the outcasts , written and directed by robert wynne-simmons and starring mary ryan and mick lally , is an irish film completed in 1982 and broadcast in 1984 as part of uk 's channel 4 film on four series .

it was the first irish feature film in 50 years , and as such started the revival of the irish film industry .

the outcasts ( 1982 film )

guarnier , josé luis ,
luis g . berlanga ,
in international film guide 1981 , london , 1982 .
like some powerful and fantastical magnet , the outcasts draws our attention to the republic of ireland ' s nascent film industry .
( peter davalle , the times , london )
david edelstein is the chief film critic for new york magazine and a film critic for npr’s fresh air .
the outcasts has provided one of the deepest and most enthralling experiences of my life .
david blum ( music columnist , new yorker )
goldmann , münchen 1982 . der roman zum film ( goldmann fantasy tb 23826 ) . deutsche erstveröffentlichung . o - broschur . 1 . auflage , mit farb . illustrationen . - 255 s . ( pages ) .
robert wynne - simmons disinterest in spiritually defunct modernity is reflected in his film credits . his first film was
a bounty hunter who was a confederate officer teams up with an ex - slave who was a union soldier during the civil war . they are the outcasts .
in short , john carpenter’s the thing lands us in freezing antarctica during the winter of 1982 . a strange incident occurs at american outpost 31 , when a norwegian helicopter breaks the peace and silence of snow .
great britain , fontana / collins virago , 1982 . 1st fontana edition , binding : softcover , good . 12mo - over 6¾
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tall 0006164323 paperback a sweeping , mystical fantasy now a spectacular film . . . . paperback .
the outcasts / robert wynne - simmons ; john davis ; matthew jacobs ; cyril cusack ; mick lally ; tolmayax productions . ; ; dublin : tolmayax productions , 1983 .
magic , as distinct from cunning special effects , is hard to find in the cinema , but [ the outcasts ] is steeped in it .
( shaun usher , daily mail )
with the headline : film festival notebook ; news sensations , new outrages and themes .
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tim burton’s first short film produced after college , vincent ( 1982 ) , tells the quirky tale of little vincent malloy – a boy who dreams of being like his hero , vincent price . real film actor vincent price narrates the film , describing malloy with rhymes : “he doesn’t mind living with his sister and cats , though he’d rather share a home with spiders and bats . ” malloy daydreams of living like price’s famous characters – mad scientists and debonair villains – and muses over his imaginary dead wife .
in the waning days of the summer of 1982 , my parents took me to an afternoon matinee , a double - feature at a second - run theater in los angeles . i couldn’t have guessed so beforehand , but this excursion to the movies was a life - changing event for me .
after falling victim to a humiliating prank by the high school queen bee , best friends and world - class geeks , mindy and jodi , decide to get their revenge by uniting the outcasts of the school against her and her circle of friends .
feardotcom ( 2002 ) looks and sounds like a remake of a japanese horror film that never was . this 40 million dollar horror film was r . . .
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deneroff , harvey , in film society review ( new york ) , april 1966 .
the outcasts has nothing fey or twee about it . its strength is that it treats its material with respect , skillfully avoiding any hint of ironic distance or any over - committment to the supernatural . as a result it also acquires a strong political dimension as a powerful critique of materialism .
( jill forbes , monthly film bulletin )
ballantine books , 1986 . 1st printing . with primitive weapons , an army of mutants and outcasts strugles to keep freedom alive ! . paperback . isbn : 0345308891 . near fine paperback , slight crease to front cover .
watch burton’s first short film and an homage to horror classics , vincent , on youtube .
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i thought you might be interested in this item at urltoken title : the outcasts author : robert wynne - simmons ; john davis ; matthew jacobs ; cyril cusack ; mick lally ; tolmayax productions publisher : dublin : tolmayax productions , 1983 . oclc : 38739724
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. . the glories of the earth we live with . the way the flowers dance and the waters roar and the grandeur of the rocks and the mountains .
a robert wynne - simmons film ; written and directed by john davis ; producer , matthew jacobs .
scream ' s writer kevin williamson scripted this robert rodriguez - directed horror film . it was a hybrid of teenage angst high - school films ( such as the breakfast club ( 1985 ) ) and the sci - fi alien invasion film invasion of the body snatchers ( 1956 ) .
of course , jarman ' s most illustrious collaborator on this film is caravaggio . famous , notorious , and profoundly influential — on such painters as rubens , georges de la tour , velázquez , rembrandt , vermeer and countless others , and in cinema on film noir style — let ' s take a brief look at the life and work of the man whom jarman waggishly called
the james dean of the renaissance ,
before focusing on the film .
this film was also made at a time when people were being wrongfully executed more and more frequently in spain .
the film ended with a stream of cars ( and headlights ) approaching the ballfield in the middle of an iowa cornfield , signaling that ray wouldn ' t lose his farm after all .
following this review , in the section caravaggio in caravaggio , you will find a list of the paintings recreated in the film . now , at last , on to jarman ' s searing portrait of the artist .
the film opened with a spectacularly sexy heist during the screening of the film est - ouest at the 2001 cannes film festival ; nearly - nude , sleek film model veronica ' s ( rie rasmussen ) see - through gold - plated
amazing top in the shape of a serpent
was encrusted with 500 diamonds worth over 10 million dollars . blonde femme fatale laure ash ( rebecca romijn - stamos ) posed as a photographer at the event , scored to ravel ' s
bolero ,
and during a hot lesbian / bisexual tryst of kissing and stripping in the ladies room with veronica , the serpentine gold - plated bodice was supposedly swapped with a fake one .
in region 1 , this film is available both as a separate dvd and as part of the four - disc / five - film box set , glitterbox : derek jarman x 4 ( the angelic conversation , caravaggio , wittgenstein , and blue , plus the posthumous glitterbug ) — $ 74 . 99 suggested retail .
now that we ' ve brought caravaggio ' s background out of the shadows , let ' s shine a light on the film itself , beginning with its narrative structure .
it would be impossible to just pick one of the kids from william mckinley high school , as they all pretty much embodied outcasts . from stoner burnout desario ( james franco ) to wannabe drummer nick ( jason segel ) to the hopelessly nerdy bill haverchuck ( martin starr ) , they were all , easily , the most lovable losers to ever grace tv’s high school halls .
at his news conference , mr . baghdadi stressed that his was a country where factional divisions were so sharp that if an audience objected to the politics of a film ' s characters , it might reject the film outright . he wanted to make a film that any lebanese could watch and understand . ' ' little wars ' ' was well received at its screening , but it has not been shown in lebanon .
after a getaway , the unlikely group of six students theorized that if they found the ' master alien ' or
queen
leader and killed it , they could eliminate the threat and the further spread of the parasitic alien seeking human hosts , and everything would revert to normal . each student , suspicious of the others ( in a scene paying direct homage to john carpenter ' s blood - test scene in the thing ( 1982 ) ) , snorted the drug ( composed mostly of the contents of caffeinated no - doz pills ) to prove their non - alien status . delilah was revealed to be one of the aliens , and in the confusion , marybeth concealed the fact that she hadn ' t snorted the drug .
brian depalma ' s erotic thriller was a prime example of a plot - twister , deliberately hinted at many times by various clues . except for the first half - hour ( and the film ' s short concluding segment ) , the film with themes of voyeurism and double - identity was almost entirely a dream of the title character ' s nightmarish future .
for all the charges of
blasphemy
leveled against caravaggio , in using actual ' poor people , ' prostitutes and hustlers as models for biblical subjects , those were the very outcasts that jesus consorted with , and that both caravaggio and jarman could relate to intimately . although both jesus and caravaggio die in excruciating pain , attended by their faithful followers , the latter is no martyr , except perhaps in his obsession to unite art and life . but the film questions caravaggio ' s chaotic vision of life , even as it exalts his artistic genius .
ballantine , 1981 - 1st . paperback . very good . with 8 full color photos from the film . based on the screenplay by hal barwood and matthew robbins . from the collection of sf author juanita coulson .
