kipps is a 1921 british drama film directed by harold m. shaw and starring george k. arthur , edna flugrath and christine rayner .

it is an adaptation of the novel kipps by h.g. wells .

it was made by stoll pictures , the largest film company in the british isles at the time .

kipps ( 1921 film )

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( dir . rex ingram , us , 1921 ) with live musical accompaniment . the film tells a truly epic tale of an argentine family which is divided and ends up fighting on
september a brand new silent film is set for release . and not only is the film being released in london but it is also a celebration of london . the film is
. ( 89 minutes b & w ; ) director : clarence brown . cast : greta garbo , george f . marion . ( based on the 1921 eugene o ' neill play ) ( drama )
. ( 74 minutes ) director : philip moeller . cast : irene dunne , john boles . music : max steiner . summary : ( based on the 1921 / 305 paged novel by edith wharton . ) ( drama / romance )
half a sixpence is a 1967 british musical film directed by george sidney and choreographed by gillian lynne . the screenplay by beverley cross is adapted from his book for the stage musical of the same name , which was based on kipps : the story of a simple soul , a 1905 novel by h . g . wells . the music and lyrics are by david heneker .
its own cinema release to mark the 90th anniversary of the film’s original screening .
, home of the english national opera . although not the first film adaption of
. ( 121 minutes ) director : giuliano montaldo . cast : gian maria volonte , riccardo cucciolla , cyril cusack , milo o ' shea . summary : the trial and later execution of two italian immigrants convicted of murder in 1921 . [ massachusetts ]
achieved nothing else ( other , that is , than giving a lot of people a lot of enjoyment ) it may have convinced both film distributors and cinema operators that there is a viable audience for re - released silent films . because news now comes that eureka entertainment have announced not only the release of a newly restored version of fritz lange’s 1921 classic
ivanhoe ( independent moving pictures film co . , us 1913 ) dir : herbert brenon
. ( based on the novel
film of memory
by maurice druon . )
. ( 115 minutes ) mgm - director : george sidney . screenplay : ronald miller , george froeschel . cast : stewart granger , eleanor parker , janet leigh , mel ferrer . ( based on the 1921 / 359 paged rafael sabatini novel . ) ( drama / adventure )
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the film’s producer and leading man , himansu rai , along with pal and osten subsequently became major influences in indian filmmaking with the formation of the bombay talkies film studios in 1934 .
. cast : kenneth branagh , emma thompson . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
the retrospective will feature first screenings of films newly restored by leading german archives and film institutions including mountaineering epic fight for the matterhorn ( mario bonnard , nunzio malasomma , 1928 ) , robert reinert’s monumental opium ( 1919 ) , as well as a two - part film long thought lost , urban gad’s christian wahnschaffe ( part 1 : world afire , 1920 , part 2 : the escape from the golden prison , 1921 ) , based on the 1919 jakob wassermann novel ‘the world’s illusion’ .
is looking like a pretty good month for silent film . pride of place must go to the
. director : orson welles . cast : orson welles ( drama / adventure / film noir )
set in kent during the edwardian era , the plot centres on arthur kipps , a draper ' s assistant who falls in love with a chambermaid named ann . in quick succession , he comes into a fortune , nearly marries a wealthy girl , marries ann instead , loses his fortune , but regains that fortune and lives happily ever after with a loving family .
which is the centre for the preservation and restoration of , and research into , ukrainian film history .
first programme details of birmingham’s flatpack film festival have now been released . the festival runs at venues across the city from 4 - 11 april and features a small but interesting selection of silent film events . there are two silent events scheduled so far . the first is a selection of works by spanish film pioneer
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1903 - the great train robbery . ( 12 minutes ) director : edwin s . porter . cast : bronco billy anderson , summary : an american silent short western film written , produced , and directed by edwin s . porter , a former edison studios cameraman . ( genre : western ) ( indie film , short film )
( dir . augusto genino , italy , 1929 ) , her final european film appearance and an absolute masterpiece .
) directed in 1924 by hans karl breslauer . but you won’t find any mention of this film on the barbican’s
most of the silent film screenings will be accompanied by live music from internationally renowned musicians including the uk’s own stephen horne while well known german musician gunter buchwald will be celebrating 40 years as a silent film accompanist in 2018 .
) on bluray and dvd but also a theatrical release of the film in cinemas across britain and ireland . lange
. ( silent film ) ( based on the gaston leroux work . ) ( see the 1943 version . )
. ( 99 minutes ) director : george stevens . cast : katharine hepburn , fred mac murray , evelyn venable , hattie mcdaniel . summary : family life in south renford , indiana , where class and wealth are important for social activities . [ based on the 1921 / 268 paged book tarkington pulitzer novel ] [ indiana ] ( drama , romance )
archive footage it is understandable that they want to give the film maximum exposure so the multiple screenings are probably understandable .
) had been completed and , as well as a dvd / blu - ray release , the film was going on release at uk and irish cinemas . details of the cinema screenings have now been released . the film will be screened at the
in birmingham , running from 4 - 9 april . screenings already announced include a look at the work of spanish film pioneer
’s first outing and having not seen the film i cannot comment on it . but given that it draws from the bfi’s own
. the film contains many of chaplin’s most celebrated comedy sequences , including the boiling and eating of his boot , the dance of the rolls , and the teetering cabin . the film was made on location and on a scale that chaplin had never attempted .
( 1928 ) . the odessa steps sequence remains one of the most powerful images of politically orchestrated violence ever put on film .
. ( based on
buried alive
an arnold bennett work . ) ( 1943 film version
holy matrimony .
)
the jaeff hope to screen the film in london on 24 september ( the 91st anniversary of the film’s theatrical release ) . the plan is to screen a 35mm copy of the film with narration by an authentic japanese benshi and live musical accompaniment by traditional japanese musicians . but as with all such projects , funding is an issue . so they’ve launched a modest crowdfunding appeal to raise funds to fly in the film , the benshi and the musicians from japan . if you’d like to contribute or simply find out a bit more
it looks like this year’s yorkshire silent film festival is shaping up to surpass last year’s inaugural event . the opening night screening of hitchcock’s
. director : robert rossen . cast : john garfield , lili palmer , william conrad . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : edward dmytryk . cast : robert newton , sally gray , phil brown . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : vincent sherman . cast : joan crawford , david brian , richard egan . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : robert parrish . cast : dick powell , rhonda fleming , william conrad . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 137 minutes r ) director : milos forman . cast : colin firth , annette bening , meg tilly , sian phillips , jeffrey jones , henry thomas . summary : 18th century french aristocratic sexual liaisons . [ france ] ( drama film / indie film )
. ( 104 minutes r ) summary : two estranged brothers reunite for a train trip across india . ( drama , indie film )
later on the same day , we’re in for even more of a treat with a very rare screening of british director maurice elvey’s masterful film biopic nelson , made in 1918 . the film was a long cherished project for elvey , britain’s most prolific film director , one of a series of silent film biopics he made , with other subjects including david lloyd george and florence nightingale . nelson was made with support and assistance of the admiralty who saw it as a useful recruiting tool with the great war still raging . portraying admiral nelson as action hero , the film celebrates his heroic status , expertly recreating some epic moments in british naval history and includes scenes shot on hms victory itself .
. ( 79 minutes ) director : richard fleischer . cast : henry morgan , rudy vallee , bill goodwin . summary : a small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to new york city . urban culture shock takes the form of strange ways and oddball characters . ( based on ring lardner ' s 1921 novel
the big town : how i and the mrs . go to …
) ( comedy )
there is indeed a veritable cornucopia of silent film delights coming up across the country in march . over in the hereford area , although the
the film will be screened in its fully restored , 2010 version and musical accompaniment will be provided by dj vangelis makriyannakis with a soundscape drawn from the vaults of kraut - electronica , industrial , minimalist electronics & post - rock . the film will be screened on 2 september .
