broth of a boy is a 1959 irish comedy film directed by george pollock and starring barry fitzgerald , harry brogan and june thorburn .

a television reporter sets out on a quest to find a very elderly man .

broth of a boy

he was ' a broth of a boy , ' his biographer tells us .
‘ambrose too had a long reign as a minor - a broth of a boy . ’
‘but he ' s much more of a broth of a boy now , right enough . ’
barry fitzgerald as the oldest man in the world in broth of a boy ( 1959 ) .
he was a broth of a boy from maynooth , just the man to handle the doyle and donohoe congregation .
he ' s a broth of a boy , and will be an ornament to the service , i hope .
well , you take a large kettle , place a boy in it , and cook until you have a broth .
the boy , revived by a spoonful or two of broth , asked to have the two tame mice on the bed .
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‘you ' re right , my jewel ; there ' s not such a broth of a boy to be picked up every day in the week . ’
could anybody explain the etymology of the phrase broth of a boy ? i know the meaning but cannot understand how it happens that it means what it means .
he is a ` broth of a boy , ' as we say here , and i know for my sake , jack , that you will look after him .
the irishism broth of a boy , which is in byron , was
thought to originate from the irish broth , passion - - brotha passionate , spirited . . .
[ farmer ] , and if so is not immediately related .
with the headline : the screen : an irish ' broth of a boy ' ; barry fitzgerald is star of import plays world ' s oldest man in mild comedy .
‘after dinner we were waiting on the balcony sipping our coffee to see a procession when in came some of the other officers of the north star from their boating excursion among whom was a broth of a boy a marine a friend of chambers . ’
the boys ran off to the kitchen , where their mother was superintending the brewing of some broth for a sick woman down the village .
irish a very lively boy or young man . origin oe , of gmc origin ; rel . to brew
broth of a boy ( * * * * ) starring barry fitzgerald , harry brogan quiet , insightful tale of a tv exec trying to do a story on the birthday of the world ' s oldest man , with the sly senior citizen wanting his share of the spoils . intelligent story with quaint irish locale . 1959 - irish - 77min
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the tenors who keep reminding us that ireland must be heaven because their mothers came from there have nothing on the brash boyos who dreamed up
broth of a boy ,
the irish antic that landed at the fifty - fifth street playhouse on saturday . view full article in timesmachine »
haymitch couldn ' t be sending me a clearer message . one kiss equals one pot of broth . i can almost hear his snarl .
you ' re supposed to be in love , sweetheart . the boy ' s dying . give me something i can work with !
( 19 . 92 )
the boy ( 2016 ) gives a whole different meaning to the sentence above . it is about the heelshires , an old english couple living in a big house in the middle of nowhere ( it could be countryside new york if not for the accents ) . they hire a nanny , greta evans ( played by lauren cohen of the walking dead fame ) to look after their small boy , brahms . but what do you know ? brahms is not a boy at all , it is a life size doll .
meanwhile , alyosha befriends some of the local schoolboys . he meets a dying boy named ilyusha , and arranges for the other boys to come visit him every day . alyosha helps ilyusha’s family as the young boy nears death , and he is universally adored by all the schoolboys , who look to him for guidance .
irish in modern usage - see 1959 film of tat name . oxford dictionaries says used approvingly to refer to a very lively boy or young man . etymology old english , of germanic origin ; related to brew .
angliss old boy craig pullin , now a successful hotel and restaurant director , says
anybody wanting to learn the trade
should look at angliss - and its new academy .
figure 1 . - - this is barry fitzgerald in his last film - - ' broath of a boy . the fil is appropriately filmed in ireland . here he is surrounded by irish step dancers .
not long after the wedding , hadass became pregnant . the child was a boy and those assembled at the circumcision could scarcely believe their ears when they heard the father name his son anshel .
i didn ' t enjoy twenty boy summer like i expected i would . it was just ok for me with not much excitement or emotion . 3 * * *
this is sarah ockler’s first novel , and reminded me of sarah dessen’s novels , which is a great compliment . twenty boy summer is a story in which i loved to live , and leaved a mark in my heart . gorgeous , beautifully written , and full of love . i highly recommend it .
the boy is a horror turned to humorous turned to ‘what the hell happened here’ kinda movie . avoid paying money for it , i am sure it will be on tv soon enough if not already . i give it a c -
frankie starlight ( 1995 ) , br > this is a story of a man ( walker ) , suffering from dwarfism , who writes an autobiographical account of his life . in flashbacks , we see how he was conceived to a woman ( parillaud ) at the end of wwii as she attempts to smuggle herself to america on a troop ship . caught , she is put ashore back in her homeland of ireland where she struggles to bring up her dwarfed child . then comes an ongoing affair with a man ( byrne ) who becomes a surrogate father to the boy , teaching him about the stars and planets . . . and calling him
frankie starlight .
after that affair she meets with a man ( dillon ) who takes her and the boy to america , but they are misfits in the prairie lands of the west and soon return home to ireland where the boy grows to manhood as a writer .
20 boy summer surprised me . i thought this would be a light read , with lots of boy chasing and gossip and giggling over clothes and makeup and teenage girl things . and while there are certainly elements of that , dig a bit deeper and there is this raw , aching grief festering just below the surface , as everyone matt loved tries their best to carry on in their own way . i was tempted to roll my eyes at some of the conversations between anna and frankie , especially the nonchalant way they were discus
danny boy ( * * * * ) starring stephen rea , veronica quilligan , donal mccann a saxaphonist ( rea ) witnesses a double slaying and becomes obsessed with avenging it . packing a gun he goes on a manhunt through the hills and dales of county armagh . jordan ' s stunning directorial debut , packs a wallop . director : neil jordan 1984 - irish - 92min v
he moved on to become a director of a hotel in the same street and now is also the managing director of a successful restaurant in ascot vale .
anna was simply a character that leaved a mark on me , and a total opposite to frankie .
o ' shaughnessey ' s boy ( * * 1 / 2 ) starring wallace beery , jackie cooper , spanky mcfarland sentimental tale of beery searching for his son , taken from him by his cruel wife . 1935 - 88min - b & w
http : / / inbetweenwritingandreading . blo . . . it shattered my heart to pieces , it gave me the deepest wounds , it made me stronger than ever , and it put me back together . those are the words i have to say about this book . at first , when i bought the book , i really didn’t know what i was getting into , i mean , 20 boys ? one each day ? i thought it would be a simple comedy and a fun read for the summer . how wrong i was . twenty boy summer follows anna through her summer , where she grieves the dead of the broth
the butcher boy ( 1998 ) * * * in a small town in northern ireland in the early 1960 ' s , 12 - year - old francie brady retreats into a fantasy world and has visions of the virgin mary . freud is quoted as saying
the irish are the only people who cannot be helped by psychoanalysis .
this film shows us a boy who cannot shed his hated for another boy . francie ' s alcoholic father and long - suffering mother are only the beginning of his troubles . he lives in a world of
haves
and
have nots ,
and when confronted by those he perceives as haves , he cannot control his rage . unable to be helped by family or the clergy ( who don ' t understand him and cannot even solve their own problems ) francie descends into violence and madness . cast eamonn owens , alan boyle ( ii ) v
whether katniss wants to admit it or not , she and haymitch are actually very much alike . like katniss , haymitch is smart – when he ' s sober . the two are certainly survivors , a point proved by haymitch ' s former triumph in the hunger games of long ago . because of this connection , they are able to communicate during the games through the sponsor gifts that haymitch sends , such as in the pot of broth in chapter 19 :
but considering the boy is a doll and greta is alone , she prefers to not follow the rules to look after him which includes kiss him goodnight . mysterious things start happening then on and greta is absolutely certain that the doll is alive or possessed by the real brahms who died in a fire as a child . in comes malcolm ( rupert evans ) and they discover the truth about brahms , the boy / the doll / the spirit – whatever you want to call it . on the other hand , the heelshires take a dip in the pond with stones in their pockets which screams suicide .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
adventures of a tv reporter who , while touring in ireland , wants to interview a 110 year old man .
the birth of a nation is a flawed but fairly compelling chapter of the american story that powerfully resonates with how that story is playing out today .
my friend joe ( 1996 ) during the course of one summer , a young irish lad named chris befriends an american boy named joe . the two couldn ' t be more different , yet they become inseparable . things turn horribly wrong however , when chris discovers his new best friend isn ' t a he , but a she . the sadness only begins as chris learns why joe ' s gender must be kept a secret .
an irish codger , 110 , wants a piece of the action for doing a british producer ' s tv show .
