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glapplebloom · 3 years ago

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Which of these soulless corporate movies is the least soulless?

Welcome to the Space Jam. Its your chance to do your dance at the Space Jam. Alright? Alright. Both movies are about a Basketball Star Teaming up with the Looney Tunes to play Basketball. So let’s see which one is the better of the two, starting off with...

THE STORY

Original - Aliens have come to kidnap the Looney Tunes. So they decide to have their fate decided by a Basketball Game. But when the Aliens stole the talent of other NBA players, the Looney Tunes decide to kidnap Michael Jordan (yes, they kidnap Michael Jordan as pointed out by Teen Titans going to the old Space Jam Website). After Hijinks they win the game.

Sequel - Lebron’s son got kidnapped by Al G. Rhythm and to get him back he must beat Al in a Basketball game. Thing is he is forces to get a team and he was sent to the Looney Tunes world where he finds Bugs alone. The others are seeing other Warner Brother properties so Bugs and Lebron work together to get them back. Thing is Lebron wants some heavy hitters and despite his efforts he only got toons. Even worse, the basketball game is not straightforward, more people’s lives are on the line and Al got his son to play for his team. Only until Lebron learned that he shouldn’t push people to be like him do the toons come back and win the game.

Winner - Sequel. Calling the original a plot is giving it too much credit. Its more of a concept that is put together than an actual story. If New Legacy’s story is more complex, its only because it has actual progression as things change.

THE BASKETBALL STAR

Original - As a kid, Michael Jordan was destined for greatness. He knew he wanted to be a big time basketball star and as a promise to his dad will also become a baseball star. He retired and is trying his best, but he’s not a good baseball player. It doesn’t help that others are treating him as something special (because they all want some free shoes ~Starfire). So when the Looney Tunes kidnap him, he didn’t want to help until the Monstars messed with him. Now back in the game Michael plays like he never lost a step and help the Looney Tunes win.

Sequel - As a kid, Lebron wants to play basketball. But he’s also a kid so he enjoys having fun like playing a Gameboy Game complete with Bugs Bunny’s Crazy Castle. But because of that, he lost the game. His coach at the time said he could become a great basketball player if he focused. So he did and became King James. Now an adult, he wants his kids to be basketball players too, but his youngest son prefer to make video games. This causes a riff that allows AL G. Rhythm to manipulate his son to work with him. Lebron, forced into the Warner Serververse has to make a team and is stuck with the Looney Tunes. He thinks they could win if they stick with the fundamentals but between the new rules and bias ref, they’re losing badly. So badly an argument breaks out between him and the Toons during halftime. When he figures out he’s treating them like his son, he realized the only way to win is to let them be them. With that knowledge, he ask his son for forgiveness and earns it. After winning the game, he lets his son go to the E3 Game Camp instead of the Basketball Camp.

Winner - Sequel. Lebron has an actual connection with Looney Tunes as a kid, was excited to meet Bugs, has a character arc that takes place throughout the entire movie. Even if you think he’s a bad actor, he at least felt like he was invested in the story.

THE REFERENCES

Original - For Background Easter Eggs, you got a few Looney Tunes Alumni, though they do repeat. Cameos feature other Basketball Stars and Bill Murray. And references are to things of the 90s: Dennis Rodman, Pulp Fiction, Beethoven and Babe, and for some reason Disney. I think the most clever is Larry Bird appearing. In one of the few sports things I know, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan were rivals. How do I know this? I played an NES game about their rivalry.

Sequel - Background and References subtle and not were all about Warner owned properties. As old as Casablanca to as new as Rick and Morty. We got to see the DCAU once more, references to old Looney Tunes gags and places, MC Hammer, Hanna-Barbera, Mad Max: Fury Road (and one I think is a Nostalgia Critic Reference) and so much more. In fact here’s a video featuring them all. Favorite of mine, Michael Jordan’s Cameo.

Winner - This is all your own preference so feel free to pick who you think wins here.

THE SOUNDTRACK

Winner - No competition. Between the title song (turned meme), the inspirational song (sang by someone who doesn’t know how to use a toilet), and the Monstars Anthem the new one can’t compete. But I will say for those thinking that Porky Rapping is “cringe”, the original also had a certain Rabbit rapping.

THE VILLAINS

Original - The Big Bad is Mr. Swackhammer, owner of Moron Mountain and voiced by Danny DeVito. Sadly he doesn’t do much but be the big bad boss of Nerdlucks. As their tiny small self, they don’t leave much of an impression but they really stand out after stealing the talent of stars and become Monstars. They become big, mean and slightly more different.

Sequel - Al G. Rhythm is an algorithm the Warner Brothers studios use to help make movie ideas. He wants some recognition and thinks if he can get Lebron on board he can earn it. Sadly, when Lebron refused, he didn’t take it well. So when he saw Lebron’s son take interest in him and ran away from Lebron, Al used that to his advantage. With that, he makes Lebron force to play a basketball game while manipulating his son to not only allow him access to his data but get him to play as well. The Goon Squads are a result of that as its Lebron’s son’s data on other basketball players mixed with superpowers.

Winner - Give Don Cheadle a Disney+ Show Disney! As great as Danny DeVito is, he’s just not in it long enough like Al. Can be manipulative yet also very agro.

THE TOONS

This category will be done differently. I’ll be focusing on their takes on Bugs, Lola, and the Rest. I am not including Daffy in this equation because he’s perfect in both.

Bugs - In the original, Bugs is Bugs. Wisecracking, carrot chewing, master manipulator as always. In the Sequel, he’s one of the few that stood in Looney Tunes world because that’s where he could be him. But the loneliness made him miss everyone (after all, how can he pull off schemes and pranks without victims). And while in the original Bugs saves Lola from being squashed, Bugs risks his life to ensure Lebron doesn’t get deleted when executing the glitch. It makes Bugs’ actions seem more noble than just saving the girl he likes.

Lola - In the original, she’s a “sexy” no nonsense girl who plays basketball, and that’s it. And despite her attitude, became a damsel in distress and Bugs’ prize for rescuing her. in the sequel, she wants to do her own thing, even doing an Amazon Trial to become one, but failed to complete it when Lebron and Bugs was in danger and finding out Lebron’s son was in the line. So she’s there to give the team another good player and also be a moral support. In fact, its thanks to her that Lebron realizes what he’s been doing to his son.

The Rest - If the original got one thing over the Sequel, its number. A lot more Looney Tunes play in their game in comparison. With the exception of Granny who was a cheerleader, every toon was in the game at one point. I can’t say the same for the Sequel. With that said, the Sequel did get to show their personalities more. Like compare Wile E. in both. In one he gives the Monstars a bomb. The other has him using an Acme device, placing bird seed on the button to get the Roadrunner to press it repeatedly, only to have himself be caught in said machine. They all got the chance to do their thing instead of sharing a spit take.

THE BIG GAME

Original - The Looney Tunes are losing badly in the first half. Why? Because they didn’t go looney for... Reasons. After being tricked into drinking Michael’s “Special Drink”, then they decide to go looney. This allows them to catch up but then the Monstars decide to take them out, which they do despite these attacks being pretty tame to what they can normally take. With a few seconds to go, Michael scores one more basket to win.

Sequel - The Looney Tunes are losing badly in the first half. Why? Because Lebron is forcing them to play normal basketball despite their opponents and the game itself is anything but normal basketball. When they came back, they came back Looney and managed to catch up and even get ahead. But then Al decides to cheat since he controls the game. Thanks to this being the kid’s game, they know that if they perform a glitch they can take control away from Al long enough to score one more point and win. And thanks to Bugs’ sacrifice and his son moving a power up right underneath him, Lebron slam dunks the final point and wins.

Winner - The sequel. There was no reason for the Looney Tunes to be less looney in the first half in the original and its short live as each one gets taken out. Meanwhile the Sequel gives a valid reason for everything to happen.

My Winner - Space Jam: A New Legacy

Both movies are basically overgrown commercials trying to get you to buy stuff. The original was based off a Shoe Commercial and banking on your nostalgia on Looney Tunes and Michael Jordan the Basketball player to make you interested in seeing him back on court and new Looney Tunes content. The new one is basically for HBO Max. And both movies have also not credited people who deserve to be credited. But between the two of them a New Legacy actually feels like its trying to justify its existence.

Lebron has a connection with the toons through childhood, has actual stakes in the game, and actually feels invested in the events. The original was basically the Nike commercial stretched to a movie length. And to me, that makes a New Legacy a better movie.

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citizenscreen · 6 years ago

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This tradition began four years ago when I thought of no better way to share the joy of the season on this blog than to spread the magic of movies. In a Christmassy sort of way. ‘Tis the season, after all and paying movies forward in hopes that these memorable distractions take your minds off negative goings on is now my December lot in life. I’m asking that you join me, recommend your favorites and #PayClassicsForward on your blogs and across social media.

Give the gift of movies

I realize I am publishing this post much later in December than I have in the past, which leaves you little time to play with it if you are up for the challenge. However, if you are interested here’s the challenge…pick movie recommendations to the “12 Days of Christmas” theme as I’ve done below. Keep in mind that movie choices should be those you think would appeal to non classics fans and there can be no repeats. Let’s grow our community and #PayClassicsForward

Have fun!

On the first day of Christmas, etc., etc., etc…

One dream

Excluding the mother of all dream sequences, that is when Dorothy befriends a Tin Man, a Scarecrow, and a lion in a magical land, then I must go with a telling of Charles Dickens’ 1843 classics, A Christmas Carol. I didn’t set out to choose a Christmas story for this, but perused several lists of dream sequences in movies and was shocked that Ebenezer Scrooge’s legendary journey was not even mentioned. I correct that oversight with this entry as it is a dream to fill the heart.

Of all the adaptations of Dickens’ story about morality, human frailty, and redemption the best is Brian Desmond-Hurst’s 1951 movie starring Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge. This version of A Christmas Carol is good enough to watch all the year with Sim’s nuanced, affecting performance a standout. If you are a rotten person you might want to dream as Scrooge does in this movie and if you are a kind-hearted sort you might want to be reminded of why that matters.

Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge

Two islands

I could have gone with fun times and music for this category, but decided on gloom and doom instead. Take a look and you won’t forget Earle C. Kenton’s Island of Lost Souls (1932), which features a terrifically creepy performance by Charles Laughton. Next I suggest you gather with seven guests who are picked off one by one in Rene Clair’s And Then There Were None (1945) based on one of Agatha Christie’s most famous whodunnits.

Island of Lost Souls

Before there were none in And Then There Were None

Three gentlemen

No surprise here. See everything they’ve ever done.

Four speeches

From Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (1940)

Hynkel/A Jewish Barber:

“I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way…”

From Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972)

Don Vito Corleone:

“But I’m a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall him… if he should be shot in the head by a police officer, or if he should hang himself in his jail cell, or if he’s struck by a bolt of lightning, then I’m going to blame some of the people in this room, and that I do not forgive.”

From Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Jefferson Smith:

“Liberty’s too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I’m free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn’t, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that.”

From Robert Mulligan’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Atticus Finch:

“Now, gentlemen, in this country, our courts are the great levelers. In our courts, all men are created equal. I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and of our jury system – that’s no ideal to me. That is a living, working reality! Now I am confident that you gentlemen will review, without passion, the evidence that you have heard, come to a decision and restore this man to his family. In the name of GOD, do your duty. In the name of God, believe… Tom Robinson.”

Five golden rings

Not that kind of ring! This kind…

Mark Robson’s The Harder They Fall (1956)

Robert Rossen’s Body and Soul (1947)

Reuben Mamoulian’s Golden Boy (1939)

Michael Curtiz’s Kid Galahad (1937)

Edward G. Robinson and Bette Davis in Kid Galahad

Eddie Buzzell’s The Big Timer (1932)

Ben Lyon and Constance Cummings in The Big Timer

There are quite a few great boxing movies that most have seen like the ones with that Balboa guy. I chose a few that you may not have and should. By the way, I want extra points with Santa for not listing Elvis’ Kid Galahad (1962).

Six Acting-related Stories

Assuming everyone has seen Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, Joseph Mankiewicz’s All About Eve, and the Donen/Kelly vehicle with dignity, always dignity, Singin’ in the Rain then I suggest the following glittering stories…

Victor Fleming’s Bombshell 1933)

George Cukor’s A Double Life (1947)

Robert Florey’s Hollywood Boulevard (1936)

Joseph Pevney’s Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)

Graeme Clifford’s Frances (1982)

Stuart Heisler’s The Star (1952)

The Star

Bombshell

Man of a Thousand Faces

Frances

Hollywood Boulevard

A Double Life

Seven drinks

I thought it’d be fun to spread the joy with ideas for classic imbibing. Here are just seven of the many drinks had throughout yesteryear in the movies.

The Thin Man Martini

“…a Manhattan you shake to a Foxtrot, a Bronx to a two-step, but a Dry martini you should always shake to waltz time.”

1 1/2 oz Dry Gin

3/4 oz Dry Vermouth

Instructions:

Pour into a cocktail shaker, shake and strain into a chilled martini glass.

The Casablanca Champagne Cocktail

Victor Laszlo’s drink.

Champagne Cocktail 1 bitters-soaked sugar cube 1 oz brandy or cognac Brut champagne Twist of lemon, for garnish

Place your sugar cube on top of the bitters bottle. While holding it in place with your finger, flip the bottle upside down until the sugar cube is saturated. Drop the sugar cube into a champagne flute and add your cognac or brandy. Top with Brut champagne, garnish with lemon and enjoy.

Margo Channing and the “bumpy night” Gibson

This cocktail is also notable for making a cameo in the train car in North by Northwest, but Margot gets the official shout out today.

Gibson Classic Cocktail

4 parts gin 1 part dry vermouth pearl cocktail onion Combine the gin and vermouth in a shaker over ice. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a pearl onion.

The Some Like it Hot Manhattan

This whiskey cocktail is popular in Wilder’s film and best served after stirring/mixing with a drumstick, cymbal, and hot water bottle on a trail with Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopaters.

Ingredients:

2 oz bourbon 1 ox Italian sweet vermouth 2 dashes Angostura bitters

Recipe:

Combine all the ingredients in a shaker. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and enjoy.

Blue Hawaii Mai Tai

1 oz white rum

½ oz Orgeat syrup

½ oz Cointreau

2 oz pineapple juice

1 oz orange juice

Dark Rum float (such as Koloa dark rum)

Pineapple spear and lime (for garnish)

Mix white rum, Orgeat, Cointreau, pineapple and orange juices in a shaker filled with ice. Pour drink into a glass with the ice, and float the dark rum on top. Top with pineapple spear and lime wedge.

Made by Angela Lansbury this is sure to be a hit at any party.

