doctor 's orders is a 1934 british , black-and-white , comedy film directed by norman lee and starring leslie fuller , john mills marguerite allan and ronald shiner as miggs .

it was produced by british international pictures .

doctor ' s orders ( film )

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grazia blithely ignores her doctor’s orders and surreptitiously devours a forbidden macaroni casserole . maria , from whom valeria wrested the television set , sneaks off to a nearby cafe for a drink .
bilge ebiri writes about film for new york magazine and bookforum . he is also the director of the feature film new guy ( 2003 ) .
comedy in which a hospital doctor discovers that his father is a market quack .
the cast and crew credits , as well as the film ' s title , are given orally by twin sisters .
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professor samuel kassow describes what happened on august 12 , 1952 , when many yiddish poets and jewish figures of the anti - fascist committee were executed on stalin ' s orders . the doctor ' s plot , which erupted in january 1953 , was the next stage in stalin ' s cycle of conspiracies .
reviewed at venice film festival ( orizzonti ) , sept . 3 , 2016 . ( also in toronto film festival — platform . ) running time : 103 min . ( original title :
réparer les vivants
)
an interview with writer / director boots riley about his incendiary new film ,
sorry to bother you .
i like comedian leslie fuller , but he ' s rarely in any good comedies . there is nothing particularly bad about doctor ' s orders ( 1934 ) . just hums along in it ' s way . there are a few scenes which you sense could have been funny where they didn ' t put enough effort in making them such . forgettable feel - good story too .
but breast cancer has been more frequently and , perhaps , better dealt with by tv movies ( lifetime’s short - film anthology “five” ) and medical - themed series ( “grey’s anatomy” or “er” ) than it has on the big screen .
magda follows doctor’s orders after her operation and heads to the beach with her son , uncomfortable with his mother’s physical changes , and the introverted arturo , who steadfastly keeps matters platonic even after his wife dies . with a 70 % chance of being cancer - free , she is determined to carry on by bravely shaving her hair , wearing a wig , using a prosthetic breast and plotting to buy new “boobs . ”
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…
doctor ' s orders
guards a similar secret ( funny how the same twist aired six days apart on two different tv shows ) , although in this case i ' m not so sure it guards it so well , since i had clearly figured it out ahead of time . ( the only tiny remaining doubt : maybe i was being tricked into thinking there was a twist , and there actually wasn ' t one and they were just using weird events to make me think there was . talk about over - analysis . as data once said ,
knowing that he knows that we know that he knows . . .
) all the hints are clearly there in
doctor ' s orders .
the second phlox offers to walk t ' pol to her quarters , the jig is up .
this routine second world war drama finds the normally reliable dirk bogarde slightly off - form as a pilot grounded on doctor ' s orders . his determination to continue flying is deflected momentarily by his love for naval intelligence widow dinah sheridan and the disappearance of comrade bryan forbes after he ' s caught tinkering with a code machine . it ' s all pretty much as you ' d expect , but a little more insight into the lives of the air crews would have filled in the gaps left by the absence of flag - waving propaganda .
alabam is lovesick . he tells mickey how he can ' t get close to the girl of his dreams ; he ' s overheard by dave , a smooth operator , who insists that alabam leave everything to him . he contrives to have alabam and mickey wreck alabam ' s car in the girl ' s front yard , then he arrives , posing as a doctor , asking the residents of the house if they ' ll let the injured boy come inside while the doctor examines him . meanwhile , mickey gets a look at the girl ' s cousin and feigns injury so that now both lads are in beds upstairs while dave , the doctor , conjures foul - tasting treatments . the fly in the ointment is the girl ' s crusty uncle , who may stand between the lads and their true loves .
the film takes on gabrielle’s listlessness , slumps into an opiated fug . the malady is mysterious and not easily treatable . it just exhausts you . it transforms from a story about release to just another jail . at times it felt like there was no escape .
the couple move to the coast , where dependable josé begins to build a house . gabrielle is still afflicted , now with paralysing cramps that may or may not be real . she’s sent , on doctor’s orders , to a spa in the swiss mountains . there – finally – she meets someone who might help her escape herself : a floppy - haired hottie called andré sauvage ( louis garrel ) . a veteran of the war in indochina , he’s picked up a kidney infection that manifests itself in bouts of exhausted sighing . his treatment is gob - fulls of opium and the odd manly grunt to help through the pain . all this byron - esque suffering is , unsurprisingly , right up gabrielle’s street .
it doesn’t take a scholar of narrative structure to figure out how these two narratives will be joined , quite literally , at the heart , but quillévéré observes medical process — and the worn bodies that undergo them — with a reverent , methodical exactitude that should have viewers knotted in tense concern regardless . the film has no need for trumped - up reminders of life - or - death gravity , nor for agitated cutting and scoring as doctors shout imperatives at each other : it’s the quiet human details of the situation , as parents’ final sentiments are relayed to unconscious ears , or tentative smiles of understanding are exchanged across waiting rooms in the early hours , that land like the benevolent of punches to the gut . “careful , no powerful emotions , ” claire wryly cautions her loved ones at one point , repeating doctor’s orders but knowing it’s far too late for such restraint .
that fusion of formal and emotional fluency should make “heal the living” the helmer’s most widely distributed work to date , and deserves to fix her name in producers’ minds for even more ambitious , potentially international , crossover projects . dazzlingly composed and choreographed , the film’s opening stretches may surprise admirers of her earlier , earthier films , as tom harari’s lithe , gliding camera tracks tattooed teenager simon ( gabin verdet ) from a secret tryst in his girlfriend’s bedroom to a late - night bicycle joyride through his hometown of le havre to an early - morning surf appointment with friends .
obviously , the fact that t ' pol isn ' t real is hidden from the audience more for our benefit than for phlox ' s , and the fact that it ' s t ' pol whom he imagines is for obvious script reasons : she ' s a vulcan and could logically be immune to the anomaly ' s effects .
the conundrum continues : how do you do an inspiring breast - cancer story without depressing the audience or resorting to clichés ? “miss you already , ” while more original , already showed what happens if you go too far in the other direction . still , if “ma ma” encourages just one woman to examine herself regularly and not wait to see a doctor if something seems amiss , at least the film will stand as a rather stylish public service announcement for early detection .
utterly amazing ! i was surprised to see voyager ripoff tng in ex post facto but i never thought enterprise would ripoff voyagers few original idea ' s ! lucky for this show phlox ( psychotic doctor that he is ) is one of the few characters i like behind porthos but ahead of hoshi and reed . 2 stars .
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to gianni’s mild chagrin , luigi arrives not only with his mother but also with her sister , maria ( maria calì ) . coincidentally , gianni’s doctor ( marcello ottolenghi ) pays a visit to monitor gianni’s blood pressure and prevails on him to take in his own mother , grazia ( grazia cesarini sforza ) , who is afflicted with an array of ailments that require several medications and strict dietary guidelines . suddenly gianni , reduced to sleeping in a deck chair , is single - handedly running what amounts to a temporary geriatric ward .
a lot has been made of female sexuality coming to the fore at this year’s cannes . from the land of the moon continues the trend to a degree . it’s implied that much of gabrielle’s pain is rooted in sexual frustration . there’s a lot made of what gabrielle calls “the principal thing” . this , in agus’s novella , is love . but garcia suggests sexual fulfilment is strong in the mix here too . in an early scene gabrielle stands , dress hiked up and lets a river wash over her . it’s the pursuit of orgasm as escape . getting off to get out .
directed by gianni di gregorio ; written by mr . di gregorio , based on a story by mr . di gregorio and simone riccardini ; director of photography , gian enrico bianchi ; edited by marco spoletini ; music by ratchev and carratello ; production designer , susanna cascella ; costumes by silvia polidori ; produced by matteo garrone ; released by zeitgeist films . at film forum , 209 west houston street , west of avenue of the americas , south village . in italian , with english subtitles . running time : 1 hour 15 minutes . this film is not rated .
