earth ( ukrainian : земля , translit . zemlya ) is a 1930 soviet silent film by ukrainian director alexander dovzhenko , concerning the process of collectivization and the hostility of kulak landowners .

it is part 3 of dovzhenko 's " ukraine trilogy " ( along with zvenigora and arsenal ) .

earth is regarded as dovzhenko 's masterpiece .

earth ( 1930 film )

alexander dovzhenko drew from ukranian folk culture in such films as zemlya ( earth , 1930 ) .
of the silent trilogy , earth ( 1930 ) is dovzhenko’s most accessible film but , perhaps for these same reasons , most misunderstood . in 1958 a brussels’ film jury would vote earth as one of the great films of all time .
“inshi pro zemlyu za zemlyu” . kino march 1930 ( 8 ) , 80 .
see for example bednyi , demian . ( pseud of efim pridvorov ) . “filosofy . ” izvestiia april 4 , 1930 , “knononizatsiia ili ‘chto i trebovalos’ dokazat’ izvestia april 6 , 1930 and bliakhin , p . “zemlia” pravda march 29 , 1930 .
hall , mordaunt . “the screen : earth” . new york times . october 21 , 1930 ( city edition ) . 34 : 4 .
bookcover for demyan bedny ' s evangelist ( 1930 ) . the text reads
new testament
with regard to screenplay and print , all of dovzhenko’s silent films come with their own version and translation problems . due to earth’s ( 1930 ) early censorship necessitated before its release , various existing prints add further complexity . there are at least six different versions of earth circulating in east and west . before earth was released , it was reviewed by the artistic council of ukrainfilm on february 26 , 1930 , and the association of revolutionary cinema workers on march 20 , 1930
see bazhan , mykola . “zemlia” kino 1930 ( 5 ) : 8 - 9 and ivens , jorys . “jorys ivens pro fil’m o . dovzhenka zemlia . ” kino 1930 ( 6 ) : 14 .
dovzhenko . pro krasu , ibid . , p . 37 , zemlya discussions , 26 february 1930 .
“earth” trans . diana matias . mother , a film by v . i pudovkin ; earth a film by alexander dovzhenko . london : lorrimer , 1973 : simon and schuster , 1973 . p . 59 - 60 .
i . e . marshall , rotha , grierson , bakshy , potamkin . see for example , marshall , h . p . j “zimla ( earth ) vufku . close - up 7 . 3 ( 1930 ) : 171 - 176 . rotha , paul . “earth” in celluloid : the film today . london : londman , green and co , 1933 . pp . bakshy , alexander . “soil” the nation 29 october 1930 . potamkin , harry alan . “soil review” new masses december 1930 . grierson , john . “earth review ( originally published november 1930 , clarion ) grierson on documentary . ed . and compiled by hardy forsyth . london : faber and faber , 1966 .
. on april 1 , 1930 , a week before its release , demyan bedny’s versified attack on earth appeared in izvestia resulting in dovzhenko’s first set of pre - release cuts .
see shkurupii , geo . ed . avanhard al’manakh , kyiv : 1930 . pp . 16 - 22 .
interview with dovjenko ,
in close - up ( london ) , no . 4 , 1930 .
. in the week prior to the film’s release , the debates regarding earth had taken on large political resonance .
today we ' re adding to our list of free movies a 1930 soviet silent film by director alexander dovzhenko . it ' s called earth , and it ' s the third installment in dovzhenko ' s
ukraine trilogy .
after earth premiered in russia , dovzhenko brought the film to paris and berlin , and under the title soil , it opened in new york during the fall of 1930 . the negative of earth was destroyed by the germans during world war ii , but a copy of the original release print fortunately survived .
moscow , 1965 ; also published in mother : a film by v . i . pudovkin and earth : a film by alexander dovzhenko , new york , 1973 .
soviet collectivization propaganda ( 1930 ) . the poster reads
hey friend , come with us into the collective !
speaking of earth as “the culmination of dovzhenko’s aesthetic , a spiritual hymn to the earth’s fertility and larger philosophical meditation of life , death and the life cycle” .
dakhabrakha perform their score for classic soviet silent film ' earth ' on friday , aug . 19 , at the sfjazz center .
six months after its april 8 kyiv release . between these dates dovzhenko travelled with earth’s assistant director , julia solntseva , exhibiting and lecturing on earth in various european capitals
ukraine on film celebrates cinema by presenting four new award - winning ukrainian films and screening oleksandr dovzhenko’s 1930 masterpiece , earth , at the opening . a title which resonates powerfully since the tragic events which have torn the country apart , present in varying degrees in the selected works
dovzhenko , alexander . “ earth literary adaptation” two russian film classics . new york : simon and schuster , 1973 . p . 59 .
contemporary opinion on earth , even before release , was split . many of the arguments against the film had less to do with the film itself than with what the film , in contemporaneous socio - political debates , was presenting , or , more often than not , omitting . the earliest critique placed earth in line with dovzhenko’s previous two silent features .
rotha , paul . “earth” in celluloid : the film today . london : longmans , green and company , 1933 . pp . 135 - 153 .
around the time of earth’s first north american release ( october 1930 ) , forced collectivization was reinstituted . for both 1930 and 1931 , moscow raised the ukrainian quota for grain deliveries by an impossible 115 percent . in the next harvest , at a time when left - leaning cinema clubs across europe and north america were screening dovzhenko’s images of abundance and western intellectuals witnessed presentations of bucolic fertility
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i . e . new masses , daily worker , film front , nation , new theatre , workers theatre , film front , workers film and photo league , etc .
margolit , e . ,
zemlja , sssr ( 1930 ) ,
in iskusstvo kino ( moscow ) , no . 12 , december 1990 .
potamkin , harry alan . “soil review , december 1930” . reprinted in the compound cinema : the film writings of harry alan potamkin . new york : teachers college press , 1977 . pp . 480 - 481 .
for a discussion of the importance that subsequent film historians afford this text which contains a chapter devoted to dovzhenko’s earth , see bordwell , david . on the history of film style . cambridge : harvard university press , 1997 .
in earth , dovzhenko creates a model , an impression of an idealized reality of a bucolic mode of life that paradoxically never existed but now is passing away . through earth’s presented images , there is the sense of lives halted , freed from future destiny . in joining cinema , iconic portraiture and his own personal mythopetic through reference to byzantine eastern orthodox iconographic code , in earth ( 1930 ) , dovzhenko would construct his own surrealistic death mask of an old way of life .
a 1955 new york cinema 16 club circular notes that the original negative of earth no longer exists with prints taken from an existing dupe negative with a subsequent loss in photographic quality for which the film in its original form was praised . ( museum of modern art film archives ) . earth : russia 1929 - 30 . cinema sixteen notes
the party - backed denunciation and orchestration of ‘the moscow workers’ to rise against dovzhenko’s earth has been noted .
in his later literary adaptation of the earth screenplay , dovzhenko similarly alludes to these neo - byzantine surrealist coordinates and a series of modernist movements ascendant in the period . beginning earth’s later screenplay adaptation , dovzhenko writes :
george sadoul writes that the original release time of earth before censorship was 5 , 670 ft . ( 94 minutes at 16 frames / second , silent film speed ) .
the 1920s actress became a new kind of down - to - earth hollywood idol . her film it established a female archetype that’s still with us , nicholas barber reports .
. ( on aesthetics ) , comp . oleh babyshkin . kyiv : mystetstvo , 1968 . ” zemlya discussions , 26 february 1930 , kiev” . p . 36 .
dovzhenko’s film is as heartfelt as eisenstein’s brisker , highly analytical achievement . it’s a different way of seeing—a different way of breathing air . earth also narrowly misses having more history to take into account ; for , at the same time that dovzhenko was making his film , stalin’s 1929 collectivization policy , which would soak the earth in human blood , had just begun . when the film was released in 1930 , then , the tragedy was still unfolding . for all dovzhenko’s acquiescence ( at that time ) to stalin’s iron grip on the soviet film industry , earth was deemed suspect by soviet authorities ; dovzhenko’s father as a result was even expelled from his farming collective . ( the film , though , was warmly embraced in scandinavia and western europe . in italy , dovzhenko was declared the modern homer . ) it’s possible that stalin and the sort with whom he surrounded himself found the silence of the film— earth is dovzhenko’s last completely silent film—itself dubious , as though sound might better promote the national interest by propagandizing , or doing so more plainly , directly . in any case , the experience surrounding earth pushed dovzhenko into what has been described as a suicidal depression .
when the guardian created its list of the top 10 silent movies of all time , it put earth in the # 9 slot . about the film writer pamela hutchinson said :
the soviet use of force in accelerating collectivization was excessive . uprisings were provoked among the peasant populace and stalin took a brief step back . on march 2 , 1930 , he published an article in pravda entitled “dizziness from success” . here , stalin ordered forced collectivization’s end . on march 15 , 1930 , the peasants were permitted to resign from the collective farms and reclaim property if they so chose . immediately following stalin’s more permissive prescription , almost half of the coerced ukrainian peasants left the collective farms . in this period , dovzhenko’s earth was allowed a brief , limited and hotly debated release ( april 8 - april 17 , 1930 , kyiv ) .
