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We met on the stairs of the public library and sang parody Christmas carols about the greed of billionaire corporations taking tax breaks when we need the money to fix our subways, schools and housing.
We walked and sang our way over to the Amazon Bookstore, where we stood singing and handing out flyers to customers so that they could become aware of many of the abusive workplace policies and surveillance technology development that the corporation participates in.
It was pretty cold, so after a few hours and handing out a few hundred fliers, we decided to go home. After we officially ended, many of us stood outside and shared our stories with each other.
One man reached out and held my hand while he told me about how much he loves his community of Long Island City. He has lived there for 40 years, has deep relationships with his neighbors, is a homeowner with many renter friends who are on limited incomes, and participates in the art world.
As he held my hand he gripped it with emotion.
"I love my community, I love it so much, and I don't want to watch it bulldozed and my friends priced out," he said.
Then another man, who had a remarkably beautiful singing voice, joined us in conversation. He told us he was struggling with homelessness in Long Island City and lived off and on in shelters.
He also told us about the amateur operas he used to participate in, which made a lot of sense with his theatrical performance with our Christmas carols.
We stood there chatting as long as we could stand it. I hugged people goodbye and exchanged contact information with them. I went to get hot chocolate with two friends and promised to meet up with new friends in the future. And then I came to a realization.
Activism is is an expression of love and of hope. Sometimes activism looks like anger, but those who come out usually recognize the deep role and importance that a subject has had in their lives, and their protest is an attempt to profess that love and defend it.
On Friday, it was about the love of small business and neighborhoods that allow you to know your deli guy, to have relationships with bodega and restaurant owners, about the appreciation of a mixed-income community where people have agency.
And it was also about the assertion of that personal agency. Before I ever attended a protest, I would watch the news and feel small. I would look at the people making decisions about my community, my government and my life as giants, people who were untouchable and unstoppable, and I was just there to receive the fruits of their will, good or bad.
But then to show up, to stand outside and offer up support for an idea you care about, it felt incredible. The first time I met a senator, I was shocked to discover I was nearly as tall as them. My voice was just as loud.
We were the same, but I had given them power. When we give people power, we deserve to be able to give feedback on how they use it.
Activism is an act of love and an act of self-assertion. It means that you believe your opinion matters, and you want to find community with others who believe the same.
Holding the hand of the man in pain, bearing witness to the man who has struggled while also seeing the great beauty in his voice and his abilities and talents, that is a meaningful human act.
A protest can feel like a big act, but it is really a thousand small acts of community, recognition, support, and love. And that community is so needed right now.


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Christian Education
The First Baptist Church of Painted Post has a Nursery and Children's Church, as well as Children's Time during each Sunday Worship. We do a Vacation Bible School and Sunday School sessions with content tailored to a variety of age groups.
There are adult Sunday School sessions, book discussions and Bible studies led by Pastor Rich. These conversations are open discussions where questions and interpretations are welcomed and where we share a journey of discovery of the Scriptures and other materials.


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My short story The New Herd is out in the world! Check out the link to read it.
Thanks Stupefying Stories.
Here's a sneak peak… follow the link here. to read the full story at Stupefying Stories.
The new herd of cows had arrived for milking,white skin gleaming in the sunlight as they were ushered from the transport ship. They walked as if their udders were tight with gold. But they refused to be touched. Maybe they were a little skittish from their long flight through space, God forbid. I prayed to the Sun, our God, to ensure none were sick. The cows often became unwell on arrival to Earth. Their stomachs couldn't cope with the microbes any more. Their blood didn't tolerate the lack of oxygen in the mountain air we breathed. The cows would still be milkable, even if ill—the job would be harder and I would have to be patient. Like everyone else here in town I preferred it when the milking was easy.
"A fresh harvest," I yelled, summoning my wife and son as I walked out to the landing area.
The cows were kicking up the dirt in the holding pen. I could see the clouds of dust rising from the anger in their hooves. Running to the pens I prayed they would be ready for milking and I would be able to calm them with my well-practised smile and tender fingers. I wondered if it hurt them to have udders so tight that they didn't know how to spend such a commodity.
Tying my brightly woven poncho around my waist I hurried past Carlos. I wanted to be first at the holding pens. He fumbled with his poncho and I stuck out my foot causing him to tumble. Tripping my neighbour was all part of the competition between the people of our village. I arrived first, the chance to have the pick of a virgin herd sent shivers of pleasure through my hands.
"Tarde," I said, pinching the brown skin on the hand of my wife when she finally made it to my side. Good thing the cows didn't understand our language as I mumbled more profanities to my wife as we waited. It would be her fault if the milking was poor for us today.
My son looked odd with the knee-length black skirt trimmed with waves of colour and matching tailored coat. But only we knew his true gender. He hated having to keep long hair which was now in two neat plaits. We would use any trick to help with the milking.
Follow the link here to read the full story at Stupefying Stories.
The New Herd is also in the short story collection Dark Reflections, by Lilliana Rose.
Sometimes the mirror we look into is flesh and bone and the reflections seen are shadows within us.
Dark Reflections is a collection of short stories from a variety of genres, science fiction, fantasy, horror, steampunk and even contemporary. Each story reflects a darker tone of human nature, ones that we would prefer to ignore, or pretend not to exist.
Come and sit by the mirror and see what will be reflected back at you.
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One afternoon in September, 2016, I stopped by the Idyllwild Nature Center, which is my favorite spot in the Southern California mountains to photograph birds.
This particular afternoon was quite slow, bird-wise, and the woods were nearly silent. I was thinking of leaving. Suddenly, the trees came alive with agitated calls from squirrels, which until then, I hadn't really noticed. I wondered why they were so excited. Looking around, I saw what caused the disturbance: a bobcat wandering nonchalantly through the area!
Just as the cat entered a ray of late-afternoon sunlight, it turned to survey the area, and to glance at me, before proceeding on its way.
I was a thrill to see it so close, and equally thrilling to get a decent photo.


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With Christmas a little over a month away, Kensington Palace is preparing to celebrate the holidays and so is LEGO's version of the world's most famous royal family.
Tiny versions of Prince Harry, Queen Elizabeth II, The Duke of Edinburgh, The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and their dog Lupo have been spotted donning festive gear as they celebrate Christmas at Legoland's Windsor Park.
Never ones to be tardy with their wishlists, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, who donned chunky red and pink knitwear respectively, were seen shipping their letters off to Santa Claus in the North Pole.
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Dubbed "Christmas Bricktacular," another scene shows the Royals gathering in front of Buckingham Palace while posing for cameras, only minutes before taking their seats and devouring a delicious looking feast.
A third holiday-themed scene captures miniature versions of the much-beloved family greeting an eager crowd of Royal-watchers from the balcony of the Queen's London residence.


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Dear readers, as I have announced in the first part of our option trading series, I'm going to tell you how our gas trading has developed in the second week of May. We'll catch up with time and you'll always have the next reports on time after signing into your client's section on Quastic.
1. Summary of the week
During the second week of our series, natural gas has been just growing. And as we have entered with a clean short position, our portfolio, of course, has been slightly losing. We used this situation to open an additional small and aggressive option position (2pc for an 80,000 EUR account) at ETF: BOIL with strike 26 and June expiration (BOIL 15'Jun 26.0 CALL). Our average price was $ 1.70, which means a break-even for BOIL at $ 27.70. For now, however, we are losing on this position.
