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Miracle on 34th Street (1994, Les Mayfield)

03/01/2024

Miracle on 34th Street is a 1994 film directed by Les Mayfield and starring Richard Attenborough as Santa Claus. It is a remake of the famous 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street directed by George Seaton.

November 24th, Thanksgiving Day. Tony, the Santa Claus of the Cole department store, should close the big parade through the streets of New York on a sleigh pulled by fake reindeer; however he is caught drunk while carrying out his job by Mr. Kris Kringle.

Meanwhile, the Lanbergh stores, competitors of the Cole stores, hatch a plan to discredit Cole's Santa Klaus Kris Kringle, managing to have him arrested and locked up in a psychiatric clinic. When everything seems compromised for Kris Kringle since the true existence of Santa Claus has not been proven, little Susan approaches and shows the judge a Christmas card with a dollar bill.

Following the court case, Dorey and Bryan maneuvered by Kris into realizing their true feelings for each other, and they marry in a small ceremony just after midnight mass on Christmas Eve.

Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 60% based on reviews from 35 critics. TV Guide called the film "curiously depressing", while Desson Howe of The Washington Post stated, in contrast to the 1947 version, that it "will no longer be found on television (or it's computer equivalent) in half a century." Its supporters included Gene Sisksl and Roger Ebert, who gave the film ("two thumbs up" on their show.

[whileiamdying]

‘Van Gogh (1991)’ (R)

By Desson Howe Washington Post Staff Writer January 01, 1993

Another year, another movie about Vincent van Gogh, or so it would seem. "Van Gogh," Maurice Pialat's 155-minute movie about the painter's last months, hardly fills a vacuum of need. But very often, this drama feels like fresh, direct insight.

At its best (which occurs often enough for you to go), "Van Gogh" provides a sense of realness — that feeling of the big rush of nothingness artists are supposed to make beautiful sense of. Director Pialat, a former (and failed) painter himself, is strongly interested in the non-romantic passing of time.

This is the year 1890, at Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The real Van Gogh, who has completed a rest period at an asylum near the Ville de Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, is to embark on his final round. Said to be recuperated, he is soon to kill himself at 37 with a self-inflicted gunshot.

In the movie, you don't see Van Gogh (Jacques Dutronc) complete the final brush stroke of a masterpiece, then call up old Paul Gauguin for a celebratory absinthe. You do see a thin, stringy man, suffering from headaches, enjoying whores and moping around irascibly. "Van Gogh" denies you familiar highlights, keeps you from his working elbow and avoids the Ear Thing. But it shows you the quotidian stuff in between. This is the story of an artist being human, carrying canvases out or lugging them back in — their famous images intentionally out of sight.

In Pialat's film, that non-artistic activity includes chatting with admirer-patron Dr. Gachet (Gérard Séty), visiting with brother Theo (Bernard Le Coq) and his wife Jo (CorinneBourdon), and consorting with cheerful Renoir-supple women on painterly riverbanks or in bordello salons.

Here's where the movie's Life magazine posings occasionally undo its quasi-documentary integrity. Photo-opportunity famousness occurs when Toulouse-Lautrec is seen taking a snooze amid the laughing girls and the cigarette smoke. Women seem to treat Van Gogh like James Bond 007 — including beautiful whore Cathy (Elsa Zylberstein) and Dr. Gachet's daughter, Marguerite (Alexandra London).

Even the hostility expressed by an innkeeper's daughter (Leslie Azzoulai) seems cover for an intrigued crush. Was Vincent really a paintbrush-bearing love animal?

As the eponymous painter, Dutronc (an actor well-known to French audiences for his erstwhile Dylanesque songwriting days) exudes a marvelous, childlike air. His performance somewhat echoes Tim Roth's finer interpretation in Robert Altman's " Vincent & Theo."

Both actors share a sense of neediness, of innocence and vulnerability, as well as a melancholy, messianic thinness. Of all the elements in Pialat's movie, it is Dutronc's presence that most lingers. He expresses little of the glorious rapture demonstrated by his real-life counterpart in letters to his brother Theo van Gogh. Nor is he that apocryphal, ear-slicing loony-genius. What he does is retain the mystery, and if there's one staple about Van Gogh, it's the unknown.

"Van Gogh" is in French with subtitles. 

