death defying acts is a 2007 british-australian supernatural romance film , directed by gillian armstrong , and starring guy pearce and catherine zeta-jones .

it concerns an episode in the life of hungarian-american escapologist harry houdini at the height of his career in the 1920s .

it was screened in a special presentation at the 2007 toronto international film festival .

death defying acts

july 18 : ' death defying acts ' screening at the catalina island museum .
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' he might as well have been called joe smith ' . . . guy pearce as houdini in death defying acts
with the headline : theater review : death defying acts ; really a jungle out there , a jungle of urban neuroses .
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death defying acts is a hugely enjoyable , impressively directed drama with superb performances and an emotionally engaging script . terrific final scene too . highly recommended .
death defying acts
is based on the life of harry houdini , the fictional tale of how an escapologist fell in love with an edinburgh woman .
this year ' s show promises to up the performances with the inclusion of two death defying acts which are likely to have audiences on the edge of their seats .
his cv includes such enormous hits as neighbours and la confidential , but also duds like the time machine . it ' s all about balance , the death defying acts actor tells xan brooks
death defying acts & apos ; guy pearce is nominated as best lead actor in film against mcinnes , the square & apos ; s david roberts and the black balloon & apos ; s rhys wakefield .
all a ' what if ' movie needs to win me over are some lush costumes and production design , a smart casting choice or two , and a really ridiculous basic idea . death defying acts obliges on all fronts .
“death defying acts” brings together three different comic voices under one roof for an uneven evening . it’s likely to leave a lot of theatergoers scratching their heads about what they’ve just seen . it never lives up to the noble purpose that title suggests . and the main event is actually quite life - defying .
one of the best aussie directors of her generation , armstrong may be incapable of making a graceless film . but coming after “oscar and lucinda” and “charlotte gray , ” “death defying acts” underlines how long it’s been since she’s had a project that fit just right .
: this experiment is nothing less than a battle between love and death , gentlemen . is death final , or will love triumph ? place your bets , please .
the umbrella title “death defying acts” works quite well for the first two of three new one - act plays , by david mamet and elaine may , but it’s a gift to woody allen , whose “central park west” is the evening’s entire second half and the segment most difficult to assess .
not , however , before admitting that while she may indeed love sam ( guilfoyle ) — for whom she is all too willing to dump her wimpy failed writer of a husband , howard ( becker ) — she is only one of sam’s many infidelities , presumably his “death defying acts . ”
the 2008 rising star award was won by actress saoirse ronan following her breakthrough and oscar nominated performance in ‘atonement’ . this year ronan is nominated for two ifta awards for her roles in ‘city of ember’ and ‘death defying acts’ , and most recently she has starred in peter jackson’s ‘the lovely bones’ .
all human acts ranging from the likes of fear - defying high wire artist marco polo , acrobats duo serik and romy and her magical aerial crystal ball act aim to bring laughter and suspense to the audience .
they ' re also the principal characters in
death defying acts ,
the program of three effervescent one - act comedies by david mamet , elaine may and woody allen , which opened last night at the variety arts theater . who needs broadway when off broadway can be as much easy and mischievous fun as this ?
the umbrella title
death defying acts
works quite well for the first two of three new one - act plays , by david mamet and elaine may , but it ' s a gift to woody allen , whose
central park west
is the evening ' s entire second half and the segment most difficult to assess .
we talk about his latest role , impersonating houdini in gillian armstrong ' s death defying acts . he gives a heartfelt committed performance , but the film itself is a bit flat , a trifle uncertain . it plays fast and loose with history , relocating the great escapologist to edinburgh where he has a relationship with a phoney spiritualist played by catherine zeta - jones .
the umbrella title “death defying acts” works quite well for the first two of three new one - act plays , by david mamet and elaine may , but it’s a gift to woody allen , whose “central park west” is the evening’s entire second half and the segment most difficult to assess . the brief curtain - raiser , “an interview , ” is bottom - drawer [ … ]
last year’s “the illusionist” and “the prestige” located an audience for costume dramas revolving around stage sleight - of - hand and gimmicky suspense narratives , rather than the usual drawing - room or court intrigue . “death defying acts” might benefit from whatever appetite those pics whet , but it lacks their revenge - driven mystery hooks , offering instead romping and romance that feel half - baked . [ … ]
gillian armstrong ' s death defying acts ( the weinstein co . ) is a minor but satisfying entry in the
what if
historical - fantasy genre spoofed in that old snl skit ,
what if george washington had a robot friend ?
such movies wedge imagined characters and events into the lives of historic figures . what if sigmund freud treated sherlock holmes for cocaine addiction ? what if h . g . wells really did build a time machine and jack the ripper got into it and traveled to the present day ? i ' ll admit to a total weakness for this particular brand of baloney . all a
what if
movie needs to win me over are some lush costumes and production design , a smart casting choice or two , and a really ridiculous basic idea . death defying acts obliges on all fronts .
i ' m not sure why i failed to be swept up in all this . period pictures are tricky and this one is so stagey that the past really does seem like another country , where emotions are muffled by time and the events before you can only be viewed from a polite distance . for all the flair with which houdini ' s death - defying acts are filmed , they never come near to raising the pulse rate .
skiffington recently completed a six - week stint teaching guy pearce how to perform some of harry houdini ' s illusions for a new gillian armstrong movie called death defying acts . he was the consultant on magic for bell shakespeare ' s touring production of the comedy of errors and the disney musical beauty and the beast . when pamela rabe needed to learn a few tricks for the sydney theatre company ' s the cherry orchard , skiffington got the call .
perhaps the movie ' s nuttiest idea is that houdini would search for a genuine medium by auditioning vaudeville acts rather than , say , attending seances by mediums .
programs of one - act plays are usually a risky business in the commercial theater . with the end of each segment and the start of the next , the program starts and stops throughout the evening . momentum can slow ; attention may wander .
death defying acts
is so cannily constructed that it successfully builds from its comparatively quiet , spookily funny beginning ,
an interview ,
through the alternately desperate and hilarious
hotline ,
to the riotous revelations of marital betrayals in
central park west .
fortunately , these flaws go little way to diminish the genre - defying juggernaut ‘death of a bachelor’ has proved to be . and at the centre of panic at the disco’s best album yet is urie himself . the charisma and eccentricity of the front man , matched by his jaw - dropping vocal acrobatics sees urie finally become the ringmaster of his own circus .
in the acting categories , colin farrell and brendan gleeson have both been nominated for their turns in martin mcdonagh’s ‘in bruges’ along with comedian dylan moran ( a film with me in it ) and michael fassbender ( hunger ) . actresses in a leading role include tribeca - winner eileen walsh ( eden ) , jenn murray ( dorothy ) , newcomer kelly o’neill ( kisses ) and oscar nominee saoirse ronan ( city of ember ) . this marks a double nomination for saoirse who has also been nominated in the supporting actress category for ‘death defying acts’ .
the setup is obvious from the outset , and so is the punch line ( asked why he is damned , the interviewer says the lawyer made two critical errors in life : ”you passed the bar and you neglected to live forever” ) . but there is something death - defying in the nervy back - pedaling and second - guessing of guilfoyle’s savvy but sinking lawyer .
to be accurate about it ,
death defying acts
is really two extended sketches : mr . mamet ' s
interview
and ms . may ' s
hotline ,
which are the program ' s first half , and mr . allen ' s fully developed , farcical one - act comedy ,
central park west ,
which concludes the program after intermission . though each playwright has a distinctive voice , a unifying theme is provided by the kind of late - 20th - century urban desperation that prompts everything from benign smiles to belly laughs .
