beautiful people ( film )
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a sincere glimpse into the lives of sincere folks. film review of such beautiful people, dir. dmytro moyseyev, 2013 .
“saint laurent” is rated r (under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). beautiful people, often on drugs and frequently out of their (also beautiful) clothes .
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pippa walked down the aisle in a beautiful white lace wedding gown by giles deacon .
as people around the world talk about how beautiful pippa middleton looked on her wedding day, this morning viewers were given some workout tips inspired by her amazing arms .
people have been dying to know what meghan markle wore to pippa middleton’s wedding .
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below, listen to pritchard’s “beautiful people, ” check out a euphoric cut from marczak’s all these sleepless nights, and get tickets to next fest to see what the two have been working on together .
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the first 45 minutes of beautiful people focus mainly on the family and the unsavory situation they’re in. it reminded me a lot of a spanish film called kidnapped aka secuestrados (2010), which was a really brutal crime drama with a surprise ending that felt like a kick to my gut on my first viewing of it. beautiful people is an italian production, but all the dialogue is in english. the cast is made up of actors of varying degrees of skill, but in the end beautiful people isn’t looking to impress anyone with the featured actors. the story is the thing here, and it is one weird f * cking story. the tonal shifts here, from kidnap drama to out & out horror film might feel jarring at first, but with a running time of just over 70 minutes, the film doesn’t wear out its welcome .
producer osnat shurer, speaking by phone from berlin where she was promoting the movie, said the moviemakers spent five years working closely with people in the pacific to create what they believe is a beautiful representation .
in honor of the film’s 20th anniversary, we’re pulling out the yearbook and looking up the film’s cast to what they’ve been up to over the past 20 years .
“this film is offensive to disabled people, the vast majority of whom want to live – not die, ” actress and disabled activist liz carr told buzzfeed news. “our lives and those of our loved ones are not mired in tragedy as depicted in this film. ”
henpecked egbert sousè has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard .
personal trainer faisal adballa chatted with holly willoughby and phillip schofield about how people can achieve arms like hers .
polish filmmaker michal marczak, whose atmospheric and intoxicating documentary all these sleepless nights took home the directing award for world cinema documentary at the 2016 sundance film festival, directs the music video. that film embraces a nomadic cinematic vision that is eerily similar to the sonic direction of “beautiful people, ” and perhaps provides a sense of the origins of the collaboration. the music video is described as follows :
there’s something deeply perverse about seeing beyoncé’s groundbreaking work of black female historical reclamation appropriated by two white actresses in 1860s southern dress. but it’s perfectly in keeping with the attitude of the film, in which black people barely merit mention. while the film’s production design and costumes evince a commitment to authenticity, the movie itself has no interest in the people on whose backs that lavish lifestyle was built .
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beautiful creatures is like the twilight movies but with a chaperone making sure the boys dance a foot apart from the girls .
beautiful people is a tv series starring luke ward - wilkinson, layton williams, and olivia colman. the story of the flamboyant and ambitious 14 - year - old simon doonan, who has dreams that stretch beyond his hometown of reading .
the film offers americans an empathetic glimpse of the country we revolted against all those years ago .
a beautiful young woman takes her father' s place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her .
... and yes i said lilly singh as jasmine. just look at her - beautiful, charismatic and funny af. urltoken
leilani: i hope that people understand that there’s a connection and a special balance between us and the nature that surrounds us. i hope this movie helps people learn to give more back to our planet instead of only taking what they can .
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the music video for mark pritchard’s “beautiful people, ” a buoyant and elegiac record featuring vocals by radiohead’s thom yorke – though you’d hardly know it – will make its world premiere at sundance next fest, taking place august 12 - 14. the video will precede the los angeles premiere of under the shadow on sunday, august 14, in the 4 p. m. slot. pritchard, a british electronic musician and producer, dropped “beautiful people” in march of this year ahead of the release of his lp under the sun in may .
an interview with writer / director boots riley about his incendiary new film ,
sorry to bother you .
other reviewers, however, responded positively to the film’s decision t focus on the
right to die
debate .
beautiful people is an ugly film, with ugly people in a ugly scenario doing ugly things to each other. but it makes no apologies for that, indeed it seems to revel in all of the madness – and i respect that. there are moments where i found myself repulsed by what was happening on screen, but i couldn’t turn away from any of it either. the central premise is so unique that i had to see it through to the finale, it’s all a bit ridiculous (actually very ridiculous), but it’s engrossing all the same. as it stands, beautiful people is quite unique, and in an era of unnecessary remakes and endless takes on zombies – that’s commendable. the subject matter ain’t for everyone (some of you will be offended by it), but it’s well worth a watch for those of you with iron clad stomachs & open minds .
