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Has Aaron Rodgers picked himself up and dusted himself off after the sudden end to the Arizona game?: Just being down here this week, whether we like it or not, we're going to be seeing a lot of that play, just the way it has been evaluated. NFL Films is doing a segment on it. It's only normal when you go through a season of scheme evaluation, we'll see that play because it's a base play in our offense, over and over again. I don't think you hide from it. The most important thing is to learn from it. I don't think it hurt his confidence. It probably helped that he played in the Pro Bowl a couple weeks later. He went down there and had a very positive experience. I can' t tell you from Norv Turner to Wade Phillips, I saw a bunch of the Dallas coaches, Ray Sherman and Skip Peete at the combine, talking to Mike Shanahan last night, how complimentary everybody has been of Aaron. Just the opportunity to be around him on a personal note. It's like everything. The Pro Bowl is a great opportunity for a young coach. My first year in the league in '93, I had a chance to coach in the Pro Bowl. To see John Elway, to see those type of players up close at a young age, it really shows you what they're supposed to look at at a young age. I think Aaron kind of impressed a lot of people that way based on the feedback I've received.
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Spread offenses had a lot of success against you. Why was that? I think the dime personnel probably wasn't what we would have liked it to have been in certain segments, I don't think you can deny that. And you can base some of that on injury. There's some guys that probably didn't play as well as the opportunity presented themselves for. That's the thing, just going back to the linebacker, is it more nickel groups? Is it the combination of sub groups? Because it's a sub game more and more. I wouldn't be surprised if the sub defenses are 60 percent and your base is 40 next year just the way these offenses are going in the league. So we've got to make sure we have the versatility of using those guys, whether it's linebackers, fifth or sixth DB, however we get there.
How do you feel about the secondary now?: I think our board looks good on paper, if you look at all the names up there, but you've got three corners coming off of major knee (injuries), two of the three coming off major knee surgeries. So I don't think you ever have enough corners or pass rushers, regardless of what scheme you play in. But yeah, our board looks as good as it's been on paper. But those questions really will be answered in training camp.
Which players do you expect to make the biggest advancement this season: T.J. Lang, Brandon Underwood. Those are the two that jump out. You say how can Clay Matthews get better? Well he can get better. Brad Jones is another guy in that category. I really think those rookies, this is their biggest window to make that jump and it's important and it's been identified. These young kids come out of college, they play their senior year, they train like crazy for the combine, they go into the NFL season and the season's over and they just kind of let everything they gained to that point go backwards instead of trying to maintain it. Then you get them back there in March and they're starting over again. You're trying to catch back up to what you had accomplished with these guys. Hopefully we avoided some of that and they're able to start at zero instead of negative 10 whether it's their weight or body fat or things like that. Our whole offseason program is tailored toward individual improvement, it's tailored to the youngest most inexperienced player in the building.


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Not all of the films in the Val Lewton Horror Collection have supernatural premises. Two that don�t � despite their titles - are these two, both made in 1943.
The Leopard Man is set in New Mexico. A black leopard (played by Dynamite, who had previously appeared in Cat People) is brought on as part of a cabaret act by Kiki (Jean Brooks). But rival dancer Clo-Clo (Margo) resists the attempt to upstage her. In the ensuing confrontation the leopard escapes. Soon afterwards a young woman is found mauled to death. But Kiki and Jerry Manning (Dennis O�Keefe) wonder if there�s a human murderer at work�
This was Jacques Tourneur�s final horror film for Lewton, and it tends to be ranked below Cat People and I Walked With a Zombie, possibly due to less-than-engaging lead characters and sub-top-flight lead actors. But there�s plenty of interest here, particularly in what this film anticipates. Although to call The Leopard Man a slasher movie would be crude � not just because of what 40s censorship would have allowed, but also due to Lewton�s customary good taste � it certain structural elements it is reminiscent of that genre. We have at least two elongated sequences where a young woman is followed by the killer, leopard or human�Lewton/Tourneur �walks�, but ones that end in death. One such scene has a tremendous finale, with the victim behind a locked door pleading to let in. Growls, and screams�and blood trickles under the door. It�s doubtful that anything more graphic (had it been allowed in the first place) would have been more effective. The film also pulls a major surprise by killing off a major character early, and there�s an excellent �bus�, which in this case is a subway train.
As you might expect, the atmosphere of this hot, sleepy town is very well evoked, and Robert de Grasse�s camerawork is appropriately shadowy. Shots of the streets at night, with music coming out of bars, reminded me of a later work by someone who had recently made two films for RKO � Orson Welles�s Touch of Evil. In that later film Welles went further in his famous long opening shot by having different music coming out of different bars as his camera went past, an effect heightened in the version restored to Welles�s intentions, without Henry Mancini�s otherwise fine music score overlaid. This may be complete coincidence, but you watch this and you wonder if Welles was there in the audience in 1943, watching and taking note.