as far as i ' m concerned , guy pearce , who stars as houdini in gillian armstrong ' s death defying acts , has a hard act to follow - although it has to be said he looks the part rather more than curtis did . i don ' t think houdini was endowed with the pearce cheekbones , which seem to grow a little sharper every year , but the hairstyle , which ripples across his scalp in intricate corrugations , looks about right and he certainly projects the intensity needed by anyone who makes a living out of being chained up and hurled into deep water .
duo sifolini , who are recognised as one of the most dangerous acts in the circus world , have brought along their giant space wheel – which will see them perform 15 metres above the ground without any safety aids .
it doesn’t take a genius to see that woody allen’s “central park west” is not only the longest but also by far the strongest of the three one - act plays that make up “death defying acts” in its off broadway tryout at the stamford center for the arts’ rich forum . so why undermine it by preceding it with a minor david mamet fragment and an overwritten elaine may sketch that , at the performance seen , sent some members of the audience out the door before they even sampled the allen ? wouldn’t it be wiser to beg allen for another one - acter to accompany his existing piece , or even offer the 70 - minute “central park west” by itself ?
even if you loved the recent miniwave of period films about magicians ( the illusionist and the prestige ) , you won ' t necessarily fall for death defying acts . it ' s gentler and hokier than those movies , less concerned with the mechanics of magic than it is with the psychology of the men or women behind the tricks ( and it doesn ' t have a lot new to say about that , either ) . still , there ' s something touching about this movie ' s belief in its own outlandish central premise , which comes down , in the end , to a bit of stargazing wish - fulfillment . what if harry houdini came to town , and a two - bit scammer managed to trick the ultimate trickster into falling in love ?
“death defying acts” opens , in complete silence , with mamet’s “an interview . ” the silence is eventually broken by one of the two men sitting at an almost bare table stage center , robin wagner ’s high - tech sliding panels and peter kaczorowski’s chilly lighting adding to the kafkaesque atmosphere . an attorney ( paul guilfoyle ) is being interviewed by an attendant ( gerry becker ) whose modus operandi is to keep movement and speech to a minimum . this unsettles the attorney to the point where he loses his cool . the typically mamet dialogue revolves around whether the attorney borrowed a lawn mower when he was young and then buried it , and injecting such obvious lines as “there’s no such thing as randomness , ””what is truth ? ” and “are you saying there are no honest lawyers ? ”
] it wasn ' t death that scared mr . houdini . he ' d been diving into deep water all his life . what scared him was the truth . it wasn ' t his body that was in chains , it was his heart .
“nurturing new talent is a key objective of the irish film board and the rising star award acts as an excellent showcase of talent both in front of and behind the camera . this year’s nominees have all broken through in significant films and we are delighted to see their talent and recent achievements recognised in the award . ”
‘death of a bachelor’ is a record that comes full circle on panic’s evolution . with the revolving door of members closed for now , frontman urie is finally free to take songwriting duties completely into his own hands - and it seems no coincidence that this album is all the better for it .
if you missed the “america’s got talent” season 12 premiere tuesday night , you didn’t see demian aditya risk his life in this death - defying escape act ( watch above ) . the four - minute clip has gone viral , with over 2 . 6 million clicks at youtube within the past day . for only the second time in his life , aditya was tasked with escaping from shackles before the 900 pounds of sand above him dropped and buried him alive . when judge howie mandel asks the 36 - year - old from jakarta , indonesia if he’s willing to risk his life , aditya responds , “for ‘america’s got talent’ ? yes . ”
while on tour in scotland , the world’s most famous magician , harry houdini ( guy pearce ) , sets out to prove whether psychics can really communicate with the dead . he still mourns the death of his beloved mother , and offers $ 10 , 000 to anyone who can contact her from beyond the grave .
during harry houdini ' s tour of britain in 1926 , the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a scottish psychic . the psychic and her daughter attempt to con houdini during a highly publicized séance to contact his mother whose death has haunted him for many years . however all does not go to plan . . .
during harry houdini ' s tour of britain in 1926 , the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a scottish psychic . the psychic and her daughter attempt to con houdini during a highly publicized séance to contact his mother whose death has haunted him for many years . however all does not go to plan . . . written by anonymous
this is the story of the great harry houdini as he arrives in edinburgh for the grand finale of his world tour in 1926 . while his ingenious near - death escape stunts enrapture audiences , houdini is more intrigued by notions of the afterlife . he offers a prize to anyone who can contact the dead and reveal the last words uttered by his dying mother .
takes the punch in the stomach story to a new mythic level by having houdini struck in public and dropping dead on the spot . the so credited
montreal student
, played by justin flagg , shouts
trick or treat
before he delivers the fatal blow . the punch , and houdini ' s problematic appendix , are set - up throughout the film , but the depiction of his sudden death seems a bit lazy .
his movie from gillian armstrong begins with an ingenious and entertaining idea . harry houdini , the great escape artist , was famously devoted to his mother and distraught at her death ; he was also noted for his debunking of so - called spiritualists and table - rappers . what if a spiritualist claimed to be in touch with houdini ' s mother ? would houdini ' s oedipal anguish somehow be transformed into the credulity that he had spent his life denouncing ? guy pearce plays houdini ;
well , that may be , but i wouldn ' t have known if they hadn ' t told me . what is clear is that houdini is flirting with death even more passionately than he ' s flirting with zeta - jones . he has a reckless habit of inviting burly members of the crowd to cluster around him and punch him as hard as they can - an act of bravado calculated to enhance the myth of his invincibility . instead , it ' s afflicted him with severe gut - ache .
sounding intriguing enough in concept , “death” misses the mark onscreen in a way adaptations of deceptively cinematic novels often do . yet it’s an original script — one that , for long in its development history ( it was written by tony grisoni and brian ward ) , didn’t involve houdini at all , which may explain why the mix of a real - life legend and fictive personnel never quite gels . the former feels diminished and the latter contrived , neither lifting off the page into any kind of real dramatic life .
deaf singer mandy harvey , escape artist demian aditya , former pop star johnny emmanuel and amazing acts more take the tonight stage to fight for america’s votes on america’s got talent ‘s live show ! first up on the show was dance crew brobots & mandroidz . after their intricate and clearly very rehearsed performance , howie mandel said he wasn’t getting a “wow ! ” from them , but the other judges were so impressed , with mel b even saying , “i need to find me a man who can move like that ! ” lol ! it was definitely a great way to start the show !
performing “the death drop , ” escape artist demian aditya had us all on the edge of our seats for the third time . stapled into a suspended wooden box and handcuffed to metal rods outside of the box , demian needed to escape as a blowtorch lit up rope that held demian and the box up . however , the box began to drop and got caught due to another “technical difficulty . ” the drama didn’t stop there , people ! simon compared the disastrous performance to mel b’s recently failed marriage , which caused mel to pour water on simon and then storm out ! yikes… .
