she 's lost control is a 2014 american dark drama film written and directed by anja marquardt in her directorial debut , nominated for two film independent spirit awards .

the film stars brooke bloom as ronah , a sexual surrogate whose professional intimacy with her male clients has begun to take over her personal life .

the film had its world premiere at the 2014 berlin international film festival in february where it won the forum section 's top prize , the cicae international confederation of art cinemas award , being called a " masterpiece " by the jury .

one month later , she 's lost control had its north american premiere at the sxsw film festival , followed by a new york premiere at the new directors/new films festival at film society of lincoln center and moma , where it was described as a " stylish , deeply unnerving , and profound film on an intangible modern issue . "

the film was released theatrically in the u.s. by monument releasing on march 20 , 2015 , was released theatrically in germany may 14 , 2015 , and was released theatrically in france july 23 , 2015 .

she ' s lost control ( film )

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she’s lost control – marquardt’s first feature film – was by all means a collaborative effort .
brooke bloom in she ' s lost control . ( photo credit : courtesy )
“she’s lost control” opens today , march 20th at made in ny media center by ifp .
but the biggest problem with she ' s lost control is the lack of thematic drive . . .
after watching the film , she’s lost control at the jerusalem film festival and speaking to its director and screenwriter , anja marquardt , it became clear that her film about sex isn’t at all about sex .
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she ' s lost control
is a quiet triumph , a true herald of a distinctive and necessary voice in cinema .
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i caught up with director anja marquardt and co - star marc menchaca at sxsw , where she’s lost control had its north american premiere .
with some shrewd and swift twists and turns , she ' s lost control [ . . . ] is part women ' s picture , part sex thriller .
she is unique ! . . . she has this extraordinary combination of incredible control and simultaneous freedom .
brooke bloom and anja marquardt , “she’s lost control” from the opening minutes of “she’s lost control , ” it’s clear that newcomer anja marquardt’s portrait of a sex surrogate in new york city will take its subject matter seriously , using a studied manner that gives the material fresh context . with brooke bloom’s central performance giving the movie its dramatic anchor , “she’s lost control” strikes a fascinating mood between slow - building angst and cold remove not unlike the joy division song that provides the film’s title . an under - the - radar entry in berlin , “she’s lost control” is poised to receive more attention for both bloom and marquardt at sxsw , where it will make its u . s . debut next month .
though she ' s still in high school , she ' s got a bright future .
am astutely cold and compelling psychological drama with sex at its core , writer / director anja marquardt’s debut film she’s lost control is an unglossy and taut film that reflects the emotional tension within its central character , a behavioral psychologist specialising in sexual surrogacy .
also competing in the section is “she’s lost control , ” an american film about a sexual surrogate who falls for one of her clients , and brazilian director fellipe barbosa’s upcoming - of - age tale “casa grande . ”
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with some shrewd and swift twists and turns , she’s lost control— about a new york city sex therapist / graduate student and her twisted client—is part women’s picture , part sex thriller and all the underbelly of the sessions , where a wonderful helen hunt fixed her client . but where the sessions was sensual and deeply restorative and went in a single direction , she’s lost control sometimes seems to lose track of itself : perfect for a film about therapy and control issues .
“she’s lost control , ” anja marquardt’s chilly portrait of a behavioral psychologist who works as a sexual surrogate , is so studiedly bleak it will pour ice water on anyone’s fantasies of earning a living as an erotic healer .
from the opening minutes of “she’s lost control , ” it’s clear that anja marquardt ’s portrait of a sex surrogate in new york city will take its subject matter seriously , using a studied manner that gives the material fresh context . with brooke bloom ’s central performance giving the movie its dramatic anchor , “she’s lost control” strikes a fascinating mood between slow - building angst and cold remove not unlike the joy division song that provides its title .
a picture credit and a listing of film credits on march 20 with a review of “she’s lost control , ” using information from a publicist , misidentified the distributor of the movie . it is monument releasing , not visit films .
she ' s lost control
sustains a mood of deepening alienation , but the attitude of the movie is too detached for it to be emotionally gripping , and its ending is botched .
stewart , he says ,
is creating the film with me . she ' s inventing the mood of the film , she ' s inventing the pace of the film — i ' m helping her fine - tune it but she follows me , and i follow her .
how will it play ? an under - the - radar entry at the berlin film festival , “she’s lost control” is poised to receive more attention at the sxsw film festival , and while theatrical prospects are limited , its ostensibly salacious hook should give it a leg up in ancillary markets .
as an executive producer on she ' s lost control you ' ll have the rare opportunity to witness first - hand the making of an independent feature film from start to finish . and when it ' s time to celebrate - - walk the red carpet with us !
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' she’s lost control ' is an unsettling indie by first - time writer - director anja marquardt which simply doesn’t settle the many issues it raises . this is a good thing , for it teases you out of thought both during and after the film .
rowling has said that petunia ' s name may have come from a character in a public information film that she saw when she was a child .
“as bresson said , every film gets made at least three times : script , shoot , edit , ” said marquardt . “in the case of she’s lost control , i would say we went in with a fairly solid script , but allowed for things to unfold organically . ”
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anja marquardt ' s striking debut feature ,
she ' s lost control ,
depicts the slow unraveling of behavioral psychology student and sex surrogate rhona ( a remarkable brooke bloom ) as she attempts to navigate the clinical intimacies with her clients . simultaneously , she ' s trying to finish her graduate degree , fend off family troubles and cope with an apartment that ' s a near - slum .
after the second wizarding war she had two grandchildren . she died sometime before 2020 .
she’s lost control is the debut feature of writer / director anja marquardt . originally from germany , marquardt came to new york to get her mfa at nyu’s tisch school of the arts . inspired by an article she read on the use of robots for elder care in japan , marquardt began researching this concept of simulated intimacy and touch , and her research expanded to the topic of surrogate partner therapy . she’s lost control tells the story of a young woman living in new york who earns a living through sexual surrogacy while getting her degree in psychology .
too often , she ' s lost control hazily drifts from scene to scene , invested in examining the exhausted topic of what happens when a sex professional finds that the rigid boundary between work and off - duty pleasure has become uncomfortably porous .
“she’s lost control” may share certain thematic elements with 2012’s “ the sessions , ” but marquardt mercifully and mindfully sidesteps sensationalism here , drawing out powerful naturalistic performances from both her leads . striking a delicate balance between clinical precision and emotional sensitivity , the film’s stark aesthetic frequently waxes poetic to delve into the psychology of intimacy and isolation in the big city .
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needless to say , ronah’s state of self - assurance is a guise she wears well , even as the movie questions whether her attempts to help others confront their insecurities reflect a state of denial about her own issues . the spell is only broken in the movie’s final minutes , when one twist too many pushes the plot too far . even so , “she’s lost control” shrewdly avoids judgement of its character except to insinuate that she hasn’t fully considered the ramifications of her actions until it’s too late . having established that her version of sex therapy exists in “a safe place” early on , “she’s lost control” ends with the haunting suggestion that such a sanctuary doesn’t exist .
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all of the above , and once the film is completed we ' ll send you a limited edition , pre - release dvd of she ' s lost control . complemented by a limited edition storyboard print of a scene from the movie , signed by the artist and the director . and : you ' ll get an official thank you in the end credits of the film !
first , she ' s off to new orleans to film the fox action picture
underwater ,
in which she ' ll play the leader of a crew trapped beneath the ocean .
ronah , fiercely independent and in her 30s , works as a surrogate partner in nyc , teaching her patients the very thing they fear most — to be intimate . a cross between pop - cultural thriller and art house independent , she’s lost control is a film about professional intimacy and the way we connect to other people .
she ' s lost control is a sponsored project of fractured atlas , a 501 ( c ) 3 non - profit arts service organization . donations are tax - deductible to the extent permitted by law . you will be provided with a tax receipt by fractured atlas .
before this outburst , the camera follows ronah around the streets of manhattan , whose architecture reflects her loneliness . “she’s lost control” sustains a mood of deepening alienation , but the attitude of the movie is too detached for it to be emotionally gripping , and its ending is botched .
ronah , fiercely independent and in her 30s , works as a surrogate partner in nyc , teaching her patients the very thing they fear most - - to be intimate . a cross between pop - cultural thriller and art house independent , she ' s lost control is a film about professional intimacy and the way we connect to other people . set in a world that most of us aren ' t familiar with , we follow ronah as she carefully maintains a clear boundary between her professional intimacy and her own feelings . when she starts working with a new patient , johnny , that line begins to blur . and ronah ' s world begins to unravel . she ' s lost control is the first feature film by anja marquardt . academy award nominee , oren moverman ( the messenger , rampart ) is executive producing .
