it evokes working-class family life in liverpool during the 1940s and early 1950s , paying particular attention to the role of popular music , hollywood cinema , light entertainment , and the public house within this tight-knit community .

the film is made up of two separate films , shot two years apart , but with the same cast and crew .

the first section , ' distant voices ' , chronicles the early life of a working-class catholic family living under a domineering father .

the second section , ' still lives ' , sees the children grown up and emerging into a brighter 1950s britain , only a few years from rock and roll and the beatles , yet somehow still a lifetime away .

the film won the grand prix of the belgian film critics association .

in 2007 the british film institute re-printed and distributed the film across some of britain 's most high-profile independent cinemas , prompting the guardian newspaper to describe distant voices , still lives as " britain 's forgotten cinematic masterpiece " .

in a 2011 poll carried out by time out of the 100 greatest british films of all time , distant voices , still lives was ranked third .

distant voices , still lives

distant voices , still lives ( part 3 ) – music , memory and society .
distant voices , still lives – nostalgia and hardship through sound & music ( part 1 ) .
with the headline : review / film ; ' distant voices , still lives , ' a reminiscence .
weinrichter antonio , “distant voices , still lives . times of a return , ” 253 - 259 .
distant voices , still lives ( part 3 ) – music , memory and society . – celluloid wicker man
pingback : distant voices , still lives – sounds of the past . ( part 2 ) | celluloid wicker man
now you played a very different kind of character in an earlier movie called
distant voices , still lives .
pingback : distant voices , still lives ( part 4 ) – communal singing and domestic abuse . | celluloid wicker man
distant voices , still lives – nostalgia and hardship through sound & music ( part 1 ) . – celluloid wicker man
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terence davies ' s ' distant voices , still lives ' is one of the greatest british films of all time at around 80 minutes .
distant voices , still lives is a 1988 british film directed and written by terence davies . it evokes working - class family life in liverpool during the 1940s and early ? location - ? autobiographical references - ? songs - ? alcoholdistant voices , still lives ( 1988 ) - rotten
jun 3 , 2006 - not the least among its achievements , terence davies ' s wondrous distant voices , still lives offers a crystallization of the appeal of the musical .
terence davies ' distant voices , still lives , a bleak , masterful portrayal of poverty and domestic violence set in 1940s liverpool , brings back vivid memories for beryl bainbridge .
craig nye on twitter :
terence davies ' s ' distant voices , still lives ' is one of the greatest british films of all time at around 80 minutes . …
34 see antonio weinrichter , “ distant voices , still lives . times of a return , ” in q . casas ( ed . ) , op . cit . , 258 .
yes , we were ( slightly ) promised by the bfi the terence davies trilogy and distant voices , still lives this year . surely this a no brainer for criterion to whip up as well .
lavery , d . ,
functional and dysfunctional autobiography : hope and glory and distant voices , still lives ,
in film criticism ( meadville , pennsylvania ) , no . 1 , 1990 .
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thanks gropius - it does seem unlikely , but one can only hope . two major forthcoming releases are available to pre - order at â£11 . 99 from hmv : bigger than life . distant voices , still lives .
cargin , p . ,
diver on distant voices ,
in film ( london ) , january 1989 .
shirobamba wrote : one of my all time favourite films from britain , terence davies '
distant voices , still lives
will get its own bfi booklength study . scheduled for may 2006 . the author is paul farley .
the lives of an english working - class family are told out of order in a free - associative manner . the first part ,
distant voices
, focuses on the father ' s role in the family . the second part ,
still lives
, focuses on his children .
i ' ve been waiting for quite some time on news of the bfi releasing their terence davies films - the trilogy , distant voices , still lives and the long day closes on dvd . is there good news on the horizon ?
in his direction of actors in these films , his stylized cinematography and radical , dreamlike editing helps them dispense with the realism audiences would come to expect . in their clear move away from these traditions ,
distant voices , still lives
though the same actors are used in both sections of distant voices , still lives , different actors and different names are used for the same characters in the long day closes . the locations , however , are similar ( if not identical ) : both features are set in the same desolate , dingy working - class house and liverpool neighborhood . davies’s surrogate is named tucker in his first trilogy and bud in the long day closes ; in distant voices , still lives he has no surrogate .
screen dreams are strangest and strongest when they hit close to home . in terence davies ' searing [ distant voices , still lives ] . . . mystery resides in the vision of his mother , magically poised on the hall sill , washing the outside windows .
mr . postlethwaite : absolutely true . i still have it . i still have it in a little tin box at home and it ' s still there . that ' s true .
distant voices , still lives ( uk , 1988 ) : dir . : terence davies ; prod . : british film institute ( bfi ) , channel four films ; cast : freda dowie , pete postlethwaite , angela walsh , dean williams ; colour ; 85 min .
postlethwaite began appearing on television in the 1970s , in both films and series . it was a brazen and brutal performance as a drunken , abusive husband and father in the 1988 film
distant voices , still lives
that brought him wider attention as a film actor .
distant voices , still lives was released in the year 1988 , some songs of the official soundtrack are the finger of suspicion by dickie valentine , taking a chance on love by ella fitzgerald , oh , mein papa by eddie calvert , o waly , waly by peter pears . listen the soundtrack online !
' ' distant voices , still lives , ' ' was shown as part of the 1988 new york film festival . following are excerpts from vincent canby ' s review , which appeared in the new york times on september 29 , 1988 . the film opens today at cinema third avenue , at 60th street .
mr . postlethwaite : i never thought about it like that , really , but looking at it now , you ' re obviously right . yeah , there was a difference . strange , really because maybe the father in
distant voices , still lives
was inherently weak , whether it was because of his lack of employment or his migraine or his drinking problem , i don ' t know , but he was inherently weak , whereas in a way giuseppe conlon was inherently strong and outwardly weak . i mean he had - he was ill , whereas the father in
distant voices , still lives
wasn ' t .
terence davies ' s new english film , ' ' distant voices , still lives , ' ' which won the golden leopard at the locarno film festival and the critics prize at the toronto festival , is one of those dimly realized personal statements that ultimately says a lot less than the written program notes that accompany it .
the classical , nondiegetic music used in distant voices , still lives is often played sparingly but for smoothing montage like sequences . they also add metaphorical and heightened values to the scenes in which it is used and brings forth the positive nostalgia for the more rose - tinted views of the characters before the inevitable crash of reality occurs .
the filmed i / v with terence davies is by geoff andrew on distant voices , still lives . . . no mention however of a commentary track by davies , which kind of makes sense , as a constant prattle would negate the power and effect of this particular film , and i suspect not something davies would do . . .
the lives of an english working - class family are told out of order in a free - associative manner . the first part ,
distant voices
, focuses on the father ' s role in the family . the second . . . see more »
gross : so it ' s interesting how you were able to embody two such different kinds of fathers and husbands . and i wonder what the difference is in how you carried your own body , how you presented your own self physically in both roles , in
in the name of the father
and
distant voices , still lives .
for no organic reason , mr . davies divides the film into two parts , ' ' distant voices ' ' and ' ' still lives , ' ' in both of which marriages , deaths , baptisms and other family occasions are remembered in no special chronological order . this leads to redundancies that , i ' m sure , are intentionally anti - dramatic .
via a collage - like conglomeration of memories and pop - cultural references ,
the long day closes
brought davies himself back into the equation . front and center is bud , a dour - faced boy on the verge of a puberty all the more traumatic for the explosion of homosexual desire that comes with it ; unlike
distant voices , still lives
the spectre of the father pervades the film , making it a peculiarly anguished and lugubrious rekindling of childhood . however , in comparison to terence davies ' s earlier trilogy , filmed in penumbral monochrome and steeped in sexual and religious guilt , isolation , and fear of death , distant voices , still lives is a positive romp . at least it has music .