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before its release , earth was greeted with a cacophony of opposing opinion . produced in 1929 , released in 1930 , earth precipitated a debate that is still not understood . this led to censorship and the film’s reediting of which we have yet to see full restoration . the avant - garde and intelligentsia would celebrate earth . in a series of party - backed protests the bolsheviks and moscow workers’ clubs would rise against it . the debates would also herald the ukrainian cultural renaissance’s wane and lead to dovzhenko’s longer self - censorship . a new period would begin in ukraine marked by purges , terror and a party - orchestrated famine .
here , he published dovzhenko’s notes on his working methods on his soon - to - be released third feature , earth .
this film was voted one of the 12 greatest films of all time by a group of 117 film historians at the 1958 brussels world fair .
appropriating a simpler narrative plan than his previous films and closer to poetry than prose , earth presents what has been termed a slight narrative structure to reflect on philosophical concern . the following earth summary proposes congruence in division with the trilogy’s previous two films :
publication of the first volume of ukrainian re - vision is timed to the 90 th anniversary of all - ukrainian photo - cinema directorate ( vufku ) , under the brand of which such masterpieces as zvenyhora , two days , man with a movie camera , in spring , arsenal , and earth were created during 1922 - 1930 . vufku was a cinematographic state monopoly that united the entire film industry in ukraine , including film production , film distribution , film education , and book publication . it was one of the most successful film producers in europe . exporting movies to france , czech republic , germany , great britain , usa , and japan vufku became the second largest after the usa supplier of film production to germany , which at that time was the leader of the european film industry . vufku logo became the logo of the ukrainian re - vision collection .
in a later memoir article , kino vufku ukrainian paris correspondent and emigré avant - garde filmmaker , eugene deslaw , notes that the misunderstanding between dovzhenko and stalin began at the time of earth . deslaw relates that after a screening of the film at which pudovkin and eisenstein were present , stalin pronounced that earth did not tow the general line
production : vufku ( kiev ) ; black and white , 35mm , silent ; length : 1704 meters , 6 reels . released 8 april 1930 , kiev . filmed april - november 1929 in poltava .
the first film in dovzhenko’s silent trilogy , which brought him the reputation of a leading ukrainian film director , ignited a fierce debate about the national cinema .
in aleksandr dovzhenko ' s orgiastic paean to soviet collectivism and tractor - ism earth there is nothing more beautiful than the untainted countryside .
★★★★★ made in response to stalin’s plans for collectivisation , earth is about peasants owning their own land and tilling it as they please .
from the film’s beginning , distinctive forces harken beyond the socio - economic . there will be an undercurrent of imagery that acts as a visual dialectic and counterpoint to narrative and plot structure’s economic machinations progressing through earth .
i . e . potamkin , workers’ film and photo league , new york .
kelman , ken , in film culture ( new york ) , winter 1963–64 .
pym , john , in monthly film bulletin ( london ) , february 1980 .
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by march 10 , 1930 , sixty - five percent of the ukrainian farms and seventy percent of the land was collectivized . in light of moscow’s new strong arm policy in dealing with ukraine , there was a question . would earth be released ? in the uncensored version of his later party autobiography , dovzhenko would apologize for his misalignment with state policy thus :
prior to an early earth screening in venice by the italian communists , deslaw comments : they cut the last moments in the life of the grandfather , the return of the villager to his non - existent home after picking up some earth ( on his knees , the villager in this scene bends towards the earth and , taking it in hand , raises it to his cheek , so in his last moments to feel its flavor ( smak ) and to breathe in our black earth ( chornozem ) . they even didn’t leave other unique scenes with the sunflowers . . .
in 1930 international surrealist currents were at their apogee . striving for a union with international communist and revolutionary aspiration , benjamin peret’s and pierre naville’s journal , la révolution surréaliste , advocated linking the surrealist breakthrough with the communist upsurge
. rooted in regional specificity , dovzhenko’s earth resonates with this less spoken about social and surrealist confluence and modernist eroto - political set of themes .
even if to little effect , in vufku kino’s final year there would be an effort to counter this attack . a counter ‘ideological’ horizon of ukrainian proletarian opinion would be ‘rallied’ to state the workers’ opinions for earth . the moscow ‘proletariat’ with the exception of one worker would be unified against earth as an unsuitable film for the proletarian masses . kino’s assemblage of ukrainian workers’ opinion would diametrically mirror the russian textual construction . all of the ukrainian workers , with the exception of one worker , were for the suitability of earth for soviet screens
created to celebrate stalin’s collectivization project , which pushed ukrainian peasants off their land into huge communal farms , alexander dovzhenko ’s classic 1930 silent film earth isn’t quite as notorious . but this landmark of soviet cinema , the third of the director’s seminal “ukraine trilogy , ” inhabits unsettled ground where propaganda and art contest for meaning . dakhabrakha , the amazing ukrainian ensemble that reverently reinvents hair - raising polyphonic ukrainian folk songs , perform an original live score for earth on friday , aug . 19 , at the sfjazz center . the quartet also perform at 3pm on sunday , aug . 14 at san jose jazz’s summer fest .
earth opens with a young woman in a traditional embroidered blouse next to a sunflower . while organized religion and the priest will be denounced , it will not be easy to ignore the grounding of pagan harvest fertility ritual and judeo - christian emblematic mysticism in earth’s roster of poetic imagery and marxist speculation .
. . . the grandfather in earth is my own late grandfather , semen tarasovych dovzhenko , an honest , kind , and genteel old salt trader .
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the 1930’s was considered the golden age of hollywood . a new era in film history began in this decade with the introduction of sound into film , creating new genres such as action , musicals , documentaries , social statement films , comedies , westerns , and horror movies . the use of audio tracks in motion pictures created a new viewer dynamic and also initiated hollywood’s leverage in the upcoming world war ii .
earth’s aesthetic relies not on formalist gymnastics , camera movement or montage unlike it ' s closest analogue with regard to collectivization , eisenstein’s the old and the new ( 1929 ) , . grounded in stasis , the film is predicated on inter - frame composition and a painterly schema . earth’s formal qualities have kinship with dreyer’s joan of arc ( 1928 ) and narrative antecedent in griffith’s a corner in wheat ( 1909 ) . unlike zvenyhora and arsenal , for whom there are no close narrative sources , for earth there are antecedents in contemporary ukrainian belles lettres and other literary works worthy at least of note : olha kobylianska’s zemlia ( earth , 1902 ) , on sunday morning for herbs she dug ( 1909 )
like rivera’s public multi - panelled period mexican frescos ( 1923 - 1930 ) , through earth dovzhenko constructs a mural of the collective . boys and girls sit on rooftops ; young married women sit on logs ; men wait in a state of anticipation ; oxen are shot not lowing but from conventional soviet heroic style high angle awaiting the tractor’s arrival . from a state of ‘historical’ stasis , a collective entity emerges . close to diego rivera’s marxist iconographic decoration for the chapel at chapingo , the panels taken together in earth form an iconostatic shrine to agrarian abundance and the land’s fecundity ( fig . 50 ) . like rivera’s heterodox marxo - philosophic erotic chapel , dovzhenko’s visual shrine is to the earth’s fecundity .
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earth created a sensation outside the soviet union . its simple imagery influenced other directors , particularly documentary filmmakers in england and the united states . today , it is dovzhenko ' s most famous film , and one of the great achievements of world cinema .
young screen actress , platinum blonde starlet jean harlow was also ' discovered ' and soon contracted with aviation millionaire / movie mogul howard hughes to replace the female lead in his soon - to - be - released , re - made sound version of hell ' s angels ( 1930 ) , another exciting wwi film about british flying aces .
largely filmed in close - up or head shots , the emphasis on byzantine iconology and its head - of - the - saint foregrounding will be present throughout earth . not so much presented as reaction shots , the close - ups of the family’s various generations’ faces in earth are close to dreyer’s passion of joan of arc ( 1928 ) or hugo munsterberg’s or bela balasz’s contemporary prescriptions about micro - physiognomic gesture and film specificity
dovzhenko , alexander . uncensored autobiography , 1994 . , ed . nebesio , bohdan . the cinema of alexander dovzhenko . journal of ukrainian studies . volume 19 , no . 1 . , p . 21 . there is a different version of this paragraph in a single page essay “pro zemlyu” ( on earth ) dated 1930 in dovzhenko’s 1964 complete works . see tvory : 4 , ibid . , p . 111 .
