god is my co-pilot is a 1945 american black-and-white biographical war film from warner bros . pictures , produced by robert buckner , directed by robert florey , that stars dennis morgan and co-stars dane clark and raymond massey .

the screenplay by abem finkel and peter milne is based on the 1943 autobiography of the same name by robert lee scott , jr. ( april 12 , 1908 – february 27 , 2006 ) and tells the story of scott 's involvement with the flying tigers and the united states army air forces in china and burma during world war ii .

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andrea king and dennis morgan in “god is my co - pilot , ” warner bros . , 1945 .
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“god is my co - pilot” was a monumental success for warner bros . in fact , it became one of the studio’s highest grossing pictures for the year 1945 .
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jason bailey is the film editor at flavorwire . he is the author of the ultimate woody allen film companion .
god is my co - pilot is a 1945 american propaganda film based on the autobiography of the same name by robert lee scott , jr . the film tells the story of scott ' s association with the flying tigers and the united states army air forces in china and burma during world war ii .
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pilot tex ( john ridgely ) leads his squad against the japanese in china , chennault ( raymond massey ) and scott ( dennis morgan ) observing , american johnny ( dane clark ) making hay , in god is my co - pilot , 1945 . >
formerly the hawaii international film society or hiff ohana , now the hawaii film fans , brings together hawaii ' s film lovers before , during and after the annual hawaii international film festival .
pre - flight drawing by co - pilot robert lewis detailing the bombing of hiroshima . ( screen capture : youtube )
luke is another lorelei , making him a god in human form and arguably the only reason they succeed at saving auldrant . this makes this a rare case where the god isn ' t so much co - pilot as much as straight up pilot if unknowingly so .
baccano ! has its own strange take on this idea . maiza ' s co - pilot isn ' t god , but rather nyarlathotep ' s expy .
star dennis morgan in the voice of author and hero col . robert lee scott jr . narrates the opening of god is my co - pilot , 1945 , introducing big mike ( alan hale ) and general chennault ( raymond massey ) . >
premiered in macon , georgia , scott ' s hometown , god is my co - pilot went on to commercial success as one of the last of the patriotic productions to be screened during wartime . in a modern context , the film has received a revival in interest as it is now considered one of the
classic
aviation films primarily due to its aerial scenes , which , even at the time , were considered one of its assets . along with scott ' s role in telling the story of the flying tigers , god is my co - pilot is now considered more as a historical record .
priest big mike ( alan hale ) holding court in the cabin en route to china , joins col . scott ( dennis morgan ) in the cockpit , in the warner bros . bio - pic god is my co - pilot , 1945 . >
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dennis morgan ( as hero and author col . robert lee scott ) , now with the
flying tigers ,
takes on three japanese
zero
pilots , including chatty
tokyo joe ,
( richard loo ) , in god is my co - pilot , 1945 .
this is such a great film and i know it was one of my dad ' s favorites . he was a pilot in the army air force ( usaaf ) in wwii . i have the log of all his . . .
dennis morgan ( as hero and author col . robert lee scott ) , now with the
flying tigers ,
takes on three japanese
zero
pilots , including chatty
tokyo joe ,
( richard loo ) , in god is my co - pilot , 1945 . >
obviously warner brothers took the title of col . robert l . scott ' s war book ,
god is my co - pilot ,
much more literally than the author did . for their rip - roaring film based on that chronicle , which came to the strand yesterday , is heavily - - and often embarrassingly - - larded with piety . view full article in timesmachine »
“i have decided that now is the appropriate time to reveal my unique collection to the world for consideration . ”
fridge brilliance : god is played by george burns - a secular jewish man .
and in a short story , it is revealed to the reader that wencet of rum is a god in disguise .
overall , this is an enjoyable film to view . . . but there is a bit too much
god
in it to make it exciting . the extended references to religon . . .
regarding the complaints about references to god and religion , consider the title and the fact that it is a true story . my father flew long - range photo . . .
the silver maile documentary nominations are :
fury for the sound : the women at clayoquot
( canada ) ;
habitual sadness
( korea ) ;
journey to beijing
( china / usa ) ;
manuel ocampo : god is my co - pilot
( usa ) ; and
nadya ' s village
( japan ) .
robert eberwein is distinguished professor of english emeritus at oakland university in rochester , michigan , author of armed forces : masculinity and sexuality in the american war film , and editor of the war film .
god is my co - pilot was based on the best - selling autobiography by fighter pilot col . robert lee scott jr . ( dennis morgan ) , who fought in the pacific during world war ii . at 34 , scott was considered too old to fly in combat , but he volunteered for a secret bombing raid from the philippines against the japanese capital of tokyo . when the mission is cancelled after he arrives in india , scott flies transport aircraft over the hump into china .
it comes to a head in possibly the film ' s silliest single scene , which finds whip visiting his bible - thumping co - pilot and the man ' s wife at his hospital bedside . ( when whip says he ' s happy to be alive , mrs . co - pilot quickly corrects him :
blessed to be alive .
)
nothing happens by accident in the kingdom of the lord ,
the co - pilot thunders , as the wife actually kisses the cross around her neck behind him , a moment of both painful literalism and amateurish upstaging . she then starts proclaiming
praise jesus
during her husband ' s little sermon , a moment that is played for oddly incongruent laughs , since the movie is barely subtler than she is .
other gala presentation films are :
dance me to my song
( australia ) co - starring rena owen of
once were warriors
; the philippines ' film
in the navel of the sea
; and
the soong sisters
( hong kong ) .
this was a difficult movie to find . it was a welcomed birthday gift for my friend .
god is flawed : played mildly for laughs . god readily admits his mistakes , such as the goofy design of ostriches and the oversized avocado pits .
, is actually a proto - god , and already has a pretty good handle on omniscience .
god is my co - pilot
could have been great but as this film suffers from a disjointed and confusing narrative , apart from a lack of plot , i find the final results to be disappointing . the best things about this film , are the dogfight scenes and the performance of alan hale as the irish missionary . dennis morgan is o . k but rather wooden . i noticed that he seemed to change in appearance over a brief period of 3 years , morgan looks rather older in the film and i ' m sure he wasn ' t that old in 1945 . raymond massey is good as the superior officer and it made a change for him to play a more likeable character . dane clark is completely wasted , he hardly has any screentime and yet he is near the top of the cast ! some of the dialogue between the americans and the japanese in the dogfight scenes seemed rather silly and out of place somehow . i wasn ' t particularly impressed . robert florey ' s direction isn ' t bad but judging by his efforts with
god is my co - pilot ,
i ' m just glad that he didn ' t direct
frankenstein
back in 1931 .
publication date 1999 title variation god is my copilot production credits director , phillip rodriguez ; producer , tom patchett ; cinematographer , esteban de llaca . participant manual ocampo , dennis hopper . format vhs .
in midnight at the well of souls , the main character himself is revealed to be god . . . or something like god , at the end .
the golden maile feature film nominations are :
the sound of one hand clapping ( australia ) ;
my rice noodle shop ( china ) ;
via satellite
( new zealand ) ;
the terrorist
( india ) ; and
spring in my hometown
( korea ) .
noted that the
pious injection of the spiritual in an otherwise noisy action film is patently ostentatious and results in a maudlin effect .
festival officials tonight will announce this year ' s film and event schedule at the plaza club .
