the suspect is a 1998 hong kong action film written and directed by ringo lam and starring louis koo , julian cheung , simon yam , ray lui , ada choi and eric moo

the suspect ( 1998 film )

david denby has been a staff writer and film critic at the new yorker since 1998 .
visual anthropology review 14 , no . 1 ( spring / summer 1998 ) , 45 - 57 .
the last broadcast ( 1998 ) , a cult horror
found footage
film , was notable as the first feature - length video shot and edited entirely on personal , consumer - level digital video equipment ( for a reported $ 900 ) - without the use of celluloid film . it was the first feature to be theatrically - released digitally via satellite to theaters across the united states , on october 23 , 1998 .
a computer scientist running a virtual reality simulation of 1937 becomes the primary suspect when his colleague and mentor is murdered .
a man begins to suspect his neighbors are not what they appear to be and their secrets could be deadly .
roland emmerich ' s 1998 godzilla was many things ( most of them bad ) , but it wasn ' t really a godzilla movie .
taylor has also been the subject of continuing creative analysis and self - analysis : his autobiography , private domain , published in 1987 ; matthew diamond’s 1998 film dancemaker . now comes another . it’s very good .
after a simple jewelry heist goes terribly wrong , the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant .
the whole film feels superimposed , while the story underneath remains frozen and lifeless .
we don ' t have enough data to suggest any movies based on the suspect . you can help by rating movies you ' ve seen .
some interpreted the film as an adaptation of the tragic greek myth about orpheus and eurydice .
winston , brian 1995 claiming the real : the documentary film revisited . london : bfi .
a triumphant accomplishment stemming from the danish dogme 95 movement , vinterberg’s stripped down , intensely emotional 1998 film , mixes comedy and misery as it navigates the story of a family gathering in which disturbing truths emerge about the respected family patriarch . winner of the top prize at the cannes film festival , the celebration , is unquestionably one of the most influential films of the last few decades . 105 minutes .
bordwell , david 1985 narration in the fiction film . madison : university of wisconsin press .
gene hackman and willem dafoe in the 1988 film mississippi burning . photograph : allstar / cinetext collection
who needs subtitles when a film has as much slam - bang action as the suspect , the second south korean spy thriller to arrive here in as many months . reflecting the heavy influence of the bourne movies , this hyperkinetic pulp entertainment features enough car chases , shootouts and fight sequences to please genre aficionados of all ethnicities .
crew : camera ( cinevex color ) , simon duggan ; editor , suresh ayyar ; music , david hirschfelder ; production designer , richard bell ; costume designer , jeanie cameron ; sound ( dolby ) , john wilkinson ; technical adviser , davie ; assistant director , karan monkhouse ; casting , greg apps . reviewed at uip screening room , sydney , march 2 , 1998 . ( in melbourne film festival - opening night ; montreal film festival - competing ; london film festival . ) running time : 101 min .
after reappearing , laura herself became a prime suspect in the murder case , since it was possible that laura killed diane redfern out of jealousy for her association with shelby . another suspect was anne treadwell ( judith anderson ) , laura ' s wealthy , amoral spinster aunt who was neurotically in love with shelby and decidedly defensive and jealous of the younger laura , her engagement , and her possible forthcoming marriage to carpenter .
first - rate performances from hugo weaving and tony martin distinguish
the interview ,
a taut , consistently intelligent drama about the grilling of a murder suspect by a tenacious , though flawed , law officer . basically a three - hander , debut film from director craig monahan is a rich cinematic experience despite its claustrophobic settings .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
this solid action thriller from ringo lam is more competent than spectacular , which registers the film as an eventual disappointment .
barnouw , erik 1974 documentary : a history of the non - fiction film . new york : oxford university press .
this film is not currently playing on mubi but 30 other great films are . see what’s now showing
now granted , emmerich and devlin obviously know their b - film history , and that being the case may well have been aware beast from 20 , 000 fathoms ( along with king kong ) was a fundamental inspiration for 1954’s gojira , but that doesn’t change the fact that , despite their use of the name , what they made was a reboot of the 1953 film , not the 1954 film or any of the godzilla films that followed .
an interview with writer / director boots riley about his incendiary new film ,
sorry to bother you .
barsam , richard meran 1973 nonfiction film : a critical history . new york : e . p . dutton .
first - rate performances from hugo weaving and tony martin distinguish “the interview , ” a taut , consistently intelligent drama about the grilling of a murder suspect by a tenacious , though flawed , law officer . basically a three - hander , debut film from director craig monahan is a rich cinematic experience despite its claustrophobic settings . pic had a generally enthusiastic launch as [ … ]
crew : camera ( color ) , joey forstyte ; editor , william mercer ; original music , shark ; music supervision , pajama party prods . ; production design , robert harbour ; costumes , shanna gold ; sound , dwayne dell ; casting , mary margiotta , karen margiotta . reviewed at sundance film festival ( american spectrum ) , jan . 24 , 1998 . running time : 90 min .
first - rate performances from hugo weaving and tony martin distinguish “the interview , ” a taut , consistently intelligent drama about the grilling of a murder suspect by a tenacious , though flawed , law officer . basically a three - hander , debut film from director craig monahan is a rich cinematic experience despite its claustrophobic settings . pic had a generally enthusiastic launch as the opening night attraction of the melbourne film festival , and is about to embark on the international fest circuit . it should perform solidly in arthouses in australia and , if carefully handled , in other key territories .
the set - up to this film is elaborate , and there was an obvious expense in the film’s locale and cast of hundreds . still , the result is more bland than anything else , as there is a distinct lack of passion in the film . though ringo lam has never been an emotional character director , his ability to craft gripping , intense situations is unparalleled in hk . that ability escapes him here , as the story is interesting but ultimately uninspired .
` ` deceiver ' ' is a chinese box of a movie , in which we learn less and less about more and more . it ' s centered in a police interrogation room , where a rich kid undergoes a lie detector test in connection with the murder of a prostitute . did he do it ? at first it seems he did . then he turns the tables on the two cops running the polygraph exam , and by the end of the film everyone is a suspect .
jayne heitmeyer and jacob tierney play mother and son in the film even though in real life , she is only 9 years older than him .
out of jail after serving 12 years for murder , ex - assassin don ( louis koo ) is asked to kill a presidential frontrunner by his buddies max ( julian cheung ) and chan hung ( simon yam ) . when don refuses the job , they made him the obvious suspect after the candidate is assassinated .
one of the reasons the godzilla films seem so silly to american audiences is that this self - consciousness and the deep , specifically japanese roots were often excised by american distributors or were simply missed by american audiences . most attempts to americanize godzilla end up stripping away everything he represents to his original audience , and in the case of the 1998 movie , that left us with nothing more than a big mutated dinosaur .
known in the uk as ' liar ' . great film , clever story , good twists and totally original , probably the best part i ' ve seen tim roth play
ginsburg , faye 1995
the parallax effect : the impact of aboriginal media on ethnographic film ,
visual anthropology review 11 ( 2 ) : 64 - 76 , fall .
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…
bordwell , david , and kristin thompson 1993 film art : an introduction . fourth edition . new york : mcgraw hill , inc .
in the film , celebrated , snippy gossip columnist waldo lydecker ( clifton webb ) functioned as laura ' s svengali - like mentor and protective confidant in a platonic relationship , when he helped her become a successful advertising executive . womanizing , effete southern playboy shelby carpenter ( vincent price ) , whose marriage to laura had been recently called off , was also a prime suspect ( he confessed later to being present at the murder scene when the off - screen shooting occurred ) .
ellis , jack c . 1989 the documentary idea : a critical history of english - language documentary film and video . englewood cliffs , nj : prentice hall .
after krishna sets fire to his brother’s motorbike , his mother abandons him at the apollo circus and tells him not to return home until he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle . he takes a train to bombay where he finds a job selling tea , but the streets aren’t kind to krishna as he struggles to survive among seedy individuals in hope of one day returning home . the film earned an oscar nomination for best foreign language film and won the golden camera and prix de publique awards at the 1988 cannes film festival . 113 minutes .
plans for those two sequels were quickly scrapped . toho snatched the licensing rights back from sony , and immediately began damage control by pushing ahead with their own godzilla 2000 in an effort to get the true series back on track . there’s even a sly , snide jab at the emmerich / devlin film at the beginning of 2001 ' s godzilla , mothra , king ghidorah : giant monsters all out attack . upon hearing about a monster attacking the east coast of the us in 1998 , a student asks ,
that was godzilla , right ?
a fellow student responds ,
the americans say it was , but the guys over here have their doubts . ”
claims that he and john ad - libbed most of their dialogue . this may be true , due to the fact that they often interrupt their own lines and stutter in the film .
though most of the film is set in the drab interview room , cinematographer simon duggan pulls out all the stops to make “the interview” a potent visual experience . occasional flashbacks are hardly necessary , but do succeed in lightening the claustrophobic mood at key intervals .
