dreaming machine ( 夢みる機械 yume miru kikai ) is an unfinished japanese anime fantasy-adventure film by satoshi kon .

it would have been the director 's fifth feature film .

after kon 's death on august 24 , 2010 , production continued at madhouse , where the team used satoshi kon 's directorial tapes and notes to guide them to completing the film , though the main work such as storyboards and script was already complete .

in august 2011 , madhouse founder masao maruyama revealed that production of the film had been halted due to lack of finances .

only 600 of 1,500 shots have been animated .

however , maruyama still intends to finish the film , however long it takes .

dreaming machine

a selection of dreams from “dreaming machine # 2” installations . ben bogart 2009 / 2010
[ … ] actress a biography type work documenting his journey to his second film . and , of course , dreaming machine , his final project that’s still in development [ … ]
masao maruyama , founder of animation studio madhouse , appeared at otakon 2011 this morning with word on his new independent studio , mappa , satoshi kon ' s dreaming machine , and more .
this video presents a selection of dreams from various
dreaming machine # 2
installations in hong kong , são paulo and montréal . from each of these installations , two dreams have been selected .
officially , dreaming machine remains in production , but only about half the film had been completed by the time of kon’s death and madhouse is holding out for a director of kon’s immense talent to finish the job .
can a machine dream ? dreaming is the result of complex interactions between body , thought and memory . during the day , the dreaming machine examines its visual context and records stimuli that will then inspire its
musings
. enabled by an artificial intelligence , and a memory model , the system’s free associations , or “dreams” , are shown to the audience . the system externalizes that which usually belongs to the screen of our thoughts .
red guy discovers a machine with monitors displaying yellow guy being tormented by another singing object , and the machines controls cause other singing objects to appear . when red guy unplugs the machine , it apparently resets reality and / or causes time to finally start moving forward again .
in one batman beyond episode , a villain traded rides on his lotus - eater machine for stolen loot brought in by mostly unhappy teens . the machine also slowly killed them while letting them temporarily experience their greatest wishes .
abducted a bunch of unicorn foals , chopped off their horns , and forced then into a lotus - eater machine .
the titular machine in kurt vonnegut ' s the euphio question gives such pleasure to listeners that they ignore everything else .
it turns out that the lotus eater machine is being used to rehabilitate the cast from teenage thugs to model citizens .
, ban ' s evil eye technique can in fact be used as a lotus eater machine . often , ban subtly changes the
the staff at madhouse studios are doing just that , as production is once again gearing up on the dreaming machine ( yume - miru kikai ) after a temporary suspension . taking over directing duties is character designer and chief animation director yoshimi itazu , who has been closely involved in the film’s creation from the very beginning .
details on dreaming machine’s plot have been sparse , but what kon talked about was a film for a younger audience starring robots going on a road trip . at the time of his death just over a third of the film had been animated with kon leaving detailed instructions on how to complete it . in the following years we’ve heard small snippets of information about the film’s progress . the head of madhouse inc . masao maruyama assured fans that no matter what the film would be completed . but in 2011 he spoke of financial difficulties putting dreaming machine on hold . he later spoke 2015 that another major hurdle was finding a director on par with kon to take the reigns . it’s admirable that maruyama wants to honor this project with such dedication , but i fear dreaming machine may never see the light of day . or even worse , it’ll end up like the thief and the cobbler with decades of work creating a nonsense film that is a pale shadow of what it was meant to be .
the late satoshi kon‘s family has posted a heartbreaking final message from the anime director on his website . blogger makiko itoh has translated the document , a selection from which is here : my biggest regret is the film “the dreaming machine . ” i’m worried not only about the film itself , but the staff who i was able [ … ]
colonel hein puts adam jensen in a
dream catcher machine
in the mass effect / deus ex human revolution crossover mass effect human revolution .
there has been no news about the film since 2012 , but one of the project leads , kenji itoso , recently crowdfunded a separate film , santa company , on kickstarter . in an interview in december 2014 , itoso said he felt comfortable taking a break from dreaming machine only because satoshi kon himself had urged him not to obsess too much about completing the project .
. he is able to escape as he realizes that he is able to control what happens . the episode ends with enoch trapped in the machine and
“dreaming machine # 3” is a site - specific generative installation in the series of “context machines” ( bogart , 2011 , 2013 ) and perceives the visual context of installation through a video camera and generates images presented to the viewer . these images represent the phenomenological experience of images we hold in our minds . the authors have developed an integrative theory ( bogart 2013 ) that links perception , mental - imagery , mind - wandering , dreaming and spontaneous creativity into a single conception of simulation that is supported by neurological evidence . the dreaming machine is an artwork and computational model that realizes the integrative theory . the system uses artificial intelligence methods to make sense of incoming visual material and learns objects and patterns that are used to simulate external reality . the result of the simulation is presented to the viewer as a moving image . the simulation is presented in three distinct modes : in the perceptual mode , the viewer sees a reconstruction of the camera’s image build up from already learned components . in the mind - wandering mode , a relatively static camera image causes an hallucinatory response where imagined images , constructed from learned components , are superimposed on the perceptual image . in the dreaming mode , the absence of external information ( due to darkness ) leads to totally fabricated images that simulate external reality . these dreaming images diverge from physical reality because they are no longer anchored in external sensory information and because the simulator is unable to perfectly reproduce reality .
susumu hirasawa - dreaming machine - hen gen jizai version ( heavy string ) hirasawa solo works arranged in strings - oriented style . . it is created for
the aggregated past kangenshuigi 8760 hours
, the 20th anniversary of susumu hirasawa ' s solo debut and the 30th anniversary of p - model ' s debut . tracklist for the album is : 01 : machine dreams 02 : siren * siren * 03 : mother 04 : venus 05 : caravanserai bandiria 06 : tobira島 ( paraneshian circle ) 07 : pacific rim camouflage net
that’s not a direct order , but anyone familiar with satoshi kon’s work—from perfect blue to paprika —would be hard - pressed not to show at least a little excitement over these screens for the dreaming machine ( yume miru kikai ) . even without much in the way of plot information aside from it being a sci - fi feature suitable for kids , the title alone piques my interest .
in the my little pony friendship is magic fanfic getting back on your hooves , checker monarch draws the mane six into a lotus - eater machine trap .
elphaba has been captured by the nome king and is being slowly coerced into a deal with the devil through a tailor - made lotus - eater machine .
in the naruto / my little pony friendship is magic crossover friendship contract , rarity has a technique that creates effects similar to a lotus - eater machine .
the entire arcadia district is one big lotus eater machine ; everyone is really strapped into chairs and hooked up to computers while living in a virtual paradise .
susumu hirasawa , whose song
dreaming machine
( from the ghost in science ) is the source of the film ' title , said :
i never received an official order from kon . it ' s an unspoken agreement of sorts . there are scenes where he specifically requested a certain track to be used , but there are also many parts where there are no such directions , so it falls to me to choose the songs . this is a difficult task . but we must carry out his dying request , to complete this work , even without a director to question
. on november 10 , 2010 , the album hen - gen - ji - zai , which features a rerecording of
dreaming machine
made two months before kon ' s death , was released by hirasawa ' s labels .
cosmo entelechia , the illusory world where the big bad wants to put all the residents of mundus magicus , is a lotus eater machine tailored to each person affected .
in the kirby fanfic the dream land story , dark matter possesses him and puts him into a hellish dreamlike state , akin to a inverse lotus - eater machine .
i haven ' t been idly waiting for death , even now i ' m thinking with my weak brain of ways to let the work live even after i am gone . but they are all shallow ideas . when i told maruyama - san about my concerns about
dreaming machine
, he just said
don ' t worry . we ' ll figure out something , so don ' t worry .
when a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients ' dreams is stolen , all hell breaks loose . only a young female therapist , paprika , can stop it .
in
waking moments
, telepathic aliens who exist primarily in a dreaming state invade the crew ' s dreams , forcing them to all join into a single group dream that seems totally real , in order to attack them . only chakotay , the magical native american , knows it is a dream at first , and uses his lucid dreaming technique to control the dream world . chakotay is able , with the holographic doctor ' s help , to threaten the sleeping aliens into waking the rest of the crew .