: george burns ' s character tells john denver ' s character that he ( burns ) is god , and he spends half the movie trying to convince him that he really did see god . the other half is spent in court , with god as a character witness .
the u . s . film
xiu xiu - the sent down girl
directed by joan chen is the festival ' s opening film . it will screen at 6 : 30 p . m . nov . 6 at hawaii theatre .
i got over my blind allegiance , and now stick by israel ' s side , through thick and thin .
kids praise / music : god appears in one christmas album and explicitly tells psalty that the apparently - magical music that accompanies his songs is actually god ' s own doing .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
bruce almighty has a homeless guy appear repeatedly with somewhat - relevant cardboard signs , who it turns out is god . meeting god first as a janitor and electrician might also count .
at the climax of oh god ! you devil , when the devil lost his nerve in a poker showdown with god , god commented ,
i put the fear of me into you .
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what happened to the mouse ? : in oh god ! , jerry is given a series of tests for god to perform . god notes they are in aramaic and the tests play no further part in the movie . in the original book , god revealed his presence by solving all the tests , not personally appearing .
“my god , what have we done ? how many did we kill ? ” lewis wrote later in the month . “i am certain the entire crew felt this experience was more than anyone human had ever thought possible… if i live a hundred years i’ll never quite get those few minutes out of my mind . ”
: when bobby sees god , he thinks it ' s tophet . when he realizes who it is , he apologizes .
in the first movie , god is sworn into court testimony by pledging
. . . so help me me .
a film flying on two wings and a prayer - the wings being swift and the prayer mighty . . .
one of my favorite movies of all time . i have an original hard copy of the book worth over $ 1500 and had my original copy of this poop out some years ago . for me , this is a have to have movie . very enjoyable and reasonable cinematography slightly better than
the flying tigers .
by casting the remarkable events of that day into a framework of miracles and
somebody up there looking out for them ,
we cheapened and minimized the split - second thinking and considerable talents of captain sullenberger .
i think , in many ways , as it turned out , my entire life had been a preparation to handle that particular moment ,
he told katie couric on 60 minutes a month later . indeed , sullenberger had 30 years on the job , had been an air force fighter pilot , and had trained flight crews in how to respond to emergencies in the air . the passengers and crew of flight 1548 survived that flight because sullenberger was their pilot , not because god was his co - pilot .
new
was the recipient of the critic ' s award at this year ' s venice international film festival .
hiff members receive freebies , discounts and deals at video stores , movie houses , and film magazine subscriptions . participating film - friendly partners include the honolulu academy of arts theatre , the movie museum , tower video , on the juice , gordon biersch and more . members also get priority ticket selection and flash pass privileges during the hawaii international film festival .
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drawings , log books and letters by the co - pilot of the enola gay , the american plane that dropped the bomb on hiroshima on august 6 , 1945 , have been publicly displayed for the first time before going on auction , 70 years after the fateful mission .
god beats the devil in a hand of poker when the devil decides to fold . and what was god ' s downright amazing hand ? complete garbage .
with as many as 60 aircraft committed to the production , the film was the most ambitious of its kind in wartime .
the janitor is implied to be some sort of supernatural force , possibly even god itself towards the end of the game , he even knows mae ' s name . the god ( ? ) mae meets in her dream point out that the thing mae calls god doesn ' t exist , or at least is working in such a subtle manner that is impossible for them to see , which would be fitting of a janitor
some things we cannot do alone , but with god we can do anything .
one hitler parody video reveals günsche to be god , hitler was not pleased .
, god gives bobby this sort of rebuke when bobby begs for his help .
world war z has a downed pilot who gets guided to rescue by a voice on the radio calling herself
mets fan
or just
mets
for short .
mets
is a pun on metis , mother of the goddess athena . . . and the pilot may or may not have imagined her and her guidance .
thornton sayre , a respected college professor , is plagued when his old movies are shown on tv and sets out with his daughter to stop it . however , his former co - star is the hostess of the tv show playing his films and she has other plans .
“when my father retired in 1979 he decided to do something significant about his world war ii experiences , ” stephen lewis told the daily express .
this page may by only partially complete . for additional information about this film , view the original entry on our archived site .
the film ' s air operations were directed by hollywood
stunt pilots
frank
speed
nolta and major frank clarke .
ii - era spirit - lifter based on the bestseller by fighter pilot col . robert lee scott , jr . dennis morgan plays scott , an
evil cannot comprehend good : the devil believes there ' s no way god would put untold thousands of souls on the line just to save one man . he is proven wrong during the poker showdown in oh god ! you devil .
god : you made a deal with the devil . how dumb could you be ?
us army air force captain robert lewis , the co - captain of the enola gay aircraft responsible for the bombing of hiroshima . ( screen capture : youtube )
after andrea king received rave notices for her very first featured role at warner bros . in 1944’s “the very thought of you , ” things began to happen very quickly for the promising young actress . she was thrown into a string of back - to - back films , and the studio’s well - tuned , star - making process began . one of those projects was the wartime drama “god is my co - pilot” ( warner bros . , 1945 ) , in which she played opposite dennis morgan as his hometown sweetheart and wife . the film was based on the real - life heroic adventures of col . robert l . scott and his fighting tigers squadron that had recently claimed a huge victory overseas assisting china’s battle against the japanese . col . scott had penned his memoirs rather quickly in a best - seller with the same title , and warners purchased the film rights and began production immediately .
there is a theory that the unknown
friend
who sends you anonymous letters revealing the locations of word walls is really talos .
and talks about his visits with god , his home is mobbed by groupies and visitors who want his time , his blessing , and his divine seed .
god :
lose a job , save a world . not a bad deal .
the first act of the director robert zemeckis ' s new drama flight culminates with what is already being called the finest and most terrifying plane crash sequence ever committed to film . an engine failure on a full - capacity passenger flight has put the aircraft into an uncontrolled nosedive . the co - pilot ( brian gereghty ) is in a screaming panic , desperately trying to regain control of the plane , but the pilot , whip whitaker ( denzel washington ) , keeps it together . he calmly
inverts
the plane ( turns it upside down ) in order to level it off , then brings it in for a landing in an open field . as the giant jet approaches the grass , he utters three words over the pa :
brace for impact .
i last saw this film on a series called the vintage years of hollywood in 1963 . i have been trying to find it for fifty years
filmgoers also will able to view , in one screening only , the imax spectacular
everest ,
the most profitable imax feature film ever .