i do not know why this film is flushed with negative reviews . first of all this is not a film about houdini , there is no reason why this film should dramatically display the amazing acts and potentials of the artist himself ; secondly , i do not see why ' there is no reason for the creation of this movie ' is justifiable , this film is just a testimony on how characters carry on with their lives and that itself is enough to make a film meaningful . . . in fact films like ' atonement ' ( where the girl is also in ) deserves this statement better where everything is just so fake . third , i haven ' t watch the illusionist but i have to say this is richer in detail , and thus better than the prestige - - a film which displays too much magic ' action ' but no depth to the characters or the plot at all , like an eggshell without the yoke inside . . . lastly , this is a decent film where everything is well - made , well presented , well acting performances ( exception of catherine ' s dramatically ' fake ' acting at times ) , and a good score
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pretty but dull , with unconvincing turns from zeta - jones and pearce . if you want a period magician movie , seek out the prestige or the illusionist instead .
all in all , it ' s a bit of a snore that falls back on romance when all else fails .
pearce ' s boys - adventure take on the vaudeville legend is a hoot , though not nearly as laughable as the dialogue or zeta - jones ' s pitiful attempts at basic emoting .
what the film loses in momentum as the romance takes over , it gains in sex appeal as its two attractive actors make their own kind of magic .
director gillian armstrong is more attentive to decor than the story , which never seems in a hurry to get anyplace in particular and concludes with a thud .
every line spoken is so austere that the characters seem like they ' re acting in straitjackets . but it ' s the audience that will be most desperate to escape .
it ' s a shame that the story itself feels like smoke and mirrors with nowhere to go , wanting to have its cake and eat it too .
any magic is instantly dispelled by the dead hand of a tirelessly pouting zeta - jones , whose slap boasts more layers than her talent .
it ' s a movie that seems to have been lavished with care and performed with gusto , yet its tale of fakery sounds its own knell : there ' s not a believable moment in it .
this seemed destined for a main stream release and it has all the features of a generally popular film . for some reason , it never got that full hollywood treatment so only a few of us got to see this mediocre gem with few shining parts .
a fictitious account of harold houdini . it focuses on a love he has for a woman that claims to be psychic . unfortunately the film is void of any real engagement or excitement . zeta - jones is fine , but never for a single second did i believe she was going to screw over houdini . this left me with a rather predictable love story that i was hoping would hurry along . there was never a real sense of wonderment at houdini ' s tricks , and the film tried to hard to pull away his showbiz facade . we are left with an interesting and emotionally frail man , but since it isn ' t juxtaposed against how he was perceived it wasn ' t particularly interesting . saoirse ronan shows why she is becoming a fantastic lead actress , but the majority of this just never peaks that high .
overall this really is a pleasant and enjoyable film , but it is incredibly typical . there is nothing particuarly special about it , nor does it do anything unexpected . it is mediocre to the very end , but at the same time decent to watch . i picked this up because saoise ronan was in it , and she is so young and tiny ! and at the same time , she is just as great and confincing as the rest of the cast . the film is extreamely atmospheric , that is the main thing that stood out to me . well , and the score is decent . other than that , everything is just . . . okay . the story is inoffensive , the acting is decent , the direction seems competant enough , but nothing is that extraordinary . i just wish there was more to grab ahold of , to rave or whine about . i would even like some major flaws if there were some killer virtues to go with them . i had never heard of this movie until actually watching it , and i cannot help but thing that there is a reason for that . so , i really cannot say that i recommend it , but at the same time i do not not recommend it . . . it is an odd blend . the film is decent enough , but you really are wasting your time in watching it . there is nothing to make you think , or make you feel . you will not be stimulated at all .
i was surprised that i have never head of this film before watching it . overall , this was an entertaining movie . i enjoyed watching it , even thought there is not too much beneath the surface . this movie was a little drawn out at the end , but still , i thought it was better than most critics have given it credit for .
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showed strength during its expansion , which helped it take first place on the per theater chart with an average of $ 13 , 088 in 19 theaters . the overall box office leader ,
, was the only other film to top $ 10 , 000 on the per theater chart with an average of $ 10 , 780 .
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the veteran illusionist ross skiffington is the magician actors call on . the 58 - year - old studied drama , but has worked as a professional conjuror for the past 40 years . now he often helps thespians who need to deceive , baffle and bewilder an audience .
it ' s always a joy to work with actors ,
he says .
there ' s a famous quote from jean eugene robert - houdin [ the pioneer of modern illusionism ] who said ' a magician is an actor playing the role of a magician ' . actors are all magicians in a sense ; they understand how to misdirect an audience and how to play things on several levels .
skiffington recently worked his magic on are you there ? , an adaptation of argentinian playwright javier daulte ' s two - hander which opens at the ensemble theatre tomorrow night . australian director ros horin saw the play on a trip to buenos aires two years ago and knew immediately she wanted to produce it in sydney .
are you there ? concerns a struggling magician and his partner who move into a new house , only to discover it ' s inhabited by a ghost . skiffington spent several weeks teaching its stars , paula arundell and socratis otto , some tricks which appear to bring the invisible spectre to life . both proved able students .
socratis has to make a silk [ hanky ] appear and disappear at one point ,
says skiffington .
when i did it for him the first time , the look on his face was of total astonishment - and that ' s the way it should be .
horin says the play is
about love and intimacy - or rather the difficulty of achieving it - and the need for magic in our lives as well as in theatre
.
arundell feared the lessons would spoil her enjoyment of magic . otto was more enthusiastic .
i ' m no good at sports ,
he says .
so if i ' ve got a few magic tricks up my sleeve people might start to take a bit more notice .
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on a tour of britain in 1926 , harry houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician .
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a mother falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time . mother nature messes with their fates .
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the life of a top chef changes when she becomes the guardian of her young niece .
when the heiress of a luxury hotel chain is kidnapped at her rat trap motel outside detroit by a band of ruthless sex traffickers because she has seen too much , her oppressed assistant must figure out a way to rescue her .
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] when i was very small , i had a gift . i saw things other folk did nae see . it was like looking into deep water and seein ' things on the other side . as i grew up , the gift vanished , just like my mam said it would . and i saw the world as it really was - with all its sweet lies and trickery . the the great houdini came into our lives , and changed everything forever .
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during harry houdini ' s tour of britain in 1926 , the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a scottish psychic .
gillian armstrong ' s new feature film starring catherine zeta - jones and guy pearce , releasing in australian cinemas march 13 . when famous escape artist harry houdini arrives in edinburgh and offers a $ 10 , 000 reward to anyone who can contact his mother from beyond the grave , a beautiful but deceptive psychic and her young ' sidekick ' daughter take the challenge . as houdini spends time with this mysterious woman , he is beguiled by her charms , and what begins as a con evolves into a far more complicated and dangerous affair .
is the cunning , predatory minx with a music - hall mind - reading turn who thinks that houdini , however grand , will be susceptible to her wiles . but , however intriguing , the movie is over - schematic , slow - moving and over - furnished . it never seems to come alive with any believable interplay of characters ; the movie locks itself into a watertight tank of a premise , and the handcuffs won ' t come off .
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mary and benji ' s half - baked scam is soon exposed , but houdini takes a shine to the scruffy , resourceful pair and even believes ( or is he just pretending to believe ? ) in mary ' s paranormal gifts—a faith not shared by his cranky manager , mr . sugarman ( the ever - welcome timothy spall ) . houdini sets up the mcgarvies in a posh hotel suite near his own , encouraging them to spy all they want , confident that they ' ll never uncover those last words . meanwhile , he expensively courts the dubious mary , who can ' t figure out the great magician ' s motives . surely it ' s not possible that he ' s actually falling for her ?
the australian director gillian armstrong is best known here for launching the young judy davis on the world in my brilliant career ( 1979 ) . no such launch pad is needed for saoirse ronan , the 13 - year - old irish actress who already had her breakout role last year as the chilly little psychopath in atonement . but even more than in atonement , ronan struck me in this film as a major talent who may be able to make the transition from child to adult actress . ( next year , she ' ll play the lead role in peter jackson ' s adaptation of the lovely bones . ) her face is so vibrant and responsive , you want to grab her and cast her as every famous heroine of girls ' literature—anne of green gables , harriet the spy , mary in the secret garden —before she hits puberty .