lasts several subjective days and reunites him with his murdered girlfriend ; the machine breaks down , though , since he ' s just as miserable and lonely with her as without .
taking questions at otakon 2015 , mappa and madhouse founder masao maruyama indicated that anime director satoshi kon ' s incomplete final work , yume miru kikai ( dreaming machine ) is still in production
in theory .
however , while financing the project is a considerable challenge , the more difficult constraint is finding talent comparable to kon ' s . unfortunately , at the current time , no one is able to match kon ' s skill level .
inverted in
the gamekeeper
, where instead of being an idyllic paradise , the machine - created realm forces jack and daniel to repeatedly relive the worst moments of their past .
august 24 , 2010 was a very grim day . i remember logging into facebook and seeing a note from kon’s page explaining how he’d been diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year and knew it was only a matter of time until he passed . it was tragic reading someone’s own words talking about their disease knowing this would be read by fans after his death . once the initial shock had worn off i was left wondering what this meant for his latest project “dreaming machine” .
future imperfect
: riker is trapped in a lotus eater machine by a benevolent captor who just wants to be friends with him . when he realizes it the first time , it creates a second lotus eater machine , in which he ' s a prisoner of a recurring enemy romulan who was behind the first one as well . both times inconsistencies / inaccuracies are what tip riker off .
first and foremost is the question of how to find money to finish the 900 shots left to be animated . darren aronofsky is a professed fan of satoshi kon having bought the remake rights for perfect blue just to re - create a single moment in requiem for a dream . and if you look at his film black swan you can see even stronger similarities to perfect blue . christopher nolan also acknowledged his film inception took inspiration from kon’s paprika . if these two filmmakers united they’d be able to get the budget necessary to complete dreaming machine in no time . the harder aspect is finding a director to take over the project . with money in place i assume maruyama could find a director or even an entire team of directors who under his supervision would match kon’s style . whatever happens i hope to see the final piece of work from a master artist . what about you ? do you think dreaming machine should be completed ? or is it for the best it’s forgotten with kon no longer at the helm ?
a rather nasty one was inflicted on pixie . some demons used their magic to make her own illusory powers trick her and her friends . she was essentially the power source for her own lotus eater machine .
during the course of the die anstalt fanfic a posse ad esse , dr wood perfects a your mind makes it real - style technique and wants to use it to create an inverse lotus - eater machine .
the main characters inhabit a shared lotus eater machine universe , while in the outside world their bodies slowly dehydrate . it is left unclear whether they go on living in the fantasy forever even after their bodies die
when asked about the status of satoshi kon ' s dreaming machine , he began ,
well , that question was one of the reasons i was reluctant to return [ to the convention ] , but i knew it was a question i would have to answer so i gathered my courage to come here and answer it . to be blunt , the project is on hold . but i do want to go ahead with dreaming machine ―that ' s why i have my new studio now .
he went on to explain that the biggest reason the project is on hold is money , but seems absolutely dedicated to raising some ,
i don ' t care how many years it ' s going to take ; i will get the financing required to complete the title . and currently about 600 cuts of the film [ have ] been done , but there [ are ] still about 900 to go .
mappa is meant to be a complementary studio to madhouse , since madhouse finds some projects difficult to do due to financing issues .
natsuki gets trapped inside yukariko ' s lotus - eater machine , and has an experience in which her parents are still alive and living with her , while she has also met all her friends at fuuka academy .
the other world is in maki ' s imagination , but it ' s real at the same time . confused ? the ( first ) big bad used his reality warper machine to make her dreams come true .
though there is still minimal plot information available for paprika director satoshi kon ' s new kid - friendly science fiction animated feature the dreaming machine the official website and blog have just been updated with the first images released from the film . kon in kid - friendly mode is an interesting thing . . . there are elements of the design work that are clearly familiar to fans of his work but all of it run through a slightly different filter . i love the look of this and simply can ' t wait to see it in motion .
the official site for satoshi kon’s last anime film yume - miru kikai ( dreaming machine ) went offline in late 2012 . ( urltoken ) . the official blog is still alive , but nothing has been posted since june 15th , 2011 . after his death on august 24 , 2010 , the anime studio madhouse tried to finish the film and officially announced it resumed production on the film in november 2010 . masao maruyama , the founder of madhouse , indicated that production of the film had been halted due to lack of finances at otakon in august 2011 .
inverted in the naruto peggy sue fic time and again , where naruto initially does not believe he has been transported to his 12 - year old body , thinking it to be some kind of lotus - eater machine instead .
they manage to escape the program , and create a small subroutine so that moriarty , still living in his dream , can dream it for as long as he wants with the love he found in his lotus eater machine .
basically the whole plot of final fantasy tactics advance is one for most of the main cast . marche , the playable protagonist , is in a dream world against his will while his friends and brother wish to stay in the dream because they are happier in it . towards the end , marche even says that he is done dreaming .
all of his films are worth you time , effort , and energy . i think his final film , paprika ( 2006 ) is the most readily available , but perfect blue ( 1997 ) , millennium actress ( 2001 ) , tokyo godfathers ( 2003 ) , and the tv show paranoia agent ( 2004 ) , all show a master at work and are unforgettable pieces of work . kon died in 2010 and it seems less and less likely we’ll ever see anything from his last project , dreaming machine . seriously , he’s up there with kurosawa and miyazaki for japanese filmmaking greats .
while taking questions at otakon 2015 , mappa and madhouse founder masao maruyama indicated that anime director satoshi kon’s incomplete final film , yume miru kikai ( dreaming machine ) is still in production , well sorta . however , getting enough money to finance the film is one considerable challenge , the more difficult constraint is finding someone as talented as satoshi kon to pick up the pieces and do it justice . unfortunately , at the current time , no one is able to match kon’s skill level . maybe someday soon we’ll have someone step up and take the torch that’s been upheld for too long .
in batman ' s final crisis story arc , evil scientists working for darkseid put batman in a lotus eater machine so they can take advantage of his psyche for their own ends . ( not a pleasant one . . . the machine runs him through slightly off - kilter events from his life as batman , with a focus on the worst experiences . ) batman deduces what is going on and is able to completely destroy all of their equipment and ruin their plans without even waking up .
an early archie comics sonic the hedgehog comic has robotnik trapping the freedom fighters in such a machine , where on top of the traditional ideal world , it actually changed to meet its inhabitants ' wishes . after figuring it out , sonic pushes the machine ' s
user - friendly
nature to its limit , takes control of robotnik ' s war machines ( currently on their way to raze knothole ) , and forces robotnik to let them go by threatening to turn them on robotropolis .
in chaos card captor sakura ' s second chapter , sakura and kero are trapped in a inverse lotus - eater machine in the form of the nightmare card , which plays out extreme forms of sakura ' s insecurities and feeds off of them .
triple lotus eater machine . first the protagonist is placed in a vr paradise and must escape . next comes a vr hell , which is also escapable . ( given the lack of real torments and the presence of challenges , this is really a puzzle - solving adventurer ' s lotus eater machine in disguise . ) finally , after the villain ' s apparent defeat , it is revealed that no escape has been made , and the player must act within the illusion to defeat the villain .
as for the plot of dreaming machine , maruyama was ready to reveal some details ,
i haven ' t really talked about what the film is about , but i think i can talk about it today .
apparently the movie starts with a horrible tsunami that wipes out an whole town , and a robot goes on a journey to seek energy .
this is an orginal story that satoshi kon came up with 2 years ago [ … ] and it happened in japan this year . i ' m starting to think that certain creators do have the ability to see what ' s coming in the future .
in a way , instrumentality can be considered a lotus - eater machine - a world born from every human soul in existence uniting to cancel out each other ' s fallacies and fears of loneliness to achieve perfect happiness through a twisted , forced evolution .
on heroes , matt parkman ' s father maury is a living lotus - eater machine . unfortunately for his victims , he doesn ' t trap them in pleasant scenarios , giving rise to his in - series nickname :
the nightmare man .
also by alan moore , dark age volume 2 of marvelman ( aka miracleman ) recasts the character ' s silver age adventures as lotus eater machine dreams invented to keep him and his fellow post - humans in line while they were being studied and programmed .