“the film approaches this thorny issue with an honourable maturity and forthrightness, even if it’s all given the glowing gloss of an instagram snap with the filter put up to the hilt. that, to me, represents something intrinsically, crucially british about the film, a pragmatic, a - religious approach that i can’t really imagine a mainstream, commercial american film taking. ”
“the message of the film is that disability is tragedy and disabled people are better off dead, ” said another disabled activist, ellen clifford. “it comes from a dominant narrative carried by society and the mainstream media that says it is a terrible thing to be disabled. ”
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bertrand bonello, the director of “saint laurent, ” discusses a sequence from the film featuring gaspard ulliel and valeria bruni tedeschi .
badlands had been made with private money, as a speculative venture, but after it opened at the new york film festival, warner brothers took it up and the film got into profit. filmgoers were eager to see what this man would do next .
exotic is a word coppola used again in an interview with vanity fair, and it signals her aesthetic interest in the story. the chance to film the remnants of the antebellum south, with its grand houses, stately furnishings, and beautiful dresses must have been an alluring prospect for a director so visually minded and so interested in the lives of the wealthy. but aesthetics are not apolitical, and those grand houses and beautiful dresses didn’t emerge out of a vacuum .
an academically gifted teen, her model - beautiful older sister and their newly single mother leave small town new mexico in search of a new life in new york city .
this image released by disney shows maui, voiced by dwayne johnson in a scene from the animated film, “moana. ” disney’s animated movie “moana” debuted to critical acclaim and box office success over the thanksgiving weekend, but some people in the south pacific dislike how it depicts their culture .
disney is reportedly struggling to find actors to fill the roles of aladdin and jasmine in the live - action remake of the animated classic, according to the hollywood reporter, demonstrating once again that the film industry has a serious problem when it comes to hiring people of color in leading roles .
valerie f. : i hope people realize is that we do exist. growing up in socal, everyone thought i was hispanic — they didn’t know what samoan was. after the rock became popular, then i had someone to refer to, but before that people knew only of hawaii. nowadays more people know of us, or know at least one person who is polynesian, but we are still a small minority. disney is such a huge platform, so for them to feature us is a big deal. more people will be able to get a quick sneak peek into our culture as a whole and be familiar with our background .
when a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie' s magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her .
animals are beautiful people: urltoken producer - writer - director jamie uys, who brought us the uproarious
the gods must be crazy ,
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* [ editor: moana is ~ technically ~ not a disney princess, though it' s fair to say that many people see her as a princess equivalent. ]
documentary about an aspiring filmmaker' s attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low - budget horror film he abandoned years before .
“how am i going to keep my kids away from singing maori people and polynesians? ” she said. “of course they’re going to want to go and see it. ”
a wealthy san francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small northern california town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people .
there' s an air of contempt to the picture, with a lot of bored, talented people openly acknowledging that they probably should be doing something more productive with their time .
teaiwa said she was appalled by the maui costume, particularly because some ethnologists from early last century had managed to collect the preserved, tattooed skin of pacific people who had died .
vivid characters rendered impotent by a disorienting tone and a jerky, start - and - stop narrative that dilutes the film' s putative emotional punch .
twenty years ago this week – feb. 9, 1996 – the romcom - dramedy beautiful girls first opened in theaters. the film centers around willie (timothy hutton), who returns home for his high school reunion in a small massachusetts town. it’s funny, it’s heartwarming, and it features one of the better ensemble casts of the 1990s .
think whitewashing, blackface and yellowface are things of the past? get ready to cringe. here are 25 times white actors played people of color and no one really gave a shit .
