the outcasts , written and directed by robert wynne-simmons and starring mary ryan and mick lally , is an irish film completed in 1982 and broadcast in 1984 as part of uk 's channel 4 film on four series .

it was the first irish feature film in 50 years , and as such started the revival of the irish film industry .

the outcasts ( 1982 film )

guarnier , josé luis ,
luis g . berlanga ,
in international film guide 1981 , london , 1982 .
like some powerful and fantastical magnet , the outcasts draws our attention to the republic of ireland ' s nascent film industry .
( peter davalle , the times , london )
david edelstein is the chief film critic for new york magazine and a film critic for npr’s fresh air .
the outcasts has provided one of the deepest and most enthralling experiences of my life .
david blum ( music columnist , new yorker )
goldmann , münchen 1982 . der roman zum film ( goldmann fantasy tb 23826 ) . deutsche erstveröffentlichung . o - broschur . 1 . auflage , mit farb . illustrationen . - 255 s . ( pages ) .
robert wynne - simmons disinterest in spiritually defunct modernity is reflected in his film credits . his first film was
a bounty hunter who was a confederate officer teams up with an ex - slave who was a union soldier during the civil war . they are the outcasts .
in short , john carpenter’s the thing lands us in freezing antarctica during the winter of 1982 . a strange incident occurs at american outpost 31 , when a norwegian helicopter breaks the peace and silence of snow .
great britain , fontana / collins virago , 1982 . 1st fontana edition , binding : softcover , good . 12mo - over 6¾
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tall 0006164323 paperback a sweeping , mystical fantasy now a spectacular film . . . . paperback .
the outcasts / robert wynne - simmons ; john davis ; matthew jacobs ; cyril cusack ; mick lally ; tolmayax productions . ; ; dublin : tolmayax productions , 1983 .
magic , as distinct from cunning special effects , is hard to find in the cinema , but [ the outcasts ] is steeped in it .
( shaun usher , daily mail )
with the headline : film festival notebook ; news sensations , new outrages and themes .
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tim burton’s first short film produced after college , vincent ( 1982 ) , tells the quirky tale of little vincent malloy – a boy who dreams of being like his hero , vincent price . real film actor vincent price narrates the film , describing malloy with rhymes : “he doesn’t mind living with his sister and cats , though he’d rather share a home with spiders and bats . ” malloy daydreams of living like price’s famous characters – mad scientists and debonair villains – and muses over his imaginary dead wife .
in the waning days of the summer of 1982 , my parents took me to an afternoon matinee , a double - feature at a second - run theater in los angeles . i couldn’t have guessed so beforehand , but this excursion to the movies was a life - changing event for me .
after falling victim to a humiliating prank by the high school queen bee , best friends and world - class geeks , mindy and jodi , decide to get their revenge by uniting the outcasts of the school against her and her circle of friends .
feardotcom ( 2002 ) looks and sounds like a remake of a japanese horror film that never was . this 40 million dollar horror film was r . . .
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deneroff , harvey , in film society review ( new york ) , april 1966 .
the outcasts has nothing fey or twee about it . its strength is that it treats its material with respect , skillfully avoiding any hint of ironic distance or any over - committment to the supernatural . as a result it also acquires a strong political dimension as a powerful critique of materialism .
( jill forbes , monthly film bulletin )
ballantine books , 1986 . 1st printing . with primitive weapons , an army of mutants and outcasts strugles to keep freedom alive ! . paperback . isbn : 0345308891 . near fine paperback , slight crease to front cover .
watch burton’s first short film and an homage to horror classics , vincent , on youtube .
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i thought you might be interested in this item at urltoken title : the outcasts author : robert wynne - simmons ; john davis ; matthew jacobs ; cyril cusack ; mick lally ; tolmayax productions publisher : dublin : tolmayax productions , 1983 . oclc : 38739724
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. . the glories of the earth we live with . the way the flowers dance and the waters roar and the grandeur of the rocks and the mountains .
a robert wynne - simmons film ; written and directed by john davis ; producer , matthew jacobs .
scream ' s writer kevin williamson scripted this robert rodriguez - directed horror film . it was a hybrid of teenage angst high - school films ( such as the breakfast club ( 1985 ) ) and the sci - fi alien invasion film invasion of the body snatchers ( 1956 ) .
of course , jarman ' s most illustrious collaborator on this film is caravaggio . famous , notorious , and profoundly influential — on such painters as rubens , georges de la tour , velázquez , rembrandt , vermeer and countless others , and in cinema on film noir style — let ' s take a brief look at the life and work of the man whom jarman waggishly called
the james dean of the renaissance ,
before focusing on the film .
this film was also made at a time when people were being wrongfully executed more and more frequently in spain .
the film ended with a stream of cars ( and headlights ) approaching the ballfield in the middle of an iowa cornfield , signaling that ray wouldn ' t lose his farm after all .
following this review , in the section caravaggio in caravaggio , you will find a list of the paintings recreated in the film . now , at last , on to jarman ' s searing portrait of the artist .
the film opened with a spectacularly sexy heist during the screening of the film est - ouest at the 2001 cannes film festival ; nearly - nude , sleek film model veronica ' s ( rie rasmussen ) see - through gold - plated
amazing top in the shape of a serpent
was encrusted with 500 diamonds worth over 10 million dollars . blonde femme fatale laure ash ( rebecca romijn - stamos ) posed as a photographer at the event , scored to ravel ' s
bolero ,
and during a hot lesbian / bisexual tryst of kissing and stripping in the ladies room with veronica , the serpentine gold - plated bodice was supposedly swapped with a fake one .
in region 1 , this film is available both as a separate dvd and as part of the four - disc / five - film box set , glitterbox : derek jarman x 4 ( the angelic conversation , caravaggio , wittgenstein , and blue , plus the posthumous glitterbug ) — $ 74 . 99 suggested retail .
now that we ' ve brought caravaggio ' s background out of the shadows , let ' s shine a light on the film itself , beginning with its narrative structure .
it would be impossible to just pick one of the kids from william mckinley high school , as they all pretty much embodied outcasts . from stoner burnout desario ( james franco ) to wannabe drummer nick ( jason segel ) to the hopelessly nerdy bill haverchuck ( martin starr ) , they were all , easily , the most lovable losers to ever grace tv’s high school halls .
at his news conference , mr . baghdadi stressed that his was a country where factional divisions were so sharp that if an audience objected to the politics of a film ' s characters , it might reject the film outright . he wanted to make a film that any lebanese could watch and understand . ' ' little wars ' ' was well received at its screening , but it has not been shown in lebanon .
after a getaway , the unlikely group of six students theorized that if they found the ' master alien ' or
queen
leader and killed it , they could eliminate the threat and the further spread of the parasitic alien seeking human hosts , and everything would revert to normal . each student , suspicious of the others ( in a scene paying direct homage to john carpenter ' s blood - test scene in the thing ( 1982 ) ) , snorted the drug ( composed mostly of the contents of caffeinated no - doz pills ) to prove their non - alien status . delilah was revealed to be one of the aliens , and in the confusion , marybeth concealed the fact that she hadn ' t snorted the drug .
brian depalma ' s erotic thriller was a prime example of a plot - twister , deliberately hinted at many times by various clues . except for the first half - hour ( and the film ' s short concluding segment ) , the film with themes of voyeurism and double - identity was almost entirely a dream of the title character ' s nightmarish future .
for all the charges of
blasphemy
leveled against caravaggio , in using actual ' poor people , ' prostitutes and hustlers as models for biblical subjects , those were the very outcasts that jesus consorted with , and that both caravaggio and jarman could relate to intimately . although both jesus and caravaggio die in excruciating pain , attended by their faithful followers , the latter is no martyr , except perhaps in his obsession to unite art and life . but the film questions caravaggio ' s chaotic vision of life , even as it exalts his artistic genius .
ballantine , 1981 - 1st . paperback . very good . with 8 full color photos from the film . based on the screenplay by hal barwood and matthew robbins . from the collection of sf author juanita coulson .