The Breakfast at Tiffany’s Mississippi Punch

2 oz / 50 ml cognac 1 oz / 25 ml bourbon 1⁄2 oz / 12.5 ml lemon juice 1⁄2 oz / 12.5 ml sugar syrup 1 oz / 25 ml dark rum

Shake all the ingredients except the rum with crushed ice and pour into a Collins glass, unstrained. Top the glass with more crushed ice, gently pour over the rum and garnish with an orange slice and a cherry.

The Scotch Mist from The Big Sleep

It’s important to offer a darker choice so I went for the kind of drink a femme fatale would order when sitting next to Humphrey Bogart.

Ingredients :

2 oz. whiskey (whiskey, bourbon)

2 oz. crushed ice

1 twist lemon peel

Pack a collins glass with crushed ice. Pour in scotch. Add the twist of lemon peel and serve with a straw. No garnish because garnish doesn’t fit in a dirty little world.

Eight silents

I know many classic film fans that have not taken the journey into silent film. That was me when I started this blog, but since I’ve made a concerted effort to watch a silent film when time allows. There’s no doubt I would recommend some of the popular greats to the silent movie novice, or films made by the three comedy megastars and the likes of Metropolis or Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, to name just two. This past year I saw most of the following lesser-known gems for the first time and recommend them without hesitation.

Victor Sjöström’s The Wind (1928)

Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives (1922)

Per Lindberg’s Norrtullsligan (The Nortull Gang ) (1923)

Leo McCarey’s Mighty Like a Moose (1926)

Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle’s The Cook (1918)

Lois Weber’s Suspense (1913)

Paul Leni’s The Cat and the Canary (1927)

Fred Guiol’s Duck Soup (1927)

Duck Soup

Foolish Wives

Mighty Like a Moose

Norrtullsligan

Suspense

The Cat and the Canary

The Cook

The Wind

Nine Child Performances

No explanation needed for this lot of talented young ‘uns.

Roddy McDowall in John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Patty McCormack as Rhoda in Mervyn LeRoy’s The Bad Seed (1956)

Salvatore Cascio as Toto in Giuseppe Tornatore‘s Cinema Paradiso (1988)

Jackie Coogan in Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921)

George Winslow in anything, but for now I’ll go for his performance in Howard Hawks’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Enzo Staiola as Bruno in Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948)

Virginia Weidler as Dinah Lord in George Cukor’s The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Patty Duke as Helen Keller in Arthur Penn’s The Miracle Worker (1962)

Eva Lee Kuney as Trina in George Stevens’ Penny Serenade (1941)

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Ten Stars and their Dogs

I recently read a startling statistic. It turns out that dogs given to children for Christmas often end up in pounds. Having a pet is a huge responsibility and it should be a choice for life, rather than looked at as a toy. So, if you are inclined to purchase a puppy or kitten for Christmas and haven’t thought about it carefully, spend your time looking at these images instead…

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Cat lovers can feast their eyes on this gallery of Cats and Movie Stars.

Eleven heist movies

Jules Dassin’s Rififi (1955)

Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956)

Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Joseph Sargent’s The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

Norman Jewison’s The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

Raoul Walsh’s High Sierra (1941)

Jean-Pierre Melville‘s Bob Le Flambeur (1956)

Robert Siodmak’s Criss Cross (1949)

Mario Monicelli‘s Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)

Fabián Bielinsky‘s Nueve Reinas (Nice Queens) (2000) – I was introduced to this Argentine gem during a course I took on heist films. It immediately became a favorite. Although it’s a contemporary movie, I know all classics fans would love it. It’s a twisty, well-acted labyrinth that’s well worth your time.

Twelve Days

I would have included Dog Day Afternoon and The Taking of Pelham… here, but no repeats allowed. These are movies with stories that take place in one day.

Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon (1952)

George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1958)

Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men (1957)

Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979)

Frank Capra’s Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950)

Mike Nichols’ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe? (1966)

Sidney Lumet’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962)

Walter Hill’s The Warriors (1979)

Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

Fleming, Cukor et al…The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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Till next year, my friends.

#PayClassicsForward

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bandstolookup · 3 years ago

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* Far East Movement (Polydor UK)

* Mylène Farmer (Polydor France)

* Fat Boys (Tin Pan Apple/Polydor)

* The Fatback Band

* brian ritchie

* The Fauves (Polydor Australia)

* Feist (Polydor France & UK)

* Fergie (Polydor UK)

* Findlay (Polydor UK)

* Fish (Polydor UK)

* Fishmans

* The Flaws

* Flint

* Flyleaf (Polydor UK)

* The Fratellis (Polydor UK)

* Friend & Lover (Verve Forecast/Polydor)

* Focus (Polydor UK)

* Frl. Menke

G Edit

* • G-Unit (Polydor UK)

* The Game (rapper, Polydor UK)

* Gemma Fox

* Gloria Gaynor

* Rory Gallagher

* Calvin Goldspink

* Joey Gregorash

* girls

* redd tape

* blu detiger

* mikado

* parquet courts

* ignant benches

* total brutal

* vase cameo

* djo

* white room

* sweet

* the unicorns

* the horrors

* the alan parsons project

* kate bush

* ace frehley

* viagra boys

* greenskeepers

* the midnight

* nikki flores

* danger mouse

* sparklehorse

* julian casablanca

* fear of pop

* jason hill

* brian karscig

* gina x performance

* vulfpeck

* caroline rose

* whitmer thomas

* daoi freyr

* jonathan richman & the modern lovers

* the virgins

* the modern lovers

* the big moon

* the rentals

* toro y moi

* MNNQNS

* supergrass

* benny sings

* the darkness

* ian dury & the blockheads

* ian dury

* the blockheads

* joe jackson

* RACKETS

* the rezillos

* gerard way

* plastic bertrand

* jarvis cocker

* big data

* BOYTOY

* spoon

* crash richard

* musical youth

* kimbra

* ben kweller

* vile blue shades

* grandmaster flash

* tom jones

* glenn danzig

* oliver

* MNDR

* the nerves

* tom tom club

* jane wiedlin

* rico

* will butler

* pilot

* tenpole tudor

* viola beach

* romeo void

* little joy

* the undertones

* sweet

* nick gilder

* street joy

* YACHT

* madness

* new edition

* Grandmaster Melle Mel

* Grandmaster Melle Mel and the furious five

* adam ant

* the jive bombers

* deerfield drive

* johnny thunders

* elastica

* hamilton leithauser + rostam

* wayne newton

* hot hot heat

* Clinton Gregory (Polydor Nashville)

* Gwen Guthrie

* Girls Aloud (Fascination/Polydor)

* Girls' Generation (Polydor France)

* Golden Earring

* Skylar Grey (Polydor UK)

* Greyson Chance (Polydor UK)

* Guillemots

* level 7

* Gun

* Guns N' Roses (Polydor UK)

H Edit

* • Becky Hill

* HAIM (Polydor UK)

* Isaac Hayes

* Helmet (Polydor UK)

* Jimi Hendrix

* Hear'Say

* The Hill

* Molly Hocking

* Susumu Hirasawa (Polydor K.K.)

* Hollywood Undead (Polydor UK)

* Jake Holmes

* Samuel Hui (Polydor Hong Kong)

* Hundred Reasons

I Edit

* • Julio Iglesias

* Yosui Inoue (Polydor Japan)

* 1994!

* obscure sorrows project

* big whims

* reason

J Edit

* • Janet Jackson (Polydor UK)

* La Toya Jackson

* Millie Jackson

* undead messengers

* Jagged Edge (Polydor UK)

* The Jam

* Japanese Voyeurs

* millie landers and the shutup

* Jagjit Singh

* Jax Jones

* Jean Michel Jarre (Dreyfus/Polydor)

* Joe Jonas (Polydor UK)

* Joe Junior (Polydor Hong Kong)

* Madeline Juno

* The Jolt

* Jon and Vangelis

* Juanes (UK) (Universal Music Latin)

* Julia Michaels (UK)

julia nunez

* • K'Naan (Polydor UK)

* Ronan Keating

* Toby Keith (Polydor Nashville)

* The Kelly Family

* Michael Patrick "Paddy" Kelly

* Kingdom Come

* Kitaro

* Klaxons

* Kristian Leontiou

* Kaiser Chiefs

* Kelis (Polydor UK)

* Kenny Bee (Polydor Hong Kong)

* King Crimson (E.G./Polydor)

L Edit

* • L.A. Guns

* Lake (Germany)

* Lady Gaga (Polydor UK)

* Lawson (Polydor UK)

* Lale Andersen

* Lana Del Rey (Polydor UK)

* Lara Fabian

* Larissa Mondrus (Polydor Germany)

* Denny Laine

* James Last

* Led Zeppelin

* range life

* Lee Mead (Fascination/Polydor)

* Lena (Polydor Germany)[1]

* John Lennon

* Leslie Cheung (Polydor Hong Kong)

* Level 42 (Polydor UK)

* Liam Bailey

* Lighthouse Family

* Lilian Harvey

* i found you

* Limp Bizkit (Polydor UK)

* Little Angels

* LMFAO (Polydor UK)

* Lolly

* La Roux (Polydor UK)

* LuvBug

M Edit

* • Mabel

* The Maccabees

* Madonna (Polydor UK)

* Maestro Fresh Wes

* Sidney Magal

* Magnum

* Tim Maia

* The Main Ingredient

* Mandrill

* Man Parrish

* Manfred Mann's Earth Band

* Marilyn Manson (Polydor UK)

* Benny Mardones

* Maroon 5 (Polydor UK)

* Melissa Mars

* Masterboy

* Lutricia McNeal

* Medal

* Maximum Balloon (Polydor UK)

* Meiko (Polydor UK)

* M.I.A.

* George Michael (Ægean/Polydor UK)

* Mindless Behavior (Polydor UK)

* Minor Detail

* Missouri

* Modestep

* The Moffatts (Polydor Nashville)

* Monaco

* James Morrison

* Moxy (Polydor of Canada)

* Elliott Murphy

* Keith O'Conner Murphy (with Keith Murphy & The Daze)

* The Moody Blues (Threshold/Polydor)

* Tim Moore

* Samantha Mumba

* Mungo Jerry

* Music for Pleasure

* The Music

* MSTRKRFT

* Mýa (Polydor UK)

N Edit

* • The Naked & Famous

* Nana Mouskouri

* Natalia Kills (Polydor UK)

* Nelly Furtado (Polydor UK)

* Nelson (Polydor UK, distribution of DGC/Geffen-era releases)

* N.E.R.D. (Polydor UK)

* The New Seekers

* rufus thomas

* Nicola Roberts

* Nicole Scherzinger (Polydor UK)

* Paul Nicholas

* little junior parker

* Nine Inch Nails (Polydor UK)

* Nino Bravo

* Nirvana (Polydor UK)

* No Angels

* No Doubt (Polydor UK)

* N-Dubz (left 2008)

* Nerina Pallot

a killer's confession

* • OneRepublic (Polydor UK)

* Yoko Ono

* Orianthi (Polydor UK)

* The Osmonds

* Donny Osmond (Kolob/Polydor; transferred from MGM)

* Marie Osmond (Kolob/Polydor; transferred from MGM)

* Donny & Marie Osmond (Kolob/Polydor; transferred from MGM)

* Oskar Joost

* Os Mutantes (Polydor Brazil)

* Otto Reutter

P Edit

* • Papa Roach (Polydor UK)

* Alex Parks

* Paul Godwin

* Peaches & Herb

* Les Penning

* Peter Alexander

* Peter Marsh

* Physical Graffiti

* The Pierces

* Cole Porter

* Powderfinger

* The Pretty Reckless (Polydor UK)

* Priscilla Chan (Polydor Hong Kong)

* Protocol

* Puddle of Mudd (Polydor UK)

* Pussycat Dolls (Polydor UK)

* P-Model

Q Edit

* • Queens of the Stone Age (Polydor UK)

* Quicksand

* Freddy Quinn (Polydor Germany)

R Edit

* • Rainbow

* Ramz

* Raye (Polydor UK)

* Don Ray

* RD (Ruff Diamondz)

* Reparata

* Return to Forever

* Rev Theory (Polydor UK)

* Ricky Hui (Polydor Hong Kong)

* Rise Against (Polydor UK)

* Rivers Cuomo (Polydor UK)

* Robot Boy

* Romance

* The Rolling Stones

* Rufus Wainwright (Polydor UK)

* Ruti Olajugbagbe

reckless serenade

the redemption center

* • Saga

* Sam Fender

* Samuel Hui (Sam Hui) (Polydor Hong Kong)

* Saraya

* The Saturdays (Fascination/Polydor)

* The Savage Rose

* Scars on Broadway (Polydor UK)

* Scissor Sisters

* S Club 7

* S Club 8

* Rudi Schuricke

* Sea Stories (Polydor Australia)

* Selena Gomez (Polydor UK)

* Semi Precious Weapons (Polydor UK)

* Sensations Fix

* Shakatak

* Sham 69

* Rocky Sharpe and the Replays

* Neil Sedaka (Polydor UK, Polydor Canada)

* Shed Seven

* Shocking Blue

* sagat

* Shoes (U.S.-band)

* Shystie

* Siouxsie and the Banshees (original recording label)

* Sky Ferreira (Polydor UK)

* Slade

* Smiley Culture (Polydor UK)

* Snow Patrol

* Sonic Youth (Polydor UK)

* Soraya

* Soundgarden (Polydor UK)

* Spitz (Polydor Japan)

* Spyro Gyra

* Ringo Starr (Polydor UK)

* Cat Stevens (a.k.a. Yusuf Islam)

* Rachel Stevens

* Gwen Stefani (Polydor UK)

* Street Drum Corps (Polydor UK)

* Christina Stürmer

* The Style Council

* Sugababes (the original line-up)

* Swedish House Mafia

* The Sweet

* Sweet Connection

T Edit

* • Take That (Polydor UK)

* Talk Talk (Verve/Polydor UK)

* James Taylor Quartet

* Teddy Robin (Polydor Hong Kong)

* Tee-Set

* Ten Wheel Drive

* Teresa Teng

* Tesla (Polydor UK, distribution of Geffen-era releases)

* Theo Lingen

* Therapy? (Polydor UK)

* Tom Jones

* Timbaland (Polydor UK)

* Toots Thielemans

* A Thousand Points of Night

* The Tigers (Polydor Japan)

* Tonic

* Tony Scott

* Tove Lo (Polydor UK)

* Traffic

* Tired Pony

* Truth Hurts (Polydor UK)

* Turbo B

* Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

* TV on the Radio (Polydor UK)

* TYP

U Edit

* • U2

* U.K.