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even the stuff that she does when she ' s typing — she ' s acting ,
says assayas , who filmed stewart ' s texting replies in close - up , a tete - a - tete with a ghost in the machine .
marquardt : i’m from berlin originally and i’ve always loved bringing people together on my films . i’d been talking with martin frühmorgen of rotor film for quite a while , and he had done some amazing sound on one of my short films . they came onboard as post - production partners for she’s lost control , and helped me finish the film for the berlin international film festival . they’re an amazing sound facility that anyone in new york with a great project should check out .
anja marquardt’s debut feature , she’s lost control , covers thematic and emotional terrain similar to the sessions , ben lewin’s 2012 drama about the complex relationship between a man with intimacy issues and the sex surrogate who tries to help him . but whereas lewin approached the knotty subject matter with a light touch and a hearty but never - vulgar sense of humor , marquardt’s film takes a more clinical approach as it turns the focus mostly on the surrogate herself .
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how will we use these funds ? every dollar we raise in this campaign will go directly into making she ' s lost control . with the funds we ' re already raised , it means that : if we reach our goal of $ 50 , 000 , we can go into production !
( she’s lost control world premiered at the 2014 berlinale . it also screened at the 2014 sxsw film festival , and will have its new york premiere at new directors / new films 2014 , the first screening which is on saturday march 29th . visit the film’s facebook page for more information . note : susanna locascio worked on the film as 2nd ad but rather than being a conflict of interest , we felt this would contribute to a more illuminating conversation here , which , after reading said conversation , we feel strongly that you will agree . )
“it was interesting especially to see how different groups of people reacted to the film . at berlin [ international film festival 2014 ] where the film premiered , it was an older audience , and people had very different feelings about the subject matter than in south korea at a film festival with a much younger demographic , ” she said .
it ' s no coincidence that as stewart has come into her power as a critically acclaimed indie star , she ' s also turned to directing , reaching inward for artistic inspiration . her first short film , a 17 - minute meditation on love and loneliness , was inspired by the poetry she ' d been writing for years , processing past experiences and lost loves .
still , even in los angeles she ' ll occasionally find a new spot where no one cares that she ' s , well , kristen stewart .
mexican director jorge perez solorzano’s perpetual sadness ( la tirisia ) was named best film at the 55th thessaloniki international film festival ( oct 31 - nov 9 ) winning the golden alexander .
once it becomes evident where she’s lost control is headed , the film becomes vastly less interesting—marquardt hasn’t thought of a unique take on this predictable scenario , she’s merely done an expert job of disguising it . still , the first half does function as a impressive showcase for her formal chops , as well as for bloom’s gorgeously empathetic performance . the actor doles out clues to ronah’s psyche in the most naturalistic way imaginable , while marquardt keeps her moving around so briskly that it’s hard to draw simplistic conclusions ; they make a superb team , and the movie feels , for a while , as if it could go practically anywhere . menchaca , by contrast , never succeeds in making johnny more than a sullen cipher at the mercy of an increasingly threadbare script . a climactic moment of violence , likewise , seems obligatory , not inevitable . what she’s lost control really loses is steam , because it’s never particularly invested in its outcome , or even in forward motion . when the mystery’s gone , so is the inspiration .
as its title implies , “she’s lost control” tracks the gradual breakdown of its heroine ( brooke bloom ) , a grad student working as a sexual surrogate in new york . a hundred eighty degrees away from the sentimentality of the similarly themed “the sessions , ” anja marquardt’s debut feature favors cold , clinical compositions , often showing characters from behind ; this [ … ]
by virtue of its premise , “she’s lost control” calls to mind certain obvious precedents , but maintains a unique tone . it’s almost too easy to recognize that the quasi - romance at the center of marquardt’s story contains elements of “the sessions” without the excessive sentimentalism , while its vision of professional sexuality suggests “the girlfriend experience” minus the sleaze factor . but marquardt aims more precisely for a character study in which the themes quietly percolate through her subject’s disposition .
boundaries are meant to be broken in “she’s lost control , ” the remarkably sure - footed debut from writer - director anja marquardt . centering on a psychology grad student ( brooke bloom ) working as a sex surrogate in new york , the film appropriately opens with the eradication of the fourth wall : “i know you pay me for my time , but you can’t control how i feel , ” ronah ( bloom ) says , her big eyes gazing directly into the camera . by the time we circle back to the conversation in full , it’s revealed that she’s addressing johnny ( marc menchaca ) , a particularly guarded and volatile client who threatens to tip the balance of ronah’s personal and professional life .
marquardt said she was looking for a way to write about this experience when she came across this particular field of therapy .
writer - director anja marquardt ’s austerely elegant first feature is a chilly psychological stroll through the minefield of other people’s emotional damage , with a title that doubles as a plot spoiler as to where the protagonist is headed – even if the film , by contrast , remains tightly wound . while it’s acted with naturalistic intensity by a committed cast , she’s lost control will be too glacial and distancing for most tastes . but the story of a behavioral psychologist specializing in sexual surrogacy provides insight into intriguing characters for whom professional intimacy supplants personal relationships .
she’s lost control raises a lot of genuinely thought - provoking questions , and marquardt’s austere style allows us to draw our own conclusions from what she presents on screen . that makes it even more of a shame that marquardt doesn’t entirely trust her own material and feels the need to puff up her film with relatively artificial conflict that generally comes off as sops to screenwriting conventions . it’s not enough , for instance , that ronah seems emotionally isolated from her family ; marquardt also needs to have her mother disappear , leaving her brother in a perpetually panicked state . and then there’s that washing machine in her apartment , which leads to a payoff in the form of a conveniently timed lawsuit that adds insult to injury for the sake of by - the - book third - act conflict . turns out , it’s not only ronah who eventually loses control of her emotions , but the film itself that loses control of the most interesting and provocative threads of its vision .
the sxsw narrative directors eligible for this year’s prize are sarah - violet bliss for fort tilden , kat candler for hellion , leigh janiak for honeymoon , leah meyerhoff for i believe in unicorns , jen mcgowan for kelly & cal , gillian robespierre for obvious child , anja marquardt for she’s lost control , liz tuccillo for take care , and jocelyn towne for we will never have paris .
the title does give things away just a little , but the film is subtly unsettling and shot to reflect a rather bleak new york life . it is at heart a rather cold and perhaps inaccessible film , but there is much to admire in marquardt’s control and precision as well as a well sustained lead performance by lead actress brooke bloom . after premiering in berlin the film screened at sxsw .
marquardt leaves too much intentional ambiguity for her film to fall victim to predictability .
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in a world of increasing layers between people , intimacy is perhaps the most elusive ingredient of human interaction . a person can either take the plunge and emotionally connect with their os or , in the case of she’s lost control , psychotherapists can refer patients to sex surrogates . engaging in that line of work , nyc - based ronah puts to use her considerable psych - studies experience , as well as her natural solicitous warmth , to engage in close but professional relationships . until , that is , she meets johnny , and her already fraying control dissolves the thin line between professional and personal intimacy . first - time feature director anja marquardt , however , never loses control , delivering a stylish , deeply unnerving , and profound film on an intangible modern issue .
at its simplest , she’s lost control is a tale of girl meets boy ( where “boy” is the lead’s latest client , johnny , played by marc menchaca ) , and at its potential worst , just another attempt to probe the line between sex and self though the figure of the sex worker . while some of these tropes remain , marquardt leaves too much intentional ambiguity for her film to fall victim to predictability . beginning with the protagonist speaking directly to the camera ( “yes , you pay me for my time [ … ] but you can’t control how i feel” ) , marquardt uses this unconventional open to coyly lay out her film’s themes while still , as the unsettling climax proves , playing the final hand close to her chest .
marquardt demonstrates a sure hand and deft control over the film ' s icy tone . desaturated cinematography lends to the effect , and the result is a disquieting and chilling rumination on modern sex , love and relationships that leaves the audience with no easy answers .
