second chance is a 1947 american film noir crime film directed by james tinling and written by arnold belgard .

the film stars kent taylor , louise currie , dennis hoey , larry j. blake , ann doran and john eldredge .

the film was released on july 18 , 1947 , by 20th century fox .

second chance ( 1947 film )

second chance ( 1947 film ) <EOT> two people learn to love each other in the afterlife and get a second chance .

the second of which he judged " a terrible picture " . he then got the chance to make

with the headline : ' second chance , ' with kent taylor , at the rialto - - italian - made film bill at cinema verdi .

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, a film about an innocent man’s willingness to forgive the greatest injustice , i propose to hollywood that it’s time to forgive mel gibson . he has been in the doghouse long enough . it’s time to give the guy another chance .

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) , but he was a highly accomplished film director who was known to be sympathetic to the screenwriters he worked with and the authors whose work he adapted . the similarity between the film

boy ! what a girl ! ( 1947 ) 70 min . tim moore , elwood smith , duke williams . a couple of theatrical producers try to get backing for their musical show .

a lot of dazzling gems are shown off in " second chance , " which came to the rialto yesterday , but absolutely none of their luster has been imparted to the film . it is just another tiresome go - around with a standard assortment of jewel thieves , one of whom falls in love ( to his advantage ) with the beautiful lady set by the cops to trap the gang . view full article in timesmachine »

reet , petite and gone ( 1947 ) 67 min . bandleader louis jordan stars in a dual role . with “cab calloway’s jitterbug party , ” " scrub me mama " cartoon and louis armstrong soundie . special program !

dirty gertie from harlem ( 1946 ) 65 min . francine everett , don wilson . a sexy , enticing dancer from harlem makes things happen in a sleepy caribbean island resort . second smash feature : sepia cinderella ( 1947 ) with billy daniels and sheila guyse . a struggling band leader ' s rise to fame after overcoming many obstacles , including a bad - girl vs . good - girl situation .

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deadly impact ( 1984 ) 80 min . action film star fred williamson teams with bo svenson in this thrill - packed crime drama .

hi de ho ( 1947 ) 64 min . cab calloway is a band leader pressured to work in a gangster bar . special program with 2 mills brothers soundies , amos ' n andy cartoon and duke ellington ' s " symphony in black " with billie holiday .

, sartre argues that having the ability to make choices freely does not necessarily mean that we are free to decide what becomes of us . the two main protagonists in the film choose to act in a way that seems rational to them but , to the spectactor , their behaviour appears totally perverse , as if they are merely actors in a scripted drama . given a second chance at life , they both slip into their earlier grooves and end up merely repeating what has already happened to them . pierre and ève think they are free but in fact what happens to them the second time round is completely predictable . once the bets have been placed and the roulette wheel of fate has been set spinning , there is only one hole into which the ball can land .

some black features , cartoons , shorts and musical soundies from the 1940s have been put together into black heritage programs for theaters and film societies .

elia kazan ' s smalltown potboiler was the first film the director considered to be his own . photograph : allstar / cinetext / 20 century fox

jivin’ in be - bop ( 1946 ) 58 min . dizzie gillespie and his musical friends have a ball . now as a double feature with fats waller singing " the joint is jumping " and second feature : juke joint ( 1947 ) 58 min . spencer williams is a con man who poses as a hollywood acto to advance the fortunes of a small town beauty contest . plus " the joint is jumpin ' " by fats waller and " frim fram sauce " by nat king cole . special program !

the black six ( 1974 ) action film with carl eller , mercury morris , willie lanier , ben davidson , gene washington , " mean " joe green .

gibson went well beyond a mea culpa tour . he came out of that experience determined to film the jewish version of braveheart . he set at warner bros a film about judah maccabee , who with his father and four brothers led the jewish revolt against the greek - syrian armies that had conquered judea in the second century b . c . that seminal story is celebrated by jews all over the world through hanukkah , the festival of lights . gibson planned to direct , but the effort was undermined by the decision to hire joe eszterhas to write it . the screenwriter’s penchant for making public spectacles of private matters ( he famously leaked a conversation when he said ex - agent mike ovitz threatened him ) , and gibson’s unwillingness to publicly defend himself , doomed the film .

the duke is tops ( aka bronze venus ) ( 1938 ) 63 min . lena horne plays a night club singer who gets a chance at broadway . one of our special programs with " little black sambo " cartoon , fats waller soundie and ethel waters in " bubbling over . "

cast in the lead male role is marcello pagliero , a prominent italian actor and director of the 1940s and ' 50s who was closely associated with the neo - realist movement . this was his second screen appearance , after his memorable debut in roberto rossellini ' s

the blood of jesus ( 1941 ) 57 min . spencer williams film about an atheist who accidentally shoots his baptist wife , who must fight the devil for her soul . with second religious themed feature : go down death ( 1940 ) 56 min . myra d . hemmings , samuel h . james . a bar owner attempts to discredit the new preacher with whom he is feuding by framing him with a photograph showing him drinking with women with bad reputations . old time religion special program !

i’m telling you , my friend mel gibson has pulled himself together . he is sober seven years , hitting the gym for a role in an independent film , and thinking positively about the future . it has been 11 years since he was paid by a major studio to star in a film , and he hasn’t directed a studio film since braveheart won five oscars including best picture and best director . he wasn’t the bad person i thought he was back when i first wrote about him , and i’m telling you , he is now not the person you think he is . as one a - list star told me recently , “mel has spent enough time in the penalty box . ”

this was a beautifully romantic classical film that had just the right amount of surrealism . romantic love isn ' t non - existant , that ' s a cowards answer . the things we bring inside of ourselves make it impossible though .

the devil’s daughter ( 1939 ) 59 min . nina mae mckinney runs afoul of voodoo in jamaica . double feature with son of ingagi ( 1940 ) 61 min . , only fair quality . spencer williams in haunted house horror film .

an influential post - second world war hybrid , boomerang ! was shot in harsh black and white and entirely in authentic locations . it combined the documentary , the social - conscience picture , italian neo - realism and the thriller ; in their commentary to this dvd / blu - ray version , the film noir experts james orsini and alain silver call it " docu - noir " . kazan recalls thinking that " i really will be able to do this picture the way i think pictures should be made . it was our neo - realism " , and considered it his first work to bear an individual stamp .

rock , rock , rock ( 1956 ) early rock ' n roll film starring tuesday weld , but also featuring performances by these black singers and groups : the moonglows , the flamingos , frankie lymon and the teenagers , la vern baker and chuck berry .

king of the zombies ( 1941 ) 67 min . dick purcell , joan woodbury , mantan moreland . fiendish mad doctor creates zombies for the axis . mantan moreland turns this chiller into a hilariously funny film . dvd includes revolt of the zombies ( 1936 ) ( no mantan ) .

and its identically titled novel is striking and suggests that sartre was more than happy with delannoy ' s treatment of his screenplay . certainly , the film is one of the most eloquent expressions of sartre ' s theories about free will and the autonomy of the individual , and also the most accessible .

gang war ( 1940 ) 63 min . ralph cooper in gangster film set in harlem . double feature with : moon over harlem ( 1939 ) 68 min . a girl’s mother marries a philanderer , who then pursues the daughter . when caught , the mother throws her out into the world of broadway shows . harlem gangsters special program !

in his second apology on the anti - semitic statements , gibson promised to reach out to jewish leaders . gibson followed up by meeting with a wide variety of them . he gave me their names when i asked , but gibson asked me not to publish them because he didn’t want them dragged into public controversy or worse , think he was using them . the meetings were not some photo op to him , he told me , but rather his desire to understand judaism and personally apologize for the unkind things he said . he has learned much about the jewish religion , befriending a number of rabbis and attending his share of shabbat dinners , passover seders and rosh hashanah and yom kippur dinners . i believe that effort , along with our conversations , helped him understand why jewish people reacted as they did to the passion of the christ and why there was jewish support for the second vatican council . gibson has quietly donated millions to charitable jewish causes , in keeping with one of the highest forms of tzedakah in the jewish faith , giving when the recipient doesn’t know your identity .

how ironic is it that hollywood studios walk on eggshells with faith - based groups hoping their religious epics like noah do a fraction of the business mel gibson did with the passion of the christ , while those studios continue to shun gibson like a leper ? what better way to commemorate passion ‘s 10th anniversary than journalist allison hope weiner ‘s examination of her relationship with gibson and how it evolved from harsh coverage to the point where she feels strongly enough about his good qualities and recovery to urge hollywood to consider giving him another chance . weiner has written about gibson for deadline before , as well as the new york times and other national magazines . – mf