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harry houdini ( guy pearce ) has an affair with a scottish con artist ( catherine zeta - jones ) who claims she knows the final words houdini ' s mother spoke on her deathbed .
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gillian armstrong ' s houdini movie lacks a certain magic , despite the sexual heat .
genre drama run time 115 minutes rated pg country united states director gillian armstrong actors catherine zeta - jones , guy pearce , timothy spall , saoirse ronan . rating stars - 3
for me , harry houdini is forever tony curtis , who played the great escape artist in a bio - pic i saw as a child . he may have worn tights in the role . in those days , curtis rarely appeared in anything else .
offstage , he ' s just as busy . in his unbound moments , curtis ' s houdini had janet leigh to flirt with . pearce ' s houdini has catherine zeta - jones . you may not be surprised to learn that the script does quite a bit of tinkering with the facts of houdini ' s life . zeta - jones portrays a made - up character called mary mcgarvie , who ekes out a living in music halls by posing as a psychic with her partner in crime , her 12 - year - old daughter , benji . benji is played by saoirse ronan , exhibiting the same aplomb she displayed in atonement , but this time it comes with charm . much of the story is told from her point of view .
the year is 1926 and we ' re in edinburgh - although it ' s an edinburgh that bears only a casual relationship to the real thing . houdini , accompanied by his hard - headed minder , mr sugarman ( timothy spall in a serious mood ) , books into the city ' s grandest hotel , taking a suite that could double as the wing of a ruritanian palace , while mary and benji , who have fallen on hard times , make do with an abandoned cottage which looks as if it was previously occupied by hansel and gretel . there is such a soft edge to the lighting that crucial parts of the action seem to take place in a scottish mist .
the script was initially devised without houdini as a story about the art of the con trick . the writers , tony grisoni and brian ward , say they wanted to explore the idea that audiences who patronise magic shows want so much to be taken in that they readily conspire with the conjurer to overlook the fakery . houdini was a later addition to the plot and with him came a different psychological theme - the notion that he was sublimating love by tying himself up with ropes and chains .
not surprisingly , given this morbid streak in his make - up , he ' s begun to be obsessed by the question of whether there ' s an afterlife . and since he ' s a showman , he makes this obsession public . on his arrival in edinburgh , he puts up a prize of $ us10 , 000 to anyone who can communicate with his dead mother .
mary mcgarvie is bold enough to make a bid for the prize and as soon as houdini lays eyes on her , he ' s predictably intrigued - to the chagrin of sugarman , who definitely does know a con when he sees one .
yet there ' s nothing he can do about it . he and the precociously insightful benji are left to sit on the sidelines tossing barbed remarks at one another while mary and houdini set about falling in love . and they look extremely photogenic doing it . they tango and fox - trot together while gazing soulfully into one another ' s eyes and they generate such heat that mary belatedly discovers her finer feelings .
i know it ' s nostalgia talking but in my mind curtis ' s houdini still remains the one to beat .
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release date : july 11 director : gillian armstrong writers : tony grisoni , brian ward cinematographer : haris zambarloukos starring : catherine zeta - jones , guy pearce , saoirse ronan studio / run time : the weinstein company , 97 mins .
all centered around stage magicians and were geared towards the art - house crowd .
could have been lumped into that group and no one would have batted an eye .
catherine zeta - jones plays a vaudeville medium looking to swindle $ 10 , 000 off houdini by telling him what his mother spoke to him on her deathbed .
during this attempt they fall in love , much to the bemusement of houdini’s manager and the medium’s child .
it’s competently acted , competently directed and , given the constraints of its story , competently written .
but excepting experimental films , plot is a key reason we watch movies . without an interesting one , an hour and a half of competent filmmaking becomes about an hour and 25 minutes of boredom .
from its predecessors is that the earlier films all had a focus on plot that drove characters’ interior quests forward and let magic act as a metaphor for dealing with reality .
forgets this aspect and , for better or for worse , throws all of its interest at characters .
if the plot sounds in summary mostly like an excuse for a typical period melodrama , that’s because the magic and mysticism is merely a macguffin for telling the film ' s conventional love story .
because of this , the characters are well - conceived , and , additionally , well - acted .
but with so little story behind them , their minor dalliances never become important enough on their own to warrant interest .
likewise , the film is very well - shot and at moments , beautiful , but nevertheless extremely sterile .
it takes an incredible level of craftsmanship to achieve this feeling , but here , this hands - off approach fails to inject passion where it in such dire need .
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to make a film about houdini . it opts for fiction over fact , spiritualism over magic and escapes , and incident over biography . it even omits houdini ' s name from the title . what the filmmakers thought would be the
hook
of this movie is beyond me , except that it starred catherine zeta - jones .
is not without merit , and it was good to see houdini in any form back on the big screen , if only for one week .
was more about the role of the fictional mary mcgarvie than houdini . this was clear when the project was first announced in the trades as
in 2005 . at that time , rachel weisz was set for the co - starring role . weisz even said she believed she might be related to houdini ! but even with the casting of guy pearce as houdini the project would have trouble getting off the ground until catherine zeta - jones , fresh off her oscar win for
, took over the role of mary , reportedly agreeing to a pay cut that
saved the film .
tells the fictional story of houdini ' s obsessive search for a medium who can prove communication with the dead ( and his mother ) during a tour of scotland in 1926 . houdini discovers mcgarvie , a scottish music hall clairvoyant , who along with her young daughter , benji ( nicely played by saoirse ronan ) , manipulates matters to get inside houdini ' s cloistered world . ultimately the two tricksters fall in love .
the film was shot in edinburgh ( where it is set ) and in london ' s savoy hotel . much was made by the british tabloid press about an
to star zeta - jones when a member of the crew accidentally stepped on her toe .
reported that ,
it virtually took the toenail clean off .
executive producer dan lupovitz threw cold water on the story by saying ,
it was as minor incident which hardly disrupted filming . she ' s fine .
in the film , guy pearce plays houdini as a bit of a primadonna who berates hotel porters and barks at his ( fictional ) manager , mr . sugarman ( timothy spall ) . pearce also effects a husky , gravelly voice . the result is the least likable houdini of them all , although pearce certainly looks the part with a very houdini - like physique ( although he ' s the houdini of 1906 rather than 1926 ) . says pearce :
there’s footage of houdini and there’s audio stuff of him , but i decided to go in a completely different direction and really just work off what my own imaginative response was to the script anyway , i think , rather than really just trying to channel somebody .
is the outstanding production design by gemma jackson . the opening bridge jump in sydney harbor is truly evocative of the period . many authentic houdini photos are recreated with pearce ' s likeness . houdini ' s stationary is even accurately reproduced . the chinese water torture cell is nicely recreated , although pearce ' s patter is hokey and its conclusion , with pearce lounging across the top like a beach boy , seems out of character . while bess does not appear in the film , her photograph does . oddly , the filmmakers elected not to use a photo of the real bess , but a photo of an unknown actress . who is this
for once a hollywood film does not portray houdini as dying in the water torture cell . however
was financed through the australian film finance corp . , bbc films and myriad pictures . after it was completed , the weinstein company bought the film after viewing a promo reel at the american film market , paying a reported $ 5 . 5 million for limited distribution rights . myriad pictures had already sold distribution rights in the u . k . to lionsgate .
at the state theater in sydney australia on march 10 , 2008 . a vip after - party was held at the zeta bar at the sydney hilton . the film never saw a wide theatrical release in the u . s . instead , the film played for only one week in two theaters : the landmark’s sunshine cinema in new york and manns chinese theater 6 in hollywood ( where i saw it on july 11 , 2008 ) .