sadly , most of the time distant voices is a hit parade of father ' s swiftest punches played to the hit parade that he might have been listening to on the radio .
for those with satellite access to artsworld the trilogy is playing this week and was preceeded by an hour long doc . about douglas . distant voices plays on december 17th . too .
terence davies ' s stunning debut feature film distant voices , still lives was instantly recognised as a masterpiece on its release in 1988 and the director hailed as one of britain ' s most gifted and remarkable filmmakers . re - released in april 2007 as part of a complete retrospective season of terence davies ' s films at bfi southbank , it was once again showered with critical acclaim .
as bigger than life sounds like a film to own . . . and as criterion seems to have ended their relationship with fox to some degree . . . i ' ve just ordered the bfi disc . and since davies sounds like something not to miss , i ' ve also ordered distant voices , still lives as well . i expect that two disc criterion editions will be announced in two weeks .
part nostalgia , part nightmare , the autobiographical distant voices , still lives is writer - director terence davies ' s bittersweet look back at his working - class upbringing in postwar liverpool . while it ' s beautifully photographed , davies ' s portrait of a house divided by a near - psychotic father ( pete postlethwaite ) - - loving one moment , brutal the next - - is . . . read more
despite not even glimpsing davies in the film , distant voices , still lives is a tellingly autobiographical work – his following film the long day closes ( 1992 ) is much more about davies’ childhood with particular emphasis placed upon the exploration and cultivation of a young boy’s burgeoning cinematic consciousness . despite the obvious continuity of distant voices , still lives ‘ two halves – though they were actually shot two years apart using very different crews – there is a subtle variation of light and tone which marks each . for example , the second part of the film ( “still lives” ) is much gentler , less mournful and more dream - like : as the family starts to die ( both literally and figuratively ) it takes on different formations and enters into a different time and place ( mostly of increasing isolation , and in relation to such compartmentalising media technologies as radio ) . the ties that bind , but also the tension of the film itself , loosen as the cultural and social landscape shifts , culminating in a flood of rain and tears .
katie , who has bipolar disorder , describes her experience of hearing voices when she is manic or depressed .
wyeth , p . ,
voices from the past ,
in stills ( london ) , march 1986 .
having now seen the bfi ' s restored print of terence davies ' distant voices , still lives at a cinema , i thought i would make a few comments that some may find helpful when the dvd appears shortly . yes , the images are rather soft . yes , the film is decidedly grainy in appearance . yes , the colours are muted . any reviewer who complains about these qualties may well be asking for something that the original film never delivered !
this priority towards the “truly novel musical resources” sums up the music of distant voices , still lives . it is however far more complex and less of a novelty than adorno would probably give it credit for . similarly to the use of sound , the use of music in distant voices , still lives is a deliberate evocation ; an exploration into the director’s own personal nostalgia for past practices and memories . the use of music can be split into two different types with one notable exception . there is no composed score for the film in a normal sense for a period drama . instead , distant voices , still lives uses a variety of sourced music and specially recorded arrangements of songs , both used equally to evoke the era and the memories . everett ( 2004 , p . 176 ) is again the main investigator of this stating : “however , autobiographical discourse , as we have seen , is about the processes of memory and does not therefore seek the closure of nostalgia , so that , even when the nostalgic potential of popular songs is exploited , this is generally done ironically and self consciously . ” because of a lack of distinction between whether she is discussing diegetic or nondiegetic , we will see that this is only half true . the first of these uses is found in the nondiegetic section of the soundtrack and can be described as more classically orientated both stylistically and in its use .
i ' ll most definitely be picking up those davies films . great to see that they ' re coming so soon . . . distant voices was a real revelation . doesn ' t bfi also own bill douglas ' s films ?
this is the first feature film of liverpudlian terence davies , obviously autobiographical , dealing with a family called davies and their lives during the 1940s and 1950s . the film is divided into two parts : distant voices ( 45 mins ) centers on the wedding of eileen , eldest of the three davies children , and the funeral of her father , [ … ]
terence davies wrote in the introduction to the published script for distant voices still lives ( 1988 ) that he was ' trying to create ' a pattern of timeless moments ' . ' yet that picture has a stronger dramatic line than the long day closes ( 1992 ) . in distant voices family life eddies around an immovable rock : the father ' s violence to the mother and their children . he has furies , never explained . at christmas , sat down to dinner , he suddenly pulls the cloth off the table and roars at his wife to clean up . a man can die eventually , but that sort of timeless moment lingers . violence persists , like an old smell , and can make new nostrils mad again .
the latest addition to the venerable bfi modern classics series is dedicated to distant voices , still lives , terence davies ’ elegiac debut feature . set in ‘a world before elvis , and in a liverpool before the beatles ’ , this intensely autobiographical meditation on a post - war working - class child hood remains one of the finest british films of the last twenty years , and its maker one of british cinema’s most original voices . davies has not made a film since the house of mirth ( 2000 ) and his treatment at the hands of uk film bodies and financiers is evidence of a shameful and almost criminal neglect .
more generally , it still amazes me the number of classic films that are not available on dvd . it does make me wonder why companies devote time and resources to relatively obscure dvds and books when many classics still are not available .
distant voices , still lives
is aesthetically distinguished by two radical choices that set it dramatically apart from other family - memory films of the era ( john boorman ’s
hope and glory
[ 1987 ] is an excellent concurrent example in the united kingdom ; while ettore scola ’s
the family
[ 1987 ] and barry levinson ’s
avalon
[ 1990 ] make for more sentimental evocations of similar themes of generational loss from other countries , italy and the united states , respectively . )
with the long day closes english filmmaker terence davies completes his second autobiographical trilogy . ( faber and faber has conveniently published the screenplays of the six films — all his films to date – with an introduction by davies , under the title a modest pageant . ) i haven’t seen the first trilogy – children ( 1976 ) , madonna and child ( 1980 ) , and death and transfiguration ( 1983 ) — but the first two parts of the second , shot in 1985 and 1987 and distributed as a single feature , distant voices , still lives ( 1988 ) , still strikes me as one of the greatest of all english films .
drawn from his own family memories , distant voices , still lives is a strikingly intimate portrait of working class life in 1940s and 1950s liverpool . focusing on the real - life experiences of his mother , sisters and brother whose lives are thwarted by their brutal , sadistic father ( a chilling performance by pete postlethwaite ) , the film shows us beauty and terror in equal measure . davies uses the traditional family gatherings of births , marriages and deaths to paint a lyrical portrait of family life - of love , grief , and the highs and lows of being human , a ' poetry of the everyday ' that is at once deeply autobiographical and universally resonant .
if distant voices was marked by its temporal leaps , then still lives seems marked by a static lack of progression—perhaps appropriately , considering its title . even though the father is dead , the memory remains , and , in davies cinema , memory is as alive , real , and affective as any present . it also plays on the titles possible double meaning , ambiguously suggesting both its pairing as an adjective - noun and adverb - verb ( their lives have stilled , because the father still lives ) . the biggest time shift features a remarkable cut from eileen and daisy tearfully watching love is a many splendored thing in the theater ( with the title track swelling ) , to tony and masie’s husband falling in slow motion and crashing through glass from a top - down perspective . as is typical in the film , we only find out what this is connected to later , as both were injured in a scaffolding accident .
the film is a diptych . distant voices was shot in the autumn of 1985 . at that time still lives , which was shot in 1987 , had not even been written . however , the narrative is elliptical . depicting various key moments—wedding , christening , illness , war—in the life of a liverpool family , it jumps from tableau to tableau : there is no jarring disjunction between the two halves . if anything , the gap between them helps to give a real sense of time passing and enables characters to age convincingly .
