the confusion of tongues is a 2014 multi-narrative comedy film written and directed by james fair .

the film stars an ensemble cast , which includes sadie frost , gemma atkinson , ewen macintosh , kate o'toole , paul henshall and katie sheridan .

the story follows a group of birmingham residents who descend upon a local pub in order to win a lucrative pub quiz .

the confusion of tongues

on the foreground : the people of the world , punished by the confusion of the tongues for their disobedience to god .
the confusion of tongues is 90 minute comedy film that will be shot and edited in 72 hours
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confusion of tongues tips us into the middle of a nightmare . is the only way out of the trauma to re - experience it ?
strickling , j . e . 1974 legendary evidence for the confusion of tongues , creation research society quarterly 11 : 97–101 .
' give it to me ! ' - a limited edition dvd of the ' confusion of tongues ' , with handwritten letter from one of the directors .
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to trace the perception of tongues in the church from inception until modern times .
the following are the results of a detailed study of the doctrine of tongues from inception until 1922 . the results are drawn from the gift of tongues project which had a fourfold purpose to :
stephen finlay , confusion of tongues : a theory of normative language , oxford university press , 2014 , 278pp . , $ 65 . 00 ( hbk ) , isbn 9780199347490 .
orr , james , m . a . , d . d . general editor .
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ferenczi , s . ( [ 1933 ] 1994 ) . confusion of tongues between adults and the child . in final contributions to the problems and methods of psychoanalysis ( pp . 156–167 ) . london : karnac books .
the confusion of tongues is a movie starring gemma atkinson , ewen macintosh , and kate o ' toole . a polyphonic story following a day in the life of a group of birmingham residents before they compete for the prize money at their local pub quiz .
my conservative estimate tallies about 150 million people consistently practising the christian rite of speaking in tongues throughout the world .
to add to this confusion , there was my experience on radio the other week . take a listen to this short clip :
one of the most misunderstood passages in the old testament is the genesis account of the confusion of tongues at the tower of babel . this is typically viewed as an effort to explain the origin of earth’s many diverse languages , their having arisen from a single primal tongue . we read in genesis 11 : 1 - 9 that
it is my opinion that this observed “inappropriate or garbled speech” is a contemporary example of what the book of genesis calls “confounded speech . ” the confusion of tongues at the tower of babel can thus be demystified . it was a rather widespread natural disturbance that had nothing to do with the creation of new languages .
in comparison to the detailed articles posted within the gift of tongues project , few footnotes will be given here , and some ancient authors and minor movements will be ignored . one can find substantiation at the gift of tongues project webpage . links to the gift of tongues project pages will be highlighted throughout . the results are subject to change as new information comes forward .
this changes things considerably , instead of acts 2 : 4 reading as other tongues the proper reading is other languages . the other tongues creates ambiguities that never existed in the greek . other languages immediately starts to clarify a difficult subject .
these are the sons of shem , after their families , after their tongues , in their lands , after their nations .
these are the sons of ham , after their families , after their tongues , in their countries , and in their nations .
it would not be fair to translate the church fathers on the subject using tongues instead of languages . it significantly changes the nuance of the text when it is done .
a crew of 44 students and recent graduates will be aiming to shoot , edit and screen a 90 - minute feature film titled , ‘the confusion of tongues’ in just 72 hours which will feature a high - profile cast , including gemma atkinson , sadie frost , kate o’toole and ewen macintosh .
“the confusion of tongues” doesn’t end with just end with a collaborative effort on the filmmaking . we have found ( and are still seeking ) any artists who wish to be a part of the film . we are working with local artists for them to contribute any work and perhaps write original pieces for the film itself .
the confusion of tongues is a farcical comedy set over one day in birmingham , intertwining the stories of various characters linked by their desire to win the jackpot at a local pub quiz . the cast will comprise emerging and established actors , who will be revealed at the official launch event at the spotted dog at 7pm on friday 30th may .
after an exhaustive approach of locating , digitizing , translating and analyzing two - thousand years worth of texts , the results of the gift of tongues project has found one of the main challenges to solving this debate is overcoming the embedded ignorance of history .
speaking in tongues is an inherent part of the present pentecostal and charismatic identities . this practice is one of the key features that distinguish them apart from other christian movements .
the actual results can be found at the gift of tongues project . most readers have found the actual project source texts , principally in greek and latin , along with the analysis too complex and desire to read a shortened version . this series of summaries is concerned with the big picture on how the doctrine of tongues was transmitted through the centuries , not the details .
there are two known cuneiform accounts that deal with the confusion of language and undoubtedly derive from the tower of babel episode of genesis 11 . the earliest , probably from the early third millennium ( kramer 1970 : 108 ) , is part of longer epic called “enmerkar and the lord of aratta . ” in it , “the spell of nudimmud” is quoted , which deals with the confusion of language . according to the spell , there once was a “golden age” when everyone spoke one language . the god enki , leader of the gods , put an end to this era by confusing the speech of mankind . the critical passage read ,
a good example of a renewalist speaking in tongues is found in this video clip of the late kenneth hagin . he was a highly respected and influential pentecostal preacher in the mid - 1900s .
kramer , samuel n . 1968 the “babel of tongues” : a sumerian version , journal of the american oriental society 88 : 108–11 1970 enki and his inferiority complex , orientalia 39 : 103–10 .
the old testament story of the tower of babel tells how nimrod built one of the first cities after the flood ( remember noah ? ) . he built a tower into the sky to get his people closer to god , using all the resources that he had at his disposal . once god saw how people were determined to equate themselves with himself , he destroyed the tower and created a ‘confusion of tongues’ , the bible’s explanation for why we all speak different languages today .
what is the tower’s purpose ? it’s a “bridge” that would reconnect us back to source . , . our dna… and through the confusion of language and the distortion of concepts , the “rulers / anchors” control us , humanity , and do actively prevent our true progress…
the christian rite of speaking in tongues has been controversial , especially over the last one - hundred years . speaking in tongues is a practice expressed by renewalists . renewalism is the fastest growing christian faith in the world . many have tried to explain this rite through experiential and psychological terms , but few have attempted an extensive study through historical literature .
we ' re making a farcical comedy feature film called ' the confusion of tongues ' based in birmingham uk . what makes this project special is the fact that it will be filmed and edited in 72 hours , commencing on thursday 17th july at 9am then finishing at 9am on sunday 20th . it will then be screened in the largest cinema screen in birmingham , ‘the giant screen’ on the sunday night .
this work traces the perception of tongues speaking through the centuries . perception is not necessarily reality . on many occasions , the work will reference the perception with no remarks about the integrity of the event or person . this is up to the reader to decide .
the “arrest response” produced by [ electrical ] stimulation in the [ brain’s ] posterior frontal region . . . consists in the arrest of voluntary movement and may show additional features such as post - stimulation confusion , inappropriate or garbled speech . . .
this summary is the result of the gift of tongues project which is designed for the advanced researcher . the gift of tongues project has attempted to identify , collate and digitize the source texts in the original greek , latin , with some syriac , french and a sprinkling of a few other languages . english translations have been provided with almost every text , along with my own analysis . the gift of tongues project differentiates itself from others because the source texts available on the website allow for you to research and draw your own conclusions . all the legwork is already done . all one has to do now is read instead of the time consuming and never ending task of finding the source files . better yet , the majority is digitally searchable .
' the confusion of tongues ' characterised the polarised dimensions of the closing ferenczi / freud communication , and extended to problems of psychoanalytic formulation and publication . there were manifest and latent issues which remain of historic importance . ferenczi was dying and assumed freud was dying when he wrote this classic essay , so relevant to contemporary psychoanalytic thought and controversy . denying and sometimes acknowledging his progressive , fatal illness , ferenczi made enduring contributions to the understanding of child abuse and trauma while severely traumatised . concepts of trauma and countertransference were amplified and expanded . freud remained remarkably creative while physically declining with oral cancer ; ferenczi manifested progressive and regressive trends , fostering both sublimated innovation and wild analysis . psychoanalysts tended to avoid , for half a century , confronting the problems of the ill , impaired , and dying analyst . the clarification of ' the confusion of tongues ' continues in contemporary psychoanalytic discussion and debate . the paper presaged a widened interest in the analyst ' s analysing functions , unconscious communication , countertransference , and the interplay of reality and fantasy inside and outside the psychoanalytic situation .