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projecting the speed at the incorrect 24 frames per second in its video dubbing instead of 16 frames per second , the closer silent film speed , the kino video release version reduces dovzhenko’s originally 94 minute film to 73 minutes . because of earth’ s concern with stasis and motion , this speeding up does violence to dovzhenko’s rhythm . dovzhenko’s original conception of the film was predicated on a lyric static , painterly aesthetic . in the original conception , little moves .
avant - garde earth , a recognized cinema masterpiece , was banned 9 days after release and glorified in ukraine only after dovzhenko’s death , bringing forth dozens of controversial interpretations . full of lyrical pantheism and utopianexaltation , it demonstrated the ambiguity of ukrainian geopolitical choice in the 1920s . the new soundtrack for earth was created by ukrainian ethno - chaos band dakhabrakha , whose music shifts the emphasis from the film’s ideological connotations to universal ones .
earth marks a threshold in dovzhenko’s career emblematic of a turning point in the ukrainian cultural and political avant - garde - the end of one period and transition to another .
earth concludes with the body of the village coming together to sing new songs . in silent cinema variant , dovzhenko’s final synaesthetic analogy is aural . the screenplay adaptation reads :
earth concludes with the presentation of paradisaical vegetation - wheatfields , apples , melons , a voluptuous fecundating rain . apples are restored to the branch outside the town . the fruits of the earth glimmer in newborn splendor washed by falling rain . it is hard not to feel prophetic catharsis . compare dovzhenko’s visualization with the revelation of the divine to isaiah :
bataille , georges . “sacrifice” , ibid . , p . 62 . there is room for further comparison in earth with frazer’s golden bough ( 1910 ) and robert graves myth of the white goddess . see also here mikhailkovich , v . “naturfilosofia zemli” kinovedcheskie zapiski 1994 ( special dovzhenko anniversary , earth conference issue ) , pp . 111 - 122 .
much of this film is chaotic , especially during the church episode and some of the closing scenes .
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earth is the final part of dovzhenko ' s silent trilogy ( following the nationalist fantasy zvenigora ( 1928 ) and the avant - garde anti - war film arsenal ( 1929 ) , and is brimming with exuberant youth , but haunted by the shadow of death . . . .
for other soviet directors on this transition see vsevolod pudovkin , grigory alexandrov , sergei eisensten in “statement on the sound film” ( 1928 ) , vertov , dziga . “let’s discuss ukrainfilm’s first sound film : symphony of the donbas ( 1930 ) ” . kino - eye : the writings of dziga vertov . ed . and introduced by annette michelson . trans . kevin o’brien . berkeley : university of california press , 1984 . , pp . 106 - 112 , 102 - 106 .
zvenyhora spanned millennia in ukraine’s history . arsenal looked back ten years to the civil war . earth draws from the present historical moment ( 1929 ) and central topic of the day , collectivization . dealing not so much with collectivization as appropriating the topic , the film orchestrates philosophic meditation .
you can watch earth above , and find it listed in our collection of free silent films , a subset of our meta collection , 1 , 150 free movies online : great classics , indies , noir , westerns , etc . . below you can watch a version of earth with a recent soundtrack provided by the amazing ukrainian ensemble , dakhabrakha . enjoy .
. the intertitles mix not heaven and hell but two cosmologies , a christian heaven with an earlier classical , pagan , hades . in 1930 , the mixing of metaphoric systems would not have been lost on contemporary soviet audiences . during the last ten years , they had experienced a great disjunctive rupture and revolutionary societal turn . dovzhenko will place earth in a similar transitional set of culturo - temporal coordinates . he foregrounds not simply the rupture to new aesthetic forms ( i . e . the cinema ) but also film’s displacement , appropriation and continuity with antecedent media .
there are similarities with earth’s central tractor panel in rivera’s “mechanization of the country” ( 1926 , ministry of education , mexico city ) , ( fig . 51 ) . in both representations , the hero , is figured in high angle presentations , master of technology . in rivera’s mural , hydro - electric dams and power stations form the background . oxen look on amid telegraph poles in earth . in rivera’s “mechanization” a mexican peasant ploughs up land on a tractor . in earth , vasyl rides high as the tractor ploughs through fields . in rivera’s mural , centre frame , a peasant maiden heartens the rise of two stalks of maize . in earth , young peasant women bend over to gather up the cut wheat stems into burgeoning sheaves .
brakhage , stan . “alexander dovzhenko” film biographies . turtle island : berkeley , 1977 . p . 286 .
earth is , among other things , a celebration of workers , and one of its most beautiful passages—i’m not sure how i feel about the preceding part where urine cools the radiator of the newly arrived tractor—shows harvesters , from every conceivable camera angle , at work in the fields . there is such joy in their labor , for being a part of nature and close to the earth . subsequent scenes show the mechanical threshing of wheat and , close up , the plowing of earth . a generalization arises as to the holistic nature of these people’s lives .
the first soviet sound films were released in march 1930 : abram room ' s plan velikikh rabot ( plan for great works ) - a compilation documentary with postdubbed sound only - and some vaudeville and musical shorts . at that point only two theaters were wired for sound . by 1931 , however , enough theaters were equipped that sound films came out more frequently . following entuziazm : simfoniya donbassa ( enthusiasm ) , yuri raizman ' s silent montage - style film zemlya zhazhdet ( the earth thirsts , 1930 ) was re - released in may with a track of music , songs , and sound effects . other silent films soon received the same treatment . new sound films also appeared : in the fall of 1931 , grigori kozintsev and leonid trauberg ' s odna ( alone ) was released , soon followed by sergei yutkevich ' s zlatye gory ( golden mountains ) .
similar to earth’s opening , dovzhenko ends with a funeral . young women carry flowers . the priest prays alone in an empty wooden church . a woman gives birth . the commune comes together
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earth explores iconology on a hieratic level different from arsenal in more than degree . dozvhenko lends ecclesiastic reverence to the earth and larger rural populace’s struggle for social justice . a parallel for what dovzhenko is accomplishing can be found in diego rivera’s compatriot , the mexican muralist , jose clemente orozco’s fresco “the family” ( national preparatory school , mexico city , 1926 ) . here , a similar rural family to earth’s is portrayed through codes of neo - byzantine iconography . in a similar funereal situation and encompassed by revolution , urbanization and modernity’s sea - change , a family bears witness .
father panas ( earth’s father ) - the ukrainian villager - this is in fact my father , petro semenovich dovzhenko , who in his sixty - seventh year of his life joined the collective .
avant - garde earth , a recognized cinema masterpiece , was banned 9 days after release and glorified in ukraine only after dovzhenko’s death , bringing forth dozens of controversial interpretations . full . . .
earth , which to this day is considered one of the best ukrainian films , was supposed to be the first ukrainian sound film . in earth , dovzhenko returns to a more conventional narrative form . moreover , this is his first film on a modern , not historical , subject . exuberant nature , noble faces of peasants , full - blooded and human - like animals – the director strives to bring into this pantheistic world agricultural machinery and the new order , without disturbing the natural status quo . dovzhenko could not possibly foresee that collectivization would turn into a tragedy for the ukrainian people and would start the flywheel of holodomor as a reaction to civil disobedience . in earth , dovzhenko speaks the language of pagan rites – here , the arrival of the new always comes with the demise of the old .
after censorship in the ussr , the film was cut down to 5 , 200 ft . ( 86 minutes ) . according to roman savytsky , the prevalent supposedly ‘uncensored’ version of earth circulating in the 1950’s and 60’s in the republics ran 5 , 589 ft . [ 237 ] ( 93 minutes ) .
when dakhabrakha perform the score for earth , the group wears more sedate , dark outfits so as not to compete with the film . and they recently traded in the wedding dresses for new costumes by ukrainian designer olga navrotska , inspired by their animated video for “karpatsky rap , ” drawn by sashko danylenko .
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since its release , earth has remained alexander dovzhenko’s most famous work . its overwhelming visual beauty and complex editing convey a sensual celebration of life . a vital influence on the films of andrei tarkovsky , earth is regarded as one of the greatest films ever made - featured on the list of ten greatest films at the brussels world fair and time out magazine’s 100 greatest films of the 20th century .
in repeated letters to eisenstein , dovzhenko put this as his desire to see hollywood , new york , san francisco and collaborate with chaplin . see tvory : 5 , ibid . , “letters to sergei eisenstein and i . o . solokyansky from berlin and london” ( 1930 ) pp . 325 - 330 .
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a futuristic city scene from the film , metropolis , directed by fritz lang in 1927 . photograph : ronald grant archive
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katherine monk , weird sex and snowshoes : and other canadian film phenomena ( vancouver : raincoast books , 2001 ) .
the film was originally commissioned to champion a policy that would ultimately lead to the famine - induced deaths of millions of ukrainians . director alexander dovzhenko could not have foreseen this , however , and his priorities were poetic rather than political . after earth was denounced as ukrainian nationalist propaganda , dovzhenko lost his job at the kiev film institute . he continued to make films until his death in 1956 , but none scaled the same creative heights .
earth is a tribute to life in the ukraine , the birthplace of its creator , alexander dovzhenko . the film ' s star is essentially the ukrainian village in which the story is set : it is not necessarily a tale of russian farmers and kulaks but a visual poem about life and the calm acceptance of death .
uncertainty concerning sound led to a dip in french production . by 1930 , however , most of the main studio buildings were wired , using either american or german systems or one of several minor french brands . wiring went on until 1934 , since many theaters were small and independently owned .
