do n't just stand there ! is a 1968 american comedy film directed by ron winston and written by charles williams .

the film stars robert wagner , mary tyler moore , glynis johns , harvey korman , barbara rhoades and vincent beck .

the film was released on may 1 , 1968 , by universal pictures .

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don ' t just stand there ! <EOT> don ' t just stand there , do something . . . please ? ! | indiegogo

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my unpopular opinion : i just don’t get all the ‘stranger things’ hype . anyone else with me ?

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signed to the united artists label , duke recorded several albums , but only one appeared on the billboard 200 . named for her first hit single , don ' t just stand there spent 12 weeks on the chart and peaked at no . 90 in 1965 .

" don ' t just stand there , " written by lor crane and bernice ross , was musically reminiscent of lesley gore ' s " you don ' t own me , " a no . 2 hit on the hot 100 a year and a half earlier ( and now nearing billboard ' s pop songs airplay chart as reimagined by grace , featuring g - eazy ) .

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one said : " no , poor rita . please don ' t make me cry already . "

jeffrey blankfort also gave an exhaustive answer , which asherpat quite naturally , couldn’t be bothered to address properly . zionists and intelligent conversation don’t mix .

all four of duke ' s charted singles appear on a greatest - hits collection , just patty , issued by emi in 1996 . her albums don ' t just stand there and patty were combined on a cd released by real gone music in 2013 , as were subsequent albums sings songs from valley of the dolls and sings folk songs – time to move on .

inverted in the chapel segment when the song is essentially about how they don ' t want to be cooked by god .

it looks like i have to wait until november to comment on - line – i can’t find this photo anywhere on vogue . com . hope they don’t pull it .

all the gang were there ( well , except phoebe , gutted mate ) and you just knew something big was about to go down .

there ' s a whole mess of serious issues that aren ' t making headlines , even though they really should be .

we don ' t want to sound like we ' re piling on , but we ' re absolutely going to pile on .

for more things that just don ' t make no damn sense , check out 8 classic movies that got away with gaping plot holes and 6 movie plots that could have been solved in minutes .

patty duke , who died tuesday ( march 29 ) at age 69 , had a celebrated career on broadway and in films and television , winning an oscar and three emmys . while most people think of her as an actor , she also had a recording career that began in 1965 with a top 10 hit on the billboard hot 100 : " don ' t just stand there " peaked at no . 8 in august of that year .

robot jobs . . . just as soul - crushingly pointless as human jobs .

she told them she just needed to sit down and headed into the pub .

we don’t know much about the aliens’ atmosphere , except that it’s so different from our own that it takes the aliens 18 hours just for them to reset the human - friendly environment between sessions . but louise seems to be mostly ok , if a little wheezy , for the brief amount of time that she’s in there .

the aliens communicate using logograms , symbols that can stand for a word , an entire sentence , or feeling . because the aliens themselves don’t experience linear time , their logograms can put words in any order without changing the meaning of the message . ( this is called non - linear orthography . )

the real - life wheeler dealer came to filming straight from an important meeting with the prime minister of israel and didn ' t have time to learn his lines ! if you look over joey ' s shoulder when they are at the hat stand , there is a red baseball cap displaying the virgin logo .

make no mistake : by doing this , she loses jobs and loses real money . she won’t starve , of course , but it’s a genuine , principled stand . any bets on who will follow ? i’m giving odds on viggo mortensen .

. . . meaning that he could have escaped before the cops got there , but for some reason didn ' t . did this guy seriously create an elaborate boat heist with four other men so he could sneak in and shoot the one man who can id him . . . and then stand around and wait for the cops to id him ?

you have raised other issues , extraneous to this post , but the point of a hidden hand is that you don’t see it . you , it seems , are not looking very hard .

to top it all off i just wasn’t a fan of the creature design . the five - second scene of the melting head from the thing blew it out of the water .

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relaxing – i was in the pool and took this shot with my lens just above the water . urltoken

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clearly that coffee wasn ' t as bad as we were led to believe .

as if the act of dating itself weren ' t already frustrating beyond belief .

apparently you haven’t read my latest paper on “ziocaine amnesia syndrome in the ziotroll” .

excellent article . i have a pet dislike for image photographed at 5′ above the ground . these days with live view and tilted lcd’s there is no need for it . just changing the height makes so much difference to so many images…r

ann marie is working at a newsstand in an office building . she meets donald hollinger , a magazine writer who works there . ann has just gotten an acting job for a television commercial filming in the lobby of the office building .

and then , when bond corners him , silva blows the tunnel at just the right time for a train to come crashing through it . how did he even know to set explosives in the specific time and place where james bond would catch him ? how did he know a train would be coming along at just that moment ? he utters a little catchphrase in the split second the train crashes through - - imagine if the train had gotten delayed and they ' d had to stand there in silence for 20 minutes until it finally came along .

i don’t know her . i boycott tv and majority of the movies for the last , good few years . but judging from the picture she must be a smart and brave woman . not too mention very beautiful .

racist grandma : " you see i feel that life ' s a game , you sometimes win or lose . and though i might be down right now , at least i don ' t work for jews ! "

ok , maybe the father thing wasn ' t the biggest maury moment after all .

speaking of which , what were shang’s wife’s last words ? that whole conversation is in mandarin , but there are no subtitles .

clients entrust us with their capital in part because they believe that we have expertise that they do not . therefore , as investment managers , we shouldn’t argue that ‘the clients made us do it’ as justification for committing their capital on terms that we normally would not find attractive . sitting on the sidelines waiting for opportunities that meet our quality and valuation criteria involves the risk of appearing out of step with a rising market , which in turn puts investment managers at risk of losing clients , bonuses or jobs . however , as fiduciaries it is our job to reject the old cliché that it’s far better to fail conventionally than succeed unconventionally and do what we believe to be in the best long - term interest of our clients . it’s important that when there are not enough attractive investments that combine sufficient quality with a large discount to intrinsic value that we follow the admonition : don’t just do something , stand there !

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they then toss it out once it ' s established that it can ' t be smoked .

“i got way too big off views / back to the basics , i won’t lose . ”

of course , auto is a robot , so maybe its robot brain just doesn ' t work like that . let ' s say that even auto itself didn ' t know about the secret " fuck earth " directive until it kicked in - - but we know the exact moment when that happens , which is this :

pakenham ( michael palin ) : a tiger ? in africa ? ainsworth ( john cleese ) : well , it probably escaped from the zoo . pakenham : well , i don ' t think that ' s very likely - ( ainsworth sshs him )

[ nikolaj ] cersei had the chance with both her brothers to kill them and she was threatening to do so , but both times she eased off on the trigger . i get that with tyrion she was setting him up for failure ― making him believe that he was the hero of the day , that he negotiated this amazing support from the lannister army and what a wonderful thing he did . so that makes sense . for jaime , i would think he would think there was part of her that still understands that he really is the last person that she has . that is the truth ; that must resonate somewhere inside her . that would help . or maybe the mountain is just so thick that he didn’t get the eye signal . maybe there’s a scene right after where she goes , “why the fuck didn’t you kill him ? ! i gave you the signal ! ” i don’t know . who knows . we’ll never know because that scene isn’t there , but that might be the case . - huffingtonpost , nikolaj coster - waldau breaks down that huge jaime moment on ' game of thrones ' .

by having concurrent careers in acting and recording , duke joined a number of other artists from the 1960s who were mostly known for their thespian work , including shelley fabares ( " johnny angel " ) , richard chamberlain ( " three stars will shine tonight " ) , lorne greene ( " ringo " ) and ann - margret ( " i just don ' t understand " ) .

this wasn ' t true , but provided a little damage control - there was still a cliffhanger at the end of the season , so fans had to tune in to season five to see what happened after ross ' s slip - up .

jabba table manners : mr . creosote , who eats a grotesque amount of food . just one bite more makes him actually explode .

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i see that the self back - patting community of this blog is out in force . like most of the left’s champagne socialists – when discussion comes to the substance , you just divert it by souting empty slogans , innuendoes and smears . just answer the question or keep quiet .

it seems likely that the mountain is on a fairly tight leash , we don ' t know how bright he is but he seems more like an automaton than a person . he is capable of understanding fairly complex commands but does not speak or show much motivation of his own .

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in other words : value investing works over the long - term exactly because it doesn’t work all the time . if it worked all the time , it would have been arbitraged away long ago by people programming computers to invest large amounts of money based on its principles . however , because of intermediate - length periods when value investing doesn’t work , and most investors’ lack of a long - term time horizon , this hasn’t happened and value investing remains one of the few constants in a changing investment landscape . most people just can’t stomach periods of underperformance . ( for more on this topic , see

but there ' s one more surprise before the credits : in his will , it is revealed that batman left a little map to the batcave to hero cop john " robin " blake ( joseph gordon - levitt ) , strongly hinting that blake will become the next person to don the black cowl . or at least a thong and pixie boots .