) is the pivotal key word for the doctrine of tongues in the original greek text . this word is the central theme found in paul’s address to the corinthians and luke’s description of the first pentecost . this noun is further used by later greek ecclesiasts and authors on the subject .
boscawen , w . st . chad 1876 the legend of the tower of babel . records of the past 7 : 129–32 . 1877 the legend of the tower of babel , transactions of the society of biblical archaeology 5 : 303–12 .
in those days . . . the people entrusted [ to him ] could address enlil , verily , in but a single tongue . in those days . . . did enki . . . estrange the tongues in their mouths as many as were put there . the tongues of men which were one ( jacobsen 1997 ; cf . kramer 1968 , 1970 ; cohen 1973 ) .
although the longest shoot i’ve worked on was 15 hours , and i was in a coma for three days afterwards but it was amazing ! so expectations for this shoot are high ! sorry , got carried away and i didn’t introduce myself ! i’m amy ! one of the production assistant on the 72 hour project’s new film ‘confusion of tongues’ . i’ll be posting on here , twitter and facebook during the shoot , i’ll be bring you all the news from the shoot plus interviews from the cast !
at the end of the 72 hours we will take a few hours to get some sleep and encode the film ready for uploading for downloads . we ' ll watch the film in the giant screen at 6pm on sunday 20th july and once it is finished , the link for the download will be available for our audience . the film will then be taken away to be tidied up outside of the 72 hours and prepared for life upon the festival circuit much the same as any other film . ' the ballad of des & mo ' had a successful 18 months touring the world , we hope the same will be true of ' the confusion of tongues '
stephen finlay ' s confusion of tongues ( cot ) is an ambitious book . its first half advances a unifying semantics for normative words , including ' good ' , ' ought ' , and ' reason ' . in the second half , he argues that this semantics , combined with a single pragmatic principle , can explain the uses of such expressions of special interest to ethicists . cot ' s engagement with these topics is rich and complex .
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the gift of tongues project and this summary believe that pentecostals and charismatics have brought positive contributions to the greater society , and have made the world a better place . the purpose of this examination is not to attack or denigrate their character . the goal is simply to find the truth of the matter . nothing more .
it is thought that on the site of the tower of babel the kingdom of babylon had its beginning . the babylonian meaning of babel is “gate of god“ ; but , the meaning in the hebrew is “confusion“ - - and it was called that after god scattered the people by confusing their languages . it is significant that babylon , that great empire so renowned for its great wealth , pride , pomp , and all that is the opposite of the kingdom of god , should have had its beginning in the evil heart of nimrod . “an evil man out of the evil treasure [ of the heart ] bringeth forth evil things“ [
thankfully the internet age came along . museums and other institutions have posted many manuscripts online . better manuscripts are now available than the ones found in mpg . the ability to do digital searches with google’s search engine reveals even more texts . the gift of tongues project is one of the direct benefactors of the digitization of libraries , museums , and institutions .
base of the ziggurat at babylon , thought to be the location of the tower of babel described in genesis 11 .
– a term given for those who emphasize miracles , supernatural occurrences , and oftentimes speaking in tongues within the christian’s everyday life . really , it is an umbrella term for pentecostals , charismatics ,
the renewalist faith , with its emphasis on holiness , mysticism , independence , and easy adaptability to different cultures , is the fastest growing segment of christianity in the world . their christian mystic framework along with its distinctive theology of speaking in tongues makes a historical study imperative .
and with every living creature that is with you , of the fowl , of the cattle , and of every beast of the earth with you ; from all that go out of the ark , to every beast of the earth .
bonnke’s demonstration is not as obvious as hagin’s . he mixes regular language and charismatic , excitable speech between short outbursts of tongues - speech . the audience is energized but not surprised by this presentation . this is quite common in renewalist circles .
unto shem also , the father of all the children of eber , the brother of japheth the elder , even to him were children born .
this is a typical example , though speaking in tongues is not always done in a sunday service . it is practised more frequently in weekday services , prayer sessions , pastoral settings , and special events .
this work is broken up into a three part series . part 1 traces the evolution of pentecost from the first to seventeenth - centuries which is inclusive of catholic perceptions . part 2 focuses on the protestant perceptions which has three distinct doctrinal frameworks . part 3 is an in - depth look into the corinthian tongues saga .
what do renewalists presently believe speaking in tongues to be ? there is a general agreement that speaking in tongues is a supernatural phenomenon — one that cannot be measured or defined by science . some renewalists call it a heavenly language that only the individual , god , and a special interpreter understands . others say it is a private prayer language or a form of exalted worship . there are those who just shrug their shoulders and say it is simply a god thing that defies explanation . a handful may say speaking in tongues is the spontaneous ability to speak a foreign language . most renewalists believe that speaking in tongues is a deliberate outcome of a controlled mind – in other words , they are not crazies or kooks whose erratic behavior is in an uncontrolled hallucinatory state . they are regular people like the helpful neighbor across the street , the taxi driver , teacher , dentist , nurse , plumber , politician , lawyer or construction worker . renewalists are found in all walks of life .
this does not mean all those defined as renewalists emphasize this doctrine and practice it . the same pew study further demonstrates that no more than 53 % of renewalists speak in tongues in any country they examined . in most instances , it is less .
in utopia ( 1516 ) , thomas more imagines an apparently perfect island society in which citizens share a common language and way of life . it is a text riddled with ambiguities , paradoxes and verbal games : ‘utopia’ itself translates as both ‘no - place’ and ‘good - place’ . the book has repeatedly frustrated readers’ attempts to decipher its message . confusion of tongues : art and the limits of language brings into dialogue artists who – in ways similar to more – explore the power of language to complicate and withhold meaning . as viewers , we are invited to imagine through and beyond the spoken and written word , to think and re - think , to look and look again .
and the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth , and upon every fowl of the air , upon all that moveth upon the earth , and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered .
therefore is the name of it called babel ; because the lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth .
] ) . it is on the basis of this text that the reasonable premise is given that nimrod was the guiding personality in uniting the people into the work of building the tower of babel . he perhaps was one of the first dictators in the world .
for it is written , i will destroy the wisdom of the wise , and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent .
people will always be inspired by the pentecostal narrative described in the book of acts and the mysterious tongues found later on in the new testament epistle called i corinthians . those accounts have propelled many ardent students of the bible and the christian faith to reproduce this phenomenon in their lives . the passion for a new pentecost has cycled for twenty - one - centuries . how communities and persons perceived , practised and passed - on the right throughout these centuries is the goal of this study .
and god saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth , and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually .
a good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things : and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things .
no fear of god an unbiased study of the book of genesis should convince anyone of the depravity of the unregenerate heart , and the desperate sinfulness of men when they are left to their own devices , without interference by god . the sin principle came into the soul of man as a result of the fall in the garden of eden . no good works that man can do will remove it . the threatenings of neither god nor man will turn a sinner into a righteous man . no amount of good resolutions will avail to remove sin from the human soul . only through the blood of jesus christ as it is applied to the soul will sin be removed from the souls of men .
this finding was not anticipated at the start . the project assumed at the beginning there was little christian literature throughout the centuries to build a case . rather , there is a substantial corpus of ancient christian literature on the subject . the discovery about the abundance on the subject has created two rival stories . the first allows the building of a compelling narrative on the doctrine of tongues throughout the centuries . the second is the narrative about the ignorance of christian literature over the last two centuries and how it has contributed to the modern definition . both play an important story in the modern definition and i am not sure which one is more important . they share a complex interplay that is difficult to untangle .