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in earth , dovzhenko’s aesthetic mode is syncretic , iconic and complex . there are parallels harkening to the ascendant french surrealism . there is a fascination with a dream playing out through the film . dovzhenko references impossible spaces by setting up eye - line matches and cuts that exceed possibility’s boundary . earth references the hereafter’s unknowable surreal space by a type of visual paradox . through a purposeful eye - line set - up of expectation to objects , people or events that cannot be , dovzhenko pushes silent cinema’s grammatical borders toward surreality .
continuing dovzhenko’s series of epic allusion , . like earth’s opening sunflower , tychyna’s sunny clarinets comes to terms with a violent revolution’s disjunctive events through a connection with a sunflower and neologism ‘sunny’ , or ‘sunflowery clarinets’
earth’s muralistic aesthetic has parallel with these less spoken about paths haunting struggles of national emancipation and social revolution . ripe for comparison are kahlo’s later pregnant still lifes “fruits of life or “ viva la vida ”
the canadian cooperation project helps to explain why , during the 1940s and 1950s , there was virtually no feature film production in canada outside of québec ( see the cinema of québec ) . however , thanks to the economic boom in canada following the second world war , a number of small , independent producers began to establish themselves , making primarily industrial films and shorts . in 1941 , nat taylor founded the trade magazine canadian film weekly , and in recognition of the nascent private film sector , the canadian film awards were established in 1949 . ( the canadian film awards would become the genie awards in 1980 and the canadian screen awards in 2012 . ) the inaugural presentation was held in ottawa , and crawley films of ottawa won the first film of the year award for the short film , the loon ' s necklace ( 1949 ) .
earth concludes between coordinates of icon and dream . in the film’s final image , vasyl’s lover , natalka , in soft - focus close - up awakens as if from a dream . the shot is matched with an earlier shot in the film . with the rest of the young villagers and in the safety of vasyl’s embrace , natalka had found a brief security under the harvest moon . like so many period hollywood endings , the idealization is ‘happily ever after’ . earth’s final context is left in the foreground , enigmatically iconic , . this is a space of ‘ l’amour fou ’ , between icon and dream , figured through the cinema’s transitioning representational practices .
orson welles , who knew a thing or two about silent movies , famously anointed buster keaton ' s crowning achievement
the greatest comedy ever made , the greatest civil war film ever made , and perhaps the greatest film ever made
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the centre tableau in earth ’s portraiture is the scene of the tractor’s arrival . in this neo - byzantine collectivization mural , the sequences surrounding the tractor make up earth’s central panels . the film possesses little movement before the tractor arrives . characters are shot in close - up with little depth of field . landscapes and apples within the orchard have been organized as a series of iconostatic , still - life tableaux to be read iconically and with a painterly eye for composition rather than inter - frame movement that suggests relationships , are montaged .
earth’s closing sequence has few parallels in silent cinema in its noetic complexity . dovzhenko envisions a poetic pictorial synthesis against a modernist backdrop of the ukrainian cultural renaissance’s international aspirations . he fuses a deeply religious and spiritual
for another discussion of the different versions of earth see savytsky roman . “pomiry zemli o . dovzhenka” suchasnist lypen / serpen’ 1975 chastyna 7 - 8 ( 175 - 76 ) . pp . 106 - 112 .
janet gaynor was also honored in the same year with an academy award for her exquisite acting in german director f . w . murnau ' s first american film - the beautiful fox - produced sunrise : a song of two humans ( 1927 ) , often considered the finest silent film ever made by a hollywood studio . murnau ' s succeeding films were the four devils ( 1928 ) and our daily bread ( 1930 ) , with his last film the sensual semi - travelogue documentary tabu : a story of the south seas ( 1931 ) shot with documentarist robert flaherty . ( a week before tabu ' s premiere in early march 1931 , murnau died in a car accident . )
, earth’s ending is a complex montage - a birth but also a death . if up to now the film may be seen as setting ground for an eschatologic presentation , the collapsing of levels now occurs through montage . the outer landscape takes on a noumenous hieratic quality in a sequence that may be described as complex pathetic fallacy .
for a study of skovoroda’s redivivus during this period see myrtovych , cyrille . “reserches philosophiques : essor des études skovordiennes dans les années vingt en ukraine” in labriolle , f . red . la renaissance nationale et culturelle en ukraine de 1917 aux années 1930 . paris : inalco , 1986 . , pp . 311 - 316 .
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frejlih , s . ,
ein epos unserer epoche ,
in film und fernsehen ( berlin ) , august 1974 .
the famous mgm lion roar in the studio ' s opening logo was first recorded and viewed in a film in 1928 .
- - earth ( 1930 ) , d . alexander dovzhenko , ussr one of the last of the silents , and though increasingly an absentee from ten best lists , a very great film indeed . the director ' s trademarks - a field of sunflowers all waving goodbye , a lowering sky filling three - quarters of the frame - remained well nigh constant throughout his career , but he seldom recaptured the pantheistic phosphoresence of this hymn both to nature and to the gleaming new tractors and plows which aimed to transform it . such is the authenticity of its pictorialism , in fact , that one has to remind oneself that it was actually shot like other films .
made in response to stalin’s plans for collectivisation throughout the soviet union , earth is about peasants owning their own land and tilling it as they please , for themselves , and the problems they come across in the process . this caused the film to be controversial in its day , but one almost universally acknowledged as being of great beauty .
while various censored copies of earth exist in the west , the foundation of dovzhenko’s original conception still holds up - a testament more to the integrity of dovzhenko’s vision than preservation of the negative or ‘director’s archival version .
i think u v missed an important point , the arrival of the tractor , in this seen dovjenko predicts the doom to the earth . it is expressed in words , which are not translated correctly and in music
williams , b . ,
a mirror of the cinema : poetic discourse and autotelic aesthetics in dovzhenko ' s earth ,
in journal of ukrainian studies , vol . 19 , no . 1 , 1994 .
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the soviet press severely criticized the film for its “naturalism” and “physiologism” . after all , instead of glorifying collectivization , dovzhenko advocates its political significance . the director himself admitted that he was not interested in the story per se . as a result , earth best demonstrates dovzhenko’s interest to human existence , which explains why the film became successful all over the world . told by dovzhenko , a usual story of a class struggle becomes a universal philosophical parable about life and death .
shibuk , charles ,
the films of alexander dovzhenko ,
in new york film bulletin , no . 11–14 , 1961 .
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it was formed from a merger of laemmle ' s own imp - independent motion picture company ( founded in 1909 ) with bison 101 , the u . s . production facilities of french studio éclair , nestor film co . , and several other film companies .
the film combines two trends : political and religious . politically , it supports the current work on the construction of the state and , for benifit of collectivization , earnestly campaigns against the kulaks . i think it uses improper means to do that . . . . its title , earth , is more than just a name – it is a religion . . .
. it would only be later , in the face of international consensus , that official party opinion of earth would make an about face . attempting to erase notions of an earlier division , soviet critique would distance itself from bedny .
dovzhenko’s eastern european dialogue with surrealism was not lost on the surrealists . after viewing la terre , the surrealist poet , writer and communist , aragon would write in “roman inacheve” of earth’s aesthetic , delineating affinity with the surrealist agenda .
zvenigora stars nikolai nademsky ( earth ) , as the grandfather of timoshka ( semyon svashenko ) , whom he alerts to secret treasure buried in the mountains and the boy spends the rest of his . . . see full synopsis »
one of the most significant events in canadian film history was the establishment of the national film board of canada ( nfb ) . in 1938 , the federal government commissioned scottish filmmaker john grierson — who had coined the term “documentary , ” and had been head of the empire marketing board and the general post office in britain — to study the state of film production in canada . he wrote a report that year that led to the creation of the nfb in may 1939 , and was named the board’s first film commissioner in october 1939 .
deslaw continues “it’s possible that because of kremlin orders , copies of the film were ruined in the soviet union but beyond these borders there exists two copies of earth before the venice cuts . in south america there also exists another copy of zvenyhora” . deslaw , evhan . “o dovzhenko i stalin” ukrainian digest ( no . 6 ) 1961 . p . 78 - 81 .
hollywood : perhaps no other place on earth evokes the same air of show - business magic and glamour . the legend of hollywood began in the early 20th century and is an earmark of modern american society rich in history and innovation .
charlie chaplin in the 1931 silent film city lights , released after the first talkies . photograph : charles chaplin productions / sportsphoto ltd / allstar
janet gaynor , george o ' brien in the film sunrise : a song of two humans ( 1927 ) . photograph : ronald grant archive
western electric ' s and rca ' s were the principal systems on the market . under the terms of the 1930 paris agreement , 25 percent of the british market was reserved for tobis - klangfilm equipment , while 75 percent belonged to the american firms . but tobis encountered technical difficulties as a result of having allied itself with the small british phototone , and it could not exploit its share of the market . several british companies offered cheaper sound outfits , but these provided poor reproduction . british thomson - houston ( a subsidiary of general electric ) introduced reliable equipment in 1930 , but it ran third behind the two american firms in the number of theaters wired . by 1933 , all but the smallest british cinemas could reproduce sound .
dovzhenko and crew during earth ' s filming , 1929 , peasant garb . centre dovzhenko , immediate right cinematographer danylo demutsky immediate left , asst . director lazar bodyk , far right , vasyl , semen svashenko , far left , khoma petro masokha
at the same time , dovzhenko is satiric of soviet heroic realism ( what became socialist realism ) . in earth , this satire is evident . oxen , horses , swaddling new - borns and watermelons are given soviet heroic style camera decorum .
