rembetiko ( greek : ρεμπέτικο ) is a 1983 film directed by costas ferris and written by costas ferris and sotiria leonardou , with original music by stavros xarchakos .

the film is based on the life of rebetiko singer marika ninou .

rembetiko ( film )

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rembetiko : kaigomai - kaigomai - youtube a song scene from the 1983 movie
rembetiko
by costas ferris .
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this is a long film but it really succeeds in telling of the origin of rembetiko . the environments in which rembetiko arose are faithfully reproduced . the music too is authentic , i . e . , truly as rembetiko used to sound before it became appreciated by others .
rembetiko – wikipedia das rembetiko wird oft auch als der „griechische blues“ bezeichnet , weil die texte ähnlich wie im blues von den alltäglichen sorgen und erfahrungen der . . .
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, my most favorite greek film . read more at ; urltoken fabuloso flick , worth seeing / buying !
rembetiko is a 1983 film directed by costas ferris and written by costas ferris and sotiria leonardou , with original music by stavros xarchakos . st… | pinteres…
rembetiko is an excellent film , a classic which meets all expectations - excellence from its actors , authentic feel of story and background of true events .
rembetiko is a historical movie which shows what life was like for greeks in the early parts of the 20th century .
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it was in the early 80’s that a young director , costas ferris , decided to put together a film detailing the history of rembetiko . his basic idea was to centre his film on the life of legendary female rembetiko singer , marika ninou . in this way , through ninou’s life , alongside the lyrics of greek songwriter nikos gatsos , the viewer is presented with a unique and all - encompassing history of greece .
greeks from the mainland have now after almost a century , welcomed and celebrated the classic songs of what the era of rembetiko was the catalyst for .
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rebetiko - wikipedia , the free encyclopedia rebetiko , plural rebetika , occasionally transliterated as rembetiko , is a term used today to designate originally disparate kinds of urban greek folk music which have . . .
rembetiko ( 1983 ) - imdb directed by costas ferris . with sotiria leonardou , nikos kalogeropoulos , michalis maniatis , themis bazaka . the story of a group of rembetes , singers and musicians of . . .
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renowned greek director pantelis voulgaris shows his deeply humane and emotional touch in this elegant film , and perhaps his reputation was the reason this film caught the eye of martin scorsese , who became executive producer .
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rembetiko : music of the outsiders - part 2 - youtube music of the outsiders : rembetika . a documentary made in around 1988 . the program has english subtitles . george dalaras narrates in english . in this . . .
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the genuine feeling and historical accuracy of rembetiko managed to defy italian master bernardo bertolucci when he was quoted
the director must be crazy .
this film was booed more than any other film in the festival’s history on opening night . a week later but it received many awards at the close and the same people were applauding . director ferris comments on the fact that his film was received with much greater admiration in new york , geneva , barcelona and cairo than in his homeland . he believed it was a tendency for greece to show disdain towards its’ native artists .
i believe that this film is only for the people interesed by modern greece . other persons surely feels bored by it
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when you want to understand a culture , you should always find a way inside it . in new orleans , the blues provide an entire story in the space of a smoky , underground bar . in lisbon , go to alfama and you’ll hear the portuguese singing fados , accompanied by tears of passion . or listen to an amateur group of friends singing rembetiko together , gathered in a greek tavern in piraeus , the port of athens – a particular aspect of greek culture that rembetiko attempts to capture .
as costas ferris has said when asked about his film , and for the songs which greeks call rembetika : “the song that we call rembetiko , in this century of traumatized national pride of greeks is the strongest defence which our culture has made available . no other modern creation wakes , so directly and so automatically , the greek soul ; the rebel that every greek has inside”
considered to be one of the most powerful and emotional greek movies , rembetiko focuses on the life of an individual woman , a real person and through her personal story , it retells the story of greece , from 1920 to 1955 : the national disaster in asia minor , the one million refugees who came to greece , the world war ii , the nazi occupation , the civil war . the tragedy and the glory of a nation during the century . and all these bound with the music of rembetiko , the music of the outcasts . great direction , great performances , great music . a voyage to history of the first half of the 20th century , but also a voyage to the origins of rembetiko . realistic and dreamy . an original greek epic .
i see this film in greece , many years ago , and i wish to have it . i love the rebetika music
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by the way dogtooth was nominated for an oscar as best foreign film , it won un certain regard award at cannes , it won the dublin film critics award and several other awards , so this is not one of those under - the - radar films . you may wonder how it won those awards but after you find yourself thinking about the film for a few days you may understand .
accurate portrayal of greek rembetika with good acting and cast . musical score was excellent and the settings of the film interesting and realistic .
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in the island ( nissos ) , tragedy becomes opportunity , which then becomes dark comedy in director christopher dimas biting and hilarious film about human nature . the film is swamped with bravado performances by an ensemble cast that perfectly drives their own characters into a storm of controversy because they have no other gear but self - preservation and survival . greed , power , ambition and desire all play out with bristling energy in this film that has the honour of being the little greek film that beat out avatar at the national box office in greece that year .
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with his lowly budget , director michael cacoyannis trapped the power , drama , and scope of the uneasy days before the legendary trojan war . iphigenia soared through the cannes film festival and seamlessly ended up at the oscars of 1977 as a nominee for best foreign film from greece .
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wankstas , wiggers , and wannabes : hip - hop , film and white boyz in the hood .
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okra and quenelles : jazz and film - making ( as nourishment ) in tavernier ' s round midnight ( 1986 ) .
unlike most films that were shot within the greek film industry in the early sixties , phaedra ' s locales included paris , london , and of course the beautiful aegean island of hydra . this rare film exudes the exotic air of a film from a bygone era of hollywood , but in reality is a genuine classic in the vein of greek drama . ( the gfr would like to thank park circus in glasgow , scotland for working with us to ensure this special screening . )
what my eyes have yet to see was the last salvo for several years from a highly revered and commercially successful filmmaker . on opening night of the film , several ministers were troubled by how the political personalities were portrayed , and it took several years for marangos to launch another feature film . this is one of the rare films that the greek film retrospective hopes will continue its ' tradition of unearthing great little films that truly exhibited the talent of greece ' s past cinematic gems .
there has always been an irony in the great emigration of greece in the post - 1952 era . some say they had to go for their own personal survival . in rembetiko , it was all out sacrifice by the characters that live and die in this film for music and art . even their children were victims until success happened . it is a portrayal of an
all - or - nothing
thrust and most of the time there was nothing but a bitter road back home for these artists…
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iphigenia is a towering achievement of a film where ancient greek characters rage and love and die in their own language . this is a legendary film where high drama plays out with a sense of authenticity that has never been found in hollywood studio pictures , where usually most actors / characters speak in a british accent or are dubbed .
this is a 1991 italian film that won the academy award for best foreign language film in 1991 about a group of italian soldier garrisoned on the island of kastellorizo during world war two which was not a bad place to be during the war . if you want to see a film that will make you want to go to greece this may be it because the scenery is beautiful and the characters are memorable ( even though i don ' t remember them ) . one thing you may not know about this film , even if you are one of the many people who loves it , is that it was produced by silvio berlusconi . yes . that silvio berlusconi .
what makes this film a landmark is the seamless storytelling of fringe greeks that are living and dying , struggling and singing for their daily and nightly bread . it is a testament to the dispossessed of asia minor , their incredible fortitude in the growing slums of a world wide depression , and how they lost and found themselves and survived in a ravaged nation . whether you are a fan of the genre of greek blues or not , rembetiko possesses one of the most naked and painful montages recorded on film of modern greek history . through stock footage and brilliant song and lyric , director ferris crafted a film about his motherland and its’ inescapable reality of farming out its’ children to the diaspora . ( whether this is unfair or not , the truth is that greece lost ten percent of its’ children to the u . s . , canada , australia , germany , and beyond . )
in rembetiko , the director , much akin to a painter , uses these historical events — either by showing or suggesting them — to recreate a background of a social order that always seems to be on the edge of chaos and collapse . scenery , costumes , period piece trivia etc . are all well executed and are successful in recreating a realistic and believable visual context for the period . the viewer will have little difficulty in the area that movie analysts love to call “the suspension of disbelief” . the filmmaker tries to help the viewer to adopt real , genuine feelings . as a viewer you will drink , you will sing and you will dance zeibekiko ( the most appropriate dance for these songs ) . you will understand that rembetiko is not just a movie . it is a musical identity . and it is not just a musical identity when applied to a genre of songs , but the musical identity of a whole country . it is not the chronicle of a century , but a view from all centuries and in all centuries . rembetiko , put simply , is a summary of greek history .
brides is a poignant film brought to life with sincere performances and honest writing . it is an honour for the gfr to screen a film of this caliber , as we feel certain the audience on the danforth this summer will be moved by this heartbreaking story . we truly hope to be able to show more of voulgaris ' classics in the coming years .