and the arvadite , and the zemarite , and the hamathite : and afterward were the families of the canaanites spread abroad .
close up of the baked bricks and bitumen mortar of the ziggurat at ur . “they used brick instead of stone , and tar for mortar” for the tower of bible ( gn 11 : 3 ) .
and the lord came down to see the city and the tower , which the children of men builded .
perkins , ann l . 1949 the comparative archaeology of early mesopotamia , chicago : the university of chicago press .
luke is vague on the actual mechanics and certainly short on details . this leaves his pentecost and subsequent tongues narratives with many unanswered questions ; did every inspired person speak in a single different language and together they were speaking the languages of all the nations ? was it one sound emanating and changed during transmission so that the hearers heard their own language ? if it was a miracle of hearing , what was that sound ? were the people conscious of what they were saying or were they completely overtaken by a divine power and had no comprehension about what they were speaking ? was it a heavenly , non - human or prayer language ? did this miracle continue after the first - century ? how did this tongues - event get passed down to the next generation ? did it become part of the church liturgy ?
as a person who attends a charismatic church and involved in these type of communities for decades , i wanted the results to parallel their experiences . unfortunately , the findings did not allow for this . everyone who approaches the 2000 year narrative on speaking in tongues has to allow history to speak for itself – not to rewrite history to justify contemporary experience .
a more contemporary example is reinhard bonnke . bonnke is a german - born evangelist whose work in africa , especially nigeria has earned him the rank of one the top preachers of all time in respect to audience reach . the example here is his public speaking in tongues at a large indoor gathering somewhere in asia . his christ for the nations website claims over 55 million documented decisions for christ under his ministry .
these are the families of the sons of noah , after their generations , in their nations : and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood .
doré based his tower of babel on the minaret of the great mosque of samarra , in present day iraq . the minaret is 52 m high and has a spiralling cone .
i will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; i will be like the most high .
the word tongues , which is seldom used in our modern language to specifically mean a modern , regular or contemporary language , is usually understood to be something out - of - this - world , unusual or even weird . sometimes it is used a synonym to language , but rarely in contemporary literature is it a predominant descriptor .
may the men of this twenty - first century consider that the day is fast approaching when the world is again going to be joined in a common cause , under the leadership of the evil genius of satan . the antichrist , the false prophet , and the beast will rule the world in a trinity of evil . the world will bow to their will , and god will be defied by this government of tyranny . but god shall again confound the peoples of the world as effectually as he did when he confounded the builders of the tower of babel when he confused their speech .
nimrod and great babylon the tenth chapter of genesis , often called the table of nations , lists the generations of noah . here is chronicled the names of the tribes from which sprang all the nations of the earth . god recorded these in his word in evidence that he had not yet finished dealing with them . his plan of salvation was eventually revealed to include them all .
this of course begs the question , “what could have been the natural source of such provocative stimuli in the distant past ? ” check out the reference below .
1 . were the people righteous or unrighteous after the flood ? 2 . how do we know that the descendants of noah were familiar with the event of the flood ? 3 . what common purpose did the people of the earth have ? what united them in this purpose ? 4 . who was nimrod ? and where was his kingdom , babel , founded ? 5 . what does babel mean ? 6 . why were not the people who built the tower of babel afraid of god ? 7 . why did the lord confuse the speech of the people ? 8 . why did god stop the building of the tower of babel ? 9 . does god intervene in the affairs of men today ? why ? 10 . why did not god destroy the builders of the tower of babel as he did the antediluvians
it is not unreasonable to suppose that noah told the story of the flood many times to his grandchildren , and their children and that the story of the flood was well known to the generations of noah . also the earth for many generations bore fresh and vivid evidence of the deluge that had swept the earth of all its wicked inhabitants . how great a warning this must have spoken to the descendants of noah of the folly of forsaking god ! but the bible records that it was not long before they , too , had forsaken and refused the ways of righteousness and turned to their own self - sufficiency .
he taketh the wise in their own craftiness : and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong .
this exhibition is a response to utopia 2016 : a year of imagination and possibility , a year - long programme of events and exhibitions at somerset house celebrating the 500th anniversary of the publication of thomas more’s utopia .
an objective reading of the biblical account reveals only that the tower - builders’ speech was “confounded . ” the passage in the eleventh chapter of genesis reads in part :
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and the beginning of his kingdom was babel , and erech , and accad , and calneh , in the land of shinar .
perhaps one could argue 800 words when you throw in the defense of the experience by peter in acts chapter 2 and the three other instances throughout the book of acts . perhaps paul could be credited with writing about pentecost if his coverage in his first letter to the corinthians contains a parallel , though part iii will show these are not connected . why all the fuss over 206 words ? if it was so important , why didn’t luke go into much greater detail ? this would have spared the modern day reader such a confusion . the clarification is going to take over 10 , 000 words and the parsing through a magnitude of documents found throughout the centuries to explain those few written words two thousand years ago .
now these are the generations of the sons of noah , shem , ham , and japheth : and unto them were sons born after the flood .
cohen , sol 1973 emmerkar and the lord of aratta , ph . d . dissertation , university of pennsylvania .
seely , paul h . 2001 the date of the tower of babel and some theological implications , westminster theological journal 63 : 15–38 .
i . ( 1 ) as to the preceding topics , what has been already said will be sufficient . we might next proceed to consider , and that in no slight or cursory manner , the philosophical account which moses gives us of the confusion of languages ; for he speaks in the following manner :
and all the earth had one pronunciation , and there was one language among all men . and it came to pass , as they were moving from the east , that they found a plain in the land of shinar , and dwelt there . and one man said to his neighbour , come , let us make bricks , and let us burn them with fire ; and they had bricks for stone , and asphalt for mortar . and they said , come , let us build ourselves a city , and a tower whose head shall reach to heaven ; and let us make for ourselves a name , before we are scattered over the face of all the earth . and the lord came down to see the city , and the tower , which the sons of men had builded . and the lord said , behold , all mankind is one race , and there is but one language among them all ; and they have begun to do this thing , and now there will not fail unto them anything of all the things which they desire to do . come , let us go down and confuse their language there , so that each may not understand the voice of his neighbour . and the lord scattered them from thence over the face of all the earth , and they desisted from building the city , and the tower . on this account , the name of it was called confusion , because there the lord confused the languages of all the earth , and from thence the lord scattered them over the face of all the earth .
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so the lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the city .
if biblical archaeology is defined loosely as “the study of the ancient things related to the bible , . . .
he disappointeth the devices of the crafty , so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise .
this event sent by god was the ultimate cause of the early separation of mankind , their dispersal throughout the earth , and their division into races and nations .
one of the primary areas of the near east where civilization began is the tigris - euphrates river valley , comprising portions of modern syria and iraq . this region , the fertile valley between the two rivers , has been known since the times of the ancient greeks as mesopotamia , literally “the land between the rivers . ” this area of course was the home of many peoples familiar to us from general ancient history and the old testament , such as the assyrians and babylonians . before these peoples a group known as the sumerians , the creators of classic mesopotamian culture , inhabited the southern part of the valley . how and when did civilization start in this region ? in order to at least partially answer this question , we will need to examine both written and archaeological source material . the earliest of that archaeological material comes from cultures in the valley that did not as yet know the art of writing .
metaethicists have long been interested in the meaning of the words ' good ' , ' ought ' , and ' reasons ' . many are persuaded that , although we might analyze one or another of these words in terms of the others , there ' s no breaking out of the circle of normative concepts when explaining the meaning of such words . this has led to the prominence of three main kinds of metaethical view . nonnaturalists explain the irreducibility of the meaning of normative words by claiming that normative words denote sui generis normative properties , supervenient on but not identical to natural properties . a posteriori reductive naturalists explain this irreducibility by claiming that normative words express different concepts from words characteristic of description of the natural facts , but they propose ( or at least hold out hope for ) a substantive empirical reduction of the properties denoted by these words to natural properties . expressivists explain the irreducibility by claiming that normative words play a fundamentally different role in expressing our mental states to that played by words expressing representations of pieces of the natural world .
stephen finlay is associate professor of philosophy at the university of southern california . he is the author of a number of articles on metaethics and moral psychology . originally from new zealand , he lives in pomona , california with his wife and three daughters .
a polyphonic story following a day in the life of a group of birmingham residents before they compete for the prize money at their local pub quiz .
next , he argues that other ( more robustly ) normative uses of ' ought ' also evaluate the probability of their prejacent proposition given contextually fixed background conditions plus the assumption that some end will be achieved , but the determination of the relevant end is much more complicated . i won ' t go into many of the nuances about how finlay thinks this works at the interface of semantics and pragmatics of normative discourse , except to note two things .
mesopotamia , literally “the land between the rivers
was the home of many peoples familiar to us from general ancient history and the old testament , such as the assyrians and babylonians . before these peoples a group known as the sumerians , the creators of classic mesopotamian culture , inhabited the southern part of the valley . how and when did civilization start in this region ?