[rapatoff]

Journalist Desson Thomson was kind enough to interview me about my career and how it’s being interrupted by COVID-19 for the motion picture industry news site The Credits. 

[imeugene]

Canada has a weird relation with BMX. It’s clearly a place teeming with a type of talent that makes a great underground type scene. Kind of like the US NorthEast and the UK in a way where the riding is very seasonal. Winter has a way dampening things for a while then Spring and Summer rolls around, the scene’s energy is renewed. Sure half the tricks you learned maybe gone but that type of energy is infectious in it’s own way. The struggle riding comes in and it’s all very creative and different compared to the media heavy Socal scene. Canada’s winter is certainly worse than the other places mentioned though that’s good and bad. It makes the riders who push through all that much more lifers but being a lifer is certainly a prestigious position that doesn’t necessarily equate to sales. I imagine being a snowboarder would be much more easier in Canada. Being BMX biker in Canada regardless how good is an uphill battle.

But the hardships in Canada show. Like Animal Bikes is the only thing really out of the American Northeast with longevity seems kind of concrete and lasting. There were plenty of other companies that tried to form but all of it fell out eventually. The infrastructure for even a place that is a small percent of America but encompasses a population probably probably more than five times more populated than Canada finds it hard to push. Canada has a similar problem I imagine but I don’t really necessarily get that struggle vibe from Atlantis Vancouver. I think the amount of regular content and being somewhat a focus for entire country that regardless has had a heavy presence in BMX past and present allows them to do so. Like any BMX brand is always gonna be a struggle but it’s certain brands that keep the scene alive and well, that make it. I don’t know if Macniel still exists and Seshin that defacto underground brand of Canada no longer does so it’s Atlantis Vancouver keeps that side of BMX going. in the country that made the pivotal post.

I think what I like about Canada and Atlantis Vancouver is that the scene is very self aware with it’s own status. It does’t try to be anything other than what it is and it feels that much more alive and the people involved seem that much more passionate to push it. It’s not like their trying to emulate anything directly or something like that. There is something very underground that is ingrained in their BMX culture and they thrive on that, something that Atlantis Vancouver captured. Like the local scene web videos Canada does an amazing job on and zines, DWOK, DVD’s stuff like that which really makes it something else. I hate using the word real to describe things but I guess what I’m gonna say instead is that true BMX culture thrives in this type of attitude and movement, I don’t have any empirical evidence but I’d like to think that there seems to be resurgence in the scene of Vancouver and Canada as a whole due to these efforts. Canada had a moment a few years back where it was really quiet but it’s kicking some dust now. Riders like Eli Taylor and Jordan Hango come from Canada and thier complete powerhousers like Dave Osato before. It’s cool to see. 

Wink, Andrew Schubert, Matt Desson, Greg Flag, Roode, Dave Scott, Brad Hill, Carl Arnett, Jesse Hildabrandt, Cheng, Orlando, Jordan Hango

Cyanide Sister by Com Truise

Megumi The Milkyway Above by Connan Mockasin

Atlanti Vancover - Lost City (2015)

Edited by Andrew Schubert

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Dark Matter

Dark Matter: A Novel, by Blake Crouch

Jason Desson is returning home from a party for a friend when, behind him, he hears the words "Are you happy with your life?" The next thing he knows he awakens in a  room with people wearing hazmat suits. One, a man he's never seen before, smiles and says "Welcome back, old friend."

This starts Jason on an extended voyage through many of the possible alternate universes that arise from his decisions. He has landed in a world in which he decided to put career ahead of family, choosing a path in which he's a celebrated scientist who never married and thus had no beautiful wife and no loving son. In this new alternate universe he has created a device that makes it possible to jump from one life to another.

In jumping from universe to universe he finds lives in which he or his wife have died,or in which he and his wife were no more than friends and she has become a famous artist. Every possible change of decision forms a new split in these alternate realities. Now he needs to figure out how to navigate accurately from one to another because he's running short on the drug that shuts off the observer portion of his brain long enough to allow a quantum change. He needs to find his original life and also to find out who stole it from him.

In some ways the core of this book is like It's a Wonderful Life on steroids, but rather than some divine catalyst this is a human twist on Schrödinger's Cat. Jason finds himself facing the outcomes of multiple decisions. Worse yet, he discovers that each trip he makes is creating another split universe so that near then end there are dozens of Jasons all trying to make their way back home.

