bizarre , bizarre ( french : drôle de drame ) is a 1937 french comedy film directed by marcel carné .

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bizarre is a movie starring pierre prieur , adrian james , and raquel nave . maurice is a french teenager who escaped france and begins working at a hype club in brooklyn called bizarre . he quickly becomes a sort of ' mascot ' of this incredible club . the owner and the . . . see full summary »
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one day after hiring a new communications director , president trump stepped up his war on the media by posting a bizarre message on twitter where he accused the new york times of foiling a planned attack to kill the top leader of isis .
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in recent times more has been made of the fact that fuemana squandered a multi - million dollar fortune accumulated from the success of ‘how bizarre’ . caught up in the hype of the rock ' n ' roll lifestyle with fast cars , luxury hotels and drugs , it seemed light years from the humble beginnings of his home in otara . but the global success of ‘how bizarre’ can never be taken away . the song continued to earn fuemana around $ 50 , 000 a year from musical royalties until his death after a short illness in january 2010 .
in court documents , authorities allege that from the couple’s rural mississippi camp , handley masterminded the aug . 6 , 2017 kidnapping of his estranged wife from their lafayette home . in a bizarre twist , the two alleged abductors drowned midway through the plot , throwing the scheme awry .
' one - hit wonder’ , ‘rags to riches and then back to rags again’ – call it what you will , but the fact remains that the infectious 1996 hit ‘how bizarre’ by omc – the otara millionaires club – is the biggest - selling new zealand record of all time .
omc enjoyed further international success ( especially in europe ) with the singles ‘right on’ and ‘on the run’ and the album how bizarre ( 1996 ) . but the wheels fell off in 1997 with ‘i love la’ , a single from the mr bean movie soundtrack that was described as ‘an almighty flop , a terrible record , and a career killer’ .
maurice is a french teenager who escaped france and begins working at a hype club in brooklyn called bizarre . he quickly becomes a sort of ' mascot ' of this incredible club . the owner and the artists that perform there love him , but maurice can ' t love . . . because of the past . . . and his secrets .
1640s , from french bizarre
odd , fantastic
( 16c . ) , originally
handsome , brave ,
perhaps from basque bizar
a beard
( the notion being of bearded spanish soldiers making a strange impression on the french ) ; alternative etymology traces it to italian bizarro
angry , fierce , irascible ,
from bizza
fit of anger .
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‘how bizarre’ was co - written by alan jansson and the late pauly fuemana , frontman of omc . fuemana formed omc in 1993 with his brother phillip and paul ave , although by 1995 he was essentially a solo performer . jansson , who also produced the song , was one of new zealand’s most successful hit makers . he was formerly of wellington 1980s bands the steroids and the body electric ( whose single ‘pulsing’ spent four months in the local charts ) .
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in a comedy - farce that runs from black humor to slapstick , this story is one in which a mystery writer is caught unawares by his cousin , a vicar , who shows up unannounced for a visit . since the servants have just walked out , the writer ' s wife hides out from the vicar , taking care of the cooking , cleaning and other household chores . to explain his wife ' s absence as hostess , the writer concocts an excuse which only makes the vicar convinced that he has done away with his spouse . things go from bad to worse and eventually scotland yard is called in to clear things up .
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a young couple , renee and pierre , take one night a room at the hotel du nord , in paris , near the canal saint - martin . they want to die together , but after having shooted at renee , pierre . . . see full summary »
at the end of the 15th century , two minstrels gilles and dominique come from nowhere into the castle of baron hugues . gilles charms anne , hughes ' daughter , while dominique charms both . . . see full summary »
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a military deserter finds love and trouble ( and a small dog ) in a smoky french port city .
bob letellier , a good looking rich kid who studies science , makes the acquaintance of alain , a cynical and immoral young man . the latter introduces him to the existentialist circles of saint - germain - des - prés . bob is invited to a party and becomes clo ' s lover , a rich heiress .
henri chatelard is well in his forties , owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city , and appreciate women . when he meets marie , a 18ish stronghead who just lost her father in a small . . . see full summary »
after committing a murder , a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing .
michel has stolen from his employer , mr bellanger , for the love of juliette . he is now in jail . one night , while sleeping in his cell , he wakes up all of a sudden , the gates open and he . . . see full summary »
jenny is a madam at a brothel . when her daughter comes back from england , she does not want her to find out what kind of job she really has .
a charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief ' s slum . meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman , who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family .
the story of andre menard , a promising young amateur boxer from an impoverished background who is mentored by former pro victor le garrec , and whose career path takes a nosedive when he falls for the wealthy corinne .
in victorian london , the botanist irwin molyneux and his wife margaret molyneux are bankrupted but still keeping the appearance due to the successful crime novels written by irwin under the pseudonym of felix chapel . their cook has just left the family , when irwin ' s snoopy and hypocrite cousin archibald soper that is in campaign against the police stories of felix chapel invites himself to have dinner in irwin ' s house . margaret decides to keep the farce of their social position secretly cooking the dinner , while the clumsy irwin justifies her absence telling the bishop soper that she had just traveled to the country to meet some friends . however soper suspects of irwin and calls the scotland yard , assuming that his cousin had poisoned his wife . irwin and margaret decide to hide the truth to avoid an exposition of their financial situation , moving to a low - budget hotel in the chinese neighborhood , getting into trouble .
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a genuine worldwide hit , the song went to number one in new zealand , australia , canada , ireland , south africa and austria . it spent 36 weeks on the united states billboard ' s hot 100 airplay charts , peaking at number 4 . it reached number five in the united kingdom , and it made the top 10 everywhere from portugal to israel . between its release in december 1995 and 2000 omc sold somewhere between three and four million records worldwide . somewhat surprisingly the song only came in at number 34 on the australasian performing right association’s top 100 new zealand songs of all time .
a fusion of the mishmash of sounds that new zealanders are exposed to . it’s the classic kiwi strum meets punk rock meets disco meets a south pacific beach party meets classic soul meets reggae and everything in between . alan ' s fusing of acoustic guitars with hip hop loops became a globally recognisable sound , and is quoted as an influence by a variety of artists around the world .
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irwin molyneux , an austere botanist , and margaret , his spendthrift , conceited wife , are in trouble : their cook has just left them without notice . and this is just the time chosen by archibald soper , bishop of bedford and irwin ' s cousin , to invite himself to dinner . margaret decides to cook the meal herself but soper , a greedy , sanctimonious zealot , must not know about this degrading situation , which is why she asks irwin to make his importunate guest believe that she has left home for a while . archibald , who just preached against a crime story writer called chapel and who is nervous because a killer roams the neighboring streets , gets suspicious when irwin babbles vague answers to his questions about margaret ' s absence . jumping to conclusions , he is persuaded that irwin has murdered his wife and informs the police . now , it happens that felix chapel and irwin molyneux are the same person . unfortunate irwin finds himself accused of poisoning his wife , just like in one of his detective stories . . .