production : a globe films ( australia ) release of an australian film finance corp . presentation of a pointblank picture / interview films production , with the assistance of the australian film commission . ( international sales : southern star films , sydney . ) produced by bill hughes . directed by craig monahan . screenplay , monahan , gordon davie .
kelman , ken 1978 las hurdes . in the essential cinema . ed . p . adams sitney . new york : anthology film archives . pp . 122 - 126 .
in this enigmatic , cinematically puzzling , allegorical and ambiguous new wave film - a black and white , slow - moving , expressionistic film and fragmented tale from director alain resnais - it mixed time ( past and present ) , and reality ( fantasy vs . memory ) . it was about dreamy seduction , memory , the past and the present , the reconstruction of reality , and time . [ note : in the original screenplay by alain robbe - grillet , there was an explicit forceful rape , but it was not fully pictured in the film . ] many critics have regarded the film as having a strong influence on stanley kubrick ' s the shining ( 1980 ) , david lynch ' s mulholland dr . ( 2001 ) and inland empire ( 2006 ) .
after the ritual sacrifice of a rooster in the opening sequence - - not unlike the slitting of the eye at the opening of an andalousian dog , which , in buñuel ' s words ,
moves the spectator into the cathartic state necessary to accept the subsequent events of the film
( edwards 1982 : 59 ) - - we are primed to enter las hurdes .
when buñuel ' s film went into commercial release in 1937 , the british film director basil wright praised it as an important work of non - fiction , while criticizing the inappropriate voice - over commentary and poor choice of music . wright was one of the most respected documentary filmmakers of his generation ; as much as anyone , he helped define the parameters of the form . he concludes his enthusiastic 1937 review of land without bread with the following comment ,
unfortunately ,
of course , those subtitles will come handy when it comes to discerning the complexities of the exposition - heavy , flashback laden narrative . with a bloated running time of 137 minutes , the film threatens at times to wear out its welcome .
in london , steven grlscz helps the suicidal maria vaughan in the subway and seduces her . after a period living with maria , steven kills her in his apartment drinking her blood and dumps her body in the sea . steven becomes a suspect for the londoner police and is chased by inspector healey . meanwhile steven meets the structure engineer anne labels and she falls in love with him . however , she discovers a dark secret about her lover that needs to survive .
in the fictional republic of zubrowka , a legendary concierge , gustave h . ( ralph fiennes ) and his lobby boy turned personal assistant , zero ( tony revolori ) run a popular alpine resort well known for providing wealthy clientele with “exceptional services . ” when one of gustave’s lovers , an elderly hotel guest , dies mysteriously , gustave finds himself the owner of a priceless artifact and the primary suspect of her murder . nominated for 9 academy awards including best picture , wes anderson’s latest film has earned widespread critical acclaim for its unique style , charm and elegance . 100 minutes .
land without bread marshals a host of devices conventionally associated with non - fiction film , for example , the introductory intertitle that proclaims ,
this is a filmed essay in human geography made in spain in 1932 .
the film appropriates the style of an
illustrated lecture
to introduce viewers to the secluded region of las hurdes . it explores with apparent scientific rigor the way of life of a people . it is worth recalling what many consider the canonical work in this genre , robert flaherty ' s popular first feature nanook of the north ( 1922 ) , the most famous ethnographic film of the pre - world war ii era . as critic ken kelman first noted , land without bread bears important stylistic similarities with nanook of the north ( 1978 : 125 ) .
after his ex - wife dies in a fall from her balcony , police sgt . henry smovinsky gets custody of his troubled teenage son . smovinsky soon finds out that his ex - wife was a high - class hooker , her death was not a suicide and that the police have chosen him as their prime suspect . maggie furness is the only cop willing to help him protect his son and track down the real killer .
mission accomplished , tweaky tim doesn’t let it rest . indeed , he encourages the police to suspect chris of foul play , seduces latter’s girlfriend emma ( keri russell ) , and finds other ways to “have a little fun . ” mean - while , natalie commits suicide — for real . loyalties between remaining trio grow ever more uneasy , leading to inevitable cliff - side finale .
in another sequence , we are informed , in words taken almost verbatim from legendre ' s book ( 1927 : 126 ) , that
one eats goat meat only when one of the animals is killed accidentally . this happens sometimes when the hills are steep and there are loose stones on the footpath .
a remarkable two - shot sequence ironically illustrates this claim . in the first image , at the moment the goat slips in the distance , a puff of smoke appears in the lower right - hand side of the frame . a reverse angle match - on - action shot then shows the animal falling from above . from one image to the next , the camera shifts from one side of the mountain to the other . to fabricate an illusion of continuity , the film crew shot the goat , hauled its carcass up the side of the mountain , and threw it off again . by leaving the traces of this process in the film , however , the director undermines the illusion and exposes the artifice of montage .
when a prisoner transport plane crashes , one prisoner , mark sheridan , skillfully escapes and saves lives at the same time . deputy sam gerard and his team of u . s . marshals pursue relentlessly , but gerard begins to suspect that there is more to the exceptional fugitive than what he has been told . meanwhile , sheridan struggles to avoid capture while seeking answers of his own . until the final scene , both gerard and sheridan are in jeopardy of the unknown .
the film ' s message was that there were different archetypal roles to be played by the talents of various apartment tenants to assist story in getting home , but they needed to be matched up correctly during her departure ceremony . heep received assistance from film critic harry farber ( bob balaban ) , but was misled in the match - ups , and then story was mortally wounded by the scrunt . eventually , heep succeeded in identifying the four proper roles , to assist story in returning safely to her world :
in the film ' s forward , intrigued local documentary film - maker and reporter david leigh ( david beard ) explained ( to the camera ) his motivation for studying a recent series of ritualistic homicides of tv show hosts and crew , allegedly committed by one of their team members , jim suerd . the convicted murderer suerd ( who had died in prison after sentencing -
under mysterious causes
) was thought to be troubled and emotionally - disturbed .
a thousand feet beneath the sea , the blackest holes are in the mind . . .
however , it was also criticized for its blatant similarities to the blair witch project ( 1999 ) , although it was actually made first . this inventive mock - documentary horror film took the approach of re - creating the events by a sleuthing documentarian , while blair witch favored the approach of watching unexplained recovered footage .
geis , cinematographer tom hurwitz , and executive producer robert aberlin have done a superb job . aside from the hero - worship , the only other criticism is why it took so long to put this film together . taylor created three dubious memories in 2010 ; it premiered in early 2011 . the work did not receive strong reviews , and is already , at least temporarily , out of the repertory . but it’s the creation of the dance , not the dance itself or its critical reception , which is the film’s subject , so the length of time it took is only a somewhat irrelevant observation . and as for that hero - worship – this is paul taylor . it goes with the territory .
jasmin münchgstettner , a german tourist from rosenheim , finds herself stranded in the middle of the california desert after quarrelling with her husband on their travels . she stops at the bagdad cafe , a truckstop run by the brawny and tenacious , c . c . h . pounder , a woman going through marital problems of her own . the unlikely pair gradually become friends as the film tracks their transformative journey through a colorful cast of cafe regulars . nominated for an oscar , percy adlon’s english - speaking debut film is a heartwarming and humorous celebration of unlikely relationships and the unpredictable directions our lives take . 95 minutes .
' character , was also the name of a real - life chemist and physicist who did pioneering work in the field of electromagnetism . michael faraday is also the name of a street in reston , virginia , in which the film takes place . faraway made a cage of copper , faraday cage , it cuts off electronic signals
grim , gritty , smart , and full of surprises , tim roth plays a very rich , very smart young man being questioned by two detectives who aren ' t all that they seem on the surface . the detectives ( chris penn and michael rooker ) are investigating a gruesome murder for which they have few leads . tim roth ' s character , wayland , becomes the prime suspect although the evidence is weak . we are never sure who is in charge of the interrogation , as wayland is very manipulative and the detectives are not squeaky clean , either . this one had the viewer hooked from start to finish .
in addition , the future of anthropological cinema must be nurtured by greater understanding of past endeavors . visual anthropologists need to re - examine the rich history of ethnographic film , including not only forgotten works such as the smithsonian - funded by aeroplane to pygmyland , stirling new guinea expedition ( 1927 ) , but also the extensive research footage stored in archives . ethnographic filmmakers , like their literary counterparts , should return to the scenes of earlier works . we need , for example , a film on the making of robert gardner ' s dead birds ( 1963 ) which also explores the remarkable transformations in the highlands of western new guinea after decades of indonesian rule .
as clyde pressed the send button on the phone to the bomb - attached cellphone , rice quickly exited the cell and locked the door behind him . he repeated :
after the daughter of a prominent businessman is brutally murdered , high profile defense attorney kitt devereux takes the case of the accused murderer , rising rapper bobby medina . with a history of drugs and violence , medina is a likely suspect , but devereux suspects there ' s more to the case as she locks horns with her ex - husband , d . a . jack campioni , and a wealthy woman whose son is a presidential candidate . dealing with her own tainted past and the unreliable medina , devereux struggles to prove her client ' s innocence even to herself .
balakian , anna 1959 surrealism : the road to the absolute . new york : the noonday press .
