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Course Outline and Syllabus the Fab Four and the Stones: How America Surrendered to the Advance Guard of the British Invasion
Course Outline and Syllabus The Fab Four and the Stones: How America surrendered to the advance guard of the British Invasion. This six-week course takes a closer look at the music that inspired these bands, their roots-based influences, and their output of inspired work that was created in the 1960’s. Topics include: The early days, 1960-62: London, Liverpool and Hamburg: Importing rhythm and blues and rockabilly from the States…real rock and roll bands—what a concept! Watch out, world! The heady days of 1963: Don’t look now, but these guys just might be more than great cover bands…and they are becoming very popular…Beatlemania takes off. We can write songs; 1964: the rock and roll band as a creative force. John and Paul, their yin and yang-like personal and musical differences fueling their creative tension, discover that two heads are better than one. The Stones, meanwhile, keep cranking out covers, and plot their conquest of America, one riff at a time. The middle periods, 1965-66: For the boys from Liverpool, waves of brilliant albums that will last forever—every cut a memorable, sing-along winner. While for the Londoners, an artistic breakthrough with their first all--original record. Mick and Keith’s tempestuous relationship pushes away band founder Brian Jones; the Stones are established as a force in the music world. Prisoners of their own success, 1967-68: How their popularity drove them to great heights—and lowered them to awful depths. It’s a long way from three chords and a cloud of dust. -
The Origins of the Magical Girl Genre Note: This First Chapter Is an Almost
The origins of the magical girl genre Note: this first chapter is an almost verbatim copy of the excellent introduction from the BESM: Sailor Moon Role-Playing Game and Resource Book by Mark C. MacKinnon et al. I took the liberty of changing a few names according to official translations and contemporary transliterations. It focuses on the traditional magical girls “for girls”, and ignores very very early works like Go Nagai's Cutie Honey, which essentially created a market more oriented towards the male audience; we shall deal with such things in the next chapter. Once upon a time, an American live-action sitcom called Bewitched, came to the Land of the Rising Sun... The magical girl genre has a rather long and important history in Japan. The magical girls of manga and Japanese animation (or anime) are a rather unique group of characters. They defy easy classification, and yet contain elements from many of the best loved fairy tales and children's stories throughout the world. Many countries have imported these stories for their children to enjoy (most notably France, Italy and Spain) but the traditional format of this particular genre of manga and anime still remains mostly unknown to much of the English-speaking world. The very first magical girl seen on television was created about fifty years ago. Mahoutsukai Sally (or “Sally the Witch”) began airing on Japanese television in 1966, in black and white. The first season of the show proved to be so popular that it was renewed for a second year, moving into the era of color television in 1967. -
Summer Classic Film Series, Now in Its 43Rd Year
Austin has changed a lot over the past decade, but one tradition you can always count on is the Paramount Summer Classic Film Series, now in its 43rd year. We are presenting more than 110 films this summer, so look forward to more well-preserved film prints and dazzling digital restorations, romance and laughs and thrills and more. Escape the unbearable heat (another Austin tradition that isn’t going anywhere) and join us for a three-month-long celebration of the movies! Films screening at SUMMER CLASSIC FILM SERIES the Paramount will be marked with a , while films screening at Stateside will be marked with an . Presented by: A Weekend to Remember – Thurs, May 24 – Sun, May 27 We’re DEFINITELY Not in Kansas Anymore – Sun, June 3 We get the summer started with a weekend of characters and performers you’ll never forget These characters are stepping very far outside their comfort zones OPENING NIGHT FILM! Peter Sellers turns in not one but three incomparably Back to the Future 50TH ANNIVERSARY! hilarious performances, and director Stanley Kubrick Casablanca delivers pitch-dark comedy in this riotous satire of (1985, 116min/color, 35mm) Michael J. Fox, Planet of the Apes (1942, 102min/b&w, 35mm) Humphrey Bogart, Cold War paranoia that suggests we shouldn’t be as Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Crispin (1968, 112min/color, 35mm) Charlton Heston, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad worried about the bomb as we are about the inept Glover . Directed by Robert Zemeckis . Time travel- Roddy McDowell, and Kim Hunter. Directed by Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre. -