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after a life of highs and lows , michael handley is now charged with hiring two mississippi men to kidnap his estranged wife in lafayette on aug . 6 , 2017 .
michael handley , then the ceo of townsend recovery , is pictured in his office in 2008 .
he helped launch companies that sold vitamins , energy supplements and calcium creams . business records show involvement in a lafayette crossfit gym .
a former alcoholic , he founded the townsend recovery treatment centers across the south . the facilities were successful , and in late 2015 , were sold to a tennessee company in a deal worth more than $ 21 million .
he and his wife , schanda , ran the handley family foundation . they hosted fundraisers at places such as ruth’s chris steakhouse , with money purportedly going toward groups that helped poor children , cancer patients and young professionals seeking to become involved in their communities .
on facebook , handley described himself as an “eternally optimistic serial entrepreneur who believes that nothing is impossible with god . ” the page still features happy photos of the handleys together – traveling , celebrating mardi gras and participating in crossfit competitions .
michael handley , 49 , has been in the lafayette parish correctional center since mid - august 2017 . a grand jury indicted him on multiple charges , including conspiracy to commit kidnapping , violation of protective orders and online impersonation .
he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity . after two psychiatric evaluations , a district judge found him mentally competent to stand trial , which is scheduled for aug . 27 , 2018 .
the 300 block of founders street in lafayette . this is the site of the aug . 6 kidnapping of schanda handley .
the handley home was in the 300 block of founders street , a modern , two - story , bungalow - style house in a newer neighborhood in south lafayette . the couple had put a lafayette strong sign in the front yard . a porch extended across the front and one side of the house . across the street was a small park and community pool .
authorities said this idyllic subdivision was the site of a brazen abduction on a hot and sunny sunday afternoon .
as schanda handley visited with her teenage daughter and a friend , two suspects – sylvester bracey and montreal haynes – allegedly forced their way into the home with semi - automatic handguns . things turned more terrifying from there .
“the kidnappers handcuffed mrs . handley , placed a bag over her head and forcibly removed her from the home , ” her attorney wrote in a court motion . “while in route to their destination where mr . handley was waiting , the two men stripped , tortured and abused mrs . handley , including but not limited to threatening to rape and / or kill her . ”
during this time , michael handley allegedly waited in an unknown location for the kidnappers to bring schanda to him . before the abduction , he allegedly hired and paid bracey and haynes and bought items “necessary to kidnap , bind , torture and abuse mrs . handley . ”
in an arrest affidavit , police said michael handley rented the van used in the kidnapping . the transaction reportedly took place aug . 5 , 2017 at an enterprise in baton rouge . two assistant managers identified handley through photos , police said .
“they both described him as an older white male who was speaking about business ventures and bragging about how much money he made , ” the affidavit said .
from lafayette , bracey and haynes , both 27 , allegedly put schanda handley in the van and headed east on interstate 10 toward baton rouge .
things took an unexpected twist near port allen . a piece of equipment had overturned on the interstate , causing a major traffic jam . an off - duty iberville parish sheriff’s deputy was stuck in the delay when he saw a van driving on the shoulder of the road to escape the bottleneck .
west baton rouge parish sheriff mike cazes said the deputy pursued the van until it reached hwy . 415 in port allen . the suspects could have turned left , cazes said , “where they could have gone in any number of directions . ” instead , they turned right , onto a road that leads only to a dead end at an industrial fabrication facility .
“they ended up trying to drive around a fence . it’s swampy back there , ” cazes said . “the van got stuck , so they ran into the woods nearby . ”
surveillance footage captured the suspects running behind the facility , the last sighting of them alive .
bracey and haynes then apparently jumped into the intracoastal canal as they tried to escape . cazes said search dogs picked up human scents near the water . less than a day later , both bodies were found in the canal . police found a gun in a nearby pipe that they believe belonged to bracey or haynes .
“where they went in , it draws a heavy current , ” cazes said . “the canal is bigger than it looks . and they were fully clothed , wearing socks and shoes , which is going to pull you down . this isn’t a place where you go in and go swimming . ”
authorities had no idea schanda handley was in the van until they searched it and discovered her in the back .
michael handley ' s photo from the slidell police department , when he was captured on aug . 11 .
the sudden deaths of bracey and haynes marked the end of lives filled with disturbing criminal histories , beginning when they were teens living in and around jackson , miss .
their rap sheets included charges of home invasion , robberies , auto theft and aggravated assault . in 2009 , they allegedly threw a brick through a patio door of a woman’s home , chased her , tied her up , placed her in a bathtub and demanded her car keys .
it was not clear how much jail or prison time bracey or haynes served .
their connection to handley was vague and unclear . neither had any known ties to lafayette . they had no criminal records in lafayette parish . handley’s only known tie to mississippi was the camp he and his wife owned in woodville , about two hours south of jackson .
it isn’t clear how michael handley learned the kidnapping scheme had unraveled . but at some point , he apparently went on the run . police found him on aug . 11 , 2017 in a hotel in slidell . court filings allege he had tried to charter a plane to escape capture .
the situation is the latest in what has been a life of highs and lows for handley .
he found business success early in the technology industry . he was a millionaire by the time he was 30 .
the success was too much for him , though . he started drinking heavily , leading to a downward spiral where he lost most of his money and was barred from seeing his children .
“all of a sudden , i had more money than i ever thought i’d have , ” handley told the daily advertiser in 2008 . “you give someone like me too much money and no accountability , it’s a recipe for disaster . ”
handley eventually turned his life around and returned to the business world . after dabbles in the health industry , he agreed to be townsend’s chief executive officer , attracted by its “intensive outpatient” treatment .
federal court records show authorities charged him in 2005 for submitting a fake $ 22 , 000 check to a charter airplane company . he was sentenced to one day in jail and three years of supervised probation , which he successfully completed in 2008 .
in 2004 , a shreveport building materials company sued handley for allegedly failing to pay a nearly $ 3 , 000 bill . it appears from court records that the case may never have been completely resolved .
josepha morgan didn’t know any of this when she worked for handley in the mid - 2000s , just after he started his vitamin companies . she was in her early 20s and new to the workforce , but there were things that made her raise her eyebrows .
“i would make documents , and he would take my name off and put his name on them , ” morgan recalled . “i thought maybe that’s just how things were done , but at the same time , it felt kind of sneaky to me . ”
morgan was concerned when handley discussed offering her a contract to be his “executive personal assistant . ” but the job wouldn’t come with a significant raise , and handley kept delaying a formal offer , saying that finances needed to be in order first .
“i was doing all this extra work and i wasn’t getting paid , ” she said .
morgan was working for handley around the time he met schanda . the office gossip held that the two ran off to las vegas and got married . but court records show they actually married in hawaii in april 2006 .
“i remember her being well put - together all the time , ” morgan said . “she reminded me of a celebrity . she always had her shades and a giant handbag . she was very pretty . ”
by most accounts , things were good between michael and schanda until spring 2017 . court records show that around march of that year , things turned volatile , resulting in multiple restraining orders and serious allegations .
in april 2017 , michael handley initiated divorce proceedings in district court in lafayette . he alleged that schanda had attacked or threatened him multiple times , hired a hit man to kill him and sent threatening text messages .
the most serious allegation was that in late march 2017 , schanda allegedly barricaded herself in a bedroom at the mississippi camp , destroyed furniture and shot two bullet holes in a wall . she was arrested in lafayette on july 12 , 2017 on two domestic violence warrants from mississippi .
schanda soon bonded out . in october 2017 , a mississippi judge acquitted her of all charges .
in court documents , schanda denied many of her husband’s allegations . she said she never intended to harm him or her daughter . she admitted , though , that she was “hostile” and depressed after learning of michael’s alleged infidelity and “excessive prescription drug use . ”
schanda leveled her own allegations . records show she accused michael of trying to access her email , installing a tracking device on her phone , allowing his “subservient mistress” to contact her and installing spyware on her computer .
other documents show michael handley allegedly sent threatening texts to schanda in the month before the alleged abduction .
those texts included statements such as “you are facing armageddon and no court or order will save you , ” “we will take her first and let you suffer for awhile before putting you out of your misery” and “if you ignore us like usual someone you love will suffer tomorrow . ”
the alleged messages came from unknown numbers . the victim suspected michael was sending them via an app that uses bogus numbers .
aside from his pending criminal charges , the divorce case between the handleys is still working its way through civil court . schanda handley ' s friend , who was at the founders street home at the time of the alleged abduction , filed her own civil suit against michael handley . she is seeking damages for emotional distress .