“well , what of it . i’ll become a recluse , that’s all . ”
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the playboy of the western world ( 1962 ) a quiet little village , and especially a pretty young woman , falls under the spell of a charming , somewhat roguish stranger who suddenly appears one day .
this other eden ( 1959 ) a small town plans to erect a monument in memory of a ira rebel during the 1920 ' s . the son of the english colonel who killed the rebel objects .
sometimes when i ' m with him , something will remind me of matt . a shooting star , the smell of someone ' s shampoo , a long laugh , a turn of phrase from someone passing by along the shore . when it happens , i close my eyes , count to ten , and will him to go away . to give me back my memories so that something as simple as a song floating out from behind a bonfire doesn ' t bring me all the way back to him every time . it was hard to choose just one quote to start my ( gushing ) review of twenty boy summer . t
fools of fortune ( 1990 ) a protestant irish family is caught up in a conflict between irish republicans and the british army .
“i didn’t want to waste my life on a baking shovel and a kneading trough . ”
u2 : rattle and hum ( 1988 ) a documentary of irish rock group u2 ' s fall 1987 tour of north america .
headrush ( 2004 ) headrush is a crime comedy about two disillusioned youths , struggling through a haze of cannabis , who hope to solve all their problems by smuggling a consignement of drugs for a local gangster . it ' s set in the present day in dublin , ireland against the backdrop of the end of the celtic tiger : the bursting of the bubble of this economy boom that ' s supposed to have done wonders for us all
if you forgive him enough to see it , the birth of a nation offers a troubling tangle of the personal and historical . but above all else it ' s commercial , an entertainment of purpose and some power .
sarah ockler is the bestselling author of six young adult novels : the summer of chasing mermaids , # scandal , the book of broken hearts , bittersweet , fixing delilah , and twenty boy summer . her books have been translated into several languages and have received numerous accolades , including ala ' s best fiction for young adults , girls ' life top 100 must reads , indie next list , and nominations for yalsa
twenty boy summer follows anna through her summer , where she grieves the dead of the brother of her best friend and boyfriend matt , the only problem , no one knew they were together . so frankie’s family – and matts - decide to take a trip to california , where they used to go every summer when matt was alive , and anna goes with them , carrying her grieve around , for no one but herself to share ; she also carries around her journal , where she talks to matt and pours everything of her . and then there’s sam , one of the guys they meet during their 20 - boy - summer lookout , handsome , intelligent , understanding , and he grows to love anna , but anna is so scared to love him back , for the fear of forgetting matt . i just found it heartbreaking , and reminded me a lot of jandy nelson’s “the sky is everywhere” in many ways .
the rabbit leg paella news :
you ' re one billion percent going to want to order a paella - - they ' ve got multiple options , including this bad boy that ' s chock - full of seafood , as well as one topped w / rabbit leg , lima beans , and bomba rice , or what a very italian offensive coordinator used to instruct joe montana to throw on third and long .
[ thrillist ]
“i’m not even sure that the rules pertaining to a deserted woman apply in this case , ” said anshel in the manner of a scholar .
■ a range of short , interest - style courses for the general public and culinary professionals .
you ' ve been inactive for a while , logging you out in a few seconds . . .
anshel grew playful . she plucked a flower and tore off the petals one by one . she picked up a chestnut and threw it at avigdor . avigdor watched a ladybug crawl across the palm of his hand . after a while he spoke up :
my brother ' s war ( 1997 ) the ira have declared a ceasefire , but a small splinter group has decided to continue the armed struggle . a cia guy is asked to track down the leader of the splinter group with the help of the brother of the leader . he reluctantly agrees .
actual rating : 3 . 5 stars “every story is part of a whole , entire life , you know ? happy and sad and tragic and whatever , but an entire life . and books let you know them . ” twenty boy summer was such a great contemporary novel written about the meaning of friendship , love , loss , and secrets . i fell in love with all the characters , beautiful friendship between anna and frankie , and the second love with sam . this is the perfect ya contemporary novel about heartbreak , tragedy , and learning to move on . a
for a moment anshel was silent as though missing the meaning of the words . then she spoke :
was a cutesy contemporary read but nothing special . good for a quick summer read to pass the time .
“why can’t a woman be like a man ? ” avigdor asked once , looking up at the sky .
the two friends , sharing a lectern in a corner of the study house , spent more time talking than learning . occasionally avigdor smoked , and anshel , taking the cigarette from his lips , would have a puff . avigdor liked baked flatcakes made with buckwheat , so anshel stopped at the bakery every morning to buy one , and wouldn’t let him pay his share . often anshel did things that greatly surprised avigdor . if a button came off avigdor’s coat , for example , anshel would arrive at the yeshiva the next day with needle and thread and sew it back on . anshel bought avigdor all kinds of presents : a silk handkerchief , a pair of socks , a muffler . avigdor grew more and more attached to this boy , five years younger than himself , whose beard hadn’t even begun to sprout . once avigdor said to anshel :
rating : 3 . 5 “don ' t move , anna reiley . right now , everything is perfect . ” when the boy you love is the brother of your best friend , things tend to get a tad complicated . in anna ' s case , the moment matt kisses her , she knows without a doubt that he ' s
the one
. anna is overjoyed but matt wants to wait before he tells his sister , frankie . the three have always been a trio of sorts , and he fears revealing their relationship too soon could be too much for her . give me a break . i found it really dodgey h
3 . 5 stars ! twenty boy summer is certainly not what i expected and i don’t mean that in a negative way . in my opinion , this novel has a particularly originality to it that i couldn’t quite express eloquently but perhaps you’ll understand when you read the book . i picked this book up hoping to enjoy some warmth and fluff from a summery read and although the story is in many parts heartwarming , there is nothing fluffy about it . in fact , it was mostly a sad read and i have to admit that i had to sn
love divided , a ( 1999 ) a love divided is the moving and dramatic love story of a marriage between a catholic and a protestant in 1950 ' s ireland . the events of their lives made international news headlines . based on a true story a love divided is essentially a love story about a brave and passionate couple whose love was severely tested but was strong enough to survive - against all the odds . ' this story is about having the nerve to stand outside of your own tribe and make your decisions in the face of your history and upbringing . it is about having control over your own lives - that is sheila and sean ' s love story ' . syd macartney - director
[ even if that was mostly because of frankie pretending to be a slut . ( hide spoiler ) ]
“i’m not a man but a woman , ” said anshel . “my name isn’t anshel , it’s yentl . ”
“she’ll be a good wife , ” said anshel . “i don’t even know how to bake a pudding . ”
the tough shrimp news :
the fideua negro ( $ 23 ) is a disaster with different elements of the squid ink pasta cooked at varying degrees of doneness and flavor : the noodles are overcooked and combined with chunks of nearly raw garlic and a medley of bland and , what tastes like tough , frozen whole shrimp and pieces of calamari .