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at last , her fame may spread beyond the boundaries of greece - - or so it seems . sotiria leonardou won the prize for best actress at the 1983 thessaloniki film festival , for her portrayal of ninou , and the film itself tied for best picture , and won three other awards as well ( two best supporting actor prizes , and one for music ) .
inspired by the italian film carosello napoletano by ettore giannini , director costas ferris began collecting 78’s , an ancient version of vinyl records in his research of his epic film . ferris might indeed have the longest research period in motion picture history . his journey was launched in 1957 and the historical accuracy and measures ferris undertook all paid off when the dust settled after 1983 .
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my first experience of this film was its soundtrack , which my dad had on tape , and had played every now and then . fantastic soundtrack , xarchakos is a genius . the music in this film captures the mood of the real rebetiko perfectly , but unfortunately i have to say that after hearing this soundtrack , i really did expect a lot more than i saw in the film itself . some of the acting was ok , including leonardou ' s , but much of the filming and editing was heavy handed ; the over - saturated colour of the film was also too much for me , and the german occupation either had too much focus for its ultimate importance , or was not developed enough to have the importance that might have been intended . the reason that i haven ' t totally scrapped this film is for a few reasons . even though the film is not as smoothly cohesive as it could have been , and was a bit inconsistent , there were some very well produced
moments
; individual parts of the film where everything worked perfectly ( probably my favorite part was the final scene . in my opinion , this is the only part of the film which really cooperated with the soundtrack . i got chills down my spine ) . another thing is that the actors playing smaller characters dd a better job of acting than the protagonist , for example , the old man who dances the slow zeibekiko ( and by the way pja , it ' s zeibekiko , not zeibetiko . )
a good introduction to this special form of music , beautiful , moving and interesting with lots av music . very dramatic . you don ' t have to love rembetika to love this film !
the history underpinning this film is the one that makes this film really unique . it is very hard for this film to be translated and make it understandable by the majority of people that can ' t speak greek and may not feel the story . the story begins around 1920 in the coastal area of ( now days ) turkey . between the war most of the greeks owned this area , however most of them were killed ( not as soldiers but as unarmed people ) and all the others were sent to greece were they had to start their life from zero . the passion and the lyrics of the music as well is what makes this film one of the best in greece . rempetiko is this kind of music that was carried in main greece by them .
a short film about a teenage boy with musical ability who wants to enter a talent competition his teacher has suggested to him , but his mother isn ' t interested and he faces numerous problems at school .
( this is a film for adults . there are no explicit scenes of sex or violence , but the themes and suggestions are for 18 and over . we expect that this message is clear to our audience to not make this a family outing . 18 and over . we have scheduled this film for a 9 : 30 slot for a reason and we intend on standing by it . in greece it might not have had this regulation . in toronto , canada , it will . do not bring young kids or adolescents to this screening . please respect this very forward message from the greek film retrospective of toronto and thank you . )
this is my favorite greek film . it is a history of the greek urban blues told in the form of a story about a singer named marika , ( based on marika ninou ) and her sometime lover composer babis , ( whose character is based on vassilis tsitsanis , greece ' s greatest musical composer who wrote over 2000 songs on subjects like love , betrayal , prison , the occupation drugs and the life of the refugees ) . the film begins in asia minor and follows marika to athens , thessaloniki and america and features a fantastic soundtrack by xarhakos . the film was made by kostas ferris . i still cry when i see it .
this is a lavish film that was fittingly nominated for best costume design at the 1963 oscar awards and best actress in a foreign film for the golden globes . dassin artfully portrays the elite shipping families with their yachts and high fashion attire , and of course their decadent affairs with dead - on precision . ( some have suggested obvious parallels of the real - life marriages involving the onassis and niarchos shipping clans of the era . )
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this is a largely forgotten film , as american audiences could not get past anthony perkins ' unforgettable role in alfred hitchcock ' s psycho . when perkins became norman bates he secured his place in film history in one of the most frightening thrillers of all time . fifty - two years later , it is a complete revelation to see what an excellent actor perkins was as he portrays the virile yet cerebral son of a greek tycoon who gets caught in an inescapable trap of lust .
using a short film of workers returning to work in the saint ouen wonder factory after the general strike of 1968 as a starting point , le roux obsessively tracks down the individuals involved . his furtive documentation provides an intriguing filmic platform for retrospection .
directe by tex avery . animated short . don ' t be fooled by the title - droopy looks like droopy , but he ' s actually jazzman john pettibone , with his performing flea combo , and the film shows how it came into being .
fred and vinnie is a special presentation of the greek film retrospective of toronto this year . after a decade of returning back to toronto support greek - canadian events , the gfr is honoured with being able to screen the canadian gala of his dark comedy .
this 1955 greek film is a retelling of carmen directed by michael cacoyannis and written by cacoyannis and iakovos kambanelis . the music was composed by manos hadjidakis and vassilis tsitsanis . this is another movie with melina mercouri and while this time she is not a prostitute as in never on sunday , she is a woman rembetika singer who refuses to settle down with one man . unlike never on sunday it is more of a tragedy than a comedy . it has some amazing views of 1950 ' s athens . it was originally panned by greek critics but is now considered a classic which i suppose reflects badly upon greek film critics . it is in greek and you can find a copy with english subtitles in the world classic cinema series along with the girl in black , another early cacoyannis film . .
beautiful film and the music was very moving . this is a great film for people who want to delve deeper in to greek culture . the many actresses that played marika were very well chosen . hats off to ferris who wrote such a story . the scenery in the film really helped give an idea about the slums . i wish the subtitles were a bit better because i noticed there was more going on and not enough being translated . it is amazing how the blues genre of the world is the same in soul but different in sound . i would have loved a bit more history on asia minor . the music at the lemon market is my favourite in the beginning . this story is not about the famous greek singer although a lot of similarities do exist but amazing movie nonetheless .
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last days ( 2005 ) directed by gus van sant . cast : michael pitt , lukas haas , asia argento , scott green , nicole vicius , ricky jay , ryan orion , harmony korine , kim gordon . this film is inspired by the final hours of kurt cobain . blake is a brilliant but troubled musician whose success has left him in a lonely place . the film follows blake through a handful of hours spent in his wooded home . . . a fugitive from his own life . 97 min . dvd 5973 credits and other information from the internet movie database
this subtitled greek film is about a group of young disillusioned athenians who commit crimes just for the hell of it who attract the attention of the police and features a sam peckinpah wild bunch ending that embraces the philosophy that if you don ' t like the game you destroy the board so nobody can play . i saw this at the hellenic film festival in berkeley , california by myself because my two greek - american friends i was visiting were much happier smoking pot and watching jeapardy , which actually is a pretty typical situation for me . i can never get my greek - american friends to watch greek movies with me because they refuse to believe that a greek movie could be any good . the irony in this situation that the favorite movie of these two happened to be the wild bunch and had they gone to see glyka symoria they may have been hooked on greek film for life .
this 1963 american film , directed , produced and written by elia kazan , from his own book , had an effect on me before i ever saw it . when i was about eight years old my father told me about the film , i suppose because it told the story of his own father and the hardships he and many other immigrants faced when they left greece to come to america , though in the case of the film the guy was leaving asia minor , ( though he was greek ) . i remember being so inspired by the story that i turned our garage into a theater , the garage door was the curtain , and the audience ; the neighborhood children , sat outside while the performers ; my brother and sister and our closest friends , were in the garage which was the stage . i starred and directed in my own eight year old version of america , america . there was no script , just a vague plot and me telling everyone what to say and do . though it was a step up from lip synching beatles songs while playing tennis rackets it was the last play i ever directed and except for a small role in an elementary school play , as the march wind ( where i ran roaring across the stage dressed as a lion ) , it was the end of my acting career as well . so since my version of america , america is lost forever the next best thing may be to see the elia kazan film since after all it was nominated for best film and best director at the 38th acadamy awards .