@ flater good point thought i ' d already mentioned that she probably already told him not to kill him just pretend but forgot to add it in .

how predictable . so nobody buys your neocon trash here , get over it . go ask the question over at drudge report , i’m sure they’ll happily devour your slop there .

meatgrinder surgery : two " surgeons " forcibly harvest organs from a man just because he ' s got an organ donor card . mostly offscreen but obviously meatgrinder surgery .

there’s a lot of in - movie speculation about that . ian suggests that the locations might correspond to rates of lightning strikes but also notes that sheena easton had a hit single in each spot in the 1980s , so correlation probably does not equal causation in this case ( unless the aliens are just really big fans of “ sugar walls ” ) .

major : look , he was fast asleep , and someone , or something came in and removed it ! man dressed as the front of a tiger : . . . without waking him up ! ? major : . . . yes . man dressed as the front of a tiger : i don ' t believe you !

and before anyone jumps in to tell me that i “just don’t get it ! ! “my fanboy credentials are more than sound . the fiction i write is horror with teen protagonists ! from 2004 - 2008 i was part of the synth / prog group the evil eye , taking influence from john carpenter and tangerine dream and soundtracking various short films including the 80s / video nasties - inspired web serial tv face . on top of working on these things i am also a child of this era , so i’m as surprised as anyone that i didn’t love the shit out of the show . and trust me , i don’t wanna be the grinch who stole your 80s nostalgia buzz , either . stranger things has some serious problems that people seem willing to overlook in the rush to hype it up . so in the interest of fair and balanced journalism , i have put together a guide to what i find to be eight of the major flaws with stranger things .

he certainly couldn ' t have done it after faking his death - - we know that the will reading happened right after that , since it ' s established that bruce had fixed the autopilot only six months prior . seriously , what kind of superhero entrusts his entire legacy to a dude he just met ?

if you have been paying any attention to the rising stock market in the last couple of years , you might be tempted to succumb to this siren - song and relax your investment criteria in order to join those appearing to make money quarter after quarter in high - expectation growth stocks . don’t… at least not until you read this article .

here’s how it’s really done . in a perfect world netflix could just do the decent thing and stump up the cash to produce the final , proposed installment of dennis kelly’s utopia :

fifteen years ago , as a young analyst , i attended a conference at harvard on behavioral finance . during one of the sessions , a well - known value investor presented evidence that value investing has produced superior returns over all rolling 10 - year periods during the timeframe that he studied . i came up to him after his talk , and asked – if value investing works so well , why doesn’t everyone do it ? he smiled at me knowingly and explained that while value investing works over most long - term periods , it frequently doesn’t always work in the short - term . there are plenty of 3 - year periods when value investing produces inferior returns , and most market participants don’t or can’t have the time horizon that is sufficiently long to be able to look through that . they will either get fired , lose their clients , or if they are investing their own capital , lose the confidence in their process while they wait for the period of underperformance to end .

i can’t get enough of it either , taxi . i think the reason that it is so powerful is the determined look on tilda’s face . she almost looks as if she is daring someone to call her anti - semitic or to question her political beliefs . i’m not sure why , but somehow i don’t think this will harm her career in the least . in fact , maybe i am naive , but i have this feeling that this photo will give other people the courage to do the same .

politics matt hancock is appointed health secretary after jeremy hunt moves to the foreign office the appointment is a huge promotion for the culture secretary who has been in post for just a few months .

grim reaper : [ i have come to ] take you away . that is my purpose . i am death . host : well , that ' s cast rather a gloom over the whole evening , hasn ' t it ? howard : i don ' t see it that way , geoff . let me tell you what i think we ' re dealing with here : a potentially positive learning experience to get an— grim reaper : shut up ! shut up , you american . you always talk , you americans . you talk and you talk and say " let me tell you something " and " i just wanna say this " . well , you ' re dead now , so shut up !

vader must be the least - attentive father ever . . . which isn ' t exactly a stretch , considering that his keen sense of the force didn ' t pick up on his own daughter being tortured right in front of him . jesus , vader , you could have warned her .

in addition to this he also knows and presumably remembers voice commands . so it would make sense if cersei were to say beforehand : when i give the kill command just intimidate on this occasion .

i can’t get enough of this foto ! i sent it out in a mass email yesterday with the heading : everyone now knows tilda hearts palestine .

this is a fun romp - - quick paced with great , glib dialog . it ' s one of those movies where you just know that the people filming it had fun the whole . . .

it’s not as daring as supporting palestine but i remember very vividly johnny depp criticizing bush before the iraq war and pitifully retracting what he had said 6 hours later . a call from ari gold to straighten him out ? ( for those who don’t know “entourage” , ari gold is the fictional hyperactive jewish agent based on rahm emanuel’s brother , advertised in the series as “the most powerful agent in hollywood” )

only sane man : the grim reaper . it takes him several minutes to impress upon the hosts and guests of a dinner party that he ' s not there to trim the hedge , doesn ' t want wine and won ' t discuss philosophy with them . when they finally die and follow him to the great beyond , they decide to take their cars ( their ghost cars , which , like them , leave behind the original forms ) , causing the reaper to do a hilarious double - take before shrugging it off and beckoning them on .

sure , you can change your composition by zooming in or out with your lens , but if you want to change your perspective , you are going to need to move . don’t let your feet , or your tripod , root you to the spot : get ready for some bending , turning , walking , and climbing . start working with perspective in photography , your images will thank you for it .

in perhaps the biggest rookie mistake that only a true friends geeks would notice , ross ' s son doesn ' t appear at his wedding . he was in carol and susan ' s wedding in the one with the lesbian wedding - so what ' s the deal here , eh ! ? eh ? we did some investigations as to where ben ( and the rest of the entire friends cast ) is now , and don ' t worry , he ' s safe . in fact , he ' s a twin . and he got really , really hot .

there are two ways to look at the attractiveness of the market : bottom - up and top - down . to a concentrated value investor such as me , the former approach is much more relevant because even if the whole market were grossly overvalued , it could be quite possible that enough attractive opportunities exist to put together a portfolio offering excellent potential returns with a large margin of safety . an example is the tech bubble of 1999 - 2000 , when overall valuations were very high , but there existed many opportunities in “old - world” industries that didn’t get caught up in the speculative craze that affected technology , telecommunications and media stocks .

for starters , when exactly did vader find out that luke even existed ? this is an incredibly important moment the movies never show us . remember , the idea was that luke was stashed on tatooine as an infant specifically to keep the empire from finding out about him . luke is still living in peaceful anonymity in a new hope , so clearly vader doesn ' t realize that luke is there .

script writer greg malins said : ' it just wasn ' t funny . this was at the end of the season and we ' re in the writers room at five in the morning . . . and when you haven ' t slept in two days , that seems really funny . then you go see it and you go , " boy , we were tired ! " . but i think cutting it [ the couch scene ] is what made the ' london , baby ! ' stuff with joey evolve - which was hilarious . '

the caveat is that this is the actor ' s own interpretation of the scene , but that goes to show that the writers haven ' t told nikolaj the actual reason for this . that ' s not to say that one doesn ' t exist , however , this is all the insight we have at this moment .

there is a long and sordid history of what has befallen public figures , large and small , who have publicly dared to challenge what that french official once , in a moment of absolute candor , properly categorized as “that shitty little state . ”

actually , the palace administration allows no filming of the queen ' s residences unless it ' s for a documentary or a news story - there could be no exceptions , even for the queen ' s former daughter - in - law fergie .

why bring the captain up to speed on something it is about to cover up ? if this robot is capable of hurting other robots and holding people hostage in order to carry out its secret orders , can it not also just withhold information ? isn ' t that the point of the order in the first place ? seriously , auto , your uncle hal would be very disappointed .