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making a first feature - - it ' s a massive challenge ! shooting she ' s lost control in the ultra - low budget range , it gives us a lot of freedom creatively . we have a first - rate camera and equipment package ( arri alexa ) already in place , free of charge . and we have a highly professional crew that ' s ready to go . we ' ve received generous support from the german consulate general in nyc and will do some post - production in berlin , with the fantastic team at rotor film .
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“we had to recast the film twice with the lead characters , ” said marquardt .
i have always been fascinated by individuals who live on the peripheries of society , be it by circumstance or choice . ronah , the protagonist of she ' s lost control , wrestles with her own inability to open up and trust the people in her life . at the same time , she feels compelled to make an impact in her patients ' lives . intimacy is one of the hardest things to learn in life and it is becoming increasingly challenging in our modern , technologically - driven society . ultimately , she ' s lost control is a story about compassion and reaching out to other human beings . i am very excited to be making my first feature film . and i ' m very excited to share it with you . it ' s difficult for me to step out in the open and to ask for funding in this manner , but i feel this is a timely and relevant story . i hope that you will be part of it .
. . . and the many other expenses so that everyone can do their job ! the list is ( seemingly ) endless ! because our overall production budget is very small and we ' re determined to make she ' s lost control for the least amount possible , please know : every dollar counts . as we ' re moving forward , we ' ll share regular updates with you . and when the film is completed and it ' s time for the official festival premiere , you will be the first to know !
the ministry of magic threatened to expel harry , thinking he had done the magic himself . [ 6 ] then in 1993 , her sister - in - law marge visited . when marge cruelly insulted harry ' s parents , harry accidentally lost control of his magic , which caused her to blow her up like a balloon . vernon insisted harry return her to how she was , but was refused when harry informed him that she deserved what she got . the accidental magic reversal squad later fixed her and modified her memory [ 7 ] , ensuring that she remembered nothing of her negative experience with magic .
when harry ' s hogwarts letter arrived in 1991 , she supported her husband ' s decision to keep the truth from harry . they constantly tried to burn or rip up the letters , but they found that nothing was helping to stop the letters coming to harry , so petunia and the rest of the family moved to different places in an effort to outrun this wizarding post , until finally they were tracked down by rubeus hagrid . when hagrid forced the issue of harry ' s origin , petunia lost control and let loose all of the resentment she ' d held in about lily ' s life .
am : yeah , there is the city , and windows and walls sort of play a role visually . and to differentiate between ronah’s interaction with her clients and interaction in her own personal life , there’s definitely a tension going on . the moments between johnny and her , and also the other two clients , are more intimate , and it’s often handheld . she’s freer in the way she uses her own space than she is in say , the therapist’s office , where it’s more contained .
the viewer is initially dropped into scenes with little to no context , contributing to the uneasy , unmoored sensation that mimics the characters ' wayward journeys . the cinematic style and themes of urban alienation reflect almost a 1970s thriller quality , though the execution is decidedly modern .
she ' s lost control
is a quiet triumph , a true herald of a distinctive and necessary voice in cinema .
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she is also portrayed to be very obsessive and a neat - freak , as she constantly kept her house clean , even to the point of cleaning the kitchen worktop surfaces before bed . she was not fond of animals either , particularly in 1993 , when she flinches at the sight of marge ' s dog ripper slobbering on her kitchen floor . she also appears to dislike owls , as she become terrified when a large number of owls come to deliver harry his hogwarts acceptance letter .
maclaine plays harriet lauler , an affluent dame who lives by herself in a beautiful colonial in the town of bristol , where she once led her own advertising agency . harriet possessed talent and drive , and still does , but she suffers from what the film calls “obsessive - compulsive personality disorder , ” which means that she has to control the world around her and do every last thing her way . she has alienated everyone she’s ever known ; at one point , a man calls her hateful , and the camera inches down to show us that he’s wearing a priest’s collar . but the way a movie like “the last word” works , this is all our cue to see that , deep down , harriet is nurturing a heart of gold .
she says that the sessions , a film about sexual surrogacy that came out 2012 , actually helped in introducing the concept of surrogate - partner therapy to the world .
she stopped and looked back . for a moment harry had the strangest feeling that she wanted to say something to him : she gave him an odd , tremulous look and seemed to teeter on the edge of speech
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premiered in january at the sundance film festival , where stewart was amused by the journalists who attempted to sleuth out which of her famous exes the film was about .
in its engrossing first act , “she’s lost control” proceeds with a straightforward depiction of ronah’s process through glimpses of her interactions with various clients as well as her monotonous employer . while he provides the intellectual framework for her endeavors , it’s the physical strategies she applies to each session that initially create the impression of a productive endeavor : as she convinces one man to explore an isolated part of her body , gaze into her eyes for several seconds at a time , or gently coaxes another to remove his shirt , ronah maintains a clinical disposition that gives these initial scenes the aura of a documentary . then she meets johnny ( marc menchaca ) , an anxiety - riddled , alcoholic doctor whose restrained demeanor echoes her own , and things get complicated .
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to marquardt , ronah was the manifestation of the most extreme end of professional intimacy . “of course you could say she’s a sex worker , which she is , but it’s not the same thing as having sex for money because the transaction isn’t the same . ”
next for stewart is a lizzie borden biopic she shot opposite chloe sevigny as the infamous hatchet woman , and a jt leroy film in which she ' ll play savannah knoop , the woman who posed publicly as the literary sensation later revealed to be a hoax .
as its title implies , “she’s lost control” tracks the gradual breakdown of its heroine ( brooke bloom ) , a grad student working as a sexual surrogate in new york . a hundred eighty degrees away from the sentimentality of the similarly themed “the sessions , ” anja marquardt’s debut feature favors cold , clinical compositions , often showing characters from behind ; this austerity , while mirroring the clients’ intimacy issues , also creates an uncomfortable tension with bloom’s open , hopeful expressions . whether marquardt’s radically distanced style reflects a purely aesthetic choice or an attempt to downplay sensationalism , the absence of warmth may chill potential audience response .
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production : an slc film , rotor film production . produced by anja marquardt , kiara c . jones , mollye asher . executive producers , oren moverman , dax phelan , scott ryan , james su .
in making she ' s lost control , we will experience the inevitable challenges of the filmmaking process . on every film set , there are many elements that aren ' t entirely predictable . equipment could malfunction or weather conditions could force us to adjust our shooting schedule . one of the biggest challenges in shooting a feature film on such a modest budget - - we can ' t go
over budget
. we won ' t be able to add countless shooting days to our schedule , and we won ' t be able to re - shoot a scene unless it ' s absolutely necessary . however , all of our talented crew members are enthusiastic problem - solvers and have a lot of experience working on film sets of this size . and shooting with a small crew will allow us to move quickly . our fantastic team is 100 % committed to meeting all the challenges that may arise and producing a quality film .
am : i think it’s a real balance between men and women who respond to the film strongly . which is great , because i always wanted to make a film that has a reach that transcends any gender stereotyping . i’m happy to see that that works .
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stewart ' s also game for a third collaboration . she does , after all , sport a permanent memento of their work together in the form of the tattoo she dreamed up for her
clouds of sils maria
character , which she had etched onto her own forearm before
personal shopper .
petunia frequently referred to witches and wizards as
freaks
. however , never did she forget that harry was her sister ' s son . she begrudgingly gave him room and board for sixteen years because she knew that her home was the only place that he could be safe from the hands of voldemort .
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reviewed at eccles theatre , sundance film festival , january 24 , 2017 . running time : 108 min .