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the recent beats purchase likely means that future headphones from the brand will ship with a lightning connector rather than a 3 . 5mm headphone jack .
the plot of the pre - sequel follows jack’s rise to power , and it’s essentially handsome jack begins painting him in a more heroic light that clashes with his portrayal in borderlands 2 . while the approach doesn’t always work , it’s a portrayal of how people come into power not because they’re power - mad or fighting for a worthy cause—it’s about getting people to like you , and that’s just what jack does as athena recounts the events of the game with an admiring lilt in her voice . it’s aimed at shedding a more sympathetic light on jack in the typical manner . real bad guys think they’re doing the right thing , the good guys aren’t necessarily so good , but at least it frames the events of borderlands 2 as a means of revenge versus motiveless douchebaggery on jack’s part .
because thunderbolt handles both data and displayport video , you connect your mini displayport - enabled display—or another display using a mini displayport adapter—to the thunderbolt port , or you daisy - chain it to other thunderbolt devices , as noted below .
plug into displays using hdmi , vga , dvi , displayport , or thunderbolt .
james dewitt is an associate editor at thunderbolt , having joined in march 2010 .
adventure film serial in 15 episodes about the attempts of jack and his girl bess morgan to prevent crooks from illegally obtaining rights to the oil on land that is not theirs .
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important : this does work on android ! if your android phone has the standard audio jack port . i have a motorola g5s plus and it works phenomanly for video interviews .
what is thunderbolt 3 ? thunderbolt 3 is the upcoming version of the thunderbolt interface . the specifications have been released , but the interface itself is not available on pcs yet . thunderbolt 3 lets you transfer data at up to 40gbps . that ' s twice as fast as the 20gbps throughput speed of thunderbolt 2 , and four times as fast as the 10gbps of usb - c and the original thunderbolt interface . thunderbolt 3 lets you connect speedy hard drives , various displays ( including 4k and 5k resolutions ) , and other peripherals , like pcie gen 3 expansion cages , to your desktop or laptop .
thunderbolt 3 is still in the nascent stages , and hasn ' t rolled out on any pcs yet , but since it shares some cables and its plug shape with usb - c , it has a much better chance for wide adoption than original thunderbolt and thunderbolt 2 had . look for thunderbolt 3 on premium and performance laptops later this year .
it depends . if you connect those devices to the end of your thunderbolt chain , they should’t adversely affect the performance of faster “upstream” devices . if you connect non - thunderbolt devices in the middle of a thunderbolt daisy chain , the way you connect them matters .
what about adapters ? intel says that thunderbolt 3 - to - original - thunderbolt adapters will be available at the end of this year , along with the first laptops with thunderbolt 3 ports . you will be able to plug in current thunderbolt devices , like hard drives , as well as mini displayport and thunderbolt displays ( up to 5k ) , using this type of adapter , and the devices will run at the same speeds you ' re used to today .
thunderbolt just became official , and while a number of vendors have announced thunderbolt - based peripherals , none are yet available . for example , promise has announced the pegasus thunderbolt technology das , a 4 - or 6 - bay external raid array , and lacie has announced a thunderbolt version of the company’s little big disk portable drive that features dual hard drives or ssds ( solid - state drives ) . these and other thunderbolt peripherals are expected to be available beginning this spring .
conveniently enough , thunderbolt uses a connector that fits the mini displayport port on all recent macs . in fact , the newest macbook models include only a thunderbolt port—there’s no separate mini displayport port .
macworld lab recently saw how dramatic an improvement thunderbolt performance is over firewire 800 . . . .
passive vs . active cables the simplest cables are passive and made of copper metal . passive thunderbolt 3 cables are identical to usb - c cables and plug into thunderbolt 3 or usb - c ports . thunderbolt 3 transfers data at up to 20gbps over passive cables , at equivalent speeds to thunderbolt 2 , and double the speed of usb - c . but while passive cables are the most compatible with both thunderbolt 3 and usb - c , they ' re not necessarily the most efficient .
intel has built thunderbolt 3 to work in the same exact physical ports as usb - c . that will help adoption , since pc manufacturers won ' t have to knock any additional holes in a system chassis for a separate thunderbolt 3 port . it ' s important to note , however , that while they are physically the same , the thunderbolt 3 port has circuitry behind it to allow faster thunderbolt 3 throughput rates . ports that only support usb - c ( and not thunderbolt 3 ) will likely be more common , even after thunderbolt 3 ' s official rollout later this year . to quickly check whether the port you have on a laptop is a usb - c or thunderbolt 3 version , just look next to the port for a thunderbolt icon , which resembles a lightning bolt .
naturally , if you plug a thunderbolt 3 device into a thunderbolt 3 port , you ' ll get between 20 and 40gbps maximum throughput , depending on the type of cable you ' re using .
on the new macbook pro models , you can use target disk mode over a computer - to - computer thunderbolt connection . ( we assume this will be the case with future thunderbolt - equipped macs , as well . ) however , mac os x’s migration assistant software doesn’t currently support thunderbolt connections .
i have a macbook pro retina 13
early 2015 that came with 2 thunderbolt 2 ports . i have been looking for a dock to connect my usb 2 / 3 devices but all i can find are docks with thunderbolt 3 cables . can thunderbolt 3 cables utilize the thunderbolt 2 ports and can the cabling provide power to devices ( i . e . , the apple external dvd drive ) ?
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thunderbolt 3 with usb - c technology is a truly universal connection . with the help of an adapter or cable , you can connect just about any of your devices , including your existing thunderbolt 2 devices .
in our ongoing look at thunderbolt performance , we tested two more configurations , as requested by . . .
macworld lab has done more thunderbolt testing . we look at lion versus snow leopard performance , . . .
clearly , fred was no innocent victim of a dastardly plot , as some thunderbolt writers like to claim .
thunderbolt 3 provides twice the display bandwidth of thunderbolt 2 , enabling imac to support two 4k displays or one 5k display . and with two thunderbolt controllers in the 15 - inch macbook pro , you can send graphics to dual 5k displays for the perfect high - resolution photo and video editing setup . thunderbolt 3 connects to displayport displays and monitors with a cable , while supporting hdmi and vga displays with the use of an adapter .
the biggest advantage is obviously the aforementioned performance . but another big selling point is that , since thunderbolt supports data , video , audio , and power , you can use a single thunderbolt port—and thus a single cable—to connect many of your peripherals . or at least you’ll be able to once you’ve got enough thunderbolt devices and adapters .
for example , if you use two firewire - to - thunderbolt adapters to put a firewire hard drive in the middle of a thunderbolt daisy chain , the performance of the rest of the chain
downstream
from the computer will be limited by the firewire drive’s firewire bus , which simply can’t pass data as fast as thunderbolt .