) . the film ' s juiciest supporting role went to marguerite moreno , one of the great eccentrics of french cinema who , by this stage in her career , was often cast for her comedic talents . here , moreno is magnificent as the clock - watching functionary who checks us all into the afterlife , dishing out suitably withering putdowns or sweet grandmotherly smiles , according to the way in which we quit the mortal sphere .

would contemptuously label ' la tradition de qualité ' . serge piménoff ' s elegant production design and christian matras ' s moody cinematography provide a subtle but effective demarcation between the realist and fantastic elements of the story . there are no distracting transitions and the few special effects which the film employs are extremely effective . the humour and poetry in sartre ' s screenplay are skilfully rendered by delannoy and the result is one of the director ' s most satisfying films .

where ' s my man tonight ? aka . " marching on " ( 1943 ) 63 min . the film focuses on a young african american who continues his family’s tradition of military service when he is drafted into the united states army during world war ii . despite complications that arise during his basic training , including his jealousy following his girlfriend ' s flirtatious attention to his sergeant , the young soldier becomes a hero when he locates japanese saboteurs operating a radio station outside of his military base .

it has been a decade since mel gibson made the passion of the christ and watched it become the biggest - grossing independent film with $ 612 million in worldwide ticket sales . in the years that followed , gibson made several comments that went public , made him seem anti - semitic and racist . they made him persona non grata at major studios and agencies , the same ones that work with others who’ve committed felonies and done things far more serious than gibson , who essentially used his tongue as a lethal weapon . as a journalist who vilified gibson in the new york times and entertainment weekly until my coverage allowed me to get to know him , i want to make the case here that it is time for those hollywood agencies and studios to end their quiet blacklisting of mel gibson . once hollywood’s biggest movie star whose film braveheart won five oscars and whose collective box office totals $ 3 . 6 billion , gibson hasn’t been directly employed by a studio since passion of the christ was released in 2004 .

ierre dumaine is the leader of a resistance movement in an unnamed police state . he is preparing an insurrection when he is shot dead by an informer . at the exact instant that pierre dies , ève charlier is poisoned by her husband andré charlier , the chief of police , so that he can marry her sister . pierre and ève meet in the afterlife , where they are condemned to roam the world they knew as ghosts , unable to change anything they see . when they begin to fall in love , they are offered the chance to return to life for one day . if , in that time , they can prove that they are committed to one another they will be allowed to remain and live a full life . unfortunately , once pierre is back in the land of the living he cannot prevent himself from intervening to save his resistance friends , and ève feels equally bound to warn her sister of her husband ' s wicked intentions . . .

members of the cast were to have major roles in four of the greatest plays of postwar theatre : police chief lee j cobb ( willy loman in death of a salesman ) , minor cop karl malden ( mitch in a streetcar named desire ) , cynical reporter sam levene ( nathan detroit in guys and dolls ) , and wrongly accused suspect arthur kennedy ( john proctor in the crucible ) . a decade later , lee j cobb and ed begley , who plays the most corrupt of the local politicians , were to play jurors in 12 angry men , a film for which boomerang ! clearly prepared the way .

i’ve discussed the holocaust with gibson and whether his views differed from those of his father . just as he refused to condemn his father in that tv interview with diane sawyer , gibson refused to discuss his dad with me . similar to what he told sawyer , gibson told me that he believed that 6 million jews were murdered in the holocaust . “do i believe that there were concentration camps where defenseless and innocent jews died cruelly under the nazi regime ? of course i do ; absolutely , ” he told sawyer . “it was an atrocity of monumental proportion . ” in our conversations , i took that a step further . why , i asked him “did you say those things about the jews starting all the wars ? where did those unkind things come from ? ” gibson thought for a moment , then answered that he’d been terribly hurt by the very personal criticism of him from the jewish community over the passion of the christ . he said that while he’d been criticized for films before , this was personal and cruel . he said that when he drinks , he can be a mean drunk and “stuff comes out in a distorted manner…” his own faith led him to make his version of christ’s story , and he found himself being attacked for making a film that might get jews killed , and that he was insensitive that his depiction of jews as christ’s killer could inflame religious tensions . he was called names by numerous jewish leaders and a few people literally spat on him . “the criticism was still eating at me , ” he told me . “this was a different kind of hammering . a very personal attack . ”

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joan summers ( louise currie ) enters the office of jewel merchant montclaire ( francis pierlot ) closely followed by kendal wolf ( kent taylor ) . each recognizes the other to be a jewel thief , and wordlessly they team together to steal a $ 30 , 000 diamond . searched and questioned when the gem is missed , they are released . . . . with the gem . detective sharpe ( larry blake ) is still suspicious and so is the head of jeweler ' s indemnity , who puts two underworld men on to retrieve the diamond . kendal agrees to meet the two but the police are tipped and sharpe confiscates the gem and the fence ' s money . again kendal and joan are released , but each suspects the other of being an informer despite a growing romantic attachment . kendal and joan attend an exhibition of the malabar diamonds , leave to follow a diamond - lade guest , overtake her car , shoot the chauffeur and slug the woman . at kendal ' s apartment , joan makes it clear that robbery , not murder , is her game . two men and the robbed couple arrive and . . .

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a jewel thief goes into partnership with a girl who turns out to be an insurance agent , and turns him over to the police . but she is in love with him and promises to wait .

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a female and male customer enters a jewel merchant’s office and each recognizes the other as a jewel thief . the two wordlessly team up to steal a $ 30 , 000 diamond . the two would - be thieves feel frustrated because police anticipate their every move . later , the two fall in love . eventually , the female thief admits she is a detective hired by an insurance company to impede the male’s thievery . she pleads with her partner - lover to give up crime .

s free will an illusion or do we really have the ability to shape our own destinies ? that is the question that the leading existentialist philosopher jean - paul sartre poses in this , the first of his few contributions to cinema , which he subsequently made into a well - known novel . anyone familiar with sartre ' s work will know that he was of the view that we

have free will , and that this is the central curse of human existence . in

( 1943 ) , director jean delannoy was the natural choice to bring jean - paul sartre ' s dark parable about free will to the big screen . delannoy may not have been an auteur in the nouvelle vague sense of the term ( indeed this is what made him such an easy target for the young turks on the

( 1945 ) . pagliero was presumably chosen on account of his unpolished , working class persona , making him an effective contrast with his co - star , the supremely elegant micheline presle , who is just as well - cast for the role of a society heiress . the chalk - and - cheese pairing of pagliero and presle works extraordinarily well - the evident class - separation of their characters accentuates the animalistic nature of their mutual attraction whilst providing the dramatic tension that gradually undermines their relationship .

offers many delights , but moreno ' s presence is the icing on the cake , an example of directorial free will at its most reckless and inspired .

the gibson i’ve come to know isn’t a man who’ll shout from the rooftops that he’s not anti - semitic , or hold a press conference to tell media those audiotapes were released as part of a shakedown , and that he never assaulted the mother of his infant daughter . he won’t explain to people that he first got himself into a career spiral because he’s a long struggling alcoholic who fell off the wagon and spewed hateful anti - semitic remarks to an arresting officer who was jewish . he won’t tell you that he’s still got a lot to offer hollywood as a filmmaker .

the fact that he won’t jump to his own defense is part of his problem , but also part of why i have grown to respect him . that is why on the occasion of this 10th anniversary of

for those who are skeptical , i understand . for the longest time , i disliked gibson and thought he was a holocaust - denier , homophobic , misogynistic , racist drunk . i wrote as much in articles for ew and the ny times . and whenever i wrote about him , i would get irate calls from his representatives saying i didn’t know him .

then something happened that i never expected . i came to rethink my harsh assessment after i got to know the man . it started when i interviewed him in 2006 for an ew cover . i could see that he was smart , expressing sincere empathy for the people he’d hurt . i had to admit to myself that i was impressed that he hadn’t shied away from answering my tough questions .

we next spoke when he was working on a script about vikings with his braveheart writer randall wallace . after that , we spoke occasionally on the phone and met for lunch at his icon production offices to discuss get the gringo . our conversations were mostly about business , but would carry over to movies or books we liked , trips we’d taken . i liked how his mind worked . like the movies he directs , the stories he told were incredibly visual . he never asked me for anything or tried to play me , and i’ve interviewed enough movie stars to know when they are working you . gibson was unafraid to disagree with and challenge me . our conversations broadened to family , our relationships , religion .

it developed into something that felt like friendship , which doesn’t often happen with investigative journalists and the subjects they cover . odder still was that it happened with a man disdained by my colleagues , friends and my family , who , like me , are observant jews . at this point , gibson’s career had gone all kinds of wrong , starting with that 2006 dui arrest , when he told that cop that “the jews are responsible for all the wars in the world . ” four years later , he sounded positively unhinged and racist in surreptitious recordings of an angry phone exchange between gibson and ex - girlfriend oksana grigorieva — the mother of his infant daughter . the whole world heard him shout abusively at her and make racist remarks .