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“every relationship must end . ” this bitter but truthful observation is made by ronah ( brooke bloom ) midway through anja marquardt’s debut feature , she’s lost control . though decidedly anti - hallmark in tone , ronah’s proclamation isn’t one of pessimism , but an attempt at forcing a realistic outlook—as if through speaking this statement , her own emotional stakes will be lessened . as a sex surrogate who works with men ( all notably white and good looking , from the luxurious - haired never - nude to a nebbishly hip introvert ) who have “sustained problems with intimacy , ” ronah uses such talking cures to structure her own life . but soon the woman’s grip on her interior life begins to weaken , and , to riff on patsy cline’s great ballad to broken hearts , she falls into enigmatic pieces .
filmmaker : in conducting your research , does physical abuse factor into these therapeutic sessions ( the film touches on it toward the end of the film ) ? there’s always a sense of “we are two strangers alone in a room and this could potentially be a dangerous situation . ”
after accidentally od - ing on sedatives and red wine ( or did she kind of mean to do it ? ) , harriet takes the action that launches the movie into its orbit of ha - ha cute - ville : she decides that she wants to have her newspaper obituary written… right now . while she’s still healthy and hale . she marches into the offices of the bristol gazette , a struggling daily she helped to keep afloat with her advertising , and is introduced to anne sherman ( amanda seyfried ) , the paper’s obituary writer . it’s a ridiculous mission , and these two have nothing in common , which means that within moments their quibbling / affectionate may - december buddy mentorship has been totally established .
an interview with writer / director boots riley about his incendiary new film ,
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although the circumstances of the work ' s creation were largely fortuitous , calle cannot claim to have been a complete ingénue when it came to art . her father , an oncologist , was an avid collector of conceptual art , and she has always said that the reason she became an artist was that she wanted to seduce him .
but more about the patient in a moment . for a long time , she’s lost control simply follows the mundane day - to - day activities of ronah ( brooke bloom ) , a young woman who tells anyone who asks what she does that she’s working on her master’s degree in behavioral psychology . which is true , but it gradually becomes clear that she also has some sort of sideline involving therapy , talking exclusively with men . marquardt structures the movie in brief , uninflected snippets of conversation and activity , placing equal emphasis ( or lack thereof ) on everything we see : a scene in which ronah asks a man to swab his mouth and sign a contract is followed by a scene in which she deals with a leak in her shower , or just a shot of her walking briskly down a new york street . gradually , the nature of her profession becomes clear , and she begins to take a special interest in her newest patient , johnny ( marc menchaca ) , who flinches whenever he’s touched , and regards ronah with a daunting mixture of hostility and hope . before long , she’s spying on him at the hospital where he works as an anesthesiologist , and wincing when he shows affection to a female colleague . other aspects of her personal life start spiraling downward as well .
zachary galler ’s camera frequently trails the actors from behind , finding odd framing angles that are both intimate and detached . textured sound , nick carew ' s fluid editing and economic use of simon taufique ’s pensive music also contribute to give the small - scale film an assured consistency of tone .
this coldness – reflected in ronah’s bare apartment , stiff camera shots often from behind , and cool colors – is palpable and unnerving , largely because it is contrasted with ronah’s cheerful expressions and the assumingly emotional subject matter of the film .
this year’s jeonju international film festival runs from may 1 - 10 at various venues in the city . for tickets and information , visit www . jiff . or . kr .
in a deleted scene in harry potter and the deathly hallows : part 1 , petunia is seen looking very solemn , standing in the middle of the empty living room at privet drive . harry walks down the stairs and stops when he sees her . she says that she has lived in this house for twenty years , and now she ' s expected to leave in one night . harry explains how they will torture her , and stop at nothing . petunia replies that she knows what they are capable of , that night at godric ' s hollow , harry didn ' t just lose a mother , petunia lost a sister . after which , she hurries out the door . this is very likely what petunia was going to say in the book , but chose not to .
since petunia ' s sister , lily , was a muggle - born witch , both girls must have a wizarding ancestry , however distantly . this means that petunia was still related to wizards , even if she pretended she did not have a sister .
harriet wants anne to write an obit that makes her sound like god’s gift to humanity . to do that , anne has to observe harriet acting like a good samaritan , has to see her communing with her family , and needs a “wild card” — that special defining quality that lends a person’s life distinction . so harriet does the following wacky things . she looks for a poor , lost inner - city child to rehabilitate , and finds her in brenda ( annjewel lee dixon ) , an f - bomb - dropping nine - year - old angelic urchin with rasta braids who the movie treats like a dancing mascot . she goes to visit the daughter she hasn’t seen in 20 years ( anne heche ) , who turns out to be a chip off the old control freak .
other works in the exhibition show calle submitting her will to that of others in ritualised game - playing . auster gives her a list of things to do in new york in order to make the city a nicer , brighter place : she keeps a note of the quota of smiles given and smiles received . on the turning of her tarot cards , a clairvoyant instructs her to travel to a small french town and delight in the people she meets and the coincidences she observes . she asks strangers in the bronx to lead her to a place of their choosing in their run - down neighbourhood .
i like being in control and i like losing control ,
she says .
following the rules of others is restful . a way not to have to think - to be trapped in a game and to follow it .
filmmaker : speaking of that intense physical confrontation toward the end of the film , it takes place in darkness , only lit by the light cast from a nearby bathroom . it’s a very different choice from the considerable usage of invasive , blinding afternoon sunlight peering in to darkened rooms seen throughout the film .
they were extremely vain , materialistic , and preoccupied with status . they gave dudley everything he wanted , allowing him to rule the house . conversely , they kept strict control over harry ; he performed the chores , cooked the meals ( or at least breakfast ) , and spent time otherwise locked in the cupboard under the stairs . after harry re - entered the wizarding world , petunia and vernon ' s control over him diminished .
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filmmaker : as you mentioned , the film premiered at the berlinale in 2014 and i first saw the film soon at last year’s new directors / new films festival here in new york . after touring the festival circuit for the first time , have there been any experiences along the way that really stood out ?
from left : park jeong - min , sohn soo - hyeon and lee david , who star in ryu seung - wan , kim tae - yong and han ji - seung’s omnibus film “mad sad bad , ” this year’s opener for the jeonju international film festival , pose for a photo during a press conference in seoul on thursday . ( cj e & m ; )
the songwriter talks to the cbc ' s barbara amiel about america ' s young people and his own goals as a performer .
in 2014 , when i interviewed uma thurman with childlike glee , she linked the reception of “batman & robin” to audiences’ unwillingness to accept superhero stories that don’t revel in hyper - masculine aesthetics . whether or not thurman’s analysis holds weight , she waxed poetic about the evolution of queer sensibilities in a way that i’ll never forget . thurman resisted applying the word “camp” to “batman & robin , ” and she’s right . true camp has a certain self - awareness that this film distinctly lacks . it’s just a bloated , silly circus designed to produce toys and flashy marketing tie - ins and a best - selling soundtrack featuring jewel , the smashing pumpkins and r . kelly . that doesn’t mean it’s not also a fun relic of hollywood’s evolving blockbuster culture .
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overall , i enjoyed the film , even if , at times , it felt like watching an accident in extremely slow motion .
anja marquardt feels the need to puff up her film with relatively artificial conflict that generally comes off as sops to screenwriting conventions .
golden alexander : theo angelopoulos award to the best film la tirisia ( perpetual sadness ) by jorge perez solano ( mexico ) .
in making a film about intimacy , marquardt required a specific kind of actor , and actor chemistry , which made casting difficult .
with some basic knowledge of the subject matter in mind , audiences really connected to the film in different ways , said marquardt .
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i think that for one moment she trembled on the verge of wishing harry luck ; that she almost acknowledged that her loathing of his world , and of him , was born out of jealousy . but she couldn’t do it ; years of pretending that ‘normal’ was best had hardened her too much .
jiff celebrates its 15th edition this year with 181 films from 44 countries , including 40 world and 50 asian premieres . the annual film festival held in jeonju , north jeolla province , is one of the biggest asian film festivals and a supporter of independent and experimental film projects in korea . it is also known for introducing unconventional works by up - and - coming filmmakers around the world .
the first half functions as an impressive showcase for marquardt ' s formal chops , as well as for bloom ' s gorgeously empathetic performance .
