the magus is a 1968 british mystery film directed by guy green .

the screenplay was written by john fowles , based on his novel of the same name .

it starred michael caine , anthony quinn , candice bergen and anna karina .

the magus ( film )

michael caine in the film version of the magus . photograph : ronald grant archive
aubrey , james , 2015b : ‘the magus on film’ . in : aubrey , james ( ed ) , 2015 :
i ' m 50 pages from completing a magus marathon . i re - read the revised magus ( 1976 ) , then began reading the original again ( 1965 ) to identify the revisions .
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. the film’s hairdresser , stephanie kaye , reflects on the styling of anthony quinn’s hair in the film and talks about her memories of the performers .
discussions relating to movie adaptations of john fowles ' novels ( the collector , the magus , the french lieutenant ' s woman and the ebony tower ) .
with the headline : screen : ' the magus , ' with michael caine , opens ; novel ' s author turned it into filmscript .
what is the magus game ? the game is love . the game is lust . the vicious game is life itself . . . or is it death ?
. the son of the film’s art director , william hutchison , talks about the picture , reflecting on the choice of locations used in the shoot and his memories of the making of the film .
that will certainly be the case with the opening film , rebekah fortune’s thought - provoking debut feature just charlie which won edinburgh film festival’s 2017 audience award .
yet , when i first encountered the book at 20 , i disappeared for a week . a quick scan of the morning paper showed no magus news , so i threw it away . at lunch , my sandwich didn ' t taste like magus , so i spit it out .
what is the magus game ? the game is love . the game is lust . the vicious game is life itself . . . or is it death ? see more »
is filled with the breathtaking scenery of mallorca , islas baleares , spain . the film is
actress dorothy stratten was murdered after the film ' s shooting was completed and studios distanced themselves from the film , refusing to release it because of the bad publicity surrounding the tragedy . bogdanovich put in $ 5 million of his own money and distributed the film himself .
a teacher on a greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind - games with the island ' s magus ( magician ) and a beautiful young woman .
evidently , fowles was so upset by his experience with the collector , that he stipulated that if any film adaptation was to take place with the magus , he alone would write the screenplay ( interestingly enough , fowles stated that he enjoyed the collaborative effort of working on the the collector - he just didn ' t like it when others got credit for the film ' s final success - - perhaps a more telling comment on fowles than on wyler ) . what he may not have realized was that by demanding sole responsibility for the film version of the magus , he alone would bear the responsibility of the screenplay ' s - and a large part of the film ' s - success or failure .
. it recounts how highly revered the author still is but nothing of the film is mentioned .
was adapted in a more satisfactory manner , insisted that he wrote the screenplay for guy green’s film . in his journals , fowles commented that writing the treatment for the film adaptation of
fowles was catapulted to fame and fortune - the film rights to the magus were sold before he had even finished it . in 1964 he began collating and rewriting all the previous drafts of the magus . a virtuoso piece of storytelling , it was published in 1965 and , despite critical reservations , was an immediate popular success , especially with students . he wrote in the foreword to a revised version published in 1977 :
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the extras : there ' s an impressive documentary , john fowles : the literary magus that is required viewing after seeing the magus . so often , these dvd documentaries amount to little more than extended commercials for the films you just saw , but john fowles : the literary magus reaches real depths in exploring the life and work of fowles , while maintaining an almost unheard of ( for dvd documentaries , at least ) even balance in presenting opinions and views of fowles as a person and as an artist . this isn ' t just some whitewash
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celebration of fowles ; the revelations from his step - daughter about some of fowles ' actions , bring real contrast to the usual critical cheering for his life , and deeply impact the viewer ' s reading of the film the magus . it ' s really a thorough , well thought - out documentary . there ' s also trailers for the magus ( suitably cryptic ) , as well as for peeper and deadfall .
the film adaptation is famously terrible . michael caine classed it with the swarm in the list of his films . while woody allen ' s quote about the magus is so famous it is on the wikipedia article . it was pretty difficult to get a hold of it , until the rather wonderful blu - ray…
, stanley kubrick made something provocatively and controversially new out of every film project he touched . we ' ll start with kubrick ' s genre - defining caper film the killing
considering this was an indy film with a modest budget , i was very impressed . my hat is off to mr . lechago for writing and directing an excellent story . the special effects were great . i enjoyed the characters , especially the magus fernos . ron fitzgerald really brought life to this role . i ' m sure we will be seeing more of him in the future . bill steele and lizzy strain also delivered strong performances . magus captured my attention from beginning to end . michael sean colin did an outstanding job with the music . i have seen many films on sci - fi that can ' t hold a candle to magus . all my best to everyone who worked on this film . great job ! this is a great indy film with all the right elements .
' the magus ' : a thrilling , chilling guilty pleasure the magus is the story of a man who wished for adventure — only to be disappointed when that wish comes true . author nick dybek says he identified with the book when he read it at age 20 . was there ever a time you longed for a more interesting life ? tell us about it in the comments .
the theatrical gestus of the film - theatre director
godard
in scénario du film passion calls our attention , finally , toward one more shape of the theatre ' s heterotopia in film . if the intermedia processes of his films lead to
a successive reduction of the sharp distinction between dispositive arrangements
( my trans . from zielinski , 1989 : 244 ) , we should glance more precisely at the dispositifs of film and theatre .
uses the avc codec and is in the film’s original aspect ratio of 2 . 35 : 1 . the film’s colour 35mm photography ( by billy williams ) is beautiful , characters’ faces frequently framed against the deep blue water or sky ,
the commons is proud to present the exhibition the magus . curated by noam gonick , this project brings together c . graham asmundson ' s paintings , drawings and works in yarn with the magus , 2011 , a film work by his son jaimz asmundson which documents his father ' s artistic process . seen here together for the first time , it is a focused glimpse into their unique creative and intergenerational collaboration . the exhibition will open friday , november 23 , 2012 and running until sunday , january 6 , 2013 .
i love john fowles ' the magus . i read it when i was 19 . even more pretentious than i am now and i loved it . i read it again in my late 20s and it completely stood up . the surreal , drifting plot , but with a the precise nicholas urfe character just makes it an irresistible read . the magus is one of the ultimate i just could not put it down novels .
the film that followed , in 1968 , starring michael caine and anthony quinn , was notoriously bad and rendered even more infamous by a woody allen joke :
if i had to live my life again , i ' d do everything the same , except that i wouldn ' t see the magus .
a challenging , never boring , film from the pen of john fowles . i admit i saw significantly more than my sd viewing years ago . i think it would be a lesser film without the strong cast .
the screen is a wall . walls are there to be jumped over . godard in scénario du film passion
the sinister face sneering from the cover is reason enough to keep john fowles ' the magus tucked discreetly away . then there ' s the 600 or so pages inside , which are filled with pretentious riffs on psychoanalysis , metaphysics , fascism and the occult .
it was not the generous aegean spring but the burnt melancholic landscape of early september that drew me to paros .
the greece of the islands is circe still ; so beautiful , quiet and empty that it verged on the terrifying .
that summer the magus captured it .
signal one’s blu - ray release contains an excellent presentation of the film that is supported with some very good contextual material . it’s a great release of an interesting , though not wholly successful , film .
a collaboration with crunchyroll movie night and scotland loves anime will bring anime adventure the ancient magus’ bride to the big screen , preceded by an exclusive look at original crunchyroll production children of ether before it’s even screened in japan .
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john fowles himself , despite having written the screenplay , called the film adaptation of his second novel
a disaster all the way down the line .
the second magus ( played by anger ) descends a staircase to perform the sacred ritual invoking lucifer . the magus enters the magick circle inscribed with the names of crowley’s pantheon : lucifer , nuit , hadit , ra hoor khuit , chaos , babalon , and lilith . the priest immediately banishes chaos prior to the consecrated ritual and begins to walk around the inside of the circle . quickly his speed builds to frantic and frenetic pace , and in an instant he transcends the circle , beyond time and space . as the magus whirls at a lightening pace inside the circle celestial psychedelic lights , or stars , rain down upon him . the magus then raises his arms and fiery intense red explosions occur , molten lava spews from a maelstrom of volcanic activity . the divine world opens , releasing its primeval , transfiguring force upon the mortal realm as lucifer appears in the person of the god , who turns and in “extreme close - up his curls coruscate with red sun - glow , as his eyes look directly in the camera and out at us . ” ( 5 )
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berkeley underground filmmaker antero alli ' s ninth feature explores corruption and hilarity behind the closed doors of an occult order . the elder magus of the thelemic temple of horus passed away and jack mason , a sex magickian cultivated to advance the lineage , loses it all when the elder magus ' son unexpectedly inherits everything . jack plots deadly revenge and falls into a dizzying maze of underworld encounters with professional psychopaths , desert brujas , and a twist of fate he never saw coming .