it was after the latter episode that my relationship with gibson truly changed . it’s very difficult to get to know anyone in a journalistic context — one rarely gets any real insight into the person you’re interviewing . in gibson’s case , this was particularly true . he wasn’t the kind of person to open up a vein and publicly plead for forgiveness as some do . but a conversation that came months after that changed our relationship .

i was on vacation with my family when gibson called me . during his breakup with grigorieva , he’d gone through a terrible emotional breakdown and struggled to get healthy , gain joint custody of his infant daughter and deal with the fallout from the publication of those awful tapes . he was in a very bad place and we talked for some time about how difficult it was for him to deal with the pain he’d inflicted on his family — his ex - wife robyn and his seven children , his infant daughter . he got so upset talking about that period in his life that he ended our call abruptly . he’d shared some very deep , personal feelings with me and was in so much pain , that i was honestly worried about him . it wasn’t the type of conversation that one has with an interview subjects . i decided we were friends now and that i could no longer write objectively about him .

since then , i’ve gotten to know gibson extremely well . i thought it would be difficult for him to have a friend in the media , but he has been surprisingly honest and trusting . as a lawyer - turned - reporter , i have no problem asking tough questions , even of friends . gibson never wavered or equivocated when i confronted him , whether the subject was his drinking , his politics , his religion or his relationships with women . it soon became clear that my early journalistic assessment of him wasn’t right .

this crystallized when we met each other’s families . it was hard to blame his family for being skeptical of a journalist , but the issues with my own family were more challenging . gibson asked to meet them at my son’s bar mitzvah celebration . imagine the scene : a room filled with jews . in walks the person who , in their minds , might be the most notorious anti - semite in america . gibson attended alone and i can only imagine what was going through his head when he walked into the party .

before the evening was over , he was chatting with many of my relatives , who saw a funny , kind , charming guy and not the demon they’d read about . gutsier still , he attended our yom kippur break fast dinner . anyone who has attended such a gathering knows there is nothing more imposing than making friends in a room full of jews who haven’t eaten in 24 hours .

it might sound naïve after 20 years writing about celebrities , but my friendship with gibson made me reconsider other celebrities whose public images became tarnished by the media’s rush to judge and marginalize the rich and famous . whether it’s gibson , tom cruise or alec baldwin , the descent from media darling to pariah can happen quickly after they do something dumb . i was part of that pack of journalists paid to pounce , so i know . i consider myself intelligent , someone who makes up her own mind , but just like readers do , i have accepted some reports at face value . the press said that based on gibson’s statements , he was a homophobe , a misogynist , a bully , an ant - semite , so he must be . what he was , i discovered , was an alcoholic whose first outburst was captured after he fell off the wagon . what the later release of audiotapes showed was a man with a frightening temper , capable of saying whatever will most offend the target of his anger .

based on my exchanges with gibson and my own reporting on his transgressions , i’ve stopped doubting him . he worked in hollywood for 30 years without a single report he was anti - semitic . before that drunken evening in july 2006 , he worked all the time with producers , directors , actors and crew who happened to be jewish , without incident . but , even if i accept the comments from those who believe his drunken remarks tapped into some deep - seated anti - semitism back then , the gibson i know now is clearly a different man , one who has worked on his sobriety since that awful night in malibu .

gibson would later tell me that he was grateful the officer pulled him off the road that night because he might have killed someone else or himself . he felt so badly for verbally attacking la county sheriff’s deputy james mee that night that he later asked him out for coffee to personally apologize . like many things he does , gibson never publicized that .

i am not nominating gibson as an altar boy . it takes a certain kind of person to make movies with the intensity of braveheart , the passion of the christ , and apocalypto . as i’ve seen with other temperamental stars , there is a wildness in his blue eyes , an electricity that is part of what has made him a big movie star and a great director . one has only to interview the man to see that there’s something a little different in how he sees the world . he’s intense and rash , and he struggles with alcoholism . despite the australian bravado , and the crude humor , he is actually quite sensitive to criticism , even if he doesn’t publicly challenge or deflect it .

after eszterhas traveled to gibson’s costa rica estate to discuss a draft he’d written , things got ugly . i’ve heard from sources at warner bros that eszterhas turned in a shoddy script that was rejected . gibson was upset , the writer’s son taped the outburst and eszterhas leaked a nine - page memo to a website happy to take his side . eszterhas said he did all this for reasons that ranged from persuading gibson to get help to protecting the jews and gibson’s estranged girlfriend from his violent rage . was it possibly a convenient smokescreen to obscure taking a studio paycheck and not putting in the work , or maybe something more , since the writer turned the episode into a windfall when he used the controversy to get an e - book deal ?

gibson will never win in some quarters , but his penchant for not hitting back makes him the dictionary definition of a good punching bag . i’ve observed hypocrisy in several examples where gibson was vilified . for instance , when agent ari emanuel wrote a column for the huffington post urging hollywood to shun gibson , the actor’s longtime agent , ed limato , told me that emanuel tried to poach gibson as a client as recently as when the passion of the christ was released . “for some people in my business to publicly try to destroy mel gibson because of this incident the other night i find very hypocritical , ” limato told me , “since i know ari and a few others , who even after the passion of the christ have been calling mr . gibson and trying to entice him to their agency as a client weekly . ”

while talent including director roman polanski ( drugged and sodomized a minor , and fled ) , mike tyson ( rape conviction ) , chris brown ( beat up ex - girlfriend rihanna ) , t . i . ( weapons charge ) , and many others are repped by major agencies , no agency has touched gibson since emanuel discharged him as a wme client after those tapes surfaced and he used the “n” word . gibson has been shunned not for doing anything criminal ; his greatest offenses amount to use of harsh language .

i’ve spoken to numerous colleagues who forgave gibson for his anti - semitic remarks ( that list includes dean devlin , mike medavoy and richard donner ) and they are quick to remind you who gibson helped along the way . start with robert downey jr , who at one point was broke and an insurance risk on films . gibson put up the insurance bond himself to secure downey to star in the singing detective , which gibson’s icon produced . it was a performance that ignited the actor’s resurgence . i know that he also helped britney spears when she hit bottom , and that he tried to save whitney houston from the drug abuse that ultimately killed her . not everybody is that generous : when gibson himself needed a break that came when warner bros hired him for a showy role in the hangover part ii , he was abruptly dropped when cast complained to director todd phillips . mind you , these same actors happily worked with tyson despite his felony conviction for rape .

i don’t bring all this up to excuse anything gibson has done wrong , but sometimes it’s worth a closer look . take the notorious audiotapes released during his row with ex - girlfriend grigorieva . from my own investigation of the incident , i am persuaded gibson did not beat her or give her a black eye . i base this on interviews with her lawyer and the deputy district attorney who handled the case . gibson admitted to “tapping” grigorieva on the head during an argument in which she shook their infant daughter . this was at a time when gibson was going through an emotional breakdown , and grigorieva capitalized on that by secretly taping their calls in an effort to shake money out of him .

on march 11 , 2011 , gibson was charged with misdemeanor battery and pleaded no contest , without admitting guilt . i covered the case for newsweek ( before gibson and i crossed the friendship line ) . the l . a . district attorney’s office determined that gibson was responsible for misdemeanor assault but that there was also evidence of extortion by grigorieva . “there is no question there was admissible evidence of extortion , ” former deputy district attorney john lynch said at the time . “the problem , however , was whether the d . a . could get a jury to convict . ” lynch added , “as a practical matter , you have to choose between the two cases . in the one case of domestic abuse , the victim could potentially be a defendant in the other case of extortion . if we’d filed an extortion charge against ms . grigorieva and tried to call her as a witness in the domestic abuse case , no defense attorney on the planet would allow her to answer questions . ”

although the police initially contemplated charging gibson with a felony , they declined . as one investigator with knowledge of the case told me at the time , “they had enormous problems with the credibility of the complaining witness [ grigorieva ] . ” this statement was also confirmed by sources within the district attorney’s office .

i’ve since learned from gibson about his personal spiral that occurred between his 2006 dui arrest and the breakup with grigorieva . the day after the dui , gibson’s wife asked him to leave the family home . gibson was suddenly single and alone for the first time in 30 years , cut off from his seven children and wife as he struggled to stop drinking . he was depressed and lonely , his career in shambles as he apologized to anyone who’d listen . alone in a new house , he tried to stay off the sauce . it was then that he met grigorieva , a russian pianist who’d dated composer david foster after being married to actor timothy dalton .

the relationship got rocky when gibson asked her to sign a co - habitation agreement . shortly after , according to published emails , grigorieva began arguing with gibson about whether he would provide for her if they split . this intensified after the birth of their daughter in october 2009 , when she began taping the recordings that she allegedly leaked to the press despite a judge’s order . those recordings revealed a man in personal turmoil . while they contain racist and misogynistic statements , there is also evidence that the comments she made to provoke those statements were conveniently edited out . no matter . you can’t make any of what he said ok , and gibson paid a price much higher than whatever monies grigorieva walked away with . whatever good will gibson had in hollywood evaporated .

i’ve asked him why he didn’t defend himself when the tapes surfaced . why didn’t he challenge the assertion he was crazy ? he shrugged his shoulders and said his comments just seem to make things worse . so he continues to say nothing .

hollywood has long been a town famous for loving a good comeback story . in gibson’s case , i believe that a few powerful people have gone out of their way to prevent that .