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…
“we did not want to be dismissive of either side, ” she added, when asked about the assisted suicide storyline, and the anticipated controversy. “there are a few well - known cases where people have made these choices and on the wards people knew patients who had done so. they were able to say that they understood, but that was not their story. ”
but people on twitter were quick to offer their own suggestion of actors ― aside from ahmed and patel ― who might be able to take on the roles of aladdin, jasmine and jafar .
richard gere (centre) in terrence malick' s film days of heaven from 1978. photograph: the kobal collection / www. kobal - collection. com
wellington, new zealand - - disney’s animated movie “moana” debuted to critical acclaim and box office success over the thanksgiving weekend, but some people in the south pacific dislike how it depicts their culture .
though beautiful creatures is occasionally simplistic, and definitely goofy, it' s also a genuinely compassionate story of what it' s like to make your first adult decisions in a world where nothing is black or white .
hutton won best supporting actor in 1981 for ordinary people when he was only 20. to this day he’s the youngest - ever male actor to win an oscar. since beautiful girls, hutton has starred in kinsey (2004), the good shepherd (2006), on four seasons of leverage (2008 - 2012), and starting in 2015 on american crime, for which he picked up an emmy nomination .
the secret life of wildlife! jamie uys, the writer and director of the hilarious the gods must be crazy turns his pen and his camera to the wildlife of the namibian desert in this comic safari through the natural world, revealing the desert denizen' s personalities and idiosyncrasies and showing that they are not much different than our own because, after all, animals are beautiful people. golden globe award winner for best documentary
this has the aroma of an urban legend to it, like the scuba diver who was scooped up by a firefighting airplane and dumped onto a forest fire. in
beautiful people ,
it works like one of those fairy tales where a naughty child gets his comeuppance by trading places with one less fortunate. what happens here is that griffin, dazed and withdrawing, stumbles around the war zone and ends up behaving rather well .
in this little provencal village, a new baker, aimable, settles down. his wife aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. she departs with a shepherd the night after aimable produces... see full summary »
simon doonan and his best friend kyle, better known as kylie dream of living in london with the
beautiful people
. here and now (the 90s), simon lives with his wacky family: the gin drinking mother, blind ex - druggie hippie aunt, slutty sister, irish wine - experimental father and briefly, his angel - turned - devil grandmother. the series includes musical sequences, football and a barrel of laughs .
terrence malick' s first film wowed audiences; his second, days of heaven, set a rapturous new standard in cinema aesthetics. david thomson shines a light on its legacy
as i mentioned earlier, beautiful people is indeed violent. if any of you are offended by misogyny, rape & graphic violence, this ain’t for you. some of it left a greasy taste in my throat, but i can’t say that i wasn’t fascinated with the proceedings, and as the film continued i was excited to see where it would all end. once the creatures are introduced, it goes so completely off the rails that it became something i had to see through to the end – despite the inherent ugliness of it all. but at just over 70 minutes long, it’s all over in a flash .
film :
the conqueror
( 1956) was a film that chronicled the rise of genghis khan. character' s background: the emperor and legendary conqueror genghis khan was mongol, and born near the border of present - day mongolia and siberia. actor' s background: john wayne had no asian ancestry. he was of mixed - european descent .
disney’s latest animated blockbuster moana is largely based on the culture and mythology of the polynesian people who originally settled samoa, tonga, hawai’i, new zealand, tahiti, and many other far - flung islands of the pacific .
“the biggest problem is the ending, which a lot of viewers – perhaps especially disabled ones – may find insurmountable, ” wrote the telegraph’s tim robey. “we’re meant to feel especially sad about will’s incapacitation because he’s so beautiful, and so rich, and had such a swish life skiing with his dreadful friends? this vacuous idea of what makes a life worth living is what really undoes it as a film worth seeing. ”
film :
the last airbender
( 2010) is based on a nickelodeon cartoon featuring tribes and characters of asian and native american - descent and their journey to stop the fire nation from taking over their tribes. characters' background: katara, her brother sokka and the rest of the water tribe are said to be primarily influenced by the inuit people and culture. aang, the titular character of the film and series, is of asian ancestry. casts' background: the actors who portrayed the three main character mentioned above were all white with no asian or native american ancestry - - noah ringer as aang, nicola peltz as katara, and jackson rathbone as sokka. and the actors of color that were cast in the film? they were all cast as villains .
film :
the house of spirits
( 1993) is a film based on chilean writer isabel allende' s bestseller of the same name. it tells the story of a rancher, his wife and their family as they face turbulent times in chile. character' s background: clara del valle trueba is a clairvoyant and the wife of said rancher. much like all of the characters in the film and book, she is chilean. actress' background: streep is not latina or of latin american descent. she is of mixed - european ancestry .