14 . i agree wholeheartedly with sitney ' s concluding remarks on land without bread ,
although the film does present a devastating image of the wretchedness of hurdane life , it even more powerfully indicts the documentary genre itself and urbane audiences who respond to it
( 1985 : 203 ) . ( back )
someone ( presumably not buñuel ) has added to the film a wearisome american commentary , plus the better part of a brahms symphony . as a result , picture and sound never coalesce
( 1971 : 146 ) . while mistaken , wright ' s comments hint at the central tension of buñuel ' s work .
conley , tom 1987 documentary surrealism : on land without bread . in dada and surrealist film . ed . rudolf e . kuenzli . new york : willis , locker & owens . pp . 176 - 198 .
death hangs over every frame of land without bread , just as the skulls over the church door
preside over the destiny
of the albercans in the opening sequence . for example , the film asks us to believe that shortly before the expedition arrived in las hurdes ,
three men and eleven mules
were killed by honey bees . ( the weight of convention remains so powerful that many viewers accept this ludicrous statement as fact . ) having seen an itinerary of how death visits the hurdanos - - whether by accident , starvation , or infection - - we begin to wonder how there is anyone left for the film to record . nevertheless , in flagrant contradiction , the narrator matter of factly informs us , after the death of a baby , that
a death is a rare event which can be recorded in this miserable village .
the rush of village women
in crowds to the dead ' s house
similarly contradicts the earlier , outrageous , neglect of the child lying in the
lonely street .
( 1995 : 84 - 5 ) . macdougall notes the documentary ' s
provocatively surrealist
nature in a footnote to his essay on voice in ethnographic film ,
whose story is it ?
( 1992 : 39 ) . ( back )
' ' deceiver ' ' is similar to ' ' the usual suspects ' ' in the way it coils around its central facts , looking at them first one way and then another . it also has a less obvious parallel with quentin tarantino ' s practice of working arcane knowledge into the dialogue of his characters . carefully polished little set pieces are spotted through the film ; the action stops for well - informed discussions about vincent van gogh , the dangers of absinthe , the symptoms of epilepsy and the relative intelligence of the two cops .
in a dance of seduction , the two unnamed ' lovers ' recounted a fragmented tale of their perceived reality and unrealized ( ? ) love affair . the puzzling film never clearly ascertained whether x ' s claim of a relationship was true or false . what really happened
last year
?
oh , and fun digression time , because the 20th century fox film was very r - rated , fox had to hold off the debut of the first teaser for star wars episode one : the phantom menace and instead timed it with paramount ' s the rugrats movie two weeks later . but theaters had no problem running it with walt disney ' s r - rated will smith thriller enemy of the state , which opened on the same weekend as rugrats . a similar situation occurred when universal pulled their mummy returns teaser from prints of the grinch out of fears that the pg - 13 movie ' s teaser would scare young moviegoers . fair enough , but i remember a number of pg - 13 trailers from other studios playing before that opening weekend showing of the grinch . now the grinch became the highest - grossing film of 2000 anyway , but i would imagine the siege could have used a boost on its opening weekend via star wars fans buying tickets to the siege and then sneaking into the waterboy after the trailer had played .
this film reminded me strongly of all of the student films i was forced to watch and participate in during college . the dialogue is inane , the acting more wooden than charlie mccarthy , and the cinematography and editing reminiscent of that done by young men in their twenties who want to be steven spielberg when they grow up . the editing often cuts too late or too quickly . the cinematography tries way too hard to be avante garde , and instead looks like something sam raimi would have done in the 1970s . dropping in on this film makes me feel like ed wood is still alive , or at least was in 1997 to make this picture . this is bad , people . . . very bad .
in the film ' s conclusion , lydecker attempted to kill laura a second time with a shotgun ( hidden in the base of a grandfather clock ) in a murder / suicide , rather than leave her to the
vulgar pawing of a second - rate detective
- - but she was saved in the nick of time by mcpherson as lydecker was mortally wounded in an exchange of gunfire with the police .
explores some of the varied faces of lying and deception in our society from the inconsequential to the deeply harmful .
injured but surviving officer white ( sitting mute in the back seat ) departed with veronica lake - look - alike prostitute lynn bracken ( kim basinger ) , on her way home to arizona after quitting the high - class whore business . as lynn departed and kissed him , she told exley ( in the film ' s last line ) :
macdougall , david 1992 whose story is it ? in ethnographic film : aesthetics and narrative traditions . eds . peter i . crawford and jan k . simonsen . aarhus , denmark : intervention press . pp . 25 - 42 .
the vigilante film opened in 1999 ( a flashback actually ) during the philadelphia home invasion of intelligent engineer - inventor clyde alexander shelton ( gerard butler ) . clyde was watching as his 10 year - old daughter heather ( ksenia hulayev ) was making him a letter cube - beaded bracelet with the word
daddy .
two intruders broke in :
in the film , mrs pell ( frances mcdormand ) , wife of sheriff ' s deputy and lynch mob leader clinton pell ( brad dourif ) , reveals a police conspiracy . this leads anderson and ward to another of the guilty men , who they soon intimidate into a confession . all of these characters are fictional . in place of mrs pell , there was a
mr x
, who has subsequently been named by journalists as highway patrolman maynard king . rather than resorting to the vigilante tactics used by anderson in the film , the fbi allegedly paid cash for information to crack the case . seven men ( out of 18 accused ) were convicted on relatively minor conspiracy charges . the only man convicted of the manslaughter of the three activists was edgar ray killen , who was finally prosecuted in 2005 .
an image in a government briefing book helped a state department official see “the forest for the trees” in the west bank—and then was shared with the president .
in the small town of cherry falls , a psychotic murderer is killing off the virgins of the local high school .
saving private ryan
is a powerful experience . i ' m sure a lot of people will weep during it . spielberg knows how to make audiences weep better than any director since chaplin in
city lights .
but weeping is an incomplete response , letting the audience off the hook . this film embodies ideas . after the immediate experience begins to fade , the implications remain and grow .
though deceiver sometimes confuses being manipulative with being clever , it has enough twists and turns to make it an interesting ride . to say it ' s smart would be a bit of a stretch , the plot is a bit outlandish , but it is unique enough to give the film a fresh feel . one might become easily frustrated by its non - traditional narrative , but its not meant as such , instead focusing on the characters , and their role in this mind game , almost in the style of a lynch film . this emphasis on character succeeds largely due to the underrated tim roth , who owns almost every scene he ' s in . 3 . 5 / 5 stars
wright , basil 1971 land without bread and spanish earth . in the documentary tradition : from nanook to woodstock . ed . lewis jacobs . new york : hopkinson and blake . pp . 146 - 147 . [ originally published in film news ( london ) , december 1937 . ]
8 . tom conley ' s 1987 essay includes a shot - by - shot description of the film along with numerous photographs . conley breaks the film down into fourteen sections :
credits ,
la alberca ,
the countryside and abandoned churches ,
the first hurdano village scenes ,
school and writing ,
the lower depths : extreme hurdano town and country ,
scaped goats ,
daily economy and tribulation : beehives ,
cultivation and gathering of food ,
mosquitoes and death ,
dwarfs ,
death : a child ' s funeral ,
home life : interior scenes and the death knell ,
and
the end
( 1987 : 189ff ) . ( back )
by film ' s end , x ' s ambiguous allegations about what had happened were completely uncertain , although it appeared that the protagonist had gradually succeeded in readying a to leave the hotel one night for an unknown destination , as m watched them depart from a staircase . however , x ' s voice - over account was unreliable and described in the past tense :
one of the ways it undermines its characters is by upstaging them with the plot . we get several theories about the death of the prostitute , and lots of flashbacks in which wayland ' s tortured childhood offers explanations for actions he may or may not have taken . facts are established , only to be shot down . having seen the film twice , i am prepared to accept that its paradoxes are all answered and its puzzles solved , although unless you look closely and remember the face of an ambulance driver , you may miss the explanation for one of the big surprises .
this visually captivating and eerie masterpiece follows the journey of an extraterrestrial ( scarlett johansson ) who is obsessed with luring unsuspecting men into a dangerous and intriguing web . one of the most thought provoking films of 2014 , this sci - fi horror combines erotic energy with an unsettling and enigmatic plot . nominated for best international film at the 2015 independent spirit awards . 108 minutes .
dan followed jack to the sf international airport terminal and into an off - limits airplane maintenance hangar for a deadly stand - off . the film ended with allayne , who had flown to sf , shooting jack to death as he was poised to kill her husband - and then in another shocking twist , she admitted her involvement with jack :
and then in one of the film ' s most surprising moments set in a getaway airport hotel room , jack suddenly shot partner vickie in the stomach - his plan was to pin vickie ' s death on dan and have the diamonds all to himself ; but things went awry when a bloodied , still - alive vickie stumbled out into the hotel corridor where jack had to pursue and kill her , allowing dan to escape .