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tony peake , in his indispensable derek jarman : a biography ( 1999 ) , expresses an interesting point of view that i don ' t share , namely , that
for all its many fine and subtle qualities , caravaggio exudes a whiff of staleness , even flatness ,
that he attributes to jarman ' s many years in pre - production , making him
somehow exhausted by the film before the camera started rolling .
peake reports that the film garnered only tepid critical praise , yet at the berlin international film festival , jarman won both the c . i . d . a . l . c . award and silver berlin bear ; and at the istanbul international film festival , he won the special jury prize . the film was successful in international markets , and in the two decades since , it has grown not only in critical stature but popularity — and that will only increase now that it ' s finally available on dvd .
in addition to these clear reproductions , jarman draws on other caravaggio works as inspiration for the film ' s sets , costumes , and lighting . for example , many of peasants are dressed to resemble those in the milan version of
supper at emmaus
and
the tooth puller
. the press kit identifies two additional paintings in the film —
narcissus
and
david with the head of goliath
— but i didn ' t detect them .
jarman underlies the film ' s central action , of the love triangle , with a story that becomes increasingly noir - ish , as ever more shocking levels of treachery are revealed . oscar wilde ' s often - quoted line , from
the ballad of reading gaol ,
applies as much to caravaggio ' s fictionalized plot as to most of film noir :
each man kills the thing he loves .
jarman reinforces the noir connection both dramatically and visually — but as with his use of sacred motifs , it ' s subtle , and only one more of the many strands that make up this film .
kovacs , k . s . ,
berlanga life size ,
in quarterly review of film studies ( new york ) , spring 1983 .
hi my wife mentioned that she saw ' the outcasts ' back in the 80s and she really liked it , i had never heard of it before . a few years ago she asked me to look on ebay to see if anyone had a vhs tape of it , after not much look one did turn up eventually . the video was released by a company called ' prestige international ' , not sure what date it came out as there is no date on the cover .
curiously , the film that might be most strongly expected to touch on issues of class difference does not address them directly at all . a lebanese film , maroun baghdadi ' s ' ' little wars , ' ' deliberately avoids designating its characters ' religious preferences or any other information that might align them with specific factions .
in jarman ' s film , here are the caravaggio paintings shown and / or recreated as tableaux , in the order they appear . titles link to online reproductions and commentary , each opening in a new window :
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inspirational commentary . i had never considered bladerunner and jc ' s the thing having common elements , but it is so obvious when one points it out . i too saw the thing in 1982 when i was 40 something . i had been a long time fan of the original ' 50s thing , but considered the new movie a different movie and not a remake . i still like both . both hold up to repetitive viewing for me . what i remember of that 1st viewing was that it really scared me . that night i waited in bed for my spouse to change . it was great ! thanks for the memories . . .
explore the existential angst of what it means to be human . protagonists in each film combat creatures that mimic or imitate the human shape , but are indistinctly inhuman . in both films , the impostor is also an infiltrator . . . virtually unrecognizable - -
the financial saga has as many twists and turns as the film ' s labyrinthine plot . when jarman shows the dead caravaggio with gold coins over his eyes , it ' s as much an ironic jab at economic / political realities as the folk tradition of making sure the dead have the proper fare to enter the land of the dead . but in the opening shot , before the coins appear , jarman emblematically lays out caravaggio ' s contradictions in a stunning close - up : one of the dead artist ' s eyes is wide open , but the other is shut .
[ note : in the film ' s original ending , crazed and unstable alex committed suicide to frame former lover dan , making it look like he had murdered her . after preview audiences objected , the ending was changed . ]
tim burton’s macabre and quirky visual style is recognizable to nearly anyone . his early films beetlejuice ( 1988 ) , edward scissorhands ( 1990 ) , and the nightmare before christmas ( 1993 ) have become favorites among adults and children , leading to the branding of his films as dark , fantastical stories featuring surreal , horror , and gothic mise - en - scene ; characters as outcasts , freaks , and villains ; and themes of isolation , life , death , perseverance , and love . however , before burton became a household name or even made his first feature film , he worked for walt disney productions and made vincent .
the final segment of the film consisted of a 17 - minute long dramatic retelling of how a young , sexy croatian actress oja kodar ( herself , welles ' real - life girlfriend at the time of shooting ) , first seen in the film in a segment on girl - watching , enticed famed artist pablo picasso in the village of toussaint by walking by his place during one summer in provocative beach - dress , and was soon invited in to be his mistress in exchange for ownership of the 22 nude paintings he made of her .
( mcfarland ; 2000 ) , but for context and history , i wanted to provide at least a handful of quotes here and now , so you might accurately glean a sense of the absolute vitriol spewed at the film and its helmsman .
there ' s an even deeper mythic level , as in other jarman films like the angelic conversation : primal ritual , in which a protagonist achieves incremental understanding through a long process of doubt and suffering . this ancient form underlies the narrative , giving the film a subliminal resonance .
the film ' s tagline made reference to the six main teen characters , archetypal members of the student body ( a misfit rebel , a geek , an outcast , a cheerleader , a jock , and a girl - next - door , etc . ) who were introduced during the character credits , that would investigate the weird happenings at their high school among the
faculty
members :
i saw this fabulous film when channel 4 broadcast it back in the early 1980s . it was never released on vhs or dvd . a harrowing look at the famine years , loss and cruelty , with a strong undercurrent of the supernatural running throughout . good luck in your search .
rather than the anachromisms , what most people first hear about this film is jarman ' s breathtaking recreations of a dozen and a half of caravaggio ' s paintings . ( if you want to follow along , there ' s a full list of the pictures below — but you certainly don ' t need to , in order to enjoy jarman ' s picture . ) these reproductions are more than gimmicks ; they point to the essence of the film , and of jarman ' s enormous achievements .
in ' ' moonlighting , ' ' the emphasis is on class rather than racial differences , as an educated foreman wields power over three ignorant laborers , yet is himself treated as a polish outsider in england . even in tim hunter ' s ' ' tex , ' ' the class relations among oklahoma teen - agers are explored . in karoly makk ' s ' ' another way , ' ' the two lesbian characters are treated as sexual and political outcasts . in mr . losey ' s ' ' the trout , ' ' a french country girl enters the world of international high finance and proceeds to disrupt the sexual , racial and economic lines of power .
author : gina marie ezzone is a senior at denison university where she studies cinema and queer studies . she is the president of the denison film society where she works as a programmer and projectionist . this summer she is the programs assistant intern at facets . check out her work on vimeo .
the key line in the film comes when caravaggio , after ranuccio has stabbed him in a fight , tells his faithful mute servant jerusaleme :
all art is against lived experience . how can you compare flesh and blood with oil , ground pigment ?
so far , this year ' s record for most walkouts is held jointly by ' ' veronika voss , ' ' the film of mr . fassbinder that was the openingnight selection , and miklos jancso ' s ' ' the tyrant ' s heart . ' ' it is hard to see a sure leader here because the circumstances differ .
why are american plays , movies , and tv shows so inept at weaving together the strands of the political and the personal ? maybe it ' s because—to borrow the title of an incisive e . j . dionne book—americans hate politics . or maybe it ' s because we prefer—and have always preferred , at least since the days of fenimore cooper—our sagas to focus on loners , mavericks , outcasts , people standing up to
the system .
but as that late counterweight to libertarianism , arthur miller , endlessly reminded us , we are social creatures—interdependent and responsible in even our smallest actions for the welfare of all . too bad that ' s a pinko heresy in a land of vigilantes and winners who take all .
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visually and dramatically intense reimagining of the life of the great sixteenth century artist .
ultimately , jarman knows that we will make of his film what we will , confronted — like so many artists in so many media — with the dilemma of how to reconcile , or not , art and lived experience .
there is a portrait gallery of familiar faces in the lobby of alice tully hall , where the 20th new york film festival is midway through its three - week schedule . as it honors a variety of contributors to past festivals , the photographic exhibition also reminds audiences that this year , most of the festival ' s favorite luminaries are conspicuously absent .
jerusaleme ' s importance to the film was even greater in early drafts , when jarman used him as the focal character , filtering caravaggio ' s life through his eyes . in fact , many of caravaggio ' s voice - over monologues were originally written for him .
she was thrown off the multi - story balcony of her room into the hotel ' s inner courtyard by vengeful , double - crossed partner racine ( edouard montoute ) , but miraculously survived the fall . lily ' s parents brought her to her apartment to recover , where laure noticed her resemblance to lily in photographs framed on the wall . while watching tv , a commentator provided a major key to the remainder of the film :
writer / director / actor orson welles ' last feature film was this non - linear , documentary - essay ( and magic trick at its end ) about fakery , art forgery , authorship and authenticity , charlatanism , the value of experts , magicians , and the art world .
' magic ' is the word some critics applied to it at the time , in ' over the moon ' fashion , but the word has some meaning here .
( derek malcolm , the guardian )
and that’s just the tip of the bloody iceberg , to adopt an appropriate metaphor .
great analysis and i really can ' t add much to your spot - on observations except to say that i think this is carpenter ' s masterpiece , even moreso than halloween which is a great film as well , but i think that carpenter really hit it out of the park with this one for all the reasons you stated in your post . i ' m glad you pointed out rob bottin ' s staggeringly incredible work on this film . it ' s a shame that most of the studio films go the cgi route and it seems like he doesn ' t work much anymore as a result . i wish some indie horror filmmakers would hook up with him . his work has a tangible texture and realism that still outclasses the cgi work out there . have you read the comic book spin - offs ? the first two - issue mini - series is quite good even though they get a few of the rules from the film wrong and carpenter has said that if he ever did a sequel he ' s use them as a basis . i also thought that the video game sequel was very well done . they really captured the claustrophobia and paranoia of the film as well the mood and atmosphere to a t . at any rate , as someone who is a huge carpenter fan i really dug your post . great stuff .