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daniel blake is an affable 59 - year - old middle class widower in newcastle recovering from a heart attack and seeking fi - nancial assistance from the state . government illogic stipulates that his benefits will be taken away unless he looks for work , yet doctor’s orders prevent him from working . at the welfare office , daniel meets single mother katie , whom he befriends , offering his platonic friendship and gentle , grandfatherly support to her and her two children . deservedly the winner of the coveted 2016 palm d’or award at cannes , this is a rare and unapologetic political drama which touches the soul and reminds us of the power of simple compassion . director ken loach and the outstanding lead actors have created fictional , yet very real people , whom we will not soon forget .
the ladies who lunch in gianni di gregorio’s luminous sliver of a film , “mid - august lunch , ” are roman women in their 80s and beyond who have gathered in a small condominium in the trastevere neighborhood . the modest apartment is the home of gianni ( mr . di gregorio ) , an unemployed 50 - something bachelor , and his 93 - year - old mother , valeria ( valeria de franciscis ) .
with : gianni di gregorio ( gianni ) , valeria de franciscis ( valeria ) , marina cacciotti ( marina ) , maria calì ( aunt maria ) , grazia cesarini sforza ( grazia ) , alfonso santagata ( luigi ) , marcello ottolenghi ( doctor ) and luigi marchetti ( viking ) .
katell quillévéré ' s superb third feature is a wrenching medical drama that blends dazzling formal polish with rawest emotion .
dr . charles walker returns to allison ' s dreams , and this time it involves one of her daughters .
not to mention it has phlox ' s letter narration , ending with him deciding to leave the hallucinated parts in .
bill blake , a jovial con man is known to friends and his son as a traveling salesman , but in reality operates a phony medicine show , complete with singing , a monkey , and audience shills . his son ronnie has studied to become a doctor and internes at a nearby hospital . the boy ' s love interest is a nurse there , but his rival is anxious to expose his father as a market quack to ruin him .
one of the film’s deepest satisfactions is its characters’ complete lack of ruminative psychologizing . when the women look back , it is with a sense of having lived full lives . had “mid - august lunch” wavered from its matter - of - fact realism , it might have toppled into sentimentality or morbidity . instead it is a group portrait of people who are comfortable with who they are , savoring the pleasures of food and companionship and living in the moment . the movie glows .
considering that the disease is currently the nation ' s most common cancer according to the american cancer society , there are surprisingly few of note . of course , the 1983 oscar - winning “ terms of endearment ” is the grandma of such weepers . then there was last year’s buddy pic “ miss you already . ” both 2003’s “ pieces of april ” and 2005’s “ the family stone ” are centered on holiday - themed family gatherings where the matriarch is at risk . and the 1967 camp classic “ valley of the dolls , ” of all things , had sharon tate ’s sex symbol desperately opting for suicide after her diagnosis .
' s real - life son , enzo , can been seen on the dubois ' refrigerator , spelled out in magnetic letters .
man , what a rip - off of voyager ' s
one
. enterprise ripped off a lot of previous st scripts , unfortunately .
allison is again dreaming about dr . charles walker with whom she ' d had a previous encounter . unfortunately , she ' s also under arrest . it all started several days before when she and joe refused ariel permission to go to the movies with a 14 year - old boy . it turns out walker has been speaking to ariel in the school library and encouraging her to ignore her parents rules and just not tell them what she ' s doing . when allison drops the girls at school , she sees walker talking to dr gramado , the father of the boy who wanted to take ariel to the movies . ariel decides to go to a party at the boy ' s house without telling anyone but allison finds out what is going on and rushes to the gramado house where she misinterprets what she sees and assaults the doctor .
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 . …
the surfing footage that ensues has a diving , deep - blue majesty that outstrips more hi - octane hollywood depictions of the sport for sheer kinetic wonder ; however high the narrative stakes , “heal the living” takes several such moments to consider the world its characters are merely passing through . the ocean , meanwhile , serves as a motif of life and death throughout the film , though not in the expected way . on the drive home , through a half - dreaming motorist’s eyes , the road turns to rippling water — a split - second before a crash that sends simon fatally through the windshield .
i ' m not one to hate or bash enterprise and this wasn ' t a bad episode but it was clearly a rehash of voyager ' s one .
i have to day , i didn ' t see the ending coming . . . because i had already considered and rejected the possibility . if t ' pol was under , why wouldn ' t the doctor remember putting her under ? he should ' ve said
t ' pol did you wake up ?
but he didn ' t . so i assumed i missed something . turns out i didn ' t .
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 .
it ' s not until near the end of act one where we even see that t ' pol is still walking around the ship . it ' s a nice little craftily hidden surprise that keeps us just a little off - balance — and , of course , provides a major hint that telegraphs the twist at the end .
production : ( france - belgium ) a les films du bélier , les films pelléas presentation of a france 2 cinema , mars films , jouror , cns prods . , ezekiel film production , frakas prods . , rtbf , proximus production in association with la banque postale image 9 , manon 6 . ( international sales : films distribution , paris . ) produced by david thion , justin taurand , philippe martin . co - producers , jean - yves roubin , cassandre warnauts .
noteworthy is how useless t ' pol proves in these scenes — how she never takes action or pushes buttons — and it ' s a rather obvious hint that tips us off to the ending : she isn ' t doing anything because she isn ' t really there . i have mixed feelings on jolene blalock ' s performance , which eventually degenerates into a series of weird facial expressions amid t ' pol ' s increasing paralysis — which may be the point , but comes across as a little off .
the ending of sixth sense surprised you ? wow ! while i enjoyed the film , i thought it was blatantly obvious from the opening scene ( given what happened ) . thus , the whole t ' pol thing in this episode was a real cheap shot . archer clearly said he was leaving phlox with this responsibility in the first 5 minutes . obviously he wouldn ' t have said that if t ' pol had been concious too . so from the moment we see her , we know something is wrong . then they make the mistake of having the meal in the kitchen , where t ' pol doesn ' t eat . so what more proof do we need ? it is a shame that they couldn ' t have worked this one out a little better . without archer ' s speech to phlox , t ' pol ' s appearance would have made more sense .
when the condominium’s manager , luigi ( alfonso santagata ) , informs gianni that his bill for electricity and other services has remained unpaid for three years , a deal is struck . if gianni will look after luigi’s mother , marina ( marina cacciotti ) , for a couple of days around ferragosto , the italian holiday celebrated on aug . 15 , his debts will be forgiven .
ten weeks is obviously not an option , especially given phlox ' s ( and t ' pol ' s ) mental state , so phlox ( and t ' pol ) must figure out how to start the warp engines and pilot the ship out of here . the resulting scene shows exactly why starships need engineers , and why going to warp speed necessitates an engine room staff .
gabrielle and her husband , josé ( alex brendemühl ) are taking their son to a regional music competition , where – in respect to mama’s gloomy sensibilities - he’ll mournfully trot out some tchaikovsky . the mood in the car is peculiar . mum’s distant , dad and son clearly more connected . they roll into lyon in a funk . then gabrielle spots an address that stirs a violent memory . and from there , we’re off .