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beijing : amid spy tales of le carre proportions swirling through north asia , north korea was not to be outdone .
the headlines in recent days told of a cia informant allegedly shot dead in a chinese courtyard and japanese hot spring salesmen scooped up by chinese spycatchers .
the video confession of kim song - il , 46 , an alleged assassin for hire , spins a fantastical plot to infuse furniture with a poison that would slowly , untraceably , kill the regime ' s dear supreme leader .
north korea ' s leader , kim jong - un , has vowed to develop a nuclear - armed missile capable of striking american territory .
born in pyongyang , kim was allegedly recruited by south korean intelligence while he was working in khabarovsk , russia .
in the video he says he was recruited through the internet by a human rights group for north korean refugees , which supplied him with instant messaging technology and $ us20 , 000 .
the video was released a fortnight after north korea first alleged it had busted an attempt by the cia and south korea ' s national intelligence service to kill kim jong - un . south korea denied it .
kim says in august 2015 he received an order to go to a riverside car park near a timber yard , where he met his south korean intelligence handler and was given a satellite phone and $ us10 , 000 .
an undated image of kim jong - un at what was said to be a missile test site at an undisclosed location , broadcast by north korea tv earlier this month .
he was told the best way to kill kim was
to spray radioactive material or extremely toxic biochemical materials on the life supplies , car or furniture
of the north korean government headquarters .
the toxins would take six to 12 months to kill the victims . the operation was codenamed
heir dead meat
.
south korean president moon jae - in talks on the phone with chinese president xi jinping on may 11 .
the name strangely echoes the recent successful assassination of kim jong - un ' s half - brother , kim jong - nam , poisoned by north korean agents in malaysia .
between february and august 2016 , kim says he worked out a plan to put odourless biochemical material in the heating and cooling systems of north korea ' s government headquarters , activated by voice recognition technology .
but a directive sent by his intelligence handlers on november 18 revealed the cia wanted to attach toxin to a chair . he was asked to supply information on the size of chairs and tables used at government headquarters and the thickness of cushions .
the video alleges a front company was set up in qingdao , china , to support the operation and fund it . the plot was discussed in march 2017 by spies posing as business consultants at a dandong hotel in china , and $ us50 , 000 handed over .
eighteen days ago , the plot was foiled when devices were intercepted at north korea ' s sinuiju customs , the video claims .
the video ' s elaborate claims came as north korea ' s eighth missile launch on sunday was labelled
flagrant and provocative defiance
by the united nations security council .
chinese foreign minister wang yi on tuesday warned north korea not to take any further action that violated un security council resolutions .
the council will meet on tuesday to discuss sanctions , after members agreed to take
further significant measures
, according to a statement .
the new south korean government of president moon jae - in welcomed the
swift and stern stance against the north ' s ballistic missile provocation
from the council members , including china and russia .
chinese customs data released on tuesday showed imports from north korea fell to $ us99 . 3 million , the lowest level since 2014 .
china is north korea ' s largest trading partner and china ' s support will be crucial in any further sanctions .
president trump was active again on twitter saturday morning , continuing his attacks on media outlets like the new york times and the washington post .
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“the failing new york times foiled u . s . attempt to kill the single most wanted terrorist , al - baghdadi , ” the president wrote just before 7 a . m . “their sick agenda over national security . ”
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on friday , the newspaper reported that defense secretary jim mattis believes abu bakr al - baghdadi , the leader of isis who some thought might have been killed during a russian military strike last month , was still alive .
“i think baghdadi is alive , ” mr . mattis told reporters in off - camera remarks at the pentagon on friday . “i’ll believe otherwise when we know we have killed him . we are going after him . ”
trump appears to be referring to comments made by u . s . gen . tony thomas on friday at the aspen security forum , where he told fox news correspondent catherine herridge that special operations team was close to al - baghdadi in 2015 but claims they lost him after a lead was leaked to the media .
“that was a very good lead . unfortunately , it was leaked in a prominent national newspaper about a week later and that lead went dead , ” thomas said . a version of the fox news story aired on fox & friends a little more than 20 minutes before president trump sent out the tweet .
thomas’ comments appeared to be referencing a june 2015 new york times story which included information how al - baghdadi operated and attempted to avoid being tracked by coalition forces .
the times story cited information provided by u . s . officials and quoted several top ranking officials , including deputy secretary of state antony blinken .
“the pentagon raised no objections with the times before publishing the story in 2015 and no senior american official ever complained publicly about it until now , ” times reporter peter baker wrote in his story about the president’s tweets saturday morning . a times spokesperson added that the newspaper has asked the white house to clarify the president’s tweet .
“these attacks on newspapers and networks are even more threatening to our democracy than the trump / russia scandal , ” richard painter , a chief white house ethics lawyer for george w . bush , wrote on twitter saturday morning . “this must stop . ”
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the times wasn’t trump’s only target saturday morning . the president also sent out a tweet about a washington post report that russian ambassador sergey kislyak told his superiors he discussed campaign - related matters with current attorney general jeff sessions during the 2016 presidential race .
a new intelligence leak from the amazon washington post , this time against a . g . jeff sessions . these illegal leaks , like comey ' s , must stop !
trump’s tweet about the washington post’s report is notable because the president doesn’t deny what the newspaper actually reported . he also referred to former fbi director james comey’s decision to leak a memo about a meeting with the president as “illegal , ” though there is no evidence any classified material was released to the press .
“it absolutely is legal for comey to share his own private reflections that do not consist of closely held national security secrets with the press , whether by passing on the information himself or through a friend , ” said heidi kitrosser , a law professor at the university of minnesota , told politifact .
trump also asserted the “complete power to pardon” anyone , including himself , in response to ongoing investigations into russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election .
while all agree the u . s . president has the complete power to pardon , why think of that when only crime so far is leaks against us . fake news
the attacks come a day after trump hired anthony scaramucci as his new communications director and promoted sarah huckabee sanders to press secretary , leading sean spicer to resign . after accepting the job , scaramucci deleted several tweets critical of trump , which the president had an explanation for .
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the suspect disguised bombs in packages of breakfast bars , pasta and stuffing mix , authorities say .
mark barnett’s explosive idea to manipulate the price of target’s stock fizzled out before it could be realized , authorities in florida say .
prosecutors accuse the 48 - year - old from ocala of plotting to plant multiple improvised explosive bombs ― disguised in food packages ― on shelves in target stores along the east coast of the united states .
“barnett theorized that the company’s stock value would plunge after the explosions , allowing him to cheaply acquire shares of target stock before an eventual rebound in prices , ” said the u . s . attorney’s office for the middle district of florida in a thursday press release .
barnett , who authorities say built 10 bombs , is a registered sex offender . on feb . 9 , he asked another probationer to plant the devices on the shelves of target stores in florida , virginia and new york , according to the affidavit supporting the criminal complaint .
authorities say mark barnett offered a fellow probationer $ 10 , 000 in “easy money” to carry out a bomb plot .
the bombs were allegedly disguised in packages of breakfast bars , pasta and stuffing mix .
authorities said barnett offered his fellow probationer , identified in court documents as “confidential source , ” $ 10 , 000 in “easy money” for the task and supplied the person with a bag of gloves , a mask , and a license plate cover .
“barnett told the [ confidential source ] not to let the box bounce around or they would explode , ” according to the complaint .
asked if the devices were deadly , barnett allegedly said , “no , they’ll just take your hand off . ”
barnett , according to the affidavit , was recorded discussing the plot and said he was monitoring the stock market to see “if anything major happens . ”
investigators said they later conducted a search of barnett’s home , during which they found “components consistent with those used to create the explosive devices . ”
barnett has been charged with violating the terms of his probation and possession of a destructive device affecting commerce by a previously convicted felon . if convicted , he will face up to 10 years in federal prison .