: it was kind of inevitable that the movie ' s interpretation of god would deviate a bit from the typical theological view . one of the most blatant instances is the page quote ; it appears that god has a really lousy memory , because he did a
robert zemeckis ' s film , seemingly inspired by chesley sullenberger ' s emergency hudson river landing in 2009 , gives the credit to the wrong guy .
almighty janitor : at one point , god appears as a litter - cleaner in a park .
divinely appearing demons : in oh , god ! you devil , george burns plays both god and the devil . they look the same , although the devil prefers to dress all in red .
the film is set during the final stages of the cultural revolution , when a pretty young woman ventures into the countryside as part of the
people ' s education
program . chen will attend the opening night festivities .
certain to be a popular discussion will be
on - screen violence : how much is too much ? a panel of experts moderated by roger ebert discusses the popularity of violence as depicted in film and television images worldwide .
inspired by churchill ' s dunkirk speech , brash , undisciplined bush pilot brian maclean and three friends enlist in the rcaf but are deemed too old to be fliers .
the bravo / independent film channel in cooperation with pacific new media presents
making ultra - low budget feature films : the art of affordable technology .
divine race lift : among god ' s other forms are a black woman and a hispanic busboy .
god :
absolutely , i can tell the future — the minute it becomes the past .
sinister minister : played mildly in oh , god ! , with money - grubbing televangelist willie williams .
everything ' s better with rainbows : in oh god ! you devil ! , god makes a rainbow appear in the night sky above las vegas to confirm that he has heard bobby shelton ' s prayer .
this is how they did it , the transition in which the . . .
in the town for which the movie is named , sheriff shaw . . .
finally , the story
manannan at play
is basically a patchwork of short stories about how wandering ireland as a scraggly clown is a hobby of his .
in a modern context , the film has received a revival in interest as it is now considered one of the
classic
aviation films primarily due to its aerial scenes , which were even at the time , considered one of its assets .
yet the hand of god ( well , his disciples , anyway ) is all over flight . when whip brings in his plane for its open - field landing , the wing crashes into the steeple of a nearby church , whose members are performing baptisms in a nearby pond , wouldn ' t you know it , at that very instant . ( it ' s a laughably unsubtle moment in a movie filled with them . ) shortly before the flight , the chief flight attendant is giving whip the business for not going to church ; as he lays in the hospital recovering , his pilot ' s union rep ( bruce greenwood ) tells him ,
the way you landed that plane was nothing short of a miracle .
while in the hospital , whip shares a secret smoke with a cancer patient , who delivers a faith - floating monologue , assigning the randomness of the universe—everything from his cancer to his impending death to his meeting the pilot at that moment—to the big guy upstairs . the co - pilot ' s wife , we ' re told , has informed the press ,
god landed that plane .
tom the dancing bug uses the inverted trope whenever god - man teams up with human - man , as in february 2 , 2008 . in other works , god disguises himself but helps someone . here , god - man reveals himself at the beginning , but has done nothing to help human - man by the end .
intentionally awkward title :
god
as an interjection was still considered a swear word by a lot of folks in 1977 . at least one newspaper ( the mormon - owned deseret news in salt lake city ) refused to print the title of the original . the movie ads would just label it as
a comedy starring george burns
or even just show his picture along with quotes from the film . probably because it was such a good - natured film ( with god portrayed positively ) , the sequels didn ' t have this problem at all .
parodied in the final season of 30 rock when jack stars in the new nbc series
god cop
. the show has a new york city detective team up with his new partner , god , to solve crimes , and creates confusion amongst characters and viewers alike as to why god doesn ' t just tell the police who the criminal is , or stop the crime from happening in the first place .
: a borderline case ; while god is not particularly malicious , he also doesn ' t seem to care about the difficulties that jerry ( or his family ) goes through in delivering his message .
premiered in macon , georgia , scott ' s hometown , the film went on to commercial success as one of the last of the patriotic productions to be screened during wartime .
the popular
stop , look and listen ii : a film , media and technology forum
continues this year with
roger ebert ' s democracy in the dark .
this is played with by fizban ' s apparent expy zifnab in the death gate cycle . he has the same mix of senile eccentricity with flashes of remarkable wisdom and power , and at one point even says that he ' s a god , but is really just a very crazy old man with a lot of plot - centric information locked up in that confused brain . the dragon that is his constant companion , however , is a semi - divine being .
, people run into a supposed stranger who is usually eventually identified either as god or
the angel of the lord
. ( the resurrected jesus also made a few appearances in this manner . )
at age 34 , army air force pilot major robert lee scott jr . ( dennis morgan ) is considered too old to fly in combat , but he is recruited and volunteers to fly in a secret bombing mission from the philippines against tokyo , the japanese capital . when the mission is cancelled after his arrival in india because of the fall of the philippines , scott is promoted to colonel and is then assigned to fly transport aircraft . he flies dangerous , unescorted missions over the hump from burma to china in order to supply aviation gasoline and other much - needed supplies to the three squadrons of the american volunteer group , the flying tigers .
grandpa god : granted , he ' s a lot less majestic than the usual use of this trope . . .
dean : . . . cas , are you god ? castiel : that ' s a nice compliment , but no .
the two - week film festival - - running nov . 6 through 19 is celebrating its 18th anniversary . this year ' s hiff gathering features 108 films - - 70 features - - from 24 countries , including for the first time , france , and a section on world comedies .
blinding plot speed as hildy ( pat o ' brien ) , who really is . . .
evil is petty : the devil delights himself by bringing the gypsy moth back to new england .
the gods must be lazy : invoked repeatedly by god ; whenever he is asked why he doesn ' t solve the world ' s problems with his omnipotence , he simply handwaves it as something people must do for themselves .