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el verdugo is a farce or domestic comedy filled with macabre touches and scenes of black humor in which the taboos associated with death are transgressed . even the actual mode of execution is the subject of morbid jokes as the executioner , who garrots his victims , measures the neck size of his future son - in - law . the film is punctuated with these bits of gallows humor as well as with comic reversals that take the audience by surprise . a particularly fine example occurs at the end of the movie when the young executioner is carried kicking and screaming like the victim into the prison where he will perform his first execution . el verdugo shows that the biting black humor that we have come to associate with buñuel is , in more general terms , a spanish characteristic .
just a convenient place to group together all the films i’ve seen of the creepy persuasion .
cult tv flashback # 77 : v : the series :
the rescue . . .
the thing serves as the first movement in john carpenter’s self - named “apocalypse trilogy” ( followed by 1987’s prince of darkness and 1994’s in the mouth of madness ) , and most genre fans are familiar with the general outline of the story , either from the remarkable campbell literary work , or the 1950s howard hawks version , the thing from another world ( 1951 ) .
ny : ballantine , 1986 . first edition ; first printing . paperback . isbn : 0345308891 . illustrated by sweet , darrell k . . 243 pages ; very good plus condition . this is a paperback - not a hardcover ! faint front hinge crease . no spine creases . just a bit of shelf rub to cover edges . book store stamp on inside front cover . solid , clean . with primitive weapons an army of mutants and outcasts struggles to keep freedom alive . . . . very good + .
while jerusaleme remains silent throughout , the film is anything but . jarman brilliantly uses sound to enlarge the world of caravaggio and bring it to life , even as it provides a shrewd way of keeping the budget in check . to take one example , the small room at porto ercole where caravaggio lies dying is a minimal , but beautifully evocative , set . yet when jarman dubs in the sound of the nearby ocean ( that he recorded on location at the actual village in italy ) , it expands the emotional reach of the physical space . instead of minimalist set at a former - warehouse sound stage , we can hear — and almost smell — the tyrrhenian sea .
the most important aspect of the film to realize was the continuing presence of an evil spirit or fallen angel named azazel . this cursed angel roamed the earth , without form , and could possess susceptible people ' s souls by switching bodies after contact . azazel was an ancient diabolical presence and force that was almost impossible to track - it was eternally condemned to transmigrate from one soul to another .
caravaggio ' s delirious ( re ) vision of his life , as he is about to leave it , recalls nikos kazantzakis ' s well - known 1951 novel ( and martin scorsese ' s 1988 film version ) , the last temptation of christ , although jarman employs no twist ending . more subtly , caravaggio ' s doubts and fears that pervade the entire film — in voice over he whispers ,
thought without image . lost in the pigment . trapped in the formless umber wastes .
— recall jesus ' s anxiety in gethsemane , before his arrest and execution , as described in the gospel of mathew , beginning at 26 : 36 .
fontana , london , 1981 . reprint , softcover . very good condition . 9780006164326 this is the british paperback edition of this novelization of the 1981 film , based on the screenplay written by hal barwood and matthew robbins . printed in australia . the book has the previous owner ' s name at the top of the first page . first softcover edition . size : 12mo ( standard paperback ) . 218 pages . a very clean secondhand copy , with no damage apart from age toning of the page edges . please refer to accompanying picture ( s ) . quantity available : 1 .
the opposite of scipione , in every way , is a pivotal character who nonetheless is often overshadowed : caravaggio ' s mute assistant jerusaleme ( perhaps the finest performance by actor spencer leigh ) . the artist bought him as a child from a hopelessly poor grandmother , who can only look to the heavens for solace , saying ( in one of the film ' s most poignant lines )
the stars are the diamonds of the poor .
caravaggio raises the boy —
i taught you the colors , and how to grind them . . . . the art of priming and glazing with soft squirrel brushes .
— but , even as a strikingly handsome adult , he remains just
a companion in my loneliness .
six hours , you think—wow , that sounds endless . but the best of youth doesn ' t have a boring millisecond . it isn ' t an art film , with longueurs ; it ' s a mini - series with the sweep of a classic novel , with tons of plot . not that giordana ( or the screenwriters , sandro petraglia and stefano rulli ) skim the surface . the scenes are short but penetrating ; the tiniest exchanges can explode into epiphanies ; and the five - year leaps are amazingly fluid . there is a kind of forthright lyricism in the way giordana handles the landscape and the characters ' yearning for connection , meaning , and the high spirits of their youth . it ' s that yearning that holds the episodic narrative together—along with a recurring , plangent musical motif that all but makes the screen shiver .
. . . demonstrating once again the difference between mere reaction to a genre film and actual criticism that brings out things in it we haven ' t seen ourselves . . . .
( patrick murtha ' s diary , 2 / 28 / 10 )
when you consider the basic narrative elements of noir fiction and film — they are all masterfully present , for example , in james m . cain 1936 novel and billy wilder ' s 1944 picture , double indemnity — you ' ll see that they synch up with jarman ' s film : a cynical protagonist who ' s also the self - deludingly omniscient narrator , a labyrinthine plot with escalating twists , frequent flashbacks ( that make time as unstable as space — as does chiaroscuro ) , and an underlying sense of fatalism .
, there is a true story about a flasher who was bound in sailcloth and dumped in lake by the brothers of the girl he flashed at , and he grew into scarf michael . i don ' t think he played a fiddle though .
there are scarf michael terrier dogs that one could believe have taken their name from lore but of the breed wynne - simmons confesses no knowledge .
there was a folk group that briefly took the name from the film ,
adds the director .
this mystical sports film from director phil alden robinson was about an iowa farmer named ray kinsella ( kevin costner ) who felt instructed by various voices to build a baseball field on his farmland in iowa . from the strange and compelling ' voices , ' he heard :
over the course of the film ' s 40 years , italy is depicted as a beautiful but intractably corrupt place , yet the characters continue to work toward changing it . one of the brothers ' pals , carlo ( fabrizio gifuni ) , marries into the family and becomes a banker—but one who works toward an economic system that is transparent instead of cloaked . at the other end of the political spectrum , nicola has a daughter with a beautiful woman named giulia ( sonia bergamasco ) , who drifts into communism , then maoism , and finally goes underground with the violent red brigade . she ' s working to change the system from without— way , way without .
looking at the structure in broad strokes , it begins with caravaggio as a sassy youth ( played by dexter fletcher ) , who charges for everything he sells , whether it ' s his paintings , his body or , for the powerful but soft - spoken patron cardinal del monte , both . the majority of the film centers — in basically linear fashion — on the painter ' s tempestuous relationship with the ruggedly sensual and amoral ranuccio and his ambitious girlfriend lena ( who skyrockets from streetwalker to regal kept woman ) .
the two enjoyed a game of catch between father and son one more time as the sun set .
el verdugo was the eighth feature film written and directed by luis garcía berlanga in collaboration with his longtime associate , rafael azcona . the story pivots upon the fate of a pleasant , if somewhat timid , young undertaker whose dream is to go to germany and become a mechanic . this dream is thwarted when he happens to meet the executioner in a prison where both of them are plying their trade . in spite of the aversion that the young man ( and everyone else ) feels for the executioner , he not only ends up marrying the executioner ' s daughter , but even takes over his father - in - law ' s business .
while jarman cast nigel terry for his talent — and he gives a career - making performance in the title role — he also bears an uncanny resemblance to the historical caravaggio , as he painted himself in several works and as depicted in ottavio leoni ' s 1621 painting , the only documented portrait by another artist . this boded well for the entire production , that on september 2 , 1985 at long , long last began to film .
at only 24 years old , burton apprenticed for walt disney productions working on storyboards , animations , and concept art . his dark , abstract style clashed with disney’s established aesthetic . fortunately , disney’s head of creative development recognized burton’s strong , unique talents and gave him $ 60 , 000 to produce his own film . with the money and two months of production , burton wrote , directed , and designed vincent . upon completion , the film received limited distribution and was rumored to have never existed until it was added as a special feature to the nightmare before christmas in 2008 and added to cinema 16’s american short films .
the film opened with leading members of the faculty of herrington high school in ohio being taken over by murderous aliens . the first to be possessed was menacing hornets football coach joe willis ( robert patrick ) , and then drama teacher mrs . karen olson ( piper laurie ) who used a pair of scissors to murder and also infect briskly efficient principal miss valerie drake ( bebe neuwirth ) .