. ( 108 minutes pg ) ( based on the 1954 / 71 paged play by horton foote . ) ( drama , indie film )
. ( 101 minutes ) director : robert montgomery . cast : robert montgomery , thomas gomez . ( drama , film - noir , mystery )
. director : robert aldrich . cast : joan crawford , cliff robertson , vera miles . ( drama / adventure / film noir , melodrama )
. ( based on the 1933 / 241 paged james hilton novel . ) ( fantasy , drama film ) ( see the 1937 version . )
. ( 96 minutes pg - 13 ) director : stuart gillard . cast : willie aames , phoebe cates . ( drama film / comedy )
how do you fancy helping to fund not only a silent classic but also kick off a whole new japanese film festival . the japanese avant - garde and experimental film festival ( jaeff ) is a new venture aiming to draw connections between classic 20th century japanese avant - garde cinema and contemporary japanese experimental film - making . for its launch event they are hoping to screen teinosuke kinugasa ’s 1926 silent classic kurutta ippēji ( a page of madness )
so , whatever your silent film tastes , there is something in may for everyone . go out and enjoy . as always , full details are on
directed by istvan brody and originally released in 1915 , the film had been thought lost for decades . the re - discovery is particularly important given that only a tiny handful of films from hungary’s silent film era survive , many of which are incomplete or damaged . little is known of the plot of
. director : john cromwell . cast : humphrey bogart , lizabeth scott , morris carnovsky , wallace ford . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : henry hathaway . cast : victor mature , richard widmark , colleen gray , brian donlevy . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : jean negulesco . cast : richard widmark , cornel wilde , ida lupino , celeste holm . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : don siegel . cast : robert mitchum , jane greer , william bendix , ramon navarro . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : samuel fuller . cast : jean peters , richard widmark , richard kiley , thelma ritter . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : lewis allen . cast : frank sinatra , sterling hayden , james gleason , nancy gates . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 91 minutes ) cast : lillian gish , bette davis . ( based on a david berry play . ) ( drama , indie film )
. ( 83 minutes ) warner brothers - director : william wellman . story : kubec glasman and john bright ; adaptation by harry thew . cast : james cagney , edward woods , donald cook , joan blondell , jean harlow , mae clark . ( drama / adventure / gangster film / film noir )
, the film grew into a mammoth production costing over a million dollars . there were some 12 , 000 extras , 14 cameramen and 12 assistant directors .
take the law into their own hands . its a a claustrophobic drama of raw power , combining naturalism and the grotesque , realism and melodrama . r m hubbert is a multi - award - winning scottish performer who will be accompanying the film with his own score , commissioned especially for the film by the the
with charles farrell and janet gaynor . long thought lost a copy of the film was rediscovered in the 1990s . there is also a modern documentary , entitled
” , eventually making some 36 mainly b - westerns . but as her film career faded texas guinan was to achieve even greater notoriety as new york’s “
picking up a few more followers overseas . in australia there certainly seems to be a bustling silent film scene , in the sydney area at least . the
yesterday we heard from screen - writing legend jane goldman and director james watkins and today we hear from the main man himself , daniel radcliffe who talks about what it was like playing the lead role of arthur kipps . he talksa bout how he got the role and why he wanted to take it on so soon after harry potter was all finished . the woman in black is released in the uk right now and you can order your copy here . a young lawyer ( radcliffe ) travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals .
. ( 95 minutes ) director : raoul walsh . ( based on the a . e . bezzerides work . ) ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : jules dassin . cast : richard conte , lee j . cobb , valentina cortesa , jack oakie . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : john farrow . cast : robert mitchum , faith domergue , claude rains , maureen o ' sullivan . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( the big carnival ) director : billy wilder . cast : kirk douglas , jan sterling , robert arthur . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : joseph h . lewis . cast : cornel wilde , jean wallace , brian donlevy , earl holliman . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 110 minutes ) director : michael anderson . cast : james cagney , don murray , dana wynter , glynis johns , cyril cusack , michael redgrave , sybil thorndike , richard harris . summary : in 1921 dublin , an irish - american student innocently becomes involved in rebel activities and finds himself a fugitive . he joins an ira cell led by james cagney , whom he first admires , but soon comes to realize is a murderous fanatic . [ ireland ] ( action / drama / history )
with almost 70 screenings already scheduled , march is looking like a pretty good month for silent film watching . details of all of these screenings and more can be found
but it will now be sent to the hungarian national film archives’ collection , where , once restored and digitalized , it will be re - released . find out more
. director : irving pichel . cast : robert young , susan hayward , jane greer , rita johnson , tom powers . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : nicholas bay . cast : joan fontaine , joan leslie , zachary scott , robert ryan , mel ferrer . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 503 minutes ) new yorker films . director : claude lanzmann . [ europe ] [ middle east ] ( jewish experience ) ( drama film / war )
. ( 102 minutes ) director : david mamet . cast : lindsay crouse , joe mantegna . ( drama / adventure / film noir ) ( drama / thriller )
on the 3 rd of september london symphony will be screened at the barbican as part of that venue’s ‘silent film and live music’ series . the film will be accompanied by the premier of a newly composed score by composer james mcwilliam , performed by the orchestra of st paul ‘s led by conductor ben palmer . there will also be a screening at the cinema museum in lambeth on 29th september after - which the film will tour around a number of carefully selected venues throughout the uk , including conventional cinema spaces and alternative spaces such as a parish church and a buddhist meditation centre . the film will also be released internationally later in the year through distributors flicker alley .
and explores 50 years of chinese history through an extraordinary collection of rare and beautiful travelogues , newsreels and home movies from the archives of the british film institute including what could well be the oldest surviving film shot in china – unseen for 115 years . the footage will be accompanied by a five - piece band brought together by midlands based composer
. ( 56 minutes silent film ) director : e . a . martin . cast : tom mix , bessie eyton . summary : eager to prove himself to his boss ' s daughter , a cowboy captures a cattle rustler , only to get kidnapped by the rustler ' s gang . ( romance , silent film , drama , western )
. ( based on the 1894 / 157 paged anthony hope novel . ) ( swashbuckler film , drama ) ( see the 1922 , 1937 , and the 1952 versions )
but there is a lot else going on across the country besides . in london , the month kicks off with one of those annoying silent film fixture clashes , will it be
. ( 95 minutes pg ) directors : howard hawks , richard rosson . cast : osgood perkins , paul muni . summary : gangster warfare . ( crime film / drama )
. ( 170 minutes ) director : terrence malick . cast : sean penn , george clooney , woody harrelson , nick nolte , john cusack . summary : a realistic view of military and moral chaos in the pacific during world war ii . [ based on a novel by james jones . ] [ pacific ocean ] ( drama film / indie film )
( dir . w p kellino , 1924 ) . ‘but i’ve never heard of that film’ we hear you all cry . of course you haven’t . normally it is locked deep in the bowels of the bfi’s national film archive , never to see the light of day , not on the bfi - player , not on dvd and certainly not ‘coming soon to a screen near you’ ! but very rarely this film manages to escape , although you have to be quick to catch it before it is consigned back to its underground lair .
. ( 89 minutes ) director : stanley kubrick . cast : kirk douglas , adolphe menjou , ralph meeker , george macready . summary : during world war i in france , a regiment of soldiers are assigned suicide missions . [ based on the 1935 / 304 paged humphrey cobb novel . ] [ france ] ( drama film / anti - war film )
in bo’ness . the film will be screened in inverness , orkney , shetland , glasgow , edinburgh , anstruther and dunoon from the middle of september onwards . full details as always in
this was the final film made by sidney , director of such well - known movies as annie get your gun , kiss me kate , bye bye birdie and viva las vegas .
time out london says ,
the film lays on the period charm rather exhaustingly , and the songs . . . don ' t exactly sweep you along .
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. ( 85 minutes ) director : stuart heisler . cast : alan ladd , veronica lake . summary : a crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re - election campaign . ( based on the 1931 / 214 paged dashiell hammett novel . ) ( drama , adventure , film noir , crime film )
. director : robert wise . cast : robert mitchum , robert preston , barbara belgeddes , phyllis thaxter , walter brennan , tom tully . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : john huston . cast : sterling hayden , sam jaffe . ( based on the w . r . burnett novel . ) ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : phil karlson . cast : preston foster , john payne , colleen gray , donna drake , jack elam , neville brand . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 104 minutes ) director : james foley : cast : jason patric , rachel ward , bruce dern . ( drama / adventure / film noir ) ( drama / thriller )
! ! ) silent film screenings due to take place at bfi in june . now , before you fall off your seats in amazement , its not quite that good because there are multiple
a compilation of some of the oldest surviving film shot in china – much of it unseen for 115 years . newly announced additions to the programme include that rarity , a modern silent called
. director : joseph h . lewis . cast : john dall , peggy cummins . ( based on a satevepost story by mackinlay kantor . ) ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 115 minutes pg ) director : robert altman . cast : robin williams , shelley duvall . ( based on the jules feiffer screenplay . ) ( cult film , comedy music )
whichever venue we choose to attend on the afternoon of 11 march , it will be deeply frustrating to think that barely two miles away is another silent film being screened which we may well never get the chance to see again . wouldn’t it be nice to think that someone would come up with some sort of silent film calendar to help avoid this happening again in the future… . .
. live piano accompaniment for the whole six and a half hour marathon will be provided by renowned silent film accompanist john sweeney . full details of all silent screenings at the festival can be found
. director : joseph l . mankiewicz ñ edward g . robinson , richard conte , susan hayward , efrem zimbalist , jr . , debra paget . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 99 minutes ) director : francois truffaut . cast : jean - pierre leaud , patrick auffray , claire maurier . ( drama / adventure / film noir ) ( drama / biography )
. ( 112 minutes pg - 13 ) director : michael ray rhodes . cast : moira kelly , martin , sheen . catholic worker creator ( biography , drama , romance , indie film )
. ( 110 minutes r ) director : alan rickman . cast : phyllida law , emma thompson , gary hollywood , arlene cockburn , sheila reid , sandra voe . summary : a day in the life of a recently widowed photographer , her strong - willed mother , son , and his new girlfriend in a scottish oceanfront village . [ scotland ] ( drama film / indie film )
. ( 102 minutes r ) . director : sofia coppola . cast : bill murray , scarlett johansson , giovanni ribisi , anna faris , fumhiro hayashi . summary : a male movie star shooting a whiskey commercial in japan by chance meets a married woman tagging along with her workaholic husband , one night in their luxury hotel bar . [ japan ] ( drama film / indie film )
the second half of the month offers a second chance to catch up with some of these classics ( but sadly no second chance for dragnet girl ! ) as well as offering some superb new screenings including another classic barnet comedy , the house on trubnaya ( 1928 ) , the rarely screened british thriller the four just men ( 1921 ) , and the equally rare danish melodrama the golden clown ( 1926 ) before concluding with the woman men desire ( 1929 ) , with marlene dietrich ( right ) perfecting her femme fatale persona well in advance of her appearing in sternberg’s the blue angel ( 1930 ) .