There were no significant fundamental reasons for gas growth, rather it is a classical price oscillation in a certain band, and next week gas can both grow and fall. For us, of course, the ideal scenario would be the drop of the ETF: BOIL to $ 27. We could then close part of the options with full profits and look for new opportunities. We would have probably rolled some of the positions to the next month because we could get the most from the time premium.
What I would like to emphasize in this commentary is the gradual disintegration of the time premium for the May sold BOIL option with strike 27. Since the beginning of trading on 1.5.2018, ETF: BOIL price has practically remained unchanged. On the other hand, the option price, which we are shorting, dropped from USD 1.18 to the current USD 0.90. So, option trading approach allowed us to earn even though the position went slightly against us. This is very important for all traders and investors.
This is a rather lazy type of investment, we do not run anywhere, and we do not even need to do a lot of trades. Last week, we were at a loss, as ETF: BOIL rose by about 5% and approached our strike levels. From the start of trading, we are still about $ 100 plus, and the next week, when the options will expire will be decisive for overall performance.
2. Report
If you are interested to receive access to our client section, where you can find my regular weekly commentary and reports to download, please leave your email in the box below. Thank you.


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What They're Really Asking
When being interviewed for a position, you may be asked to explain how you would be an asset to their organization. Many common questions that come up in interviews have hidden meaning, but this one is generally pretty straightforward. Even so, if you understand exactly what the interviewer is interested in, you can answer in a way that plays at those desires specifically and appear especially appealing.
The first aspect you should realize is that the hiring manager is only, or primarily, concerned with how their company will benefit from hiring you. Asking for you to explain how you would be an asset is a polite way of discovering what they will get out of the deal.
Points to Emphasize
If the hiring manager wants to know what the company has to gain by hiring you, you should be open-minded about simply telling them exactly that.
· Talk about which unique qualities or experiences you have that they can only take advantage of by hiring you.
Mistakes You Should Avoid
Remember, the employer is mostly interested in their own gains. Avoid dedicating any portion of your answer, no matter how brief, to anything outside this.
· Do not talk about how the position is an excellent opportunity for you to advance your career or earn money.
- Do not focus on the negative aspects of passing on hiring you or what they will miss out on. Stay positive.
- Be careful not to exaggerate what you can bring to the table. It is better to be honest.
- Avoid portraying yourself as a hotshot. Be gracious in your attributes.
Be sure you remain focused. It can be easy to stray into your goals or aspirations, especially since you are talking about yourself, but it should always be in the context of the company.
Sample Answer
If you are asked to explain how you would be a valuable asset, you might answer in a way similar to this:
Unlike most people in similar positions, I thrive on going above and beyond. I'm confident that I would bring many unique qualities to your company and provide many opportunities for improvement. You can confirm with my references that I improved success at my last place of employment, and I believe I can provide similar results here.
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I can't remember when I first saw the trailer for 'Us' but from the moment I saw it I was excited to see the full movie. There's nothing I love more than a horror movie and this looked promising. I'd also enjoyed Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' and the whole psychological element, so I was pretty certain I'd enjoy this film too.
CAUTION: This review will contain spoilers.
Once the movie was released I booked me and my friend's three tickets and before I knew it we were at the cinema ready to watch the movie. All three of us were looking forward to it and hoped it was good – generally horror movies are either amazing or rubbish and we were keen to see which category this film fit into.
When the credits rolled at the end my first thoughts were '… What did I just watch?' It was one of those films that had the three of us talking the entire car ride home because we were all quite confused about what happened. When I got home the first thing I did was pour over the imdb page, Wikipedia page and any articles I could find that explained the plot. Although I'm more with it now I'm still not sure if I 100% understand it.
Firstly, the film was amazingly done. The cinematography was on point and the acting was phenomenal, especially from Lupita Nyong'o – she played both her parts incredibly well, especially 'Red' who was super creepy. When the doppelganger family first enter the house and Red starts telling them a story her voice was really putting me on edge, it was excellent acting.
I love that this movie didn't 100% rely on jump scares and managed to be creepy in its own way. The shots of all the tethered holding hands across the country was somehow super creepy and superbly done, it's definitely something that will stick with me for a while. In fact just seeing the tethered go through their clumsy movements in the tunnels had me on edge. It wasn't entirely 'terrifying' as there were some moments of comedy and I feel like these were executed well whilst still keeping the atmosphere.
What bothered me the most when initially watching it was the ending – it's hard to explain for those who haven't seen but we are shown that the doppelgangers are called the 'tethered' and they were a government experiment to see if US citizens could be controlled with a copied version of their bodies. When the experiment failed the tethered were abandoned underground having to copy the actions of the 'real life' versions of themselves – it's implied these people don't have a soul, any real emotions or much freewill. We're sort of taken along this journey of the tethered deciding that it's their turn now to live and they all come to the surface to kill the other version of themselves in order to replace them.
When Adelaide was a child she met her tethered (Red) and throughout the film Red mentions how she and the rest of the tethered grew up without sunlight and says something along the lines of "I wonder what would have happened if you'd taken me with you" to Adelaide. Except in the final moments of the film we find out Red was the original Adelaide – when they met, Adelaide knocked her out, took her down to the tethered and left her there so she could replace her. It was an interesting twist but unfortunately didn't seem to fit in with anything we'd heard previously to that.
The thing I find confusing is that part of the deal with the tethered was that they were soulless and were forced to just awkwardly follow their counter-parts movements. Why was Red different? How were her and Adelaide able to meet? Surely once she'd been dragged down to the tethered she could've found her way back out – it didn't seem that complicated and it's not like the other tethered would've tried to stop her considering how lifeless they were. How did the tethered snap out of their copying regime to follow Red's orders to go to the surface? Why did the government leave millions of people underground without destroying their creations when the experiment failed? It's an amazing idea but I just don't fully understand it.
It's never really clear whether Adelaide or Red remember that they were swapped round until the end when it's revealed to the audience. Surely they were more than old enough to have remembered and I assume Red must have because she retained her speech whereas none of the other tethered could talk. But neither of them mention it. I suppose the filmmakers wanted to save it until the end as a big reveal but it seemed to contradict everything they'd been talking about. For example it was Red that explained the tethered experiement to Adelaide – as a tethered she should've already known what they were and Red would've known that she knew.
They did throw in a few hints that Adelaide was a tethered (her savagery when killing other tethered for example), but I just don't think it was executed as well as it could've been. It seemed a little bit thrown in at the end to add shock.
Regardless of this I did enjoy the film. It held my interest from the start and kept me guessing right until the very end. It was certainly something new – my friend once told me we are living in a generation of remakes and sequels so to see something like this was so refreshing. I love the whole idea of it and wouldn't mind another movie exploring it a bit more but I doubt that would happen – it could very well just ruin this film anyway.
Overall, this is definitely a film I'd recommend to any horror fans. Regardless of my confusion with the plot, which could probably be explained away, the film has left a lasting impression on me and I'm just really impressed. I'm looking forward to any future horror releases by Jordan Peele.
Time for my piece of trivia which I now include with all my horror movie reviews – Lupita Nyong'o based Red's voice on Robert F. Kennedy Jr and specifically the spasmodic dysphonia he suffers from. There were quite a few pieces of interesting trivia on the iMDB page to be fair but I went with this one as Red's voice really did put me on edge.
Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts on the movie and if you haven't already seen it then I definitely recommend it.


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SOME PEOPLE CLIMB UP | Leigh Woods | 28 & 29 September and 4, 5 & 6 October 2019 Residence member and artist Sylvia Rimat is creating a thought-provoking, engaging audio-walk through Bristol's most famous and loved woods, inspired by scientific research and personal stories collected in workshops. The project explores our connectivity with the woodland … Continue reading
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Brunswick Club
We've moved into a new home in Bristol with two other artist-led collectives: We've taken over the legendary Brunswick Club, a former Working Mans' Club, in St Pauls with its skittle alleys, dance hall, bars and lounges. Brunswick Club is now home to Bristol Experimental & Expanded Film (BEEF), Residence, CHAMP and Thorny along with … Continue reading
I'm Still Standing – Residence event at Mayfest 2016
We're really excited to be running an event as part of Mayfest this year. Having a group of artists committed to sharing resources and a long term interest in each others practices has helped us face challenges together and keep going over the last ten years. Now we're beginning to face new challenges – mid … Continue reading
Return to The Island
Residence is pleased to announce our arrival in a new, albeit temporary, home: CID Studios at The Island. We have a lovely office here without which we would have been really stuck so thanks to Dina from ArtspaceLifespace for making it all happen. If you want to find out more about all the great stuff … Continue reading
A Decade With Mars – Kids!
Residence artists Ella Good & Nicki Kent are in Hull this week, at the beginning of a tour to launch A Decade With Mars. It's a long term community project about space, time, and the future. In each city they visit, they'll be launching a weather balloon with a camera attached, to publicly launch the … Continue reading
Leo Burtin hideaway – Le Bistroquet
We're going to be hosting Lancaster based artist Leo Burtin for a weekend hideaway. Sadly this will be the last hideaway we will be hosting from The Milk Bar. Leo will be working on his Homemade series while he's here, and as part of this he is going to run Le Bistroquet – a free … Continue reading
Losing the Milk Bar…
(image courtesy of ex-Hideaway guests and long term Residence friends Low Profile) Residence has now been given the sad news that we were not successful in our bid to take on the lease at our building in St Nicholas Street. Its disappointing news, but it is not devastating, we are undeterred! We have been blown … Continue reading


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The need for a revolution to battle patriarchy: field visit to Kanpur Dehat, Uttar PradeshPosted By Rang De Team in Updates
In the first week of November, I was in rural Uttar Pradesh, sitting down with a group of women, interviewing them about the loans they had taken through Rang De. I was accompanied by four staff members from our partner organisation, who were there to facilitate the conversation. Two of these staff members were […]Read More


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It is an exciting time in Nashville! Our hometown boys are competing in the Stanley Cup Finals and Music City is coming together to support the team. We have gathered a handful of ways to watch the games, support the team and eat some catfish. Let's go Preds!
Although watching from the comfort of your couch may seem nice, we promise you will want to be surrounded by fellow Nashvillians as the Preds compete in the Stanley Cup Finals. Head downtown, or grab a seat at the local bar.
On Thursday, June 8 and Sunday, June 11, head downtown to watch games five and six of the Stanley Cup Final.
For Thursday's away game, the Predators plan to open Bridgestone Arena for fans to view the game. They are making 13,000 general admission tickets available with about 5,000 remaining. Tickets are $5 for season ticket holders and $15 for non-season ticket holders with proceeds benefiting the Nashville Predators Foundation. Tickets available at ticketmaster.com.
Lower Broadway will continue to be a dedicated fan zone as the Preds play. Two giant screens and a viewing area will be set up and the gates will open at 5 p.m.
On Sunday, there will be viewing parties on Broadway, in Walk of Fame Park and Ascend Ampitheater. Broadway opens at 4 p.m. and the game will broadcast live at 7 p.m.
The number of people on the Bridgestone Arena plaza for the Game 6 watch party has been limited to 300 (first come, first serve). Secure a wristband to secure a spot on the plaza.
For more details and rules, visit visitmusiccity.com/nashvillepredators.
Stay tuned for updates!
Bars and restaurants across town will be streaming the game. Consider setting up shop and watching the games at one of these local spots: Blue Moon Waterfront Grille, M.L. Rose, Neighbors, Nations Bar and Grill, Double Dogs, Dawghouse Saloon, Beyond the Edge, Drifters, The Crow's Nest and The Centennial.
Local eateries and watering holes are offering deals during the games. Take advantage of what they are offering!
Paradise Park
Check out the "Wear your Gear, Get a Beer" special at Paradise Park, which occurs two hours before every home game. Go downtown, hit Broadway and head here as every guest wearing Preds gear is offered one Bud Light. Woo hoo!
Fin & Pearl
For one hour before the puck drops, anyone wearing Preds gear can get a 2-for-1 special on draft beers, for both home and away games.
The Southern Steak & Oyster
The Southern will be running the same special as Fin & Pearl: For one hour before the puck drops, anyone wearing Preds gear can get a 2-for-1 special on draft beers, for both home and away games.
The Centennial
Centennial will have 5-for-$15 specials on domestic beer buckets and $4 Fireball shots during the games.
1808 Grille
For Saturday night's game, 1808 Grille will be serving Preds-inspired cocktails: Midtown Smashville, Get Down Swizzle and Black Ice Pick.
Burger Republic
Sip beer from a Stanley Cup mug, for $19.95 with $6 refills on any local beer. They will also be serving The Gold Monster Milkshake for $9.95. This creation features Bulleit Bourbon and brown sugar shake with a chocolate chip cookie and a specialty made waffle cone shaped like the Stanley Cup. YUM.
The Local Taco
The Local Taco will be serving up a catfish taco in honor of the Preds, get 'em while they last!
Double Dogs
Both locations will be running their standard 22-ounce beer specials, plus a catfish sandwich for $8.49.
House: A Social Eatery
Head to the Hockey House Party at House for $5 Pekka Punch and $5 Subban Slap Shots!
Embers Ski Lodge
Score $1 off all local drafts during the games!
Acme Feed & Seed
Acme will be serving the Farmer's Fresh Catfish all day (normally it's not on the brunch menu) and will offer $1 off all local draft beers.
If you are a true fan, you need to dress the part.
Oak Hall, e. Allen Boutique, Native + Nomad, R E V V, Project 615, The Nash Collection, Nashville Merch, Fang Fingers, The Nashville Standard , Native in Nashville and Nashty Apparel are here to help you find something festive.
Brush up on your hockey knowledge.
While discussing hockey with fellow fans, wow them with these interesting facts: 10 Things You (likely) Don't Know About Hockey.
Keep your ear to the ground for more local specials and opportunities to watch the Preds!


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In the non-fiction writings of Flannery O'Connor, who could probably be said to have "advanced American literature," whatever that means, Cardinal Spellman's Foundling seems to serve as a watchword for all that she found defective in mid-century American Catholic letters: dreary prose, implausible characters, a sentimental plot built upon moral pieties about what ought to happen, all derived from an underlying mistake: the confusion of subjective intentions, however noble, with artistic skill, which is the only thing that can justify a work of art.Spellman's Foundling was by no means unique in its day as an example of Catholic kitsch. And in our own age of mass-produced culture, in which Catholics have half a dozen reliably orthodox publishers and distributors trying to sell us Catholic books, films, and music, O'Connor's warnings about bad art hiding behind orthodoxy are as needful now as fifty years ago. There is more Catholic kitsch for sale than ever before, and one-click internet ordering renders us especially vulnerable to it.