[ timeout ]
courier , the ( 1988 ) gabriel byrne when a courier at the d - day courier service mistakenly finds a pile of money in his regular delivery , he does some digging only to discover that the messenger company is a front for a drug ring . a reformed drug user himself , he sets out to crack the lethal ring .
angel ( 1982 / i ) aka danny boy ( 1982 ) ( canada : english title ) stephen rea saxophonist danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf - mute girl after a gig . questioned by the police , he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers ' leader . so begins his quest to avenge her . he seeks an answer to the simple question ` why ? ' but finds only more , and deeper , questions which resonate with the wider context of ` the troubles ' , the inter - communal strife gripping the modern - day northern ireland which is the film ' s setting .
a british tv producer is traveling in ireland when he comes across a village where they are planning a birthday party for the oldest man in the world . he decides he wants to make a film . . . see full summary »
walk down any restaurant - strip in melbourne and you see a bewildering range of
staff wanted
signs in restaurant windows , displaying what their owners see as a chronic shortage of experienced workers including chefs , cooks , managers and front - of - house and waiting staff .
this is a beautiful story of friendship , that essential ingredient to any meaningful relationship . beautifully related by sarah ockler , this book has conjured the essence of what it feels like as a teenager to relate to friendships and life experience on a meaningful level . her writing takes the reader on an experiential journey of one summer vacation shared by best friends frankie and anna , along with frankie ' s parents who are also best friends of anna ' s parents . each member of this group of four
fifth province , the ( 1997 ) timmy sugrue is a persecuted guesthouse keeper and writer who lives with his mad mother in a very rainy part of the irish midlands . his only consolation are his visits to dr . drudy , a psychiatrist whom he can tell about the love of his life - the president of ireland . a new motorway puts timmy ' s guesthouse off the map . a strange spanish pilot called marcel comes to visit and create havoc in the guesthouse . timmy goes to a scriptwriters ' conference where only fast , urban and up - beat stories are expected , nothing like timmy ' s own story . uneasy in any of the four provinces of ireland , he desperately tries to reach the fifth province , the province of magic , of passion , of possibility .
somebody else offered the suggestion that anshel had been carried away by evil spirits , or was even one of them himself . as proof he cited the fact that anshel had never come either to the bathhouse or to the river . it is well known that demons have the feet of geese . well , but had hadass never seen him barefoot ? and who ever heard of a demon sending his wife a divorce ? when a demon marries a daughter of mortals , he usually lets her remain a grass widow .
the lonely passion of judith hearne 1987 judith hearn is a middle aged spinster earning a living by giving piano lessons in the dublin of the 1950 ' s . she falls in love with a shady hotel owner who , in turn , decides to exploit her as far as he can .
the uncomfortable chairs ( but tasty mussels ) news :
first , the room itself , formerly the tudor house , has been transformed into an energy filled bar and restaurant with flamenco music cranking and décor that is at times whimsical ( copper bar , antlers chandeliers ) and perhaps at others a bit gauche ( don ' t love the lounge - y couches substituting for chairs in the dining room and some of the art is questionable ) . some areas are overly bright ( ahem , where the monster is seated ) while others are darker and more intimate . also , did anyone sit in the chairs before they were purchased ? because they are weirdly low and not terribly comfortable . . . while the mussels are also a fine dish with a wonderful broth ( about three loaves of bread perish in its honor ) , the appearance of some form of meat in the dish ( not listed on the menu ) is a bit bothersome .
[ feed the monster ]
but these are only the beginning . martin chuzzlewit is soaked in details of contemporary life and activities , a world that is quickly retreating from us . present readers of the novel seeking a fuller grasp of that worldand understanding of the novelcannot do better than consult nancy aycock metzs the companion to martin chuzzlewit recently published in a handsome , wonderfully detailed volume . eighth in the scholarly series now edited by susan shatto and david paroissien , it is a fit successor to a series that has met with wide , deserved praise .
2 . 5 stars . the beginning and end of the book were great to read and a solid 4 stars . most of the middle part of the book was 1 star . i ' m not sure what else to say . i zipped through the book fairly quickly and liked the idea for the story , but think i wanted more out of the actual vacation and
20 boy challenge
than what was given . there really weren ' t 20 boys ( heck , not even 10 ! ) , so the title was extremely misleading . mildish spoilers ahead : what i liked : anna and matt ' s relationship . anna ste
ulysees ( 1967 ) milo o ' shea dublin ; june 16 , 1904 . stephen dedalus , who fancies himself as a poet , embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in leopold bloom , a middle - aged jew . meanwhile , bloom ' s day , illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward stephen , ends with a rapprochement with molly , his earthy wife .
anshel looked at her as she stood there—tall , blond , with a long neck , hollow cheeks , and blue eyes , wearing a cotton dress and a calico apron . her hair , fixed in two braids , was flung back over her shoulders . a pity i’m not a man , anshel thought .
don’t worry , anna . i’ll tell her , okay ? just let me think about the best way to do it .
okay .
promise me ? promise you won’t say anything ?
don’t worry . ” i laughed . “it’s our secret , right ?
according to anna’s best friend , frankie , twenty days in zanzibar bay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling , and if they meet one boy every day , there’s a pretty good chanc
like the stars , fading with the halo of the vanishing moon . like the ocean , falling and whispering against the shore . nothing ever really goes away - it just changes into something else . something beautiful . don’t know why i put off reading twenty boy summer for so long , but i’m very glad i was challenged to read this book sooner than later . i really . really . really enjoyed this story ! it has all the ingredients of a well - written and perfectly plotted ya contemporary novel , and i fell for the chara
don’t worry , anna . i’ll tell her , okay ? just let me think about the best way to do it .
okay .
promise me ? promise you won’t say anything ?
don’t worry . ” i laughed . “it’s our secret , right ?
according to anna’s best friend , frankie , twenty days in zanzibar bay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling , and if they meet one boy every day , there’s a pretty good chance anna will find her first summer romance . anna lightheartedly agrees to the game , but there’s something she hasn’t told frankie–she’s already had her romance , and it was with frankie’s older brother , matt , just before his tragic death one year ago . twenty boy summer explores what it truly means to love someone , what it means to grieve , and ultimately , how to make the most of every beautiful moment life has to offer .
anshel told avigdor such a match was bad . peshe was neither good - looking nor clever , only a cow with a pair of eyes . besides , she was bad luck , for her husband died in the first year of their marriage . such women were husband - killers . but avigdor did not answer . he lit a cigarette , took a deep puff , and blew out smoke rings . his face had turned green .
divorcing jack ( 1998 ) black romantic comedy set around the troubled
peace process
and its effect on a cynical belfast hack . a married drunk ( thewlis ) hooks up with the ex - girlfriend of a viscious local criminal ( isaacs ) . he gets booted out of home for his infedelity , has a murderer on his tail , and must try to write the story of his life in order to save his journalism job . he gets help from a stripper dressed as a nun ( griffiths ) and goes undercover dressed as shaggy from scooby doo . he finds a drinking buddy in an american fellow journalist .
this is a beautifully written novel about love , friendship , and the things we carry with us long after the moments in which we experience them end . 20 boy summer is more than just your average ya romance . it balances an original teenage voice with prose and metaphor that will haunt you long after you put it down . and as a writer , it made me want to re - read every line i ' ve written in the past six months , in an attempt to strive for that sort of perfection . i fell in love with all the main characte
ned kelly ( 2003 ) * * * this film is based on
our sunshine
by robert drew , a novel based on the life of australian bushranger and icon , ned kelly . it tells of his life as a bushranger in north - west victoria , where he lived all his life . he , his brother dan , and two other men , steve hart and joe byrne , formed a gang . these four robbed a bank and hijacked an entire town for 3 days . they killed three policemen who were hunting them . they then took over a pub in glenrowan , where they basically held a party , waiting for a train full of police to derail at a part of the track that they tore up . however a school teacher warned the train , so the gang and all the others in the pub ended up in a shootout with scores of policemen . starring heath ledger , orlando bloom , naomi watts
this followed a wai decision in 2004 to buy a building next to its administration offices in the cbd for the projected academy .
the playboys ( 1992 ) a young woman , tara maguire ( robin wright ) scandalizes her provincial irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock , and refusing to name the father . she has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her , especially sergeant hegarty ( albert finney ) . the arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more , especially when she falls in love with one of the
playboys
, tom casey ( aidan quinn ) .
if books were people , i ' d see why this one was single . forever alone in a void of nonexistent true friendship and self - respect along with unrealistic emotion . pretty on the outside , something of a horror on the inside .
ballroom of romance , the ( 1982 ) a lonely farmer ' s daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom .
as a now troubled victor , haymitch is also a reminder that perhaps no one ever really wins the hunger games . after all , haymitch ' s lonely life consists of the very depressing task of coaching tributes – and usually watching them die .