“the slaves left. ” in three words, sofia coppola’s new film the beguiled casually dispenses with one of the great shames of the american republic. coppola’s film is an elegant southern gothic tale of masculine charms and feminine vengeance, completely stripped of its historical and racial context. while not every period genre picture need grapple with the “ peculiar institution, ” this is a film set during the civil war, unfolding between southern women and a northern soldier, and it goes so far as to cut both black characters from the novel upon which it was based .
some people say the tree of life may be the greatest film ever made. others think it' s religiose and pretentious, high - minded and half - baked pictorialism. i' m in the middle. i think its scenes of childhood are magnificent and unrivalled, and i recall from those first two films how alert and tender malick has always been to the young imagination. but the deeper it gets into life, the more clearly it reveals that being beautiful in a movie is not enough. the actor sean penn seems to have a similar feeling. once a malick devotee (he is in the thin red line), penn believed the script had offered him a real part in the tree of life, but the film had turned him into a cipher lost in the sterile beauty of houston architecture, without a voice or a dramatic role .
“ i felt like i had to give these women a voice, ” coppola told film school rejects about her reason for making the film. a noble cause, though a little less urgent when you consider that the novel itself (if not the eastwood film) is narrated, chapter by chapter, from each woman’s perspective. “you always see stories about men at war, but i don’t think i’ve seen what happens to the women left behind, ” coppola continued. “i’ve always loved the women in the south, and the south in general; it’s so exotic and different. ”
before beautiful girls, rapaport was a character actor specializing in comedy roles. after beautiful girls, he’s still that, but now he has a lengthy resume under his belt. among rapaport’s most notable roles are deep blue sea (1999), bamboozled (2000), hitch (2005) and the heat (2013). he played phoebe’s police officer boyfriend on friends, and he also starred in three seasons of boston public, two of the war at home and had a recurring role on my name is earl .
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rotesters from the disabled activism group not dead yet staged a red carpet protest at the me before you premiere, and members of the group have spoken to the media about their discomfort with the film’s plot .
when the film is successful it shows the loneliness of people not allowed to be who they are, although
loneliness
doesn' t cover it. it' s more like alone - ness so acute the characters are
flung out of space
, as carol observes of therese. when intimacy finally comes, it is accompanied by loss. first love is often like that, but in
carol
it' s intensified because their connection must remain hidden .
but that’s a subtle point for a movie that seems to think its audience is so dumb. instead, wellness starts to feel like a horror movie full of characters so impossibly stupid, that their behavior invites viewers to throw something at the (insanely beautiful) imagery on - screen .
james’ best pal is believed to have told guests at the middletons’ £6million mansion where the lavish reception was held: “now, to the love of james’s life. beautiful, energetic, loyal, soft mouth, comes on command, great behind - that’s enough about james’s spaniel rafa. ”
jacosa (36, samoan and caucasian): i loved the grandma, and all scenes with her. she was such a real, authentic depiction of my own grandma and many kupunas i know. this was a beautiful tribute to the love polynesians have for their elders and ancestors .
film :
a beautiful mind
( 2001) is a movie based on the life and career of brilliant mathematician john nash. character' s background: alicia (born alicia lardé) is an mit student who would later become john' s wife. the real alicia was salvadorian. actress' background: jennifer connelly is not latina and has no latin american roots. the actress is of mixed - european descent. connelly won the academy award for best supporting actress for the role in 2001 .
film :
21
( 2008) is a film based on true events that follows the story of a brilliant mit student who is trained, along with other students, to become an expert card counter in blackjack. character' s background: the protagonist of the film, ben campbell, is actually based on real - life mit card counter and blackjack player jeffrey ma. ma is an american of chinese descent. in fact, most of the real - life blackjack team was of asian descent but were portrayed in the film by white actors. actor' s background: jim sturgess is a british actor, who required a dialect coach to master an american accent for the role. while sturgess' role in
21
was completely whitewashed, the actor is also known for having worn full - on yellowface for his
cloud atlas
character in 2012 .