this short synopsis does not effectively describe the film ' s content and impact on the viewer . dovzhenko lyrically captures what the earth—the soil and the life - sustaining crops it produces—means to human beings . the earth must be lovingly nurtured so that corn and wheat may be reaped and mouths may be fed . ( dovzhenko shot the film on the rich terrain of his beloved ukraine . ) most significantly , the film is at once a celebration of life and an acknowledgement of the inevitability of life ' s end . dovzhenko ' s images , all in meticulously composed shots , are unforgettable : in the film ' s prologue a dying man ( the grandfather of vasilly , a character patterned after the filmmaker ' s grandfather ) , serene as he approaches his end , happily pierces an apple with his teeth ; vasilly ecstatically dances in the summer moonlight , kicking up dust and feeling every moment of his life before it is abruptly ended by a bullet ; apple tree branches brush over the face of vasilly ' s corpse in the funeral caravan . in sequence after sequence , dovzhenko brings together the two ultimate but contrasting realities : life and death . death is not a gloomy , depressing finality , but a necessary and logical occurrence . if babies are to be born and the world replenished with the hopes , desires and energy of youth , some must vacate the earth and allow them time and space . similarly , the earth must yield its crops so that it may again commence the cycle necessary to feed and nourish the hungry .
associates him with the “movement of the seed” present in the film . at earth’s beginning there are literally seas of wheat . a little later , a young girl’s head is metonymically associated with a sunflower filled with seeds . vasyl’s kulak antagonists are presented standing unmoving , patronizingly spitting or wasting seeds . later , the tractor illustrates marx’s process of material production through a flurry of movement visualizing the seed’s trajectory into bread . in a similar manner , throughout earth’s naturalistic imagery , dovzhenko inflects the predominantly rural ukrainian countryside’s images with a philosophic tradition . he foregrounds continuities and a line from skovoroda to hegel to marx . skovoroda paraphrasing corinthians ,
only one english canadian feature film was made in the 1940s — bush pilot ( 1946 ) , an imitation of hollywood’s captains of the clouds ( 1942 ) . a print of the film was restored by the national archives ( now library and archives canada ) and tmn television network .
a more detailed reception study of earth’s resonance and subsequent inadvertent role in aiding to later deny the ukrainian famine of 1932 - 33 through its various european and north american releases is beyond this work’s scope . it will be mentioned , though , that more than a few western intellectuals , knowledgeable about earth and the famine , had chosen to pass over these connections - neither noting the devastating effects of the material famine nor the contemporary contradictory picture presented by earth ( see chronology , earth dates ) . [ 256 ] after the soviet union’s collapse in 1991 , an opening of the archives and coming to terms with historical legacy began . scores of earlier heterodox emigré voices would be validated [ 257 ] . in his attempt at reconstruction of the ukrainian famine while the archives were closed , stanford historian , robert conquest had presciently pointed out that ‘kulak’ theoretically signified an amorphous stalinist economic class . in reality , the term signified a party construct that gave a carte blanche for genocide .


dream on silly dreamer is a 2005 american documentary film directed by dan lund and produced by tony west .

lund and west were both special effects animators at walt disney feature animation , and the film chronicles the rise and fall of traditional animation at the walt disney company from 1980 to 2005 .

dream on silly dreamer

dream on silly dreamer focuses on the effects of both the disney studio ' s successes and failures on the feature animation employees , particularly their feelings on the competition from former disney executive jeffrey katzenberg ' s establishment of an animation unit at dreamworks pictures and their feelings on the layoffs . the film uses animated bookends and interstituals , done in a format reminiscent of disney ' s winnie the pooh short films , of a young
dreamer
who achieves his dream to be a disney animator with the unexpected real - life results .
well , the good news is . . . that a lot more people will potentially get the chance to see
dream on silly dreamer .
given this great little movie by dan lund & tony west will be screening tomorrow at the kalamazoo animation festival international as well as on may 23rd at the alex theatre in glendale , ca .
i caught the screening of
dream on silly dreamer
at the newport beach film festival last month and wanted to offer you my opinion on the film . my take is quite different from all the praise the film has been receiving in the online community , so feel free to post it on your site . just do me the favor of blocking out any info that might identify me to my employers .
so does this animator have it right , folks ? does
dream on silly dreamer
really view the whole animation industry experience through rose - colored glasses ? i ' d be really interested to hear what other industry vets have to say , particularly those of you who have actually seen lund & west ' s film . your thoughts ?
there has always been a large division between the worlds of feature animation and television animation . some claim that the people that can ' t make it in the feature business go to television . yet anyone with any experience knows this isn ' t true . both fields have their geniuses and their lackluster performers . so , i ' d like to make clear that my displeasure with
dream on silly dreamer
is not intended as a insult to the feature industry . i have the utmost respect for many of the animators that work in that field . in fact , feature animation is what made me want to become an animator to begin with , which is why i was so excited to see
dream on silly dreamer
.
nearly two years in the making , dream on silly dreamer marks the sad , final chapter of the now extinct hand - drawn art form that was the cornerstone of walt disney feature animation . building on the rich seventy seven year history of an american icon and paying homage to the disney classics , dan lund and tony west tell the revealing tale of how that storied icon came to a crashing , albeit untimely , end .
who had ever expended so much passion on a dream , only to stand helpless as it was granted to others ? others , moreover , who had expended no passion on it at all . his impossible dream had , against all probability , crossed deserts and mountains to come to zosma and extend an unprecedented invitation .
also , in defense of dream on silly dreamer - the reviewer said
they behave like they ' re the only ones who ' ve ever lost their jobs or suffered from corporate excess .
this is a documentary - - an exploration of one event and the emotions and people involved . ' bowling for colombine
wasn ' t saying
no one ' s kids have ever died before ours
it was just examing how this town dealt with it . same situation here .
if you ' re ever in doubt about whether michael douglas was right in wall street or not , have a look at dream on silly dreamer . greed is not good , greed is what brought disney animation down . greedy executives , blinded by the ungodly amounts of money the lion king brought in , began measuring every subsequent movie against that fluke , and when that revealed the inevitable downturn , disney shut the doors on traditional animation and attempted to replace it with computers . a decades long tradition was over , and a thousand animators were suddenly unemployed .
produced and released independently by lund and west ' s westlund productions , dream on , silly dreamer debuted at the animex international festival of animation in the united kingdom in january 2005 , and played at other film festivals throughout the year . westlund released the film on dvd the following year , along with extended versions of several of the film ' s scenes and footage of its premieres at several film festivals . a review by steve daily of entertainment weekly gave the film a b + grade , likening it to
a real - life version of the office .
dream on silly dreamer is the new animated documentary , from director dan lund and producer tony west , that tells this tale . it features interviews recorded only seconds after the now infamous “tom meeting” . you will hear what was said , the reasons offered by the company and feel the emotional responses from those being affected at that moment in time . in this documentary , you will meet a handful of these artists , hear their side of the story and share in their recollections of “the good old days” .
it was no comfort . for years , lazlo’s books had represented his dream . now they would represent the end of it .
he co - presents kermode & mayo ' s film review on radio 5 live , appears on the news channel ' s film 24 and is a presenter on the culture show .
this is probably a bit late , but . . . the wonderful
dead of night
( 1945 , black & white portmanteau horror film ) has a some dream oddness in it on several levels .
first time producer , tony west says , “producing dreamer has been a dream come true but also came with great professional sacrifice . ” west faced “one of the most difficult choices of my life , ” shortly after he was laid off by walt disney feature animation . “i had a very lucrative job offer from a major animation studio in canada , ” west remembers .
dream on silly dreamer is a wonderful film . it ' s not likely to be included as a bonus feature on an upcoming direct - to - video sequel , so i urge you to see it if it makes its way to a local film festival near you . if i could have made one wish upon a star , it would have been for lund to include a short epilogue , discussing the few ex - disney artists who have struck out on their own to fulfill their passions through new independent studios . if these individuals can find the resources , i believe that they ' ll truly revolutionize the art of the medium again , and keep the magic of animation alive and in the forefront of our collective imagination . exactly where it ' s been for many years … exactly where , in my humble opinion , it deserves to be .
the words flattened lazlo like a sudden shift in gravity . he didn’t need to be told that “dreamer” was not a qualification . it wasn’t enough to want it more than anyone else . the godslayer hadn’t come halfway around the world to grant a junior librarian’s dream . he’d come seeking knowledge and expertise , and lazlo couldn’t imagine that meant a faranji “expert” on his own city . mathematics , engineering , metallurgy , he’d said . he’d come for practical knowledge .
in fact , the artists seem to adopt the executive credo of
success having many fathers , but failure being an orphan .
they enjoy saying how hard they worked on award - winning films like
beauty and the beast ,
telling stories of long hours put into the film and how some artists even had marriages breakup due to their dedication to the studio . however , we hear nothing about long hours put into
atlantis : the lost empire ,
hercules ,
or
treasure planet .
as a matter of fact , none of these movies are ever mentioned by name in
dream on silly dreamer
although the executives deserve the lion ' s share of the blame for the failure of those movies , i don ' t find it to be a coincidence that these titles aren ' t mentioned . for the
silly dreamers
, it ' s as if they were responsible for all the magic up until
the lion king
and had nothing to do with every film after it .