was the recipient of many in a no less formidable age of quality and innovation . at the brussels fantasy festival it picked up both best film and critics ' prizes , at san remo it added prizes for best first feature and best actress for mary ryan to the cabinets , while in geneva it garnered the ' prix du publique ' . at fantasporto 1984 it took both ' premio especial ' ( special prize ) and the juri da critica ( jury prize ) for ireland , in a year when films in competition from the british isles stood at
jarman was a genius at getting maximum emotional , and thematic , effect from the fewest possible elements . he worked closely with art director michael buchanan , costume designer sandy powell , cinematographer gabriel beristain , and his longtime friend christopher hobbs as the production designer and head of the four - person art department . hobbs also painted the caravaggio canvases seen in the film , although the budget allowed him to create only a few fully realized reproductions , such as
the lute player .
as jarman intended , most of the canvases accurately reflect caravaggio ' s so - called
underpaintings ,
rough sketches that he later painted over to create his finished pictures .
shot in stark black and white , the film’s stop - motion animation is surreal and exaggerated as characters have big round eyes , tiny arms , and abstract faces . slanted walls , abstract shadows , and stylized sets establish malloy’s inner world filled with horror and isolation . barely over six minutes in length , burton’s vincent reveals the inner imagination of a child and relishes in the beauty of horror .
myles the matchmaker is involved because the younger of maura ' s two sisters janey ( bairbre ni chaoimh ) is pregnant and the father is eamonn farrell ( martin o ' flathearta ) , son of conor ( tom jordan ) , and the respective family patriarchs have famously not met one another on anything remotely approaching favourable terms for quite some time . the day of celebrations arrives and musicians in masks made of oat - straw appear and play , but it is not their tune that stops the proceedings momentarily . sailing in on the merriment is a quick and haunting fiddle from outside , the player scarf michael ( mark lally ) , a magical figure tainted by talk of evil association . as the hearth fire tale at the beginning of the film spins it :
he ' s the one plays a fiddle with a bow made of dead men ' s hair .
that search for the modern in the historical — through anachronism — is perhaps the boldest aspect of jarman ' s visual strategy . yet as noted above , it ' s also precisely what caravaggio did with his biblical subjects : there were no 1600 - style doublets or feathered caps at the martyrdom of matthew ( if , indeed , he even died that way : the bible and history are both mute ) . he also employs anachronistic sounds — like offscreen cars honking , a train whistle , a phone ringing — to expand further the limits of the film . as in so much of jarman , there ' s more here than meets the ear or eye .
in light of this , it is good to be able to report that at least one of the festival ' s key figures , werner herzog ( ' ' fitzcarraldo ' ' ) , is still going strong , and that he appears to be a film maker of persistent , enduring imagination .
in caravaggio , jarman brings together life and art in a manner that ' s both comical ( who hasn ' t gotten bored trying to hold a pose ) but revealing . thematically , this reintroduces both the body and the notion of time into paintings that are otherwise , by their nature , frozen . jarman reveals not only the messiness of life behind the pictures — from folly to violence — but , through this film , how they come together . is this the achievement of what haunted his fictional caravaggio : the joining together of flesh and blood , with canvas and paint ?
the narrative ' s flip side — or is it ? , jarman might ask — to the religious layer is , unexpectedly , film noir . admittedly , this is an unorthodox take on caravaggio , but know that jarman discussed noir directly with cinematographer gabriel beristain ( as recounted in the latter ' s video interview on the dvd ) , suggesting that caravaggio ' s chiaroscuro helped invent noir style , with its ( melo ) dramatic , selective lighting and shadowy backgrounds . a classic example of the style can be seen in jacques tourneur ' s noir landmark , out of the past ( 1947 ) . in one shot , that bears a rough compositional similarity to
the martyrdom of saint matthew ,
two benighted characters sit huddled in a car , surrounded by pitch blackness — an impossibly blinding shaft of light ( from the dashboard ! ) illuminates just their faces : it doesn ' t get more chiaroscuro , or film noir , than that .
as caravaggio ' s noir plot elements become unmistakable — during the scene in which jarman recreates
death of the virgin
— he uses , for the first time , a staple of noir lighting , the slatted pattern cast by venetian blinds ( previously , jarman and his designers had gone to great pains to use only authentic period oil skin - covered windows ) . and this film ' s end credits are an homage to perhaps the greatest noir , robert aldrich ' s kiss me deadly ( 1955 ) , whose world is so horrifically out of balance that even the credits run backwards .
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but jarman goes even further — psychologically and thematically — in one of his film ' s most ambiguous moments . during caravaggio ' s obsessive painting of ranuccio , now as the youthful
john the baptist
, he enters his darkened studio to see a muscular body , draped in the the baptist ' s red cloak ; but when the model rises , it ' s not ranuccio — it ' s jerusaleme holding the suggestive cane . this moment not only doubles — or taking caravaggio ' s original into account , triples — the intertwining of life and art , it becomes a pivotal moment in the master / servant relationship . jerusaleme , at last , all but throws himself at the painter — only to be gently rebuffed . caravaggio will continue his self - frustrating quest to find
pure spirit in matter
to the end .
mr . skolimowski ' s ' ' moonlighting ' ' is a tight , tense , narrow film , one that is brilliantly confined . just as ' ' deep end ' ' took place mostly at a london bath house , ' ' moonlighting ' ' is limited almost entirely to a town house and a few shops nearby . its characters , four polish workers , have come furtively to london to renovate the building , hired by a polish boss who hopes to emigrate some day . only one of them , the foreman ( jeremy irons ) , speaks english . and it is his harrowing experience , as an absolute alien in a dangerous , unpredictable environment , on which the film concentrates . he is someone on whom the roof , quite literally , falls in .
you know , in my world , casey , there were limitless oceans as far as the eye could see . a beautiful home until it started to dry up . so i escaped , came here , and met you . all of you . all of you were different from the others . you were lost and lonely , just like me . and i thought that maybe , i could give you a taste of my world : a world without anger , without fear , without attitude . where the underachiever goes home at night to parents who care . the jock can be smart , the ugly duckling beautiful , and the class wuss doesn ' t have to live in terror . and the new girl - - well , the new girl , she can just fit right in with people who are just like her . you see , casey , even marybeth ' s feelings can be hurt by a bunch of pathetic , lost , little outcasts who truly believe that their disaffected lonely life is the only way they can survive . i can make you a part of something so special , casey , so perfect , so fearless . don ' t you want that , casey ?
- - seeing those particular films back - to - back , one after the other , on the big screen .
have emerged as two of the most beloved ( and forward - looking… ) films of the age of reagan . they ' ve defined the direction of their respective genres too .
' ' the tyrant ' s heart , ' ' on the other hand , caused many walkouts , even among the press audience , a notoriously patient crowd . festival press audiences will sit through almost anything without complaint , and it ' s not uncommon to hear rousing applause at the end of a film that deserves none . but ' ' the tyrant ' s heart , ' ' mr . jancso ' s hungarian rennaissance fantasy replete with masks , wind machines , conveyor belts and mime , was more - or less - than even these viewers could bear .
eric rohmer and paul mazursky both have new films , but neither is a festival selection . bernardo bertolucci has been missing since ' ' luna , ' ' and robert altman is another once - frequent contributor who hasn ' t had a festival film in a while .
we come full circle at the end , with a revealing flashback to caravaggio as a boy ( in an angel costume ) , together with his beloved pasqualone , that suggests that he may have found his artistic calling through a fascination with jesus ' s passion . jarman then brilliantly cuts through the next two decades of the artist ' s life to show his monumental version of
the deposition of christ
— in which he ' s paints himself as jesus . as that scene suggests , the film draws parallels , some obvious and some subtle , between the painter and jesus — although jarman directly recreates only that one of caravaggio ' s several paintings with jesus . with
doubting thomas ,
mentioned above , jarman only suggests jesus by the costume and composition ; but you ' ll notice that caravaggio ' s knife wound is in the same spot , on his ribs , as in the painting — like the one jesus on the cross received from a guard ' s spear ( as depicted in countless paintings over the centuries , including many that show the blood pouring into the holy grail ) .
the scene climaxes when caravaggio makes ranuccio take a coin from his lips , then they kiss . ranuccio has been hoarding his day ' s wages entirely inside his bulging mouth . ( jarman later parallels this scene with one in which ranuccio and lena , lying in a hammock at a 180 degree angle to each other , cascade each other with the florins he ' s earned — but lena herself will soon be in the money ; and note that this ' head to toe ' configuration parallels jerusaleme ' s position on the floor in relation to the dying caravaggio , whom he ' s watching over : the more closely you look at this film , the more there is to see . )
[ beware of spoilers ] to put the matter bluntly , the triangle ( 2016 ) may just be the picnic at hanging rock ( 1975 ) of found - footag . . .
as for the most enthusiastic audience reaction thus far , it has either been the wildly enthusiastic response to ' ' say amen , somebody , ' ' george t . nierenberg ' s documentary about gospel music , or the cheers that greeted the press screening of ' ' koyaanisqatsi , ' ' godfrey reggio ' s psychedelic compilation of images , with a philip glass score . why ? well , because mr . reggio ' s film is genuinely effective , and because it ' s a good deal less pretentious than any description would make it sound . ' ' koyaanisqatsi ' ' did have an unfair advantage over other festival films , though : it was screened in radio city music hall , a place that is certain to put any film audience in a better - than - average frame of mind .