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the turning point in the film comes , i think , when the squadron happens upon a german machinegun nest protecting a radar installation . it would be possible to go around it and avoid a confrontation . indeed , that would be following orders . but they decide to attack the emplacement , and that is a form of protest : at risk to their lives , they are doing what they came to france to do , instead of what the top brass wants them to do .
the film could somewhat simplistically be described as good willing hunting ( which i also like quite a bit , save for its
responsibility is for losers !
ending ) in the navy with denzel washington in the proverbial robin williams role . and yes we do get a story about a troubled young man and the psychiatrist who heals himself while attempting to heal his patient , along with a token love interest who helps the young man come out of his shell . but antwone fisher doesn ' t have the gimmick of making its protagonist into a boy genius , and thus is by default a more realistic film . mr . fisher ( derek luke ) is simply the victim of an endless stream of societal failures , as parental abandonment leads to abuse in the foster care system and homelessness . already prone to violence and with a bad temper , fisher sees the navy as the last chance to make something of his life , but an altercation puts that in jeopardy .
as story was about to be rescued by the giant eagle , the tartutic monkeys in the trees attacked the wolfish - scrunt and killed it , and she was safely taken .
if there is one single living legend among american choreographers , it is paul taylor . his body of work over a sixty - plus year career needs no elaboration . like balanchine , graham , and cunningham , each of whom he danced for , and tharp , who danced for him , his name alone is sufficient to spark adulation , and to rekindle memories . his was the first modern dance performance that i loved as much as appreciated . the first time i saw his company , i flew out of the theater on an aureole - induced euphoric cloud , while wondering how that piece could have sprung from the same mind that gave us big bertha . and i suspect that everyone remembers their first esplanade .
the film flows seamlessly from rehearsal to interview to commentary to rehearsal , back and forth until the dance’s premiere . gradually , without undue fanfare , the choreographic creation yields to the finished product . jennifer tipton’s lighting design is made to look almost an afterthought , but its impact is apparent and requires no elaboration . while there are some unfortunate fade - outs as the premiere performance progresses , three dubious memories appears indeed rashomon - like as taylor originally described it . the three memories are not of the same event , but rather demonstrate how malleable memories , like taylor’s creative process , can be .
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at the execution of ames , clyde had replaced the potassium chloride in the execution drip canister with skin - boiling acid that made the criminal painfully bleed through his skin . authorities investigated the incident as ' cruel and unusual punishment . '
monahan and his co - writer , gordon davie , cleverly create a kafkaesque atmosphere in which questionable authority figures may be persecuting a perfectly innocent man . on the other hand , these cops may just be trying to do their job in the most difficult circumstances , attempting to extract a confession from a cunning and dangerous killer . davie , who also acted as technical adviser on the film , is a former police officer who worked for 16 years with the victorian crime squad .
17 . in the same review , basil wright discusses joris ivens ' spanish earth ( 1937 ) , for which ernest hemingway wrote , and read , the voice - over commentary . having described the voice - over to land without bread as
wearisome ,
wright contends that hemingway provided spanish earth with
the best commentary in the history of the sound film
( 1971 : 147 ) . from my perspective sixty years later , buñuel and unik ' s multi - layered commentary in land without bread is far superior . predictably , the first word wright uses to describe spanish earth is
sincere
( 1971 : 146 ) . a detailed comparison of the two films would be instructive in understanding the range of documentary approaches in the 1930s . ( back )
on december 16 , 1995 at 11 : 57 am , suerd made a confused and shocked pay phone call to 911 about his missing team members ( he said that he had
a really bad feeling about it
) . the mutilated bodies of two of them ( wheeler and clackin ) were found in the new jersey pine lands , with blood in the snow and the hat of the third individual ( avkast ) . leigh covered the subsequent investigation and trial of suerd beginning in june of 1996 . suerd was accused , charged and tried as a major suspect ( there was blood evidence from all three on his shirt ) . suerd was found guilty ( in mid - july 1996 ) of two counts of first - degree murder , and sentenced to two consecutive life terms . then , in early january 1997 , suerd died in prison of questionable causes .
the name of the character played by renée zellweger ,
elizabeth loftus
is a reference to the distinguished psychologist of the same name , noted for her studies in clinically created false memories .
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flaherty ' s documentary on the struggle for survival of one inuit family opens with a series of intertitles that introduce the
barren lands
and
sterile
environment of northern canada . against this harsh background , nanook of the north celebrates the nobility of the inuit . as arthur calder - marshall noted , the definitive experience of flaherty ' s career was
the discovery of people who in the midst of life were always so close to death that they lived in the moment nobly
( 1963 : 67 ) . the second intertitle of land without bread reads ,
las hurdes is a sterile and inhospitable area where man is obliged to fight , hour by hour , for his subsistence .
like flaherty , buñuel frames his work as a conflict of man against nature . but this drama is not fulfilled by the account he provides . nature is not the principal adversary of the hurdanos . the film inverts the epic heroism characteristic of flaherty ' s work ; though the hurdanos also live close to death , buñuel refuses to grant them a comparable noble savagery .
widely considered one of the most influential films of the 90s , pulp fiction tells the story of two hit men , a boxer , a gangster’s wife , and a pair of diner bandits as their lives intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption . nominated for 7 academy awards including an oscar win for best writing , the film has become a cult classic with spectacular performances from uma thurman , john travolta , and samuel l . jackson . 154 minutes . begins at 6 : 30pm !
performance chronicles the story of chas , a violent and erratic east london gang member , who hides out in washed - up ex rockstar turner’s london flat . lifestyles and cultural values collide as the two men embark on a journey filled with sex , violence and , ultimately , transformation . directed by donald cammell and nicolas roeg , this cult film from the 70s is renown for its bold , shocking visuals and mick jagger’s stunning performance . 105 minutes .
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 . …
sobchack , vivian 1981
synthetic vision : the dialectical imperative of buñuel ' s las hurdes ,
millennium film journal 7 - 9 : 140 - 150 , fall / winter . 1988 no lies : direct cinema as rape . in new challenges for documentary . ed . alan rosenthal . berkeley : university of california press . pp . 332 - 344 .
boldly shifting from a first - person to a third - person perspective , leigh burst in to michelle ' s studio , struggled with her and slowly smothered her with plastic sheeting . he then faced his own video camera and announced that he was going to continue staging his re - enactment of the original killings - to prove suerd was innocent of the murders . he bundled up michelle ' s body in his back of his van , and drove out to the pine barrens camp site . he continued videotaping himself at the woodsy site as the film concluded .
a man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the wardens ' entertainment .
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response to , and even critique of , the much - publicized anthropological expedition . at a time when griaule was collecting artifacts in africa , buñuel recognized that anthropology could find subjects in europe as well . the twenty - seven - minute film is distributed in two different english - language versions , land without bread and unpromised land , as well as french and spanish versions . there are small but significant variations among these versions . for the sake of clarity , i am limiting my discussion to the version of land without bread with the american voice - over commentary . 3
renton , deeply immersed in the edinburgh drug scene , tries to clean up and get out , despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends .
when the nihilists are ordering pancakes in the restaurant , the female nihilist orders
heidelbeer pfannkuchen
( blueberry pancakes ) which one of the other nihilists incorrectly translates to the waitress as
lingonberry pancakes .
( this may be because the nihilists don ' t care enough to get her order right . )
when the tables were turned , exley shot lapd capt . smith in the back as he walked away , with his hands in the air . the killing recalled capt . smith ' s earlier advice to exley , that a detective should be willing to shoot a guilty man in the back for the greater good .
his cinematographer , janusz kaminski , who also shot
schindler ' s list ,
brings a newsreel feel to a lot of the footage , but that ' s relatively easy compared to his most important achievement , which is to make everything visually intelligible . after the deliberate chaos of the landing scenes , kaminski handles the attack on the machinegun nest , and a prolonged sequence involving the defense of a bridge , in a way that keeps us oriented . it ' s not just men shooting at one another . we understand the plan of the action , the ebb and flow , the improvisation , the relative positions of the soldiers .
q : how do i solve the
to shell beach . . .
game on the dvd ?
a spaceship is discovered under three hundred years ' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean .
a law - abiding family man , after an atrocious murder of his family , became a crime victim - the lone survivor of his family ' s massacre and a man with a score to settle . he planned to conduct an elaborate personal vendetta against his family ' s killers - a mission which became highly irrational , uncredible , uncontrollable and implausible by film ' s end .
paul taylor : creative domain , directed by kate geis , is not a fly - on - the - wall film like the recent ballet 422 , which allowed the viewer to sit in on the creation of new york city ballet’s 422nd ballet by justin peck . rather , it’s a documentary that’s part intrusive camera , part cinéma vérité , and part interviews and narrative , all assembled creatively and coherently . unlike ballet 422 , where nycb’s grand scale is broken down to its component parts to illustrate the evolution of one new ballet , paul taylor : creative doman is small scale and intimate . its focus is not on the ingredients that go into creating a new ballet ( although they’re included ) , but on the ‘how’ and the ‘why’ of taylor’s creative process .
john dahl ' s modern - day dark noir featured lethal , sexy , amoral , cold - blooded and brainy femme fatale bridget gregory ( linda fiorentino ) , who used her sexual wiles to manipulate a dumb , love - struck boyfriend to murder her husband . [ she followed in the footsteps of two other great femme fatales in film noir - jane greer and barbara stanwyck . ]
the
st . louis federal building
discussed at 21 : 00 in the classroom is actually showing the 25 june 1996 aftermath of the khobar towers in saudi arabia . 19 us military were killed in this attack .