V Edit

* • Dave Van Ronk

* Vanessa White (Polydor UK)

* Vangelis

* Van Halen (Polydor UK)

* Van Morrison

* The Velvet Underground

* Miklós Vig

* Visage

* Vivian Chow (Polydor Hong Kong)

W Edit

* • The Waitresses

* Wale (Polydor UK)

* Albertina Walker (Polydor Gospel Series)

* The Wallflowers (Polydor UK)

* Walk This Way (band)

* Waterfront

* Marti Webb

* Weezer (Polydor UK)

* Tony Joe White

* White Lies (Polydor UK)

* The Who (original recording label)

* The Wild Magnolias

* Ulla Wiesner (Germany)

* will.i.am (Polydor UK)

* Tony Williams

* Wolfmother

* World Trade

* Patrick Wolf

* Link Wray

* Chely Wright (Polydor Nashville)

* Warning (Polydor France)

X Edit

* • X-Clan

* X Japan

* avion roe

* Xutos & Pontapés

* XavionXavion]]

* Years & Years

* Yelawolf (Polydor UK)

* Yngwie Malmsteen

* Yuksek

Z Edit

* • Zucchero

* ZZebra

the osmonds

peter marsh

* AC/DC (outside Australia)

* Airrace

* Allman Brothers Band (Capricorn/Atco)

* Andy Williams

* Steve Arrington

* Back Street Crawler

* Barrabás

* The Beatles (US)

* Bad Company

* Badger

* Ginger Baker (including Ginger Baker's Air Force and Baker Gurvitz Army) (US/Canada)

* Jeff Beck

* bad seed rising

* Chuck Berry

* Mr Acker Bilk (US/Canada)

* Black Oak Arkansas

* Blackfoot

* Blind Faith (US/Canada)

* Blue Mountain Eagle

* Blue Magic

* Blues Image

* Sonny Bono (as "Sonny")

* Brooklyn Brothers

* buffalo tom

* Jack Bruce (US/Canada)

* Buffalo Springfield

* Cactus

* The Capitols

* Jim Carroll

* Change

* Cher

* Corina

* Eric Clapton (US/Canada)

* The Coasters

* Cold Grits

* Natalie Cole (Modern/Atco)

* Arthur Conley

* Cream (US/Canada)

* Cross Country

* Bobby Darin

* Spencer Davis Group (US/Canada)

* Delaney & Bonnie and Friends

* Diesel

* The D.O.C. (Ruthless/Atco)

* Dr. John

* Dream Theater

* Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity

* Jonathan Edwards (Capricorn/Atco)

* Eight Seconds

* Electric Boys

* Enuff Z'Nuff

* Envy

* John Entwistle

* Bent Fabric and his Piano

* Scott Fagan

* Gary Farr

* Fat Mattress

* Fatback

* The Fireballs

* Tricia Leigh Fisher

* Flies on Fire

* Focus (US/Canada)

* The Fourmost

* Peter Gabriel (US/Canada)

* Art Garfunkel

* Genesis (US/Canada)

* Gregory Gray

* R. B. Greaves

* Tim Hardin

* Gordon Haskell

* Donny Hathaway

* Hawkwind

* Horslips (US)

* Humble Pie

* Steve Hunter

* Jorgen Ingmann

* INXS (US/Canada)

* Iron Butterfly

* Deon Jackson (Carla)

* James Gang

* J. J. Fad (Ruthless/Atco)

* Robbin Julien[13]

* Scarlett Johansson

* Juicy Lucy

* Michael Kamen

* Ben E. King

* King Curtis

* Last Words

* Bettye LaVette

* Lime (Critique/Atco)

* Lindisfarne (US/Canada)

* Loudness

* Lulu

* Manowar

* Penny McLean

* goldfinger

* Michel'le (Ruthless/Atco)

* Gary Moore (Mirage/Atco) (US)

* New York Dolls

* New York Rock & Roll Ensemble

* Stevie Nicks (Modern/Atco) (US/Canada)

* Nina & Frederik (US/Canada)

* Gary Numan (US/Canada)

* Outlaw Blood

* Pantera

* Pat & The Satellites

* The Persuaders

* Pleasure Bombs

* ross cirri

* The Raindogs

* unwill

* Otis Redding

* Ann Richards

* Bob Rivers (Critique/Atco)

* The Robins

* black rhythms

* The Rose Garden

* Rebel Heels (Atco Aus)

* Rowan & Martin

* Roxy Music (US/Canada)

* Shadows Of Knight (Dunwich/Atco)

* Shannon (Mirage/Atco)

* The Sherbs

* Kym Sims

* Slave

* P. F. Sloan

* Sonny & Cher

* Southside Johnny & the Jukes (Mirage/Atco)

* Keith Sweat

* Sweet Sensation

* The System (Mirage/Atco)

* Taffy

* Tangier

* Livingston Taylor (Capricorn/Atco)

* Nino Tempo & April Stevens

* Nolan Thomas (Mirage/Atco)

* Pete Townshend (US/Canada)

* The Troggs

* Vandenberg

* Vanilla Fudge

* Dee Dee Warwick

* Yes

* Yomo & Maulkie (Ruthless/Atco)

* junji

* good call

* friendless

* elephant jake

* the flat stanleys

* cheekface

* remi wolf

* kxllswxtch

* pouya

* snot

* your smith

* the hails

* the moose

* bad hop

* love fuzz

* state of alert

* caught a ghost

* stereophonics

* the pharcyde

* petit biscuit

* shallou

* tremantis

* thrillsville

* goalkeeper

* Tasmin Archer

* The Ark

* Atomic Kitten

* The Avant Gardener

* Kevin Ayers

* robbie robertson

* justin robinson

* Ard Adz

* Avicii (deceased)

* Ayushita Nugraha (Virgin Jogjakarta)

B Edit

* • Joan Baez

* Balaam and the Angel

* Bandolero

* Tony Banks (outside US/Canada)

* Bastille

* BBB (Virgin/Mercury Jogjakarta)

* Victoria Beckham

* David Bedford

* Beenie Man

* frederick fennell

* the dallas winds

* Benjamin Biolay

* Thom Bishop

* Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

* Peter Blegvad

* Blind Guardian

* Blossoms

* atomic rooster

* Blue

* Blue Man Group

* The Blue Nile

* Body Count

* Boxer

* David Bowie (US only)

* Boy George (More Protein/Virgin)

* Brother Cane

* Melanie Brown

* Bruce Boniface

* Bubba Sparxxx

* Emma Bunton

C Edit

* • Cabaret Voltaire

* Camper Van Beethoven

* Can

* Captain Beefheart

* Melanie C

* Chris Cagle (Virgin Nashville)

* Franco Califano

* Mariah Carey (Former)

* Belinda Carlisle (outside US & Canada until 1991, then worldwide in 1993)

* Cellophane

* The Chemical Brothers

* Che'Nelle

* Neneh Cherry

* China Crisis

* Chvrches

* Anne Clark

* Gilby Clarke

* College Boyz

* Phil Collins (UK and Ireland)

* Comateens

* The Constellations

* Nikka Costa

* Kevin Coyne

* Cracker

* The Cult

* Culture Club

* T.C. Curtis

* emmylou harris

* Curve

* Ivor Cutler

* Cutting Crew

* Holger Czukay

* Mark Curry

D Edit

* • Dave Gahan (US only)

* Deaf Pedestrians

* Déjà

* Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft

* Daft Punk (Former)

* Étienne Daho

* Roger Daltrey (10/Virgin) (outside US/Canada)

* ghost mice

* Danny Wilson

* Clay Davidson (Virgin Nashville)

* D'Angelo

* Deadmau5

* Depeche Mode (Mute/Virgin) (US/France)

* Devo (UK/Europe only)

* susanne vega

* Howard Devoto

* Divinyls

* Thomas Dolby (outside US/Canada)

* Does It Offend You, Yeah?

* dc Talk (ForeFront/Virgin)

* Hilary Duff (4ever Hilary Duff only in Italy) (Former)

* Stephen Tin Tin Duffy

* The Dukes of Stratosphear

* Dwele

E Edit

* • Eden xo (former)

* The Edge

* yung craka

* Efua

* Electronic

* Eloy (Electrola)

* Emily and the Strangers

* Endgames

* Enigma

* Eurythmics* (outside US/Australasia)

* Evanescence

* Everything but the Girl (except US & Canada)

* Every Little Thing (Japan)

* The Exies

* Ella Eyre

* Emeli Sandé[1] (outside US)

F Edit

* • Ricky Fanté

* Perry Farrell

* Fat Joe

* Faust

* Bryan Ferry

* elitist

* envy on the coast

* glass cloud

* A Fine Frenzy

* Fingerprintz

* Fivespeed

* Florence + The Machine

* Tim Finn

* The Flying Lizards

* The Flying Pickets

* Julia Fordham

* Fountains of Wayne

* John Foxx

* a foreign affair

* Fra Lippo Lippi

* Peter Frampton

* Frazier Chorus

G Edit

* • Peter Gabriel (outside US & Canada)

* Gang Starr

* General Public

* Genesis (outside US & Canada)

* Max A. George

* The Geraldine Fibbers

* Gillan

* Ian Gillan

* the flys

* The Golden Palominos (Germany only)

* Goldfrapp

* Goldrush

* Gong

* The Good, the Bad & the Queen

* Gorillaz (US only)

* Gorki

* Gravity Kills (Europe & Japan only)

* Loren Gray

* Great and Lady Soul

* Green River Ordinance

* Grizfolk

* David Guetta

* Guru

jack johnson

kelly bell band

* • Steve Hackett (outside US)

* Geri Halliwell

* Françoise Hardy

* Ben Harper

* Lalah Hathaway

* Hawkwind (Charisma; UK only)

* Heaven 17

* Håkan Hellström

* Henry Cow

* Steve Hillage

* Holly and the Italians

* Robert Holmes

* The Human League

* HRVY

I Edit

* • Iggy Pop

* James Iha

* Ima Robot

* Immature

* Inner City

* The Instigators

* Interview

* Mark Isham

* It Bites

J Edit

* • Janet Jackson

* The Japanese Popstars

* Joe Jackson

* Japan

* Jamie Scott

* Jamie T

* JBO

* Jesus Loves You

* Jin

* Johnny Hates Jazz

* Juliet

K Edit

* • Kavana

* Kelis

* Mark Kelso

* Jerry Kilgore (Virgin Nashville)

* Killing Joke

* King Crimson

* King Swamp

* Frankie Knuckles

* The Kooks

* Korn

* k-os

* Lenny Kravitz

L Edit

* • Shona Laing

* The Last Goodnight

* Latin Alliance

* Ava Leigh

* Julian Lennon (except US & Canada)

* LCD Soundsystem

* Les Rita Mitsouko

* Le Toya

* Lewis Capaldi

* Lil' Eazy-E

* Linton Kwesi Johnson

* Courtney Love

* Cheryl Lynn

* courtney barnett

* Loren Gray

M Edit

* • Kirsty MacColl

* Rita MacNeil (Virgin Canada)

* Madness (outside the US & Canada)

* Madrugada

* Magazine

* Cheb Mami

* Manfred Mann's Earth Band

* Mano Negra

* Manowar

* Lene Marlin

* Laura Marling

* Kaitlyn Martin

* Zeeteah Massiah

* Massive Attack

* Matia Bazar

* MC Skat Kat

* Malcolm McLaren

* Martha and the Muffins (Dinidisc/Virgin Canada)

* Holle Thee Maxwell

* Meat Loaf (outside US & Canada 1992–99; US & Canada 2007–10)

* Roy D. Mercer (Virgin Nashville)

* Miami Horror

* George Michael (outside US & Canada until 1999)

* Mick Karn

* Mickey 3D

* Mighty Diamonds

* Mike Jay

* Mike + The Mechanics (outside the US and Canada)

* Microdisney

* The Monochrome Set

* Gary Moore

* Moose (US only)

* Motion

* The Motors

* Bob Mould

* The Music

* My Favorite Highway

N Edit

* • Jimmy Nail

* Nazareth (Mooncrest/Charisma; UK only)

* N*E*R*D

* Tom Newman

* Newsboys

* Now That's What I Call Music! (compilation series)

* Michael Nyman

O Edit

* • Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder

* Liam O'Connor

* Mary Margaret O'Hara

* Mike Oldfield

* Lisa Ono (1997–2006)

* Oomph!

* Roy Orbison

* Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

* Stacie Orrico

* The Other Ones

* Outside Edge

P Edit

* • The Pale Fountains

* Palladium

* Paris Angels

* Hope Partlow

* Penetration

* call me malcolm

* Amanda Perez

* Anthony Phillips

* Sam Phillips

* Billie Piper

* serj tankian

* Placebo

* Pekka Pohjola

* Porcelain Black

* Tristan Prettyman

* Pretty Poison

* Professor Green

* Maxi Priest

* Public Image Ltd.

* Purple Ribbon All-Stars

* Pure Moods

professor of rap

* • The Railway Children

* Rain Tree Crow

* Rascalz

* RBD

* Reamonn

* The Records

* Axelle Red

* The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

* Julie Reeves (Virgin Nashville)

* Priscilla Renea (Capitol/Virgin joining)

* Richard Ashcroft

* Keith Richards

* Juliet Richardson

* Rip Rig + Panic

* Rise Against

* River Road (Virgin Nashville)

* The Rolling Stones

* Christy Carlson Romano

* Roxx Gang

* Roxy Music (E.G./Virgin)

* Röyksopp

* The Rutles

* vulfprvk

* The Ruts

* Ruth Lorenzo

* Robbie Williams

* sumatics

S Edit

* • Saosin

* Sacred Spirit

* Ryuichi Sakamoto

* Sandra

* Samurai Trash

* Savage Progress

* Saving Abel

* Boz Scaggs

* Scarlett and Black

* Jon Secada

* The Sex Pistols

* Shaggy (Former)

* Shapeshifters

* Sharissa

* Feargal Sharkey

* the lonely people

* dean martin

* the gerogerigegege

* SheSays

* SHINee (Japan)

* Shonen Knife (North America/France)

* Shooting Star

* Sick Puppies

* Simple Minds

* kittie

* tom odell

* clyde andy

* clear thought

* Six

* Skunk Anansie

* Slapp Happy

* Sneaker Pimps

* Snow

* six going on seven

* Something Happens

* Soul II Soul

* Source Direct

* goings

* Stacie Orrico

* Stardust

* The Starting Line

* Jermaine Stewart

* Joss Stone

* The Stone Roses

* Syd Straw

* Suicidal Tendencies

* Swedish House Mafia (former)

* Switched

* David Sylvian and Robert Fripp

* Supernatural Kings

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Still we shouldn't overlook the potential we are developing for QR technology as contactless payment method, which we are going to elaborate upon further on

But first because we want to make it a mass market low fee payment method we are going to project the necessary IT infrastructure fit for servicing both our eCommerce needs and our QR payment method transaction volumes

We are also going to diversify that infrastructure into data hosting and bandwidth providing as valid revenue lines to be pursued by the company

Same as the delivery logistics IT costs is something that we are going to internalize, so as to be able to deliver the best deals for our customers and still make a sizable profit while operating a low fee mass market payment method

Located in China, NYO1 Datacenter is the largest datacenter of the planet with 9M square meters, so this is just a fraction of it

We are entering the age of big data and there is going to be increasingly more data to store, the data of our customers and client corporations

We have acquired a new revenue line through capital expenditure while staying customer centric and fulfilling the needs of our customers both public and corporate, also governmental

This time by hosting their data, data hosting is a growing industry and there is a steady demand for datacenters

It is a large piece of infrastructure so it has its own nuclear power plant and triply redundant T4 lines tying it to different internet backbone nodes

Of which Europe and North America via Ireland, West Africa to South America, both via transatlantic cables, and the Middle East via Egypt and Asia from there

NYO2 is a second planned development in Bouskoura, Morocco near Casablanca to service the African Continent, NYO3 in Russia same as NYO4 in Latin America, NYO5 in Egypt, and NYO6 United States, which all make use of our proprietary T4 backbone

The business is in the conjunction of the growing demand for data hosting matched with cost competitive destinations in terms of human resources

These different large datacenters, probably replicated from NYO1 and amounting to 54M square meters in total are single supplier, so we should be looking at a computer maker that can provide us with integral solutions for datacenters

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via Politics – FiveThirtyEight

Pretend I’m the owner of a polling company that surveys political races. I prominently advertise my results: According to a Walt Hickey Polling Inc. survey of 600 likely voters, John Doe is beating Jane Doe 58 percent to 40 percent — John Doe will likely win the election. (Let’s say it’s a race for the U.S. Senate.)