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there is , however , a rich tradition in moral philosophy of insisting that moral ends aren ' t like this . aristotle argued that living morally isn ' t a state of affairs plausibly conceived as an outcome of actions like telling the truth , paying one ' s debts , helping the needy , etc . rather doing these sorts of things is , on the aristotelian view , the immediate actualization of the ongoing activity of living morally . can finlay ' s view make sense of that idea ?
the other records , transmitted orally for countless generations , are inconsistent . some speak of “strange speech , ” others of new languages .
this summary fills in the blanks of the historical record that have , up until now , been neglected .
and the whole earth was of one language , and of one speech . . . . go to , let us go down , and there confound their language , that they may not understand one another’s speech . . . . therefore is the name of it called babel ; because the lord did there confound the language of all the earth . *
the second group of scholars is the professional philologists , the students of the sumerian language . many of these linguistic experts have never excavated , just as the archaeologists are not necessarily readers of sumerian . it must be remembered that these fields are highly specialized . e . a . speiser and b . landsberger , who insisted that many of the words in sumerian documents are not sumerian words at all , led the linguists and philologists in the early days . landsberger pointed out that this is especially true of words pertaining to agriculture , showing that the basic farming vocabulary and common farming techniques used in southern mesopotamia were the invention of non - sumerian people .
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and the sons of cush ; seba , and havilah , and sabtah , and raamah , and sabtechah : and the sons of raamah ; sheba , and dedan .
so now we have that out the way , we can show you some of the images from yesterdays rehearsals , where there was a lot of development of characters ( even a character name change ) . a good portion of the discussion was on the comedic elements of the film , where pace and timing of a performance can be the difference between a gag getting a laugh , or it falling like a lead balloon . in a 72 , time is restricted so honing in on those comedic performances can be stressful . however , the 72 seems to be benefiting from an extremely talented group of actors and actresses , and everyone seemed happy with their performances and the development of the characters .
therefore their inhabitants were of small power , they were dismayed and confounded : they were as the grass of the field , and as the green herb , as the grass on the housetops , and as corn blasted before it be grown up .
note : the following article is part of series of articles / excerpts from “man and his planet – an unauthorized history” by james e . strickling . more articles of this series will be posted soon .
i shall employ an analytic method , seeking a metaphysical analysis of normative facts , properties , and relations by means of a conceptual analysis of the meanings of the normative words by which we refer to them . the result will be a form of analytic reductionism ( or
analytic naturalism
) , an explanatory reduction of normative properties ( etc . ) into complexes of non - normative properties by reductively defining normative words and concepts in entirely non - normative terms . ( p . 4 )
and the sons of javan ; elishah , and tarshish , kittim , and dodanim .
but olympus and ossa and pelion are the names of mountains . ( 5 ) but instead of these mountains the lawgiver represents a tower as having been built by these men , who , out of ignorance and wicked ambition , were desirous to reach the heaven . every alienation of mind , then , is grievous ; for even if every portion of the whole earth could be built over , a slight foundation is being first laid , and then if a superstructure could be raised in the fashion of a single pillar , it would still be an enormous distance removed from the heavenly sphere , and above all would it be so according to the tenets of those curious philosophers who have affirmed that the earth is the centre of the universe .
during the rehearsals james was scribbling notes and annotations on his a3 version of the script . this version of the script will then be photocopied and given to the editing crew to more efficiently translate james’ ideas into the edit . it also makes the editors job a little easier .
although the bible does not mention this issue , it is clear that , although ignored by the secular scholarly community , the bible does provide an answer to the sumerian problem . note some things told to us in the early chapters of genesis . genesis correctly places the seat of early near eastern civilization in southern mesopotamia . after the great flood , when all human life began to develop anew as descendants of shem , ham , and japheth spread from the mountains of ararat ( urartu of assyrian records ) , we find a large number of semitic and hamitic names having connections with place names in mesopotamia . in fact , the tower of babel was obviously built in the babylon region , as is demonstrated by its name and the fact that the bible tells us it was constructed in the plains of shinar ( sumer ) .
with only a year of experience behind me , working with the 72 hour project is probably the biggest job i’ve ever done . i know with most film positions you expect stress , a mountain of problems and lack of coffee ; but the excitement is overwhelming !
mesopotamian cylinder seal , upper left , on display in the british museum . of unknown provenance , it dates to ca . 2200–2100 bc . to the right of the seal is an impression of the scene carved on the seal ; below is an enlargement of the scene . the seal depicts a banquet with a sacred tree in the center and a man and woman ( ? ) reaching for fruit . on either side are serpents . bryant g . wood .
the second account conforms more closely to the genesis account ( strickling 1974 ) . dated only as “assyrian” ( smith 1876 : 160 ) , the legend tells of the destruction of a building on a mound in babylon by a god . the god also confounded the speech of the builders ( boscawen 1877 : 303 ; smith 1880 : 166 ) . the badly damaged tablet has been translated as follows :
nissen , hans j . 1988 the earliest history of the ancient near east , 9000–2000 bc , trans . elizabeth lutzeier with kenneth northcott , chicago : university of chicago press .
the earliest major culture 2 in mesopotamia is called the hassuna culture , named after the place where it was first discovered , the village of hassuna in northern mesopotamia . the hassuna culture dates to the [ conventional ] period 5500–5000 bc , and has been found at a number of places in the northern part of the river valley . it seems to have been mostly confined to the north . the hassuna people were agricultural , and were makers of pottery , even though they did not know the potter’s wheel . their tools were bone and stone ; there has not been any trace of metal work found at hassuna sites . reed and clay houses have been found , but only at the type - site of tell hassuna itself . the most common tools of the hassuna culture were wooden sickles with flint teeth for harvesting grain .
there are two key ideas at the heart of the project . first , alongside moral uses of ' good ' , ' ought ' , and ' reason ' , there are familiar nonmoral ( though perhaps weakly
normative
) instrumental uses and also recognizably nonnormative uses ; yet these words do not seem to be ambiguous between moral , instrumental , and nonnormative meanings . because of this , we should hold out hope for reductive analyses based on conservative extensions of the correct analysis of instrumental and nonnormative uses of these words . second , instrumental uses of these words are reductively analyzable in terms of how they are explicitly or implicitly related to ends via probabilities . so - - finlay hypothesizes - - we might unify the reductive analysis of these words by also viewing moral uses of these words as probabilistically related to ends , where because of the pragmatics of normative discourse it is often advantageous to leave the relevant end implicit .
and the sons of ham ; cush , and mizraim , and phut , and canaan .
and the children of aram ; uz , and hul , and gether , and mash .
and ophir , and havilah , and jobab : all these were the sons of joktan .
] ) . this is exactly what happened when the tower of babel was being built .
mellaart , james 1965 earliest civilizations of the near east , london : thames & hudson .