2 stars filler . rehashed from voy’s “one” which itself was not very good . meh and my patience by this point in the season was thin seeing the writers just drag out the xindi arc week after week stalling
i ' m sure some will argue that there isn ' t much story here . they would be correct . it ' s essentially a two - character show , the impetus of which is a silly spatial anomaly with arbitrary properties . and , no , the ending is hardly the surprise that it wants to be . but that ' s okay . this is an acting showpiece , and a technique showpiece , and a fairly entertaining one .
the premise is that the entire crew ( less phlox and — sort of — t ' pol ) must be put into a comatose state so the ship can travel through a massive spatial anomaly ( the same type as the one encountered in last week ' s
harbinger
) that would cause the humans fatal brain damage if they were awake . phlox ' s denobulan physiology makes him immune to the effects . also immune to the effects are t ' pol ( sort of ) and the captain ' s beagle , porthos . passing through the anomaly will take four days at full impulse ; trip warns that to attempt going through at warp would be too risky .
when t ' pol suddenly showed up , i was surprised . didn ' t he put her to sleep too ? so , i thought : oh ! she ' s a hallucination too . but then as the show went on , i kind of figured that maybe she wasn ' t . but then when the end came near , i realized that she was . so , i guess i knew , kind of . but i was satisfied . i liked the way it all played out . and i really liked the freaky hoshi scene . > > the ending of sixth sense surprised you ? wow ! while i enjoyed the film , i thought it was blatantly obvious from the opening scene ( given what happened ) . the grand majority of people who saw sixth sense were surprised by the ending . guess we all are not as clever as you .
haha jammer your reviews tend to attract the most pedantic cynical commentors i ' ve ever seen . i don ' t now it that ' s the star trek fan base or a combination of factors . one ' s things for sure i wouldn ' t want to go to a party with any of these folks . . . . i ' d probably commit suicide just to get away from them . and to the people saying
y don
t dey jus go under ? !
why would a spacial phenomena expand in only 2 directions . do we live in a 2 - d world ? no , nothing is restricting it ' s expansion therefore it will fill space in all 3 directions .
this was my favorite episode of the season so far . i initially groaned when they argued that it would be faster to fly through something at impulse than to warp around it . that ' s like arguing that it ' s faster to crawl through the everglades on your hands and knees rather than to fly over them in an airplane . but technobabble not withstanding , i really got interested in the episode and became genuinely concerned about what they might have to sacrifice in order ot make it out of the anomaly in one piece . credit for that absolutely has to go to billingsley ' s phlox who remains my favorite character of the whole ensemble . this was truly how star trek was supposed to be made . well done !
but for all of these artistic touches as a director , medem the screenwriter disappointingly provides zero female support in the form of relatives or friends for magda , save for a kindly nurse . instead , her handsome married gynecologist julián ( asier etxeandia ) seems to have endless time to devote to magda’s well - being , including serenading her now and then with cheesy love ballads . she also runs into a kindly soccer scout named arturo ( luis tosar ) at her son’s match , just as arturo receives the tragic news that his daughter has died in a car crash and his wife is in a coma . how convenient that they can rely on each other to fill their emotional gaps as magda’s husband gallivants about all summer with a beautiful student .
when gianni runs out of food , he goes shopping for fish reeled directly from the tiber river and brings them back for a holiday feast he cooks with his best friend , viking ( luigi marchetti ) . the movie’s scenes of food preparation are mouthwatering .
but when magda receives bad news , the movie’s last third suddenly turns into a mawkish hallmark card . probable death is seen as a glorious opportunity for love , happiness and freedom ; a miracle assures her that her valiant spirit will survive no matter the outcome .
amid the teeny conflicts , there is no high drama and little overt pathos beyond grazia’s observation that “without memories , what would you do ? ” the performances by nonprofessional actors are so perfectly natural that “mid - august lunch” often has the feel of an easygoing documentary .
as you might guess , dr . lucas , i had considered deleting this letter and starting over , since large sections of it are now , obviously , fictitious . however , i decided that my delusional account would probably prove entertaining .
— phlox ' s letter
from the land of the moon is a choc - cake rich drama that oozes along on the strength of a committed performance from cotillard and the odd sprinkle of visual flair . it presents a kind of no - frills silliness , almost tricking you into believing its balderdash . it’s based on italian author milena agus’s 2006 novella , which has been relocated by director nicole garcia to 1940s provence , the french coastal town of la ciotat , the swiss alps and lyon , sometime later in what looks to be the mid - 60s . the story is told in flashback from this point .
this is the most bored i ' ve been all season . 1 star from me , but part of the reason for that is i simply don ' t care about phlox at all . he ' s okay as a supporting character but i have no interest in episodes devoted to him .
reedom , as the far left used to say , is the right to choose your jail . school , job , family , marriage : no cage is distraction enough for gabrielle ( marion cotillard ) , who – with a dreamer’s conviction – will do anything to escape the box being built for her .
yep , saw it coming but not immediately . when t ' pol first appeared , i was just like
wtf ?
however as the show proceeded i could see that she was never interacting with anything , and she wasn ' t telling phlox anything that he didn ' t already know , etc . so i guessed that she was just in his mind and that they were going for the sixth sense ending . jolene ' s befuddled bubbleheaded facial expression when she ' s supposedly trying to find some control in engineering was priceless ! i almost had to pause the ep , i was laughing so hard . 3 * indeed , agreed .
@ jeff : that ' s because space has always been treated as two dimensional in star trek . of course , if you want a in - universe explanation , you could make up something about the anomaly being ( approximately ) spheric , meaning that the way over or under it was as long as the one around it .
i quite enjoyed this episode . if we ' re going to have a diversion from the xindi story arc , then this is the sort of story i ' m happy to see , certainly much more entertaining than that groan - worthy harbinger ep . personally i ' m just glad when the writing and execution can sucessfully achieve a clear goal , even a simple one , without reaching for lazy solutions , and i don ' t think that ' s an issue here . it does strongly resemble voyager ' s
one
in many ways , but i consider it a sufficiently different take to be worthwhile , and good further development of phlox ' s character . and the atmosphere of the story was well realised . this isn ' t a deep story , but , it isn ' t dumb , and i ' m always grateful of that in a trek episode , because you can ' t take that for granted . . . the truth about t ' pol isn ' t overly hidden , plenty of clues are there , enough to make an attentive viewer fairly sure that she ' s imagined , but not quite 100 % sure for a while , at least . and so i think the twist works well even if you do see it coming , because you get to say
ha , knew it !
much better is billingsley , who displays a range that begins at affable and ends up at frazzled , but all the while comes off as
phlox .
the thing about phlox is that he has an overly expressive , cheerful style of speech . most people typically only speak like that if they ' re on stage or in some other stylized medium ( like , say , star trek ) . but with phlox , it ' s his everyday style , and we accept it because he ' s a denobulan — but more importantly because billingsley brings a credibility to it . this is a solid and versatile performance , delivered within the boundaries of phlox - isms .
t ' pol is in no better shape than phlox , and is losing control of her emotions as a result of the anomaly ' s effects . in retrospect , i like the idea that t ' pol falls apart just as phlox does ; since they are both really just phlox , it makes sense that they would both go insane at the same time .
just by being an episode that tries to scare the viewer , it loses a star in my opinion . i never liked or understand the fun of scary movies . as seen in this episode , there is basically no story but phlox running around being scared while we listen to the typical scary music and the sudden scary imagery that pop up on semi - unpredictable cues . while i liked the monologues and the phlox / t ' pol interaction , i really couldn ' t get past the fact that this is just a rip - off of
one
, only with the roles reversed . both have the logical scientific
babe
and the doctor , an evil nebula , an unwillingness to go around it , only humans effected ( sort off ) , hallucinations of scary stuff and invading aliens , main character loosing her marbles , engine problems at the end , etc . where
one
still had an interesting insight into seven , this only shows typical horror show clichés .
or , in the case of scrubs , perhaps you are too busy laughing . a similar narrative twist — with a reasonable level of underlying poignancy — appeared at the end of this week ' s episode . i wasn ' t expecting it at all , perhaps because scrubs is not the sort of series where you expect a twist like that . but the clues were there .
valeria , whose elaborate , swept - up hairdo suggests a copper - colored froth of whipped cream , is the most imperious . for a while she commandeers the apartment’s only television and sets herself apart from the others . once settled in , the women engage in small acts of self - assertion . one unashamedly flirts with gianni . another gripes about the kind of pasta being prepared .
the twist at the end , to get this out of the way , is that t ' pol isn ' t and never was awake during the time phlox is tending to the sleeping ship . she ' s a figment of his imagination , apparently designed by his mind to keep him from becoming completely unhinged , which happens gradually as a result of unforeseen effects from the anomaly field .
i agree with marco p and brock ! reading the comments on jammer ' s review scares me . there are some really creepy and cynical people on here . anyway , i think phlox is one of my favorite characters of all star trek series among data , worf , and captain picard . but i cannot help wonder if the writers were out of ideas so they were picking ideas from previous series .