( cracked can ' t promise all the twists in our new star wars mini - series will make sense . but we can promise . . . something ? )

" say , you wouldn ' t happen to have years of ninja training and millions in disposable income , would you ? " " n - - no . "

depp retracted what he said ? why ? for more bs movies and more $ ? i won’t be seeing any of his work in the future , the coward .

the movie makes it clear that the " drug heist " was actually just an excuse for soze to kill the one man who knew his face . in that case , why stick around and show said face to everyone ?

they sure did . costello tells louise that in 3 , 000 years , the aliens will need humans’ help with some unspecified crisis , which is why they visited earth in the first place , to teach humans heptapod b . more intriguingly , we don’t know whether that human aid will stem from knowing the language itself , the time - perception - altering side effects of learning it , or the global unification that results from it .

maybe i am naive , but i do not see the hidden hand of jewry behind every electoral defeat , just as i do not see the hidden hand of jewry in the great recession , 911 , or the kennedy assassinations .

so it appears it was more of an intimidation to try and get jaime to submit to her further but as we know that didn ' t exactly work out quite right .

the only other survivor of the heist is a badly burned hungarian , and what do you know , just as kint leaves the police station , a fax gets sent in with the hungarian ' s description of soze ' s face . . .

so what could possibly go wrong ? well i have a confession to make : having watched the show now , for the most part i found it… well… kinda boring . i certainly didn’t hate stranger things or anything but i definitely didn’t find it anywhere near as “awesome” as everyone else did either . i think it’s basically just… okay . for most of the viewing experience i had a nagging sensation of “is this it ? this is the show people are losing their shit for ? ! ” but in truth anything that gets this sort of across - the - board , almost scarily uniform praise—like this particular show—it should raise suspicions .

in savage’s case , his other enemies , both democrats and republicans , were only too eager to rob him of a key voting bloc . that’s the hidden hand that the public doesn’t see .

and oddly enough , it appears at the inquiry every labour mp called by the speaker – and by my count there were 18 of them – failed to land a glove on the defence secretary . their questions were either over - elaborate or designed to show how smart the questioner was , or a combination of both . the question that was screaming out to be asked was : “what was mr werritty doing at those meetings ? ” that , surely , is what we all want to know . why didn’t anyone ask ? it’s not the first time that mps have missed the obvious and it won’t be the last . the short , sharp and pithy question is a valuable weapon in the chamber yet is seldom used .

" yes , well , this is nothing to worry about [ . . . ] yes , there ' s a lot of it about . probably a virus . uh , keep warm , plenty of rest , and if you ' re playing football or anything , try and favor the other leg . "

we ' ve all seen the dark knight rises by now , right ? then you know that at the end of the movie , batman appears to die when he sacrifices himself to save the city , going out in a nuclear explosion in the middle of the ocean ( and that ' s the only realistic way batman could ever die ) . the first twist is when we find out that he isn ' t really dead - - he just fucked off to italy to stick it in anne hathaway .

rita has previously told gemma that her memory loss was a side - effect to some blood pressure tablets she was taking , but later admitted to norris that she lied and doesn ' t know what is wrong with her .

see that " a113 " there ? that ' s the directive number for the order to never return to earth , blinking up at the very sight of the plant . it ' s the moment auto knows to hide and destroy it - - and yet instead , immediately after this he informs the captain about the plant . why ?

thanks , i added orlando to my queue . and , having a “queue” makes me feel like such a proper english gentleman . “i just think things should work properly ! ” ~ dyson orlando at netflix – urltoken p . s . and , quentin crisp plays queen elizabeth i . that should be interesting !

at what point did bruce wayne leave that will ? when bruce ' s will is being read , the lawyer dude specifically states that it " was not amended to reflect his more modest estate . " that means he hadn ' t touched it since he lost all his money , which happened right at the start of the action in the film , when he barely knew blake . he hadn ' t even seen the guy throw a punch at that point .

i can’t speak to california politics , but in illinois the decisive factor in findley’s defeat was his support for reaganomics during the brutal recession of ‘82 . the decisive factor in savage’s defeat , ten years later , was his own antics .

as the film shows us right away , the captain is completely out of the loop when it comes to practically every function of the ship , which is now in the hands of auto - - including the part where it periodically sends recon robots to find out if there ' s any trace of life on earth , even though the answer is irrelevant .

, the tale of accountant pirates who take on wall street . from there , we move on to the film proper , a series of sketches purporting to examine the meaning of life , arranged from " the miracle of birth " to " death " . but even this structure allows for stops examining " the third world " and " live organ transplants " .

ah , the hype . the stranger things hype is the thing that is really pissing me off , more than anything actually featured in the show itself . to the point where i felt compelled to write this piece so at least there could be one dissenting voice out there to balance the ( suspiciously universal ) adoration for the show . and while it may seem unfair to blame stranger things or its creators for the hype that has built up around it it would be awfully naive to think that the show wasn’t deliberately designed to capitalize on both nostalgia and generational social media reminiscence in the first place . they know what they’re doing . but it’s the insulting basic - ness of the communal dialog surrounding stranger things that is the most infuriating . what kind of world are we living in when major media outlets like time and buzzfeed actually think people have never heard of , let alone seen , massive cultural - milestones like et and halloween and alien and nightmare on elm street ? it’s patronizing and insulting .

do not fall into the trap of shooting everything you see at eye - level , just as you see it . take the time to explore your subject , and considering changing your perspective . get low and see what changes , get up high and explore a new view , or move laterally and watch different interactions occur and disappear between objects .

the single was released just as the second season of the patty duke show was signing off for the summer . the sitcom , which starred duke as identical cousins patty and cathy , started its run on abc on sept . 18 , 1963 , and ended after three seasons , with the final first - run episode airing on april 27 , 1966 .

here ' s the thing : silva ' s master plan began the moment he got captured , timing it so that he ' d be in custody right when m was testifying . but he didn ' t turn himself in - - he was captured by bond . so how could he have known when that would happen ? bond tracks a bullet shard in his shoulder to an assassin guy who has a casino chip from a casino where he sticks it to some lady who happens to know where silva is . that ' s literally how it happens - - silva had no control over that . how many days were those two fake cops standing there , waiting for silva ?

in skyfall , james bond tracks his villain through a series of expert spy techniques such as attacking a train with a backhoe , getting shot , fucking feeding a dude to a komodo dragon , and just plain fucking . in the end , he is able to catch his man , a sinisterly foreign yet creepily aryan ex - agent named silva ( javier bardem ) .

hear , hear . the bbc did mention yesterday that the grim assembly with which fox had become involved had been encouraging him in his ‘pro - american , pro - israel’ commitments . ( there are assumptions about america and more distantly about jewish people in that phrase that might be questioned . ) a letter in today’s independent by a labour member of parliament rather cryptically accuses fox of running an independent foreign policy .

angela ' s " mother " was the only real part of this whole charade - - frank took advantage of the fact that roy left her pregnant 14 years ago to set up the trick . one quick phone call to her , and the gig is up . the only precaution frank took to make sure this didn ' t happen was having angela tell roy that her " mom " didn ' t want him to call her . . . but then they spend the rest of the movie putting him in situations where he really fucking should .

because of the canary in the coal mine . the aliens pump enough breathable air into their ship for humans to survive for two hours at a time ( that’s why the humans have to wait on the platform beneath the spaceship for a period of time before entering ) , but the scientists aren’t taking any chances , so they bring a caged bird with them when they’re on board . as long as the bird keeps chirping , they know there’s no risk of poisonous gas or lack of oxygen . if it stops , they’re in trouble . that’s also why louise glances at the bird before removing her hazmat suit to get a better look at the aliens—a move that is still pretty dangerous .

the twist at the end of the usual suspects is universally recognized as one of the greatest ever . if you haven ' t seen the movie , stop reading this article and go watch it . that was awesome , right ? ok , now let us ruin it for you forever .

later on , when angela fucking disappears for hours from roy ' s home , frank himself casually suggests that she might have gone back to her mother ' s house , knowing full well that a call to said house would end it all right then and there . it ' s only a fucking miracle in bad parenting that roy waits patiently all night until she turns up . and this was somehow all part of the plan .