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suzanne holland ( aka zsuzsanna hegedus ) claimed to be the chief justice of the universal supreme court of the tsilhqot’in nation .
a b . c . woman allegedly conspired with a tennessee associate to kidnap a judge in that state , as well as a sheriff in nebraska .
details of the strange case implicating suzanne holland were laid out at a court hearing in tennessee on sept . 1 during which state resident patricia parsons pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting solicitation to commit kidnapping .
parson admitted that between february and may 2017 , she conspired with holland , who is also known as zsuzsanna hegedus , to kidnap the two officials .
holland describes herself as the chief justice of the universal supreme court of the tsilhqot’in nation .
based in williams lake , members of the “sovereign citizens” group have already been called “vexatious” litigants by a number of b . c . judges over the years .
holland’s group has also been disavowed by the tsilhqot’in national government , which has written to both provincial and federal ministers to explain the universal supreme court of the tsilhqot’in group “does not represent or speak for the tsilhqot’in people , ” tsilhqot’in communications manager graham gillies said wednesday .
holland has not yet been charged in the u . s . kidnapping plot . but she is in jail in b . c . after being arrested last june on some outstanding warrants .
crown spokesman dan mclaughlin said wednesday that she is facing a variety of breach charges , mostly for failing to appear in court .
mclaughlin said the underlying charges holland faces “allege abduction of a person under 14 with intent to deprive the parent or guardian contrary to s . 281 and failure to provide the necessaries of life . ”
on aug . 9 , she was ordered to stand trial on the abduction charge , but no trial date has yet been fixed , mclaughlin said .
as for the u . s . investigation , a department of justice spokeswoman for the western district of tennessee refused to comment when contacted by postmedia about holland .
“we have no comment with ongoing investigations , ” cherri green said in an emailed statement .
and rcmp e division media officer cpl . janelle shoihet also declined to comment on whether canadian police are working with their u . s . counterparts .
“generally speaking , only in the event that an investigation results in the laying of criminal charges would the rcmp confirm its investigation , the nature of any charges laid and the identity of the individual ( s ) involved , ” she said in an emailed response .
the american case began after the husband of holland’s associate , michael parsons , failed to appear in state court in tipton county , tennessee in january 2017 .
he was facing two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm . he had removed his ankle bracelet and fled , but was arrested two days later after flying a plane to a small airport in nebraska .
on feb . 16 , the fbi’s new orleans office received information that holland “was attempting to hire a bounty hunter to kidnap sheriff kurt kapperman of furnas county , nebraska and judge joseph walker of tipton county , tennessee and to break mr . parsons out of jail , ” a u . s . department of justice release said .
holland contacted an fbi confidential source “and solicited the source to execute what were purported to be duly - issued ‘arrest warrants’ for the sheriff and judge issued by the tsilhqot’in nation , ” the department of justice said .
she then emailed her warrants to the source along with an order to release michael parsons from jail .


crimson gold ( persian : طلای سرخ tala-ye sorkh ) is a 2003 iranian film directed by jafar panahi , and written by abbas kiarostami .

the film was never distributed in iranian theatres , because it was considered too " dark " .

therefore , it was not possible that crimson gold be considered as the iranian entry for best foreign language film for the 2003 oscars as it was not released in iran .

crimson gold

talaye sorkh ( crimson gold , 2003 ) , directed by jafar panahi and written by abbas kiarostami .
i ' m glad i saw crimson gold . watching it is like getting a peek behind the curtain .
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award - winning ' crimson gold ' banned in iran crimson gold , a film by jafar panahi , won awards at the cannes film festival this year . but its critical view of class divisions in contemporary iranian society has left it banned in iran . npr ' s bob mondello offers a review .
crimson peak is filming today in kingston ! still time to go check it out downtown .
fig 3 : crimson gold : the plot starts at the end of the story : failing in his desperate attempts in robbing a jewelry store , hossein decides to conclude his misery by pulling the trigger .
crimson peak is filming today in kingston ! still time to go check it out downtown . : kingstonontario
sing is due out on december 21 while gold is due to hit the screen on january 27 .
she wanted out . she wanted a new life . she wanted a trophy worthy of a master thief . she wanted to find the source of the treasured crimson gold . she wanted to face an undead emperor on his home ground and live to tell the tale . careful what you wish for .
the crimson gold
is the third title in this ongoing forgotten realms series focusing specifically on the shadowed lif
fig 4 : crimson gold : numbed by the pills he regularly takes , and detached from any determinate relation with the lives of the others despite his daily interactions , hossein leads an ambiguous , invisible life .
accordingly , crimson gold disturbs this economy in order to achieve something different : it tends to show hossein in his most ordinary moments of life , and , more importantly , it does so by avoiding any explicit ascription of meaning to these moments . bearing in mind my previous discussion of the precariousness of life , crimson gold aims to recognize the liveable life of hossein in his most silent and least dramatic moments . or , it may even sound better to say that hossein’s life , the life of a lonely and marginal character , is nothing but a sum of these insignificant moments ; and , interestingly , crimson gold does not strive to get hossein’s life recognized through imposing dramatic meanings and significations that are more or less ‘external’ to the life he is leading . what seems important to crimson gold is to locate and acknowledge the liveable life where it seems impossible to find .
and on thursday matthew mcconaughey revealed to ellen degeneres how much fun he had piling on some 40 pounds for his new film , gold , in which he plays prospector kenny wells who finds gold in the indonesia jungle .
crimson gold , a film by jafar panahi , won awards at the cannes film festival this year . but its critical view of class divisions in contemporary iranian society has left it banned in iran . npr ' s bob mondello offers a review .
himitsu sentai gorenger volume 10 features episodes 55 - 60 : ep . 55 : the colored daishogun ! tuthankamen ' s curse , ep . 56 : blue summer vacation ! a demon ' s killing beach , ep . 57 : the black encircling net ! five - faced peggy , ep . 58 : crimson ambition ! his excellency the führer ' s gold castle , ep . 59 : the crimson south ! the mysterious big gold plan , and ep . 60 : blue inland sea ! the floating secret fortress island . [ 1 ]
the peruvian incas are confused by the spanish colonists’ obsession with gold and wonder if they eat gold to survive . the spaniards laugh at this ridiculous thought . but yes , they jokingly concede , “we live on gold . ” through this misunderstanding , the incas come to know the spanish conquistadors as the eponymous gold eaters in ronald wright’s historical fiction novel , “the gold eaters . ” wright paints a vivid picture of peru in the early 16th century as spanish explorers and colonizers began to arrive , providing convincing perspectives from both the spanish and the incas’ side . despite having an accomplished tone of historical realism , however , the novel is somewhat lacking in plot depth and character maturity .
some people loved guillermo del toro’s gothic confection crimson peak . some people found it disappointing . but the overall consensus seems to be that crimson peak not only wasn’t scary , but didn’t have a twisty enough storyline . but maybe everybody missed the huge twist at the end of the film ?
she wanted out . she wanted a new life . she wanted a trophy worthy of a master thief . she wanted to find the source of the treasured crimson gold . she wanted to face an undead emperor on his home ground and live to tell the tale . careful what you wish for .
the crimson gold
is the third title in this ongoing forgotten realms series focusing specifically on the shadowed life of the iconic character class of the rogue . each novel in the series is a stand - alone adventure , allowing readers an easy entry point into the forgotten realms world .