why are all the doctors on star trek so awesome ? well . . . crusher not so much , but that series had picard . : p i still like the doctor the best , but phlox is still up there . . . as to the t ' pol thing , i would say its only logical for his mind to be able to imagine her instead of anyone else . as you have noted many times , the vulcans have super plot immunity , and no doubt his plot driven brain would realize this and think of her as merely immune whereas the humans he would be forced to help . he could conjure up some denobulans , but this would take a bigger leap of faith then ' t ' pol is vulcan immune ' . as phlox degenerates more though , more humans are seen , showing logic is slowly being strangled into submission . i wonder if the thing really expended at all or if that part was in his head too . the plot never makes that point clear , although of the verious figments seen throughout the episode it would be the most believable . . .
star trek has , of course , done it may , many times , but i ' ve always loathed the notion that a particular anomoly only affects organic lifeforms selectively ( and almost unilaterally , humans are the vulnerable species ) because it makes little logical sense . radiation , poisonous gas , or whatver else working that way is simply ridiculous . it ' s a bad as the asteroids or the storms or the holes in the ozone layer in countless disaster movies ( armageddon and the core come to mind immediately ) that seem to have minds of their own because they inevitably target urban areas when the locations should be completely random . i guess it ' s not as thrilling to see a wheatfield in north dakota get obliterated as it is to see asteroids decimate new york , electrical storms demolish rome , or cosmic rays melt the golden gate bridge .
completely obvious from the start . gee , t ' pal was a hallucination ? what a shock . dumb ending . i think the complete obviousness of t ' pal ' s illusion - how could we really think otherwise ? - ruined the episode . even if you were completely dense , the drawn - out engineering scene where she was a helpless fawn made it plain , which rendered the ended
no shit , sherlock
.
it probably doesn ' t really matter , because the story is more concerned with structure and technique than deep psychology or character significance . on those chosen levels , the episode works pretty well , giving phlox a series of hallucinations that he eventually recognizes as unreal and must cope with . one hallucination is his deranged hunt for the xindi insectoid , which ends when he nearly phasers porthos . ( t ' pol :
you nearly shot the captain ' s dog !
)
elsewhere the expression of inner turmoil is a lot less interesting . there is loads of gabrielle running away desperately - into the woods , the sea , a ditch . cotillard’s ability to tear up in an instant is used to the point of exploitation . gabrielle is , on many occasions , simply too nasty to care about . “every time you visit it rains , ” she tells josé . “people are right : you’re mean , ” he says later . he sticks around , still .
i predicted a different plot twist - i thought an alien lifeform had assumed t ' pol ' s form to hitch a ride through the spatial anomaly . would explain why t ' pol appeared without warning and wasn ' t sure how to operate the warp engine . when phlox saw the real t ' pol asleep , i assumed that he was going to turn to the other t ' pol and ask who she really was - and why she had delayed the ship from getting out of the anomaly .
decorating these sentiments are claw - flapping red crabs near the water , perhaps a symbol of the disease that ironically has given her inner strength and wisdom . and , in a recovery - room reverie , we are treated to the sight of magda’s beloved nipple preserved on ice . but more important than the washed - out blue - tinged rooms , bleached white interiors and sun - blasted sea and sand is cruz , who single - handedly breathes a sense of genuineness into this maudlin exercise even if she can’t cure all of its flaws .
i am surprised no one mentioned the easter egg of phlox thinking something was outside the window on the hull . it seemed like an homage to shatner ' s pre - trek twilight zone episode , where he sees a creature on the wing of the plane he is on . as for the twist , i was surprised to see t ' pol the first time she appeared , but did not consider that she was not real until the end . i wasn ' t exactly surprised as much as it just made sense given what had proceeded it .
this episode really falls apart if scrutinized . it ' s something that has a lot of holes if thought of too much . for instance , if t ' pol was asleep , did that mean phlox never checked on her ? didn ' t she need some form of sustenance while asleep ? also , where did the crew
relieve
themselves ? just right in their uniforms ? were they all given adult diapers ? for that matter , why were they even in their uniforms while asleep ? while i was surprised by the ending , and enjoyed this episode , i did feel it was a cheap trick . it seems that someone came up with the ending , and then said
okay , now write what happens forty minutes before this !
overall not bad , especially since it dealt with phlox who is well played by billingsley . i saw the plot twist with t ' pol well before the reveal , but my wife didn ' t see it coming at all . i think those of us with training or exposure to scriptwriting or story analysis caught it because we look for such things while watching a story . we know that a gun revealed in a camera shot means that gun is going to get fired at some point in the story . for others , it ' s a surprise . seeing the
twist
in advance doesn ' t mean anyone is smarter or more prescient , it just means we all approach our story time in a different manner and outlook . that said , i didn ' t see the sixth sense plot twist coming , though seeing that movie probably helped me in this episode to detect the similar twist .
and to the people saying
y don
t dey jus go under ? !
why would a spacial phenomena expand in only 2 directions . do we live in a 2 - d world ? no , nothing is restricting it ' s expansion therefore it will fill space in all 3 directions .
i ' m pretty sure everyone understands it is 3d ( or beyond ) . the question is : why isn ' t it faster to go around the anomaly at warp 5 than to go through it at full impulse ? must have been a pretty big pancake of an anomaly . but then it expanded in thickness pretty fast so that seems unlikely . it made little sense to me and i ' d have loved an explanation in the episode . any sort of pseudo scientific explanation on what sort of anomaly it was would have been interesting . what made trek insteresting to me was the exploration of possible phenomena . here they just ignore any attempt at justifying it .
this holds water to a point , since phlox is no more aware that t ' pol is a hallucination than we ( at first ) are . on the other hand , the question
why t ' pol ?
is an interesting one , and it raises some issues that the story doesn ' t really address . if this hallucination is designed to help phlox deal with his isolation ( denobulans do not like isolation , and there ' s dialog explaining how they choose to live in crowded cities on their homeworld ) , why would his mind pick t ' pol , who tends to keep to herself both in real life and in this hallucinated version ? why not pick someone he knows better , like one of his wives or a close friend ? if he must imagine someone from the ship in order to fool himself into believing that he is not alone , would his mind really pick t ' pol ? ( i ask in sincere curiosity , not purely as a nitpick . perhaps he identifies with t ' pol as the other non - human outsider . )
phlox talks about waking his medical crew after waking the senior staff . aside from the revelation that he actually * has * medical crew , it does explain why he might not know that t ' pol had been put under - - it ' s possible his crew did it . however , yeah , i ' m one of the people who saw through the thing the moment t ' pol showed up . they talked about him having to run the ship single - handedly . they prepped him to do that . he had stuff he needed to check , he had to learn how to navigate , how to fix stuff in engineering , etc . hell , he was * walking around the ship naked * . after all that , t ' pol showing up was nothing short of a
wtf ? ?
moment . after reading that there was some sort of twist at the end , i was really expecting it to be something * else * , since i couldn ' t imagine they would try to use something so blatantly obvious as their twist ending - - much less that people would actually fall for it . i guess everyone watches differently , though .
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jermaine fowler and omari hardwick of sorry to bother you take us back in time to the worst jobs of their careers .
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tahar rahim , emmanuelle seigner , anne dorval , bouli lanners , kool shen , monia chokri , alive taglioni , karim leklou , alice de lecquesaing , finnegan oldfield , theo cholbi , gabin verdet , galatea bellugi , dominique blanc . ( french dialogue )
crew : directed by katell quillévéré . screenplay , quillévéré , gilles taurand , adapted from the novel
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a 17 - year - old car crash victim lies brain - dead in hospital , as doctors urgently pitch the virtues of organ donation to his distraught parents ; over in another town , a middle - aged mother of two with a severely degenerative heart condition goes on the waiting list for a transplant . what sounds like fodder for a routinely gripping episode of [ … ]
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shush ! - growing up jewish under stalin . a memoir by emil draitser .
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knowing that the spanish drama “ma ma” is about a woman coping with breast cancer , i was curious to check out beforehand how many well - known hollywood films have tackled the subject in the past .
“ma ma” could be a case study on why that is , despite capitalizing on the considerable charms of penelope cruz , who is both star and producer . she is present with every pulse of her being as magda , a young mother in madrid who learns in the first scene that she must undergo chemo , followed by a mastectomy . she initially frets more about the pending loss of her right nipple ( an ongoing theme ) and having to reschedule her hair appointment than she does the status of her health .