magus ( the ) aka the god game ( blu - ray ) [ blu - ray ] blu - ray b - united kingdom - signal one entertainment review written by and copyright : paul lewis ( 30th april 2017 ) .
in the following , i would like to pursue this question by using the example of godard ' s self - presentation in scénario du film passion . this film can be understood as a key work regarding godard ' s intermedia production . we need to investigate how the work and passion of the
godard
genius ( also central topics in the movie passion ) write or paint themselves into his video film scénario du film passion , and what options result therefrom for the interplay between the imag ( e ) ined créateur and the viewer .
weaves a non - linear narrative in which past and present collide and sometimes blur ; characters are haunted by their pasts , conchis’ reputation as a ‘collaborationist’ dogging him , and the impact of the past upon the present is represented very directly via the film’s depiction of ‘ghosts’ . on set for the production of the film , magnum photographer eve arnold recollected that ‘the massacre scene of the first day’s shooting is only one of the strange evocations from the past that occur in the film’ ( arnold ,
hence i suggest approaching godard ' s ' self ' - presence by way of a short
re - visiting
of the video film that is probably most relevant for our line of questioning , scénario du film passion . without a doubt , this film represents a climax of the godard phenomenon ' s self - reflective construction and deconstruction .
a broken - down healer , learns the magus has abandoned the wizard ' s code and is using his power for evil . forced to come out of reclusion , this improbable hero finds an improbable assistant - - his teenage niece .
also interesting : conchis ' fictional movie company in the magus was called
polymus films ,
while the game was distributed by
polygram films .
during a visit with fowles in 1998 , i asked him if he had seen the game , and if so , if he had noticed the parallels with the magus . it turns out that not only had he seen the movie , but he actually considered suing the producers . his lawyers ultimately decided , however , that it would be a difficult case to prove .
the shadow of godard’s body that paints and writes itself into and between the images of his film may stand as a metaphor for this basic absence of the signifier . at the same time , however , it is also an expression of a desire to overcome the validity of this basic principle of the film dispositif by an intermedia merging of theatre and film . godard as theatre director tries to revitalize in film the hic et nunc of a situation of theatrical projection , one shared by actors and viewers , to give to an inevitable absence the appearance of presence .
considered by many to be the most important piece of propaganda in the history of film , the battleship potemkin is an influential landmark in 20th - century cinema , as well as arguably eisenstein ' s greatest work . a revolutionary film in every sense , it tells the story of the 1905 mutiny on the russian ship prince potemkin , pride of the tsar ' s navy . the film was banned in many countries , including nazi germany , britain and france , and even the us . “which is the best picture i have ever seen ? my answer is always potemkin . ”—billy wilder “the best film in the world . ” —charlie chaplin
again ) . there are major conceptual problems with the film , to be sure . seen as a whole , it can be called an interesting failure . and perhaps this is why the film received such nightmarishly harsh reviews when it came out -
whether a film can ever live up to a john fowles novel i seriously doubt it . this one being particularly hard to represent on film . however , i thoroughly enjoyed seeing the characters brought to life in film . i doubt this is for everyone , and all the accepted reviews of it are probably more representative , however , as a fan of fowles , and being born in the 70s , i was glad of the chance to see this old film and i was glad i did .
good film but in wrong format . us suppliers need to remember that most of the rest of the world does not conform to us standards .
a sun - soaked snapshot of an experimental era , the magus is a film of baffling logic in which common sense and coherence are rendered useless through a puzzling game of trickery and deceit . cashing in on michael caine’s alfie charm as he pursues both anna karina and candice bergen with equal intent , the film uses sex as the basis for manipulation , throwing viewers off the scent yet never fully alluding to a definitive set of answers as guy green dips his toe into new waters and swiftly gets dragged away by the tide .
trees tropiques ( alex fattal , 2009 , brazil , blu - ray , 30 min ) this innovative and thought - provoking documentary subtly explores ethical issues when deforestation and ethnography intersect . the film incisively poses the question : who has the right to cut—both trees and film footage ?
jaimz asmundson is a winnipeg - based media artist , working primarily in film & video and most recently in expanded cinema performance . his award - winning work has traveled to film festivals worldwide , including a retrospective and residency in cologne , germany and he was called
winnipeg ' s enfant terrible of transgressive cinema
by antimatter film festival . jaimz is a member of the wndx film festival , a past programmer of the gimli film festival and he has also contributed to many award - winning shorts , features , documentaries and tv productions as a picture editor , assistant editor and graphic designer .
scénario du film passion continues the discourse sparked by the young rebels of nouvelle vague about the author ' s role . the politique des auteurs postulated by truffaut in 1954 in cahiers du cinéma is subjected in this film to a final ( for now ) , aesthetic and ironic de - and reconstruction .
in spite of all that , i really don ' t think it ' s all that bad a film .
i ' d be curious to get the take of others on this . . . especially those who are younger and perhaps saw the film recently for the first time .
among his credits ) . the audio is , likewise , very pleasing in lossless - augmenting the film experience , there are optional english subtitles on the region ' b '
cinema holds the potential to “invoke primal forces , perhaps even demons , ” and those demons , once released , affect both those working on the film’s production and , “through a series of occult circuits connecting physical with spiritual dimensions of existence , the film’s audience . ” ( 10 ) the cinematic experience of anger’s film , lucifer rising , although revelatory and transformative , perhaps even emancipatory , is not without the very real threat of danger .
the french lieutenant ' s woman is excellent . . . without question the best film adaptation of a fowles novel , and the one of which fowles himself was most satisfied .
the sixth year pupil from glasgow high school is now looking forward with excitement to the opening night of the innovative glasgow youth film festival as she waits to find out how the public respond to their programming .
in the course of one week in 1977 , the writer john fowles received a total of half a million dollars as an advance for his novel daniel martin and in option money for the film version of his 1969 best - seller the french lieutenant ' s woman . his two previous best - sellers , the collector and the magus , had already been hollywood films ( both terrible , alas ) . for two decades , fowles was unique among english writers in combining literary sensibility with mass popularity .
one of the all time great books of 20th century . this film is a pallid version . . the director missed most of the author ' s points , not the best of michael caine ' s performances .
. in a new interview , guy green’s son michael recalls the shooting of the picture , which provided the then - seventeen year old michael green with his first job on a film set .
as film festivals across the country strive to raise their profile , many often pass over inventive , risk - taking films to make room for a sneak preview of the newest hollywood film before its worldwide release . somebody needs to help these true independent gems find an audience on the lookout for the unusual ! seattle ' s true independent film festival is held at multiple venues throughout seattle . it is a celebration of offbeat independent film from the northwest and the rest of the world . this year our favorite stiff picks include the latest from legendary filmmaker jon jost’s images of a lost city , the darkly comic anti - heroic new york set the crab and kevin jerome everson’s dry cleaning portrait quality control . you can view the full schedule at urltoken .
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at one point in the film , urfe tells conchis that ‘i’ll just enjoy it more if i knew what it was all about’ . for some members of the audience ,
for the first time in several years ( the dvd was released in 2006 ) . the film is , of course , remembered by many as a dismal failure , and even those who ' ve never seen it may have heard of the famous woody allen quote :
if i had my life to live over again , i would want everything exactly the same with the exception of seeing the film version of
john fowles didn ' t regard the magus as his greatest novel . the first he wrote but the second to be published ( in 1966 ) , it seemed to succeed in spite of its creator , who mused :
i have long learned to accept that the fiction that pleases me the least … persists in attracting a majority of my readers most .
the results can be seen in glasgow from september 22 - 24 and it’s clear the team have made some bold choices as the festival opens with a film about a transgender child’s struggle for acceptance .
jürgen e . müller , dr . phil . , professor of media studies at the university of bayreuth , germany . dr . müller ' s main fields of research are history of audiovisions and of television ; multi - and intermediality ; film and semiohistory ; film and media theories .
the visual narrative of lucifer rising is traced by anger to aleister crowley’s hymn to lucifer . based on crowley’s occult world - view ( thelema ) , the film incorporates ancient egyptian ruins , reanimated egyptian gods and goddesses and their counterparts , and high priests ( magi ) performing ritual magick in a sacred circle to invoke lucifer . it is the english magus who oversees the film’s central ritual , and anger incorporates many images of crowley along with illustrations from his sacred texts through superimposition . anger chose egypt as a location because it was there that crowley had a vision of the angel aiwast , who became the “source of the revelation of book of law . ” ( 1 )
6 . robert haller , kenneth anger : a monograph ( film in the cities / walker art center : minneapolis , 1980 ) , p . 9 .
for charlotte , who would like to study film at university , being able to take part in the programming has been something of an eye - opener .