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marquardt explained that the difficulties in making the film only added to the final result , and did not detract from the filming experience .
marquardt never buries her symbolic subtext very deep , what with a woman who freezes her eggs and a man who ensures that his patients feel nothing . she presents a tightly wound , lonesome heroine whose only promise of intimacy ( sex ) must be compartmentalized and intellectualized . ronah’s loss of control brings neither catharsis nor liberation , either to the character or to the film . marquardt includes indie helmer lodge kerrigan in her end - credits acknowledgments and her film owes an obvious debt to his unsettling aesthetic . but where kerrigan pushes his minimalism to extremes , marquardt naturalizes it , paradoxically lessening any sense of what has been left out of the emotional equation .
mark menchaca co - stars as rhona ' s most problematic client , johnny , and his brooding brutishness speaks to an inner torment on the cusp of violently breaking the surface . bloom does fine , subtle work here , as a woman constantly keeping her emotions tamped down , without any outlet . though she expends much effort to keep things under control , external forces prove difficult to overcome , and the workplace hazards grow more and more dangerous as she falls deeper down the rabbit hole .
anja marquardt : we’ve had some people say , “it’s a suspense drama . ” and other others said , “no , it’s a thriller , ” or “it’s a psychodrama , ” so it’s definitely somewhere in that range . i think tonally it’s its own thing , and leads audiences , hopefully , to where they didn’t expect to go , but i think it’s also not that easily classifiable . i feel like drama is not quite…


wearing velvet slippers under a golden umbrella ( burmese : ကတ တီပါ ဖိနပ စီး ရွှေထီးဆောင း , pronounced as katipa phanat see shwe htee hsaung ) is a 1970 burmese film directed by maung wunna starring myat mon , myat lay and thet naung .

the film was maung wunna 's first feature as director and he also wrote the screenplay , based on the novel of the same name by maung thara .

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wearing velvet slippers , holding a golden umbrella won best director of myanmar academy award in 1971 .
wearing velvet slippers under a golden umbrella ( 1970 ) / directed by maung wunna . with myat lay , myat mon , thet naung . a love story between a physicist and his beautiful female patience / drama / myanmar /
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he said : ‘the president has stood in the rain before without an umbrella and a marine would generally stand there without holding an umbrella . '
a velvet jacket on a man is too foppish . a velvet pair of loafers or ballet pumps are too sherlock holmes , not to mention impractical . a velvet dress adds inches to even the slimmest of hips , given its three - dimensional pile .
his new peroxide blond buzz cut stood out in the gloomy evening light against his dark ensemble , under the shade of the umbrella .
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my rules for wearing velvet , if you must ? don’t choose anything too voluminous , such as balmain’s smock top in green devore , at £2 , 370 .
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he has been under growing pressure over these issues and benghazi in recent weeks .
on one occasion the president ' s own struggles navigating an umbrella showed why .
pathetic , right ? okkar is part of fcp ' s alter u . his film was originally meant to be a documentary about down ' s syndrome , but morphed into a short drama instead , awash in the drippy atmosphere of the rainy season . as for the classic 133 - minute feature
wearing velvet slippers , holding a golden umbrella
by the impresario maung wanna . . . well , it was really long and surreal , so of course i fell asleep . twice . i got good stills though !
she toted a hot pink clutch and nude suede ankle - boots , showing off her impressive pins as she held on to her man under the umbrella and strutted down the street .
a man slightly marked with small - pox , in green leather slippers , and wearing a velvet cap with a gold tassel , was warming his back at the chimney . his face expressed nothing but self - satisfaction , and he appeared to take life as calmly as the goldfinch suspended over his head in its wicker cage : this was the chemist .
and he is obviously making sure it stayed preened to perfection as he sheltered alongside his girlfriend under an umbrella on tuesday night as the heavens opened and a torrential downpour descended upon london .
you could say i was weaned on velvet . aged nine , i had a pair of brown velvet hot - pants with braces made for me by my mother out of an old cushion .
he managed to smile for cameras in 2010 when he got in a muddle trying to get an umbrella over a fence .
mango has a strapless velvet dress in black for £34 . 99 . twiggy at m & s has a beaded black velvet jacket , £55 . 20 , that would look smart slung over jeans on boxing day .
i had a velvet needle - cord dress with a zip in a psychedelic floral print ( this was the sixties ) , again made by mum .
indeed , male marines are informed never to carry an umbrella from the earliest phases of training .
but last year , he made a comeback by directing the film hacksaw ridge , which earned him golden globe and bafta nominations .
the serbian - born runway favourite , who is one of the fashion world ' s top transgender models , wowed as she arrived at the four seasons downtown wearing a black satin blazer with bold shoulder pads - under which she went topless .
at this moment monsieur leon came out from a neighbouring door with a bundle of papers under his arm . he came to greet her , and stood in the shade in front of the lheureux ' s shop under the projecting grey awning .
streep , 67 , is a three - time academy award winner who has been nominated for a record 19 oscars and a record 30 golden globes during a career that has spanned five decades .
president obama humiliated the marine who he asked to hold his umbrella by making him ‘look like a butler’ , a respected military general claimed today .
ghost does velvet well : a black silk jacket is £36 in the sale and could look thirties over a bias - cut satin maxi skirt .
despite the wide range of topics up for discussion it is the umbrella incident which certainly captured chatter online .
at burberry prorsum , the velvet pencil skirt in brown reminds me of my jumbo cord days in the seventies .
isabel marant , the designer du jour for west london girls with more money than sense , has devore velvet trousers in a jazzy print .
this season , gucci has a velvet long - sleeved dress with , wait for it , a leopard print , for £2 , 120 — more than the price of a decent sofa .
i think velvet works best as a detail or a finishing touch , such as a panel on the bodice or hem , as in tomas maier’s gorgeous sheer chiffon cocktail dress , £525 .
the marines held an umbrella over the president and the turkish prime minister individually as obama made jokes about the weather .
meryl streep , the cecil b . demille honoree , used her golden globes acceptance speech on sunday night to publicly slam donald trump for mocking a disabled reporter
‘i don’t understand why one of his aides could not have held the umbrella . the marine is a warrior but the aides are not . ’
this image shows one of the six decaying metal canisters filled with 1800s - era u . s . gold coins unearthed under the shade of a tree
to avoid the twiggy look from 1985 and nail velvet , head to mango for their black strapless dress for just £34 . 99
christopher kane even has a skirt that is the ultimate in bad - taste velvet . it is flocked . and plum . and costs £1 , 650 .
a ccording to marine corps regulations , not even the president of the united states can request a marine to carry an umbrella without the express permission of the commandant of the marine corps .
' it made him look like a butler ' : retired general blasts president obama for ordering u . s . marine to break military rules by holding an umbrella
regulation mco p1020 . 34f of the marine corps uniform regulations chapter 3 , rules out any use or carrying of an umbrella while a marine is in uniform .
he also said that the president has plenty of aides so did not understand why one of them could not have held the umbrella .
the best place to get your velvet fix is the high street , where you can pick up some party pieces for very little .
the brands are fabulous , with the fashion range vastly improved , such as party dresses for less than £100 and 30 sweaters under £30 .
a velvet trouser suit reminds me of peter wyngarde in his seventies heyday : bushy moustache and flares . it is meant to be luxe , but just seems ott .
and asos has a velvet midi dress with long sleeves and embellished cross on the bust for £75 . it’s quite gothic , if you like that sort of thing .
the obama administration said later that the decision was made because the forces would not have arrived at the consulate , which was under attack , in time to make a difference .
in the book , the wicked witch of the west doesn ' t fly on or own a broomstick , instead she carries around a gaudy umbrella to protect herself from the rain or any water attacks .
she let her golden locks fall around her shoulders , straight and free , and she grinned as the couple walked from their central london dining spot to their car .
lt gen mcinerney told mailonline that he found it particularly insulting how the president at one point his his hand under the marine’s arm ‘like he wasn’t doing a good job or something’ .
on monday afternoon , hiddleston posted a message on facebook to apologize for his speech , saying : i just wanted to say… i completely agree that my speech at the golden globes last night was inelegantly expressed .
tom hiddleston ' s remarkable performance in the television miniseries the night manager scored him a golden globe on sunday night when he beat out the heavily favored courtney b . vance of ' the people v . oj simpson ' in a shocking upset .