i was very pleased to find ' rembetiko ' on dvd after so many years ! back then , it only was on for a short time at my local cinema / art - house ( rotterdam , holland ) / right after , i was * very * impressed and checked for another view , but it was the very last one performance , alas . since then , this movie became some sort of a myth in my memory . after seeing the film after almost 25 years it feels very different . . . ( now i ' m older i know more in what way greece also suffered during wwii / and their drama is still not very well known in europe , they kept the horror more quiet , imo ) . so this knowledge was an extra for me in 2007 . therefore i disagree with the former poster
dionysianartist
, the emphasis on the nazi - period gives the movie a wonderful twist . perhaps this way , it also returns the feeling to the true blues of 1920 ' s rembetica . my dvd came with these subtitles ; * greek * english * french * spanish * italian * german * turkish ( no further extra ' s ) . check it out ; great film , with much of the greek sphere and feelings involved . john .
humoresque ( 1947 ) directed by jean negulesco . cast : joan crawford , john garfield , oscar levant , j . carrol naish . a glamorous but alcoholic socialite , trapped in a marriage to an older man , finds herself falling in love with a young violinist ( garfield ) from the lower east side whose performance she is underwriting . lester friedman , in his
hollywood ' s image of the jew
( ny : ungar , 1982 ) , p . 36 ) calls the film the
quintessential ghetto film .
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i can hear the film critics howling but this was a terrific film about a very smart dog that has had a micro - chip planted on him by terrorists who escapes into 1970 ' s athens where he has numerous adventures including making friends with one of the stray dogs in the agora . there are few films in english which show athens as well as this one does as benji makes his way from the plaka and monastiraki all the way to the kypseli market on fokionos negri trying to reunite with his family while secret agents pursue him with dobbermans and guns . an entertaining film that will keep you on the edge of your seat up to the thrilling finale at the caravel hotel . some say this was benji ' s best movie ever and that its failure at the box office sent america ' s most loveable dog on the sad tail - spin that led to his well documented drug addiction , his affair with lindsay lohan , and his eventual death .
the man i love ( 1947 ) directed by raoul walsh . cast : ida lupino , robert alda , andrea king , martha vickers , bruce ( herman brix ) bennett , alan hale , dolores moran , john ridgely , don mcguire , warren douglas , craig . a nightclub singer who falls for a no - good mobster and a moody piano genius becomes dangerously involved with her brother ' s descent into crime . this film inspired scorsese ' s film titled new york , new york . from the novel night shift by maritta wolf . 90 min . dvd x4501 ; vhs 999 : 2869 credits and other information from the internet movie database
a tedious journey with harvey kietel as he searches for the roots of balkan film . like all of theo angelopoulos ' films that i have seen , this one also substitutes speeches and poetry for dialogue and tarries a bit too long to wring meaning out of each shot which turns twenty minutes of plot into three hour marathons of what for anyone but the most devoted film students could be described as unbelievably boring . but they say he is a genius so i keep watching in the hopes i will someday get it . one interesting thing is that the movie used the town of lavrion as a stand - in for war torn sarajevo snce they could not film there because the war was still going on . other films by angelopoulos are landscapes in the mist , the traveling players , and eternity and a day all the kind of movies that make you feel like getting up and doing something important like washing the dishes . you should read my review of weeping meadows too .
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night and day ( 1946 ) directed by michael curtiz . cast : cary grant , alexis smith , monty woolley , ginny simms , jane wyman . a musical film presenting a fictionalized biography of composer cole porter from his days at yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s . the film ' s attempted biography matches many public myths surrounding cole at the time . special features : vintage shorts desi arnaz and his orchestra and musical movieland ; bugs bunny and elmer fudd in the classic looney tunes cartoon the big snooze ; cole porter musicals trailer gallery . 128 min . dvd 8216 credits and other information from the internet movie database
cazuza - o tempo não pára ( brazil , 2004 ) directed by walter carvalho and sandra werneck . cast : daniel de oliveira , marieta severo , reginaldo farias , emílio de mello , andráa beltrão , leandra leal , andré gonçalves , cadu favero . the life and times of cazuza , brazilian singer / poet / enfant terrible , from his start with rock group
barão vermelho
, to his death from aids in 1990 . the film follows his life through his career , love affairs , and involvement with drugs . presented at the international latino film festival held in the san francisco bay area . 96 min . dvd x3638 credits and other information from the internet movie database
peking opera blues ( tao ma tan ) ( hong kong , 1986 ) director , tsui hark . set against the elegant backdrop of chinese opera in china ' s warlord period in 1913 , the film focuses on three young women who become entangled with revolutionary guerillas . 102 min . dvd 868 credits and other information from the internet movie database
directed by fritz lehner . presents 2 versions of the film directed by fritz lehner of the last days of the composer franz schubert . udo samel plays franz schubert in these film biographies that present a grim look at the darker side of the legendary composer . schubert is released from a hospital - asylum after being treated for a sexually transmitted disease . after visiting his strict father , he goes to live with his wealthy friend schober . franz is followed by kajetan , the crippled beggar he befriended during his hospital stay . in german without subtitles . version 1 : notturno : love has lied ( 100 min . ) - - version 2 : notturno : winterjourney ( 131 min . )
i wanted to know the evolution of modern greek music - from turkish music influenced
rembetiko
of the early 1920s to modern greek
laika
of the 1970s . the dvd covered all the
catastropes
of modern greek history from independence , dictatorships , misadventure in turkey in 1920s , italian and german occupation , to post wwii
civil war
to 1950s and the evolution of modern greek music . beautifully done , great music , orchestration and singing . excellent merger of old newsreel excerpts and
period
costumes and cinematic themes . i would have liked a playlist with original songs and singers . inclusion of the contributions of great bouzouki artists like tsitsanis and zambetas would have enhanced the presentation . very enjoyable experience
great movie that came out in 1988 , based on the novel by barry unsworth and written and directed by james deardon . the film stars ben kingsley and helen mirren about the theft of an ancient statue on the fictional island of nisi and is filmed on simi . kingsley plays a spy of the ottomans who has been living on the island for the last 20 years . charles dance plays a british archaeologist who visits the island who may not be what he seems . when this came out it was the favorite movie of almost everyone i knew , whether they had been to greece or not and was entered in the cannes film festival . now you don ' t hear many people talking about it . find it and watch it anyway .
in the early seventies we used to joke about greek films ( before ever having seen one ) , that to make a successful greek comedy you need several things : a fat woman in a mini - skirt , a man in ladies clothing , a cross - eyed guy who yelled all the time , and a scene in a bouzouki joint . that is because all we knew of greek movies were the ads in front of the theater that all seemed to show these same things . greek comedies seemed like jerry lewis on acid . regardless , it was not until i left greece and was nostalgic for it that i began to go to the greek film festivals that were being held on any campus with a large enough greek community to support one . films like rembetiko , stella , glyka symoria , and others opened my eyes to greece in a way that being an american and living within the american community couldn ' t . greek movies helped me find the greek in my greek - american - ness . i have complied a list of films and a description of not only greek films but also foreign films which take place in greece which will be helpful for anyone needing a greek - fix or inspiration .
lady sings the blues ( 1972 ) director , sidney j . furie . cast : diana ross , billy dee williams , richard pryor , paul hampton . presents a film biography of the life of billie holliday , the performer known as
lady day
, one of america ' s most loved and memorable blues singers . 144 min . dvd 4819 credits and other information from the internet movie database
this 1960 film made melina mercouri almost a household name in america and an icon in greece . it is about a prostitute who lives a life of free - spirited bliss and the american who tries to ' civilize ' her and make her miserable like him . just as in rembetika and zorba , never on sunday is also aided by a great soundtrack , this by manos hadzidakis and the song children of pireaus is the most recognized piece of greek music after the zorba dance , and only because that song is played at every baseball game in america . the american in the film is played by jules dassin who directed it as well . this is also in black and white and creates a nostalgia in me of a greece i barely glimpsed before it was swept away by western culture . it won the academy award for best song ( manos hadjidakis for
never on sunday
) . it was nominated for the academy awards for best actress in a leading role ( melina mercouri ) , best costume design , black - and - white , best director ( jules dassin ) and best writing , story and screenplay as written directly for the screen ( dassin ) . mercouri won the award for best actress at the 1960 cannes film festival .