an gobán saor ( 1994 ) in my view this film shews some of the conflicts of real life as it occurs within the
gaeltacht
the irish speaking world and give just an inkling of the richness that is tucked away in one of the oldest undiluted cultures of europe ; a culture which is under threat but from which we can gain fresh literary insight by viewing this and other similar films made in a minority language such as irish . i hope it will inspire others to examine the humour and pathos of irish culture and the richness of a truly descriptive and emotive language . - mike boyle
after reading sarah ockler’s “twenty boy summer , ” i feel like i’m 16 again , sunning on the beach , about to embark on an epic summer romance . ok , i’m definitely not 16 , not even close , but my point is ockler’s writing is so transportive i dare anyone to read her debut novel and not think they’re on a beach . i could literally smell coconut oil and pineapple shakes and salty sea air while reading . summer and its attendant romances are infused in every single page of this simultaneously heartbreakin
a pretentious and poorly made biopic , the birth of a nation lacks passion and focus . the story follows a slave named nat turner who becomes a preacher and ends up leading a rebellion . unfortunately first time writer / director nate parker doesn ' t do a very good job at developing the character or establishing his motivations . and there are a number of plot holes that makes the storytelling rather clunky . however , the production values are really good , and there are some fairly solid actors in the cast , including armie hammer , jackie earle haley , penelope ann miller , and gabrielle union . the birth of a nation clearly has high aspirations , but it ends up being an incoherent mess .
the commitments ( * * * 1 / 2 ) starring the commitments enormously satisfying tale of an ambitious young dubliner who takes on the challenge of assembling and managing a band made up of other working class dubliners who sing 60 ' s style soul music . a real treat ! 1991 - irish - 117min v
metzs companion can have been written only after years of reading in and around her subject . her
select
bibliography of approximately five hundred items apart from all relevant dickens and a spate of articles from household words includes all the staples of victorian reference ( beeton , watts , vezetelly , mayhew , etc . ) and a range of items unfamiliar to your reader and , i suspect , to most dickensians . ( i would like a glance at t . j . pettigrews on superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery , 1844 )
i see a dark stranger ( 1946 ) determined , independent bridie quilty comes of age in 1944 ireland thinking all englishmen are devils . her desire to join the ira meets no encouragement , but a german spy finds her easy to recruit . we next find her working in a pub near a british military prison , using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy . but chance puts a really vital secret into her hands , leading to a chase involving bridie , a british officer who ' s fallen for her , a german agent unknown to them both , and the police . . . paralleled by bridie ' s own internal conflicts .
a british tv producer is traveling in ireland when he comes across a village where they are planning a birthday party for the oldest man in the world . he decides he wants to make a film about this man , but patrick farrell is not the delightful old man one would hope him to be . and he is not enthusiastic about making a big deal of his upcoming birthday either .
in his famous essay ,
thick description : toward an interpretive theory of culture ,
clifford geertz describes what
doing ethnography
is like :
trying to read ( in the sense of construct a reading of ) a manuscript  foreign , faded , full of ellipses , incoherencies , suspicious emendations , and tendentious commentaries , but written not in conventionalized graphs of sound but in transient examples of shaped behavior .
nancy aycock metzs marvellously rich companion to martin chuzzlewit may best be understood as a kind of ethnographic reading of the novel : one which interprets dickenss words in relation to the culture that shaped them , and which originally gave them meaning . this compendious work , like its predecessors in the companion series , elucidates all kinds of social , literary , and culinary obscurities through referencing a very wide range of sources , and in doing so , gives a solid materiality to the world imaginatively plotted and vivified by the novelist himself .
mountains of the moon ( 1990 ) the irish of british descent were treated second - best by the british according to bram stoker , a contemporary of our subject , sir richard burton . burton was born in ireland of an anglo - irish father and a scottish mother . he traveled to africa to find the source of the nile with a more ' proper ' englishman ( in both senses of the word ) john hanning speke . this film deals with the story and controversy of who should get credit for their discovery . cast patrick bergin , iain glen , richard e . grant , fiona shaw , john savident v dvd
song o ' my heart ( 1930 ) the plot is melodramatic - created just for the purpose of capturing the singing of john mccormack on film . the story includes some brief
bits
of irish humour and features the film debut of maureen o ' sullivan . the story of a middle - aged teacher living in a small irish village who just happens have a world - class singing voice and is willing to give it all up to care for the children of his recently childhood sweetheart is too much to be taken seriously even for the very early 1930s .
there was a long silence . hadass’ eyes grew larger , filling with the sadness of one who knows there is no consolation .
the longer anshel talked , the less avigdor understood . all anshel’s explanations seemed to point to one thing : she had the soul of a man and the body of a woman . anshel said she had married hadass only in order to be near avigdor .
readers of my generation derived a special frisson of excitement when reading the writings of mary mccarthy . it was not just that ( for example )
the man in the brooks brothers suit
was reputed to be edmund wilsonthough that was a startbut that mary mccarthy studded her fiction with inside references , like a ham with cloves . we were flattered by sly mentions of nedicks or the automat or to jimmy ryans or finchleys , fifth avenue , and her stories shimmered with the vitality of our own memories .
if democrats can convince their voters that “ outrage ” does not suffice for strategy , they will avoid a trap into which republicans repeatedly fell—one that cost them a number of winnable races . but that’s a fraught course . after all , the left does seem to be enjoying their primal scream , and no one likes a scold .
the large subject of the relation of the american chapters in martin chuzzlewit to dickenss own travel book , american notes , looms here . metz does not take it up directly . we are disposed to separate the two and regard the american chapters as part of a wonderfully preposterous satire of both english and american absurdities .
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democrats could learn a lot from republicans these days . republicans know what it is like to sleepwalk into a government shutdown without an exit strategy while sacrificing core elements of their brand in the process . they know how frustrating it can be to have their rights as a minority party curtailed simply for exercising them . they know that having an enthusiastic base of true believers is a double - edged sword ; they’re great for winning elections but almost contemptuous of tactics .
the more reporting and thinking i did , however , the more uneasy i became about merkel’s project—to the point where last year i wrote a glowing review in these pages of the strange death of europe , a book by douglas murray , britain’s preeminent immigration skeptic .
my left foot ( 1990 ) * * * * based on the autobiography of christy brown the dublin - born writer and painter . brown suffered cerebral palsy from birth , yet lived to be one of the 13 surviving children out of 22 of this poor irish catholic family . the details of life , such as sleeping four to a bed , give the audience a real appreciation of what life is like in such a large family . though brown wrote of his isolation from society , he always found acceptance with his family who refused to place him in a home . without this acceptance and support he may never have become a writer or even learned to write at all . cast daniel day - lewis , brenda fricker , fiona shaw , ray mcanally , owen sharp v dvd
finally , a review should mention the eighteen well - produced illustrations that enliven the text , most of them aptly chosen from the illustrated london news . ( the number and placement of the maps in thebook are jumbled in the two listings of contents . )
guard , the ( 2011 ) * * * * crime drama sergeant gerry boyle is a small - town irish cop with a confrontational personality , a subversive sense of humor , a dying mother , a fondness for prostitutes , and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine - smuggling ring that has brought straight - laced fbi agent wendell everett to his door . starring brendan gleason , don cheadle , michael strong
it ' s now or never ( 1996 ) a lonely sheep farmer in his fifties employs the services of a matchmaker to find a wife . out in his small country farm - house in the super green fields of ireland with his dog
rowd ,
he makes up his mind and spruces up his life for new love .
movies and tv shows are certified fresh with a steady tomatometer of 75 % or higher after a set amount of reviews ( 80 for wide - release movies , 40 for limited - release movies , 20 for tv shows ) , including 5 reviews from top critics .
parker ' s film depicts an important event in american history through the eyes of an amateur passing a test in film production 101 .
at no point were democrats pursuing anything that could be called a strategy here . they had no higher objective than making their base voters happy . stung by the gop’s successful effort to block barack obama’s final judicial appointment , liberal activists demanded a grand gesture of defiance . even if the fight was a losing one , the liberal activists wanted to see a fight . congressional democrats knew that a filibuster would accomplish little and sacrifice a lot , but it was what their voters asked for .