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black heritage films with all - negro casts , famous black actors and jazz performers .

from the 1920s thru the mid - 1950s many films were made with all african - american casts for distribution to black cinemas and all - black audiences . these inexpensive but heartfelt little gems spanned all genres - - musical , dramatic , western , comedy and even horror - - and give a fascinating peak today inside a culture and world that has been largely overlooked by history .

all films are available in dvd - r format . some come with musical shorts or cartoon extras , as noted below , or as double features .

the birth of a nation ( 1915 ) silent classic with music score . d . w . griffith ' s civil war epic with controversial racial stereotypes during the black - ruled anarachy after the war leading to the rise of the ku klux klan .

boarding house blues ( 1948 ) 86 min . moms mabley and dusty fletcher . tenants of a harlem boarding house put on a show to save their home .

the bronze buckaroo ( 1939 ) 58 min . herb jeffries sings and shoots in a black cast western . with “bubbling over” musical short .

( 1939 ) 54 min . in a quiet , all - black oklahoma community live the wilsons , whose pretty daughter margaret is courted by awkward buster and suave stage mentalist prince alihabad . on one busy night , mr . wilson shows his valuables to alihabad , who plans to elope with margaret ; a mysterious man hangs around while another burglarizes the house ; and someone murders mr . wilson ! will the killer be caught by the police , or by bumbling correspondence - school detective junior lingley ?

murder in harlem ( 1935 ) 96 min . a black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman . after he reports it , he finds himself accused of the murder . directed by oscar micheaux .

murder on lenox avenue ( 1941 ) 65 min . mamie smith , alec lovejoy . dramatic events in a harlem apartment house . pa wilkins is chosen by the better business league to replace their ousted , crooked leader marshall . double feature with : murder with music ( 1941 ) 57 min . night club singer nelle hill has many suitors - - an escaped convict , a piano player and a newspaper man . one is killed . plus cab calloway sings " we the cats shall hep ya ( 1945 ) . harlem murder spree special program !

paradise in harlem ( 1939 ) 85 min . crime drama centered on a club singer who aspires to be a great dramatic actor .

rock ‘n’ roll revue and rhythm & blues revue ( 1955 ) two one - hour compilations of black performers on stage : dinah washington , mantan moreland , duke ellington , nat king cole , sarah vaughn , lionel hampton , herb jeffries , etc .

showtime at the apollo ( 1954 ) 80 min . musical variety show filmed in new york’s apollo theater with many stars : nipsey russell , duke ellington , the clovers , herb jeffries , dinah washington , count basie , lionel hampton , etc . 3 separate episodes of the 1954 tv show .

souls of sin ( 1949 ) 64 min . unsuccessful gambler ' dollar bill ' burton lives in a crummy new york basement room with old friend bob and a new roommate , friendly blues singer ' alabama ' lee . but , tired of being broke , dollar bill gets more steady employment . . . doing illegal errands for gangster bad boy george . the now prosperous bill ignores pretty , adoring etta and takes up with sultry singer regina . will bill ' s way of life catch up with him ? will his upright friends be more successful in the end ? all - black cast .

spirit of youth ( 1938 ) 66 min . boxer joe louis stars in the story of the rise of boxer joe thomas , which paralleled the life of joe louis .

check and double check ( 1930 ) 80 min . radio’s amos ‘n andy ( white actors freeman gosden and charles correll in black face ) in a feature comedy . with duke ellington .

the emperor jones ( 1933 ) 72 min . paul robeson plays a porter who escapes from a chain gang to become king of a caribbean island . based on the play by eugene o’neil . special program with " uncle tom and little eva " cartoon , delta rhythm boys " take the a train " and bessie smith in " st . louis blues . "

the jackie robinson story ( 1950 ) 76 min . jackie robinson stars in own biography as first black baseball player in majors .

judge priest ( 1934 ) 80 min . will rogers comedy is a showcase for black comedian stepin fetchit .

the joe louis story ( 1953 ) 88 min . coley wallace in biography of the heaveyweight champ .

topper returns ( 1941 ) rochester is featured in this mystery - comedy about cosmo topper ( roland young ) helping ghost joan blondell find her own killer .

freckles comes home ( 1942 ) gale storm , johnny downs , mantan moreland . two pals encounter an obstinate hick town sheriff who accuses them of murder . double feature with law of the jungle ( 1942 ) arline judge , mantan moreland . nazis hide among jungle natives in this classic monogram thriller .

the gang’s all here ( 1941 ) frankie darro , mantan moreland comedy / crime b - picture . double feature with irish luck ( 1939 ) frankie darro , mantan moreland . an amateur detective teams up with a frightened bell - hop to solve a series of hotel murders .

let’s go collegiate ( 1941 ) frankie darro & mantan moreland in a college musical . double feature with up in the air ( 1940 ) frankie darro , mantan moreland in mystery - comedy set in radio station .

all musical black heritage program with a poster to promote your showings ! rare musical soundies by billy eckstine , nat king cole , fats waller , count basie , louis armstrong , cab calloway and more , plus " scrub me mama " color cartoon , episode of " showtime at the apollo " and " rock ' n roll revue " wth dozens of stars .

these shorts are all collected onto one disc : bessie smith in " st . louis blues " lena horne in " boogie - woogie dream " ethel waters in " bubbling over " duke ellington in " symphony in black " cab calloway’s " jitterbug party " “murder in swingtime” “mr . adam’s bomb” “open the door richard” fats waller “ain’t misbehaving” louis armstrong “shine” the mills brothers , dorothy dandridge : “paper doll”

first television series to feature black actors . beulah is a negro domestic in a white family who pulls the weekly family situations together with more common sense than all of the others . the role of beulah was played by 3 distinguished black women : ethel waters , hattie mcdaniel and louise beavers .

louise beavers as beulah . beulah draws her own conclusions when she see young johnny with a baby buggy and mrs . henderson tells her that she has a secret from her husband . beulah then plans a baby shower .

louise beavers as beulah . oriole convinces beulah that the hendersons are headed for divorce .

hattie mcdaniel as beulah . miss first of the henderson household , volunteers to doctor henry’s pet rose bush ; beulah becomes distressed and the henderson’s impressed , as the plant changes size , color , shape and everything under her mysterious ministrations .

ethel waters as beulah # 1 , with dooley wilson as bill and butterfly mcqueen as oriole . bill becomes a babysitter when the hendersons take out a would - be client of harry’s .

hattie mcdaniel as beulah . mr . and mrs . henderson are worried about son donnie ' s social skills . he just doesn ' t seem to be able to get a handle on how to dance , and the big dance class party is approaching . beulah and bill fix that by teaching him to dance - - not the stuffy dances he ' s learning in class , but jive .

willie was a popular black comedian who had featured roles in the early tv situation comedy trouble with father ( 1950 - 1955 ) starring stu erwin .

black saturday when the neighbors get a dishwasher , june becomes jealous so stu decides to build her a dishwasher from of a do - it - yourself kit with help of handyman willie . stu ' s holiday refusing to pay a plumber , stu insists on handling a leaky pipe himself , placing the erwin household on a flood alert . father picks a queen a conflict of interest arises when stu is chosen to judge a beauty competition that joyce has entered . a quiet place stu takes june to hotel ( where willie is a waiter ) for a needed rest that turns into disaster .

us government films about the black soldier in world war - 2 . the negro soldier a baptist minister addresses his congregation with a rousing account of the outstanding contributions of blacks to american arms and society from revolutionary times to the present . he urges his congregants to contribute to the current fight to preserve freedom . 1944 . the navy steward this fascinating study describes the duties and essential role played by the navy steward in america ' s maritime war effort . 1955 . the negro sailor a newspaper reporter follows " bill johnson " from induction , through basic training and ultimately , actual combat in this stirring call to arms , urging african - americans to throw their might behind the battle to preserve democracy in the raging global conflict . 1945 .


america is a 2009 american television film starring rosie o'donnell , ruby dee and philip johnson .

it was directed by yves simoneau and written by joyce eliason .

the film is based on the young adult novel america by e.r. frank .

it premiered on february 28 , 2009 , on lifetime .