“though she continued appearing in mainstream as well as politically oriented films and documentaries such as roy battersby’s the palestinians ( 1977 ) , her views cost redgrave roles on stage and screen and damaged her popularity , particularly in the u . s . redgrave’s television debut in playing for time ( 1980 ) generated further controversy when redgrave won an emmy for her portrayal of a jewish violinist interned in a nazi death camp who is ordered to help serenade women on their way to the gas chambers . due to her anti - zionist stand , many , including fana fenelon , the real - life violinist whom redgrave was portraying , objected to her playing a jewish woman . ” urltoken .

by that point , louise has been studying the aliens’ language for weeks , immersing herself and even dreaming in it . she has also begun to experience flash forwards to the future , so it’s conceivable that she’s drawing on knowledge of the language that she will have in addition to what she already knows . plus , she’s the chosen one , so there may also be also be a little bit of telepathy going on . i’m speculating here .

the treatment of barb neatly sums up everything wrong with this show . i knew “who” barb was before i’d even seen a single frame of stranger things , which is why i was expecting a lot more from this “beloved” character’s role . but the way they handled her storyline left a bad taste . [ spoiler ] after her abduction at the end of episode 2 , barb gets , what , maybe three more mentions over the course of the next six hours ? and in the middle of one child disappearance investigation , the disappearance of another kid gets completely and utterly overlooked by the police ? please ! i’ve seen mention that this is a comment on the general lack of urgency placed on missing - girl cases ( which is a thing ) but that’s retroactively applying something to the show that just isn’t there . once barb has served her purpose to the plot she’s basically forgotten about . i get the feeling that the show’s creators expected the audience to feel a lot more empathy for barb than they ever showed her . simply put , it was cheap and lazy . and her predicament left dramatically unexplored . 3 . the pacing / plotting

but helen baxendale did not wish to remain in america while pregnant . the writers couldn ' t think of a convincing story for why emily would not be in the show , despite being married to ross , so baxendale was written out in the next season ( and the rest is history ) .

that was the reason phoebe couldn ' t join in the fun - producers had to find a way to keep her in london for the episode , so timed her pregnancy with the triplets accordingly . kudrow ended up giving birth to her son the day the second part of the episode was aired .

if there’s one show that’s generating a ton of buzz right now , it’s the netflix original miniseries stranger things . a lovingly - crafted homage to the 70s / 80’s “golden era” works of steven spielberg , stephen king and john carpenter , this show is inspiring the kind of love we haven’t seen for a tv program in a long time . having heard so much good stuff about stranger things , i went into watching it with high hopes indeed . on paper this show is so my kind of thing that it’s not even funny : john carpenter is my all - time favorite director . stephen king is the guy who inspired me to write , and i can trace my obsession with movies back to formative experiences watching spielberg’s films obsessively as a child .

moving your feet can change the way that different objects in your photograph interact with each other . while the top photograph of the wisconsin capitol in lights was an adequate shot , moving just a few feet to the right and squatting down allowed me to feature the lit outline in the foreground with the actual capitol building in the background . this juxtaposition of elements improves the story - telling ability of the photograph .

this is notable as by far the grossest of the python films , via such highlights as the aforementioned " live organ transplants " sketch and the restaurant scene featuring mr . creosote . that didn ' t stop it from receiving the grand prize of the jury award at the 1983 cannes film festival , however .

in this preschooler post - apocalypse feature , we follow wall - e , a lovable trash compactor / cassette deck who falls in love with a big white butt plug from space . this robot , named eve , is actually there to check in on whether a trash - riddled earth could possibly sustain life once again - - and in her search stumbles upon an honest - to - god plant , which she immediately brings back to her mothership for further analysis .

vader and the emperor were about as smart as their spaceballs counterparts if they somehow missed the fact that for 20 years , there was a kid living on vader ' s own home planet , with vader ' s own family , openly telling everyone that he was " the son of anakin skywalker . " and it ' s not like vader is too far away to visit home , after all - - he has no problem visiting in the first film , right ?

but why ? you ' d think he would have noticed at some point in the first movie that this kid with a passing resemblance to his own younger self happened to share his last name . the first mention of him as the " son of skywalker " is in the second movie , when vader suggests to the emperor that luke could be turned . so did they just now put this all together ? for real ?

the entire point of silva ' s scheme is to kill m during her hearing - - he has two guys waiting for him with a cop uniform after he breaks out of mi6 specifically so that he can sneak into the courthouse and shoot her . presumably he allowed himself to get captured ( as opposed to just going straight to the courthouse ) because he wanted to upload the virus into mi6 ' s computers to distract everyone .

rugby is slaughter : a boarding school holds a rugby match pitting little boys against grown men . as if that weren ' t brutal enough , when a boy finally gets to make a try , a teacher trips him from the sidelines . to further underline the point , the scene segues directly into a world war i segment .

what is equally if not more extraordinary is that conde nast , publisher of vogue , new yorker , glamour , wired , and the add rich vanity fair chose to publish this photo in the first place . while there is no doubt its doing so will cause dershowitz , foxman , the zoa’s morton klein and david horowitz and their ilk to froth at the mouth , i suspect that they will not dare to launch a campaign targeting the magazine’s advertisers because they know it would be doomed to fail .

for instance , the shrink advises roy to call his ex , and he actually does it - - he only chickens out when she picks up . if she hadn ' t , roy could have left a message mentioning the whole " so we have a daughter together , huh ? " thing , and that would have been it . con over .

but since this is a movie about con artists and double crosses , you just know that at some point everything we thought we knew will turn out to be a lie ! in this case , it turns out that daughter angela was never roy ' s kid - - she was part of an elaborate con set up by his partner , frank ( sam rockwell ) , to make roy trust someone enough to give up the code to his safety deposit box . a perfect con !

( excepts ) i urge every person on this planet to watch yoav shamir’s defamation , a documentary about anti - semitism… …he provides us with some intimate footage of israeli youth being indoctrinated into collective anxiety and total neurosis just before they join the idf . the general image we are left with is no less than grotesque . the film elaborates on the aggressive vulgar orchestrated amplification of fear amongst israelis and zionist jews . “we are raised to believe that we are hated” says an israeli high school girl on her way to a concentration camp… …shamir provides us with an opportunity to see how badly young israelis behave once in poland . you watch their contempt to the local population and disrespect to polish people and institutes . you can also watch israelis project their hatred onto others . for some reason they are convinced that everyone out there is as merciless as they happen to be . the israeli youngsters are saturated with fear , yet , they are having a good time , you can watch them having a party dancing in a bus all the way to a auschwitz…

don’t get my wrong , i love winona . she’s the beating heart of some of my all - time favourite movies . i’m a veronica . but by god did her performance do my head in ! to the point where i zoned out whenever she was on screen . her role as “joyce” ( and i had to look that name up , that’s how unmemorable the character was ) never strayed from the single , overbearing note of “despairing mother . ” which is not necessarily ryder’s fault as she was given so little to work with . still , color me disappointed . i lay the blame for this squarely at the feet of the writers / creators shawn levy and the duffer brothers . stranger things ’ characters were paper thin despite some great performances from the child actors . but the adults ? from winona ryder to matthew modine , not to mention the oddly clueless suburban parents and the totally clichéd sidekick deputies… sorry . in the end it seemed like only steve and will were genuinely changed by what they had experienced .

before we go any further , yes , this is universally considered to be an awesome movie . it ' s just that any time a movie has the villain do the , " surprise ! every action you ' ve taken has actually played perfectly into my hands ! " bit with the hero , it never really makes sense . and this is a great example - - when you walk through it from the bad guy ' s point of view , you realize that either silva is an incredibly lucky bastard , or he ' s literally god .

a good twist ending makes you look back on the entire movie while shitting your pants . for example , remember at the end of the sixth sense where bruce willis is dead and no one saw it coming ? it was so damn unexpected ! of course , who the hell would expect that the hero of a film wouldn ' t notice that his only speaking companion for months was a small , unsupervised child ?


the dark stairway is a 1953 british short film .

it was one of a series of shorts made for british cinemas as second features in the 1950s by merton park studios about scotland yard , called scotland yard .

they were narrated by crime writer edgar lustgarten , and subsequently broadcast as tv episodes .

the film was also known as the greek street murder .

the dark stairway ( 1953 film )

the dark stairway ( 1953 film ) <EOT> the film is said to be inspired by 1953 british short film , the dark stairway .

fun fact : in 1953 , dark victory was adapted for tv on “broadway television theatre” starring sylvia sidney and christopher plummer . a decade later the film was remade as stolen hours starring susan hayward , and ten years after that it was turned into another tv movie starring elizabeth montgomery and anthony hopkins in 1973 .

variety excerpts : “dark victory . ” weekly variety . 15 mar 1939 . 16 . 134 : 1 .

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there had always been a spark between davis and brent , but it had never graduated to an actual affair until their work on dark victory .

( revue studios / universal , 1955 - 65 ) . lustgarten’s delivery is authoritative and somewhat comforting , slightly mitigating the dark and brutal nature of some of the crimes detailed in the episodes .

the film opened to excellent reviews . in addition to winning the academy award for best picture of the year ,

fantasy films are most likely to overlap with the film genres of science fiction and horror . when the narrative of a fantasy film tends to emphasize advanced technology in a fantastic world , it may be considered predominantly a science fiction film . or when the supernatural , fantasy forces are specifically intended to frighten the audience , a fantasy film falls more within the horror genre .