dananir ( dananeer ) ( egypt , 1955 ) directed by ahmed badrakhan . set during the time of the arabian nights around the singer dananeer who has a divine voice who ' s taken from the simple bedouin desert life to the decadence and intrigues of the palaces . the songs performed in this film are regarded by critics as one of the highlights in her singing career . dvd . 90 min . dvd 4778 credits and other information from the internet movie database
i love the film , it is a must see greek classic . however , the quality of the dvd is very , vert poor . resolution of the image is very low , subtitle letters are irregular and not aliased . and worst of all and most annoying , the sound is about a half second out of sync with the picture . that is just carelessness on the part of the manufacturer . expected much more from facets video and a
deluxe edition .
waltzes from vienna ( aka strauss ' great waltz ) ( uk , 1934 ) directed by alfred hitchcock . cast : jessie matthews , edmund gwenn , fay compton . the story of johann strauss the elder and younger . the crux of the film is the intense rivalry between the two strausses , which is somehow resolved by the inaugural performance of joseph junior ' s
the blue danube .
78 min . dvd x6409 credits and other information from the internet movie database
in this funny and scathing film , the brazenly talented dimas actually spends the same amount of time giving the noble and long - suffering greek roles almost the same screen time they deserve . he does this even though what steals the show is the unfortunate portrayal of the four main characters that are bound for glory and riches . these may seem stereotypes at first glance , but in 2012 , the island is proof that sometimes clichés are eerily close to what we fear .
fantasia ( walt disney pictures , 1940 ) directed by james algar samuel armstrong , et al . this extraordinary blend of magnificent music and classic disney animation is an exhilarating sight and sound experience that has emerged as a milestone in the history of motion pictures . featuring a host of unforgettable images , including mickey mouse as the sorcerer ' s apprentice , fantasia has captivated generations of moviegoers all over the world . restored version of the original full - length film released in 1940 .
orchestra rehearsal ( prova d ' orchestra ) ( italy / west germany , 1979 ) directed by federico fellini . cast : balduin baas , clara colosimo , elisabeth labi , ronaldo bonacchi . a controversial yet comical film , it depicts the turmoil of italian society through events that take place during a rehearsal gathering set in a 13th century chapel , as musicians rebel against their conductor . 72 min . dvd 5984 ; vhs 999 : 2576 credits and other information from the internet movie database
the doors ( 1992 ) director , oliver stone . cast : val kilmer , meg ryan , kevin dillon , kyle maclachlan , frank whaley , michael madsen , billy idol , kathleen quinlan . biographical film about one of the most exciting and controversial figures of the ' 60s , jim morrison . with his rock and roll band , the doors , he influenced the rock music scene as no other group had . 181 min . dvd 770 credits and other information from the internet movie database
200 motels ( 1971 ) directed by frank zappa . cast : the mothers of invention , theodore bikel , ringo starr , keith moon , jimmy carl black , martin lickert . a psychedelic precursor to music videos , in which the mothers of invention , a touring musical group , wreak havoc in centerville , a stereotypical american town . the first color movie made on videotape and then transferred to film , it includes many visual effects . 99 min . dvd x3138 credits and other information from the internet movie database
aria ( 1987 ) ten directors : robert altman , bruce beresford , bill bryden , jean - luc godard , derek jarman , franc roddam , nicholas roeg , ken russell , charles sturridge , julien temple . cast : bridget fonda , elizabeth hurley , theresa russell , john hurt , buck henry , beverly d ' angelo , anita morris . ten of the world ' s best - known filmmakers contributed to this compilation film , each fashioning a short film inspired by an aria from a famous opera . the approaches vary broadly , from the playful abstraction of jean - luc godard ' s segment , which illustrated armide with exercising body - builders , to the more literal approach of franc roddam , who transports tristan and isolde ' s story to modern - day las vegas . a particular stand - out is julian temple ' s take on rigoletto , which recasts verdi as the accompaniment to a contemporary southern california sex farce . arias sung in italian , french and german . 88 min . dvd 3310 credits and other information from the internet movie database
they made such a big deal about the making of this war movie movie in 2001 it seems amazing that it could have been such a dud . nice scenery and it somewhat follows the script of louis de benieres book , which is more worth reading than the movie is worth seeing . but if you want a greece fix and you can tolerate nicholas cage in probably the worst role of his career ( maybe ) then it is worth watching , at least according to my wife . i saw half of it in the theater and i refuse to watch it again until they remake it , which someone should do , hopefully before i die . enough time has passed hasn ' t it ? the movie takes place on the beautiful island of kefalonia and you can visit many of the places they filmed and hear stories from the locals on the making of the film which by now has turned into greek island folklore and will probably be passed down from one generation to the next . perhaps 500 years from now people will look more kindly on this film .
the jazz singer ( 1927 ) directed by alan crosland . cast : al jolson , may mcavoy , warner oland , william demarest , eugenie besserer , otto lederer , josef rosenblatt . a melodramatic story of a jewish cantor ' s son ( al jolson ) who aspires to be a jazz singer despite his father ' s objection and religious tradition . in motion picture history , this marks the first feature film to utilize synchronous sound . 89 min . dvd 8594 ; vhs 999 : 790 credits and other information from the internet movie database
bound for glory ( 1999 ) directed by hal ashby . cast : david carradine , ronny cox , melinda dillon , gail strickland , randy quaid . set against the grim backdrop of depression america , this film joyously celebrates the life of woody guthrie , america ' s great folk balladeer and poet . as he traveled across america his buoyant spirit and soul - rousing music surrounded him with a quiet strength enabling him to do battle with the social injustice which surrounded him . 149 min . dvd x1038 credits and other information from the internet movie database
song o ' my heart ( 2004 ) directed by frank borzage . cast : john mccormack , alice joyce , maureen o ' sullivan , john garrick , tommy clifford . a film made as a showcase for the voice of irish tenor , john mccormack . a fictional irish singer leaves behind success in new york to return to ireland to care for the children of his recently deceased childhood sweetheart . full sound version ( 87 min . ) - - music and effects version ( 90 min . ) dvd x722 credits and other information from the internet movie database
this award - winning 1989 british romantic comedy - drama film staring pauline collins and tom conti is based on willy russell ' s 1986 one - character play of the same title . it has inspired several thousand middle - aged british housewives to leave their boring husbands and run away to greece in search of love in the form of a greek fisherman or waiter . worth seeing especially if you are a middle - aged housewife bored with your husband who wants to run away to greece in search of love and have an attraction to greek fishermen and waiters , which i guess is just about every housewife in britain and the usa . the funny thing is that i know a lot of women who did exactly what the woman in shirley valentine did , and stayed in greece , and never went back to their husbands and used my website to do it . the success of the film and the play created a cottage industry and who knows what else ? a lot of happy waiters and fishermen . they say the movie is based on a real life person in molyvos whose daughter owns the captain ' s table restaurant .


hell and back again is a 2011 american-british-afghan documentary film produced , shot , and directed by danfung dennis , about a sergeant in the united states marines corps who returns from the afghanistan conflict with a badly broken leg and post-traumatic stress disorder .

on january 24 , 2012 , the film was announced as one of the five nominees for the academy award for best documentary feature .

hell and back again

highlights from hell and back again screening with sgt . nathan harris and ashley harris
film review : hell and back again ( 2 . 5 stars ) | national post
hell and back again is currently in post - production and will be released next year .
hell and back again offers a potent documentary correlative to the narrative of the hurt locker .
hell and back again opens aug . 24 at the bloor hot docs cinema in toronto .
a scene from the documentary
hell and back again ,
directed by danfung dennis .
hell and back again is released in the us on 5 october and the uk on 12 october .