IN the LAST DAYS of the CITY Tue 11 Oct 15:30 BFI, NFT2
Internationale Filmfestspiele MORE THAN 50 Berlin BEST 66 INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR Forum FILM FESTIVALS CALIGARI FILM PRIZE BAFICI 2016 GRAND PRIX NEW HORIZON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING DATES Sun 9 Oct 20:45 Picturehouse Centeral IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY Tue 11 Oct 15:30 BFI, NFT2 A Film by Tamer El Said “A melancholic love-hate poem to Cairo and the role of filmmakers in any city in pain” Jay Weissberg, Variety SYNOPSIS Downtown Cairo, 2009. Khalid, a 35 year old filmmaker is struggling to make a film that captures the soul of his city while facing loss in his own life. With the help of his friends, who send him footage from their lives in Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin, he finds the strength to keep going through the difficulty and beauty of living In the Last Days of the City. “A moving and extremely personal city symphony that takes its audience on a journey connecting the most intimate to the state of the world we are living today, a film from the heart” Jury of New Horizon International Film festival, Poland 2016. “Beautifully lensed and complexly edited in a dense patchwork of people, feelings and events” Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter THE FILM’S JOURNEY In the Last Days of the City was born as an idea in gradually finding a community of investors and 2006, while war was raging in Iraq and Lebanon. funders willing to take a risk on the film’s team. By the time shooting began at the very end of Throughout, Tamer’s mother was ill. -
My Scientology Movie
BBC FILMS & BBC WORLDWIDE Present A RED BOX FILMS PRODUCTION Directed by: John Dower Presented by: Louis Theroux Written by: John Dower & Louis Theroux Produced by: Simon Chinn MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE U.K. production R/T: 99 minutes Shot on Sony F55 and Canon CS00-PL (Panasonic HE120 and Flip Mino HD) TFF 2016- For further publicity information please contact: Emma Griffiths EMMA GRIFFITHS PR [email protected] www.eg-pr.com TIFF 2016: US Sales Contact: Josh Braun-Submarine [email protected] International Sales Contact: Mark Lane- HanWay Select- [email protected] SHORT SYNOPSIS Not your typical exposé. BBC doc-maker and journalist Louis Theroux teams up with director John Dower and double Academy Award winning producer Simon Chinn (Searching for Sugar, Man On Wire) to explore the self-mythologizing Church of Scientology. Following a long fascination with the religion and with much experience in dealing with eccentric, unpalatable and unexpected human behavior, the beguilingly unassuming Theroux won’t take no for an answer when his request to enter the Church’s headquarters is turned down. Inspired by the Church’s use of filming techniques, and aided by ex-members of the organization, Theroux uses actors to replay some incidents people claim they experienced as members in an attempt to better understand the way it operates. In a bizarre twist, it becomes clear that the Church is also making a film about Louis Theroux. Suffused with a good dose of humor and moments worthy of a Hollywood script, MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE is as outlandish as it is revealing. -
FISH Newsletter February 16
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (Spain 2014) DIRECTOR : David Trueba RUNNING TIME : 108mins RATING : M Synopsis: Set in Franco-era Spain, a free-spirited English teacher sets out to meet his idol John Lennon, who is filming on the other side of the country. Antonio wants to understand the lyric to the newly released Norwegian Wood. Review: Philippa Hawker Spanish filmmaker David Trueba came across the subject matter for his new film quite by accident. It wasn't just the tale of John Lennon's 1966 Spanish sojourn that intrigued him. It was the account of a teacher of English with a Beatles obsession who was determined to meet Lennon and ask him about his lyrics – lyrics that he used as a teaching aid in the classroom. Trueba read about this man in 2006, when the town of Almeria was celebrating the 40th anniversary of Lennon's presence; he had come there to take an acting role in a satirical comedy with director Richard Lester called How I Won The War. The other significant element in the project was a personal one. The novelist and filmmaker is the youngest of eight brothers; at the time Lennon was in Spain, Trueba's second brother was locked in a struggle with his father about the length of his hair. "He was trying to get his hair long, because he was a crazy fan of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. And my father was a typical Spanish father of the time of Franco, very authoritarian. So he told him to cut his hair. -