34 years ago my brother died in a car accident , i was a little over a year old , he was three . i don ' t remember much about him , save one strange memory of him standing outside the car entertaining me while my mom pumps and pays for gas . i recall the car , the sun sparkling off of the metal on the window and the smell of the summer day mingling with the smell of the gasoline . and , of course , i have the stories , of how he called me finnie shell for stephanie michelle , how he would chase me around th
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a portrait of an artist as a young man ( 1979 ) this autobiographical view of one of ireland ' s most famous writers dwells on his youth in turn of the century dublin . here we see the origins of his two most troublesome inner conflicts : politics and religion . joyce ' s father , who dabbled in politics , incensed him with what he thought was the pointless and sudden abandonment of parnell and his plies for ireland ' s home rule , from which he developed a disappointment of his fellow irishmen . joyce ' s education by priests created in him a love / hate relationship with catholicism . he would later abandon both . cast bosco hogan , luke johnston , brian murray , niall buggy , leslie lalor , rosaleen linehan v dvd
bossanova blues ( 1992 ) at the height of the troubles in northern ireland , bombs began to go off in guilford , birmingham and london as irish republican discontent flared up . a number of irish people were wrongly imprisoned for these bombings and served long sentances . they were jailed simply because they were irish and in the wrong place at the wrong time . ' bossanova blues ' tells the fictional story of how three innocents could have become the victims of such a miscarriage of justice . it ' s a romantic road movie with dire consequences .
this book tells the story of two best friends , frankie and anna dealing with the loss of a brother and a lover respectively . they traveled across the country from new york to california for summer vacation a year after his death . in a way , this trip was supposed to be a mark of how ' normal ' things are even as frankie ' s family struggled to continue life without matt . “but when he died , i saw - nothing . there was nothing left to see . it happened and it was impossible and beautiful and then it ended


manic is a 2001 american drama film directed by jordan melamed and written by michael bacall and blayne weaver .

it was shown at several film festivals in 2001 and 2002 , including the sundance film festival .

the region 1 dvd was released january 20 , 2004 .

this is also the first time gordon-levitt and deschanel have worked together as each other 's main interest in a film , the second being ( 500 ) days of summer .

manic ( film )

with the headline : reviews / film ; manic film noir thriller as midnight cult film .
a new trailer has appeared online for an upcoming documentary film about manic street preachers . see the teaser ‘escape from history’ below .
manic street preachers’ upcoming summer tour dates are below . tickets are available here .
this is the manic package , it’s the package for those who want to support the musings of the film , loneliness , and alone - ness .
a grim drama about emotionally damaged teens , manic ' s solid cast helps to elevate the material above cliche .
manic has quite a bit to recommend it as well , not the least of which is the lack of hollywood gloss mental patients .
an ivy - league bound , overachieving teen is derailed after a manic episode lands her in a school for kids with mental illness .
taken from the new album rewind the film . available now . itunes - urltoken amazon - deluxe cd : urltoken official store - exclusive signed cds and vinyl : urltoken urltoken urltoken urltoken music video by manic street preachers feat . richard hawley performing rewind the film . ( c ) 2013 sony music entertainment uk limited
this is exactly the kind of film the dogme 95 movement was meant to inspire .
as manic street preachers prepare to premiere their new documentary ‘escape from history’ this weekend , the band have spoken to nme about how the film sees them telling the story of classic album everything must go ‘definitively for the last time’ .
äntligen en film som slår hål på myten om att en runda spontanbasket kan lösa alla konflikter .
anyone stumbling into the cinema halfway through would think they were watching a documentary , as manic dispenses with all cinematic flourishes , instead aiming for and achieving absolute realism .
‘escape from history’ airs on sky arts at 9pm on saturday 15 april . manic street preachers also release the 10th edition of ‘send away the tigers’ on 12 may .
after completing her degree in film production in montreal at uqàm , filmmaker kalina bertin quickly realized that if she didn ' t set out to understand the mental illness in her family it would destroy her . this process gave birth to her compelling documentary film manic , which explores the legacy of bipolar disorder in her family . aiming to build empathy and awareness toward such a complex condition , she currently is directing a virtual reality experience which will enable the viewer to explore the world of manic - depression from within . kalina presented this project in development at the mit open documentary lab and at the mutek and sodec atelier grand nord vr . manic and manicvr are both produced by eyesteelfilm , a two - time emmy award winning production company based in montreal .
an interview with writer / director boots riley about his incendiary new film ,
sorry to bother you .
' ' manic ' ' is rated r ( under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian ) . it contains a lot of trash talk and a few moments of shocking violence . dave kehr
kira is a dedicated and generous woman , set to build big things in the future for all in film and photography .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
the other characters in the film , which opens today in manhattan , are largely stereotypes , well - intended stereotypes but stereotypes nonetheless .
greg brings with him a multitude of life experiences , his cool and relaxed manner are a comfortable fit for the film and cast .
kayla is a fun , and cheery young actor . we are excited to see her develop her niche in the area of film .
i couldn ' t get into the movie , even though the setting is very real . i ' ve worked on a child psych ward and there is so much more dysfunction to delve into than petty schoolyard brawls . i don ' t feel the film captures what it ' s like to have manic depression . i like the main actor but he ' s very one - dimensional in this film . . . truth is i never finished the movie so maybe it picks up .
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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…
in a way , the film mirrors the actual squad itself—a bunch of interesting parts that would often work better alone than together . for instance , the main character of the film is will smith’s deadshot ; he’s the first person we meet and the character who gets the most backstory . it’s a strong story too , but it’s also so prevalent compared to almost every other character , at times the film feels like it should be called “deadshot plus six” instead of “suicide squad . ”
there are moments of truth and close observation in
manic ,
and a scene where the cheadle character does what we ' re always waiting for a long - suffering group leader to do , and completely loses it . deschanel and gordon - levitt succeed in keeping their problems in the foreground of their romance , so those scenes don ' t simply descend into courtship . but at the end of
manic
i ' d seen nothing really new , and the camera style made me work hard to see it at all .
the man behind the camera and art director of the piece . he brings over 25 years experience to the film , in both artistic and creative development in design and cinematography .
bradfield added : “to be honest , to be brutal , i’ll never have to talk about it again . i’ll never have to make a film about it again . i wouldn’t want to do it any more . it is nice to actually put a cap on it and nice to know that you have a definitive film , it’s there , it’s done . ”
' ' manic , ' ' which has been sitting on a shelf somewhere since its debut at the 2001 sundance film festival , belongs to a school of video filmmaking that already seems badly dated . the director , jordan melamed , approaches his story - - about a group of emotionally disturbed california teenagers locked up in a private psychiatric hospital - - with digital camera grasped none too firmly in hand , shooting every sequence as a restless , jittery search for a point of view .
uliana brings her quiet demeanour to the film and the group . she is a smart , quick , friendly presence on and off set . she is such a welcome addition to the cast .
a grim , depressing film about the hopeless nature of living with mental illness , manic is a solemn , intense look into the mind of a violent teen played with sublime efficacy by joseph gordon - levitt . shot according to dogme principles but favoring invasive close - ups , the film offers no easy answers or solutions for the questions it poses . are these teens doomed to repeat the cycle of abuse ? can they be helped ? who knows , but i doubt it . it ' s a stark view of the lifetime of horrific effects that result from the abuse of children . don cheadle makes a terrific anchor as a troubled doctor giving his all to help , but even he too is powerless to make that much of an impact . he knows no matter how much he tries to right the wrongs committed on them , they are too angry at a world that destroyed them to ever be helped . a bleak film , but extremely effective and well worth your time .
hank is dynamic man , full of life . he has a terrific sense of humour and brings real character to the film and set . there was no one else who came to mind when casting this role .
i love everything about film . when you come out of a great film anything and everything is possible . it could be a catalyst . it could be that reflective mirror you needed so badly . it can alter your outlook on life . it could also simply fill you to the brink with awe . past the filters , the characters , the soundscapes , the cinematography , the writing , the special effects , and all that other fancy stuff – i love film because of how many people it can bring together . whether you’re behind or infront of the screen there is no greater joy than that flickering and those sounds melding into a masterpiece .