: god specifically tells his prophets that he could have appeared in any other form , but chose one that they could understand .
newscaster cameo : hugh downs and barbara walters appear in the second movie to discuss tracy ' s
think god
campaign .
recognizing that the appeal of the series was george burns himself , the third movie oh , god ! you devil ( 1984 ) has him play both god and satan . in a straightforward deal with the devil plot , a struggling musician named bobby shelton ( ted wass ) sells his soul to the devil in exchange for fame and fortune . trapped by satan , he seeks help from god ( who has been watching over him ) , and the two nemeses face off for god ' s list of protected souls .
in red dead redemption there ' s much , much more to the mysterious stranger from
i know you
than first meets the eye . what nature of supernatural being he is is debatable .
the mickey mouse 2013 short
mumbai madness
, has mickey help an elephant go to a shrine on top of a steep mountain . the ending of the short strongly implies that the elephant is actually the hindu god ganesh .
if the protagonists are upset by the fact that the god figure didn ' t use their powers to help them earlier , a hand wave of
you didn ' t ask
combined with having to maintain the balance between good and evil is often used . or possibly god just wanted to help the protagonist in some way without completely spoiling things for him . if god doesn ' t seem to do any miracles , but somehow nudged events anyways , he ' s working in mysterious ways . however , it ' s commonly kept ambiguous whether he did anything miraculous — or even whether he ' s god at all .
before that there is a seemingly mad eremite who talks to god and points althalus towards the edge of the world . when the events from the beginning of the book are re - run at the end of the book ( with alterations on althalus ' part ) , it turns out the eremite was talking to himself — he was actually deiwos , the creator god
in that 60 minutes interview , couric asked sullenberger if he took time , in the three and a half minutes between the bird strike and the landing on the hudson , to pray . sullenberger ' s answer is diplomatic , but pointed :
i would imagine somebody in back was taking care of that for me while i was flying the airplane . . . my focus at that point was so intensely on the landing , i thought of nothing else .
in other words : yeah , i let the other people do the praying—i was busy doing my job .
orriss , bruce . when hollywood ruled the skies : the aviation film classics of world war ii . hawthorne , california : aero associates inc . , 1984 . isbn 0 - 9613088 - 0 - x .
the sequel , oh , god ! book ii ( 1980 ) , essentially recycled the plot of the first , but with eleven - year - old tracy richards ( louanne sirota ) as his messenger . tracy is inspired to start a
think god
campaign at her school , but her divorced parents think she ' s crazy and plot to halt her mission .
' i ' ve got a horse right here , his name is paul revere . . . '
robert l . scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot , but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over the hump into china . in china , he persuades general chennault to let him fly with the famed flying tigers , the heroic band of airmen who ' d been fighting the japanese long before pearl harbor . scott gets his chance to fight , ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly japanese pilot known as tokyo joe .
joshua turns out to be the composer , essentially making him the local god . also , mr hanekoma is revealed to be an angel who actually outranks the composer as angel live on a higher plane of existence ( and he is bottom rung of those guys as he is the only guy who the composer can even see much less talk to from a higher plane ) then even the composer and other participants of the reaper ' s game .
robert l . scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot , but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over the hump into china . in china , he persuades general . . . see full summary »
in shining force 2 the good gods seem to abandon mortals at one point , your army end up going on and seemingly taking out a dark god on their own ( along with other borderline godlike beings ) . at the end it is revealed that the good gods were helping you all the time , and just pretended to rebel to avoid being countered by the other god .
driven to suicide : bobby shelton in the third movie , when he assumes god hasn ' t heard his prayer of escape from his rock star life , ends up seeking release through death by drug overdose . however , since this is during god having a card game with the devil and forcing the devil to release his hold on bobby ' s life , bobby escapes death by being restored to his original life and the rock star that he was playing as is found dead instead .
not quite a god , but in eric nylund ' s a game of universe , the ai setebos turns out to be an angel .
missing floor / strange secret entrance : jerry landers first talks to god on the 27th floor of a building that has only 17 floors .
stop trick : done in the final courtroom scene of the first movie , when god repeatedly makes a deck of cards appear and disappear .
nita ' s irish love interest in a wizard abroad is an incarnation of the one ' s champion .
ershin from the same game is revealed to be a suit of animated armor possessed by the goddess deis .
in father figures , two brothers who frequently reference
the universe ' s plan
pick up a friendly hitchhiker who cryptically tells them
you already know my name
. at the end , he turns out to be
the universe
.
rhetorical request blunder : in oh god ! you devil , bobby shelton , at the end of his rope following yet another boring , low - paying , dead - end gig , says aloud to himself ,
i ' d sell my soul to the devil to make it in this business . just for the chance .
unfortunately for him , those words didn ' t go unnoticed .
a rousing wartime drama , based on the autobiography of col . robert lee scott , jr . , a decorated flying tiger fighter pilot . colonel scott was operating cargo planes over the himalayan hump . he dreamed of serving his country more directly , but was originally told he was too old . scott eventually convinced a superior to allow him and his flying tigers to fly combat missions to assist the chinese against japan . dennis morgan stars as the unlikely hero , but the show is stolen by raymond massey as major general chennault . the supporting cast is filled with notable character actors including richard loo as scott ' s nemesis , tokyo joe . the film is filled with philosophical questions about fate and survival during war and what role faith plays . in its original release in 1943 , some gory sequences passed through the production code because the violence shown is all against the japanese , america ' s enemy .
the movie museum will present
hawaiian voices : bridging past to present ,
a 60 - minute documentary by eddie & myrna kamae . the film pays tribute to the role of elders as bearers of the cultural flame .
: to prove his divinity , jerry asks god to make it rain . he does so . . . inside jerry ' s moving car .
second face smoke : in oh god ! you devil , the devil does this to bobby , before vanishing in the cloud of cigar smoke .
the rest of the screening schedule includes premieres , including the world debut of
restless ,
the first u . s . - china co - production , and the u . s . premiere of
new rose hotel
starring christopher walken and william dafoe .
the warner brothers ' ranch near los angeles also became the airfield set for the film ' s opening sequence at the american volunteer group ( avg ) base kunming . there a trio of full - scale p - 40 mock - ups built several years earlier for the 1942 republic film , flying tigers , were evident in the background , along with two p - 40es reclaimed from the aaf reclamation depot in san diego . the film ' s air operations were directed by hollywood
stunt pilots
frank
speed
nolta and major frank clarke . col . scott served as a technical adviser and flew in a number of sequences , reprising his role as a flying tiger .
in the final scenes of battlestar galactica 2003 , it ' s heavily implied that starbuck is actually a being like head six or head baltar ( who have claimed to be angels in service of a god - like being who doesn ' t like to be called
god
) . she was born to human parents and was largely unaware of her own nature / destiny for her whole life .
to be fair , flight acknowledges that whip is a talented pilot , and that his act may have just been his talent working through—perhaps even being focused by—the substances in his body .
it was more like instinct ,
he says . but
instinct
also implies that he turned himself over to something : maybe his reflexes , or maybe even a higher power . and if that ' s not the case , why is all this religious stuff in the picture ?
i had the original vhs and longed for dvd . i was so glad when i found it . when it came , i played it right away but was disappointed that in parts it would catch and not move forward so had to take it out and reinsert it and it would go further without catching but i finally got it to play all the way through ! ! i know it is not my player because it was new ! ! however i did read on the site that it was formatted for dvd players only and mine is vhs / cd , dvd combo so not sure that made a difference or not but am still thrilled to own this piece of history ! but i will keep my original vhs also . dennis morgan who stars in it is supposed to be related to our family . thank you ! l . morgan in topeka , ks
saori in saint seiya in about the mid of the first season is revealed to be the earthly incarnation athena .