Sneak Preview
SNEAK PREVIEW For additional information on adopting this title for your class, please contact us at 800.200.3908 x501 or [email protected] HUMAN EXPRESSIONS OF SPIRITUALITY … Edited by Margaret M. McKinnon Our Lady of Holy Cross College Bassim Hamadeh, CEO and Publisher Christopher Foster, General Vice President Michael Simpson, Vice President of Acquisitions Jessica Knott, Managing Editor/Project Editor Kevin Fahey, Marketing Manager Jess Busch, Senior Graphic Designer Melissa Barcomb, Acquisitions Editor Stephanie Sandler, Licensing Associate Copyright © 2013 by Cognella, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, microfi lming, and recording, or in any informa- tion retrieval system without the written permission of Cognella, Inc. First published in the United States of America in 2010 by Cognella, Inc. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifi cation and explanation without intent to infringe. Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 978-1-60927-950-9 (pbk) Contents Introduction 1 By Margaret McKinnon Part I Western Religions—Abrahamic Faiths Chapter 1: Judaism 25 Israel's Sacred History 27 By Eliezer Segal Chapter 2: Jewish Spirituality 43 What Is Jewish Spirituality? 45 By Martin A. Cohen Chapter 3: Christianity 49 Th e Taking of the Gospel to the Gentiles; Paul 51 -
(XXXIX:9) Mel Brooks: BLAZING SADDLES (1974, 93M) the Version of This Goldenrod Handout Sent out in Our Monday Mailing, and the One Online, Has Hot Links
October 22, 2019 (XXXIX:9) Mel Brooks: BLAZING SADDLES (1974, 93m) The version of this Goldenrod Handout sent out in our Monday mailing, and the one online, has hot links. Spelling and Style—use of italics, quotation marks or nothing at all for titles, e.g.—follows the form of the sources. DIRECTOR Mel Brooks WRITING Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Richard Pryor, and Alan Uger contributed to writing the screenplay from a story by Andrew Bergman, who also contributed to the screenplay. PRODUCER Michael Hertzberg MUSIC John Morris CINEMATOGRAPHY Joseph F. Biroc EDITING Danford B. Greene and John C. Howard The film was nominated for three Oscars, including Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Madeline Kahn, Best Film Editing for John C. Howard and Danford B. Greene, and for Best Music, Original Song, for John Morris and Mel Brooks, for the song "Blazing Saddles." In 2006, the National Film Preservation Board, USA, selected it for the National Film Registry. CAST Cleavon Little...Bart Gene Wilder...Jim Slim Pickens...Taggart Harvey Korman...Hedley Lamarr Madeline Kahn...Lili Von Shtupp Mel Brooks...Governor Lepetomane / Indian Chief Burton Gilliam...Lyle Alex Karras...Mongo David Huddleston...Olson Johnson Liam Dunn...Rev. Johnson Shows. With Buck Henry, he wrote the hit television comedy John Hillerman...Howard Johnson series Get Smart, which ran from 1965 to 1970. Brooks became George Furth...Van Johnson one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s, with Jack Starrett...Gabby Johnson (as Claude Ennis Starrett Jr.) many of his films being among the top 10 moneymakers of the Carol Arthur...Harriett Johnson year they were released. -
Review of the Film Sector in Scotland Creative Scotland