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dark victory was based on a play that opened on broadway in 1934 . tallulah bankhead starred , but it wasn’t very successful and closed after only 51 performances . despite that , the play caught the attention of hollywood , and producer david o . selznick snapped up the film rights .

fun fact : there’s definitely something going on with staircases in this film . recall that judy fell down the one in long island , then waited on the stairs for ann’s return . and she trudged slowly up the stairs after kissing michael . then she pause to say goodbye to her husband and then her dogs on the vermont staircase before climbing upstairs to die . stairway to heaven , perhaps ?

jackson , russell . the cambridge companion to shakespeare on film . cambridge university press , 2007 .

max steiner’s score received an oscar nomination , and dark victory was up for best picture . it lost to gone with the wind ( 1939 ) in that most magical of movie years .

fun fact : judy’s transformation from fiercely independent , wild , and happily single to proper wife happily engaged in a quiet home life has attracted attention from feminist film scholars . it’s not an uncommon trajectory in these melodramas , but the swing is especially pronounced in dark victory .

. the film also won a golden globe as " best hollywood picture produced " in 1951 and was variously listed in hollywood trade publications as either the first or third highest box office film of the year .

) , followed the format of telecrimes : dramatised re - enactments of noteworthy cases , introduced by a figure of authority , and focusing on specific aspects of police procedure . originally produced for cinema exhibition ( as ‘b’ features ) and distributed in cinemas by anglo - amalgamated film distributors between 1953 and 1961 , the 39 stories included in this collection found a wider audience when shown on television under the

both george pal and ray harryhausen created and designed some of the best stop - motion animation and special effects in many great fantasy films that combined animation with live action . producer george pal won his first special effects academy award for his work on the sci - fi fantasy / adventure film destination moon ( 1950 ) . he also won best visual ( special ) effects oscars for the exciting , low - budget sci - fi disaster film when worlds collide ( 1951 ) and the alien - invasion film the war of the worlds ( 1953 ) . finally , pal succeeded with mgm ' s musical fantasy of the grimm ' s fairy tale tom thumb ( 1958 ) , his first directed film , winning his fourth effects oscar .

in addition to the american in paris ballet , several other musical numbers were highly praised by critics and have been included in documentaries on american motion pictures : " dance in the mirror , " a montage of lise appearing in different costumes and dancing in different styles to represent aspects of her personality as described by henri , appears in early in the picture . in the " i got rhythm " number , kelly , dressed in casual clothes and a baseball cap , uses the song to give some parisian children an english lesson . at various points throughout the song , children call out the words " i got " when kelly points to them , after which he completes the lyrics . according to modern sources , this number was reshot by hal rosson following the film ' s initial preview . in " stairway to paradise , " as guetary sings the number , stairs appear behind a curtain . as he ascends the stairway , individual stairs light up , then go dark and light up again later .

chibnall , steve & mcfarlane , brian . the british ' b ' film . palgrave macmillan , 2009 .

so davis got down to work . dark victory opens very early in the morning in a large mansion on long island . it’s about 5am , but the phone is ringing obnoxiously . the call is funneled through the staff to the mistress of the house , who is awfully hungover after a huge party the night before .

she’d won the previous year for jezebel ( 1938 ) , and she would receive nominations the next three years after dark victory , making it five consecutive nominations between 1938 - 1942 . she was nominated a total of ten times in her long career .

on january 13 , 1989 announced that a broadway adaptation of the film was being planned ; however , a stage version was not produced . on september 4 , 1992 , m - g - m and turner entertainment released a restored version of the film that opened at the nuart theatre in west los angeles and subsequently played in about thirty theaters nationwide . the new print was a restoration following a 1978 fire at the george eastman house film archive in rochester , ny , which destroyed two reels of the original 35mm print of the film . according to articles in

murphy , robert , 2007 : ‘british film noir’ . in : spicer , andrew ( ed ) , 2007 :

the film was made at merton park studios by anglo - amalgamated . along with little red monkey , released the same year , the film was an international hit and led to the company producing films with a higher production quality than they had previously , often importing american stars to give the films more international appeal .

this scene makes me appreciate davis’ skill as an actress . she has to deliver lines like this monstrosity : “nothing can hurt us now . what we have can’t be destroyed . that’s our victory , our victory over the dark . ” and she does it so believably !

but before she can confront ann , dr . steele arrives . and they play a love scene . dr . steele has decided to marry judy , try to make her as happy as possible , and keep her in the dark about her impending doom . you can watch the scene here .

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mcdonnell , brian , 2007 : ‘film noir style’ . in : mayer , geoff & mcdonnell , brian ( eds ) 2007 :

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, played by charles gray in jim sharman’s 1976 film adaptation – who introduced brad and janet’s story from a similarly quaint setting . (

dark victory is a melodrama par excellence , a three - hanky weepie starring one of the masters of the genre , bette davis . variety noted that the “picture is studded with several intense sequences that are tear - jerkers of the highest caliber , ” and the new york times reviewer agreed , writing that that “the mascara was running freely at the music hall yesterday . for essentially the picture is simply a protracted death scene in which the heroine’s doom is sealed almost in the first sequence . ”

wide boy is a 1952 british crime film directed by ken hughes and starring susan shaw , sydney tafler and ronald howard . [ 2 ]

in a october 4 , 1949 letter in the arthur freed collection , maurice chevalier ' s representative , agent irving " swifty " lazar , wrote to freed , mentioning that chevalier was being considered for a role in the film . at that time , chevalier had not made a film in the u . s . since 1934 ( see entry for

eventually , bette davis heard about the project . she wanted the part , so she lobbied director edmund goulding , and warner bros . producer hal wallis to make the movie . warner bros . bought the rights , and the film swung into production .

jayaraman ( mohanlal ) is a lift operator working in an affluent society . he is blind , but he can see better than most of the seeing people and is very intuitive . he is close to one of the residents , justice krishnamoorthy ( nedumudi venu ) , who harbours a dark secret , that also involves a little girl nandini ( baby meenakshi ) . this dark secret gets him killed one day , and jayaraman is the sole witness as to who was the perpetrator . the only issue is thanks to his visual deficiency , the police have trouble believing him , even making him an accused in the case . the killer also wants him out of his way , and so jayaraman , despite his physical limitations , has to play some smart moves to get himself and the little girl out of harm’s way .

an opening montage , some longshots of parisian landmarks , a tracking shot of milo ' s car driving up to her hotel and atmospheric backgrounds were the only parisian footage retained in the released film . although modern sources have indicated that kelly and minnelli originally wanted to shoot the entire ballet sequence in paris , there is no indication in the m - g - m files that this was a serious consideration once pre - production began on the film . other memos in the files indicate that the studio had been in negotiations with the owners of la moulin de la galette in paris to use exteriors and possibly interiors for the film , but negotiations fell through .

: m - g - m announced that it had acquired the film rights to late composer george gershwin ' s musical suite " an american in paris " on june 1 , 1949 . the suite had its premiere on december 13 , 1928 at carnegie hall in new york . at that time , the studio also contracted with gershwin ' s brother and lyricist ira for rights to use their songs . additionally the studio hired ira gershwin to write new lyrics for " certain unpublished george gershwin music . " the first script for the film was submitted by alan jay lerner on june 12 , 1950 . while several revisions were made over the next few months , the completed film was very much the same as the first script .

indicated that grahame johnson , a leading male dancer in the los angeles negro ballet was signed for a role in the production , but his appearance in the released film has not been confirmed . pre - production memos in the m - g - m collection indicate that james basevi was initially to be the film ' s art director with m - g - m art department head cedric gibbons and that conductor andre kostelanetz was at one time being considered to work on the production .

a friendly career ( or the story of the training and life of the new zealand school dental nurse ) was a promotional film made by the national film unit for the department of health . the plot waltzes through the idyll of one doe - eyed careerist ' s sugar - coated journey to a respectable job in the ' murder house ' , caring for the teeth of the dominion ' s children . focusing on the hard work and 50s fun times of hostel life , with its friendships , matrons , tooth - pulling and en masse doing - of - the - hokey pokey , the end of this careerist road is pitched as one of great satisfaction .

film events : fuller set for movie , tv series los angeles times ( 1923 - current file ) [ los angeles , calif ] 05 mar 1957 : a9 .

british director michael powell ' s and writer / producer emeric pressburger ' s romantic fantasy stairway to heaven ( 1946 ) ( aka a matter of life and death ) with david niven as a aviation casualty in debate with heavenly and earthly powers . jean cocteau ' s lyrical and romantic french film la belle et la bete ( 1946 ) ( aka beauty and the beast ) , adapted from an 18th century fairy tale , featured a repellent beast and a beautiful woman . in frank capra ' s it ' s a wonderful life ( 1946 ) , suicide - threatening james stewart is aided by an endearing angel named clarence ( henry travers ) . the whimsical , comical film harvey ( 1950 ) also starred james stewart as an inebriated man who has an imaginary over - six - foot - tall rabbit as his companion . and vincente minnelli ' s lyrical musical fantasy brigadoon ( 1954 ) told the fanciful legendary tale of a scottish village of the same name where the inhabitants awakened only once every 100 years .