' i was very nervous . words came out wrong ' : tom hiddleston apologizes for ' inelegant ' golden globes speech after being accused of casting himself as a ' white savior ' to the people of south sudan
those two fared far better than their co - star , with colman saying nothing as she was not in attendance and laurie getting a big laugh while joking that this would likely be the last ever golden globes .
it doesn ' t rain it . . . air force one staff sergeant brian barnett is pictured following behind the president with an umbrella as he boards air force one in 2011
‘for the past decade we haven’t had much freedom to do other projects . i certainly haven’t had much freedom to keep my own hair colour , or lay in the sun , or do anything remotely dangerous like skiing . it was nice to go on holiday and not have to slap on the spf50 and sit under an umbrella with three caps on . ’
in the book , the wicked witch owned a pack of 40 killer wolves , 40 killer crows and 40 angry bees . she did not own the winged monkeys , but the golden cap that compelled them to obey its wearer three times .
later , as edwardian fever hit the streets with the proliferation of laura ashley pie - crusted maxi dresses , i wore a bottle - green velvet frock coat made by my older sister with curtain fabric from dickins & jones .
he went to la pature at the top of the argueil hills at the beginning of the forest ; he threw himself upon the ground under the pines and watched the sky through his fingers .
meryl streep ' s speech condemning president - elect donald trump for perceived bullying tactics and intolerance didn ' t go over well with at least two of the stars in the gilded golden globes audience on sunday night .
in the book , when dorothy gale is kept a prisoner in the yellow castle of the wicked witch as a kitchen slave , the witch forcefully hits toto with her umbrella and sends the poor dog flying across the room . this was done to install fear within dorothy .
for two hours and a half they had been at table ; for the servant artemis , carelessly dragging her old list slippers over the flags , brought one plate after the other , forgot everything , and constantly left the door of the billiard - room half open , so that it beat against the wall with its hooks .
ap were believed to have received a leak of information from a government source .
he thought he was to be pitied for living in this village , with homais for a friend and monsieru guillaumin for master . the latter , entirely absorbed by his business , wearing gold - rimmed spectacles and red whiskers over a white cravat , understood nothing of mental refinements , although he affected a stiff english manner , which in the beginning had impressed the clerk .
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the lack of marines protecting ambassador chris stevens at the libyan consulate and the failure to deploy marines to protect him amid the outbreak of violence has come under fire ever since last year ' s attack on september 11 .
american man who posed as a saudi prince to try and buy a stake in a miami hotel was busted when the . . .
he wore a blue frock - coat falling in a straight line round his thin body , and his leather cap , with its lappets knotted over the top of his head with string , showed under the turned - up peak a bald forehead , flattened by the constant wearing of a helmet . he wore a black cloth waistcoat , a hair collar , grey trousers , and , all the year round , well - blacked boots , that had two parallel swellings due to the sticking out of his big - toes . not a hair stood out from the regular line of fair whiskers , which , encircling his jaws , framed , after the fashion of a garden border , his long , wan face , whose eyes were small and the nose hooked . clever at all games of cards , a good hunter , and writing a fine hand , he had at home a lathe , and amused himself by turning napkin rings , with which he filled up his house , with the jealousy of an artist and the egotism of a bourgeois .
and herein lies the rub ( don’t , whatever you do , rub this fabric , or go against its grain ) . velvet is too reminiscent of upholstery to ever be my fabric of choice , for men or women .
for the first time in a decade tom has been allowed to get a tan . he looks amazingly healthy and even a little buff .
the investigation centered on a secret cia operation in yemen that foiled a terror plot to blow up a u . s . - bound airliner .
trump responded to streep ' s comments on monday by taking aim at the actress on twitter , writing : ' meryl streep , one of the most over - rated actresses in hollywood , doesn ' t know me but attacked last night at the golden globes . '
the room on the ground - floor , the only one in the dwelling , had at its farther end , against the wall , a large bed without curtains , while a kneading - trough took up the side by the window , one pane of which was mended with a piece of blue paper . in the corner behind the door , shining hob - nailed shoes stood in a row under the slab of the washstand , near a bottle of oil with a feather stuck in its mouth ; a matthieu laensberg lay on the dusty mantelpiece amid gunflints , candle - ends , and bits of amadou .
cutting a quirky figure in the shot , spencer was clad in a printed shirt and designer shades .
however , female marines ' may carry an all - black , plain standard or collapsible umbrella at their option during inclement weather with the service and dress uniforms . it will be carried in the left hand so that the hand salute can be properly rendered . '
the former made in chelsea star , 27 , cut a suave figure in a black t - shirt and slacks , with a black blazer over the top .
we leave the highroad at la boissiere and keep straight on to the top of the leux hill , whence the valley is seen . the river that runs through it makes of it , as it were , two regions with distinct physiognomies - - all on the left is pasture land , all of the right arable . the meadow stretches under a bulge of low hills to join at the back with the pasture land of the bray country , while on the eastern side , the plain , gently rising , broadens out , showing as far as eye can follow its blond cornfields . the water , flowing by the grass , divides with a white line the colour of the roads and of the plains , and the country is like a great unfolded mantle with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe of silver .
thomas mcinerney , a former united states air force lieutenant general , said that the president showed a ‘lack of respect’ by making the soldier shelter him from a shower .
the marine corp manual , which is the bible for all soldiers serving , specifically states that a soldier ' s uniform dress code does not allow the carrying of an umbrella and ' no officer or official shall issue instructions which conflict with , alter , or amend any provision without the approval of the commandant of the marine corps . '
the priest declined very politely . he had come for his umbrella , that he had forgotten the other day at the ernemont convent , and after asking madame lefrancois to have it sent to him at the presbytery in the evening , he left for the church , from which the angelus was ringing .
the wicked witch of the west did not carry a broom in the novel , but rather an umbrella , which she uses on one occasion to strike dorothy ' s dog toto to install fear within the girl . the umbrella makes a lot more sense than a broomstick because it was also probably used to protect and shield herself against any water attacks . though no one knows that she is allergic to water . her nature is a self entitled one and yet somewhat slightly cowardly . despite her immense power , she avoids face - to - face contact with her enemies , and is frightened of dorothy at first when she sees the girl is wearing the magic silver shoes . she is also afraid of the dark in baum ' s original story for reasons never revealed . for that reason , the witch never tried to steal the shoes while dorothy was sleeping in her chamber cell during the dark night . despite her fear of water and the dark , the wicked witch of the west was one of the most powerful witches in all of oz . in ensuing oz books , her power is described as having been so great that even glinda the good witch of the south secretly feared her at one point .
such a perfect princess ! cute charlotte steals the show again with her royal wave - and a very polite . . .
at the foot of the hill beyond the bridge begins a roadway , planted with young aspens , that leads in a straight line to the first houses in the place . these , fenced in by hedges , are in the middle of courtyards full of straggling buildings , wine - presses , cart - sheds and distilleries scattered under thick trees , with ladders , poles , or scythes hung on to the branches . the thatched roofs , like fur caps drawn over eyes , reach down over about a third of the low windows , whose coarse convex glasses have knots in the middle like the bottoms of bottles . against the plaster wall diagonally crossed by black joists , a meagre pear - tree sometimes leans and the ground - floors have at their door a small swing - gate to keep out the chicks that come pilfering crumbs of bread steeped in cider on the threshold . but the courtyards grow narrower , the houses closer together , and the fences disappear ; a bundle of ferns swings under a window from the end of a broomstick ; there is a blacksmith ' s forge and then a wheelwright ' s , with two or three new carts outside that partly block the way . then across an open space appears a white house beyond a grass mound ornamented by a cupid , his finger on his lips ; two brass vases are at each end of a flight of steps ; scutcheons * blaze upon the door . it is the notary ' s house , and the finest in the place .
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in the hit abc tv show once upon a time , zelena the wicked witch of the west is the half - sister to the evil queen regina , having been born out of wedlock from an affair between her mother cora and a gardener named jonathan who masqueraded as a prince . after her existence ruins cora ' s chances of being married to the genuine prince leopold , she is promptly abandoned by her mother and swept up by a cyclone moments later . this carries her to oz and she is found by a woodsman and his wife . the woman insists on taking her in despite her husband ' s fear of her , having witnessed her perform magic at such a young age . many years later , she leaves home after her father spitefully reveals the truth , seeking out the wizard of oz . the wizard reveals her past and gives her the magic silver slippers , allowing her to travel to the enchanted forest and learn magic under rumplestiltskin . after a failed attempt to kill regina , zelena returns to oz and asks the wizard to send her back in time to change her past . when he refuses , causing her to expose him as a fraud and turn him into the first flying monkey . she is later invited to join the witches of oz by glinda , only to turn green with envy towards a newly arrived dorothy gale .