in the beginning . a crew from earth land on mars , which looks like ohio at the turn of the 20th century . however , when their long lost dead relatives start appearing , it becomes more of a lotus eater machine story . it has a
an axis powers hetalia fanfic a dream is a wish your heart makes has denmark being ensnared by a black mercy and dreaming where he is living in the perfect world . unfortunately for him , as the rest of the nordics and other countries tries to wake him up , his perfect world descends into a horrifying nightmare , as the black mercy is slowly draining his life at the same time .
act ii and act iii get increasingly bizarre until they are revealed as a lotus eater machine hallucination brought on by a hallucinogen that links all the affected characters in a pleasant dreamworld . after finding out , lister is tempted to stay but ultimately he opts for the real thing .
in mx0 , one of magical aptitude test is to leave a lotus eater machine room within 10 minutes . if you do that , you ' ll forget everything that happened in there , and if you don ' t , you ' ll keep your memories but fail the test .
actually , they ' re being held prisoner by another character who is using something ; a machine , a platonic cave , or other phlebotinum to cause very intense and very realistic hallucinations . some monsters even weaponize the ability to project your heart ' s desire to snatch up easy prey .
during fall of the hulks , the intelligencia traps bruce — and the other seven smartest men in the world — in a lotus - eater machine in order to drain their intellects . not all that surprisingly , bruce is married to betty , has kids , and has killed the hulk .
in
the lotus - engine
( 1940 ) space explorers fall into the inadvertent trap of an alien machine which offers them an illusion of paradise . since they receive neither food nor water while victims of the illusion , they must break its spell quickly if they hope to survive .
code geass gives this trope a twist by having the lotus eater machine actually be a highly addictive drug , called refrain . it ' s popular amongst the conquered japanese ( and may have been developed specifically as a weapon against them ) , since it causes the user to relive happy memories .
quark . in
goodbye polumbus
, captain quark is sent to investigate a planet from which no - one has returned , and finds it under the influence of a lotus - eater machine in an evil gorgon plot to lure away the top scientists and space captains . quark finds himself tempted by a woman who looks just like one he fell in love with at the academy , but he manfully resists and destroys the machine , only to find the beautiful woman he was smooching is actually an ugly alien . quark hastily beams up before she can show her gratitude for freeing her people .
the dream machine
( 夢みる機械 ) is the unfinished film which he left behind . less than half of it has been animated , and currently there isn ' t enough money for production to continue . ( here is a link to some production images , just navigate to
gallery
)
done slightly differently in the legend of william tell when there is no actual machine . instead a whole valley uses this . the heroes get everything they ever wanted , but the illusions all turn nasty and try to kill them , sometimes overlapping with one person ' s illusion going after another person .
kon would complete one last directorial effort , a one - minute short in 2008 for the japanese tv station nhk , before tragedy struck . in may 2010 , he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer while working at madhouse on his next project , dreaming machine . the news was a shock to everyone around him as he had appeared in good health during recent public appearances . by august 24 of that year , he was dead . in a heartbreaking goodbye to friends , fans and family , he said the following : “i’ve been able to do what i want as an anime director , achieve my goals , and get some good reviews . i do feel regret that my films didn’t make a lot of money , but i think they got what they deserved . ”
in the hulk and the agents of smash episode
it ' s a wonderful smash
, the agents of s . m . a . s . h . are put in a lotus eater machine by the collector , in which they are acclaimed as heroes and have a skyscraper headquarters in new york ( taller than avengers tower ) . the guardians of the galaxy are also in the machine , where they have successfully brought peace to the galaxy . rocket raccoon escapes and rescues the others , because the collector ' s idea of his perfect world was based on the assumption that he was actually a raccoon .
the soul eater fanfic breaking point features an inverse lotus - eater machine . in their battle in the center of the mind , medusa is able to trap chrona inside his worst memory and make him relive it from the beginning , over and over , to weaken his soul so she can take his body .
part of a minor subplot in the novel house of suns by alastair reynolds . one character plays in a virtual reality game which malfunctions and replaces his personality with that of his game character . eventually he has to be wired permanently into the machine as he can ' t function properly outside it any more .
by the spiders while babbling happily to herself . he eventually rejects the hospital reality as a lotus eater machine ( and reasons that if there ' s any chance the colony still needs to be saved , he has to take it ) , finds a way to escape from the wrecked ship and delivers the vaccine .
ends with the revelation that the protagonist actually committed suicide early on and was cryogenically frozen and put into a state of lucid dreaming where he lives out his fantasy life , gets the girl and gets an operation which fixes his disfigurement . . . however , the dream turns into a nightmare which culminates in him accidentally killing his girlfriend . at the end he jumps off a building in order to wake himself up despite being given the choice to have everything fixed so that the dream would be happy again .
in the adventure time episode
power animal
, gnomes capture finn and use his imagination to power a giant machine that will swap the overworld and the underground . finn is mostly done for , but jake comes to the rescue by allowing a placated party god to turn him into the eponymous being , wrecking the lem with dionysian disregard .
episode
perchance to dream
, batman wakes up in a world where his parents never died , he never became batman , and instead he ended up hitched with selina kyle ( who wasn ' t catwoman either ) . he eventually figures it out by realizing that he couldn ' t read anything ( he explains reading and dreaming are handled by opposite areas of the brain ) . it quickly becomes a nightmare as there ' s somebody else playing the role of batman in said world . interestingly in that case ,
because of the nature of this trope , it often lends itself to doubts after the characters ' escape ' . sometimes it isn ' t clear whether their escape is genuine or not . this can range from epileptic trees theories by a handful of viewers , all the way up to extreme canon cases of a dream within a dream . in this tone , a particularly fridge horrific ending for a villain ( or a hero ) may see them fall under the spell of the machine , but only for a second before escaping , defeating their enemies , and re - making the world in their image . cut back to reality , where they ' re still under the thrall of the machine .
when director satoshi kon began work on the dreaming machine ( yume - miru kikai ) he knew something that his fans around the globe did not : that he was suffering from a terminal illness and there was a very real possibility that he would not survive until the end of production . and so he asked for - and received - a very simple promise from production company madhouse studios . he simply wanted to know that the studio would finish the film no matter what happened to him . kon ' s passing in august led to a temporary suspension of production on the picture but now madhouse is making good on that promise with word that character designer and chief animation director yoshimi itazu has been given the role of acting director and production has resumed . itazu ' s selection is a good one as it places someone who has been intimately involved with the creation of the
sgt frog episode 3 : after trying various methods to disguise keroro so he can go outside , tamama tries the plant
dreaming alpha
, which sticks its tentacles into keroro ' s head and makes him hallucinate that he ' s in a wonderful field of flowers , but almost instantly drains his body away . ( the plant itself is oddly similar to the one in the alan moore story . ) in the english dub , it ' s explicitly referred to as the ' keronian purple mercy lotus - eating lotus ' .
“time machines” as a subtitle refers to the ultimate purpose of these vast scientific instruments greenberg photographs , to understand the basic structure of the cosmos and take us back to the big bang . truly , in purpose no less than appearance , h . g . wells’s time machine and that delorean in the “back to the future” movies are mere tinkertoys by comparison .
the
dib ' s wonderful life of doom
episode of invader zim : zim traps dib in a lotus - eater machine just to find out if it was he who threw a muffin at him . after extracting the information , zim releases his nemesis in a fit of genre blindness , instead of finishing him . but not before hitting him with a counter muffin . from a cannon .
however , another character trapped there doesn ' t want to leave the machine — and knows that it ' s all an illusion - as after having been horrifically mangled in a crash the aliens were able to restore the illusion of her original beautiful appearance . they give her a illusory captain pike to live with until the real pike returns to the planet in a later episode made up of the original pilot .
suffers no ill effects besides , well , being dead . however , because he has no pulse and heartbeat , and because the sun stays in the same place in the sky , he ' s unaware of time ' s passing . when he finds out that it ' s been three months since he died , he freaks out as most people who discover they ' re in a lotus eater machine do .
i would like to organize a fundraiser for this film , but there ' s no way i can do it alone . specifically , i need some people who can read and write japanese in order to get in touch with the producers of
the dream machine .
this is critical , because even if we raise the money , we need a way to get it to the people who can use it .
given an interesting twist in an episode ( apparently a take - off of the star trek : the next generation episode
remember me
) where the entire populace of eureka is slowly disappearing around sheriff carter , consumed by strange glowing portals , leaving him as the only one who even remembers them existing in the first place . turns out he ' s hooked himself up to a prototype virtual reality psychoanalysis machine , which has trapped him in its illusion in a somewhat overzealous attempt to force him to come to terms with his fear of losing his daughter ( at the time , the subject of a custody dispute between himself and his ex - wife ) . he breaks the spell by taking her to the edge of town and leading her into one of the portals , at which point the machine declares him cured and allows him to wake up .
in arthur c clarke ' s novella the lion of comarre , the protagonist discovers that
comarre
, a rumored place that is occasionally sought out by people who are never seen again , is a robotic lotus eater machine facility . the government tries to keep the truth hidden , and to keep people away — but not very hard , as it ' s considered a good safety valve for those who would otherwise be disruptive .
interestingly , brock knows full well what the machine is capable of , having dived in to throw another to safety . he ' s apparently enjoying an eternal battle against countless ninjas , dinosaurs , monsters , robots , and ninja robots riding dinosaurs . at least for a while until he yells out
okay already ! geez !