the reviewer is right about the protracted death scene . you know exactly what is coming early on , and the movie is packed with those familiar cliches of impending death ( sudden headaches , falling down stairs , brusque dismissals that anything might be wrong , and an unequivocal diagnosis ) . looking back on the film , i can calmly reflect on the emotional manipulation and scoff at the soap - opera dialogue , but when i watch it i am right there with the 1939 audience , mascara running freely as i cry like a baby at the end . that is this film’s genius .

frank whitbeck produced and narrated the trailer for the picture . at a september 25 , 1951 special screening of the picture at the academy award theatre on melrose avenue , ronald reagan , who was then head of the screen actors guild , was the moderator for a forum discussion on the picture . a gala premiere was held for the film in los angeles on november 9 , 1951 and broadcast overseas by the armed forces radio services .

fun fact : the movie ends when judy dies , but that wasn’t the original plan . a scene where michael breaks down in tears after challenger wins the grand national after judy’s death was the final scene in the preview version of the movie . but preview audiences thought it was anti - climactic and unnecessary , so it was cut . when the film was released , the final scene was judith’s death .

title , these episodes also benefit from being shot on 35mm film , at a time when much television programming was increasingly being shot on videotape . film can handle contrast much more efficiently than videotape , and as noted above quite a few of these episodes feature a film noir - esque aesthetic dominated by high contrast photography and chiaroscuro lighting . consequently , many of these episodes have an aesthetic that compares favourably with the visual style of american films noirs made for cinema exhibition . the presentation of the episodes on this dvd set is also commendable : although wear and tear is evident here and there , the instalments are in remarkably good shape – and the set includes the episode ‘wall of death’ , which collectors of the series have previously struggled to obtain .

“the mood is too poignant , the performances too honest , the craftsmanship too expert . miss davis , naturally , has dominated—and quite properly—her film , but miss fitzgerald has added a sentient and touching portrayal of the friend , and george brent , as the surgeon , is—dare we say ? —surprisingly self - contained and mature . ”

ann isn’t sure how dr . steele feels about judy , so she rushes to his office to ask him what to do . fun fact : fitzgerald was born in ireland , became a star in england , and came to hollywood in 1938 . this was her first hollywood movie . she was nominated for best supporting actress for her role as isabella linton in wuthering heights the same year that dark victory was released .

fun fact : in april 1936 , oberon filed suit against selznick , claiming that he’d planned to star her in a florence nightingale biopic . after that project was cancelled , oberon said that selznick had promised her the lead in the garden of allah ( 1936 ) . but when oberon showed up for work , she learned that marlene dietrich had been cast in the part . so she sued selznick for breach of contract , though she would eventually drop the charges in 1940 . but that took her out of the running for dark victory .

this 1963 film looks at how the development of high country aviation is taking on the challenges presented by the south island’s rugged geography . piloted by war veterans , small aircraft parachute supplies into remote locations for forest service hut building and service lighthouses . meanwhile helicopters and airlines open up opportunities for industry ( venison , tourism , forestry , topdressing ) and recreation ( fishing , hunting ) . good keen men , smokos and swannies abound in this classically - filmed national film unit documentary .

although m - g - m records indicate that the film was in production without interruption from august 1 , 1950 through january 8 , 1951 , filming stopped at various intervals to allow for preparation of the " american in paris ballet " sequence . according to

this 1960 tourism film , produced by the national film unit , is aimed at a particular market niche : hunter holidaymakers . it follows a visitor from omaha , usa , ‘jd’ , who flies down to the “land of countless deer” : dart valley in the southern alps . a folk song extols the joys of answering the call of the wild — “the very best thing for a man : to hunt and fish and sleep out of doors , eat his tucker where he can” — as jd and his guide climb via bird - filled beech forest onto scree slopes to nab a 14 - point stag ; before a ciggie on the ridge and a squiz at the scenery .

with jim henson , frank oz directed the dark crystal ( 1982 ) , a delightful children ' s fantasy tale with muppets . henson also directed the george lucas - produced labyrinth ( 1986 ) starring teenaged babysitter jennifer connelly in an enchanted land inhabited by henson ' s muppets ( as monsters ) , trying to solve a fantastic , challenging maze in order to rescue her baby brother from the evil goblin king ( david bowie ) . the last film produced by jim henson was british director nicolas roeg ' s adventure - fantasy the witches ( 1990 ) - adapted from roald dahl ' s novel of the same name , with trademark special effects through animatronics , and anjelica huston as a frightening grand high witch that threatens to turn two young boys into mice at a seaside hotel convention of witches .

in the one channel days of the early 1970s , the survey slot was the place to find local documentaries . topics ranged across the board , from social issues ( alcoholism , runaway children ) to the potentially humdrum ( an agm meeting ) to the surprisingly experimental ( music film the unbelievable glory of the human voice ) . after extended campaigning by producer john o’shea , emerging independent filmmakers , including tony williams and roger donaldson , joined the party — bringing fresh creativity and new techniques to the traditional gentle , narration - heavy doco format .

in addition to the main songs used in the film , a number of other gershwin tunes were used as background , among them " how long has this been going on ? , " " someone to watch over me , " " liza " and " lady be good . " numbers initially planned for the film but not included were " love walked in , " which was performed by guetary but cut from the picture and " i ' ve got a crush on you , " which was planned for kelly but not filmed .

canadian - born cinematographer and director bob lapresle had two careers in new zealand filmmaking . firstly , with the government ' s national film unit as a director ; secondly after his ' retirement ' , as a producer and consultant passing on his experience to the private sector .

back to the film ! after the match hallucination , dr . steele begins to examine judy more intensely . something isn’t quite right with judy’s eyes , and she’s having a terrible time recalling what she did yesterday . she peevishly admits that she’s been struggling with her short term memory for months .

priyadarshan joins hands with his best friend and one of india’s best actors , mohanlal , in one of 2016’s onam releases . oppam is a thriller where mohanlal plays a blind man in a full length role for the first time . the film is produced by his dear friend , antony perumbavoor .

’ , ‘passenger to tokyo’ , ‘night plane to amsterdam’ , ‘the stateless man’ , ‘the mysterious bullet’ , ‘murder anonymous’ , ‘destination death’ , ‘person unknown’ , ‘the lonely house’ , ‘bullet from the past’ , ‘inside information’ , ‘the case of the smiling widow’ , ‘the mail van murder’ , ‘the tyburn case’ , ‘the white cliffs mystery’ , ‘night crossing’ , ‘print of death’ , ‘the cross road gallows’ , ‘the unseeing eye’ , ‘the ghost train murder’ , ‘the dover road mystery’ , ‘the last train’ , ‘evidence in concrete’ , ‘the silent weapon’ , ‘the grand junction case’ , ‘the never never murder’ , ‘wings of death’ and ‘the square mile murder’ .

fun fact : the character of ann wasn’t in the original play on which this film is based . davis said that it was director edmund goulding’s idea to add the best friend character so that judy wouldn’t have to complain or weep at her fate . instead , ann takes over the complaining / mourning duties . it certainly does help make judy a more noble character .

news item , artist saul steinberg met with producer arthur freed , possibly to discuss the film , possibly to create the paintings for jerry , but he was not hired for the production and jerry ' s paintings were created by artist gene grant . memos in the m - g - m files reveal that kelly had requested copies of two films to use as background for

variety forecast a healthy take at the box office for this film , especially from female audiences : “subject is a cinch to bring out the femme trade that delights in long and lusty weeps . it’s an exposition of feminine fortitude , courage , and determination that is always relished by the women . ” oh , those women and their weeping !

the biggest draw of oppam is , of course , the mohanlal and priyadarshan combo . after the disappointment fans endured in their last couple of films , oppam is definitely a welcome relief for the viewers . it is not as memorable or classic as some of their earlier collaborations like kilukkam and chitram , but much better than their last film , that travesty called geethanjali . after a strictly average first half , the proceedings catch pace in the second half , as jayaraman engages in a cat and mouse game with the killer . there are a couple of thrilling scenes here , especially the lift scene when jayaraman find him alone with the killer in the confined space . the climax , although fairly prolonged and nothing novel , has enough tension to keep an average viewer tethered to the edge of his / her seat . of course , the film would have fallen flat if it was not for the presence of the acting stalwart they call mohanlal . it is after a long time that i saw mohanlal in a role that demands his immense skills , and he delivers big time here . the man has immersed himself so much in the skin of the character , with his every nuance and expression as the blind man so spot on . samuthirakani as the villain is terrific , though his character is not fully developed .