at 3 : 33 pm ( all clocks remain fixed at 3 : 33 pm during the next segment of the film ) while she took a soothing soak in an overflowing bathtub , she fell asleep - - and the dream commenced . laure was awakened when a distraught lily returned and committed suicide with a gun , near a flooding aquarium ( hint ! ) . to
start a new life
and escape pursuit , laure appropriated lily ' s identity and flew to the us - conveniently meeting businessman mr . watts ( peter coyote ) on the plane and subsequently marrying him .
the workers are in london when martial law is suddenly instituted in poland , but the political crisis is only a part of their nightmare . mr . skolimowski makes everything sinister ; the news bulletins about poland , the suspenseful score , even the sight of a cat crossing the street . these details are rigidly controlled by mr . skolimowski , and they are manipulated masterly .
in the satisfying epilogue , marge and her loving husband norm ( john carroll lynch ) were watching tv in bed . she congratulated him on being the winner of the usps oil painting competition ( of a mallard duck ) for the 3 - cent stamp , a necessity when the postal rate was to be increased .
the foreign chopper pilot and his cohort seem to be relentlessly ( and madly . . . ) pursuing a dog , a malamute . the pilot attempts to kill the canine , but in the ensuing scuffle the helicopter is destroyed and an armed norwegian is shot dead by outpost 31’s macho commander , garry ( moffat ) .


the game of their lives ( released on dvd as the miracle match ) is a 2005 american drama film directed by david anspaugh .

the screenplay by angelo pizzo is based on the book of the same title by geoffrey douglas .

the game of their lives ( 2005 film )

review : the game of their lives ( aka the miracle m . . .
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the match against england in belo horizonte , brazil , on june 19 , 1950 was
the game of their lives
. see more »
— for the similarly titled james bond novel , see nobody lives for ever . the operative : no one lives forever the game s box art displays protagonist cate archer …
— le match de leur vie cet article porte sur un film américain . pour le film britannique du même nom , voir : le match de leur vie ( 2002 ) . le match de leur vie ( the game of their lives ) est un film américain de david anspaugh sorti en 2005 . synopsis… …
tyrion and the lannisters fight for their lives as stannis ' fle et assaults king ' s landing .
from walden media : ( the ) game of their lives was released by our sister company , bristol bay . we will announce home video plans soon .
douglas , geoffrey ( 1996 ) . the game of their lives . new york : henry holt and company . isbn 0 - 8050 - 3875 - 2 .
how the west is won : b . c . elections , 1952 - 2005
a portrait how of we have documented our changing lives via the family photograph .
it ' s difficult to muster dislike for the game of their lives , which is reasonably interesting , but it needed more grit and inspiration than this straightforward account can provide .
the first game of the usa at the 1950 world cup ( four days prior to the england game , against spain in curitiba ) is omitted from the film .
montola , m . ( 2005 ) .
exploring the edge of the magic circle . defining pervasive games ,
dac 2005 conference , december 1 . - 3 . it university of copenhagen .
the story of mary decker and zola budd and their lives building up to the infamous 1984 olympics 3000m race in which both of them collide .
chicken little ( 2005 ) : reviews
. . retrieved on october 22 , 2009 .
a store on the
hill
is selling posters with pictures taken during the shooting of
the game of their lives
. the store is called girasole gifts and imports the website can be reached by clicking on their name . click here to see a sample .
when the team arrives in brazil , the game against england is constantly referred to as the team ' s opening game . however , in the 1950 world cup the united states ' first game was against spain on june 25th . the game against england was played on june 29th and was the second game for the americans . see more »
“the game of their lives” is a historical movie ( based on a true story ) about a famous football match ( a soccer match ) between england and the us which took place in brazil in . . .
from gerrardbutler . net ,
william ross is the new composer onboard the game of their lives , david anspaugh ' s film that was originally to have been scored by the late jerry goldsmith . the assignment has been confirmed by the gorfaine - schwartz agency . the film is directed by david anspaugh who is best known for two other sports movies , hoosiers and rudy , both scored by jerry goldsmith . the game of their lives would have been their third film together . william ross , whose latest score was ladder 49 , has done uplifting scores for sports movies before , his score for tin cup being a fan favourite . production of the game of their lives has been in limbo for quite some time , the fact that a new composer has been hired to score the film surely indicates that post - production is indeed progressing .
thanks to tom stremlau for forwarding this information .
the game of their lives ( retitled the miracle match for the dvd release ) is a 2005 film telling the story of the 1950 u . s . world cup team that shocked the world by beating england 1 - 0 . if al michaels were covering the match in 1950 he would have used his
do you believe in miracles ? yes
line for this team instead of the 1980 olympic hockey team .
— for the video game , see peter jackson s king kong : the official game of the movie . king kong theatrical poster directed by peter jackson …
chicken little ( 2005 )
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, among others . it opened for limited release in the u . s . on april 22 , 2005 .
hoffmann , j . and jonas , j . ( 2005 ) . perform . thames and hudson , london .
title , this story is about the family traditions and passions which shaped the lives of the players who made up this team of underdogs .
chicken little was originally scheduled to be released on july 1 , 2005 , but on december 7 , 2004 , its release date was pushed back to november 4 , 2005 , the release date originally slated for disney / pixar ' s cars .
not exactly . there were approximately 50 , 000 casualties ( killed / wounded / missing ) at the battle of gettysburg . the actual number who lost their lives was much lower .
virtually anyone could now capture , collect and organise the visual story of their lives for the first time in human history . with brownies in hand , british families began snapping their celebrations , special moments and daily life on a regular basis .
i’m okay pia lenz adult themes unfold through the perspective of young protagonists in this beautifully photographed feature that captures the experiences of two refugee families struggling to rebuild their lives in germany . north american premiere
george r . r . martin especially announced on his blog that director neil marshall would be helming this episode , noting that he was a fan of marshall ' s feature film work , particularly the 2005 horror film the descent . [ 2 ]
kick off : 15 : 00 this result is notable as one of the biggest shocks in the tournament ' s history . before the game , england were heavy favorites against a hastily assembled u . s . team , which was composed of part - time players . the game ' s only goal was scored by the u . s . ' s haitian - born centre forward joe gaetjens . this game and the u . s . team were profiled by author geoffrey douglas in his book the game of their lives , which was made into a film of the same name ( later renamed the miracle match ) .
it seems that they are still shooting ! link to usa today story about patrick stewart . here ' s the quote ,
and said he is resting before returning to work next week , where he plans to finish the upcoming movie the game of their lives .
director : ashutosh gowariker , 2001 in 1893 , the people of a small village in colonial india hope that they will be excused from paying lagaan , the crippling land tax that the british have imposed . instead , the capricious officer in charge challenges them to a game of cricket , a game totally unknown to them . if they win , they get their wish ; if they lose , the increased tax burden will destroy their lives .
no . in fact , by the end of the 1971 season ( including playoffs ) the t . c . williams titans were 13 - 0 and ranked second in the nation . they dominated almost every game that they played , shutting out their opponents in nine of their thirteen games and outscoring them by a margin of 338 - 38 . the championship game was a blowout as well , unlike what we see in the film . below is the titans 1971 schedule showing the scores of each game .
from roy spoto , there may be a release date ! it is supposed to be april 22 , 2005 . another link .
director : deborah warner , 1999 set in co . cork in 1920 , this film revolves around the lives and romantic complications of an aristocratic anglo - irish family living on their estate in the midst of the irish war for independence . a compelling look at the last days of the protestant ascendancy and of their own sense of irishness being tested through the changing national climate of their country and an uncertain future . based on the 1929 novel by elizabeth bowen .
island soldier nathan fitch through the intimate stories of two soldiers , this film explores the high cost of opportunity . in the federated states of micronesia—an “associated state” of the u . s . —a high proportion of residents serve in the american military , with few resources to support their lives after duty ends . world premiere
game of thrones wins big at creative arts emmys westeros . org , september 16 , 2012 .
due to the importance of the new
the game of their lives
movie to the baudo family , i have decided to create a page dedicated to it . the film chronicles the life of frank borghi ,
pee wee
wallace , gino pariani , charlie columbo , and harry keough and their contribution to one of the greatest soccer ( football ) upsets of all time . the usa team beat the
chaps that invented the game
, england 1 - 0 ( one - nil ) ! more than 50 years later , this movie will show the triumph of the miracle on grass .
tribal justice anne makepeace two dynamic native american women—chief judges for the state’s largest tribes—draw on tradition and village wisdom to help defendants rebuild their lives , encouraging healing over jail time and punishment .
