the ghastly love of johnny x is a 2012 american musical science fiction comedy film written , produced , and directed by paul bunnell .

it stars will keenan , creed bratton , and de anna joy brooks , reggie bannister , les williams , jed rowen and features , in supporting roles , kate maberly , paul williams and kevin mccarthy .

it was the last feature film shot in kodak plus-x .

the film is an homage to 1950 's sci-fi , teen and the rock and roll of the era .

it follows the adventures of johnny x , an alien on earth who is chasing his ex-girlfriend after she steals his powerful invention : the resurrection suit .

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the ghastly love of johnny x <EOT> looking for movie tickets ? enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing the ghastly love of johnny x near you .

" the ghastly love of johnny x " is terrible . i loved it . i would have paid $ 117 just to see it .

the ghastly love of johnny x creative team includes writer / producer / director paul bunnell , director of photography francisco bulgarelli and music composer ego plum .

the ghastly love of johnny x delivers a unique blend of hip genre moviemaking and timeless entertainment for what is sure to become a motion picture classic .

" what ' s up with johnny ? " music & lyrics by scott martin with permission of scott martin musicals ( ascap ) from the motion picture the ghastly love of johnny x . . .

the fun begins as johnny x and his misfit gang of juvenile delinquents from outer space are sentenced to earth where " ghastly " is the word ! with highly stylized musical numbers , genuinely humorous dialogue and wacky plot twists , the ghastly love of johnny x makes filmmaking history as the final feature to be beautifully photographed onthe last of kodak ' s 35mm black - and - white plus - x film stock .

the university of southern indiana film studies department will host a free , public screening of the ghastly love of johnny x at 7 : 30 p . m . friday , may 12 in forum i located in the wright adminstration building on the usi campus . . . .

advance tickets to the 2 : 45 p . m . , wednesday , june 6 screening of the ghastly love of johnny x at dances with films are available at urltoken or at the chinese theatre box office . tickets are $ 10 prior to may 31st and thereafter , tickets are $ 13 . for more information on the ghastly love of johnny x or to view the trailer , visit urltoken . for more information on dances with films , may 31 – june 7 , 2012 at the chinese theatres in hollywood , visit urltoken .

on demand and in theaters now : urltoken the ghastly love of johnny x is a truly mad concoction—the only sci - fi dark comedy musical romance you need to see in your lifetime ! starring will keenan , creed bratton , de anna joy brooks , reggie bannister , les williams , jed rowen , kate maberly , paul williams and kevin mccarthy . copyright © ghastly johnny x , llc all rights reserved .

when bunnell and bulgarelli were ready to shoot what turned out to be only the first round of footage on the ghastíy love of johnny x , clairmont supplied a full moviecam package with hawk c - series anamorphic lenses .

the ghastly love of johnny x is paul bunnell ' s first 35mm feature film . in 1994 bunnell released his cult film that little monster which features a cameo appearance by the legendary comedian bob hope . his next project is a big screen adaptation of the classic victor hugo novel the man who laughs .

when one contemplates paul bunnellls retro sci - fi rock musical , the ghastly love of johnny x1 the lyrics of bob dylan come to mind . the film has been " a long time comin ' " - production started in 2004 and was completed in late 201 1 - and the medium with which it was photographed , eastman kodak plus - x 5231 , is going to be " a long time gone . " kodak has stopped manufacturing the stock , and whatever the movies reception may be . the ghastly love of johnny x will go down in history as the last feature to be shot on it .

" ghastly love " tries to work the same campy vibe as " the rocky horror picture show " but learns how hard that is to pull off .

the ghastly love of johnny x is a 35mm independent motion picture presented in ghastlyscope – an exciting retro - style hybrid feature film about a gang of juvenile delinquents from outer space that blends 1950s sci - fi , melodrama , song - and - dance , and a touch of horror into a mesmerizing big screen spectacular .

paul williams has written some of the most beloved songs of his generation , but he ' s also a prolific actor , including a recent stint in the ghastly love of johnny x , and here ' s a new clip featuring him as " cousin quilty " . the film is directed by paul bunnell ; written by steve bingen , paul bunnell , mark d . murphy , and george wagner ; and produced by paul bunnell , john duffy , ezra kemp , kristina west , mark willoughby , ramzi abed , and joe rios . synopsis : the ghastly love of johnny x is a truly mad concoction – a mesmerizing big screen spectacular ! johnny x and his rebellious gang of juvenile delinquents from outer space ( called the ghastly ones ) have been banished to planet earth until they can pay for their crimes . the ghastly ones are in hot pursuit of a mysterious femme fatale named bliss , who has stolen their most prized possession—a strange suit with magical powers known as the “resurrection suit .

, who was oscar - nominated for his role in 1951 ' s " death of a salesman " and starred in the original " invasion of the bodysnatchers . " his appearance in " johnny x " is the kind of cameo that would excite

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this is a movie everyone needs to see . best sci fi / musical ! so funny ! and entertaining . i love this movie so much ! johnny x is amazing . i loved the retro 50s style and delinquency of johnnyx and his gang saving mankind . the storyline was so entertaining and well scripted . i loved the music and dancing . it ' s a fun movie and very comical . johnny x is amazing ! watch this movie !

it ' s ghastly ! light on the muscle numbers , this piece still gives rocky horror a run for its money . a musicale sci fi comedy , what ' s not to love ?

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dances with films is setting the stage to bring the 15th year of its unique brand to los angeles audiences with more world premieres and original films from across the u . s . and abroad . the ghastly love of johnny x is proud to be among the films chosen to play at this year ' s festival , which will be showcased at the famed chinese theatres in hollywood , 6801 hollywood blvd . , at 2 : 45 p . m . on wednesday , june 6 , 2012 .

being ; big green bug eyed monster , these lips that never lie and what ' s up with johnny ? i recommend this movie to those who love it campy and fun , those with a love for old b movies or for those that love it weird and wacky . criswell predicts that this movie will become a cult classic eventually

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will keenan plays johnny xavier , alien leader of gang of teenage toughs who call themselves " the ghastly ones . " they are expelled from their orderly home planet for constantly kicking up a ruckus and sent to the ghastliest place the grand inquisitor can imagine : earth . ( the grand inquisitor is , incidentally , the last part ever played by the late

you know , just the other day someone asked if we knew of any films that combine 1950s sci - fi melodrama , song - and - dance , and a touch of horror . good thing info on the premiere of the ghastly love of johnny x has just landed in our inbox ! the ghastly love of johnny x will have its world premiere at this year’s cinequest film festival in san jose , california , on march 3rd with two additional showings on the 6th and 10th . screening times are as follows : saturday , march 3rd at 9 : 30 pm – california theatre ( world premiere ) tuesday , march 6th at 7 : 00 pm – san jose repertory theatre saturday , march 10th at 4 : 45 pm – san jose repertory theatre the film is directed by paul bunnell ; written by steve bingen , paul bunnell , mark d . murphy , and george wagner ; and produced by paul bunnell , john duffy , ezra kemp , kristina west , mark willoughby , ramzi abed , and joe rios .