But then you keep reading and you notice that the sample on which my poll is based consists of 400 men and 200 women. You can’t really tell whether I’m adjusting the numbers, and if so, how. Would you trust that number? Unless there’s some state I don’t know about where men outnumber women 2-to-1, you shouldn’t.

So why aren’t we more skeptical of movie ratings that do the same thing?

It’s a worthwhile question, and lately it’s made it pretty hard for us to take the ratings provided on IMDb, the largest and most popular movie site on the internet, at face value. The Academy Awards rightly get criticized for reflecting the preferences of a small, unrepresentative sample of the population, but online ratings have the same problem. Even the vaunted IMDb Top 250 — nominally the best-liked films ever — is worth taking with 250 grains of salt. Women accounted for 52 percent of moviegoers in the U.S. and Canada in 2016, according to the most recent annual study by the Motion Picture Association of America. But on the internet, and on ratings sites, they’re a much smaller percentage.

“If you see any number that is a rating number or a number with a percentage sign, it may be compelling or meaningful and it may not be,” said Gary Langer, the president of Langer Research Associates, the polling firm that has long conducted surveys for ABC News. “And what we need to do rather than be seduced by the number is to subject it to meaningful inquiry as to how it was obtained.”

OK, but how skeptical should we be? To figure that out, I wanted to see how strong the male skew of raters is on IMDb and how big an effect that skew has on movies’ scores.

We’ll start with every film that’s eligible for IMDb’s Top 250 list. A film needs 25,000 ratings from regular IMDb voters to qualify for the list. As of Feb. 14, that was 4,377 titles. Of those movies, only 97 had more ratings from women than men. The other 4,280 films were mostly rated by men, and it wasn’t even close for all but a few films. In 3,942 cases (90 percent of all eligible films), the men outnumbered the women by at least 2-to-1. In 2,212 cases (51 percent), men outnumbered women more than 5-to-1. And in 513 cases (12 percent), the men outnumbered the women by at least 10-to-1.

Looking strictly at IMDb’s weighted average — IMDb adjusts the raw ratings it gets “in order to eliminate and reduce attempts at vote stuffing,” but it does not disclose how — the male skew of raters has a pretty significant effect. In 17 percent of cases, the weighted average of the male and female voters was equal, and in another 26 percent of cases, the votes of the men and women were within 0.1 points of one another. But when there was bigger disagreement — i.e. men and women rated a movie differently by 0.2 points or more, on average — the overall score overwhelmingly broke closer to the men’s rating than the women’s rating. The score was closer to the men’s rating more than 48 percent of the time and closer to the women’s rating less than 9 percent of the time, meaning that when there was disagreement, the male preference won out about 85 percent of the time.

That male skew of raters is also apparent in the 250 movies that make IMDb’s top list, which we pulled on Feb. 16:

So, what’s the issue here? If IMDb is content with its ratings being intended almost solely for men, then there isn’t one. (We reached out to IMDb for comment and for more information on how the site adjusts its ratings, but we received no response. So we don’t know, for example, if IMDb is already doing something to the data that accounts for the gender disparity in raters.) But if IMDb seeks to reflect the opinions of the actual movie-going population, the situation is grave.

Can we fix that? Langer is skeptical. Mainly, besides how simple it is for a dedicated individual or group to “manufacture” results, online data from a self-selected group of people is so inherently dubious that any reweighting of that data is also inherently dubious. You can’t just adjust troublesome data to make it reflect the world, he said.

“The notion that you can take bad data and weight it to be OK is … hazardous to your health,” Langer cautioned.

That said, since the scores of the most popular movie site on the internet are already being calculated based on an entirely self-selected sample, would it destroy the IMDb Top 250 to try to mimic actual movie audiences more? I don’t really think so. As a thought experiment, I used everything we know about IMDb’s rating adjustments — which is far from the full picture — and ran them on the ratings of the 4,377 eligible films after I adjusted the raw ratings to weight men’s and women’s views equally.

We can’t do an adjustment that allows us to perfectly replicate the top 250 — again, we don’t know what’s in the black box, so we can’t re-create it — but to approximate it, I excluded any film that didn’t either a) make the IMDb top 1,000 movies list or b) have a rating from the site’s top 1,000 users within 0.87 points1 of the rating from its users overall. This allows us to sidestep films that would have made the top 250 through vote-stuffing.

My main point is that overall, the naive reweighting didn’t destroy the general look of the 250, and if anything, it elevated films that may have been overlooked because one gender is vastly outnumbered.2

What if IMDb adjusted ratings toward gender parity?

Estimated highest-ranking films on IMDb if the men’s and women’s ratings were weighted toward 50-50 vs. IMDb’s actual rank as of Feb. 16, 2018

