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In an interesting bit of casting, Richard Burton costars in his final role as a government agent who surreptitiously exposes Hurt to the ideas of resistance. Unlike many like-minded films, does not offer a flashy vision of the future, but then that aspect makes it feel all the more real. In an age when more and more of our everyday activities are being scrutinized, Big Brother may not be so far off after all. One of his earliest Mexican films, it was received with about as much controversy as his previous film Las Hurdes aka Land Without Bread , which was made in Spain.
If you've not seen it, Los Olvidados is the story of a gang of poor children, some homeless and others abused, trying to survive on the streets. It's not as surrealist as many of his better-known films but it remains surprisingly engrossing and challenging. Jack Nicholson was born to play the part of Randle Patrick McMurphy, the rebellious inmate of a psychiatric hospital who fights back against the authorities' cold attitudes of institutional superiority, as personified by Nurse Ratched Louise Fletcher. It's the classic antiestablishment tale of one man asserting his individuality in the face of a repressive, conformist system -- and it works on every level.
Forman populates his film with memorably eccentric faces, and gets such freshly detailed and spontaneous work from his ensemble that the picture sometimes feels like a documentary. Unlike a lot of films pitched at the 'youth culture' of the s, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest really hasn't dated a bit, because the qualities of human nature that Forman captures -- playfulness, courage, inspiration, pride, stubbornness -- are universal and timeless. The film swept the Academy Awards for , winning in all the major categories picture, director, actor, actress, screenplay for the first time since Frank Capra's It Happened One Night in Pixote Portuguese slang for 'Peewee' is the name of a chubby-cheeked year-old runaway played by real-life slum kid Fernando Ramos da Silva.
He's a natural, creating a childlike and vulnerable character left emotionally hardened and morally adrift by his brutal experiences. Pixote escapes and turns to street crime in Rio with a small gang, but his dreams of big money and a good life are dashed as they play at crime in a violent kill-or-be-killed world. After completing the film he sank back into poverty and crime, and died on the streets.
His life became the subject of the film Who Killed Pixote? It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration 'I just knew I had to make this film,' Scorsese would later say , combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate expression of personal, political, and societal anxiety.
Robert De Niro, as the tortured, ex-Marine cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly realized characters ever committed to film. Bickle is a self-appointed vigilante who views his urban beat as an intolerable cesspool of blighted humanity.
He plays guardian angel for a young prostitute Jodie Foster , but not without violently devastating consequences. This masterpiece, which is not for all tastes, is sure to horrify some viewers, but few could deny the film's lasting power and importance. So says code-name V Hugo Weaving , a man on a mission to shake society out of its blank complacent stares in the film V for Vendetta. His tactics, however, are a bit revolutionary, to say the least.
The world in which V lives is very similar to Orwell's totalitarian dystopia in After they gained power, minorities and political dissenters were rounded up and removed; artistic and unacceptable religious works were confiscated. Cameras and microphones are littered throughout the land, and the people are perpetually sedated through the governmentally controlled media. Taking inspiration from Guy Fawkes, the 17th century co-conspirator of a failed attempt to blow up Parliament on November 5, , V dons a Fawkes mask and costume and sets off to wake the masses by destroying the symbols of their oppressors, literally and figuratively.
At the beginning of his vendetta, V rescues Evey Natalie Portman from a group of police officers and has her live with him in his underworld lair. Controversy and criticism followed the film since its inception, from the hyper-stylized use of anarchistic terrorism to overthrow a corrupt government and the blatant jabs at the current U. Many are valid critiques and opinions, but there's no hiding the message the film is trying to express: Radical and drastic events often need to occur in order to shake people out of their state of indifference in order to bring about real change.
Unfortunately, the movie only offers a means with no ends, and those looking for answers may find the film stylish, but a bit empty. The main character is a young disabled Parsee girl named Lenny, who lives a comfortable life with her wealthy parents. Her nanny Shanta Nandita Das, who also stars in Fire is Hindu, and together with Lenny, enjoys the company of a diverse group of friends, including two Muslims, another Hindu and a Sikh. The partition of India splits the group wide apart, and in the ethnic violence following independence, Dil Navez's sisters are brutally butchered.
Turning to Shanta for support and love, his marriage proposal is rebuffed, and the final straw comes when he watches an intimate act between Shanta and Hasan. The violence eventually reaches Lenny's household, as an angry Muslim mob descends on the property looking for Hindus, and she learns the hard way that even your friends can betray you under the right circumstances.