Review of the Film Sector in Scotland Creative Scotland January 2014 This report was produced by: BOP Consulting (www.bop.co.uk) in partnership with: Whetstone Group (www.whetstonegroup.org) Jonathan Olsberg (www.o-spi.com) If you would like to know more about the report, please contact the project’s director, Barbara McKissack: Email: [email protected] Tel: 0207 253 2041 i Contents 4.6 Festivals ........................................................................................... 17 1. Executive Summary ............................................... 1 4.7 Archives ........................................................................................... 18 1.1 Introduction ....................................................................................... 1 4.8 Cultural impact of film ................................................................... 18 1.2 Watching film ..................................................................................... 1 4.9 Consultants’ assessment of the issues ..................................... 19 1.3 Learning about film .......................................................................... 1 1.4 Making film ........................................................................................ 2 5. Learning about film ............................................. 21 1.5 Earning from film – supporting enterprises and 5.1 Introduction .....................................................................................21 employment ...................................................................................... -
BFI FAN FILM EXHIBITION FUND AWARDS OVER £750,000 to UK EXHIBITORS to SUPPORT DIVERSE PROGRAMMING and BRING BACK AUDIENCES Nati
BFI FAN FILM EXHIBITION FUND AWARDS OVER £750,000 TO UK EXHIBITORS TO SUPPORT DIVERSE PROGRAMMING AND BRING BACK AUDIENCES National Lottery funding aims to re-engage audiences with collective, big screen film experiences London, Monday 14 December 2020: Over 140 film exhibitors around the UK have received a share of £759,159 to boost cultural programming and activities to engage diverse audiences as lockdown restrictions ease. The BFI FAN Film Exhibition Fund supports activity to re-engage audiences with collective, big screen film experiences at film festivals, mixed arts venues, and both community and traditional cinemas around the UK. This particular strand of support has been made available via BFI‘s National Lottery funding to the BFI Film Audience Network (FAN). BFI FAN is a unique collaboration of eight Film Hubs managed by leading film organisations across the UK, who each distribute the funding in their region or nation. The BFI FAN Film Exhibition Fund will enable FAN Members to deliver a broad range of programming once they restart, ensuring excellent British and international independent cinema is available to audiences all over the UK. Other priorities of the fund are incentivising exhibitors to embed inclusion and environmental sustainability into their approach to reopening, post closure during the pandemic restrictions. The BFI FAN Film Exhibition Fund was also supported by a donation from global streaming platform MUBI. The total figure awarded to Film Hub Scotland members of £220,000 includes additional funding from Screen Scotland as announced in early November. Film Hub Wales announced Film Exhibition Fund awards totalling £52,000, also in November. -
Louis Theroux: My Scientology Movie
louis theroux: my scientology movie Louis Theroux laat je in zijn documentaires van auditie doen voor de rollen van Tom Cruise en binnenuit kennismaken met gesloten David Miscavige en laat die beoordelen door gemeenschappen en mensen die net even Marty Rathbun, voormalig topman van buiten de maatschappij staan. Zijn argeloze Scientology. Rathbun is de kerk uitgezet omdat nieuwsgierigheid levert fascinerende TV op. In hij te loslippig was, maar weet als geen ander zijn eerste bioscoopfilm zoekt hij één van de hoe het eraan toegaat. Hij maakt er geen meest gesloten, maar tegelijk ook meest geheim van dat hij zelf ook gelovigen besproken clubs op: de Scientology kerk. hardhandig aanpakte. Theroux’ werkwijze leidt Scientology is vooral bekend door de Hollywood- tot veelzeggende beelden, bijvoorbeeld wanneer sterren die de levensovertuiging aanhangen – de acteurs een vergadering naspelen waarin topacteurs Tom Cruise en John Travolta voorop. Miscavige helemaal uit zijn dak gaat. Oorspronkelijk was Scientology vooral een Het is een wat ongewone manier van filmen, zelfverbeteringsprogramma. Door peperdure maar MY SCHIENTOLOGY MOVIE geeft een cursussen te volgen kon je een beter mens interessant inkijkje in de manier waarop de kerk worden en verdiende Scientology goudgeld aan te werk gaat. De droge en zeer Britse vragen en zijn volgelingen. Langzamerhand kreeg de kerk opmerkingen van Theroux zorgen bovendien echter steeds meer sektarische trekjes. voor een vermakelijke documentaire. Scientology laat Theroux echter niet toe. Leider David Miscavige weigert met hem te praten, en regie: John Dower sterker nog: geen enkel lid van Scientology mag met: Louis Theroux met Theroux praten. De kerk probeert Theroux GBR 2016 • documentaire • 99 min. -
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