There are perhaps Catholic readers and critics who would say that an earnest attempt to write fiction by a robustly orthodox archbishop like Cardinal Spellman should be respectfully welcomed, that aesthetic or literary criticism of such a book would be out of place; he has, after all, furnished his readers with a story that has a positive message about the Faith, and that is a rare thing in the modern age.
This would not be Flannery's view.
It's true, isn't it, that far too many Catholic fiction publishers these days seem to want exactly what the blogger here excoriates: "...dreary prose, implausible characters, a sentimental plot built upon moral pieties about what ought to happen..." People who are willing to be ruthless in discussing what's wrong with Thomas Kinkade's works will preserve a discreet silence when talking about the works of various contemporary Catholic fiction writers, especially the ones whose works are published by the handful of Catholic publishers who still take the risk of publishing fiction at all; there's a sense that, sure, perhaps the books are lacking, but we wouldn't want them to be evil like so much contemporary fiction, so it's fine if they're a bit weak or even totally lame, so long as they are safe and well-intentioned.
About that, from the same post above:
Do read the whole post, if you can.
In this same speech O'Connor tells of an "old lady in California" who wrote her in a scolding letter "that when the tired reader comes home at night he wishes to read something that will 'lift up his heart.'" O'Connor's response: "I wrote her back that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up…one old lady who wants her heart lifted up wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her 250,000 times and what you get is a book club." [...]
Both the old lady in California who wants to be uplifted and the Catholic critic who wants novels to be "positive"—the Scylla and Charybdis of the Catholic public, demanding sentiment or utility, but blind to art—, are confused about what a work of literature is in its essence: they expect it to DO something specific for them and are from the beginning uninterested in its representation of any unpleasant realities, which is to be uninterested in at least half of reality. To want only simplistic sentimental stories is really to want to be lied to, and while there is no shortage in our age of those willing to lie to make a buck, the Christian artist, bound by his theology to see the world as it is, and sanctioned by his morality against deceiving anyone, cannot in good conscience join in.
I really could not agree more with the ideas expressed above--and this, even though my fiction aspirations are to write children's fiction, not adult fiction. The writer of children's fiction has, in my view, a special task: to tell the truth, to tell a good story, to create a realistic world in which good and evil both struggle--but to do so in a way that respects the veil of childhood and that does not unduly breach the trust of parents who allow their children to read the work, to show some restraint in scenes of violence, and to practice reticence most especially of all in terms of sexual content. Some writers for children, especially in this day and age, disagree with those principles and most of all with the last one. But the world of a child is not the world of an adult. The dawning awareness a child ought to have about certain types of evil and some kinds of sin on the one hand, and of certain greatly good gifts which properly belong to marriage on the other, must, I most firmly believe, be treated with a great deal of respect by the writer who aims his or her work to audiences as young as age eight or so (as I do in my writing).
But I can't, and don't, write the kind of children's fiction that most Catholic fiction publishers today would be at all willing to publish or sell. I don't proselytize, I don't preach, and my characters are not wells of unadulterated goodness. My main character is, in the beginning of the book, a thief (though not a very good one). Some of the other characters struggle with selfishness, laziness, guilt and fear, and the character who is in many ways the most morally admirable has a serious fault, which leads to considerable trouble in the not-yet-finished second book. And, as I mentioned in an earlier post, the book is not overtly Catholic. The only way to bring religion into the fictional galaxy where the story takes place would be to drag it in, kicking and screaming, and then to club it into submission--and that's just to make some quiet little mention of Christianity; to have the characters attending Masses or praying the rosary together etc. would be to reduce the story to the lowest sort of pandering.
I feel sorry for those Catholic writers I know who write fiction for adults. Their Catholic worldview shapes everything about the way they approach their art, and yet they are far less likely to be published by a Catholic publishing company, no matter how talented they are, than a secular one (and we all know how hard it can be to get a secular publisher even to look at a manuscript) unless they are willing to write a Kinkade-esque fantasy about a sweet Catholic family in a little roseate cottage whose main conflicts involve being nice to the neighbors who let their daughters wear jeans. Okay, okay, I'm exaggerating--but not by all that much.
Which major Catholic publisher today would publish O'Connor? Or Walker Percy? Or Graham Green? Would any of them?
I've heard Catholic publishers say, in essence, "Look, we have to publish safe fiction that our readers like, because nobody buys Catholic fiction anymore except for the 'old lady in California' or the reader looking for a positive, affirming tale." But maybe nobody buys Catholic fiction anymore because there's so darned little of it being published.


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Selected as part of our International Open Call on Artes Vivas, the Portuguese artist Cristina Planas will work on the concepts of resistance, survival and permanency starting from the binaries present in the dancing perspective
UM [unimal] is a solo evoquing the idea of how a single body can represent the collectivity and the common history through a macro-investigation on the role of dancing. Specifically, the artwork focuses on resistance dances and those emerging from social and political movements, and on their impact on the way in which bodies survive and manifest themselves in the present. The main theme, the SURVIVAL triggers the work of two sub-themes: the SUBSISTENCE, after the disappearance (which maintains the link with her previous piece FM [featuring mortuum]), and the PERMANENCY of past traditions. PERMANENCY is developed through the investigation of resistance movements raised both as a structural and collective attempt against the established authorities. UM [unimal] aims to investigate the continuous physicality between the virtuosity of the limits of the body fighting to maintain itself on the scene which perseverance and tiredness contaminates and attracts, as a gladiator in the arena or like the marathonist in a competition or like a climber.
The physicality explored is the MARCHing. MARCHing is a way of disclosing, during its process, the representation of the actual movement and its conduction means the repetition of a organised body, which is moving forwards in a regular and deliberate way. Historically, marching emerges from both the contexts of oppression and liberation, on both sides of resistance, where there is the necessity of changing and moving forwards. The question is: how can the march be converted into movement.
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Concept and Artistic Direction, Cristina Planas Leitão
Executive Production Célia Machado, Cristina Planas Leitão
Booking Teresa Camarinha
Graphic Design Eduardo Ferreira
Photos Susana Neves
Video Sofia Arriscado
Akcnowledgements Filipa Lowndes Vicente, Joana Gorjão Henriques, Gil Mendo, Ivan-Vincent Massey, Pedro Neves, Ana Renata Polónia, Mariana Jacob, Musibéria, Jesper de Neergaard, Lotte Kodod Ludvigsen, Lars Kjær Dideriksen, Paulo Meunier, Sérgio Pacheco / Endutex.
An opening process will be realised during the mid of her staying to a small group of people to generate a immediate feedback. The feedback will be then developed during her remaining time in the residence.