10 . during the spanish civil war , unik and buñuel worked together again on a film supporting the republican cause . according to helen schawlow , this archival documentary , españa leal , en armas ! ( 1937 ) , also features a
maddeningly detached and ironic
voice - over commentary ( 1989 : 86 ) . unik spent five years in german labor camps during wwii only to die of exposure in 1945 after having escaped from the schmiedberg camp ( schawlow 1989 : 123 ) . ( back )
viewers with long memories may compare monahan’s film to a trio of other famous examples of the police - interview subgenre – robert siodmak’s berlin - made “preliminary investigation” ( 1931 ) , french director claude miller’s “garde a vue” ( 1983 ) and giuseppe tornatore’s “a pure formality” ( 1994 ) . like those thrillers , “the interview” is confined in scope and marked by fluid direction and camerawork , and its seemingly cut - and - dried case develops in unexpected ways .


it 's always jan is an american situation comedy starring janis paige , which aired on cbs in the 1955-1956 season .

it was the lead-in program at 9:30 p.m. eastern on saturday evenings to the first season of the long-running western , gunsmoke , starring james arness .

it ' s always jan

there ' s cast trouble with janis paige ' s
it ' s always jan .
daniel kitson in “it ' s always right now , until it ' s later . ”
friendship meets its test when the boy friend jan ' s roommate brings home falls for jan .
jan , josie and pat hatch a plot to get jan ' s agent married off . but
the patient who falls :
it ' s always a trade - off
.
from 12aug56 through 21sep56 , nbc aired reruns of
it ' s always jan
on its weekday afternoon
comedy time
series .
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it ' s always right now , until it ' s later the monologuist daniel kitson returns to st . ann ' s warehouse in brooklyn with this show .
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the patient who falls :
it ' s always a trade - off
. - pubmed - ncbi
our summer festival is back . it ' s all outside and it ' s all free .
after blowing her emergency fund on a demo recording , jan and friends are feeling desperate and destitute . but then henry cooper , jan’s manager ,
lead to sing in a musical . even better for jan , mansfield wants an unknown voice specifically instead of a known face . so begins jan’s journey
jan ' s curiosity is aroused when she begins receiving gifts and flowers from an unknown admirer .
jan ' s daughter is stagestruck . [ ta / 21apr56 long island city ny star journal ]
irate neighbors in jan ' s apartment house demand that couple with a crying baby be evicted , but jan takes an interest in the child and solves the problem .
due to a phone slip - up , pat , jan’s roommate , mistakenly gets a call from someone named seymour . the ensuing chat goes so well jan recommends pat go
jan ' s friends try to find a suitable husband for her . [ ta / melbourne age ]
an employee walks through the lobby of google ' s washington headquarters , jan . 8 , 2015 .
with gustavo dudamel during jan ' s lectures for the los angeles philharmonic beethoven series , october 2015 .
the eleventh season of it ' s always sunny in philadelphia premiered january 6 , 2016 on fxx and concluded on march 9 , 2016 . it consists of 10 episodes .
the next episode of always sunny , “ the gang goes to a water park , ” airs jan . 11 at 10 p . m . on fxx .
jan envisages spectacular success when a writer promise to write special material for her .
jan swafford , michael tilson thomas , and james sinclair during a recording of ives ' s fourth in chicago .
a theater review on monday about “it’s always right now , until it’s later , ” a one - man show by daniel kitson at st . ann’s warehouse in brooklyn , misstated the word of which mr . kitson asks , “who among us doesn’t really enjoy” it ? it is “toboggan , ” not “bobsled . ”
a film - maker and photographer by profession , browning first read it “more in visual terms” but has re - read it many times , and “i always find different things about it” .
jon ' s roommate pat brings home a boy friend who promptly falls for jan . the situation becomes more complicated when
because she thinks she has neglected her daughter , jan turns down a lucrative engagement .
ordered . his patient is josie , but he ' d rather consult with jan .
“mum used to get fed up talking about it , ” says browning . “she did get so irritated with people calling it a romantic novel . because she always said it was a study in jealousy . ”
jan meets a happy - go - lucky man who reminds her of her late husband .
jan finds herself becoming interested in the handsome beau . [ ta / philadelphia pa inquirer ]
21 - jan - 1956 cbs / 21jan56 ( in notice : 1955 ) / lp7339 .
jan and her roommate have a nerve - wracking day . [ ta / melbourne age ]
and two friends , a secretary and a model . in the first episode jan is upset about the daughter ' s behavior .
‘we try not to shy away from jokes that might make people uncomfortable’ . . . glenn howerton as dennis in it’s always sunny in philadelphia . photograph : patrick mcelhenney / fxx
“maybe that’s the lesson here , ” he sings . “things are not always that clear . we have a lot in common , but too much of it is fear . ”
harry cooper , jan’s manager , ran all the way from 49th street to tell her the demo record she cut paid off . it got her the attention of movie producer
jan is upset when her press agent releases an
item
that she and a movie star are seeing each other . jan claims she hasn ' t even met her
beau .
jan is dennis ' s former roommate . he is european . jan is into anonymous sex ( as well as dennis ) . he sends dennis to use the
glory hole
with frank . and then they kick him out .
young stanley schreiber decides to leave his father ' s delicatessen for a job in arabia . jan intervenes . [ ta / melbourne age ]
leonard slatkin introduces jan to the detroit symphony at the start of his residency as visiting scholar with the orchestra ' s 2016 brahms festival .
and what about rebecca’s cruel streak ; did she possess that ? “no . but , there again , who says it was cruelty ? it’s maxim’s version , isn’t it ? there’s so much in that book , you know . was he lying ? why is it that everybody else thought the sun shone out of her a - - - ? there’s never a bad word about rebecca except from max . that’s why it runs and runs . ”
a rival agent tries to persuade jan to desert her own agent . [ ta / melbourne age ]
it’s always sunny in philadelphia returned to television wednesday night , kicking off its 12th season with what may be the series most controversial episode of its run , even for a show that ' s pulled off blackface in the past .
this is strictly a filler upload , as this intro has already been uploaded by someone else . this is the opening intro to the 1955 - 1956 tv series
it ' s always jan
, which aired on cbs . again , this is a filler upload which serves no purpose .
a constellation of light bulbs glows from the stage at st . ann’s warehouse in brooklyn , where the monologuist extraordinaire daniel kitson has set up his own planetarium . in “it’s always right now , until it’s later , ” which opened on sunday night and runs through jan . 29 , mr . kitson maps an earthly cosmology : the points of light in two separate lives that might otherwise be lost to the shadows .
jan is faced with a problem when she finds herself falling in love . a fun - loving irishman tries
jan is the object of a matchmaking campaign when neighbors send all unattached male friends to look her over .
the seed of the story lay in du maurier’s jealousy of jan ricardo , the first fiancée of her husband . “i know that she came across one or two letters or cards , fairly sort of harmless things , where jan did sign ' jan ricardo’ with this wonderful great r , ” says browning , flourishing his hand in the air . it is a portentous curlicue that is emulated in the book .
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jan ' s neighbors form a corporation to start her on a career as a movie actress . she blithely invests the money in an elaborate wardrobe ,
jan tries to comfort pat by reminding her that sometimes , the best things in life are both unexpected and outside one’s comfort zone . will this be
jan swafford ' s intelligent , gracefully written biography…offers perhaps the richest and most integrated portrait we ' ve yet had of brahms as man and artist .
when daughter josie comes home singing the praises of a school chum ' s mother , jan takes her daughter to the night club to show josie that her mom ' s no slouch either .
jan takes pity on an elderly man who sacrificed his life for his sisters . [ ta / melbourne age ]
jan and her roommate quarrel and decide to live separately , until josie provides the happy solution to their problem .