, at which point they all vanish , and molotov cocktease shows up , finally giving herself to him .
) used this trope in his jonni future stories . one of jonni ' s enemies is the empress of the end , who trades people all their earthly possessions to experience a ( fatal ) experience of their heart ' s greatest desire . a surprising number of people willingly make this trade , but when the empress kidnaps jonni ' s sidekick , jermaal van pavane the paraman and forcibly submits him to the machine , she has to rescue him .
the tick in
evil sits down for a moment
: the villain traps the tick in the
world ' s comfiest chair ,
which is so comfy that nobody ever wants to stand up again after sitting in it . no imaginary worlds or anything are involved ; it ' s just that comfy . the episode ends ( like most serious examples of this trope ) with the villain getting trapped in her own lotus - eater machine .
takes place entirely within a lotus eater machine , and although the viewers know this from the very start , the story revolves around the main characters figuring this out . it might not seem perfect at first ( there ' s a three - way gang war going on , and violence is common ) but as one character puts it ,
shibuya has everything that you young people want : the latest styles , fashions , entertainment , you name it .
suzumi gets put under one that mentally returns her to a happier time , when her husband was still alive and the two were excitedly awaiting their first child . while the machine is destroyed , she willingly remains behind because she is happy . it isn ' t until yuuhi forces her to remember that kazuma is dead that she gets shaken out of her stupor , also remembering how she chose to continue to live to take care of her brother - in - law .
codename kids next door : a villain makes numbuh one think he ' s on an island inhabited only by kids and only discovers there ' s a glitch in the matrix during a pool party . in the end , the machine is put on the villain , and , in a rarity for this trope , this villain is left aware of this and miserable . it ' s later revealed that the knd scientists kept the device to use for a secret test of character .
that ' s what kusanagi finds herself becoming at the end of the film — not an individual , and not a hybrid borne of her merger with project 2501 , but a process incarnate , one borne of all that she and 2501 both were . where is she to go from there ? that ' s not only her question anymore , but all of ours — and not just at this particular moment in time , when the possibilities of fusing human and machine intelligence grow ever closer , but in every moment through human history when we embraced some irreversible change . add fire to the human race and you have a new human race ; likewise , add machines and machine intelligence , and you have something that is no less post - human . add kusanagi to the puppet master , and what ghost hatches from that shell ? from what little we see , a creature of curiosity and intelligence , and — i hope — of compassion as well . it had better be , for all our sakes .
“the title will be yume - miru kikai . in english , it will be the dream machine . on the surface , it’s going to be a fantasy - adventure targeted at younger audiences . however , it will also be a film that people who have seen our films up to this point will be able to enjoy . so it will be an adventure that even older audiences can appreciate . there will be no human characters in the film ; only robots . it’ll be like a “road movie ” for robots . ”
the title will be yume - miru kikai . in english , it will be the dream machine . on the surface , it ' s going to be a fantasy - adventure targeted at younger audiences . however , it will also be a film that people who have seen our films up to this point will be able to enjoy . so it will be an adventure that even older audiences can appreciate . there will be no human characters in the film ; only robots . it ' ll be like a
road movie
for robots .
sk : the title will be yume miru kikai . in english , it will be the dream machine . on the surface , it ' s going to be a fantasy - adventure targeted at younger audiences . however , it will also be a film that people who have seen our films up to this point will be able to enjoy . so it will be an adventure that even older audiences can appreciate . there will be no human characters in the film ; only robots . it ' ll be like a
road movie
for robots .
the title will be yume - miru kikai . in english , it will be the dream machine . on the surface , it ' s going to be a fantasy - adventure targeted at younger audiences . however , it will also be a film that people who have seen our films up to this point will be able to enjoy . so it will be an adventure that even older audiences can appreciate . there will be no human characters in the film ; only robots . it ' ll be like a
road movie
for robots .
my biggest regret is the film
dreaming machine
. i ' m worried not only about the film itself , but about the staff with whom i was able to work with on the film . after all , there ' s a strong possibility that the storyboards that were created with ( our ) blood , sweat and tears will never be seen . this is because satoshi kon put his arms around the original story , the script , the characters and the settings , the sketches , the music . . . every single image . of course there are things that i shared with the animation director , the art director and other staff [ members ] , but basically most of the work can only be understood by satoshi kon . it ' s easy to say that it was my fault for arranging things this way , but from my point of view i made every effort to share my vision with others . however , in my current state i can only feel deep remorse for my inadequacies in these areas . i am really sorry to all of the staff . however , i want them to understand , if only a little bit . satoshi kon was
that kind of guy
, and , that ' s why he was able to make rather weird anime that was a bit different . i know this is a selfish excuse , but think of my cancer and please forgive me .
the reason that i have faith in the project is that it is in the hands of people who have worked very closely with kon for years . yoshimi itazu , who worked as an animator on paprika and animation director on paranoia agent , will be taking over
the dream machine
as acting director . toshiyuki inoue , who has worked on every one of kon ' s projects since millennium actress , will be joint animation director . and , of course , susumu hirasawa , who magnificently scored millennium actress , paprika , and paranoia agent , will compose the film .
accelerando by charles stross : some sufficiently advanced aliens discover an islamic scholar , and become interested in his beliefs . so they decide to throw him into a virtual reality version of paradise , complete with 72 virgins . he responds by locking himself in the highest tower he can find and praying , as he knows immediately this isn ' t fluffy cloud heaven ; he ' s a scholar , his idea of paradise is infinite knowledge straight from the most omniscient source around . interesting in that this is the sort of lotus eater machine that you can ' t break out of , even if you know it ' s not real . he has to be rescued by someone outside .
in simon kurt unsworth ' s thomas fool novels , heaven is one giant lotus - eater machine for the good souls that inhabit it , as they experience whatever happiness they imagine . as a detective on loan from hell , thomas fool isn ' t affected by this and so he finds heaven to be a lonely and somewhat disappointing paradise with many bigoted angels and souls lost in sleep . otoh , heaven is still magnitudes better than hell , where damned souls suffer boredom and frustration during the times when they ' re not suffering from gang rapes by scorching demons or spending their days being force - fed shit before crapping it out and using their hands to till the manure into soil .
stargate atlantis : in the episode
home
, the characters think they ' ve found a way to return to earth , though it doesn ' t become apparent until about midway through the episode that their lotus eater machine is individual and doesn ' t include the others . each of their worlds was designed with everything they wanted to keep them from fighting back , but starts defying logic in ways that provoke their suspicion . major sheppard somehow figured this out early , and to test it , included in his mental fantasy a sweet apartment he had never seen , an attractive girl that he remembers ( unsuccessfully ) asking out , and two of his deceased friends showing up without explanation .
kara : you know , jimmy , i spent twenty years of my lifeabout fifty - eight of them , in your timein a dream . in the symbioship . there was no way i could have stayed sane on a rocket journey that took twenty years to complete . my father , zor - l , he anticipated that and created the dream programming . i was dreaming for twenty years , with the computer making a simulation in which i . . . lived . . . i went to school , i met people , all based on real people my parents knew on krypton , i did things , had adventures , fell in loveand the guys whom i fell in love with always had to leave . i never knew why . then to find out it was part of a frabbing computer . . . great rao , i almost hated daddy . but i knew why he had to do it . i would have gone insane otherwise . we didn ' t know enough about suspended animation , and the spacewarp kal ' s rocket went through had moved on .