Day: 14th of March
Time: 20:00 pm
Place: NAVE- Libertad Street 410, Santiago Centro (by Metro Cumming/ Quinta Normal)
**The event is free of charge with prior registration
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Estreia/ Premiere 27 April 2018 – Academic Theatre Gil Vicente, Coimbra (PT)
Culturgest, Lisboa (PT)
Teatro Municipal do Porto (PT) – Festival DDD
Teatro Aveirense (PT)
Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente (PT)
Casa das Artes de Famalicão (PT)
Teatro Municipal de Faro (PT)
Residences and support in the creation of 2017/2018:
MD Kollektiv, Koln (DE); Dance Ireland, Dublin (IR); Teatro Nacional S. João (PT)
Centro Danza Canal, Madrid (ES); Materiais Diversos/ Grand Studio Brussels (PT/BE); O Espaço do Tempo (PT); Bora Bora, Aarhus (DK); Companhia Instável, Porto (PT); NAVE, Santiago (CL); 23Milhas/ CM Ílhavo (PT)
Financial Support
Direção Geral das Artes/ Ministério da Cultura (PT)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (PT)
Institutional Support: MC / Direção Regional de Cultural do Norte / Casa das Artes
27 Abril / Abril – Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, Coimbra (PT) – Premiere
2 Maio / Mayo – Festival DDD / Teatro do Bolhão, Porto (PT)
11 Maio / Mayo – Casa das Artes de Famalicão (PT)
18 Maio / Mayo – Culturgest, Lisboa (PT)
19 Maio / Mayo – Culturgest, Lisboa (PT)
24 Junio – Teatro Aveirense, Aveiro (PT)
13 Septiembre / Septiembre – Teatro Municipal de Faro (PT)
9 Noviembre / Noviembre – Centro de Arte de Ovar (PT)


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Four Midlanders earn rank of Eagle Scout
Nationwide, 4 percent of Boy Scouts achieve the rank of Eagle Scout. Boy Scout Troop 760 in Midland has four Scouts who have achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. Since 2007, 45 percent of the boys who have left Troop 760 have earned the rank of Eagle.
The four Scouts who achieved the rank this year were recognized for their accomplishments at an Eagle Scout Ceremony at Trinity Lutheran Church.
The four Scouts are Eric Brown, Brandon Cummings, David Read and Brian Schultze. Most of these youths started Cub Scouts together and most joined as Tiger Cubs. Each Scout had to earn a minimum of 21 merit badges, serve as active leaders within their troop, and complete a major community service project.
The boys completed a wide variety of community service projects including building benches and picnic tables at Trinity Lutheran, building a swim raft for Trinity's Wixom Lake property, and pulling tires and debris out a section of the Tobacco River near Farwell. Leading teams of fellow Scouts, adults and other volunteers, these Scouts led projects totaling more than 250 volunteer hours.
Each Scout has participated in several high adventure trips including backpacking trips to Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico and white-water rafting in West Virginia. In addition to Scouting, these youths have been active in various school, church and academic activities including National Merit Scholarship, National Honor Society, marching and symphonic band, school and community plays, varsity swimming, tennis and football, Youth in Government and church youth group activities.
Brandon, David and Brian graduated from H.H. Dow High School in June of this year. Brandon and David plan on majoring in biochemistry and Brian in engineering this fall at the University of Michigan. Eric graduated from H.H. Dow High in June 2012 and is finishing his freshman year at Delta majoring in environmental studies with plans to go to CMU.
The Eagle Scouts were assisted and supported by Dave Brennan, scout master of Troop 760. The boys also received support from their adult Eagle advisers in the troop, Mike Read, Steve Durance, Mike Lanham and Clark Cummings.


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Dear Sir
So very little has occurred amongst the Seditious for these several months last past, deserving of any particular Notice, that I have not thought it necessary to forward any of the reports of the persons employed. The Jacobin Leaders, during the prosperous State of affairs, with which it hath pleased the Almighty to bless this Country, cannot find many followers, nor dare they now, (as, during Bonaparte's Career of Conquest, they used to do) openly express their malevolent Sentiments against their Country and its Government, for Fear of their immediate Chastisement, which would be likely to follow from the Hands of that order of men (the lowest) which in some Instances, they had before too successfully cajoled.
In Conversation with the persons employed, they confess, that the prosperous State of the Trade, enabling men, with common Industry, to earn a comfortable Subsistence for themselves and their Families, has considerably diminished their Hopes of Revolution, which yet, however, they affect to think will ultimately be accomplished, by the Catholics of Ireland. Indeed, whilst Bonaparte shall remain in Power, so long there will be Danger from his machinations, and particularly, in that Quarter of the United Kingdom.
In this
part manufacturing part of Lancashire there is reason to apprehend that the mischievous Activity of the seditious will be principally exerted in promoting Turn Outs (what in Town you call Striking's) for a further advance of Wages, in different Branches of the Manufactures. In matters of this Sort, men of this Description, generally take the Lead, thereby keeping up some consequence with the working manufacturers, who are but too prone to request those Persons as Benefactors, who even pretend to procure for them more Wages for their Labour.
B. has been informed by one John Green, a resident in Town, that a Committee frequently meets at the Fox & Goose, King Street, Seven Dials, and that this Committee corresponds with the Hampden Club, and various other Societies in different parts of the united Kingdom.
The money have advanced to the persons employed, from May 11th (to which period, my Accounts as per my Letter of 27 May, extended) to 13th December instant, is as under
L.F. Time & Expences 31 Weeks 26.7.0
T Time & Expences 31 Weeks 6.15.0
B Time & Expences 31 Weeks 46.13.0
Adjt Warr Time & Expences same period 27.06.0
A B Time & Expences same period 24.06.3
S. Senr Time & Expences same period 4.7.6
S Junr Time & Expences same period 4.4.0
Incidental Expences 2.4.6
Total £ 142.3.3
Four which Sum 142.3.3 I have taken the Liberty to draw upon you at Seven days Sight, payable to Mr Abraham Winterbottom.
I beg to return you my thanks for your kind attention, in sending me the Gazette Extraordinary of the glorious Victories obtained both by the Arms of His Majesty and those of His Allies. May Heaven continue to bless their Efforts, untill the dreadful Tyranny, founded on the Infidel Revolution of France shall fall to rise no more.
You will probably have seen the offer of the Bolton Regiment of Local militia under my Command, to extend its Services, according to the Bill (then pending) since passed into a Law. This was addressed to Lord Castlereagh, as the mover of the measure, and his Lordship has very politely returned his Thanks, observing at the same Time, that he will hand the Offer to Lord Viscount Sidmouth
with great Sincerity
I have [etc]
Ra: Fletcher
[To] John Beckett Esqr
This letter can be found at HO 42/136.


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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Movie Roundup: Super Capsule Edition
The Immortal Story - Late Orson Welles made for TV movie based on an Isak Dinesen story. Fine performances from Jeanne Moreau and Welles himself, and interesting story and a lack of typical Wellsian flourishes make for a fine, if not necessarily great film. The #7 film of 1968.
Moby Dick - John Huston's adaptation of the Melville classic that I've still only made it halfway through, despite three attempts (the last was a decade ago). Orson Welles is great as the thundering preacher, and Gregory Peck makes a fine Ahab (though he was apparently panned at the time) but otherwise just an above-average literary translation. The #12 film of 1956.
Broken Blossoms - DW Griffith classic about an abused wife who finds refuge with a Chinese storekeeper, which ends in tragedy. Relatively racism-free, for Griffith, and a touching melodrama, actually quite a beautiful film. The world would be a better place if this was the film Griffith was most remembered for.
Little Women - Pedestrian literary adaptation enlivened by the perhaps too on the nose casting of Katherine Hepburn as Jo, her 19th Century doppelganger.