film :
prince of persia: sands of time
( 2010) is based on the video game franchise that follows the fugitive fictional prince of persia, dastan, on different adventures. character' s background: unsurprisingly, the prince of persia is meant to be persian. persia is actually what most people recognize as present - day iran. actor' s background: ﻿jake gyllenhall is not iranian. he was born in california and is of mixed - european and jewish descent .
film :
dragon seed
( 1944) is a film set during the second sino - japanese war. jade is a chinese woman that leads her village to fight against japanese invaders. character' s background: again, jade is a meant to be a chinese woman living in a small village in china. actress' background: katharine hepburn was not chinese, or of asian - descent. the american - born actress was of mixed - european descent .
kahea (native hawaiian, european): the constant mixture of cultures — yet portraying it as one. people may think all the songs were in hawaiian. (editor: the non - english lyrics to songs such as
we know the way
were tokelauan not hawaiian. )
film :
argo
( 2012) is based on the real - life work of top - level cia operative antonio j. mendez, who helped orchestrate the rescue of six american hostages in iran in 1980. the film won the academy award for best picture. character' s background: antonio j. mendez was born in nevada and is mexican - american. actor' s background: ben affleck is not latino. he is of mixed - european descent .
the heavenly feeling in the movie is not really there in what happens to the people. the plot is full of tragedy, loss and separation, and of a briefly glimpsed paradise that cannot sustain human shortcomings. but heaven is there in the light on the grass, in the romantic aura of a house and in a few people in a place where there is no one else. it is the very american feeling of wanting to find the lonely panoramas, and that is one of the things that lets both a new world and the tree of life hover between poetry and bathos .
it starts, dream - like, with a pair of gigantic sea creatures (a pufferfish and a seahorse) gamboling to and fro against the black sea for an audience of two. after the viewer adjusts to the ethereality of the scene, the next striking thing about dmytro moyseyev' s 2013 debut feature film, such beautiful people, is the delicate, sandy palette that pervades nearly every frame and helps carry the otherworldly mood from the opening scene through to the closing credits. yet color is only part of what makes each artfully composed shot seem as though it' s a painting in its own right. director moyseyev and cinematographer serhii tartyshnikov paid close attention to every arrangement of strings of dried fish, holes in screens, fluttering curtains, down to the last detail—a difficult task in a landscape where every element differs by just one shade of tan .
setema (40, samoan): moana by far was the most incredible. her heart, her desire, her strong will, and her unrelenting, unconquerable spirit allowed her to listen to her inner voice and go forward. she was so committed that she risked everything. they made her absolutely beautiful inside and out .
katey: i loved the movie overall. it was beautiful. but disney (and everyone else) must know that it’s impossible to make a movie that is a complete representation of a culture. it doesn’t mean that they did a bad job. they did a wonderful job. it just means that the job isn’t done !
no actual documentation of the honeyguide bird leading honey badgers to bee hives is known to exist, although they do this with humans. the
story
in the film is done with editing and a model bird simply being dangled in front of the badger .
pauline kael, the new yorker: “ star wars is like getting a box of cracker jack which is all prizes. this is the writer - director george lucas’s own film, subject to no business interference, yet it’s a film that’s totally uninterested in anything that doesn’t connect with the mass audience. there’s no breather in the picture, no lyricism; the only attempt at beauty is in the double sunset. it’s enjoyable on its own terms, but it’s exhausting, too: like taking a pack of kids to the circus. an hour into it, children say that they’re ready to see it again; that’s because it’s an assemblage of spare parts — it has no emotional grip. star wars may be the only movie in which the first time around the surprises are reassuring…. it’s an epic without a dream. but it’s probably the absence of wonder that accounts for the film’s special, huge success. the excitement of those who call it the film of the year goes way past nostalgia to the feeling that now is the time to return to childhood. ”
film :
othello
( 1965) is one of many film adaptations of shakespeare' s tragedy of the same name. character' s background: othello is a general in the venetian army. he is also a christian moor, which means he is generally depicted with a dark - complexion. actor' s background: british actor laurence olivier has no african or arab roots, which is why he wore full - on blackface to portray the jealous moor. that' s right, he painted his skin several shades darker to play othello .