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drawing from elisabeth young - bruehl ' s psychological and psychodynamic study of prejudice as a starting point , this paper explores the phenomenon of childism—namely , the prejudice again children—from a rankian psychodynamic perspective . young - bruehl argues that childism is comparable to prejudices such as anti - semitism , sexism , and racism , and serves such purposes as the elimination of an individual ' s personhood , sexual exploitation , and the erasure of identity . adding to young - bruehl ' s analysis of the social and psychological causes and effects of prejudice against children , this paper will examine the nature and dangers of childism explicit and implicit in the writings of otto rank . we will examine the development of creative will in child maturation—a development that childist forms of prejudice may obstruct , inhibit , and compromise . we will see that young - bruehl ' s foundational writing on childism echoes many of the observations and writings of otto rank in regard to the prejudice against children , and how such prejudice deeply diminishes , undermines , and fractures our unfolding lives and creative will in a shared world .
walton , john 1995 the mesopotamian background of the tower of babel . bulletin for biblical research 5 : 155–75 . reprinted in bible and spade 9 ( 1996 ) : 77 - 96 .
xxi . ( 98 ) but he says that the world perceptible to the outward senses is , as it were , the footstool of god on this account : first of all , that he may show that there is no efficient cause in the creatures ; secondly , for the purpose of displaying that even the whole world has not a free and unrestrained spontaneous motion of its own , but god , the ruler of the universe , takes his stand upon it , regulating it and directing everything in a saving manner by the helm of his wisdom , using , in truth , neither hands nor feet , nor any other part whatever such as belongs to created objects ; for god is not as man , but the reason why we at times represent him as such , for the sake of instruction , is because we are unable to advance out of ourselves , but derive our apprehension of the uncreate god from the circumstances with which we ourselves are surrounded . ( 99 ) and it is very beautifully said by moses , in the form of a parable , when he speaks of the world as if it resembled a brick ; for the world appears to stand and to be firmly fixed like a brick in a house , as far as the vision of the sight of the outward senses can inform us , but it has a very swift motion , and one which is able to outstrip all particular motions . ( 100 ) for the eyes of our body look upon the appearance of the sun by day and of the moon by night as standing still , and yet who is there who does not know that the rapidity of movements of these two bodies is incomparable , since they go round the whole heaven in one day ? thus , indeed , the universal heaven itself also , while appearing to stand still , revolves in a circle ; its movements being detected and comprehended by the invisible and more divine eye which is placed in our mind .


visitors is a 2003 australian thriller film starring radha mitchell , susannah york and ray barrett , directed by richard franklin and produced by jennifer hadden .

the film proved to be richard franklin 's final project .

visitors ( 2003 film )

2003 - “the horror , the horror . . . ” panel member , brisbane international film festival 2003
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visitors ( 2003 ) . director - richard franklin . stars : radha mitchell , susannah york . moria - the science - fiction , horror and fantasy film review .
2003 : bloom shakes hands with fans as he makes his way to frontierland .
saf welcomes groups and visitors for self - guided and organised tours and activities .
since sharjah biennial 6 in 2003 , sharjah art foundation has supported the production of film and video work by visual artists and filmmakers .
well , i ' m glad you said that , because that ' s what visitors is about .
2003 : keira knightley , who plays elizabeth swan , poses with some pirate wenches outside main street cinema .
2003 to 2012 - the vaginabillies ( vocals ) semi - acoustic cabaret version of they might be . . .
dedicated to film and filmmaking , the saf film club is designed for filmmakers and offers opportunities to get involved in the local film community .
2003 - escape from the planet of the tapes ( interview subject ) sbs tv documentary about me and trash video ' s struggle to evolve .
established in june 2003 , sja film technologies ltd . , a privately owned company , began trading as a slitting , rewinding and film supplier company and quickly developed the business portfolio to include stocks of many substrates including plastic films , cast polypropylene , oriented polypropylene , degradable films , polyester , sandwich lidding film , release liner and paper .
2015 - gone lesbo gone ( interview subject , co - producer ) documentary directed by jarret gahan on the troubled production of lesbo - a - go - go ( 2003 ) , premiered at brisbane underground film festival , january 2015 .
but , when the walt disney studios motion pictures movie had its world premiere at disneyland on june 28 , 2003 , few could have predicted it would be the success it is today . pirates is the ninth highest grossing film franchise in history , earning $ 4 , 524 , 358 , 182 at the global box office after last year ' s fifth film : dead men tell no tales . pirates of the caribbean : the curse of the black pearl premiered in theaters nationwide 11 days later , on july 9 , 2003 .
arabiyat confirmed that the strategy was developed to help jordan benefit from the opportunities that filming destinations have , as designing tour itineraries around film locations can attract more visitors . he also noted that jtb has hosted many production companies from hollywood and bollywood in recent years and has offered incentives to encourage more filming in jordan . jtb also supported rfc’s efforts to promote jordan at international film festivals , including the cannes film festival .
amman , 13 august 2017 - under the patronage of her royal highness princess rym ali , the royal film commission ( rfc ) launched jordan’s first film tourism strategy today , which is set to guide efforts over the coming three years to attract more visitors to jordan through film . the strategy was developed in cooperation with the jordan tourism board and with support from the usaid building economic sustainability through tourism project ( best ) .
reflecting the growing importance of film in the foundation ' s work , the saf film programme offers regular screenings in mirage city cinema , sharjah ' s only dedicated outdoor cinema , a film club , educational programmes for film enthusiasts , as well as support for filmic work by visual artists .
sharjah film platform ( sfp ) , an annual programme organised by sharjah art foundation , aims to support film production in the united arab emirates .
, which is generally the film , if i ' m asked what i ' ve made , is the film i refer to as my first film . even though there were one and a half films before it .
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ibrahim osta , usaid best chief of party , said that film commissions compete to attract part of an $ 88 billion - dollar industry that yields deep direct and indirect economic benefits to filming destinations . thus , “usaid best is supporting jordan’s efforts to boost its international competitiveness , create new tourism jobs , and distribute tourism revenues across the country through this film strategy , which lays out a clear path to attracting film productions and visitors .
, using a lot of the same financiers , you see , my next film was an attempt to make a universal genre film . and that was
the royal film commission – jordan ( rfc ) is a public institution , with administrative and financial autonomy , established in 2003 with a mandate to promote for and contribute to the development of an internationally competitive jordanian audio - visual industry . the rfc organizes training workshops , screenings and provides production support services .
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, which if i ' m asked , is the film i refer to as my first film . even though there were one and a half films before it .
michal blaško ( b . 1989 , bratislava ) is studying film and television directing at the academy of performing arts in bratislava ( všmu ) . his short movie fear ( 2015 ) , a coproduction with prague’s famu , premiered at the san sebastián iff and went on to win a variety of international awards . his bachelor project atlantis , 2003 was selected for the cinéfondation section at the 70th international cannes film festival .
but that must have been quite an honour to have italians rip off your film .
was also richard franklins last ever film and he died from cancer in 2007 ) .