It's easy to get caught up in Jason's emotional sense of loss, suddenly waking up in a world in which everything he values is gone. Blake Crouch works this well through the book and is also able to build a lot of tension between alternative Jasons who will do anything to be the one to have that life back. He also needs to contend with investors in the physicist version of his lives determined to keep him working to protect their investments.

It's a well-written and emotionally compelling book. It's filled with excellent characters, including nuanced versions of Jason, and ultimately tells a wonderful story of love and envy across multiple realities.

[soitsashowpodcast]

ep. 45: It's like a Baz Luhrmann movie out there. (With Maddie Brophy!)

Please pardon us while we don our sequins and pause for a song and dance number���Baz Luhrmann is directing this episode! Maddie Brophy makes her second appearance as our first repeat guest, and instead of working as our Meryl Streep correspondent, she’s serving as our Moulin Rouge! expert. And because Kyla and Taylor watched Romeo + Juliet and Strictly Ballroom, we have Luhrmann’s first 3 films (aka the Red Curtain Trilogy) covered in all their frenetically edited glory. We chat about how Luhrmann uses music, dancing, and theatrics to tell a story and how Richard and Emily are like characters in one of his movies. Plus, special appearances from Seth MacFarlane and bad French and Australian accents!

Other pop culture we ref: A Star Is Born, Harry Potter, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Family Guy, Fred Astaire, The Is Spinal Tap, The Get Down, Meryl Streep, The Prestige, The Crown, Family Guy, Sid and Nancy, Dirty Dancing, Mamma Mia!, Titanic, Heath Ledger

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COOL STUFF FROM MADDIE BROPHY!

Listen to our ep. 21 with Maddie about Out of Africa

Read her work on ZekeFilm

Follow her on Twitter

Pictures from her Gilmore Girls-themed proposal weekend! - Part 1, Part 2

MORE ABOUT STRICTLY BALLROOM THE MOVIE

Roger Ebert’s review (1993)

Rolling Stone review by Peter Travers (1993)

Washington Post review by Desson Howe (1993)

Washington Post by Rita Kempley (1993)

"Baz Luhrmann does his ostentatious thing with Strictly Ballroom,” AVClub.com (2013)

“Indies Fight to Survive as Marketplace Undergoes Radical Changes,” Variety.com (2018)

MORE ABOUT STRICTLY BALLROOM ON STAGE

“Strictly Ballroom Musical Will End West End Run in October,” Playbill.com (2018)

“Baz Luhrmann: 'It was time to hand Strictly Ballroom to a new generation,'“ Standard.co.uk (2018)

MORE ABOUT ROMEO + JULIET

Baz Luhrmann talks about making Romeo + Juliet in a ‘90s interview

Baz Luhrmann talks about making Romeo + Juliet in a more recent interview

Natalie Portman says in an interview she didn’t want to do Romeo + Juliet 

“Romeo + Juliet at 20: Baz Luhrmann's adaptation refuses to age,” TheGuardian.com (2016)

“Behind the Pool Scene from Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet,” PeopleTV (2018)

MORE ABOUT MOULIN ROUGE!

“Luhrmann brings down Red Curtain with new epic,” Edition.CNN.com (2008)

“Style Or Substance? 20 Visually Stunning Movies That Go For Broke,” IndieWire.com (2013)

“From The Wizard of Oz to La La Land, the Musicals That Influenced Fashion,” Vogue.com (2016)

“20 Highest Grossing Movie Musicals of the Last 40 Years, from Grease to La La Land,” TheWrap.com (2018)

MORE ABOUT THE RED CURTAIN TRILOGY

"From Muriel’s Wedding to Moulin Rouge!: inside Jill Bilcock’s frantic world of film editing,” TheGuardian.com (2017)

MORE ABOUT BAZ LUHRMANN

“Strictly Luhrmann: Where He Leads, We Will Follow,” Independent.co.uk (2010)

“13 of the Best Frequent Collaborators in Film,” IndieWire.com (2014)

“Baz Luhrmann: Abuse of power 'corrupts' art,” BBC.com (2017)

Interview with The Guardian (2018)

“Baz Luhrmann is set to direct an Elvis Presley biopic,” Vogue.fr (2018)

JUST FOR FUN

The ZekeFilm review of A Star Is Born Maddie contributed to

Lady Gaga performs a tribute to The Sound of Music at the Oscars (2015)

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Balint Bernhart - minimalist movie posters

1) Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The film narrates the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill (the first-person narrator in the film) and his friends over a period from 1955 to 1980.Scorsese initially named the film Wise Guy and postponed making it; later, he and Pileggi changed the name to Goodfellas. 