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this summer is a very exciting time as we eagerly prepare to shoot a short film that has been 2 years in the works . between now and august we wanted to share the excitement and open up the opportunity to have you become a part of it . right now we are hoping to raise funds for the piece . anyway , before you stop reading let me tell you a bit about my slice - of - life - film .
manic chronicles filmmaker kalina bertin ' s struggle to make sense of the mental illness wreaking havoc over her family ' s household . convinced he holds a piece to the puzzle , she sets out to find the truth about her father , a man known alternately as a cult leader , a scam artist , a prophet , and a father of 15 children around the world .
coel is the writer , screenwriter , director of this film . written in twelfth grade as a “fun’ project she has blossomed it into a vision . she is a tenacious and amazing woman , determined to bring this to life .
angela is an accomplished actor , and that’s when she isn’t on stage . she brings an amazing energy to any setting as well as set . we are so excited to see her bring the character to life in this film .
i ' ve been waiting on manic since it was in production , so i ' ve had a long wait . i must say it was worth it . i really have no complaints about the film ; the acting was great , especially from joseph gordon - levitt - who really proves what a good actor he is , don cheadle , and zooey deschanel . the story seems very accurate , haunting , and at times heartbreaking , as it paints a very realistic picture of teens with problems . there ' s no fluff here . direction was great . jordan melamed ' s debut proved to be a good one - and i look forward to more by this unknown director .
you can ' t escape yourself . great film ! the casting was excellent as each member of the ensemble portrayed their character with depth and individual motivation , and they all interacted believably . joseph gordon - levitt plays his part just . . he ' s perfect in it , so is zooey , she ' s absolutely beautiful in her character . so with those two , the movies already worth watching , then you add the ward doctor , don cheadie , he ' s just , amazing in this . this film describes mental illness for youths in a raw upfront manner that hollywood could never handle , yet it is to be seen . all in all , manic is a movie for those who truly care about the craft of film , care about collaborative , creative skill that can come from a work of the heart , care about humanity ' s relief from suffering , and care about compassionate answers for otherwise seemingly unsolvable problems . for all these reasons , i highly recommend this film . lyle jensen is subject to sudden and violent outbursts , and he is committed to the juvenile wing of the northwood mental institution . several other youths are there with a variety of serious problems . lyle interacts with other patients and staff on a human , and sometimes not so human level . the psychological problems of the patients also forms the fabric by which we see what ' s right with them , and what ' s wrong with the society that affects them .
the lure ,
a polish musical about man - eating teenage mermaids , is genuinely weird . that ' s not just a comment on the film ' s unabashedly freaky subject matter , but also a half - hearted complaint about the filmmakers ' off - kilter execution . narratively ,
the lure
is fairly rote : two sisters use their siren - like powers to seduce humans as cabaret singers , but one of them wants to assimilate , while the other seems to exist solely to remind her sister how stereotypically voracious teen girls , i mean mermaids can be . it ' s a fairly predictable parable , though arguably because
the lure
is fundamentally a modern fairy tale . but when the music numbers kick in , you ' re reminded that this movie is , tonally , an emotional rollercoaster : characters wallow in their isolation , try to get ahead through sex , song and / or murder , then repeat that same cycle of manic effusiveness . watching
the lure
is a bit like having manic depression—the thrilling high points are just as relentless as the crushing low - tide ebbs .
manic is a great movie . it ' s very sad and unnerving in spots , but i would definitely recommend this movie to people who have a strong stomach . the performances by all the actors are really good . i might of changed the ending to be different for me , but the way it ends isn ' t bad . i highly recommend this movie , but it would be a hard one to watch very often .
i haven ' t seen
manic
before , but it feels like i have . the opening scenes place us in a familiar setting and more or less reveal what we can expect . in an institution for troubled teenagers , an encounter group is overseen by a therapist who tries his best to steer his clients toward healing . but the unruly young egos have wills of their own , and there will be crisis and tragedy before the eventual closure .
shelby is an exuberant addition to our cast . she has worked on stage and in film . her help anyway possible and do anything attitude is great . she is exploring her own playwriting and loving it . we are so happy to have her join us with this experience .
“they’re in the process of writing new songs and i’m in the process of finishing another film for them , so that’s a bit mental , ” evans told nme last year . “i’m finishing a documentary called ‘escape from history’ from sky arts which is all about how ‘everything must go’ came about . ”
sometimes a cigar is just a cigar , but is a monster ever just a monster ? in lights out , a family is terrorized by a fearsome metaphor—the willowy , whispering hag of clinical depression , coming and going with the flip of a light switch . it’s not such foul play , making your fiend a symbol of manic episodes . the babadook went somewhere similar two years ago , lending undigested grief the shape of a storybook bogeyman and sacrificing few scares by being really obvious about it . but lights out is even more obvious and much less careful about its own subtext , which is so close to the surface that it’s basically text with a few handfuls of graveyard dirt thrown on top . the film is blatantly , unmistakably about mental illness , and that makes it hard to ignore or forgive what it ends up saying ( hopefully by accident ) on the subject .
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when asked by nme if he was currently filming the band making their next album , evans replied : “no . i worked on ‘rewind the film’ , ‘futurology’ and two of their greatest records with ‘the holy bible’ and ‘everything must go’ . this [ film ] doesn’t feel like an end but a little doorstop in what we do next . they’ve got to move studios and have a lot of things to be getting on with . they also don’t like being filmed , so you have to coax new ways out of them ! i think i’ve strained every way of pushing the band to make ‘escape from history’ so let’s just let the mystery and magic of the songs come about . i’ve heard two new songs and they sound amazing . ”
“closure is just an american platitude , isn’t it ? ” laughed frontman james dean bradfield when we met him after the first screening of the film . while there’s no cathartic end in once again summarising the period between the disappearance of guitarist richey edwards and the overwhelming success that followed , the band have found respite in this project providing more of an ‘absolute’ full stop on the story .
saint laurent continued designing until 2002 – every show remorselessly measured against his past hits , and every final bow accompanied by the suspense of waiting to see whether he ' d manage the short walk to the end of the runway . lespert ' s film ends with yves stumbling on to the runway , mouth slumped askew , eyes lost behind his glasses , his movement unsteady and uncertain .
he never really finds one : the camera work is so self - conscious and so intrusive that it consistently overrides our interest in the characters and their individual dramas . the film finally seems to be about an invisible , camcorder - wielding presence that has come to haunt a mental institution , as if there were an extra character in every scene that none of the other performers can see .
ironically , the most ordinary part of the film , the murder plot , is the most compelling . the more inventive twist never quite works , because laura ( uma thurman ) is too vaguely drawn to carry the noirish story . sid ( paul dillon ) barely exists , though he takes up a lot of screen time searching for musicians . but paul richards makes william perfectly enigmatic and sinister .
the new documentary has been made by the band’s long - time collaborator , the bafta - winning director kieran evans – who made all the music videos from the band’s past two albums ‘ rewind the film ‘ and ‘ futurology ‘ , as well as ‘generation terrorists’ documentary ‘culture , alienation boredom and despair’ and the recent ‘ holy bible’ anniversary tour concert movie , ‘be pure , be vigilant behave ‘ .
the plot is a serviceable device to introduce characters who need have no relationship to one another , and to guarantee conflict and drama . we are all indoctrinated in the wisdom of psychobabble , and know that by the end of the film some of the characters will have learned to deal with the anger , others will have stopped playing old tapes , and with any luck at all there will even be a romance .
chad : i ' d rather feel like total shit sometimes , and god the rest of the time , than just like - ok all the time , you know ? fuck mediocrity .