The Man Who Knew Too Much - I'd resisted seeing this Hitchcock remake of his own 1930s British film for such a long time, that it likely couldn't help being surprisingly good. James Stewart is as good as ever, but Doris Day's the real shocker with a fine performance as a mother caught up in international intrigue. The #5 film of 1956.
My Name Is Julia Ross - Very fine psychological noir film about a secretary who gets brainwashed into thinking she's a rich guy's wife. Directed by Joseph H. Lewis, a B movie auteur worthy of further study (his Gun Crazy is terrific).
Little Miss Sunshine - Generic indie comedy that somehow won a massive audience and a number of Oscar nominations despite its mediocre, cliche-ridden and generally messy script. The #27 film of 2006.
Madame de. . . - Max Ophuls masterpiece about a pair of earrings winding their way through high society infidelity. Gorgeous camera movements, fine performances from Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux and Vittorio Di Sica.
The Kid - Very fine Chaplin comedy/melodrama in which the Little Tramp comes to adopt an orphan. Jackie Cooper gives a tear-inducing performance and Chaplin's in top form both in physical comedy and in his unique ability to sidestep maudlin in even the most sentimental works.
A King In New York - Late Chaplin about a deposed monarch who flees to America and is overwhelmed by modernity. Some very fine setpieces (Chaplin as TV advertiser, and a communist propaganda-spouting child are the funniest bits). The #7 film of 1957.
Blonde Venus - Marlene Dietrich and director Josef von Sternberg combine for this melodramatic tale of infidelity and a mother on the run. Dietrich's as great as ever as an ex-showgirl who goes back to work to make money for a life-saving operation for her husband. But while he's away, she has an affair with another man. When the husband returns, he chases her all over the country to get his kid back. Overlong, but still good.
The Heroes Of Telemark - Decent enough WW2 action film set in Norway as the Allies try to blow up some Nazi reactors to prevent them from developing heavy water (necessary for an atomic bomb). Entertaining, but I expect better from director Anthony Mann. The #17 film of 1965.
The Train - This is more like it. Burt Lancaster leads a group of French Resistance trying to prevent Paul Scofield's Nazi commander from stealing precious works of art during the last stages of WW2. Lancaster and friends try every means possible to stop Scofield's train, without damaging the art. Lots of train wrecks and some exciting action and a fine supporting cast that includes Jeanne Moreau and Michel Simon. Lancaster's really grown on me in the last year or so, I know longer hate him. Directed by John Frankenheimer. The #11 film of 1964.
New Rose Hotel - Ahead of its time noir from director Abel Ferrera stars Christopher Walken (in one of his great wacky performances) and Willem Dafoe as corporate espionage guys who hire Asia Argento to seduce a scientist and get him to move to another company. Has to be seen to be believed, the last 20 minutes are bizarre and wonderful. The #13 film of 1998.
The Quiet American - Joseph Mankiewicz's adaptation of the Graham Greene story about a cynical Brit and idealistic American (who may be a CIA agent) in Vietnam and the woman they both love. A beautiful film with excellent performances by Michael Redgrave and Audie Murphy. I haven't seen the remake yet, but it'd be hard to top. The #6 film of 1958.
Pan's Labyrinth - Quite overrated. Sloppy story construction is totally not excused by the film being a "fairy tale". Del Toro makes it clear in the end that the whole fantastical aspect of it is in the girl's imagination (the objective shot in the climactic scene showing her talking to empty space). Really, I found the whole thing ugly and depressing. The editing is great though, I love the creative use of the wipe and Del Toro uses it a lot, to great effect. The #20 film of 2006.
Man Of The West - Mediocre Western starring the always(?) mediocre Gary Cooper. Anthony Mann made far better films, I was just never into it. Maybe I should give it another shot? The #13 film of 1958.
Some Came Running - Fine combination of Vincente Minnelli and James Jones, as Frank Sinatra plays a writer who returns to his small town after the war only to get himself into trouble along with Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine. The #11 film of 1958.
Pal Joey - Another Sinatra film, this time as a wanna-be club owner torn between the rich and vicious Rita Hayworth and the poor and honest Kim Novak. The great Rodgers & Hart soundtrack elevates it quite a bit. The #10 film of 1957.
Unknown Pleasures - Probably the most accessible of Jia Zhang-ke's films, as it has a lot in common with a lot of other films, most notably Hou Hsiao-hsien's Goodbye South, Goodbye. Young Chinese unemployed, flirting with lives of crime and angst, beautifully filmed with fine performances. The least weighty Jia film I've seen, but still pretty great. The #6 film of 2002.
The Trial - Some flashy Wellesness, great creepy modernist architecture, a very good performance from Anthony Perkins and some weird supporting work from Welles, Jeanne Moreau, and Akim Tamiroff. But, in the end, it's a Kafka adaptation and my enjoyment of it is dependent on how I'm feeling about Kafka. And I like Welles better than Kafka. The #12 film of 1962.
Paisan - Six-part Roberto Rossellini film about the conquest of Italy in World War 2. Unusual for this type of film, I actually really liked every section. Some great action and suspense sequences (the opening story in a castle, the story about a woman attempting to reach her husband) and very moving non-action sequences (the bonding between an African-American soldier and an orphan who steals his shoes, a priest a rabbi and a minister having dinner in a monastery). One of the best war movies I've seen.
Europa 51 - Ingrid Bergman plays a high society housewife so distraught be the tragic death of her son that she dedicates her life to helping the poor. Quite naturally, her family has her declared insane and locks her in an institution. Great performance from Bergman in another terrific Rossellini film.
This Film Is Not Yet Rated - Mediocre documentary about the MPAA. The director hires a PI to track down the secret MPAA members for way too much of the film, as if anyone cares what they look like. The stuff about the history of the organization and the examples of their wacky decisions and decision-making processes is interesting though. The #26 film of 2006.
One Week/The High Sign - A pair of Buster Keaton shorts. The High Sign has a great climax as Keaton bests a house full of assassins with some amazing stunts, and One Week is a lot of fun with a build-it-yourself house gone horribly wrong. Not as brilliant as the best Keaton, but still very physically impressive.
Spiderman 3 - An entertaining enough mess of a film. One villain too long, and James Franco doing his best to fight Hayden Christensen for the title of The Worst Actor Of His Generation. The middle section homage to Saturday Night Fever and The Nutty Professor is the funniest part, but Tobey Maguire is generally speaking, pretty bad. Kirsten Dunst does a fine job of looking cute and singing terribly, though,
A Prairie Home Companion - Perhaps the most human of all Robert Altman films, he abandons his steady microscopic zooms for a camera the fluidly moves around the mise-en-scene like recent Hou Hsiao-hsien. A film explicitly about death and the lovable Midwestern existential acceptance of it. A perfect little film from a man who specialized in big messy films. The #4 film of 2006.
Mudhoney - Like Baby Doll on acid. Russ Meyer's Southern Gothic horror film (can I call it that?) about a drifter who gets entangled in an exploitation web of God, sex and violence. Not quite as exhilerating as the first 20 minutes of Meyer's Faster, Pussycat Kill! Kill!, but a better film on the whole. The #9 film of 1965.