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i imagine you have heard of joss whedon ' s " the avengers . " of all the 657 films released in us cinemas in 2012 it took in the most money , with a total gross of $ 623 , 357 , 910 . i imagine you have not heard of paul bunnell ' s " the ghastly love of johnny x . " of all the 657 films released in us cinemas in 2012 it took the least money , with a total gross $ 117 . it has been reported that the gross was actually $ 116 . 15 but when i email bunnell to check , he is adamant it was a full $ 117 . bunnell is a film - maker to whom 85 cents really matters .

on the fence about the ghastly love of johnny x , which is billed as " the only sci - fi dark comedy musical romance you need to see this year " ? then watch this trio of promo clips , and if you live in or around san jose , check it out in early march at the cinequest film festival . the ghastly love of johnny x will have its world premiere at this year’s cinequest film festival in san jose , california , on march 3rd with two additional showings on the 6th and 10th . screening times are as follows : saturday , march 3rd at 9 : 30 pm – california theatre ( world premiere ) tuesday , march 6th at 7 : 00 pm – san jose repertory theatre saturday , march 10th at 4 : 45 pm – san jose repertory theatre the film is directed by paul bunnell ; written by steve bingen , paul bunnell , mark d . murphy , and george wagner ; and produced by paul bunnell , john duffy , ezra kemp ,

banished to earth for intergalactic juvenile delinquency , johnny x and his gang of ghastly ones set off in search of a piece of alien technology that could change the fate of the universe forever the so - called resurrection suit . soon , the extraterrestrial no - goodniks are embroiled in a wacky scheme involving a femme fatale named bliss , a shifty concert promoter with schemes of his own , and a recently deceased musician who won t let a little decomposition stop him from rocking . bonus features : paul bunnell ' s ghastly vision featurette - commentary track with director paul bunnell , composer ego plum & de anna joy brooks - deleted scenes - outtakes

university of southern indiana spring films : “swiss army man” ( 2016 ) , 11 a . m . and 1 : 30 p . m . tuesday in forum i ; “the neon demon” ( 2016 ) , 7 : 30 p . m . friday ; “the ghastly love of johnny x” ( 2012 ) , 11 a . m . and 1 : 30 p . m . april 25 ; “falstaff : chimes at midnight” ( 1965 ) , 7 : 30 p . m . april 28 . admission is free .

but he is also a film - maker to whom film really matters . " the ghastly love of johnny x " is a tribute to film in both senses of the word , a paean to science - fiction films of the 1950s and to the benefits of shooting on film rather than with digital cameras . it is a black and white widescreen science - fiction musical about " juvenile delinquents from outer space " , which is enough to make it memorable . but what entitles it to an entry in the annals of film history is that it was the final film ever to be shot on kodak ' s now discontinued 35mm black and white plus - x film stock , which had been manufactured since 1938 . that made bunnell ' s film significant enough for nbc nightly news to run a feature on it and for the library of congress to hold a copy .

a decade in - the - making , the ghastly love of johnny x really comes together in the details . in order to make such a concept pop , this one needed as much research as guts and gumption to see it over the line , and filmmaker paul bunnell has obviously invested a significant amount of time and money into making sure his film rises to its many , many sources of inspiration . i can see john waters in here ; i can see alien invasion films ; i can see the big monster movies of the atomic age ; i can see west wide story ; i can see james dean ' s oeuvre ; i can even see a bit of frankenstein and re - animator . the fact that bunnell has managed to rope all these influences together into one cohesive package is a feat that deserves ' high five ' recognition . the songs by ego plum and lyricist scott martin aren ' t quite that of bacharach or leiber & stoller , but they ' re tight , finger - snapping ditties that recall the show tunes of a bygone era and ornament the film perfectly without overwhelming it . ultimately , the ghastly love of johnny x is just too unique and beautiful not to recommend . you may like it , you may not . either way , i guarantee it will be unlike anything you have seen before .

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. ) the ghastly ones arrive in a version of 1950s america that seems deliberately littered with anachronisms . the fashions are from the ' 50s . the cars are from the ' 60s . there is a rock star — " the man with the grin " mickey o ' flynn — who seems to come from the ' 70s . we are told he is a member of the rock ' n ' roll hall of fame , which was founded in the ' 80s . the camera one of his fans uses to take a picture of him is clearly from the 21st century .

) , from the attentions of several unscrupulous loan sharks . by this point , we ' re about a third of the way through the film .

spends a significant period of the film playing a motionless corpse slumped in an armchair . it ' s one of the better examples of acting on show . the songs are dreadful and yet , when i woke up the morning after first watching " johnny x " , i had one of them stuck in my head . my lips soon sang along . francisco bulgarelli ' s cinematography is the real triumph : it recreates the peculiar beauty of low - budget 1950s sci - fi films better than any movie i have seen besides tim burton ' s "

this film is woefully underrated . for me it sparkles as a loving homage to the stuff i enjoyed in the 50s , when movies were honest fun and not just vehicles for the purveyance of slut and filth as they are today . it hearkens back to what hollywood once was while maintaining technological currency . additionally it is the last feature shot on actual black - and - white kodak plus - x 35mm film stock . i predict " the ghastly love of johnny x " will grow to become a cult favorite like " the rocky horror picture show . " mark my words ! i have had the opportunity to see this picture in both dcp and on real 35mm film . it looks great in either medium , but the film print adds a certain hard - to - define quality that is woefully missing in most cinema presentations today .

it has a similar zest and campiness as the musical " little shop of horrors . " . lots of humor . excellent music and dance numbers in this strange sci - fi story that also echoes the flavor of a twilight zone and a touch of " rocky horror picture show " . surprisingly entertaining - a low budget labor of love by a talented director .

paul bunnell loves retro horror / sci ~ fi . and his masterwork " the ghastly love of johnny x " proves it . otherwise known as " juvenile delinquents from outer space " , this visual achievement is a blast ! it is a horror - scifi - pop culture - musical all in one . you get aliens , wild women , a " zombie elvis / roy orbison mutation " as i call it , and endless retro tributes to the golden age of american horror - scifi ( 1950 ' s - 1960 ' s ) . not a cheap b - movie , this is an art film and a labor of loving obsession with yesteryear ' s movie classics of the cult cinema .

60s but this is no b movie this is a work of art . the cast are perfect , will keenan & de anna joy brooks as johnny x & bliss are delicious ! paul " swan " williams turns up as cousin quilty , reggie bannister as king clayton and kevin mccarthy as the grand inquisitor

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there is surrealism in even the film ' s smallest details that recalls something of the work of david lynch . but in lynch ' s films the surrealism is inexplicably unsettling . here it is inexplicably amusing . when johnny x ' s former girlfriend , bliss ( de anna joy brooks ) , persuades square - jawed soda jerk chip ( les williams ) to take her away from johnny , chip drives her to a dilapidated drive - in and talks about the double features he used to see there long ago , before it was abandoned . it is the sort of scene we would expect to see in a wistful drama set , at the earliest , in the 1970s . chip talks as if the era of the soda jerk and the drive - in movie is lost to the past but at the time the film is set it would have been at its height .