whereas other films potentially could work in narrative terms without its music , distant voices , still lives is at once completely reliant on both digetetic and nondiegetic music and sound ; “… music is not being used as mere background support , surreptitiously shaping our emotional responses as we concentrate on dialogue and action , but is at least as important as these in creating the film’s meanings . ” ( everett , 2004 , p . 172 ) . the argument between these two terminologies will become increasingly complex from scene to scene as it becomes more ambiguous and debatable as to where the sound comes from . this is a brief overview of a complex drama whose relationship with sound and music is the first to truly reflect the complexity of working - class life . though it also deals with a number of similar issues to the previous films , the power of nostalgia and memory ironically allows a truth to enter into the representation of the working - class in distant voices , still lives ; an obvious irony considering that it has the longest time between its production and period setting .
the film is divided into two parts : distant voices ( 45 mins ) centers on the wedding of eileen , eldest of the three davies children , and the funeral of her father , events which spark memories of the past , including the frightening war years when the city was bombed frequently ; still lives ( 39 mins ) actually was filmed two years after the first part , with the same actors but with a substantially different crew . it’s a seamless continuation which climaxes with the wedding of another of the clan , son tony .
this is one of the key features that distinguishes the film from the other two and allows a breed of nostalgia to be born . whereas before the films were made to highlight problems and issues of the very present day , distant voices , still lives is a personal journey back into the past allowing the 1988 film to be set at roughly the same era as our other examples . this explains a number of the techniques on display that will be discussed later but it is too generalising to simply state that it is the main factor .
what is most surprising about terence davies ' film adaptation of lewis grassic gibbon ' s sunset song is how close the director seems to his material . the novel , published in 1932 , is the story of a sensitive young woman growing up in a rugged , rural community in the north - east of scotland just before the first world war . it is a world away from the working - class liverpool of the director ' s own childhood in the late 1940s , so movingly depicted in his autobiographical distant voices , still lives ( 1988 ) , and yet the two films sit together as companion pieces . they are both deeply felt family dramas with the same mix of lyricism and extreme brutality . they both feature abusive father - figures who terrorise their wives and children . there is plenty of music and communal singing in each of the films . the interior of the little farmhouse in which the family lives in sunset song isn ' t so different from that of the home depicted in distant voices .
the filmmaker actually shot the film as two deliberately contrasting halves , each made with a different crew over a two - year phase ; distant voices peeks through pale - sepia tones while still lives abounds in ominous - ethereal fades to white just as painterly stillness alternates with gliding camera movement . the title may imply the stagnation of oppressed lives , yet the picture’s lasting impression is one of concentrated , purified motion , of images poetically triggering images , and , above all , of waves of feeling flowing from screen to audience and back . never ignoring the characters’ pain as the family dissolves in the course of the film , davies brings to their gatherings a heartfelt sense of emotional community struggling with the inescapable passage of time .
the songs , presented cold , clearly mean more to the director than they do to an audience that doesn ' t share his very specific feelings of loss and love . ' ' distant voices , still lives ' ' has the rigorous , studied look of advanced film - school work . the color photography has a soft , golden hue , and the camera movements are stately , with a lot of pans from right to left and , on occasion , a slow rise toward heaven , as if the film ( and the man directing it ) were looking up to god .
davies recently detailed with characteristic candour his struggles with organisations such as the uk film council but events seem about to take a turn for the better . a new film , an adaptation of lewis grassic gibbon ’s sunset song has been announced , and after its rousing reception at the recent 50th london film festival , the restoration of the magnificent distant voices , still lives will go on general release in february 2007 . time has done nothing to dim the film’s beauty and power ; farley’s book – to which davies’ was a fulsome contributor – is a valuable and erudite companion piece .
if you ' re living with any of the issues katie describes in her blog you may find our info on bipolar or hearing voices useful .
this is the first feature film of liverpudlian terence davies , obviously autobiographical , dealing with a family called davies and their lives during the 1940s and 1950s .
arthur miller professed surprise when death of a salesman , to him a quintessentially american play , was successfully produced in china . distant voices , still lives , despite being located in so specific a time and place , has a similar universality of appeal . it taps into british and american cultural memory ; in the way it recreates an era through its media habits , its cinema - going and wireless listening , it is akin to woody allen ' s radio days . but its themes , marriage , birth , death , memories of the anguishes and pleasures of family life , make it accessible to almost anyone , even to xenophobic continental critics who still find it impossible to link the idea of
cinema
with that of
britain .
made in 1961 , when homosexuality was still illegal in britain , this drama sees a gay lawyer fighting against a blackmailer targeting gay london men .
even if you weren ' t in a foul mood , this is still a completely valid point , this film should be on a fucking dvd .
fullerton , j . and king , e . ( 2005 ) , ‘local views , distant scenes : registering affect in surviving mexican actuality films of the 1920s’ ,
its narrative quirks are another hint that time has passed since the events in the film occurred . moving on from the clearly signposted backtracks of the loneliness of the long distance runner , distant voices , still lives is a more impressionistic look at the lives of a worn down post - war liverpool family and it is given this impressionistic view by its sound world . songs and sounds appear and disappear , moving from scene to scene , sometimes from the past , sometimes from a fixed present . it is a visual feast of a film with williams ( 2001 , p . 110 ) recalling davies’ work ( among other directors ) to be of a heavily visual basis ; “their work is so strong visually , it shows harrowing class experiences , but it’s not didactic . it shows something from the inside . ”
the second film in terence davies ' s autobiographical series ( ' trilogy ' , ' the long day closes ' ) is an impressionistic view of a working - class family in 1940s and 1950s liverpool , based on davies ' s own family . the first part , ' distant voices ' , opens . . . read all
58 the first attempt to blow up the concrete framework of the winnipeg arena did not succeed ; it was still standing after the explosion of dynamite charges .
set in 1940s england , distant voices / still lives is a compassionate look at a radically dysfunctional family . the son and his mother must endure the casual and overt cruelties of the bull - necked father . the ongoing abuse takes its toll in the form of failed marriages and misguided attempts at seeking security outside the family unit . as was the case with his earlier short subject trilogy ( the children , madonna and child , death and transfiguration ) , director terence davies based much of the material on his own life , combining rheumy - eyed cynicism with soft - edged nostalgia ( the musical track , drawn from popular wartime songs , is particularly evocative ) .
this is another reason most of the media — including supposedly “serious” publications like the new yorker – feel ill at ease with such a movie , preferring just about any hackneyed plot to a piece of cinema without a paraphrasable story . similarly , some reviewers have argued that the absence of the brutal father figure in the long day closes means a certain loss in dramatic tension compared to distant voices , still lives . i can see what they mean , but only if drama and tension are defined solely in terms of character and incident . if consciousness itself is the subject of the long day closes , as i believe it is , then there’s very little drop in feeling and intensity .
terence davies’ autobiographical second feature is the last film to be examined . unlike the other two examples , this film needs far more recontextualisation as its overall aesthetic choices for sound and music are greatly affected by differing factors . the first thing to note is that distant voices , still lives can be classed as a period film . williams ( 1993 , p . 241 ) argues that “whether conscious or not , davies attempts traumatic depictions using characteristic techniques of memory fragmentation and nonlinear representation involving his audience in the unpleasant realm . by doing this , he avoids the nostalgia inherent in any work dealing with the past . ” as we will see , the musical argument completely contradicts this reading .