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tony peake , in his indispensable derek jarman : a biography ( 1999 ) , expresses an interesting point of view that i don ' t share , namely , that
for all its many fine and subtle qualities , caravaggio exudes a whiff of staleness , even flatness ,
that he attributes to jarman ' s many years in pre - production , making him
somehow exhausted by the film before the camera started rolling .
peake reports that the film garnered only tepid critical praise , yet at the berlin international film festival , jarman won both the c . i . d . a . l . c . award and silver berlin bear ; and at the istanbul international film festival , he won the special jury prize . the film was successful in international markets , and in the two decades since , it has grown not only in critical stature but popularity — and that will only increase now that it ' s finally available on dvd .
in addition to these clear reproductions , jarman draws on other caravaggio works as inspiration for the film ' s sets , costumes , and lighting . for example , many of peasants are dressed to resemble those in the milan version of
supper at emmaus
and
the tooth puller
. the press kit identifies two additional paintings in the film —
narcissus
and
david with the head of goliath
— but i didn ' t detect them .
jarman underlies the film ' s central action , of the love triangle , with a story that becomes increasingly noir - ish , as ever more shocking levels of treachery are revealed . oscar wilde ' s often - quoted line , from
the ballad of reading gaol ,
applies as much to caravaggio ' s fictionalized plot as to most of film noir :
each man kills the thing he loves .
jarman reinforces the noir connection both dramatically and visually — but as with his use of sacred motifs , it ' s subtle , and only one more of the many strands that make up this film .
kovacs , k . s . ,
berlanga life size ,
in quarterly review of film studies ( new york ) , spring 1983 .
hi my wife mentioned that she saw ' the outcasts ' back in the 80s and she really liked it , i had never heard of it before . a few years ago she asked me to look on ebay to see if anyone had a vhs tape of it , after not much look one did turn up eventually . the video was released by a company called ' prestige international ' , not sure what date it came out as there is no date on the cover .
curiously , the film that might be most strongly expected to touch on issues of class difference does not address them directly at all . a lebanese film , maroun baghdadi ' s ' ' little wars , ' ' deliberately avoids designating its characters ' religious preferences or any other information that might align them with specific factions .
in jarman ' s film , here are the caravaggio paintings shown and / or recreated as tableaux , in the order they appear . titles link to online reproductions and commentary , each opening in a new window :
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inspirational commentary . i had never considered bladerunner and jc ' s the thing having common elements , but it is so obvious when one points it out . i too saw the thing in 1982 when i was 40 something . i had been a long time fan of the original ' 50s thing , but considered the new movie a different movie and not a remake . i still like both . both hold up to repetitive viewing for me . what i remember of that 1st viewing was that it really scared me . that night i waited in bed for my spouse to change . it was great ! thanks for the memories . . .
explore the existential angst of what it means to be human . protagonists in each film combat creatures that mimic or imitate the human shape , but are indistinctly inhuman . in both films , the impostor is also an infiltrator . . . virtually unrecognizable - -
the financial saga has as many twists and turns as the film ' s labyrinthine plot . when jarman shows the dead caravaggio with gold coins over his eyes , it ' s as much an ironic jab at economic / political realities as the folk tradition of making sure the dead have the proper fare to enter the land of the dead . but in the opening shot , before the coins appear , jarman emblematically lays out caravaggio ' s contradictions in a stunning close - up : one of the dead artist ' s eyes is wide open , but the other is shut .
[ note : in the film ' s original ending , crazed and unstable alex committed suicide to frame former lover dan , making it look like he had murdered her . after preview audiences objected , the ending was changed . ]
tim burton’s macabre and quirky visual style is recognizable to nearly anyone . his early films beetlejuice ( 1988 ) , edward scissorhands ( 1990 ) , and the nightmare before christmas ( 1993 ) have become favorites among adults and children , leading to the branding of his films as dark , fantastical stories featuring surreal , horror , and gothic mise - en - scene ; characters as outcasts , freaks , and villains ; and themes of isolation , life , death , perseverance , and love . however , before burton became a household name or even made his first feature film , he worked for walt disney productions and made vincent .
the final segment of the film consisted of a 17 - minute long dramatic retelling of how a young , sexy croatian actress oja kodar ( herself , welles ' real - life girlfriend at the time of shooting ) , first seen in the film in a segment on girl - watching , enticed famed artist pablo picasso in the village of toussaint by walking by his place during one summer in provocative beach - dress , and was soon invited in to be his mistress in exchange for ownership of the 22 nude paintings he made of her .
( mcfarland ; 2000 ) , but for context and history , i wanted to provide at least a handful of quotes here and now , so you might accurately glean a sense of the absolute vitriol spewed at the film and its helmsman .
there ' s an even deeper mythic level , as in other jarman films like the angelic conversation : primal ritual , in which a protagonist achieves incremental understanding through a long process of doubt and suffering . this ancient form underlies the narrative , giving the film a subliminal resonance .
the film ' s tagline made reference to the six main teen characters , archetypal members of the student body ( a misfit rebel , a geek , an outcast , a cheerleader , a jock , and a girl - next - door , etc . ) who were introduced during the character credits , that would investigate the weird happenings at their high school among the
faculty
members :
i saw this fabulous film when channel 4 broadcast it back in the early 1980s . it was never released on vhs or dvd . a harrowing look at the famine years , loss and cruelty , with a strong undercurrent of the supernatural running throughout . good luck in your search .
rather than the anachromisms , what most people first hear about this film is jarman ' s breathtaking recreations of a dozen and a half of caravaggio ' s paintings . ( if you want to follow along , there ' s a full list of the pictures below — but you certainly don ' t need to , in order to enjoy jarman ' s picture . ) these reproductions are more than gimmicks ; they point to the essence of the film , and of jarman ' s enormous achievements .
in ' ' moonlighting , ' ' the emphasis is on class rather than racial differences , as an educated foreman wields power over three ignorant laborers , yet is himself treated as a polish outsider in england . even in tim hunter ' s ' ' tex , ' ' the class relations among oklahoma teen - agers are explored . in karoly makk ' s ' ' another way , ' ' the two lesbian characters are treated as sexual and political outcasts . in mr . losey ' s ' ' the trout , ' ' a french country girl enters the world of international high finance and proceeds to disrupt the sexual , racial and economic lines of power .
author : gina marie ezzone is a senior at denison university where she studies cinema and queer studies . she is the president of the denison film society where she works as a programmer and projectionist . this summer she is the programs assistant intern at facets . check out her work on vimeo .
the key line in the film comes when caravaggio , after ranuccio has stabbed him in a fight , tells his faithful mute servant jerusaleme :
all art is against lived experience . how can you compare flesh and blood with oil , ground pigment ?
so far , this year ' s record for most walkouts is held jointly by ' ' veronika voss , ' ' the film of mr . fassbinder that was the openingnight selection , and miklos jancso ' s ' ' the tyrant ' s heart . ' ' it is hard to see a sure leader here because the circumstances differ .
why are american plays , movies , and tv shows so inept at weaving together the strands of the political and the personal ? maybe it ' s because—to borrow the title of an incisive e . j . dionne book—americans hate politics . or maybe it ' s because we prefer—and have always preferred , at least since the days of fenimore cooper—our sagas to focus on loners , mavericks , outcasts , people standing up to
the system .
but as that late counterweight to libertarianism , arthur miller , endlessly reminded us , we are social creatures—interdependent and responsible in even our smallest actions for the welfare of all . too bad that ' s a pinko heresy in a land of vigilantes and winners who take all .
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visually and dramatically intense reimagining of the life of the great sixteenth century artist .
ultimately , jarman knows that we will make of his film what we will , confronted — like so many artists in so many media — with the dilemma of how to reconcile , or not , art and lived experience .
there is a portrait gallery of familiar faces in the lobby of alice tully hall , where the 20th new york film festival is midway through its three - week schedule . as it honors a variety of contributors to past festivals , the photographic exhibition also reminds audiences that this year , most of the festival ' s favorite luminaries are conspicuously absent .
jerusaleme ' s importance to the film was even greater in early drafts , when jarman used him as the focal character , filtering caravaggio ' s life through his eyes . in fact , many of caravaggio ' s voice - over monologues were originally written for him .
she was thrown off the multi - story balcony of her room into the hotel ' s inner courtyard by vengeful , double - crossed partner racine ( edouard montoute ) , but miraculously survived the fall . lily ' s parents brought her to her apartment to recover , where laure noticed her resemblance to lily in photographs framed on the wall . while watching tv , a commentator provided a major key to the remainder of the film :
writer / director / actor orson welles ' last feature film was this non - linear , documentary - essay ( and magic trick at its end ) about fakery , art forgery , authorship and authenticity , charlatanism , the value of experts , magicians , and the art world .
' magic ' is the word some critics applied to it at the time , in ' over the moon ' fashion , but the word has some meaning here .
( derek malcolm , the guardian )
and that’s just the tip of the bloody iceberg , to adopt an appropriate metaphor .
great analysis and i really can ' t add much to your spot - on observations except to say that i think this is carpenter ' s masterpiece , even moreso than halloween which is a great film as well , but i think that carpenter really hit it out of the park with this one for all the reasons you stated in your post . i ' m glad you pointed out rob bottin ' s staggeringly incredible work on this film . it ' s a shame that most of the studio films go the cgi route and it seems like he doesn ' t work much anymore as a result . i wish some indie horror filmmakers would hook up with him . his work has a tangible texture and realism that still outclasses the cgi work out there . have you read the comic book spin - offs ? the first two - issue mini - series is quite good even though they get a few of the rules from the film wrong and carpenter has said that if he ever did a sequel he ' s use them as a basis . i also thought that the video game sequel was very well done . they really captured the claustrophobia and paranoia of the film as well the mood and atmosphere to a t . at any rate , as someone who is a huge carpenter fan i really dug your post . great stuff .