“if you forget everything else about me , please remember this . i walked down that street and i never looked back and i love you . i love you . i love you so much that i shall hate you for ever for today . ” ― john fowles , the magus
littering the frame . the image as presented on signal one’s new blu - ray is crisp and detailed , retaining the structure of 35mm film thanks to a strong encode . the film was shot on location in spain and greece , and the mediterranean sun beats down in every frame , harsh and direct sunlight illuminating the actors faces whilst casting deep shadow behind them or behind the objects in the frame . this presentation handles this superbly , nicely balanced contrast levels offering strongly defined midtones and deep blacks . a very good level of fine detail is present throughout the film , especially noticeable in close - ups of the actor’ faces . there is no damage to speak of . the light flooding the frame results in most of the shots being staged in depth , this depth of field communicated excellently here . in all , it’s a very pleasing presentation of the film .
interesting & perhaps a bit confusing . i should like to read the novel for a comparison . maybe things were left out of the film that would help unify it more completely .
. in this video film , godard appears as director in front of an initially white screen . the audiovisual basis of these re - figurations is composed of the pre - figurations of
a british schoolteacher , nicholas , has left his girlfriend to take a job on a small island in greece , replacing a man who committed suicide under mysterious circumstances . nicholas meets conchis , the magus ( meaning magician ) , a wealthy recluse with a mysterious past that might include collaboration with the nazis . the magus ' s companion , lily , is just as suspicious , lurking around in a ghostly state of paranoia . slowly but surely , nicholas is drawn into a bizarre game masterminded by this magician . the deeper into the game he is drawn , the more he senses danger . . . yet he cannot seem to untangle himself from the fascinating and compelling influence that the game is having on his mind .
2 . dennis conroy , “kustom kenneth kommando , ” release print : magazine of the film arts society , november / december , 2000 , p . 24 .
i ' ve read the magus several times over the years . i only recently heard about the movie . word on the street is that it ' s rubbish . i think it ' s pretty good . the location , the actors , the story ( truncated and compressed as it necessarily is for one movie ) - yes , please . give me a remake with two movies , new s . king ' s it style .
fowles ' s confounding of normal narrative expectations at the ending of the magus , the french lieutenant ' s woman and , later , a maggot , frustrated readers but excited critics . however , it might well have had less to do with critical theory or elizabeth ' s interventions than with indecisiveness . he told me cheerfully several years ago ,
i bought this film on blu - ray and the quality is ok - great in some places , less great in others . this was a combi so you get the dvd anyway .
cast : miriam gibril ( isis ) ; donald cammell ( osiris ) ; haydn couts ( adept / magus i ) ; kenneth anger ( adept / magis ii ) ; sir francis rose ( chaos ) ; marianne faithful ( lilith ) ; leslie huggins ( lucifer ) .
combining documentary and fiction elements , and filmed clandestinely in the streets of johannesburg , come back africa creates an intimate portrait of the inhuman and violent apartheid system . the film follows an itinerant zulu family ( including the debut of african singer miriam makeba ) struggling to survive the quotidian racist indignities of life in the big city slums . a raw , immediate and excoriating political exposé , the film allies its outrage with narrative poignancy to produce an early , influential instance of the hybrid
docudrama
format .
what else is on ? other highlights include the scottish premiere of at eye level , the winner of best family film at the german film awards . it features michi who is picked on because he is the smallest child in his foster home . when he discovers a letter written by his deceased mother he believes it holds the secret of his father’s identity and sets out to find him in a tale of difference and belonging .
the film runs for 116 : 16 mins and is uncut . taking up approximately 31gb of space on a dual - layered blu - ray disc , signal one’s 1080p presentation of
i ' m slightly more embarrassed to say that , when i revisit the novel more than 10 years later , i still feel the pull of its fantasy . and i realize that part of me is still waiting for the mysteries of my own life to begin . at least i know that they wait inside fowles ' pages , and for that reason , the magus might still be my favorite novel .
“this one was also at edinburgh film festival and got a great reception there so we are hoping for a good audience for it , ” said charlotte .
note : the vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second . the horizontal is the time in minutes .
the one extra on this disc is a somewhat interesting documentary on fowles , containing interviews with his biographer , fans , a literature professor and his editor at little , brown . in discussing
the magus ,
fowles ' first novel , which took him 10 years to write , the prof sees the themes as true love and the meaning of life . his editor calls him the
best prose stylist of the 20th century .
( enhanced wide screen , 1968 , rated pg )
the arrival of lucifer is tied to the manifestation of horus in the form of a glowing , orange flying saucer set against an intense blue sky with ancient egyptian ruins in the foreground of the low - angle shot . a flying saucer is certainly the form that the ancient winged god horus would take in a scientifically advanced historical age – the technological manifestation of the falcon - god heralding the new aeon . the final shot of the film is of two immense egyptian colossi . the gods and goddesses have completed their task , the elements now harmoniously commingle , and the world is momentarily at rest . anger explains that the extended duration of the last shot is necessary , for in between the two colossi there is a fire burning , the flames of which rise slowly as the film comes to an end – anger’s original lucifer rising script set ablaze .
i can ' t really recommend the film as most will be infuriated with it , but the dvd is certainly up to scratch - a brilliant 16x9 image , an interesting featurette and at a fairly reasonable price .
the weaknesses : miscasting of michael caine as nicholas ( stiff as a board ) , and especially candice bergen as lily / julie ( god awful ) ; the self - conscious sex scenes ; the incomprehensible plot twists , particularly late in the film ; the absurd attempt at humor in the trial scene ; and the ending , which in the context of what precedes it falls flat .
join our discussion forum and share your perspective and experience with this rich tale of psychological intrigue . what did you gather from the novel’s much talked about the conclusion ? are you a fellow member of the film version’s cult following ? let’s get started !
the images ; his shadow and his projections fill the screen , the video displays , and sometimes the entire picture frame . the adventure and even hazard of image production , which leads to ever - new images , radicalizes not only the issue of the film ' s reproductive character ( cf . paech , 1989 : 64 ) but also that of the role and identity of the image maker ( cf . bellour , 1990 : 335 ) or of the
and why does everything in the novel have to reference mythology or literature ? even while watching a
blue film
the narrator manages to allude to artemis , apollo , anubis , desdemona and othello , and sums up the experience with the phrase ,
i was iago .
in few corners of the united states is the gulf between rich and poor more dramatic than in willets point , a small neighborhood in queens , new york . an award - winner at the locarno film festival , foreign parts chronicles the citizens of this fascinating microcosm . it takes us right into the heart of a hazardous , hardscrabble community perilously threatened by new york mayor michael bloomberg ' s ambitious
gentrification
plans . it ' s a necessary , topical and touching film .
. ) the amplification of conchis’ role as ‘puppetmaster’ , with his claim / revelation that he is a film producer and urfe is the unwitting star of his latest picture , leads the film along an increasingly metafictional path . ‘you have entered the metatheatre’ , conchis tells urfe , ‘a theatre with no set plot , no set dialogue and no audience . our play is for the actors alone’ . in response to this , urfe asks conchis if he is to be ‘the unpaid clown for your production’ – with anne’s suicide functioning as ‘the unpaid bill for your amusements’ .
although the finished film ultimately testifies to anger’s cinematic genius , its production was apparently cursed . there were problems with actors . mick jagger , originally cast as lucifer , backed out and the role eventually went to leslie huggins . anger’s original lucifer rising footage was stolen from the trunk of his car in san francisco in 1967 . a rift between anger and guitarist jimmy page forced anger to enlist bobby beausoleil to compose the soundtrack , who at the time was imprisoned for his involvement with the charles manson murders . beausoleil composed the music while in prison , and his score captures perfectly the mysterious and ritualistic tone of the film .
with the threat of cancellation looming , the third season was devoted to making a commercially viable horror film , and the filmmakers may have succeeded . this unrated edition of
feast ,
a loud and predictable monster movie , should sell and rent well on dvd .