, worked , but not the comedy . and so my next film , using a lot of the same financiers , was an attempt to make a universal genre film . and that was
representatives from local tour operators and film production companies attended the one - day conference , which included sessions on the latest global developments in film tourism and the successes of countries like denmark and czech republic in attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists , as a result of shooting blockbuster films . jordan ' s film tourism strategy was discussed , as well as designing tourism itineraries around film locations .
new mexico offers one of the leading film incentive packages in the country . up to 30 %
it’s 2003 , four years before slovakia becomes part of the schengen area . today the border with ukraine is one of europe’s best guarded , but back then it was the playground of smugglers and human traffickers . martin and denisija dream of leaving ukraine for germany to begin a new life . crossing the border brings unexpected complications , but the pair are willing to sacrifice a great deal to reach their destination . atlantis , 2003 provides a chilling excursion to a recent past we should not forget , but it also asks a universal question : how responsible are we for each other ?
radha mitchell is an awful actress and visitors might just be her tour de force of awful . she plays this character crazy for the outset , which makes her
descent
into crazy feel like just a normal day . she turns what could have been a solid mystery into something borderline unwatchable .
is on the cusp . as was the original . hitchcock just redefined the genre with that film , and
, and employs none of that film ' s subtlety here ) had no easy task before him - - a single character at sea is not the easiest of situations in which to establish any kind of drama without dialogue . with this in mind , it didn’t even bother me that georgia’s cat speaks to her in a laughable british accent , or that the film constantly flashes back to her life on the mainland , if only because they had to have some way of establishing character development without using constant narration . but when the titular visitors start showing up , the film exhausts any semblance of suspense and becomes almost laughably stilted .
and so i suppose it wasn ' t until the late seventies that hardcore took over the sex film industry .
richard franklin isn ' t my favourite australian filmmaker , but you ' ve got to give credit to the man for managing to make a purely genre career in a country like ours . visitors isn ' t his strongest effort visually or intensity wise , but he manages to crank out a few neat twists along the way .
elia kazan ( 1909 - 2003 ) was a dominant and hugely influential force in the postwar american cinema , a director whose keen intuition and perspicacity made him almost impervious to the vicissitudes of the declining studio system and ideally suited to take advantage of the gradual shift towards independent production . prolific in spite of hollywood ' s dramatic ebbs , kazan created a group of vital , emotionally intense and frequently controversial films that helped define american film history and popular culture .
but you ' ve got to realise , this was an era when it was very hard for young people to get professional work in hollywood and the people who are now the modern hollywood film industry were making these kinds of film .
a young ukrainian couple plan their getaway to germany . it’s 2003 , four years before slovakia integrates into the schengen area . the slovak - ukrainian border is controlled by smugglers and human traffickers – martin and denisija have no idea of the traps that await them . they only have each other but they are willing to sacrifice much to fulfill their dream .
it was the hostile press that buried the film , thanks to the efforts of fred nile’s festival of light . “it was the fact that the film had government funding , and was based on a ' pornographic poem ' . and they cited
while franklin ' s direction is crisp and stylish and mitchell performs admirably in the starring role , visitors is still missing something substantial that keeps it from being anything more than an interesting mind game . part of the unevenness comes from the fact that franklin doesn ' t appear to be able to decide just what kind of movie he wants to make here . is it a slick horror film ? is it a twisty mystery ? is it a drama about insanity ? while it touches on all three , the film never explores any of these elements sufficiently to fully satisfy in any particular direction .
, worked , but not the comedy . and so my next film , coming off the ( in the end ) quite successful
was a b film . i never thought of myself as making b films ; i did see myself as making genre films .
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for a time during the 1980s , australias richard franklin was a genre director worth watching . in australia , richard franklin made the psychic coma patient film
, which was substantially a one - person drama about stacy keach in a truck where the entire film equally wavered between real and possibly imagined threat .
) , i didn ' t particularly want it to tarnish my career . ” in retrospect , his film career could have been over before it started .
and the room and so on . that was a pretty silly film otherwise . you made a comment about b movies ; it used to be argued that
2012 -
di ingon ' nato : zombies in our backyard
essay and director ivan zaldarriaga interview , sinekultura film journal ( university of san carlos , cebu ) issue # 4 , second semester 2012 , pp . 14 - 21 ; reprinted in film international 63 - 4 ( sweden ) , august 2013
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…
uae audiences can enjoy a wide range of films and film genres featured in the regularly scheduled screenings that take place in saf ' s mirage city cinema .
from the past to the present , santa fe and new mexico has been a dramatic draw for filmmakers of all stripes and our film scene is booming .
2015 - talk on pinoy cult cinema with leo katigbak and manet a . dayrit , qcinema international film festival , quezon city , philippines 28 / 10 / 15
for two weeks in february every year , dublin turns into one of the hotspots of international cinema . the jameson dublin international film festival ( jdiff ) mixes works by independent film makers from around the globe with releases from the mainstream hollywood studios for a cross section of the most exciting movies of the past twelve months . from intimate documentaries to big drama , the range of films shown during the jdiff has something for everybody and dublin becomes a choice destination for film fans every february .
to mark the centenary of johnny mercer ' s birth , director bruce ricker ' s latest jazz documentary focuses on the music and legacy of the great american songwriter , interweaving interviews with tony bennett , andre previn and harry connick , jr . with screen performances of mercer ballads by the likes of frank sinatra , judy garland and nat king cole . the harvard film archive is pleased to welcome bruce ricker to discuss his latest film and to celebrate the very generous donation of his important film collection to the archive .
directed by elia kazan . with robert de niro , tony curtis , robert mitchum us 1976 , 35mm , color , 125 min . print from the harvard film archive collection
although marketed as a horror flick , visitors is mostly a psychological drama with mild horror thriller elements , so take this into account before you embark on this one expecting some serious ( or even cheesy ) thrills and chills . director richard franklin ( cloak & dagger , road games ) puts aside his hitchcockian homage tendencies for a more atmospheric character study revolving around a woman that must try to keep from hurting herself , despite the vividness of the disturbing images that she sees on a daily basis .
special thanks to kent jones ; mark mcelhattan ; joan miller , wesleyan cinema archives ; pat doyen , george eastman house ; may haduong , academy film archive ; kokkalis program on southeastern and east - central europe , harvard ; mary keene , museum of modern art ; brian block , criterion pictures usa ; sara rubin , the boston jewish film festival .
directed by elia kazan . with kirk douglas , faye dunaway , deborah kerr us 1969 , 35mm , color , 127 min . print courtesy of the ucla film and television archive
directed by elia kazan . with marlon brando , jean peters , anthony quinn us 1952 , 35mm , b / w , 113 min . print from the harvard film archive collection
directed by elia kazan . with gregory peck , dorothy mcguire , john garfield us 1948 , 35mm , b / w , 118 min . print courtesy of the academy film archive
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depp never gave any interviews to promote the film . instead , he decided to dress up in character as jack sparrow last year to surprise pirates of the caribbean riders at disneyland .
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sharjah art foundation works with artists and audiences on programmes that reflect the foundation ' s core projects . these include the film programme ' s screenings and film club activities , the artist and professionals programme ' s residencies , production grants and internships as well as the opportunity for everyone to become involved through saf community programmes such as vantage point sharjah and the urban garden .
despite its god awful poster , visitors is surprisingly decent . whilst it doesn ' t touch franklin + de roche ' s earlier efforts , there ' s enough solid moments and creative editing choices that cover up the many budget limitations that really undercut some of its thematic ambitions . the major flaws come from richard franklin ' s choice of actors , who are all incredibly miscast ( radha mitchell is a good actress , but doesn ' t quite nail this role ) and the digital cinematography looks cheap . i feel like if this same script was made by franklin in the 80 ' s , shot on nice grainy film stock and old school ozploitation practical effects , it would be regarded as a classic of that era .
b ut yes he is . and he was great fun to work with , and full of great stories about old hollywood , and i really enjoyed the whole film to be honest .
directed by elia kazan . with stathis giallelis , linda marsh , paul mann us / greece 1963 , 35mm , b / w , 168 min . print from the harvard film archive collection
directed by elia kazan . with karl malden , carroll baker , eli wallach us 1956 , 35mm , b / w , 114 min . print courtesy of the ucla film and television archive
the italian film festival in santa fe returns april 20 - 22 , 2018 . join us for contemporary film , food & fun , italian - style ! cinefesta italia is a 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) non - profit organization that raises awareness of italian culture . a portion of our proceeds help our charitable partners support santa fe’s neediest children in today’s challenging world .
was that the selling point , the way to get the film financed ? because it looks like it ' s a period comedy , but then the nudity ' s grafted on the top .