,
which actually should have been titled
it ' s a rotten comedy .
that is , until you mention duolingo . the little app with the friendly owl has become the absolute go - to resource for newbies trying to acquire any language . it’s free , it’s accessible and it is based on solid research . what’s not to love , right ?
it all came across as rather undistinguished , and with jan ending the show by addressing the camera and saying
good night
to the home audience , you had the feeling that the show ' s personnel hardly thought it was worth taking seriously .
took elements of different popular tv series and movies from 1955 when it debuted and managed to come up with an unexceptional jumble that lasted just one year . up - and - coming starlet janis paige played a widowed single mother whose hairstyle resembled lucy ricardo ( not surprisingly ,
it ' s always jan
was a desilu production as was
i love lucy
) .
jan goes to orphanage to
adopt
a girl after her 10 - year - old runs away to there .
afraid of neglecting her little daughter , jan decides to refuse a lucrative singing contract , but the child ' s diary proves startling . [ ta / melbourne age ]
back to the minors . anxious to save the rookie ' s job and help brooklyn win the pennant , jan uses a system that all true baseball fans understand to
after saving her from getting hit on by a creepy bar crawler , pat and mrs . johnson chalk up jan’s romantic misfortunes to her job as a nightclub singer ;
right , but once you have aids , you always have aids . so you want us to do an episode where the characters have aids , and then they just don’t have aids the next episode ? it’s just stuff where it doesn’t make any sense or it’s gross because , “oh , that would be gross . a condom falls in someone’s mouth ! ” that’s just not funny to me . what’s funny to me is when a character wants something and the audience can relate to that desire , whatever it is . to me , when things go too far , it’s when i don’t know why the character’s doing what they’re doing . it’s not as much about the material or the subject matter , and more about when comedies have characters doing things that don’t make fucking sense . to me , that’s when it goes too far , when somebody puts their dick in something for reasons i can’t understand .
swafford ' s analysis of brahms ' s performing career as pianist and conductor is especially fascinating .
2017 update : duolingo ' s business model is always evolving , and i feel confident that this is bringing lots of improvements and more transparency than ever . thank you , duolingo .
the aftermath of jan swafford ' s after spring rain was a respectful appreciation and even a little awe . it ' s a gorgeous work , rich in textures and colors and emotional tension… . true to his own words , his music
sounds only like itself .
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let me report that jan swafford ' s midsummer variations stands a good chance of long - term survival…i like it because at all points it struck me as solidly built , like a piece of furniture . the fast section is particularly vivacious , and the ending both spacious and handsome .
a 20 - year - old errand boy embarrasses jan by declaring his love for her . [ ta / philadelphia pa inquirer ]
jan attempts to break up the engagement of her friend val and a five times married playboy . [ ta / melbourne age ]
jan soon discovers that the doctor is interested in her and not as a patient . [ ta / albany ny times union ]
experience does remind jan she can still find love 9 years after the death of her military husband . [ the janis pages ]
on a date with him . however , pat and jan know absolutely nothing about seymour ; who he is , what he looks like , or even if he’s a perfect match .
frank falls out of a window and his injury makes him think it ' s 2006 , so the gang use it as a chance to correct past mistakes .
jan takes drastic action when her 10 - year - old daughter becomes
stage struck .
[ ta / philadelphia pa inquirer ]
justin fox , “ at amazon , it’s all about cash flow ” , harvard business review , 2014 .
we tend to think of composers as always themselves , at least after the juvenilia : mozart always mozart , brahms always brahms , ives always ives . in reality , every significant artist begins with a distinctive temperament but still has to grow into who he or she is . for charles ives , that process was bound to be a lengthy one , because he began in a singular place and was headed in a singular direction—a direction he himself only slowly came to understand . the uproarious ragtime dances , first sketched c . 1900 - 04 , are an important way station on that journey .
jan swafford ' s charles ives goes a long way toward dispelling or clarifying many of the most prominent myths surrounding the life and music of perhaps american ' s greatest composer… . swafford ' s biography presents us with the most complete picture yet of this fascinating and often contradictory man and his music .
“it goes on and it goes on , ” says kits browning , du maurier’s son , leaning back in his sofa at ferryside , the house in fowey , in cornwall , that has been in the du maurier family since the twenties . “it’s the old cliché . it’s a bloody good story . and it still sells more than any of her other books . ” an impressive 4 , 000 a month , by the reckoning of its publishers virago , and it has never been out of print .
jan gets into hot water by borrowing money from her friends . she was tricked into paying a songstress for some
special material .
titled “ the gang turns black , ” always sunny ’s season 12 opener is a racially charged musical episode with a focus on body swapping , a la freaky friday o r 13 going on 30 . the always sunny crew filmed portions of the episode here in philly back in july 2016 , the first time they had filmed locally in two years .
the words it ' s always the husband carry a certain implication that any time a woman is murdered , her husband is the first suspect . that ' s how i thought this book would go , before i started reading it . but it was 6 hours into a 10 . 5 hour book before there was even any mention of husbands or marriages or murders . that ' s a heck of a long time to get to the point and required some patience . up to then , it ' s about three female college roommates and their antics . kate the rich spoiled bad girl , jenny t
it ’ s always sunny in philadelphia was created by rob mcelhenney . he also serves as executive producer along with glenn howerton , charlie day , michael rotenberg , nick frenkel , tom lofaro , scott marder and david hornsby . the show is produced by fx productions .
both mrs de winters were drawn from du maurier’s own character . “i always identified mum with the second , rather timid one , ” says browning . “it was totally split , because she was just as good as rebecca at the sailing and all that toughness . ”
it’s always sunny in philadelphia doesn’t always get enough credit . the fxx comedy series , preparing to launch its 12 th season , has managed to stay innovative ( and hilarious ) for more than a decade now , humming along as the entire landscape of half - hour television has transformed around it . it’s long been a show that thrives by pushing formal and social boundaries , using its nasty if buffoonish quintet of characters to harshly ( and repeatedly ) explore sexism , homophobia , xenophobia , racism—really , just about every form of hate or ignorance out there . indeed , the title of the very first sunny episode from 2005—“the gang gets racist”—still says it all .
pat invites the friends and neighbors to see a “demonstration” of jan stewart as a commercial product in a two - piece leopard bikini . the presentation
jan finds herself in the celebrity class when a publicity agent invents a romance between her and a film star . [ ta / melbourne age ]
it ' s been a while since an always sunny episode has fallen flat like
wolf cola : a public relations nightmare ,
which , i suppose , is a bit of a backhanded compliment . dry , slightly hacky chapters like this one don ' t happen very often . that ' s a good thing indeed , though it doesn ' t help make this one any funnier .
i’d say the worst plan he ever hatched – it’s tough to remember , 12 seasons in –certainly , when he talks about “the implication” in season six . that’s about as dark as it gets . he never did it , but he tried . in terms of what he’s actually done , though ? i might have to come back to that one .
3 out of 5 stars to it ' s always the husband , a new thriller and suspense novel set to release to the public on may 16 , 2017 , by michele campbell . it ' s a quick - read with a few slow spot , but keeps you guessing all throughout the chapters , almost playing a bit of russian roulette with who ' s behind the whole plot . why this book i saw it pop up on a few goodreads reviews . i looked on netgalley and thought it sounded like a strong psychological thriller . i was awarded the book in lieu of a fair and
over the last few years , always sunny has evolved into something more meta and self - referential , driven as much by its history as it is by original storylines . that sense of self - awareness usually keeps the show’s writing , and to a lesser extent its characters , in check . but the newly released trailer for always sunny season 12 , complete with a snippet of an upcoming musical episode , raises the question : has the gang finally gone too far ?
finally , margins also derive from a company’s culture , not necessarily from the industry in which it operates or the market it serves . apple prefers high margins , and they’re willing to sacrifice market share to get them . amazon prefers low margins . it is easy to go from high to low margins : that happens if a company gets dragged into a competition for lower prices . but it is equally easy to go from low to high margins—and it is also very dangerous , because not only does it mean that you have to sacrifice growth , it doesn’t fit in the company’s culture : thus it makes people complacent and there is no way back .
it ' s a great life
in the end came across as a sitcom for middle - aged men designed by middle - aged men , and even in that meager assignment it failed .
a day in the life of frank reynold ' s as he tries to keep up with the gang ' s newest scheme .
jan makes a record which wins her an audition with a hollywood producer , but she needs $ 500 to buy an impressive outfit . [ ta / melbourne age ]
jan is torn between loyalty and fame when a big - time agent offers her a prize engagement if she agrees to leave her present agent and sign with him .
a baseball team manager begs jan to break her spell over his pitcher , who spends every evening at the nightclub where she sings . [ ta / melbourne age ]
/ there isn’t really a need to retell the amazing story of amazon’s relationship with its investors . justin fox has done it in this
val is thrilled over her engagement to a wealthy and much - married playboy . he , however , is not too in love to overlook the charms of roommate jan .
when jan and her friends hire a male housekeeper , they become the enemies of every husband in their apartment house . [ ta / lowell sun , lowell , massachusetts ]
the trouble begins when jan and her girl friends hire a young man to keep house for them . the other women in the apartment house see how well the man does
after a whole day of striking out , jan finally lands a potential date in the form of mr . howard stone . they never become a serious couple , but the
there has even been rebecca : the musical , which had a three - year run in vienna before moving to japan , germany , south korea and sweden . “it is absolutely fantastic as a spectacle . almost as mrs danvers comes to the top of the stairs , there’s a sort of ' boo’ . it’s like pantomime , ” says browning . what , i wonder , might his mother have made of it ? “i think she’d be delighted . it’s a very gothic version . ”
we had such a good time doing the nightman cometh , and every year since then we’ve been talking about doing another musical episode , or an episode with musical elements . i always thought it would come in the form of some kind of nightman cometh sequel or a prequel , possibly . we talk about it every year , and it just never quite materialized . this was interesting because the idea for the episode came first , and it was such an insane idea .