“hell and back again” opens oct . 5 at film forum for a two - week run .
nathan harris , a marine , on the battlefield in the documentary “hell and back again . ’’
in a scene from “hell and back again , ’’ marines carry a wounded comrade in afghanistan .
nathan harris is kissed by his wife in hell and back again : ' painful and deeply moving ' .
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hell and back again opens for a limited one - week run at the landmark ken cinemas on november 4 , 2011 .
demon slaying : constantine hunts down demonic halfbreeds and sends them back to hell .
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originally published in the director interviews section on oct . 6 , 2011 . hell and back again is nominated for best documentary .
in its closing scenes ,
hell and back again
builds to an emotional and stylistic power that we didn ' t see coming .
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the innovative way this photojournalist turned filmmaker uses sound , makes
hell and back again
stand out , as noah nelson reports .
antichrist - which is called back to hell via a personal appearance by satan .
hell and back again was produced by roast beef productions limited in association with impact partners , channel 4 britdoc foundation , sabotage films , and thought engine .
hell and back again has its los angeles premiere this friday ( october 14 , 2011 ) at laemmle’s monica 4 - plex . its run at new york city’s film forum continues through tuesday ( october 18 , 2011 ) . visit the hell and back again official site for more upcoming screenings .
fiona otoway , tfm ’14 , was the film editor for hell and back again , which was nominated in 2012 in the best documentary feature category .
an unprecedented exploration of the moving image and a film of uncommon intimacy , hell and back again comes full circle as it lays bare the true cost of war .
sgt harris ' struggle to make the transition from the battlefield to the home front is the subject of an award - winning documentary , hell and back again .
half startlingly raw war documentary and half intimate portrait of a man in physical and spiritual agony , hell and back again has been nominated for the 2012 academy award for best documentary feature .
one of the main themes of hell and back again is how veterans explain the extraordinary , life - changing experience of combat to their loved ones when they return home .
see you in hell : the
go to hell
version , when talking to the demonic halfbreeds .
‘hell & back again’ is a 2012 academy award nominee for best documentary feature . it also won the grand jury prize and the cinematography prize at the 2011 sundance film festival .
jumping forward 23 years later , players are being reintroduced to the bfg , chainsaw , monstrous demons , and hellish world of… well… hell once again with doom . while giving tons of nods and sly winks to what has come from the franchise before ( even by including playable levels from the original games ) , 2016’s doom is more or less a complete reboot that will have you fighting your way through hell and back again…and maybe back again for more .
artistic reach meets hypnotic intimacy in danfung dennis ' vital war documentary ' hell and back again ' . . . a full - circle portrait of rare psychological immediacy and even rarer aesthetic command . ”
what does it mean to lead men in war ? what does it mean to come home ? hell and back again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and . . .
hell and back again is a pretty average documentary that is beautifully shot , uniquely edited , but should ' ve delved into the psychological state of mind of sgt . nathan harris instead of focusing on merely the physical struggles he faces in getting back into shape and fit for combat once more . the emotional connection could definitely been stronger and more involving . hell and back again features unique cinematography and editing , but is a generic , if slightly better than average documentary .
to hell and back : constantine is such an expert at doing this , he even teaches angela to do it once .
technical gear demo ( sd ; 5 : 46 ) is a really interesting featurette narrated by director danfung dennis , where he describes the cameras and auxiliary equipment he used to film hell and back again .
hell and back again is the latest in a series of critically lauded documentaries to combine visceral footage from the afghan front line with a deeper exploration of the lasting impact of war on its participants .
hell and back again tells just one of these stories . with thousands of troops returning home from overseas bearing the physical , emotional , and psychological wounds of war , it’s one we all have an obligation to see .
slain : back from hell is available now for ps vita , playstation 4 ( with cross buy ) , xbox one and pc .
fire and brimstone hell : when john journeys there to see if isabel is there or not , much of hell was burn and devoid of any water .
is the title “hell and back again” or “battle for hearts and minds” ? the latter would be a tad derivative . that said , i’m really jealous of that guy . i’d love to have a good setup and be in the shit .
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the finished film cuts between footage captured at war and later at harris’ home to get inside the ex - marine’s head . dennis met up with indiewire in the u . k . earlier this year , where “hell and back again” screened at the sheffiled doc / fest , to talk about how his first film came about and why harris agreed to let the filmmaker into his life . [ “hell and back again” opened at new york’s film forum on october 5 . ]
you’ll spend much of war photographer danfung dennis’s oscar - nominated doc hell and back again wondering just how he got such intimate afghanistan battlefield footage of the marine battalion led by 25 - year - old sgt . nathan harris .
music & sound design by j . ralph , original song
hell and back
music & lyrics by j . ralph performed by willie nelson
danfung dennis is a photojournalist whose work has appeared in the new york times , time and newsweek , to name a few . with hell and back again , a documentary that follows a marine sergeant from combat in afghanistan to his transition back to north carolina , dennis makes his debut as a filmmaker .
weaving together scenes from the war and the home front , danfung dennis’ film , “hell and back again , ” won a top award at the sundance film festival , received an academy award nomination , and airs tonight on the pbs series “independent lens . ”
new video group and docurama films will release on blu - ray photographer and filmmaker danfung dennis ' documentary film hell and back again ( 2011 ) . earlier this year , the film won the sundance film festival grand jury prize and best cinematography awards . street . . .
a soldier ' s story set to gunfire in ' hell and back ' the documentary hell and back again was a standout at sundance , and it hits theaters this week . it follows marine sgt . nathan harris from afghanistan back home to north carolina . director danfung dennis made an unusual choice for this film : no musical score . instead , he uses sounds gathered on the battlefield and manipulates them to highlight the emotion of the story . noah nelson of turnstyle news reports .
archangel gabriel is a traitor to heaven , and planning on unleashing hell on earth .
“entertaining as hell and better than any other documentary series around . ” — television week
fantasy keepsake : after his first visit to hell to find isabel , constantine brings back her hospital wrist tag to prove she was there .
harris’s goal — amazingly — is to heal so he can go back and get away from what has become a stressful hell to him : american life .
dangfung dennis’ stirring documentary hell and back again is a direct rebuttal to this approach , fusing together its boots - on - the - ground perspective with the difficult realities of post - war life as something forever linked by the unflinching power of memory and trauma .
a tour de force . . . hell and back again stacks one astonishing shot atop the next : perfectly composed tracking sequences in the heat of battle ; saturated moody low - light compositions in rainy north carolina parking lots ; gorgeous rich soundscapes . ”
the emotional intensity of sergeant harris’s story is underscored by the film’s relentless cutting back and forth between scenes of the marine fighting in afghanistan and his struggles stateside . that mirroring is masterfully achieved by mr . dennis’s editor fiona otway , who also edited james longley’s wonderful “ iraq in fragments . ” her eye and pacing are crucial to “hell and back again” as well .
and succeeds by killing himself again but this time as a heroic sacrifice . however , satan is a sore loser and saves him from dying , banking on the likelihood that john will manage to damn himself again .
danfung dennis directed and filmed his first feature - length documentary on the war in afghanistan , hell and back again and is the founder of an immersive video startup condition one . his background is in applied economics and business management . before working as a photojournalist and filmmaker , he consulted small and medium - sized enterprises in uganda and south africa .
the trailer above is for danfung’s first feature documentary , which now has a new title , hell and back again . it was wonderful to see him mentioned on indiewire’s list , as he is truly a talent that deserves recognition and is without a doubt someone to watch .
on tuesday , may 30 , we hosted a one - time live online screening of hell and back again with the subject of the film , sgt . nathan harris and his wife ashley present to take questions . we were so moved by the experience , . . .
amenadiel saying that demons are escaping from hell gives me hope that there are going to be some cases related to supernatural . i think amenadiel is more evil than lucifer and god is contemplating the possibility to make him the new hell ' s lord , and that is why he is so eager to force lucifer to come back to hell .
by focusing on one us marine ' s journey to hell and back again , he says he hopes to shake viewers from their apathy towards complex events in distant lands - and show that for some veterans , their tour of duty does not end when they finally come home .