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in brief : a skeleton plot , but it supplies some pretty decent psychological - thriller atmosphere .
the secret at the end of the sixth sense has to go down as one of the best - executed narrative twists in recent years . i didn ' t see the movie until it came out on dvd , and still i didn ' t see the ending coming , even though i had heard for months that there was a revelation at the end . the key , i think , is misdirection . the solution is sitting there in plain view , but you are not thinking about it , because you are not aware there is even a puzzle to be solved . you are too busy concentrating on the character drama .
i admire the intentions here , and i admire most of the execution , which deals in psychological terror . but i wonder : was anybody actually taken in by the trick ending ? had anyone actually not figured it out ? ( i ask in all seriousness , and would be interested in hearing from those who were . )


mulberry street is a 2006 american horror film directed by jim mickle , written by nick damici and jim mickle , and starring nick damici .

it was released by after dark films as a part of their 8 films to die for 2007 .

mulberry street ( film )

film : disc : zombie virus on mulberry street is released on the 18th of may .
thursday , second street between dempsey and mulberry will be closed and mulberry street parking will be restricted between second street and the middle of the courthouse square , according to the city .
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mulberry street lane between second street and third street will be closed to vehicle traffic on the following dates and times . pedestrians will be able to get to businesses and homes during the filming day .
as mulberry street , the film is a well written and effective horror film , tense and violent , but not overly gory and at 80 minutes it is far too short . as zombie virus on mulberry street , you ' ll expect a low budget trashy b - movie and end up being woefully disappointed .
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do you mean the one on 23rd street . the one on 14th street only opened about 10 years ago .
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back in little italy , don corleone steps out of the genco offices and crosses the street toward 135 - 137 mott street .
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the residents of a tenement building on mulberry street try to survive an outbreak of some kind of virus that makes its victims morph into hungry giant rat people .
a crowd gathers onset on second street as production of the film “burden” continues on the jackson square . ( staff photo : michael davis )
with hyper - active editing and camerawork that doesn ' t stay still for longer than a second at a time , mulberry street is too frenetic to always be comprehensible .
see , instead of existing in a vacuum like most horror flicks where nothing of real worth can ever seep in , mulberry street insists on embracing all those little lifelike details .
born in the bronx and raised in upstate new york , abel ferrara started his professional film career on mulberry street in 1975 . for the past year he ' s been living on the block , and the . . . see full summary »
born in the bronx and raised in upstate new york , abel ferrara started his professional film career on mulberry street in 1975 . for the past year he ' s been living on the block , and the feast of san gennaro is the subject of his new film . while he has used this location for a few of his features , this time it ' s the star of the film .
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on wednesday , a section of second street was blocked and a camera was perched atop the jackson drug building as filming took place . some parking spaces on mulberry and second streets were also blocked .
lower manhattan is changing , thanks to the construction company crome developers . they plan to make it snazzy and expensive , pulling down all the old buildings . of course , this film isn ' t really about that at all . it ' s actually about a zombie virus . . . on mulberry street . . . except , it isn ' t . . . you see the correct name for the film is simply
mulberry street
. it ' s not so much a zombie virus as an infection carried by rats that turns you into a rat face killer . . .
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“cannes : upstart mulberry films kicks off with ‘purple america’ ; adaptation of ‘ice storm’ author’s ’90s novel” by mike fleming jr .
…shot in the rear entrance to the hotel edison on west 46th street btw . 7th & 8th .
in the name of the moon : the street warriors all call out their gang names before battle .
xtro is horrid , even if i did decide i should watch it again after your review because you can ' t fairly judge a film you havent seen in , like , 9000 years . . but mulberry street , well . . i don ' t know , it just annoyed me on a genetic level : p
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so , here we have it . let ' s try again . rats , disturbed by the development of mulberry street by crome developers , are attacking people , bringing lower manhattan to a standstill as the authorities try to control the situation .
visit my blog : urltoken follow me on twitter : @ liankate mulberry street is an upcoming 2007 horror film about a deadly infection breaks out in manhattan , causing humans to devolve into blood - thirsty rat creatures . six recently evicted tenants must survive the night and protect their downtown apartment building as the city quickly spirals out of control .
have to agree , this was a superb film . undoubtedly the best after dark horror fest film i ' ve seen yet . ( and one of my favourite horrors of the year ) superbly acted with the feel of a much bigger budget film . a breath of fresh air really .
…and here it is today , located at 1999 east 5th street on the edge of the gravesend section in brooklyn .
clutch is a retired boxer living in an old , run down , tenement building on mulberry street in new york city , and this film starts with clutch finishing his early morning fishing down on the pier and jogging back home through the very familiar sites of early morning new york . i say familiar because this is new york , where every street corner looks like a movie set , and in this case it is ; every street corner shop , elevated subway train , steam vent , darkly lit bar and overly lit liquor store looks like you ' ve seen it before . this is the movie new york of
this was filmed in what was once the heart of little italy at 128 mott street , known as the mietz building .
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i had breakfast many times in the diner on christopher street , near the west side hwy… . not the other way around .
mulberry street . . . and worth . . . cross and orange . . . and little water . each of the five points is a finger . when i close my hand it becomes a fist . and , any time that i wish , i can turn it against you .
beginning tuesday and wednesday morning , the filming of the cw television series “the originals” will shut down sections of georgia avenue and mulberry street lane . the tv show , which has shot scenes at the hay house and grand opera house , is a spin - off of the “vampire diaries . ”
well , guess what ? i know where the barber shop is… i worked right across the street . it’s on east 55th street… at the hotel st . regis . when you enter the hotel and go down the stairs ( it’s below street level ) to the barber shop . after his shave , willie cicci then goes up the stairs and locks the “hit” in the revolving door and shoots him .
much of the film ' s dialogue is taken from contemporary accounts of the draft riots , albeit out of context .
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the irish mob : depicted in their early days as a street - gang mostly concerned with protecting the irish catholic immigrant community from hostile protestants .
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two downtown macon streets will be closed part of this week while crews film a tv show , according to a news release .
we then join michael corleone and his girlfriend kay adams as they christmas shop at the best & co . department store on fifth avenue at 51st street .
some movies live or die by their characters , rising above from the sewers of cinematic mediocrity - - sometimes in spite of a less than original premise , middling technical credentials , or other drawbacks - - to leave their mark on audiences based largely on the excellent realization of the people the movie is about , so crackling is their dialogue and so well played and outlined the figures are . mulberry street , a rats - attack / zombie movie hybrid , is one such film .
we later get another shot of the house as clemenza leaves to assist in the round of assassinations at the end of the film .
hell - cat maggie may seem like a ridiculous caricature , but she was a real person and exactly as depicted in the film .
the interior of genco oil was reportedly built on the fourth floor of a warehouse nearby to 128 mott street ( but not actually in the mietz building ) .
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to the film ' s credit however , it does showcase plenty of dirt and grime amongst the three leading actors . one such notable instance includes
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a camera sits atop jackson drug oct . 26 as production of the film “burden” continues on the jackson square . ( staff photo : michael davis )
little italy today is largely symbolic territory , like the vatican within italy . the old ravenite social club — a headquarters for the gambino crime syndicate — is now a cydwoq “shoe - tique . ” chinatown , once south of canal street , extends most of the way up mott street . at the catholic churches , mass is offered in vietnamese and cantonese .