pictured : ( l - r ) glenn howerton as dennis , charlie day as charlie , rob mcelhenney as mac , kaitlin olson as dee , and danny devito as frank in “the gang turns black , ” the opening episode of always sunny’s 12th season .
it was at milton hall that she conceived of mrs danvers . “she saw this tall , dark housekeeper woman . they were always called mrs , even if they weren’t married , like mrs hudson in sherlock holmes , ” says browning . “that’s where she first saw this terribly sinister - looking lady . i don’t think she ever spoke to her , it was just a look that sunk in . ”
jan proves to be a good neighbor and a cunning organizer when tenants petition the land - lord to evict the parents of a crying baby . [ ta / melbourne age ]
pat makes a blind date and then gets cold feet about dating someone she hasn ' t met . jan offers to fill in for pat , rather than disappoint the man .
after a phone call with seymour , jan tries to convince pat , sight unseen , to try going out on a date with him . she has absolutely no idea what he
actual rating : 3 . 5 stars it ' s always the husband by michele campbell is a 2017 st . martin ' s press publication . the interesting choice of title and the gorgeous cover aroused my interest in this novel . in my opinion , the storyline idea , albeit decent and promising , is not uncommon when it comes to the mystery fiction . the surprising aspect of this book given the genre it belongs to is the sophisticated and elaborate writing style . when i read the couple next door , for example , i was bitterly disap
sam walton meant it : each year , suppliers had to lower their price , or else they were out . and as related by charles fishman’s
meredith levinson , “ amazon’s it leader leaving huge customer service infrastructure as legacy ” ( an article about rick dalzell ) , cio , 2007 .
jan draws up a list of rules for her boyfriends to adhere to , but finds that mike allen is only too prepared to abide by them . [ ta / melbourne age ]
the provocation for jan swafford ' s piano quartet they who hunger was the plight of the homeless…though the subject matter is not discernible in any overt way , the piece has a world - weariness that is no doubt expressive of the composer ' s feeling . otherwise , the music is jaunty with motoric rhythms , lyrical and bluesy .
the way the show is described often is “wow , these guys don’t care . ” but that’s not true . i don’t think the show would work if it were truly hateful . it’s one thing for the characters to be misinformed , ignorant or bigoted . it’s another thing for the show to be misinformed , ignorant or bigoted . we can only do so much to educate ourselves about what it’s like to be a black person in america , and eventually you have to talk to someone who has actually been there . we try not to shy away from jokes that might make people uncomfortable , but never at the expense of being sensitive to people’s real life experience .
jan steward is showered with flowers and gifts by an unknown admirer , who turns out to be an elderly man who has absolutely no interest in her . [ ta / gettysburg times ]
fed up with all the creeps and pub crawlers , jan decides on a whim to get married . the problem is , she has no idea what she wants in a husband . and
this is , as ever , uncharted territory for always sunny . in its effort to maintain relevance and freshness after 11 solid seasons , the show is now headed down yet another precarious path , one that could either demonstrate its deft satirical touch once more or end at a place that’s more callous than clever . no matter , it should be fascinating to watch—a testament to sunny ’s rather remarkable continued significance , 12 years in .
it’s always the husband by michelle campbell is a 2017 st . martin’s press publication . i loved the title of this book because it is sort of a running joke - right ? so , i had to see which way the author would spin such a story with this title . unfortunately , this book was a stinker . if not for the need to find out who was going to be murdered and whodunit , i probably would have marked it as a dnf . therefore , because i am very behind on my reviews , i’m not going to spend a great deal of time writin
michele campbell’s debut , it’s always the husband —is a suspenseful and intriguing twisty
whodunit
and
howdunit
of dark secrets— a web of deceit , keeping you guessing to the final conclusion . three college roommates at carlisle college in new hampshire — aubrey , jenny , and kate are linked by a tragedy . each girl has their own desires , dreams , fears , and troubles . the complexities of friendship and acceptance . love / hate relationships . kate is the wild rich girl with a father’s connections
the concert really got down to business with jan swafford ' s highly evocative after spring rain played by the indianapolis symphony orchestra at the contemporary music festival . the exquisitely scored work is rich in mood and atmosphere , spare and transparent in sound and lyrical in effect .
google is no longer a technology company , it’s a search engine . the search technology was developed a decade ago . it’s a bet that there will be no one else who will come up with a better search technology . so , you invest in google , because you’re betting against technological innovation in search . and it’s like a bank that generates enormous cash flows every year , but you can’t issue a dividend , because the day you take that $ 30 billion and send it back to people you’re admitting that you’re no longer a technology company . that’s why microsoft can’t return its money . that’s why all these companies are building up hordes of cash , because they don’t know what to do with it , but they don’t want to admit they’re no longer tech companies .
farhad manjoo , “ i want it today : how amazon’s ambitious new push for same - day delivery will destroy local retail ” , slate , 2012 .
the customer’s point of view is actually embedded in many parts of amazon’s culture and operations . according to brad stone’s the everything store , all external communication , including that of the company towards investors , are made as if they’ll ultimately be read by the customers — which they eventually are . also , all internal documents tend to be written from the customer’s point of view , which helps amazon making decision - making more efficient . quite simply , focusing on the customer is amazon’s big idea : it helps in making decisions in the face of urgency ( “is it in the customer’s best interest ? ” ) , and it attracts the superfans the company needs to make its user community more engaged .
remember too that you don’t just want to assess the candidate . you want them to fall in love with you . really . you want them to have a great experience , have their concerns addressed , and come away feeling like they just had the best day of their lives . interviews are awkward because you’re having an intimate conversation with someone you just met , and the candidate is in a very vulnerable position . it’s always worth investing time to make sure they feel good at the end of it , because they will tell other people about their experience—and because it’s the right way to treat people .
meanwhile , the company’s engineering staff had apparently been killing itself to transform amazon’s large it infrastructure into a collection of web services . it was not an easy task . in his now famous “platform rant” , former amazon employee steve yegge detailed what it took for amazon to deploy its current it architecture . everybody had to work incredibly hard to deploy the new web services while ensuring continuity of operations . multiple unexpected pitfalls were spotted along the way . the legendary and frightening rick dalzell , amazon’s cio at the time , had to whip everybody for years to make sure that the radical it upheaval was achieved on time at a mastered cost .
frank goes off the rails , singing to dee that he’s going to say words he hasn’t “had the chance to say before” now that he is black , like “homie , ” “bro , ” and “my man . ” dee draws the line when frank says he’s also going to say the n - word , which frank laments because “it’s probably the only chance i’ve got to say it . ”
pat returns home just after 2 in the morning . it’s presumed that she realized seymour may have been the plumber from earlier in the day , but all pat
* * 3 . 5 stars * * it’s always the husband is a hybrid of domestic drama , family saga and a hint of psychological thriller featuring 3 friends all of whom are randomly horrible . seriously . each in their own way horribly entitled and whiny . still they were utterly compelling . this is a story about people getting exactly what is coming to them – i enjoyed it thoroughly on that level and was rather nastily gleeful when a certain death happened . i found it to be a page turner especially from the half way m
jan swafford ' s music has been played around the country and abroad by ensembles including the symphonies of st . louis , indianapolis , and the dutch radio ; boston ' s new - music groups musica viva , collage , and dinosaur annex ; and chamber ensembles including the peabody trio , the chamber orchestra of tennessee , and the scott chamber players of indianapolis .