the namesake of this book , the crimson gold , feels ultimately unimportant to the primary plot . the d & d references feel heavy - handed . the lead protagonist is almost comically sure of herself , while the most powerful wizards of thay , ancient wizards , are incapable of thwarting their problem .
the gorenger discover a gold - stealing plot associated with a gift for the black cross furher , while daigorou wishes to prove himself to the team .
since making crimson gold , emadeddin has returned to his day job . he has yet to see the finished movie .
none of my colleagues has seen the film ,
panahi says .
they have forbidden all screenings in iran . not just public screenings but private ones too . nobody has seen the film .
crimson gold has significant resonances with close - up in terms of its reflexivity towards the realist tradition of social films ; however , at the same time it is representative of a considerably different reflexive approach nonetheless . in what follows , i will map the significant ways in which crimson gold tries to bring the realist conventions and norms that are characteristic of social films to the surface in order to show their limitations in a playful way . of course , as we shall see , bringing the conventions to the surface means that the film itself is very much situated within the tradition ; but at the same time , its playfulness and reflexive approach prevents it from being simply reducible to it .
crimson gold is more cyclical , socially conscious cinema from the world of panahi and kiarostami . this parable begins at the end when a lonely pizza deliveryman , hussein ( hussein emadeddin ) , shoots himself in the head after a botched jewel heist . the narrative quickly rewinds and panahi observes the simple but devastating events that would slowly squash the man’s human spirit . the genius of kiarostami’s deceptively simple screenplay is how it quietly evokes america’s post - 9 / 11 immigration policy in the repeated embarrassments of the film’s lead . but because crimson gold is also about the oppression of one iranian man by his own people , it’s impossible to write off the film as some knee - jerk anti - american provocation .
afar panahi ' s new film , crimson gold , climaxes in a jewel heist gone horribly wrong . clamouring at a shop window , the witnesses watch as the jeweller is shot down in cold blood . a moment later , the robber ( and ostensibly the hero of the picture ) turns the gun on himself . the crowd screams and scatters . from up the street comes the wail of sirens .
if the authorities disliked panahi ' s previous picture ( the circle ) , they positively detest crimson gold . the film is banned in iran and its maker is breaking the law every time he screens it elsewhere . on returning home from the moscow film festival , he was seized at the airport and interrogated for several hours . there was a moment when he wondered if he would ever be allowed to leave .
of course , it may be argued that , despite its reluctance to appropriate its main character , crimson gold effectively reduces hossein to a mere victim ( a ‘victim of society / injustice / class differences’ ) . in fact , crimson gold exploits hossein in order to provide the conditions for portraying the dark sides of community : while delivering pizzas , hossein encounters all sorts of people , all of which are the perpetrators or victim of some kind of a social injustice . hossein himself is a victim indeed , and his victimhood is even exacerbated since his job exposes him to the difficult task of witnessing other forms of social injustice that he himself may not be a part of . so in this sense the narrative does provide some motivations for hossein’s suicidal rebellion : after all , he is rebelling against the established order that is relegating him and many others to a state of victimhood .
in crimson gold , the overall structure of the plot is familiar : the film starts with a climactic situation in which a man , whom we later understand is called hossein , is robbing a jewellery store ; and when his plan goes wrong he commits murder and then kills himself . the plot then flashes back in time , focusing on the characters involved in this initial climactic situation . in this respect , the whole plot could be initially understood as a struggle to describe what has happened prior to the final incident and what has caused the conflict . also , all of the scenes are structured in a classical manner and the montage is quite clearly following the norms of continuity editing . so , unlike close - up , the film is not preoccupied with making visible the different techniques and devices it exploits ; on the contrary , like the classical mode , the style is not obtrusive , not attracting attention to itself while only serving the plot . like many other social films , crimson gold is a realist feature film narrating the life story of an individual who lives on the margins of society . so crimson gold is aimed at achieving the benevolent objectives associated with social films , and in doing so it does intend to convey some messages to its addressees . these characteristics unanimously eventuate in a pleasurable result : the story is more or less familiar , and the way that the story unfolds seems conventional and thus easily graspable . but is crimson gold really a mere reproduction of the dominant cinematic forms that we , as spectators , are familiar with ? the experience of watching this film and a close analysis of it suggest that the film is building on the familiar forms ; more importantly , however , these familiar conventions and expectations are playfully literalized and relocated at the surface of the text .
every scene in crimson gold evokes oppression within iran and , much more cunningly , the nasty “you are either with us or against us” mentality the united states adopted after 9 / 11 . just as hussein’s constant waiting is meant to humorously parallel panahi’s own detainment at jfk , a conversation at the film’s crucial jewelry store more largely references our country’s isolationist mentality ( the store advises hussein to buy iranian gold , not the imported italian kind ) . panahi and kiarostami understand the effects of 9 / 11 on our country’s policies , but when does safeguarding one’s country come at the expense of another’s humiliation ? like one character in the film says : “show some mercy , please . ”
in close - up , hossain sabzian ( playing himself ) is a poor jobless man who very much loves cinema to the extent that he gets in trouble with the law for impersonating director mohsen makhmalbaf ; while in crimson gold , hussein ( hossain emadeddin ) is a poor pizza delivery worker and a former fighter in the iran - iraq war who is still affected by the injuries of war . both of these characters are among the marginal individuals of iranian society , not only due to their poor conditions of living , but also due to their inability in narrating their own life story and thus in getting their invisible marginal status recognized socially . in this sense , both close - up and crimson gold can be considered as social films that are exclusively dedicated to bearing witness to the unheard life stories of those who suffer , but those whose sufferings are exacerbated due to their limited capacity to make their cry heard .
in a similar manner , crimson gold puts at its centre a marginal character ; but , unlike the conventional instances , it does not take him for granted and it denies the spectator such transparency . by doing so , crimson gold highlights a very important consideration that is significantly neglected by the conventional features of the social films tradition : the obsessive defamiliarization in the early stages of crimson gold is indeed in accordance with the ethico - political aims of social films ; since defamiliarization inevitably necessitates the existence of such a narrative . that is , narrating and representing someone who is not always already familiar – someone whose alterity is concealed and thus ungraspable for the moment – proves its own necessity and ethico - political significance . furthermore , this necessity gains even more significance if we consider it through its intersection with the lack of narrative privilege : hossein is not only unfamiliar but he is also unable to get his unfamiliarity recognized due to his lack of access to the necessary means of self - narration . he is simply a working class man , with no academic or technical skill . he is always numbed by the pills he takes because of the war injuries and accordingly he is even unable to do his simple pizza delivery work without any error . so obviously hossein is not able to use some sort of medium in order to narrate himself and thus the ‘social film’ undertakes this narration on behalf of him .
the cw seems pretty pleased with their efforts , of course . “i hope the fans who treasure the character are as excited as we are by what costume designer colleen atwood has achieved with this latest version of the flash’s iconic suit , ” said executive producer david nutter said in their press release . it definitely looks a lot less like the crimson chin from the front like this , so good job there , cw . or bad job , depending on how much you love the crimson chin .
in revealing this denouement i ' m merely taking my lead from the film itself . the heist scene ( the crowd , the shots , the sirens ) actually plays out during the opening three minutes . everything else is flashback , rewinding to show the drip - drip of humiliations that turn a listless pizza delivery man into a killer with nothing to lose . this makes crimson gold a most unusual breed of crime thriller : back - to - front and curiously weighted .
take any human being and you find that his situation is a direct result of his family , his education , his economic position ,
explains panahi , an iranian .
so this thriller is not about the crime itself . it ' s about the background story .
or to put it another way : the villain of crimson gold is not so much the gunman as the big , cold , uncaring city he lives in . and the fact that this city also happens to be tehran has inevitably caused problems .