connected to the hime from the original series , which is hinted to be the distant past of this universe .
flemeth is actually ( or at least absorbed the essence of ) mythal , another member of the elven pantheon .
doubled up : corwin , at least , never suspected his grandfather was still around , let alone that he ' s known him ( in disguise ) for his entire life . grandpa is an even better candidate for the god was my copilot trope , since he ' s the one who created the pattern , more or less bringing the universe into existence out of the primal chaos . there ' s also a semi - legendary creature that turns out to a ) really exist and b ) be oberon ' s mother .
in tales from the barman , xander has ( among others ) god and death stop in for a drink at his bar . xander also learns that some of the women who watched him strip in oxnard include god , death , glorificus , washu hakubi , sailor pluto , and the muse of history .
jurors for the golden maile and silver maile awards , feature films and documentaries , respectively , are : jonathan dennis , an authority on new zealand cinema and founding member of the new zealand film archive nga kaitiaki o nga taonga whitiahua ; philippines director marilou diaz - abaya ; john powers , film critic for the national public radio program
fresh air
; actress ming - na wen , who appeared in
the joy luck club
and is the voice of disney ' s
mulan
; and filmmaker yim - ho , director of
homecoming
and
red dust .
confirmed panelists are : syndicated , pulitzer - prize winning film critic roger ebert ( moderator ) ; first amendment and media attorney jeff portnoy ; university of hawaii , west oahu english professor henry chapin ; and former canadian government censor bruce fletcher .
in breath of fire iii , peco is really an incarnation of yggdrasil , an implied rival of the big bad .
leno device : jerry doesn ' t get a lot of attention for his claims of talking to god until after he appears on the dinah shore show .
regarded as typical hollywood fare by most moviegoers , the script nonetheless attempted to be mainly faithful to col . robert lee scott jr . ' s original story of his exploits over china , and bringing in enough of his backstory to let the audience feel they knew him . by basing the film on exploits of actual historical figures ( only occasionally resorting to fictional characters such as
tokyo joe
) , the film gained considerable credibility . however , by 1945 the american film - going public were wary of what was essentially seen as another in a series of patriotic ,
flag - waving
films . critics relegated it to an
also - ran
position regarding the sub - plot of scott ' s inspirational message as forced . the
in dogma , a homeless man on life support due to an attack by hockey players from hell in the opening sequence turns out to be god . and since killing him just sends him back to heaven , putting him in a coma while he was in human form is the only way to stop him from stopping the end of the world as we know it . not to mention she turned out to be alanis morissette . though this is just one of many forms - what are we mortals to say if god wants to look like a canadian musician ?
in orca , vlad ' s old friend kiera the theif is revealed to be an alter - ego of sethra lavode .
perhaps he ' s just being snarky about it ? after all . . . he is being played by george burns .
prayer is a last resort : bobby shelton is reduced to praying to god to be delivered from his situation of living a rock star life in the third movie so that he could be restored to his original life of an obscure musician with a pregnant wife . god answers the prayer with a rainbow over vegas in the middle of the night and by pressuring the devil in a card game to take his hand off bobby shelton ' s life , though in the process bobby ends up killing the rock star he had been playing the life of so he could escape .
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. when he finally seems to have stopped and departed , one sighs ,
thank god !
and his voice responds ,
you ' re welcome .
manannan mac lir , irish god of the ocean , is rather fond of this trope . in
his three calls to cormac
he appears to king cormac mac airt as a soldier bearing a silver branch , and tricks the king into giving him his family in exchange for the branch .
points out to harry that while lucifer broke the rules by giving his side a major boost , god might have chosen a smaller response but could have greater impact in the long run . he ends his conversation with harry saying , maybe god
already gave you a hand
. when harry ' s hand tingles again , he turns to find the janitor gone , but his cart is still there , towels swinging on it as though it just stopped moving .
colonel robert l . scott rose to poster - boy fame for his exploits as a member of claire chennault ' s 14th air force ( a . k . a . the flying tigers ) . warner bros . snatched up the rights to scott ' s memoirs and put the flag - waving gears in motion . hal wallis even considered asking scott to play himself in the film , but the production crew ultimately settled for employing him as a resident technical advisor . the fmpu briefly came along for the ride as well , proving limited technical assistance during production . the film details the spiritual awakening of a rugged individualist who , while serving as the daring pilot of a p - 40 warhawk in the pacific theater , finds that he needs to attribute his success and his against - all - odds survival to a force greater than himself .
this is a classic wwii aviation film which was popular on tv when old movies were cheap to show . excellent aviation scenes , with richard loo getting shot down again with american scrap metal . texans represent zeros , as often the case , but the p 40s and b 25s are great . . . . and in what other movie can you see a republic p 43 lancer . . . . ok , you can see one in john garfield - s classic air force , but at least this time it is in olive drab .
slightly more jarringly , kit ' s doofus dog ponch is revealed to be roughly the equivalent of the one in wizards at war .
the kamae film focuses on the legacies of three respected hawaiian elders . they are auntie ruth kaholoa ' a , 93 , from the big island ; lilia
mama
hale , 85 , from oahu and molokai ; and kahu david ka ' alakea , 78 , of maui .
sometimes in the tortall universe : the great mother goddess blesses alanna in the second song of the lioness and gifts her with a purple - eyed , magical cat . we find out in the immortals that he ' s some kind of physical god , and in the provosts dog his nature as a constellation is made clear .
tad williams ' cat - fantasy tailchaser ' s song uses this trope when tailchaser is in his darkest hour , trapped by evil demon - cats underground . . . and then the insane , filthy old tom that has been clinging to his traveling group for most of the novel reveals himself as the cat - god tangaloor firefoot .
implied in the season five finale . after the apocalypse is averted , one of the last shots we ' re treated to is
the prophet chuck
, who had unwittingly used his powers to write a series of books about the winchesters , ending his last book with a soliloquy about how hard it is to write a satisfying ending . he decides that sometimes it ' s better if things don ' t really end per se , then smiles and disappears into thin air . near halfway through the same episode , he is seen calling a
mistress magda ,
a reference to mary magdalene who is believed by some to be a ) an adulteress / prostitute and b ) the wife / consort of jesus .
golden spider , who helped asura get out of naraka ( twice ) and recover his memories is actually chakravartim , the creator of the universe .
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peter broderick , president of next wave films , provides a practical and comprehensive insight into the art of making ultra - low budget films . next wave films was formed by independent film channel to provide finishing funds to exceptional ultra - low budget , english - language feature films from around the world .
invisible to normals : god cannot be seen , heard , or recorded by humans unless he allows it . this even extends to transcripts , such as a stenotype paper record of his testimony .