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america ( 2009 film ) <EOT> from film quarterly winter 2009 - 10 , vol . 63 , no . 2

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up is pixar ' s tenth feature film . it is notable for being the first pixar film to be originally produced in 3d technology . it was released in theaters and 3d on may 29 , 2009 .

" that ' s what we ' re up against . in 2009 . it ' s amazing , " he said .

learn about the exceptional individuals who fought to preserve america ' s rich natural treasures .

national theatre live launched in 2009 , with the intention of bringing the best in live performances straight from the theatre to viewers around the world .

women & spirit : catholic sisters in america was a traveling exhibit that first opened in cincinnati in may 2009 . sponsored and produced by lcwr , the exhibit traveled across the country and drew more than one million visitors . venues that hosted the exhibit were :

but before the printz award was to be announced , loriene roy had to announce the winners of the best books for young adults 2009 list . now ,

for sapphire , the movie is thus not " a black film or a woman ' s film or a survivor ' s film . i saw it as a universal film… you know those nature documentaries where the flower blooms in fast motion ? that ' s what this film is like , seeing precious ' s soul unfold . "

america is a tv movie starring philip johnson , rosie o ' donnell , and ruby dee . in " america , " dr . maureen brennan , a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center , encounters her newest patient , a bi - racial boy named america . through their sessions , dr . brennan helps . . . see full summary »

" the film has no distributor in america . it has got a deal everywhere else in the world but in the us , and it ' s because of what the film is about . people have been saying this is the best film they ' ve seen all year , yet nobody in the us has picked it up .

a behind - the - scenes look at how smithsonian channel ' s unprecedented aerial series , aerial america , is created .

irish screen america’s first event of 2018 will take place as part of the origins first irish theatre festival in new york .

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for one of your “best books for young adults” 2009 list . i don’t know why . possibly you wanted to class up your squalid operation . frankly i’m surprised i consented to be nominated .

marvel captain america men ' s athletic crew socks , 2 - pair pack , sock size 10 - 13 / sh . . .

in " america , " dr . maureen brennan , a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center , encounters her newest patient , a bi - racial boy named america . through their sessions , dr . brennan helps america come to terms with his roller - coaster life , which began when he was taken by authorities from his crack - addicted mother , and placed into foster care as an infant . the short time of stability in his life occurred when america lived with mrs . harper , the elderly nanny to one of his foster families . later reunited with his mother , she soon abandons america and he is again placed into foster care . lagging behind in school and full of anger , america retreats further away from society after years of sexual abuse . after attempting suicide , america is placed in a treatment center where dr . brennan helps him open up about his painful past and discover the support and courage he needs to get his life back on track .

film crams a wealth of material into 90 minutes without losing clarity or momentum .

had been nominated for the bbya 2009 list , and it goes without saying that i knew i’d make the final cut—but to tell the truth , the prospect did not thrill me . i mean , am i

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alejandro gonzález iñárritu analyzes kurosawa’s ikiru and explains how it influenced his latest film , biutiful .

captain america ; 1944 - black & white - this classic movie serial had them coming back to the theatres every week to watch the famous superhero , played by dick purcell , battle the evil villian , the scarab . the scarab has stolen a device that destroys buildings , and captain america must foil his evil plans !

the film was chosen to open the toronto film festival and has its british premiere on sunday . it has been sold in almost every territory around the world , from australia to scandinavia .

a post - apocalyptic tale , in which a lone man fights his way across america in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind .

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antoine fuqua watches martin scorsese ' s mean streets and talks about his personal connection to the film .

the best bar in america is a movie starring david ackroyd , john ansotegui , and gregory t . collett . an existential ride into the heart of the culture of drink .

you own 391 national parks . come for a visit and take away the experience of a lifetime . help the national park service make america ' s best idea even better !

as the excitement over star wars : the force awakens built in the run up to release , it was easy to forget that we ' d been there before – just six years go in fact . cast your mind back to christmas 2009 , film - goers were licking their collective chops over an entirely different space saga – james cameron ' s avatar .

brittany farrell ( with megaphone ) in “whose streets ? ” the film is due out aug . 11 .

a scene from the oscar - winning film departures with , from left , masahiro motoki and tsutomu yamazaki .

the most dangerous man in america : daniel ellsberg and the pentagon papers is a movie starring peter arnett , ben bagdikian , and ann beeson . " the most dangerous man in america " is the story of what happens when a former pentagon insider , armed only with his conscience , steadfast determination , and a file cabinet full of . . . see full summary »

crew : camera ( color , hd - to - 35mm ) , vicente franco , dan krauss ; editors , chandler , goldsmith , lerew ; music , blake leyh ; sound , nick bertoni , goldsmith . reviewed on dvd , new york , sept . 11 , 2009 . ( in toronto film festival - - real to reel . ) running time : 94 min .

lcwr’s women & spirit : catholic sisters in america dvd is a remarkable resource for providing education on the life of women religious and their contributions to this nation from 1727 to the present .

a reading and discussion of niall mckay’s short film script the ferry , going into production in march in ireland .

early reviews have raved about the film . the hollywood reporter said : " it would be a great shame if those with religious convictions spurned the film out of hand as they will find it even - handed and wise . "

ascent experience mount fuji — through a selection of 4 , 000 photographs snapped over 150 years . the dutch artist fiona tan has built this experimental film out of those stills . screenings at film forum in new york will be free .

" it is unbelievable to us that this is still a really hot potato in america . there ' s still a great belief that he made the world in six days . it ' s quite difficult for we in the uk to imagine religion in america . we live in a country which is no longer so religious . but in the us , outside of new york and la , religion rules .

award winning journalist john pilger examines the role of washington in america ' s manipulation of latin american politics during the last 50 years leading up to the struggle by ordinary . . . see full summary »

the story centers on an old man named carl fredricksen who is determined to get to south america to keep a promise he made to his dead wife ellie . after tying thousand of balloons to his house , carl is off to south america . however , he soon discovers a little boy named russell is on aboard his house and the two of them set off on a bigger adventure than they had expected .

by general consensus , then , avatar was more than a movie . it was a cultural earthquake . august 21 2009 was designated " avatar day " , with 15 minutes of preview footage screened for free at imax cinemas around the world . the ensuing bru - ha - ha threatened to break the internet , as did the rush , two days later , to view the first trailer , downloaded four million times in 24 hours from itunes alone , a stampede the company ' s servers sometimes struggled to handle ( and shattering the previous record of 1 . 7 million set by jj abrams ' s first star trek film ) . more important events may well have occurred in late 2009 , but avatar dominated the headlines .

watching this film in 2018 with the post so fresh in the mind , however , is a particularly unique experience . the documentary helps flesh out many of the exterior strands of the story that spielberg ' s film left out ( deliberately ) .

the tomatometer score — based on the opinions of hundreds of film and television critics — is a trusted measurement of critical recommendation for millions of fans . it represents the percentage of professional critic reviews that are positive for a given film or television show .

muntz is an old explorer looking for the beast of paradise falls ; he vowed not to return to north america until he had captured the creature . he uses a group of dogs to aid him in his hunt .

captures the gravity and history of the most interesting city in the american west . a memorable film about an unforgettable place . "

for terry zwigoff , fritz lang ' s mordant 1945 film noir scarlet street is a lot of laughs . he explains why .

looks back at watergate , the original game changer of america politics . how has watergate changed the presidency ? what effect has the scandal had on our political leaders ? and has hope and . . . see full summary »

this day long symposium will discuss the many aspects of film , television , theatre , fashion , journalism and the creativity industries . the event will include a reading and discussion of niall mckay’s short film script the ferry , going into production in march in ireland .

the drummer philip and i quit the band in september 2009 , but monika and sam are continuing on . we had been variously described as " melodramatic video game music , " " moon - man opera , " and " gypsy sex metal . " it ' s over now , but i loved being in this band .

all eyez on me the contours and contradictions of the life of the rapper tupac shakur ( demetrius shipp jr . , in his first movie ) are recounted in a biopic scheduled to be released on his birthday . danai gurira plays tupac’s mother , a black panther , and jamal woolard is biggie smalls , a . k . a . the notorious b . i . g . , whom he played in the 2009 film “notorious . ” benny boom directed .

patty jenkins , while in post on her own comic book opus , wonder woman , waxes nostalgic on the richard donner film superman .