after the early scenes , the narrative undertakes a simultaneous familiarization and defamiliarization of hossein’s character . with its focus on hossein in his everyday life and interactions before his attempt to rob a jewellery store , crimson gold follows the aforementioned conventional order – depicting the events that lead to the final climatic situation ; but it is my contention that , once again , such following is accompanied by a great deal of playfulness . for instance , in many cases there is no strictly meaningful link between the scenes and each scene does not inevitably necessitate the one that follows . this unconventional approach disrupts the totality of the narrative in a significant way : each scene more or less plays a part in the whole film , but at the same time each part is not justified by – and thus is not reducible to – the totality of the narrative . the spectator , educated by the instrumentality of the realist social films , desires the complete picture in the least possible time with the most possible details ; but crimson gold systematically disrupts such desires .
jafar panahi ' s ' ' crimson gold , ' ' which will be shown at the 41st new york film festival tonight and tomorrow , begins with the armed robbery of a tehran jewelry store , an event captured in one motionless shot as if by a security camera , albeit one that has been set up for artistic effect rather than efficient surveillance . gunshots are exceedingly rare in iranian movies , and the two that are fired in the opening moments reverberate with particular force , even though the crime they aggravate looks banal and amateurish .
like many iranian directors , he began making films about children . the popularity of children as subjects stems in part from the existence of state funding for such films . they also serve to steer filmmakers clear of censorship problems that complicate the filming of any domestic or intimate scenes involving adult women . however , after his first two feature films , panahi decided to tackle these complications head on by making the circle , a devastating look at the strictures against women in contemporary iran . this new tone of social critique continued in the unsettling crimson gold .
at first , i though the main character was going to be a dwarf . this was an exciting concept for me , as i had never read a book with dwarf as the main focus of a story . then he gets killed in the first chapter . tazi is introduced and i really liked her . then she becomes a slave . another dwarf is soon introduced and they sort of team up . this was not what i had expected , but i like the unexpected . the crimson gold is an interesting tale about a young female fighter that gets tangled up in another
in this sense , crimson gold provides the condition for what we might call ‘bestowing recognition to the unknowable other’ ; a sort of recognition in which the self must abandon his / her familiar – but nevertheless ‘unethical’ – desires for knowing and grasping the other in a total manner . ( 60 ) crimson gold is denying the spectator his / her conventional expectations for identification with the character , foregrounding a different sense of identification through which he very much remains at a decisive distance : hossein’s liveable life and grievable death is acknowledged through providing him with some kind of a story ; but such a story does not deprive him of his irreplaceable alterity . hossein’s story is very much his , and the film is clearly reluctant in clarifying many ambiguous aspects of his life . it is in this sense that the film works as the ‘listening eye’ : hossein , as the embodiment of alterity , significantly remains exterior to the grasp of the narrative – as well as the grasp of the spectator – since the camera is obsessed with the surfaces and thus resists any determinate psychological – or even crude sociological – explanations . his story unfolds in front of our eyes , but his story is always already his and it more or less remains that way .
at first , i though the main character was going to be a dwarf . this was an exciting concept for me , as i had never read a book with dwarf as the main focus of a story . then he gets killed in the first chapter . tazi is introduced and i really liked her . then she becomes a slave . another dwarf is soon introduced and they sort of team up . this was not what i had expected , but i like the unexpected . the crimson gold is an interesting tale about a young female fighter that gets tangled up in another person ' s war . she has no choice but to be the pawn of the evil wizard . she must not only use her wits to escape the situation , but to also save her new friend . this story moves along at a good pace , but did not have enough action to suit me . when the story focused on ythazz , i always felt a little lost and looked forward to it returning to tazi . still , it is a good story that does not require you reading the first two books in the series . overall , the the crimson gold by voronica whitney - robinson is a nice addition to the forgotten realms world of books . i rated this book a 7 out of 10 .
after he leaves the high - rise apartment , hussein returns to the store . we already know much of what will happen now , because
crimson gold
opens with a version of the same scene it closed with . but i will not discuss the opening ( and closing ) because they proceed with a kind of implacable logic . what seems impulsive and reckless at the beginning of the film takes on a certain logic after we have spent some time in hussein ' s company . in his case , still waters run deep and cold . he has been still and implacable for the entire film , but now we understand he was not frozen , but waiting .
i would ' ve given it 2 stars if it wasn ' t d & d . as a d & d book , it ' s bad . this isn ' t the first book the author has written for d & d so it ' s not just ignorance . and the editor must be blind as well . the crimson gold ? it ' s a sad excuse for a title . the metal in question can be replaced with whatever you wish and it wouldn ' t change a thing , given how minor and unimportant it was to the plot . thazienne the protagonist ? this series is about rogues . but our heroine is a rogue , warrior , military
“if you want to arrest a thief , you’ll have to arrest the world , ” says an armchair philosopher in the film as hussein’s friend ali ( kamyar sheissi ) goes through the contents of a woman’s purse he’s just stolen . tipsy from this conversation about guesswork , entitlement , and cause and effect , ali envisions a world where he can spare himself considerable embarrassment by knowing the contents of a woman’s purse before pinching it . crimson gold is a film largely concerned with the surface of things , and the message of this mystical scene is abundantly clear : just as ali cannot separate the purse from the woman , the united states cannot separate terrorism from the middle eastern man .
it may be said that crimson gold is withholding explanatory devices in order to elicit responses from the spectator such that he / she might be provoked to actively provide answers for him / herself ( a sort of democratization of spectatorship ) . but this is not the case with crimson gold . on the contrary , the answers are there , and the blanks and gaps can be filled quite easily , in case we are satisfied with general explanations that effectively translate hossein’s particularity and concreteness into abstract terms . however , the interesting point is that such readymade filling , despite its accessibility , is not desirable or even satisfying here . there is something in play that goes beyond the mere act of filling the blanks : what we encounter here is a sort of questioning the very act of ‘filling’ since filling is decentred as if some kind of a story is not necessarily dependent upon such an act of filling the blanks . so , in a sense , the film is providing the answers like many other social films that are aimed at maximizing communicativeness ; but the point is that , unlike these conventional features , crimson gold is delegitimizing the centrality of answers so that the film gains its affects at a quite different level . the point is not only that such answers seem quite unsatisfying , but also that the act of providing answers – filling the blanks , as if there is a puzzle to be solved – loses its edge throughout the film such that the affections of the film are not theoretically grasped even if we strive to provide ‘better’ answers . despite the fact that , at the surface , the story unfolds in a smoothly linear order , the film effectively denies us the pleasures of such linearity since there is no easy passage from a to b through which we gain a better grasp of hossein , and by which we may imagine a future c and d that could bring us to a much more comprehensive knowledge of him and his life story . the linearity is preserved at the surface , but it is nevertheless trapped in a constant process of being interrupted and negated .
crimson gold and close - up are not aimed at treating their central characters in typical ways and , more interestingly , they are not exploiting the familiar narrative devices in order to get them recognized through a familiar channel . crimson gold and close - up are aimed at narrating the invisible while resisting the current ( altericidal ) frameworks of visibility . recognizing the other through the current frameworks that we are used to is indeed reinforcing the presupposed universality of these established frameworks while concealing their undeniably violent particularity and exclusions . so , there would be no ethics , since ethics is understood here as a form of self - interrogation , as a form of stepping back by which the other may find an alternative space for being recognized in his / her alterity and not in his / her reducibility to sameness . what is at stake is putting into question our frameworks for thinking about the human through our encounter with the alterity of the other . but if the other is supposed to fit into these frameworks – if he / she is brought into a light to the extent that there would be no room left for acknowledging the ambiguity of that which is unrepresentable and that which always remains ambiguously unrepresentable despite our best efforts through our ‘best’ forms – then the other is always already in our grasp –always already phrased– and thus there is no possibility for any meaningful critique – and thus no meaningful alternative future – anymore .