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el verdugo is a farce or domestic comedy filled with macabre touches and scenes of black humor in which the taboos associated with death are transgressed . even the actual mode of execution is the subject of morbid jokes as the executioner , who garrots his victims , measures the neck size of his future son - in - law . the film is punctuated with these bits of gallows humor as well as with comic reversals that take the audience by surprise . a particularly fine example occurs at the end of the movie when the young executioner is carried kicking and screaming like the victim into the prison where he will perform his first execution . el verdugo shows that the biting black humor that we have come to associate with buñuel is , in more general terms , a spanish characteristic .
just a convenient place to group together all the films i’ve seen of the creepy persuasion .
cult tv flashback # 77 : v : the series :
the rescue . . .
the thing serves as the first movement in john carpenter’s self - named “apocalypse trilogy” ( followed by 1987’s prince of darkness and 1994’s in the mouth of madness ) , and most genre fans are familiar with the general outline of the story , either from the remarkable campbell literary work , or the 1950s howard hawks version , the thing from another world ( 1951 ) .
ny : ballantine , 1986 . first edition ; first printing . paperback . isbn : 0345308891 . illustrated by sweet , darrell k . . 243 pages ; very good plus condition . this is a paperback - not a hardcover ! faint front hinge crease . no spine creases . just a bit of shelf rub to cover edges . book store stamp on inside front cover . solid , clean . with primitive weapons an army of mutants and outcasts struggles to keep freedom alive . . . . very good + .
while jerusaleme remains silent throughout , the film is anything but . jarman brilliantly uses sound to enlarge the world of caravaggio and bring it to life , even as it provides a shrewd way of keeping the budget in check . to take one example , the small room at porto ercole where caravaggio lies dying is a minimal , but beautifully evocative , set . yet when jarman dubs in the sound of the nearby ocean ( that he recorded on location at the actual village in italy ) , it expands the emotional reach of the physical space . instead of minimalist set at a former - warehouse sound stage , we can hear — and almost smell — the tyrrhenian sea .
the most important aspect of the film to realize was the continuing presence of an evil spirit or fallen angel named azazel . this cursed angel roamed the earth , without form , and could possess susceptible people ' s souls by switching bodies after contact . azazel was an ancient diabolical presence and force that was almost impossible to track - it was eternally condemned to transmigrate from one soul to another .
caravaggio ' s delirious ( re ) vision of his life , as he is about to leave it , recalls nikos kazantzakis ' s well - known 1951 novel ( and martin scorsese ' s 1988 film version ) , the last temptation of christ , although jarman employs no twist ending . more subtly , caravaggio ' s doubts and fears that pervade the entire film — in voice over he whispers ,
thought without image . lost in the pigment . trapped in the formless umber wastes .
— recall jesus ' s anxiety in gethsemane , before his arrest and execution , as described in the gospel of mathew , beginning at 26 : 36 .
fontana , london , 1981 . reprint , softcover . very good condition . 9780006164326 this is the british paperback edition of this novelization of the 1981 film , based on the screenplay written by hal barwood and matthew robbins . printed in australia . the book has the previous owner ' s name at the top of the first page . first softcover edition . size : 12mo ( standard paperback ) . 218 pages . a very clean secondhand copy , with no damage apart from age toning of the page edges . please refer to accompanying picture ( s ) . quantity available : 1 .
the opposite of scipione , in every way , is a pivotal character who nonetheless is often overshadowed : caravaggio ' s mute assistant jerusaleme ( perhaps the finest performance by actor spencer leigh ) . the artist bought him as a child from a hopelessly poor grandmother , who can only look to the heavens for solace , saying ( in one of the film ' s most poignant lines )
the stars are the diamonds of the poor .
caravaggio raises the boy —
i taught you the colors , and how to grind them . . . . the art of priming and glazing with soft squirrel brushes .
— but , even as a strikingly handsome adult , he remains just
a companion in my loneliness .
six hours , you think—wow , that sounds endless . but the best of youth doesn ' t have a boring millisecond . it isn ' t an art film , with longueurs ; it ' s a mini - series with the sweep of a classic novel , with tons of plot . not that giordana ( or the screenwriters , sandro petraglia and stefano rulli ) skim the surface . the scenes are short but penetrating ; the tiniest exchanges can explode into epiphanies ; and the five - year leaps are amazingly fluid . there is a kind of forthright lyricism in the way giordana handles the landscape and the characters ' yearning for connection , meaning , and the high spirits of their youth . it ' s that yearning that holds the episodic narrative together—along with a recurring , plangent musical motif that all but makes the screen shiver .
. . . demonstrating once again the difference between mere reaction to a genre film and actual criticism that brings out things in it we haven ' t seen ourselves . . . .
( patrick murtha ' s diary , 2 / 28 / 10 )
when you consider the basic narrative elements of noir fiction and film — they are all masterfully present , for example , in james m . cain 1936 novel and billy wilder ' s 1944 picture , double indemnity — you ' ll see that they synch up with jarman ' s film : a cynical protagonist who ' s also the self - deludingly omniscient narrator , a labyrinthine plot with escalating twists , frequent flashbacks ( that make time as unstable as space — as does chiaroscuro ) , and an underlying sense of fatalism .
, there is a true story about a flasher who was bound in sailcloth and dumped in lake by the brothers of the girl he flashed at , and he grew into scarf michael . i don ' t think he played a fiddle though .
there are scarf michael terrier dogs that one could believe have taken their name from lore but of the breed wynne - simmons confesses no knowledge .
there was a folk group that briefly took the name from the film ,
adds the director .
this mystical sports film from director phil alden robinson was about an iowa farmer named ray kinsella ( kevin costner ) who felt instructed by various voices to build a baseball field on his farmland in iowa . from the strange and compelling ' voices , ' he heard :
over the course of the film ' s 40 years , italy is depicted as a beautiful but intractably corrupt place , yet the characters continue to work toward changing it . one of the brothers ' pals , carlo ( fabrizio gifuni ) , marries into the family and becomes a banker—but one who works toward an economic system that is transparent instead of cloaked . at the other end of the political spectrum , nicola has a daughter with a beautiful woman named giulia ( sonia bergamasco ) , who drifts into communism , then maoism , and finally goes underground with the violent red brigade . she ' s working to change the system from without— way , way without .
looking at the structure in broad strokes , it begins with caravaggio as a sassy youth ( played by dexter fletcher ) , who charges for everything he sells , whether it ' s his paintings , his body or , for the powerful but soft - spoken patron cardinal del monte , both . the majority of the film centers — in basically linear fashion — on the painter ' s tempestuous relationship with the ruggedly sensual and amoral ranuccio and his ambitious girlfriend lena ( who skyrockets from streetwalker to regal kept woman ) .
the two enjoyed a game of catch between father and son one more time as the sun set .
el verdugo was the eighth feature film written and directed by luis garcía berlanga in collaboration with his longtime associate , rafael azcona . the story pivots upon the fate of a pleasant , if somewhat timid , young undertaker whose dream is to go to germany and become a mechanic . this dream is thwarted when he happens to meet the executioner in a prison where both of them are plying their trade . in spite of the aversion that the young man ( and everyone else ) feels for the executioner , he not only ends up marrying the executioner ' s daughter , but even takes over his father - in - law ' s business .
while jarman cast nigel terry for his talent — and he gives a career - making performance in the title role — he also bears an uncanny resemblance to the historical caravaggio , as he painted himself in several works and as depicted in ottavio leoni ' s 1621 painting , the only documented portrait by another artist . this boded well for the entire production , that on september 2 , 1985 at long , long last began to film .
at only 24 years old , burton apprenticed for walt disney productions working on storyboards , animations , and concept art . his dark , abstract style clashed with disney’s established aesthetic . fortunately , disney’s head of creative development recognized burton’s strong , unique talents and gave him $ 60 , 000 to produce his own film . with the money and two months of production , burton wrote , directed , and designed vincent . upon completion , the film received limited distribution and was rumored to have never existed until it was added as a special feature to the nightmare before christmas in 2008 and added to cinema 16’s american short films .
the film opened with leading members of the faculty of herrington high school in ohio being taken over by murderous aliens . the first to be possessed was menacing hornets football coach joe willis ( robert patrick ) , and then drama teacher mrs . karen olson ( piper laurie ) who used a pair of scissors to murder and also infect briskly efficient principal miss valerie drake ( bebe neuwirth ) .
was the recipient of many in a no less formidable age of quality and innovation . at the brussels fantasy festival it picked up both best film and critics ' prizes , at san remo it added prizes for best first feature and best actress for mary ryan to the cabinets , while in geneva it garnered the ' prix du publique ' . at fantasporto 1984 it took both ' premio especial ' ( special prize ) and the juri da critica ( jury prize ) for ireland , in a year when films in competition from the british isles stood at
jarman was a genius at getting maximum emotional , and thematic , effect from the fewest possible elements . he worked closely with art director michael buchanan , costume designer sandy powell , cinematographer gabriel beristain , and his longtime friend christopher hobbs as the production designer and head of the four - person art department . hobbs also painted the caravaggio canvases seen in the film , although the budget allowed him to create only a few fully realized reproductions , such as
the lute player .
as jarman intended , most of the canvases accurately reflect caravaggio ' s so - called
underpaintings ,
rough sketches that he later painted over to create his finished pictures .
shot in stark black and white , the film’s stop - motion animation is surreal and exaggerated as characters have big round eyes , tiny arms , and abstract faces . slanted walls , abstract shadows , and stylized sets establish malloy’s inner world filled with horror and isolation . barely over six minutes in length , burton’s vincent reveals the inner imagination of a child and relishes in the beauty of horror .