you can connect up to six devices to each thunderbolt port by daisy - chaining them—connecting the first to the thunderbolt port , connecting the second to the first , and so on . of course , this requires that each device in the chain have two thunderbolt ports ( or two other types of data ports along with thunderbolt adapters ) —one to connect to the device in front of it and one to provide a connection for the device after it .
in this guide , we ' ll take a look at the different ways you can connect devices to thunderbolt .
the first thunderbolt - based raid array has finally arrived , and macworld lab has some test results . . .
equipped with thunderbolt 3 , your imac or macbook pro is ready to connect to a broad ecosystem of devices .
those who are lucky enough to have headphones with interchangeable cables will probably find apple selling thunderbolt cables and adapters .
trace were caused by the lucent switching regulator assembly in the original thunderbolt housing . replacement of this supply with an external + 12 / - 12 / + 5 volt switching supply eliminated most of the original thunderbolt ' s spurs ,
thunderbolt 3 offers a connection with state - of - the - art speed and versatility . delivering twice the bandwidth of thunderbolt 2 , it consolidates data transfer , video output , and charging into a single compact connector . and with the integration of usb - c , convenience is added to the speed of thunderbolt to create a truly universal port .
the big news , however , is the fact that thunderbolt 3 is designed to work in the same - shaped port as usb - c and is compatible with usb - c cables and devices . the original thunderbolt and thunderbolt 2 interfaces use mini displayport - shaped connectors , which mean that they are entirely incompatible with any usb port . apple computers ( and a few windows workstations ) are the only systems to support thunderbolt , which ultimately led to limited adoption .
claims that frederick ward was not shot at kentucky creek are merely part of the thunderbolt mythology and are easily disproven .
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in theory , it’s blazing fast . a thunderbolt channel can provide up to 10 gigabits per second ( gbps ) of data throughput—and each thunderbolt port includes two channels . thunderbolt is also bi - directional , meaning it can transmit and receive data at the same time . even with estimated real - world performance of around 8gbps , thunderbolt is many times faster than firewire 800 and usb 3 . 0 . it’s also significantly faster than the esata connections available on many windows pcs .
for owners of the 2011 macbook air , the thunderbolt display is a fantastic way to get imac - like . . .
what happens when i plug usb - c devices into a thunderbolt 3 port ? all usb - c devices can be plugged into , and will work in , a thunderbolt 3 port , but it will transfer data at the slower usb - c speed . an easy thing to remember is that thunderbolt 3 ports are technically backward - compatible with usb - c devices .
traces are from an unmodified late - model thunderbolt in disciplined and undisciplined mode , respectively . these traces are largely equivalent to the
thunderbolt 3 , however , is not ( necessarily ) usb - c compatible . while it ' s true that you can physically plug a thunderbolt 3 device into a usb - c port , it isn ' t guaranteed to work . some thunderbolt 3 devices , like power adapters , may charge your usb - c - only laptop , but devices that transfer data probably will not . you ' ll likely get a message on your laptop screen that the thunderbolt 3 device is incompatible with the usb - c port .
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trace gives a better idea of the 10811 - based thunderbolt ' s short - term performance , as its reference is a very stable undisciplined ocxo .
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so there you have it . for all of you folks out there wondering how apple would justify removing the headphone jack from the iphone 7 : they say it’s because the port was a poor use of space and ultimately they see all headphones becoming wireless . coincidentally , they also announced multiple new pairs of bluetooth headphones today .
until such adapters are available , one of the biggest thunderbolt challenges will be that your display must be the last device in the chain , because the new macbooks have only a single thunderbolt port and current displays—even those with displayport connections—don’t have a way to pass data on to another device . this will make it a hassle if you want to temporarily connect or disconnect , say , a thunderbolt hard drive , as you’ll need to disconnect your display in the process .
as noted above , thunderbolt relies on pci express , the architecture that underpins macs and most pcs . but ios devices don’t use a pci express architecture , which would presumably make it difficult to simply stick a thunderbolt port on an iphone . plus the dock - connector port on ios devices provides quite a bit of additional functionality—it’s got 30 connection pins for a reason , after all . finally , it’s not clear what benefits thunderbolt would provide that the dock - connector port is missing . we suspect it’s far more likely that apple will eventually sell an optional thunderbolt - to - dock - connector cable for charging and syncing .
on wednesday , apple confirmed that the rumors are true : there is no headphone jack in the iphone 7 . apple is including a new pair of earpods in the box with the handset , as well as an adapter for connecting the headphones to the legacy 3 . 5mm port , and it also announced new wireless earbuds called airpods .
apple svp phil schiller explains the move : “the reason to move on : courage . the courage to move on and do something new that betters all of us . ” schiller says removing headphone jack will free up space , which is growing ever - limited with new components , and apple’s ultimate vision for mobile audio is “wireless . ”
thunderbolt has been on the market for less than a year , but we’re already dreaming of all the cool things we might be able to do with it .
apple doesn ' t comment on future products , but it’s telling that the company has made thunderbolt a standard feature across the entire macbook pro line—even the entry - level model . the company has said it expects wide adoption of thunderbolt , and for that to happen , its spread across the mac line seems like a given . as apple updates the company’s other computer lines over the coming months , we expect to see thunderbolt added to every mac model . a more interesting question , though , is…
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transferring data at speeds of up to 40gb / s , which is two times faster than thunderbolt 2 and eight times faster than usb 3 , thunderbolt 3 delivers the fastest connection to any dock , display , or device . you can also daisy - chain up to six thunderbolt devices through a single port without needing a hub or a switch . so connecting a storage device to your computer , and then a display to your storage device , works as it’s meant to — with powerful throughput . 2
at right is a detailed plot by warren sarkinson showing the behavior of a stock thunderbolt with 3 . 00 firmware , trimble - labelled ocxo , and tweaked disciplining parameters under
the claim that fred hammered on the tollkeeper ' s door , that the tollkeeper said ,
by god , i thought it must have been a thunderbolt
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, is merely part of the thunderbolt mythology .
however , it’s likely we’ll see specialized adapters and hubs that preserve the thunderbolt chain while branching off to provide usb , firewire , ethernet , video , or audio connections . these could range from simple , t - shaped adapters that provide thunderbolt input and output along with a single legacy connection , to multi - device hubs that let you connect several legacy devices ( docking station , anyone ? ) . when using one of these specialized adapters , the higher performance of the rest of the thunderbolt chain should be preserved .
as noted above , thunderbolt can carry data , video , audio , network data , and power , so we also expect to see adapters providing audio and ethernet connections . perhaps we ' ll even see cables that grab power from the thunderbolt port—this could be useful , for example , for getting some extra juice for an external usb or firewire peripheral .
trace shows the performance of the oscillator after it was removed from the thunderbolt and powered up with an hp bench supply . the spur near 50 khz is an instrument artifact .
unlike with usb 2 . 0 , where connecting a non - hi - speed device or a usb 1 . 0 device can affect the performance of the entire usb bus , thunderbolt is designed to handle multiple devices of varying levels of performance without affecting the channel itself . of course , those devices still share the total throughput of the thunderbolt channel , which could limit the performance of a particular device if multiple devices are transferring lots of data at the same time , but the performance of the thunderbolt channel itself shouldn’t be affected .
thunderbolt ( previously called light peak ) is a new peripheral - connection technology , developed by intel with collaboration from apple , that combines data , video , audio , and power in a single connection . based on the pci express and displayport architectures , thunderbolt allows for high - speed connection of peripherals such as hard drives , raid arrays , video - capture solutions , and network interfaces , and it can transmit high - definition video using the displayport protocol . each thunderbolt port also provides up to 10 watts of power to connected peripherals .