the success of
crimson gold
depends to an intriguing degree on the performance of its leading actor , a large , phlegmatic man who embodies the rule that an object at rest will stay at rest until some other force sets it into motion . the character , named hussein and played by hussein emadeddin , is a pizza deliveryman in tehran , iran , heavy - set , tall , undemonstrative . he sits where he sits as if planted there , and when he rides his scooter around the city streets , he doesn ' t lean and dart like most scooter drivers , but seems at one with his machine in implacable motion . when he smokes , he is like an automaton programmed to move the cigarette toward and away from his lips .
crimson gold , one of the best films of the year , is absolutely stunning from start to finish . it ' s gritty and captures the essence of the social struggles in iran while consistently delivering messages on the struggles we all face in life regarding love and relationships . it ' s a humanistic film that is extremely subtle , which turned off several viewers ( as does taxi driver , one of my all - time favorites ) . jafar panahi ' s slow pacing doesn ' t allow the film to go into incoherent territory , but again , some viewers may be turned off by this . the pacing is really what allows the messages to set in and provoke the viewers thoughts . it ' s worth every second of your time , don ' t miss this gem . 9 / 10
mr . kiarostami , the lion of contemporary iranian art cinema , and mr . panahi , who has established himself with ' ' the white balloon ' ' and ' ' the circle ' ' as one of iran ' s leading urban filmmakers , set out to explain what drove the robber , a pizza deliveryman and a veteran of the iran - iraq war , to his desperate , self - destructive act of violence . the answer is not altogether surprising , and at times ' ' crimson gold ' ' exhibits a finger - pointing didacticism as it exposes the cruelties and inequities of a society sharply polarized by class and corrupted by selfishness , snobbery and cynicism . but the occasional obviousness of the film ' s themes is more than balanced by the subtlety of its methods , and by the stolid , irreducible individuality of its protagonist , hussein .
panahi is keen to stress that he ' s not a political person , merely a man interested in social issues . he admits , however , that the two have a tendency to blur . where the circle was interpreted as a passionate condemnation of women ' s status in iran , crimson gold spotlights what appears to be a crisis of masculinity in the country ' s underclass . full of rage and self - loathing , hossain emadeddin ' s overweight pizza man can be read as the symbol of a wider malaise . his rides across tehran carry him from penthouse to pavement , from the miserable teenage soldiers staking out a decadent party to the lonesome playboy adrift in his parents ' apartment . during his time off , he tries to buy an expensive pair of earrings for his fiancee . appraising his shabby suit , the jeweller suggests he pick up something cheaper from the local bazaar .
at least one might assume that the shoot went smoothly . not so , however . on the contrary , the making of crimson gold sounds like a nightmare . watching the film , i was struck by emadeddin ' s charged , minimalist performance in the leading role , blithely filing him as some veteran mainstay of iranian movies . instead , it turns out that emadeddin is a real - life pizza - delivery man , and a paranoid schizophrenic to boot .
we knew he was a schizophrenic in advance , so we knew he would be difficult to work with ,
panahi says .
but i had no idea that it was going to be that difficult . on several occasions i was tempted to stop shooting and simply abandon the entire project .
more than once he found himself half - wishing that emadeddin would fall off his moped and solve everyone ' s problems .
in the final scene , hossein finds a very rare occasion for exploring the lifestyle of a very rich man when he is unusually invited by that man to join him in eating pizza : hossein explores the house ; he drinks from the expensive bottles of wine ; he dives in the private swimming pool and so on . but he is still so expressionless and we are not allowed to clearly know what he is thinking . he rebels after this scene and obviously his rebellion is motivated by this rare encounter with the luxurious living conditions of the rich people of his community . but his recurrent and memorable expressionless face prevents us from reducing him to any a priori and readymade framework . in this sense , crimson gold simultaneously exploits and moves beyond the conventional narratives , since it foregrounds certain expectations , but it does not provide answers in a determinate manner . not only is hossein not comprehensively familiarized , but his familiarization is endlessly deferred .
when lucille finally sees a ghost , it’s like a piece of the past she can’t simply dismiss ( as she does her dead mother ) . it’s the ultimate ironic punishment , and a brilliant comeuppance . but it’s also a powerful moment , because it’s a sudden change in the way things have worked in the movie up to now . crimson peak doesn’t have a big secret or a clever reveal at its heart—instead , it has something darker and maybe even more fascinating .
the big innovation in crimson peak , other than its insane visuals , is how it uses the supernatural . the movie is full of ghosts , but they’re entirely benevolent—or at least , they’re entirely on edith’s side . edith , from childhood , has had the power to see ghosts , including her own dead mother , and when she gets to allerdale hall , she’s able to see all of the ghosts in the house , including thomas and lucille’s mother , but also all of their victims .
the basic plot of crimson peak is , indeed , very simple . edith cushing ( mia wasikowska ) marries thomas sharpe ( tom hiddleston ) and goes to live in his decaying family mansion in bleakest blighty , a place where even the ground bleeds . but soon edith realizes she’s made a mistake . thomas and his sister lucille ( jessica chastain ) have murdered all of thomas’ previous wives , and she’s next . the plot is basically edith surviving , along with thomas having a slight change of heart .
on the contrary , my argument is that ‘alternative and progressive social films’ are those which , unlike the conventional realist features , considerably take into account the difficulties and risks in establishing a cinema based on alterity . progressive social films , including close - up and crimson gold , are not solely concerned with what the characters and events are supposed to represent ( the so - called content ) ; but , more importantly , are focused on ‘how the image is framed and shot , and which generic conventions it engages , distorts or challenges’ . in this respect , by focusing on the ‘mediations which intervene between representation and reality’ ( 62 ) , these films make explicit ‘how the history of meaning - making in images carries internalized norms and exclusions that can be challenged by dissident representations’ . ( 63 ) progressive social films , inspired by the ethics of alterity , are not simply in favour of ‘affirmative’ struggles ; but , more importantly , they critically interrogate their own tradition through denaturalizing and thus revealing its altericidal visions .
he has a friend named ali ( kamyar sheissi ) . we meet ali for the first time in a tea house , where he produces a purse he has just found . its contents are disappointing - - a broken gold ring . another man overhears their conversation , assumes they stole the purse and delivers a little lecture on the morality of theft . he believes the rewards should suit the crime ; you should not put your targets through a great deal of suffering just to relieve them of pocket change .
when he leaves the apartment , he goes directly to a jewelry store that he and ali had visited twice before . the first time , they wanted to get a price on the gold ring , and were treated rudely and with suspicion by the store owner and guard . returning , wearing ties and with ali ' s sister along , they said they were shopping for a wedding ring - - but were treated rudely again ; it is a high - end store and they look like low - end people .
in this linear narrative , seen as the film’s limitation by a critic , next enters omid , a seller of illegal dvds . omid was in the backseat when the first scene unfolded . he recognises panahi and his memory proves to be sharper than the filmmaker’s . omid is no ordinary dvd seller . not only does he remember the dvds he gave panahi’s son , a film buff , but also caught panahi’s apparently clandestine act of filming taxi in public . this he does by relating a line spoken by a pickpocket from the café scene in panahi’s crimson gold . omid does not sound like a man who simply sells dvds for a living . it is obvious he has an insatiable passion for cinema . and like all good film buffs in the world , his cinematic memory is quick to catch a scene with the slightest reference from an earlier film . omid is a man who takes real risks to keep the culture of alternative cinema afloat in tehran . no wonder a critic likens him to “a genuine hero of samizdat distribution” .