“ please , strange , ” thyon cut in , pained . “what are you on about ? vanishing birds ? ” he laughed , as one would at a child with a silly notion , but it rang terribly false . “now i really must insist you leave our guest in peace . step back now , and you might yet keep your position . ”
i’m going to weep , he thought , and could have laughed at the pun , but he kept his composure , and when the tizerkane warriors rode out of the great library and out of zosma , strange the dreamer went with them .
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@ margegunderson yeah , sorry dropped the ball on that one . i commented on the video waaaay after i watched it so my memory obviously decided not to work . i do apologise .
i feel the film was very powerful in conveying the emotion those animators felt : as kids in love with animation , as workers ecstatic in their dream job , and as people feeling their dreams crumbling underneath them .
and click on the shop button . ( wbe / wbwf ) ( 10 - 18 - 2007 )
the bad news is . . . it looks like not everyone in the animation industry is so eager to embrace dan & tony ' s whimsical tribute to disney traditional animation . witness this e - mail that i recently received from one industry vet who supposedly caught
dream on
at its newport beach film fest screening :
“but after nearly fifteen years of animating for disney , if they didn’t want me , i was ready to try something new . i’ve always wondered exactly what a producer does , now i know . and i love it ! ” west chose the path of most resistance , turned down guaranteed employment and jumped headlong into the producer’s responsibilities on dreamer . he has never looked back .
i was wondering why there were no dwarves in the dream sequences ? ? ? ? then i figured it was because mr nolan is a fan of living in oblivion . . . [ unsuitable / broken url removed by moderator ]
“documenting myself and my friends losing our jobs , while it was happening , proved to be the most difficult exercise in film making i have ever experienced , ” said lund , the film’s director . dreamer represents lund’s fourth directorial effort and is by far his most personal work to date .
a brand new , heart - stopping novel and the first in a thrilling duology from the much - loved author of the daughter of smoke and bone trilogy , laini taylor . strange the dreamer is the story of : – the aftermath of a war between gods and men – a mysterious …
how about michel gondry ' s the science of sleep ? a brilliant examination of dreams , the whole film feels as irrational and blurry - eyed as a real dream does , with that same feeling of forward momentum coupled with absolute absurdity .
yes others have lost their jobs , other corporations have acted only in the interest of their own pocket books . the point is that this is disney . the day they closed the 2d dept . i had that song from cinderella in my head all day
if you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true .
this is the company that told us when we were two years old that we could make all our dreams happen . i can ' t now . because my dream was to be 2d animator at disney . yes , i am determined to make the best out of it . i will become the best 2d animator i can , and go into business for myself if i have to . but that ' s not the point . the point of this film is to mourn a dream .
“you may also have heard that faranji who insisted on trying their luck were executed , one and all . ”
with two months to go until the publication of laini taylor’s epic new novel strange the dreamer , we are thrilled to be joining up with our us friends at the novl to release this exclusive extract . here , we are introduced to the problem plaguing the mysterious city of weep for the very first time…
he looked out at them , letting his eyes settle on individual faces . and lazlo , who was accustomed to the near invisibility his insignificance bestowed on him , was jolted to feel the weight of that gaze on himself . a second or two it rested there : a blaze of connection , the feeling of being seen and set apart .
i think that my negative take on the film comes mostly from my background as a television animator . i ' ve animated on shows for half of the 6 major networks . on shows like * * * * and * * * * . i ' ve also animated for numerous cable networks on award winning shows and a countless number of pilots , pitches , and demos over the years . so , this opinion is coming with an insider ' s view of the animation world .
i must confess i haven ' t seen many of nolan ' s films but i found inception to be the best of his films i ' ve seen . as i ' ve said i haven ' t seen many of his films . spolier ! ! ! ! spoiler ! ! ! ! ! ! although it was good it wasn ' t that clever and , to a very small degree , had the same sort of
questioning of reality
that films like the matrix had . there were some irritatingly confusing points . i understand how they could all share a dream and cobb ' s subconcious can affect the dream , what fail to understand is why no one else ' s subconcious had an affect . after all sub concious is a powerful thing . one point that did irritate me was that the arcitect ( i can ' t spell her name ) started off knowing nothing but when fischer died and got sent to limbo , how did she suddenly know how to get him back ? in fact how did she suddenly become an expert ? another point that confused me and still has me scratching my head is did cobb plant the idea in mol ' s head that limbo was the reality or the dream ? and if he planted the idea that it was the dream world then why did she end up believeing the reality was the dream ? but this aside i found it a brilliant film and can ' t wait for it to be released on dvd .
this is for on - going auctions by foundations , some on ebay or other sites , instead of trying to keep up with them , will post the link to their main site and auctions and folks can go find out more info there . . . .
i liked the film a lot , but i have to say i preferred the prestige . @ tommus - jay
the dream worlds were a lot more normal than i was hoping .
why do people expect dream worlds to be weird dali - esque fantasies ? surely most dreams that you or i have are based on reality .
the lack of justification as to how they ' re actually able to share dreams
they have a box , it does stuff . nolan could have spent 20 minutes coming up with some pseudo - science to explain it . would that make it a better movie ? ( i ' m not getting at t - j specifically here , just giving some opinions ) .
disney ' s stock gained 1 . 8 percent in regular trading on the new york stock exchange and was flat after - hours .
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compliments of husqvarna of charlotte , nc , which includes a variety of top of the line husqvarna equipment , featuring a huv 4x4 . congratulations to gary smith of riverside , oh with winning ticket # 22865 . speedway children ' s charities
“i have nothing to gather , ” he breathed . it was true , but even if he’d had a palace full of possessions , he couldn’t have gone to fetch them now , for fear of returning to find the tizerkane gone , and his chance , and his dream—and his life —with them .
original , whimsical animation has been seamlessly woven into the narrative fabric of the documentary . “the animation was our humble attempt to honor the incredible legacy that we were all lucky enough to be a part of , ” says lund . in addition , the animation serves to keep the mood of dreamer light even as events unfold and the story becomes ominous and the outcome uncertain .
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god bless the usa and the troops ! | born on date : august 26 , 1996 | made in the u . s . a .
disney animator dan lund documents the studio ' s decision to shut down its hand - drawn animation department and focus instead on computer - generated animation .
waking sleeping beauty , a 2010 documentary by disney producer don hahn and former executive peter schneider on the history of disney animation between 1980 and 1994 .
with that , most every scholar in zosma was ready to pack a trunk and strike out for the elmuthaleth . but that wasn’t to be the way of it . it was not an open invitation , the godslayer went on to say . he would select the delegates himself based on their qualifications .
“i see it’s true what they say of the great library of zosma , ” eril - fane replied , shifting to common tongue as well . his accent on its smooth syllables was like a patina on bronze . “that the wind is in your employ , and blows all the world’s knowledge to your door . ”
told as a modern - day fairy tale , dreamer pays homage to the classic winnie the pooh shorts . an artist’s sketch book becomes the viewer’s window into this documentary realm with original , animated vignettes helping to tell a side of the story that the world has never heard . this film will touch anyone who has ever dreamed , believed in fairy tales , wished upon a star or shared in a special disney moment .
# 11 , i agree with you - emotionally vacuous . i loved eternal sunshine , matrix , brazil and so on , but the characters seemed so one - dimensional in inception , i just didn ' t care about them . after all , you have an attractive girl join the team and there seems to be no sexual chemistry , unless you include a nerdy peck on the cheek at one point . it was so disappointing . the whole film was about the ' clever ' plot and the set pieces . another thing ; i just didn ' t buy the sci - fi . a ' kick ' at one level is supposed to wake the dreamers , like being knocked off a chair , but rolling a minibus down an embankment to a crashing halt it seemed didn ' t count ! and that thing about time being stretched in lower level dreams , i couldn ' t buy that . when you dream you ' re dreaming , it ' s still just the same dream . get over it .
documentary titles about the world of animation - - hand drawn , stop - motion , or computer animation . see also : drawing attention : documentaries on comic artists…
the childress institute for pediatric trauma will focus on key areas in treatment , education and training , research and prevention of pediatric trauma . the institute ' s goal is to help pave the way for others in the nation searching for ways to help save the lives of severely injured children and help those who survive on the road to recovery .
according to the terms of the deal , disney ( research ) will issue 2 . 3 shares for each pixar share . based on tuesday ' s closing prices , that values pixar at $ 59 . 78 a share , about a 4 percent premium to pixar ' s current stock price . shares of pixar ( research ) fell slightly in regular trading on the nasdaq tuesday but gained nearly 3 percent in after - hours trading . the stock has surged more than 10 percent so far this year on takeover speculation .
ii have to say i found inception to be a good ( enough ) movie . the wrong running for once wasnt making me dream about a smoke ( always a good sign ) and i did come out of it feeling like i had been on a journey , but i felt that in trying to be clever it left ( for me anyway ) a lot of unanswered questions . the main one being . . how did they go into the dreams ? we saw them connecting the drips but it doesnt explain how and also how they know whos dream to go into . also as stated there was no chemistry between the characters and it left me feeling rather empty as try tried to ' scam ' mr fischer . in all from a purely entertainment perspective ( other than this i know nothing about films ) it did get me talking after and i did enough it . but would i watch it again ? probably not .