“ichael takes off for sicily ( locations soon to be covered by sister site scouting italy ) as a gang war breaks out in new york . back in america , while leaving from a tryst with his goomah , sonny is given the news that his brother - in - law carlo is still beating his sister connie . no clue where this building is – anyone recognize it ? note the distinctive pattern on the green brick . the storefront is for lenny’s ( can’t make out the surname ) , offering printers motor repair & maintenance . ” this building is on thompson street betwwen bleecker street and wst 3rd street in greenwich village . it’s on the east side of the street and i believe it’s now a record shop .
extras aside from the trailer , there are two deleted scenes that should have been included in the film as they are so short . also featured are :
the luna restaurant you refer to was at 112 mulberry street . i ate there many times as a kid . some of the deleted scenes from the movie you can see on the dvd show the exterior clearly . this was the place was where peter clemenza had lunch . it was also the place where clemenza bought the cannoli that was in his famous line of leave the gun , take the cannoli .
the day the film had its premiere at the ziegfeld — aug . 12 , 1988 — hundreds of picketers were there . so were several television news crews .
a mysterious virus creates pandemonium as it spreads through the big apple in this eerie creature feature that gives new meaning to the term rat race . on a scorching day in manhattan , the denizens of a tumbledown tenement on mulberry street grouse about the heat , but as night falls , they find themselves battling a horde of mutants turning powerless new yorkers into a bloodthirsty new species . nick damici , kim blair and bo corre star .
genre busting : screenwriter jay cocks described the film as a
western from mars
, it ' s a re - imagining of the past as a post - apocalyptic wasteland , with violent urban street gangs in a context with real menace and violence rather than west side story , and a focus and interest on urban segregation that would make sociologists and anthropologists proud . scorsese indeed hoped that the film would launch a new genre to replace the western , believing that stories in this landscape will have increasing resonance in the years to come .
see , instead of existing in a vacuum like most horror flicks where nothing of real worth can ever seep in , mulberry street insists on embracing all those little lifelike details . buried somewhere in there , too , is a commentary on the gentrification of urban america , which mainly makes its point without harassing the viewer about it . too bad then that all that reality has to also add up to realistic fates for most of these great characters .
mario latona , ( frank montero ) and his crew are young kids with a passion for crime . mario dreams of becoming a real gangster like his uncle frank , ( alfredo nasti ) an under - boss of the local mob chapter , but in order to do so he has to operate under his uncle first . taking place in new york ' s ,
little italy
. frank montero stars in ,
monsters of mulberry street
.
an nyu film student , mark kitchell , was granted full access to the shooting on e . 6th street by coppola , who even sat for a brief interview . pbs ran it on oscar night in 2002 ; i was flipping back and forth between it and denzel and halle’s wins ; kitchell still makes documentary films , including ones on berkeley’s radical politics and the environment . urltoken
in his new film , “silence , ” he returns to a subject that has animated his entire life’s work and that also sparked his career’s greatest controversy : the nature of faith .
the new york city draft riot scene takes a few liberties with the events that actually transpired . the film exaggerates the extent of the riot and the sort of events that took place .
according to some sources , the scene in which moe green was shot in the eye while getting a massage was filmed at the mcburney ymca on 14th street , although it was supposed to take place in las vegas .
the mulberry bush is proud to be a beneficiary of icap’s 23rd charity day . icap charity day 2015 was held on wednesday 9 december and raised £7 . 5 million worldwide , supporting 200 charities . this brings the total amount raised since 1993 , to nearly £127 million .
the hotel st . george is indeed still there - it is used for , among other things , student housing . i lived there for a year during my undergrad days . while i can’t say as to the bar where the scene was filmed , the exterior is remarkably preserved and looks exactly like the postcards . it can be found at the intersection of clark and henry streets off the a stop at high street ; or the 2 , 3 stop at clark street .
abel ferrara headlines a film retrospective and a series of concerts in france dedicated to songs and music from his films . preparations with his family and friends will form the material . . . see full summary »
chase street is the story of camden , nj , the county seat of camden county , nj and a city abandoned - by the state , employers , and its middle - class white residents and suburban neighbors - its . . . see full summary »
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i love when you do these ! ! ! being from new york presently living out of state they make me soooo homesick but also are so inspiring ! i would love to go on a film location scavenger hunt , sadly though i live in anchorage alaska presently and not much to my knowledge has been filmed here . threw you twenty bucks for your film , wish the best of luck to you sir and don’t stop what you’re doing !
scorsese looked up mott street toward houston street . “where the korean restaurant is , that used to be a two - family house . past it was a funeral home . the funeral procession would come out and bear the coffin along the sidewalk here and into the cathedral . i remember two kids from the neighborhood , 16 or 17 — they died of cancer , and the families had to be carried from the funeral home to the church , they were so devastated . it was terrible . i’ll never forget it . ”
we are what we are gets a wider release on friday , october 11 . the film is rated r for disturbing violence , bloody images , some sexuality , nudity and language . click here for local showtimes and tickets .
the godfather was filmed in 1971 , so it would have been penn central by then . remember , it was filmed there but didn’t necessarily take place there . they never mention in the film where the board room is .
specifically mcgloin , during the draft riots . in general most of the rioters could count , it ' s hard to feel sympathy for them after they start murdering black men and burning down random buildings , mugging people on the street , and invading homes and businesses .
truth in television applied to the historical
bill the butcher
, whose history the film otherwise takes liberties with . ( one of his grievances was that tammany was handing out most of the butchers ' licenses to irish . )
scenery gorn : new york , the five points especially , circa the american civil war ain ' t exactly all that pretty . some would argue that the naval bombing at the end of the film actually improved the property value .
the film had been pilloried by conservative christians for a dream sequence in which christ has sex with mary magdalene . in depicting christ’s life as a doubt - ridden struggle between his human and divine natures , scorsese had intended to make a film that was at once an act of doubt and an act of faith . in the novel he was reading , the priest was shown profaning an image of christ , and yet the act was an act of faith .
i’m an american expat , teaching a film appreciation course in english , in warsaw , poland . i use the godfather trilogy extensively . i’m off to sicily shortly , and would like to get some help finding some shooting locations there .
time passes montage : one of the most famous things about the film is the very end . miramax had a lot of problems with it in the wake of 9 / 11 , causing it to be delayed a whole year , sadly .
escaped animal rampage : during the climax of gangs of new york an elephant escapes the barnum and bailey circus during the draft riots , though the city is so overcome by chaos the elephant rampaging down the street is only another small part of the madness the city has descended into .
” is an ideal example of what can be done with a small budget , and amongst the better zombie flicks in years . similar to “28 days later” in style and tone , it could almost serve as a prequel to danny boyle’s modern day masterpiece , if his infected were plagued by an unknown virus transmitted through the city’s rat population . the afflicted would also have to slowly acquire the characteristics of the rodents as the sickness took effect as well , sort of like living dead were - rats . as i’d stated , breaking “mulberry street” down into a condensed statement makes it sound like utter garbage . trust me , it is anything but .
i really love your scoutingny site , thanks so much for all the work you’ve put into this . i’m going up to nyc in a couple of days and it should really come in handy for some nyc film site pilgrimages that i’ll be making .
pps : ok , guys ? knock it off . i do not care about your opinions of the last jedi . just agree with me here that harassing people is not okay . you don’t need to “justify” your dislike of the film . you don’t need to add a “but . . . ” to your statement . there’s no need to add a qualifier . agreeing that harassment is wrong doesn’t mean you have to like the film . that discussion isn’t needed here . so please , knock it off .
also watch the marathon this weekend and i recall seeing a shootout scene that i believe is found in front of what we called the horseshoe bar or the crocodile dundee bar or 7b it’s a bar on the corner of avenue b and seven street sorry i wish i could remember the exact scene .
the make - up effects are every iota as established as the rest of the production , though the low lighting certainly helps to cover any possible flaws . their purpose is clearly that of a gimmick , to set “mulberry street” apart from billions of other zombie sagas that are currently polluting netflix queues across this great nation , passed up nearly every time the movie urge arises because one jumps to the sound conclusion that they’re no different than the others . for every “dead snow” or “zombie honeymoon” ( a guilty pleasure , but a true original ) , there are hundreds of “zombie nation” travesties ( i hate you , ulli lommel ) lurking in the shadows , ready to pounce .
when this film was shot , a friend of mine was doing his medical residency at new york eye and ear hospital and i thought i remembered him telling me the interior hospital room scene was shot there one night . the st george fell on hard times , i think it was an abandoned bar even when coppola shot there , it was a strip club for a while in the 1980s . you could still see the art deco etched glass even then that is visible in the scene in the film . i never heard of mitchel being referred to as mitchel air force base , always referred to it as mitchel field . the toll booth was supposed to be the old tolls at the loop parkway that used to exist to enter the meadowbrook . great research on this film .