: played with ; when asked , god admits that jesus was his son  but then also counts moses , mohammed , buddha , and various other spiritual leaders as his children as well .


running to the limits is a 2009 documentary film about filmmaker alex vero ’s journey to qualify for the 2008 beijing olympic marathon .

narrated by vero and set against the backdrop of a massive decline in british professional marathon running , the film spans over three years and several continents as he works to overcome physical and personal demons and complete his marathon training .

it features vero ’s story , as well as those of famous runners and coaches who he meets while training .

the film won for best documentary at the 2009 norwich film festival , screened in the uk and was broadcast by channel 4 .

running to the limits

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running to the limits is a 2009 documentary film about filmmaker alex vero’s journey to qualify for the 2008 beijing olympic marathon . featuring ben moreau .
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with the headline : film : from mexico , ' hell without limits ' .
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: running , one might say , is basically an absurd past - time upon which to be exhausting ourselves . but if you can find meaning , in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team , chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past - time : life .
“it’s astonishing that gatling is running for chief law enforcement officer of brooklyn while seeming to be violating election law , ” said citizens union’s dick dadey . “it doesn’t engender good will or set a good example when she’s running a campaign that doesn’t stick to the rules . ”
basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him . riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you . …
: for the time being , let ' s not have you working out with the team . you ' ll be facing viren all over again at the montreal olympics . i don ' t want you racing anyone now . i just want you running . you have to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you ' ve always loved to face . . . steve prefontaine .
albany — a candidate for brooklyn district attorney , patricia gatling , appears to have accepted campaign contributions that blow past the state ' s limits , allowing her to build up a sizable fundraising lead in the democratic primary campaign to elect a permanent replacement for the late ken thompson .
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: well we ' re running the 5 , 000 at the trials , bill . what . . . you don ' t think i can beat george young ?
: of course he wanted to win . those who saw him compete and those who competed against him were never in any doubt how much he wanted to win . but how he won mattered to him more . pre thought i was a hard case . but he finally got it through my head that the real purpose of running isn ' t to win a race . it ' s to test to the limits of the human heart . that he did . . . nobody did it more often . nobody did it better .
you ' ve undoubtedly heard the maxim
no pain , no gain
but it ' s only partially accurate . yes , there is discomfort involved with running ( elevated heart rate , increase in body temperature , burning muscles ) but true pain should be heeded . one way to measure the difference between discomfort and pain is in your running stride . if the pain you ' re feeling - - say , from a stabbing sensation in the shins - - forces you to alter your running form , you need to stop and seek medical help [ source : mann ] .
as a fellow runner this dvd encouraged me and inspired me to go out running . it ' s an awesome tale of one man ' s journey to push himself to his genetic limits while also exploring other people ' s journeys throughout the running world . this is not merely the story of a runner but also a story of what man ( or woman ) can achieve through self discipline , inspiration and solid hard work . this will appeal to runners and non runners alike as it is a story of spirit and determination . great stocking filler for xmas and birthday present ! highly recommended !
brilliant film , the training documentery is first class if you love running and are lacking motovation this will get you going just what i needed to get me out the door again just showes what hard work can do . well done alex .
second movie within a year to tell the prefontaine story . the first being prefontaine ( 1997 ) with jared leto in the role .
without limits
is the second recent film about steve prefontaine , the legendary american runner who brought his sport into the headlines and helped topple the creaky amateur athletic establishment . like
prefontaine
( 1997 ) , it focuses on the star ' s abrasive personality and his refusal to pace himself ; the only way he wanted to win was by
flat - out leading all the way .
by the time he died in a road accident , he held most of the american distance records , and one of them still stands .
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what does it take to become an international marathon runner ? in 1985 , 102 british male runners ran under the elite time of 2 hours 20 minutes for the marathon , only 5 managed this same feat 20 years later . british male distance running had all but disappeared but why ? 16 stone , obese , heavy drinking filmmaker alex vero goes on a journey to find out firsthand what it takes to become an international marathon runner and to explain the recent decline of british male marathon running . alex ' s inspirational story takes many twists and turns before becoming intertwined with former ethiopian goat herder mengsitu abebe , and closer to home , recent oxford graduate ben moreau - one of britain ' s bright hopes for 2012 marathon success . filmed over 3 years in 7 different countries all three runners push their bodies to the limits of human endurance as they find out if they ' ve got what it takes to make the international grade .
finally got to watch this over the weekend . amazingly moving documentary and moving stories that all runners will relate to .
behind the training
is additional footage contained on the dvd . although many of the images are captured in the main film , additional advice and insight are revealed . topics include building up slowly , learning running intensity , setting goals , testing fitness , keys to recovery , setting training schedules , plyometrics , hydration , pacing , and using consistency and common sense to maximize one’s full potential . paying attention to the details is important and alex provides a unique insight into the process of trying to obtain peak fitness and race performance .
arturo ripstein ' s ' ' hell without limits , ' ' the 1978 mexican film opening today at the cinema village , looks and sounds as if it were based on an idea for a luis bunuel film , which had been made , instead , by someone completely unqualified for the job .
novice and advanced runners are encouraged to follow the 10 percent rule , which states you shouldn ' t increase your running mileage by more than 10 percent from one week to the next . if you currently run 30 miles a week , it would be a mistake to jump to 50 miles the following week . you may get away with it initially , but later you ' ll find yourself sick , injured , unmotivated or all of the above [ sources : morris , klion ] .
i watched it last week . great story with some big names in it like haile . would have like to have seen a bit more of the training behind it though . i ' ve been running 800 ' s all year and never seem to get any faster ! here is the link to the trailer and videos on this guys site . http : / / www . runningtothelimits . . . . entary . htm
: yes , vanity , pre ! your belief that you have no talent is the ultimate vanity . if you have no talent then you have no limits , it ' s all an act of will . your heart can probably pump more blood than anyone else ' s on earth , and that takes talent . the bones in your feet are so strong , it ' d take a sledgehammer to break ' em . be thankful for your limits , pre , they ' re about as limitless as they get in this life .
a tribute to the late tab hunter , a gay matinee idol and hollywood trailblazer .
it ' s a rather short film and very amateur . i don ' t mean to slag off the man but to call himself a documentary filmmaker is exaggerated . the two minute interview with haile gebrselassie cannot compensate but conveniently his picture can be used to give the impression that one of the greatest runners of all times supports the author actively on his search - the video is obviously the main focus in the trailer . i am sorry guys . the competitors are great individuals and i wish them all the luck in the world , knowing that none of them reached their goals as the olympics came and went . i am disappointed as the movie promised so much but couldn ' t live up to half of it . i cannot help but feel that this is a rather selfish attempt of the
filmmaker
to get some airtime and the motivation to turn his life around . the movie project itself never came out of the starting blocks due to lack of funding which in fairness mr vero is not shy to admit .
during the late 1960s and early 1970s , steve prefontaine was a unique and distinctive personality , an athlete who revolutionized the sport of track with front - running ferocity and rock a star ' s ability to ignite a crowd . in the united states he remained undefeated at his distance and held all seven american records between 2 , 000 and 10 , 000 meters . he ran one of the more memorable races at the munich olympics and was strongly favoured to win at the montreal games in 1976 , but never got the chance . in 1975 , at the age of 24 , steve prefontaine was killed in a car accident . blunt , cocky and charismatic , his incessant willingness to push himself to the ultimate limit earned him the enduring respect and affection of runners and fans around the world .
the film follows the life of famous 1970s runner steve prefontaine from his youth days in oregon to the university of oregon where he worked with the legendary coach bill bowerman , later to olympics in munich and his early death at 24 in a car crash .
