postman blues ( ポストマン ・ ブルース posutoman burūsu ) is a 1997 japanese criminal action comedy-drama film directed and written by hiroyuki tanaka under the name sabu .

the film features shin ' ichi tsutsumi , keisuke horibe , ren ohsugi and kyōko tōyama in the lead roles .

it tells the story of a postman ( shin ' ichi tsutsumi ) who is mistaken by the police as a criminal .

the film was released in japan in 1997 and later in italy in 1999 and brazil in 2003 .

hiroyuki tanaka won the new blood award at the 1999 cognac festival du film policier for the film .

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postman blues <EOT> looking for movie tickets ? enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing postman blues near you .

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former postman eamonn mccormack , of southchurch road , spotted the incident unfolding and took a picture .

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a postman trying to do his job in southend was issued with a parking ticket by a traffic warden .

wondering why sometimes you didn ' t receive your parcels from hello kitty ' s online store ? watching postman blues could deliver you answer ( but not your parcels that ' re gone for good ) .

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postman blues ruota intorno alla figura di un postino che ha superato da poco i trentanni , assuefatto dalla monotonia del suo lavoro , da una esistenza asservita al lavoro , e di rimando da una vita priva di empatia .

adeservedly frequent guest at festivals during the past year , cult japanese helmer sabu’s second feature , “postman blues , ” is also the best of his three to date . a funny , clever and ultimately touching yarn of an ordinary postman caught up by chance in a web of crime and violence , pic stands a chance of specialized theatrical [ … ]

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placed between dangan runner and blessing bell both chronologically and pace - wise , postman blues is another great sabu mix of rather uneven elements which somehow match in a beautiful , fairytale - like story . it is also a funny chungking express parody .

adeservedly frequent guest at festivals during the past year , cult japanese helmer sabu’s second feature , “postman blues , ” is also the best of his three to date . a funny , clever and ultimately touching yarn of an ordinary postman caught up by chance in a web of crime and violence , pic stands a chance of specialized theatrical play , aside from small - screen deliveries .

adeservedly frequent guest at festivals during the past year , cult japanese helmer sabu ' s second feature , " postman blues , " is also the best of his three to date . a funny , clever and ultimately touching yarn of an ordinary postman caught up by chance in a web of crime and violence , pic stands a chance of specialized theatrical play , aside from small - screen deliveries .

summary : action - comedy centring on a hapless postman who unknowing becomes involved with the shady world of the yakuza . sawaki is an unsuspecting postman whose day gets off to a really bad start when he finds one of his customers in agony , minus a finger from a yakuza initiation ceremony . unbeknownst to sawaki , the offending body part has rolled into his mailbag , setting in motion a comical chain of events in which postman , yakuza and the police cycle furiously after one another through the streets of tokyo .

, makes sense and a visit to the dentist for a double root canal filling would be infinitely more pleasurable . aren’t modes what jazzers do ? we play blues , and blues comes from the heart right ? well , listen up and listen good – wrong ! here’s how it all works . .

the dvd releases of the first two series of postman pat both use the series 2 title sequence , with the series 3 theme song , due to problems with the rights to the original theme .

when it comes to notable parks in the milwaukee area , postman ' s plot – located on wells street and 2nd street – is rarely one that comes immediately to mind . however , inspired by an unexpected collaborator several miles south , the small pop - up park now has an updated look .

sawaki is a postman who ' s not quite thrilled about his boring way of life . but his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate noguchi , who ' s now a member of the yakuza , the japanese mafia , and just finished cutting his little finger off . . .

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postman blues doesn ' t fit neatly into any category , but whatever it is , it ' s terrific . sawaki is a rather clueless mailman who gets mixed up with yakuza and as a result ends up being targeted by some equally clueless police who are convinced he ' s a runner for the mob . there are some terrific bicycling scenes including the ending , which plays like a demented western on wheels . . . without descending to cartoon territory . the romantic subplot is refreshing and the sudden intrusion of fantasy at the very end seems perfectly natural . director sabu ( hiroyuki tanaka ) looks to be a major new talent .

in the opposite corner sits hoke moseley , an experienced criminal investigator cut from the same cloth as the classic hard - boiled gumshoes : divorced , alcoholic , cynical , heavy fisted . he’s got the blues big time , justifying the title of this first installment in the series dedicated to him .

otis the postman dropped by this morning to deliver a letter from brother neil callaghan , who writes , ‘as a complete novice harmonica player i am trying to find out the harmonica key that steve weston is using whilst playing on the song i keep it to myself , which also has wilko johnson and roger daltrey performing . i hope you can help’ .

varsity blues opened in theaters 15 years ago today and crushed at the box office its opening weekend despite lukewarm reviews from critics . while on the surface it’s a sports flick , it catered heavily to the teen audience who were lapping up offerings like she’s all that and can’t hardly wait at the time .

if you’re a regular at the surgery , you will recall the good doctor’s first meeting with aki kumar in 2007 during a jason ricci gig in san francisco’s biscuit & blues club . it was world renowned harp pedagogue , author and music impresario dave barrett who had kindly put aki and the doc in touch .

the original bbc dvd release of the young ones series 2 omitted the cover version of bob dylan ' s " subterranean homesick blues " from the episode " money " , along with a lot of visual gags seen while the song was playing . fortunately the song was restored in the later complete box set version .

the tone of mordant , straight - faced humor is set from the get - go , as the opening sequence , showing a postman performing his everyday duties of sorting and delivering letters being cut , scored and shot as if to lead to some cataclysmic outburst of frustrated violence . in fact , it leads nowhere , except to the pic’s main title — in english .

9 . the movie isn’t without a director cameo appearance . directors love making cameos in their movies and varsity blues director brian robbins is no exception . extras filled in the roles of football players in the locker room scenes and robbins appears as one of the players , sporting a jersey with his name on the back .

sawaki’s chat with joe sends the undercover cops into a frenzy , as they hypothesize about the postman’s true profession . when they find noguchi’s fingerin sawaki’s apartment , they become convinced he’s a serial sicko and set up a mutilation & dismemberment task force to investigate . that’s only the first half of a yarn that corkscrews along until sawaki finds himself the most hunted man in tokyo .

acclaimed director sabu follows up on his kinetic comedy d . a . n . g . a . n . runner with this wacky comedic thrill ride about a bored postman on a collision course with fate . sawaki ( played by sabu regular shinichi tsutsumi ) is a sick and tired of his tedious toils with the daily mail . one day he encounters his old high school chum noguchi ( ren osugi ) who works as a yakuza drug mule . despite his job ' s considerable occupational hazards - - a missing pinky being one - - noguchi loves his job , arguing that being a mobster at least makes life interesting . this chance meeting strikes a chord with the postman . while playing hooky from work , he starts to read his charges ' letters . one written by a dying lass with cancer named sayoko ( keiko tohyama ) staying at a local hospital piques his interest . he sets out to visit her the following day and immediately falls in love . in the same ward , he also meets another cancer patient named joe ( keisuke horibe ) - - a pathologically honest hitman who sawaki takes an immediate shine to . meanwhile the police are hot on the trail of noguchi and start to believe that sawaki is a part of his drug courier biz as well . after they find noguchi ' s disembodied finger in the postman ' s apartment , they think he ' s a bloodthirsty loon ball as well . soon - - in typical sabu style - - the mobster , the postman , and the hitman are running after each other and for their lives , with the cops in hot pursuit . ~ jonathan crow , rovi

if you want to know where the good doctor and his pals go on a tuesday night between the hours of 7pm and 9pm ( uk time ) , we’ve usually finished our dinner and dropped round to spiral wave radio to visit jonjo hall and his fabulous internet blues show . then it’s down the tickled trout for a few light ales and fruit juices .

varsity blues didn’t really break any new ground , there had certainly been movies about high school football before it ( all the right moves , wildcats ) . but it did help shine a light on the west texas obsession with the sport — ushering in a film / tv version of friday night lights and probably even having even an influence on esquire’s friday night tykes .