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how did they do it ? despite the hard work , charlotte said it was a “fun” way to spend the summer . she found out about the opportunity on social media and , as a regular film goer , decided it would be something she would like to do .
the results of a reception study on
godard
show that viewers and critics assess these audiovisual shadow games as indicating the author ' s
personal presence
in the film . despite all jean - luc ' s disclaimers , the
godard
shadow ' s presence is usually taken as evidence for the omnipresence of the
godard
phantom and for the unity of person and work . actor , author , director and the numerous visual and audio figures and roles solidify in the
godard
syndrome , in the notion of his
bodily
presence in the film . yet , as he emphatically lets us know ,
godard
exists only as a transparent signifier between his images .
the magus was first called
the godgame
. both narrative and mood , as fowles later wrote
went through countless transformations
over the years . all versions shared the same basic plot , however , in which a young english schoolmaster , nicholas urfe , ditches his girlfriend ( based on elizabeth ) and goes to teach on a lonely greek island . there he meets the wealthy , mysterious maurice conchis and is drawn into the old man ' s godgames through his infatuation with an alluring girl . ( originally , he had intended to make conchis a woman , but had a failure of nerve . ) fowles was strongly influenced when writing the magus by a now little - known novel , richard jefferies ' s bevis ( 1882 ) , and , more overtly , by alain - fournier ' s le grand meaulnes ( 1913 ) - its sadness for a lost magical world chimed in with his own feelings about leaving spetsai .
seattle singer barbara ireland’s first career was as an award - winning film director , with films that have often been compared to david lynch and federico fellini . we are happy to announce that she is releasing a dvd collection of her strangest and most mesmerizing short films—and the film forum is hosting the release party ! have you ever wondered what the famous twin peaks and carnivale dwarf , michael anderson , was doing before his big television break ? come watch ireland’s film secrets to find out ! the evening will begin with a wine and cheese reception and , true to form , ireland says she has other
secret plans
to make this an event you won’t want to miss !
in scénario du film passion godard comments on the spectacle of the cinematic production process . the conditions of the
cinema
apparatus lead to a situation in which the ' author ' can only emerge in a kind of sandwich construction between his films ' images ( cf . jost , 1993 : 234 ) . if he wishes to represent audiovisually his creative achievements , he has to submit to the rules governing the deployment of film and video . his body ( and his identity ? ) is fragmented by the apparatus of recording and replaying ; jean - luc morphs into a transparent shadow and actor of his images within the illuminations of cinema and video projection .
supposedly shot in mallorca and greece , the setting looks remarkably like the island of capri , and the magus shares with godard ' s capri - filmed le mépris ( 1963 ) a bronze statue of odysseus which we encounter here like a beloved supporting player . it would have taken someone like nicolas roeg to make the most of this , but the version we have is more misfire than disaster - an amusing enough jigsaw puzzle , a few pieces short of a satisfying picture , whose pleasures are tied to process rather than placation .
my name is ava lanto , lover of all things related to film and the arts . i am a fresh graduate from the university of california , santa cruz with a degree in the history of art and visual culture . researching , analyzing , and writing about my favorite movies and works of art is one of my main passions ( as is listening to podcasts about ghosts and the paranormal , but that ' s an entirely different story ) and will hopefully lead me to a long - term career in the film / entertainment industry in the not so distant future .
viewers will find conflict as soon as the dvd and hd - dvd opens . you ' ll get to pick a
his side
or
her side
to watch the film . it ' s the same movie no matter what you pick , but can ' t you picture couples fighting for the remote ?
recomiendo leer el libro antes de ver la película , no solo para enterarse un poco de que va la historia , sino para poder apreciar todo aquello que no queda claro en el film .
brevity is a form of wit they way , so this quarter we dared the intrepid filmmaker to recreate their favorite film in just five minutes . like making a good stew or beer , filmmakers took the finest ingredients from the original , then reinterpreted , remixed , or reinvented them so that the final work tastes like a small serving with all the right flavors .
fowles continued his teaching career in north london at st godric ' s college . he taught there until 1963 , ultimately as head of department , but was writing all the time . in 1953 he had submitted a novel about greece -
an island and greece
- to an agent ( paul scott , later a successful novelist himself ) , but it had been rejected . this was not a prototype for the magus . he had been working on that , too , as an overtly supernatural work in the style of the turn of the screw .
reflecting on lucifer rising anger states the following : “i’m showing actual ceremonies in the film ; what is performed in front of the camera won’t be a re - enactment and the purpose will be to make lucifer rise . ” ( 8 ) taking anger at his word , this explanation of the film’s content sheds crucial light on the possibility that his filmic images and characters no longer , in terms of symbol and metaphor , point beyond themselves to a realm of “conceptual” meaning . based on anger’s claim , it is possible to state that lucifer rising outstrips any reading of a strict semiotic nature because it subverts the traditional understanding of cinematic symbols . “rather than personifications as in inauguration of the pleasure dome , lucifer’s characters [ instantiate ] actual deities wielding their power in authentic egyptian locations . ” ( 9 ) when participating in the film as “spectators , ” we are actually in the presence of lucifer and not his cinematic re - presentation .
the set offers seven episodes with commentaries that run the gamut from lighthearted efforts that offer little insight (
obsession
) to discussions that provide a lot of technical information (
scorched ,
which talks about how they set up and film the fiery effects ) to one that tackles the sensitive issue of how the creators mixed the issue of gang murders with david sinclair ( alimi ballard ) in
the o . g .
( that is , with a series of paintings from the pictorial canon of our western culture ) and a few pictures of the making of this film . godard makes it clear that he wishes not to write a screenplay but to see it ; he presents himself in
cuddle up in our cozy cinema and celebrate celebrate mother ' s day with a look back at six year ' s worth of award - winning short film from children ' s film festival seattle . this very special program features animated , live action and documentary films that will make you laugh , tug at your heartstrings , and take you on a sweet ride through a wide world of moving images .
actor - director godard , who in his films and of course also in scénario du film passion drafts his auteur – and self – portrait ( cf . bellour , 1990 : 287ff , 335 ) , attempts to emulate a theatre and opera director and to leave shadows and traces of his existence in the work and in his characters ' actions . the theatricality of the act of directing underscores this claim . yet it is valid only for the passing moment of this gestus , and it is at once erased by a series of aesthetic procedures such as double exposure . the
author
and director godard disappears between the signs of the film .
is there more ? cult modern classics are a feature of the festival with a late night screening of luc besson’s leon and a closing gala screening of wes anderson’s moonrise kingdom which will see glasgow’s stunning mackintosh queen’s cross church transformed into a version of the film’s camp ivanhoe .
this transparent body , which stands in fluctuating interactions with the film ' s images and sounds , plays the role of a viewer of its images and its own audiovisual existence . its evanescent appearance and the continuous variation of its dynamic relations to the images ( jean - luc in front of the empty and white screen , as actor between the film ' s personnages , as a figure covered by the images ) make it a lieu de passage to the site of transition between different levels of reality . in its signifying nature , it points to ( post ) modern developments of personal identity and their diffusion . how can such an
i
articulate itself in its work , in any work ?
, its themes feeling very much ‘of the period’ . the influence of new wave cinemas is writ large throughout the picture , especially in its fractured and non - linear representation of time . it’s an interesting film , not wholly effective , but certainly more rewarding than its reputation ( frequently based on woody allen’s aforementioned quip about the picture ) might suggest .
it is not in the text that the author resides , but in the discursive system between various media texts , and he operates in each act of reception . hence i suggest understanding the film author as a historical configuration of knowledge ( cf . berger & luckmann , 1970 ) , a mental construct and an intertextual and intermedia syndrome in whose constitution many authorities take part ; a construct that intervenes
between
film and viewer in the act of reception . this configuration of knowledge presupposes various levels that overlap and interact . the author syndrome embraces media - political strategies , elements of the collective memory , constructed identities , the poses and posturings of the creator of genius , and a usurpation of literary models of action—to name just the most relevant dimensions ( cf . müller , 1996 ) .
as devotee of crowley , anger developed “a thematic preoccupation with lucifer as the “light bearing god” rather than the devil . ( 2 ) anger envisioned lucifer as a rebellious angel and patron saint of the visual arts , “a figure of light , invoking love and hope . ” ( 3 ) but for anger , lucifer is also an iconoclastic force heralding a new spiritual and historical epoch . for this reason , the radical juxtaposition of images in lucifer rising is “first dreamlike [ oneiric ] , then menacing , ” for as “centuries of mystical thought are distilled” and channelled through the cosmic portal opened by the magus , their effect on the terrestrial world is devastating . ( 4 )
feast
( audio : * * * , video : * * * , extras : * * 1 / 2 ) is the third film born from the reality television series
project greenlight ,
spearheaded by ben affleck , matt damon and chris moore . while the show is terrific , the resulting films have been lackluster straight - to - video fare .
anger leaps across centuries and millennia , condenses time and space in this film , composing not only a mythological story , but a portrait of a [ metaphysical ] force that has pervaded all of human history . ( 6 )
the location was chosen by the young programmers who also have to decide how to turn the church into camp ivanhoe .
the film ' s second half is much more like a conventional disaster movie , both of the art - house ( eg tarkovsky ' s the sacrifice ) and hollywood ( eg stanley kramer ' s on the beach ) variety . now alone and isolated on the grand country estate , claire , john , their young son , leo , and justine confront , affect to confront or merely witness the approaching melancholia which from once being a distant speck is now emerging over the horizon like some beautiful leviathan .
the film perfects anger’s use of myth , ceremony , and ritual . it is possible to compare lucifer rising with scorpio rising ( 1963 ) , but it is better compared to inauguration of the pleasure dome ( 1954 ) . however , it must be noted that with lucifer rising , although retaining the occult religious themes , anger departs from psychoanalysis and moves in the direction of metaphysics :
( 1967 ) . williams praises green’s work as a cinematographer , referring to green as a ‘master of light’ . williams talks about the decision to shoot the film on mallorca ( owing to the revolution that had taken place recently within greece , which made shooting in greece impossible ) and discusses some of the issues with the extremely bright light ‘which was troublesome to some of the actors , particularly those with blue eyes’ such as caine and , in particular , bergen .