myles the matchmaker is involved because the younger of maura ' s two sisters janey ( bairbre ni chaoimh ) is pregnant and the father is eamonn farrell ( martin o ' flathearta ) , son of conor ( tom jordan ) , and the respective family patriarchs have famously not met one another on anything remotely approaching favourable terms for quite some time . the day of celebrations arrives and musicians in masks made of oat - straw appear and play , but it is not their tune that stops the proceedings momentarily . sailing in on the merriment is a quick and haunting fiddle from outside , the player scarf michael ( mark lally ) , a magical figure tainted by talk of evil association . as the hearth fire tale at the beginning of the film spins it :
he ' s the one plays a fiddle with a bow made of dead men ' s hair .
that search for the modern in the historical — through anachronism — is perhaps the boldest aspect of jarman ' s visual strategy . yet as noted above , it ' s also precisely what caravaggio did with his biblical subjects : there were no 1600 - style doublets or feathered caps at the martyrdom of matthew ( if , indeed , he even died that way : the bible and history are both mute ) . he also employs anachronistic sounds — like offscreen cars honking , a train whistle , a phone ringing — to expand further the limits of the film . as in so much of jarman , there ' s more here than meets the ear or eye .
in light of this , it is good to be able to report that at least one of the festival ' s key figures , werner herzog ( ' ' fitzcarraldo ' ' ) , is still going strong , and that he appears to be a film maker of persistent , enduring imagination .
in caravaggio , jarman brings together life and art in a manner that ' s both comical ( who hasn ' t gotten bored trying to hold a pose ) but revealing . thematically , this reintroduces both the body and the notion of time into paintings that are otherwise , by their nature , frozen . jarman reveals not only the messiness of life behind the pictures — from folly to violence — but , through this film , how they come together . is this the achievement of what haunted his fictional caravaggio : the joining together of flesh and blood , with canvas and paint ?
the narrative ' s flip side — or is it ? , jarman might ask — to the religious layer is , unexpectedly , film noir . admittedly , this is an unorthodox take on caravaggio , but know that jarman discussed noir directly with cinematographer gabriel beristain ( as recounted in the latter ' s video interview on the dvd ) , suggesting that caravaggio ' s chiaroscuro helped invent noir style , with its ( melo ) dramatic , selective lighting and shadowy backgrounds . a classic example of the style can be seen in jacques tourneur ' s noir landmark , out of the past ( 1947 ) . in one shot , that bears a rough compositional similarity to
the martyrdom of saint matthew ,
two benighted characters sit huddled in a car , surrounded by pitch blackness — an impossibly blinding shaft of light ( from the dashboard ! ) illuminates just their faces : it doesn ' t get more chiaroscuro , or film noir , than that .
as caravaggio ' s noir plot elements become unmistakable — during the scene in which jarman recreates
death of the virgin
— he uses , for the first time , a staple of noir lighting , the slatted pattern cast by venetian blinds ( previously , jarman and his designers had gone to great pains to use only authentic period oil skin - covered windows ) . and this film ' s end credits are an homage to perhaps the greatest noir , robert aldrich ' s kiss me deadly ( 1955 ) , whose world is so horrifically out of balance that even the credits run backwards .
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but jarman goes even further — psychologically and thematically — in one of his film ' s most ambiguous moments . during caravaggio ' s obsessive painting of ranuccio , now as the youthful
john the baptist
, he enters his darkened studio to see a muscular body , draped in the the baptist ' s red cloak ; but when the model rises , it ' s not ranuccio — it ' s jerusaleme holding the suggestive cane . this moment not only doubles — or taking caravaggio ' s original into account , triples — the intertwining of life and art , it becomes a pivotal moment in the master / servant relationship . jerusaleme , at last , all but throws himself at the painter — only to be gently rebuffed . caravaggio will continue his self - frustrating quest to find
pure spirit in matter
to the end .
mr . skolimowski ' s ' ' moonlighting ' ' is a tight , tense , narrow film , one that is brilliantly confined . just as ' ' deep end ' ' took place mostly at a london bath house , ' ' moonlighting ' ' is limited almost entirely to a town house and a few shops nearby . its characters , four polish workers , have come furtively to london to renovate the building , hired by a polish boss who hopes to emigrate some day . only one of them , the foreman ( jeremy irons ) , speaks english . and it is his harrowing experience , as an absolute alien in a dangerous , unpredictable environment , on which the film concentrates . he is someone on whom the roof , quite literally , falls in .
you know , in my world , casey , there were limitless oceans as far as the eye could see . a beautiful home until it started to dry up . so i escaped , came here , and met you . all of you . all of you were different from the others . you were lost and lonely , just like me . and i thought that maybe , i could give you a taste of my world : a world without anger , without fear , without attitude . where the underachiever goes home at night to parents who care . the jock can be smart , the ugly duckling beautiful , and the class wuss doesn ' t have to live in terror . and the new girl - - well , the new girl , she can just fit right in with people who are just like her . you see , casey , even marybeth ' s feelings can be hurt by a bunch of pathetic , lost , little outcasts who truly believe that their disaffected lonely life is the only way they can survive . i can make you a part of something so special , casey , so perfect , so fearless . don ' t you want that , casey ?
- - seeing those particular films back - to - back , one after the other , on the big screen .
have emerged as two of the most beloved ( and forward - looking… ) films of the age of reagan . they ' ve defined the direction of their respective genres too .
' ' the tyrant ' s heart , ' ' on the other hand , caused many walkouts , even among the press audience , a notoriously patient crowd . festival press audiences will sit through almost anything without complaint , and it ' s not uncommon to hear rousing applause at the end of a film that deserves none . but ' ' the tyrant ' s heart , ' ' mr . jancso ' s hungarian rennaissance fantasy replete with masks , wind machines , conveyor belts and mime , was more - or less - than even these viewers could bear .
eric rohmer and paul mazursky both have new films , but neither is a festival selection . bernardo bertolucci has been missing since ' ' luna , ' ' and robert altman is another once - frequent contributor who hasn ' t had a festival film in a while .
we come full circle at the end , with a revealing flashback to caravaggio as a boy ( in an angel costume ) , together with his beloved pasqualone , that suggests that he may have found his artistic calling through a fascination with jesus ' s passion . jarman then brilliantly cuts through the next two decades of the artist ' s life to show his monumental version of
the deposition of christ
— in which he ' s paints himself as jesus . as that scene suggests , the film draws parallels , some obvious and some subtle , between the painter and jesus — although jarman directly recreates only that one of caravaggio ' s several paintings with jesus . with
doubting thomas ,
mentioned above , jarman only suggests jesus by the costume and composition ; but you ' ll notice that caravaggio ' s knife wound is in the same spot , on his ribs , as in the painting — like the one jesus on the cross received from a guard ' s spear ( as depicted in countless paintings over the centuries , including many that show the blood pouring into the holy grail ) .
the scene climaxes when caravaggio makes ranuccio take a coin from his lips , then they kiss . ranuccio has been hoarding his day ' s wages entirely inside his bulging mouth . ( jarman later parallels this scene with one in which ranuccio and lena , lying in a hammock at a 180 degree angle to each other , cascade each other with the florins he ' s earned — but lena herself will soon be in the money ; and note that this ' head to toe ' configuration parallels jerusaleme ' s position on the floor in relation to the dying caravaggio , whom he ' s watching over : the more closely you look at this film , the more there is to see . )
[ beware of spoilers ] to put the matter bluntly , the triangle ( 2016 ) may just be the picnic at hanging rock ( 1975 ) of found - footag . . .
as for the most enthusiastic audience reaction thus far , it has either been the wildly enthusiastic response to ' ' say amen , somebody , ' ' george t . nierenberg ' s documentary about gospel music , or the cheers that greeted the press screening of ' ' koyaanisqatsi , ' ' godfrey reggio ' s psychedelic compilation of images , with a philip glass score . why ? well , because mr . reggio ' s film is genuinely effective , and because it ' s a good deal less pretentious than any description would make it sound . ' ' koyaanisqatsi ' ' did have an unfair advantage over other festival films , though : it was screened in radio city music hall , a place that is certain to put any film audience in a better - than - average frame of mind .
at 3 : 33 pm ( all clocks remain fixed at 3 : 33 pm during the next segment of the film ) while she took a soothing soak in an overflowing bathtub , she fell asleep - - and the dream commenced . laure was awakened when a distraught lily returned and committed suicide with a gun , near a flooding aquarium ( hint ! ) . to
start a new life
and escape pursuit , laure appropriated lily ' s identity and flew to the us - conveniently meeting businessman mr . watts ( peter coyote ) on the plane and subsequently marrying him .
the workers are in london when martial law is suddenly instituted in poland , but the political crisis is only a part of their nightmare . mr . skolimowski makes everything sinister ; the news bulletins about poland , the suspenseful score , even the sight of a cat crossing the street . these details are rigidly controlled by mr . skolimowski , and they are manipulated masterly .
in the satisfying epilogue , marge and her loving husband norm ( john carroll lynch ) were watching tv in bed . she congratulated him on being the winner of the usps oil painting competition ( of a mallard duck ) for the 3 - cent stamp , a necessity when the postal rate was to be increased .
the foreign chopper pilot and his cohort seem to be relentlessly ( and madly . . . ) pursuing a dog , a malamute . the pilot attempts to kill the canine , but in the ensuing scuffle the helicopter is destroyed and an armed norwegian is shot dead by outpost 31’s macho commander , garry ( moffat ) .