3 . paramount pictures was sued by the university of toronto over the movie . you wouldn’t expect a bunch of canucks to take offense with a movie about texas football , but the university of toronto had trademarked the name varsity blues in the mid - 1980s . the university said that the movie painted athletics in a negative light and sued paramount before settling for an undisclosed amount and setting up eight scholarships with the cash load .

the movie refines the quirky , unique take on the yakuza genre that the mono - monikered actor - turned - director burst onto the scene with in “d . a . n . g . a . n . runner” and has none of the structural and pacing problems that mar “unlucky monkey . ” in “postman” the violent flourishes are highly contained , the offbeat characters succinctly drawn , and the plot — a typical sabu concoction of chance and coincidence reshaping people’s lives — always the central engine of the movie .

“senso” ( the title translates as “sentiment” or “feeling” ) signaled visconti’s definitive break with neo - realism , the school of documentarylike filmmaking he helped to found with “ossessione” ( 1943 ) , another tale of poisoned love , adapted without authorization from james m . cain’s “postman always rings twice , ” with girotti in one of the leading roles . “senso” opens with a spectacular sequence set at la fenice , venice’s grand , gilded opera house , where “il trovatore” is being performed before an audience of venetian aristocrats and austrian officers .

sawaki ( shinichi tsutsumi ) is a postman tired of the drudgery of his delivery routine . his dull life changes abruptly when he comes across his old school chum noguchi ( keisuke horibe ) , now employed as a drug dealer for the yakuza . their amiable conversation results in a series of mix - ups involving sawaki ' s mail bag , a package of drugs and noguchi ' s recently severed pinkie . before he knows what ' s happening , sawaki is being pursued by the police , who mistakenly think he is a dangerous criminal .

since then aki has become very good friends with everyone down by the duck pond . so much so that aki , his good lady and his esteemed guitar partner little jonny lawton came to visit the surgery in 2013 . everyone had a blast , not least because dave ferguson was also staying over . aki , jonny and dave shared a whopping saturday night gig ; on the bill too were gordon russell ( of dr . feelgood fame ) and brighton’s blues deluxe .

well folks he’s back and it’s official . having mixed it with john mayall and kim wilson in california this month , on saturday 8 . feb 2014 , aki kumar will be leading a little walter workshop and gracing the stage again with blues deluxe at this year’s harpin’ by the sea harmonica festival in brighton & hove . you’d be crazy to miss it ! for those who don’t know aki already , let us introduce you . it was a summer’s day down at the surgery…

jonjo , or jj as we like to call him , is a superbly gifted muso and a great friend of everyone at the harp surgery . he spins a blistering line in blues of every possible description , often with a healthy dose of harp , and gives lovely natter with his bezzy mates and special guests . spiral wave itself is a cracking good venture – it’s a live radio station run by folks with learning disabilities for the listening pleasure of everyone out there in the community .

4 . the movie has become somewhat of a gag in sitcoms . maybe geeky sitcom writers are still jealous of the jocks or maybe they’re just closeted james van der beek fans , but the movie has worked its way into a number of sitcoms . in an episode of undeclared , lloyd quotes the movie in an effort to pull off an american accent and michael selects it for his “movie monday” in the office . the blues gets nods in happy endings , psych and the big c as well .

book reaction ( not a full review ) i picked up miami blues because the author is supposedly one of the core members of the hardboiled / noir canon . i ' m not sure what i was expecting ; philip marlowe in miami , perhaps . in actuality , miami blues focuses mostly on the perspective of the antagonist , a two - bit sociopath , during his post - prison spree in miami . while his rampage starts with an accidental ( and ridiculously improbable ) death , the killer immediately settles down to make some money and find a bonnie to his clyde . the detective , hoke mosely , is a colourful character , but doesn ' t get much pagetime . willeford seems far too fascinated by the brutal violence of his villain . there ' s nothing wrong with miami blues , but it wasn ' t a good fit for me . i don ' t enjoy books that are told from the serial killer ' s perspective . my type of noir always has a " tarnished knight , " and hoke doesn ' t quite fit the mold for me . a lot of the book focused on the villain ' s attempt to abuse and shape a young woman into his helpmate , and no matter how questionable her own motives , i didn ' t enjoy reading about the violence against her . i also was simply unable to get past the first death in the story : a young man who dies of shock after his finger is broken . sure , maybe it ' s possible , but it ' s just so darned improbable , not to mention ridiculous .

there’s a right old rumpus down at the harp surgery ! the doc has taken delivery of his new hohner rocket and he’s been putting it through its paces . the verdict ? it’s everything hohner claims it to be – comfortable , responsive and loud . if you’re considering investing in a rocket , we say go for it , you’ll love it ! it’s great for blues , rock and pretty much every contemporary style . and just to get us in the mood , here’s some pocket rocket from the fab t - birds . .

miami blues è un romanzo hard - boiled che scorre veloce come un battito di ciglia , non capirete bene come mai ma vi accorgerete di averlo finito mentre ci pensate . facile in questo caso associare un brano musicale al libro a cui tarantino ha dedicato pulp fiction . . . godetevi la scena ! tre personaggi attorno ai quali ruota la vicenda ed un protagonista : miami , città nella quale " girare senza un arma fa una certa impressione " , " troppo spietata per fare dei figli " , " dove le famiglie possono disfars

what do broken fingers , miami , an airhead , a haiku , missing dentures , stolen credit cards , a pawn shop , a ritz cracker box and a guy nicknamed junior all have in common ? they are all part of miami blues , charles willeford’s first in the series of hoke moseley crime novels . when thug junior ( aka freddy frenger ) accidentally kills a man an airport by breaking his finger , the mystery of who did this is afoot , and the authorities are on it . junior meets up with an airhead prostitute named susan , and

tsutsumi is sawaki , a postman who finds himself making a delivery to an old school chum , noguchi ( horibe ) . noguchi doesn ' t look at all well . in fact , he ' s just chopped off his little finger . being a yakuza is ' one big thrill after another , ' he claims . ' and when was the last time your heart pumped like when you were a boy ? ' sawaki isn ' t entirely convinced , but ripping open some mail , he comes across a letter from kyôko ( toyama ) , a girl hospitalised with cancer . moved , he goes to visit her , and befriends another patient , joe ( ohsugi ) , who happens to be a professional hitman . meanwhile the cops come to believe this unassuming postman must be public enemy no . 1 . peppered with homages to wong kar - wai , luc besson and the samurai masters , this chipper action comedy keeps puncturing the pomposity of the tradition , but it never breaks out of its own cinephilic world view . when any film - maker resorts to pretty cancer victims for romantic interest , you know caution is in order . that said , the film ' s escalating comedy of errors includes plenty of nice touches , and there ' s an underlying innocence about its conception which is likeable enough .

british consumption of african american music grew precipitously after the second world war . as distinct british youth cultures emerged , groups such as the mods appropriated jamaican blue beat and american rhythm and blues ( r & b ) . many american record companies took on mythical identities in this context , and came to play a large role in british reception of american music . the most important of these in british culture was tamla motown ( known simply as motown in american parlance ) , which originated as a refined form of african american r & b in detroit , michigan .

sawaki is a postman who ' s not quite thrilled about his boring way of life . but his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate noguchi , who ' s now a member of the yakuza , the japanese mafia , and just finished cutting his little finger off . sawaki stays only for a short time and noguchi manages to smuggle a package full of drugs into sawakis bag . and , like that ' s not enough , accidentally his separated finger falls into sawakis bag too . because noguchi has been spied out for quite a while by the police , they think that sawaki has something to do with his criminal . . . ( more )

an operatic sense of amplified emotion dominates “senso , ” as does a theatrically heightened use of color ( somber browns and dark yellows for livia ; thin , glass - bottle blues , reds and yellows for franz ) . but this is an opera without release , in which the passion of the two lovers turns inward and corrosive , leading to a final , unforgettably staged scene of betrayal . unlike the epic expansiveness of “the leopard” ( 1963 ) , “senso” feels suffocating and constrained . even the battle sequences have a kind of static , shrunken quality , like dioramas in a provincial museum .