To prepare for their roles in the film, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Ray Liotta often spoke with Pileggi, who shared research material left over from writing the book. According to Pesci, improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals wherein Scorsese gave the actors freedom to do whatever they wanted. The director made transcripts of these sessions, took the lines he liked best, and put them into a revised script, which the cast worked from during principal photography.Made on a budget of $25 million, Goodfellas grossed $46.8 million.

It received positive reviews from critics and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, with Pesci winning Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Scorsese's film won five awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, including Best Film and Best Director. Additionally,Goodfellas was named the year's best film by various critics' groups.Goodfellas is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in the crime genre. In 2000, it was deemed "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress.

Its content and style have been emulated in numerous other films and television shows. Scorsese followed this film with two more about organized crime: Casino (1995) and The Departed (2006). (from Wikipedia)

2) The Die Hard series is an American action film series that began in 1988 with Die Hard, based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. 

The series follows the adventures of John McClane (portrayed by Bruce Willis), a New York City andLos Angeles police detective who continually finds himself in the middle of violent crises and intrigues where he is the only hope against disaster

Although the first Die Hard has been credited as one of the greatest action movies of all time, critical reaction to its sequels has varied.

The original Die Hard received substantial praise. Pete Croatto of FilmCritic.com called the film "a perfect action movie in every detail, the kind of movie that makes your summer memorable." James Berardinelli wrote that the film "represents the class of modern action pictures and the standard by which they must be judged." 

Critic Desson Howe wrote that "Willis has found the perfect vehicle to careen wildly onto the crowded L.A. freeway of Lethal Weapons and Beverly Hills Cops." Willis was also called "perfect as the wisecracking John McClane" and "an excellent casting choice as a sardonic action hero." 

Alan Rickman's portrayal of villain Hans Gruber was described as "marvelous" and "a career-making performance."] Gruber also ranked 46 on the villain side of AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains. In 2007,

Entertainment Weekly ranked Die Hard the greatest action film of all time                                           (from Wikipedia)

3) Slaughterhouse-Five is a 1972 anti-war/sci fi film based on Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name about a writer who tells a story in random order of how he was a soldier in World War II and was abducted by aliens. 

The screenplay is by Stephen Gellerand the film was directed by George Roy Hill. 

It stars Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, and Valerie Perrine, and features Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Holly Near, and Perry King. 

The scenes set in Dresden were filmed in Prague. The other scenes were filmed in Minnesota.

Vonnegut wrote about the film soon after its release, in his preface to Between Time and Timbuktu:"I love George Roy Hill and Universal Pictures, who made a flawless translation of my novel Slaughterhouse-Five to the silver screen ... I drool and cackle every time I watch that film, because it is so harmonious with what I felt when I wrote the book."

The film follows the novel in presenting a first-person narrative from the point of view of Billy Pilgrim (Sacks), who becomes "unstuck in time" and experiences the events of his life in a seemingly random order, including a period spent on the alien planet of Tralfamadore. Particular emphasis is placed on his experiences during World War II, including the firebombing of Dresden, as well as time spent with fellow prisoners of war Edgar Derby (Roche) and the psychopathic Paul Lazzaro (Leibman). His life as a husband to Valencia (Gans), and father to Barbara (Near) and Robert (King) are also depicted, as they live and sometimes even enjoy their life of affluence in Ilium, New York. A "sink-or-swim" scene with Pilgrim's father is also featured. The scenes of extraterrestrial life on Tralfamadore feature Hollywood starlet Montana Wildhack (Perrine). (from Wikipedia)

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"The Value of Being a Media and Information Literate Individual"

- Desson D. Pilapil

As a students we need to be media and information literate individuals, because literacy has become we are living in the 21st century. helps us to know where to find the best source of information that you need, example your making a report or advertisement about technology, We should also be responsible to use properly the social media accounts and sharing infromation because if we don't this might bad effect or confuse to the people. We should learn how to use media and share information properly so we can avoid causing harm to our lives or to other people. Basically, media contributed a lot for us to work easily, communicating, spreading news, even sharing knowledge but it's our responsibility to use it right, Because of this we learn much more about the bad effect to the people and to you, and good effect when we use it correctly, We should all think before we post and share.