it would be impossible for davies to show working class life in all of its complexities without music and sound . everett ( 2004 , p . 171 ) believes this is instantly obvious because of the sheer volume of music in the film , stating “however , as soon as we move to distant voices , still lives , we become aware of a major shift in davies’s treatment of music . this is obvious merely from noting the proportion of the film in which music is heard . ” the film is one whose soundtrack tells as much as its visual narrative , sometimes even more so . as we will see , davies is a director who is conscious of the powerful relationship between sound and vision ; one that when used in very specific ways can recreate that feeling of stumbling upon a memory . its haphazard jumping between time frames and reliance on sound worlds from different periods in the family’s life speaks of the whole film being one long recollection with only an olivier voice - over missing to give it the obvious tell - tale sign . everett ( 2004 , p . 65 ) also argues that “in distant voices , still lives , the camera glides through and between memories , twisting and turning upon itself in complex patterns which if not chronological or plot - driven may instead be recognised as musical and harmonic . ” even the very structure of the film seems quintessentially musical .
davies’s film is an act of exorcism , but also one of redemption . “i make films to come to terms with my family history , ” the director has said . “if there had been no suffering , there would have been no films . ” distant voices , still lives is a far darker work than the long day closes , davies’s luminous 1992 follow - up , where he could freely , lyrically recall the burgeoning awareness of his homosexuality , his joy for cinema , or , simply , the stupefying play of light on a carpet ; as armond white superbly put it , the difference between the two films is the difference between “memories davies can’t get rid of and memories he won’t let go . ”
the second way davies’s film represents a radical move away from traditional forms of fictional narrative is in its use of music . the whole of
distant voices , still lives
is constructed of seemingly disconnected scenes , threaded together by a complex series of voiceovers , popular songs and religious hymns , and , occasionally , synched dialogue that is used to sound - bridge disparate spaces . the most memorable sounds that bring together the film’s many shards as well as create a more thematic harmony , however , are the popular radio tunes or ditties sung on - camera by its many characters . entire sequences are made up strictly of these songs , whether performed as solos or singalongs , in the family’s parlor or in the neighborhood pub .
his film credits were extensive , but particularly notable were his work on john schlesinger ' s cold comfort farm ( 1995 ) , and his long association with the director terence davies , for whom he worked as musical director on the films distant voices , still lives ( 1988 ) , the long day closes ( 1992 ) and the neon bible ( 1995 ) . davies ' s meditative and elegiac films about a liverpool working - class family were appealing to lockhart , who was born and brought up in wigan and never quite adjusted to what he viewed as the terminal effeteness of the south - east . other film credits included andrew grieve ' s on the black hill ( 1988 ) and the thriller vicious circles ( 1997 ) .
what is perhaps more interesting is that , by recalling this post - war era , davies has also recalled its reliance on music ; something that neither of the previous films acknowledged . “the first problem of reflectionism affects both classical and marxist schemes since they conceive of music as a primarily reactive phenomenon . ” argues flinn ( 1992 , p . 88 ) and though the musical reactions of the loneliness of the long distance runner reflect this problematic stance , distant voices , still lives shows a reliant music rather than a reactionary relationship . in the context of davies work though , many of flinn’s general arguments are lacking ( through no fault of the writer’s ) prompting everett to call them “over - simplistic” ( 2004 , p . 175 ) .
despite a career of critical acclaim , terence davies still struggles to get his films made . whose fault is that ? just about everybody ' s , he tells simon hattenstone .
there are lighting changes that signal the passage of time ( a carpet pattern seen at different times of day ) and transitions into and out of bud’s daydreams . ( seated at his desk in the center of a classroom , lit by a spotlight , he looks out the window and sees a huge ship sailing past , gets sprayed with wind and rain , then is seen dry as the other boys in the surrounding desks become visible again . ) there are recurring architectural motifs — windows are as important here as doors were in distant voices , still lives — and recurring postures . ( looking out various windows in his house , bud often kneels on the floor , which recalls his prayers in church and his rapt leaning against the parapet in a movie theater balcony . )
the association accounted for variables like cohabitation , chronic physical and mental disorders , depressive symptoms , and emotional - social support . worries emanating from close relationships like partners or kids were more strongly related to mortality than worries from those more distant . but still , even if you are not overtly trying to kill your neighbor , it would seem that a duplicitous relationship could be ravaging you both .
with his next two films , davies continued to excavate his past , breaking up time in even more radical ways .
distant voices , still lives
( 1988 ) and
the long day closes
( 1992 ) , companion pieces of a sort , and the works on which the director’s reputation largely lies , are woven tapestries of sounds and images , dreams and desires of a specifically working - class milieu that both evoke and fly in the face of the british school of realism that defined davies’s national cinema , from john grierson and humphrey jennings’s groundbreaking experiments in documentary in the 1930s and 1940s to the “kitchen - sink dramas” of the 1950s and 1960s to the “heritage” and new - realist films of the 1980s and 1990s , typified by merchant - ivory and mike leigh , respectively .
the film feels no need to shy away from the issues that were simply impossible to be put on screen during the 1940s and even the early 1960s but does use music to in some way account for the presence of darker themes . everett ( 2004 , p . 177 ) puts this down to a need to break the nostalgia : “davies allows nostalgia to develop and then to be destroyed from within . ” this is the main point on which we disagree . though great attention is paid to the music in her writings on both distant voices , still lives and the director’s general use of it , it seems that the visual narrative has won over the writer rather than its sound - world which only breaks from nostalgia properly for one segment , even though the film has more than one unpleasant scene .
in contrast to this elusive editing , the visuals provide concrete , tangible textures . dvsl has a supremely unique look and feel to it ; davies said it was due a bleach process in film development that desaturated the color , creating slightly washed - out tones . davies calibrated this to the range of browns and sepia colors , creating a film that looks like old - photographs without ever being obvious or one - dimensional . the art design and lighting adds to this , and it’s certainly one of those films where you can almost feel the tactile quality of the surfaces , from the stones to the wood to the wallpaper . as the distant voices section gives way to the still lives section , davies consciously warms up the tone . even though it’s still desaturated , there’s now more angled , diffused , glowing light . the grays and blacks of the former give way to the golden reds of the latter . this is especially potent during davies’ repeated fades to white , which envelop his characters in an angelic glow .
there is something indescribable about the very real pleasures of terence davies’ breakthrough film , distant voices , still lives . it is a slippery , intangible work and its most beautiful moments ( of which there are many ) emerge from a combination of evocative sounds , more particularly music , the exactness of composition , and the vicissitudes of camera movement . most descriptions of the film and even the title itself suggest it embodies a kind of anti - cinema that is defined by notions of stillness , isolated sound and enclosed tableaux and yet this says little about the film’s atmosphere or explicit textuality ( which are both self - conscious and felt ) . a film which can , in turns , effectively evoke the cinema of michael powell and emeric pressburger , bill douglas , yasujiro ozu , and the mgm musical must be considered in terms that respect its cinematic specificity .