this was great , its like a police procedural with strong existential elements . this novel gives a slight indication of what willeford intended to do with the vastly superior sequels of miami blues . unlike sideswipe , the barbarian in miami blues is not described from somebody else ' s point of view . here his accomplice - a seemingly stupid prostitute is described from his point of view . so we don ' t know how reliable his account of her is , especially when you consider the ending . and then there is the detective hoke moseley , who cuts a sorry figure as usual . he is almost like a supporting character . he has false teeth which gets thrown out of the window twice : ) and cannot seem to loose weight . the very opposite of the token tough cop hero . willeford goes into great detail about how much everything costs and how much everyone earns and spends . money and its acquisition is the main motive of all the characters , but no amount of money seems to be enough . everyone is screwed and is involved in some desperate scheme to make a handsome amount of cash which can be used to finance a scheme which they expect would make their life easier .

the book follows a group of four men—jude , willem , jb , and malcolm—over three decades of friendship , from their years as college roommates to the heights of professional success . three of them form their primary physical and emotional bonds with other men , though sometimes in ways that challenge the usual nomenclatures . of the novel’s main characters , only jb unambiguously embodies an immediately recognizable and unambivalent gay identity . willem spends much of his adulthood pursuing sexual relationships with women , before he recognizes his desire for jude and acknowledges their friendship as a life partnership . in college , jb calls jude “the postman” because he seems to entirely escape the usual categories : “we never see him with anyone , we don’t know what race he is , we don’t know anything about him … [ he’s ] post - sexual , post - racial , post - identity , post - past . ”

in this remake of the 1983 ardiente paciencia by antonio skarmeta , the time and place have been changed to italy in the 1950s , but the relationship between the chilean nobel prize - winning poet pablo neruda and mario ( massimo troisi ) , the postman who delivers his copious mail , is still the focus of attention . in this version of the story , scripted by a collective of anna pavignano , the director michael radford , troisi himself , and a few others ( based on skarmeta ' s original story ) , neruda is an aloof and slightly elitist figure who is seeking solitude on an island off the coast of italy , taking a respite from political problems at home . mario is a poet at heart and employs every measure he is capable of inventing to win his way into the affections and attention of the great author . as his efforts start to bear fruit and neruda unbends and begins to share conversation and philosophy with mario , the postman idolizes the poet all the more . eventually , neruda shares his leftist political philosophy as well - - and helps him win over the captivating beatrice , the woman of mario ' s dreams . when neruda leaves , mario enters into high gear as he prepares material for the next time he sees neruda - - his ardor and patience , alluded to in the original title - - are essentially indestructible . ( massimo troisi ) was fated never to know that il postino would receive worldwide acclaim and be nominated for an oscar for " best picture " in 1995 ( the first foreign film nominated in that category since ingmar bergman ' s cries and whispers 22 years earlier ) . suffering from a heart ailment and unable to work more than an hour or two on the filming of il postino each day , he died in his sleep at the age of 41 , the day after shooting ended on the film .

sawaki is a postman who ' s not quite thrilled about his boring way of life . but his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate noguchi , who ' s now a member of the yakuza , the japanese mafia , and just finished cutting his little finger off . sawaki stays only for a short time and noguchi manages to smuggle a package full of drugs into sawakis bag . and , like that ' s not enough , accidentally his separated finger falls into sawakis bag too . because noguchi has been spied out for quite a while by the police , they think that sawaki has something to do with his criminal schemings and decide to stick onto his feet . when sawaki bonds with the fatally ill hit man joe , it ' s clear for the police what he must be : a schizophrenic - paranoid , perverse drug dealer , murderer and even terrorist sent from the yakuza ! ( less )

i first read miami blues sometime in the eighties - before the 1990 movie - but rereading it now thirty years later , it ' s hard to read it without picturing the characters as portrayed in the movie . that there is the power of cinema . it ' s still an awesome book even rereading it and knowing full well what ' s going to happen . it is strikingly different in tone and affect from willeford ' s earlier pulp works so much so that you wonder how that could be . what ' s really remarkable about miami blues and its sequels ( and no i haven ' t read the secret unpublished manuscript of the original dark nasty sequel ) is how could willeford really became at storytelling . each page and even each paragraph tells a whole story . there are oddities that he throws in seemingly effortlessly like the hare krishna dying of a broken finger or the casual mentions of incest . and then there are these amazing characters like the dimwitted prostitute who wakes up each day as wide - eyed and innocent as the day she was born . or the psychopathic killer who decides to become her platonic husband . or the homicide detective who is forever losing his chompers ( dentures ) and lives in a fleabag hotel because he sends every other paycheck for alimony . the actual plot plays second fiddle to all these classic scenes like the ex - con and the cop having dinner together or junior going to " work " at the mall . some of what takes place is the gallows humor of the police station but it ' s do funny you almost forget the one - man crime wave junior is . an absolutely breathtaking work .

vishnu ( mohan babu ) is a postman in hyderabad . he is the caring guy around and everybody loves him , naturally . he has a maternal uncle called ramkoti ( kota ) , who occupied vishnu ' s ancestral house after the death of vishnu ' s parents . vishnu stays in a pathetic structure that is built on the top of ramakoti ' s house . ramakoti has a beautiful daughter called sirisha ( raasi ) . sirisha adulates vishnu and wants in marry him . postman is rather a curious guy . he would be boozing every night . and reading the letters of others and accordingly deliver them in such a way that it will help the receiver . whenever sirisha expresses her wish to marry him , vishnu gives an elusive reply that he has a dream girl and he will marry her . one fine morning vishnu brings a beautiful girl to his house . she is archana ( soundarya ) . he introduces archana to everybody and reveals that she is his fiancee . ramakoti wants vishnu to marry his daughter . after a bit of research he comes to know that archana is just released from a jail . when confronted vishnu admits that archana was jailed . * interval * vishnu elaborates his relationship with archana . archana is an inmate of an orphan house , whom he meets when he go there to deliver a packet . impressed with her inner beauty vishnu meets her more often and understands her well . when he goes to deliver archana another packet , it blows up in the orphan house . since archana is the receiver of the packet bomb , she is arrested for the offense . vishnu takes care of her by meeting her regularly in the jail . after a few visits he gets a letter from archana that she is suffering with blood cancer . after knowing the fact vishnu takes a bail for archana on the grounds of her health and takes her to his house . after the flashback is over , the envying family of ramkoti turns sympathetic to her . sirisha wants vishnu to marry archana . upon the instance from ramakoti ' s family archana and vishnu agree to get married . then the story leads to the most heart touching climax . you must watch this film on the bigger screen to find out what is there in store for you in the climax .

although michael radford directed this small , touching film about a shy mail carrier looking for love , the guiding spirit seems to have been writer / actor massimo troisi , who died shortly after shooting was completed . troisi plays a simple , middle - aged man who lives on a small island in the mediterranean also inhabited by noted chilean poet pablo neruda . upon learning that the poet receives a number of letters from women , and is said to have a way with them , he decides to solicit the help of the great man for advice on winning the woman maria grazia cucinotta he loves . the film is as much about the romance of language as of lovers , and as much about the postman ' s gentle seduction of the initially distant poet as it is about his courtship of the woman . troisi shines in his final role , his gauntly lyrical presence lingering in the memory long after the film ends . the great philippe noiret , the eternal everyman of french films , might have seemed a strange choice for the role of neruda , but he is as brilliant as ever . a small film it may be , but its poetry is winning .