. well , she could not have been more chuffed , and went on the record to say that this film was going to undo the damage that spoto ' s book had done to her father ' s image . so in its way the film did have the blessing of the family . indeed , one of the things i ' ve been looking at by way of preparation for
the director general of the jordan tourism board , abdul razzaq arabiyat , explained :
the strategy was developed in consultation with film and tourism industry representatives and will capitalize on the huge potential of jordan to become an international film destination .
he added that blockbuster films help promote destinations and there are many examples of countries that witnessed a huge increase in tourists as a result . in new zealand , tourism soared to more than $ 3 billion in 2014 following filming the hobbit franchise there , and florida reported an almost 70 % increase in tourism thanks to the film dolphin tale .
workshop : echo film school 2 - week filmmaking boot camp ( 16 + ) is july 23rd - august 3rd . learn essential filmmaking techniques in this 2 - week intensive summer camp . write , pitch , produce , shoot and edit a short film in 10 days . our experienced professionals will guide you through the process as you work with a small crew to make your own mini - masterpiece . contact barry atkins at echo film school and studio for more information . call 832 - 732 - 1154 , barry @ urltoken , or visit https : / / www . urltoken / workshopbookings
is noteworthy for proving once again that mitchell has what it takes to be a legitimate star , and since this film’s release she has indeed found her way into more top - shelf material . but the film wastes what could have been a truly frightening premise on hackneyed plot devices . in the end it commits the most unforgivable sin in all of horror cinema : it just isn’t that scary .
directed by elia kazan . with dana andrews , jane wyatt , lee j . cobb us 1947 , 35mm , b / w , 88 min . print courtesy of the ucla film and television archive
richard franklin ' s final film is also his fourth collaboration with screenwriter everett de roche , but visitors is a far cry from the brilliance of patrick , roadgames and link . it ' s certainly got that de roche touch of originality about it , but unusually none of his blows land on this occasion . it ' s a psychological horror about yachtswoman george , who ' s on the final leg of her solo circumnavigation of the world , but when we first meet her , she ' s stuck south of africa due to calm seas . and that ' s when she starts to crack up . it ' s a nice touch having george communicate with her pet cat taco , and having him talking back to her , but the screenplay isn ' t brave enough to make this all…
2007 - zombie mariachi ( actor , producer , additional camera ) short film directed by filipino guerrilla filmmaker khavn de la cruz during his 2007 biff appearance . i play
great white zombie hunter
!
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and blue poles , the jackson pollock painting , as instances of the government squandering public funds . and the theatres were picketed , and it was actually fairly successful in terms of damaging the picture . i thought it would be great publicity , but the one thing people don ' t want to hear is that tax dollars have been wasted . the minute they hear that , they ' re less inclined to throw good money after bad , if you see what i mean . so the film was not successful , so that ' s why i made my next film… i needed to make a film that would make money . ”
. i should have dropped out of university and done it permanently , in retrospect , but at the time i was in film school , so i just went out and visited when i didn ' t have classes .
i usually tell people to avoid imdb when recommending a movie that has a twist ending that might be ruined by looking at the cast or the synopsis . but with this movie , i ' d say avoid imdb because almost everything that is said about the movie is wrong . first the synopsis states that visitors is about
the story of georgia perry , the first woman to sail around the world solo .
. not sure who wrote that , but it ' s clearly stated while she ' s pulling out of the harbor that if she completes the journey that she ' d be one in a handful of women to accomplish this feat . not only…
well , she didn ' t think she ' d been exploited , she just liked the front page of the sunday papers and the like ! ( laughs ) but it wasn ' t that that sparked off the festival of light , it was the fact that the film had government funding , and was based on a ' pornographic poem ' . and they cited eskimo nell and blue poles , the jackson pollock painting , as instances of the government squandering public funds . and the theatres were picketed , and it was actually fairly successful in terms of damaging the picture . i thought it would be great publicity , but the one thing people don ' t want to hear is that tax dollars have been wasted . the minute they hear that , they ' re less inclined to throw good money after bad , if you see what i mean . so the film was not successful , so that ' s why i made my next film… i needed to make a film that would make money . so the next film was a deliberate attempt to make a sort of send up of the scandanavian sex documentaries that were able to be shown here .
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a fifth film , pirates of the caribbean : dead men tell no tales , was announced in 2013 . plagued by production problems , the movie will make its long awaited debut in u . s . theaters on may 26 .
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filmed at the time of kazan’s notorious huac testimony , viva zapata ! offers a dramatically searching yet ultimately unresolved return to the director ' s roots in radical left - wing theater and politics . written in close collaboration with lifelong mexicophile john steinbeck , who shared kazan ' s fascination with zapata ' s vision and failure , the film uses the idealistic revolutionary to offer an unflinching critique of the limits and corrosive potential of power . featuring one of brando ' s underappreciated bravura performances , viva zapata ! is today considered one of the most evocative screen depictions of the mexican revolution , despite the intense efforts by the mexican film industry to suppress and censor the film during its early production stages .
well , thank you ! i storyboarded the whole film myself , my own drawings . they were fairly rudimentary , but it was a very studied piece of directing . i was doing a thriller , i knew how hitchcock worked , and i had a shoebox with dollhouse furniture . i had some concerns about filming an entire film in a small room , and i peered at this for months , and came up with lots of different camera angles . so thank you .
, which was trying to reinvent the genre . and i ' m not saying that ' s exactly what i ' m doing , i think this particular film probably owes as much to polanski as it does to hitchcock , somewhere between
it was , and it was that that allowed me and tony ginnane to make patrick , which was my next film . even though i had done it under a pseudonym , it was perceived that i could make films that would make money .
you call it a sex comedy , i didn ' t . as i saw it , it was in the same vein as something like , oh god i ' m trying to think of it now , the jon voight - dustin hoffman film -
had already covered the making of a fictitious softcore version ( as well as a gay western , kung fu and sickly family version ! ) of the famous bawdy 19th century poem by a unscrupulous smut film producer . franklin’s version , co - written with alan (
i remember seeing that film when i was living in the middle east , early eighties , i was only 12 or 13 at the time . i saw patrick and road games , both on videotape . and if it made it to the middle east - !
when we screened patrick at the afi awards , i remember being rather devastated at the amount of audience laughter , and then being amazed - nominated for best picture ! what i had done inadvertently was what is now post - modernism , or a self - referential film . the film had fun with the genre , and that was mostly me having fun on the set . i didn ' t really realise that it would transfer to screen quite so well . i thought there was a camp element to the matron and all of that…
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fails to establish any kind of consistency of mood or tone . the film shifts radically in several instances , changing from a horror story to a family drama , from adventure ( look out ! there’re pirates about ! ) to thriller , eventually settling on an ending that seems lifted out of a bad romantic comedy . the whole thing smacks of drastic rewrites , and i wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to find that the film had been re - cut to satisfy a more mainstream audience . not only this , but outside of a few excellent cg - assisted zoom outs to the stratosphere , franklin does a meager job of conveying the truly desperate nature of georgia’s isolation , and for the majority of the film it seems obvious that her boat is floating in a water tank on a studio backlot .
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) hopgood , sticks closer to the source material and transposes the action to a more culturally iconic stomping ground : the ballarat goldfields , the eureka stockade , the snow - capped blue mountains . the ambitious franklin’s second unit even filmed the klondike scenes - where dick supposedly loses his eye - outside montreal , and some incredible location shots such as the iceflows from the canadian far north helped win the film an afi award for best photography . come to think of it , it’s hard to remember when an r - rated film looked so good ! i told franklin that
bloody hell . i mean it would have been a real shame to market it as a horror film , because the stuff that ' s great about road games is where stacey keach is just flipping out and becoming ultra , ultraparanoid , and seeing things that aren ' t there .