an impressionistic view of a working - class family in 1940s and 1950s liverpool , based on davies ' s own family . the first part , distant voices , opens with grown siblings eileen , maisie , and tony , and their mother arranged in mourning clothes before the photograph of their smiling father . soon after , the family poses in a similar tableau , but for a happier occasion - - eileen ' s wedding . while relatives sing at her reception , eileen hysterically grieves for her dad , and recalls happy times of her youth . tony and maisie ' s memories , however , are more troubled . . . . in still lives , set ( and filmed ) two years later , the siblings are settled in life , but not all happily . for eileen , relief from her drab existence comes only when singing at the pub .
commissioned as part of liverpool’s 800th birthday celebrations in 2007 , the british premiere of of time and the city ( terence davies , 2008 ) in the city’s philharmonic hall in 2008 was celebrated as a major european capital of culture event . hailed at cannes as a distinctly ‘terence davies’ film , of time and the city is a personal triumph for davies , returning after an eightyear absence from film making to the place of his birth and the memories that inspired his acclaimed semi - autobiographical films distant voices , still lives ( 1988 ) and the long day closes ( 1992 ) . a bitter - sweet love song to his native city composed of 85 per cent archive footage , most of it shot in liverpool between the 1940s and the early 1970s , of time and the city traces the exterior spaces and places of childhood and adolescence evoked but never seen in these earlier films .
not the least among its achievements , terence davies’s wondrous distant voices , still lives offers a crystallization of the appeal of the musical . an odd linkage , to be sure , since the genre’s trademark studio boisterousness would seem a world away from the kitchen - sink dreariness of the director’s mood piece about his years growing up with his working - class family in post - wwii liverpool , dominated by his abusive ogre of a father . yet davies transcends the facile trap of misery - porn by tapping into the basic notion that could make musicals so enlivening—music as direct expression , music as emotion felt . cinema is the most unashamedly emotional of arts , and the musical feeds in no small part on repressed , frustrated sensations , the better to explode them with bursts of melodious bravura ; what are musical numbers , after all , if not lyrically stylized declarations of feelings that could not be expressed any other way ?
but then i thought well , you can ' t , you know , you still can ' t go be an actor . i mean people from warrington don ' t go and be actors , really . so i decided to carry on - i ' d teach for a couple years and then see what happened after that and if i still fancied it after that i ' d follow - i ' d go and do it .
if you combined the personalized art therapy of ingmar bergman with the formal ellipticism and familial focus of hou hsiao - hsien and the theme of an elusive , fractured , and free - association memory of tarkovsky’s zerkalo you’d have a perfect , if difficult , description of terence davies’ aesthetic . davies had begun his career with his trilogy , three short , black & white films made between ’76 and ’84 . poetically fractal and challenging in their own right , the trilogy chronicled davies maturation as a filmmaker , beginning with the rawness of children , to the more studied and transitional madonna and child , and concluding with the masterful death and transfiguration . but if the trilogy was the herald , then distant voices , still lives ( dvsl ) is the second coming—the ultimate testament of the greatest of post - war british filmmakers . this film retains all of the emotional and aesthetic power of its predecessors , while offering a sophisticatedly refined form and style to match .
distant voices , still lives delves into the mechanics of memory ( which it never conceives of as mechanical at all ) and the mechanics and possibility of representing this memory in cinema . in the process it investigates the capacity of fictional cinema to act as memory book or family album . the film illustrates an important tension between evocative , realistic and tellingly detailed portrayal and the inaccessibility of the material portrayed to us ( which can only be represented , distanced , voiced , stilled ) . essentially what it offers is an emotionally charged self - conscious cinema throughout which we can sense the presence of the camera as it isolates an empty stairwell , cranes up from a sea of umbrellas , lingers over a composition , or perfectly frames and situates character within space . in the end davies’ film shows us duration , emotion , memory , the constructedness of space , and their interconnectedness . in the process it provides a heartfelt lesson in the nature , specificity and beauty of cinema itself .
dvsl also contains a more ostensible link to its predecessors due to the fact its narrative is rooted in davies’ autobiographical past . in the trilogy , davis had focused on his own life ( and imagined death ) , but dvsl removes davies the character from the equation . here , the canvas is much broader , trading the isolated suffering of the trilogy for a more communal one . what emerges is an impressionistic take of a working class family in england during the 40s and 50s . as the trilogy was made up of three , thematically connected short films , dvsl is made up of two , half - feature - length films itself . distant voices traces the sense - memory associations of davies’ family’s life through the period up until their father’s death , capturing that life in brief snatches of scenes that flow into others like tributaries into lakes . still lives , however , takes us outside the oppressive home environment to focus on the marriages of davies’ older sisters and brother , and the birth , christening , and party for the first child of the siblings .
the second film in terence davies ' s autobiographical series ( ' trilogy ' , ' the long day closes ' ) is an impressionistic view of a working - class family in 1940s and 1950s liverpool , based on davies ' s own family . the first part , ' distant voices ' , opens with grown siblings eileen ( angela walsh ) , maisie ( lorraine ashbourne ) and tony ( dean williams ) , and their mother ( freda dowie ) arranged in mourning clothes before the photograph of their smiling father ( pete postlethwaite ) . soon after , the family poses in a similar tableau , but for a happier occasion - eileen ' s wedding . while relatives sing at her reception , eileen hysterically grieves for her dad , and recalls happy times of her youth . tony and maisie ' s memories , however , are more troubled . davies intermingles and contrasts scenes like the family peacefully lighting candles in church with the brutal man beating his wife and terrorizing his young children . in ' still lives ' , set ( and filmed ) two years later , the siblings are settled in life , . . .
the story is divided into two parts , just like the title . distant voices is the frightening memory of the alcoholic and violent father , played brilliantly by the british actor pete postlethwaite , dictator in his family , where he seeks his revenge on a gray life , all set in a leaden and popular liverpool before the beatles era , in the ' 40s and early the following decade , a city photographed so impressionistic by patrick duval . the other part of the film , still lives , focuses on the attempt to turn the page of the family , after the death of the father , and the whole story revolves around the marriage of his son , the protagonist of the film , symbolic moment of a new beginning . a new beginning that the film shows us to be nevertheless always within the same mechanisms , as if the characters were been forced to repeat the mistakes which have been affected themselves , and to repeat in their family , the family of origin . to mark the difference , the fragments of memories are separate by black screens in the first part , and by screens white and full of light , in the second one .
the pebbles are the moments outside time , the shards of memory at the heart of the movement . these “timeless moments” are positioned quite literally outside the flow of time by being depicted as still or frozen poses which disrupt the temporal and spatial movement of the film itself . 36
just three floors below the impact zone , not a thing budged in steve mcintyre ' s office . not the slate paperweight shaped like a sailing ship . not the family snapshots propped up on a bookcase . mcintyre found himself in front of a computer that was still on .
it is not often that british films win prizes at international film festivals . truffaut , despite his penchant for hitchcock , and satyajit ray have both remarked that the british are more or less temperamentally incapable of holding movie cameras . a low - budget , bfi - financed account of a working - class childhood in post - war liverpool hardly seems likely to set the continental critics alight . nonetheless , distant voices , still lives received the international critics prize at the cannes festival , and also shared the golden leopard at the locarno festival . perhaps as a result of its european reception , the film was apotheosized by british critics , who , while lavishing extravagant praise , insisted on writing about it as if it were a remake of a room with a view , as if it were yet another piece of cosy , edwardian nostalgia : terence davies , the
proletarian proust ,
had , we were told ,
wrenched high art from the lower depths of his deprived liverpool childhood .
his film was like
coronation street by bresson .
( it is ironic that a film which recreates an era largely through its popular culture should be treated as a piece of
art house
cinema . )


