transform from cherubic mug into a twisted visage of animal thirst, these aren' t regular grade - schoolers .
the main criterion for winning said prize, according to the nyt: “how well they symbolized the festival’s official theme — ‘independence, peace and friendship’ — and whether they articulated the ideology of juche, or self - reliance, developed by the country’s founding father, kim il - sung. ” kim jong - il, the country’s dear leader who passed away five years ago, was a known cinephile, even going so far as to kidnap a south korean filmmaker and actress so that they could make movies for him; this resulted in a bizarre, “godzilla” - like movie called “pulgasari” and was recently the subject of the documentary “the lovers and the despot. ”
the final act has writer carey unveiling his intriguing take on zombie - inspired extinction, triggered by the discovery of the mutation' s next evolutionary stage, and melanie finding a group of feral children who, unlike her, have had no contact with cultivating humans. as it lopes toward its ending, however, it' s still undistinguished by any remarkable direction or performance — save close' s late bid for mad - doctor zest. one is left feeling that
the girl with all the gifts
is no better or worse than a couple of solid episodes of a sci - fi series, professionally engrossing but unlikely to prompt your own feeding reflexes for more zombie fare .
the discovery is, in short, like the worst parts of lost condensed to a feature film. lost was at its best when drawing from an internal debate that was, like the philosophical engine powering the the discovery, difficult to summarize and impossible to entirely unpack. “is it better, ” lost asked, “to tackle life’s big questions with rigorous science, or unflinching faith? ” the existential tug - of - war, played out most clearly in the relationship between man of science jack and man of faith locke, lasted 121 episodes. lost was imperfect. it was overstuffed with metaphysics, fan service, and sudden random polar bears, and the show struggled most when it tried to answer the big questions of existence with truisms about good and evil, love and hate .
chanda’s silence is unnerving, as is the absence of tears, and while her calm conveys a preternatural strength of character it also suggests a lifetime of pain. no child, you think, should have to pick out her baby sister’s coffin. but she does, taking in the horror of the funeral home and its metal table without flinching and then pushing forward, still dry eyed, still determined, taking on life with an appealing (and enviable) toughness and grace that make this difficult story not just bearable but also absorbing. as the weight of the world bears down on her slender frame, she becomes the movie’s moral compass and its authentic wonder: the child who is forced to be an adult yet remains childlike enough to feel real .
the discovery, a film about the science of the afterlife, should at least be superficially concerned with science, faith, and the friction between them. is there a god? what about heaven? or hell? but the discovery never aspires to be challenging, at least not beyond its children of men - like fascination with an apocalypse happening in slow motion. science in the discovery is like a deus ex machina on steroids, serving whatever purpose the plot needs it to. it gives people things to do while they reveal their personal dramas to each other. and so the work of a scientist is more like a series of fetch - quests. to test the afterlife machine, they need a body, so will and isla (rooney mara) steal a corpse (and open up to one another). when that doesn’t work, dr. harbor volunteers (and has a difficult conversation with his son). then will gives it a go (and discovers the truth about himself) .
best actress winner for mrs. miniver and best actor winner for yankee doodle dandy
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20th century - fox studio sound department, e. h. hansen, sound director
photographic effects by gordon jennings, farciot edouart, william l. pereira; sound effects by louis mesenkop
photographic effects by a. arnold gillespie, warren newcombe; sound effects by douglas shearer
photographic effects by vernon l. walker; sound effects by james g. stewart
photographic effects by jack cosgrove, ray binger; sound effects by thomas t. moulton
art direction (color) - art direction: jack otterson, alexander golitzen; interior decoration: russell a. gausman, ira s. webb
cinematography (color) - milton krasner, william v. skall, w. howard greene
sound recording - universal studio sound department, bernard b. brown, sound director
special effects - photographic effects by howard lydecker; sound effects by daniel j. bloomberg
special effects - photographic effects by john fulton; sound effects by bernard b. brown
special effects - photographic effects by lawrence butler; sound effects by william h. wilmarth
art direction (black - and - white) - art direction: albert s. d' agostino; interior decoration: darrell silvera, al fields
actress in a supporting role - dame may whitty in
mrs. miniver
special effects - photographic effects by a. arnold gillespie, warren newcombe; sound effects by douglas shearer
special effects - photographic effects by vernon l. walker; sound effects by james g. stewart
special effects - photographic effects by ronald neame; sound effects by c. c. stevens
special effects - photographic effects by jack cosgrove, ray binger; sound effects by thomas t. moulton
sound recording - samuel goldwyn studio sound department, thomas t. moulton, sound director
art direction (black - and - white) - art direction: cedric gibbons, randall duell; interior decoration: edwin b. willis, jack moore
special effects - photographic effects by gordon jennings, farciot edouart, william l. pereira; sound effects by louis mesenkop
art direction (black - and - white) - art direction: jack otterson, john b. goodman; interior decoration: russell a. gausman, edward r. robinson
sound recording - 20th century - fox studio sound department, e. h. hansen, sound director
sound recording - warner bros. studio sound department, nathan levinson, sound director
although she comes from an aristocratic family, beautiful prudence cathaway defies convention by joining the waafs and becoming romantically involved with an awol soldier .
hotel transylvania 3: summer vacation stars plan their dream summer getaways to some memorable movie settings .