The Ghost Ship, directed by Mark Robson, is a very different film, a battle of wills between two men. Tom Merriam (Russell Wade) signs on to the Altair as third officer. His captain is Will Stone (Richard Dix). At first the two men get on well together, but soon Merriam finds something amiss. Stone is paralysed by fear when having to perform an operation on a sick crewman. Then another crewman who criticises Stone to his face is killed in an �accident�. Merriam concludes that Stone is in fact mad, but no-one will believe him�
This is second-rank Lewton (and Robson), but as ever there�s a lot of interest. The film immediately sets up an eerie atmosphere with an opening sequence that involves both a blind beggar and narration by a mute sailor. The acting is good, especially from Dix and Wade, but also from a solid supporting cast � look out for Sir Lancelot as a Trinidadian sailor. Nicholas Musuraca�s photography is up to his usual standards, and Robson pulls off a couple of excellent sequences, notably the �accidental� death in the chain store. But in comparison to other Lewtons, even the somewhat maligned Isle of the Dead (also directed by Robson), the film seems underpowered. As you might expect for a film set mostly on board a working ship, it�s an almost all-male affair, and is in fact the only Lewton horror film not to feature a woman in a leading role. Edith Barrett receives third billing for a short sequence set on dry land in the middle of the film, where she delivers a line that justifies the studio-imposed title: this is a metaphorical ghost ship rather than a literal one.
For almost fifty years since its premiere in 1943, The Ghost Ship was the Lewton film all but impossible to see. I first saw it on BBC2 some ten years ago, when it featured in their �Lost and Found� season (an excellent idea they�ve never repeated). The reason it became the �lost� Lewton was due to litigation. (Though having said that, the two non-horror films that Lewton made in this period for RKO, Youth Runs Wild and Mademoiselle Fifi, aren�t easy to see either and aren�t on DVD as I write this.) The screenplay of The Ghost Ship is credited to Donald Henderson Clarke from a story by Leo Mittler. However, two other writers, Samuel R. Golding and Norbert Faulkner, sued Lewton, claiming that the film was based on their play which they had submitted to Lewton�s office. Lewton claimed that he had sent the play back unread and instead of settling out of court, went to trial � and lost, and again on appeal. The Ghost Ship was withdrawn from circulation.
The DVD
The Leopard Man and The Ghost Ship are released on a single DVD-9 disc, encoded for Regions 1 and 4. It is as I write (December 2005) only available as part of the five-disc Val Lewton Horror Collection box set, and not separately.
Both films were made in black and white and Academy ratio, and are hence transferred to DVD in 4:3 without anamorphic enhancement. The transfer of The Leopard Man isn�t the best looking in the set: it�s on the soft side, and there are signs of print damage, such as speckles and scratches. The Ghost Ship is in a better state, but is still a little soft.
No complaints about the soundtrack, which is single-channel mono. (The extras are 2.0 mono.) As ever with this box set, it sounds fine: well-balanced and clear. Subtitles (not the hard-of-hearing variety) are provided for the features only. The Leopard Man has twenty-two chapter stops, The Ghost Ship twenty.
The main extra is a commentary on The Leopard Man from film director William Friedkin. While I can accept that this is a film that means a lot to him, and was an influence on him as a director, this is one of the duller commentaries in the set, much of it being a scene-by-scene breakdown of what we can see for ourselves. The other extra is the film�s trailer (1:03), which is not in the best of states: overly dark and contrasty, with a very noticeable splice and soundtrack jump early on.
There are no extras for The Ghost Ship at all, making it one of two films in the set (Isle of the Dead being the other) not to have one. This is disappointing, as a good commentary might have been illuminating on this lesser-known Lewton production. I particularly would have been interested in hearing about the court case. There�s no trailer either, but that presumably doesn�t survive. Given the state of some of the trailers which do survive, that wouldn�t surprise me.
These two films are certainly worthwhile, but are second-rank Lewton, more likely to appeal to fans rather than the more casual viewer � but then such fans will certainly be buying the box set in any case.


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A tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world...
Margaret: David:
Rated MA
Review by Margaret Pomeranz
The creative team behind 21 Grams, director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and writer Guillermo Arriaga have taken on an ambitious project with Babel, with four separate story strands elusively interconnected.
The mischievous experiments of young shepherd boys in mountainous Morocco will reverberate through many lives, through American tourists Brad Pitt and
Cate Blanchett, through a Mexican housekeeper Adriana Barraza and the children she cares for, through the life of a deaf teenager in Tokyo, Rinko Kikuchi.
Attempting in microcosm to illustrate the fallout of mankind's ambitions where, with the human race divided in chaos and speaking different tongues, we are connected only through mutual if oblique destruction.
Inarittu and Arriaga are filmmakers of enormous power, enormous heart and great talent. They delve deep into the human condition and find it wanting.
Theyve assembled a stellar team, including cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, composer Gustavo Santaolalla with whom they produce incredible cinema that moves us, delights us in strange artistic ways, but which also challenges our conception of ourselves.
Thank god we have filmmakers like them working in the world today.
Further comments
MARGARET: David?
DAVID: Yes, they've really made some remarkable films already with AMORES PERROS, as you say, and 21 GRAMS, and now this, which is a remarkable film, and it's a film which, when it starts off, you don't really see how the four different stories can be connected, but gradually the connections are resolved.
And it's, it really makes you think about how - it's the sort of thing about the butterfly, you know, the reverberations travel all around the world in today's society. And it's so well-acted by everybody, it's suspenseful. It's, it's a remarkable film, I think.
DAVID: You know, they obviously like this fragmented approach to filmmaking.
MARGARET: Yes. And they make it work. They make it work beautifully.