. director : howard hawks . cast : cary grant , rosalind russell . ( comedy genres : screwball comedy ) ( ben hecht , charles macarthur 1928 play . ) ( drama film , romance )
. director : nicholas ray . cast : john derek , humphrey bogart , george macready , allene roberts , susan perry , mickey knox , dooley wilson . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : nicholas ray . cast : robert ryan , ida lupino , ward bond , ed begley , charles kemper , anthony ross , sumner williams . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 101 minutes r ) director : jean - jacques annaud . ( based on the 1911 french novel by j . h . rosny , sr . ) ( fantasy , science fiction film )
. ( 108 minutes pg - 13 ) cast : helen mirren , julie walters , celia , imrie . summary : yorkshire women raise money with a girly calendar . ( drama , indie film )
. word comes that the second annual yorkshire silent film festival will take place this year in may . building on last years highly successful event , it is anticipated that there will be thirty plus silent film screenings at various venues across the county during the month , hopefully mixing popular classics with some rarer titles and with an emphasis on live musical accompaniment and 35mm screenings . the first two screenings announced are
the phantom real menace . universal producer carl laemmle was apparently hooked on first reading leroux’s novel during a visit to paris and immediately brought the rights . no expense was spared during the film’s production , including
. ( 77 minutes ) first national - director : mervyn leroy . screenplay : francis edwards faragoh ; adaptation by robert w . lee . cast : edward g . robinson , douglas fairbanks , jr . , glenda farrell , sidney blackmer , thomas jackson . ( based on the 1929 / 160 paged novel by w . r . burnett . ) ( drama / adventure / gangster film / film noir )
. ( 116 minutes ) . director : michael curtiz . cast : elvis presley , walter matthau , carolyn jones , dolores hart , vic morrow . ( drama / adventure / film noir / romance )
. ( 43 minutes ) director : andrei tarkovsky . summary : the friendship between a young violinist boy and a macho driver of a steamroller in russia . [ russia ] ( drama / short film )
. ( 81 minutes ) director : frank tuttle . cast : alan ladd , veronica lake . summary : when assassin philip raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead , he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies . ( based on graham greene novel
a gun for sale
. ) ( drama , adventure , film noir , crime film )
but aren’t these fixture clashes inevitable in silent film , just like any other type of event , be it sport , drama , music or whatever . well perhaps . but if its a clash between a silent film event in london and another say in bristol , or manchester or edinburgh , well no complaints there because the distance involved means that you are almost invariably catering to distinct regional audiences with little danger of overlap . but are we really so well served with silent film screenings even in london that we can afford to run them in competition with one another . i would say that we most assuredly are not !
. ( 70 minutes ) director : goerge cukor . cast : john barrymore , billie burke , katharine hepburn , david manners , bramwell fletcher , henry stephenson , paul cavanaugh , elizabeth patterson . summary : a man returns to his family after 15 years from a mental hospital just as his ex - wife is to marry and his daughter , sydney , is to marry . when he returns , he meets his daughter who is grown and plans to marry . how will her discovery of the inherited insanity in her family direct her future life ? [ new york ] ( based on the 1921 / 158 paged clemence dane play ) ( drama )
, a fabulous documentary on the unearthing of a huge cache of silent films dating from 1910s – 1920s , which were lost for over 50 years until discovered buried in a sub - arctic swimming pool in canada’s frozen north . the film presents a unique history of a canadian gold rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile , burial , rediscovery , and salvation . find out more
. ( 48 minutes ) director : dave tatsuno . summary : documentary film , shot illegally , which documented life at the topaz war relocation center in utah during world war ii . ( history , documentary )
. director : lewis milestone . cast : van heflin , barbara stanwyck , kirk douglas , lizabeth scott , darryl hickman , judith anderson . ( drama / adventure / film noir ) ( melodrama , drama )
. ( 96 minutes ) director : george seaton . cast : edmund gwenn , natalie wood , maureen o ' hara . ( crime film , drama ) ( edmund gwenn , 1947 best supporting actor award )
. ( 85 minutes ) director : william dieterle . cast : william holden , edmond o ' brien , alexis smith , ed begley . inspired by kefauver hearings . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 100 minutes pg ) director : alfred hitchcock . first film role for shirley maclaine . cast : john forsythe , shirley maclaine , edmund gwenn . ( adventure genre : mystery , crime , thriller )
. ( 107 minutes r ) summary : a failing italian restaurant run by two brothers gambles on one special night to try to save the business . theme : food ( comedy - drama , indie film )
. ( 112 minutes ) director : terry george . cast : helen mirren . summary : mothers reveal the incident of ira hunger strikes in 1981 ireland . [ ireland ] ( drama film / political drama )
. ( 92 minutes pg ) director : pat o ' connor . cast : meryl streep , michael gambon , kathy burke , catherine mccormack , sophie thompson . summary : five sisters and the out - of - wedlock son of one of them struggle to exist in rural 1930s ireland . ( based on the 1990 / 71 paged play by brian friel . ) [ ireland ] ( drama film , indie film )
. ( 124 minutes r ) director : brett ratner . summary : hannibal lecter film series . ( based on the 1981 / 348 paged thomas harris novel . ) ( psychological horror / slasher / thriller )
. ( 137 minutes ) director : vincente minnelli . cast : frank sinatra , shirely maclaine , dean martin , martha hyer , arthur kennedy . ( drama / adventure / film noir ) ( drama / romance )
. ( 82 minutes ) director : phil karlson . cast : jeffrey hunter , dennis hopper , pat crowley , johnny nash , corey allen . ( drama / adventure / film noir ) ( drama / mystery )
. ( 139 minutes ) . director : cy enfield . cast : stanley baker , jack hawkins , michael caine . summary : 1879 battle of rorke drift ( epic war film , drama , history , war )
. director : sam peckinpah . cast : steve mcqueen , ali mcgraw , ben johnson , sally struthers , slim pickens . ( based on a jim thompson work . ) ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 105 minutes r ) director : nicholas meyer . cast : tom hanks , john candy , rita wilson , tim thomerson . peace corps in 1962s thailand . [ thailand ] ( buddy film / comedy )
the construction of a 5000 - seat opera house on the universal set ( which survived until 2014 ) . but despite the big budget , the film suffered not one but two disastrous preview screenings , each resulting in a change of director , re - shooting of scenes and re - editing , with lois weber eventually having a major input to the final look of the film which subsequently proved a box - office and critical success .
. ( 110 minutes ) director : charles vidor . cast : rita hayworth , glenn ford , george macready , joseph calleia , steven geray . summary : an american gambler in buenos aires is hired by the owner of a gambling casino . the owner goes on a business trip and returns with a bride who was formerly involved romantically with the american gambler . [ argentina ] ( drama film / thriller / adventure / film noir )
ce film à grand spectacle de 1916 est l’une des premières fictions tournées en afrique du sud . il raconte l’histoire du grand trek des boers à la fin des années 1830 . de voortrekkers s’achève sur une reconstitution de la…
. ( 109 minutes ) director : kevin reynolds . cast : steven bauer , george dzundza . summary : soviet soldiers and afghan rebels fight in the deserts of afghanistan . [ afghanistan ] ( drama film / war )
a sacked clerk inherits £3 , 000 a year , tries his hand in society but eventually returns to his working - class lover . [ sourced from the british film catalogue : volume 1 : denis gifford : 3rd edition ]
and all of the films are accompanied by an original score by bernard reilly , commissioned for the 2014 kerry film festival , and performed live by the irish cinetheatre ensemble . further details of the 19 march screening can be found
( 1928 ) . there are also some interesting looking illustrated discussions on women in silent film , both in the west and in china as well as the usual cache of silent comedies . the festival finishes with that old favourite
. ( 120 minutes ) director : james whale . cast : colin clive , dwight frye , boris karloff , mae clarke . summary : this iconic horror film follows the obsessed scientist dr . henry frankenstein as he attempts to create life by assembling a creature from body parts of the deceased . aided by his loyal misshapen assistant , fritz , frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster , but , confused and traumatized , it escapes into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc . frankenstein searches for the elusive being , and eventually must confront his tormented creation . ( based on the 1818 / 280 paged mary shelley novel . ) ( science fiction film / drama film / horror )
. ( 120 minutes ) columbia - director : howard hawks . music : dimitri timken . screenplay : jules furthman . cast : cary grant , jean arthur , thomas mitchell . genre : adventure ( drama film , action )
. ( 95 minutes ) 20th century - fox . director : jules dassin . screenplay ; jo eisinger . cast : richard widmark , gene tierney , googie withers , hugh marlowe . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : don siegel . cast : walter matthau , joe don baker , felicia farr , sheree north . ( john reese novel
the looters
1968 / 177 pages ) ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 129 minutes pg ) director : peter weir . summary : english teacher john keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings . ( drama , comedy , teen film )
. ( 153 minutes ) director : fritz lang . cast : brigitte helm , gustav frohlich . summary : in a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners , the son of the city ' s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences . ( based on the h . g . wells work . ) ( science fiction film , epic film , drama )
nelson will be introduced by lucie dutton whose recently completed phd on maurice elvey’s early directorial career makes her an unrivaled authority on the film . live musical accompaniment for the screening will be provided by musicians stephen horne and martin pyne .