but for just this reason, “saint laurent” may represent a perfect match of filmmaker and subject. ysl’s commitment to elegance was all - consuming, and also represented a kind of transcendental consumerism. his life, or at least this movie’s idea of it, was both sumptuous and empty, hedonistic and sad. he was a creator and, even more, a collector, of attractive people, intense experiences and beautiful things. to visit him in old age, surrounded by servants, memories, occasional hallucinations and abundant objets d’art, is to sit with a pharaoh in a tomb furnished for the afterlife. you’re not sure if you’ve witnessed a tragedy in the guise of a fashion show, or the reverse .
in a study of over 400 films and television series, the university of southern california found that over half didn’t feature asian speaking characters. usc’s annenberg school found that in 2014, only 5 percent of characters in film were asian, while nearly 75 percent of characters were white .
lately, i’ve been trying to stay away from describing movies as “lush” or “painterly, ” but if any film ever stood up, climbed onto a table, and demanded that vocabulary, it would be a cure f or wellness. working with his longtime cinematographer bojan bazelli, verbinski has conjured up a film where almost every frame could end up on one perfect shot to be studied and scrutinized. a train barreling toward a mountain tunnel, its windows a perfect symmetrical reflection; lockhart and hannah talking beside a mirror - like fountain pool; a slow dolly toward a seemingly empty therapy tub; even the most banal moments become opportunities for artistry. production designer eve stewart further improves it with her detailed work, which gives the film a world war ii - meets - steampunk vibe full of old - school medical equipment and vast sensory - deprivation chambers .
a supernatural love story set in the south ,
beautiful creatures
tells the tale of two star - crossed lovers: ethan (alden ehrenreich), a young man longing to escape his small town, and lena (alice englert), a mysterious new girl. together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town. (c) wb
leilani (35, native hawaiian, japanese, and mexican): i loved the opening chant while the screen was still dark. those first few lines filled me with pride and excitement. i loved when the grandma was teaching the kids the legend of maui. everybody has a crazy grandparent / family member who always sees more than people think .
it’s frustrating, because a cure f or wellness is a beautifully shot film full of interesting ideas, but it dumbs itself down at every possible turn. a psychological thriller about an up - and - coming wall street executive (dane dehaan) who questions his sanity while trapped in that mysterious sanitarium, a cure f or wellness is fascinated by the destructive nature of the american work ethic, and how its idolatry has left us susceptible to gaslighting and far, far worse. but while verbinski (director of the ring, the lone ranger, and the first three pirates of the caribbean movies) expertly crafts an atmosphere of ever - deepening paranoia, the film isn’t able to hold on to its larger aspirations. he seems so concerned that the audience won’t connect the dots that he collapses the film into a wreckage of blockbuster conventions that likely won’t satisfy anyone .
film :
breakfast at tiffany' s
( 1961) is a hollywood classic that centers on the romance between young new york socialite holly golightly (audrey hepburn) and a man who moves into her building. character' s background: mr. yunioshi is holly' s hot - tempered japanese landlord, who she consistently tries to avoid. actor' s background: mickey rooney was not japanese. in one of the most outlandish displays of yellowface and hollywood stereotyping, the american - born actor of scottish descent had slanted eyelids, buck teeth and a thick accent in the film .
the gang is made up of three people. nibbio (danny cutler), who likes to tell people what’s going to happen to them beforehand. his younger brother, brett (alex southern), who seems very apprehensive about what he’s doing, but still records the gang’s exploits to video for posterity, and testamento (alex lucchesi), who basically does (and enjoys) all of the really dirty work. the family (john & elena pontecorvo) are played by david white & kate marie davies, and although they have problems maintaining their italian accents (it all takes place in italy), they essay their roles well. they’re certainly up for the nudity & violence, which is copious and extremely gory .
the unearthly spell is broken when marta has to travel to the city to find her ivan. the viewer is reluctantly reminded that the beautiful people of the film don' t really live in a marine fantasyland, but in living, breathing ukraine. it' s almost as if the city itself is incapable of maintaining the illusion. the cinematography take on an amateurish quality totally absent from all preceding scenes, and the dialogue becomes stilted and enigmatic: the booksellers are inappropriately sarcastic, the bartender somehow overly witty, and the café' s revelers oddly aggressive. despite the merrymaking and bustle of the city, it has none of the joie de vivre of the beachside retreat; no one there, not even the artists or those in the bookstore, was reading japanese fairytales or reciting ivan drach. marta' s unhappiness and confusion are palpable and transmitted to the viewer. mercifully the action returns to the refuge of the sea, the place where social conventions are familiar and understandable, and the place where our characters and the story of their lives belong .