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among kazan’s most controversial films , this dynamic and intensely cinematic adaptation of tennessee williams’ provocative study of sexual desire inflamed a passionate outcry from the production code administration and the legion of decency , who tried to derail the film by branding it with their lowest rating of “c , ” for “condemned . ” centered around carroll baker’s still shocking performance as the thumb - sucking yet sexually precocious baby doll and principally shot in rural mississippi , kazan’s mid - career masterpiece offers one of the finest renditions of the psychosexual territory of williams’ mysteriously deep , deep south . print courtesy of ucla film and television archive .
the last of kazan ' s studio assignments , and perhaps his least known film , the anti - communist thriller man on a tightrope was offered by zanuck as a means for kazan to establish his credentials as a
rehabilitated
director immediately following his outspokenness with huac . based on the true story of a czech circus troupe ' s daring attempt to escape to the west , the film is energized by kazan ' s extensive location shooting in eastern europe , the casting of members from the real life troupe , and a steely performance by frederic march as the harried circus leader dreaming of a better life .
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indeed , 70s sex queen abigail was a major selling point , gorgeous as ever and totally starkers ( for the first and only time on film ! ) as esmeralda the leopard - clad wife of a traveling magician who catches pete nailing her to the floor of his “magic box” . after leaving the warm bosom of the
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comes from the tired school of horror where every bit of psychological fright has to be the result of some personal demon manifesting itself visually . so when georgia starts seeing things , they are all characters we’ve met before , and for the purposes of having some dialogue , she usually chats with them for a little while . while i can see why the filmmakers took this route ( they were probably freaking out that they had a feature film with only a forty - page script ) , it does very little to encourage a mood of dread or suspense , emotions so key to a story like this . i found myself wishing that the menace at the film’s center had been a bit more nebulous , or at the very least that the filmmakers had tried to string the mystery along a little longer . as the film stands , we get georgia working out her issues with specters of her dead parents , a recycled plot device that fails to work even in the more direct dramatic sense . this story isn’t
director  richard franklin , screenplay  everett de roche , producers  richard franklin & jennifer hadden , photography  ellery ryan , music  nerida tyson - chew , visual effects  photon , special effects supervisor  peter stubbs , production design  stewart burnside . production company  showtime australia / digitimij / film victoria / bayside pictures .
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is enough of a teaser to keep you watching , although you keep anticipating that there should be more to the story than what you ' re actually seeing . as the film approaches the end , you may find yourself waiting for that pay off to the 85 previous minutes of constant build up , but unfortunately , it comes as a disappointment to find the pay off had already come and went without you realizing it a few minutes before . like the heroine of the film , we see visions and horrifying images flash before our eyes , and while we are looking for something substantive to help us make sense of it all , the answers are too inconclusive to truly satisfy .
yes , by me it was . i mean , i was pleasantly surprised when i learned years later from bill margold that the film was considered a kind of classic in the states . but a classic of an era . i don ' t know how easily you ' d find a copy of it now , you know , in the states .
budd schulberg and kazan reunited to adapt schulberg ' s own cautionary tale about the manipulative and treacherous potential of television and advertising as political tools . misunderstood at the time , and badly wounded at the box office , a face in the crowd seems uncannily prescient in its depiction of right - wing extremism cloaking itself as all - american cracker - barrel folksiness . kazan ' s successful and highly unconventional casting of untested comedians and character actors—dunn in tree , mostel in panic —reached its apogee in his ingenious selection of stand - up comic andy griffith , in his first feature film , as lonesome rhodes , the hayseed populist transformed into an ultimately uncontrollable televisual sensation . print courtesy of ucla film and television archive .
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while the technological infrastructure is ready , the economic prospects sweet , and the audience primed , the media industries haven’t done a very good job of collaborating to produce compelling transmedia experiences . even within the media conglomerates , units compete aggressively rather than collaborate . each industry sector has specialized talent , but the conglomerates lack a common language or vision to unify them . the current structure is hierarchical : film units set licensing limits on what can be done in games based on their properties . at the same time , film producers don’t know the game market very well or respect those genre elements which made something like tomb raider successful . we need a new model for co - creation - rather than adaptation - of content that crosses media .
gillies spits out the smutty one - liners with relish , like “have you ever stuck your dick in a milk pail and churned it till it’s butter ? ” at the heart of the film , however , is the oddly touching parasitic relationship between voyeur dick and coxman pete , and their shared wet dream of finding the fictional lay eskimo nell . “it was an attempt to do something kind of poignant , ” agrees franklin . “in retrospect it probably should have been funnier than it was . but it wasn ' t my intention to make a sex comedy . you just have to remember the era , and the fact that the r certificate had just come in , and we ' d just seen the first full - frontal nude in a commercial film in
richard : i still don ' t talk about it very often… there are people who find the idea a bit offensive , even though it was softcore pornography . i ' d had such a drubbing from the festival of light about true story of eskimo nell , the fact that i then did a sex film , i didn ' t particularly want it to tarnish my career .
no , that ' s when you do an american accent . that ' s when you have english spoken with a bit of an american accent , so it works both places . that ' s kind of what is commonly been done here now for american television that is shot here . but no , this was a miscalculation , because they promptly revoiced the whole film in america .
georgia is played by the severely underrated actress radha mitchell , who does a fine job of carrying the film on her shoulders , but her nuanced performance can’t lift the material beyond its very basic flaws , the biggest of which is that it never manages to deliver on its set - up in any way that’s not entirely contrived and predictable . in all fairness , writer everett de roche ( who wrote
the original film ' s world premiere shut down the theme park . a red carpet was rolled out on main street so johnny depp , keira knightley and orlando bloom could sign autographs and take pictures with fans . other attendees really got into the spirit , like danny bonaduce , who had a sword fight , and daryl hannah , who dressed in costume as a pirate ( eye patch included ) .
yeah , well as i say , it was an attempt to do something kind of poignant… in retrospect it probably should have been funnier than it was . but it wasn ' t my intention to make a sex comedy . you just have to remember the era , and the fact that the r certificate had just come in , and we ' d just seen the first fullfrontal nude in a commercial film in
i don ' t think i ' ve ever seen her in another film . i remember her in stills from about that time . as i recall , she had another name , i think she worked under multiple names , as a lot of them did and do , so i can ' t - she may be better known under another name . but that was the name she wanted to do that under .
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. ” true , for a film marketed as a sex comedy , there is a palpable absence of flesh . “correct . but you ' ve got to remember , this was the beginning of the ' r ' certificate era ; ‘very little flesh’ was a lot . we had a full - frontal of abigail , and a couple of other girls topless , but quite a lot of bad language , you see . that was new . ”
yeah , she had a good time , we got on well . i remember when i made psycho ii , a lot of people asked why we didn ' t use her in the lead . the answer was , it was too obvious . and i screened , one of the first screenings i had of the film was for jamie and janet , who came and saw it . but i haven ' t seen her a lot since .
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well you know the original poem ' eskimo nell ' is pretty raunchy . we were just trying to hypothesise about what kind of a true story might have been the basis of such a poem . i originally wanted to make the film in the states , at the time of the revisionist western , but learned quite quickly that the poem is unknown in the states . it ' s known only in the “english world” , meaning canada , australia and england .
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with this thin veneer of medical ' therapy ' , or whatever , these films were being shown in these little underground cinemas and so on around the place . they were all essentially softcore , and we decided to make a kind of send - up of one , really . not because we wanted to do a send - up , but because we didn ' t think we wanted to do a genuine one . we just wanted to make a fun film about sex !
still , sometimes the very texture of the film , and the information that surrounds the characters on the screen , make it worth seeing . i didn ' t believe in james caan ' s cons , but i believed him , and at times like that it ' s helpful to stop keeping score and live in the moment . between the caan and dillon characters there are atmosphere , desperation and romance , and , at the end , something approaching true pathos . enough .
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how to get to the festival screenings during the jdiff take place in six cinemas across dublin . five of the festival cinemas are located within walking distance of each other in the city centre : the savoy , cineworld , the screen , lighthouse cinema and the irish film institute . the sixth cinema , movies @ dundrum is located at the dundrum village centre and can be reached from the city centre with the green luas tram line which departs from st . stephen ' s green .