for centuries , thanks in part to the writings of marco polo , legend had it that the medieval sect of nizari ismailis ( hashashim ) were brainwashed to lay down their lives for the cult via a low - tech lotus - eater machine . new recruits would be drugged unconscious , then awaken in a
paradise
garden full of luxurious feasts and beautiful women , only to be
restored to life
after a night ' s indulgence with the promise of a return to that place of pleasure upon death . the banquets , garden , and female companionship were , of course , all set up in advance by the cult ' s leaders , the better to ensure the recruits ' compliance with their often - suicidal tasks as assassins . ( better understanding of nizari beliefs about the afterlife , plus the conspicuous absence of any such garden in or near the real sect ' s historical base of operations , have helped to debunk this account . )
the novel version of
better than life
ends with lister having to make the decision whether to stay in the simulation or return to the hardships of traveling back to an earth six million years in the future where he may well be the last human as he understands it . talk about a downer ending . the second novel reveals that the lotus eater machine digs deep into their psyche , bringing to light their deepest desires . which , unfortunately for rimmer ( or fortunately , since it is what breaks them out of the fake paradise ) , revolves around his self - loathing . rimmer ' s self - hatred ends up destroying the dream world . when they finally leave , they find that reality is suspiciously better than it should be ( lister ' s 2nd cup of coffee tastes better than the first , he drops a slice of buttered toast 20 times and it always lands butter side up , a tv dinner tastes better than its cardboard box , etc . ) and discover that they ' re still in the game , at which point the game designer appears and congratulates them for figuring it out , then lets them leave .


night of the eagle is a 1962 british-american horror film directed by sidney hayers .

the script by charles beaumont , richard matheson and george baxt was based upon the 1943 fritz leiber novel conjure wife .

the film was retitled burn , witch , burn !

for the us release ( not to be confused with the 1932 novel of the same name by abraham merritt ) .

night of the eagle

^ night of the eagle in the british board of film classification ( bbfc ) database .
^ review of night of the eagle in the 1999 edition of time out film guide , penguin books , london .
book group night , with paul constant and martin mcclellan | eagle harbor book co .
analysts said the night eagle drug appeared similar to sleep - suppressants widely used by armed forces of other countries .
out of print are the 1995 us image dvd , us - laserdisc and vhs video titled burn , witch , burn ! , the british dvd - box titled horror classics , consisting of the masque of the red death , night of the eagle and zoltan , hound of dracula , and the british vhs video night of the eagle .
eagle eyed liar viewers spot
huge production error
in last night ' s episode . . .
night of the eagle depicts the use of charms or supernatural powers in an ‘everyday’ environment and juxtaposes it with a rationalist view which is questioned during the progress of events . jacques tourneur’s night of the demon ( 1957 ) works in a similar way .
eagle eyed liar viewers spot
huge production error
in last night ' s episode . . . | floor8
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the upside of this argument is that the night’s king may be participating in fight scenes soon .
undemandingly enjoyable . in the same family as
night of the demon
, worth a watch .
lewes bonfire night , procession of the martyr’s crosses . part of the bonfire night celebrations on the 5th november in lewes , sussex . the burning crosses commemorate the 17 protestant martyrs who were burnt at the stake in the town during the marian persecutions of 1555–1557 .
burn , witch burn ( aka night of the eagle ) is among the best of the 1960 ' s british horror thrillers . literate and thoughtful - - it achieves it ' s . . .
the entire experience at eagle ridge was absolutely phenomenal for our wedding . we made several visits to eagle ridge during the planning phase and they were all phenomenal . we worked with three different wedding planners at eagle ridge , all of . . .
or this more robust number is truer to the original anti - popery of bonfire night celebrations .
it seems that the show’s version of the night’s king is different from martin’s version . come to think of it , that apostrophe in his name might be important . “the night’s king” may refer to the legendary figure from martin’s books , while “the night king” refers to the new character invented for the show .
at 1 : 21 : 48 , you can see the guide wire controlling the eagle .
polak spoke to the reading eagle minutes after police informed him that mariusz was safe and sound after spending the night at his grandparents ' home 7 miles away .
here ' s to business growing bigger and better . . . all thanks to the almighty . . . congratulations to the eagle night watch team on the new venture .
in 1940 , noting that the species was “threatened with extinction , ” congress passed the bald eagle protection act , which prohibited killing , selling , or possessing the species . a 1962 amendment added the golden eagle , and the law became the bald and golden eagle protection act .
— the eagle is a moderately common pub name . this article refers to the eagle on bene t street , cambridge , england . the eagle is one of the larger pubs in cambridge and serves greene king beers . apart from the main bar , it sports a non smoking room …
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night to shine is an unforgettable prom night experience , centered on god’s love , for people with special needs ages 14 and older . on one night , february 9 , 2018 , 537 churches from around the world came together to host night to shine for approximately 90 , 000 honored guests through the support of 175 , 000 volunteers !
the destiny of a soldier . the honour of a slave . the fate of an empire .
at 1 : 21 : 48 , you can see the guide wire controlling the eagle . see more »
what makes this company so special are the team members that make up the giant eagle family .
surrey and hampshire news : bottles were handed out to some people last night .
i purchased the night eagle 2 pro to try out twilight and night flying . the thrill of non daylight flying is better than expected ! with a heap of rgb leds attached to the quade it makes for some fun flying and looks spectacular to ! i can really recommend this camera it certainty adds a new dimension to quade flying .
national night night is this tuesday , august 1st ! hosted by hawley police department and the borough , this community has been celebrating the event with a free barbecue for everyone , for about 20 years . if your town doesn’t participate in national night out , they should think about it !
national night night is this tuesday , august 1st ! hosted by hawley police department and the borough , this community has been celebrating the event with a free barbecue for everyone , for about 20 years .
the anti - sleep drug - called night eagle - was unveiled as one of 600 scientific achievements in an exhibition marking the 60th anniversary of the academy of military medical sciences . the china central television report did not give further details about the new drug , such as any hint of its composition , how it works or its possible side effects .
a demystified take on the tale of king arthur and the knights of the round table .
“and vladimir furdik as the night king . ” this means that the show is changing several things from the books . most pedantically , in the books , the character is called “the night’s king , ” with an apostrophe , not “the night king , ” but we can move past that . more importantly , in the words of george r . r . martin , “in the books [ the night’s king ] is a legendary figure , akin to lann the clever and brandon the builder , and no more likely to have survived to the present day than they have . ”
although the service removed the bald eagle from the list of threatened and endangered species under the endangered species act , the bird will still be protected by the migratory bird treaty act and the bald and golden eagle protection act . both laws prohibit killing , selling or otherwise harming eagles , their nests , or eggs .
“night of the eagle is british horror cinema at its finest – for much of its running time it’s all about shadows and unanswered questions . but when it veers into out - and - out horror , it’s terrifying – despite the occasional dodgy effect . ” british horror films
the berkshire athenaeum will take part in world book night , a campaign to give thousands of free , specially printed paperbacks to light or non - readers . world book night is observed each year on april 23 , shakespeare’s birthday .
that’s inconsistent with the narrative we’re getting on the show . in the books , the night’s king lived in a time when the night’s watch was already established , which means that the wall had already gone up , which means that the war between the children of the forest and the first men was long over . on the show , he was alive during that war .
description : it has individual parts spray - painted solid colors in a night ops color scheme .
pictured : kae alexander as leaf and vladimir furdik as the night king . credit : helen sloan / hbo .
residents have described a night of ' chaos ' as police were called to shut down an illegal rave in dorking on saturday .
an underseen 60s thriller from britain with terrific atmosphere and intelligent script . like ' night of the demon , ' which the title is apparently meant to recall , the film involves a skeptical scientist ' s confrontation with supernatural powers . . . in this case , in the shape of his own wife . great use of minimal special effects in the rampaging eagle scene
up until now , the night’s king has observed the battles from afar . if he’s going to join the fray , who will he be fighting , and what will he be able to do to them ? those are the questions that should keep the characters up at night between now and the end of season 6 .