the lives of homeless people are changed forever through an international soccer competition . this film follows six players as they set off for cape town , south africa to play in the homeless world cup .
at the end of the film , before a big modern soccer match , the surviving members of that 1950 team are called out onto the field and introduced . that should provide us with a big emotional boost , as we see the real men next to insets of their characters in the movie . but it doesn ' t , because we never got to know the characters in the movie .
the game of their lives
covers its story like an assignment , not like a mission .
from the creators of
rudy
and
hoosiers ,
based on a true story ,
the game of their lives
follows the u . s . national soccer team , which showed that with passion and commitment , anything is possible - even the greatest upset in the history of the world cup . . . . full synopsis »
purple dreams joanne hock this film follows six students at the northwest school of the arts in charlotte , n . c . , who thrive as performers in the first - ever high school musical production of the color purple while grappling with difficult and stressful issues in their own lives . world premiere
has been airbrushed out of the story . eddie mcilvenny captained the side to their 1 - 0 victory , but the producers of the film decided to give the position of captain to american born
this paper has benefited from discussions with the students in my
play and game studies
course at the school of creative media , city university of hong kong . i gratefully acknowledge their contribution .
a video essay about christophe gans ' 2006 video game adaptation ,
silent hill .
the big game companies were aware of their predicament : if a game appealed to the mass of players who drove the arcade industry’s profits , the hardcore gamers who made up the base and spent tons of time in arcades mastering them would move on quickly , spending far less in the process . if however , a game was extremely difficult , casual gamers were put off . this dilemma would plague the industry for years .
also when captain engelhorn saves denham and the rest of the film crew from the natives .
hussey , a . ( 2002 ) . the game of war : the life and death of guy debord . pimlico , london .
luis & i roger gómez , dani resines the wife of a human cannonball describes their life in the circus and the ways their love has endured decades of this itinerant lifestyle . ( short )
did you know that a scotsman , greenock - born eddie mcilvenny , captained the usa team for that 1 - 0 win over england in brazil 55 years ago ? or that another scotsman managed the usa team ? no , of course not , how could you , when eddie mcilvenny ' s memory , and that of the team ' s scottish manager , has been airbrushed out of the movie . in the movie depicting that game ,
the game of their lives
, it is an american footballer who wears the captain ' s armband . so , even if the game is otherwise watchable , i have voted 1 ( awful ) just as a reaction against that revisionist historical account of that game .
from the creators of < i > rudy < / i > and < i > hoosiers < / i > , based on a true story , < i > the game of their lives < / i > follows the 1950 us world cup soccer team , which showed that with passion and commitment , anything is possible - even the greatest upset in the history of the world cup .
actor andy robinson following the screening of charley varrick at the arthur lyons film noir festival .
crawford , c . ( 2003 ) . chris crawford on game design , new riders , indianapolis .
in the game , hayes survives to the end and acts as one of your teammates alongside ann and carl , unlike the film where he dies trying to fight kong during the first close encounter with him .
serious game design has the potential to reveal essential features about philosophy , science and other serious academic subjects . the reason is that those subjects already exhibit ludic aspects . playing can help us to recognize the playful aspects of human culture . for instance , playing a philosophical game can highlight the elements of competition and exhibitionism at the heart of philosophy . playing with the magic circle can bring to light fundamental features of all social formations , and so highlight fundamental issues about philosophy and sociology . game designers can render the boundary between play and life systematically ambiguous , thus encouraging players to engage in a collective discussion about the nature of their community . the formation of the collective would then become a core theme of experimental game design . alternatively , the game designers may selectively withhold from the players information about where the magic circle begins and ends , so that random everyday events can potentially be part of the game ; serious game designers can exploit this condition to generate paranoia and other experiences that depend on doubt .
director : tristán bauer , 2005 this argentine film tells the story of the falklands war through a series of flashbacks among veterans living with the scars of their country ' s
unwinnable
war . the plot takes the men back to their foxholes on the windswept and desolate malvinas ( falklands ) during the harrowing battles they fought with british forces sent to retake the islands . victory in the falklands revived britain ' s pride in its former empire and was in some sense a redemption from the humiliation of the suez crisis of 1956 .
gray , brandon ( november 7 , 2005 ) .
welcome to the cluck : chicken little , jarhead top weekend
. . retrieved on october 22 , 2009 .
as something special . make no mistake : this is a coen movie through and through , unapologetically nasty and intentionally apathetic to the suffering of their characters . it’s also a remarkably telling blueprint for their careers as masters of crime gone wrong . as with so much of their future output ,
the film is also the last disney animated film made before john lasseter was named chief creative officer of disney animation . though it received mixed reviews upon release , the film was a box office success , grossing $ 314 million worldwide .
fantastic four , a contemporary re - imagining of marvel ' s original and longest - running superhero team , centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe , which alters their physical form in shocking ways . their lives irrevocably upended , the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save earth from a former friend turned enemy . ( c ) fox
sports drama starring gerard butler . the film tells the true story of the hastily - assembled 1950 usa football team and their unexpected 1 - 0 defeat of the england squad in belo horizonte , brazil .
the first episode of
the office
aired on march 24 , 2005 . to celebrate the 10th anniversary , here ' s a look at our favorite dunder mifflin employees and the actors who played them .
they help us become absorbed in each other’s lives and feel like participants in the realities of friends and family , albeit temporarily and sometimes when separated by great distance .
special thanks to the gerard butler board and bigsoccer . com . the website got over 10 , 000 unique hits in 2004 ! we ' re over 20 , 000 in 2005 !
director : satyajit ray , 1977 in 1856 , officials of the east india company move to consolidate their hold over north india by annexing the wealthy kingdom of awadh . the chief minister to the nawab attempts to warn his ruler and local landlords of the impending danger but they ignore him and instead indulge their obsession with playing chess . the game becomes a metaphor for the larger game of politics played by the british as they maneuver to capture awadh ' s king . based on the 1924 short story by premchand .
whereas both huizinga and caillois argue that the boundaries of the magic circle and the rules of the game must always be fixed in advance of the start of play , this type of game would make both elements contingent on the decisions and responses of players . it remains an open question whether this approach would lead to a sort of hobbesian state of suspicion and aggression , or whether new forms of creative association would arise through trial and error . players could also explore how different resources , such as the internet , help to sustain or impede these emerging forms of community . the experimental emergence , sustenance and transformation of a community would thus become the core subject and aim of the game . students would then write reports , keep research documents or conduct seminars based on their design experience , and perhaps modify their design ideas iteratively on the basis of successive runs of the game , leading to theoretical conclusions about the interpersonal process of community formation .
frasca , g . ( 2006 ) .
serious games and the japanese toilet
, serious game source . urltoken
dwight married his angela , kept his farm , and finally achieved his dream of becoming the regional manager of the scranton branch of dunder mifflin . in an uncharacteristic act of kindness , he fired both jim and pam , so they’d be able to get severance when they moved to austin to start their new lives .
a treat for soccer fans who have yet to see their favorite game given its due on the big screen . this won ' t be a classic soccer movie , but it ' s a start .
erin met her biological parents in the final episode of the office . they apologized for giving her up , and said it was the biggest mistake of their lives . also , they’re puppeteers . also , in a move of brilliant casting , they were played by ed begley , jr . and joan cusack .
the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .
the england - usa game wasn ' t attended by 30 , 000 spectators , but by a crowd of just over 10 , 000 .
it is odd that the history - making soccer game which this endearing film recounts , even with a few pardonable historical errors , has had so little attention in decades after 1950 , . . .
abacus : small enough to jail steve james in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis , the only u . s . bank accused of mortgage fraud was the family - owned abacus federal savings in manhattan’s chinatown . this stunning film chronicles the sungs’ legal battle as they fight to defend their business and their family name .
director : terrence malick , 2005 this visually stunning film is set amid the first encounter of english and indigenous north american cultures during the founding of the jamestown settlement in virginia in 1607 . a unique interpretation of the classic tale of pocahontas and her relationships with adventurer john smith and aristocrat john rolfe that take her from the untouched beauty of the north american wilderness to the center of high society in stuart england at the dawn of the british empire .