. ( 68 minutes ) producers releasing corporation . director : edgar g . ulmer . screenplay : martin goldsmith . cast : tom neal , ann savage , claudia drake , pat gleason . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 102 minutes ) universal . director : fritz lang . screenplay : dudley nichols cast : edward g . robinson , joan bennett , dan duryea , margaret lindsay , rosalind ivan . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : nicholas ray . cast : james dean , natalie wood , sal mineo , jim backus , corey allen , dennis hopper , ann doran , nick adams , william hopper . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : stanley kubrick . cast : sterling hayden , vince edwards , colleen gray , marie windsor . ( based on
clean break
the 218 paged lionel white novel . ) ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 105 minutes ) director : don siegel . cast : clint eastwood , shirley maclaine . summary : a man and a nun work complete a job together . [ comedy ] [ mexico ] ( drama film / action )
. ( 90 minutes pg ) director : fred schepisi . cast : willie nelson , gary busey . summary : a pair of outcasts on the run meet in mexico . [ mexico ] ( action , adventure , buddy film )
. director : arthur penn . cast : gene hackman , jennifer warren , susan clark , edward binns , melanie griffith . summary : a los angeles private detective must solve a tough mystery . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 140 minutes r ) director : graeme clifford . cast : jessica lange , kim stanley , jeffrey demunn , christopher pennock , sam shepard . summary : story of hollywood actress , frances farmer . ( indie film , drama )
. the early announcement of this screening is a welcome development and should help avoid a repeat of last year’s lff gala event which was scheduled late in the year and clashed with the barbican’s own long - planned principal annual silent film screening .
. ( 118 minutes ) director : john ford . cast : walter pidgeon , maureen o ' hara , roddy mcdowall , donald crisp , john loder , barry fitzgerald . summary : life of a welsh mining family as seen through the eyes of its youngest child . [ based on a 1939 / 651 paged richard llewellyn novel . ] [ wales ] ( drama film / epic film ) ( donald crisp , 1941 best supporting actor ) ( john ford , 1941 best director )
. ( 83 minutes ) united artists . director : rudolph mate . screenplay : russell rouse and clarence greene . cast : edmond o ' brien , pamela britton , luther adler , neville brand . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 115 minutes ) director : john ford . cast : clark gable , grace kelly , ava gardner . summary : variation of
red dust
where a hunter romances two women . [ africa ] ( drama film / romance )
precision studios was a pioneer of the british film industry in the early part of the last century . between 1910 and 1926 , 400 silent films were made by four film studios in walthamstow , including the 1916 classic the battle of the somme . many important actors first appeared in walthamstow films including victor mclaglen , a john ford stalwart who went on to win an oscar for his role in the informer and the famous hollywood star ronald colman also launched his career was at broadwest films .
. ( 125 minutes ) director : merian c . cooper , ernest b . schoedsack . cast : fay wray , robert armstrong , bruce cabot . summary : an actress and director travel to the indian ocean to do location shoots for the director ' s new jungle picture . upon arriving at a mysterious island , the actress is taken hostage by natives who prepare her as a sacrifice to the enormous ape kong who rules over their jungle . ( science fiction film / disaster film )
but the screening of phantom of the opera at the london coliseum is just half the story . the film is also to be accompanied by the world premiere of a new score , written by jazz musician and composer roy budd and performed by the docklands sinfonia orchestra , conducted by spencer down . roy budd was a world - renowned composer with some 40 film scores to his name including soldier blue ( 1970 ) , get carter ( 1971 ) , man at the top ( 1973 ) , wild geese ( 1978 ) . producing a new score for phantom of the opera was a long - cherished project which also saw him acquire and restore a 35mm print of the film . he completed a full orchestral score for the film using an 84 - piece orchestra and recorded this with the luxembourg symphony orchestra . in 1993 , with five weeks to go before a london premiere and european tour , roy budd suffered a brain haemorrhage and passed away at just 46 years of age .
. director : nicholas ray . cast : humphrey bogart , gloria grahame , frank lovejoy , art smith . ( based on the 1947 / 256 paged dorothy b . hughes novel . ) ( drama / adventure / film noir ) ( melodrama )
. ( 103 minutes ) director : william dieterle . cast : elizabeth taylor , peter finch , dana andrews , abraham sofaer . summary : a ceylon tea planter brings his bride to his plantation . [ ceylon ] ( drama film / action )
. ( 119 minutes pg ) director : ralph l . thomas . cast : kim cattrall , nick mancuso , meg foster . ( based on josh freed ' s 1978 newspaper series and 1980
moonwebs
) ( drama , indie film )
. ( 88 minutes ) cast : mackenzie astin , jurnee smollett , clifton powell . summary : the 1965 alabama violent civil rights recollections of two young black girls highlighting the involvement of martin luther king , jr . ( drama , tv film )
. ( 91 minutes tv film ) summary : a teenage girl tries to raise her three half - brothers and one half - sister on her own after their drug - addicted mother is sent to jail . ( coming of age , drama )
the hypnotic and lyrical qualities of silent film with live music are explored in our ‘slow silents’ programme of barge and canal films including the beautiful and touching l’hirondelle et la mesange set on two barges as they travel through a france recently devastated by wwi .
the film was nominated for the bafta award for best costume design - colour . although it lost to a man for all seasons , its designers did not go home empty - handed , as they were responsible for the costumes in seasons as well .
. director : otto preminger . cast : dana andrews , gene tierney , clifton webb , vincent price , judith anderson , dorothy adams . ( based on the 1942 / 219 paged vera caspary novel . ) ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 87 minutes g ) director : roger allers , rob minkoff . voices : jeremy irons . summary : animated story of a young cub sent into exile when his father is betrayed and killed . [ africa ] ( drama film / music )
. ( 85 minutes ) director : ted wilde . cast : harold lloyd . summary : silent film of a young man trying to save new york ' s last horse - drawn streetcar line . [ new york ] ( comedy , family , action )
. ( 70 minutes ) directors : david hand and james algar . cast : . summary : story of a young deer growing up in the forest . ( based on the 1923 / 192 paged feliz salten novel . ) ( fantasy , drama film )
. ( 110 minutes ) director : stephen frears . music : elmer bernstein . cast : john cusack , anjelica huston , annette bening . ( based on the 1963 / 188 paged grifters by jim thompson . ) ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 91 minutes pg ) director : kirk jones . cast : ian bannen , david kelly , fionnula flanagan , susan lynch , james nesbitt . summary : how people confront a national - lottery incident . [ ireland ] ( indie film / comedy )
. ( 160 minutes pg - 13 ) director : baz luhrmann . cast : nicole kidman , ewan mcgregor , john leguizamo , jim broadbent , richard roxburgh . summary : a musical romance set in 19th - century france . ( drama film / romance )
so , praise where praise is due , the bfi is certainly rolling the boat out for silent film in june . one can only hope that the trend continues in subsequent months ! details of all of these films can of course be found in our listings pages
. ( 96 minutes ) director : george marshall . writer : raymond chandler . cast : alan ladd , veronica lake , william bendix . ( based on the 1945 / 268 paged unpublished novel by raymond chandler . ) ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. director : j . lee thompson cast : robert mitchum , gregory peck , polly bergen , martin balsam . ( based on the novel
the executioners
by john d . macdonald ( 1957 / 224 pages ) ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 133 minutes ) director : richard brooks cast : robert blake , scott wilson , paul stewart , john forsyth , jeff corey . ( based on the 1967 / 343 ps . novel of truman capote . ) ( drama , adventure , film noir )
. ( 118 minutes pg - 13 ) summary : a pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown . ( based on the 2011 / 304 paged nicholas sparks novel . ) ( drama film , romance )
. ( 97 minutes ) director : jacques tourneur . screenplay : geoffrey homes . cast : robert mitchum , jane greer , kirk douglas , rhonda fleming , richard webb . summary : a private eye allows himself to be duped by the two - faced mistress of a big - time gangster . ( based on the 1946 / 160 paged novel ,
build my gallows high
by geoffrey homes . ) [ california , new york , nevada , mexico ] ( crime film / thriller / film noir / adventure / drama )
to highlight just a single showing of one silent film , preferring instead to leave that to our listings pages . but this has to be an exception . in september , bfi southbank is showing , for one night only , a true classic of british silent comedy ,
. it is virtually unknown in the west and charts the efforts of an opportunistic kiev resident to avoid the unrest of civil war and yet still prosper under bolshevik rule . being a biting satire on the soviet propaganda the film was quickly banned by the soviet authorities .