DAVID: Because 21 GRAMS was, like, the first 20 minutes of that film, you know, you wonder what's going on.
DAVID: And the same here.
MARGARET: This one's a lot more coherent, I must say.
DAVID: But still, you know, there are puzzles here, but which are resolved.
MARGARET: It's beautiful. I mean, it's not perfect, but it's beautiful.
Your rating: Babel
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Comment: 10/10 for concept. However, I felt confused as to the point that was trying to be made. Was it about the connectedness of us all? Was it about the far-reaching effects of American policy on the average person? Was it about confronting inner demons and in doing so, how you affect those around you? All of these things were suggested, but none carried through. A predictable outcome for many players suggesting an emergence of a new "formula". Pitt and Blanchett's presence only detracted from what beautiful subtleties there was. Tedious at times.
Comment: I thought it was a wonderful movie and made the world look different to me afterwards.
The Japanese story completely hooked me - the emotions of the nightclub sequence were incredible.
I didn't think the connection was laboured - a small background detail in the life of Cheiko was the major turning point in the lives of other people.
I saw Cheiko's story as being driven by the death of her mother - it was about her isolation in her grief, rather than being about her angst at being deaf (except that being deaf added to her isolation.)
Comment: Excellent film, beautifully acted and constructed. Rare indeed, in these days of dross and pap, to discover a film of such depth, emotion and subtlety. Probably the best film since the last Inarritu effort.
Comment: Please dont waste your money or 2.5 hours of your time on this movie. It was painful trying to sit through this hoping it would eventualy go somewhere but it doesnt. The raiting system really needs to reviewed if films like this flushed away and happy feet can get such high ratings. Its as if theres someone paying them per star. David,
"there are puzzles here, but which are resolved. ".....lol..i have no idea what moive he was watching as nothing gets resloved thats for sure.
Comment: I agree with Margaret Pomeranz wholeheartedly when she says "...they produce incredible cinema that moves us, delights us in strange artistic ways..." and, " Thank God we have film-makers like them working in the world today." This is one of the best cinema I've ever seen. This is why you go and see movies.
Comment: The filmmaker captured each location so evocatively, they were like extra characters in the movie. I thought it was beautifully made, the tension was almost unbearable (especially for me the Mexican story) and the connectedness was moving. I don't mind Brad Pitt but I do find his fame distracting in an otherwise indie style film. I reflected on this movie for days.
Comment: I found the camera work tedious and superficial. Too many close up shots and the shaky, hand held style, combined with sweeps around the characters, was annoying. A good story let down by overlong sequences, particularly the Japanese disco and the Mexican wedding.
Comment: This film broke my heart. It felt like Inarritu had reached into my heart and ripped it out whilst it was still beating. I was DISTRESSED most of the way through this film and 48 hours later I cannot still bring myself to talk about it. I loved it but I could not possibly see it again. I felt so much horror for the Mexican maid and her predicament and the complete and utter bereftness of the Tokoyo teenager. Everyone should see this film and try to communicate with someone everyday just to let someone know that they matter.
Comment: This is equal to the best movies I have seen... maybe the best. The tension lasted through the entire film, although at times I wondered why I was feeling like this.
To me, this film is such an honest portrayal of all of our lives... the pain, the joy, the fears and prejudices we all have.
Comment: For me this was the best film of the last 12 months - not perfect but, as Margaret said, beautiful . . . and with so much worthwhile to say. I particularly appreciated the fact that the issues were presented in a non-judgmental way. It's sad that some reviewers were so concerned with improbabilities and the like. The film is not a history but a parable for our time.
Comment: Visually and sonically stunning, and with a fine plot and wonderful acting. Truely a step above the usual Hollywood output, and deserves to be recognised as such. I felt Cheiko was an especially intriguing character. The sequence leading up to the nightclub sceen was beautifully adolescent. Go see it!
Comment: the acting is, as you would expect, very good, but the script is depressing - defects aside, its just a case of one meaningless tragic event leading to several more meaningless tragic events. see something else.
Comment: I can't say I liked this film, but I did appreciate its intricacies, character development and the way it maintained such heightened tension throughout. My lungs hurt with anticipation in the desert scenes, Adriana Barraza gives one of the best performances I have ever seen, I was utterly compelled by every moment of her screen time. Very moving, very compelling and very traumatic.
Comment: Gruelling, but fantastic. I loved the japanese schoolgirl, I thought they portrayed the deaf-mute teenager coming to terms with her mother's suicide just brilliantly. The mexican wedding, the people, the countries, the climate, the environments - all just fantastic.
So powerful
Comment: What an absolute waste of 2.5 hrs. I was ready to walk out after 1 hour, why didnt I ?
Comment: Yes it is a depressing tale but it shows how the sameness in all humans, like the ability to love and desire to be loved, is masked by our cultural differences, languages and politics. Ironically the mute girls cry was clearly understood in any language.
It's title raises the interesting proposition that we may indeed be able to create a path to heaven on earth if only we can overcome our cultural differences.
Powerful Stuff!!
Comment: Complex, powerful and challenging. Humane, incisive and open minded. Inarritu and Arriaga could be the best director/writer combination working in the world. There are also moments of heart breaking truth, Blanchett's tears, a teenage girl's note given and not revealed. It's not surprising that the film's gaps and depths doesn't convince everyone - but they got me.