based on a 1996 book written by the new york - based performance poet and author known as sapphire , the film has just been released in america and was hailed by variety as " courageous and uncompromising , a shaken cocktail of debasement and elation , despair and hope " . oprah winfrey , one of the most powerful women in america , became the movie ' s executive producer after watching an early screening and its star , first - time actress gabourey sidibe , is now being tipped for an academy award , even though she has no professional training and got the part after turning up to an open audition .

neil labute pays tribute to the precision and boldness of mike nichols’ vision in carnal knowledge —a film he admits he has borrowed from freely .

billy wilder ' s the apartment is a film that inspired nancy meyers . the director chats about what makes it so special for her .

score : a film music documentary going behind the scenes of how film scores are composed , this portrait of the craft features some of the most familiar “music by” credits in the business , including hans zimmer , john williams , danny elfman , quincy jones , rachel portman and thomas newman .

this edition from " starry night " is unacceptable , because there ' s a huge shaded bar across the bottom 1 / 4 of the screen that says " classic movies " during the entire film . this is the edition with the crooked picture of captain america on the cover that looks like it was drawn by a child . i bought a much better edition , also on amazon , from " prs " , which also inlcudes trailers for the lone ranger and hound of the baskervilles . the better edition has the cover with captain america and a woman , and it doesn ' t have words superimposed over the screen during the movie .

the 90 - second newbery film festival . i founded a film festival in which kid filmmakers create weird short movies that tell the entire stories of newbery - winning books in about 90 seconds . now in its 6th year , it screens annually in 14 cities : new york , chicago , san francisco , and many others ! the movies the kids create are weird , funny , and impressive . learn more about the film festival here .

" the most dangerous man in america " is the story of what happens when a former pentagon insider , armed only with his conscience , steadfast determination , and a file cabinet full of classified documents , decides to challenge an " imperial " presidency - answerable to neither congress , the press , nor the people - in order to help end the vietnam war . in 1971 , daniel ellsberg shook america to its foundations when he smuggled a top - secret pentagon study to the new york times that showed how five presidents consistently lied to the american people about the vietnam war that was killing millions and tearing america apart . president nixon ' s national security advisor henry kissinger called ellsberg " the most dangerous man in america , " who " had to be stopped at all costs . " but ellsberg wasn ' t stopped . facing 115 years in prison on espionage and conspiracy charges , he fought back . ensuing events surrounding the so - called pentagon papers led directly to watergate and the downfall of president nixon , . . .

" charles darwin is , i suppose , the hero of the film . but we tried to make the film in a very even - handed way . darwin wasn ' t saying ' kill all religion ' , he never said such a thing , but he is a totem for people . "

carl is an old and cranky retired balloon salesman , who , as a boy wanted to explore south america and find the forbidden paradise falls . he begins his journey , 64 years later , along with a boy scout named russell with help from 500 balloons .

the treasure of the sierra madre is the kind of straight - ahead film paul thomas anderson would love to make . he explains what makes it great .

the uncomfortable truths at the heart of both the book and the film are occasionally so extreme that it is hard to believe that such a poverty of aspiration can exist in the heady glow of president obama ' s post - racial america . " we can ' t just keep talking about the obama children , " sapphire told the observer . " we have to focus on the children who don ' t have it good .

a british film about charles darwin has failed to find a us distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for american audiences , according to its producer .

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for those who lived through the turmoil of vietnam , and for the generations that have come since , the film is an important document in its own right .

it is not , at first , a story with obvious universal appeal and yet it forms the plot of one of the most hotly awaited films of recent years . precious premiered at the sundance film festival in january where it won the audience award and the grand jury prize for best drama . at the cannes film festival in may , the film received a 15 - minute standing ovation – this , in spite of its harrowing subject matter and its refusal to offer any easy conclusions .

this is a great film about immigrating to north america as a divorced mother . the interactions between mona ( the mother ) and fadi ( the son ) are memorable ; whether it be at the border at the occupied territories , in the us regarding his rebelliousness in school or confronting the attitude of us rural society . i just viewed this film and disagree that it is a stereotype . maybe the reviewers have not taken a good look at " real life " in north america as a newly arrived immigrant . in this case , they are from occupied palestine and immigrate exactly when the bush administration declares war on iraq . the town shuns them . no one is iraqi , palestine is occupied and war is on the way ; so the son convinces her to leave when she receives unexpected news . a twist and tease every step of the way and the end is most unexpected !

camera obscura suffering from post - traumatic stress disorder , a war photographer begins to see real premonitions of deaths in his pictures . it’s a horror film , naturally .

director tom ford ( nocturnal animals ) muses about peter bogdanovich’s astute choices on the timeless the last picture show and why the film continues to resonate for him personally .

in vittorio de sica’s charming miracle in milan , the poor literally rise above it all . milos forman explains why the film touched him so deeply in his youth .

shawn levy admires the storytelling skill and deep emotion of steven zaillian ' s searching for bobby fischer , a film that ' s had a lasting influence on his work .

recounts the sometimes glorious , often sorrowful , but always fascinating story of the most lucrative hard rock mining town in united states history , " the richest hill on earth , " " the town that plumbed and electrified america , " the pittsburgh of the west . in butte , the industrial revolution collided with the romance of the frontier , corporate capitalism battled organized labor , and human appetite laid waste to land and water , yielding vast fortunes for a few and a tragic environmental legacy for the people left behind . those people are the heart of the film - - miners , their families , the working class neighborhoods they created amidst danger and hardship . in a copper crucible , they forged a community whose toughness and solidarity speak to what ' s missing in america today .

lucky lucky , played by the film’s writer and director , bari king , is an undocumented immigrant who gets enmeshed in a crime web and has to fight his way out .

when lisa cholodenko first saw bob rafelson’s masterpiece in film school , it was a class in psychological realism . the lesson of openness between director and actor informs her work today .

woody allen’s second film , take the money and run , delighted a young paul feig . even today it defines his sense of what you can get away with in comedy .

king vidor’s humanity and feeling for ordinary people come alive in his silent masterpiece , the crowd . paul weitz reflects on what makes the film by the dga’s first president a classic .

it is a skillful , well - made film , although , since ellsberg is the narrator , it doesn ' t probe him very deeply . we see his version of himself .

arrived in good time unfortunately security tag was still attached managed to get the disc out eventually film great hopefully next time i order a blu ray no tag will be still . . .

françois truffaut’s new wave classic jules and jim has lost none of its freshness and sense of innovation for noah baumbach . in fact , he borrowed some of its techniques for his latest film .

released on december 17 , the 161 minute , $ 237 million movie duly steamrollered the box office , earning $ 26 . 7 million in its first 24 hours ( despite snowstorms of uncommon severity across america ) . internationally it breached the $ 1 billion threshold in a record - breaking 19 days . a full seven weeks in , avatar remained the top grossing film in the united states . the pantheon of gold - plated fanboy franchises such as star wars and star trek had , it seemed , welcomed its newest initiate .

join us for a special screening of the peacemaker , with director james demo and the film’s subject padraig o’malle y in attendance to take part in a post - screening discussion with isa’s niall mckay .

stanley kubrick ' s a clockwork orange entranced rocker - turned - director rob zombie when he was a kid . taking another look , he stil sees a film that ' s like no other .

william wyler ' s the best years of our lives is a film that has remained lodged in james l . brooks ' head and heart for all these years . he explains its inexorable appeal .

“the most dangerous man in america , ” judith ehrlich and rick goldsmith’s cogent docu about daniel ellsberg , the high - level pentagon official and vietnam war planner who leaked the pentagon papers to the new york times , crams a wealth of material into 90 minutes without losing clarity or momentum . fascinating for those who lived through the controversy [ … ]

i was surprised to find though that he had pulled the cat out of the bag with this one . the film is rich with interesting dialogue , perfect timed comedy with a dash of brutal assassination .

stone ' s admirable and persuasive evocation is unfortunately marred by his self - defeating resort to flurries of claustrophobic , fragmented hand - held shots that obfuscate just about every crucial plot development in the film .

“traditionally in ireland the word “meitheal” was used to describe the village coming together to bring in the harvest , ” says barbara jones , consul general of ireland in new york . “well , this is what niall mckay is trying to do with irish screen america , bring us all together to help irish filmmakers get films made and noticed in the united states . niall is asking us , rightly , to come together to promote this wonderful harvest of new irish film talent for audiences in the us and i would ask everyone to help him in this important work .

the film has sparked fierce debate on us christian websites , with a typical comment dismissing evolution as " a silly theory with a serious lack of evidence to support it despite over a century of trying " .

from 1971 to 1973 , richard nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the white house . this revealing film chronicles the content of those tapes , which include nixon ' s . . . see full summary »

jesús after committing an assault , a teenager ( nicolás durán ) in santiago is forced to confront his father ( alejandro goic ) in a film inspired by a real - life hate crime in chile in 2012 .

marc forster revisits alan j . pakula’s ’70s - era conspiracy film , the parallax view , and finds it as creepy today as when it was made . he explains how the director created a most disquieting mood .