. we don’t often get to hear about silent film screenings in ireland but one we recently came across looked particularly fascinating which is what prompted us to expand our coverage just this little bit . on 19 march st patrick’s cathedral in dublin is hosting a presentation by the
. ( 117 minutes ) director : george stevens . cast : cary grant , victor mclaglen , sam jaffe , douglas fairbanks , jr . , joan fontaine . summary : 19th century indian native uprising put down by three soldiers . [ india ] ( drama film )
. ( 119 minutes ) director : william wyler . cast : gregory peck , audrey hepburn , eddie albert . summary : an american newspaperman in rome entertains a princess who has slipped away from her entourage . [ rome , italy ] ( drama film / romance )
. ( 220 minutes g ) paramount pictures . director : cecil b . demille . cast : charlton heston , yul brynner , anne baxter , edward g . robinson , john derek . [ palestine ] ( jewish experience ) ( drama film / action / history )
just a quick reminder that if you want to be a part of some film history in the making then head along to walthamstow on 1st may when actor paul mcgann ( withnail & i , doctor who , the monocled mutineer ) will be unveiling a blue plaque at the site of the former precision film studios . the unveiling will take plae at noon on 1st may in wood street walthamstow , now beuleigh court , wood street e17 3pa and situated on the junction of wood street and lea bridge road , close to the whipps cross roundabout .
. ( 97 minutes ) director : lewis gilbert . cast : kenneth more , dana wynter . summary : the english royal navy must destroy the german floating fortress , the bismarck , the most powerful battleship in the world . [ germany ] ( drama film / action )
. ( 102 minutes ) director : spike lee . theme : explosion of the 16th st . baptist church on sept . 15 , 1963 by dynamite planted by the ku klux klan and the bodies of four girls found in the debris . ( indie film , biography )
( 1929 ) . the film takes the form of a cinematic poem to the arrival of spring in nature as well as a new era in society and offers a rare glimpse of everyday life in the soviet ukraine during the new economic policy era and the soviet “indigenisation” programme .
. ( 105 minutes ) united artists . director : robert aldrich . screenplay : a . i . bezzerides . cast : ralph meeker , albert dekker , paul stewart , cloris leachman . ( from a novel by mickey spillane . ) ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 122 minutes pg ) director : robert lieberman . cast : jon voight , richard crenna , millie perkins . summary : attempting to bond with his children , a divorced man takes his three youngsters on a mediterranean cruise . [ mediterranean ] ( indie film / drama )
. ( 120 minutes pg - 13 ) director : ang lee . cast : chow yun fat , michelle yeoh , zhan ziyi , chang chen , lung sihung , cheng pei pei . summary : a magical sword in china . [ china ] ( drama film / action )
our only niggle is that screening the film in an opera house is inevitably accompanied by opera house pricing . so , for those unable to afford £112 for a seat in the stalls , it is to be hoped that this screening will eventually be followed by a release on disc .
has often been overlooked even amongst lang’s earlier work but it is a film rich in expressionist imagery and featuring innovative special effects work . it has been hugely influential , with directors such as alfred hitchcock , ingmar bergman and luis buñuel citing it as a direct influence on their own work
was 17 months in the making with 235 days of actual filming , it cost $ 923 , 886 . 45 , making it the most expensive comedy of the silent - film era and 230 , 000 feet of rushes were edited down to 10 , 000 feet for release . but
. ( 95 minutes ) director : orson welles . cast : orson welles , konstantin shayne , edward g . robinson , loretta young , richard long , philip merivale , byran keith , billy house . summary : after world war ii , a nazi war criminal settles in the college town of harper , connecticut , assumes a new identity , and when the film begins , marries . another war criminal tracks him down and suffers at his hand . covering up his deeds becomes necessary when a government agent tracks him down . ( drama / adventure / film noir )
. ( 102 minutes r ) director : mike hodges . cast : michael caine , ian hendry , britt ekland , john osborne . ( based on wolfgang suschitsky ' s
jack ' s return home
) ( drama / adventure / film noir ) ( thriller / crime )
. ( 121 minutes r ) director : alan parker . cast : brad davis , randy quaid , john hurt . summary : the true story of american , billy hayes who spent 5 years in a turkish prison for smuggling hashish . [ turkey ] ( drama film / thriller )
. ( 124 minutes pg ) director : wes craven . cast : meryl streep , cloris leachman , henry dinhofer . summary : the true story of roberta guaspari , a schoolteacher ' s , struggle to teach violin to inner - city harlem kids . ( drama , indie film )
. ( 87 minutes tv film g ) director : michael switzer . cast : betty white , amy davidson , richard thomas . summary : a widow and her spunky granddaughter journey cross - country to spread her husband ' s ashes at a place they both loved . ( drama )


this above all is a 1942 american romance film set in world war ii adapted from the eric knight novel of the same name , directed by anatole litvak , and starring tyrone power and joan fontaine as a couple from different social classes who fall in love in wartime england .

the supporting cast features thomas mitchell , nigel bruce , and gladys cooper .

this above all ( film )

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this is a film with an ambiguously subversive message , in spite of itself .
sometimes we need to be “above it all” and i’ve decided i’m going to try to spend a little more time there especially after experiencing this moment .
this above all is a wonderfully emotional romance set against wwii england . it examines the motives for patriotism and heroism both from the point of view . . .
, says ,
this above all : to thine own self be true ,
after which an air raid siren is heard and darkness descends on the room .
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keaobaka makanyane , left , and khomotso manyaka play best friends near johannesburg in the drama “life , above all . ”
“life , above all” is rated pg - 13 ( parents strongly cautioned ) . mob violence , rape and prostitution .
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this above all is tyrone power ' s best early picture . he proves he is a sensitive , first - rate actor . like power i was and am a frustrated veteran . . .
i ' m not a fan of films that make statements , i have always believed the greatest art is observational without passing judgement , and this above all is a prime example of a film that is more or less completely ruined by a clunky and misguided message .
just discovered this movie recently , i thought i had seen all tyrone power movies . this is one of his best yet little known and a real gem . so beautifully . . .
out of eric knight ' s singularly skillful war novel ,
this above all ,
twentieth century - fox and darryl f . zanuck have derived a taut and poignant war film , which arrived at the astor last evening for a meticulously restrained world premiere . view full article in timesmachine »
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oliver schmitz ' s
life , above all
sets out as a character - driven film about one of the nearly one million children orphaned by aids in south africa but its schematic structure oversimplifies the drama , despite an interesting , mostly debut cast .
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life , above all , a well - intentioned drama about the impact of hiv - aids in south africa , is the kind of film one wants to praise to the skies . with an all - black cast speaking in a subtitled local dialect , the movie is admirably lacking in pale - skinned film stars deploying their granite jaws to save the natives from themselves , a fantasy of white rescue that continues to plague most hollywood films about the african subcontinent .
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appearing in this film are no fewer than twenty performers who appeared in at least one of the sherlock holmes movies with basil rathbone and nigel bruce , including nigel bruce who played ramsbottom .
glenn close , from left , gemma arterton , paddy considine and fisayo akinade in the film
the girl with all the gifts .
( aimee spinks / saban films / lionsgate )
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by directly dealing with the poisonous climate of rumor and gossip , the film takes a stand . but in nations where aids has been demystified ,
life , above all
will play strongly as pure human drama , and of two women , one promptly and one belatedly , rising courageously to a challenge .
movie review - ' life , above all ' - a ' life ' where hiv and ignorance are twin epidemics a village girl sets out on a journey to find her infected mother in oliver schmitz ' s heavy - handed melodrama . but with inadequately fleshed - out characters and an incomplete depiction of societal struggles against hiv , life , above all fails in its effort to shed light on a serious issue .
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marc webb will direct and nick hornby is scripting this above all , based on the true - life story of megan phelps - roper , a former member of the westboro baptist church whose grandfather founded the group known for its hate speak and vicious protests . the film is being adapted from an article written by adrian chen for condé nast’s the new yorker and from phelps - roper’s soon - to - be - published memoir .
actually , every side of town in “life , above all” is the wrong one ; the creaky homes are caked with dust and the residents all look perpetually unhappy . this may accurately represent chanda’s dreary point of view , but it also lends an unfortunate touristic air to the proceedings : watch chanda work through her hardships , feel good about it when she succeeds , and therefore feel good about yourself for paying attention .
rather than digging into the moral , ethical , scientific , or philosophical questions of these decisions or this contraption , the film mostly focuses on will , who is about as curious as a bag of a sawdust .
schmitz ends with a close - up of manyaka’s face and lets the music swell , while her eyes prove more affecting than any of the plot particulars . in those final seconds , “life , above all” finally comes alive .
all of the classic movies i own on dvd or blu - ray , released pre - 1965 .
amid allegations of warholian - style literary hoaxes and identity scandals involving
jt leroy ,
the heart is deceitful above all things , adapted from
jt ' s
second novel , comes to dvd june 6 , 2006 .
in this film , tyrone power plays a conscientious objector , who deserts the british army because he doesn ' t believe in fighting to preserve his country ' s oppressive class structure . but power is no coward , and through the love of joan fontaine , he realizes that love of one ' s country supersedes all social outrage .
it was in that moment that i somehow transcended all of it , “it” being the issues going on externally in my life and at that moment . somehow i found myself above it all , and in a sense just didn’t care about any of it . it was going to be there for me this time and i was ok with that . after careful consideration of what the exposure “might” be i made my best guess and tripped the shutter .