lost years : a people 's struggle for justice ( chinese : 失去的岁月 ) is a 2011 documentary directed by kenda gee and tom radford .

the film premiered on december 5 , 2011 at the guangzhou international documentary film festival , where it won the best documentary award for history and culture .

the film has also been shown as a two-part , national television mini-series for the canadian broadcasting corporation .

a premiere of extended episodes aired on ctv two alberta , june 8 and 15 , 2013 , with repeat broadcasts scheduled for november 16 & 23 , 2013 .

of the film , radford stated that they were " originally inspired by the tale of larry kwong of vernon " .

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‘you volunteer for years and years , and then other people get the job . ’ ( barberton )
edmonton filmmaker kenda gee , accompanied by his father , traced his family ' s history back to china . he recorded his journey in the two - part documentary series lost years : a people ' s struggle for justice ( codirected by tom radford ) .
“the struggle larry had to be a hockey player was a struggle people had in other parts of life all cross the country , ” said filmmaker tom radford .
illustrating the struggle of family life for aborigines in western australia in the 1930 ' s .
i attended the film screening of the lost years : a people’s struggle for justice by edmonton - based filmmaker kenda gee and tom radford at the library and archives . the screening was hosted by the ottawa chinese community service centre and cbc ottawa and was incredibly well attended .
directed by kenda gee and tom radford , lost years : a people’s struggle for justice is a political and historical documentary about chinese immigrants in north america and oceania , featuring an immensely beautiful orchestral score by canadian composer darren fung , who employed the forces of the china national symphony orchestra for the recording of the music .
lost years , named winner best feature documentary - asians on film festival 2013 , los angeles , feb 15 - 17 .
‘the people who lost their farms a long time ago , they are still fighting for those farms ; they are still in the hands of the people that stole them . ’ ( makana )
for years before his 1991 retirement , supreme court justice thurgood marshall slipped away from deliberations each day to watch days of our lives . the show wasn’t just a guilty pleasure ; it helped shape the justice’s understanding of the world . as marshall once told justice william brennan , soaps teach viewers valuable lessons about life .
from a filmmaker’s perspective , i have to congratulate the producer and director , kenda gee , for the emotive composition , great archival sources , and overall reverent tone of lost years . but from a personal perspective , i must also say a warm thank you to gee , for providing me some insight to my own literal “lost years” of my family history .
she ' s lost over 50 pounds in the past year . and melissa mccarthy showed off her newly svelte figure in a fetching outfit at the people ' s choice awards .
in 2011 , gim starred in lost years , a documentary project that touches upon 150 years of the chinese diaspora , becoming the first miniseries of its kind to be broadcast by a national network in canada .
nyc . lost years also receives a 3rd award , for film achievement & social advocacy , at an award ceremony co - sponsored by iffm nyc and the mt . hope project . lost years is a 2011 documentary directed by kenda gee and tom radford . gee and radford began work on the film in late 1999 , taking twelve years to fully research the movie .
a calgary resident since 1972 , kwong was honoured in 2008 by the flames during a game in the saddledome and by the junior vernon vipers of the b . c . hockey league . the b . c . hockey hall of fame created a special award for kwong in 2010 , and he was added to the okanagan sports hall of fame in the athlete category in 2011 , the same year he received feature treatment in a 2011 cbc documentary lost years : a people’s struggle for justice .
for her series of six radio documentaries in which aboriginal people explain how they are communicating their people ' s history within their own communities .
documentary of a moving account of the struggle of black station workers in western australia and the 1946 - 50 strike for better conditions .
he championed the use of dna science in the criminal justice system for a number of years ,
said superior court judge christopher plourd , a former defense attorney .
he was a major force behind getting it accepted and used - both for protecting people who were innocent , and convicting people who were guilty .
the 3rd council also saw the question of armed struggle hotly debated , with some , led by keith mokoape , pushing for saso to join the military struggle . they were told to ‘search for other grazing lands’ as saso was determined to remain an above - ground organisation .
at the request of the chief justice . he exerted a strong influence on the criminal justice system in his many years of service . he died at the age of 96 in may 1995 . “he was a dignified , elegant man until his last breath . ” (
‘bee means there are people treated with favor , and people who are left behind . ’ ( pretoria )
frankie fights a lifelong struggle to find an understanding of the creator of the universe , not the poisoned caricature painted by the church and the “holy” people who seem to torment him .
the filmmakers say the purpose of lost years is to shine a light on the chinese immigrant experience , starting from mainland china to the impacts of discrimination faced by chinese - canadians .
in many ways , lost years delved directly into the part of my own family heritage that i’d given up trying to access . i’d never been able to have the conversations around my own family’s migration , despite having my great - grandfather arrive in canada over a hundred years ago . i’d lost the language on the way , and the ability to communicate and understand their struggles .
former olympic snowboarder , and new sheriff , cole erickson knows the struggle all too well . he grew up in the town , fought for it during the pandemic , and lost too many people in the process . he holds a secret that could blow the lid off the government’s well placed lies , he just needs the perfect time to revel it .
ellen degeneres treated people ' s choice award 2016 attendees to a picture ' gift ' of a shirtless chris hemsworth .
nominations for the 2016 people ' s choice awards were announced at the press conference in beverly hills on tuesday morning .
love island set to run for another five years . . . after the show breaks itv2 viewing records for third time this series
the criminal justice memorial honors judges , prosecutors , and defense attorneys who have significantly contributed to criminal justice in san diego county . chief justice of the california supreme court , ronald m . george dedicated a plaque of remembrance , which stands at the criminal courts building , to the honorees in a ceremony on october 31 , 2008 .
‘what makes me happy is that we don’t have black people and white people , but we are a rainbow nation . ’ ( whittlesea )
she has been married to the lead vocalist of the first heavy metal band for over 30 years .
retirement did not conclude judge abernethy’s participation and service to the san diego community . he continued to serve for many years throughout the state as a judge
it ' s a hat trick for mcqueen ! kate repeats the look she chose for george and charlotte ' s christenings in . . .
scout and boo’s relationship is unequal . boo’s feelings of friendship for scout are disproportionate to her feelings of revulsion for him .
“the chinese - canadian experience has been lost to our history so it’s winning it back . this film fills in a whole lot of gaps , ” radford said .
the 60 - year - old accepted the people ' s choice award for favorite dramatic actor in a movie on wednesday night in los angeles .
she ' s a fan too ! amber rose poses with her unlikely pal dr . phil at urltoken party after the people ' s choice awards
from the fields of mainland china to the hustle and bustle of hong kong to right here in the okanagan , the documentary lost years tells the story of the chinese immigrant experience around the world .
a 14 - member criminal justice memorial committee , spearheaded by judge william enright and peter hughes , worked together to select the honorees via a peer review process . the san diego criminal justice memorial committee modeled the plaque after a similar memorial created in los angeles approximately two and a half years ago . san diego is the second city in california to create such a memorial . click here for a pdf of the book
footprints of justice
which has biographies of 19th and early 20th century legal pioneers in san diego . click on a name below to read a detailed biography .
not only are there details about the chinese head tax and the struggle for redress in canada , but the film also illuminates how chinese australians are requesting an apology from the government for discriminatory immigration policies .
“exceptional around the net , exceptional , ” george dobie , a hydrophones teammate told soon a few years ago .
the star had nothing but praise for her ex wiz khalifa , as she called him a ' really good dad ' at the urltoken ' s people ' s choice awards afterparty .
‘rdp houses … after four years they are gone . houses built in the apartheid days , 50 years ago , are still standing . ’ ( executive )
jane lynch announces people ' s choice award nominations . . . as cara delevingne , kylie jenner and ruby rose prepare to compete for urltoken ' s seriously popular prize
vin diesel sings see you again ( again ) for the late paul walker . . . after scoring two people ' s choice awards
‘they are lying to us if they say we are all equal in the eyes of the law . … xhosa people look out for xhosa people ; jobs are always given to their own people . … and there is no sepedi representative for us . ’ ( viking )
she won big in 2011 with a gong for favorite tv comedy actress . and now jane lynch is hosting the people ' s choice awards in 2016 .
awarded to a member of the san diego county bar association who has been practicing law for less than seven ( 7 ) years .