Comment: An excellent movie in may ways.
Beautiful looking, music great well acted
stunning locations.great stpry line.
I am really stunned that people are so critical it realy is a good movie not your usual hollywood at all.
the story doess fit togheter perfectly i particaulary liked the Japan scense.
For me it was about loss, isolation and connectedness,
Babel- we all speak in different t tongues saying the same ?? as in the bible how languages came about .. people builidng the tower of babel as an attempt to reach god..
Comment: very manipulative. the shakey cam, the powerful, "untouchable" topical issues. i was never moved but came out with the feeling that i SHOULD be. (perhaps some incest thrown in would have won me over, or a rape scene mebbe? they did manage to infer these potentials many times though)
the success of this film is proof that we're still so seduced by realism. "those border guards man, i reckon that's what they're REALLY like..." Made by the TAC. Don't fool Yourself, shit happens.
Comment: An hour could easily have been edited out of this film and non of the intensity of the story lost. Great characters, (dodgy plot about the children) and beautiful locations but lose the hand-held stomach churning camera work and get off the soap box. 21 grams was a masterpiece in comparison.
Comment: Self-indulgent and gratuitous. There seemed to be no point to this film other than an arrogant wallow in misery and suffering. The only thing challenging about it was resisting the urge to walk out.
Technically, there was nothing commendable about the cinematography and the film needed serious editing (especially the story of the Japanese girl). The plot, whilst undeniably shocked and confronting, had no profound message in any of its variations. A pity, as the basic premise of the film promised so much.
Comment: I admire the movie and what it is saying but it annoyed me a lot because I found it too long at 142 minutes. I also found the jerky style tiresome. I think they had too much money for this one, compared to Amores Perros. Parts of the plot required too much suspension of disbelief. The Moroccan government can send police out to hunt suspects but not send a rescue helicopter? Or was I confused by the interleaving of happenings in time?
Comment: A movie, in its entirety does only a half. The other half comes from the imagination and understanding of the viewer. If the viewer lacks the imagination or awareness to do his/her part then the experience become half baked. I guess thats the reason for many of the adverse comments here. Example: Marie's comment about "leaving children with a nanny and no backup". I find it very believable in the modern day american families, and the nanny had been working with them for a number of years.
Comment: Beautiful Masterpiece, If you understand this film it is a like a amazing feast, those that "dont get it" are starving
Comment: Movies like this need to be made and seen. Yes its depressing sometimes but it's a reflection of our times. It covers important issues such as American impact on society, guns, parenting, adolesence, one sided news reports, how as a society we can easily turn a blind eye. I think the characters are completly compeling and well written. The direction again is brilliant and the performances across the board are excellent, special mention to Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi for their well deserved oscar nominations.
Movieslike this, sadly dont see every screen across the country, will be remember historicly.
Comment: The best film of the year Loved it
Comment: I'm glad I watched this movie. The thing that struck me was the tragic price the people of the world pay for ignorance. It's as pervasive, I fear, as this film demonstrates. When will things change for those Moroccan villagers? When will ignorant, young men, Latino or otherwise, get over drinking and driving? When will young Muslim men, denied pleasures in life by a religion, get over believing there's some advantage in dying as a "martyr? When will the American justice system be worthy of administering the death penalty? Not for generations in any of these cases. Tragic.
Comment: Boring formula that's been used many times before with frustrating characters. I really can't see why people enjoy this film.
Comment: The world is interconnected and full of coincidence. Well, yes, but so what? Is that enough to sustain a 2.5-hour film?
All through this film, I felt the American lens of it all... weird Japan, trigger-happy and tourist-unfriendly Middle East, rowdy and irresponsible Mexicans... troubled Americans Brad and Cate were the only characters not rendered in cliche.
Nicely shot, dramatic, watchabe, but empty as souffle.
Comment: One of the best movies I have ever seen. Perhaps the movie should have been prefaced with an explanation of the use of "BABEL" as the name.
Did the unexplained note in Japanese given to the detective by the girl and not sub-titled for our benefit, mean to have us leave the theatre as living proof that the curse of the Tower of Babel is still alive and well.
I have read some of the adverse comments hereunder. Oh God!
Comment: I heard a lot of good things about Babel. I thought I would like it. Unfortunately, both I and my girlfriend loathed it. Tedious in the extreme, bleak, desolate, with seemingly no hope in any of the stories. It just all seemed pointless. There are far better movies about culture and interconnectedness than this one (21 grams, Crash) this film would only appeal to highbrow wannabes. We laughed going out of this movie as it was just so bad. This is a poorly executed movie based around a thin premise with awfully boring results. DONT BOTHER.
Comment: Very similar in style with CRASH which is also a great film.
This is such a powerful film that rocks people's foundation. So beautifully done; so many layers.
I especially find the conflicts within each of the 4 stories and how the modern civilisation (or government) turns good hearted ordinary people against each other intriguing.
Comment: A thoroughly absorbing movie, well-acted, each location brilliantly captured. The portrayals of the Mexican nanny and the Japanese deaf-mute girl were particularly moving. Each 'story' was compelling on its own, despite stretching the bounds of credibility in places. How the Japanese story connected to the others needed to be made clearer earlier on - it was irritating not knowing for so long how it fitted in.