the plainsman is a 1936 american western film directed by cecil b. demille and starring gary cooper and jean arthur .

the film presents a highly fictionalized account of the adventures and relationships between wild bill hickok , calamity jane , buffalo bill cody , and general george custer , with a gun-runner named lattimer ( charles bickford ) as the main villain .

the film is notorious for mixing timelines and even has an opening scene with abraham lincoln setting the stage for hickok 's adventures .

anthony quinn has a role as an indian .

a remake using the same title was released in 1966 .

the plainsman

‘he has a disquieting poem ‘the conquest’ , indicative of local distrust of the plainsman . ’
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‘the plainsman had gold eyes , tan , weathered skin , and black hair . ’
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‘the legacy of buffalo bill ' s fight with yellow hair vexed the plainsman in his own day and survives among the myths of the american west . ’
‘the small plainsman dug around in his pocket for a moment before coming up with a small sheet of parchment . ’
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when the land needed law . . . when the west needed taming . . . when adventure needed a giant . . . they sent for the plainsman !
the poet - philosophers of the plains ( and every plainsman is one ) know that the plains are unknowable in their totality , and are therefore charged with possibility .
‘cody was , as later observers noted , authenticating for future stage audiences the dramatic but heretofore fictional attire of a plainsman . ’
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‘i ' d never thought of myself as a plainsman , but those trees closed in on me , creeping ominously up from the side of the road and obscuring my view of the horizon . ’
‘in other words , the differences between a yankee , a southerner , and a plainsman were insignificant compared to the differences between a german , a frenchman , and an italian . ’
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a revamp of dining plans , updated facilities , a steak ‘n shake in the student center and more are on the horizon for tiger dining . glenn loughridge speaks with the plainsman about the changes coming to tiger diner . read more at : urltoken
the texas rangers selected hudson in the 36th round of the 2013 mlb draft .
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‘his achievements as an advocate for indians , a hunter - turned - protector in the effort to save the buffalo from extinction , and as a genuine plainsman , scout , and showman was also secure . ’
just days before the auburn equestrian team competes in the ncea national championships , the sec announced the recipients of its postseason awards .
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immediately i will push aside the issue of how the plainsman portrays native americans . it is problematic - the villains in a cartoonish two dimensional sense but more galling played by visibly caucasian actors speaking in what jean - luc godard referenced as
navajo english
for film socialisme . but it would…
‘the hill - dwellers of uttaranchal have long felt unhappy under the thumb of the uttar pradesh plainsmen . ’
‘he forced himself to get the stove alight and began to fill pans with water and as they boiled he went in search of salt and vinegar and any other herbs that he could find that were the plainsman ' s only defenses against any disease at that time . ’
the group discovers stick figures that were seen in the original film as the symbol of the blair witch . however , they find out that lane and talia crafted the figures in an innocent attempt to get the group more serious about finding out about the blair witch .
overall , i believe that the film was a beautiful representation of what the blair witch project would look like in 2016 . the acting was just a little bit too awkward . the fact that the story followed almost the exact same plot as the original was also disappointing .
‘when i lived among the plainsmen of the mattah ' ri , i was apprenticed for a while to the mapkeeper . ’
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in 1999 , the blair witch project left audiences wondering what on earth happened to three students filming a documentary in the woods about a legend known as the blair witch . the “mocumentary” takes place in the forest of the black hills , close to burkittsville , maryland . unfortunately , the characters were not able to escape the forest and died .
before venturing into the woods , the group meets with two people who found the original film in the woods . lane , played by wes robinson , and talia , played by valorie curry , join the group after hearing about their intent for going back into the woods .
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after following almost the exact same ending as the original film , with poor acting , the blair witch is finally revealed in about one frame as lisa and james are running up the stairs . however , i feel as if the image of the witch should remain unseen . that’s what keeps the mystery going . if the characters in the film are not allowed to see her because they will turn into stone , then neither should i .
as the duo begins to put the pieces together to solve the case , they come to find that there are bigger problems that have come upon the city of zootopia . in officer hopps investigation , she reveals to the public that the predators of the city are going back to their natural ways , bringing fear to the town that at one time brought much joy to all who lived there .
in this scene we see several government officials talking in a room . one of them , while talking , is playing a game . the game is to balance the lid of an ink bottle on the end of a ruler and over the ink bottle . when the ruler is flicked rapidly gravity would do the rest and the lid would fall into the ink bottle . things don ' t work to plan and the lid falls on its side . in the next wide shot , the lid is right side up and a little distant from where it fell earlier .
‘salty for the most part , yet with a trace of tanginess , it was a change from the devilled foods favoured by the plainsmen of gratze . ’
the film follows students working on another documentary . one of the group members , james , played by james allen mccune , lost his sister , who was one of the members of the group from the first film . james gathers his friends , lisa , ashley and peter , for a hike into the black hills with a variety of modern video recording equipment . anything you can find in the video aisle at the store was brought into the woods , including a drone .
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for murnane , for the plainsmen , this obviously apparent richness of the actual is a kind of poverty .
the first major mistake occurs not even one minute after the group enters the woods , as ashley slips on a stone in a creek and cuts her foot , leaving a wound on the bottom of her foot . throughout the film , every time you hear a cracking noise , ( and i mean every single time , ) ashley screams and is limping throughout the rest of the film .
( 1956 ) with the corresponding passage in the old testament - - his storytelling instincts were formidable and the scene of hickok ' s death remains effective to this day .
division i baseball also recognized dakota hudson as a second - team all - american . the web site listed the right - handed pitcher as the ninth best prospect in college baseball earlier this month . urltoken ranked hudson the 33rd best prospect overall in the 2016 mlb draft . perfect game named the pitcher a third - team all - american .
during the 1860s tucson , a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent local businessmen and rampaging indians .
major lex kearney becomes the north ' s first counterespionage agent as he tries to discover who ' s behind the theft of union cavalry horses in colorado during the civil war .
‘after the cattle were sold and the skin stripped , these rough - and - tumble plainsmen would cook the carcass over an open fire , and thus , it ' s said , the argentine passion for grilled beef was born . ’
theres one big battle scene and an impressive series of stunts , but the rest of the flick drones on . . .
i don ' t have much to say about the plainsman , so i ' m going to use this as a platform to say a few words about gary cooper . cooper has such a wonderful screen presence . i couldn ' t take my eyes off him here . he ' s tall and handsome , and while perhaps not the slickest actor he ' s perfect in roles like this where he represents a certain quiet , dignified , average american wholesomeness .
with the end of the north american civil war , the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the north american indians , using the front man john lattimer to sell the rifles to the cheyenne . while traveling in a stagecoach with calamity jane and william
buffalo bill
cody and his young wife louisa cody that want to settle down in hays city managing a hotel , wild bill hickok finds the guide breezy wounded by arrows and telling that the indians are attacking a fort using repeating rifles . hickok meets gen . george a . custer that assigns buffalo bill to guide a troop with ammunition to help the fort . meanwhile the cheyenne kidnap calamity jane , forcing hickok to expose himself to rescue her .
after finding out that they have been walking in circles , the group rules out lane and talia in a very awkward exchange about being drugged in the middle of the night . the acting in this scene was so awkward . i couldn’t tell whether lane and talia had drugged the group because they were speaking with sarcasm , which did not make any sense in the script .
twenty seven years after the original film , rumors of a possible remake had lovers of horror films anticipating “the blair witch . ”
deck’s musical creations stay true to him and his roots . he does not try to be something he’s not or try to compete with other artists for the limelight . although he has yet to officially co - write with others , he is open to the idea and said he believes “the best idea wins . ” he plans to continue this mentality into the making of his second album . he is currently working with the same producer from the first album , creating a fun experience and “finding the beauty in the process . ”
i ' ve just put on your film the plainsman . my father - in - law is staying with us at the moment , and while he never seems to have much interest in anything except fixing things and ncis ( you might not be familiar with that show , but i assure you the most exciting thing about it is its title ) , i thought maybe he would like to watch an old western . western ' s often have men that are hardworking , and my father - in - law is if nothing else , a hardworking man . so far he seems to like it . or more to the point he…