Rankings Year▲▼ Film▲▼ Actual▲▼ Women only▲▼ Men only▲▼ Gender- weighted▲▼ 1994 The Shawshank Redemption 1 1 1 1 1972 The Godfather 2 10 2 2 2008 The Dark Knight 4 3 3 3 2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 8 2 4 4 1993 Schindler’s List 6 6 11 5 1999 Fight Club 10 5 8 6 2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 11 7 10 7 1957 12 Angry Men 5 27 7 8 1974 The Godfather: Part II 3 22 5 9 2010 Inception 14 8 6 10 1994 Forrest Gump 12 9 13 11 2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 15 11 14 12 1994 The Lion King 47 4 29 13 1994 Pulp Fiction 7 15 9 14 2014 Interstellar 30 25 15 15 1999 The Green Mile 32 12 28 16 1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 16 24 19 17 1966 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 9 115 12 18 2006 The Prestige 48 26 16 19 1998 American History X 31 17 27 20 2012 The Dark Knight Rises 65 23 22 21 1997 Life Is Beautiful 25 16 41 22 1980 Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back 13 41 17 23 1994 Leon: The Professional 27 21 37 24 2002 City of God 21 64 20 25 1995 Se7en 22 28 23 26 2001 Spirited Away 28 13 56 27 1991 The Silence of the Lambs 23 20 33 28 2006 The Departed 40 35 26 29 1990 Goodfellas 17 71 18 30 2011 The Intouchables 37 19 52 31 2014 Whiplash 45 54 30 32 2000 Gladiator 46 44 24 33 2012 Django Unchained 60 29 31 34 2002 The Pianist 39 31 53 35 1946 It’s a Wonderful Life 24 56 51 36 1960 Psycho 34 55 40 37 1977 Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope 20 48 32 38 2009 Inglourious Basterds 97 32 43 39 1998 Saving Private Ryan 29 70 25 40 1995 The Usual Suspects 26 58 36 41 1999 The Matrix 18 62 21 42 2000 Memento 49 57 34 43 1942 Casablanca 36 73 42 44 1999 American Beauty 63 51 35 45 1985 Back to the Future 44 49 46 46 2001 A Beautiful Mind 144 34 68 47 1954 Rear Window 43 80 60 48 2000 Requiem for a Dream 80 50 49 49 2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 218 14 126 50 2006 The Lives of Others 58 86 78 51 2010 Shutter Island 177 39 59 52 2008 WALL-E 62 42 62 53 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 87 38 66 54 1980 The Shining 61 61 47 55 1997 Good Will Hunting 102 60 48 56 1971 A Clockwork Orange 84 79 50 57 2001 Amelie 82 30 90 58 1954 Seven Samurai 19 336 39 59 1983 Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi 76 87 63 60 1992 Reservoir Dogs 77 94 64 61 2017 Coco 51 209 166 62 1988 Cinema Paradiso 54 165 97 63 1979 Apocalypse Now 50 219 38 64 1940 The Great Dictator 53 262 101 65 1950 Sunset Boulevard 55 190 108 66 1931 City Lights 35 294 92 67 1997 Princess Mononoke 64 118 100 68 2015 Room 143 82 139 69 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl > 250 36 113 70 2004 Howl’s Moving Castle 137 43 216 71 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird 89 102 135 72 2009 Up 115 37 117 73 2014 Gone Girl 179 81 70 74 2010 Toy Story 3 98 66 82 75 1936 Modern Times 38 248 96 76 1988 Grave of the Fireflies 57 159 133 77 2006 Pan’s Labyrinth 130 74 91 78 2016 Hacksaw Ridge 175 161 124 79 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey 91 195 54 80 2007 Into the Wild 181 84 95 81 1958 Vertigo 72 154 87 82 2015 Inside Out 140 78 107 83 2005 Batman Begins 116 106 58 84 1975 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 103 123 104 85 2009 3 Idiots 93 203 93 86 2003 Oldeuboi 67 171 73 87 1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 56 236 57 88 1991 Terminator 2 42 178 44 89 1959 North by Northwest 74 205 99 90 1968 Once Upon a Time in the West 33 447 55 91 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark 41 131 65 92 1995 Toy Story 94 85 80 93 1952 Singin’ in the Rain 90 110 170 94 2016 La La Land 207 122 86 95 1979 Alien 52 151 67 96 1941 Citizen Kane 71 188 74 97 2002 Catch Me if You Can 219 97 81 98 1983 Scarface 105 181 69 99 1976 Taxi Driver 88 164 71 100 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel 194 65 128 101 1987 Full Metal Jacket 92 177 83 102 2010 How to Train Your Dragon 176 47 165 103 1984 Amadeus 83 128 121 104 2007 There Will Be Blood 165 212 72 105 2012 The Avengers > 250 52 144 106 1984 Once Upon a Time in America 69 337 88 107 2013 The Wolf of Wall Street 150 158 45 108 2005 V for Vendetta 151 76 112 109 1939 Gone With the Wind 157 46 279 110 2003 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 174 89 114 111 1995 Braveheart 75 141 61 112 2003 Finding Nemo 166 53 151 113 1999 The Sixth Sense 160 75 116 114 2011 The Help 241 33 245 115 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens > 250 92 154 116 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road 204 135 79 117 2000 Snatch 100 144 76 118 2016 Dangal 73 649 195 119 2016 Zootopia > 250 95 187 120 2001 Donnie Darko 226 91 122 121 2008 Gran Torino 158 121 120 122 1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 112 156 84 123 2012 Jagten 101 183 141 124 1988 My Neighbor Totoro 132 112 183 125 1996 Trainspotting 156 107 127 126 2013 12 Years a Slave 201 100 131 127 1959 Some Like It Hot 118 124 186 128 1973 The Sting 95 284 143 129 2013 Prisoners 215 148 98 130 2017 Logan 202 193 103 131 2016 Your Name 79 399 190 132 2007 Taare Zameen Par 81 448 138 133 2011 A Separation 109 242 125 134 1997 Titanic > 250 45 188 135 2011 Warrior 154 213 134 136 2017 Dunkirk 236 192 145 137 2015 Spotlight 205 155 152 138 1986 Stand by Me 192 125 184 139 2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past > 250 113 159 140 2004 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 > 250 116 157 141 2014 The Imitation Game > 250 69 209 142 2010 The King’s Speech > 250 59 206 143 1986 Aliens 68 217 85 144 2004 Downfall 121 288 115 145 1998 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 142 199 130 146 1997 L.A. Confidential 106 225 94 147 2016 Arrival > 250 169 137 148 1957 Paths of Glory 59 704 109 149 2017 Blade Runner 2049 147 368 102 150 1991 Beauty and the Beast 247 40 379 151 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy > 250 111 147 152 1962 Lawrence of Arabia 85 396 105 153 1993 Jurassic Park 198 150 118 154 1927 Metropolis 108 331 182 155 2016 Deadpool > 250 126 155 156 2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey > 250 90 192 157 2001 Monsters, Inc. 224 77 196 158 1988 Die Hard 122 220 77 159 1989 Dead Poets Society 238 103 239 160 2010 Black Swan > 250 98 161 161 2015 The Martian > 250 134 160 162 1957 Witness for the Prosecution 66 476 229 163 2004 Hotel Rwanda 190 176 181 164 2009 Star Trek > 250 117 199 165 2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug > 250 109 205 166 2009 Hachi: A Dog’s Tale 212 127 288 167 2017 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 111 351 204 168 1981 Das Boot 70 603 111 169 1995 Heat 123 332 89 170 1978 The Deer Hunter 159 346 153 171 1980 The Elephant Man 148 261 177 172 1931 M 78 465 167 173 1950 All About Eve 114 227 302 174 1921 The Kid 99 459 249 175 1944 Double Indemnity 86 433 169 176 2013 Her > 250 194 106 177 2009 Mary and Max 178 175 274 178 2017 Thor: Ragnarok > 250 200 260 179 2013 Dallas Buyers Club > 250 146 175 180 1960 The Apartment 107 322 189 181 2008 In Bruges > 250 239 140 182 1998 The Truman Show 206 132 149 183 2010 Incendies 131 300 253 184 1939 The Wizard of Oz 232 119 241 185 2008 Slumdog Millionaire > 250 99 191 186 2007 No Country for Old Men 162 244 75 187 1999 The Boondock Saints > 250 254 250 188 2009 The Secret in Their Eyes 135 265 198 189 2016 Lion > 250 170 332 190 2017 Baahubali 2: The Conclusion > 250 1170 343 191 2015 The Revenant > 250 214 129 192 2004 Million Dollar Baby 203 163 162 193 2005 Babam ve Oglum 117 526 291 194 1963 The Great Escape 126 479 174 195 1948 Bicycle Thieves 96 458 202 196 2004 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban > 250 72 339 197 2006 Blood Diamond > 250 172 212 198 1993 The Nightmare Before Christmas > 250 105 318 199 1974 Chinatown 129 360 158 200 2012 The Perks of Being a Wallflower > 250 108 232 201 1990 Edward Scissorhands > 250 67 357 202 1949 The Third Man 127 484 224 203 2003 Big Fish > 250 133 226 204 2013 Rush 193 252 172 205 1954 Dial M for Murder 155 352 233 206 1995 Before Sunrise 211 179 228 207 1940 Rebecca 173 250 350 208 1992 Unforgiven 120 543 110 209 1979 Life of Brian 183 266 179 210 1998 The Big Lebowski 167 256 123 211 1992 Aladdin > 250 120 308 212 2000 Amores Perros 209 260 225 213 2007 The Bourne Ultimatum 234 235 156 214 2007 Ratatouille > 250 138 211 215 1996 Fargo 161 230 164 216 1995 Twelve Monkeys 245 238 163 217 1965 For a Few Dollars More 104 792 142 218 1980 Raging Bull 124 599 119 219 2005 Serenity > 250 208 295 220 1967 Cool Hand Luke 172 539 215 221 1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 210 421 231 222 1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai 138 581 180 223 1988 Rain Man > 250 182 217 224 1965 The Sound of Music > 250 101 516 225 1957 The Seventh Seal 141 462 223 226 1993 In the Name of the Father 188 408 268 227 2014 Wild Tales 185 323 282 228 1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 145 466 297 229 2006 The Pursuit of Happyness > 250 185 220 230 1995 Casino 146 419 136 231 1987 The Princess Bride 214 136 298 232 1950 Rashomon 110 626 185 233 2008 Iron Man > 250 140 244 234 1975 Dog Day Afternoon > 250 417 252 235 2014 PK > 250 646 246 236 2005 Sin City > 250 231 148 237 1954 On the Waterfront 139 546 237 238 1982 Gandhi 227 370 221 239 2017 Call Me by Your Name 186 347 528 240 2011 X: First Class > 250 157 248 241 1948 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 119 786 230 242 2014 Kingsman: The Secret Service > 250 174 259 243 2012 Life of Pi > 250 152 257 244 2016 Captain America: Civil War > 250 215 265 245 2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire > 250 96 431 246 2004 The Notebook > 250 63 452 247 1976 Rocky 220 442 132 248 2013 About Time > 250 189 269 249 1977 Annie Hall 233 289 218 250 2003 Mystic River > 250 245 219 251 2011 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo > 250 216 222 252 1992 Scent of a Woman > 250 276 255 253 2007 Atonement > 250 139 366 254 2011 The Artist > 250 197 325 255 2014 Big Hero 6 > 250 129 462 256 1986 Platoon 187 490 176 257 1984 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 213 378 301 258 1973 The Exorcist > 250 309 178 259 1925 The Gold Rush 136 684 306 260 1953 Roman Holiday > 250 206 426 261 1982 The Thing 163 528 146 262 1984 The Terminator 229 318 150 263 1985 The Breakfast Club > 250 137 391 264 2007 Persepolis > 250 291 477 265 2004 Before Sunset > 250 263 240 266 1959 Ben-Hur 195 481 227 267 1961 Judgment at Nuremberg 134 752 375 268 2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire > 250 83 525 269 2004 The Incredibles > 250 222 208 270 2000 Remember the Titans > 250 312 346 271 2001 Shrek > 250 143 323 272 1934 It Happened One Night 184 366 424 273 2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone > 250 88 530 274 2006 Casino Royale > 250 282 200 275 2014 Edge of Tomorrow > 250 293 203 276 2014 How to Train Your Dragon 2 > 250 186 395 277 1941 The Maltese Falcon 216 541 271 278 2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) > 250 299 168 279 1974 Young Frankenstein > 250 443 334 280 1957 Wild Strawberries 152 609 329 281 2001 Ocean’s Eleven > 250 221 262 282 2004 Shaun of the Dead > 250 233 261 283 1967 The Graduate > 250 285 254 284 2006 The Fall > 250 223 594 285 1995 La Haine 231 561 276 286 2006 Little Miss Sunshine > 250 149 349 287 2003 Dogville > 250 328 365 288 2015 The Hateful Eight > 250 411 171 289 2005 Pride & Prejudice > 250 68 754 290 2014 Nightcrawler > 250 380 173 291 1990 Dances With Wolves > 250 375 264 292 1986 Castle in the Sky 250 379 310 293 2010 Tangled > 250 93 599 294 1999 The Iron Giant > 250 418 312 295 2000 In the Mood for Love 240 358 423 296 2016 Hidden Figures > 250 180 651 297 2008 Yip Man > 250 744 214 298 1951 Strangers on a Train > 250 478 371 299 1948 Rope > 250 503 369 300 2009 Moon > 250 350 284 301 2016 Manchester by the Sea > 250 427 243 302 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire > 250 348 448 303 1986 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off > 250 255 303 304 2001 Mulholland Drive > 250 349 242 305 2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier > 250 204 316 306 2009 District 9 > 250 324 193 307 1982 Blade Runner 149 341 197 308 1999 Magnolia > 250 444 194 309 1985 Brazil > 250 554 287 310 2002 The Bourne Identity > 250 298 256 311 2002 Hero > 250 492 355 312 2005 Cinderella Man > 250 495 286 313 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon > 250 354 313 314 1999 Toy Story 2 > 250 249 266 315 2013 Star Trek: Into Darkness > 250 191 417 316 1968 Rosemary’s Baby > 250 343 304 317 1946 Notorious > 250 500 450 318 1976 Network 191 720 273 319 2016 Rogue One > 250 283 337 320 1997 Children of Heaven 128 678 519 321 2007 Hot Fuzz > 250 259 331 322 1983 A Christmas Story > 250 415 377 323 2004 Crash > 250 226 336 324 2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 > 250 104 696 325 1995 Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge > 250 902 437 326 2013 Captain Phillips > 250 270 340 327 2005 Walk the Line > 250 224 418 328 2017 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 > 250 241 446 329 2007 Elite Squad > 250 974 307 330 1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial > 250 246 370 331 2000 Dancer in the Dark > 250 400 447 332 1966 Persona 196 548 400 333 2009 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo > 250 269 412 334 2008 Let the Right One In > 250 384 270 335 2014 Boyhood > 250 335 238 336 2012 Barfi! > 250 877 440 337 2009 Mr. Nobody > 250 253 434 338 1993 True Romance > 250 557 280 339 2010 My Name Is Khan > 250 535 517 340 2009 The Hangover > 250 258 247 341 1926 The General 153 891 381 342 2012 Moonrise Kingdom > 250 232 386 343 2012 Les Miserables > 250 168 499 344 1979 Stalker 197 767 347 345 2017 Baby Driver > 250 389 305 346 2012 Silver Linings Playbook > 250 237 251 347 2016 Contratiempo > 250 589 561 348 2004 The Sea Inside > 250 428 507 349 2006 Apocalypto > 250 364 373 350 1959 The 400 Blows 200 637 374 351 2017 Get Out > 250 344 314 352 1988 Akira > 250 882 267 353 1964 Fistful of Dollars > 250 950 278 354 2009 The Blind Side > 250 198 488 355 2008 Taken > 250 257 315 356 2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button > 250 211 320 357 2007 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly > 250 432 397 358 2011 Drive > 250 361 207 359 2003 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring > 250 572 416 360 1987 The Untouchables > 250 604 300 361 1944 Arsenic and Old Lace > 250 464 617 362 1996 Sling Blade > 250 715 464 363 2008 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas > 250 207 601 364 2002 Talk to Her > 250 394 430 365 1979 Manhattan > 250 508 359 366 2013 Short Term 12 > 250 474 529 367 2015 Straight Outta Compton > 250 513 459 368 2010 Despicable Me > 250 145 543 369 2000 Almost Famous > 250 320 322 370 1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall > 250 656 510 371 2006 Children of Men > 250 355 263 372 2014 Ex Machina > 250 362 272 373 1997 Boogie Nights > 250 660 213 374 2013 Queen > 250 1005 484 375 1973 Papillon > 250 831 354 376 2010 Elite Squad: The Enemy Within > 250 1116 352 377 2014 The Theory of Everything > 250 173 591 378 1940 The Philadelphia Story > 250 393 766 379 1940 The Grapes of Wrath 221 728 403 380 1971 Harold and Maude > 250 436 685 381 2016 Captain Fantastic > 250 363 505 382 1993 What’s Eating Gilbert Grape > 250 202 574 383 2003 Memories of Murder 199 916 330 384 2009 Avatar > 250 228 296 385 2002 Infernal Affairs 243 875 292 386 1994 Three Colors: Red > 250 644 415 387 1976 All the President’s Men > 250 755 420 388 2016 The Handmaiden 246 595 549 389 1955 The Night of the Hunter > 250 737 471 390 1995 Underground > 250 751 541 391 1990 The Godfather: Part III > 250 440 358 392 1984 Paris, Texas 244 736 455 393 2010 The Fighter > 250 452 283 394 1966 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? > 250 537 565 395 2014 The Fault in Our Stars > 250 187 513 396 2005 Brokeback Mountain > 250 162 611 397 2007 Chak de! India > 250 1278 317 398 2006 Lucky Number Slevin > 250 416 363 399 1991 JFK > 250 847 324 400 1998 The Legend of 1900 242 608 607 401 2017 The Greatest Showman > 250 272 972 402 2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? > 250 401 387 403 2010 The Social Network > 250 414 201 404 1997 Gattaca > 250 356 390 405 2012 Argo > 250 243 409 406 1993 Groundhog Day 230 457 210 407 1962 The Manchurian Candidate > 250 849 506 408 1984 This Is Spinal Tap > 250 762 348 409 2013 Frozen > 250 130 692 410 1990 Misery > 250 402 466 411 2007 The Man From Earth > 250 764 290 412 1968 Planet of the Apes > 250 789 294 413 2000 Cast Away > 250 314 328 414 1998 Black Cat, White Cat > 250 676 605 415 1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory > 250 333 496 416 1985 Ran 133 1207 234 417 2008 Changeling > 250 296 405 418 2006 Rang De Basanti 180 1218 236 419 1989 Glory > 250 768 427 420 1989 Back to the Future Part II > 250 374 338 421 2004 The Bourne Supremacy > 250 413 333 422 2006 Letters From Iwo Jima > 250 791 364 423 1952 High Noon > 250 890 407 424 1997 The Fifth Element > 250 247 546 425 2017 Wonder Woman > 250 196 706 426 1995 Ghost in the Shell > 250 917 361 427 1961 Yojimbo 113 1281 235 428 2015 Bahubali: The Beginning > 250 1491 393 429 2007 Zodiac > 250 435 275 430 1990 Awakenings > 250 467 559 431 1993 Three Colors: Blue > 250 552 603 432 1950 Harvey > 250 645 680 433 2014 Fury > 250 449 341 434 1993 Philadelphia > 250 277 644 435 1998 The Celebration > 250 785 404 436 1946 The Big Sleep > 250 750 489 437 1987 Wings of Desire > 250 622 638 438 2016 Hunt for the Wilderpeople > 250 605 701 439 1994 Chungking Express > 250 712 600 440 2012 Kahaani > 250 1212 478 441 1958 Touch of Evil 228 1008 356 442 2004 Finding Neverland > 250 240 570 443 2004 The Machinist > 250 330 438 444 1987 Empire of the Sun > 250 530 668 445 2012 Wreck-It Ralph > 250 281 458 446 1968 Night of the Living Dead > 250 837 385 447 1993 Carlito’s Way > 250 876 326 448 1996 The Bandit 171 1181 362 449 1997 The Game > 250 441 367 450 1946 The Best Years of Our Lives 239 772 604 451 2004 Man on Fire > 250 406 444 452 2014 The Lego Movie > 250 397 380 453 1964 Mary Poppins > 250 234 806 454 1959 Anatomy of a Murder > 250 864 515 455 1999 Being John Malkovich > 250 392 383 456 2015 The Big Short > 250 515 299 457 2008 The Wrestler > 250 621 289 458 1954 La Strada > 250 748 623 459 1999 All About My Mother > 250 405 712 460 2007 3:10 to Yuma > 250 511 456 461 1975 Barry Lyndon 225 991 281 462 2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox > 250 423 445 463 1922 Nosferatu > 250 716 468 464 2017 Wonder > 250 577 862 465 2006 The Last King of Scotland > 250 455 535 466 1980 The Blues Brothers > 250 687 372 467 2012 Skyfall > 250 295 401 468 1997 As Good as It Gets > 250 367 396 469 1955 Diabolique 223 910 534 470 2016 Kubo and the Two Strings > 250 600 616 471 1972 Solaris > 250 996 429 472 2013 Before Midnight > 250 453 449 473 1989 Kiki’s Delivery Service > 250 357 674 474 1994 Ed Wood > 250 545 384 475 1960 La Dolce Vita > 250 793 512 476 1993 The Fugitive > 250 569 392 477 1967 Bonnie and Clyde > 250 648 501 478 1996 Primal Fear > 250 426 578 479 2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets > 250 142 831 480 1999 The Insider > 250 863 378 481 2004 3-Iron > 250 651 719 482 1965 Doctor Zhivago > 250 714 577 483 1927 Sunrise 164 995 633 484 2009 Zombieland > 250 329 414 485 2001 Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India 249 1190 293 486 1993 Tombstone > 250 794 526 487 2008 Departures > 250 731 613 488 2009 (500) Days of Summer > 250 310 345 489 1969 Midnight Cowboy > 250 818 502 490 1961 Breakfast at Tiffany’s > 250 210 802 491 2007 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix > 250 147 837 492 2004 The Butterfly Effect > 250 303 428 493 2003 21 Grams > 250 410 500 494 2016 Doctor Strange > 250 287 556 495 2009 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince > 250 160 846 496 1953 Stalag 17 > 250 1059 642 497 1962 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? > 250 585 793 498 2007 Once > 250 463 487 499 2013 Mandariinid > 250 666 865 500

IMDb makes adjustments to its raw ratings but does not disclose its methodology. Therefore, these rankings — which start with the raw ratings — may not match a gender-weighted version of a list made by IMDb itself because we can’t re-create the site’s adjustments.

Source: IMDb

The top 100 largely includes films from the original list of 250, and the additions to the list — there are a lot of best picture winners among the newbies — appear mainly in the back half of the 250.

Attempting to reflect a target population is a common practice in many fields that use surveys. It’s not clear to me why movie rating sites don’t do it — or, at the least, why they don’t indicate that their scores are almost all based mostly on the opinions of male users.