Comment: Interesting to read the reviews of others. I loved it but maybe some those that had a differing view did not seek to understand the connection with the title; important in hindsight to my understanding and enjoyment. Apart from the obvious connection between the stories there were other threads that ran through the film: communication barriers, sexual threads, the sense of isolation, and journeys. The "trip" scene to the nightclub was brilliantly filmed.
Comment: The film should have been titled "stupidity". The main characters all appeared to be striving to set a new low standard for "dumber than dumb" behaviour. Boring, tedious, vacuous, and worse.
Comment: It's galling to read that "those that "dont get it" are starving". This film seems to be riding on the "it's got subtitles so it must be meaningful" wave. Not a disaster, but WAY too long. And, what's to get? I don't obtain my moral or spiritual nourishment from films, Anthony. The premise of this is far to slim for such lofty ideals. Get it on DVD where you can more easily switch off when you realise you're bored and it won't cost so much.
Comment: Inarritu and his creative team are gods!
The script, the story, the editing, the music - each ingredient complemented the others perfectly.
The acting, especially of the Japanese girl and Mexican nanny were superb and genuinely moving.
I've been a big fan of Inarritu and his creative team since I saw "Amores Perros". This time they've excelled themselves.
I'd like to thank them personally for making films that connect so powerfully to viewers like me.
It's almost certainly the best film I'm likely to see this year, and also likely to be "the best film I had seen" until the next Inarritu film.
Comment: 1. Jumpy hand-hend camera work everywhere and David LIKED this?! 2. Tedious in the extreme and an hour too long. 3. The Japanese link was tenuous to say the least 4. Mexican wedding and Japanese disco sequences FAR too long. 5. What was the significance of the note the Japanese girl gave to the policeman? 6. Why did she lie about her mother's death? 7. Why keep muting the disco music - to keep reminding us she was deaf? 8. Why didn't the nephew stay with Aunty and the kids, as the cops had driven past them?
Comment: one of the best movies seen for many years (others include 21 Grams and Constant Gardener)
Has had my friends emailing back and forth from all over the country all day with comments/reviews and interpretation - many a while since that has happened
Comment: Superior film making. Totally involving and gripping. Wonderful acting. Real comment on the condition of the world today. Makes you think about what blocks communication and how, for better or for worse, we react to situations at the core brain level which cannot be other than selfish.
Comment: Good movie, felt really depressed afterwards. Not a happy film.
Comment: A really good idea showing how a smal incident can have widespread ramifications. Unfortunately the message, stories got a little muddled at times.
The best story about the deaf Japanese girl was the best but should have been in a movie by itself.
Better in parts than as a whole.
Comment: Babel is a snapshot of humanity. The biblical allusion of the title directs your attention to this. The world is full of cultural voids and ignorance and hence conflict and despair, from a state to an individual level. Exploring how people relate to each other when under pressure, Babel directs attention to human frailties such as selfishness, ignorance, fear, and hatred but also shows that humanity can cross those divides too when least expected - the Moroccan folk who helped the Americans - for example.
There's a plethora of tawdry Hollywood Mcgristle out there for those who don't get it.
Comment: Relentlessly depressing. Bereft of hope. Unrelieved ugliness. Why do so many movie makers want to strip what joy we have away? How are they building something when they do this? How are they contributing something valuable? Exaggeration of hopelessness just breeds more hopelessness.
Comment: I found this movie utterley compelling. How some reviewers can judge it based on what some characters "might or should have done" is unfathomable. The fact that part of the human condition is to react to different situations differently, influenced by local conditions, culture etc., is precisely in sync with the film's title and "raison d'etre".
The "big" consequences borne out of "little decisions" can only leave a "connected viewer" in (at the very least)- a mild state of "disturb" that lasts a long time past the exit. For me, this "engagement" worked, well.
Comment: loved the film, actors were great, film shots were beautiful. would have given it 5 stars if some parts of the film were shorter giving the film more punch.
Comment: Excellent film- stressful, powerful and thought provoking, beautiful visually and aurally, I hope this film wins the Academy Award for best picture so that more people will be exposed to it.People seem to either love or hate this film.The people that do not rate this film highly are probably people who do not like being confronted, only want to be entertained in the cinema, like their meat and three veg. and drink Bundy and coke on the weekends. I ( I love generalising)
Comment: yeah, the mix is in there ... all sorts of stuff swirling around... some sit back and process patience type grit needed to get the most out of this movie... lucky there is plenty in there . . all the edges amorphous yet the threads are there to be pulled out. Moving, beautiful, and with depths there to be plumbed for the veiwer willing to invest .
Comment: I thought the interconnectivity of modern life was wonderfully illustrated, while still showing us the huge divide between cultures and language. According to the story of Babel, our differences are a punishment from god and each character in the movie suffers from a failure to adequately communicate. Even within her own culture, the deaf girl finds sign language extremely limiting and her frustration causes some of the most tense moments in the film. In an age where our ability to communicate has become a marker of our modernity, this film strongly suggests that the divisions are wider than ever.
Comment: It's not particularly helpful to insult the artistic sensibilities or intelligence of those who disliked the movie. Crash is my favorite movie of all time, but I nonetheless find it hard to like anything about Babel. The plot interconnections seemed pointless, and there wasn't so much a theme of miscommunication as one of "bad things sometimes happen to well-meaning people." Well, duh. But I'm honestly very glad that others were touched by the film - me not liking it doesn't mean that the film didn't profoundly and positively impact someone else. That's pretty much what art is all about.