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the trouble starts when judy meets nick wilde , ( jason bateman ) a fox , who isn’t being served at an ice cream shop because he is a shady fox , of course hopps takes up for him and helps him get the popsicle he was wanting . unfortunately the joke is on hopps , when she discovers that nick is actually a con - artist . the two end up working together when wilde is the last to see mr . otter that has gone missing . the pair will have to combine forces to solve the case of the missing otter .
after splitting up , more things go wrong and the group becomes separated , leaving poor ashley and her gross foot trying to find a way out of the pitch black forest with nothing but a gopro and a limp . she eventually finds a drone that lisa ends up getting stuck in a tree . she climbs the tree to get the drone and falls out of the tree .
in the past year , deck has accomplished so many things , such as releasing his first album , titled “jared deck . ” deck describes his album as a reflection of his own life and the experiences he has had growing up , as well as the life lessons he has learned along the way .
deck has recently performed at the americana music festival in nashville , tennessee . he says that he had attended the event in 2015 and loved the experience of making music and made it a goal of his to be a part of it . when he got offered the opportunity , he was very honored .
when the group wakes up , it is 7 a . m . and the sky is still dark , leaving the group in a panic , except for ashley , who at this point has become loopy from her infected foot .
as judy successfully completes the police academy being top of her class , she is assigned to a precinct in the heart of zootopia , the city where predator and prey animals live together in harmony . soon judy will find out that life in the big city is not what it’s all cracked up to be .
: look , presents for my brothers , the cheyenne - you red hyenas .
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well , let ' s face it : this film will never win an academy award , but it ' s still a nice decent entertainment with humour touches . fine acting and a typical plot make this film a good indians and cowboys one . this is a remake of 1936 cecil b . de mille ' s the plainsman with gary cooper . here don murray plays will bill hickok , guy stockwell william cody and abby dalton calamity jane . all of them do it all right although no sparkling . leslie nielse appears in the end of the movie as col . custer . beautiful scenery ( the opening credits and first meeting between hickok and chief black kettle specially ) and nice script ( see the scene where calamity jane talks with cody ' s wife about men ) . so do not expect a ten star film but still worth watching .
in addition , auburn had seven freshmen named to the four sec all - freshman teams . diaz and megan rauh were honored in horsemanship , blair mcfarlin and ali fratessa placed on reining , boyle and alexander earned spots on both the equitation on the flat and fences teams , while iannotti joined both of them on the fences .
the native american ( anthony quinn ) who happens upon hickok and cody ' s camp has the guidon for company e , 7th cavalry . this company , commanded by lt . algernon smith , was known as the
gray horse company
.
the group goes to sleep and is awaken by loud noises , branches snapping , and shaking tents . after checking on each other , the group discovers that lane has gone missing , though they later find him in the woods just wandering around .
i can ' t really make claims for the quality of the movie , but it sure is fun to watch jean arthur with a cowgirl outfit and a lasso .
demille may have taken clear liberties with the story but the paramount executives , he claims , wanted even more . demille recalls in his 1959 autobiography :
as every historian of the old west knows , jack mccall killed wild bill hickok by shooting him in the back . it was worrisome enough to the paramount executives that we were making a picture in which the hero , gary cooper at that , was to be killed in the last reel instead of riding off into the sunset with jean arthur in the happy ending which audiences are always expected to demand . first the executives asked me not to kill wild bill ; i told them i could not remake history to that extent . ' well then , ' adolf zukor said finally , ' if he has to be killed , don ' t let him be killed by that little rat , mccall . at least let charles bickford kill him ! '
fortunately , demille stood firm . while accuracy was obviously never demille ' s strong point - - just compare the episode of the golden calf in
in all , auburn had 13 riders earn accolades , led by a duo of seniors . elizabeth benson was named co - sec flat rider of the year , while griffin knight was named co - sec horsemanship rider of the year . benson finished the year without a loss in conference play , and she begins the national championships as a first - team all - american in equitation on the flat . knight also earned first team all - american honors as she enters the national championships with a 12 - 2 record in horsemanship .
comically inaccurate but wildly entertaining epic western that only cecil demille could make without being laughed out of town . his flamboyant style and tendency to melodrama are a good match for the larger - than - life figures of the protagonists and help us overlook the preposterous premise that historical events which took place over an 11 - year space , in the movie ' s universe occur during a six month period . there is no deep message in the subtext…
wild bill hickok , calamity jane and buffalo bill encounter a crooked gun runner who is providing weapons to a tribe of cheyenne rebels . the trio help general custer deal with both the uprising and the criminals providing them with arms , making deadly enemies in the process . cecil b demille ' s western , starring gary cooper , jean arthur and james ellison .
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in 1862 , central pacific and union pacific railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward california .
semi - fictional account of pirate jean lafitte ' s involvement in the war of 1812 .
‘cowboys were of course plainsmen - midwesterners operating from texas to kansas to the dakotas . ’
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after finding a place to sleep for the night , the group decides to check on ashley’s dirty , bandaged foot . accompanied with gross squishy noises and puss , the bandage is unwrapped , leaving the horrifyingly disgusting image of a deep stab wound leaking green liquid . when ashley asks how her foot looks , james tells her it looks wonderful and nothing is wrong . this is where i first noticed that the script was beginning to look a bit unhinged .
a pair of freshmen also were honored . caitlin boyle was named sec freshman rider of the year in fences and flat , while lauren diaz took home the same award in horsemanship .
in 1885 , a texas ranger travels to canada to arrest a trapper who ' s wanted for murder and who ' s stirring up the natives in a rebellion against the canadian government .
on the outside , it would seem like the biggest free agency signing in a long time would make all my hopes and dreams come true . but i would have rather seen him retire
if you’re looking for a fun film that the whole family can enjoy then zootopia is the movie for you . it brings life lessons to the big screen in a disney kind of way . it also brings a catchy songs that will have you singing along . as disney steps away from the princess movies and into a new world of zootopia , they bring the magic alive . i give it 5 out of 5 stars . a must see for any movie goer .
boasts , among other things , a three - acre set for deadwood city and a recreation of the battle of little big horn which was filmed on location in the cheyenne indian reservation at lame deer , montana , employing some two thousand native americans as extras . in order to maintain control over the second unit shoot , demille kept a model of the second unit location along with detailed plans for shot setups , which he conveyed to second unit director art rosson over the telephone .
knew all that the southwest had to offer of danger and was equal to any of it .
this movie left a very memorable impression on me . i remember thinking about the blair witch for months after watching it as a child . this film inspired shows such as “siberia , ” and the latest season of “american horror story . ” this led me to believe that the sequel would be a wildly entertaining film . however , i found myself leaving the theater full of disappointment .
did the name
bill
have to be said so often ? it sure was excessive .
“there are some undergraduate and graduate courses or certificates in nonprofit organizations in alabama and other parts of the country , ” said dr . pamela ulrich , head of the department of consumer and design sciences .
( 1915 ) , for instance , is considered a groundbreaking work in the development of film editing .
a new adventure indeed , going from a small town in oklahoma to performing in big cities and the county music capital , nashville . with songs such as his first single , “the american dream , ” which won the woodie guthrie song competition , deck creates an amazing country album with a blues twist .
as in many of demille ' s other films , this one has lots of detailed business going on in many scenes ( as in the pre - sailing of the riverboat ) , but it . . .
coming to auburn as a freshman without a car , places to study are much more limited . without the luxury of getting away from the chaos of campus to study , one must become creative in their methods .
fun opening turns into a racist bore after 20 minutes & never recovers . jean arthur starts as whipsmart firecracker calamity jane but becomes immediately helpless & spends the rest of the movie spewing redskin slurs and whining biiillll like an uncool equestrienne peg bundy . also the
villains
are evil for arming indians against white guys .
during the great depression , a wealthy banker throws away his wife ' s expensive fur coat ; it lands on the head of a stenographer , leading to everyone assuming she is his mistress and has access to his millions .
the man - hungry queen of egypt leads julius caesar and mark antony astray , amid scenes of demillean splendor .
a person who lives on a plain , especially a frontiersman who lived on the great plains of north america .
calamity jane gets mixed up in an indian war and the friendly rivalry between wild bill hickok and buffalo bill .
( 1956 ) to john ford . demille ' s association with the western genre dates back to his debut feature ,
sticking to being himself and keeping true to the music that represents his life is what jared deck is all about .
my first cecil b . demille . the extravagance is visible onscreen , his interest in bombast and grandeur visible just in the premise . a western which includes numerous cameos of real frontier figures , a grandiose attitude to american pride and bombast . his shots of a frontier town are full of extras in the background . emotional melodrama at every turn unfortunately it has not dated well .