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all above board is a horror comedy by the deranged madmen behind # drunkslikeus . when donna and mick arrange for a seance to be performed by the mysterious and seductive morgana the last thing they were expecting was for it to work too bloody well .
it seems that all of your books are based on auteur theory . do you think auteurism still holds its ground ?
geoff andrew wrote numerous books on cinema , including studies on krzysztof kieślowski’s three colours trilogy , on nicholas ray , and on american indie filmmakers . he is the film programmer for bfi southbank , london , and a programme advisor for the london film festival . he served on juries at cannes , istanbul , torino , sarajevo , and others , but this year he will judge tiff’s official competition .
with afi fest just a few weeks away , film - festival season is nearly over for the year . in addition to venice , telluride and toronto , another fest recently concluded : the 15th annual pyongyang international film festival , to which the new york times sent a correspondent . 60 movies from 21 countries comprised this year’s selection , with with 11 of them vying for the best torch award .
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yes . but i always believed that one should modify it , qualify it . because obviously a director is more of an author if he is also the writer . even then there are other people involved , there are producers , composers , actors , camera men , they all contribute to the film . the level of authorship is different from film to film and from director to director . if you have someone like cristi puiu , who writes and directs and produces his films , he has a lot of responsibility . so if we say if the film was good or bad it is mainly because of him , yet it’s not entirely because of him , there are other people , but…
oliver schmitz ' s
life , above all
earns the tears it inspires . the film is about deep human emotions , evoked with sympathy and love . it takes place entirely within a south african township near johannesburg , one with modest prosperity and well - tended homes . it centers on the 12 - year - old chanda , who takes on the responsibility of holding her family together after her baby sister dies .
a society woman joins the waafs and falls in love with an awol soldier . what this film boils down to is two hours of a strong woman being treated like garbage by a man who doesn ' t deserve her because reasons and stuff . if they wanted to cast someone to play the male lead , someone other than tyrone power would have been ideal . and poor joan fontaine tries her hardest , but can ' t seem to read off power ' s line readings which causes the chemistry to fizzle out almost immediately . and your head will ache by the end of the film after being beaten over the skull with
this above all : to thine own self be true .
it ' s like the screenwriter isn ' t even trying .
shakespeare is good , right ? here goes nothing !
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the narrative is built around the idea of showing bitter , struggling ptsd - afflicted , recent dunkirk survivor , lower class rebel , socialistish , military deserter tyrone power that he is wrong and we all need to rally around mother england and all she stands for .
jt leroy was elevated into national celebrity partly due to the overwhelming power of his unbelievable childhood experiences . following the recent accusations by new york magazine and the new york times , which revealed the lengths one woman was willing to go to in order to gain entrance to the literary and celebrity world , the heart is deceitful above all things reveals with colorful and uncompromising filmmaking , the back - story of one character who rocked the world of literature , fashion , music and film . . . without ever existing . this is the unfathomable story of
jt leroy .
that’s partly because the movie is dedicated to children orphaned by aids . ( in a 2010 annual report unicef puts the number of such south african orphans at an appalling 1 . 9 million . ) but the sense that this story doesn’t end when the movie does , and that what unfolds on screen flows into the world beyond , is due to how the director oliver schmitz has approached this tricky material . mr . schmitz first attracted notice in 1987 with “mapantsula , ” a gangster film that made the festival rounds . he went on to direct another gangster movie , a documentary and television projects , experience that seems to have served him well for “life , above all , ” which is at the intersection of fact and fiction .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
wow . . it ' s a quite old movie but it ' s very beautiful ^ ^ i love its romantic story and the cast was pretty good . the film is based on a superb book : eric knight - this above all . it ' s a greatly composed philosophic - romantic story . i think if you liked the movie , you should read this book ! it ' s one of my favorite books , i simply love it ^ ^ you will be much poorer in feelings , if you don ' t read this book . . . and thank you for the quotes . . . i think the book contains some more . . and more memorable ^ ^ by the way , does anyone know where i could find it in english ? i ' ve been searching for it on the internet , but i ' ve found it nowhere . . . : (
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roger ebert was born on this day in 1942 , and died a little over five years ago . i owe a good part of my success…
i’m reluctant to label t he discovery as science fiction , even though netflix’s new drama has what sounds like a classic isaac asimov premise : a scientist has found irrefutable evidence that after death , the human spirit goes somewhere ; he’s just not sure where . like good science fiction , the film raises a handful of questions that could span seasons of television — can science really prove something like this ? should it ? — but the 110 - minute film largely ignores those questions in favor of melodramatic twists . for a film about science finding answers to life’s big questions , the discovery is surprisingly uninterested in how and why we learn the answers .
i’m left wondering what the discovery is . is it science fiction with no interest in science ? is it a spiritual romance with a perverse misunderstanding of faith and love ? or is it a movie that wanted to be all of the above , and in the end wound up being nothing ? perhaps what’s most frustrating about the discovery is that its 110 minutes can be better spent with a story that is doing similar things , just with a sense of grace and skill the film is lacking .
this send - up of ragtime song and dance begins in 1915 san francisco when society boy roger grant decides to pursue popular rather than serious music .
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based on the book by allan stratton , “life , above all” never falls apart , although it comes close with a finale that finds virtually the entire cast implausibly knocking on chandra’s doorstep . then again , chandra looks realistically surprised by the sudden onslaught of attention , to the extent that she not only transcends the movie , but saves it .
german - born director oliver schmitz takes on the subject of aids in south africa without kowtowing to western images of africa in this somewhat simplistic drama . twitter
unfortunately , most of the good stuff is early on , when the details of this post - outbreak world are more mysterious than explained : how can kids born with this mutated fungus think , feel and appear normal , when the infected adults look typically decayed and robotic ? melanie really likes miss justineau , but a teacher visit to her cell is problematic when the hunger pangs start . ( zombies in this world are given the snack - ad - friendly sobriquet
hungries .
)
how will it play ? sony pictures classics picked up the film several months ago and clearly has strong expectations for it . reviews have been decidedly mixed , but it stands a good chance of doing solid business due to the heartwarming hook , which should help with word - of - mouth . it opens this friday in new york and l . a .
the reason to care about “life , above all” doesn’t stem from its bleeding - heart plot , which constitutes a mild act of poorsploitation ( the same critique leveled at “slumdog millionaire” and other tales that use third - world backdrops for dramatic shorthand ) . the reason to care is newcomer khomotso manyaka , who nimbly shoulders a role that places her front and center in nearly every scene .
oliver schmitz ' s life , above all sets out as a character - driven film about one of the nearly one million children orphaned by aids in south africa but its schematic structure oversimplifies the drama , despite an interesting , mostly debut cast . it seems better suited for the small screen , which could work to give the film broader television sales . life starts with a quietly emotional blow : 12 - year - old chandra ( khomotso manyaka in a promising acting debut ) has to pick out a coffin for her infant sister . chandra lives with her mother ( lerato mvelase ) and younger half - siblings , the children of an alcoholic second husband who has abandoned them . the indomitable girl drops out of school since her mother is first too depressed then too sick to care for the family .
and maybe all of that would be fine , if this were a film about faith . lost’s finale was largely panned when it aired , but at least the episode committed to resolving the core’s big debate . the man of science and the man of faith reunite in a space disconnected from time , and along with the other characters , take a step into the glow of the afterlife . a show about , in part , the need of scientists to answer the questions of time and space , ends on a note that embraces the beauty and serenity of the unknowable .
although loaded with dramatic consequence , “ life , above all ” is slight . set in the outskirts of johannesburg , the movie follows a young girl faced with a broken family and communal rejection . her transition from pariah to fierce young adult energizes the story with emotional resonance , but director oliver schmitz pushes that effectiveness as far as it can go — and then keeps pushing , until it becomes shrill .
given that a staggering one - third of all south african women in their 20s are hiv - positive , it seems right to cast life , above all as a maternal melodrama , or even as a parable , yet schmitz , who mainly works in television , brings an unnecessarily heavy hand to his inherently incendiary material . for every turn of the dramatic screw , he brings on thunder and torrential rains . the script groans beneath a mass of symbolic winking and declamatory exposition that has the unfortunate effect of turning the villagers into credulous simpletons , ready to blow with any wind that carries them .