#IFTTT #Politics – FiveThirtyEight #politics #538 #Walt Hickey

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emploimaroc30 · 3 years ago

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RATP DEV recrute des Opérateurs Maintenance

RATP DEV recrute 12 Opérateurs Maintenance Matériel Roulant. «En 2012, les Casablancais ignoraient tout du tramway. Aujourd’hui, ils sont 140 000 à l’emprunter quotidiennement». C’est ainsi que Youssef Draiss, directeur général de Casa Transport -l’autorité organisatrice des transports de Casablanca-, résume le succès du tramway dans la capitale économique du Maroc. Depuis l’ouverture de la ligne le 12 décembre 2012, le besoin de mobilité des habitants de Casablanca n’a cessé de croître, et ils ont trouvé dans ce mode de transport une alternative bénéfique à un trafic routier saturé. La ponctualité du tramway a été félicitée par les voyageurs qui ont témoigné de leur satisfaction à hauteur de 95 % dans un sondage. Ce résultat représente bien le fruit du travail effectué par Casa Tramway. Une procédure de maintenance sur-mesure, une traçabilité rigoureuse, des contrôles réglementaires fréquents et une formation professionnelle optimale du personnel ont permis de fournir une ponctualité de 100% en 2015. Pour répondre aux besoins de sécurité des voyageurs, RATP Dev Casablanca a sensibilisé les habitants en impliquant la police et les associations locales. Quant à la fraude, elle a pu être maîtrisée grâce à la création de stations avec validation en entrée et en sortie, mais aussi grâce à l’implication de tous les agents sur le terrain. Aujourd’hui, le tramway est prioritaire sur l’ensemble de la ligne qui traverse 60 carrefours. Fin 2017, RATP Dev s’est vu renouveler la confiance de Casa Transports, l’autorité organisatrice de Casablanca, pour l’exploitation, la maintenance et le développement du réseau de tramway de l’Agglomération de Casablanca pour une durée de 12 ans. Ce nouveau contrat comprend la mise en service, l‘exploitation et la maintenance de 4 nouvelles lignes de tramway et 2 lignes de BHNS. RATP Dev Casablanca – nouveau nom de l’entité locale – deviendra ainsi l’opérateur du projet de transport urbain le plus ambitieux du continent africain. Ce nouveau contrat s’accompagne de plusieurs initiatives destinées à proposer un service encore plus optimisé: -L’installation à Casablanca du Data Innovation Center de RATP Dev:ce Hub de conception et d’expérimentation de solutions Big Data place la métropole de Casablanca au cœur de la démarche d’innovation de RATP Dev. -La mise en œuvre, en partenariat avec les autorités locales et les organismes marocains compétents, d’un programme de recrutement et de formation mené par RATP Dev pour identifier et soutenir le développement de compétences de personnes qualifiées.

RATP DEV recrute des Opérateurs Maintenance

RATP DEV recrute 12 Opérateurs Maintenance Matériel Roulant. Description de Poste: Type de contrat: CDD Lieu de travail: CASA-SIDI BERNOUSSI Caractéristiques du poste: -Avoir le permis C -Avoir l’habilitation électrique -Connaissance des normes d’électricité -Connaissance des composants électroniques Description du profil: MISSION GÉNÉRALE DE LA FONCTION: -Réaliser les interventions préventives et correctives confiées par le chef d’équipe sur les équipements. -Remonter les anomalies rencontrées lors des interventions ou inspections. ACTIVITÉS PRINCIPALES: Intervention maintenance des problèmes techniques sur la ligne: -Reçoit une demande d’intervention de la part du PCC ou de son n+1 -Intervient sur la ligne pour résoudre le problème de système pour actions correctives -Reçoit un planning d’actions préventives système hebdomadaire -Inspecte l’état des équipements et fait le nettoyage des équipements suivant le contenu du planning -Remonte les dysfonctionnements rencontrés lors des interventions et les renseigne sur la GMAO -Complète et signe la fiche d’enregistrement sur l’état des équipements vérifiés et l’envoie à son n+1 Magasin de pièces de rechange: -Participe à l’inventaire annuel des pièces de rechange -Envoie des demandes de pièces de rechange nécessaire à son n+1 après ses contrôles Formation: Technicien spécialisé Expérience professionnelle: (2 ans – 3 ans) Poste: Mécanicien de véhicules particuliers et industriels Permis: C. Francais: Bon Postulez ici Read the full article

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rhetoricandlogic · 7 years ago

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AUTONOMOUS BY ANNALEE NEWITZ

BY: NIALL HARRISON ISSUE: 11 DECEMBER 2017

Medicine, medical research, and healthcare systems have always felt to me a little under-explored by SF. Every so often there's a small-press anthology, or some think tank-y futurism—such as this year's Writing the Future competition, organised by Kaleidoscope Health & Care—and on screen no starship is complete without its sickbay and doctor. But when it comes to more substantial SF, and in particular novels, the pickings seem slim. The two recent-ish examples that come to mind are Project Itoh's Harmony (2008, trans. Alexander O. Smith 2010), and Juli Zeh's The Method (2009, trans. Sally-Ann Spencer 2012): both are classically dystopian narratives that dramatise the totalitarian potential of excessive care. Beyond that, you have to look for more generally biotech-oriented stories that incorporate elements of healthcare politics, such as Stephanie Saulter's (r)egeneration series (2013-2015), or mainstream-published work that shades into the speculative, such as Jillian Weise's The Colony (2010) or Hanya Yanagihara's The People in the Trees (2013). The gap seems especially glaring when it comes to American genre SF, given the political prominence and immanently-dystopian quality of the American healthcare system, and its knock-on effects for global healthcare: to paraphrase William Gibson, the drugs are here, they're just not evenly distributed.

So Annalee Newitz's first novel, Autonomous, is welcome for building its narrative around the practicalities and morality of access to effective drugs, even if some of its choices are a little more confusing than you might hope. But we'll come to that. Setup first: towards the end of the present century, the global Collapse that looms in most of today's near futures leads to a realignment of the international order, away from nation-states and towards “economic coalitions”��of which the big players seem to be the Free Trade Zone that covers most of North America, the Asian Union, the African Federation, and the Eurozone—that represent near-total capitalist capture of governmental and public services. As a result, patent terms for new medicines have been extended to longer than a normal human lifespan; regulatory oversight of the clinical development process has been weakened nearly out of existence; drugs that enhance health and cognition are common and required for many jobs; and the pay-for-treatment US insurance model appears to have been extended to basically the entire world, leading to cascading generational inequality:

Only people with money could benefit from new medicine. Therefore, only the haves could remain physically healthy, while the have-nots couldn’t keep their minds sharp enough to work the good jobs, and didn’t generally live beyond a hundred. Plus, the cycle was passed down unfairly through families. The people who couldn’t afford patented meds were likely to have sickly, short-lived children who became indentured and never got out. (p. 55)

Enter Jack Chen, patent pirate. From a family of farmers, she moved into synthetic biology research, and then into open medicine activism, first as part of a group known as The Bilious Pills, then later and for decades as a solo artist. In July of 2144, we find her in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, charging up the batteries of her submarine and worrying over news stories about a bad batch of black-market pharma that might be her fault. In an attempt to raise funds to subsidise her “real work” making medically urgent antiviral and gene therapies freely available, Jack reverse-engineered and sold Zacuity, the hot new “productivity pill” made by Zaxy, which was “didn't just boost your concentration [but] made you enjoy work” (p. 14). Now there are stories in her feed about people with obsessive task addiction, starting with a student whose “brain showed a perfect addiction pattern [...] like she'd been addicted to homework for years” (p. 11). Before too long, Jack is on the run, attempting to find a cure for the people she's inadvertently hurt, while being pursued (in alternating chapters) by agents of the International Property Coalition.

Newitz's future, while perhaps not quite matching the likes of Lauren Beukes or Ian McDonald for sentence-level stylistic verve, is rich, varied, and consistently interesting; it's fun to roam from the Arctic to Casablanca to Vegas and on. But every now and then something doesn't quite ring true. The mildest of my eyebrow-raises were down to inconsistencies or ambiguities in terminology. If you tell me a drug is in “beta” (p. 29), I will assume a move-fast-and-break-things culture has replaced more rigorous medical research, unless and until you later start talking about phase 1 clinical trials: those two linguistic paradigms don't fit neatly together. If you refer to “cloned Zacuity” (p. 13), I will assume it is produced by a process in which cloning could plausibly be relevant; so it's probably a biologic, perhaps a cell therapy of some kind; but if you then talk about “isolat[ing] each part of the drug” and “narrow[ing] the questionable parts down to four molecules” (pp. 28-9) I will get thoroughly confused, since not only does that not sound like a cell therapy or biologic, it doesn't even sound like Zacuity is a single drug, but rather a combination of small-molecule treatments.

Above this, however, sit some practical and conceptual concerns. I can accept that the novel's characters believe that subversion of intellectual property law is the most practical solution to their crisis because they are living under total capitalism; but it is odd that nobody even laments the impossibility of a system that would centralise and pool healthcare costs. Socialism seems to have been thoroughly erased in the present, in memory, and in possibility. And I can accept that “Zaxy didn't make data from their clinical trials available”, but the corollary, “so there was no way to find out about possible side effects” (p. 14) seems a little dubious in what is evidently still a networked world easily capable of crowdsourcing that information. Then there's the underlying business model itself. It seems that the have-nots massively outnumber the haves, and while pharmaceutical companies are not perfectly rational economic agents, and have been known to push the limits of appropriate pricing for access to treatment, at a certain point charging x to a market of y patients becomes less profitable than charging a fraction of x to a multiple of y. Everything we learn about the world of Autonomous suggests that Zaxy and its competitors deliberately keep themselves on the wrong side of that equation. It's only Jack and her friends attempting to fill the market hole, and it's not clear why.

Why does such pedantry matter? Perhaps it doesn't. But Zacuity is presented to us as symptomatic of a system, a synecdoche for lost autonomy, the reduction of human lives to biological machinery. It's everything Jack has dedicated her life to fighting against. And for that fight to really matter, the symptom and the system need to feel crushingly inescapable; and they don't always.

Or is there another way in? Autonomous explores its core theme on more than one front. It is a novel about seeking freedom in an owned world, and although the owners in the background don't always quite feel solid, their property is memorably thorny. Two pairings stand out in particular. Travelling with Jack is Threezed (3-Z, two syllables), a young indentured man she inadvertently rescues from his owner; pursuing them are two IPC agents, an enfranchised man named Eliasz, and an indentured artificial intelligence, Paladin.

Indenture is, for the avoidance of doubt, slavery, but a version grown from the worst of contemporary employment practices and a perversion of the concept of equality. It took root, we are told, in the mid-twenty-first century, with the arrival of the first true artificial intelligences: “companies could offset the cost of building robots by retaining ownership for up to ten years” (p. 224). (The parallel to non-sentient innovations such as pharmaceuticals is hard to miss.)

But when bots were granted human rights, that didn't come with their immediate freedom; instead, a new human right was enshrined, namely the “right” of indenture. “After all, if human-equivalent beings could be indentured, why not humans themselves?” (p. 224). This global endorsement of slavery as the ultimate choice of a good capitalist subject means that in 2144 it has expanded from what we know and become an order of magnitude more extensive than at any previous point human history. Its supposed limits are fig-leaves: even if birth-indenture of humans remains technically outlawed in most of the economic coalitions, many turn a blind eye, and in any case, child indenture is fine. Such was the fate of Threezed, as Jack sees it:

Families with nothing would sometimes sell their toddlers to indenture schools, where managers trained them to be submissive just like they were programming a bot. At least bots could earn their way out of ownership after a while, be upgraded, and go fully autonomous. Humans might earn their way out, but there was no autonomy key that could undo a childhood like that. (p. 31)

The other characters—and for most of the novel Threezed is seen only through the eyes of others—know this story intellectually, but for various reasons have a hard time internalising what it means. After Jack rescues him, Threezed, “his eyes wide with feigned innocence” (p. 52), offers to “repay” her; Jack wonders whether he is “trying to manipulate her” or whether “his indenture had trained him in this specific form of gratitude” (p. 52). She asks him if he is sure. “He bowed his head in an ambiguous gesture of obedience and consent” (p. 53): a haunting reaction. Their 'relationship' continues for some time, and Jack—an ostensibly pragmatic woman, for whom romance is “like any other biological process [...] the product of chemical and electrical signaling in her brain” (p. 57)—starts to convince herself Threezed's compliance is perhaps more than his programming. “She leaned over to kiss Threezed hard on the mouth. His reaction was not artful. It felt sloppy and real” (p. 88). That “real” lands hard, I think, imbued with a desperate desire for a simple story to be true, for Jack not to be exploiting vulnerability. But of course the power imbalance has distorted Jack's perceptions, as power imbalances inevitably will. Late in the novel we discover that Threezed keeps a blog of his experiences. It is a “prickly, grotesquely truthful story” (p. 243), and his take on Jack is simply that, “Every master loves to fuck a slave” (p. 253). What he doesn't add is the horror we have already seen: a master who wants to believe the slave loves to fuck them back.

While all this is happening, Paladin and Eliasz are becoming similarly entangled, but this time it's the master's view that is withheld. Paladin—newly activated and thus something of an innocent, albeit one equipped with alarmingly lethal military hardware, and with appropriate software installed to ensure an uncomplaining 20 years of indentured service—has an unexpectedly intimate moment with Eliasz fairly early on in the novel:

The bot stood at full height, and Eliasz rested his hands on the guns that jutted from Paladin's chest. Eliasz' right hand began to move slowly, getting to know the whole barrel by feel.

[...]

Shoot the entire roof off that house. Eliasz' lips were pressed into Paladin's carapace, moving slightly as he gave the vague order.

[...]

Paladin categorized the physiological changes in Eliasz' body and reloaded his guns. The bot decided to continue his human social communication test by not communicating. It didn't make sense to remind Eliasz that every single movement of his body, every rush of blood or spark of electricity, was completely transparent to Paladin. He would allow Eliasz to believe that he sensed nothing. (pp. 75-76)

This is entertaining—and a later scene in which Paladin allocates 20% of his processing power to run internet searches for confusing sexual terms while reserving the remaining 80% to concentrate on blowing shit up is outright funny—but it's also tragic. Every one of Paladin's actions is oriented towards meeting Eliasz' needs, even “his” acceptance of a particular pronoun. Bots, we are told more than once, do not have a sense of gender, and as a result it takes Paladin a while to understand how profoundly gender shapes the world for humans. When it becomes clear that Eliasz would be more comfortable with their relationship if he could think of Paladin as a woman, Paladin accommodates by accepting “she” instead of “he”, even recognising the potential impact of the change, even knowing that the choice may not be free: “Bug would no doubt say that there are no choices in slavery, nor true love in a mind running apps like gdoggie and masterluv. But they were all that Paladin had” (p. 236). More completely programmed than Threezed, Paladin's chosen truth shies away from the grotesque—even after she achieves autonomy.