setema: disney did an amazing job. there’s many polynesians who are hating on the movie. disney never said they were making a documentary. they made a movie to tie into the poly cultures and the island mythology. great job disney and thank you for doing such an incredible job representing our people with the sights, sounds, colors, music, and message .
people outside of disney have finally seen star wars: the force awakens; if you’re not holed up in a bunker keeping out all news and plot details until friday, you can check out our compilation of initial reviews here. at a time like this, it’s also fascinating to go back and see what critics said about the original star wars when it was released in 1977 .
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( 2014) is a retelling of the biblical story of a man chosen by god and entrusted with a mission as he purges the earth with an apocalyptic flood. character' s background: noah, much like other biblical figures, is from somewhere in ancient middle east. that means it' s unlikely that he was so fair - skinned. actor' s background: russell crowe was born in new zealand and is of mixed - european descent. he wasn' t the only whitewashed character in the film, fellow cast members included jennifer connelly, ray winstone, anthony hopkins and emma watson .
coppola’s erasure of history is evident even in the period - accurate choice of filming location: madewood plantation house, where beyoncé shot parts of lemonade. the cast of the beguiled were so excited to be shooting at the same location that elle fanning and kirsten dunst re - created a shot from beyoncé’s film for instagram .
it’s not even a real fantasy film! it’s someone making will smith think he’s in a fantasy film. that extra layer of artifice is not necessary, and actually harmful to your ability to enjoy collateral beauty. as every negative review has pointed out about this movie, this might be the cruelest trick ever played on a grieving fictional character in the history of drama. but it gets worse! big willie styles starts going to a grief support group and falls for the head of the group, played by naomie harris. this is going to completely ruin this movie if you have some sick notion of seeing it, so fair warning .
* update, july 5, 2017: edwina in both films is a composite of two characters from the source novel: edwina, a wealthy biracial teenager seduced and betrayed by mcburney, and harriet farnsworth, a white teacher and sister to martha, kidman' s headmistress character in the coppola film. (return. )
there is a scene in days of heaven when malick seemed close to this quandary. there is a night when a plague of locusts, some as big as your hand, come down on the ranch. everyone rallies to beat the insects away with flails or fire. the bursts of orange in the night are staggeringly beautiful, and at one point malick notices and chooses to dwell on a locust on a stalk of corn with the contrast of fire and night making the image. it' s as if one of the ranch hands desperate to save the ranch' s crop had suddenly stopped in his efforts and his hostility to the locusts and said :
gee, have you ever really looked at a locust before? they are amazing and so beautiful you feel there must be some design in their making. so why are we trying to hinder them ?
beautiful girls was thurman’s first major picture after pulp fiction, for which she was nominated for best supporting actress. since then, she starred in the truth about cats and dogs (1996), batman & robin (1997) and gattaca (also 1997). she re - teamed with quentin tarantino in 2003 for kill bill, and in 2017 she’ll team up with another tarantino regular, tim roth, in the brits are coming .
though o’donnell would continue to act in films after beautiful girls – among them, harriet the spy (1996) and tarzan (1999) – her career would soon move toward smaller screens. the rosie o’donnell show premiered in 1996 and lasted for more than 1, 000 episodes. she still acts occasionally, but she’s probably best known today for being an on - air personality as a result of joining the view in 2006 and again in 2014 .
in the beguiled, coppola cuts out the enslaved housemaid mattie (called hallie in the 1971 film), and she also turns the character edwina, who was a free mixed - race teenager in the novel, into a white teacher played by kirsten dunst. * asked why she cut out the enslaved woman from the original film, coppola told buzzfeed news, “i didn’t want to brush over such an important topic in a light way. young girls watch my films and this was not the depiction of an african - american character i would want to show them. ” perhaps her intentions were pure, but it’s hard not to see this as part of a larger pattern .