" when i showed the early footage of johnny x to terry [ clairmont ] , he nodded his head in approval and said , ? want to watch this movie / " recalls bulgareili . " that left me with a great feeling because terry was a very genuine person who meant what he said . "

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this is the world premiere release of the rat race original soundtrack recording . there was an lp release of the sam butera version of the theme – an album called “sam butera and the witnesses play the music from the rat race , ” but it was just the theme ; the rest of the album was filled with standards . the original tapes , housed in paramount’s vaults , were in excellent condition and we present bernstein’s score in its entirety in stereo . in the bonus section we’ve included some mono source cues ( all by bernstein ) and a couple of demos .

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finally got around to watching a film i ' ve been excited to see since i discovered it ' s existence 2 months ago . " the ghastly love of johnny x " from director / writer , paul bunnell and starring will keenan , creed bratton , reggie bannister & the late , kevin mccarthy . i loved it . it ' s a retro 50 ' s period piece involving a gang of greasers from outer space called , the ghastly ones , " serving time " on earth for their intergalactic shenanigans . a post - dead rock star , a straight edge hero , a slime ball concert promoter , manipulative heroines , and a tor johnson - esq thug . . . . all brought together with fantastic musical numbers and perfect locations / sets . . . . it ' s a pure , fun popcorn flick great for all ages and highly recommend checking this gem out !

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in a fittingly strange way , america ' s least successful movie was a victim of its own success . the only reason " johnny x " was shown in a theater at all was that it won the audience award at the kansas international film festival , where its prize was a week - long run on a single screen at a single local cinema . officially , that meant it had been released theatrically and entered in the same box office race as " the avengers . "

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with dnematography experience mainly in short films and music videos , bulgarelli saw johnny xas an opportunity and a challenge . " few things can match the beauty of the anamorphic format " he observes . " it offers two things : more resolution , because it uses the full dimension of the academy 35mm frame , and the shallower depth - of - field that is inherent in anamorphic optks . but paul wanted to shoot in black - and - white on plus - x , which meant an asa of 80 . my first thought was , 1we are going to need quite a bit of light / and we sure did ! our lighting package at times required five 20ks , several 1 0ks and 5ks and some smaller units . i have to say , we cheated a bit : we used [ 200 - speed ] double - x 5222 for a few scenes , mainly night exteriors . "

the concept for johnny x began to take shape in 1 997 , when bunnell saw teenagers from outer space ( 1959 ) , tom graeff ' s cult favorite . the script was developed over several years with input from bunnetl and several other writers , including steve bingen , mark d . murphy and george wagner . the idea to add songs came just as the film was about to go before the cameras , and scott martin was tapped to write lyrics and music while ego plum did the orchestrations .

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krannert gallery : krannert hall of fine arts on the university of evansville campus , an exhibit of the work of digital painters , jenna citrus , jan frick thompson and heather landry , through may 6 ( reception , 5 : 30 p . m . thursday ) . call 207 - 650 - 6073 .

the bizarre joy to be taken in the plot reflects the bizarre joy to be taken in the whole production . all the performances are intentionally absurd . as mickey o ' flynn ,

the cast includes hot new stars will keenan and de anna joy brooks , as well as seasoned professionals creed bratton ( the office ) , reggie bannister ( phantasm ) , paul williams ( phantom of the paradise ) and the late kevin mccarthy ( invasion of the body snatchers ) in his final role .

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i could tell you the whole plot but you might think i had been drinking . it concerns johnny ' s search for o ' flynn , who he knows is his father . ( how a musician came to conceive a child with an alien on a distant planet is not disclosed , nor even discussed . ) when johnny finds o ' flynn , o ' flynn is already dead and johnny is asked to use his special suit to resurrect him so he can put on a comeback concert and save his manager , king clayton (

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after getting 30 minutes of footage in the can , bunnell had to suspend production when his resources thinned . …

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as much of a leading character as those played by curtis and reynolds is the incredibly dynamic score by elmer bernstein . right from the get - go , his electric , jazzy , and spectacular theme grabs you and never lets go . that theme recurs throughout the score – pulsing with the teeming life of the city , with wailing brass and insistent rhythms . some cues keep the big - band jazzy feeling , while others are mournful and tender , as the story requires . it is , simply put , one of bernstein’s best . nobody did this kind of score better than elmer bernstein – it’s just filled with memorable melodies and stunningly gorgeous music . 1960 was a great year for bernstein , what with the rat race and then one of his all - time masterpieces , the magnificent seven . the theme from the rat race enjoyed some popularity and radio play when it was recorded by cast member sam butera and the witnesses .

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from the inception of the project , bunnell wanted to shoot the film in black - and - white and widescreen . this was partly an homage to the films that inspired him , but he also felt monochrome would work best for his tale of an outcast teenager from another planet whose ticket home is to commit one selfless good deed . potential financiers did not share bunnell enthusiasm for black - and - white , however , so he financed the first phase of production on his own . that meant tapping into his home equity , a move that seemed much less risky in the mid - 2000s than it later proved to be . with faith in his vision , bunnell produced and edited a 20 - minute section of the movie that would show off the concept , music and talents of the cast and aew . he hired cinematographer francisco bulgarelli to shoot the film .

urltoken the art directors guild ( adg , iatse local 800 ) is celebrating its 75th anniversary with numerous high - profile special events planned throughout the year . these events will include exhibitions , screenings , receptions , panel discussions , proclamations and celebrations to be announced . the guild was established in 1937 . the 2 , 000 members of the adg and special guests will be invited to all celebratory events . the year’s celebrations open with the guild’s participation in the santa clarita cowboy festival to be held at the melody ranch motion picture studio april 21 - 22 . the guild will have a “store - front” on the ranch’s main street with an exhibition titled “the artistry of making a cowboy movie , ” featuring members’ work from classic motion picture and television westerns including silverado , the lone ranger , deadwood , wild bill and gunsmoke . for more information : santa clarita cowboy festival a reception celebrating the publication of the coffee table book m - g - m : hollywood’s greatest

it is a truth accepted by all but the most humorless film fans that a bad movie can be good fun . this is very bad movie that is very good fun . that it was the lowest grossing film of 2012 and the last film ever shot on plus - x gives viewers two reasons to seek it out . i hope this review , and the few like it that are dotted across the internet , provide a third . any film made with this much spirit deserves an audience far bigger than the one it can get by playing on one screen in one theater in kansas .

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best , and last , film to be shot on kodak b & w pan - x film ! a rock - n - roll , sci - fi , juvenile deliquents from outer space kind of thing . truly a fun romp with catchy tunes and fun characters . loved it ! ! ! ! !

highly entertaining movie . jed rowen is an awesome and underrated actor . no relation , i just love low - budget b - movies and he ' s in a lot of them . this is a goofy , musical , comedy . it ' s a throwback to 1950 ' s sci - fi with a dab of beach blanket bingo . accept it for what it is and you should enjoy it .