in the summer of 2009 , marines pushed hard against the taliban , hoping to attain the helmand province . news photographer danfung dennis shot video , capturing the combat life and the stress of one marine’s difficult readjustment into home life . jeffrey brown and dennis discuss dennis’ film “hell and back again . ”
neither you , nor the coeditors you shared it with will be able to recover it again .
i told you that and you just — once again , you don’t listen to a thing i ever say .
what does it mean to lead men in war ? what does it mean to come home - injured physically and psychologically - and build a life anew ? hell and back again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in afghanistan has been able to achieve .
nelson : what ' s underneath this documentary is almost an inversion of a traditional film score .
hell and back again ' s
unusual sound design , rooted in the reality of battle , brings the audience deep inside the story of a wounded marine returned home .
how will it play ? opening today at film forum , “hell and back again” should do well as a result of strong reviews and word - of - mouth that promises an apolitical documentary about the war in afghanistan , which should also help it play in more specific markets around the country .
nelson : there is no music added to
hell and back again .
dennis and sound designer j . ralph reworked audio gathered on the battlefield in afghanistan to underscore the film . this is used to tell the story of wounded marine sergeant nathan harris , who back at home in north carolina , suffers from flashbacks . dennis says those flashbacks often start with sound .
sgt . nathan harris just wants to get back to the battlefields of afghanistan .
with the headline : back at home , a marine must battle his injuries .
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a hard - hitting documentary follows one marine’s tormented life back on the homefront .
a flawed but affecting portrait of what war does to the young men who fight it , this oscar - nominated documentary lost to undefeated this year but wins the prize for truth in titles . hell and back again follows a u . s . marine through a tour of duty in afghanistan , but then stays with its subject once he’s back home in south carolina .
the documentary hell and back again was a standout at sundance , and it hits theaters this week . it follows marine sgt . nathan harris from afghanistan back home to north carolina . director danfung dennis made an unusual choice for this film : no musical score . instead , he uses sounds gathered on the battlefield and manipulates them to highlight the emotion of the story . noah nelson of turnstyle news reports .
i felt to give an honest portrayal of war , i had to show that transition back home and merge it with what i shot back there . it’s really just one battle .
such a perfect princess ! cute charlotte steals the show again with her royal wave - and a very polite . . .
spawn finds himself under attack while attempting to free innocent souls from those directly influenced by heaven and hell .
danfung dennis’s academy award - nominated documentary hell and back again shields the audience from nothing in its portrayal of the war in afghanistan and an injured marine’s return home . now dennis is taking his quest to capture raw reality a step further with condition one , an ipad app that allows users to navigate images from battlefield and beyond .
what does it mean to lead men in war ? what does it mean to come home ? hell and back again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in afghanistan has been able to achieve . it is a masterpiece in the cinema of war .
inverted and then played straight . as john was a suicide since his youth , he was bound for hell . but when he sacrificed his life and soul not just to stop the big bad , but to save the soul of one in hell , he is rerouted from hell to heaven . not having this , john is resurrected and cured of his injuries by satan , in the hopes that he ' ll screw up and get himself damned again
mr . dennis says it was a difficult decision to include it in “hell and back again . ” “we felt in the end it was important not to sugarcoat the war , ” he said . “we did not want to match the romantic , false representation of war that is out there . ”
much like restrepo of 2010 , hell and back again gives a glimpse into the life of a soldier , both during active duty and through recovery of injury and post - traumatic stress . with some bloody imagery , including the witness to the aftermath of a graphic fatality , this is , for better or worse , an unforgettable film .
hell and back again understands the importance of context , beginning with a prologue about u . s . marine echo company’s mission in one of the most dangerous parts of afghanistan . the opening sequence charts nathan and his men’s helicopter touchdown near a small farming community , a forward assault that is immediately met with taliban resistance .
mr . dennis spent a year with sgt . harris and his wife , and certainly he could have chosen to tell many stories with his footage . the one he settled upon in “hell and back again” gives the viewer nothing back ; one leaves empty , frustrated at the wait for redemption that never comes . this hard , cold film feels much like the distant war that has gone on for 10 years with little payoff .
resurrection : spawn brought back his good friend bobby from the dead . [ 80 ]
“there is a hell , believe me i’ve seen it . ” the title statement is clear and matt reckons he has done just that . but even with the heaven and hell themed album , he is no religious person .
j . ralph is a self taught composer , singer , songwriter and producer from nyc who ' s career began at 22 with the signing to atlantic records . he is well known for his documentary scores including the back to back academy award winning films the cove and man on wire as well as the autism documentary wretches & jabberers , for which his end title song “the reasons why” was short listed for the oscars best original song . j . ralph ' s music encompasses a variety of genres and mediums and his work is part of the museum of modern art ' s permanent collection in new york city . in addition to the score and sound design for hell and back again , j . ralph wrote and produced the end title song “hell and back” which is performed by willie nelson .
today , wolf brew released the back from hell version of the game . the developers say they’ve
significantly changed and improved pretty much every single element of the game’s look and feel
over the past few months .
back here , you have bills and relationships and all of that seems much more complex . and so i wanted to try to bring these two worlds together of the battlefields of afghanistan and the complexity of back at home and blend them together . and i used sounds and images to try to do that .
while sympathetic to harris’ plight , “hell and back again” doesn’t avoid passing judgement . the former marine’s sense of heroism runs counter to the document of his platoon’s experience , which largely involves placating angry afghani villagers or yelling at them when they withhold information . “we can’t resist against you or the taliban , ” one of them says . in an opening speech to the troops , the platoon leader announces that the soldiers must “force the taliban to react to us rather than us reacting to them . ” but that perspective fails to take into account the soldiers’ eventual reaction to themselves . “hell and back again” dwells in that uncomfortable purgatory and finds no easy escape .
did he ever . “ hell and back again , ” his new award - winning documentary film about the war , is a tour de force that breaks new ground in the documentary tradition , combining chilling reportage with sometimes dreamy or drugged - up sequences . the film — with clinical precision — peels away the daily headlines to expose the reality of the afghan war and the devastating burden carried by american service members back home .
satan pulls constantine out of the light and cures his lung cancer so he ' ll have a chance to royally screw up again .
developer id software is able to hit players hard and fast with gameplay that calls back to an era that many may think was left in the past . however , doom instead brings the past roaring back to life , and for once makes the phrase “go to hell” seem like an invitation more than anything else .
digerati has given steam users who purchased a copy of slain an extra key to gift to someone else . more details on slain : back from hell are available on steam and in the new trailer above .
after everyone is back in formation , the instructor spends a few minutes describing your bad habits and the bad habits of your ancestors and then orders everyone to board the bus again . this game continues until everyone can board the bus quickly , quietly , and efficiently .
these glimpses into disrupted lives , though , can have a prepackaged , almost sanitized feel , no matter how graphic . the overall point is the resilience of those involved . but “hell and back again , ” a documentary by danfung dennis that zeros in on one sergeant in afghanistan , is more unvarnished and ambiguous , which makes it more disturbing .
kylie jenner rocks curve - clinging attire as she shows off body . . . and considers going back to blonde
the band tours a lot yet time and time again they still return to the old steel city in northern england that they call home .
that said , he would put most other athletes to shame . from a standing position , he starts out by jumping onto a bench about 18 inches high . again and again , again and again . then , despite having half - fingers on his right hand and only a thumb on his left hand , he does an impressive series of bench presses , inflating the tattoos on his upper arms - - his guardian angel st . michael on the left , a self - designed image of a man emerging from flames on the right .
in the end , what makes hell and back again so interesting is how dennis intertwines footage of nathan in combat with his time at home , connecting divergent and temporally separate sequences via subject matter and theme . one example stands above the rest : we see nathan using a walker to move through a doorway in his house when suddenly the sounds of radio chatter and running footsteps flood the space .
recording the one way ticket to hell . . . and back album , roy thomas baker and the darkness used 400 reels of tape , up to 1 , 000 tracks per song and a year in the studio — not to mention custom - made panpipes .