third - party vendors will sell adapters , available sometime this spring , that let you connect usb , firewire 400 , and firewire 800 devices to thunderbolt ports . thunderbolt won’t make these legacy devices any faster , however—they’ll still be limited to the performance of their built - in components . for example , a firewire 800 device still won’t be able to transfer data faster than 800 mbps .
along with usb - c , thunderbolt 3 shares a very compact , interchangeable port that delivers fast throughput rates . here ' s what you need to know about connectivity on your next laptop .
as of this writing , there are no passive , active , or optical thunderbolt 3 cables available . intel says to expect them by the end of the year . pricing has also not been announced , but we expect that a passive thunderbolt 3 cables will have similar pricing to usb - c cables that are currently available ( i . e . , currently $ 10 to $ 25 for a 3 - foot usb - c cable ) . active thunderbolt 3 cables will likely be more expensive , since they will have integrated circuitry , and will likely run from $ 30 to $ 50 .
the arrival of apple’s latest macbook pro models brings with it a brand - new connection technology called thunderbolt . and by brand - new , we mean “just announced thursday morning , ” which raises lots of questions about what , exactly , thunderbolt is and why apple has chosen to make it a flagship feature of the company’s newest notebooks . here’s what you need to know about the industry’s latest connection standard .
perhaps , although eventually could be a very long time . thunderbolt is brand new , and as such it will be a while before it becomes anywhere near as commonplace as usb and firewire . it’s expected to be widely adopted by vendors and peripheral makers over the next few years , but until most popular peripherals are available with thunderbolt connections , we don’t expect these legacy connections to disappear entirely from the mac lines .
trace is from one of the newer thunderbolts from the 2008 tapr group purchase , which , as noted , already has a 10811 - class ocxo . improving the performance of this particular thunderbolt would not be trivial .
. ( click the image for a full - sized version - - the details are worth it . ) the ability of the thunderbolt ' s firmware to maintain control of the ocxo without a usable gps signal is impressive .
these parameters were tweaked by warren sarkinson over the course of several days ' observation of the unit ' s behavior , and his effort really paid off . performance of the 10811 - based thunderbolt is nearly on par with one of
a usb - c adapter will work when plugged into a thunderbolt 3 port without any modification . that will give you access to hdmi displays , usb hard drives , ethernet adapters , printers , scanners , and just about any other usb device . of course , if you plug a usb 2 . 0 drive into a thunderbolt 3 port with an adapter , data will transfer at a plodding 480mbps throughput , but you can still access files on older drives this way .
the mac pro is currently the only system capable of using internal pci express cards , although companies like magma have been providing laptop users with external expressbox solutions for years . unfortunately , those require an expresscard slot , which is now long gone from the macbook pro – so why not bring this ability to all macs featuring the thunderbolt port ? as it turns out , magma is indeed working on a new thunderbolt expansion chassis , so our prayers will be answered soon enough .
remember , every thunderbolt port includes both displayport and pci express connections . which means a thunderbolt port can handle the same types of video and audio—displays with greater than 1080p resolution and up to eight channels of audio—as a displayport port . when it comes to video , the main limitation is your graphics card . for example , the new macbooks support an external display up to 2560 by 1600 pixels at millions of colors , in addition to the built - in display in either mirroring or dual - display mode . on a desktop mac , the thunderbolt port would support two high - resolution displays . you can connect a mini displayport - enabled display directly , or a displayport , hdmi , dvi , or vga display using an adapter .
eyetv maker elgato has long sold a nifty little usb 2 . 0 fob called the turbo . 264 hd , providing hardware accelerated video conversion software to make short work of your ios encoding . as great as it is , we think thunderbolt could make our h . 264 encoding faster yet , so we’d like to see someone jump on this bandwagon . the turbo . 264 hd already does its magic in near real time , so how fast could thunderbolt do the same ? it boggles the mind .
not really , although the idea is similar to that of the apple display connector ( adc ) . while thunderbolt does carry video , audio , data , and power—thus reducing the number of cables sticking out of your computer—it doesn’t provide enough power to run a large display . ( adc could provide up to 100 watts of power , along with video , audio , and usb signals . ) on the other hand , an adc connection required a specialized—and expensive—video card , whereas thunderbolt uses the mini displayport standard .
the thunderbolt 3 ( usb - c ) ports on imac and macbook pro are fully compatible with your existing devices and displays . use the chart below to find out which adapter or cable you’ll need to connect to the ports on all your favorite devices .
sharing ports saves space older laptops with separate thunderbolt 2 and usb 3 . 0 ports
waste
space , because when all is said and done , both ports do a similar job : they connect peripherals to the computer , albeit at different speeds .
light peak was simply intel’s codename for thunderbolt while the technology was under development—they’re names for the exact same technology . one thing to note , however , is that although thunderbolt is designed to allow the use of either electrical or optical connections , apple’s current implementation uses only electrical circuitry , which allows the port to carry power , as well . ( intel expects most vendors to use electrical connections both for this advantage and because of the lower cost . optical versions will likely be used only when cables longer than three meters are needed . )
we suspect so , but we haven ' t yet confirmed this capability . we ' ll update this answer when we know more . we ' re also looking into whether you can boot your mac from a usb or firewire drive connected to a thunderbolt port using an adapter .
the pair made their way to the new england district where , late in october 1863 , they were spotted near the big rock ( now thunderbolt ' s rock ) , south of uralla . the police shot fred in the back of the left knee but he managed to escape . he and britten separated a few weeks later and fred travelled south again to the maitland district . on 22 december 1863 , he robbed a toll - bar operator at rutherford , west of maitland , and afterwards informed his victim that his name was
captain thunderbolt
.
as laptops continue to become thinner , shrinking to less than a half - inch in depth , pc manufacturers have found that current i / o ports like vga , hdmi , and the 0 . 3 - inch usb type a can no longer fit into these sleeker notebooks . to replace them , the usb - c interface ( also known as usb 3 . 1 or usb type - c ) was recently introduced in the 12 - inch apple macbook and the latest google chromebook pixel . usb - c is theoretically twice as fast as usb 3 . 0 , and its form factor does away with up - and - down orientation ( you can plug it any which way into the port ) . now , intel has announced the thunderbolt 3 interface , which , thankfully , doesn ' t compete with usb - c , unlike the original thunderbolt . rather , it merges the strength of the faster thunderbolt 3 interface with the potentially ubiquitous usb - c port .
used for powering up and fine - tuning the frequency of the thunderbolt ocxos . the large diode at left is for reverse - power protection , and the small cylindrical glass components are 0 . 1 uf bypass capacitors . the 2k 10 - turn trimpot ' s wiper is bypassed with a 4 . 7 uf tantalum capacitor .
before the disastrous heaven ' s gate and year of the dragon , and before the success of the deer hunter , intermittently brilliant director michael cimino directed his marvelous first film , thunderbolt and lightfoot . eastwood , whose production company produced the film , had become impressed with cimino after cimino coauthored the screenplay for another eastwood . . . read more
to get all the benefits of thunderbolt 3 , you ' ll need to use active cables . active thunderbolt 3 cables will use integrated chips to achieve full 40gbps throughput . you should use active cables where throughput really matters , like when connecting your laptop to 4k or 5k displays . you ' ll also want to use an active cable to get the fastest throughput out of local file storage for workstations and servers , particularly if you ' re connecting to a solid - state - drive ( ssd ) - based raid array . active cables made of copper are limited to about 6 feet in length–enough to go from your laptop to an external hard drive on a colleague ' s desk .