as the sun rose on monday morning, the desert dust had settled and coachella weekend one officially drew to a close. but along with the music still echoing in our ears are the bountiful memories of all the beautiful faces that attended over the april 14 - 16 weekend. from the fashion - forward to the straight - up naked and downright weird, everyone had a unique way of showcasing their unique beauty, making the weekend an exceptionally magical experience .
why are we so suspicious of one another? it may be a trait hard - wired by evolution: if you' re not in my tribe, you may want to eat my dinner or steal my mate. the irony about those two bosnian patients, fighting each other in the london hospital, is that they' re the only two people in the building who speak the same language. so to speak .
in a 2006 article for vanity fair, author antonia fraser wrote about the experience of having her biography of marie antoinette adapted into a film by sofia coppola. according to fraser, coppola asked her, “would it matter if i leave out the politics? ” to which fraser “replied with absolute honesty, ‘marie antoinette would have adored that. ’ ”
playing tommy “birdman” rowland, the former school jock who never made good on his potential, dillon bounced from beautiful girls into a string of ’90s hits: in & out (1997), there’s something about mary and wild things (both 1998). most recently, dillon starred in the surprise hit miniseries wayward pines, which was picked up for a second season that will air later this year. dillon dated his mary costar cameron diaz from 1995 to 1998 .
holly was still attached to her dumb and dumber costar jim carrey at the time beautiful girls came out. they’d split in 1997, and holly would go on to star in films such as any given sunday (1999), what women want (2000), as well as three seasons of ncis (2005 - 2008). she’s been on the canadian procedural motive since 2013. holly married investment banker francisco greco in 2001, and together they have three children .
jacosa: we would all like to be able to say that media has no bearing in how we feel about ourselves, that we need no one’s validation. however, there is something really powerful and, yes, validating, about seeing a positive representation of your physical being in mainstream media. i would love for audiences and filmmakers to understand this, and to embrace the importance of respectful, positive depictions of all cultures and people .
as the sun rose on monday morning, the desert dust had settled and coachella weekend one officially drew to a close. but along with the music still echoing in our ears are the bountiful memories of all the beautiful faces that attended over the april 14 - 16 weekend. from the fashion - forward to the straight - up naked and downright weird, everyone had a unique way of showcasing their unique beauty, making the weekend an exceptionally magical experience. all photography by shane lopes .
over time we have come to expect a tsunami - sized wave of backlash when an actor of color is cast as a fictional character that audiences feel should be white ― see controversies over michael b. jordan as the human torch or amandla stenberg as rue of “the hunger games” ― but the outrage isn’t quite the same when white actors portray characters of color. even when, often, they are based of off real - life people of color .
tupua (31, american samoan): just seeing people that look like me onscreen doing great and positive things. polynesians have complicated relationships with our parents because they can be really strict and many of them still discipline through spanking, so seeing positive moments between moana and her parents mean a lot to me. most poly guys are momma’s boys because their dads are so strict. i myself am very close to my mother and grandmother soooo i loved seeing that onscreen !
this film opens with a scene of a couple making love, but it isn’t what it seems to be because suddenly the man turns his partner over on her stomach and apologizes for what he’s about to do. they’re actually a married couple who are being forced to have sex in front of their teenage daughter by a psychotic gang of home invaders. it gets even uglier as the leader of the gang verbally abuses the entire family as the physical abuse continues. it all ends with a bloodbath in which the family is mercilessly slaughtered. but then the film cuts suddenly to a bloodied woman being kept in a basement cell of some sort. we only get to see her for a few seconds though, because she’s suddenly set upon by a flesh hungry zombie and ripped to shreds!
beautiful people is a 1999 british satirical comedy film written and directed by jasmin dizdar . the film won an award for the best film in un certain regard category at the cannes film festival , and is listed in the new york times guide to " the best 1,000 movies ever made " . beautiful people is set in london during the time of the bosnian war . 
beautiful people is a 1999 british satirical comedy film written and directed by jasmin dizdar. the film won an award for the best film in un certain regard category at the cannes film festival, and is listed in the new york times guide to " the best 1,000 movies ever made ". beautiful people is set in london during the time of the bosnian war.
beautiful people is a 1999 british satirical comedy film written and directed by jasmin dizdar. the film won an award for the best film in un certain regard category at the cannes film festival, and is listed in the new york times guide to " the best 1,000 movies ever made ". beautiful people is set in london during the time of the bosnian war.