you can ' t escape yourself
manic has been a movie a really wanted to check out for sometime now and i ' m happy i did . this is the type of movie that you don ' t see to often . it ' s pessimism will make you feel all the terrible things in your life . it ' s blunt , it ' s honest , and it ' s not all about the happy ending with this one . i respect the movie , but i must say it won ' t be for everyone . i didn ' t love it , and at times it ' s hard to watch . so much pessimism with no optimism will do that to the audience , but that ' s not to say that this wasn ' t made the right way . a story like this doesn ' t need happiness . lyle is committed to a juvenile mental ward after brutally beating another kid with a baseball bat . he ' s supposed to find the reason why he is there . he ' s supposed to hone his anger , and be able to do productive things with it instead of using it in violent outbursts . he befriends a few of his peers and becomes enemies with one . the film is shot in a handheld , quick shifting way that is effective with this type of movie . i liked the way it was shot . the score was also very good in a subtle type of way . but the main reason why i liked the movie was the performances . everyone is phenomenal . don cheadle as the counselor , joseph gordon - levitt as lyle , and zooey deschanel as tracy . the other actors whose names i don ' t know where great as well . manic is a film worth watching if you can accept the bluntness and are able to handle the pessimism . it ' s not a fun movie to watch , it ' s not
entertaining
, but what it is is a well - made , honest movie about a kid who may never get his anger under control . well worth a look in my opinion .
but as gold and silver ' s respective experiences start to drive them apart , the film ' s plot starts to become safe and predictable . i want to say that the energy of the first 30 - 40 minutes does not sustain itself over the course of the picture , but that ' s not quite right since the movie ' s first half has its fair share of tonal hills and troughs , too .
the lure
doesn ' t always want to win you over since it is ultimately about the wild moods and relatively normal capriciousness of its two female leads . we root for them because they are leading lives that are not strictly determined by puritanical norms . they get to choose , and that means making the wrong decisions and living with uncertainty . . . and then singing about it ( zlota ' s song about loneliness is one of the best in the film ) .
and then there’s the enchantress . played by cara delevingne , she’s also major presence in the film and one of the main villains . however , her storyline is criminally underwritten , which becomes a huge problem in act three , when it’s basically all about her . the movie completely ignores her most of the time ; so when it suddenly pivots to bring her to the forefront , it’s too late for there to be any meaningful stakes or drama .
' ' kiss daddy good night ' ' will be shown at midnight tonight and tomorrow at the variety theater . setting itself up as a midnight cult film seems like the right way for this work to find its audience , one that values ambition and a quirky vision over polish . the director and co - writer , peter ily huemer , creates a disorienting atmosphere that may have as much to do with a low budget as with style . the scenes are dark , often grainy , often with blue - tinged interiors . exteriors look so murky that even familiar new york streets appear alien , as if they belonged in someone else ' s fantasy . ( this is true even of a scene shot across the street from the new york times . ) all this fakery - the sudden , blindingly bright shifts to daylight - can be turned to lively effect . but while ' ' kiss daddy good night ' ' has the ambitious strength of good independent film making , it also has the diffuseness that makes such works threaten to evaporate .
from the outset , their roles were clear . yves was the vulnerable , suffering artist and pierre the fiercely controlling protector : a man who , in lespert ' s film , is painfully aware of his public image –
the pimp who ' s found his all - star hooker
. and in the frail niney , the director has found an actor perhaps more like saint laurent than saint laurent himself ever was : tortured , intense , and yet endearingly childlike as he stumbles out of couture ' s disciplined universe into the liberated decadence of the 60s .
lyle ( joseph gordon - levitt , the wisecracking teenager of ' ' third rock from the sun ' ' ) is the newest resident of the high - security wing , having landed there after beating a schoolmate nearly to death . for all of his uncontrollable inner violence , lyle is attracted to the painfully shy , withdrawn tracy ( the superb zooey deschanel ) . when the two begin a clandestine relationship , it proceeds more from movie star logic ( the two most attractive people in any film are destined to become a couple ) than it does from dramatic necessity .
if the two new films are likely to reveal anything it is this : the man himself remains an enigma . early in lespert ' s film , he confides in bergé :
you know , i ' m not that nice .
and you sense that not - niceness remains the largely untold part of the saint laurent story – the man who could cut friends and supporters out of his life without a backward glance , who averted his gaze from unpleasantness and who sheltered behind bergé ' s aggressive energy just as completely as he sheltered behind his thick - lensed glasses .
the same is true here . so before it can do anything else , suicide squad has to introduce about a dozen new characters and make you care about them . the first third of the film is nothing but set - up—there’s origin stories , table setting , villain introductions , and more . surprisingly , all this , while excessive , is actually quite promising . it’s disjointed for sure , and things get a bit monotonous because the story isn’t really advancing , but there’s a certain energy to much of it . with this much set - up , you definitely want to see what’s next .
if this were a film of the 1950 ' s - - like vincente minnelli ' s mental home melodrama , ' ' the cobweb ' ' - - the therapist would gently guide his patients to epiphanies ( ' ' my mother didn ' t really love me ' ' ) that would lead directly to cures and happy endings . mr . melamed knows that trope won ' t wash anymore , but he doesn ' t have anything to replace it ; what passes for a climax here is the kids ' realization that they might as well stop struggling , relax and take their medications . not exactly a revolutionary gesture that jack nicholson ' s randle mcmurphy would recognize .
still , just because director agnieszka smoczyńska and robert bolesto present their characters in a consistently thoughtful light doesn ' t mean that their characters ' problems are consistently compelling . bolesto ' s scenario may show uncommon sensitivity towards mietek , a character who is neither a one - note exploiteer nor a hapless pretty boy . but the fact that so much depends on him and silver ' s romance is dispiriting , as is the film ' s generally uninspired take on female sexuality . silver and gold are always compelling when they perform for a crowd because in these scenes , smoczyńska and bolesto make their heroines ' process of self - actualizing as fun as a story about killer mermaids should be .
in that sense , the music ends up being almost the perfect microcosm of the film—the pieces are good , but together they somehow end up making something less than the sum of their parts . some of the action is fun , some of the characters are great , and it does reach some nice emotional peaks . but it never feels like a true , cohesive movie . it feels a b - movie—an action - packed one , but a b - movie nonethelesses—that just happens to be set in the dc universe . it’s as if ayer had too many balls to juggle and when they all came tumbling down he said , “well that’s still kind of cool . ” cool ? maybe . that doesn’t make it any less disappointing .
unfortunately , once the assembled team begins their mission , that’s where suicide squad starts to go off the rails . the goal of the squad’s mission is incredibly ambiguous , gets even murkier as the narrative unfolds , and then falls apart once all is revealed at the end . plus , the at least partially cohesive tone of the first act of the film segues into a second act that’s radically different in tone , and more of a war movie than anything else . characters spend a good 20 - 30 minutes walking around just getting into gun fights . if suicide squad were merely an action movie , this would be exciting , but these characters are villains , some of whom have superpowers . merely seeing them shoot guns at things isn’t that exciting .
the second biggest role goes to harley quinn , played by margot robbie , who’s actually the exception that proves the rule . thanks in part to robbie’s memorable performance , she’s flighty , she’s unpredictable and when she’s having fun , so is the audience . she adds to every scene she’s in , and when she’s on screen , suicide squad is at its best . but she also brings the joker with her , and he brings his own problem . he’s such an iconic , important villain , and yet he’s an afterthought in the film . there’s no big , meaty , iconic joker scene for us to marvel at . his occasional appearances detract from the smaller characters the movie is actually about , to the point you almost wish he wasn’t in the movie at all .
it ' s not hard to understand the fascination with the ysl story , a saga that blends wild public success with private suffering . outwardly saint laurent led a charmed life . by the age of 18 , he had won an international design competition ( beating future rival karl lagerfeld ) and been hired by fashion ' s reigning sun king , christian dior . lespert ' s film begins shortly after , with yves enthroned as dior ' s crown prince . as played by pierre niney , he is at once violently demanding and intensely shy , pampered and secure – as he had been in algeria – in a world of adoring women . but that sheltered , happy existence was soon to be shattered , with dior ' s premature death in 1957 pushing his seemingly reluctant successor into the spotlight .
billed as ' ' a film noir in living color , ' ' ' ' kiss daddy good night ' ' offers the expected seamy , noirish life that inevitably leads to murder . but its unexpected heroine is a more threatening version of susan seidelman ' s harmlessly crooked downtown women . laura ' s life of petty crime owes something to ' ' smithereens ' ' and ' ' desperately seeking susan , ' ' though she has an unusually intriguing modus operandi . she assumes an elaborate new identity , goes to clubs or art galleries , and puts the moves on the richest - looking man in the room . back at his place , she slips something soothing into his drink , and while he ' s knocked out , she walks off with a few valuables - a 17th - century italian dagger , a painting cut out of its frame , the cat .