. . . a golden cap , with a circle of sparkling diamonds and red rubies running around its solid gold brim . this golden cap was a magic one had a special charm connected to it . whoever owned it could call three times upon the creatures , winged monkeys , who would obey any order they were given , no matter how evil or silly . but no person could command these strange creatures more than three times . and twice already the wicked witch of the west had used the charm of the cap . once was when she had made the winkies her slaves , and overthrew the natives and set herself to rule over their land , the winged monkeys had helped her do this . the second time was when she had fought against the great and powerful wizard himself , it was the winged monkeys who drove him out of the winkie country when he tried to challenge the wicked witch . only once more could she use this golden cap , for which reason she did not like to do so until all her other powers were exhausted . but now that her fierce wolves and her wild crows and her stinging bees were gone , and her slaves had been scared away by the lion , she saw there was only one way left to capture the little girl and destroy the beings accompanying her .
the president caused a stir when he summoned over two marines to keep him dry at a press conference in the rose garden .
‘i don’t buy into the razzmatazz . there was a party afterwards and i went for about 15 minutes before i went back to our hotel for a cup of tea and a chocolate digestive . ’
but velvet is the latest bad - taste fabric — after so much lace , so much sheer , so much lurex — to be resurrected by top fashion designers following years in the doldrums . ( or at least , since it was last revived in 2009 by the likes of ralph lauren , marc jacobs and stella mccartney . )
he then spent years in the wilderness — in which he didn ' t direct a single film and appeared in just a handful .
the review board is under fire for failing to interview high - level obama administration figures , including then - secretary of state hillary clinton . interviewing clinton , republicans on capitol hill have said , would have provided insights into who was accountable for lapses in security that left the u . s . consulate in benghazi , libya vulnerable to attack .
it has emerged that his state department political appointees intervened in the aftermath of the 2012 terror attack , in a process that resulted in a misleading set of talking points which ignored terrorism in favor of a more muted explanation , in the midst of a re - election campaign .
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i’m not a huge fan of the christmas advert , as i know that any male of any species , even a snowman , would not shuffle to the ends of the earth to buy me a gift .
one day , hnin asked khine to visit her house . they talked about khine’s ex - husband there . hnin told khine that mg was being fairly rich and successful in business , plus , there were rumours about his womanizing . it made khine to miss him again and go back to the past . however , in reality , she only knows and thinks about her poor son and his future . that is not because she doesn’t miss or love her husband but because the situation she had faced , the environment she was once in were disgusting . when the two friends got to khine’s house , khine showed her son’s drawing to hnin . all of a sudden , a few words written imprecisely under the drawing made them heartbreaking because moe , the poor child suffering from down’s syndrome , had been pining for his father and wrote “daddy” under his drawing .
' it very much helps if you ' re a supermodel or related to the kardashians or have a career in hollywood . getting a cover of a magazine is nice and i ' m grateful for it , but it isn ' t going to lift people out of poverty . '
usually a marine guard would be in force at an overseas diplomatic compound but in benghazi the government opted to use a private libyan security team .
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w . w . denslow ' s illustrations for the wonderful wizard of oz depict her as a gaudy old hag with three braided pigtails and an eye - patch . l . frank baum himself specified that she only had one eye , but that it
was as strong and powerful as a telescope
, enabling her to see what was happening in her kingdom from her castle windows , no matter the distance . other oz illustrators , such as paul granger , placed her eye in the center of her forehead , as a cyclops . usually , she is shown wearing an eye patch , however some illustrations incorrectly show her with two eyes instead of just one .
however , for some the move was not a laughing matter particularly as it is a breach of protocol for marines to hold umbrellas while in uniform .
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well , you see , there ' s a great difference between an educated man and an old carabineer who is now a tax - collector .
after the wizard banned magic from oz , west found a new career - she runs a brothel in emerald city . she also services the clients herself .
i can finally see ! michelle obama debuts a new longer hairdo . . .
a landing strip for alien craft or an ancient monument ? the . . .
the church is on the other side of the street , twenty paces farther down , at the entrance of the square . the little cemetery that surrounds it , closed in by a wall breast high , is so full of graves that the old stones , level with the ground , form a continuous pavement , on which the grass of itself has marked out regular green squares . the church was rebuilt during the last years of the reign of charles x . the wooden roof is beginning to rot from the top , and here and there has black hollows in its blue colour . over the door , where the organ should be , is a loft for the men , with a spiral staircase that reverberates under their wooden shoes .
in the broadway version she wears elaborate dresses and lives in a dark castle with the winkies slaving away and is always in a bad mood . she is killed when dorothy throws a bucket of water at her , causing her to melt away .
and andreja pejic , 25 , showed why , a decade later , she remains a forerunner in the modelling world when she made a head - turning arrival at the daily front row 5th annual media awards in new york city on friday night .
the wicked witch of the west is the malevolent ruler of the western quadrant in the magical land of oz known as the winkie country . interestingly , in baum ' s original book of 1900 , it is said the wicked witch lives in a yellow castle that is beautiful . her home is described as consisting of long hallways carpeted with yellow velvet rugs , yellow silken draperies are placed at the castle windows and attractive yellow antiques and decor decorated nearly every room . it is indeed a luxurious setting instead of being the sinister fortress of medieval darkness shown in the 1939 movie .
madame bovary , the novel ' s protagonist . educated in a convent and raised in the country , emma marries charles bovary at a young age . . . .
she teamed her jacket , which was cuffed at the sleeves and cinched just below her navel with a single lower button , with a pair of skintight black trousers .
sticking to her singular colour scheme , andreja stood tall in a pair of vertiginous black heels , while a pair of oversized gold hoop earrings served as her accessories .
he grew up in a home where his family were part of a strict catholic sect and it is believed his religious beliefs have steered him towards socially conservative views .
‘i think everyone is expecting the harry potter cast to break down as it comes to its end , ’ says tom . ‘i know daniel and rupert had a bit of a cry when it was their last day and the crew screened a showreel of the past ten years . but i feel a real mixture of emotions . there is a little bit of sadness , but at the same time there is excitement .
the performance that followed that win was not quite so remarkable however , with hiddleston taking the stage to collect his prize for best performance by an actor in a limited series or a motion picture made for television and then launching into a bizarre speech .
she often stopped a moment to look where to place her foot , and tottering on a stone that shook , her arms outspread , her form bent forward with a look of indecision , she would laugh , afraid of falling into the puddles of water .
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experts say it ' s likely whoever owned the property 150 years ago buried the coins as a kind of california gold rush - era bank - to save as an investment and for a rainy day . the coins were then forgotten for over a century .
in the book , the wicked witch lives in a yellow castle described as beautiful .
trump also called streep a ' hillary flunky who lost big ' on monday morning .
wait for him ! and what about monsieur binet ? as the clock strikes six you ' ll see him come in , for he hasn ' t his equal under the sun for punctuality . he must always have his seat in the small parlour . he ' d rather die than dine anywhere else . and so squeamish as he is , and so particular about the cider ! not like monsieur leon ; he sometimes comes at seven , or even half - past , and he doesn ' t so much as look at what he eats . such a nice young man ! never speaks a rough word !
the wicked witch ' s most popular depiction was in the classic 1939 hollywood musical movie loosely based on baum ' s book , the wizard of oz , where she was portrayed by late actress margaret hamilton . hamilton ' s iconic characterization introduced green boogeyman skin and this has been continued in later literary and dramatic representations of oz , including gregory maguire ' s highly praised revisionist oz novel titled wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the west . in maguire ' s story the witch ' s name is
elphaba
who is green due to her mother consuming
green miracle elixir
while she was pregnant with her . in the 2013 oz film by walt disney pictures oz the great and powerful , the pre - wicked witch of the west is a young and naive
good witch
named theodora , who tragically turns green from a green posion apple that causes her heart to shed itself from all its goodness . in the spring 2014 story arc of the popular television series once upon a time , the wicked witch is named
zelena
, who turns green due to her jealousy over a newly arrived dorothy who became a threat to the prophecy involving oz ' s four witches (
green with envy ) . when she was a little young girl her evil brother the jester try to steal her broom or umbrella that is more powerful than all the entire everything anything and all time and can fly but she make a spell on her brother that every time that jester try to steal the broom or umbrella the jester had a chicken tail
she wore a low - cut , shoulder - less dress , made in a flowing , silky material , adorned with an intricate pattern in turquoise , cream and light pink .
spencer nonchalantly told his 557k instagram followers that he ' fancied a change ' when it came to his shaved head , revealing a photo to the world as he did so .