the film , set in and around a gloomy mansion - turned - research - facility , builds to harbor , will , and the audience seeing for themselves what the afterlife actually is . obviously everybody , viewers included , wants to know the answer , but the film isn’t prepared to deliver one in any satisfying fashion . the afterlife exists exclusively as a means to a narrative end , a tool to progress will’s personal growth .
as the film opens , chanda ( khomotso manyaka ) visits an undertaker to examine the inexpensive coffins on display . this is a task no 12 - year - old should ever have to endure . but her mother , lillian ( lerato mvelase ) , is immobilized by grief and illness and her father by drink . the next - door neighbor , mrs . tafa ( harriet manamela ) , helps her care for two younger siblings .
not included in the lineup this year were any movies from the united states of america or south korea , though countries like india , germany and france were represented . read the full new york times piece here .
her life , she said in a ted talk this year , “was framed as an epic spiritual battle between good and evil . the good was my church , and its members and the evil was everyone else . ”
set during a time when homosexuality was illegal in britain , this is a powerful and heartbreaking love story between two women of the 1940 ' s . their love is pushed to the boundaries and ultimately leads to tragedy .
stolid soaper miscasts ty as an english deserter , he exerts zero effort to seem british , and saddles joan fontaine with a lot of flag waving speeches which stop the film dead in it ' s tracks . professionally made with a good supporting cast but uninvolving .
“life , above all , ” a grave and quietly moving story about a south african girl of extraordinary character , does something that few painful dramas accomplish : it tells a tale of resilience without platitudes about the triumph of the human spirit or without false promises about an unclouded future . the battle fought by its 12 - year - old heroine , who struggles to save her family and best friend from prejudiced neighbors who often look like a mob , may be over when the movie comes to its stirring close , but there’s no end to the fight .
written and directed by asia argento ( scarlet diva , xxx , land of the dead ) and shot by eric alan edwards ( kids , my own private idaho ) the heart is deceitful above all things boasts a stunning cast including marilyn manson , peter fonda academy award® nominee , michael pitt , ( hedwig and the angry inch , last days ) , jeremy renner ( north country ) , john robinson ( elephant , lords of dogtown ) , jimmy bennett ( poseidon , polar express , daddy day care ) , and cole and dylan sprouse as jeremiah .
the film plays this as if it’s touching , like some unholy mishmash of t he t wilight zone and chicken soup for the soul . but it’s neither as intellectually fascinating as the former or emotionally soothing as the latter . its afterlife , painted as an opportunity , is actually a sisyphean hell . it’s also bizarre on the top , most obvious level . will’s father made the discovery that led to millions of suicides , and we’re supposed to believe will’s biggest regret is not saving a woman with whom he shared a short ferry ride ?
well , i don’t agree with that . if you have an interesting director , quite often his failures will be interesting . but i have friends that are auteurists and say : “this is an auteur . he cannot have bad films . ” that’s ridiculous .
rather than get bogged down in philosophical conversations , the discovery focuses on the domestic toll of its scientific progress . jason segel plays will , the estranged son of dr . harbor ( robert redford ) , the man who made the scientific breakthrough . when dr . harbor’s findings were made public , a global epidemic of suicides followed . feeling an acute responsibility for the millions of deaths , will returns to his father in hopes of convincing him to recant his life’s work . but dr . harbor , in pursuit of knowledge above all else , intends to go forward rather than backward .
the film ' s ending is improbably upbeat : magic realism , in a sense . it works as a deliverance . dennis foon ' s screenplay is based on the novel chanda ' s secrets by canadian writer allan stratton . it is a parable with biblical undertones , recalling cry , the beloved country .
chanda does what she can to care for her siblings , attend school and keep up appearances . her own good heart is demonstrated by her friendship with a schoolmate named esther ( keaobaka makanyane ) , who is forced into prostitution to earn the funds for survival . it goes unspoken between them that this could lead to aids for esther herself . the south african tragedy was that former president thabo mbeki persisted in puzzling denial about the causes and treatment of aids , so many who suffered and died of aids need not have . this contributed to a climate of ignorance and mystery surrounding the disease , which only increased its spread .
but time and again , lost argued with itself , not merely about the mysteries of the universe , but the tools that guide us through it . can science prove the assumptions of faith ? can faith answer questions science cannot ? are science and faith truly so different in their existential goals ? this was network tv !
when lillian exiles herself from the village , chanda sets off on a hero ' s journey to find her mother , helped and hindered by representational figures who sketch the plight of all such afflicted communities , yet barely qualify as characters . a female witch doctor brandishes spells and snakes . a drunken stepfather ( aubrey poolo ) proves of little use to anyone , least of all himself . chandra ' s loyal best friend , esther ( keaobaka makanyane ) , is drafted into child prostitution , while the village gossip mrs . tafa ( harriet manamela ) , a matriarch who is pivotal to the plot , fans the flames of hostility toward chanda ' s mother .
schmitz uses the wide - screen frame smartly , often to isolate chanda from her adversaries , occasionally to create dynamic intimacy between chanda and those she loves and wants to save . the director and his splendid cast assure that this tale about a strong little girl fighting to keep her family alive and together has both high art and a big heart , audience appeal and gut impact .
the fog crept in and softly blanketed the mountain tops below me , “amazing ! ” went through my mind as i prepared to still this moment ; but the light meter had died . i was literally in the dark and there was no way for me to calculate the proper exposure ! “you have to be kidding me ! ” , was the thought that went through my mind .
in large part , that ' s because a crucial player is strangely missing from this scenario . from the start , the spread of hiv - aids in south africa has been a political problem to its core . like many liberal whites who supported the black struggle to end apartheid , schmitz — who made the 1988 film mapantsula , about a petty thief who is radicalized in prison — seems unwilling to point the finger at a post - apartheid government that , under former president thabo mbeki , willfully discredited anti - retroviral drugs for years while advocating wacky dietary remedies and feeding tribal superstitions about the disease . mbeki ' s successor , jacob zuma , has promised better , but as someone who admitted at his own rape trial to having sex with an hiv - positive prostitute then showering to avoid infection , he ' s hardly a role model .
suspicion spreads in the neighborhood that the real cause of the family ' s problems is aids , although the word itself isn ' t said aloud until well into the film . its absence forms a fearful echo chamber — reflecting south africans ' own insistence , until recent years , of denying the reality of aids . a family linked to the disease by rumor or gossip is ostracized , which is why mrs . tafa facilitates lillian ' s
visit
to distant relatives .
as for harriet manamela as mrs . tafa , she has a central role . this township is far from the poorest in south africa . in the terms of that neighborhood , many households are middle class ; mrs . tafa embodies authority . she is fiercely proud of her son , a star athlete . she shares the general taboos about aids , but she is a good person , kind , with sympathy that she sometimes keeps concealed .
personally , i think the older i get the more i look for films that are honest about life . that doesn’t mean that they have to be realist films . but i don’t like to feel manipulated by the filmmaker . i like a film to be emotionally honest , to be truthful in the way that it depicts life and people . as i got older i liked genre films less . genre seems to be a limitation to me . the most interesting films are those that you can’t put into a genre .
and yet will’s turn is worse . when will tests the machine , we discover that the entire movie has been set in his afterlife . in fact , will has lived countless versions of this afterlife , trying again and again to repair it . his goal has been to save isla , who in another lifetime was just a stranger he briefly met on a ferry , and went on to drown herself . will has lived life after life with just the faintest sense that he must save her . and presumably every human is doing something similar .
i don’t really search , but i always welcome the discovery . one of the pleasures of being on a jury is having to watch a lot of new films . it can be very interesting . i was on a jury in istanbul a few years ago and i was asked if i wanted to be on the jury of the official competition or on that of the turkish competition . instantly i decided for the turkish one . we gave the prize to a young woman and she went on and did three feature films . all good films .
hbo’s the leftover s , which premieres its third and final season this month , and which shares one of lost ’s creators in damon lindelof , tells the story of humans left on earth when a small percentage of the population seems to have been raptured . it begins as a stunning mediation on grief , and spirals into a weird , funny , cosmically bizarre exploration of the unknowable . lindelof seems to have learned from lost , as leftovers isn’t so caught up in narrative contortions that it chokes itself to death , nor is it concerned with scientific justification .