Today, we get most our information through an interwoven system of media technologies became essential skill in the 21st century. Information literate individual is a social skill in the pursuit of knowledge. have the ability to navigate the rapidly growing information environment, We all know that we can gather information on anywhere like enternet, media and help us to aware in our surroundings. gives us to improve our thinking skills and advantages in our modern world today especially in terms of giving and gather information, also help us to improve the quality of life and improve learning environment and more cohesive learning units. Because of this literate help us in our learning rocess to get more information and used in our future endeavers specially in our future jobs also help our country to develop technologicall and economically. and we can promote and its rich culture liteture so that we get more attention.

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Dark Matter

The beginning of Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter shows family night in Jason Desson’s Chicago home.  Then, the story travels in time, showing how an unplanned pregnancy led to a quietly joyful marriage and family, although at the cost of his scientific career and his wife’s artistic career. Instead, they love their son and their home, even if their ambitions haven’t exactly been fulfilled.

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So I finally played my first session of D&D and let’s recount what has transpired thus far.

Eeyorin (Warlock), Arrma(Bard), and Kai(Paladin) are sitting at a tavern having just a talk and drink. Weather and Such. Nothing to note.

Quinn (Bard) saunters his jovial arse into the building, gladly announcing his presence to everyone who cared enough to listen. Blade(monk) sat next to Arrma both quietly contemplating why she was even there to begin with and amused at the nature of the people talking.

Fast forward couple minutes and out local Ranger falls through the ceiling (her name is Synn), only to be caught in the safety of Quinn’s embrace. Local Flirty Bard saves the day. A younge squire shows up and posted a notice of a wanted man. 300gp reward.

Arrma nudges Eeyorin and points to the poster.

Sweet!

So the now formed group of 6 (Kai, Eeoryin, Synn, Blade, Arrma, and Quinn) set out for a bounty!

Taking no time to gather information.

Besides that he was wanted for theft and attempted murder!

Great so far.

So into the woods they go! William the Silent (Rogue) was last seen headed that direction, last known to have a small injury as he past the guards at the gate. Anyways, Synn finds a trail of blood, not a huge amount, but enough to know whoever it was would need to stop and bandage himself up sooner or later.

Skip forward couple of minutes later-

We run across a High Elf pearched in a tree.

“SUP MY DUDE SEEN ANYTJING WEIRD THAT ISNT US?!”

“No.”

Perception Check-

Elf guy is nervous (his name was Epsilon)

Synn sees something run past, sees the wanted guy (Bye Synn! She’s about to try and kill all of us btw)

Turns out Epsilon was William in disguise! WOOHOO!!!

Synn is under an illusion spell shooting arrows at a tree.

Kai keeps getting slapped around (poor guy, give him a break)

Eeyorin is the making a cintious effort to find William again (because the bastard is invisible and ran the fuck off)

All Arrma has done is cast Dessonant Whispers (and failed) and Cure Wounds because there was no way in hell she was getting that close to a rogue Rogue.

Sun shoots Quinn with an arrow because she is convinced he is about to have his way with her. Kai gets shot because Kai is a walking target (#leavekaialone2k19) And Synn eventually wind a Wisdom save and comes to her senses.

Huzzah! Our target is gone and we have nothing but missing spell slots to show for it!!!

Following the trail we find a Caravan. COOL! Potential hiding place for the Rogue.

Arrma just wanted to hug the guard.

She failed.

They meet an old Lady who talked to much.

They stabbed a slab of hay.

And found a magically sealed wagon with multiple enchantments cast on it.

(Here comes the OOOH SHINEY)

We proceeded to spend the rest of the session ATTEMPTING TO OPEN A DOOR. (Synn was just tired of walking and wanted to sit on the top on the wagon) Everyone touched the wagon trying to get inside (except for Arrma, she was enjoying the entertainment of everyone failing) and I don’t really remember who it was exactly tried last.... but it hurt.

So the wagon made it to the TOWN WE STARTED IN and parked at the marketplace.

FUCK IT!! Someone grabbed the doorknob and BEAT THE WISDOM SAVE (with the help of 2 bardic inspiration)

But failed a dex-save and took 19 damage, taking him down to 3 HP.