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cheated out of his estate by his sadistic uncle, young benjamin blake goes to the south seas to make his fortune so he can return to claim his birthright .
the son of a jailed wall street broker turns to crime to pay for his father' s release .
a scientist obsessed with the past transports himself back in time to 18th - century london, where he falls in love with a beautiful young woman .
an american pilot impulsively joins her majesty' s royal air force in britain in an attempt to impress his ex - girlfriend .
a struggling artist becomes a new york city prizefighter in an attempt to win the affection of the ring promoter' s night club singing sister .
the o' leary brothers - - honest jack and roguish dion - - become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in chicago on the eve of its great fire .
an unscrupulous agent for the borgias suffers a change of heart when asked to betray a noble count and his much younger, very beautiful wife .
a disinherited 13th century saxon nobleman leaves norman england with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the far east .
when an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she' s met at sun valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they' re married .
aristocratic prudence cathaway shocks her family by enlisting in the wafs. after enlisting, a fellow waf sets her up on a blind date with handsome, but moody clive briggs. prudence learns clive is a deserter, but still loves him and senses he' ll eventually prove himself a patriot .
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the story follows phelps - roper’s upbringing around topeka, ks, where the westboro baptist church preached god’s power and damned those who sinned. the church has a long history of picketing the funerals of gay murder victims, those who died of aids, our fallen military, the victims of the boston marathon bombing, and victims of mass shootings — including aurora, co, where thousands showed up to block them, and in orlando, where a wall of people worked hard to block church signs from the sight lines of grieving mothers burying their children last year .
phelps - roper started protesting at age 5 with her mom and she protested for 20 years. she became one of the most powerful voices on social media for westboro, where she used both a picket sign and her twitter handle to doggedly protest everything from cultural events to funerals, until her ongoing conversations with opponents over twitter led her to question her belief system .
with her mind open to a different way of seeing the world, she and her younger sister made the difficult decision to leave the church — and be disowned by their family — in order to find a life governed by love. they moved to los angeles and found a hasidic jewish family who embraced them fully and started them on their way to inclusiveness, empathy, humanity and love .
producing will be dawn ostroff and jeremy steckler of condé nast entertainment, reese witherspoon and bruna papandrea for made up stories, webb, and river road entertainment ’s bill pohlad. river road will finance .
said hornby, “i’m looking forward to working with the brilliant marc webb, cné and with my friends reese witherspoon, bruna papandrea and river road, with whom i enjoyed such a good relationship during the making of wild. ”
we’re told that the book by phelps - roper will be published at a yet - to - be - determined date by farrar, straus and giroux .
the deal was negotiated by christa zofcin workman for river road with caa repping cné, phelps - roper, witherspoon, papandrea and webb. hornby is repped by casarotto ramsay & associates ltd. phelps - roper is also represented by melissa flashman at janklow & nesbit associates .
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 .
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 .
the performances by the two young girls are remarkable here. they have seen and internalized unspeakable experiences. their faces are young, but their eyes are wise. whenever i see such early performances by inexperienced actors, i wonder where they come from. no doubt director oliver schmitz had much to do with these portrayals. the casting process must have been crucial. but manyaka and makanyane have grave self - possession; they never even slightly overact. i met khomotso manyaka at ebertfest 2011 and found her a cheerful, friendly teenager. where did she find these resources? where does any actor ?
there is a scene where fearful neighbors gather outside chanda' s house, inflamed by their suspicions about her mother. mrs. tafa confronts them, surprising even herself, perhaps, by how she rises to the occasion. schmitz' s camera placements here are confident and underline the drama .
an interview with terry gilliam, director of
the man who killed don quixote .
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a woman defies convention by joining the waafs and becoming romantically involved with an awol soldier.
this above all is a 1942 american romance film set in world war ii adapted from the eric knight novel of the same name , directed by anatole litvak , and starring tyrone power and joan fontaine as a couple from different social classes who fall in love in wartime england . the supporting cast features thomas mitchell , nigel bruce , and gladys cooper . 
this above all is a 1942 american romance film set in world war ii adapted from the eric knight novel of the same name, directed by anatole litvak, and starring tyrone power and joan fontaine as a couple from different social classes who fall in love in wartime england. the supporting cast features thomas mitchell, nigel bruce, and gladys cooper.
this above all is a 1942 american romance film set in world war ii adapted from the eric knight novel of the same name, directed by anatole litvak, and starring tyrone power and joan fontaine as a couple from different social classes who fall in love in wartime england. the supporting cast features thomas mitchell, nigel bruce, and gladys cooper.