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jim ' s musings on the history of and rumors about movies , tv shows , books and theme parks including disneyland , walt disney world . universal orlando and universal studios hollywood .
“i’ve never liked to call it that , ” cut in thyon—softly , like a confession . “it’s bitter on my tongue . i think of it as the unseen city instead . ”
christopher nolan ' s brilliant inception is only the latest celluloid reverie on dreamscapes and in your replies to my blog on this matter you have excavated cinema ' s id and uncovered a vast seam of raw oneirism featuring fantasies as diverse as a videogame movies starring edward furlong , a japanese animation or two , and alain resnais ' s mindbending last year at marienbad .
this twice - weekly video blog is the place where he airs his personal views on the things that most fire him up about cinema - and invites you to give your own opinions .
tizerkane . alive . the implications were profound . if they were alive , then the city was , too . not a hint or rumor in two hundred years , and now tizerkane warriors were riding through the gates of the great library . in the sheer , shimmering improbability of the moment , it seemed to lazlo that his dream had tired of waiting and had simply . . . come to find him .
during a conference call with analysts tuesday , iger said that acquisition discussions had been going on for the past several months . jobs added that after a
lot of soul searching ,
he came to the conclusion that it made the most sense for pixar to align itself with disney permanently instead of trying to distribute films on its own or sign with another movie studio partner .
and iger said that announced plans for disney - produced animated films , including the release of
american dog
in 2008 and
rapunzel unbraided
in 2009 , are still on track .
you ' re entitled to your opinion , but i don ' t agree with that review . i personally feel that i , not a disney stockholder , was the target audience . i am a young animator who relates in many ways to the animators who made the film . i knew when i was young that i wanted to be an animator , dreamed about it , and have been working hard to achieve that dream .
on monday , the jamie mcmurray foundation raised over $ 100 , 000 for autism awareness in the third annual jamie mcmurray foundation golf tournament . ( rfr pr ) ( 10 - 14 - 2008 )
sunoco will be providing marketing and promotional support to the sunoco red cross pennsylvania 500 with signage at 750 sunoco retail locations near the track . sunoco will also highlight the event on their new website ,
and click on the apparel button to place your order . first run quantities are limited , so place your order now . additional apparel will be unveiled in 2007 . ( 11 - 28 - 2006 )
now freed of company positions that muzzled them from talking , gold promises they will dish on festering tensions inside disney co .
we will not go away . we will be persistent ,
he says .
disney animator dan lund documents disney’s decision to shut down its hand - drawn animation department and focus instead on computer - generated animation . this will likely be removed shortly , so watch it while you can .
@ roadblaster i may be remembering this wrong as i have only seen it once but . . . wasn ' t there another woman with them on the plane who dispensed the drug to put them under ?
bah , lost half of my post .
+ this film is something that cooks in the brain . i was not too impressed with it to begin with for the reasons that others have stated ( emotional detachment , holes in the plot and not caring if it was all a dream etc . ) but i found that i could not stop my mind from trying to deconstruct it afterwards . quite a few of the ideas occurred to me later on and i have benefited from what others have suggested that i missed ( e . g . that external disturbances that occur in all the dreams were due to being on the flight so that all the dreams take place on a single flight ) and from seeing the film 3 times .
i kind of agree with that . kind of . i still find the film aloof and not particularly graceful in it ' s delivery , but it is one of the more fun ones to discuss and try to organize . i do think it is a lot greater film to pick apart than it is to actually watch , however as i have yet to find myself fully engaged during a viewing . but the deconstructionist in me can ' t help but play with it afterwards .
the jamie mcmurray foundation ( jmf ) launched the sale of jmf branded t - shirts and hats on its website . also launching on the jmf website is an online donation site where fans can make donations directly to the foundation , and possibly win a signed # 26 crown royal diecast for making a donation of as little as one dollar .
over the last year , the jamie mcmurray foundation has come a really long way ,
said jamie mcmurray .
i ' m really excited about the way the shirts and hats turned out . i remember when it was raining in watkins glen , we sat on the motorcoach and came up with a pretty simple , but cool design for the t - shirts .
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went to see inception recently . thought it was really good but i was a little disappointed by a ) the lack of justification as to how they ' re actually able to share dreams ( of course , i may have missed something ) and b ) the dream worlds were a lot more normal than i was hoping . however , what i wanted to say was that i find it interesting that existenz is a film about videogames that all feels like a dream , where inception is a film about dreams that all feels like a videogame . the constant references to ' levels ' , the intense action tied together by what is essentially a ridiculous concept , not to mention the fact that the third act felt just like goldeneye ( the real goldeneye i . e . the n64 videogame ) . all in all a great and entertaining action film , but not as clever as it thinks it is . much in the way that wall - e was a better film than the dark knight , toy story 3 ( which i saw this evening ) is a better film than inception .
nascar racers richard petty tony stewart are putting their likeness on dog tags , with the proceeds of these
speedy tags
benefiting the paralyzed veterans of america .
i feel very strongly that we must support our brave men and women returning from iraq and afghanistan injured ,
petty said .
that ' s why i urge all nascar fans to get their speedy tags . . . this is one small way fans can join me in supporting our paralyzed vets .
speedy tags are imprinted with the names , signatures and in some cases , pictures of some of the biggest names in racing . about 75 , 000 will be distributed at the bristol motor speedway on aug . 26 for free . to get a speedy tag , log on to
we will try to talk to shareholders and the public about the real potential this company has , and how much it ' s underperforming , in the hope they put pressure on the board to find a new ceo ,
gold told usa today .
pixar has yet to announce what movies it is working on after
cars ,
however . it is believed that pixar ' s next film about a rat living in a fancy parisian restaurant , tentatively titled
ratatouille
may be released on 2007 and that a
toy story 3
may be in the works as well . jobs said during the conference call that nothing has been decided about future pixar releases yet , but added that the company feels strongly about making sequels to some of its previous hits .
hey jim , i ' ve been a fan of yours for a long time now . i ' ve read you on every site you ' ve written for , and i ' m glad you ' ve finally setup a permanent home at jim hill media .
this went on for some time . “i’d just like the chance to speak with him , ” lazlo pleaded , but to no avail . master ellemire wouldn’t “waste their guest’s time” by sending in someone so “manifestly unqualified , ” and lazlo couldn’t find it in himself to argue on his own behalf . he was unqualified . the fact was , if he did get in to see the godslayer , he didn’t even know what he would say . what could he say to recommend himself ? i know a lot of stories ?
went to see inception recently , and loved it ! cant wait for dvd to come out , if only so i can explain to my boyfriend ! you mentioned other ' dream invading ' films of past years , and i remembered seeing a film years ago with a similar theme , but i cant remember the name of it for life of me ! i think it was made in the 80 ' s and starred denis quaid , or somebody like that - obviously not a huge success at the time , or i ' d know what its called . any idea ?
“you may know , ” he went on , “that my city was ever forbidden to faranji . ‘outsiders , ’ as we would call you . ” he smiled a little and added , “fondly , of course , ” and a low laugh rippled through the audience .
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maschhaupt , who serves as the president of the transport drivers of motorsports association , led a delegation of nascar officials and inspectors who flew in from north carolina on friday for the ceremony . all wanted to see the place their friend was proud to call home . the stories they heard from the many relatives and friends of davis who were on hand painted a similar picture of the co - worker they honored .
for brienne , it wasn ' t about glory or status , it was the love of what she did ,
said darryl lomick , a nascar official .
you can ' t say enough about her ,
said maschhaupt .
as beautiful as she was , she was 10 times more beautiful on the inside . we lost a friend but gained a town .
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@ roadblaster
indeed . but , given the nature of the film ( people on the run , only trusted or chosen people , etc ) would such a - frankly - minor , until - now - never - seen - or - mentioned - person be left in charge of all the cast ? if the father - in - law was doing it , yes , i could go with that . but the hostess watching over everyone ? c ' mon . . .
well if you remember in the first sequence , it was an insignificant young man that performed the same role on the japanese train . he was paid in cash by cobb for his trouble . it was explained that they had to be on a 747 so that no one else would walk through the first class cabin and that they had to buy out all those seats . they also flew on an airline that saito owned so having one of his employees / goons perform the role would be very simple . and michael caine ' s a bit too old to play a flight attendant .
if lazlo had understood his words , though , thyon did not . he covered well , spouting a pleasantry before shifting into common tongue to say , “this is a day such as dreams are made of . i never thought to set eyes on a tizerkane warrior . ”
master hyrrokkin found him there and laid a consoling hand on his arm . “i know it’s hard , strange , but it will pass . some men are born for great things , and others to help great men do great things . there’s no shame in it . ”
belmont peanuts is running a special this month . david peck is working with the ward burton wildlife foundation on the development of wildlife education programs by contributing a portion of the sales to the foundation . belmont peanuts are available year round for you enjoyment . please visit this link
since collections began on may 4th , over 10 , 000 pounds of pet supplies , such as food , collars , water , bedding , crates , medicine , flea / tick preventatives , cleaning supplies and paper products , have been donated . on sunday , a tractor trailer made the trip from ryan newman motorsports in statesville , nc with 8 , 000 pounds of supplies . the greater birmingham humane society ( gbhs ) received the majority of the freight . gbhs will send supplies to surrounding alabama shelters in tuscaloosa , pleasant grove , concord and cordova .
the latest round started when roy e . disney learned he would be ousted from the board he first joined in 1967 . he delivered a three - page resignation letter to eisner on sunday , ticking off seven complaints in highly personal terms . among them : eisner ' s
micromanagement
style , a
brain drain
of talent on his watch , his
consistent refusal
to set a succession plan and the perception that disney co . has become a
rapacious , soul - less
conglomerate
always looking for the quick buck .