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book review one might think that by this time , every conceivable film - related topic has been covered in book form…but the newest releases prove that this isn’t so . perhaps the most unusual , and exciting , addition to the library of movie books is m - g - m : hollywood’s greatest backlot by steven bingen , stephen x . sylvester , and michael troyan , with a foreword by mgm veteran debbie reynolds ( santa monica press ) . as the authors explain in their introduction , “our purpose in producing this book is not to discuss the films that mgm produced . that particular road has been well traveled elsewhere . our interest here is not…

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and he ' s right . something this amazing will not stay hidden for long . buy it , see it , show it to all of your friends , family and even your mad aunt kept locked up in the attic ! ! paul bunnell will one day be regarded rightly as the true genious that he is ! ! ! ( this review is a copy of the review i put on amazon ! ! )

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adam resurrected ( hebrew : אדם בן כלב , translit . adam ben kelev ) is a 2008 american-german-israeli film , directed by paul schrader and adapted from yoram kaniuk 's novel of the same name published in israel in 1968 ( the book 's original name literally means " man , son of a dog " ) .

jeff goldblum stars as the title character , alongside willem dafoe , derek jacobi and ayelet zurer .

several major german stars , including moritz bleibtreu , veronica ferres , juliane köhler and joachim król , play supporting roles .

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adam resurrected <EOT> adam resurrected peers into the soul of a condemned man | l . a . weekly

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adam resurrected is the story of adam , a mentally ill holocaust survivor who must come to grips with his own problems while helping an abused boy who thinks he’s a dog .

paul schrader during the 57th berlinale international film festival - ' adam resurrected ' - reception at hotel maritim in berlin , germany .

ayelet zurer during the 57th berlinale international film festival - ' adam resurrected ' - reception at hotel maritim in berlin , germany .

ayelet zurer and jeff goldblum during the 57th berlinale international film festival - ' adam resurrected ' - reception at hotel maritim in berlin , germany .

jeff goldblum and ehud breiburg during the 57th berlinale international film festival - ' adam resurrected ' - reception at hotel maritim in berlin , germany .

“adam resurrected” is rated r ( under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian ) . it has scenes of physical and emotional cruelty and sexual situations .

even when it flies off the rails deep into its third act , resurrected remains strangely hypnotic .

ehud breiburg , ayelet zurer and jeff goldblum during the 57th berlinale international film festival - ' adam resurrected ' - reception at hotel maritim in berlin , germany .

willem dafoe , jeff goldblum and ayelet zurer during the 57th berlinale international film festival - ' adam resurrected ' - reception at hotel maritim in berlin , germany .

" adam resurrected " isn ' t really a bad book - - there are important issues in it - - but it just isn ' t a book for me .

adam resurrected is the story of adam , a mentally ill holocaust survivor who must come to grips with his own problems while helping an abused boy who thinks he’s a dog . though complex with good performances , adam resurrected is sometimes tedious and has a very strong humanist , anti - biblical worldview that blames and attacks god for the holocaust and wherein the protagonist finds human solutions to the mental problems caused by his tragic , traumatic history .

savage gallows humor might have substituted for pathos . but adam resurrected feels so detached that there is not a laugh , nor even a wicked smirk of nihilistic glee , to be gleaned .

savage gallows humor might have substituted for pathos . but “adam resurrected” feels so detached that there is not a laugh , nor even a wicked smirk of nihilistic glee , to be gleaned .

paul schrader during the 57th berlinale international film festival - ' adam . . .

ayelet zurer during the 57th berlinale international film festival - ' adam . . .

before the holocaust , adam was a famous magician , clown and mind reader . when he is sent to the concentration camps , adam is forced to be commandant klein’s “dog . ” as acts of humiliation , adam must walk on all fours and entertain klein . meanwhile adam’s wife and youngest daughter are killed in the camp .

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adam resurrected received several positive reviews . gary goldstein of the los angeles times wrote , " in a less competitive year , jeff goldblum would have had a shot at an oscar nod for his performance in adam resurrected , in which he plays adam stein , a mental patient irrevocably haunted by his holocaust survival . this original drama is less glum than it might sound , thanks to goldblum ' s spirited , go - for - broke portrayal and director paul schrader ' s distinctive translation of noah stollman ' s script . " [ 3 ]

of 5 . 2 / 10 . the site ' s critical consensus reads , " such an unusual tale might have made for a compelling drama , but adam resurrected suffers from narrative confusion and an emotional detachment at its core . "

more brilliant than the doctors and more insane than any of the other patients , adam struggles wildly to make sense of a world in which the line between sanity and madness has been irreversibly blurred . full of humanity , pathos , and biting irony , adam resurrected offers a vision of a modern hell that devastates even as it inches toward redemption .

“resurrected : the best of adam’s road” is the band’s sixth studio release , made available in june of 2013 . it is a compilation album composed of newly re - mixed and re - mastered songs that have stood the test of time as perennial fan favorites . in revisiting these songs , the listener is reminded of the freedom , life , and hope we have in our resurrected savior , jesus !

" adam resurrected " follows the story of adam stein , a charismatic patient at a mental institution for holocaust survivors in israel , 1961 . he reads minds and confounds his doctors , lead by nathan gross . before the war , in berlin , adam was an entertainer - - cabaret impresario , circus owner , magician , musician - - loved by audiences and nazis alike until he finds himself in a concentration camp , confronted by commandant klein . adam survives the camp by becoming the commandant ' s " dog " , entertaining him while his wife and daughter are sent off to die . years later we find him at the institute . one day , adam smells something , hears a sound . " who brought a dog in here ? " he asks gross . gross denies there is a dog but adam finds him - - a young boy raised in a basement on a chain . adam and the boy see and recognize each other as dogs - - and their journey begins . " adam resurrected " is the story of a man who once was a dog who meets a dog who once was a boy .

adam resurrected is the story of a holocaust survivor who must come to grips with his problems . adam is a famous entertainer who , when sent to the concentration camps , is forced to be commandant klein’s “dog . ” as humiliation , adam is forced to walk on all fours and entertain klein . after the war , the public misunderstands adam’s story that he was the nazi “pet . ” even his surviving daughter dies in shame over her father . this sends adam insane , and he is put into an experimental treatment facility for holocaust survivors , where he meets an abused boy who thinks he’s a dog . together , they begin to help each other recover .

these harrowing memories torment adam in 1961 , when he is the star patient at a special mental hospital built for holocaust survivors in the israeli desert ( where most of adam resurrected is set ) . a charismatic marvel of wit and physical self - control ( he can bleed at will ) , adam is a compulsive casanova , whose first language would seem to be seduction . he charms circles around his doctors ( led by derek jacobi ) , who in turn let him toy with them , hoping that this will help them to crack the impenetrable labyrinth of suffering that overtakes adam whenever his manic humor fails him .

in the end , adam is able to have some degree of release from his troubles and leaves the facility .

after the war , adam’s story of what happened in the camp is told and he is shunned throughout germany since he was the “pet” for the nazi leader . the public misunderstands that adam was actually treated terribly . adam is finally able to locate his oldest daughter , but only after she has died when hearing about what her father had done .

the crowning achievement of one of israel ' s literary masters , adam resurrected remains one of the most powerful works of holocaust fiction ever written . a former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other jews as they marched to their deaths , adam stein is now the ringleader at an asylum in the negev desert populated solely by holocaust survivors . alternately more brilliant than the doctors and more insane than any of the patients , adam struggles wildly to make sense of a world in which the line between sanity and madness has been irreversibly blurred . with the biting irony of catch - 22 , the intellectual vigor of saul bellow , and the pathos and humanity that are kaniuk ' s hallmarks , adam resurrected offers a vision of a modern hell that devastates even as it inches toward redemption .