eagle ridge is the most beautiful place to have a wedding and megan carter and rika thibodeaux made planning an absolute dream . we had our rehearsal dinner at woodstone restaurant , our ceremony at the point patio , and our reception in the eagle . . .
as the dangers of ddt became known , in large part due to the 1962 publication of rachel carson’s book silent spring , the environmental protection agency took the historic and , at the time , controversial step of banning the use of ddt in the united states . that was in 1972 , and it was the first step on the road to recovery for the bald eagle .
to an english setting . director sidney hayes can be needlessly rhetorical at times , relying on a campus statue of an eagle to create a sense of menace ( the uk title was
our wedding was at eagle ridge in september 2015 . from the beginning the staff at eagle ridge and specifically megan carter were great to work with and truly made our day spectacular . our cocktail hour was out on the point patio and our recepti . . .
i can not say enough great things about eagle ridge and the entire staff ! our wedding weekend was absolutely flawless and we thank the eagle ridge staff for that ! the drinks , food , service and dedication to making our wedding amazing was beyo . . .
all three authors involved in night of the eagle ' s screenplay were prolific writers for film and television with the focus being on horror , mystery and science fiction . charles beaumont and richard matheson in particular were repeatedly hired to adapt ( though freely ) the works of edgar allan poe and h . p . lovecraft for the screen .
this week in this sceptered isle they will commemorate on bonfire night , the 5th november , the 403rd anniversary of guy fawkes and friend’s unsuccessful experiment in direct democracy . some say mr . fawkes and co . were the last people to enter the houses of parliament in westminster with honest intentions . bonfire night is an annual celebration on the evening of the 5th of november celebrating the foiling of the gunpowder plot of the 5th of november 1605 in which a number of catholic conspirators , including guy fawkes , attempted to blow up the houses of parliament in london , england . it is primarily marked in the united kingdom where it was compulsory , by royal decree , to celebrate the deliverance of the king until 1859 .
surrey and hampshire news : everybody ' s talking about jamie will be in cinemas for one night only .
importantly , furdik is also the actor who now plays the night’s king , the white walker leader who attacked the three - eyed raven’s cave in “the door . ” hbo’s official photo caption is all the proof we need of that .
the show is about a man and woman who went on a date , spent the night together , only to end up having two very different accounts of what happened .
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clearly , that’s not the case on the show . the war between the children of the forest and the first men , the one that inspired the children to create the white walkers in the first place , happened thousands of years before the events of the series proper . according to the chain of logic we’re constructing , the night’s king must have survived all that time , as did leaf , who later sacrificed herself to buy bran time to escape during the night’s king’s attack . this seems to go against martin’s official line on how long children of the forest live . here’s what leaf has to say on the subject in a dance with dragons :
the origins of guy fawkes’ night lay partly in the conscious inculcation of a set of approved patriotic demonstrations that would wed the english populace more closely to the crown , to the protestant religion , and to their self - notion of themselves as a free island people in constant danger of envelopment from the catholic continent , their foreign enemies abetted by a fifth column of traitorous home - grown papists .
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when america adopted the bald eagle as the national symbol in 1782 , the country may have had as many as 100 , 000 nesting eagles . the first major decline of the species probably began in the mid to late 1800’s , coinciding with the decline of waterfowl , shorebirds , and other prey .
pray for the churches hosting this event , the amazing individuals who will be attending each night to shine and for the event to be a blessing to everyone involved .
bern police were in charge of the investigation because the boy was last seen on the area of the union canal trail in bern .
bukedde tv movie translator , vj junior real names marysmats matovu spent last night in jail over production and distribution of pornographic materials contrary to the anti - pornographic law .
the staff at eagle ridge is experienced and professional and think of so many details i didn ' t to ensure the day ran smoothly . the food was worth the cost , completely delicious and beautifully plated with a flower . of course the venue is beau . . .
even for the period which was notoriously unstable , the gunpowder plot struck a very profound chord for the people of england . in fact , even today , the reigning monarch only enters the parliament once a year , on what is called “the state opening of parliament” . prior to the opening , and according to custom , the yeomen of the guard search the cellars of the palace of westminster . nowadays , the queen and parliament still observe this tradition . on the very night that the gunpowder plot was foiled , on november 5th , 1605 , bonfires were set alight to celebrate the safety of the king . since then , november 5th has become known as bonfire night . the event is commemorated every year with fireworks and burning effigies of guy fawkes on a bonfire .
the facilities and service at eagle ridge were perfect ; i received so many compliments on each . jackie , my day of wedding coordinator went above and beyond ( well beyond just the day of ) . she took pictures of different vacation rental home . . .
what happened sunday night at the dolby theatre in hollywood contained the strangest plot twist among the rich , famous and addled since the recent election . for years , we all heard the same blase litany of complaint about the oscars . so canned . so predictable .
similarly lauded the novel as
one of the best of all novels on witchcraft survivals in the enlightened modern world .
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that jibes with information from a caller thursday morning , said bern township police chief wesley r . waugh , one of numerous investigators and responders who spent the night trying to locate the boy .
a north american species with a historic range from alaska and canada to northern mexico , the bald eagle is an endangered species act success story .
the spencer - nairn family has owned struy estate , where eagle brae sits , since the 1930s , and their sensitively managed landscape is just the ticket for a traditional highland adventure .
a comic book , turned film , turned back to comic book pitch ; 30 days of night was shelved for several years before it became a successful 3 issue mini - series of horror comic books in 2002 . a group of vampires descend on the alaskan city of barrow which is located so far north that it doesn’t see the sun for 30 days a year . this month - long polar night offers the perfect killing opportunity for the light - sensitive vampires who go on a feeding frenzy . after its success , 30 days of night was developed into a 2007 film directed by david slade and starring josh hartnett .
night to shine is an exclusive invitation - only event for people with special needs . invitations will be extended through host churches .
in 140 ad , twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire ninth legion in the mountains of scotland , young centurion marcus aquila ( tatum ) arrives from rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father , the commander of the ninth . accompanied only by his british slave esca ( bell ) , marcus sets out across hadrian ' s wall into the uncharted highlands of caledonia - to confront its savage tribes , make peace with his father ' s memory , and retrieve the lost legion ' s golden emblem , the eagle of the ninth .
on sunday , the winner of the
worst supporting envelope
award went to the envelope that somehow ended up in the hand of the final presenter , warren beatty .
in these days of diversity and inclusion it serves to remind us of a certain institutional prejudice on the part of the british state . the statute law of england , in the act of the williamite succession , describes the pope as “an anti - christ and object of perdition” – in this of course it is repeating the words of the same king guy fawkes attempted to blow up along with his parliament , james vi of scotland and i of england in his preamble to the official bible of the church of england , the “king james” bible . his mummy , mary queen of scots , would have been very cross with him if she had not been beheaded by his predecessor , elizabeth i .
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night to shine 2018 was hosted by over 537 churches nationwide and in 16 countries . the impact is felt all over the world . stay tuned for 2019 host churches .
forty years ago , our national symbol was in danger of extinction throughout most of its range . habitat destruction and degradation , illegal shooting , and the contamination of its food source , largely as a consequence of ddt , decimated the eagle population . habitat protection afforded by the endangered species act , the federal government’s banning of ddt , and conservation actions taken by the american public have helped bald eagles make a remarkable recovery .
eagle ridge is such a beautiful location for the midwest ! we wanted our guests to have a mini getaway , which is why we chose eagle ridge for our wedding + it ' s so gorgeous there ! we rented houses for our bridal parties + families - which made g . . .
one more difference worth noting : in the books , the night’s king is described as a human man , possibly a stark , who became the thirteenth lord commander of the night’s watch . he fell in love with a woman “with skin as white as the moon and eyes like blue stars , ” probably a white walker . he declared himself a king , made the woman his queen , and did some nasty stuff .
enjoyed the list of 10 of the best graphic novel and comic book film adaptations ; however , the graphics were missing and there was the odd typo .
included on mgm ' s disc is an original a . i . p . trailer that sells the movie a bit too hard but wisely doesn ' t misrepresent it or give away the exciting conclusion . this u . s . version is almost identical to the english original . some credits vary in the title sequences , and the american final card
do you believe ?
is a simple
the end
in night of the eagle .
take an inside - look at krissie ' s night to shine from this past february , as shared by her sister . . .
following the success of last year ' s fairy tales , pandemonium productions are back with another wonderful piece of outside theatre . the group will be telling the story of the wizard of oz ; head to the stunning abney park in stoke newington for the lovely summer activity .