miami blues is a bacon - decked , cheese - drenched , all - beef burger with a side of crisp , greasy , cayenne - peppered fries and a combo - size ( xtra - large ) plastic cup full of more whiskey than cola . in other words it ' s an off - beat , breezy crime novel that i swallowed more than chewed over the course of one evening of reading and drinking alone . one star is a burp , the next a congratulatory pat on my tummy , then a satisfied knick at my teeth with a toothpick , and the fourth the pleasant surprise of a few patches of cheese stuck to the empty burger wrapper , which i enthusiastically pried free with tongue and tooth . a charming psychopath and his ditzy babe , casually corrupt and begrudgingly decent cops ; meandering conversations built upon cool , punchy dialogue ; a few unexpected scenes of brutal violence ; gallows humor and false teeth : what more is there for me to say in this review ? for dessert : vinegar pie .

this film is a soft and sensitive one . but muppalaneni siva never missed any beat of commercialism in this film . it has got all the ingredients one expect from a good film . there is a treat for the telugu language lovers in this film . not everyone is fortunate or interested enough to read jandhyala papaiah sastry ' s ' pushpa vilapam ' . soundarya ' s role is this film epitomizes the ' pushpam ' ( flower ) . mohan babu would be singing timely ' pushpavilapam padyalu ' and explaining the gist of them . dialogues in this film needs a special commendation . there is not even a single ' double entendre ' dialogue by mohan babu in this film . all the dialogues by dr . mohan babu gives an aural kick to the telugu ear . there are few scenes that demonstrate the delicacy at which muppalani handled them . all of them can only seen and feel on the big screen . they cannot be written about . comedy track by ms narayana , brahmanandam and ali keeps its pace with the story narration and thickens the main plot by the interval time . we have to wait and see if the predictions by cine pundits turn true . that is . . . alludu garu . . . pedda rayudu . . . . postman !

this book by charles willeford ( along with the friends of eddie coyle by george v . higgins ) is the basis of the great crime fiction of elmore leonard . he was heavily influenced by these two authors and it shows . this is not to say that leonard copied the style – instead he has improved upon the approach to writing that these authors have themselves mastered . in miami blues , the reader spends just as much time with the bad guy as the good guy ( maybe even more time . . ) and he seems like a real person , not just a criminal to be arrested by the police . we spend time with this antagonist , freddy the psychopathic ex - con , and learn about his motivations , his likes , dislikes , worries , etc . you’ll see the roots of leonard when you read this book . the “good guy” cop hoke a unique denture - wearing guy who is sympathetic yet slightly stand - offish . you don’t learn to love him but you like him as well as feel bad for him . he’s not overly macho and therefore he seems all the more real for that . some of the language and references are dated and there some racist / homophobic / sexist language that may turn off some readers . however , that language is put there to show the attitudes of people you’d meet everyday . it’s a frank and honest portrayal of real people . the plot relies on a far - fetched coincidence but it’s not too distracting . there’s some pretty brutal scenes in here , too , so fans of violent crime fiction will love it . even though the roots of elmore leonard lie in the fiction of willeford and higgins , i think leonard has improved upon that style , tightening up the writing and making it more laid - back ( and more fast - paced , if that makes sense ) . there is also some humor in miami blues , some of it quite funny ( the “crisco” part is pretty hilarious ) . so , if you like good crime fiction that isn’t a “whodunit” , read this book . if you like elmore leonard , read this book . and for tarantino fans , qt has also name - dropped willeford as an influence so if that gets you excited , read this book .

charles willeford ' s hoke moseley series starts off with a bang , it ' s a strange and twisted and outrageously funny at times bang too . his protagonist is a strange beast of a detective with all kinds of odd quirks and is a supporting character to the newly released criminal who spends the entire novel compulsively lying and cheating and making some of the craziest decisions you might expect to find in an elmore leonard criminal farce . willeford packs out the cast with some wonderfully drawn characters who feel completely authentic to the time and place ( whether they are or not i will obviously never know having not lived in miami in the early 80s ) and despite the existential nature of the two leads the supporting cast are used to great comic effect . my personal favourite being the jaded college tutor who abuses his pathetic students to their face and readily admits to preparing for his lectures in a nearby bar . with miami blues i have discovered has a unique voice in the noir field , different even to willeford ' s earlier pulp novels , from the first page he had me grinning and despite some lag in pacing towards the middle this is clearly the work of an author with a lifetime of experience under his belt .

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with miami blues , veteran crime fiction writer charles willeford introduces miami homicide detective hoke moseley who has to rank as one of the most unique and interesting fictional homicide cops ever to work a case . he ' s middle - aged , divorced , poverty - stricken ( because of the divorce ) and living in a crappy hotel room . he ' s not particularly attractive and has little luck with women . ( did i mention that he wears dentures which he seems to be losing all too often ? ) still , for all that , he ' s a very sympathetic character and you can ' t help rooting for the guy . as the book opens , an ex - con named junior frenger arrives at miami international . junior is a psychopath with big ambitions and as he ' s walking through the airport , he accidentally kills a hare krishna who has annoyed him . junior steals some luggage , checks into a hotel and makes a date with a hooker . the hooker turns out to be a fairly spacey community college student named suzie waggoner who immediately falls for junior ' s line of b . s . and moves in with him . hoke moseley is assigned the murder case and manages to track down suzie and junior whom he suspects of the crime . proving it will be another matter altogether , and the dynamics among the three principal characters are very interesting and entertaining . this is an off - beat crime novel with moments both serious and hilariously funny , and fans of crime fiction who haven ' t yet discovered willeford might want to search out this book . fortunately , the entire hoke moseley series has recently been released in brand - new editions which are easy to find . as a final note , an excellent movie was made from this novel , starring alec baldwin as junior and jennifer jason leigh as suzie . fred ward plays hoke and is perfectly cast in the role . this is one of those rare cases when the movie really does do justice to the book .

miami blues ( 1984 ) is charles whitteford’s first novel in the hoke moseley series . hoke is no hero ; he’s just a bloke doing his job and good at it , and who knows how to navigate the political side of a career in the police . ( the book was made into a movie that received a rotten tomatoes score of 2 , just above the basement ; that flop was due to the movie makers , not to charles whitteford . ) we begin with marty waggoner , a hare krishna ( remember them ? ) begging at the miami airport baggage claim . freddy “junior” frenger , an ex - con and a petty crook , prone to violence , is also at the claims area to steal baggage , wallets , and whatever comes to hand ; junior lives on the kindness ( credit cards ) of strangers . marty hits junior up for a donation and junior , who intensely dislikes the cult ( as did many people at that time ) breaks marty’s finger when it is poked in his face . marty over - reacts by dying on the spot ; apparently , a broken finger can induce severe shock . marty’s sister , susan , with whom marty lives , is a diminutive over - skinny twenty - year old who looks like a teeny - bopper . she is a student at dade county community college who turns tricks on the side , and she is not about to become class valedictorian . hoke meets susan when he goes to give her the bad news about marty . there he also meets junior , whom susan has just met at the college ; he is now susan’s boyfriend in a “platonic marriage . ” coincidence ? hoke has his doubts . meanwhile , hoke is investigating an apparently unrelated murder . the husband , child , and maid of a columbian woman are found dead , along with two columbian thugs , in her condominium ; the woman was not at home , having gone to the airport . coincidence ? the appeal in willeford’s writing is not in the crimes that occur , or in the process of solving them . it is in willeford’s description of the life of a cop : the daily grind , the politics involved , the strategies used to protect oneself from harm by bad guys and from office politics— - the latter seems the most dangerous . 3½ stars .

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two timid souls ( french : les deux timides ) is a 1928 french silent film comedy directed by rené clair , and based on the 1860 play les deux timides by eugène labiche .

it was made by the films albatros production company .

the sets were designed by the art director lazare meerson .

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two timid souls <EOT> there are no featured reviews for les deux timides ( two timid souls ) at this time .