jeff goldblum as adam stein , a charismatic jewish circus performer in 1930s berlin , and ana geoanna as his daughter .

adam goes insane and is taken to an experimental treatment facility outside tel aviv for holocaust survivors . there , adam becomes the “clown” for the other patients . however , a young boy is brought into the facility , and adam immediately “sniffs him out . ” the young boy was abused and locked in a basement and now believes he is a dog .

with his dark whirlpool eyes and sensual clown’s mouth , jeff goldblum has always suggested an actor poised to reveal a thousand faces , many of them nightmarish apparitions . in “the fly” we saw a few of them ; more emerge in the holocaust survivor drama “adam resurrected . ” the movie’s unsettling opening image is a close - up of his character , adam stein , in clown makeup , rolling his left eye while keeping the right stationary .

the only redeeming quality is that the young boy finally walks upright and calls out to adam just when adam is about to kill himself . this love and bond between them convinces him to keep living and is the turning point for both of them .

adam is able to help the young boy , whom he names david , to become more like a human . however , adam is conflicted in david’s recovery because it brings up all the memories of when he was forced to pretend to be a dog .

stephen holden of the new york times gave the film a negative review , finding it unfunny and full of missed opportunities . " savage gallows humor might have substituted for pathos . but adam resurrected feels so detached that there is not a laugh , nor even a wicked smirk of nihilistic glee , to be gleaned . " [ 1 ]

adam resurrected has scenes of depraved sexual situations as well as troubling images of the concentration camp and seeing the young boy live as a dog . the worst aspect is the movie’s humanist , anti - biblical worldview that presents god as a monster comparable to an evil nazi and life as being filled with pain and tragedy with only humanist answers .

“gabriel yared is an amazing artist and here for ‘adam resurrected’ it’s a great challenge to pull off music for a serious film , yet managing to keep us entertained and never loosing the heart of the film . it succeeds as we are drawn into the compassion and strength that is needed . bravo… and thank you for this wonderful piece ! ” six strings

in the end , adam is in the desert and a burning bush appears , much like it did for moses . however , instead of god appearing , the dead commandant klein appears and tries to get adam to commit suicide . throughout the story , god is often compared to the nazis .

“the man clearly follows his own instinct and has a truly unique musical voice , and i admire that greatly . it’s because of yared’s unique voice that you can never be too sure where the music will take you . and with adam resurrected… well , there are elements i don’t agree with , yet i find myself intrigued ( and indeed : immersed ) by yared’s sound palette . ” synchrotones

adam names the boy who thinks he’s a dog “david” after king david , the king of the dogs ( instead of saying king of the jews ) .

nathan rabin of the a . v . club graded the film a b , also praising goldblum , whom he credits with a " stunning lead performance . " he compared the film ' s concept with the " notorious unreleased jerry lewis monstrosity " that is the day the clown cried , but that goldblum ' s performance made adam resurrected work . rabin writes , " goldblum sells this wildly theatrical character through sheer magnetism . the otherworldly nature of his restless , nervous charisma has seldom been put to better use . even when it flies off the rails deep into its third act , resurrected remains strangely hypnotic . " [ 4 ]

in berlin , the jewish adam stein is a successful artist that works with his wife and two daughters in a cabaret . during the world war ii , adam and his family are sent to a concentration camp and the cruel commandant klein , who was his fan , assigns adam to become his " dog " to entertain him . adam has to live like a dog with another dog , rex , while tries to convince klein to save his wife and his little daughter that are sent to the ovens . after the war , adam is sent to a mental institution in israel for survivors of the holocaust under the care of the psychiatric dr . nathan gross and becomes a leader among the patients . he also has a mistress , the nurse gina grey , who loves kinky sex . one day , adam smells a dog in the institute , which is forbidden , and he finds a boy that was raised chained in a basement and behaves like a dog . adam recalls his period as a dog in the concentration camp and gets close to the dog - like boy and their journey together begins .

adam resurrected is , without question , the strangest holocaust themed film i have seen , and likely will see . based on a novel , the film follows adam stein , a magician that acted as a sort of clown / pet for a concentration camp commander . the film finds him in and out of bouts of insanity , followed by manic outbursts of what some considered to be brilliance . what makes adam resurrected so strange is the tone . the film is simply all - over - the map . at times , it seems to be going for surreal and whimsical , other times it goes for serious and profound . none of this is ever achieved , as the film has no real dramatic anchoring . there are scenes that are seemingly inexplicable , dialogue that is both hard to understand and verbose . the tone shifts are so drastic , one can hardly take the film in . it ' s all too manic and kinetic in its approach . schrader simply comes across as earnest , certainly , but helplessly bogged down in the film ' s own supposed cleverness , with no real sense of organic story - telling . the lone bright spot with adam resurrected is jeff goldblum , who has a truly great performance . the problem , however , is that his character is simply awash in a film that is otherwise dramatically adrift , and devoid of focus . 2 / 5 stars

" adam resurrected " starts in tel aviv in 1961 where the men in the white suits with butterfly nets come to take adam stein ( jeff goldblum ) away to the seizling institute , a rehab facility for holocaust survivors , after he tries to strangle his landlady ( juliane kohler ) . while some may have doubts about whether or not he can be cured , dr . gross ( derek jacobi ) , the head doctor , disagrees and gina ( ayelet zurer ) , a nurse , thinks he is hot for some odd reason . while there , he remembers being a clown and working with his family in berlin before world war ii , while sensing there is a dog in room 285 . directed by paul schrader , " adam resurrected " takes an intriguing psychological angle at the holocaust , showing that the suffering did not end simply with the liberation of the camps . adam suffers from a type of survivors ' guilt , being dehumanized in his own way . that realistic approach is undercut by elements of magic realism and mysticism . adam develops odd ailments from which he comes back from the dead , causing at least one fellow patient to think he is the messiah . why not ? they are in the desert , after all . yes , the movie does come full circle but why so sentimental ?

this was an extremely intensive novel to read , and probably not a book for the casual reader . there are no spoilers here , but reading this novel is like being in the mind of an insane person from beginning to end . wretching at times , this certainly can be what is there in the minds of people who have suffered physically , but mostly mentally . the crowning achievement of one of israel ' s literary masters , adam resurrected remains one of the most powerful works of holocaust fiction ever written . a former circus clown who was spared the gas chamber so that he might entertain thousands of other jews as they marched to their deaths , adam stein is now the ringleader at an asylum in the negev desert populated solely by holocaust survivors . alternately more brilliant than the doctors and more insane than any of the patients , adam struggles wildly to make sense of a world in which the line between sanity and madness has been irreversibly blurred . with the biting irony of catch - 22 , the intellectual vigor of saul bellow , and the pathos and humanity that are kaniuk ' s hallmarks , adam resurrected offers a vision of a modern hell that devastates even as it inches toward redemption