And that’s how my first session went.

[abitmoredetail]

[NEWS] Ten Christmas links (#christmas)

[NEWS] Ten Christmas links (#christmas)

CBC Indigenous reports on how Kahnawake Mohawks celebrate Christmas with a Mohawk-language radio program.

Craig Desson at CBC reports on how the Québec cheese-making Orthodox monastery, Virgin Mary the Consolatory, was preparing to meet Christmas.

Jason Vermes at CBC’s Cross-County Checkup has a reporttaking a look at the importance of chosen family for queer people at Christmas time, featuring…

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‘Taxi Driver’ (R)

By Desson Howe Washington Post Staff Writer March 01, 1996

"TAXI DRIVER," a sometimes-elliptical masterpiece about the bloody redemption of an alienated New York cabbie, has been rereleased to mark its 20th anniversary. But it hasn't aged so much as triumphantly metastasized. Since the mid-1970s, the movie has become presciently emblematic of our emotionally diseased, violence-prone culture.

Central character Travis Bickle's semi-psychotic, solo routine in front of the mirror—"You talkin' to me?"—has been performed as a gag at keg parties, around lunch tables, in standup routines, via e-mail and certainly in front of mirrors across the world for nearly 20 years.

More tragically, John W. Hinckley Jr.'s bizarre infatuation with Jodie Foster—who plays the object of a similar obsession in "Taxi Driver"—caused him to gun down President Reagan in 1981. Hinckley's statement that he wanted to impress the actress, the assassination attempt's bloody denouement (four men were struck down in all) and Hinckley's media infamy echo chillingly the scenario in "Taxi Driver." Paul Schrader's script, in fact, was partly inspired by the diaries of Arthur Bremer, the man who shot George Wallace.

And the 1976 movie's theme of bomb-ticking loneliness and, by extension, the notion that we are a nation of angry strangers who vent paranoid resentment toward public figures or the government, couldn't be more resonant today.

"Taxi Driver" also happens to be a great movie, one of the few relatively recent films (like "The Godfather") to join the pantheon of popular classics and great American cinema.

The story is about Vietnam veteran and loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), who takes a job as a cabdriver in New York City. He is drawn to—and disgusted by—the 42nd Street and Times Square world of weirdos, hookers and pornographic theaters. Every night, he transports lost souls from place to place in this Hades-like zone, while he fumes with fascination, disgust and unbearable solitude.

His frustrated life takes a decisive turn when he meets—and fixes on—two women, two beacons of hope that he steers toward. One is icy uptown girl Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), who works for a presidential candidate, the other is Iris (Foster), a 12-year-old prostitute in bondage to her pimp, Sport (Harvey Keitel). When things don't turn out well with Betsy, Travis takes a course of action that changes everyone's lives forever.

Although "Taxi Driver" has been available on video for years, here is a brief opportunity to savor it the way it's meant to be seen: on the big screen. Schrader's provocative screenplay, Martin Scorsese's vivid, fluid direction, Bernard Herrmann's sensual, velvety score (which you will hear in Dolby for the first time) and De Niro's landmark performance will come to life again, 20 years later, and this trip to the flicks will be more than worth your while.

TAXI DRIVER (R) — Contains violence, sexual situations and profanity.

Copyright The Washington Post

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It's amazing how you can get so far from where you planned, and yet find it was exactly where you needed to be. ~Sarah Desson  #MyFoolishFotography

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Section 1 - Post A

A) The topic I have chosen to study is Studio Company to which I have chosen Liongate to look further in too. The reason I think ill find this topic interesting is because ill be able to see how film studios work and how they have become successful by the things they have done. I hope to find out about how this certain studio is unique to all the others and also how they have become well known.

B) The three films i have chosen to study which was produced by Lionsgate are;

1. Hostel (2005)

- Hostel is based on 3 backpackers who go on holiday to Amsterdam where they are then locked out of their youth hostel and then invited into a mans home. when they are inside the man tells them about a place where there a loads of women who "have a taste for American men". when the men arrive to the place they were told about, not all is as it seems as they are kid knapped and held as part of a torture game.

2. Saw (2004)

- Saw is based on two men who awaken in an unknown room were they have no recollection of how they got there or why they are there. They soon realise that they have been kid knapped and are left to work out riddles which are hidden around the room in order to try and escape.  