“the most dangerous man in america , ” judith ehrlich and rick goldsmith’s cogent docu about daniel ellsberg , the high - level pentagon official and vietnam war planner who leaked the pentagon papers to the new york times , crams a wealth of material into 90 minutes without losing clarity or momentum . fascinating for those who lived through the controversy and those for whom the incidentrings only the faintest of bells , the pic wisely allows obvious parallels between vietnam and iraq to hover unspoken . must - see docu is skedded to open sept . 16 at gotham’s film forum after its toronto fest bow .

dean demetri martin , a former fixture of “the daily show , ” directed , wrote and stars in this film , playing an illustrator who , after his mother’s death , works through a complicated relationship with his father ( kevin kline ) . from last year’s tribeca film festival , mike hale wrote in the new york times that mr . martin “delivers a winning combination of winsomeness and rue . ” gillian jacobs and mary steenburgen also star .

this is the definitive counterculture blockbuster . the down - and - dirty directorial debut of former clean - cut teen star dennis hopper , easy rider heralded the arrival of a new voice in film , one pitched angrily against the mainstream . after the film’s cross - country journey—with its radical , new wave–style editing , outsider - rock soundtrack , revelatory performance by a young jack nicholson , and explosive ending—the american road trip would never be the same .

however , us distributors have resolutely passed on a film which will prove hugely divisive in a country where , according to a gallup poll conducted in february , only 39 per cent of americans believe in the theory of evolution .

hearing is believing the star of this documentary is rachel flowers , who was born prematurely and went blind , but learned to play music and grew into a vibrant performer . the film follows two years in her family’s life .

in this popular feature , a director talks about a film particularly close to their heart , why the creative choices are inspired , how it influenced their own work , and why the movie continues to resonate for them personally .

much research went into compiling the archival black and white news footage and photos along with audio from the nixon white house tapes . this compelling film takes a cloak - and - dagger approach and is full of landmark historical events

" butte , america goes far beyond documentary pictorialism to the deepest kind of fidelity , the spoken lives of copperdom ` s miners and their families . the struggles of the one - time world capital of copper are a dramatic and tragic chapter of our national life that every american should know by heart . " - ivan doig , author of english creek and this house made of sky .

but avatar ' s bloom would quickly fade . far from taking up permanent residency in the affections of the fan community , cameron ' s rhapsody in blue has shrunk from the public consciousness . the debut this november of an avatar - themed cirque du soleil show in north america ( " toruk the first flight " ) is the first avatar - related activity in over half a decade .

dawson city : frozen time in the silent era , the gold rush town of dawson city in the yukon was the last stop on the film - shipping circuit . the creative solutions used to dispose of flammable nitrate stock resulted in the inadvertent preservation of 500 films — forgotten reels were excavated in the 1970s . bill morrison ( the found - footage collage “decasia” ) uses those clips to tell a story that interweaves film history and a sociological history of dawson .

the national parks : america ' s best idea is a six - episode series produced by ken burns and dayton duncan and written by dayton duncan . filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature ' s most spectacular locales – from acadia to yosemite , yellowstone to the grand canyon , the everglades of florida to the gates of the arctic in alaska - the national parks : america ' s best idea is nonetheless a story of people : people from every conceivable background – rich and poor ; famous and unknown ; soldiers and scientists ; natives and newcomers ; idealists , artists and entrepreneurs ; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved , and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy .

‘what we have witnessed this weekend is the extraordinary breadth of irish talent both living and working in the us and ireland – irish screen america is an incredible platform to share stories and at the same time have a lot of fun . thank you to niall and the isa team - we know the hard work they put in and we wish isa every success in building on an amazing launch . ’

“when you look at the history of film , there have been to date two great revolutions — sound and colour , ” jeffrey katzenberg exclaimed in the new yorker . “this will be the third great revolution . . . the day after jim cameron’s movie comes out , it’s a new world . ” another hollywood analyst told the magazine : “ the industry is looking for its citizen kane , its definitive work of 3 - d , and avatar may be that film . ”

lee daniels , the film ' s director , read push when it was first published and slept with the book under his pillow for three months . for years , sapphire refused to sell him the film rights . " it felt like a movie might box her [ precious ] in and i wanted her to be free , " she says . it was only after she saw the oscar - winning monster ' s ball , which was produced by daniels , that she changed her mind .

“and so i thought maybe by squarely acknowledging that moment of death and the immediate moment after , ” he said , “it might be a way for a film to be made that could ultimately , sort of counterintuitively , affirm human life . ”

already confirmed is the resurrection of villainous col miles quaritch ( stephen lang ) , killed spectacularly in the original avatar . " his character will evolve into really unexpected places across the arc of our new three - film saga , " cameron has said .

after montreal and a basketful of awards in japan — including another best - film prize from the japanese academy — the oscar was “the icing on the cake , ” mr . takita said . and it was a flavor he could get used to .

but because " dangerous man " sees the era through ellsberg ' s eyes , and we hear the disgust in his voice as he describes his younger , gung - ho self , the film becomes a fascinating and clear - eyed self - portrait .

this movie is rated pg ( for some peril and action ) . it is the second pixar film to receive a pg rating , the first being the incredibles and the third being brave . however , in the united kingdom , up was rated u .

george and a . j . is released alongside the itunes version of the film . while not released with the blu - ray and dvd releases of up , it has been released on the pixar short films collection volume 2 blu - ray and dvd .

angels in america part 2 – august 10th at 19 . 00 this new staging of tony kushner’s award - winning play continues to it’s stunning conclusion . first performed in san francisco in 1991 and later adapted into a hbo miniseries starring al pacino and meryl streep , in 2017 it will be directed by olivier and tony award winning director marianne elliott . there will be an encore screening of part ii on thursday august 10th – more info here .

harmonium a prizewinner at cannes , koji fukada’s film captures the ripple effects on one family after the father ( kanji furutachi ) invites an acquaintance ( tadanobu asano ) , a recent ex - convict , to work with him in the garage next to his home .

“film and video production are shining examples of how cultural industries – as vehicles of identity , values and meanings – can open the door to dialogue and understanding between peoples , but also to economic growth and development . this conviction underpins the unesco convention on cultural diversity” said koïchiro matsuura , the director - general of unesco . “and this new data on film and video production provides yet more proof of the need to rethink the place of culture on the international political agenda . ” overall , the survey yielded data from 101 countries .

the crowning glory of this film though lies with christoph waltz whom no fault or error can be found . he manages to create a real tension in the audience whilst remaining quite “theatrical” ( couldn’t think of a better word ) . he definitely deserved his prize at cannes

carl fredricksen as a boy wanted to explore south america and find the forbidden paradise falls . about 64 years later he gets to begin his journey along with a boy scout named russell with help from 500 balloons . on their journey they discover many new friends including a talking dog and carl and russel figure out that someone evil plans . carl soon realises that this evildoer is his childhood idol . will they be able to defeat him and will they find paradise falls ?

creation was developed by bbc films and the uk film council , and stars bettany ' s real - life wife jennifer connelly as darwin ' s deeply religious wife , emma . it is based on the book , annie ' s box , by darwin ' s great - great - grandson , randal keynes , and portrays the naturalist as a family man tormented by the death in 1851 of annie , his favourite child . she is played in the film by 10 - year - old newcomer martha west , the daughter of the wire star dominic west .

in its opening weekend , up made $ 68 . 1 million , the number 1 movie for the weekend . this is the third best opening for a pixar film , only behind finding nemo and the incredibles . according to box office mojo , up has made approximately $ 293 million domestically and over $ 350 million internationally for a worldwide total of over $ 643 million . this makes up the third highest grossing film for pixar , only behind finding nemo at $ 864 . 6 million and toy story 3 at over $ 1 , 000 , 000 , 000

the film’s teaser trailers have constituted major news events in their own right ; the minutiae of its plot has been poured ever endlessly . with just a few weeks to go , the fan community – a not insignificant chunk of the cinema - attending public – can hardly contain itself .

the sheer quantity of people that the man and boy encounter is absurd . if the majority of people worldwide are deceased , then the americas , where the film is set , would be nearly depopulated . they should have not encountered many , if any , people simply because the survivors would either be in isolated town or cities or they would be holed in remote rural areas . since the two largely avoid the former and the size of the latter precludes easy visitation , they shouldn ' t have run into anyone for most , if not all , of the film .