1 . main theme ( 6 : 57 ) 2 . tel aviv ( 1 : 03 ) 3 . gina ( 1 : 46 ) 4 . adam gets bit ( 1 : 50 ) 5 . laughter ( 2 : 04 ) 6 . life and death ( 3 : 08 ) 7 . adam and gina on the rooftop ( 2 : 06 ) 8 . desert ( 1 : 23 ) 9 . wolfie’s story ( 1 : 38 ) 10 . shooting rex ( 2 : 12 ) 11 . berlin 1950s ( 0 : 55 ) 12 . stand up dog ( 2 : 59 ) 13 . adam and gina in bed ( 2 : 11 ) 14 . boy tries to stand up ( 0 : 50 ) 15 . at the graveside ( 2 : 48 ) 16 . adam hallucinates ( 3 : 52 ) 17 . adam and davey ( 1 : 08 ) 18 . epilogue ( 1 : 29 ) 19 . haifa arrival ( 1 : 07 ) 20 . adam’s idea ( 2 : 13 )

felled by mystery drugs at age 22 , adam hryhorchuk was ‘not the kind of kid you put a plaque on the wall . he was all about people connecting . ’

adam resurrected is filled with the kind of quirky novelistic conceits that tend to kill on the page , yet die embarrassing deaths onscreen . unsurprisingly , resurrected is based on a novel : yoram kaniuk ' s 1968 book of the same name . goldblum ' s simultaneously subhuman and superhuman madman quasi - messiah is a financial genius who ' s irresistible to women , reads minds , can make himself bleed , and is haunted ineffably by demons he can ' t begin to fathom , let alone control . yet goldblum sells this wildly theatrical character through sheer magnetism . the otherworldly nature of his restless , nervous charisma has seldom been put to better use . even when it flies off the rails deep into its third act , resurrected remains strangely hypnotic . though schrader and goldblum have transformed kaniuk ' s book into a film as insane as any of its characters , its source material somehow retains its air of unfilmability . that ' s just one of this film ' s many strange paradoxes .

ultimately , though , adam resurrected is too weird for its own good . the asylum scenes , with the usual gaggle of misfits and miscreants , are over the top and clichéd , and some of the sequences involving canine behavior—like the nurse barking before sex—are plain ridiculous . there’s also a bit of a problem with goldblum’s german accent , which is occasionally incomprehensible . and the ending is filled with the kind of symbolic touches that are wince - inducing .

the dog phobia adam has had since his concentration camp days begins to dissolve and then to change into fatherly concern with his discovery of david ( tudor rapiteanu ) , a wild child sequestered in the hospital . chained to his bed , clutching a sheet with eyeholes through which he peers like a halloween ghost , david believes he is a dog . as adam and david develop a bond , the boy takes his first lurching steps on two feet and begins to make human sounds . he becomes the vehicle for adam’s “resurrection” to sanity .

on paper , paul schrader ' s mind - meltingly odd new film , adam resurrected , sounds disconcertingly like the day the clown cried , the notorious unreleased jerry lewis monstrosity about a clown who leads children into the gas chambers at auschwitz . actually , to give schrader and co - conspirator jeff goldblum full credit for their lunatic ambition , adam may be even crazier than lewis ' comedy - drama ; for all its surreal bad taste , clown probably doesn ' t feature a protagonist with psychic gifts , a burning bush in the israeli desert , and a feral wolf - boy who forms a strong emotional bond with a man who lived extensively in the role of a dog in a concentration camp . yes , resurrected has the potential to be not just awful , but a crime against cinema , taste , and solid judgment . not being offensively terrible consequently counts as one of the film ' s strongest virtues .

the story of adam takes you from post ww ii germany to the land of israel in a flash back & present telling tale of one man ' s journey back from the brink of self - destruction . a famous eurpean clown forced to be a dog during the holocaust , living by wit & his commander ' s wims & then having to keep his commander alive after the war ended . adam finds himself returning to institution life , too smart to be cured and too scared to stay in the outside world . adam terrorizes the staff , tantalizes his lover ( the head nurse ) and mesmorizes all the other patients with his charm and wit . adam finally begins to heal as he attempts to heal a young boy who thinks he ' s a dog .

the film , part of which is told through a series of flashbacks , follows the story of adam stein ( jeff goldblum ) , a charismatic patient of a fictitious psychiatric asylum for holocaust survivors in israel , in 1961 . adam was a comedian in berlin prior to the second world war , during which he was sent to a concentration camp . adam manages to survive the war only because his pre - war act was recalled by an ss officer ( willem dafoe ) , who takes adam as his " pet , " insisting he act like a dog ( as he did during one of his sketches ) . his humiliation was his ticket to survival , as he was even forced to play the fiddle as his wife and daughter were led to the gas chambers . while he is outwardly charming and witty , adam is tormented by survivor ' s guilt and delusions that he is a dog . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]

with : jeff goldblum ( adam stein ) , willem dafoe ( commandant klein ) , derek jacobi ( dr . nathan gross ) , tudor rapiteanu ( david ) and ayelet zurer ( gina grey ) .

based on an acclaimed novel by israeli writer yoram kaniuk , adam resurrected is not the downer its plot suggests . slickly directed by paul schrader , told in a flashback style , with the pre - war and war years shot in shimmering black - and - white , the film is engaging enough , even if the two main locations are an insane asylum and concentration camp . plus , goldblum’s performance is truly commanding , the actor’s familiar eccentric style—the staccato speechifying and bony physicality—a perfect match for the brilliant but deranged character .

“adam wasn’t a sad , troubled youth , ” she said . “what he couldn’t get over was that kids weren’t communicating with each other . ” so , adopting the connect without technology theme , she envisaged a “kid - driven” program “bringing them to a central point without being self - conscious . it’s not just a bowl of apples , it’s a place . and if adam was there , he’d say : ‘this is cool . ’”

, a song from adam’s road’s first album demonstrating the awe we feel as believers in christ , is revitalized with new drum and bass parts which add even more drive to the song . also included is a live version of

apples for the taught : darcy hibberd’s worst moment entailed finding 22 - year - old son adam hryhorchuk dead from a recreational drug’s unknown ingredients . his former west point grey academy headmaster , stephen anthony , reportedly recalled adam being “not the kind of kid you put a plaque about on the wall . he was all about people connecting . ” noting that his death had spurred informal student gatherings , anthony suggested that an apple bowl might draw in others .

the novel , which won extravagant critical acclaim and earned comparisons to “catch - 22” and the magical realism of gabriel garcía márquez , takes the concept of being treated like a dog to its absurdist limits . after adam is scooped up by the nazis , he is forced to accept a faustian arrangement : he lives in comfort at a concentration camp as the pet dog of commandant klein ( willem dafoe ) , a nazi officer who remembers adam’s nightclub animal act .

choosing “between being grief - stricken and actually doing something , ” hibberd launched the adam’s apple foundation ( urltoken ) , recruited a board and sought now - imminent charitable status for a scheme somewhat akin to elementary schools’ buddy benches .

the reviews on this one showed promise , but it was just so leisurely and slow . and when a book is downloaded as an audible , it ' s too difficult to skim . so . . . . sorry , adam .