the barbershop could be on the lower levels of the st regis hotel on e 55th street . that is the logo on the glass door . in addition a couple of other scenes where shot there . climbing the stairs and the guy shot in the revolving door i believe were also filmed at the st regis
because the film is a period piece , the godfather actually presents a fascinating record of what 1940s - era new york city locations still existed in the early - 1970s . sadly , many of them are now gone . what still remains ? let’s take a closer look .
the film , in places , almost feels like an homage to 1970s american horror films , showing off the grandiose side of the manhattan skyline , but also the dark squalour in which the people live , as well as the impotence of authority and the survival instinct of man .
just called my friend who was doing his medical residency at new york eye & ear infirmary on 14th st back in the early 1970s . he said they definitely filmed brando’s hospital scene there and also the genco deathbed scene which can only be seen in the trilogy film version .
so understated and yet exciting is damici ' s take on clutch ( both in terms of acting and writing , since he also co - scripted the film with its director jim mickle ) that the character quickly rises through the ranks of genre movie tough - guy heroes during this film ' s brief 90 minutes , just about taking his place up there with such greats as john rambo , dirty harry , and even mad max - - while never devolving into the realm of near - parody that those three did in their latter adventures . this guy is that cool .
epic movie : this was to be scorsese ' s epic movie , and chef d ' ouevre . executive meddling caused it to be cut down some , and the acting of the romantic leads has led to mixed critical reception . it ' s nevertheless every inch an epic film though .
, once emmanuelle vaugier and luke goss had already signed on to do it , you can bet that someone else would take his place . but if director jim mickle ( who wrote the film along with nick damici , who plays the lead ) gave up on it , it’s pretty likely that
that’s the plan for now . i have a couple of contacts , that i got from my hollywood producer contacts , who are in rome , and apparently were location scouts for the film . so , i might be able to narrow it down further before i leave for sicily in june .
. . . starts out like the sort of indie art - house fare you ' d expect an up - and - coming film student to make . . . but soon a mutant strain of bubonic plague spread by rats starts turning all the inhabitants of new york into rat - faced zombies .
mob war : the dead rabbits ( and later resurrected dead rabbits ) vs . bill ' s nativists are a pretty hard - core , tribal version of this . unusual for representations of this kind of conflict in film , it ends with the authorities barging in and massacring ( almost ) everybody .
ostensibly a zombie movie , mickle does a good job of selling the idea that new york is under quarantine . since he’s not exactly francis lawrence , he can’t really shut down whole areas of the city , so he sells these ideas via a near constant stream of news and tv broadcasts that mix footage from what i assume is from 9 / 11 , the blackout , etc . , along with standard “quick no one’s around let’s film this street” type stuff . it works well . most of the action is confined to a single apartment building , and thus doesn’t require such extravagant shots like a deserted times square in order to get the point across .
scout : outstanding work for your godfather photos and historical research . your untiring efforts made to investigate the facts behind each scene are certainly appreciated , especially those associated with sonny’s demise at the tolls booths . viewing each photo , combined with your subtitles , was similar to being taken back into the original film .
cardinal hayes is a high school in the bronx , and after a year of minor seminary — a tryout for the priesthood ; once a regular stop for bright catholic boys of limited means — scorsese went there . ( don delillo , the novelist , was a few years ahead . ) rejected by fordham university because of poor grades , scorsese enrolled at n . y . u . ’s washington square college and its film program . from there , he plunged into the ’60s : a concertgoer at the fillmore east , an expatriate in england and holland , an assistant director at woodstock ( he became an editor on the concert film ) and then a maker of his own movies — “who’s that knocking at my door , ” about a young man in the suddenly liberated ’60s whose catholic principles keep him out of bed with his girlfriend , and “boxcar bertha , ” a film about a female rabble - rouser “free’er than most . ”
this can apply to a number of things in the movie ; modern audiences can be shocked and appalled by how new york really was in the 1860 ' s , looking at modern new york now it ' s almost unbelievable . and yet the film , though taking a few creative liberties , is largely accurate .
however , only the don leaving the hospital by ambulance was shot at lincoln hospital in the bronx , the exterior of michael standing outside with enzo the baker was shot at bellevue hospital , the 29th st . entrance ( with close - ups filmed on the paramount lot in hollywood ) . the29th st . side bellevue entrance has been closed off since 2001 , but an identical entrance is on the 30th st . side of the building and matches the entrance in the film perfectly . the interior hospital scenes were shot at the eye and ear hospital on 13th street and 2nd ave . that location is also comparable in appearance as it was in march , 1971 when they shot the scene .
when scorsese returned from japan , he procured the film rights to “silence . ” as the years passed , hardly a day went by without his mentioning the project to the people around him : actors , friends and even his old parish priest , father principe . as he made “the aviator” and “the departed , ” “shutter island” and “hugo , ” he insisted that “silence” was the picture he really wanted to make . a jesuit was elected pope ; islamic terrorists began targeting christians in the middle east . in 2014 , with “the wolf of wall street” a hit , scorsese declared that “silence” would be his next picture : he wouldn’t commit to another until it was finished . twenty - six years in , filming began .
jason and ashley said their nuptuals at their beautiful may wedding in macon ga . the ceremony was held at mulberry methodist church in downtown macon , and the reception was held at idle hour country club . obviously head over heels for each other , these two celebrated the night away surrounded by close family and friends . the entire day was beautiful in every way and reflected the love they have for one another . congratulations jason and ashley ! it was a pleasure working with you both !
the dvd comes with what seems like a substantial amount of extras , but sadly they are not really much to write blogs about . the video quality is poor on several , resulting in a “what the hell am i looking at ? ” feeling on the outtakes and makeup test portions . a pair of deleted scenes are wisely cut , and the sketches / storyboards are only of minor interest . still , the film itself is the real bonus . this is exactly the type of film after dark should be releasing ( in the festival or not ) – true independent films that would be otherwise lost on the video shelves without the promotion ad gave them . you think something like
the characters don ' t run into cliché often , which shows how well thought - out the film is . it would have been far too easy to have the screaming blond girl , for example . all of them have their own personal strengths and character flaws and we don ' t get endless conversation about their back - story . they are , in equal measure , tragic , strong and human . particularly in the last few minutes , when the story reaches a rather low key climax , they really do come to life . there ' s a sense of intelligence in the film that ends , as did night of the living dead , with a sense of hopelessness .
it’s also one of the few modern horror movies to deal with any sort of social commentary . greedy land developers and such are given their due , the heroes of the film are hard - working blue collar types who are just trying to survive . sure , it’s hardly original , but since so few modern horror films ( especially the ones
an article on nov . 27 about martin scorsese referred incorrectly to his involvement with “woodstock , ” the 1970 documentary about the 1969 music festival . he was one of several editors on the film , not the sole editor . the article also misidentified the company that released the 1986 drama “the color of money . ” it was released by touchstone pictures in association with silver screen partners ii , not universal pictures . the article also referred incorrectly to the title of a film . it is “the bridge on the river kwai , ” not “bridge over the river kwai . ” the article also misstated the given name of a jesuit poet . he was gerard manley hopkins , not gerald .
certain film characters are just instantly cool , and that ' s the case in this indie horror movie ' s male lead , clutch ( nick damici ) . an aging ex - boxer who lives in an apartment building on the titular street in downtown new york city , clutch is the kind of no - nonsense guy you can count on when the going gets tough , but he ' s also got a soft side , whether it ' s pertaining to his daughter , a potential girlfriend , or the old dudes who live upstairs from him and don ' t get around so well anymore . also , when it comes to fighting zombies , clutch doesn ' t bother with guns or clubs or even cricket bats . nope , he just uses his fists .
, don’t really strike me as independent films . they have big actors ( well , big for horror films ) , budgets of a million or more , myriad producers , etc . to me , an independent film is one that quite frankly wouldn’t be made if the director decided not to do it , populated with people you haven ' t seen in
at his mercy , he describes the hellish ways in which he will disfigure him with his knife . when we next see him , he is walking down the street with his face obscured but several onlookers stare in horror , implying bill stuck to his word . when the camera pans around , there doesn ' t seem to be much of a difference aside from a slight scar on his cheek that is hardly noticeable .
by the time the godfather was filmed , all us churches would have made the change in the orientation of the altar , so the way it is set for the film was probably a special staging to reflect the way it would have looked in the 1940s . the baptismal font was probably still separate in the 1970s , but that tradition is no longer prevalent .