2 : the small boats : dunkirk is often romanticized as normal british civilians risking their lives and their boats to go to dunkirk . in actuality , the military confiscated many of the small boats , often against the will of their owners , and used them for the evacuation . they may have been civilian boats , but they were manned mainly by military personnel . the movie does a relatively good job of showing this . in the beginning , there are military officers making their way down a dock and taking boats , the main characters of the sea part of the story are civilians and manage to cast off just before the military men make it to their boat . however , when the small boats are shown again at the end of the movie they are almost all manned by civilians . . . . so the movie kind of undid itself there .
two licensed games based on the film were released in the same year ; peter jackson ' s king kong : the official game of the movie and kong : the 8th wonder of the world . the former is considered by many to be a rare modern example of a good movie tie - in game , with props going to the atmosphere , environments and kong gameplay . there ' s also the world of kong : a natural history of skull island , which delves into skull island ' s wildlife and features many creatures that don ' t appear in the film .
this episode had the largest budget and largest number of visual effects of any episode of game of thrones  until the end of the fourth season with the episode the watchers on the wall , which is the current most expensive episode . [ 4 ] [ 6 ]
salen , k . and zimmerman , e . ( 2004 ) rules of play : game design fundamentals . the mit press , cambridge and london .
may it last : a portrait of the avett brothers judd apatow , michael bonfiglio personal , rich , and from the soul , this film follows the equally soulful avett brothers as they record a new album , reflect on the creative process , and navigate strong ties while managing lives spent on the road .
the game of their lives
tells the story of an astonishing soccer match in 1950 , when an unsung team of americans went to brazil to compete in the world cup , and defeated england , the best team in the world . so extraordinary was the upset , i learn on the internet movie database , that
london bookmakers offered odds of 500 - 1 against such an preposterous event ,
and
the new york times refused to run the score when it was first reported , deeming it a hoax .
gray , brandon ( november 14 , 2005 ) .
zathura , derailed , 50 cent below chicken little in pecking order
. . box office mojo . retrieved on october 22 , 2009 .
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last men in aleppo feras fayyad urgent and harrowing , this film follows the white helmets’ unrelenting efforts to save fellow syrians . when air strikes devastate homes , they descend on the wreckage to rescue buried men , women , and children , refusing to leave their people or their city behind .
director : shyam benegal , 1979 set during the uprising of 1857 , this film focuses on three women of an anglo - indian family who take refuge from the rebels with a local moneylender to whom they have a substantial debt and who , thus , has a vested interest in their survival . when they are discovered , their lives are spared as the rebel leader , javed , wishes to make the youngest woman , ruth , his second wife . the plot is further complicated when british forces return seeking vengeance for the mutiny .
phantom limb jay rosenblatt this experimental fusion of found footage and home movies takes us through the grieving process the filmmaker , who lost his brother when he was just nine years old , was denied as a child . festival year : 2005
step amanda lipitz this inspiring film follows three members of the lethal ladies step - dance team at the baltimore leadership school for young women . with the support of their intrepid coach and an uncompromising counselor , they are determined to attend college .
director david anspaugh has a skilled touch , but there ' s just not that much drama to film . this is a very competent , very predictable sports film .
aestheticizes violence without fetishizing it . bullet holes and knife wounds help color the film in dark brushstrokes—such is the coens’ wont—and careful attention to shot composition ratchets the film’s morbid elements to almost intoxicating heights . you’ll want to look away , but the coens keep your eyes glued to their somber fatalism . —
the unlockable bonus ending of the video game , in which kong survives , due to jack and captain englehardt swooping in to save him in a bi - plane .
the way i look at you : 5 stories of driving school ( la bonne conduite : 5 histoires d’auto - école ) jean - stéphane bron this uniquely insightful film explores the relationships that develop between five pairs of swiss driving school instructors and their students ; in their obligatory interactions , complex personal stories are revealed . festival year : 2000
students are not human resources waiting to be engineered but players with a craving for experience . of course , this vision of serious gaming means that teachers should not only enlist game designers to implement a predefined set of goals . the act of designing games should be seen as an integral part of curriculum design . the teacher and the game designer would then collaborate in the development of the course content and teaching methods .
raptor attack : partially averted , since their hands accurately fold like wings , and their skin is more akin to that of a featherless bird than a scaly reptile , hinting they evolved from feathered ancestors and abandoned feathers .
director : stuart urban , 1992 this film portrays the days and hours before and during argentina ' s 1982 invasion of the falkland islands , a british dependency in the south atlantic . as argentine forces land on the eastern island and make their way towards the town of stanley , a detachment of royal marines prepares to defend the governor , his family , and their fellow islanders from the invaders . based on actual accounts ( though with some inaccuracies ) the film aired on british tv during the tenth anniversary of the falklands war .
trophy shaul schwarz , christina clusiau this revelatory and exquisitely photographed investigation into conservation practices and big game hunting invites nuanced scrutiny and debate .
director : phillip noyce , 2002 in 1905 the australian government authorized the forcible removal of aboriginal children from their mothers ' care and sent them hundreds of miles away to schools designed to stamp out their culture and train them for domestic service . this film tells the true story of three girls who in 1931 escaped and found their way home over a thousand miles of outback . these children were part of what have come to be known as the
stolen generations
and remains a dark chapter in australian and imperial history .
prior to reinventing filmic language with their playful genre experiments , the members of france’s new wave movement got their start as film critics . in fact , it was through their writings and discussions that the term “film noir” was first christened as a means of describing a certain breed of brooding postwar films . it’s not surprising then that louis malle—though not an official new wave member—would settle on a film noir - influenced project as his first feature film . acting both as an homage to noir as well as a subversion of its structure , elevator to the gallows stars jeanne moreau and maurice ronet as a pair of criminals whose plan to kill moreau’s husband quickly falls apart when the ronet character gets stuck in an elevator . this already absurd concept becomes all the more confounding when paired with the film’s unorthodox , experimental editing and somber , miles davis - performed jazz score . — m . r .
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…
and for years to come . yet in the film i ' m captain , and that ' s wrong . i know eddie ' s widow lives in east sussex and it is important she should know that an error has been made and eddie really was the captain against england .
the six other players who were part of the team that travelled to brazil , but didn ' t play in the game against england , namely goalkeeper gino gardassanich , robert annis , geoff coombes , robert craddock , nicholas diorio and adam wolanin , were omitted from the film .
walter bahr commented ,
i was captain for about 10 years including the 1950 world cup . but when we got to brazil the first game was against
and for years to come . yet in the film i ' m captain , and that ' s wrong . i know eddie ' s widow lives in east sussex , and it is important she should know that an error has been made and eddie really was the captain against england .
the smithsonian museum of the american indian film & media catalog provides information on films screened since 1995 at the national museum of the american indian in programs presenting indigenous media from north , central , and south america , the pacific region , and the arctic circle . the catalog includes information about productions , the mediamakers and actors who created them , and the film and media organizations that support their creation .
there is a core feature of playing that offers a huge potential for serious game designers . according to huizinga , the consciousness of play as a separate and self - contained sphere is often reinforced by the pervasive tendency to enclose the players within a spatiotemporal frame , the so - called
magic circle
, which isolates their game from the more serious tasks of daily living . the separation often consists in a literal physical precinct : a chessboard , ring , arena , field , stadium , stage , altar , etc . there are also sharp temporal boundaries , a clear beginning and an end , which clearly mark the game off as a temporary interruption of ordinary life . the game unfolds within a temporarily closed world . moreover , the existence of the magic circle is closely related to the existence of artificial rules or conventions that hold only within this enclosure . [ 4 ]
game designers might argue that some of these techniques undermine the very nature of play . how can a game remain a game when its boundaries are no longer clearly defined ? once again , i would recommend a careful study of the development of modern art . performance artists like kaprow rejected the presumption that there is a distinct sphere called
art
bound by necessary and sufficient conditions ; he organized his performances without any certainty as to whether what he was doing really was really art or not ( kaprow , 1993 ) . this gesture embraces conceptual uncertainty as a generative source . perhaps the next step for experimental designers working with digital technologies is to suspend their absolute commitment to some distinct sphere called
play
, or to some self - evidently distinct art form called
game design
, and begin designing frameworks for actions that may or may not be considered playful . this project demands a struggle against deep - rooted assumptions about what constitutes a proper game genre and game design method , and to cultivate an attitude of open - minded receptivity to the ambiguities , contingencies and potential risks of human play .
families now tell their life stories through homemade digital slideshows and also by photo collages made with domestic printers .
it was an ok film . expected more . but gerard butler played a good part .
scotsman ed mcilvenny was edited out of the captaincy he held in the match against england , because the producers of the film decided to give the position of captain to american - born walter bahr .
in both quality of filmmaking and cynicism of spirit . this film not only announced hanson as a filmmaker well beyond his previous work (
based on a true story , this film tells the tale of the 1950 u . s . soccer team , who , against all odds , beat england 1 - 0 in the city of belo horizonte , brazil . although no u . s . team has ever won a world cup title , this story is about the family traditions and passions which shaped the lives of the players who made up this team of underdogs .
impact : by the end of 2003 , 80 million camera phones had already been sold worldwide . the first 2 megapixel camera phone , nokia ' s n90 , arrived in 2005 , and in early 2007 the feature phone ' s progress peaked with nokia ' s 5mp n95 .