Fortunately for Paladin, Eliasz treats her better than Jack treats Threezed—he asks permission, for one thing—and his feelings, when we are eventually given access to them, do appear to be—that word again—real. In contrast to Jack's mechanistic view of love, for Eliasz it is an unexamined but powerfully felt emotion, and when at a moment of crisis he has to choose between achieving a goal and saving Paladin, he thinks: “He had a choice. Or maybe he didn't” (p. 285). And like that we are reminded that the novel's logic for “human indenture” is particularly malevolent because it extrapolates from an underlying truth: that even when nominally free citizens, humans are never perfectly autonomous and that that is in fact a good and necessary fact; that in a thousand different interactions we give up some of our freedom, for the sake of each other, for the sake of society. Is that grounds for a faint flicker of hope? In Newitz's dystopia it may be supremely difficult to define when and where “real” occurs, but if at least some voluntary abstentions of autonomy remain possible, some of the time, then neither humans nor bots have been reduced to perfect commodities yet. So the fight does still matter. I think that, in the end, is what I choose to take from this unsettling, uneven novel.

@booksandghosts This reviewer is brilliant and the emphasis above (I bold/italicked the paragraph which matters to me) explains eloquently what I called “misgivings” while I read this book. I thought you would like to know. The review is -of course- somewhat spoilery, though not overly.

#Annalee Newitz #Autonomous #mahreviews

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Sonos says Google has been stealing its patented tech for years – Telecoms.com

Sonos says Google has been stealing its patented tech for years Wireless audio specialist Sonos is suing internet giant Google, claiming it has knowingly used its patented technology without paying for it since 2016. The grievance relates to Google’s portfolio of smart, wireless, networked speakers, now going under the collective brand of Google Home. Sonos says it gave Google access to its patents in 2013 in order to allow Google Play Music to work on the Sonos platform. At the time Google had no competing hardware. A couple of years later, however, the Chromecast Audio dongle was launched, which promised to connect regular speaker to the internet. Initially, as the Guardian reported, each connected speaker required its own audio source. But within a couple of months Google added a bunch of additional functionality, including multi-room support, which seems to be the first of the patent infringements. Here are the main patents Sonos claims are being infringed, although there are another 23 not detailed in the suit: US. Patent No. 8,588,949 – Method and Apparatus for Adjusting Volume Levels in a Multi-Zone System US. Patent No. 9,195,258 – System and Method for Synchronizing Operations Among a Plurality of Independently Clocked Digital Data Processing Devices US. Patent No. 9,219,959 – Multi Channel Pairing in a Media System US. Patent No. 10,209,953 – Playback Device US. Patent No. 10,439,896 – Playback Device Connection “Google is an important partner with whom we have collaborated successfully for years, including bringing the Google Assistant to the Sonos platform last year,” said Sonos CEO, Patrick Spence. “However, Google has been blatantly and knowingly copying our patented technology in creating its audio products. “Despite our repeated & extensive efforts over the last few years, Google has not shown any willingness to work with us on a mutually beneficial solution. We’re left with no choice but to litigate in the interest of protecting our inventions, our customers, and the spirit of innovation that’s defined Sonos from the beginning.” We’re not aware of any public Google response, but even if they have it will just be templated legalese claiming innocence, so let’s just take that as read. Sonos has filed suit in the Central California district court and also asked the International Trade Commission to block the importing of any of the products claimed to infringe the patents into the US. If Google is guilty of any of this it would be well advised to settle quickly as the PR from exploiting such a well-loved tech brand is unlikely to be good. Tags: audio, Google, legal, Patent, smart speaker, Sonos Webinars View all Finding the Best Antenna Approach for Successful 5G Deployments Transforming OSS/BSS From Monoliths to Cloud-Native Applications Using Big Data Analytics for Better Network Insights in the Cloud Era White Papers View all Bringing Internet to the Other Half of the World An Introduction to Interference Hunting A Holistic Approach to IoT Monetization Vendor View View all Modernization of OSS/BSS with Open Source, Part 3: Integration Live panel stream: The Advent of 5G Modernization of OSS/BSS with Open Source: Part 2: Automation Events View all MWC19 Barcelona 24-27 February 2020 View Event Cable Next-Gen Technologies & Strategies 16-18 March 2020 View Event 5G MENA 29-31 March 2020 View Event Polls View all Should privacy be treated as a right to protect stringently, or a commodity for users to trade for benefits? Regulations should protect privacy at all costs Rules should be flexible to allow users to trade privacy for benefits Loading ... Twitter View all US Senator tables bill to ban intelligence sharing with Huawei friendlies https://t.co/oxHYL8fQYo #5G #Cloud Orange opens new Africa and Middle-East HQ in Casablanca https://t.co/FSLgSD0QBw #4GLTE #Corporate Nokia applauds its own progress with 63 5G wins https://t.co/r27v2DmEsH #5G #contracts

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Learn Why ATG Is Washington DC’s #1 Ranked Title Company!

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Prior to the Malls Arrived Showmanship For Smaller City Motion picture Theatres

Ahead of the Malls Came- Showmanship for Modest-town Film Theatres

Above forty a long time ago, a Film theatre did not have to be situated in a shopping center to bring in enough patrons. As other little, privately owned businesses had performed before them, little-town films theatres survived -- and, in some cases, even thrived -- for quite a few decades. One should still from time to time locate impartial theatres grinding away in tiny cities Situated far plenty of from metropolitan areas, but one particular is more likely to locate abandoned buildings with empty marquess That usually resemble the rusted prows of old ships. Some old theatre buildings serve as shells for church buildings and small firms, but even quite a few of those buildings use this kind of skimpy camouflage that someone passing by means of city can certainly guess the role they at the time played as a local Centre for any shared Neighborhood expertise. Immediately after the nature from the Group changed, after the community people commenced pinpointing While using the national television community, the area exhibitors stepped up the public spectacle by promotional showmanship so that you can revitalize not only its function within the Group but often the local community spirit itself. These converted marquees remind us not merely of deserted ships but of shabby circus tents that keep on being extended following the circus has remaining city; They might bear handful of traces in their previous position inside the Neighborhood rituals, even so the Recollections of the private attempts of community showmen to maintain the circus alive during the face of cultural transform will preserve that circus plus the familiarity with the cultural significance alive inside us.

Just before folks relied so heavily on vehicles, and in advance of they ended up frightened to walk various metropolis blocks, several cities of lower than a thousand persons had their own personal theatre which residents typically labeled "the present household" or "the Film image exhibit." Citizens with the western Illinois city of Carthage, by way of example, noticed two present houses in its organization district not very long after the beginning on the 20th century, but only one of these survived for very long. The Woodbine Theatre, named after the crawling vine that grew over the east facet of the brick creating, wasn't the first theatre in the town of above three thousand men and women, however the showmanship of its proprietor brought on the competition to head out of enterprise.

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The 1st Woodbine was converted into a theatre in 1917 by Charles Arthur Garard. C.A., as he was called, had already operated an area dairy and a downtown ice cream parlor which presented five-cent ice cream sodas, confections, 5-cent crushed fruit souffles, and also a tobacco named Garard's Royal Blue. He was a shrewd businessman, but he was also a fanciful dreamer who required to be held in Look at by his pragmatic and in some cases shrewder spouse. Bertha, who generally accompanied the silent films revealed in his theatre with her piano, retained him from offering the theatre and drifting off into other projects, such as the escalating of grapefruits in Florida. When C.A. died, she took around as proprietor until her youngest son, Justus, grew to become old enough that can help her.

Justus recalled in June of 1981 how his father never truly experienced a chance to enjoy any considerable returns through the theatre for ten many years soon after he transformed it. "We might've been out of small business if it hadn't been for chatting movies," Justus mentioned, the earliest of which "have been quite challenging to be familiar with." The Woodbine was the first theatre in the region to point out chatting pics, which were seem-on-disc like Warner Brothers' Vitaphone procedure (shown in the black-and-white TV promos for the 1955 film HELEN OF TROY and A part of the DVD and VHS copies of that film). The 1st sound movies were "only section-talkies. They'd use some dialogue, then [the characters] would soar into tune." Mainly because seem gear was costly to setup, he and an acquaintance Oliver Kirschner made their own personal seem program. Forged-iron record turntables had been Forged at an industrial plant sixteen miles absent in Keokuk, Iowa, and connected for the projector travel. Because sound projectors operated at 34 frames-for each-2nd, they revised a means to hurry up their projectors to synchronize the film with the soundtrack around the record. Once in a while, "the needle would soar out on the groove," as well as the projectionist would have to "choose it up and set it on the appropriate groove by observing thoroughly and following the sound." He recalled which they had to do this for 2 or 3 several years until the appearance of audio-on-film. Each time the needles would jump from 1 groove to another because of more than-modulation, the customers would patiently anticipate the projectionists to synchronize the record Along with the movie.

The introduction of sound-on-movie, which Justus recalled was listed here to remain by 1933, necessary that he, like other exhibitors, insert an expensive seem head in the projector. Simply because some movies ended up unveiled as sound-on-disc and a few were being launched as seem-on-film, for example Fox's Movietone procedure, a lot of exhibitors experienced to choose from a person program or the other. "Consequently," mentioned Justus, "we were not enjoying any Fox shots. Paramount arrived out With all the data and Fox Together with the audio-on-movie." The moment he installed the audio-on-film system, he no longer employed the disc procedure due to the fact he was never "capable to completely triumph over that wavery noise. The songs would go up and down."

Though C.A. died Soon once the audio-on-disc technique was Functioning, he never ever saw the business enterprise at his theatre increase. Justus observed a gradual advancement "along about 1937." This boost in patronage came about not due to the fact quite a few tiny-city citizens were interested in the latest technological enhancements or in acquiring their life enriched by the imaginative visions of these types of geniuses as Orson Welles; they merely desired enjoyment that may whisk them away from their humdrum life -- and an excuse to receive away from the house. They didn't expect to be surprised by the plot or ending and did not really need to become intellectually challenged. They had been as excited about looking at their favourite intimate potential customers involved with the most recent routine star vehicles as they were being about observing the burning of Atlanta.

The reality that Absent With all the WIND (1939) was successful in Carthage may or may not are already the result of Justus leasing the aspect of a barn wherever he and his pals pasted up a 24-sheet Display screen touting the favored vintage. Lots of the movies that we today regard as classics have been, at time, little over run-of-the-mill programmers. CASABLANCA (1942), for example, was simply a modest intimate thriller with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman performing as stand-ins for our unique fantasies; they turned the eye of compact-town patrons clear of their own issues although the caricatured Nazi villains offered targets for his or her anger. In the majority of instances, what was playing in the regional theatre was irrelevant, no matter whether it be a film like WIZARD OF OZ (1939), which in the beginning did disappointing small business but was later perceived to become a common, or films with appropriate titles like Smaller-TOWN Woman (1936). It had been a community action that was as crucial to the city as the Saturday night time band concert events if the white-painted wood bandstand was hauled to the middle of Primary Avenue.

An exercise that Justus promoted in his little town to help you enhance theatre patronage was financial institution night time. Bank night time was a gimmick that labored similar to this: the patrons would register in a big reserve, and hooked up to each registration type was a numbered tag which Justus or an personnel positioned in a large drum. The drum was hauled out in front of the theatre audience right after the initial demonstrating on Tuesday evenings in which an area merchant or other distinguished citizen would draw out a range and announce it into the audience. If the individual holding that number sat in the theatre at that moment, he / she would declare The cash. "Otherwise," Justus extra, "The cash was set into what we known as bank night time and held in excess of right up until another week. We'd insert fifty bucks each week." A fifty greenback evening would barely pay for the demonstrating, and the theatre wouldn't begin earning funds until the jackpot arrived at all over $200 or $300. "Then we'd fill the theatre," he claimed, and this didn't include things like "the many those who came down and gambled inside the afternoons." Obviously, a weekly winner would have worn out the business, so Justus, like other impartial exhibitors, took a bet using this distinct gimmick.

One more gimmick to bolster limping ticket sales concerned the distribution of sets of silverware one particular piece at any given time until eventually the patron experienced gathered a whole set. These sets -- knives, forks, spoons, and ladles -- were being easier to handle than dishes; dishes had been shipped in barrels and often arrived broken. Contrary to nowadays, exhibitors basically created the majority of their profits from ticket revenue. The restricted choices with the concession stands in little theatres -- long ahead of the days of incredibly hot Pet warmers and cheese-lined tortilla chips -- furnished only a little per cent of the profits. The most effective a long time for ticket product sales, extra Justus, were in the course of World War II.

When Justus was an officer inside the Navy in 1943, a fireplace started off in the furnace and eaten the entire theatre. His uncle, outstanding architect Edgar Payne, drew up blueprints for a wider, single-floor theatre, and design began quickly under Kirschner's supervision. The brand new constructing had no balcony, nevertheless it did consist of a soundproof cry place on the next ground. The seating potential in the theatre was 500 seats, and this was later diminished to 350.

While in the late 1930s, Justus remodeled an older setting up right into a theatre in Dallas City, Illinois, sixteen miles north of Carthage. The theatre, he recalled, experienced a "lovely front lobby with walk-up entrance methods" which "later on grew to become illegal since it was a fire hazard." The Dallas Theatre manufactured a gain throughout Earth War II but , he added, was the primary of his a few little-city theatres to "dry up." A quonset hut theatre was manufactured from the river city of Warsaw soon after Planet War II. It outlasted the more mature theatre in Dallas Metropolis, nevertheless it hardly ever, according to Justus, created money. A large theatre circuit manufactured him a substantial offer you within the early nineteen fifties for all a few of his theatres, but, despite the gradual shifting of populations far from small communities, he declined. He claimed that he just did not wish to get out with the theatre company.

Television contributed to variations in the rural communities, specially when close by Quincy obtained a TV station during the early fifties, but a shift faraway from the shared knowledge of modest-town dwelling was Similarly responsible. Justus' theatres shed clients no more quickly than many other regional businesses, for instance furniture dealerships and dry goods stores. Even with endeavours of theatre exhibitors and other merchants to help keep their integral roles alive in the shrinking Group, transportation facilitated the migration of inhabitants to city places exactly where they proven suburban communities full with ubiquitous procuring facilities and malls. New theatres cropped up inside of these purchasing regions, afterwards turning out to be twins and multiplexes, but they generally did not supply patrons any feeling of taking part in communal rituals. Watching films projected by automatic tools though seated between strangers in a very shoebox-sized shopping center theatre (in a few urban spots) bore very little resemblance into the expertise of looking at a Motion picture with neighbors and kin on the nearby "clearly show residence."

Patrons in smaller communities didn't must hold out sixteen months or to drive across the town for just a new film since the modest theatres ran various modifications per week. Justus recalled that his individual theatres would run "a Sunday-Monday Motion picture, a Tuesday financial institution evening, a Wednesday-Thursday, then a Friday and Saturday. We obtained to The purpose in which we ended up open 3 days each week. 1st it had been Thursday-Friday-Saturday-Sunday; then it was Friday, Saturday, and Sunday." The Carthage community supported the theatre in the course of the week nights from the late nineteen fifties and early sixties, but the Warsaw Theatre dwindled right down to Saturday and Sunday showings, at times with a special movie Every evening. College students in the local 4-calendar year liberal arts university in Carthage retained Friday evening attendance robust for the Woodbine, but highschool football online games seriously restricted Friday attendance in Warsaw.