with thunderbolt 3 , a single usb - c port can deliver power in both directions . so a port can charge a device or , alternatively , be charged by one . and it’s capable of delivering up to 100 watts of power , so a single cable can be used to connect to a dock or display and charge your macbook pro simultaneously .
a feeble at tempt at the brand of whimsey that has characterized previous british films such as
tight little island ,
tawny pipit
and
passport to pimlico
is made in the latest import from ealing studios - - a minor jape called
the titfield thunderbolt ,
which hit the little carnegie yesterday . view full article in timesmachine »
berwilla film corporation production ; distributed on state rights basis by arrow film corporation . / scenario by hugh hoffman and webster collison , from a screen story by hugh hoffman and webster collison . / ten episodes ( one reel each ) : [ 1 ] “the thunderbolt strikes , ” released 1 november 1920 . / standard 35mm spherical 1 . 33 : 1 format .
steve jobs may have infamously called blu - ray a “bag of hurt , ” but now that we can burn such discs from final cut pro x , external burners may get a new lease on life from the mac . unfortunately , burning bd - r discs is a painfully slow affair right now – but with thunderbolt and faster external drives , we think it could absolutely scream .
the thunderbolt ' s 12v oscillator power connection was also suitable for direct connection to the hp ocxo , and because the trimble control software allows the user to adjust the loop coefficients used to phase - lock the ocxo , it was easy to change the tuning coefficient from - 5 hz / volt to the 0 . 2 hz / volt value needed for stable operation of the 10811 .
recently ( 2008 ) some 2002 - vintage units with particularly - high - quality ocxos have appeared for sale in the sub - $ 200 range , but many of the thunderbolt units in the field are probably a few years older , like the one shown here . the lower - grade ocxo in this unit had very good in - channel phase noise performance , but poor stability at 100 hz and below . so it made sense to try to
pci express is the high - speed architecture that’s used to connect many of the components in your mac , such as the processor , graphics card , and hard drive . you can think of pci express as an expressway that lets data move quickly and efficiently between these “locations . ” because thunderbolt is based on pci express , it offers a direct connection to the pci express bus , which is part of the reason it can offer such impressive performance .
this plot gives you a good
feel
for the difference in stability between a gps standard and a high - quality crystal oscillator by itself . towards the end of the white trace , the combined effects of the oscillator ' s aging rate and temperature coefficient are plainly evident . on the other hand , for the first six days , the thunderbolt was locked to gps and its temperature was kept under control , yielding stability about 100 times better .
one of the few things holding back the current mac lineup is the absence of internal pci express slots , which are pretty much required to do hd video capture and playback from anything more than firewire - based camcorders . blackmagic design has already introduced the ultrastudio 3d , a $ 999 portable thunderbolt box which handles most any digital or analog signal you can throw at it - - but it would be nice to have something less than half that price for those on a budget .
1 . thunderbolt strikes . 2 . eight to one . 3 . ride for life . 4 . the vanishing man . 5 . the furry death . 6 . held for hostage . 7 . the rolling destroyer . 8 . a race with death . 9 . the jaws of death . 10 . the dungeon death . 11 . a victim of the law . 12 . the fire of fate . 13 . the death pyre . 14 . the cave man . 15 . the dynamite wedding .
more than six months after its introduction , we’re still waiting for the explosion of cool peripherals to plug into our shiny new thunderbolt i / o port which now comes standard with all macs ( save for the lone holdout , the mac pro ) . sure , we’ve seen some awesome , lightning - fast raid storage and some hints of other greatness to come , but what about other potential uses for the technology ? here are a dozen things we’d like to see that port used for - - so let’s get cracking , engineers !
trace depicts the typical performance of a late - model thunderbolt from the tapr group purchase with its factory default settings , including the default control - loop time constant of 100 seconds . high quality ocxos will actually lose performance when steered by a gps receiver at such short timescales , especially when operated in a benign environment , so you ' ll probably want to increase the time constant when upgrading the ocxo . as with any pll , the loop parameters interact to some extent , so the optimization process tends to involve adjustment of several values .
those of you reared on usb and firewire probably don’t remember scsi , which was the leading i / o peripheral connection on the mac for many years . although apple has long turned its back on the technology , many pro users still use pci - based scsi cards to access a variety of tape backup drives ( including dlt , required for dvd mastering with css encryption ) . we’d love to see at least one peripheral maker create some kind of thunderbolt to scsi bridge so we can find out what’s on all these old iomega zip disks laying around the office .
if you value movies as primarily entertainment and don ' t have to have philosophy , sociology and religiosity thrown in , then this movie is for you . pure entertainment . a good story , irreverent dialogue and superior acting make
thunderbolt and lightfoot
a great movie . george kennedy is amazingly good in his role as red leary and eastwood and jeff bridges are always tops . the movie is a drama with comic overtones . all is not lighthearted and you may find tragedy in the ending . but is is always a good story , progresses apace and is satisfyingly concluded . i can find no reason to give it fewer than five stars .
such details make this book ring true , but it is the issue of identity that lies at the heart of the story . once at entebbe , the israeli hostages — children among them — were separated from the others . they endured worse conditions , more violence , and no hope of early release . the german hijackers insisted they were anti - israeli rather than anti - semitic , but this nuance did little to impress yitzhak david , a survivor of auschwitz , who challenged them with the number tattooed on his arm . as the days passed , both the nationality and ‘racial appearance’ of the hostages became steadily more relevant to their chances of survival . some older , immigrant israelis ‘missed their old passports’ , and operation thunderbolt was in part motivated by the need for israel to retain credibility as a country able to defend its own ; its very raison d’être .
i saw this a long time ago and it has remained in my mind as being a good movie . i was not wrong ! the acting is very good and the plot is believable , written and directed by michael cimino . a young mouthy drifter named lightfoot ( 25 year old jeff bridges ) , who has just stolen a sports car from a used car lot , rescues an older con / thief nicknamed thunderbolt ( eastwood ) who is being chased and shot at by someone his ex partners hired ( george kennedy and geoffrey lewis ) because they think he knows where the money they stole seven years earlier is hidden . apparently it was hidden in an old one - room schoolhouse , which is no longer there , replaced by a new modern school . eventually they put aside trying to kill each other and decide to do the robbery again , in exactly the same way as before . using an anti - tank gun to break into the vault . the technology is very dated but the acting and story are what really drive this movie .
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references : lahue - continued pp . 212 , 289 : clasim - 224 p . 44 : website - sersq .
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of course , just as with previous high - speed interfaces , performance of each connected device will often be much lower thanks to the limitations of the device itself ; for example , most sata hard drives top out at 3gbps , and even sata 3 . 0 drives are limited to a theoretical 6gbps . similarly , an older , slower device placed in the middle of the chain can—if not connected properly—cripple throughput for higher - speed devices connected after it . ( more on that below . )
does connecting multiple devices affect performance , as it can with usb 2 . 0 ?
we suspect that , with the exception of displays , most people will choose to connect their existing peripherals to their computer’s usb , firewire , ethernet , and audio ports .
that said , we all remember the original imac , when apple nixed legacy serial and adb connectors in favor of usb—long before usb peripherals were commonplace and inexpensive—and we can imagine the idea of a single port and connector appealing to apple and steve jobs . just look at the dock - connector port that adorns the iphone , ipad , and ipod touch . speaking of which…
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