although most of the film was shot on m - g - m ' s culver city , ca lot , some location filming was done in paris , france . according to memos an initial estimate of the film ' s location shooting schedule was for several days of atmospheric backgrounds and establishing shots , with two days of shooting in paris featuring kelly and leslie caron . actual second unit work began on september 2 , 1950 , but memos in the files indicate that rainy weather caused considerable delays and reshoots . filming in paris ended on 22 sep ; montage sequence director peter ballbusch , who was in london , gave final approval for the parisian footage on 26 september 1950 .

of course , the greatest children ' s fantasy / musical of all time was the wizard of oz ( 1939 ) , a journey down the yellow - brick road to the colorful land of oz . producer alexander korda ' s dazzling technicolor , costume fantasy adventure , the multi - oscar winning the thief of bagdad ( 1940 , uk ) - masterfully retold the arabian nights tale ( of the land of magic carpets ) featuring a giant genie and an evil vizier . the frightening story of a man who wished for eternal youth , another type of fantasy film , was the picture of dorian gray ( 1945 ) - a stylishly - sophisticated twist to the dr . jekyll and mr . hyde tale .

article by director of photography alfred gilks , the " our love is here to stay " number set on the quai along the seine near notre dame , was accomplished through use of a one - hundred - foot cyclorama set up on an m - g - m sound stage . the final scene of the film , which captures kelly and caron running toward each other on the multiple flights of stairs below sacre couer in the montmarte section of paris , was actually made by gilks shooting one staircase built on the studio backlot that was enhanced by warren newcombe and his special effects unit .

challenger and judy crash into the side of the jump , sending horse and rider to the ground in a grisly fall .

george brent was cast opposite davis , making this their eighth of eleven films together . their first movie came way back in 1932 when both actors were rising stars at warner bros . they would make movies for the next decade , with their final film , in this our life , premiering in 1942 .

and the end is so heart wrenching that it ought to be included as one of those personality tests where scientists search for any sign of empathy in a potential sociopath . i can see it now : right after the yawn test , a subject has to sit through this film . if he doesn’t get a little choked up , there might be something wrong…

: 143 ) . the half hour format ensures that the instalments move along at a snappy pace , and as noted above the episodes take a variety of approaches to their subject matter – although , it has to be said , the majority of the episodes take the form of a police procedural , with instalments such as the criminal - focused ‘blazing caravan’ being the exception rather than the rule . the structure of the procedural episodes will be familiar to viewers of modern police procedurals , and some of the crimes are still firmly lodged in the public’s subconscious .

fantasy films : unlike science fiction films that base their content upon some degree of scientific truth , take the audience to netherworld , fairy - tale places where events are unlikely to occur in real life . in mythological or legendary times , they transcend the bounds of human possibility and physical laws . fantasy films are often in the context of the imagination , dreams , or hallucinations of a character or within the projected vision of the storyteller . fantasy films often have an element of magic , myth , wonder , escapism , and the extraordinary . they may appeal to both children and adults , depending upon the particular film .

landscape was made by ex - national film unit producer bob lapresle ( six episodes were made in 1968 and six the following year ) . the focus of each half - hour programme was on people and personalities rather than on scenery , which was then being covered by the nzbc’s popular looking at new zealand . beginning with ‘friday in a country town’ , the landscape series went on to cover such varied topics as a family shearing gang , muttonbirders exercising their customary rights , the day to day life of a policeman , and the growing awareness of new zealanders towards the arts .

this quality was apparent immediately upon the film’s release in 1939 . that same review notes : “a completely cynical appraisal would dismiss it all as emotional flim - flam , a heartless play upon tender hearts by a playwright and company well versed in the dramatic uses of going blind and improvising on camille . but it is impossible to be that cynical about it . ”

judy and dr . steele get re - engaged , and judy is excited at the thought of having a real wedding with orange blossoms . that’s something she had been upset about missing . it’s a nice sentiment , but it doesn’t really ring true , especially since earlier in the film , judy told the doctor that she loved her life of minimal responsibilities . she told him that she would “probably marry someday , ” but she seemed more excited about her horses and where she would build her house than about a wedding dress and flowers . judy seemed like the type of person to elope or give a crazy party after getting married at city hall , so the “princess” wedding seems out of character . but beware , the rest of the film gives us a very domesticated judy . this movie’s version of “peace” evidently includes a husband , home , and a garden far from the life judy led before .

shot on monochrome 35mm film , the stories are presented in their original aspect ratios . the episodes on the first five discs are presented in the traditional 4 : 3 screen ratio , whilst the episodes on discs six and seven ( from ‘the ghost train murder’ onwards ) are presented in an aspect ratio of 1 . 66 : 1 , with anamorphic enhancement ( on these episodes , the image is slightly pillarboxed ) . each episode is preceded by the studiocanal logo ( 28s ) and , if you immediately rewind each title as it starts , you will find a hidden ‘easter egg’ in the form of each instalment’s original bbfc certificate ( all of which are onscreen for roughly 10s ) .

if you are under the belief that oppam is a murder mystery , then you would be sorely disappointed as there is no suspense at all . however , as a thriller , oppam is fairly engaging and makes for a decent one time watch . above all , this is certainly mohanlal’s best performance in recent times . watch the film only for this brilliant actor’s stellar performance .

news items include jeane romaine , mary gleason , judie landon , mary jane french , marilyn rodgers , ann brennan , beverly thompson , marietta elliott , pat hall , joan barton , beverly baldy , lorraine crawford , madge joureay , ann robin , angela wilson , lola kendrick and marlene todd in the cast , but their appearance in the released film has not been confirmed .

then judy runs off in her magnificent fur coat and hat . here’s a publicity still in the costume . film scholar jane gaines noted that this costume , particularly the hat , seems reminiscent of eyelashes , which draws attention to judy’s eyes . the hat lies lower on her forehead than her other hats , and it even casts a shadow over her eyes . this is a particularly loaded site , as blindness will be the first and only warning of judy’s death .

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in this 1956 reel , sir edmund hillary and colleagues describe their mission to set up bases in advance of the commonwealth trans - antarctic expedition . ed meets everest mate george lowe in uruguay to board the theron , and they smash and use explosives to blast their way through ice , then unload supplies ( including the soon - to - be - famous ferguson tractors ) . sections of the footage were shot on 16mm film by hillary himself . lt commander bill smith and dr trevor hatherton narrate pathfinding with sledges in mcmurdo sound , on the other side of the continent .

joe macbeth is a 1955 british–american crime drama , directed by ken hughes and starring paul douglas , ruth roman and bonar colleano . [ 1 ] it is a modern retelling of shakespeare ' s macbeth , set in a 1930s american criminal underworld . the film ' s plot closely follows that of shakespeare ' s original play . [ 2 ]

opening credits prologue : scotland yard a dramatised adaptation of one of the many crimes investigated by the most celebrated police centre in the world .

this national film unit doco illustrates the early days of the royal new zealand ballet . performances from the company’s touring program include bournonville’s napoli , kiwi arthur turnbull’s do - wack - a - do , a quirky 1930s flapper themed production ( also with a nz composer , dorothea franchi ) and the tulle and poise of fokine’s les sylphides . prismatic variations , choreographed by ballet company founder poul gnatt , and produced by another dance icon russell kerr , is the finale for this tribute to those who have made new zealanders “ballet conscious . ”

heartbreaking documentary about the large - scale illegal logging in the carpathians and the thrive of forest mafia that enriches the austrian timber company holzindustrie schweighofer . clear cut crimes is a 42 - minute documentary that has been filmed over a period of one year in the heart of the carpathian mountains , mainly in the northern romanian district of maramures and across the border , in ukraine . the occrp documentary stars a couple of key characters :

( despite the poster , the heroine is not doomed because a crazed scientist attempts to attach her head to the winged victory of samothrace . )

in fact , she was so emotionally fragile that a few days into production she asked to be released from the film that she had begged warner bros . to make . but edmund goulding and hal wallis convinced her to keep going . fun fact : when she told wallis that she was sick and couldn’t possibly continue , he reportedly told her , “bette , i’ve seen the rushes – stay sick ! ”

more harryhausen films in the mid - 60s included another h . g . wells adaptation the first men in the moon ( 1964 ) , about a space trip to the lunar surface ( with an alien civilization ) and back , the fantasy the valley of gwangi ( 1969 ) - with a giant prehistoric monster unearthed by an archaeologist , the second and third films in the sinbad series with more fantastic creatures : the golden voyage of sinbad ( 1974 ) and sinbad and the eye of the tiger ( 1979 ) , and the more recent mythological fantasy clash of the titans ( 1981 ) - with a memorable snake - haired gorgon - medusa , a cyclops , and the winged horse pegasus .