' a quick story , i know it ' s been a long night , ' said hiddleston , who picked up his award about two hours into the three hour ceremony .
‘my parents did what they could , but when money is thrust upon you so are a load of other things : tax , vat , mortgages — things a 16 - year - old really doesn’t know anything about . i got myself into a bit of trouble .
on the other side of the chimney a young man with fair hair watched her silently .
low and covered with brown tiles , there hung outside it , beneath the dormer - window of the garret , a string of onions . faggots upright against a thorn fence surrounded a bed of lettuce , a few square feet of lavender , and sweet peas strung on sticks . dirty water was running here and there on the grass , and all round were several indefinite rags , knitted stockings , a red calico jacket , and a large sheet of coarse linen spread over the hedge . at the noise of the gate the nurse appeared with a baby she was suckling on one arm . with her other hand she was pulling along a poor puny little fellow , his face covered with scrofula , the son of a rouen hosier , whom his parents , too taken up with their business , left in the country .
‘it makes the other guy ( the other marine ) look like a butler too . '
‘i think it’s a lack of respect for the marine , that’s what i think . '
he said : ‘the president talks a good line but he doesn’t follow a good line . these guys are coming home and they’re not getting what they are supposed to get . '
police find the body of a missing four - month - old boy near . . .
however , kagin ' s company posted a brief question and answer interview with the couple - identified only as john and mary - on a website set up to market the coins .
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since the events about to be narrated , nothing in fact has changed at yonville . the tin tricolour flag still swings at the top of the church - steeple ; the two chintz streamers still flutter in the wind from the linen - draper ' s ; the chemist ' s fetuses , like lumps of white amadou , rot more and more in their turbid alcohol , and above the big door of the inn the old golden lion , faded by rain , still shows passers - by its poodle mane .
an audible gasp was heard from the star - studded room as he changed gears from a tale about humanitarians in the region that is currently in the grips of a brutal civil war .
actor vince vaughn is rarely vocal about politics but in an interview in 2015 , he described himself as a libertarian saying he liked the principles of forming a government built around the law .
' that instinct to humiliate , when it ' s modeled by someone in a public platform , it filters down into everyone ' s life because it gives permission for others to do the same , ' said streep in front of a audience packed full of hollywood a - listers .
when coffee was served felicite went away to get ready the room in the new house , and the guests soon raised the siege . madame lefrancois was asleep near the cinders , while the stable - boy , lantern in hand , was waiting to show monsieur and madame bovary the way home . bits of straw stuck in his red hair , and he limped with his left leg . when he had taken in his other hand the cure ' s umbrella , they started .
they were talking of a troupe of spanish dancers who were expected shortly at the rouen theatre .
i was tasered by a fragrance as i stormed through the beauty hall , but no matter .
laurie and colman also picked up awards on sunday in the best performance by an actress and actor in a supporting role in a series , limited series or motion picture made for television categories .
actor mel gibson is known to be ultra - conservative and a supporter of the republican party .
he later apologised , saying his comments had been the ' stupid rambling of a drunkard ' .
in the movie adaptation , her character is slightly more interesting . here , she lives in an underground castle located in oz ' s sewer system where she also runs a sweatshop where her winkie slaves are forced to work non - stop with no lunch hours or breaks . and she sits on a giant , dirty toilet seat she has turned into a throne . in the movie she wakes up at noon to watch over her slaves and will kill anyone who is not working hard . she is dressed in a big red dress with many tacky or gaudy items glued or sewn into it , such as dog toys , antique jewelry and other small , random pieces . she also wears many golden crowns on her head and lots of rings and mismatch jewelry . she is killed when dorothy turns on the sprinkler system causing water to wet the entire sweatshop factory , thus killing evillene in the process and setting the winkies free from slavery .
what can i do for you , monsieur le curie ?
asked the landlady , as she reached down from the chimney one of the copper candlesticks placed with their candles in a row .
will you take something ? a thimbleful of cassis * ? a glass of wine ?
i ' m that worn out sometimes as i drop asleep on my chair . i ' m sure you might at least give me just a pound of ground coffee ; that ' d last me a month , and i ' d take it of a morning with some milk .
i stood in the kitchen department wailing until a young woman called alice came to my rescue . ‘can i help you ? ’ that’s a good start . ‘i need to cook scrambled eggs . ’
an accident had delayed him . madame bovary ' s greyhound had run across the field . they had whistled for him a quarter of an hour ; hivert had even gone back a mile and a half expecting every moment to catch sight of her ; but it had been necessary to go on .
she was confined on a sunday at about six o ' clock , as the sun was rising .
addressing the benghazi fallout pre - emptively before erdogan spoke , obama said that ' a t my direction , we ' ve been taking a series of steps that were recommended by the review board . '
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and while tom is also close to rupert grint , he admits he is a totally different character .
thought the gold rush ended some 150 years ago , the california couple stumbled upon a rich hoard .
it also became clear that the story appeared to be a plug for the beauty of his miniseries the night manager and his abilities as an actor as much as it was a nod to these workers .
but despite her hang - ups over interviewers zeroing in on her transition , the leggy blonde acknowledges she comes from a place of privilege and says there is still a long way for the lgbtiq community .
he continued : ' there ' s a curfew at 6pm every night because humanitarian aid workers have to be inside so that it ' s safe - by 6 . one night we were having a bite to eat at the canteen where we were staying . and a group of young men and women tottered over to the table and were all having what they call a ' dirty beer ' in humanitarian language .
most of her power resides in the creatures she controls that do her dirty work . she has a pack of hungry , wild wolves , a swarm of black killer bees , a flock of black crows with sharp beaks to peak put the eyes of their targets and an army of male winkies who are her slaves . in the book she also possesses the enchanted golden cap encrusted with real rubies and diamonds that run across its 24 karat gold brim . this special cap compelles the creatures called winged monkeys of oz to obey her on three occasions when she speaks the caps incantation . first , the witch commanded the creatures to help her enslave the winkies and to seize control of the western section of oz . second , she made the winged monkeys drive the wizard out of the winkie country , when he became the dominant ruler and even attempted to overthrow her but was unsuccessful .
the walls of the gardens with pieces of bottle on their coping were hot as the glass windows of a conservatory . wallflowers had sprung up between the bricks , and with the tip of her open sunshade madame bovary , as she passed , made some of their faded flowers crumble into a yellow dust , or a spray of overhanging honeysuckle and clematis caught in its fringe and dangled for a moment over the silk .
tom is said to have earned around £3 million for his role as a baddie in the films . but he admits even the pay cheques turned out to be , at one point , a poisoned chalice .
whaddaya know ? the main actor ' s ong keng sen ! always knew he was a time lord .
tyrone s . woods and glen doherty were part of a cia security team stationed a mile away who heard gunshots and intervened to try and help stevens . they were also killed in an attack on their compound .
' it is just simply unacceptable for there to be even a hint of partisanship ' in the irs .
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‘we only do john lewis , i’m afraid . ’ oh dear ! i was now in a rage .
‘and to me , fame is not a positive thing . the idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality . it’s fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you , but it’s not real . and it’s totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because i can . ’
ah ! that a merchant , who has large connections , a jurisconsult , a doctor , a chemist , should be thus absent - minded , that they should become whimsical or even peevish , i can understand ; such cases are cited in history . but at least it is because they are thinking of something . myself , for example , how often has it happened to me to look on the bureau for my pen to write a label , and to find , after all , that i had put it behind my ear !
madame is no doubt a little fatigued ; one gets jolted so abominably in our ' hirondelle . '
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the daylight coming through the plain glass windows falls obliquely upon the pews ranged along the walls , which are adorned here and there with a straw mat bearing beneath it the words in large letters ,
mr . so - and - so ' s pew .
farther on , at a spot where the building narrows , the confessional forms a pendant to a statuette of the virgin , clothed in a satin robe , coifed with a tulle veil sprinkled with silver stars , and with red cheeks , like an idol of the sandwich islands ; and , finally , a copy of the
holy family , presented by the minister of the interior ,
overlooking the high altar , between four candlesticks , closes in the perspective . the choir stalls , of deal wood , have been left unpainted .