cutting between a psychiatric institute for survivors in 1960s israel and germany during the war years , adam resurrected follows adam stein ( jeff goldblum ) , a popular music hall clown in 1930s berlin who’s sent to the death camps along with his wife and daughter , but strikes a bargain with the commandant , klein ( willem dafoe ) , to serve as his “pet” in exchange for not being gassed . crawling around on all fours for klein’s amusement or challenging a dog for a piece of meat , stein lives out the war in this state of tortured debasement while his fellow prisoners are marched to their death . years later , a mass of suppressed survivor guilt , he’s sent to the asylum where he passes the time entertaining his fellow inmates , with whom he’s a great favorite , screwing the head nurse , and sneaking slugs of whiskey on the sly .

hard landing : adam hryhorchuk could have perished at age seven when artist - pilot toni onley offered him and father greg an aerial joyride . onley had already wrecked a plane on the cheakamus glacier . a subsequent stall into the fraser river killed him . struggling to lift him and the hryhorchuks from rain - sodden grass , his plane plunged to earth . when the racket of human cries and tortured metal ended , adam calmly said : “dad , you told me never to use that word . ”

this complex movie is both serious and comical . the movie’s message is clearly anti - god , however . the filmmakers blame god for the holocaust . in the end , adam is in the desert and a burning bush appears as it did for moses . however , instead of god appearing , the dead commandant klein appears and tries to get adam to commit suicide . throughout the story , god is often compared to the nazis . ultimately , the movie’s humanist , anti - biblical attacks on god are what make it abhorrent .

jeff goldblum ( jurassic park , the fly ) as adam stein delivers one of the most powerful performances of his career in this compelling , unforgettably moving film . tormented in a world war ii concentration death camp by a high - ranking nazi officer ( oscar nominee * willem dafoe , spider - man ) , adam spends the next 15 years tucked away in a remote experimental insane asylum with fellow holocaust victims . clinging to the remains of his sanity , adam uses his amazing magic and comic skills to entertain the residents and develops a relationship with an attractive nurse ( ayelet zurer , angels & demons ) . but only when he reaches out to a mentally scarred young boy does he begin to confront his own pain and guilt and start to heal in this extraordinary testament to the fierce resilience of the human spirit .

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salli sallied : also on pender , salli pateman redeveloped new town bakery into a high - style restaurant that resurrected the locale’s 1920s name : sai woo . the titular time lapse should spare it from what happened to pateman’s yaletown - pioneering de niro’s following pressure by robert de niro . renamed section ( 3 ) for a legal clause the actor invoked , its menus advised diners : “we need a new cosmology . new gods . new sacraments . another drink . ”

the movie leaps around in time , from the 1930s and ’40s ( in black - and - white sequences ) to the 1950s and early ’60s ( color ) , when adam is the star patient at a psychiatric treatment center for holocaust survivors in the negev desert . in these madhouse scenes adam , much like mcmurphy in “one flew over the cuckoo’s nest , ” has the run of the place . he swills booze out of the bottle and carries on an affair with the head nurse ( ayelet zurer ) , who is so besotted with him that she eagerly grovels on all fours and barks for attention .

the movie drags quite a bit and borders on tedious at times , but jeff goldblum gives a good performance and william dafoe as the villainous klein is very creepy . the story bounces between the current story of adam in the facility with david and flashbacks to his time during and immediately after the war .

literature . the english title echoes with redemptive sentiment , but the original title - adam ben kelev ( ' a human son of a dog ' ) - is closer to the novel ' s sense of tormented metamorphosis . the story centres on adam stein , an ex - clown and inmate of an israeli asylum for survivors of the nazi death camps . through a frenzy of carnivalesque language , kaniuk twists stein into a dog and a young boy . the book ' s unstable symbolism extends to the asylum , which is figured as a desert paradise , a prison and , controversially , the state of israel itself .

adam stein is a holocaust survivor , a former circus clown spared the nazi ' s gas chambers so that he might entertain thousands of other jews as they marched to their deaths . he now finds himself the ringleader of a group of patients at an asylum in israel ' s negev desert populated solely by holocaust survivors .

this is a powerful and exceedingly grim work of holocaust literature . the setting is a mental hospital in israel , generously funded by an eccentric american donor , exclusively for holocaust survivors . the central character , adam stein , survived the horror of the prison camps by using his talents as a clown to entertain a german officer . particularly amusing to the officer was stein’s imitation of a dog , an act he would so regularly perform that he essentially became a dog himself . stein is both brilliant and insane , and we spend much of this novel inside his mind , which means i was frequently felt confused or very much adrift . no , i cannot say i “enjoyed” this novel ( “there is no future to life , life’s an invention that didn’t succeed” [ p232 ] ) , nor even found myself pushed forward rapidly toward tbe conclusion , a conclusion that holds its share of surprises . let’s say that i suffered through “adam resurrected”—happy i read it , happy i’m done - - while all the time feeling admiration for kaniuk’s genius in adding significantly , i think , to a body of literature about the holocaust that has already attracted a very large quantity of literary genius .

adam sobrevive ao campo de concentração , tornando - se o “cão” do comandante , divertindo - o , enquanto a mulher e a filha são exterminadas . um livro perturbador , com um humor escuríssimo . uma outra visão do holocausto que nos leva numa viagem tenebrosa . num mundo louco , ser louco é a única forma possível de nos adaptarmos .

this human dog is expected to amuse his owner by doing what david letterman might call stupid human tricks , which distract klein from the gruesome business at hand . spending days on all fours , begging , rolling over and seizing hunks of meat with his teeth from the mouth of the commandant’s german shepherd — with which he forms an animal bond — adam is a “good dog . ” when not a pet , adam is forced to play the violin and serenade his fellow prisoners , including his wife and daughter , as they are marched to the gas chambers . the scene in which they pass him on the way to the crematorium is one of the potentially wrenching moments that the film throws away .

while the holocaust is certainly a legitimate topic of inquiry for the committed filmmaker , most contemporary treatments of the nazi camps betray their mission by allowing the viewer to feel altogether too comfortable as they take in the on - screen atrocities . whether through the establishment of a mitigating historical distance , the adoption of standard genre tropes or the repetition of an established catalog of horrors , films like the boy in the striped pajamas and a secret tend to overly familiarize the events of world war ii , allowing the viewer to safely assimilate that conflict’s genocidal horrors . but whatever the flaws of adam resurrected , and despite the fact that no physical violence is perpetrated on screen , paul schrader never allows the viewer to get comfortably situated , relying on an absurdist central conceit and a rapidly shifting array of intellectual and moral concerns—whose superficial treatment unfortunately leads to a certain diffuseness in the work—to continually de - familiarize his subject .

finally , though , what do all schrader’s visual grotesqueries achieve ? beyond the obvious power of its evocation of debasement , there’s little in the film that sticks . filling in the movie’s margins with philosophical dialog about god’s absence , thinly sketched characterizations of the other inmates and the requisite religious symbolism , schrader litters his work with marginal detritus that , rather than adding to the film’s moral and intellectual heft , tends to dissipate it instead . at once overstuffed and underimagined , adam resurrected is an intermittently fascinating , often indifferent mess of a picture , a film that has occasional moments of overwhelming power and many more that leave the viewer completely cold . still , with so many films that make 1940s germany look as delightfully quaint as victorian england , it’s refreshing to see a movie that doesn’t betray the memory of the six million through the cheap comforts of historical distancing . if nothing else , the legacy of the holocaust feels very much alive in schrader’s picture .