The Reluctant Debutante - Terrifically charming Vincente Minnelli film about a young girl (Sandra Dee), raised in America, who enters British high society at the insistence of her step-mother (Kay Kendall) to upstage her rival (Angela Lansbury). Of course, she falls in love with the wrong guy, and it's up to her father, wonderfully played by Rex Harrison, (who abhors all the nonsense, but goes along with it anyway) to fix things. Fun and entertaining, with some great Minnelli color and compositions (I recall a certain lamp quite particularly). The #7 film of 1958.
Tropical Maladay - Mesmerizing masterpiece from the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The first half is a fairly typical gay romance, set in the forests, factories and caves of rural Thailand. The second half reenacts the emotional arc of the first, while resolving its psychological complications with a eerie and suspenseful mythological cat and mouse game between a soldier (one of the men from the first part) and a shadowy panther. The #5 film of 2004.
The Quatermass Xperiment - British sci-fi film that was apparently the first of a whole series of Quatermass films. Astronauts come back to space infected with some kind of alien plant life that threatens to kill us all. The #21 film of 1951.
The Garden Of Allah - The beautiful gold tones of two-strip Technicolor are about the only highlight of this Marlene Dietrich melodrama about a priest on the run who marries a saintly woman (Dietrich, if you can buy that). Also stars Basil Rathbone and Charles Boyer.
The Mating Season - Thelma Ritter (Pickup On South Street, Rear Window) gives yet another standout performance in this Mitchell Leisen comedy about a hamburger stand owning woman who goes to visit his son and his new rich wife (Gene Tierney) and through some mistaken identity, ends up as the maid. Sweet and funny.
Superman Returns - Better than any of the current cycle of superhero films, and the best since Batman Returns.
I had kind of the opposite reaction to it that I've had to the Spiderman trilogy. With those films, the action and effects are great, but the melodrama is dull, repetitive and all-around unbearable. In Superman, though, I really dug the drama and thought the effects were kinda lame, dare I say cartoonish. There's a real dramatic problem with Superman, in that he's essentially perfect and invincible. The Kryptonite plot is OK for one film, but if they make a sequel they need to follow the lead of Superman II and give him some extra-terrestrial villains to fight. I dug the whole Superman as God/Christ motif, I thought it ran through the film at a nice, not quite beating you over the head level. It raises but doesn't really answer some interesting questions about the role of heroes/saints in modern life. The performances were fine all around, with nobody really sticking out, though I think Kate Bosworth had the same problem Katie Holmes had in Batman Begins: namely that she's not really believable as an adult. The #8 film of 2006.
Bienvenue a Cannes - TCM documentary about the Cannes Film Festival has some good anecdotes and gossip, but ultimately isn't very insightful about the history of the festival or the films that have played there. Kind of like that foreign film montage at the Academy Awards last year that reduced the history of non-American cinema to the most boring and maudlin films the US could find.
Mutual Appreciation - A worthy addition to the existential slacker comedy genre that I'm generationally predisposed to be a fan of. Director Andrew Bujalski shows some real skill as he gets surprisingly good (considering how indie the movie is) performances from his actors and keeps an slow, but never boring, pace to the film, creating a believeable reality out of it all. The #5 film of 2005.
The Wind That Shakes The Barley - So much better than I expected. Ken Loach's Palme d'or winner at last year's Cannes film festival is pretty much a perfect historical epic. Cillian Murphy stars as a young doctor who joins the post-World War I IRA, becomes increasingly radical and eventually finds himself on the wrong side of the civil war over the creation of the Irish Free State. Essentially the micro story of Neil Jordan's Michael Collins, except with all the Hollywood touches stripped away leaving a raw core of historical realism and melodrama. The #2 film of 2006, though that may change. I've only seen it one and a half times and I've seen Miami Vice several more, but this may very well be the better film.
The Alamo - John Wayne's directorial effort is a by-the-numbers telling of the fate of the famous mission and its Texican defenders. Wayne plays Davy Crockett, Richard Widmark is Sam Bowie and Laurence Harvey as Col. Travis. It takes way too long to get going, and Wayne doesn't appear to have much of an eye, though the transfer shown on TCM wasn't particularly good. The #17 film of 1960.
Once More, With Feeling! - Stanley Donen's light comedy stars Yul Brenner as an over-the-top maestro and Kay Kendall as his longtime girlfriend who breaks up with him after an apparent infidelity. Through a variety of plot contrivances, the two have to get married and then get divorced. Pleasant, but unremarkable. The #13 film of 1960.
The Glass Bottom Boat - Zany Frank Tashlin comedy starring Doris Day and Rod Taylor (along with a thin Dom DeLuise and Dick Martin, from Laugh-In). Taylor's a NASA scientist who may or may not suspect Day of being a KGB agent. Wackiness ensues. 60s comedies are very strange, I don't know that I quite understand them. But the most shocking discovery: Doris Day is hot. The #12 film of 1966.
The Edge Of The World - Early Michael Powell film about the last days of a small island north of Scotland. Some fine scenery and decent performances, the story's kind of a poor man's How Green Was My Valley. The editing is out of control though. I'd never noticed such an Eisentstein influence on Powell before, it's a good thing he lost it later, as it's just way too much here. On the meagre evidence of this and Peeping Tom (both very fine films), I'd have to say Powell needed Pressburger.
Where Eagles Dare - Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood star in this mediocre WW2 action film about spies and assassins and a daring assault on a Nazi castle high in the mountains. The plot twists left and right, but the direction (by Brian G. Hutton, who did Kelly's Heroes and the Tom Selleck masterpiece The High Road To China) is pedestrian and clunky. Burton and Eastwood deserved better. The #16 film of 1968.
Still Life - As yet unreleased in the US is Jia Zhangke's most recent film, about a two people from Shanxi each searching for people in and around the town of Fengjie, as it's in the process of being dismantled to make way for the flooding caused by the Three Gorges Dam. Might be Jia's most beautiful film thus far. At least in terms of the colors he gets out of the digital camera, it ranks with Miami Vice as the best digital movie I've seen. The deliberately-paced realism is lifted into the sublime by a few shots I refuse to give away until more people have a chance to see it. The #5 film of 2006.
Where Danger Lives - Decent enough John Farrow noir starring Robert Mitchum as a doctor who gets suckered by a crazy woman. Her husband ends up dead and the two of them try to flee to Mexico, while Mitchum's got a concussion and the girl gets crazier and crazier. Great supporting actors are largely wasted in much too small roles, namely Claude Rains and Farrow's wife, Maureen O'Sullivan.
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- Anonymous6:42 PM, May 30, 2007
Haven't been here in a while, but saw this post and had to comment. This is an impressive list, you're lucky to have seen so much great stuff lately--Still Life's my vote for best movie of the decade so far. Maybe that's why your impression of Man of the West is so negative. Anyways I highly recommend you see it again sometime (perhaps in less illustrious company); I think it's the best western ever made, and perhaps the best American movie of the last fifty years. Cooper's performance is brilliant, a perfect portrait of a dying man who can barely muster the energy for one last burst of violence, though I can see why some people might not be so impressed by it or Cooper in general. I know many are turned off by his overemphatic "folksy" delivery, but watch any of his good movies with the sound off for a few minutes and you'll see a great performer whose moves, looks, and gestures are perfectly choreographed. Then watch him with sound again, and you'll probably be more impressed.ReplyDelete
Mann's direction, though, is impeccable; it reaches the level of the best work of Rossellini, Melville, Ford, and Bresson, where every composition and camera movement is perfect and, more important, _necessary_ to the whole. Watch the way Mann tracks back behind a wagon wheel as a humiliated outlaw crawls for a gun, or the astonishing way in which he shoots the climax in the ghost town. The latter sequence is the definition of great action direction; the spatial relationships are so clear you could draw a map of the entire event after one viewing (see the beautiful track capturing Jones and the two gunmen in one shot), and the way Mann splits up horizontal and vertical areas of the Scope screen to define the action reveals a more sophisticated formalist than Peckinpah or Leone. But unlike those two directors, who he resembles and influences in his violence and awareness of genre, Mann brings a genuine, unironic sense of tragedy to the action; both the urgency and the inevitability of the theme (all the usual suspects: desert/garden, outlaw violence/civilized community contrasts, inescapable past) are felt more strongly than in similar (and similarly great) films from My Darling Clementine and The Searchers to The Wild Bunch and Ride the High Country.