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roosevelt’s passage heralds anyone who “fails while daring greatly , so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat . ”

an overly timid lawyer messes up in court and earns the enmity of a wife beating thug . years later the thug is out and the , still timid , lawyer and he are competing for a girl .

two timid souls is one of rené clair ' s lesser known works , his last silent feature , but it ' s not one that deserves to go unnoticed ! some of the middle part was stretching the shy - guy things a little too much , making one almost scream " just say it . . . ! " as this…

if only we had been fearless grasped the clouds in our caress chased the moon and kissed the sun rocked the ocean , became as one seized the moment without regret dared to play russian roulette but when the flashing lightning rolled we heard the warning bells that tolled two timid souls drew apart mouth from mouth and heart from heart to fly like moths to safer shore and with deep regret we are no more .

' the danish girl ' is inspired by the real - life love story of transgender pioneer lili elbe and her wife gerda wegener . a tale of identity and love , the film is also a poignant look at a marriage between two likeminded souls who had to let each other go .

the plot : fremissin ( pierre batcheff ) , a v - e - r - y timid attorney , has trouble confessing his love for a woman ( vera flory ) , and that could lead to trouble ahead as her equally timid father ( maurice de fraudy ) promises her hand in marriage to a pushy suitor ( jim gerald ) that fremissin once defended for spousal abuse .

much has been said about the hollywood infusion in beyond : two souls and , sure , it could be argued that regular voice actors could have done the jobs of page and willem dafoe ( nathan dawkins ) just as easily , but the pin - point delivery of all the primaries makes it hard to imagine anyone else in those roles . the dawkins character is a timid soul and his lines need to be said with such care and precision , and dafoe brings that in spades . in fact , there are very few weak players in what needs to be a strong and diverse cast .

, albatros renewed clair’s two - picture - a - year contract , but proceeded to turn down several of clair’s proposals . strictly for himself , clair shot the short film

garadoux has beaten his wife . his lawyer fremissin is young and very shy , and therefore , not very efficient… two years after , garadoux is trying to seduce cecile , but she prefers fremissin…

beyond : two souls is not a very good video game . but that’s not quite the criticism it might sound as given its bold storytelling ambitions the question of interaction and skill - based gameplay are very far down its list of priorities . many games have called themselves interactive movies over the years and beyond definitely qualifies as that , but rather than a coming of age for the genre it calls into question the validity of the whole concept .

i say “viewer” rather than “player” , simply because there are definitely points in beyond : two souls where you’re a passive participant , which , of course , is a common thread in the studio’s titles . however , when beyond allows you to engage with its world and its characters , just like heavy rain before it , it becomes one of the most engrossing gaming experiences , and may even change opinions on what cage is attempting to achieve .

verdict : it’s quickly becoming the passé thing to say , but as we prepare to retire our current - gen systems to make way for the new crop in a month’s time , developers keep on delivering stellar games that verge on some of the best we’ve seen in years . 2013 has undoubtedly been one of video gaming’s greatest years , and beyond : two souls can stand proudly beside the plethora of exceptional titles released over the last twelve months .

taking place over approximately twenty years , beyond : two souls tells the story of a young girl named jodie holmes who is born with a spirit tethered to her . called aiden and independent of thought , his inexplicable appearance at birth sees jodie going into the care of the department of paranormal activity ( dpa ) , who are researching the apparition’s behaviour . both professor nathan dawkins and cole freeman attempt to figure out the potential of the phantom , whilst acting as surrogate fathers to jodie .

garadoux has beaten his wife . his lawyer fremissin is young and very shy , and therefore , not very efficient . . . two years after , garadoux is trying to seduce cecile , but she prefers fremissin . . .

a romantic drama partially set in amsterdam , the story starts out in a mining area in holland where conditions are about as rough as they get . two of the miners , italians federico ( lino . . . see full summary »

garadoux has beaten his wife . his lawyer fremissin is young and very shy , and therefore , not very efficient . . . two years after , garadoux is trying to seduce cecile , but she prefers . . . see full summary »

garadoux has beaten his wife . his lawyer fremissin is young and very shy , and therefore , not very efficient . . . two years after , garadoux is trying to seduce cecile , but she prefers fremissin . . . ( filmaffinity )

what’s particularly patronising is that it often doesn’t matter what you do during an extended interactive sequence . as an experiment we just put the controller down and didn’t do anything through two of the major fight scenes and we won anyway , just in less glorious fashion .

one of those reluctant pioneers was lili elbe , a painter living in copenhagen in the 1920s who underwent what was then a radical procedure to have her penis removed and a vagina constructed for her . but as the danish girl suggests , lili’s desire had nothing to do with being at the forefront of a movement but , rather , a profound need to finally be herself and nullify the original body given to her . this sensitive , sometimes superb drama suffers from a bit of oscar - bait solemnity , but on the whole it’s a touching tale of identity and love . in the process , the danish girl is also a poignant look at a marriage between two likeminded souls who had to let each other go .

for interweaving fantasy and reality . this criticism drove clair to “prove ( he ) could make a commercial film as bad as everyone else . ” he was nearing the end of a two - picture - a - year deal with the albatros production company and he needed to make another film , when fellow director marcel l’herbier approached him with eugène labiche’s 1851 vaudeville farce

the hokey plot feels like it was ripped from the script of a saturday morning cartoon , and not one of the good ones . at best it might have made an okay - ish episode of the x - files but page’s performance and the incredible visuals hide one - dimensional characters and a plot too timid to properly explore its themes . the attempts at exploring the unanswerable questions of life beyond death come across like an eight–year - old’s first fumbling thoughts in that direction , while at the same time completely ignoring any religious implications .

it’s a joy to see the relationship between the two lead characters unfurl , though . whilst aiden can’t speak , jodie and the attached spirit have an unbreakable bond with one another . aiden does a lot for jodie , but there are occasions where he takes matters into his own hands and disregards her orders . one of the reasons why this is such a powerful twosome , though , is because of the performance of actress ellen page as jodie holmes .

marías & apos ; s challenging and seductive technique reaches its pinnacle in & apos ; & apos ; a heart so white , & apos ; & apos ; but it is at its most accessible in & apos ; & apos ; all souls , & apos ; & apos ; so that & apos ; s probably the best place to start in on his work . that novel is also good background reading for & apos ; & apos ; dark back of time , & apos ; & apos ; whose narrator is called javier marías and whose subject matter is , among other things , the publication of & apos ; & apos ; all souls . & apos ; & apos ; it helps , when reading & apos ; & apos ; dark back of time , & apos ; & apos ; to have some curiosity about the man behind the novels , and in the course of reading marías & apos ; s other work you will have accumulated numerous questions that this book purports to answer . does marías actually have a wife named luisa ? how did he acquire his joint obsessions with the not - yet - born and the too - early - dead ? what accounts for both his sense of dread and his sense of humor ? what is his father & apos ; s real occupation , and what is the family history in relation to the spanish civil war ? which characters in his novels are real or based on real people ?

cinema’s influence on video games has grown exponentially over the course of the past ten years . french developers quantic dream have embraced this ever since their 2005 release fahrenheit , and then went further with the divisive heavy rain . the next logicial step for the developer was to cast two big hollywood stars in the primary roles of its playstation 3 swansong and see out the generation with some science - fiction bombast . but as one of the main proponents for more emotional narrative in video games , writer david cage isn’t just going to serve up explosions and fight scenes , and over - saturate the viewer with violence .

redmayne won his best actor oscar for last year’s the theory of everything , and the two movies share several similarities , not the least of which is that both are based on true stories . more crucially , however , both films are love stories in which the happy couples don’t end up together , the narratives detailing how the lovers come to understand that an individual’s desires must ultimately trump the relationship . in the danish girl , this conceit becomes a useful way to dramatize lili’s growing anguish over wanting to claim her femininity . as the film explains it , this wasn’t just a journey that she went on—her wife shared it .