‘they [ government ] are not doing their jobs , liberating us from this economic struggle we are in at the moment . ’ ( bloemfontein )
an el niño - fueled storm didn ' t stopped hollywood ' s a - list from making a splash the 2016 people ' s choice awards in los angeles on wednesday .
i saw him on the
lost years
documentary and though i do not know him personally , i wish i did . he has guts and resolve . he was a man of action and not only words . my loss but the world ' s gain .
ciara and husband russell wilson dance as they head to south africa for their honeymoon . . . two years after wedding
last year , an award - winning canadian documentary dubbed lost years also chronicled the last 150 years of chinese diaspora . it told the family history of kenda gee , a chinese - canadian man who retraced the steps of his great - grandfather — who sailed for canada in 1921 only to face racism , a head tax for which canada only recently apologized , and exclusionary laws that prohibited chinese family reunification .
but that ' s not all . along the way , he chronicles 150 years of the history of the chinese diaspora in canada , the u . s . , australia , and new zealand , based on 12 years of research .
rachel likes to think she’s inquisitive . her husband brian says she’s a snoop . they’ve been married for 15 years , they work together in their home , and she’s approaching the dreaded 40 th birthday . this humdrum combination has made their marriage a bit stale .
addie wyatt was also a leader in the struggle for the equal rights amendment . eleanor roosevelt appointed her to the united states commission on the status of women in the early 1960s and in 1966 , she was a founding member of the national organization for women .
i highly recommend watching the lost years along with another great documentary about the early chinese canadian experience in the shadow of gold mountain by karen cho which is available online here at the national film board of canada website .
tom was also active in the aclu for many years and an award named for him goes to a high school newspaper that has shown dedication to the cause of civil liberties .
the stars were out in force on wednesday for the 43rd people ' s choice awards - celebrating fan favourites in movies , music and tv .
the 26 - year - old actress blamed a big hug on her near wardrobe malfunction at the people ' s choice awards .
the people ' s choice awards may be a fan voted show , but unfortunately they can ' t choose the outfits for some of the stars walking the carpet .
longfellow wrote that
when a great man dies , for years the light he leaves behind him , lies on the paths of men .
tom ' s sunshine lighted numerous paths and many now lead a better life for it .
‘things are getting better . people are rushing for change , but change will take time . ’ ( pilot )
the indian actress , who is still recovering from a concussion she suffered a week ago in an on set accident , arrived at lax a few hours before wednesday ' s people ' s choice awards telecast .
gregg wallace , 53 , is ' desperate ' for a baby with fourth wife anne - marie sterpini , 32 . . . as he reveals they ' ve been trying for two years
he was a legend of the criminal justice system both as a skilled prosecutor and as an extremely able defender of the accused . his career is a rich and revered part of our heritage .
camilla kerslake and chris robshaw tie the knot during romantic ceremony in france . . . after keeping their engagement secret for two years
when forced to retire from trial practice because of parkinson’s disease , tom remained active first as a mediator and arbitrator and later as a social activist and philanthropist . tom died on august 23 , 2010 after courageously battling parkinson’s disease for 14 years .
here ' s how canada ' s new tariffs on u . s . imports could impact your weekly shopping bill
he was also active in the san diego county bar association , where he served as chair of the criminal law subcommittee of the legislative committee and as a member of the youth and law , and criminal justice committees . for several years , he taught criminal law and criminal procedure .
hot mesh ! christina milian dazzles in a flirty netted red dress at people ' s choice awards nominations announcement . . . as her show grandfathered gets a nod
zoolander no . 2 ' s nominations include a worst actor mention for ben stiller , worst supporting actress for kristen wiig , worst supporting actor for will ferrell and owen wilson and worst screen combo for stiller and wilson .
the 1987 human rights medal was presented to ms rose colless oam , for her outstanding work for the aboriginal and torres strait islander people in far north queensland .
although he eventually lost his valiant battle against brain cancer , his friends were inspired by his unselfish demeanor during his long illness . ( id . )
after the war , he found steady work as one of the city ' s most skilled auto welders before going into business for himself . gim ' s auto body , with its wry slogan
wreck - o - mended ,
was a vancouver institution for years .
the 40 - year - old wowed in a brightly patterned strapless dress for the people ' s choice awards on wednesday . the actress choice a red and orange frock that showed off her small waist .
liberman’s assertion sounds crazy—at least until you remember there’s a milhouse quote for every occasion . even the hulking gatekeeper of the language , the oxford english dictionary , has found a spot for homer simpson’s trademark “d’oh ! ” mmmm … linguistic acceptance .
batman v superman : dawn of justice is among the top nominees for the 37th annual golden raspberry awards , aka the razzies , which spotlight the worst in film every year .
judge duffy was a tireless worker and an innovator . he had a complete honesty and good - heartedness about him which complimented his dedication to an efficient and fair system of justice .
the 47 - year - old actress won her first people ' s choice award on wednesday during a live telecast on cbs from los angeles .
natalie dormer , 33 , put on a glamorous display at the people ' s choice awards at the microsoft theater in los angeles on wednesday .
the modern family star made a glamorous appearance at the official people ' s choice afterparty , hosted by dailymail . com , on wednesday night .
one of his greatest contributions to criminal justice was the case of people v . romero , a case that would make a monumental change in california law . a small time thief and drug addict , jesus romero , pled guilty to possession of . 13 grams of cocaine base . romero’s prior convictions did not involve violence , but did include a residential burglary and an attempted residential burglary , both of which qualified as strike priors under the three strike law which had been recently enacted by legislation and by initiative . the minimum sentence for a defendant with two strike priors was a mandatory 25 years - to - life . over the objection of the district attorney , judge mudd struck the two strike priors in the interest of justice and sentenced romero to six years in state prison . the da appealed . in people v . superior court ( romero ) ( 1996 ) 13 cal . 4th 497 , a unanimous california supreme court affirmed judge mudd’s decision , ruling that the trial court has the authority to dismiss strike priors in the interest of justice , subject to appellate review for abuse of discretion .
ted was a member of the san diego criminal defense lawyer ' s club and california attorney ' s for criminal justice . he died in a car accident on september 11 , 1996 at age 72 . his obituary stated , quite accurately , he put his life on the line to defend the unpopular .
the 31 - year - old actress made an acceptance speech for her hit cbs sitcom the big bang theory which picked up a people ' s choice award at the ceremony on wednesday .
renee bargh left heads turning on wednesday as she attended the 2016 people’s choice awards in los angeles in turquoise lace gown .
2 . it was steven spielberg’s secretary who discovered richard matheson ' s story .
this is wonderful . i hope it ' s accurate and well done because , sadly , movies are almost completely replacing books as most people ' s history reference .
the accused were all sentenced to terms ranging from five to six years on robben island – it is possible that they would have received harsher sentences were it not for steve’s testimony .
‘the black people don’t like us ; they don’t understand us . ’’ ( dysselsdorp )
donna says she was never bothered by her father ' s outspokenness .
some people didn ' t get him . he said things , and he didn ' t really care what people thought . he was a real character .
descriptive video is a service that makes television programs accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired . it provides narrative descriptions of a program ' s key visual elements so that people who are visually impaired are able to form a mental picture of what is occurring on the screen .
the 40 - year - old was in los angeles on wednesday . the country singer won the people ' s choice awards for favourite album and favourite male country artist .
chinese men´s national team continued its preparations for next year´s asian cup , as they managed a one - all draw against visitors jordan during a football friendly in harbin , the capital city of northeast china´s heilongjiang province .
priyanka chopra was certainly dressed to impress when she arrived at the 2016 people ' s choice awards in los angeles on wednesday .
' it ' s incredible ! ' : maddie ziegler celebrates seriously popular award win with dance moms ' abby lee miller at urltoken people ' s choice party . . . as she reveals plans for film with sia
mzingaye died suddenly in 1950 , when steve was four years old . his mother subsequently raised the children on her own , working as a cook at grey’s hospital .
what prompted colbert’s sudden compassion for a sport he’d often lampooned ? he identified with the team’s ambitious dreams and dwindling bank account . as colbert told the new york times , “believe me , i spent 20 years racking up huge debts pursuing comedy . ”
the people ' s choice awards was rocked by an apparent security breach when zacari nicasio , 20 , ambushed the stage during the talk panel ' s thank you speech .
other nominees include dinesh d ' souza ( as himself ) for worst actor for the documentary hillary ' s america : the secret history of the democratic party and tyler perry for worst actress ( a category he won in 2014 ) for boo ! a medea halloween .
' blondes have more fun . . . i ' m having a blast ! ' sarah hyland shows off her lighter locks at people ' s choice awards
scout has a basic and fundamental sense of justice . this creates problems for her when she is confronted with what she feels is an unfair situation , ranging from calpurnia scolding her to the racist attitudes of the townspeople .
the outpouring of emotion from people from all walks of life will not be without reason .
10 . spielberg has revisited duel more than once—and people have stolen from him , too .
sandra bullock gives a shout out to working moms and thanks the world in speech suggested by her kids . . . as she ' s voted favorite movie actress at people ' s choice awards in la
deng xiaoping was a chinese communist leader and the most powerful figure in the people ' s republic of china from the late 1970s until his death in 1997 .
after law school he worked for california rural legal assistance in modesto , representing farm laborers and other low income clients . he returned to san diego to work for defenders inc . , providing defense for the indigent , before joining fellow criminal justice roll of honor honoree tom adler in private practice .
the score mirrors the epic proportions of the narrative , spanning over 150 years , and is a mix of traditional western orchestral writing and chinese folk music , featuring instruments such as the erhu and pipa . the score was nominated for a canadian screen award for ‘best original music for a non - fiction program or series’ .