Another aspect that "made it so difficult for the tiny towns," In line with Justus, was that the impartial exhibitors "couldn't obtain the merchandise until it had played the bigger places," including Quincy, and that is about forty miles south of Carthage, or Keokuk, which sits just across the Mississippi River on the southeastern suggestion of Iowa. Mainly because he was an independent, he had to attend six weeks to Perform a movie which was booked to start with in Quincy, Keokuk, or at other close by circuit theatres. "If we could've played the film the next week," Justus added, "Why, the people would have stayed household to check out it. But they understood that we weren't gonna have it for awhile. So they'd head to Keokuk."

Amongst later on gimmicks used to stir local people curiosity were being Halloween midnight exhibits and four options run each New 12 months's Eve, but the most important seasonal party in Carthage was the annual number of service provider-sponsored Xmas films. Right before Just about every Xmas season, Justus acquired a Filmack trailer with the merchants, plus a salesman from St. Louis offered the merchants a spot on the trailer for $37.50. The merchants were also specified tickets or complimentary passes with the theatre that were superior any time, nevertheless the Christmas films -- generally selected for the youngsters of Individuals mother and father who had been encouraged to accomplish Christmas purchasing in town -- ended up shown absolutely free towards the community. The popcorn, obviously, was not free. I'm able to try to remember stuffing sacks full of popcorn and handing them over the glass counter to pushy patrons who had to pay. . . not $3.00. . . but 10 cents.

The midnight Halloween showings of horror double-features had been the ones that I discovered to be especially exciting. Justus usually ran double costs such as the FLY and also the RETURN In the FLY and AIP's I had been A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN (1957) with UA's THE RETURN OF DRACULA (1958). For your latter, in Warsaw, I formed white cardboard right into a castle which included the left exit. Over the exit, appropriately adequate for Halloween, was a clock which marketed an area funeral house. (I often wondered why funeral household clocks have been displayed in modest Film theatres in Individuals times. Ended up patrons becoming reminded that their lives ended up ticking absent though the films ended up flickering around the display screen?) I stretched a wire with the projection booth into the exit, Situated instantly to the remaining from the monitor, and draped a white bed sheet about a clothing hanger. Throughout a substantial place of among the movies, I stood from the exit doorway with my Lady friend and jerked around the string attached to your hanger, aspiring to pull my ghost right down to the exit more than the heads of your viewers. The ghost emerged from the little projection window on cue, however the hanger turned hung-up within the wire and refused to travel as I'd supposed. I tugged around the string and it snapped, Hence the projectionist gave the hanger a push. If the houselights came on at the end of the element, I noticed my meant deus ex machina suspended in basic check out in the middle from the auditorium. Possibly this failure was why Justus confined all of my future advertising initiatives to the lobby and outside the theatre; it's possible he resolved that I had been influenced too much with the gimmicks of these types of learn showmen as William Castle (for these types of films as Your home ON HAUNTED HILL, THE TINGLER, MR. SARDONICUS, HOMICIDAL, and 13 GHOSTS). Of the entire Castle films that Justus performed, I can only don't forget the colored glasses for the original THIRTEEN GHOSTS remaining significantly efficient. [Even more facts about horror movie promotions can be found in the companion posting BLACK-AND-WHITE HALLOWEEN HORROR HITS: I had been A TEENAGE UNDEAD WITCH, which is offered on line.]

They are only some examples of advertising machinations that were necessary to Increase ticket profits for the 2nd-operate films shown by impartial, modest-city exhibitors. A lot of the sooner gimmicks, which include bank night and service provider-sponsored Xmas shows, brought in a handful of added dollars, but it is Uncertain whether or not the afterwards and even more flamboyant gimmicks greatly afflicted ticket income. BOXOFFICE magazine and push sheets for the person films offered exploitation suggestions, a lot of which necessary the ordering high priced supplies, but the struggling impartial needed to mostly rely on his individual creativeness to develop makeshift, economical promotions.

Justus Garard* claimed being on the list of previous independent exhibitors in the region to head out of business. The Woodbine Theatre in Carthage was sold to your neighboring car dealer in 1969 and sooner or later transformed right into a showroom For brand spanking new cars and trucks. The inside of his theatre, when my brother and I observed it Soon following it were gutted for this goal, resembled the inside from the small-city movie theatre inside the wonderful and touching Italian movie CINEMA PARADISO (1989). The Dallas and Warsaw theatres, Despite the fact that shut way back, even now resemble Motion picture theatres; the latter, utilized as being a storage region for antiques, nonetheless has its prow of a marquee that juts out above the sidewalk. Not Significantly has altered in the river town of Warsaw, but on Saturday nights, with no bandstand with area citizens enjoying instruments when Little ones skip close to it, and without the glittering marquee with the outdated Film theatre, Key Road seems A great deal darker, and also a ton lonelier. Potentially just a few impartial exhibitors, like Those people in small, midwestern towns like Carthage and Warsaw, resorted to the above mentioned-pointed out gimmicks, and maybe the Demise knell for the Mother and pop

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2018 fashion recap: most important news of the year

2018 was certainly an eventful year for the fashion industry: high-profile mergers and acquisitions, big retail players struggling to keep afloat, fashion designers buying back their brands... It’s time to look back at the most important developments of the year.

January

Hollywood actresses protested against sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination in the movie industry by wearing black dresses at the 2018 Golden Globes. French luxury conglomerate Kering announced it would sell its stake in Puma. Kim Jones left the role of Menswear Artistic Director at Louis Vuitton, while Hedi Slimane was announced as Celine’s new Creative Director.

February

Fashion designer Carolina Herrera retired from her namesake label. French label Jacquemus ventured into menswear for the first time, unveiling its debut collection at Paris Fashion Week. The UK government required companies to publish a gender pay gap report, forcing Marks & Spencer to reveal it pays women 12.3 percent less than men.

March

Amazon’s chairman Jeff Bezos dethroned Bill Gates as the world’s richest person. Stella McCartney bought her label back from Kering. Riccardo Tisci was announced by Burberry as its new Creative Director.

Meanwhile, Eyewear powerhouse Luxottica merged with lens maker Essilor to become the world’s largest eyewear company. In the United States, department store chain Nordstrom rejected a takeover by the Nordstrom family.

Asos embraced diversity by featuring a broad range of models on its website, but a government-enforced report revealed a the company’s gender pay gap is above the UK average.

Kim Jones took over at Dior Homme, while Off-White’s Virgil Abloh succeeded him at Louis Vuitton. Expectations were high for Abloh’s debut collection, as he was likely to bring more streetwear to the French fashion house.

April

John Galliano joined the list of luxury brands going fur-free. Spanish apparel group Cortefiel changed its name to Tendam. Both LVMH and Farfetch launched startup accelerators. Companies operating websites in the European Union had to comply with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the end of May, but less than one month before the deadline, several retailers still weren’t ready.

May

All eyes were on Meghan Markle’s sartorial choices ahead of her wedding with Prince Harry. She chose Givenchy’s Clare Waight Keller to design her wedding dress and Stella McCartney to create her reception gown. The latter received so many compliments McCartney decided to launch the dress commercially as part of a debut bridal line months later. Despite of Markle’s promotion of British fashion, UK retail is going through its toughest spot since 2013.

The month of May was also shaken by a video exposé from PETA depicting animal abuse in angora goat farms in South Africa, the world’s biggest mohair producer. This led a series of fashion brands, including H&M, Zara and Topshop, to to ban mohair from their collections.

With “Heavenly Bodies” as this year’s theme, MET Gala invited celebrities and fashionistas to explore the relationship between fashion and religion. One of the surprises on this year’s red carpet was the presence of fast fashion retailer H&M, which designed four custom-made looks. MET’s accompanying exhibition was an astounding success, having been visited by over 1.3 million people between May and September.

May was also the month of acquisitions, with Delta Galil acquiring Eminence; Fosun buying a majority stake in Wolford; Walmart buying Flipkart; Richemont acquiring Yoox Net-a-Porter; and Macy’s acquiring Story New York. Meanwhile, LVMH invested in fashion search engine Lyst and French label Carven filed for bankruptcy.

June

American fashion designer Kate Spade took her own life after years battling against depression. UK Parliament hosted a debate about fur. Belgian designer Dries van Noten sold his eponymous label to Spanish conglomerate Puig, raising the question whether it is possible for designers to survive independently, without the backing of a large corporation. Meanwhile, Italian fund FSI acquired 41 percent of Missoni’s shares.

Off-White’s suitcase collection in partnership with luxury luggage brand Rimowa became the new “it bag”. The brand led by Virgil Abloh also announced an upcoming collection with Ikea in June.

Speaking of successful collabs, Boohoo’s line with heiress turned reality TV star Paris Hilton flew off the (virtual) shelves. American brand Fashion Nova, an Instagram darling which turned out to be the most googled fashion brand of the year in the United States, unveiled its first menswear collection.

Also in June, Bottega Veneta parted ways with Creative Director Tomas Maier after 17 years and roped in 32-year-old Daniel Lee to succeed him. Guess co-founder Paul Marciano quit after supermodel Kate Upton accused him of groping her years ago.

July

Burberry came under fire for destroying unsold products in order to avoid markdowns. Dior relaunched its “Saddle Bag” after almost two decades. Puma and Dolce & Gabbana fought in court over fur sandals only a handful of people actually bought. Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com announced plans to launch in Europe following a 550 million investment from Google. Ivanka Trump ended her label after major retailers parted ways with her due to her father’s actions as president of the United States.

August

VF Corporation announced the spinoff of its denim brands Wrangler and Lee. Former employees sued Nike for gender discrimination and sexual harassment. Farfetch filed for IPO. Burberry unveiled a new logo and monogram under Riccardo Tisci. Helsinki Fashion Week pledged to ban leather. Italian label Ermenegildo Zegna acquired Thom Browne while Charlesbank bought footwear company Rockport out of bankruptcy. Italian hat maker Borsalino, made famous by Humphrey Bogart in “Casablanca”, also found new owners.

September

Five years after the Rana Plaza disaster, Bangladesh finally raised the minimum wage for garment workers. Nike went through another media storm after making an ousted NFL player the face of its advertising campaign. Speaking of controversy, Burberry took a step back and pledged to stop destroying unsold goods. The British label also promised to ban fur, as did London Fashion Week the same month.

But the biggest news of September was definitely the acquisition of Versace by Michael Kors Holdings,which changed its name to Capri Holdings Limited to better reflect its new status as a luxury conglomerate -- the company purchased footwear label Jimmy Choo in 2017.

Meanwhile, Alibaba’s Jack Ma announced his retirementby 2019, Madewell entered the menswear market and L Brands shut down Henri Bledel.

Hedi Slimane was met with criticism when he unveiled his debut collection for Celine (after changing the company’s name to Celine, without an accent on the first E, and adopting a minimalist logo). Fashionistas the world over accused him of being a one trick pony, pointing out the resemblance of his new pieces to his past work at Saint Laurent. Fans of Celine’s former Creative Director, Phoebe Philo, even gathered in Paris to celebrate the label’s previous designs and the search for old Celine items skyrockets on second-hand websites in the subsequent months.

October

After being heavily criticized for its low wages, Amazon decided to raise its minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour in the United States. The online giant also ventured into brick and mortar retail by launching a pop-up store in London. More stores across Europe popped up for the holiday season.

British investment firm Lion Capital LLP sold Hema to a Dutch investor 11 years after acquiring it from another Dutch investor. The company announced plans to expand even more in Europe and beyond.

Speaking of expansion, American personal styling service Stitch Fix announced its entrance in the UK market in 2019. Walmart acquired intimates label Bare Necessities while Icicle Group bought Carven out of bankruptcy. However, the Chinese apparel company found it best to part ways with the label’s Creative Director, Serge Ruffieux.

Speaking of Creative Directors, Jean-charles de Castelbajac took this role at United Colors of Benetton, for which 2018 wasn’t the best of years. Lacoste, the French label best known for its crocodile logo, also announced its first female Creative Director in History, Louise Trotter. After a collaborative capsule collection, Timberland roped in British designer Christopher Raeburn.

In the UK, Sports Direct acquired department store chain House of Fraser for 95 million pounds, and a series of store closings ensued. Debenhams isn’t doing much better: it decided to close over 50 stores in October, following a record annual loss of 492 million pounds. Meanwhile, Arcadia Group went through another kind of crisis: its chairman, Philip Green, was accused of sexual and racial harassment against employees, leading Topshop to fall in consumers’ opinion according to a survey.

It’s not only in the UK that department stores are struggling. US chain Sears, once the largest retailer in the world, also went officially bankrupt in October.

In Myanmar, female garment workers protesting for a living wage were violently attacked.

November

Proenza Schouler’s founders bought the company back from Castanea Partners. H&M closed down affordable denim brand Cheap Monday. Esprit announced a major rebranding strategy. Kering halted its seven-year e-commerce deal with Yoox Net-a-Porter, following the company’s acquisition by Kering’s competitor Richemont in May. Dolce & Gabbana was forced to cancel a fashion show in China due to a public outcry about an advertising campaign and racist marks supposedly made by Stefano Gabbana on Instagram. The designer claimed his account was hacked.

December

Ted Baker’s CEO took a leave of absence following a petition against “forced hugging” launched by employees of the company. London-based Russian designer Gosha Rubchinskiy was accused of equally appalling behavior, with screenshots of supposed inappropriate messages to a minor leaking on the Internet. Meanwhile, Prada was accused of racism and insensitivity due to an animal charm made to look like a monkey with large lips. Consumers said the piece looked very similar to blackface imagery.

Stan Smith scored lifelong deal with Adidas, while Chanel joined the ever-growing list of brands banning fur. Similarly to Burberry and Celine, Balmain launched a new, minimalist logo.

Farfetch acquired streetwear marketplace Stadium Goods. Rumors take the fashion world by storm about Raf Simons leaving Calvin Klein, following an earnings call in which the PVH CEO Emanuel Chirico said he was disappointed because the investments made on the label did not deliver the results he expected. L Brands (Victoria’s Secret) announced the sale of intimates brand La Senza to an affiliate of Regent LP, a global private equity firm, while VF finally announced the name of its separate jeanswear business: Kontoor Brands.

Laura Ashley, which went two times into administration in just three years, announced the closure of 40 stores in the UK. Speaking of stores closing, French retailers struggled in December as “yellow vest” protesters forced them to shut their doors for several weekends in a row. Meanwhile, in Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Accord came to a standstill.

Fashion giants such as H&M, Inditex and Burberry sign UN Charter to fight climate change.

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