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swafford ' s is a thoughtful and sympathetic telling of ives ' s life…thoroughly researched and fun to read…what makes this book so valuable is swafford ' s skill in weaving the strands of all these areas of knowledge into a cohesive fabric . it is as close as we may come for quite some time to a complete ives .
the gang dances their way to the wiz at 11th and market for the final exterior shot of the episode , which features a philly electronics store dressed up as it ' s always sunny ’s the wiz . the store , however , is closed , and the group pleads with a man to fix their vcr , to which he responds by calling the police . with that , charlie believes he has learned the lesson the group must learn to turn white once again .
now why is this not a huge problem with the app ? the thing is it seems to be what millions of people want . people enjoy the gameplay aspect of duolingo so much that its user base grows every single day . and there’s no arguing with the masses . maybe the gamification aspect is an ineffective gimmick , but it does make language learning accessible . i would argue that it doesn’t make it more fun , but if a label says “game” on it , you’re just more likely to try .
here is the thing : i don’t love duolingo . in fact , i don’t get it . i want to enjoy using this little app . i want to be part of the club of people who sit in a doctor’s waiting room levelling up their vocab , but somehow i just don’t get it . in today’s post , i’m going to try and give you some insight into what it is that is making duolingo so unattractive to me . and by unattractive , i don’t just mean that i personally don’t want to use it . it’s that i actively stay away from recommending it to people as their first language learning contact . when someone asks me how they can get started learning a new language , i don’t want them to start with the duolingo app . why ?
jameel jaffer , director of the aclu ' s center for democracy , that it was astonishing the nsa would even ask technology companies to grant direct access to user data .
watch the wild moon of rancho cucamonga , a radio - style play by joshua fagin , in which jan ' s readings of excerpts from his beethoven biography are interwoven with a story of two prickly old friends . also involved are excerpts from beethoven recordings by andrew rangell that helped inspire the play .
an aside : in 1969 , as part of a serendipitous crosscountry trip , jan swafford and jan gippo ( later piccolo with the st . louis symphony and swafford publisher ) stood on a cliff in the middle of grand canyon at sunset , arguing about whether the scene in front of them was best expressed by ives ' s fourth ( swafford ) or brahms ' s fourth ( gippo ) . the idea that swafford would eventually write biographies of both those composers would have been incomprehensible to them both . the canyon trek was the beginning of a lifetime of hiking for reasons more inspirational than athletic .
we’re slowly leaving that world dominated by business consultants and financial markets , in which it was so important to focus on one’s core business . on the contrary , the new conglomerates prove that it has become critical to diversify business models for at least three reasons :
michele campbell is a graduate of harvard college and stanford law school and a former federal prosecutor in new york city who specialized in international narcotics and gang cases . a while back , she said goodbye to her big - city legal career and moved with her husband and two children to an idyllic new england college town a lot like belle river in it’s always the husband . since then , she has spen
if all the world ' s a stage , we ' re the programme notes .
laurence olivier immortalised the moody figure of maxim in alfred hitchcock’s oscar - winning 1940 film . “mum loved it . she thought it was great . ” olivier had originally wanted to play opposite vivien leigh , “but it would be ridiculous because if vivien leigh played the second mrs de winter , she’d have fired mrs danvers on the first morning , ” chuckles browning . instead , joan fontaine excelled as the naïve innocent caught in mrs danvers’s sights .
it also opens the possibility of communications made entirely within the us being collected without warrants .
thanks to jordan hanley and st . martin’s press for the free , electronic arc of this novel received in exchange for an honest review . “it’s always the husband” is the newest novel by author michele campbell . the novel tells the story of aubrey , jenny and kate - three roommates at a prestigious east side college who are very different and yet quickly develop a tight , intense friendship . twenty years later , when kate falls from a bridge , rumors spread throughout the small town that she killed hersel
aubrey , kate , and jenny meet at prestigious carlisle college in new hampshire . aubrey is a poor scholarship kid who is desperate for approval . jenny is a self - righteous overachiever who is always cleaning up everyone’s messes . kate is a charismatic new yorker who draws aubrey and jenny into her web . the three become “bff , ” but they are more like frenemies than true friends . the trio takes part in a scandalous event their freshmen year that binds them together for life . fast - forward 20 years later , and their secret leads to murder . it’s always the husband just didn’t work for me . i feel like this book has potential—i like the premise , but something is lacking –i’m not sure if it is the unlikeable underdeveloped characters , the uneven plotting , or the slow pace , but i couldn’t embrace this book .
i kind of regret killing alanna ubach’s character roxie in season seven . she was just so funny , and it was such a funny character . i know the fans responded to her too , but just from our perspective there’s a part of me that wishes we hadn’t killed her . i’m sure we could discover that she’s alive , and it wouldn’t be that far outside the realm of possibility . there’s also a lot of times i actually regret killing dennis and dee’s mom in season two , because that was a really funny character . and i find the longer we go on , the more we have a desire to do at least a few episodes here and there that feel grounded in the emotional reality of the characters , and when you want to do that it’s nice to have family members to draw on .
ah , the curse of consumer markets . consumers are merciless , ready to deprive a company of its profit , even to force it into bankruptcy , if it’s the only way for them to obtain lower prices . this was not obvious before the advent of the internet , because
it was an episode where the gang turns black , basically . and we sort of had this idea that it would kind of be a wizard of oz thing , and we realized that had been done a number of times in the past – a lot of sitcoms have done wizard of oz - type episodes . but we’ve always done our own version of sitcom tropes in the past , so we weren’t totally put out by that . it occurred to us that maybe it should be a musical , but we didn’t do that , we wrote the episode at first as a straight episode , and we realized that a lot of the subject matter in that episode in particular was difficult – we’re essentially tackling the idea of what it’s like to be black in america . but we also recognize that we’re three white dudes , and it’s a little sketchy to have an opinion about what it’s like to be black in america when you’re just a bunch of white guys . although we do have black writers , the show is still ultimately our show , and the characters are all white . so we knew there had to be some kind of an angle – this would be a lot more fun , and a lot more digestible , if we turned it into a musical .
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why , then , are consumer companies so dominant in the digital economy ? the reason is that it is so difficult to scale up operations selling to business customers . as written in a previous issue , “enterprise markets may be a trap : fedex sells to companies because it’s expensive ( no ordinary individual can pay for it on a regular basis ) ; and it’s expensive because its scalability is limited by the absence of user participation on an enterprise market . ” this is why there are very few giant , fast - growing tech companies that are 100 % old - style enterprise when it comes to selling : palantir technologies comes to mind as a rare exception .
jan swafford began writing music as a teenager in chattanooga , tennessee . he was then a trombone player aspiring to become a high school band director , which as he then understood it was the pinnacle of a musical career . by the time he left for harvard in 1964 , he was determined instead to be a composer—an endeavor he had little knowledge of beyond the desire to pursue it . at his high school graduation he conducted his wind ensemble piece the class of ' 64 , a work recalling bits of pomp and circumstance , walton ' s crown imperial , and random other band pieces . it was declared
promising .
so after wwii the response of music and the other arts to the postwar zeitgeist was inevitably varied and contradictory . as always , some of the leading ideas came from europe , especially since some of the most influential european artists were now working in the u . s . partly inspired by their presence , schoenberg and stravinsky each had legions of american disciples .
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amazon accounts for half of all sales growth in u . s . e - commerce , meaning
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in typical body - switching move form , though , it turns out the episode wasn’t entirely made up . as old black man passes by a mirror in the apartment , scott bakula’s reflection appears .
a large part of amazon’s history could have been predicted by those who already studied wal - mart . like wal - mart , it is an uncommon company that achieves superior performances and creates a lot of value for both its stakeholders and the economy as a whole . but like wal - mart , it inspires more and more doubts as to the real amount of good that it does for society .
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a pleasant update of the 1937 movie of the same name which starred cary grant and constance bennett and produced two sequels , 1939 ' s
topper takes a trip
with bennett returning and 1941 ' s
topper returns ,
with joan blondell playing bennett ' s role .
i cannot tell you how much i dislike the computer voice . it doesn’t intone , it doesn’t emote , it’s just blank . a blank canvas of words coming at me . who learns a language for that ? languages are about people . i wish they’d play and work with snippets from media shows or real people’s recordings . just think of the big efforts audio lingua and rhinospike are making in this area , and you can see that automated heartless computer voices really don’t need to be used in automated language instruction .
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‘i don’t think the show would work if it were truly hateful . ’ photograph : patrick mcelhenney / fxx
when the nsa reviews a communication it believes merits further investigation , it issues what it calls a
report
. according to the nsa ,
over 2 , 000 prism - based reports
are now issued every month . there were 24 , 005 in 2012 , a 27 % increase on the previous year .
your iphone is now encrypted . the fbi says it ' ll help kidnappers . who do you believe ?
this new always sunny musical looks even wilder than the strangely brilliant “ nightman cometh , ” the series’ first stab at a song - and - dance episode . the surreal premise , in a nutshell : the all - white gang has turned black , first indicated when they see “themselves” reflected in a mirror . ( each character’s doppelganger is played by an actor of color , although the show has actually explored blackface before . ) and it sounds as if it’s not shying away from the politics of the scenario : “when you’ve just turned black , and you can’t switch back , ” goes one verse sung by dennis ( glenn howerton ) , “well you gotta go and find out the rules . ”
the words it ' s always the husband carry a certain implication that any time a woman is murdered , her husband is the first suspect . that ' s how i thought this book would go , before i started reading it . but it was 6 hours into a 10 . 5 hour book before there was even any mention of husbands or marriages or murders . that ' s a heck of a long time to get to the point and required some patience . up to then , it ' s about three female college roommates and their antics . kate the rich spoiled bad girl , jenny the townie & good girl , and aubrey the poor naive one who idolizes and follows kate like a lapdog . some years later , their relationships have changed quite a bit although they still consider themselves tied to each other because of a major tragedy that occurred in college . i must say that kate was a detestable character . how the other two put up with her is hard to fathom . the pace picks up a lot in the second half , and the ending felt somewhat rushed . the author actually gives us several suspects to ponder . the murderer ' s identity may come as a surprise , and then again , maybe not .