: it ' s the hardest thing in the world to believe in something , if you do it ' s a miracle .
pre - the way he competed . . . the way he lives his life
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: nothing would please george young more . . . or the crowd . you ' d be giving the crown the performance they want and him the one he expects .
this was really cool . my copy arrived yesterday and i was blown away by the documentary and the hard work that must have been put in to the film . the sections out in kenya and ethiopia are so beautifully filmed and moving and the interview haile gebrselassie was really super interesting . i recall that this had lots of coverage on this site a couple of years ago under ' 3 hour marathon runners wants to maker olympic team ' but from what i saw on the documentary it ' s noting but inspiring . it had been billed as an ego trip and i think that it probably started like that but in the end this is a great advert for worldwide marathon running and what it takes to get to the top of our tough sport .
after being recommended to watch this documentary , i recommend it myself as inspirationally motivating . anyone who has an interest in running whether just to loose weight and gain some fitness , to racing and feeling they have plateaued will enjoy . people who have ran a marathon will understand the feelings alex goes through and the physical journey it takes . its astonishing what he accomplished , sheer determination . a real incentive booster which shows what we all , potentially , have in us if we want to find it .
: all my life , man and boy , i ' ve operated under the assumption that the main idea in running was to win the race . naturally , when i became a coach i tried to teach people how to do that . tried to teach pre how to do that . tried like hell to teach pre to do that . and pre taught me . taught me i was wrong . pre , you see , was troubled by knowing that a mediocre effort can win a race and a magnificent effort can lose one . winning a race wouldn ' t necessarily demand that he give it everything he had from start to finish . he never ran any other way . i tried to get him to , god knows i tried . . . but . . . pre was stubborn . he insisted on holding himself to a higher standard than victory . ' a race is a work of art ' ; that ' s what he said , that ' s what he believed and he was out to make it one every step of the way .
gatling is one of six democrats seeking the party ' s nomination , which is tantamount to election in heavily democratic brooklyn . acting da eric gonzalez is among those in the field . he was appointed to the post after thompson ' s death in 2016 .
the first ever feature - length film to capture the essence , drama and unique spectacle of the famed 26 . 2 - mile race , the production features five runners - three amateurs and two elites - as . . . see full summary »
i don ' t normally leave review but after noticing that someone had left a one star review , i felt i had to defend the filmmaker . it is true that it is not a highly polished documentary , but that misses the point . it ' s a great story about a brave challenge , and will give inspiration to anyone thinking about taking up running . well done , a great documentary that most runners will relish .
and sutherland ' s performance is the film ' s treasure . watching the way he gently tries to direct his headstrong young star , we are seeing a version of phil jackson ' s zen and the art of coaching .
what do you think a track coach does , pre ?
he asks at one point , since pre seems to think the coach ' s primary function is to frustrate him . sutherland brings a deep patience to bowerman , who understands that running is a matter of endurance and strategy , as well as heart :
men of oregon , i invite you to become students of your events .
pre thinks heart is enough and explains his success simply :
i can endure more pain than anyone you ' ve ever met .
the film follows pre from his early sports failures ( he was no good at football ) and into running , where he quickly drew attention . the earlier film points out that his legs were short for a runner , and of unequal length ; this one sees him more as naturally gifted , but heedless with his talent . we follow his progress from record to record , and from girlfriend to girlfriend ( mary marckx , played by monica potter , is the true love , but he shuts her out of his life ) . everything leads up to the 1972 munich olympics , marred by the terrorist attack on israeli athletes .
but the point of the story is contained in the epilogue . pre returns to oregon as an amateur who is expected to work at menial jobs ( he becomes a bartender ) and live at the poverty line ( he gets a mobile home ) while training for the next olympics . other countries support their athletes , and pre leads a campaign to reform america ' s rules . he makes no attempts to win friends , and in
prefontaine
he tells a press conference :
to hell with love of country ; i ' m looking out for me .
without limits
is less interested in the politics and the crusade , and sees pre more in personal , psychological terms . i prefer the earlier approach , which contains more information about why pre is important even today . robert towne ' s affecting
personal best
( 1982 ) told the story of a talented woman runner in terms of both her sport and her romantic involvement with another woman athlete ; prefontaine is more interesting as a public figure than a private one .
gatling has reported raising $ 110 , 000 from corporations that gave above the legal limit . that figure amounts to 45 percent of all the contributions she has received .
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keep in mind , your body doesn ' t actually adapt to training while you ' re training . it adapts during rest and recovery . intense and consistent exercise without rest and recovery ( that means 8 to 10 hours of sleep a night during heavy training ) makes you susceptible to injury [ source : morris ] . many running coaches also subscribe to the hard - easy theory of training . it means that typically you should follow an intense day of training with an easier day . for example , a day of speed work at the track might be followed by a day consisting of a leisurely jog .
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is that that british idiot that wanted to run in the olympics ! if it is him does anyone know how close he got in the end ? i ' ve never been to africa but looks like it ' s got some clips in the trailer . urltoken can you watch this online anywhere ?
: i don ' t want to win unless i know i ' ve done my best , and the only way i know how to do that is to run out front , flat out until i have nothing left . winning any other way is chicken - shit .