all of which spells good news for panahi . but the fact remains that the director is a pariah in his homeland . he is being celebrated at festivals around the globe - crimson gold won the un certain regard award at cannes earlier this year - and getting arrested when he flies back to tehran . he is making iranian films about iranian life that iranians themselves are forbidden to see . panahi admits that this is frustrating .
before anything else i want my film to show in iran . but the good thing is that if the film is successful outside iran , it will eventually be saved . it gets smuggled in on video or satellite tv and once that happens my compatriots can see it . and anyway , history has shown that , even if a film has been stopped or forbidden or buried , it never really dies .
with that , he sits back , lights a cigarette and gives a smile that would shame the sphinx .
the system can ' t last for ever ,
he says .
i can wait .
in this respect , i will map the embodiment of the listening eye in and against the conventional tradition of social films through my case - studies , asking how these distinctive instances foreground a non - instrumental approach to cinema in which the film’s encounter with the other is not reducible to an altericidal relation comprised of a manipulating subject and its manipulated object ; but in which the underrepresented other is represented in a way that the dynamics of subordination - dominance is disturbed and the realist tradition of social films is problematized . in particular , i will show how close - up foregrounds a unique cinematic hospitality towards the other by contesting the narrative and stylistic features of realist fiction films and by introducing a different conception – i will argue , a more sophisticated conception – of realism based on a reflexive approach to pro - filmic reality . furthermore , i will map how crimson gold plays with realism by bringing its conventions and characteristics to the surface in a reflexive manner and thus providing the conditions for excesses to the extent that effectively overflow the realist economy of social films . ( 47 )
finally , in order to articulate my argument in a concrete manner , i will undertake close analysis of close - up ( 6 ) and crimson gold ( 7 ) , two of the major self - reflexive social films that rework the realist aesthetic that is characteristic of the tradition in order to take critical positions against the oppressive aspects of this cinema , while arguing that these cinematic narratives resonate with the idea of the ‘listening eye’ . according to emmanuel levinas , the ‘listening eye’ is ‘concerned about and listens to the other’s story which always has to remain , to some extent , theirs’ ( 8 ) ; a sort of bestowing recognition on the unknowable other that disrupts the reduction of him / her to something simply representable and communicable that is always already subordinated to the representational powers of the self . the listening eye listens , since it is concerned less with ‘seeing’ than ‘listening’ ( 9 ) and since it listens to some kind of a story without rendering that story intelligible through the readymade frameworks of intelligibility . the listening eye breaks with the subject - object tradition through ‘a suspension of judgment and morality’ ( 10 ) ; but as we shall see , this break is not made possible unless the ‘eye’ accepts its embedding in this tradition and thus interrogates its habitualised altericidal visions .
this argument against the pathological aspects of crimson gold seems cogent ; however , it effectively neglects the overall approach of the narrative to hossein’s character . as mentioned before , the film is focused on hossein in his very ordinary moments of life , but these moments do not reveal much about him . many of the scenes show hossein on his motorcycle going from one place to another . due to their recurrences , these extensive shots and scenes become a major stylistic aspect of the film and eventually provide the conditions for the possibility of a unique cinematic excess ( 58 ) : not only do we see hossein in his most ordinary moments , but we also see him while he is simply there , without any justification or any significant meaning and narrative function . he is always ambiguous and his reactions are far beyond clear . he often rejects his fiancé , but at the same time he is worried about her well - being . he is humiliated by those who treat him as a peasant , but his reactions are not determinate . he is often numbed and silent ( 59 ) , and there is no significant physical or facial expression through which his interior feelings and thoughts might be conveyed . but nevertheless he is onscreen , conducting a life that may be strangely opaque but is a life on its own terms nonetheless .
as tasha robinson wrote in io9 last week , the theme of crimson peak , as with other guillermo del toro films , is escaping from the past . in the case of thomas and lucille , they’re trapped with this terrible old house that’s the literal embodiment of history and its claims on them . their schemes to keep marrying and killing young women are a desperate attempt to move forward in spite of all the dead weight they’re tied to , so that thomas can build his amazing new machine . edith survives because she has a greater sensitivity to the past ( in spite of coming from america , the land of newness ) than thomas and lucille do .
unfortunately the characters are seldom very relatable , and as a result the reading experience feels very distant and unemotional . tika , for example , is repeatedly mentioned in waman’s thoughts and memories , but very little is actually revealed about her personality . despite the fact that waman sees her as one of his main motivations to return home , she remains very one - dimensional . pizarro is more developed as a character , but whether he should be sympathized with or seen as despicable is not considered in a way that invokes a deeper layer of meaning . while sometimes a lack of obvious protagonists and antagonists can make a novel thought - provoking , it makes “gold eaters” difficult to fully engage with .
wright devotes a great portion of the novel to creating a colorful setting of peru during the early 1500s , but he does so at the expense of his plot . the novel tells a somewhat cliche adventure and homecoming story through the eyes of waman , a young provincial from the incan empire who runs away from home shortly after coming of age . he is soon violently captured by spaniards and is forced to become francisco pizarro’s interpreter . the novel mainly follows waman’s journeys with the spaniards , as they attempt to colonize the incan empire and search the land for gold . waman is exposed to a new culture and language and must choose to defend his own while trying to find his way home . the story meanwhile follows waman’s family and some of the other spanish colonizers settling in the land . the plot is more or less straightforward and predictable . its concept provides many opportunities for depth and surprise , but wright’s adherence to historical fact seems to handicap his fictional license .
jafar panahi ' s film about a psychotic pizza delivery man won praise worldwide - and got him arrested . he talks to xan brooks
on completing the film , panahi was obliged to have it vetted by a body with the wonderfully orwellian title of the ministry of guidance . predictably , they hated it .
maybe they expect me to do advertisements or pro - government films ,
he shrugs .
they think that anyone who is independent or not following their views is a spy of the west . paid by the west . spreading western propaganda .
but here ' s the dilemma . in a sense , panahi is paid by the west . his films are buttressed by french and italian production money . it ' s the only way he can make movies free from government interference , and it places him in a catch - 22 situation .
i always start a film in my own country with my own money ,
he says .
and halfway through i sell the production rights to foreign companies . this enables me to finish the film . it ' s the only option i have .
the ministry finally agreed to release it if he agreed to a number of cuts . these ranged from overhauling an entire 17 - minute scene to the removal of a derogatory reference to a brand of cigarettes . panahi refused , hence the ban .
half of his problems were made by him on purpose . it was deliberate destructiveness . other times it was unconscious and came out of his own instability . hossein was very paranoid . he thought everyone was plotting against him . so he would smash up the set , get on his bike and just go home . and i would have to go to his house and reason with him . he would tell me that everyone on set was a neo - nazi . he thought that some of the crew were le pen supporters who had flown in from france on a mission to murder him .
how did panahi manage to coax a performance out of him ?
oh i don ' t know . i would give him the approximation of what i wanted . then he would do half of what i wanted and the rest what he wanted . he didn ' t always listen .
one might say that panahi ' s love of the movies was born out of crime , or at least of bending the rules to his advantage . he studied at the tehran college of cinema and tv in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution . wangling a post in the university ' s film archive , he gained access to the pictures that were banned under the ayatollah ' s regime . panahi would run the projector himself and sit up all night watching alfred hitchcock movies . when i ask which hitchcocks he especially liked , he struggles to provide the titles :
they change the names in iran . i don ' t know the exact translations .
when pressed , he refers to a film called spirit , which could be spellbound , and another called the crazy man , which surely has to be psycho ( although the title rather gives the game away ) .
when i made my first short i wanted nothing more than to imitate hitchcock . but the film i made was so cold and artificial that it had no soul to it at all . so i knew i had to go another way .