Comment: A beautifully simple yet complex film that explores the blindness and interconnectness of all things and people. For me a multi-layered film that exposes and brings to the screen issues such as blind injustice on one level, redemption on another and even love on another.
Its a movie that makes you question without necessarily having answers. It reminds me that every action has a consequence which are for the most part never seen.
One of the best I have seen for a while.
Comment: Cultural imperatives made painfully clear...
-Don't give powerful guns to ignorant trigger-happy Moroccan shepherds!
-Don't entrust your children to reckless Mexican drunkards!
-Don't send your teenagers alone on a cultural exchange trip to Japan!
In conclusion then, better keep to our own culture, language, and above all, take loving care of our own kids! Keep big guns out of their reach and spend time with them instead of roming around the world.
Some moving acting - but Japanese story too unrelated and Mexican story just plain silly... Babel bit off way more than it could chew, leaving me frustrated.
Comment: You have to overcome at least the first 30 mins before deciding to walk out. technically well threaded together.tedious in places.Japanese scenes drawn out.Bit far fetched story line. no messages in it for me.
having dealt with tourists,human nature,border officials ,embassies etc etc in many countries in the world since the early 1960's nothing really surprised me. overall enjoyed,wellacted, moroccan scenes good .would not necessarily recommend to others
Comment: More accessible than Innaritu's previous works, which in itself is not necessarily a recommendation, but Babel is silky smooth in its delivery and profound in its humanity. Highly recommended.
Comment: This film really didn't do it for me. Great acting, so three and a half stars.
Comment: Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett's supreme fame was a distraction from the characters they were portraying; Unanswered questions about people doing stupid things - Mexican Auntie complete lack of sense of responsibility with children in several instances; Moroccan father trusting young inexperienced children with high powered rifle; Japanese girl's anger at her treatment because she is deaf borne out in sexual frustration? Brad Pitt's character not wanting the bus to leave when he believed they were getting an ambulance/helicopter? The supposed point of the film - about how we are all somehow connected on the planet - seemed contrived.
Comment: Compelling and beautifully acted by all the cast.
Comment: Hi,
i watched the film "Babel", and in that scene, where the japanese guys are dancing at the disco, first there comes a short remix of september from earth wind & fire, but the song that comes after that, does anyone know its name? or was it made specially for the film?. I've already looked up in the soundtrack but it's not there.
Hope you can help me!
Comment: Totally lacking in subtlety. I felt like I had a message shoved down my throat and out the other end. My three stars are for the convincing acting and interesting locations.
Comment: Yet another movie that connects four stories, not interesting enough in themselves for their own feature, and still not interesting when thrown together in this movie. The stories are interconnected so loosely that you wonder why they bothered to try connect them at all. Much too long and too deliberate in its attempt to be emotionally manipulative. Filled to the brim with stereotypes. The one star I give is for acting and insight into the treatment people from more developed countries experience compared to those from less developed countries.
Comment: Those people who thought this movie was depressing, long, slow and pointless better go back to their feel-good Hollywood blockbusters. This type of movie is not for them.
So what if everything doesn't work out perfectly - that's life. I was absorbed all the way and although some events were sad I was moved and uplifted.
I hate hand-held cameras with a vengeance, they were sparingly used here and not a bother.
The exciting sequence of events was well-contrived, the acting fine. It was visually satisfying and real. A thought-provoking film that created interesting discussion and recall of various scenes and characters.
Comment: Why nitpick about the events and question what the characters did or didn't do? They reacted to events the way people do in real life. Yes perhaps they could have done something different but they didn't! It was all possible and real.
Nicely put together all round, hardly a dull moment and very thoughtful.
Comment: Good to see a real film by real filmmakers.
Comment: The worst I've seen during the last 12 months.
Shaky "hand held" photography. Not enough seen of Pitt & Blanchett - both relegated to minor roll status. Excessive musical padding. Protracted storyline - only enough story for 90 minutes. Crude, unnecessary & boring tangents to storyline.
Guess I missed something somewhere!
Comment: I'm with graham morrison. It was the crappiest film I've ever seen. I should have walked out too!
Comment: A remarkable film yes and I would recommend it to film buffs. There are quite disturbing things in this film where death is entertained in powerfuly moving ways.
Ultimately for me it doesn't get the extra half point for a perfect film because of the vacuum it leaves at the very end. The non disclosure of the note and the point about the conflicting stories given by father and daughter leave too much of a gap which was unsatisfying.
Some very powerful scenes though which take one to rarely visited places in the usual Hollywood claptrap.
Comment: Depressing and lacking proper development. Stalled in symbolism.
Can't work ou what people see in it.
Stories never really get going.
Reminiscent of 'Japenese Story'.
More of a documentary of the darker side of the world through some limited snap shots than cinema. To many loose ends and poorly made representations. Paul & Ann
Comment: My family thought it to be depressing & not worth watching even though they did not walk out. The central focus we all agree though was the gun & it's destructive symbol & how a simple act of kindness could be the catalyst for such destruction. The Japanese connection was a bit tenuous - was it the gun she claimed killed her mother or did I miss something?