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the independent board members of disney co . slammed roy e . disney and gold for their
destructive course
in a statement on monday :
it is a disservice to shareholders and to employees that the company faces this distraction at a time when its performance is improving .
@ hypocritic i am sure you are quite right about dreaming at different levels . you are just in another dream , not at a deeper level . but then shared dreaming is all b * * * * x anyway , isn ' t it ? you have to go along with one or two basic premises otherwise there is not point in watching the film . i still don ' t see why they are not also weightless in level three . then , maybe instead of going for on her majesty ' s secret service , they could have gone for a thunderball sequence ( or moonraker ) . i think ariadne was of no romantic interest to cobb because he was in love with his dead wife . i don ' t think the other characters really existed , but if they did , maybe they had seen hard candy . i wonder if ellen page found it harder to get a date after that movie .
the question isn ' t did disney pay too much but how expensive would it have been for disney if pixar fell into someone else ' s hands ,
said barry ritholtz , chief investment officer with ritholtz capital partners , a hedge fund that focuses on media and technology stocks .
general sadler to be honored at scc gala : on friday , may 25 , retired u . s . air force major general thomas m . sadler , executive director of speedway children ' s charities ( scc ) , will be honored at the 32nd annual nra foundation speedway children ' s charities gala . sadler is being recognized for his dedication to speedway children ' s charities ' mission of helping children in educational , financial , social and medical need . mike joy , principal race announcer for nascar on fox , will serve as master of ceremonies for the program . proceeds from the evening will benefit the grant program of the charlotte chapter of scc and will be awarded to local non - profit organizations that help children in need . for more information on the 32nd annual nra foundation speedway children ' s charities gala see urltoken . ( cms ) ( 5 - 25 - 2012 )
# 63 , i think you ' re right . i certainly enjoyed the film , and it was absolutely a film to be seen at the cinema ( in glorious 2d , no less - the folding land scene blew my mind on the big screen ) . i thought the
kick
concept was really cool and worked well , and the anti - gravity scene was great . spoilers : one of the biggest issues i had was with the
limbo
idea , which seemed to only exist as a device to make us fear death in the characters , but then in the end it turns out that it ' s really not a big deal at all . also , if i was building myself a dreamworld , i wouldn ' t make it look like a faceless cut - n - paste chicago , i guess leo ' s character really was messed up . however , i ' m starting to feel like how i did after seeing the dark knight , when i got so caught up in counteracting all the hype that i forgot that i still did really enjoy it . it ' s just that , like the dark knight , it was a really silly film .
# 56 was the van going in reverse ? i must have missed that . ellen page is actually 23 which would seem to be consistent with her being a student or grad student . even when she was a pregnant 16 - year old in juno she was actually 20 . a lot of people have commented on how good her performance was as if they believe she really is 16 . i suppose i have to try not to let my impressions of her carry over from previous films too . after hard candy , i want to keep my legs crossed when i see her on screen .
for its 2007 charity initiative program . this benevolent program is new to nssn as of this year , but nssn ' s relationship with cara has been longstanding . while most charity programs rely solely on monetary contributions or auctions to raise funds , nssn will be combining both . nssn has teamed up with
“this is not the first stop on our sojourn , ” eril - fane said , his voice like rough music . “but it is the first in which we have been greeted with familiar words . i came seeking scholars , but had not anticipated that we might ourselves be a subject of scholarly interest . ”
a legend ? the tale of the golden godson , who distilled azoth and saved kingdoms . it was all about him , and not weep at all . he smacked lazlo on the back . “i’d better go and say good - bye . and don’t worry , strange . you’ll get your books back . ”
# 11 - denny hamlin will launch his new charitable foundation with the running of the denny hamlin 175 at southside speedway , the track where he cut his teeth in late model racing , in midlothian , va . on thursday , may 1 . the denny hamlin foundation will focus primarily on raising awareness and funding for the specific needs of individuals afflicted with cystic fibrosis and will donate all proceeds from the charity event to the cystic fibrosis foundation ( cff ) . moving forward , in addition to cff , the foundation also will support chronically ill children with other debilitating illnesses . ( pr ) ( 5 - 1 - 2008 )
disney and pixar can now collaborate without the barriers that come from two different companies with two different sets of shareholders ,
said jobs in a statement .
now , everyone can focus on what is most important , creating innovative stories , characters and films that delight millions of people around the world .
disney and apple have already announced several online programming deals during the past few months . disney now has agreements in place to sell hit abc prime time shows , such as
desperate housewives
and
lost
, as well as content from abc sports and espn on apple ' s popular itunes music and video store .
soldiers and carriage clattered through the gates . the royal entourage was always a gorgeous spectacle , but that wasn’t what stopped lazlo’s feet as abruptly as though his soul had flown on ahead of his body and left it stranded . it hadn’t , surely , though maybe it leaned forward , like a craned neck . a craned soul .
chevrolet donates $ 6200 to american cancer society : thirty - one caution laps in sunday night ' s nascar sprint cup series advocare 500 at atlanta motor speedway netted a donation of $ 6 , 200 to the american cancer society on behalf of chevrolet . chevy pledged to make a donation to the american cancer society in the amount of $ 200 for every caution lap that the specially themed ' making strides against breast cancer ' pink camaro ss paced the field during sunday night ' s race at ams . six caution flags produced the 31 laps during the 327 - lap event on september 2 , 2012 . ( team chevy ) ( 9 - 5 - 2012 )
there were 50 takeoffs and landings on six airlines . he also used private and rental cars , cab , local , regional and international trains , ferry ( twice across the english channel ) , city and international buses , and subways . a friend used a national / international mileage web site to figure pearce ' s travels at about 67 , 000 miles .
disney co . has been on the rebound this year . the company reported its net profit more than doubled for the fiscal fourth quarter ended sept . 30 to $ 415 million , or 20 cents a share , from $ 175 million , or 9 cents , last year . while disney co . shares dropped to less than $ 14 in 2002 from their 2000 highs of more than $ 43 , the stock is up more than 40 % this year . in a positive sign for disney co . , wall street did not react to the war of words . shares closed at $ 23 . 17 on monday , up 8 cents , and not far off their 52 - week high of $ 23 . 80 .
the house of mouse was far from the happiest place on earth monday as a second director in as many days quit and publicly called for eisner ' s resignation . stanley gold , a longtime ally and business partner of roy e . disney , stepped down just a day after roy e . disney went public with a scathing resignation letter and rebuke of eisner .
, fans can upload a photo for inclusion in a picture mosaic - a replica of which will be unveiled on april 29 , during dale earnhardt day in mooresville , n . c . already , nearly 1 , 000 fans have posted their name , photo and / or message to the site . fans also can make a donation to the dale earnhardt foundation .
three designated drop off locations have been established in north carolina . ryan newman motorsports 165 jennings road statesville , nc 28625 phone : 704 - 876 - 4777 hours for drop off : 9 : 00 am - 4 : 30 pm monday - friday ( someone will be on site to assist with donations ) humane society of iredell county 110 robinson road mooresville , nc 28115 phone : 704 - 663 - 3330 hours for drop off : 10 : 00 am - 4 : 00 pm monday - friday ( someone will be on site to assist with donations ) humane society of charlotte 2700 toomey avenue charlotte , nc 28023 phone : 704 - 377 - 0534 hours for drop off : 11 : 00 am - 5 : 00 pm monday - sunday
the timing of this is in eisner ' s favor . results are on the upswing , abc is stabilizing , and film has had the best six months in its history ,
says media analyst michael gallant of cibc world markets .
the time to do this was 18 months ago when the results were depressed and there were a lot more corporate governance issues .
everything else in lazlo’s mind took a step back to clear space for this new intelligence . the godslayer . he marveled . what had the warrior slain that went by the name of god ? for fifteen years , the mysteries of weep had never been far from his thoughts . for seven years , he had scoured the library for clues of what had happened there . and now here were tizerkane , and the answers he sought were under this very roof , and new questions , too . what were they doing here ? in spite of nero’s treachery , a dazzlement was growing in him . a rare opportunity . could it be what he hoped ? what if it was ? in all his dreaming—and indeed , all his despairing—he had never foreseen this : that his impossible dream might simply . . . ride through the gates .