these are the story lines ( though that may be precisely the wrong word , for they come to us in circular , disconnected form ) of & apos ; & apos ; all souls , & apos ; & apos ; & apos ; & apos ; tomorrow in the battle think on me , & apos ; & apos ; & apos ; & apos ; a heart so white & apos ; & apos ; and & apos ; & apos ; dark back of time , & apos ; & apos ; the four novels by the spanish writer javier marías that are now available in english . if you judged by the summaries alone , you might guess that marías & apos ; s fiction is ludicrously melodramatic or cruelly comic or tediously postmodern . it is none of these . on the contrary , all four novels possess an odd combination of true sadness and deeply satisfying wit that i have yet to find in any of marías & apos ; s english or american contemporaries .

not surprisingly , this is delicate subject matter , and hooper ( working with cinematographer danny cohen , composer alexandre desplat and production designer eve stewart ) drapes the film in a respectful tastefulness , personalizing lili’s quest in order to emphasize its universal themes . not unlike other period films about fights for equality , the danish girl plays on a viewer’s sense of justice and compassion , painting lili as a sympathetic , quietly heroic figure trying to find contentment . and in redmayne , hooper ( who previously directed him in 2012’s les misérables ) has found an actor who’s fragile and beautiful , einar’s gorgeous looks commented on by the film’s other characters . there’s an undeniably feminine quality to redmayne’s eyes and lips , but he doesn’t overdo lili’s mannerisms to sell us on her need to transition , nor does the actor attempt to radically transform himself in the role as he needed to do when portraying stephen hawking in the theory of everything . quite the contrary , during lili’s first scenes in public dressed as a woman , redmayne is a bit timid , showing her vulnerably putting out a tentative first step into a new life .

for the most part , in fact , the narrator of a marías novel is the story . in & apos ; & apos ; a heart so white , & apos ; & apos ; he is an intelligently curious but somewhat timid figure , overshadowed - - in his own mind and , he fears , everyone else & apos ; s - - by his powerful , seductive father , a man named ranz who deals in valuable artworks and has a forger for a best friend . our narrator learns that ranz , before being married to his mother , was briefly married to her older sister , a young woman who killed herself soon after the wedding . it is this death , in other words , that gave rise to the narrator & apos ; s own life . ( this is exactly the kind of thought a marías narrator is always having ; you can see how easily the ghosts slip in . ) to solve the mystery behind this suicide , he must use his wife as bait - - or , rather , he must depend on his wife & apos ; s increasing closeness to her father - in - law to elicit the desired yet finally unwelcome information .

ere plot summary would give you a mistaken impression . a nameless spaniard spends two years teaching at oxford , has an affair with a married woman and buys a lot of rather obscure old english books . a man in madrid is about to have an affair with a married woman when she drops dead in his arms ; he flees the scene and spends the next few months surreptitiously getting to know the surviving members of her family . a simultaneous translator , recently married to another simultaneous translator , uses the growing friendship between his wife and his father to unravel the mystery behind a suicide that took place before he was born . an author reflects on the strange events - - many of them involving eccentric englishmen , others having to do with his own private and public life - - that are connected to the publication of one of his earlier novels .

although this review will concentrate on the two novels that are most recently available , it is difficult , with marías , to segregate any single work from the others . the experience of reading him is cumulative . when you take up a marías novel or even a marías short story , you are at once enclosed in a strange world that becomes increasingly and addictively familiar . names and characters recur : the wives are often called luisa , a slightly suspect friend will be either custardoy or ruibérriz de torres , and there are frequent references to an englishman named john gawsworth and his position as king of redonda . public figures , too , put in an appearance , though franco is not always called franco , and margaret thatcher may simply be identified as a female british leader . the events take place mainly in madrid , but london , oxford , havana , venice and new york are also knowledgeably invoked . time is an active presence , a nearly tangible entity . ghosts flit through ; sometimes ( as in the title story in the collection & apos ; & apos ; when i was mortal & apos ; & apos ; ) they even act as narrators .

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an absolute dada movie . somebody gets killed , his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops . the person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear .

by 1915 , a contractor traveling to posadas looking for new staff . among the music and drinks in a bar and shipped to the mill . he is accompanied by a drunken doctor and his daughter . in the mill , injustices and cruelties are accentuated .

charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines .

during a ww2 patrol in the north - african desert , a canadian corporal reminisces about his sweetheart and must lead his platoon when the sergeant gets wounded .

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a talented batch of new directors redefined the french film scene in the 1920s . artists like jean gremillon , jean renoir and luis bunuel combined avant - garde and commercial film techniques during the post - war years . in 1924 , a young rené clair stepped behind the camera to become one of the most prolific creators of screen comedy .

. he found his passion in writing poems and stories , but in the early ‘20s a group of friends convinced him to act in movies . although the cinema did not initially appeal to clair , charlie chaplin’s films inspired him to write his own scenarios . in 1920 , he first appeared with loie fuller in

, all of which used double exposures , slow motion , fast motion , unusual camera angles and inventive montage .

in clair’s early critical essays he described a “pure cinema & helip ; free of the restrictions and restraints imposed by narrative fiction . ” according to clair , “the only poetry that exists in the cinema is that created by the image itself…a singularly new poetry whose rules are not determined . motion is the primary basis of cinematic lyricism . ”

in the mid ‘20s , several french directors made both avant - garde and commercial films . a number of critics denounced clair’s 1925

) . clair was intrigued by the challenge of translating labiche’s “verbal wit into visual humor . ”

( 1928 ) demonstrates his ability to accept and transform a strong narrative . rather than a static drawing room comedy centered on the play’s dialogue , the film is a marvel of inventive sight gags as it sends its characters on a wild goose chase across paris in search of the hat that will preserve a married woman’s honor and rescue the bridegroom from certain death . clair credited labiche with creating a new genre of comedy that he called “vaudeville - nightmare , ” in which the protagonist encounters threats and fears that we associate with our most “terrifying dreams . ”

in eight days , and the entire production , from script to premiere , took less than five months . when it came to shooting , clair said , “it wasn’t much of a secret . i shot exactly what i knew i would need ; whereas some directors were shooting everything they could conceivably turn their lens on . if you control the cutting of the film , god knows you control the film . ”

, which would be a documentary - style version of a hollywood police procedural . albatros could not secure the government’s official patronage for the film , so they pulled the plug on it . clair immediately returned to

. able to produce only one feature film that year for albatros , clair then severed his relations with the company .

received harsh criticism , and clair himself dismissed the film , his last of the silent era , by saying , “it was just a game . ” enthusiasts of clair’s work thought the film was delightful , but even they judged it a minor effort . on the other hand , clair’s biographer celia mcgerr has said

directors were not the only ones to experiment with both avant - garde and commercial cinema . pierre batcheff , the shy trial lawyer frémissin in

. sadly , batcheff’s career came to an abrupt end with his drug - related suicide in 1932 .

clair considered giving up filmmaking and returning to a career as a writer when sound came in . to him , the silent screen spoke to the imagination through rhythm and movement . with sound , “they will talk nonsense in our ears and we will be unable to shut it out . ” in 1929 , however , while directing in london , clair watched a few hollywood “talkies” and he became excited by the artistic possibilities for placing sound in opposition to the image , or even using sound to replace image . he achieved worldwide stardom through his sound films

. according to georges charensol , clair had hoped to set up a center for french film production in america , but nothing ever came of it . between the years 1941 and 1946 , clair wrote a second novel and directed five hollywood films , including

clair moved back to paris in 1946 , and he continued to direct films for twenty years before he returned to his first love , writing . in 1960 , rené clair became the first director of motion picture comedies to be elected into the academie française . he followed in the footsteps of eugène labiche , who , despite angry protests , had been the first vaudeville playwright to be elected into the academie française in 1880 .

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this months sight and sound had a column on this , calling it clair ' s silent masterpiece and holding it up as a real lost gem . it ' s fun , you could well imagine it with harold lloyd or buster keaton in the lead and had some really interesting technical choices but i ' m not sure it quite lives up to sight and sound ' s claims .

rené clair directs a harold lloyd comedy ! okay , this doesn ' t feature harold lloyd himself , but a french version taking a lot of inspiration from lloyd ' s shy - guy persona . even looked like him from a distance , except pierre batcheff only wore glasses half the time . batcheff is probable most famous today for his role as the man in luis buñuel ' s un chien andalou ( 1929 ) , who in 1932 killed himself , reaching only the age of 24 .