This movie graphically depicts the violence of ethnic cleansing, the horror of which overshadows the beauty of romance, the closeness of friendship and the happiness of families. Well directed and acted, this movie may bring tears to the eyes of even the most jaded viewers. Set in Gujarat, India, the film graphically documents the changing face of right-wing politics in India through a study of the genocide of Muslims in Gujarat.
The film examines the aftermath of the deadly violence that followed the burning of 58 Hindus on the Sabarmati Express train at Godhra on February 27 In 'reaction' to that incident, some 2, Muslims were brutally murdered, hundreds of women raped, and more than , families driven from their homes. Borrowing its reference from the history of Nazism, the title of the film exposes what the film director calls 'Indian Fascism' and seeks to remind that 'those who forget history are condemned to relive it.
BBC documentary that can be watched in its entirety on Google Videos. This powerful documentary by David Adetayo Olusoga took a sensitive and uncompromising look at the tragic circumstances leading to the massacre of three quarters of the Namibia population in German concentration camps built in Africa.
The programme included graphic reconstructions and did not shirk from showing disturbing scenes which revealed the savagery ofeEuropean colonial ideology put into practise. The documentary also showed the footage of Germany's ambassador to Namibia expressing regret for their killing of thousands of Namibia's Hereros during the colonial era. Unsurprisingly, the Germans refused to agree to the justifiable calls for reparations. The program also explored the current call for land reforms where most of Namibia's commercial land is still owned by european farmers who make up 6 percent of the country's population of 1.
Throughout it included interviews and powerful testimony from African survivors, descendants and reparation movement representatives thus making this a compelling programme which both educated the audience whilst treating the sensitive subject matter with the respect it deserved. The director gives us a view into what the viewer must assume is an average, impoverished Maori family in New Zealand.
The Maori are the aboriginal peoples of New Zealand. The movie is very raw and definitely not suitable for children. You aren't human if you don't cry for these people when you watch this movie. Tamahori made no attempt to make a feel-good movie. He has a story to tell and makes no attempt to sugar-coat the truth. Once Were Warriors drew a lot of acclaim. It was the first film to successfully present the modern-day Maori plight to the world. Once Were Warriors is one of the few movies that has made a real impact on my world-view.
I saw [it] when I was a freshman in college and it opened my eyes to cultures well beyond my reach and scope. It forced me, for the first time, to abandon my ethnocentricity. As a result of this movie I am I hope a much more culturally sensitive person. The title refers to a 1,mile fence separating outback desert from the farmlands of Western Australia. It is here, in , that three aboriginal girls are separated from their mothers and transported to a distant training school, where they are prepared for assimilation into white society by a racist government policy.
Gracie, Daisy, and Molly belong to Australia's 'stolen generations,' and this riveting film based on the book by Molly's daughter, Doris Pilkington Garimara follows their escape and tenacious journey homeward, while a stubborn policy enforcer Kenneth Branagh demands their recapture. Director Phillip Noyce chronicles their ordeal with gentle compassion, guiding his untrained, aboriginal child actors with a keen eye for meaningful expressions. Their performances evoke powerful emotions subtly enhanced by Peter Gabriel's excellent score , illuminating a shameful chapter of Australian history while conveying our universal need for a true and proper home.
In broad outline, the plot might resemble a standard fish-out-of-water tale: But Roeg and screenwriter Edward Bond are concerned with far more than the average wilderness drama, as a shocking act of violence near the story's beginning makes clear. This is particularly true in regards to the relationship between the white children and the aborigine boy, who ultimately develops a troubled romantic attraction towards the older sister.
Obviously intended as a statement on the exploitation of the natural world and native cultures by European civilization, the film nevertheless maintains an evocative vagueness that usually -- but not always -- favors poetry over didacticism. Most importantly, the film's justifiably acclaimed cinematography is likely to sway even those who find fault with the film's narrative and message. The shift between the sterile city images and the truly stunning, beautifully composed Australian landscapes provide the film's single best argument, making the film a vivid and convincing experience.
It's hard to believe that it is the first feature film of Luis Argueta. It is crafted so expertly It gives the events an innocence and humor that balance the grim political realities unfolding. Of course the images are amazing. How can they not be when as a setting you have Guatemala? We felt like we were there--near the volcano in Antigua, on some dusty roads between small towns.