caine 's arcade is an 11 minute short documentary film by nirvan mullick released on april 9 , 2012 that featured a cardboard arcade created by then 9-year-old caine monroy out of boxes and everyday objects .

the boy ran his arcade from his father 's used-auto parts store in east los angeles during mid-2011 .

mullick was inspired to make the documentary after unexpectedly coming across the arcade while getting a door-handle for his car .

mullick became caine 's first customer , purchasing a $ 2 fun pass , and decided to make a film about caine 's arcade after witnessing the level of commitment , work , and thought caine had put into the arcade .

after learning he had been caine 's first and only customer , mullick arranged for a surprise flash mob of customers using social media to come play caine 's arcade , which was included as part of the film .

the film , on its release to vimeo , soon became a viral video .

numerous people donated money towards a college fund mullick established for caine .

subsequently , schools around the world have recreated similar cardboard arcades , and the positive response inspired mullick and team to start the imagination foundation , a non-profit aimed at fostering creativity and entrepreneurship in more children across the world .

caine ' s arcade

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“that’s what’s exciting about caine’s story , ” he said . “it’s inviting everybody to play . ”
here’s an interview with nirvan that tells about the great positive impact caine’s arcade is having .
nirvan became caine’s first and only customer , and he loved caine’s arcade . it turned out that nirvan was also a filmmaker , and he came back to ask caine’s dad if he could make a short film about caine’s arcade . it was at that point nirvan learned that he had been caine’s first and only customer . nirvan decided to organize a surprise flash mob of customers to come play caine’s arcade , and make caine’s day .
– nirvan mullick ( director , caine’s arcade / founder , imagination . org )
it’s been just 1 year since we posted caine’s arcade online . what an amazing , life changing year .
mr . mullick is a filmmaker and decided to make a video about caine’s arcade .
please watch the following video to get a better understanding behind caine ' s arcade and it ' s success .
caine ' s arcade is a short film about a 9 year old boy ' s cardboard arcade , located in his dad ' s used auto parts store in east la .
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caine ' s arcade kid - - no more cardboard boxes . . . signs with huge agency
visit caine’s arcade site and enjoy the experience . by the way , caine is 13 now and officially retired from the arcade . how time flies for any entrepreneur .
i do my best to spread the word about caine ' s arcade and the imagination foundation . : ) go , caine !
nirvan mullick is the filmmaker who documented the awesomeness that is caine ' s arcade . if you don ' t yet know about caine ' s arcade , first , have you been under a rock ? ! second , i suggest you watch nirvan ' s short film documenting 9 - year - old caine ' s cardboard arcade right now . nirvan posted the following on facebook , which was then shared by caine ' s arcade on facebook .
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' s gotta be for everybody ( that ' s you and me ! ) cause everybody is who ' s invited to come on down and play if you ' ve got the pluck to try your luck come on down to caine ' s arcade oh caine ' s arcade ( caine ' s arcade ! ) oh caine ' s arcade ( caine ' s arcade ! ) it ' s the best cardboard arcade ever been made ( ever made ! ) so grab yourself a fun pass and y ' all come on down and play if you ' ve got the pluck to try your luck come on down to caine ' s arcade oh caine ' s arcade ( caine ' s arcade ! ) oh caine ' s arcade ( caine ' s arcade ! ) it ' s the best cardboard arcade ever been made ( ever made ! ) everybody is who ' s invited to come on down and play if you ' ve got the pluck to try your luck come on down to caine ' s arcade
the rewards at caine ' s arcade are in the form of prizes that caine buys himself at the 99 cent store , but caine has won more than prizes .
while the exact nature of the caine ' s arcade foundation curriculum is still vague at this juncture , the founders promise more details in the months ahead , along with a second caine ' s arcade video .
looks like caine ' s arcade is closing after all . caine is turning 11 and
retiring
from running his arcade - he is getting ready to start a bike shop ! while the doors of the original caine ' s arcade will be closed , the spirit of the caine ' s arcade story will continue to live on via the global cardboard challenge and imagination foundation programs .
caine ' s arcade video about inventive l . a . boy raises $ 100 , 000 for scholarship fund
meet caine monroy . he is nine years old and he spent his summer break last year meticulously building a makeshift arcade—appropriately named
caine’s arcade
— made out of cardboard boxes in his dad’s auto part store .
a fairytale ending shows dreams really can come true , even in used auto part stores . the fairytale continues off - camera , where caine’s arcade has become an internet phenomenon . at the time of writing the caine’s arcade website has raised over $ 75 , 000 towards caine’s scholarship fund .
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caine’s arcade ( located inside smart parts aftermarket ) , 538 n . mission rd , boyle heights , ca 90033
we’re having a big birthday party for caine at his arcade this saturday , and you’re invited ! rsvp for caine’s bday on facebook and share with friends .
in 2012 , nirvan mullick , created a short documentary based on caine ' s arcade . it went viral and caine became an inspiration to the nation .
p . s . hours at caine’s arcade for this saturday will be 9am – 6pm . cake at 1pm . juli crockett will be singing the caine’s arcade theme song around 1 . we’re also doing an octocopter shot for the imagination foundation’s global cardboard challenge launch film at around 6pm . details and rsvp on facebook .
nirvan was so impressed by caine’s carefully constructed arcade that he decided to make a film about it . according to caine’s father , george monroy , he had spent at least a year working on his
arcade
. the purpose of the short film shifted when nirvan learned that he was caine’s first and only customer .
they found caine’s facebook page and shared the video with caine , whose site in return put out a call to anyone with a creation they wanted to share . nbc picked up on “caine’s arcade” and included jojo’s gum - ball creation in a thursday - evening news segment .
the arcade caught mullick’s imagination . he decided to make a film about caine’s summer project , and in secret he planned a street party big enough to give caine all the customers he’d been waiting for .
5 months after caine ' s arcade , here is the followup film , inspired by the response of kids around the world .
so , this blurry photo of president clinton with the original caine’s arcade funpass comes with a funny story i wanted to share .
it ' s a little boy ' s dream built in cardboard and tape .
in august of 2013 , on caine’s 11th birthday , caine retired from running his arcade full - time . but the spirit of caine’s arcade lives on via our imagination foundation and our global cardboard challenge . our goal is to engage over 1 million kids in creative play each year . help bring this to kids in your community by taking and sharing the challenge : urltoken and continuing to share caine’s arcade part 1 & 2 !
9 - year - old caine monroy spent his summer vacation building an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto parts store . the entire summer went by , and he never had a single customer . but caine didn’t give up . then , on the last day of summer , filmmaker nirvan mullick walked in by chance to buy an auto part for his car . caine asked nirvan to play , and , well , watch caine’s arcade and caine’s arcade 2 to see what happened next…
it’s been 4 years since posting the caine’s arcade video online ! caine is now 13 years old ( and tall enough to ride the fast go karts ! ) – and so much has continued to grow out of the caine’s arcade story . if you have watched or shared the video , then you are a part of the impact the story has had .
we recently passed the 5 year anniversary since the caine’s arcade short film was posted , and a lot of great things continue to happen .
yes , as of august 4th , caine ' s arcade will be closed . our imagination foundation is still interested in developing a boyle heights community makerspace for kids inspired by the spirit of caine ' s arcade , but it will take more time to figure out the logistics .
let’s hope the newfound fame doesn’t change caine’s humble heart because unlike many children his age , he still loves using his imagination .
on saturday ,
caine ' s arcade
in boyle heights will be the center of a worldwide event , inspired by a cardboard arcade built by caine monroy ' s . lolita lopez reports for the nbc4 news at 5 p . m . on oct . 5 , 2012 .
“at that point we hatched a plan to get everybody in l . a . to come play caine’s arcade , ” mr . mullick says .
this is the theme song from the short film
caine ' s arcade
directed by nirvan mullick . 100 % of proceeds from these song sales go to the caine ' s arcade foundation , so pay what you like ! see the film here : urltoken learn more at : urltoken
reddit – reddit , here is the short film about caine ' s diy cardboard arcade and his reaction to our surprise flashmob of customers . thanks for helping make this kid ' s day !
thanks so much lisa ! there are so many creative kids like caine . our goal with the imagination foundation and our caine ' s arcade cardboard challenge is to foster and celebrate the creativity of kids like caine everywhere . : - )
i love the caine ' s arcade story and the imagination foundation is awesome . i have a son named caine and hopefully his son , jack danger will do great things with his imagination .
nirvan changes caine’s life by validating that kind of entrepreneurial spirit and creativity . the second movie , shows the evolution of caine’s arcade from an event to a movement , creating a scholarship fund for caine , a foundation for making called the imagination foundation and an annual global cardboard challenge .
conduct background research on caine ' s arcade and other homemade arcade games that have been created . gather as much information about what is required to design and construct an entertaining arcade venue . as well attention needs to be place on how to run a successful carnival .
letting tears fall with 750 educators as we watch caine ' s arcade together . . . the highlight of # iesonoma for me !