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for those who enjoy a good silent film , you’ll seldom find a more a captivating outlet than the stylish san francisco silent film festival ( held this year between june 2 - 5 ) . it’s an overwhelming aesthetic treat : the fine period wardrobe of the attendees ; the savvy , academic discussions ; a very wide range of film literature ; and the vintage beauty of the near century old castro theater , resplendent with art deco chandeliers , scrafitto wall designs and a mighty wurlitzer organ .

oh , and let’s not forget the films , for cinema buffs are here for the programming and the best of the lot were to be treasured . much as we’d love to go over the entire four - day run of the festival , we simply don’t have that much space on this site for that . like the years before , we prefer to concentrate on the highlights . what were our criteria ? we looked for certain uniqueness in style , a professional sheen in all departments and simply what tickled us . the list below is not an oracle , but a good , surefooted list to stir your interest . take it from there .

varieté ( 1925 ) directed by e . a . dupont ; starring : emil jannings , lya de putti , warwick ward ; musical accompaniment : berklee silent film orchestra

the plot : boss huller ( emil jannings ) , a retired trapeze artist working as a manager for a peepshow of dancing girls , is asked by a friend to become a ward for a young lady , bertha - marie ( lya de putti ) . he puts her to work in his dancing troupe , and as her star grows , so does his obsession with her . after he abandons his family for her , they leave for berlin where she can train as a trapeze artist . discovered by a famed aerialist , artinelli ( warwick ward ) they head to london where the trio perform to packed houses . but when artinelli develops an attraction to bertha , boss’ jealousy becomes too consuming .

in essence : betrayal , revenge , murder… ripe melodrama for sure , but such pulp storylines packed houses in 1925 , and this one was a huge worldwide hit . if your instinct is to feel the tale might be too bombastic for modern empathy , you might be right , but you’d be missing out on some artfully measured delivery here . in dupont’s care , he gives the material a haunting pace and wisely chose master cinematographer karl freund to deliver some fluid , unfettered camera work – especially when he’s employing the subjective view of the acrobats with dizzying lights and spinning long takes . the actors are fine , with the ever robust jannings delivering another performance of fallen dignity and wounded compassion with grace and intensity . a very pleasing piece of germanic fatalism .

the plot : olsen ( sivert braekemo ) , a young sailor , meets ingeborg ( gun holmquist ) , an attractive farm girl , on the road and agrees to help out as a stable hand . conflicts arise when her father ( hjalmar peters ) a skipper and his assistant , ole ( anders henrikson ) , return home . ole has long had an attraction for ingeborg , and as he and olsen join her father’s sealer in the arctic , they must compete as rivals to decide who is the “stronger , ” and thus , win the heart of their sweetheart .

in essence : given that this festival had played more than their fair share of swedish miserablism over the years , i was more than happy to view this one . the structure is simple enough , with the strength of the male leads ( braekemo and henrikson ) being tested against the allegorical backdrop of the arctic as they compete for their girl’s affection , but the performances by them are exceptionally good , building the tense , watchful air the men have with each to a stern climax . also the amazing arctic vistas ( complete with breaking ice flows and stirring chase scenes in the snow ) lift the proceedings with a brooding isolation and naturalism that underscores the excitement . the sparse , somber score performed by the hot club , was cunningly appropriate and unobstrusive .

in essence : i’ve written about this film before and clair is one of my favourite directors . top quality is just that , and master farceur clair delivered one of his most memorable silent films with this one . his gliding , insouciant style makes the material move effortlessly and convey light hearted romanticism that is never ankled by treacle or silliness . his barrage of visual tricks ( split screens , flashbacks , montages and breaking the wall with the audience ) is a blast to behold and in the end , the spirited performances – with the charming batcheff as the befuddled hero and a top comic foil in gerald – make this one an engaging charmer .

the plot : five years since the murder of one actor during a performance , arthur mchugh ( montague love ) is the producer who decides to solve the mystery by again staging the play with the remaining cast . during the repeat performance another murder occurs ! who could be guilty ? the leading players ( laura laplante , roy d’arcy ) ? the stage manager ( bert roach ) ? the short - tempered director ( john boles ) ?

in essence : the lone american silent to make this list , this one harks back to universal’s earliest forays into the chiller genre that they would develop for years to come . directed by one of the great could - have - beens of cinema lore , paul leni , a german immigrant whose limited but stunning output ( waxworks , the cat and the canary , the man who laughs ) displayed a seductive visual style and a knack for making the creakiest of material connect with wry touches of humour and heart . sadly , the last warning would be his last film as he died that year , at the age of 44 , from blood poisoning from an infected tooth . still , this effort was an imaginative one , with double exposures , frantic cross cutting , terse close - ups and the proper feel and timing for well staged spooking . the pacing never flags and leni lets a game cast have some funny , eye - rolling turns and pratfalls . donald sosin’s charming , jaunty piano score gave the movie an off - handed playfulness that dovetailed the presentation perfectly .

michael t . o’toole is a film journalist , screenwriter and filmmaker . he spent ten years writing for the turner classic movies before taking his talents to film international . his short films can be viewed here .

the basic premise of the story involves a troubled young woman named jodie . she has a mysterious poltergeist - like companion who’s been with her since birth and is both fiercely and jealously protective of her . jodie doesn’t know who or what ‘aiden’ is and , it’s implied , neither does aiden . you play both roles though , controlling aiden from a first person view where he can effortlessly float through walls and interact with highlighted objects – but only within a short distance of jodie .

the game’s story is told in flashback , but not in chronological order as jodie tries to piece back her memories after the main events of the game . there are four main time periods : jodie as an eight - year - old girl being looked after by foster parents and a government scientist played by willem dafoe , jodie’s teenage years at the same facility , her inexplicably bizarre recruitment by the cia to work as an astral - projecting assassin , and her time on the run from her former employees .

we shouldn’t spoil the final act but it gets progressively sillier until what at first had seemed like an interactive take on coming - of - age thrillers such as carrie turns into an awkward mix of james bond and ghostbusters . it’s just as absurd as that sounds and yet somehow manages to take itself deadly seriously , despite out - of - the - blue plot elements and changes in character motivation that follow no internal logic .

french developer quantic dream is best known for 2005’s fahrenheit and 2010’s heavy rain , and although there’s no plot connection beyond shares the same style of storytelling and gameplay . however , beyond does reign in many of heavy rain’s cheaper narrative tricks and the dialogue is noticeably better . the script still isn’t great , but writer and producer david cage seems more aware of his limitations this time and there are only a few lines that are actively cringe - worthy .

actually , there may be far more than that but you’ll probably never notice thanks to the impressively committed performance from ellen ‘juno’ page as jodie . it really is an astonishing example of performance capture and elevates the material well beyond its worth . page is helped by the equally phenomenal graphics , which are amongst the best ever seen on a home console – both in terms of the facial animation and the varied backdrops .

as far as the gameplay and controls go very little has changed . your characters are a little less clumsy when moving around but other than that all your interactions with the game world are through pre - determined quick time event sequences . pushing the right analogue stick in a particular direction is the most common activity , with the combat now introducing a slow motion element where you have to move the stick in the direction of an attack to land a blow .

but unless something in the game world is highlighted with a little white dot ( blue for aiden ) it might as well not exist . there are no puzzles as such and for a game that’s meant to be all about the characters very little interactive dialogue . instead you’re dragged through each scene by the nose , forced to pantomime onscreen actions as if you’re controlling a virtual marionette .

there is a simplistic stealth element in some of the levels but you never aim your gun , just press a shoulder button to instantly kill someone when the game tells you you’re in range . if you just sit and watch a boxed set of 24 while randomly wobbling a controller in your lap you’d get much the same experience .