, the english coach , didn ' t want to change the team that had won against chile . matthews was in fact present in the stadium in belo horizonte during the game .
blackwater
is the ninth episode of the second season of game of thrones . it is the nineteenth episode of the series overall . it premiered on may 27 , 2012 . it was written by george r . r . martin and directed by neil marshall .
reveal shot : the film opens with a closeup of monkeys frolicking amid thick foliage . a glimpse of skull island ? nope , the central park zoo .
a thousand roads / a seven arrows / telenova production ; produced by scott garen and barry clark ; directed by chris eyre . [ washington , dc ] : national museum of the american indian , smithsonian institution , c2005 . 1 dvd videodisc ( 40 min . ) : sd . , col . ; 4 3 / 4 in . pn1995 . 9 . i48 t56 2005 videodvd : the lives of four native americans take a significant turn as they confront the crises that arise in a single day .
here is a link to the information on the premiere from the missouri film commision click here . thanks to brian for the link .
director : silvio narizzano , 1979 based on paul scott ' s booker prize - winning novel from 1977 , this film tells the story of retired colonel tusker smalley and his wife lucy who made the decision to
stay on
in india after the british withdrew in 1947 and as most of their friends returned home . now retired , tusker and lucy are the only remaining british residents in a once - busy hill station . problems arise when the indian owner of their bungalow plans to change the one corner of india in which they hoped to preserve their anglo - indian life .
and rutger hauer , as well as some of the most emotionally intense action set pieces ever put to film . moreover , a good portion of the film’s appeal lies in its incorporation of film noir aesthetics—shadow - filled , rainy metropolitan exteriors , a brooding yet resourceful investigator hero , retro ’40s fashion—into its dreary , dystopian setting . at one point , the film even boasted a philip marlowe - esque voiceover narration that was thankfully excised from future cuts . once regarded as a failed experiment ,
the first question for serious game designers in the field of education should always be : what aspects of the subject matter in question already exhibit ludic features ? and how can a game designer exploit and highlight these aspects ? the next section outlines some concrete examples that illustrate the point of view elaborated here . the examples pertain to the humanities , but there is no reason why the underlying philosophy could not in principle be applied to other academic disciplines .
by giving users full control over the handling of their photographs , polaroid cameras encouraged the production of more intimate and candid pictures as it was no longer necessary to put them into the hands of strangers for processing .
there is a documentary about the game available . it ' s called
more than a game
. the dvd is $ 19 . 99 and is available from storyville pictures . follow the link to their website ! i just got done watching it . it is a series of interviews that lets you get into the heart of soccer in 1950 . the players also expand on the
game
itself and let you know what they are thinking . i ' m thinking this is kind of the vh1
story within the story
without all the production glitz . it ' s not real smooth , but it gets the job done ! if you are a usa soccer fan and you want to know what the players were thinking , follow the link .
fullerton , t . , swain , c . , and hoffman , t . ( 2004 ) . game design workshop , cmp books , san francisco .
strong at the broken places : turning trauma into recovery margaret lazarus , renner wunderlich four individuals who survived unspeakable trauma in their youth tell their stories , and in doing so , make profound statements about inner strength and empowerment . festival year : 1999
director : shyam benegal , 2005 this film focuses on the final years in the life of subhas chandra bose , one of the most controversial figures in indian nationalism . a rising star in the freedom movement , bose fell out with gandhi and was pushed to the margins of congress politics . at the outbreak of war in 1939 , he fled to germany and later conspired with japanese forces to lead an army of indian soldiers against the british during the burma campaign . bose remains a hero to many indians , especially in his native bengal .
forty years before the blair witch project popularized the idea of a film being told from the camera’s perspective , actor / director robert montgomery gave this radical idea a spin with lady in the lake , his adaptation of one of raymond chandler’s philip marlowe detective stories . ultimately , the case proves to be minor marlowe and the first - person gimmick does eventually wear thin over the course of the film’s runtime . putting aside these reservations , however , the film is most certainly worth a watch if just to witness montgomery’s sheer audacity and inventiveness . it’s the textbook example of a film being ahead of its time . — m . r .
it was dabney and bushnell who created the spacewar ! - inspired computer space . computer space was the first commercial arcade game released by palo alto - based nutting associates in 1971 . the complicated game failed to catch on with the
guy with the beer in the bar ,
and nutting was ultimately disappointed with sales of computer space . in early 1972 bushnell and dabney left nutting to form their own company , syzygy engineering . their intention was to license their games to bigger companies , not make them on their own , and they quickly hired another young design engineer , al alcorn .
other people have said that computer space was a failure ,
bushnell says .
i personally felt that it was poorly marketed and could have done better . my first game out of the box made about three million dollars and the royalties from it really allowed me to start atari .
by the time syzygy was formed , bushnell was making what surely seemed like an unlikely prediction : video games would replace pinball . the first deal syzygy struck was to produce games for bally , one of the largest manufacturers of pinball in the world . when bushnell and dabney found out that the name syzygy was already taken , they incorporated in june of 1972 under the name atari , taking the name for a move in the 2 , 500 - year old chinese game go , a favorite of nolan’s .
t’s established in allen lore that the picture was originally a two - and - a - half - hour solipsistic ramble , with alvy and annie’s fling relegated to a subplot . but in the edit , their relationship was what brought the film to life , and the dead wood was mercilessly cut back . allen’s preferred name for the film he’d originally planned was anhedonia : a greek term for the inability to feel pleasure . there couldn’t have been a less appropriate title for the finished film .
plastic china jiu - liang wang at a recycling center in the chinese countryside , two families survive between seas of plastic bottles and wrappers shipped from the u . s . and other countries ; processing this waste has become their burden , and yet for their children , they dream of a better life .
the film was animated in - house at walt disney feature animation ' s main headquarters in burbank , california and released by walt disney pictures on november 4 , 2005 in disney digital 3 - d ( the first film to be released in this format ) along with the standard 2 - d version . it is disney ' s first fully computer animated film , as pixar ' s films were distributed but not produced by disney , and dinosaur ( 2000 ) was a combination of live - action and computer animation . it is also disney ' s second adaption of the fable of the same name , the first being a 1943 cartoon made during world war ii . [ 2 ]
one of the great noirs of all time and one of the great feel - bad movies of all time .
as a focal point of the classic film noir revival , the foundation serves as a conduit between film companies and repertory cinemas still eager to screen these films in 35mm . revenues generated by ticket sales encourage studios film archives to strike new prints of films that are at risk of disappearing from public view , either through neglect or scarcity . once these films sare unearthed and returned to circulation , the chances exponentially increase that they will be reissued on dvd , available in pristine , affordable form for future generations of film - lovers .
director : michael mann , 1992 this film is set during the seven years war in the frontier areas of new york west of the hudson river . while french and british forces and their indian allies fight for control over north america , the colonists struggle to defend their settlements and families . the plot follows
hawkeye
, a european settler raised by the dying tribe of mohicans , and his interactions with the british and indians . based loosely on the 1826 book by james fenimore cooper .
is a masterpiece . funny to think that american critics looked down their noses at the film at the time of its release . maybe they took offense at the inescapable scent of welles’ passion for rita hayworth , his wife at the time and his ex shortly after production wrapped . he captures her in close - up with a hungry , enraptured eye , the most coherent image in a film that’s built on logical incoherence .
the same story noted that by 1981 , bally had already stopped producing its blockbuster , space invaders , because nobody wanted it anymore : they’d moved onto the next big thing . the video game industry relied on novelty , and on games that challenged its players . one person could only pump so many quarters into a cabinet before he mastered the game and began to look around for the next challenge . many arcades , time writer john skow noted ,
keep one [ space invaders ] around as a gesture to the good old days .
game manufacturers responded to player mastery by making their new games harder , often cutting out the draw for mainstream players in the process .
s ome of the most enduring images of the british empire in the popular imagination have come from films . some of these films are of average quality and imperfect in their historical accuracy , but many are excellent and effectively recreate the environment and compelling issues that people living in different parts of the empire faced at various points in their history . and since films are the media through which much of the general public gain their impressions of the british empire , they are worthy of consideration by historians for that reason alone . below is a selection of films useful for complementing our study of the history of the british empire . most of these can be obtained at watzek library . you can also find many of them on netflix . in addition to this list , colonial film : moving images of the british empire holds detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the british colonies . over 150 films are available for viewing online .
director : peter weir , 1981 in 1915 , archy and frank meet at a sprinting competition in western australia and decide to join the australia and new zealand army corps ( the
anzacs
) . a few months later they land at gallipoli on the turkish coast and participate in one of the most disastrous british campaigns of the first world war . this is one of the best film portrayals of the horrors of war and the waste of young lives . it also gives insight into a distinctly anti - british sense of australian nationalism that arose after this war .
this film is also available on dvd entitled the miracle match . i purchased it as a gerald butler fan , and was bitterly disappointed tp find it was not a new film , just a repackaged version of the mitacle match which i already own .
lumpy the cook was originally a character from an early draft of the 1933 film , who was replaced by charlie in the finished production . lumpy did appear in the original film ' s novelization , which may be why jackson opted to include him alongside his friend choy .