Comment: I enjoyed this film. It's moody and interesting. I loved the segues and fragmentation of time. The themes were contemporary. The acting was solid (in a good way). There seemed to be a couple of threads which weren't resolved - why didn't the sister relieve the kid's carer so she could go to the wedding? what was in the note to the detective? Maybe i'd get some insights if i watched it again, but once is probably enough...
Comment: One of the most boring films I have ever seen. The director should have cut all the Japanese scenes by half, too long and too boring. The only good thing about it was Cate Blanchett and the little Fanning girl who played her daughter. A complete waste of 2.5 hours.
Comment: Its one of the best movies I've seen in the last 2 years. I really can't think of any others that come close other than Amores Perros and 21 grams, but this one is way ahead.
Comment: I found the movie tedious and a waste of time. Too much time was spent on the Japanese connection.
Comment: This is one of the most intresting movies I have seen all year. It can stand watching and re watching and is multi layered and beautifully filmed and scripted. I wish there were more movies released that are as good as this; its popularity should be an indication that many people are tired of the formulaic rubbish hollywood churns out. Rinko Kikuchi is someone to watch out for in the coming years :-)
Comment: While we are not fans of formulaic Hollywood movies either, we're with Diana on this one. An interesting concept, but it needs a good editing. Very disappointing given the brilliant ratings it was given.
Comment: The plot hard to believe. For example, what parents would leave their children with a nanny and no friend or family contact as backup? Why didn't the American tourists go in the bus? It was a jolty bus ride but with a bit of the opium pain killer, far better than remaining on a dirty floor hours from any medical help. And what on earth was the point of the Japanese connection. Why had Cheiko not worked out all her deaf-mute angst years ago, why was it all happening now? Stupid decisions with obvious consequences makes a tedious film.
Comment: This film addresses issues that everyone should really think about. Try to see beyond your own culture of understanding and for once try to really listen - carefully of what others are saying is very important. (not what you think they are saying) it is often the origin of so many misunderstanding in the world. Look at things in others perpectives & just be a bit more patient wouldn't hurt. I'm a mirgrant so what this film is saying really speak to me. I just hope people take this film as a lesson rather then as an entertainment.


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The sense of victory, however, needs to be tempered. Anyone who believes that securing the Iran nuclear agreement in Congress might have an effect on United States policy and its potential actions regarding the ongoing Israeli occupation of the West Bank and blockade of the Gaza Strip needs to take a deep breath. Read more at TPM Cafe
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Posted in Iran, tagged Ambassador Thomas Pickering, Congress, Global Zero, Iran, Iran nuclear deal, Jack Black, Morgan Freeman, Natasha Lyonne, Queen Noor, Valerie Plame on July 28, 2015| 1 Comment »
This is just an outstanding messaging video. Produced by the good folks at Global Zero, it's funny and it gets to the point. As I've pointed out, every alternative to the Iran nuclear deal is not just worse, it's much, much worse than not only the deal itself, but the status quo as well. Please share this widely.
My New Piece, "Correcting the Critics of the Iran Nuclear Deal" And Additional Notes
Posted in Congress, Iran, tagged AIPAC, American Jews, IAEA, Iran, Iran Deal, Israel, JCPOA, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, P5+1 on July 23, 2015| 1 Comment »
Now that the Iran nuclear agreement is done, the Republicans, AIPAC, the neocons and the Israeli government have gone on the warpath (in more ways than one) to try and get Congress to kill the deal.
I have written a piece for FMEP that takes on some of the most common criticisms of the deal and demonstrates that they are almost entirely smoke. In some cases, they're based on outright falsehoods, in others on distortions of the facts. Please check out the piece and, if you are so inclined, share it with your contacts, friends and lists. There is also a link there to a PDF version that you can print out and distribute if that would be helpful.
A few other points should be stressed in addition to the ones I listed in my piece. (more…)
Debunking the Opposition to the Iran Framework
Posted in Iran, Uncategorized, tagged Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Congressional opposition to Iran nuclear talks, IAEA, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Iran Deal, Iran Nuclear Framework Agreeement, UN Security Council on April 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »
by Mitchell Plitnick and Matt Duss
The Framework Agreement between the P5+1 and Iran announced on April 2[1] was an important step toward ending the long standoff over Iran's nuclear program. Not surprisingly, it has already come under fierce attack by hawks in Washington and Iran.
On the U.S. side, opposition to the deal is rooted in a desire to see Iran's complete capitulation, if need be at gunpoint. But negotiation requires compromise; and compromise, by definition, means no one gets exactly what they want.
Ultimately, here are the questions at hand: Can a deal based on this framework prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon? Will the U.S. and its allies be more secure because of it? The answer to both is yes. Read more at the FMEP blog.
Takeaways From the Israeli Election
Posted in Elections, Israel, tagged Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Congress, European Union, ICC, International Criminal Court, Iran, Isaac Herzog, Israel, Israeli elections, Likud, Netanyahu election victory, Obama administration, Two-state solution on March 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won his fourth election last night in surprising fashion. He outdistanced the polls, including the exit polls in the waning hours of voting and won a decisive victory over the Zionist Union and Isaac Herzog. Here are some quick and initial takeaways from the results.