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the imagination foundation is a non - profit we started after caine ' s arcade went viral . watch
caine ' s arcade 2
to learn more about it : urltoken the goal of the imagination foundation is to foster creativity and entrepreneurship in more kids . learn more about the imagination foundation here :
i read sec documents like it ' s my job . because it ' s my job .
according to a caine ' s arcade foundation press release , teachers were among the first to respond to the video , developing caine’s arcade programs in their classrooms and sharing results with the caine’s arcade team in la . the caine’s arcade foundation team told me they are now developing an educational program that will serve as a free tool to both teachers and parents of school - aged children , working with teachers and parents through their “pilot program for inspired teachers” to develop curriculum that it will launch on an interactive wiki site this fall . according to a foundation representative , more than 30 classrooms in five countries are currently using the caine’s arcade curriculum during the “beta testing” phrase , helping to encourage students to actively take part in classroom activities as well as reinvigorate lesson plans for teachers .
the caine’s arcade challenge will provide thousands of children in los angeles a crash course in creativity and social entrepreneurship . 500 teachers will learn effective project - based learning inspired by the caine’s arcade story , and thousands of members of the los angeles community will come out to play at cardboard arcades built by kids .
this efl lesson is designed around a beautiful short documentary film called caine’s arcade directed by nirvan mullick and the themes of childhood games , creativity and imagination .
1 . caine ' s fav game he made : claw machine . 2 . caine is retired now , but used to run his arcade on weekends , usually from 9am to 3pm . 3 . caine made 4 games originally , and a lot more since . * caine answered more kid faqs on
last october , he did both : parts of caine’s move quickly went viral on the web .
step 6 give your students the short article lessons from caine’s arcade . ask them to read the article , discuss the lessons and compare them with their own .
inspired by the global response to our ‘caine’s arcade’ short film , 2 days after the film went viral we decided to try and start a non - profit to foster the creativity of more kids like caine .
i ' m in austin for sxsw to speak on a panel tomorrow about the impact short docs like caine’s arcade can have online . what ' s funny is that a year ago , before i posted the caine ' s arcade online , i had submitted a roughcut to the sxsw film festival . however , like most films entered to sxsw , my film was rejected .
a scholarship fund has been created online and caine arcade website , facebook and twitter pages gained thousands of followers .
caine may continue to do special pop - up events with his arcade , but won ' t have regular hours , and the arcade will no longer be at smart parts . the spirit of the caine ' s arcade will also continue to live on via our global cardboard challenge and imagination foundation programs . our 2nd cardboard challenge aims to have 1 million kids participating in 70 countries around the world . you can help bring the spirit of caine ' s arcade to kids in your community here : urltoken
however , his dad’s auto part store ( located in an industrial part of boyle heights ) received very little foot traffic , so caine’s chances of getting a customer were very small , and the few walk - in customers that came through were always in too much of a hurry to get their auto part to stop to play caine’s arcade . caine never had a single customer , but caine never gave up .
caine monroy , 9 , in the arcade he created in his father’s auto parts shop in los angeles . a film about the boy has become an internet sensation .
10 , 000 children in los angeles will start their 2013 school year by participating in the caine’s arcade challenge . hosted by the imagination foundation and inspired by the short film , “caine’s arcade , ” this challenge will foster creativity and celebrate the imagination of children by inviting elementary and middle school - aged youth to design and build fun and engaging arcade games made from cardboard , recycled materials and imagination .
thanks ! i wish i could vote for more of these projects as well . please join us in bringing the caine ' s arcade cardboard challenge to your community : urltoken
caine’s arcade was a collaboration between our friends who volunteered time and talent , as well as all of the folks online ( especially reddit and hiddden la ) who got behind the idea of helping to make caine’s day . big thanks to e veryone who helped ! see film credits
the film went viral immediately . caine ' s arcade received over 1 million views the first day , trended worldwide on twitter and raised over $ 60 , 000 for caine ' s scholarship fund ( in the first 24 hours ) - - far surpassing my $ 25 , 000 goal . to date , over $ 239 , 000 has been raised for caine ' s scholarship ( ! ) , over 8 million people have seen the film online ( including president clinton ' s security guard , who cried ) and tens - of - thousands of people have traveled to boyle heights to play caine ' s arcade .
that ' s fantastic news . we are excited to work with you this year ! shortly , participants in the caine ' s arcade / global cardboard challenge will be able to register with us online . stay tuned for that !
caine ' s arcade became a destination spot after a film made about his handmade games went viral . since april 2012 , the video has more than 7 million online views .
caine monroy , who started and manages his own arcade out of his father ' s auto shop , spoke to a business class wednesday night . - ani kolangian | daily trojan
in 2011 , at the age of 9 , caine monroy spent his summer vacation building an elaborate diy cardboard arcade in his dad’s used auto parts store in east los angeles .
give people inspiration – part of the effect has been kids around the world building there own cardboard arcades , which are constantly being featured on the caine’s arcade facebook page etc .
words can’t describe caine’s response – so watch the film . after the flashmob , caine told his dad that that was the best day of his whole life .
caine has inspired so many with his wonderful arcade , i can ' t wait to see what he will do next .
on the last day of summer filmmaker nirvan mullick visited an autopart’s shop and discovered a 9 year old boy , caine monroy , and his arcade completely made out of cardboard . as caine’s first customer , nirvan took it upon himself to share this creative boy’s passion by gathering a flashmob at the shop . on april 9th 2012 nirvan posted a
the short film about caine monroy , an east los angeles boy who spent his summer constructing a cardboard game arcade in his father’s auto parts shop , has won millions of fans .
on the last day of summer , through a chance encounter , filmmaker nirvan mullick met caine monroy , a 9 - year - old boy who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s east la auto parts shop . nirvan was caine’s first customer . amazed by the boy’s creativity , nirvan organized a flash mob of customers to surprise caine and make his day . then he made a film about it .
now , marketing maestro nirvan mullic k , caine’s first customer and creator of the viral sensation , has started the caine arcade scholarship fund to not only help send caine monroy to college but also
find , foster and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in other kids .
the caine’s arcade foundation has already raised more than $ 200 , 000 for the scholarship fund . moreover , the goldhirsh foundation has pledged a $ 250 , 000 dollar - for - dollar matching challenge grant .
caine ' s arcade is a short documentary film by los angeles - based filmmaker nirvan mullick about a handmade cardboard arcade run by then nine - year - old boy caine monroy . the film focuses on highlighting caine ' s imaginative creations through interviews with the boy and his father , as well a flash mob event that mullick himself had organized for the arcade in october 2011 . upon its release in april 2012 , the documentary gained more than 2 . 5 million views within the first 72 hours and raised more than $ 150 , 000 dollars for caine ' s college fund over the span of a week .
many great lessons from caine ' s arcade . one of our favs : do not give up ! thanks @ nirvan for sharing your great story with us . # galloignites
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two years after building caine ' s arcade in his father ' s autoshop in boyle heights and thousands of visitors later , the 10 - year - old is shutting down his operation and embarking on a new entrepreneurial adventure : a bicycle shop .
caine’s dad agreed to take his son out for pizza to give the flashmob time to gather and construct colourful signs .
soon , a flash mob was created . hundreds came to play at the arcade , surprising caine with what he dreamed of most .
caine sits outside his arcade waiting for customers . anyone can play for as little as a nickel . but no one wants to .
months after a film of his creation went viral , caine monroy ' s cardboard arcade is inspiring students and teachers , and attracting celebrities , like jack black . the 9 year old built caine ' s arcade in his dad ' s boyle heights auto shop and raised more than $ 250 , 000 toward college and foundations that foster kids ' creativity . lolita lopez reports for the nbc4 news at 11 p . m . on june 26 , 2012 .
the 9 - year - old boy from los angeles spent an entire summer building an elaborate arcade inside his father’s used auto parts shop .
fast forward to tuesday night , when the 10 - minute short film ,
caine’s arcade
, was released and made an immediated impression ( viewed over 325 , 000 times on vimeo ) .
there ' s not much foot traffic along the industrial strip where his dad ' s store has been for three decades .
caine monroy , the 9 - year - old creator of caine ' s arcade , had the simplest explanation on monday for how to be a successful entrepreneur and marketer , when he became the youngest speaker ever in the history of the cannes lions festival .
this huffington post article , captures some of the most important changes that came about because of caine’s arcade . “the impact on caine has been profound . caine’s dad told me that before the film , caine was behind in reading and that his school considered him “slow” and wanted to hold him back a year . after the film , caine became a poster child for gifted children everywhere — his grades improved and he even stopped stuttering . caine began to refer to himself as an engineer and a game designer . ” ( huffington post , june 9 , 2014 )
the 37 - year old filmmaker knew he had to tell caine ' s story , and get people in the door .