‘these kids can get drugs like weed at school . ’ ‘the crime rate is increasing , because our children are passing [ school ] , but struggle to get jobs . ’ ( whittlesea )
she may be only 13 years old but maddie ziegler has already been crowned as the most popular celebrity .
canadian studies center , henry m . jackson school of international studies & american ethnic studies ( aes ) , university of washington present a special pre - screening panel with lost years co - producer / director kenda gee , dr . connie so , senior lecturer , aes & doug chin , organization of chinese americans
it appears luke hemsworth was attempting to put his own twist on style as he took to the stage at the people ' s choice awards sporting a leather jacket with a shirt and tie .
the court demands its witnesses to give their honest recollection of what happened on november 21 between tom robinson and mayella ewell in order that justice might be served .
at the time , the people & apos ; s republic of china considered the dalai lama to be a symbol of an obsolete religious movement , not in line with communist philosophy . more recently , the chinese government alleges that he is a separatist and a traitor for advocating tibetan self - rule , and a terrorist for inciting tibetan rebellion .
take a pair of mc hammer ' s pants , add a silver corset and top off with some whipped cream on the chest , and you ' ve got an idea . kristen bell stood out on the people ' s choice red carpet
chris hemsworth kicks off filming for the star - studded men in black spin - off as he cuts a sharp figure in london . . . 21 years after the first film hit screens
‘i see the somalis ruling this country in ten years’ time ; they come in droves . ’ ( barberton )
the 32 - year - old put her dance - honed legs on display on wednesday at the people ' s choice awards in los angeles .
five become pwoar ! fifth harmony whip up the crowd at people ' s choice awards in very racy dominatrix gear . . . as they make stage debut as a quartet
judge gilliam received the wiley a . branton award from the national bar association in 1997 . in 1998 he received the judicial pioneer award from the california association of black lawyers . he was also inducted into the national bar association hall of fame which honors lawyers who have been licensed to practice for forty years or more and have made a significant contribution to the cause of justice .
many thanks for keeping your readers informed and up to date . lost years is a multiple recipient of over 12 international awards and nominations and there are still a number of screenings planned in the future . the release of the home use ( personal ) dvd - sd is scheduled for december in a couple of days , so we encourage everybody to check our website ( www . urltoken ) and facebook . and if they wish , we have an email list for future announcements at dvd @ urltoken [ no spaces ] .
when i said that he was intentionally baiting a person of color with a word that has racial overtones , he acknowledged , “i’m calling her a half - savage because i know it’s going to offend the crap out of her , because she’s going to run around screaming , ‘racist ! racist ! ’ for the next 10 years . ”
ms rose colless , an aboriginal women was born in 1928 and left school in grade 7 . active in housing and other activities to support her people , ms colless has worked intensively for over fifteen years in drug and alcohol rehabilitation for aborigines and torres strait islanders . for over eleven years she has been the manager of the aborigines and islander alcohol relief service limited in cairns . she has also worked for the department of social security , the aboriginal and torres strait islander legal service and the queensland department of aboriginal advancement .
herb lim , like mr . wong a second world war veteran , was a close friend for more than 50 years . he remembers him as
a bit of a wild guy
who fought against anything he thought was wrong .
he was outspoken . he didn ' t get along with too many people .
yet hundreds of mourners packed mr . wong ' s memorial service , a tribute to his achievements and community presence .
it still took a toll . donna believes her father ' s health was never the same . but mr . wong didn ' t give up his quest to ensure the hard old days endured by early chinese - canadians were not forgotten . he had a starring role in kenda gee ' s prize - winning documentary lost years .
there will not be another gim wong ,
mr . gee wrote after his death . he was
one of a kind .
sia ' s protege maddie ziegler revealed plans for hollywood stardom . the 13 - year - old spoke exclusively about sia ' s upcoming movie as she celebrated her win at the people ' s choice awards afterparty held at club nokia in los angeles , on wednesday night . . . . read
mr . tan still laughs heartily at the memory . he told the woman :
look , i ' ve been working with this guy for 20 years . he ' s never been on bloody message .
in later years tom worked tirelessly to recover family assets stolen by the nazis . his investigation culminated in writing the book “lost to the world” , which was about how he successfully recovered a manuscript of a symphony given as a gift by gustav mahler to his grandfather guido adler the founder of the science of musicology . the proceeds from the sale of the manuscript were donated to charity .
blue for a boy ! george and charlotte both wear the shade for their little brother louis ' christening as the . . .
khloe kardashian shows off neon sign in true ' s nursery . . . as new mother reveals it ' s momager kris jenner ' s handwriting
jada pinkett smith cosies up to ' personal favourite ' johnny depp backstage at the people ' s choice . . . after presenting his movie icon award
nick knowles , 55 , finally makes peace with ex - wife jessica rose - moor , 30 . . . as he reveals he ' s ' pleased ' she ' s found love again two years after split
hah shee yee did not arrive until 1921 , a mere two years before canada passed the exclusion act that barred all further immigration from china .
steve began a relationship with paula ensor , who fully supported the creation of saso . writing about biko and saso years later , she said :
‘ambulances are available , but the people who drive them don’t respond fast enough . ’ ( jozini )
the duke and duchess of cambridge will serve slices of their wedding fruit cake from seven years ago to . . .
ed miller was appointed as the u . s . attorney for the southern district of california by president johnson in 1966 . he left that office after the election of president nixon and entered private practice . in 1970 ed was elected as the district attorney for san diego county , an office he held for 24 years .
winners
will be announced at a ceremony set for feb . 25 .
piers morgan : london ' s mayor should spend more time getting his city ' s murder rate below new york ' s and less . . .
best friends taylor swift and selena gomez lead the nominees at 2016 people ' s choice awards . . . and prepare to go head - to - head
mayella prepared for the prospect of an assignation with tom by saving her nickels for a year with the plan of sending her siblings out of the house for ice cream once he’d arrived .
in 1989 , the dalai lama was awarded the nobel peace prize for his nonviolent efforts for the liberation of tibet and his concern for global environmental problems . the committee & apos ; s citation stated ,
the committee wants to emphasize the fact that the dalai lama in his struggle for the liberation of tibet consistently has opposed the use of violence . he has instead advocated peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people .
in recent years , a number of western universities and institutions have conferred peace awards and honorary doctorate degrees upon the dalai lama in recognition of his distinguished writings in buddhist philosophy , as well as his outstanding leadership in the service of freedom and peace .
but it’s not just about making sure fellow canadians understand the history of chinese people in canada , she said . the 150th anniversary is also an opportunity to promote integration and build bridges within canada’s asian communities .
‘government must investigate what the situation is that led people to do crime ; find out how many people are experiencing this . ’ ‘if people sit at home doing nothing , they stop caring and do crime . this is the situation that must be investigated . ’ ‘people don’t always have the knowledge on how to make their lives better . ’ ‘these days we don’t trust one another anymore , so we don’t do ubuntu and you can’t go to your neighbor for help anymore . ’
he returned to san diego in december of 1945 and opened up his own law practice . he was elected president of the san diego bar association three years later , in 1948 . after 20 years in private practice , he was appointed to the superior court by then governor ( future president ) ronald reagan in 1968 . two years later , in 1970 , president richard m . nixon appointed him to the u . s . district court for the southern district of california .
but over the last few years , the story of the now 90 - year - old chinese - canadian out of vernon , who broke the national hockey league’s colour barrier in 1948 with his one and only shift for the rangers 10 years before celebrated black player willie o’ree took to the ice with the boston bruins , has belatedly found an audience .
damien has trained his whole life to protect the woman he would one day protect from the forces bound to destroy her family line . for years he has dreamed of a past life lived by his ancestors hundreds of years ago . the very woman who haunted his dreams at nigh is standing before him , and he knows that she is the one that he has been waiting for .
the justice system and its participants are mutually self - defining : where there are no lawyers , there are no laws , and where there are no laws , there are no lawyers . it is altogether fitting we recognize those whose lives and service helped fulfill the constitution ' s noble promises of “due process” and
equal justice under the law . ' ' while we live , so will they be remembered .
the fact that scout is a child in an adult world makes it virtually impossible for her thoughts on what is fair and equitable to carry any weight with the people who could effect change .
for bellet , the sad puppies aren’t abstractions—they’re people she actually knows . she thinks correia is a “great guy” and loves his seven - book monster hunter series . and she once considered torgersen an ally . they met in a workshop . “we came up as baby writers together . we were friends—and i’m using the past tense , ” she said , wiping away tears . “he’s hurt a lot of people . ”
the 34 - year - old turned heads in a red mesh halter - neck dress with a white underlay as she arrived at the paley center for media in beverly hills for a press conference .
jem’s response to the “guilty” verdict is to cry ; in response to the news of bob ewell’s death , “for once in his life , atticus’s instinctive courtesy failed him : he sat where he was” ( lee , p . 294 ) ; scout’s reaction to seeing the man she has feared for so many years is to “run instinctively to the bed where jem was sleeping…” ( lee , 1960 , p . 298 ) ; and so forth .