with his first album getting more attention , major magazines such as “rolling stone” and the “american songwriter magazine” have interviewed him . through all of the attention , deck remains grounded , and he said he believes that the true meaning of making it is to just be better than you were yesterday , to continuously try to be a better you and put your own thoughts out there .
a city girl on a bus tour of the west encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her simpy city suitors .
during his journey to creating his first album , deck explains his thought process as he “really wanted to speak to the moment we are all living in , in the united states . ” he describes his song list as “songs i wrote for me . ”
during the riverboat card game scene , bill hickock , who
doesn ' t like women
is clearly wearing a wedding band .
one of the best i have ever seen please show it on t . v . have not seen it in years . thank you
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pointless remake of cecil b . de mille ' s 1937 epic which starred gary cooper , jean arthur , and james ellison . this version boasts the much less dynamic talents of murray , stockwell , and dalton as wild bill hickok , buffalo bill , and calamity jane . the plot revolves around the romance between murray and dalton , with several rip - snortin ' western - type episodes . . . read more
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eight tigers were awarded all - sec honors , with benson earning a spot for both equitation over fences and equitation on the flat . freshmen hayley iannotti , ashton alexander and boyle also earned spots on fences , while juniors tory hoft and ashley foster were named to the flat team .
a 30s big budget flick that feels much more 40s , demille ' s struggle in the definitive western film feels more like a rushed hodgepodge in combining as many western legends , tropes , and historical scope that one can in 2 hours . beginning with lincoln ' s assassination and the end of the civil war , the story shifts with cody + hickok journeying out west , where they meet jane . dispatched on a mission for general custer , it ' s a rough , wildly dated portrayal of the indigenous peoples . jean arthur is excellent as always , even if her role is written as more masculine than one would like . ironically , she ' s more rough and hard nosed in ' arizona ' .
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after the end of the civil war ,
wild bill
hickok meets at missouri
buffalo bill
cody with his wife , and old flame calamity jane . together they travel west and after a fort is attacked by indians they decide to investigate a white gunrunner who sells rifles to them .
noted that jean arthur bears only a passing resemblance to the traditional image of calamity jane :
she doesn ' t chaw tobacco any more . she doesn ' t cuss . she doesn ' t run around with the boys . she just talks low and husky , is cute when she is being tomboyish , and she loves wild bill so much she almost faints when the indians start torturing him to make him tell which way the ammunition convoy is heading .
for her role jean arthur did , however , learn to use a bullwhip , which she handles impressively . look for a young anthony quinn as the lone cheyenne who tells cody and hickok of custer ' s defeat at little bighorn . quinn , incidentally , later married demille ' s daughter katherine .
a no - holds - barred spectacle from cecil b demille , impressively capturing the landscape of the wild west , teeming with hordes of sioux and cheyenne indians , and merrily ignoring historical truths . this western also presents us with a totally fictitious romance between wild bill hickok and calamity jane , gloriously glamorised by gary cooper and jean arthur . a highly enjoyable action epic in true demille style , the film features james ellison as wild bill ' s friend buffalo bill , john miljan as general custer and frank mcglynn sr as abraham lincoln . for what it ' s worth , the then unknown anthony quinn can be spotted , done up as a cheyenne brave .
though disc golf is a newer sport in lee county , it has quickly gained a popular following , and new courses and tournaments may soon be coming to the area .
even my girl , jean arthur , couldn ' t save this . her character started out strong but then fell apart . i suppose that could be said for most of the characters .
inside this disney movie is a real look at what happens when people of various cultures find themselves in the same space , trying to work together for the sake of making it in a new world . though it’s not always easy and peaceful , there are things to be learned from everyone and everything . that no matter who you are , you do have a voice in this world .
deck explained that he is a huge buddy holly fan and was very excited to perform in his idol’s hometown . on oct . 22 , he performed along side other artists at the blue light bar in lubbock’s depot district .
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( 1940 ) , set in canada . while few would place demille in hawks ' and ford ' s lofty company , during his career of some 50 years he displayed a consistent knack for turning a profit and made a number of very fine films along the way .
in the land of zootopia , all mammals have evolved and have become citizens of this new world . judy hopp ( ginnifer goodwin ) is a bunny who grew up dreaming of becoming a police officer . as this was looked down upon , for this job was only held by predator animals . no one gives her much of a chance . being told by everyone including her parents that she should change her dreams that she should dream smaller . however she is determined to fight for her dream and break the stereotype that only big predators can be in law enforcement .
since that time , he’s thrown 34 innings at mississippi state . he made 17 appearances out of the bullpen last year after starting five games as a freshman . hudson went 1 - 1 in 2015 with a 4 . 32 era . he struck out more than a batter an inning .
“we have a lot of holidays in this country , but this one is extremely special , and it means a lot to a lot of us , a lot of people fought and died for our rights , and it’s just a great community event where the whole community can be a family . ”
baseball america ranked mississippi state no . 20 in its preseason poll on monday . the bulldogs are ranked in a handful of other national polls as well . perfect game placed them no . 17 . collegiate baseball ranked msu no . 11 . division i baseball slotted mississippi state at no . 15 .
wrote that the film was
[ p ] layed with spirit and intelligent understanding by principals and entire supporting cast , with class individual performances sticking out all over [ . . . ]
gary cooper , who plays wild bill hickok , became one of demille ' s favorite leading men , appearing subsequently in
i find it really interesting that demille reportedly hated james ellison ' s performance as buffalo bill so much he wanted to be certain the actor never appeared in a film of equal quality again . i thought he was fine . besides , i don ' t consider his co - star gary cooper a great actor . he can come off stiff , too . some people are just jerks . : p
born in weatherford , okla . , deck grew up on a small farm with his family . this is where he first discovered his knack for music , especially for blues and country . just like anybody living in a small town , deck says he just had to get out and be something more . “the town isn’t big enough for who we think we’re going to be someday , ” deck told plansman press in a recent interview .
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wild bill hickok attempts to stop an indian uprising that was started by white gun - runners .
pioneering film maker cecil b . demille dies - from guardian archive , 22 jan 1959
a wealthy mystery writer uses her doctor ex - husband ' s non - payment of alimony to coerce him into a reconciliation .
judge roy bean , a self - appointed hanging judge in vinegarroon , texas , befriends saddle tramp cole harden , who opposes bean ' s policy against homesteaders .
a good - natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick , is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head .
long - missing bill cardew returns to find his wife vicky remarried . . . and in no hurry to settle for just one husband .
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calamity jane tries to help buffalo bill cody and wild bill hickock stop an indian war .
hotel transylvania 3 : summer vacation stars plan their dream summer getaways to some memorable movie settings .
at one stage , this was envisaged as a steve mcqueen and sophia loren starring vehicle .
: i ought to notch your ears for you . a man like you ought to be marked .
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( 1937 ) , bears producer / director cecil b . demille ' s signature as clearly as
( 1914 ) , which he remade in 1918 and 1931 . other demille westerns include
screenplay : waldemar young , harold lamb and lynn riggs , inspired by stories by courtney ryley cooper and frank j . wilstach ' s book
principal cast : gary cooper ( wild bill hickok ) , jean arthur ( calamity jane ) , james ellison ( buffalo bill cody ) , charles bickford ( john lattimer ) , helen burgess ( louisa cody ) , porter hall ( jack mccall ) , paul harvey ( yellow hand ) , victor varconi ( painted horse ) , john miljan ( general george a . custer ) , frank mcglynn , sr . ( abraham lincoln ) .
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‘during his stage show years , which lasted from 1872 to 1885 , he was often joined by other notable plainsmen . ’
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wild bill hickok ( don murray ) , buffalo bill cody ( guy stockwell ) and calamity jane ( abby dalton ) team up against gunrunners .
all my hero ` s and heroine . abraham , lincoln , wild bill , buffalo bill . general custer and calamity jane . better then a basketball game , no hero ` s thereput a . . .
wild bill hickok ( gary cooper ) , calamity jane ( jean arthur ) and buffalo bill ( james ellison ) go up against indians and a gunrunner .
cast notes : this was helen burgess ' ( louisa cody ) film debut . she was just 19 years old . sadly , she died at age 20 from pneumonia .
cecil b . demille patriote à tous crins , fait de wild bill hickok un héros de la conquête de l ' ouest .
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knight added to her accomplishments with an all - sec accolade in horsemanship , and alexa rivard earned a spot in reining .
that is something that resonates with people , and something that was a goal for deck that he was blessed enough to achieve .
“it was something we wanted and worked our tails off for it , ” said deck .
mississippi state pitcher dakota hudson was named second - team all - american by division i baseball on monday .
mississippi state opens its season feb . 19 against florida atlantic at dudy noble field .
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