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melanie , played by appealing newcomer sennia nanua , is ostensibly the titular figure in the british dystopian horror yarn
the girl with all the gifts .
to miss justineau , she ' s a figure to nurture , even shed a tear over . but to the soldiers in charge , melanie is evil personified . that ' s because , as we soon learn when sergeant parks ( paddy considine ) interrupts the lesson to spit on his forearm , hold it in front of one child ' s face and watch it transform from cherubic mug into a twisted visage of animal thirst , these aren ' t regular grade - schoolers .
the main criterion for winning said prize , according to the nyt : “how well they symbolized the festival’s official theme — ‘independence , peace and friendship’ — and whether they articulated the ideology of juche , or self - reliance , developed by the country’s founding father , kim il - sung . ” kim jong - il , the country’s dear leader who passed away five years ago , was a known cinephile , even going so far as to kidnap a south korean filmmaker and actress so that they could make movies for him ; this resulted in a bizarre , “godzilla” - like movie called “pulgasari” and was recently the subject of the documentary “the lovers and the despot . ”
the final act has writer carey unveiling his intriguing take on zombie - inspired extinction , triggered by the discovery of the mutation ' s next evolutionary stage , and melanie finding a group of feral children who , unlike her , have had no contact with cultivating humans . as it lopes toward its ending , however , it ' s still undistinguished by any remarkable direction or performance — save close ' s late bid for mad - doctor zest . one is left feeling that
the girl with all the gifts
is no better or worse than a couple of solid episodes of a sci - fi series , professionally engrossing but unlikely to prompt your own feeding reflexes for more zombie fare .
the discovery is , in short , like the worst parts of lost condensed to a feature film . lost was at its best when drawing from an internal debate that was , like the philosophical engine powering the the discovery , difficult to summarize and impossible to entirely unpack . “is it better , ” lost asked , “to tackle life’s big questions with rigorous science , or unflinching faith ? ” the existential tug - of - war , played out most clearly in the relationship between man of science jack and man of faith locke , lasted 121 episodes . lost was imperfect . it was overstuffed with metaphysics , fan service , and sudden random polar bears , and the show struggled most when it tried to answer the big questions of existence with truisms about good and evil , love and hate .
chanda’s silence is unnerving , as is the absence of tears , and while her calm conveys a preternatural strength of character it also suggests a lifetime of pain . no child , you think , should have to pick out her baby sister’s coffin . but she does , taking in the horror of the funeral home and its metal table without flinching and then pushing forward , still dry eyed , still determined , taking on life with an appealing ( and enviable ) toughness and grace that make this difficult story not just bearable but also absorbing . as the weight of the world bears down on her slender frame , she becomes the movie’s moral compass and its authentic wonder : the child who is forced to be an adult yet remains childlike enough to feel real .
the discovery , a film about the science of the afterlife , should at least be superficially concerned with science , faith , and the friction between them . is there a god ? what about heaven ? or hell ? but the discovery never aspires to be challenging , at least not beyond its children of men - like fascination with an apocalypse happening in slow motion . science in the discovery is like a deus ex machina on steroids , serving whatever purpose the plot needs it to . it gives people things to do while they reveal their personal dramas to each other . and so the work of a scientist is more like a series of fetch - quests . to test the afterlife machine , they need a body , so will and isla ( rooney mara ) steal a corpse ( and open up to one another ) . when that doesn’t work , dr . harbor volunteers ( and has a difficult conversation with his son ) . then will gives it a go ( and discovers the truth about himself ) .
best actress winner for mrs . miniver and best actor winner for yankee doodle dandy
art direction : albert s . d ' agostino ; interior decoration : darrell silvera , al fields
art direction : cedric gibbons , randall duell ; interior decoration : edwin b . willis , jack moore
art direction : jack otterson , john b . goodman ; interior decoration : russell a . gausman , edward r . robinson
art direction : jack otterson , alexander golitzen ; interior decoration : russell a . gausman , ira s . webb
20th century - fox studio sound department , e . h . hansen , sound director
photographic effects by gordon jennings , farciot edouart , william l . pereira ; sound effects by louis mesenkop
photographic effects by a . arnold gillespie , warren newcombe ; sound effects by douglas shearer
photographic effects by vernon l . walker ; sound effects by james g . stewart
photographic effects by jack cosgrove , ray binger ; sound effects by thomas t . moulton
art direction ( color ) - art direction : jack otterson , alexander golitzen ; interior decoration : russell a . gausman , ira s . webb
cinematography ( color ) - milton krasner , william v . skall , w . howard greene
sound recording - universal studio sound department , bernard b . brown , sound director
special effects - photographic effects by howard lydecker ; sound effects by daniel j . bloomberg
special effects - photographic effects by john fulton ; sound effects by bernard b . brown
special effects - photographic effects by lawrence butler ; sound effects by william h . wilmarth
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actress in a supporting role - dame may whitty in
mrs . miniver
special effects - photographic effects by a . arnold gillespie , warren newcombe ; sound effects by douglas shearer
special effects - photographic effects by vernon l . walker ; sound effects by james g . stewart
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art direction ( black - and - white ) - art direction : cedric gibbons , randall duell ; interior decoration : edwin b . willis , jack moore
special effects - photographic effects by gordon jennings , farciot edouart , william l . pereira ; sound effects by louis mesenkop
art direction ( black - and - white ) - art direction : jack otterson , john b . goodman ; interior decoration : russell a . gausman , edward r . robinson
sound recording - 20th century - fox studio sound department , e . h . hansen , sound director
sound recording - warner bros . studio sound department , nathan levinson , sound director
although she comes from an aristocratic family , beautiful prudence cathaway defies convention by joining the waafs and becoming romantically involved with an awol soldier .
hotel transylvania 3 : summer vacation stars plan their dream summer getaways to some memorable movie settings .
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cheated out of his estate by his sadistic uncle , young benjamin blake goes to the south seas to make his fortune so he can return to claim his birthright .
the son of a jailed wall street broker turns to crime to pay for his father ' s release .
a scientist obsessed with the past transports himself back in time to 18th - century london , where he falls in love with a beautiful young woman .
an american pilot impulsively joins her majesty ' s royal air force in britain in an attempt to impress his ex - girlfriend .
a struggling artist becomes a new york city prizefighter in an attempt to win the affection of the ring promoter ' s night club singing sister .
the o ' leary brothers - - honest jack and roguish dion - - become powerful figures , and eventually rivals , in chicago on the eve of its great fire .
an unscrupulous agent for the borgias suffers a change of heart when asked to betray a noble count and his much younger , very beautiful wife .
a disinherited 13th century saxon nobleman leaves norman england with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the far east .
when an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she ' s met at sun valley is really an investigative reporter , she ruins his career by falsely claiming they ' re married .
aristocratic prudence cathaway shocks her family by enlisting in the wafs . after enlisting , a fellow waf sets her up on a blind date with handsome , but moody clive briggs . prudence learns clive is a deserter , but still loves him and senses he ' ll eventually prove himself a patriot .
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the story follows phelps - roper’s upbringing around topeka , ks , where the westboro baptist church preached god’s power and damned those who sinned . the church has a long history of picketing the funerals of gay murder victims , those who died of aids , our fallen military , the victims of the boston marathon bombing , and victims of mass shootings — including aurora , co , where thousands showed up to block them , and in orlando , where a wall of people worked hard to block church signs from the sight lines of grieving mothers burying their children last year .
phelps - roper started protesting at age 5 with her mom and she protested for 20 years . she became one of the most powerful voices on social media for westboro , where she used both a picket sign and her twitter handle to doggedly protest everything from cultural events to funerals , until her ongoing conversations with opponents over twitter led her to question her belief system .
with her mind open to a different way of seeing the world , she and her younger sister made the difficult decision to leave the church — and be disowned by their family — in order to find a life governed by love . they moved to los angeles and found a hasidic jewish family who embraced them fully and started them on their way to inclusiveness , empathy , humanity and love .
producing will be dawn ostroff and jeremy steckler of condé nast entertainment , reese witherspoon and bruna papandrea for made up stories , webb , and river road entertainment ’s bill pohlad . river road will finance .
said hornby , “i’m looking forward to working with the brilliant marc webb , cné and with my friends reese witherspoon , bruna papandrea and river road , with whom i enjoyed such a good relationship during the making of wild . ”
we’re told that the book by phelps - roper will be published at a yet - to - be - determined date by farrar , straus and giroux .
the deal was negotiated by christa zofcin workman for river road with caa repping cné , phelps - roper , witherspoon , papandrea and webb . hornby is repped by casarotto ramsay & associates ltd . phelps - roper is also represented by melissa flashman at janklow & nesbit associates .
basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him . riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you . …
roger ebert ' s speech on empathy for the
11th hour
series on april 9th , 1994 , being republished here in honor of his birthday june 18 .
a look back at robert zemeckis ' half - animated classic , who framed roger rabbit , on its 30 - year anniversary .
a tribute to the late tab hunter , a gay matinee idol and hollywood trailblazer .
the performances by the two young girls are remarkable here . they have seen and internalized unspeakable experiences . their faces are young , but their eyes are wise . whenever i see such early performances by inexperienced actors , i wonder where they come from . no doubt director oliver schmitz had much to do with these portrayals . the casting process must have been crucial . but manyaka and makanyane have grave self - possession ; they never even slightly overact . i met khomotso manyaka at ebertfest 2011 and found her a cheerful , friendly teenager . where did she find these resources ? where does any actor ?
there is a scene where fearful neighbors gather outside chanda ' s house , inflamed by their suspicions about her mother . mrs . tafa confronts them , surprising even herself , perhaps , by how she rises to the occasion . schmitz ' s camera placements here are confident and underline the drama .
an interview with terry gilliam , director of
the man who killed don quixote .
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a woman defies convention by joining the waafs and becoming romantically involved with an awol soldier .