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“eddie the eagle , ” an inspirational sports movie starring taron egerton and hugh jackman , only soared to $ 175 , 000 from 1 , 700 locations on thursday .
phillip went to the tim tebow ' night to shine ' prom for the first time this past february . what a wonderful and uplifting event for all involved . . .
eagle ridge is a beautiful wedding venue . we had our perfect wedding here . rika was extremely helpful as the wedding coordinator . the views and the resort are gorgeous . food was outstanding ! highly recommended .
the mgm limited edition collection ' s dvd - r of burn , witch , burn is an excellent transfer of this crisply shot english picture . the college interiors look great , as do the day - for - night beach exteriors and the scary ending on the campus green . the uncredited special effects are quite effective , if only briefly seen .
great old film with the wonderful voice of peter wyngarde - nonsense of course , but entertaining nonsense .
of course , many of the constellation names are more modern - - telescopium , the telescope , being a rather obvious newcomer . in fact , by the 19th century the night sky had become crowded with overlapping and often contradictory constellation boundaries and names as different schools of astronomy prepared their own versions of star maps . to clear up the confusion , names and boundaries were
officially
assigned to 88 constellations by the international astronomical union in 1930 , providing complete coverage of the entire sky .
in july 1999 , the service proposed to remove the bald eagle from the list of threatened and endangered species . since then , the service has reviewed comments received on that proposal along with new data and information to determine the best ways to manage the species once it is removed from the protections of the endangered species act . in 2006 , the service re - opened the public comment period due to new information on the proposal to delist . data gathered during this comment period was factored into a final decision on the status of the species .
fritz leiber ' s conjure wife was first published ( in shorter form ) in 1943 in unknown magazine and as a single book in 1953 . for night of the eagle , the new england setting of the novel was changed to rural britain . weird woman ( 1944 , starring lon chaney jr . ) and witches ' brew ( 1979 , starring teri garr , richard benjamin , and lana turner ) were also based on conjure wife .
eagle ridge was the perfect location for my wedding ceremony and reception . they are truly the best at what they do . megan carter , the on - site wedding coordinator , is so amazing . she coordinated all of the vendors , delivery and take down schedu . . .
prepare to be terrified witless as this london theatre show tells the spooky story of the woman in black . the jumpy performance is one of the longest running on the west end and will have you on the edge of your seats as you hear the tale of a mysterious spirit who haunts a town and their children .
thus , on june 28 , 2007 , the service announced the recovery of our nation’s symbol and removal from the list of threatened and endangered species .
in 1967 , the secretary of interior listed bald eagles south of the 40th parallel under the endangered species preservation act of 1966 . following enactment of the endangered species act of 1973 , the service listed the species in 1978 as endangered throughout the lower 48 states , except in michigan , minnesota , oregon , washington , and wisconsin where it was designated as threatened .
some of the crowd reportedly moved to meadowbank park , where visitors found large amounts of litter and damage to the skate park .
showbiz : tyler dooley - the nephew of the duchess of sussex - is said to be getting his very own reality show .
by 1963 , with only 487 nesting pairs of bald eagles remaining , the species was in danger of extinction . loss of habitat , shooting , and ddt poisoning contributed to the near demise of our national symbol .
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missing boy found safe searchers begin packing up after receiving reports that 12 - year - old mariusz polak spent the night with grandparents in sinking spring after being reported missing on the union canal towpath trail wednesday night . lack of cell service at reber ' s bridge prevented his father , damian polak , from being in contact with his family . photo by bill uhrich 7 / 5 / 2017
the result of eight years of planning and hard work , eagle brae opened its doors at the end of august . situated on a remote and tranquil hillside between glen affric and glen strathfarrar , this log cabin
village
– just a 30 - minute drive from inverness – consists of seven canadian pioneer - style log homes , spaciously arranged around a central reception cabin .
“he ' s a very athletic guy , ” waugh said just after learning by phone that mariusz was safe . “we don ' t know why ( he went so far ) . it could be to impress dad . he arrived last night ( wednesday night ) fell asleep and has been there . ”
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the helping hand of apostrophes aside , there’s a bit more to this story . while we’re sure that vladimir furdik is now playing the night’s king , that wasn’t always the case . in seasons 4 and 5 , the character was played by actor richard brake . that was brake lifting his arms while staring down jon snow at the end of “hardhome . ”
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“i was scared that he was hurt , ” polak said thursday morning after a long , stressful night in the lower heidelberg township lot , which became the command center for search teams from three counties .
back in the 1980s i replaced most of my collection of 8mm movies with vhs and i have been going through a same process of upgrading to dvd for the last few years .
1968 : teens poured in to matinee screenings of
night of the living dead
for a fun scare , only to leave shellshocked . tame by today ' s standards , george a . romero ' s seminal work defied the reputation the horror genre had built in the 1950s and ' 60s as the cinematic equivalent of a carnival haunted house . it pushed the boundaries of how far filmmakers could terrify audiences , and angered moral guardians with what variety called an
unrelieved orgy of sadism .
still :
night
grossed $ 30 million worldwide - - about $ 204m in today ' s money - - spawned five sequels , and kickstarted the zombie genre that made amc ' s
the walking dead
a force .
flavor text : it ' s the whisper of the wind . . . it ' s the bite at your neck
tansy taylor , the wife of an english university professor , secretly practices witchcraft to further her husband , norman ' s , career . when he accidentally discovers her secret , he destroys her instruments of black magic . following tansy ' s warning that his action has left him vulnerable to evil forces , norman ' s luck changes : a girl student charges him with rape , her boyfriend threatens him , and his car runs into a ditch . then , one evening , tansy disappears ; norman finds her nearly dead in a graveyard . when he brings her home , she attempts to kill him and later turns on the wife of one of his colleagues . eventually , norman learns that flora carr , the crippled wife of his rival for the chairmanship of the sociology department , is also a practitioner of witchcraft and has hypnotized tansy into obeying her commands . that night , the taylor home catches fire , and a huge stone eagle from one of the university buildings suddenly comes to life and attacks norman . later , the masonry supporting the eagle collapses , and flora is killed as the stone edifice crashes to the earth .
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waugh said a caller reacted to news reports thursday morning of the missing 12 - year - old and recalled seeing a boy who matched that description on tulpehocken road near broadcasting road in spring township about 8 : 45 p . m . the previous night .
more seriously , the same act prohibits both the sovereign or their consort from being catholic or the heir to the throne and their consort . it goes further and says that neither the sovereign’s first and second lords of the treasury ( namely the prime minister and the chancellor of the exchequer ) nor the lord chancellor ( the head of the english legal system and successor in office of sir thomas more ) can be catholics thus institutionalising sectarianism at the very centre of the british state and legitimising the somewhat snide anti - catholicism still fashionable in some quarters . they of course can be any other religion or indeed none but they cannot be catholics .
the gunpowder plot was retroactively associated with the defence of england against the spanish armada in 1588 , and as other examples of catholic mendacity came forth so these too became elements in the celebratory mix . the thwarting of the popish plot and the successful carrying out of the glorious revolution added more proof of god’s peculiar favour towards his chosen people , as first evidenced by his staying of the assassin’s hand in 1605 . at its best , gunpowder treason day became a nationalising cement that helped to create common cultural associations between the english regions ; at its worst , it countenanced the kind of sectarian ugliness that burst forth in the gordon riots and can still be seen in the worst of the ulster unionists’ orange lodge ceremonies .
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mixing things up , creepshow is a 1982 graphic novella based on the george a . romero film of the same name . the film begins and ends with scenes of a young boy being punished by his dad for reading horror comic books , serving as a homage to the ec and dc horrors of the 1950s ( including house of mystery and tales from the crypt ) . like the movie , the graphic novel consists of 5 short anthology stories and still remains popular among fans of the genre today .
damian polak of womelsdorf is relieved after finding out thursday morning his 12 - year - old son mariusz polak was with grandparents in sinking spring . damian spent the night at the trail near rebers bridge searching for him . lack of cell service at rebers bridge prevented him from being in contact with his family .