' ' kiss daddy good night ' ' is frustratingly uneven , but it might give relief to anyone sated with hollywood gloss . deadly masquerade kiss daddy good night , directed by peter ily huemer ; screenplay by mr . huemer and michael gabrieli ; director of photography , bobby bukowski ; edited by ila v . hasperg and ron goldfinger ; music by don king and arto lindsay ; production designer , randy benjamin ; produced by maureen o ' brien and william ripka ; released by a beast of eden productions . at variety theater , 110 third avenue , between 13th and 14th streets . running time : 87 minutes . this film has no rating . laura . . . uma thurman sid . . . paul dillon william b . tilden . . . paul richards johnny . . . steve buscemi lara tilden . . . jennifer lee mitchell sue . . . annabelle gurwitch
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disappearing when the lights are flipped on and lurching forward with a herky - jerky j - horror stagger when they’re off , “diana” is a reasonably spooky creation , even if her metaphoric function is baldly clear from the onset . the film goes overboard explaining her origins , unpacking boxes of pertinent backstory and at one point literally scrawling some expository information on the wall . but making mom the one with the “imaginary” friend is a clever reversal of a very hoary horror trope , and director david f . sandberg otherwise finds inventive ways to exploit his gimmick . the cold open , for example , makes cruelly nerve - wracking use of an overhead light on a motion - detection timer , while a later scene creates strategic blackouts from the rhythmic , blood - red pulse of the tattoo parlor’s neon sign . burning through every source of illumination imaginable , the movie almost plays like the horror - flick version of kanye’s “all of the lights” : streetlights ! headlights ! black lights ! wind - up flashlights !
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lyle jensen is subject to sudden and violent outbursts , and he is committed to the juvenile wing of the northwood mental institution . several other youths are there with a variety of . . . see full summary »
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a teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths , together discovering a horrible , liberating truth .
a teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex - girlfriend .
chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident . as he tries to maintain a normal life , he takes a job as a janitor at a bank , where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist .
a young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him . then he meets hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic .
lyle jensen is subject to sudden and violent outbursts , and he is committed to the juvenile wing of the northwood mental institution . several other youths are there with a variety of serious problems . lyle interacts with other patients and staff on a human , and sometimes not so human level . the psychological problems of the patients also forms the fabric by which we see what ' s right with them , and what ' s wrong with the society that affects them .
most of the extras in the movie were teenagers that had actually been in hospitals to treat depression .
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its modesty of aspiration and its naturalism of style are its two most salient values .
melamed ' s slavish devotion to frenetically moving hand - held camera shots is perplexing at first , looking like an obvious attempt at obtaining dogme 95 credibility .
the acting is solid and strong from early gorden - levitt and deschanel . along with the cinematography being in cheap digital font , the feel is gritty and realistic . the story isn ' t deep but it ' ll have you hooked for the hour and a half .
uh , i ' m not gonna give you some bullshit hokey speech and tell you that if you come to some epiphany about your dad you ' re gonna make a break through and everything ' s gonna be pizza and blowjobs .
i ' d rather feel like total shit sometimes , and god the rest of the time , than just like - ok all the time , you know ? fuck mediocrity .
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after aurora carter , an ivy league - bound , ap exam enthusiast finds that her over - achieving obsessiveness lands her in a boarding school for kids with mental illnesses . now she has a singular goal : prove she doesn’t belong with the rest of the freaks . determined to fight the system , aurora makes alliances with the other girls one by one and inspires them to take control of their lives . with : shanice williams , dot - marie jones , russell andrews , nicki micheaux , vyvy nguyen . drama , female director ( s ) , ny director ( s ) , female screenwriter ( s )
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the script , by michael bacall and blayne weaver , doesn ' t break new ground dramatically : this is essentially the ' ' one flew over the cuckoo ' s nest ' ' format applied to sensitive adolescents , à la ' ' girl , interrupted . ' '
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the kids are under the supervision of a therapist ( don cheadle ) , who gathers them daily into a circle and asks them questions meant to develop their self - esteem and reduce their reliance on violence as a means of problem solving . ( maybe he should turn off the television . )
mr . melamed ' s real talent emerges in his handling of actors . what could easily have been an excuse for the worst sort of method excess is played here with relative naturalism and restraint . ms . deschanel , in a role filmed before her glowing work in ' ' the good girl ' ' and ' ' all the real girls , ' ' is particularly spontaneous , unaffected and emotionally direct .
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after badly beating a classmate , lyle is committed to an institution where he learns there is a thin line between ' sane ' and ' insane . ' don cheadle stars as the mental hospital ' s teen counselor .
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very visceral movie about a group of problematic teenagers brought together . some scenes reminded me of one flew over the cuckoo ' s nest . filmed on a low quality camera , this was gordon levitt / deschanel collaboration , and it could not be further apart from ( 500 ) days of summer . there are parts that will make you want to look away or stop watching , and some others will make you feel like you were actually part of the group . worth a watch .
kind of not really a good movie although the characters could have made it so . instead not realistic using real issues with teenagers as entertainment .
i love this movie because it shows some people i could relate to having real issues and working on them . most of the characters are amazing , but i sort of watched it for don cheadle , joseph gordon - levitt , and zooey deschanel . watch this movie because it is very important . this movie is highly recommended .
5 - star sleeper . a lower budget movie can be excellent , if cast of actors perform with the passion of this movies cast did .
it was gritty and raw , you can almost feel yourself inside the group home with them .
an epic movie with young joseph gordon levitt doing what he does best which is acting to his full potential . everyone is amazing and the story is intriguing .
so amazing , so real . this was acting at its finest . . . . having been in similar situations , i felt a powerful connection to this movie .
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“well , it’s told definitively for the last time – that’s why we did it , ” bradfield told nme . “i’ve never gone into that thing of wanting to enjoy the success , because at the time it felt like it was the only escape route from all the questions and all the b - movie myths about what had happened with richey .
“by the time ‘everything must go’ had actually come out , we’d been asking ourselves a lot of questions , we’d been through a lot of other people asking us questions , we’d been through a lot of other people theorising about what had happened with richey , and by the time that success came along , i was willing to embrace it . sometimes you’ve got to allow a lot of space and time to actually have occurred between the memory and now . ”
not only is their classic ‘rise of the phoenix’ story now the stuff of rock legend , but it’s a tale the band have revisited countless times over the last 22 years ; every anniversary , retrospective tour or release , and magazine cover feature . this time however , ‘escape from history’ explores the true human impact of edwards’ disappearance and the landmark record that followed , by not only getting under the skin of the band from a much more personal angle , but by going in deep with those closest to the band at the time . from the extended family of their late and current manager , to those who helped them rise to fame and put the record together , this is a much more three - dimensional and beautifully human portrayal of a very conflicting period .
“we’ve told this story so many times , so it’s great to let it breathe with so many other voices , ” revealed bassist and lyricist nicky wire . “over that period we had quite the support network . we were pretty fucked up and odd , but a lot of people stood by us .
“it feels like there’s nothing else to say about ‘everything must go’ any more . so this is a relief and a pleasure . ”
but on 1 february 1995 when edwards disappeared , the band were still reeling from the loss of their manager and mentor , philip hall . now , a childhood friend and a cornerstone of their entire ethos and manifesto was gone too . they had , for want of a better phrase , to ‘keep it real’ . they shed their military uniforms , and returned with their spirit intact , but nothing to hide behind – just the music .
“richey was amazing at giving good copy in terms of soundbites , ” smiles james . “if somebody took a picture of him he knew what to do . he knew what to do when somebody put a dictaphone in front of him . suddenly i was being sent on those promotional tours around europe by sony and not nick and richey . i remember that being really scary , because there wasn’t so much of an image to talk about with ‘everything must go’ . there was a wholesale clearance of that tablet of truth that came with every album .
“with ‘everything must go’ , we were trying to breathe and fly and actually try and live through it and let it speak for us . so being sent to all those interviews on my own , i remember thinking ‘fuck me , this is tough’ . ”