A huge victory for the Right
Even though the right wing/religious bloc in the Knesset didn't grow, the right gained considerable power relative to
the last Knesset. The last government included two centrist parties, Yesh Atid, and Hatnuah. Yesh Atid actually was the biggest single party in it, with Likud having joined with Avigdor Lieberman's party to gain a decisive lead in the 2013 elections. Hatnuah, though small, was very important to the coalition, as its head, Tzipi Livni was the fig leaf over the right wing that negotiated with the Palestinians.
This coalition is going to have a very different character. It is quite possible that Netanyahu will get the fully right-wing coalition he wants. It is very possible that the most moderate party in it will be Moshe Kahlon's center-right Kulanu party. Kahlon is at best lukewarm on the two-state solution, although he has been critical of Netanyahu's refusal to maintain negotiations. He probably described his view best when he said he supported Netanyahu's 2009 Bar-Ilan speech. That's the one Bibi just repudiated in the last days of the campaign. Read more at the FMEP blog.
New York Daily News
Posted in Barack Obama, Bibi Netanyahu, Congress, Iran, tagged Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Congress, Iran, Iran nuclear deal, John Boehner, Susan Rice on March 4, 2015| 1 Comment »
I placed a short op-ed in the Daily News today. The headline is not surprisingly misleading, and the News is not exactly a highly professional outlet. But it has a pretty good readership, and, in New York, it gets more of a cross-section than the Times and the Post. Check it out.


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The community of Girdwood is home to several thousand people, thousands of salmon, bald eagles, hundreds of dogs, and about a dozen bears. Since we share this beautiful country with bears, we want to be good stewards of this land and coexist peacefully and safely.
The Wild & Aware Girdwood community group is simply a collective group of people who love their community and wish to help everyone here understand what it takes to keep us safe and the bears wild. Join us for fun events, whether you already know all there is to know about living and recreating in bear country, to learning the basics.
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Jensen, Eric Frederick, 1951-
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005
|Named Person:
|Robert Schumann; Robert Schumann; Robert Schumann
|Material Type:
|Biography, Document, Internet resource
|Document Type:
|Internet Resource, Computer File
|All Authors / Contributors:
Eric Frederick Jensen
|1423722248 9781423722243 1280428597 9781280428593 9780198031000 0198031009
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|Originally published: 2001.
|1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
|Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 Childhood and Youth; 2 University Years; 3 Schumann and Literature; 4 Commitment to Music; 5 Schumann's Compositions Prior to 1834; 6 The League of David; 7 Courtship and Marriage; 8 The Piano Compositions, 1834-39; 9 Married Life in Leipzig; 10 The Compositions, 1840-44; 11 The Years in Dresden; 12 Schumann's Dramatic Works; 13 The Years in Düsseldorf; 14 The Compositions, 1845-54; 15 Endenich; Epilogue "The Poet Speaks": Schumann and Childhood; Appendices; Calendar; List of Works; Personalia; Select Bibliography; Index.
|Series Title:
|Master musicians series.
|Eric Frederick Jensen.
Robert Schumann, one of the most beloved composers of the Romantic movement, embodied the passion and imaginative spirit of his age. Known for his musical and literary genius and his legendary romance with his wife Clara, Schumann was also plagued with debilitative bouts of depression that led him to live his last days in a German mental asylum. This important new biography recreates the dynamics of this man and his music with unprecedented range, offering new insight into his final years and his lasting musical achievements. Drawing on Schumann's recently published journals, letters, and new research, author Eric Jensen renders a balanced portrait of the composer with both scholarly authority and engaging clarity. Biographical chapters alternate with commentary on Schumann's piano, choral, symphonic, and operatic works, demonstrating how the circumstances of his life helped shape the music he wrote at various periods. Chronicling the forbidden romance of Robert and Clara, Jensen offers a nuanced look at the evolution of their relationship.; He also follows Schuman's creative musical criticism, which championed the burgeoning careers of Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms and challenged the musical tastes of nineteenth-century Europe. Most importantly, he presents new evidence that Schumann - locked away in the asylum at Endenich - had returned sufficiently to health to justify his removal from confinement a year before his death. Like the innovations of his final compositions from 1845-1854, his sanity was overlooked and misunderstood by his contemporaries. Jensen corrects the historical record, illuminating the tragedy of Schumann's final days and refuting the common dismissal of his final works as the result of an unstable mind. A significant addition to music literature, "Schumann" is the first authoritative biography of the composer written for general readers as well as music students and historians.
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|1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs)
|Chicken bouillon cube
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|6 Small, thinly sliced
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|1 Medium, pared and thinly sliced
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2. Remove from heat; stir in remaining 1/2 cup water and madrilene; chill 1 hour, or until syrupy.
3. Place six 6-ounce custard cups or molds in a shallow pan of ice and water. Spoon 1 tablespoon syrupy gelatin into each cup; let set until just beginning to be sticky-firm, then arrange a layer of sliced radishes, overlapping, in gelatin. Carefully spoon in 2 tablespoons more syrupy gelatin, and again let set until sticky-firm.
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Saturated Fat 0.1 g0.49%
Trans Fat 0 g
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Sodium 2267.5 mg94.5%
Total Carbohydrates 27 g9.1%
Dietary Fiber 7.1 g28.4%
Sugars 7.1 g
Protein 26 g52.7%
Vitamin A 206.6% Vitamin C 96.5%
Calcium 9.9% Iron 14.3%
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