caine’s arcade is the true story of cain monroy , a 9 year old boy who has built his own arcade out of cardboard . caine monroy lives in a working class area of los angeles . his father has a used auto parts store . it’s not the safest area of la and the auto parts store does most of its business online . in 2011 , caine spent his summer days in his dad”s store . at first , he busied himself by helping with the inventory . soon , he started using the empty boxes to build an arcade game . after awhile , his arcade took up most of the lobby . caine made himself a shirt , worked out a system for keeping track of tickets , and continued to build his arcade . he devised a crane . he devised a point system and prizes to be won .
caine’s arcade is a short film about a 9 year old boy’s cardboard arcade , and his dream of having customers . the 11 minute short film became a global phenomenon in 2012 , with over 10 million views online . it received international media attention and was added to moma’s permanent collection . the filmmaker , nirvan mullick , set up a scholarship fund for caine as part of the film . to date , over $ 240 , 000 has been donated for caine to go to college . tens - of - thousands of customers visited caine’s arcade to play , and kids around the world began making their own cardboard arcades . shortly after posting the film , nirvan founded a non - profit called urltoken which launched a global cardboard challenge to foster kid creativity worldwide .
the closing of the arcade at 538 n . mission rd . on aug . 3 will also be a celebration of caine ' s birthday . however , while he may be off to junior high and starting work on his other project , the arcade and its inspiration will live on . it will become a traveling arcade in a partnership with toms shoes , his father said .
today marks 2 years since i posted a short film online about a then 9 year old boy named caine monroy ' s cardboard arcade . i wanted to share some of the good things that have happened since .
“he built . . this elaborate arcade world without having any customers , just with that sense that if you build it they will come ,
says filmmaker nirvan mullick , whose video of caine monroy’s all - cardboard arcade has gone viral . the 9 - year - old’s achievement - - at his father ' s auto parts business in boyle heights - - has inspired the creation of a college fund for more than $ 80 , 000 . nbc4 ' s lolita lopez reports from los angeles .
mullick decided to plan a flash mob to bring customers to monroy’s arcade . he made a facebook event , and eventually , monroy’s story appeared on the homepage of the content - sharing website reddit . the success of the flash mob and monroy’s business became the premise of his film .
did you know that this movie sparked a huge international creativity movement ? anyone interested in doing some seriously cool follow up activities to this video should check out the caine’s arcade facebook pages and cardboardchallenge . com , it’s a really beautiful story and can lead into lots of interesting discussions 🙂
the cardboard challenge also marks the launch of the imagination foundation , a new non - profit which we formed after caine ' s arcade with the mission to find , foster , and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in more kids . we ' re putting together project based learning curriculum and working to build imagination maker spaces for kids - - the first of which we want to build in the boyle heights community near caine ' s arcade .
caine monroy spent last summer building a makeshift arcade out of cardboard boxes in smart parts aftermarket at 538 n . mission rd . in boyle heights .
the challenge is designed as follows : - a 2 - 4 week project - based learning curriculum , conducted in the month of september , derived from the “caine’s arcade” short film , and aimed at fostering creative thinking and social entrepreneurship . - field trips to the caine’s arcade site in boyle heights to enhance the learning experience and inspire participants . - the “day of play” on october 5 when children will operate their cardboard arcades and raise money for various local causes . - professional development for teacher participants during august . - a caine’s arcade community website will showcase the challenges , locate the arcades , and capture an expansive catalogue of content uploaded by challenge participants .
the story of caine’s arcade , mentioned before in this blog , is the story of true making and playing . bringing this playful atmosphere into your classroom can be a real bonus hands - on experience for your students .
in expanding a business empire , being able to communicate passion and vision is key . nirvan , caine ' s first customer , was enthralled by caine ' s enthusiasm . so he made a video . then he invited all of l . a . to the arcade . by sheer force of personality and energy , caine drew others to his cause . in the future , that will attract talent - - and cash .
caine monroy , the imaginitive young boy whose cardboard arcade made him an instant internet sensation , is growing up , and apparently so is his business savvy .
caine and i went to france to speak at the canne’s lions international festival of creativity ( caine was the youngest speaker ever at canne’s lions ! ) . on the flight back to los angeles , i asked caine to reflect on some of the things he learned . he didn’t have anything to write on , so he wrote this list on the air france barf bag called “what did caine learn . ” photo of the barf bag below – check out what caine underlined .
based on the attention the film has been receiving , nirvan decided to add a donation box for a scholarship fund on the
caine’s arcade
website :
chip in $ 1 or more to help caine to go to college . imagine what this kid could build with an engineering degree !
nirvan’s original goal was $ 25 , 000 , but since the film was released , caine has received over $ 65 , 000 .
short film about a young boy ' s cardboard arcade in a used auto shop that launched a global movement for kid creativity . # cardboardchallenge @ imagination @ nirvan
caine ' s story is great . but what really thrills me is seeing the thousands of other children who have been inspired by him .
but “caine’s arcade , ” an 11 - minute film that has already won millions of fans , is garnering a somewhat different response . as filmmaker nirvan mullick says , “this is the video that is making grown men cry . ”
“he built . . this elaborate arcade world without having any customers , just with that sense that if you build it they will come ,
says filmmaker nirvan mullick , whose video of caine monroy’s all - cardboard arcade has gone viral . the 9 - year - old’s achievement - - at his father ' s auto parts business in boyle heights - - has inspired the creation of a college fund for more than $ 80 , 000 . nbc4 ' s lolita lopez reports from los angeles . ( published thursday , april 12 , 2012 )
caine monroy is a 9 - year - old boy from east l . a . in the summer , he hangs out at his dad’s workplace , a used auto parts shop . to amuse himself while there , caine often played with cardboard boxes at the shop . one day , caine decided to do more than just play……he started to build . out of the boxes , caine built and built , until he had created a cardboard arcade !
the response didn ' t stop there . a community of over 130 , 000 people connected to caine ' s arcade on facebook , and parents started to share photos of new cardboard games that their kids made after watching the film .
tens - of - thousands of people from around the world visited caine’s arcade after the film went viral . caine and nirvan began being invited to travel around the world to share their story . caine became the youngest entrepreneur to speak at the usc marshall school of business . he traveled to france , where caine became the youngest ever speaker at the cannes lions international festival of creativity , and he was flown to sacramento where caine received the latino spirit award from the california state assembly . his arcade has been exhibited in the exploratorium and hammer museums , and the film was purchased as part of moma’s permanent collection . caine and nirvan have spoken at several tedx events , caine spoke solo at tedxteen in ny , and caine and nirvan gave a google artist talk . after giving a talk together in colorado at the coin summit , caine was offered a full scholarship to colorado state university school of business by the csu’s dean , as well as a free trip to outer space ! caine has also been invited to the white house to meet the president and take part in the white house maker faire !
caine loved arcades , and dreamed of the day he would have lots of customers come play . he spent months building and preparing his arcade , perfecting his game design , making displays for prizes ( his toy cars ) , designing elaborate security systems for his fun pass , making his own caine’s arcade staff shirt , and even hand labeling paper - lunch - bags for customers to carry home prizes .
the impact on caine has been profound . caine ' s dad told me that before the film , caine was behind in reading and that his school considered him
slow
and wanted to hold him back a year . after the film , caine became a poster child for gifted children everywhere - - his grades improved and he even stopped stuttering . caine began to refer to himself as an engineer and a game designer .
last weekend , the three stars of “caine’s arcade” visited the san francisco bay area for their first road show of sorts , since the film hit the web . the exploratorium , an interactive science museum , sent a seventy - foot semitrailer to smart parts to retrieve caine’s cardboard arcade for a one - day exhibition , called “open make : trash . ” the night before the event , after closing time , caine set up the arcade with the help of volunteers , and ran around the place as though he was the museum’s v . i . p . , which he was . “this is the coolest museum i have ever seen ! ” he noted from the back of a cart in which he was chauffeured .
that is , until film maker nirvan mullick needs a new door handle for his ‘96 corolla . pulling into monroy’s auto parts store , he finds an elaborate cardboard arcade .
maybe you ' ve heard . out in east l . a . , there ' s a kid named caine monroy . he made an arcade in his dad ' s auto parts store . out of cardboard boxes . if you haven ' t already , you need to check out this video that details his saga .
caine ' s arcade inspiration and cardboard to engage refugee children in a camp in switzerland . they went from
out of their minds with boredom
to bright eyed enthusiasm and busy creativity in a matter of minutes . . . . . .
sometime in 2011 , nine - year - old caine monroy built an arcade out of cardboard boxes and other assorted everyday objects in his father ' s auto parts store in los angeles . in august , filmmaker nirvan mullick [ 2 ] came across caine ' s diligently run arcade while seeking a door handle for his car . he spent half an hour playing the home made games including mini - soccer and mini - basketball and later uploaded a cell phone video of his experience to youtube .