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the sound of hooves might be even closer , though – the turf roofs of the cabins , are
mowed
by three resident goats – barnaby , billy and bakra .
last year we lost the greatest crime writer of our generation , arguably of all time , the brilliant and irreplaceable elmore leonard , known as ‘dutch’ to his friends . a master of the genre , dutch published almost 50 novels and about as many short stories during his 87 years . his novels have become source material for over 20 films in the past 5 decades . some great , some terrible , but most of the adaptations have been painfully mediocre . given the prolific author’s contribution to film and his recent passing , it was only fitting that “life of crime , ” the latest movie based on his work , screened as the closing night film of the toronto international film festival shortly following his passing .
thhe associated press | the cast of
moonlight
celebrates as
moonlight
wins the best picture award at the oscars .
the cabins are hand - built from giant western red cedar logs from british columbia – chosen for their thermal qualities and durability . however ,
cabin
undersells the proposition – the structures are huge , with soaring , pitched ceilings ; mezzanine floors ; and terraces that look out over spectacular highland scenery . to sit on the terrace , looking up at the huge eagle head carved out of the exterior while listening to the sounds of rutting stags in the distance , is an enchanting experience .
a top to bottom surprise . i thought i knew what i was getting when the aip logo came up , but it wasn’t this . a modern horror film in the tradition of val lewton’s masterpieces and pointing to the coming work of polanski , dealing with the malleability of our most closely held certainties . the horror of paranoia .
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this tasteful commemoration consists of the ritual re - enactment of the burning of catholics on bonfire night normally followed by fireworks to remind us that the gunpowder plot did not work out greatly to the advantage of the plotters . after queen elizabeth i died in 1603 , english catholics who had been persecuted under her rule had hoped that her successor , james i , would be more tolerant of their religion . james i had , after all , had a catholic mother . unfortunately , james did not turn out to be more tolerant than elizabeth and a number of young men , 13 to be exact , decided that violent action was the answer .
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“the quintessence of satan’s policy , the furthest reach of human stain and malice and cruelty , not to be paralleled among the savage turks , the barbarous indians , nor , as i am persuaded , among the more brutish cannibals . ”
bell - ringing , torch - lit parading and the reading of pedagogical sermons was officially sanctioned to root the new customs into the popular consciousness , and pastors dwelt in length on the symbolic universalism of the plot , not merely an attempt on the life of a king but a threat to the nation as a whole – a conspiracy of such diabolical comprehensiveness that no level of hyperbole could be unfairly reached , as francis herring showed in 1610 .
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true scientific astronomy has its roots in the attempts of ancient astrologers to predict future occurrences of , for instance , imperial jupiter and the blood - red planet mars meeting within the charging bull of taurus - - a potentially powerful omen for those who believed the planets represented the gods themselves .
some of the plotters started having second thoughts . one of the group members even sent an anonymous letter warning his friend , lord monteagle , to stay away from the parliament on november 5th . was the letter real ? the warning letter reached the king , and the king’s forces made plans to stop the conspirators . 4 november 1605 a group of armed men led by a sir thomas knyvett , a westminster magistrate , was searching the under croft below the house of lords . they discovered guy fawkes and 36 barrels of gunpowder .
although they primarily eat fish and carrion , bald eagles used to be considered marauders that preyed on chickens , lambs , and domestic livestock . consequently , the large raptors were shot in an effort to eliminate a perceived threat . coupled with the loss of nesting habitat , bald eagle populations declined .
the service will continue to work with state wildlife agencies to monitor the status of bald eagles for a minimum of five years , as required by the endangered species act . if the species should need the protection of the act , the service can relist it as endangered or threatened . in the meantime , individual states may also pass or implement laws to protect bald eagles .
the talent and diversity of early spanish synthpop music are downright astonishing , as the second interferencias volume proves .
film prints for the u . s . release were preceded by a narrated prologue in which the voice of
a lot happened on “the door , ” the latest episode of game of thrones . sansa confronted littlefinger . hodor died in one time period and was born in another , and we discovered that the children of the forest were responsible for creating the white walkers . thanks a lot , kids .
depicts the use of charms or supernatural powers in an ' everyday ' environment and juxtaposes it with a rationalist view which is questioned during the progress of events .
everson , william k . ( 1974 ) . classics of the horror film .
year 1 took the theme of light and dark for their assembly this year .
the original 1987 comic book series followed the story of main protagonist stanley ipkiss , an ordinary man who encounters a magic mask with reality - bending powers . whilst the series often explored some dark and sinister themes , the 1994 film adaptation was much softer and cemented jim carey’s status as one of the best comedic actors of the era . a huge success , the mask movie went on to inspire an animated television series and the 2005 sequel son of the mask .
reginald wyer ' s sharp camera movements and tight , tense angles suggest that he and director hayers must have been enthused and inspired by the superior screenplay . the lighting reveals tansy ' s inner panic and the eventual villain ' s malicious enthusiasm . by the third act it appears that all the forces of darkness have been aligned against norman . we can guess what ' s coming by the repetition of shots of the stone eagle on the college ramparts . the film also doesn ' t quite explain ( at least to this thick headed viewer ) all of its magic . norman appears to break one spell by a gesture of faith in a lonely crypt , but i ' m not at all sure why a recording of his voice does what it does in the final act . ( i ' ll expect an explanation will enlighten me . ) it ' s no matter , for the tightly organized visuals cue us to exactly the next level of menace at just the right time . the movie ' s grip is so complete that the entire audience jumps at the sight of a single telling shot of tansy walking strangely .
lea collins , who lives and works opposite the site told us she was woken up by the disturbance :
all of a sudden i saw blue flashing lights so i went to look out of the window and just saw loads of kids running into the building .
the luxury wilderness experience on offer here is underpinned the a regard for traditional craftsmanship and the environment – owners mike spencer - nairn and his wife pawana eschewed industrial methods of production in favour of the hands - on .
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by day , paul constant is a fellow at civic ventures , a public policy incubator devoted to ideas , policies , and actions that catalyze significant social change . by night , he’s a co - founder of the seattle review of books , a new book news , reviews , and interviews publication intended to reflect the reading life of the modern seattleite . formerly the books editor at the stranger , his work has been published by newsweek , the huffington post , the progressive , literary hub , and alternative weeklies around the country . you can follow him on twitter : @ paulconstant
during the results show , we were able affirm that although clinton supporters were winning the online debate and swaying more voters with the ‘culture wars’ ( lgbt , gender equality , civil rights , and the environment ) , the trump camp was winning more voters with their position on the economy , employment , and terrorism . from the outset of this project , our data also showed trump would win . during the event , our map indicating voting intention predicted four out of the five swing states including florida , and the ultimately the final result . as we discovered , reading the intent of millions of vocal voters can provide a very accurate guide to voting patterns . eagle . ai is now being developed as a tool for determining election outcome , as well as the issues that sway .
while it’s open to interpretation , “long lives” imply that the children of the forest do eventually die of old age . do their natural lifespans run for thousands of years , or is the show moving leaf’s birthday back by several millennia ? it’s unclear .
some of the comments posted to jeremy corbyn ' s facebook statement of yesterday . thanks to mark persoff for compiling : “its . . .
a small group took shape , under the leadership of robert catesby . catesby felt that violent action was warranted . indeed , the thing to do was to blow up the houses of parliament . in doing so , they would kill the king , maybe even the prince of wales , and the members of parliament who were making life difficult for the catholics . today these conspirators would be known as extremists , or terrorists .
skeptical college professor played by peter wyngarde gets the surprise of his life when he finds out this his wife has been studying witchcraft after their recent holiday to jamaica . she ' s in much deeper than he thinks and slowly things in his personal life start to fall apart after he burns all of her items that she has collected . now he faces a race against time to save his wife from certain death . this is a very well made british horror film and what stands out is the wonderful acting . peter wyngarde and his wife played by janet blair are very believeable and margaret johnston can put the creeps on you just with her smile . there are some genuinely creepy moments , the eagle chasing wyngarde is a major highlight and this is a quality horror movie . true there are some loose ends - the college student ' s faked relationship with her teacher was worth more story progressing if only for the weirdness of the character and there is a lull at the half way point . but all in all night of the eagle is a very good horror movie .