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saint ralph is the unlikely story of ralph walker , a ninth grader who outran everyone ' s expectations except his own in his bold quest of trying to win the 1954 boston marathon .
gatling previously served as new york city’s commissioner of human rights but was replaced in 2014 after public advocate tish james accused her of running a “moribund” agency that failed to enforce anti - discrimination laws . two months later , she was named gov . andrew cuomo’s deputy secretary for civil rights , a position she held for six months .
there ' s a lot more to the plot , all of it recounted with an unwarranted solemnity and no sense of the absurd . mr . ripstein , who prefaces the film with a quote from marlowe ' s ' ' doctor faustus , ' ' takes no distance from the material . he demonstrates no irony . he accepts his grotesque characters at face value . this has the effect of making them seem possibly more foolish than necessary , and the movie an unintentional , melodramatic howler . an unlikely triangle - hell without limits , directed by arturo ripstein ; screenplay ( spanish with english subtitles ) by mr . ripstein , based on the novel by jose donoso ; cinematographer , miguel garzon ; edited by francisco chiu ; music by joaquin gutierrez heras ; distributed by azteca films . at cinema village , 22 east 12th street . running time : 110 minutes . this film has no rating . la manuela . . . roberto cobo japonesita . . . ana martin pancho . . . gonzalo vega la japonesa . . . lucha villa lucy . . . carmen salinas
the setting is the small , destitute mexican town of el olivo , owned lock , stock and barrel by a tiny old tycoon who has turned off the electricity , hoping that everybody will move away so he can sell the land at a fancy profit . as the movie begins , the only people left in el olivo are manuel , called la manuela , the aging homosexual owner of the town ' s brothel ; japonesita , his pretty daughter ( conceived many years ago to win a bet ) , two dispirited whores and some shopkeepers .
the earlier film focuses more on prefontaine ' s stubborn battle with the amateur athletic union and other amateur bodies that essentially dictated the terms under which americans could run . it makes it clear that a late invitational meet in oregon with finnish athletes was held as a deliberate challenge to the amateur establishment . towne ' s film is less quirky , more a conventional sports movie , but it benefits by giving more attention to the relationship between pre and bowerman .
i grew up in eugene and saw almost every race pre ever ran . he was a crowd hero . there were always two races . . . the one pre ran and the one , way back , that the rest of the runners ran . there was nobody like him . he was talented , cocky and had so much charisma . he really was outspoken in the press and took no guff from the aau . he was the best thing that ever happened to track . seeing the movie was like deja vu . it was a really well done recreation of what it was like to be at hayward field during his races . i went to the memorial service at hayward field and saw frank shorter and bill bowerman speak . this movie certainly made me reflect back !
: i ' d like to work it out so that at the end , it ' s a pure guts race . if it is , i ' m the only one who can win it .
why two movies about prefontaine ? because two directors wanted to make them , and neither one backed down .
prefontaine
was by steve james (
hoop dreams
) , starred jared leto , and had former marine drill sergeant f . lee ermey as the legendary oregon coach bill bowerman .
without limits
is by robert towne ( screenwriter of
chinatown ,
writer - director of
personal best
) , stars billy crudup and has donald sutherland playing bowerman .
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just checked out the london marathon results and was really stoked to see that ben moreau who features in documentary ran a 2 : 16 : 46 . ok it ' s not world class but a big step in the right direction for him .
there are scores of instances of corporations that surpass the annual $ 5 , 000 limit , usually by writing checks to several candidates . on occasion , they’ve given a little bit more than that $ 5 , 000 total to one candidate . but at no point in recent history has a campaign in new york received contributions from corporations that gave to this degree .
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embodied the spirit of athletic excellence . he had a belief in self and sport that transcended all but the outer reaches of human speed and endurance . as a freshman , he appeared on the . . . see full summary »
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the life of renowned runner steve prefontaine and his relationship with legendary coach bill bowerman .
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lakeith stanfield and his sorry to bother you crew reveal their most soul - crushing jobs in our freewheeling interview .
a small - time hoodlum is divided between his conscience and loyalty to his boss when his cousin is murdered .
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an interview with terry gilliam , director of
the man who killed don quixote .
mexican beauty camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy american . that is complicated by meeting arturo bandini , a first - generation italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue - eyed blonde on his arm .
with jurassic world : fallen kingdom now in cinemas , we take a look at how imdb users rated the films of the franchise . plus , browse exclusive lego® jurassic world playsets , presented by lego .
attempts to reach gatling were unsuccessful . a message sent via a contact form on her campaign site on thursday was unsuccessful . additionally , attempts to reach an individual who served as her spokesman when three campaign staffers were arrested for allegedly fighting in her campaign office in july also failed . his website contained a phone number that was only six digits long and a message sent to a listed email address bounced back .
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on this particular morning , manuel is in a tizzy . pancho , the married , macho truck driver who ' s desired both by him and japonesita , has returned to town , which , manuel knows , means trouble . the last time pancho came home , he tore manuel ' s ruffled red evening gown so badly that manuel is still patching it up .
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each of the companies that have given the largest amounts , which all have addresses near sheepshead bay and lack an online presence , was listed on portions of gatling’s disclosure forms that detail reports from corporations . their business registrations with the department of state , which do not identify any individuals associated with them , make clear that they are corporations .
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according to her most recent filing with the state board of elections , she received $ 10 , 000 apiece from east coast diagnostics inc . and sophisticated imaging inc . on june 2 . several weeks later , commonwealth diagnostics inc . also donated $ 10 , 000 . each of the three companies gave her an additional $ 10 , 000 on july 15 . and on aug . 3 , both sophisticated imaging and east coast diagnostics kicked in a further $ 20 , 000 .
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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…
roger ebert ' s speech on empathy for the
11th hour
series on april 9th , 1994 , being republished here in honor of his birthday june 18 .
manuel , with his plucked eyebrows , swishy gestures and passion for pancho , is doomed , but no more than his daughter and pancho . japonesita deludes herself with the fond dream that the electricity will be turned back on . pancho really is obsessed by manuel , which , when he realizes it , drives him into a frenzy of foreordained violence .
every
rocky
fan is familiar with the soundtrack - laden montages of rocky balboa getting ready for a fight . he sweats , strains and endures one painful workout after another . his efforts , of course , bring him peak fitness and success . but in real life , that ' s only half the story . unfortunately , many runners either ignore or simply don ' t know this truth : physical adaptations take place over time and require patience , restraint and regular windows of recovery .
understand also that overtraining is a relative term . a novice runner who is logging 20 miles a week can be overtraining , while an elite marathoner who runs 125 miles a week may be operating fully within his or her present capabilities . if you ' re feeling lethargic , irritable , or consistently sore , reduce your training load until the symptoms disappear [ source : aschwanden ] .
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a fourth company wrote her a check for $ 10 , 000 on aug . 6 .
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finnish runner juha väätäinen ' s name is in then end credits spelled as
juha vastinen
.
: i can endure more pain than anyone you ' ve ever met . that ' s why i can beat anyone i ' ve ever met .
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: well you could call a race any goddamn you want , but i wouldn ' t call it a performance .
: if you can ' t beat george young , you can ' t win in munich . beating george young is gonna take some kind of time .
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roger ebert was born on this day in 1942 , and died a little over five years ago . i owe a good part of my success…
a look back at robert zemeckis ' half - animated classic , who framed roger rabbit , on its 30 - year anniversary .
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