i went to get my car fixed and met this 9 year old kid who built a cardboard arcade in his dad ' s auto shop : urltoken * updates : thank you everyone who chipped in to caine ' s scholarship fund ! over $ 240 , 000 has been raised for caine ! ! ! we also started a non - profit called urltoken and a global cardboard challenge to foster the creativity of more kids ( watch
caine ' s arcade 2
on youtube to see the launch ) . over 1 million kids in 80 countries have since taken our global cardboard challenge , and we support 150 + imagination chapters in 20 + countries . join us : urltoken urltoken watch
caine ' s arcade 2 : from a movie to a movement
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caine ' s arcade
theme song by juli crockett : urltoken caine ' s arcade theme song on itunes ! urltoken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . thank you for sharing caine ' s arcade ! always buy the funpass ! : - )
* * since launching the imagination foundation , the impact has continued to grow . 5 months after caine ' s arcade was posted online , we made
caine ' s arcade 2
follow up film to launch our 1st global cardboard challenge ; 3 weeks after that video , over 270 challenges were organized in 41 countries with over 10 , 000 participants ! this year , we’re looking to scale our global cardboard challenge with a goal of 250 , 000 participants in 70 countries . join us !
this is a cool idea , and i was also inspired by caine ' s arcade . but why restrict the creativity to arcade games and why limited to cardboard ? why not allow the kids re - imagine any number of things in cardboard or other found objects ? why restrict kids ' imagination to force it to replicate one really creative idea ?
meanwhile , monroy’s nine - year - old son caine is hard at work . caine loves tickets , prizes and taking his toys apart . so when he has to spend a summer at his dad’s store , he puts his passions to good use , building an arcade out of used cardboard , old calculators , and a thrown out cash register . he donates his own hot wheels toys as prizes .
a 9 - year - old boy who built an elaborate cardboard arcade in his dad ' s used auto parts store is about to have the best day of his life .
the imagination foundation , which spawned from caine ' s arcade , will have another global day of play on oct . 5 . the goal is to engage 1 million kids in 70 countries in creative play and provide curriculum to schools around the world .
caine has become a hero of sorts to the underdog of learners who finds a way to exercise his potential in ways a school could not even imagine . wouldn’t it be wonderful to present some learning opportunities like caine’s arcade to students in every classroom ? we may be able to unlock so much potential in so many students .
two weeks ago , the planet’s most unlikely film star turned from a ugandan warlord to a nine - year - old kid who runs a homemade cardboard arcade out of his dad’s used - auto - parts store , smart parts , in east los angeles . invisible children to a child’s imagination : the world could smile again . “caine’s arcade , ” an eleven - minute film about caine monroy and his first customer , a struggling filmmaker named nirvan mullick , quickly acquired all the metrics of a viral sensation : millions of youtube views , a top trending topic on twitter worldwide , the reddit front page , a call from letterman’s people . the adulations flooded mullick’s inbox , including one from the hacker collective anonymous : “i commend you for your great work . you should be proud , ” the e - mail read .
“it’s cool , ” caine said , standing amid his games , seeming both enchanted and unfazed by his sudden fame . “i have more customers now . ”
caine ' s father said they constantly receive visitors , and the college scholarship fund created for his son now stands at more than $ 236 , 000 .
“i asked caine how much to play . he’s like for one dollar you get four turns . but for two dollars you get a fun pass . ”
with the headline : a boy’s fast fame , built of cardboard and tape .
reddit – reddit : i met a 9 year old kid in east la who created an elaborate diy cardboard arcade using boxes in his dad ' s used auto parts store . unfortunately , no one has come to play it . so this sunday , i ' m inviting the internet to help make caine ' s day ( flashmob style ) .
the roughly 10 - minute film , which now has more than 7 million views online , outlines monroy’s journey to success . he set up the cardboard arcade outside his father’s shop in june where he sat outside every day waiting for customers . finally , in august , mullick walked into the shop to get his car fixed and became monroy’s first customer .
interview with channel 7 , the local abc affiliate . the director richard linklater was there to promote his new film “bernie , ” and told caine that he was a big fan of the arcade . the nine - year - old shrugged . ( word that another unknown , oprah , had posted about the arcade on her facebook page had prompted a similar reaction from the boy , although justin timberlake’s tweeting that caine was his “new favorite entrepreneur” generated more of a response—at least caine had heard of the guy . ) linklater was bumped to a later slot , and america’s most famous arcade proprietor was squeezed in , awkwardly , after a segment about april 20th as “weed day . ” “not ideal , ” mullick remarked .
business is tough for george monroy’s used auto parts store in east la . passing trade has slowed to a trickle , so he’s turned to ebay to boost sales .
caine is growing up , he is turning 11 and like many kids his age , caine ' s interests are evolving . managing the arcade on a consistant schedule , with hundreds of visitors every weekend , has become too much work . . . yes , caine is getting too many customers ! so caine is
retiring
so he can focus on his new passion ( starting a bike shop ) , and also get ready for school ( junior high ! ) . we put
retiring
in quotes , because really caine will remain hard at work / play in many ways . we love that caine is continuing to follow his passions and continuing to grow !
caine is now 11 and is in middle school . he is doing great !
monroy said that his idea for the arcade came when his father was throwing away boxes at his business .
“i have like three friends on my facebook . [ caine ] has 107 , 000 , ” george monroy said . “he’s making more money than i am . ”
monroy’s father said he has learned about the power of the internet from the experience .
this is a story of how a child’s ingenuity created hope and smiles at a time when a lagging economy has made things tough for everyone . it’s due to hit a million views on vimeo in just two days – and it’s easy to see why .
we made a followup video – “caine’s arcade 2” – which launched our first global cardboard challenge that has since engaged nearly 1 million kids in 80 countries in creative play . the event continues to grow , and culminates in a “global day of play” on the anniversary of the flashmob we did for caine in early october . learn more and take part : urltoken
caine is still a regular kid who loves to work on his bike , play basketball and build things . on his 11th birthday , caine officially
retired
from running his arcade to focus on middle school and his next big dream - - starting a bike shop .
as a large - scale community event , the caine’s arcade challenge will engage numerous stakeholders , including schools , districts , charter management organizations , community groups , colleges and universities , businesses , nonprofit organizations , government and elected offices , and general members of the los angeles community .
during the month of september , children participating in the caine’s arcade challenge will design and build cardboard arcades in schools all over the southland ; then on october 5th , commemorating the flashmob that came out to make caine’s day in the short film , communities will come together and play . on this day , the “day of play , ” children will operate their arcades to raise money to support various local causes , practicing the value of social entrepreneurship . and adults will learn the simple things they can do to foster a child’s creativity .
built by a 9 - year - old boy in his dad’s used car parts store in east los angeles , spread like a california wildfire , spawning hundreds of “response” photos , emails , letters , and youtube videos , including jack black ' s kids contructing their own cardboard arcade .
the event is captured in two youtube movies that capture exactly what it means to be a nine - year - old inventor . the first movie , by nirvan mullick , traces the cardboard arcade designed by caine monroy in the front part of his dad’s auto parts shop in 2012 .
after the talk , caine was asked what he wants to do next , and shared that he wants to be an engineer or a game designer . what caine wasn’t expecting was a surprise announcement from ea sports , who offered caine a week of mentorship this summer with their top game designers , where caine will learn coding and game design !
caine is an inspiration and his story a joy to follow . i would love to see more children given a way to get involved . good luck caine and team .
caine is a true inspiration . i share his story with everyone i can . he
i remember watching the film - and crying my eyes out . a donation to caine
i love how caine is aspiring so many children word wide to use their imagination .
an assessment administered by teachers through a short online question bank will measure the proficiency of student participants with regard to appropriate common core standards outlined in the caine’s arcade curriculum , as well as unique standards that demonstrate an increase in creative thinking , social emotional learning , and attitudes toward school .
the film went public on tuesday , when they earned about $ 50 , 000 for caine’s college fund . by wednesday , fans had donated more than $ 80 , 000 .
there ' s a lot going on here . for one , caine clearly has a heart of gold , and it shines through in this video . but it ' s also a stunning portrayal of a young entrepreneur in action . where the layman sees a pile of beat up cardboard boxes and old toys , caine sees an arcade . his sheer inventiveness captured the imagination of dozens of folks in the forbes offices ( and , as the youtube ticker indicates , plenty of others throughout the world ) . but you don ' t need to report on billionaire entrepreneurs to see that caine exhibits the best traits of the best ones . here ' s why we expect to find caine on our list a few decades down the road :
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today’s post is not about old schools but about an event that the whole maker world took note of in 2012 that changed the way people thought about at least one boy’s education .
within 5 days , over 5 million people had seen the film , over $ 150 , 000 was raised for caine , and we received a $ 250 , 000 grant to start the imagination foundation . * * best of all , one - thousand people spontaneously came out to play at caine’s arcade the first saturday after the film was posted . it felt like a fairytale .