' why are people so quick to judge ? ' sam frost hits back at . . .
in war , still photography can ' t always capture what people are seeing and hearing on the ground . that ' s something danfung dennis realized while working as a war photographer embedded with marines in iraq and afghanistan . so , he outfitted his camera with stereo sound equipment , and he made the documentary
hell and back again .
it took the world cinema jury prize at sundance film festival .
what does it mean to lead men in war ? what does it mean to come home — injured physically and psychologically — and build a life anew ? in hell and back again two overlapping narratives are intercut — the life of a marine at war on the front , and the life of the same marine in recovery at home — creating both a dreamlike quality and a strikingly realistic depiction of how marines experience this war .
virtually ensuring that “hell and back again” will never see widespread release , mr . dennis graphically depicts an afghan soldier — cut in half by a mine — being lifted into a body bag as his corpse disintegrates in front of the camera . it is an image myself and other combat cameramen have seen repeatedly , yet never been able to convey to the american public .
having returned in late 2016 from a 13 year hiatus with new vocalist ezekiel ox at the helm , aussie metal champs superheist are well and truly back in full swing , and are kicking 2017 off with their new mission statement : ‘raise hell’ .
spawn struggled to find a way to free himself from hell ' s control and recapture his humanity . attacks from both heaven and hell were coming faster and faster , and spawn was on the verge of losing himself to the violence and the evil . salvation arrived in the form of a mound of festering garbage - the heap , an emissary of the greenworld , a power equal to heaven and hell that spawn had never encountered before . they endowed him with a host of new abilities that would enable him to overcome the worst both heaven and hell had to offer .
thirsty desert : there is no water in hell except what you bring with you in bottles or bodies .
year inside , hour outside : according to constantine , seven minutes on earth equals a lifetime in hell .
hollywood apocrypha : the hell bible , which has a different book of revelation . and an extra five chapters in 1 corinthians .
‘hell & back again’ chronicles 25 - year - old sergeant nathan harris , and the impact a taliban machine gun bullet has on his life . photojournalist and filmmaker danfung dennis was embedded with u . s . marines echo company in afghanistan , and then followed sgt . harris home to north carolina , where he confronted the physical and emotional difficulties of re - adjusting to civilian life with the love and support of his wife , ashley .
the film cuts to a uniformed nathan months before smashing through a barrier during a military raid , following his memory down a dark rabbit hole into the past . challenging as it may be , this dream - like approach to nathan’s perspective is both formally stunning and emotionally revelatory , confirming hell and back again as a formidable examination of cyclical trauma . it ' s essential viewing .
for me , they clearly bring back memories - the sounds and the sights if not the smells come through .
if there is another filmmaker alive who is has the combination of combat experience , bravery and technical chops to equal mr . dennis , i’m not aware of him or her . “hell and back again” stacks one astonishing shot atop the next : perfectly composed tracking sequences in the heat of battle ; saturated moody low - light compositions in rainy north carolina parking lots ; gorgeous rich soundscapes .
the battlefield imagery grows increasingly unsettling , building toward the incident that sent harris home . with its fine - tuned approach , “hell and back again” is possibly the best war movie of the year ( unless steven spielberg’s “war horse” pulls off a miracle ) , but it’s certainly the one that gets closest to the heat of the battle . dennis’ revealing access to the echo company’s second platoon in afghanistan places “hell and back again” alongside a spate of recent documentaries that show the afghanistan war in detail . these include “restrepo , ” “severe clear” and “armadillo , ” where the camera gets intimate with the combat but rarely shows the aggressors , leading to the appearance of a one - sided action movie in which the soldiers are really at war with themselves .
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: suicide is deemed sinful enough to guarantee a soul a place in hell , even if the attempt fails .
the chosen one , hellspawn , lt . colonel al simmons , hell ' s pawn , snowman , al simmons
the world cinema jury prize : documentary was presented to hell and back again , directed by danfung dennis . told through the eyes of one marine from the start of his 2009 afghanistan tour to his distressing return and rehabilitation in the u . s . , we witness what modern
unconventional
warfare really means to the men who are fighting it . u . s . a . / united kingdom
resents god ' s love for an unworthy humanity and plots to release hell on earth so that humanity can earn god ' s love .
anti - hero : constantine is rude , unhelpful to most people , asks his friends to put themselves in dangerous situations ( and gets two of them killed because of this ) and only performs exorcisms and sends half breed demons back to hell because he wants to buy his way into heaven .
bein and others are hoping that awareness will come through a new , award - winning documentary set to be premier in bein’s hometown of pell city . hell and back again is the story of a marine platoon in afghanistan — bein’s platoon . it is the true story of what he and his platoon encountered in war , but it’s the rest of the story , too , the hellish , real - life drama of coming home .
follows some of our american soldiers into afghanistan , in this case members of echo company , 2nd battalion , 8th marines . again as with
jill zarin admits she ' s ready to date again after being spotted with handsome businessman . . . following beloved husband bobby ' s death
the gods must be lazy : god and satan have made a deal not to directly interfere in the mortal world . the half - demons constantly break this rule , but they don ' t get punished — just sent back to hell by constantine .
holy burns evil : holy water scalds the hell out of half - demons , destroying their human shell , and making them easier to kill .
i just followed it , and it unfolded . and i was back in north carolina six months after that first initial offensive , with the battalion coming home .
the world cinema cinematography award : documentary was presented to hell and back again , directed by danfung dennis ; cinematographer : danfung dennis . told through the eyes of one marine from the start of his 2009 afghanistan tour to his distressing return and rehabilitation in the u . s . , we witness what modern
unconventional
warfare really means to the men who are fighting it . u . s . a . / united kingdom
this statement is a small segment of a pep talk—almost a postscript—given to the marines from echo company as they begin their 2009 offensive in southern afghanistan . they are also told that their primary directive is to “win the hearts and minds” of the afghan people . attempting to win hearts and minds when your proficiency is first and foremost in the application of violence is just one of the challenges explored in the excellent , oscar - nominated documentary hell and back again by danfung dennis .
conversely , his film , “hell and back again , ’’ is an ingenious artistic disturbance . it’s a combat film and a coming - home movie , chiefly about a marine named nathan harris , who’s critically wounded in afghanistan and struggling to re - adjust to both the brutal drabness of civilian life in north carolina and the depressing state of his lower body . harris’s condition has provided the basis of the stories and movies and books . but dennis’s film attempts something few documentaries have : to inhabit the psyche of its subject .
cut to two years later and he’s a first time filmmaker thanks to his award - winning documentary , “ hell and back again . ” the film was born out of dennis’ chance meeting with sergeant nathan harris on the battlefield . six months after first meeting , harris was shot in the hip during an assault on a taliban stronghold and was sent home to recover . dennis rejoined the injured soldier in his hometown of yadkinville , north carolina and went about chronicling harris’ rehabilitation process .
realizing the error of his ways , the redeemer and cog both assisted al in claiming absolute control of hell . cog than offered spawn a chance to be with wanda once more with his box of eden , which would create a small patch of heaven for him . when al relinquished control of the throne of hell , cog betrayed spawn taking the crown of hell for himself . cog used his newfound power to return spawn to earth , alive and well , back in the body of al simmons without any powers . [ 42 ]
still serving veterans ( ssv ) , a local non - profit organization that takes a holistic approach to helping veterans , will be showing a documentary nominated for several awards to help raise awareness of issues with post traumatic stress disorder ( ptsd ) . ‘hell & back again’ will be shown on june 14th at monaco pictures on bridge street as a public service hosted by still serving veterans .