this is the story of adam stein who survives the holocaust , but by acting as a dog and performing music for the commandant . afterwards , he is stricken with survivor ' s guilt and all of the trauma that is attached with the holocaust and is taken to a sanitarium to become cured . this is a dark and chilling book that i would reccommend to anyone that loves history .

the torturer’s greatest art , so it is said , is to make his victims go on torturing themselves — for life , if possible . that certainly seems the fate of adam stein ( jeff goldblum ) , a jewish comedian of genius in prewar berlin , who is unable to save his family when the nazi genocide overtakes them and only survives a concentration camp himself by becoming the literal pet of the camp’s commandant ( willem dafoe ) .

a charismatic jewish circus performer in 1930s berlin , adam survives the holocaust by exploiting his skills as an entertainer . as the film goes on to explore his extreme case of survivor’s guilt after the war , it poses familiar questions about who is sane in an insane world and assumes that simply reiterating those questions will suffice . the film is so flat that it leaves you wondering if mr . kaniuk’s book is ultimately untranslatable to the screen .

adam resurrected is a captivating , bizarre , and at times extremely real and disturbing film . while i do not want to spoil much about the film , please be warned that this film is not for everyone . the cinematography , editing , and pacing of the film and reflection on the main character adam stein ( played brilliantly by jeff goldblum ) make you feel a little bit disoriented and maybe even a little crazy , which is entirely the point of the movie . some things are shown in the film that might be simply too preposterous or outrageous to believe , but the way the film is shot makes what is happening on screen feel very real . this is the accomplishment of this film : it throws at you such bizarre and preposterous characters and actions , and then takes these actions and grounds them in reality and , most importantly , feeling : you really feel engrossed in the world being presented , and it can sometimes be very disorienting and disturbing to watch . paul schrader ' s direction is spot on , and all the performances are quite good . the pacing and editing is also well - done with beautiful cinematography , although the film has a few editing and pacing quirks here and there where things could have been done better . all in all , though , it ' s an extremely well - made film . jeff goldblum gives a heartbreaking and breathtaking performance , a true crime being committed that he has not been given more recognition for this film . watch this film if you are in any way a fan of jeff goldblum or cinema .

costly , too . schools like 2 , 500 - enrolment churchill secondary , with 2 , 500 students , require $ 15 , 000 annually . that’s why the foundation is fundraising to extend 12 vancouver and richmond school locations to 50 in 2016 . a link with the heros hockey - outreach organization should fund a national program . addressing the core issue , hibberd said : “adam thought drugs were safe . but he made a bad choice . ”

i neither speak nor read hewbrew and there must be much lost in translation in this book . this is not a book that i would have ever read if not for fact , while in nyc , went to martha stewart taping and she had actor who played adam stein there . seems that there are many things beyond my understanding and style of writing is difficult to follow so i forced myself to finish this book . the ending made the read worthwhile .

the movie’s message is clearly anti - god . the filmmakers have gone out of their way to blame god for the holocaust . a supporting character has adam type out his eulogy because he plans to die soon so he can go to heaven and make god answer to him as to why he caused such evil on earth . the character says the jews were saved from haman ( a reference to the book of esther ) only to be tossed to hitler .

i see why they say this remains one of the most powerful holocaust fiction books ever written . the back story of adam , the main character but certainly not the only compelling one , is so tragic and gut - wrenching . imagine what you would do to survive the death camps . i listened to the audio book while exercising , and sometimes it was hard to continue without crying on the treadmill . equally beautiful and terrifying , this book will stay with me . highly recommend .

adam stein ( jeff goldblum ) was a cabaret and circus star in pre - war berlin , until the nazis shut down his show and shoved him and his family into a series of concentration camps . in 1944 , he’s sent to the stellring camp , where the commandant ( willem dafoe ) , a fan of his act , separates stein from the rest of the prisoners and treats him ( literally ) like a pet dog , forcing him to crawl around on all fours , bark on command and wear a collar .

caldera records is proud to present the original score for the motion picture “adam resurrected” from 2008 , directed by paul schrader and starring jeff goldblum , willem dafoe and derek jacobi . goldblum stars as adam stein , a clown who is sent to a concentration camp in wwii . there he meets commandant klein , played by willem dafoe , whose dog stein pretends to be by behaving like an animal . after the war , stein is sent to a mental asylum where he meets a young boy who pretends to be a dog . this encounter brings back old memories for stein which will haunt him forever . the film is based on a novel by yoram kaniuk and was directed by none other than paul schrader , the enfant terrible of the new hollywood and the man behind the scripts for “taxi driver” and “raging bull” . the music was written by gabriel yared who delivered one of his most unusual and daring works and also one of his most satisfying . yared , who won an oscar for his work on “the english patient” , wrote the score for an orchestra but later abandoned the idea to create a score which wouldn’t make the film into a schmaltzy melodrama . instead , the composer used a solo piano , solo violin , solo guitar and solo cello to come up with the right tone for the film . these instruments are accompanied by electronic textures , bringing back memories of yared’s earliest scores from the 80s which are developed further here . the french - libanese musician melts the sorrowful main theme of the film , beautifully played by bogdan vacarescu , with sometimes harrowing and sensual electronic counterpoints , fusing score and source music and thus delivering one of his most original and complex works which is deeply touching even outside the film . the music was recorded at abbey road in london and is now available for the first time on cd . the 18th cd - release of caldera records features a detailed booklet - text by gergely hubai and elegant artwork by luis miguel rojas . the cd was produced by stephan eicke and john elborg .

i have the right background to read this book . i know the bible more than the average person and i have been exposed to the holocause history more than the average person . that is who i would recommend this book to , those who find themselves in those two categories , there is so much shifting back and forth between reality and fantasy i am lkeft not fully knowing which was which . this was worth reading just for david king of israel and rex also known as adam . probably the kind of book id like or dislike a lot more on the second read .

der jude adam stein ist ein überlebender des holocaust - als clown angeheuert , musste er im konzentrationslager den kommandanten klein unterhalten , indem er sich wie ein hund verhalten und auch entsprechend leben musste . einige jahre später befindet er sich nun in einer hochmodernen heilanstalt , in der sich auch andere überlebende des holocaust befinden , die einen seelischen schaden erlitten haben . das buch beschreibt die geschichte von adam stein , von seinem leben im konzentrationslager bis " heute " ( allerdings nicht chronologisch ) . die große frage ist dabei : wird er geheilt werden können ? die idee an sich fand ich wirklich gut , allerdings ist das buch nicht gerade leicht zu lesen . an manchen stellen erscheint es fast normal , aber dann gibt es teilweise passagen , die zwar gut den " wahnsinn " der patienten verdeutlichen , aber doch relativ anstrengend zu lesen sind , durch viele kurze , abgehackte sätze , viele gedankensprünge und einem fliessenden übergang zwischen realität und fiktion . manche seiten habe ich dann wirklich einfach nur überflogen , vom inhalt verpasst man da sowieso nichts weiter . letztendlich ist das buch vom stil sicher große geschmackssache und wer sich nicht damit anfreunden kann , wird wohl bereits nach einigen seiten das buch weglegen . . .