This comment is way too long, but I feel strongly about this film's greatness, and Mann's as well. I only saw it for the first time a year ago, when it immediately vaulted into my all-time top ten, and subsequent viewings confirm its greatness. I can only urge you to take a longer look, or else figure out more concretely what about the film doesn't work for you.
You certainly make a compelling case for it (really? "the best Western ever made"? Really?).ReplyDelete
It's on TCM again in a few days, and I'll give it another try. I'm usually a Mann fan, so I was puzzled as to why this one couldn't hold my interest (I was underwhlemed by The Heroes Of Telemark as well). I like Cooper in The Fountainhead, but that's about it, and in that film his natural stiffness is an asset instead of a liability.
If nothing else, I'll write a more detailed assessment of it. I don't like having to write such short capsules for these films, but I just never seem to have the time to write anything longer and end up with two months worth of movie-watching to write about.
Thanks for the comment, it certainly wasn't too long.
Lots I'd like to see. Lots I'd like to comment on. But one in particular: RE: Pan's Labyrinth, of course.ReplyDelete
I really thought the editing was annoying and it only contributed to me disliking the movie. It felt like yet another lazy move that only distracted from what was happening, for no apparent reason other than, and this is a problem with a lot of the film and its thinking/logic, the fact that it looked cool. And those swipes didn't even look cool (to me). A few times, maybe, is cool, but the movie kept doing it so much that I started to be able to predict when I scene (or just a shot) would end because the camera would start to move towards a wall or a tree or some barrier. Plus, this shit is cruel. And I really can't stand how cruel this movie was cuz, like Sin City, it was more for the look of the violence than for what was actually happening in the violence. I mean, as was proven by Jen in her essay on VINYL, there could be a reason for the violence, but it really felt gratuitous and empty to me.
Other than that, cool roundup. Wish I've seen a lot of these, especially the "new" Asian ones...
New Asian Cinema is where it's at. I really think that by far the most interesting movies of the last decade or so have come from Asia. I think you'd like Jia a lot. Have you seen any of his yet? You'd really dig Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. . . and Spring, by Kim Ki-duk. I just watched it tonight (so it didn't make the roundup). It's one of the best religious films I've seen, which a Tarkovsky/Schrader fan like you should appreciate. It really blew me away.ReplyDelete
I know they're silly, but I do love the wipes. It's the Kurosawa/Lucas fan in me, I guess.
Pan's didn't strike me as cruel so much as pointless, obvious and contrived. But then, I like Sin City.
- Anonymous6:42 PM, May 31, 2007
Yeah, hope you get a chance to see Man again and I look forward to seeing expanded comments about it. Have you had a chance to see any movies by Tian Zhuangzhuang (Blue Kite, Springtime in a Small Town, Horse Thief)? I think he's probably the closest to Jia Zhangke of the fifth generation Chinese filmmakers, and my personal favorite mainland director.ReplyDelete
The tivo's set for Man Of The West. It's on next Friday, IIRC.ReplyDelete
I haven't seen any Tian films. In fact, I don't think I've seen anything from the mainland outside of Zhang Yimou and Jia, and one or two Chen Kaige films. I've got Sun Zhou's Zhou Yu's Train coming in a couple days from Netflix though.
- Anonymous7:58 AM, June 01, 2007
Why would you be surprised that Doris Day gave such a good performance in "The Man Who Knew Too Much?" She's always been a damned good actress (singer, too!) and one of the most underrated talents to come out of the last century. Also, you were surprised that she was hot???? She's always been a tasty dish! What a shape!ReplyDelete
I think those may have been the first two Doris Day movie's I've seen. I'd always had a very inaccurate view of her based upon her rep as the kind of woman who starred in movies my mom would like.ReplyDelete
But I was wrong. She appears to be a fine actress and a dish indeed.


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The major Asia Pacific stock indexes finished mixed on Wednesday as fresh developments on Brexit meant the deadline for the U.K. to leave the European Union would likely be delayed again. U.K. lawmakers voted to reject a limited time frame for reviewing legislation related to Britain's withdrawal from the EU. It now means that the U.K. is almost certainly not going to leave the UE on October 31 – the current deadline, and the EU may provide an extension to prevent a no-deal Brexit occurring.
In the cash market on Wednesday, Japan's Nikkei 225 Index settled at 22625.38, up 76.48 or +0.34%. South Korea's KOSPI Index finished at 2080.62, down 8.24 or -0.39% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index closed at 26552.26, down 233.94 or -0.87%.
In China, the Shanghai Index settled at 2941.62, down 12.76 or -0.43% and in Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 finished at 6673.10, up 0.90 or +0.01%.
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Japan's markets reopened after a holiday on Tuesday. Softbank shares tumbled 2.51%, as the Japanese tech giant struck a deal to take over the embattled WeWork.
SoftBank has struck a deal to take control of WeWork, the co-working company announced.
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Economic growth across Asia is set to slow more than expected, according to the latest projections by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
In its Regional Economic Outlook report released Wednesday, the IMF said growth in Asia could moderate to 5% in 2019, and 5.1% in 2020 – that's 0.4% and 0.3% lower than its April projections.
Among the worst-hit major Asian economies projected to slow more than expected, Hong Kong – already battered by months-long unrest – could grow 0.3% this year and 1.5% in 2020. That's 2.4% and 1.5% lower, respectively, than the fund's initial projections.
The report singled out the unrest in Hong Kong as one risk which could affect the region. "A deterioration of the sociopolitical situation, for example in Hong Kong…could have economic spillovers to other countries in the region and beyond."
Earlier this week, the IMF had projected the Chinese economy could grow at 5.8% next year – slower than the 6.1% forecast for 2019.
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Please meet Dr. Bill Kelley, Jr. our new Latin American
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Bill Kelley, Jr. is an educator, curator and writer based in Los Angeles. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and a Masters in Colonial Art Studies from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (UNM).
His current research focuses on collaborative and collective art practices in the Americas. Bill has written for such journals as Afterall, P.E.A.R., and Log Journal. He served as co-curator of the 2011 Encuentro Internacional de Medellín (MDE11) and was the former Director and Co-Editor of the online bilingual journal LatinArt.com. Bill has co-edited an anthology with Grant Kester of collaborative art practices in the Americas entitled: Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art 1995-2010 (Duke University Press, forthcoming). He is currently Lead Researcher and Curator of Talking to Action, for Otis College of Art as part of The Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative.
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