– i guess the big supernatural overarching element is amenadiel coming down to tell lucifer to go back to hell every once in a while . how that ' s going to mix with the weekly procedural case should be . . . interesting .
the film could benefit from a little more in the way of standard interviews . we get some voice - over comments from harris’s wife , but we never hear what kind of man he was before he was immersed in the horrors and the fog of war . how much has it changed him ? fantastic as far as it goes , hell and back again is two - thirds of a picture , crying out for a prelapsarian prologue .
overwhelmed by the darkness on earth , spawn turned to his old mentor , cogliostro . he discovered cog was dying and was about to use his powers to save him when he was stopped by cog pleading to leave him be . spawn decided he would accept the crown of hell and allow hell to invade earth . he would then remake earth in his vision as he had complete control of hell as its ruler and sweep away all sorrow and sadness on the earth . [ 40 ]
chapel returns to find al in the alleys and kills his friend bobby . [ 10 ] chapel has decided he got a raw deal and blows his own head off in front of spawn so that he can go to hell and possibly take over . al uses his powers to bring bobby back to life . [ 11 ]
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and so i think i was able to get that type of access back at home especially because i had been there out in afghanistan with that platoon and with nathan .
a fallen warrior is woken from the eternal slumber of death and tasked with ridding the land of hordes of foetid , rotting aberrations summoned by the evil lord vroll . reluctantly , the grizzled and battle weary bathoryn dons his armour and grips his heavy sword once again , and turns into the blistering wind . thunder and lightning crackle through the angry , swirling clouds ; the incessant rain cutting like a thousand razor blades across the barren and desolate landscape . the raw power of a thousand electric guitars harmonises with a baseline being played by an orchestra of angels as cold steel meets skull once again and bathoryn begins a quest to return tranquility to the cursed earth upon which he walks . welcome to the world of slain : back from hell .
spawn was suddenly attacked by the redeemer . mammon had planted the seeds to convince the redeemer to wound him so that he would be sucked into hell by demons in a weakened state . there , spawn battled violator for the rule of hell . [ 41 ]
“it was an amazing time — one of the greatest times of our lives . if given the opportunity , i’d do it again , ” bein said .
again mocking north korean leader kim jong - un as “rocket man , ” trump warned that the despot is risking doomsday for his nation’s 25 million people .
: the title character goes around sending half - demons back to hell in the hope that this will gain him entry into heaven after he dies . it ' s not that john constantine likes the idea of heaven that much  he just wants to avoid going to hell , since he knows firsthand ( due to trying to commit suicide in his youth ) how horrible it is .
an award - winning documentary follows a marine from the battlefield in afghanistan to a troubled life back home in north carolina .
carl ' s back story is hinted at once , when he is referred to as
professor
by a waiter .
cardi b hits back at troll who mocked her baby shower . . . as she shows off naked baby bump for photoshoot
portal pool : constantine states that any body of water , no matter how small , can be used as a portal to hell .
just as it taps into a dying corner of american society , hell or high water resurrects the power of western mayhem done right .
later , spawn woke up furious that she restored his life as spawn . he attempted to escape into the night . [ 44 ] not sure of what she did , she follows spawn and brings him back to her apartment . she explained the rules of greenworld would give back three - fold what you give . she convinces spawn to begin by giving back to the world . [ 45 ]
' go back to your country ' : mexican grandfather , 92 , is beaten with a brick by a mother and four men who . . .
later a robed figure would tell mammon of spawn ' s defeating of clown and closing the portal to hell , which he had wanted spawn to do , and calls spawn
my good and faithful servant .
by giving up his soul to save the world and freeing an innocent soul from hell , constantine is redeemed of his past sins and allowed to go to heaven . his life is restored nevertheless , but only because satan cures his lung cancer so that constantine will have another chance to ' prove ' that he belongs in hell
if the network was hoping to introduce sam to its viewers through hell ' s kitchen ahead of her debut on home and away , these results may prove problematic .
after returning from hell , spawn is tracked down by terry fitzgerald . they agree to work together to bring down wynn . [ 20 ]
dennis , who was among our 25 new faces in independent film last year , won a documentary cinematography prize at this year’s sundance film festival , where the film received its world premiere the past january . he has shot prize - winning photographs in combat zones for newsweek , the associated press and the new york times . currently he is at work on apps and virtual reality platforms that will bring the experiences of war zones into our living rooms . hell and back again opens at film forum in manhattan today .
what ' s a little snow ?
he asks as he walks back out to the truck in his gym shorts .
in 1943 jack benny parodied the movie on his radio show , with himself as ricky bogart and eddie ' rochester ' anderson as sam . at one point in the sketch ricky asks :
sam , sam , play that song for me again , will you ?
this is almost certainly the origin of the
play it again , sam
myth .
hello , my name is grant , i just want to tell the people who are on mirtazapine how i got off the drug and the fact that i am drug free and feeling myself again shows it can be done .
fire water juxtaposition : used as a plot point . water is said to be a
universal conduit
that can facilitate travel between hell and its surrounding realms . in order to reach hell , which is a red - hued realm of fire and brimstone , a person has to suspend part of their body in water while on earth .
and it wasn ' t much better for monday ' s hell ' s kitchen ratings , as the second episode lost over 200 , 000 metro viewers from the premiere .
it was because of that trust that i was able to follow him in north carolina where he was transitioning back into society with both physical and psychological issues .
the filmmaker was back in the united states when sergeant harris was wounded and did not learn of his injuries until he greeted the marines as they returned home .
but unfortunately for channel seven , hell ' s kitchen has not proved to be the runaway ratings success the network may have been hoping for .
hell or high water isn ' t just a great time at the movies , it ' s one of the year ' s best pictures .
harris is the subject of hell and back again , an oscar - nominated documentary that premieres nationwide monday night on pbs’s independent lens ( it airs in the new york city area on sunday ) . the film , made by photojournalist danfung dennis , tells parallel stories : harris the soldier , on the battlefield in afghanistan ; and harris the husband , the wounded warrior , back home in north carolina . it’s a small movie , a deeply intimate look at one man’s struggle with the war and its aftermath . yet it does more to convey the toll such fighting takes on its veterans , and the scale of the issues facing america’s returning soldiers , than perhaps any other film in recent memory .
later , spawn recovered and took twitch to boston . inside the home spawn fought with several ghosts and opened a portal to hell . spawn saved max as one of the ghosts and reunited him with his family . [ 49 ]
well , the other really striking thing about this documentary , as opposed to — more so than most , is the way you weave back and forth between the war and the home front .
when the doctor told me i would never walk again , and that i would have to spend the rest of my life on a respirator , i told him , ' kiss my ass . '
“major portions of the world are in conflict and some , in fact , are going to hell , ” the president said in a speech that he carefully read from teleprompters .
when sergeant nathan harris was seriously wounded during a firefight with the taliban at the very end of his tour of duty . dennis followed harris back to his hometown near a marine base in north carolina to film his rehabilitation , the progress of his marriage to his high school sweetheart and his acceptance that life would never be the same again .
portal creation : spawn can create portals to cross dimensions or to travel to other planes of existence , such as heaven or hell . [ 76 ]
realizing how al simmons himself , not mammon , claimed the hellspawn role as penance , spawn , again in his
red - cowled
costume , once more takes residence in a deserted and barren rat alley .
yet this virtuosity almost refutes the hard grit of documentaries like “harlan county , u . s . a . , ” and something feels lost . every shadow is revealed , and “hell and back” takes on a cold , clinical tone . the protagonist’s pain , as well as a surreal sense of dislocation , is well established . what is not is a strong emotional connection to the sergeant harris .
lays bare the truth of war - its hellish quality - with such power , you ' re not likely to look at this , or any other conflict , the same way again .
all of the performers in this film , right down to the bit players , are quite good , but bridges demonstrates yet again that he is one of the finest actors in america .
i saw this and loved it . i wonder if this guy ever went back , or how he is doing now . i hope he is pain free now and stopped taking the meds he was on .
. at least one of the suicides in the film was committed by a mental patient and she is shown being denied a catholic funeral and being damned to hell for this - in reality she would not have been denied such a funeral ( with the service especially asking god to be merciful ) and her mental illness would have made her suicide non - mortal . another suicide in the film , constantine ' s , is even less likely to result in damnation as he was brought back to life and can therefore repent afterwards . even his seeing hell , contrary to what the film states , would not
condemn
him in the eyes of god because only permanent death can prevent a person from repenting . in fact there are people in real life who claim to have seen hell in near - death experiences and who repented upon recovery because of this - virtually no theologian would argue that they are already damned for having seen hell .
in the single - player campaign , players put on the helmet of a powerful space marine , load up a shotgun , and trounce between space station hallways on mars to battling demons through hell and beyond . weaved between the combat scenarios and its tense locations , the story revolves around the union aerospace corporation ( uac ) and its continued plans to seek new energy sources , with hell being its next target for inter - dimensional travel and a new cache of valuable resources .