fun fact : unlike most movies , this film was shot in sequence , so davis “lived” the ups and downs of judy’s life in order . it’s safe to assume that by the time brent and davis shot this scene , they were in love in real life , too . their romance would last for another year after they finished this movie , and davis wanted to marry brent . but he didn’t think it would work , though the two remained good friends after they parted . davis said later that “of the men i didn’t marry , the dearest was george brent . ”

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although bette davis would eventually “dominate” the film in a grand performance , she almost missed out on the role . selznick originally hoped to star greta garbo , but garbo passed in order to play another tragic heroine in anna karenina ( 1935 ) . selznick then turned to merle oberon . there were notices in the trade papers announcing her casting , but it was not to be . oberon was actually waiting on a different project , plus she was not happy with mr . selznick .

costume appreciation break . orry - kelly designed the costumes for this film . this number with its fur - trimmed sleeves and skirt just bristles ; it’s perfect for this tense scene . it’s a great contrast to ann’s simpler suit , and it provides a somber reminder : judy might be rich and stylish and dripping in fur , but none of that will help her , now .

adore this film and davis’s work in it , how does she do it ? i must say a word in defence of geraldine fitzgerald’s ann , a tremendously warm and sympathetic character . not only does she show all of the tears and suffering that judith is denied , but her unwavering friendship makes it more difficult for viewers to write off judith as a spoiled , selfish brat .

story of the greek street murder . an old woman discovers a body with a blind man bending over it . the man stumbles out into the night .

judy stops by dr . steele’s office on her way to meet him for lunch . he’s out , and his nurse is finishing up the packing before the move to vermont after the wedding . judy chats with the nurse while she wanders through the office and settles at the desk . and then she sees it :

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in the american in paris ballet , a story is told through various settings in which the characters jerry and lise intermittently dance . although in his autobiography , minnelli , who was an artist himself , described coming up with the idea for the dance , outlines and other memos in the m - g - m files were submitted jointly by minnelli and kelly from the earliest stages . the final outline and description of the dance , co - signed by kelly and minnelli , was submitted to freed on september 6 , 1950 . introductory remarks to the outline , describe the vision of the ballet as follows : " the decor of the ballet will be its most distinguishing feature as to uniqueness and originality , for each individual scene will be done in the styles of different painters which we will denote in the synopsis of the libretto . . . the ballet visually should reflect an artist ' s viewpoint and both the scenery and the costumes should be done as they painted . . . . in essence , the entire ballet is a representation of a painter thinking about paris . "

( cbs , 2000 - ) . for example , ‘the candlelight murder’ focuses on the death of an elderly man in a sussex village during the late - 1930s . the police note that the man’s face has been deliberately mutilated ‘to make identification difficult’ . much of the episode is taken up with detailed examination of the forensic techniques used to solve the crime , including a reconstruction of the man’s face and the use of a cast of a footprint found at the scene to identify a potential suspect . cynicism towards using these new methods of forensic science to solve crimes is expressed through the character of a cobbler to whom a policeman takes the cast with the hope of identifying the type of shoe worn by the killer . it is a snappy , procedure - laden episode that contains detailed montages of forensic techniques which will be familiar to any viewer of modern forensic dramas .

over the years , the subject of fantasy has thoroughly entertained us . the earliest fantasy films combined science fiction with visions of the future . some of the earliest were georges melies ' fantasy silent film about a trip to the moon , voyage dans la lune ( 1902 ) , fritz lang ' s expressionistic metropolis ( 1927 , german ) with a nightmarish view of toiling urban workers , and producer alexander korda ' s things to come ( 1936 ) . director merian c . cooper ' s great prehistoric fantasy film king kong ( 1933 ) took viewers to skull island with a fearsome hairy beast created by willis h . o ' brien ' s marvelous stop - motion animation . frank capra ' s wonderful philosophical romantic fantasy lost horizon ( 1937 ) brought a group of plane crash survivors to the fabled and idyllic shangri - la hidden within a snowy tibetan mountain pass . comic strip hero flash gordon ( buster crabbe ) , with his love interest dale arden ( jean rogers ) , was the subject of many serialized , multi - part films , including flash gordon : flash gordon ' s trip to mars ( 1938 ) .

( 1948 ) . the documentary - style approach of american post - war films noirs are said to have been shaped by the conventions of both italian neo - realism and wartime newsreels : brian mcdonnell has stated that one of the ‘effect [ s of wartime social developments was to encourage a general move toward greater realism in film and in particular to foster the use of documentary techniques in fictional feature films . americans had become used , during the war , to watching extended newsreels and documentaries made in support of the war effort . they were both accustomed to the strident voice - overs of these nonfiction films and had become more inured to the brutality of war violence . all these developments led to what has been labeled the semidocumentary subgenre of classical noir’ ( 2007 : 79 ) . although mcdonnell’s comments are focused specifically on american films noirs , they are equally applicable to british series such as

the lit match bobs in front of her face , and he realizes that judy is seeing multiple matches and can’t quite bring the real flame to the tip of her cigarette… .

other episodes offer a slightly different perspective on the crimes they depict . ‘blazing caravan’ is heavily focalised through the perspective of the criminal , with lustgarten’s narration offering insight into the murderer’s thinking . the narration in this episode is slightly chatty and informal , sometimes addressing the viewer in the second person as if s / he was the criminal : revealing that the victim was a taxidermist , lustgarten intones , ‘fancy living in that house with all those stuffed animals - enough to give you the creeps . still , he was always amiable enough . he was amiable that day you called . in fact , amiable’s hardly the word . delirious would be more like it’ .

a vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory , but their carefully laid plans go wrong , when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash . the gang still go . . . see full summary »

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the files indicate that musician benny carter and his group were to perform on the " our love is here to stay " number , but their participation in the completed soundtrack has not been confirmed .

despite the early hour , judy and her secretary / best friend ann ( geraldine fitzgerald ) rouse themselves and head to the stables .

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we learn that michael disagrees with judy about one of her horses , challenger . judy is convinced he is a champion steeplechaser , but michael ( played by bogart with a thick but inconsistent irish accent ) thinks the horse lacks the drive . they argue while judy speeds to the course with michael perched precariously on the running board . the rear projection is hilariously obvious behind him . you can watch the scene here .

geoff murphy ( goodbye pork pie , utu ) directs this freewheeling adaptation of the māori legend of uenuku and his affair with the mist maiden hinepūkohurangi . the story of love , betrayal , and rainbow redemption was the first māori myth adapted for tv , and the first tv drama to be entirely performed in te reo ( the listener softened viewers by providing a translation prior to screening ) . filmed at the waimarama base of murphy and cinematographer alun bollinger , uenuku was produced by peach wemyss astor for the nzbc — a then - rare independently produced drama .

dr . steele and dr . parsons decide to keep the prognosis to themselves because that is kinder than the truth , or so they think .

the last artist represented is henri de toulouse - lautrec ( 1864 - 1901 ) . kelly appears in costume as the black dancer in toulouse - lautrec ' s " chocolat dansant dans un bar . " caron appears dressed as moulin rouge dancer jane avril , who was featured in various toulouse - lautrec paintings . the final sequence , a dance featuring many of the characters who had appeared earlier in the ballet , is set around a fountain reminiscent of the fountain in the place de la concorde in paris .

i’m like you–every time , i swear it’s ridiculous and i’m not going to cry , but i always do . davis hits you where it hurts ! i’m usually not a fan of george brent’s ( he’s way too bland for me ) , but i was surprised how much i liked him in this film , especially his last scene with bette . ann has always annoyed me , though . she doesn’t seem to have her own life , and her emotions are so over the top , which is saying something for a melodrama . great post again !

it’s awfully careless of the dr . steele to leave that lying around . judy opens the file , naturally , and is horrified by what’s inside .

the story was adapted for australian tv in the tv play bodgie ( 1959 ) , where it was relocated to an australian setting . [ 6 ]

this landscape doco looks at the muttonbirding culture of the deep south , as rakiura ( stewart island ) māori exercise their customary right to harvest the birds for food , oil and feather down . the hunt begins with a rugged trip to the islands where hundreds of thousands of tītī ( or sooty shearwater ) arrive annually to breed . the kinship of birding is evident as families ( and a poodle ) set up camp . soon the salty kai is plucked from burrows and sent by wire downhill to the ‘pluckhole’ . this was an early gig for director bruce morrison ( heartland , shaker run ) .