lemon this year’s designated sundance squirm comedy stars brett gelman ( who wrote the script with his wife , the film’s director , janicza bravo ) as a 40 - year - old drama teacher who alienates everyone around him . judy greer , michael cera and gillian jacobs endure his disagreeable behavior .

wild ill at ease with civilized life , ania ( lilith stangenberg ) forges what becomes an increasingly close and physical bond with a wolf . if festival reviews are any indication , the film is poised somewhere between a tall tale and a provocative social commentary . nicolette krebitz wrote and directed .

once the film was finished , another long wait ensued : 13 months passed before a distributor could be found . but the delay was a godsend , both men said . mr . takita conjectured that the worsening economic climate primed audiences for the film . “is money the most important thing in life ? ” he said . “what is the most important thing in life ? people certainly are in search of some kind of comfort , of safe haven , and whether they find that in music or in books or in films , it’s pretty clear that people are looking for something . ”

moscow never sleeps an irish filmmaker , johnny o’reilly , pays tribute to his adopted city of moscow with this ensemble film . the trailer at least paints a much sunnier view of the city than russian imports usually do . aleksey serebryakov ( the protagonist of “leviathan” ) is in the large cast .

war machine working from “the operators : the wild and terrifying inside story of america’s war in afghanistan , ” a nonfiction book by the journalist michael hastings ( who wrote the rolling stone article about stanley mcchrystal ) , the director david michôd ( “animal kingdom” ) charts the changing fortunes of a united states general ( brad pitt ) with a dash of strangelove - ian mockery . other notable cast members include topher grace , anthony michael hall , tilda swinton , ben kingsley and lakeith stanfield ( “get out” ) .

unsurprisingly , given its uncompromising subject matter , daniels struggled to get the film off the ground . " all the studios said no , " he says . " they didn ' t want to make a film about a 350lb black girl who is abused . " eventually daniels raised $ 8m from private investors . through sheer force of personality , he persuaded his friend mariah carey to appear in a minor role as an overworked welfare officer , her face denuded of make - up and almost unrecognisable . singer lenny kravitz also appears as a maternity nurse who helps to deliver precious ' s baby .

a stunning documentary of the man who helped launch and then bring an end to the vietnam war . not to mention bringing down nixon and his clutch of horrible henchmen . a true american hero , daniel ellsberg is someone everyone should know about . you watch films like this in the hopes of preventing history from repeating itself . sadly , it already has repeated itself in the form of bushco , his gang of immoral entrepreneurs , and the lies that led america into iraq . and so it goes . . .

the woman who left ten years ago , the filipino director lav diaz was a forbidding figure , even among extreme cinephiles . at film festivals they would ask one another in hushed tones whether they really planned to see his nine - hour “death in the land of encantos . ” lately , mr . diaz seems to have widened his appeal , earning acclaim for his dostoyevsky - inspired “norte , the end of history” and for this new drama , which won the golden lion at the venice film festival in 2016 . at nearly four hours , it is also one of mr . diaz’s shortest films .

awakening the zodiac shane west and leslie bibb play a couple who find a 40 - year - old film reel that they believe was shot by the zodiac killer in california . they try to sleuth him out . this displeases the zodiac killer , who is probably a member of aarp by now .

" severed ways " is an almost entirely wordless long - form video set to metal and goth music . it tries to imagine what it must have been like to be a norseman exploring north america in 1000 ad . writer / director tony stone ( who also plays the lead role ) appears to know a lot more about music than filmmaking , screenwriting or acting . mostly what you get is interminably long scenes depicting such things as the building of a house . there are also many endless sequences depicting our two norse heroes walking through the wilderness . one thing the film does do is evoke a mood . you really do feel like it ' s 1000 ad and you ' re in a forest . the film does get more interesting as it goes , with our noresemen encountering two christian monks and then a couple of natives . but as soon as something interesting starts to happen in these storylines , stone reverts to another panoramic nature sequence . he seems to be allergic to thought . it ' s too bad , because i get the sense that he ' s got some interesting ideas somewhere underneath all that hair .

the survivalist a standout at the 2015 tribeca film festival , stephen fingleton’s debut feature is a terse portrait of life in a postapocalyptic wood . martin mccann is the title character , who lives alone and fends off all comers until two women ( mia goth and olwen fouéré ) turn up at his doorstep .

in the 11th century , vikings , indians , and irish monks collide on the shores of north america in a historical epic adventure of exploration , personal glory , and religious dominance . abandoned by a western exploration party and stranded in the new world , two lone vikings wade through a grand primeval landscape , struggling for survival while still in the grip of their norse ways . an impressive diy epic , " severed ways " features a frosty black - metal soundtrack , including burzum , morbid angel , judas priest and dimmu borgir .

afterimage the polish director andrzej wajda , who died at 90 in october , grappled one last time with his country’s history in his final film , a portrait of the painter wladyslaw strzeminski ( boguslaw linda ) , who pushed back against the postwar communist regime’s mandates for art and sacrificed his career as a result .

daniel ellsberg released confidential pentagon documents that led to a shift in the public ' s opinion about the vietnam war . this is most interesting question this film presents : when one chooses to fight injustice , is it best to do so from inside the ranks of an unjust body , or should one buck the system completely , going outside the organization ? many people i ' ve encountered throughout my life have made the first argument , that one does more good inside an organization , attempting to change its operations from the inside out . ellsberg takes the opposite point because he admits that being a part of the military - industrial complex caused him alter his conception of justice so that he wasn ' t changing the organization but the organization was changing him . i find that fascinating . the rest of the film chronicles the fallout from ellsberg releasing the pentagon papers and the ensuing legal battles . ellsberg is the film ' s narrator , so we don ' t get to see much about his character except for cherry picked interviews that re - affirm ellsberg ' s conception of himself . i would have preferred a most objective take on the subject . overall , the thematic element is intriguing to me , and the film is a strong chronicle of a tumultuous time .

unlocked in an espionage thriller from michael apted , noomi rapace plays a c . i . a . agent who is on the run and working to stop a terrorist attack in london . orlando bloom , michael douglas , toni collette and john malkovich are also in the film , but who knows whose side they’re on ?

the pic opens with the publication of the papers and the resultant media storm , fbi manhunt and branding of ellsberg by henry kissinger as “the most dangerous man in america . ” the story then backtracks to follow the sequence of key events in ellsberg’s life : the deaths of his mother and sister ( when his father fell asleep at the wheel ) ; his seminal doctoral thesis on decision theory ; his 1954 - 57 stint in the marines ( “the happiest time of my life” ) ; and finally his position in the defense department under robert mcnamara .

spider - man : homecoming no , tobey maguire isn’t in this one , and neither is andrew garfield . “spider - man : homecoming” is a reboot of the series , starring tom holland — who played the role in “captain america : civil war” — as a young peter parker . marisa tomei plays aunt may , and robert downey jr . is iron man . sony caught flak for its hiring of a relative rookie , jon watts ( “cop car” ) , to direct , with critics saying that such opportunities are rarely accorded to women with comparable résumés .

manifesto those who can’t get enough of cate blanchett will find her here playing 13 roles . the words the characters recite are drawn from more than 50 manifestoes — most of them artistic declarations from the 20th century . the film was shown in installation form at the park avenue armory in december and january before heading to sundance .

in transit a founding figure of the direct - cinema movement , albert maysles died in 2015 , shortly before this film’s premiere . his last feature observes the passengers on amtrak’s empire builder route , which connects chicago and the pacific northwest . mr . maysles directed with lynn true , nelson walker , ben wu and david usui .

a family man a cutthroat headhunter ( gerard butler ) who’s competing with a colleague ( alison brie ) for a promotion finds his ambitions threatened when his son receives a cancer diagnosis . not to be confused with the brett ratner film “the family man , ” this drama also stars gretchen mol , willem dafoe and alfred molina .

vincent - n - roxxy in an update of old noir themes , “vincent - n - roxxy” casts emile hirsch and zoë kravitz as a couple whom circumstances bring together and send on the lam . romance follows to some degree , but word from last year’s tribeca film festival suggests that violence dominates . zoey deutch co - stars .

i don’t mean this to sound flippant , i really don’t , and i know it’s nothing to do with your fine article , but i’d love it if reviewers would tell if something is a shaky camera film or not when they review or comment on a film . i love movies . new and old . but i shut off when i watch something handheld , because it doesn’t allow me to focus on the beauty of the image . it’s like i’m watching a wall and it makes me bored very quickly . i can’t be the only person like this , though i rarely hear criticism on this point . anyway , that’s my wish . 🙂 thanks for listening .