the game makes a big show of saying you can play through the whole thing while using a tablet as a controller , or with another player joining in at the same time , and these are great ideas . we really don’t want to imply we’re being snobbish about the game just because it isn’t a straight action title . that’s fine with us , we applaud it . but if it’s not an action game , if its plot and dialogue are the driving force , then they’ve got to be good enough to justify the experience . and they don’t come anywhere close .

beyond’s problems are essentially the opposite of heavy rain : instead of a good idea bogged down by a weak script and mediocre voice - acting beyond is a thoroughly silly and poorly reasoned concept supported by actors and technology it does not at all deserve .

but that’s not to say that the game cannot be affecting . the most emotionally resonate moment is a sequence where jodie is living rough on the streets , which creates a real empathy not just for the character but the plight of the homeless in general . gaming’s ability to let you walk in someone else’s shoes is rarely applied to this sort of social realism and as brief as the sequence is , and as unfeasibly saintly as jodie’s down - and - out friends are , it’s probably the game’s most laudable achievement .

the wider problem with quantic dream’s whole approach is that none of the stories they’re telling justify the interactive element . there is nothing about beyond that is improved by the fact that it is ( barely ) interactive and apart from the multiple choice ending you have very little direct influence on how things turn out .

as the game went on we began to realise that , particularly with the episodic nature of the storytelling , what it reminded us of was not a movie but a pop - up book . you can play with the small number of interactive elements all you like but the meat of the story is still predetermined and relatively inconsequential compared to the visual novelty of the experience .

in terms of graphics and actors’ performances there’s almost nothing to touch beyond , but in terms of an enjoyable game , or even just an interactive story , it barely even approaches b - movie level .

in short : the visuals are incredible , but for a game obsessed with storytelling at all costs the dopey plot and underwritten characters in no way make up for the lack of gameplay .

pros : incredible graphics , both in terms of the facial animation and backdrops . a superb central performance from ellen page .

cons : silly , tonally inconsistent story and shallow characterisation . very little real gameplay and far more linear than it likes to pretend .

formats : playstation 3 price : £49 . 99 publisher : sony computer entertainment developer : quantic dream release date : 11th october 2013 age rating : 16

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" i did not want to know but i have since come to know that one of the girls , when she wasn & apos ; t a girl anymore and hadn & apos ; t long been back from her honeymoon , went into the bathroom , stood in front of the mirror , unbuttoned her blouse , took off her bra and aimed her own father & apos ; s gun at her heart , her father at the time was in the dining room with other members of the family and three guests . when they heard the shot , some five minutes after the gift had left the table , her father didn & apos ; t get up at once , but stayed there for a few seconds , paralysed , his mouth still full of food , not daring to chew or swallow , far less to spit the food out on to his plate ; and when he finally did get up and run to the bathroom , those who followed him noticed that when he discovered the blood - spattered body of his daughter and clutched his head in his hands , he kept passing the mouthful of meat from one cheek to the other , still not knowing what to do with it . "

the narrator of & apos ; & apos ; a heart so white & apos ; & apos ; is capable of strong passion - - particularly in regard to his wife - - but we hear from him mainly about the passions of others . he is the kind of man who watches life through a window , either from a room looking down onto the street ( as he does on his honeymoon in havana ) or from street level , generally at night , looking up at a lighted window ( as he does during a trip to new york , when he is waiting to go back to the apartment of his friend berta , who is having a tryst with a man she met through a video introduction service ) . and in this he is typical of all javier marías narrators : they inevitably adopt this peering pose at some point or another . it is a pose that is also a philosophical position - - a reflection on how much or how little people can really know about one another ; a commentary on suspicion and guesswork and , finally , helplessness in the face of events .

but again , i have created the wrong impression if i have made the marías narrator sound like a voyeur . he is intimately involved in the events he describes , and he is also intimately involved with us , his readers . like henry james & apos ; s or marcel proust & apos ; s , his sinuous , flattering , seemingly endless sentences presume - - even insist - - that we are as subtle and intelligent as the author . and their subject matter is proustian or jamesian as well - - marías is interested not so much in the violent death or the adulterous love affair itself as in how we think and feel about such events when we contemplate them beforehand or consider them afterward . ( that this jamesian quality has been preserved in english is a great tribute to marías & apos ; s translators , esther allen and especially margaret jull costa . but it may also be attributable to the fact that marías & apos ; s fiction in some way comes from english : he has done spanish translations of sterne , hardy , stevenson and faulkner , among others . )

you will come away from & apos ; & apos ; dark back of time & apos ; & apos ; with some answers ( there is no wife named luisa , indeed no wife at all ; marías had a 3 - year - old brother who died before he himself was born ; his father , also a writer , was once imprisoned and nearly executed by franco ; john gawsworth is real , but the oxford booksellers called the alabasters derive more from dickens than from their real - life counterparts , the stones ) , but whether these answers are true is one of the questions that are left unanswered . to give but a single small example : & apos ; & apos ; dark back of time & apos ; & apos ; mentions that marías , like john gawsworth before him , has become king of redonda . if you go to the web site of the redonda foundation , at urltoken , you will see that there is actually a dispute involving javier marías & apos ; s sovereignty over this tiny caribbean island . the english - speaking disputant employs the word & apos ; & apos ; impostor , & apos ; & apos ; which happens to be a favorite marías word . has marías himself set up the whole dispute - - perhaps the whole redonda site - - as yet another literary game ? probably not : marías claims in & apos ; & apos ; dark back of time & apos ; & apos ; to be completely computerless , and for some reason i believe him . but the uncertainty is nonetheless tantalizing . it is impossible to know , with anything marías has touched , who is whose fictional creation .

like the work of jorge luis borges , of which it may superficially remind you , & apos ; & apos ; dark back of time & apos ; & apos ; deals repeatedly and amusingly with the relationship between reality and the written word . but where borges is cold , marías is warm : his breath is in our ear , his urban reality is essentially our urban reality , and - - despite his interest in ghosts - - he is very much alive right now . he has seen the same movies we have , danced to the same music , read the same books , gone to the same kinds of restaurants and racetracks and academic meetings . he is even capable , at times , of anticipating our thoughts and memories , as if he were performing a version of a simultaneous translation on us , rendering our hidden suspicions into mutually acknowledged words .

it is a rare gift , to be offered a writer who lives in our own time but speaks with the intensity of the past , who comes with the extra richness lent by a foreign history and nonetheless knows our own culture inside out . yet , strangely , javier marías - - who is famous in spain and garlanded with prizes from the rest of europe - - remains almost unknown in america . what are we waiting for ? all the gifts we are offered in life ( as marías himself is fond of pointing out ) are fleeting ones , easily lost or ignored or undervalued and only regretted when they are no longer available to us . it & apos ; s high time we accepted this one .


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the film revolves around the lives of three sisters – played by fay ripley , claire rushbrook , and lindsey coulson – who live in stretford , greater manchester , england .

written by shameless writer danny brocklehurst and directed by peter webber , it won critical acclaim from the times and the independent , although reviews in some local papers were not so favourable .

the programme was watched by 5.7 million viewers .

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the stretford wives <EOT> feedback about stretford wives , bbc one london , 21 . 00 , 21 august 2002

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so , despite the fact i long identified the tune in the youtube vid here as " stunning cunt , " when i just played this record in a mix , i couldn ' t help but notice that it ' s actually " return of the stretford wives . " granted , both tunes are great - - - one is bright and bounding ( stunning cunt , as it turns out ) while the other is hard , dark , and absolutely filthy - - - but yeah , the mean , dirty tune is apparently not " stunning cunt . " either that , or the labels are switched on my copy . regardless , this is a brilliant record from a top old - school label . get it while you can .

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the first in tonight ' s new two - part drama , focusing on the lives , loves and scams of three sisters , and starring fay ripley . concludes after the news . written by daniel brocklehurst producer kate bartlett director peter webber

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