3. Cube (1997)

- Cube is based on six different people who all awaken to find themselves all tripped within a giant cube with thousands of possible rooms. Each of the six people has a skill that the other doesn't and they soon realise that they all have to work together is they want to escape.

C) Quotes about Saw: 

"The Internet film geeks are salivating over this one. But humans who live above ground, including horror fans, will find themselves only fitfully entertained and more consistently appalled." - Desson Thompson, Washington Post

Why the Washington Post write-up is now laughable should be obvious. Quite a few "humans who live above ground" paid to see Saw, pushing the independently financed, $1.2 million production to an $18 million opening weekend, a $103 million worldwide box office intake, six profitable sequels, and its standing as one of the most lucrative horror franchises of all time. In this context, the only thing gross about Saw is how much the Washington Post underestimated it.

Quotes about Hostel:

D) My film idea will be based on the genre of thriller / Mystery. In the short film, the main character will be on her way home at night where she begins to have a feeling that she is being followed. she begins to panic and starts to rush hoping she will make it home a lot faster to get her off the streets. the main character will be played by a female as I believe that this will allow me to make her look like she is helpless and venerable.  

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Paul Desson-Baxter, ‘How did we criminalise homosexuality?’

Paul Desson-Baxter’s recent talk at Coventry Pride LGBT+ History Month explored the history of criminalisation and decriminalisation of inter-male sex in England.

The Romans invaded England in 55BC and England took on the Roman legal system. Roman law outlawed adultery and made certain sex acts on a freeborn male minor a crime. In 342AD, receptive anal sex was made a crime; then, in 390AD, all inter-male sex was made a crime.

There was Church anti-sodomy propaganda throughout the following period, but no known reason why the Church was taking an oppositional stance. However, anti-sodomy propaganda was mostly quiet until the Tudor times when there was an on again, off again relationship with criminalising inter-male sex.

In 1533, Henry VIII passed the Buggery Act 1533, introducing death punishment for anal sex and sexual acts with an animal. Prosecutions were potentially used a tool to take away lands and assets from convicts. The Act was re-enacted three times and, in 1541, for perpetuity. In 1543, the Act was extended to Wales.

In 1547, Edward VI repealed the Buggery Act along with all laws of Henry VIII. In 1548, the Buggery Act was re-enacted with amendments to protect the property of those convicted.

In 1553, Mary I repealed the Buggery Act along with all laws of Edward VI.

In 1558, Elizabeth I reinstated the Buggery Act, but without the 1548 amendments to protect property rights.

Throughout the following period, there was debate about homosexuality. This increased in response to the trial of Captain Edwards for sodomy of a thirteen year old boy. Decriminalisation was first argued by Jeremy Bentham in 1785 in his treatise Offences Against One’s Self.

In 1828, the Buggery Act was repealed and replaced with the Offences Against the Person Act, which included a death penalty for inter-male sex.

In 1835, the last execution for inter-male sex occurred.

In 1861, the death penalty for inter-male sex was repealed and replaced with two years hard labour.

In 1885, Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act removed the proof requirement for sodomy offences.

In 1921, there was an attempt to criminalise inter-female sex through a Criminal Law Amendment Bill but this was defeated in the House of Lords due to concerns that the law would promote lesbianism.

In 1957, the Wolfenden Report was handed down. It advised the Government that inter-male sex should not be illegal.

In 1958, the Homosexual Law Reform Society was founded to campaign to make inter-male sex legal.

In 1967, following considerable debate, the Sexual Offences Act decriminalised inter-male sex for men aged over twenty-one years in England and Wales. The age of consent for other forms of sex was 16.

In 1980, Scotland passed a similar Act.

In 1994, the age of consent was reduced to eighteen.

In 1997 and 1998, various attempts to equalise the age of consent were blocked by the House of Lords.

In 1999, a Bill to equalise the age of consent was introduced and passed using provisions of the Parliament Act which prevent the House of Lords from blocking a Bill three times.

In 2001, the equal age of consent law came into effect.

In 2017, a Bill was introduced to remove inter-male sex as grounds for dismissal from the crew of merchant navy ships. This is believed to be one of the last laws that discriminate against people for having inter-male sex.

Sadly, the impacts of laws criminalising inter-male sex are still being felt in Commonwealth jurisdictions today.

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