“i don’t think i am called to be a priest , ” garfield said to me resolutely , as if making this film had spurred him to consider the prospect . “but i had the feeling that i was being called to something : called to work with one of the great directors , and called to this role as something i had to pursue for my spiritual development . ”
they ' ve done something quite interesting with the special effects in this film . they ' ve kept the sight of attacks quite low , using mainly quick jumps and fade - to - black , or aftermath shots . it helps keep the story moving and doesn ' t give us time to mock the lower budget sfx or compare them to more expensive films like 28 days later .
much of that feel comes from the picture having actually been shot in manhattan , and the city is all here , from the big beauty shots of the skyline to the nitty - gritty of clutch ' s apartment building . but mulberry street ' s sense of authenticity comes from those characters too , who all exist and act and react in this situation in such a way as to never draw the viewer out of the experience . when the super of the building turns into a big , slobbering rat - man , clutch ' s middle - aged neighbor explains it to his elderly roommate quite simply :
he turned into a big f - - - ing rat . we had to lock him in the closet .
but he ' s still more upset that his roomie has been sneaking in a stogie during the crisis . and when the upwardly mobile types in the building decide to leave town rather than stick out the infestation and fight , he responds ,
godd - - - ed yuppies , jumping ship . go back to connecticut !
is well worth seeing and comes strongly recommended for you thinking people that want to see more than just teenagers making out and then getting killed . the film for the most part is a strong zombie siege style movie , that’s only really let down by its all of a sudden lame ending . and it ' s refreshing to see a zombie movie ( even though it ' s not really a zombie film even though it follows the classic format ) with strong characterisations acted by good actors under keen and assured direction , despite its flaws . with more budget assigned to the action sequences , and with a better ending , this could easily have been a classic . either way , it ' s still well worth catching if you can see past its shortcomings , which i ' m sure most of you will .
according to the press release , the exhibition “looks at the urban violence and mayhem that was the focus of weegee’s early work . ” he lived across the street from a police station and would hear of new crimes through his police - band radio receiver , often heading to the scene even before the police . with liberal use of flash , he “illuminat [ ed ] crime scenes and tragedies with garish artificial light . this new approach produced lurid high - contrast pictures . ”
an adaptation of massimo carlotto’s respiro corto , is a ‘gangster film goes global’ , as new generation of criminals exploit the vast illegal markets of smuggling ( to avoid tariffs ) , human trafficking ( to provide cheap labor ) , money laundering ( to repatriate profits ) , waste disposal ( to eliminate toxic by products ) , narcotics ( to cope with the frenzy of a 24 - hour global market ) in an increasingly globalized economy .
here’s the thing : the last time i visited brooklyn heights , a few years ago , the entrance to this bar – including the art deco goldfish – were still visible from inside the clark street subway station . the glass doors were largely boarded up and padlocked , and could be seen only from several yards away . but if they’re still there today , look directly to your left as you enter through the subway station turnstiles — you may still glimpse the doors . what’s behind them … i’ve always wondered .
: while scorsese definitely did the research , he noted that the film is intended to be more of an
operatic
myth than a documentary ; as a result , he felt free to mix and match cooler - sounding elements of various historical accounts that didn ' t coexist in real life . the bulk of the movie ' s set from 1862 - 1863 and rolls a decade ' s worth of history into that time period .
deliberate values dissonance : the examples are legion . chinese immigrants are physically ( and violently ) prevented from voting . two rival city fire departments brawl in the street instead of actually putting out the fire . the welfare state is nonexistent , as the only people who give a damn about the sufferings of the slum inhabitants are church leaders and opportunistic
do - gooders
like boss tweed . and the only action taken against the threat of epidemic disease is squirting antibiotic gunk all over the streets from time to time .
i was fortunate enough at the age of 15 to have had the opportunity to be an extra in the godfather . i was at connie’s wedding at the house on staten island and i actually appear for a few brief seconds in the film . i remember very well the location and the fake walls made of plywood covered in stone veneer . thanks for the pictures of what it looks like today . brings back memories i will always cherish .
after dark horrorfest ( also known as 8 films to die for ) is an annual festival that began in 2006 , highlighting independent genre movies that would have otherwise been delegated to the dusty shelves of the local rental shack , doomed to the hell that is obscurity . it was an inspired concept , giving budding film makers a platform to present their crafts , and i was excited to see what the future of horror had in store for me .
this is the best review of godfather locations that i’ve ever seen . two items i’d like to add . that barbershop photo has a logo on the glass which looks a lot like the logo of the st regis hotel in midtown ( someone above already mentioned that ) . regarding lincoln hospital in the bronx , i used to work right across the street from the new hospital location while it was being built . it was finishing up when i quit in early ’72 . i’d guess that the old hospital was demolished in ’72 or ’73 .
the film stars garrett hedlund , andrea riseborough , forest whitaker , tom wilkinson and usher raymond , among others . it is set in the south in the 1990s and follows character mike burden , an orphan raised within the ku klux klan , as he tries to leave the group at the urging of his girlfriend . whitaker portrays the pastor of a black congregation who takes burden , his girlfriend and her son in , in order to protect them from a vengeful klan .
it’s also smartly paced . the first 40 minutes are like old cronenberg in a way , with just the feeling of impending dread instead of in your face gore sequences . we just see these guys going about their day , with minor mentions of rat problems and such sort of presented in the background . then the 2nd half of the film ( it’s only 82 minutes long , hurrah ! ) is an almost nonstop series of ‘zombie’ attacks ( they’re more like the ratty vampire things from
the 55th street entrance to the wellington hotel looks very much like the location where one of the heads of a family gets locked in the revolving door and killed during the baptism assassination sequence . i have no proof that this is the location . it is just a hunch coming from me staying there on my only trip to nyc and as i went out that door knew that i had seen it before . then watching the movie again later this year convinced myself that was why it was familiar . i am curious if any ny’ers could look closer and see what you think .
i found the actual gravestone used in the film many years ago at fasolino monuments nearby the cemetery . they either sold or donated it to a school in long island city . my wife and i saw it in a lobby near some elevators there , but i haven’t visited there in years . also , i haven’t read all the posts , but supposedly , the barber shop “moe greene” scene was shot at the st . regis hotel . hence the st . r on the window outside the shop .
weren ' t zombies either , merely infected humans , no matter what the fan sites say . this time though the infected have been bitten by rats , and the infected begin to display rat like characteristics almost immediately . big teeth i can buy ( like the guys on the cover - they ' re not in the film by the way ) but the big snouty rat noses look a little bit ridiculous , which is a crying shame . not that you ever get to see them for that long though ,
the cast is a huge part of that success . with one exception , i don’t doubt for a second that any of these characters ( mostly blue collar types ) are genuine , hard - working new yorkers who get caught up in a horror movie plot . damici in particular is a fantastic lead , and carries the film effortlessly . big actors wouldn’t work for this particular movie . i always hate when i’d see a schwarzenegger movie that tried to pass him off as a regular family / working man ( like
boss tweed , too . he tries to be a magnificent bastard . in the latter half of the film , he stokes the flames of conflict between bill cutting and amsterdam until the two are driven into a gang war which leaves all his rivals decimated . as a result , he is able to emerge as the uncontested master of new york politics until his downfall in 1871 . however , a lot of his constituency is dead by the movie ' s end .
we ' re burying a lot of votes tonight . . .
the cavalry : technically , the infantry , but once the riot breaks out , there ' s a montage of violent scenes and telegraph reports about how the police are totally unable to contain the riot , the rioters have taken control of the city , all the police have been put out of action or are unaccounted for , there ' s no hope , and then , suddenly ,
from 16th , the 7th regiment has arrived , foot of canal street . they are on their way to broadway .
there ' s still a lot of fighting before the mob is put down , but you know the tide has turned .