on wednesday the cuoco received a rude shock when it turned out that the glamorous mini - dress she donned to the people ' s choice awards had already been worn before by another celebrity .
a beat , and then he added : “i don’t consider all black people to be half - savages . i mean , some people are . here in europe , for example , we have actual proper africans , not african - americans . this leads to problems , like people shitting on top of the closed toilets . they don’t know how to use indoor plumbing , okay ? this is not civilized behavior . ”
lost years is an epic documentary touching upon 150 years of the chinese diaspora in canada , usa , new zealand and australia , covering four generations of racism as revealed through the journey and family story of kenda gee . kenda , a chinese canadian , travels with his father to china to retrace the steps of his great - grandfather , exactly a century ago , and grandfather , who sailed to canada in the summer of 1921 . for thousands of chinese immigrants that year , it was a journey of hope that turned into a nightmare when they were confronted with racism and the head tax , depriving them of their rights as citizens .
i ' m not sure people knew that , but my father had a sensitive side ,
donna says .
he kept saying , ' i have to do it for charlie . it ' s the right thing to do . '
boo radley appears to the townspeople to be : . . . a malevolent phantom . people said he existed but jem and i had never seen him . people said he went out at night when the moon was high , and peeped in windows . when people’s azaleas froze in a cold snap , it was because he had breathed on them . any stealthy crimes committed in maycomb were his work . ( lee , 1960 , p . 9 )
with so much at stake , more people than ever forked over membership dues ( at least $ 40 ) in time to be allowed to vote for the 2015 hugos . before voting closed on july 31 , 5 , 950 people cast ballots ( a whopping 65 percent more than had ever voted before ) .
during his time at ge , he decided to become a lawyer and enrolled at santa clara university law school where he graduated summa cum laude in 1973 . during law school , he clerked for california supreme court justice stanley mosk who wrote and spoke very favorably of his work and future as a lawyer .
boo’s intervention of bob ewell’s attempt to murder the finch children ensures scout’s future , giving rise to the dramatic growth in their relationship - boo need not make any more attempts in the future to win scout’s friendship , and scout’s acceptance of boo paves the way to her future as a compassionate woman .
boo’s desire to befriend the finch children arises from his being shut away in his home for so many years . if he only had the wherewithal to cross the street and say “hey” he would have no problem , and therefore would potentially not serve as a person scout would be prejudiced against , thus eliminating a way for scout to recognize her own biases .
‘our education system is a disgrace and for it to happen under our watch , and for us to literally destroy a generation of kids … is an indictment worse than the years of apartheid . ’ ‘just because we can go to school it doesn’t mean you are getting quality education . ’ ( executive )
motivated by the gold rush and internal up evils , thousands of chinese went to north america to help local construction one century and half ago . but they suffered from racial discrimination such as the anti - chinese exclusion act . only when the second world war broke out had the racial act been abolished . but not until recent years had politicians in these countries apologized formally to the chinese communities and delivered compensations for individuals . this is a journey looking for justice .
it’s a novel filled with disaster and possibility that changes the course of world history .
jake is starting school and finding it quite difficult to adapt . he soon finds a friend and gets the help he needs . this is a gentle introduction to autism / aspergers for children and has a friendly guide for adults with signs and symptoms to look out for as well as helpful websites . jeanette purkis a campaigner for autism in australia has endorsed the book with a foreword .
steve was close to sonwabo yengo , who lived in zaula street , where they would have gumbas ( parties ) . the group loved singing , and steve in particular loved the song by donny hathaway , to be young , gifted and black , but they also sang struggle songs and choral classics . his favourite freedom struggle song , according to xolela mangcu , contained the lyrics : ‘we are leaders of africa . rise up , leaders , and let us move forward . ’
adam ' s secret messages to rosie revealed : islander forced to share texts to old flame . . as he reveals he ' s already met zara ' s parents
rebecca “becky” anderson and a team of western north carolinians created handmade in america . she was founding director of the organization , which established a craft - focused economy for 25 counties in the state . it became a cultural heritage model for national heritage areas , and a model for 16 state programs .
to say the face of canada has changed over the last 50 years , let alone the last 150 , is perhaps an understatement .
“steve was expelled for absolutely no reason at all . but in retrospect i welcome the south african government’s gesture of exposing a really good politician . i had unsuccessfully tried to get steve interested in politics . the police were able to do in one day what had eluded me for years . this time the great giant was awakened . ”
‘i walked with my uncle in town , he still has that anger in him for apartheid . … it’s like something that is going to be with them forever . the older people still live that anger . ’ ( dispatch )
in the interest of justice , witnesses are called to testify to provide an insight into what happened between tom and mayella . bob ewell’s version of the events that occurred is clearly a lie , and as a consequence he is not able to put the bad reputation he has had in the past with the townspeople behind him , “ . . . he knows in his heart that very few people in maycomb really believe his and mayella’s yarns . he thought he’d be a hero but all he got for his pains was…was , okay , we’ll convict this negro but get back to your dump . ” ( lee , 1960 , pp . 275 - 276 ) ; rather than wait for his case to be put before the court of appeals , tom robinson , believing the past will not change attempts to escape prison and is shot down , “‘i guess tom was tired of white men’s chances and preferred to take his own’” ( lee , 1960 , p . 260 ) ; the negroes in the community already suffer from their past history of slavery , and as tom’s honest recollections of the events of november 21 do not result in justice , an opportunity for the negro community to rise above their past is lost .
ruby rose made sure all eyes were on her at the people ' s choice awards in los angeles on wednesday . the 30 - year - old stunned in a bright orange blazer and matching trousers .
tom was a founding member of the san diego criminal defense bar association and served as president from 1979 to 1982 . he was also a member of the san diego criminal defense lawyers club and served as its president in 1990 . tom was a member of california attorneys for criminal justice and served on its board of governors from 1983 to 1990 .
the report quoted a statement by the minister of justice , jimmy kruger , in which the minister presented the government’s version of steve’s death , saying that he had been on a hunger strike since 5 september , refusing food . kruger acknowledged that a district surgeon had been called to examine steve on 7 september ‘because mr biko appeared unwell’ . the medic , kruger continued , found nothing wrong with biko .
lost years is winner , best documentary award ( history & culture ) & prize , 9th guangzhou international documentary film festival , dec 5 , 2011 . it is nominated for 6 rosies , 38th ampia awards , may 12 , 2012 ; the golden sheaf award , 65th yorkton film festival , may 24 - 27 , 2012 ; and , best documentary cinematography , 55th canadian society of cinematographers gala awards , toronto .
manon rinsma , msc – a well - traveled , adventurous millennial with a lot of invisible baggage , refused to become a victim of her circumstances . by helping people understand the experience of losing a parent from a 12 - year - old’s perspective she hopes to give insight and support to prevent others from missing out on valuable time
in march 1973 , the state cracked down , banning drake koka and bokwe mafuna , who were engaged in union projects . biko and pityana were banned in the same month . in august 1973 , mosibudi mangena was sentenced to five years in prison for allegedly recruiting two policemen to join the armed struggle . tiro followed the way of shezi when he was killed in january 1974 by a parcel bomb after he went into exile in botswana , reflecting a new ruthlessness on the part of the security agencies .
we aim to create a safe and valuable space for discussion and debate . that means :
yvonne walker is president of seiu local 1000 . her efforts towards economic and social justice are felt not only by her california constituents , but also by workers across the country and around the world .
while she looked stunning in a designer ensemble at the people ' s choice awards , hours later chloe moretz was seen at ago restaurant in los angeles dressed in her go - to casual outfit on wednesday .
some sad puppies say martin ' s enormous success has blinded him to their struggles , but nearly everyone ( except beale ) agrees that martin has been a voice of reason amidst the screaming throngs . he acknowledges that some sad puppies claims have merit . for example , he agrees that people like bellet who self - publish will increasingly be a force to be reckoned with , and predicts they will eventually win their share of hugos ( though he rejects the idea that they have been formally discriminated against—it’s merely too hard for most hugo voters to learn which ones to read ) . he doesn ' t think there ' s necessarily anything wrong with campaigning for nominations—logrolling has gone on during the run - up to the hugos for years .
the jury will have to imagine a negro is telling the truth and white people are lying , a scenario the townspeople with a fixed attitude concerning race are not likely to envision ; tom loses his life when he comes up with a plan for escape and makes a run for freedom ; jem loses his idealistic view of maycomb and must envision a new way to think about his neighbors , “it’s like bein’ a caterpillar in a cocoon , that’s what it is . ” he said . “like somethin’ asleep wrapped up in a warm place . i always thought maycomb folks were the best folks in the world , least that’s what they seemed like . ” ( lee , 1960 , p . 237 )
scout cannot comprehend how her teacher can hate hitler for persecuting the jews , yet countenance the townspeople’s racist attitude toward the negro community ; scout can’t understand people bitterly opposing atticus for defending a negro - and looking askance upon the “bad example” he is setting for his children - yet re - electing him to the state legislature without any opposition ; scout appreciates that jem is growing to be a man ; and so forth .