This is the best movie we have seen in a long time. It beats anything coming out of the US film market these days. I am going to recommend it to anyone I talk to about film -- or history -- or politics. If you've seen US-made and backed films such as El Norte and Salvador, you owe it to yourself to see a film made by Guatemelans in Guatemala.
It's great cinema, period. Mendoza's life takes a turn for the worse, however, when he learns that the woman he loves, Carlotta Cherie Lunghi , has fallen in love with his younger brother, Felipe Aidan Quinn. And when he discovers them in bed together, he loses control and kills his brother in a swordfight. Afterwards, however, Mendoza is consumed with extreme guilt and he becomes a Jesuit postulant after meeting Father Gabriel Jeremy Irons. But Father Gabriel, who has always cared for the natives and resented the slave traders, is at first unsure if Mendoza's desire to do penance and achieve redemption is sincere.
Mendoza fianlly completes his penance after suffering many hardships, and he helps Gabriel teach the Indians about Christianity. As the years pass, Mendoza and Gabriel become close if somewhat wary companions, running the isolated mission above Iguacu Falls together while allowing each other plenty of personal space. Everything changes, though, when in Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Madrid, which redefines their territorial borders in the Americas.
The end result of the treaty is that Spain which has forsaken slavery delivers the Indian land to Portugal where slavery remains legal.
To avoid the Jesuit order being expulled from Portugal, all Jesuit missions in South America are ordered closed by the Pope, which means the Indians living there will be abandoned to the slave traders. The Guarani Indians are determined to stay and fight for the mission they've come to love, and this deeply troubles Mendoza. Despite his Jesuit vow of practicing nonviolence, he knows that with his past fighting skills as a mercenary he's the only one who can teach the Guaranis to defend themselves.
Gabriel also stays, but for a different reason. The end result of the inevitable battle is predictable but nevertheless is devastating to watch. The explanation of the role the Reagan administration played in providing money, arms and training to the corrupt Guatemalan government has relevance to countless other American interventions in foreign affairs. The filmmakers reveal both the complexities and the tragedies of the Guatemalan situation; scenes of Indians digging through massive garbage dumps for useful scraps are juxtaposed with those of government-sponsored beauty pageants in which Indians are proudly paraded in native costumes.
Footage of breast-feeding Indians making camp in the jungle to avoid being found and killed is equally as compelling as the images from protests and brutalities that occurred in the cities. Indian activists ended up in an extended standoff with FBI agents, and the result was several deaths, including two federal men whose killing according to many people was never clearly attributed to a specific gunman.
Nevertheless, the government laid blame for the tragedy on Leonard Peltier, a Sioux political leader who has long been a focus for supporters believing he took the fall, possibly heroically, for others. Peltier has spent many years in prison, and Apted's film, which is hardly ambiguous in its commitment toward Peltier's hoped-for freedom, is persuasive in both its detail and its case against brutal federal policies toward Indians. Whatever one's position on the Peltier question, this is a compelling piece of work. This one is right up there with Gone With the Wind as an epic morality tale of the human journey.
Another reviewer compared this film to Forrest Gump in its scope, which is not too far off the mark, but this story cuts a little more deeply in its cry of outrage at the atrocities visited upon Native Americans as our great ancestors paved their way westward across our infant nation. One of the most heartbreaking and infuriating moments in cinema history takes place as we see Jack Crabbe watching helplessly from a few feet away while his beautiful Cheyenne wife and newborn baby meet cruel, bloody death at the hands of the U.
You realize then that this is more than an epic about Western Heroes; it is a truly subversive landmark film achievement, made at a time when our government's good intentions were up to question Subversive because it could break your heart one moment and entertain and tickle you the next with its irreverent view of our Great Society. This is one of those movies that will never wear out its welcome, rather it will be rediscovered with renewed appreciation with age For five years, the Commission traveled to more than communities and heard from more than representatives.
The Royal Commission focused its inquiry on sixteen Aboriginal issues and became a sounding board for all the past government injustices including the slow process of land claim settlement, the reluctance to recognize Aboriginal self-government, the inequity of Aboriginal prisoners held in jail, and the legacy of residential schools.
For two-and-a-half years, Edmonton director, Greg Coyes, worked with teams of Native filmmakers, following the Commission on its journey from coast to coast. Perhaps most notably, it's the definitive role for John Wayne as an icon of the classic Western -- the hero or antihero who must stand alone according to the unwritten code of the West.
The story takes place in Texas in ; Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, a Confederate veteran who visits his brother and sister-in-law at their ranch and is horrified when they are killed by marauding Comanches. Ethan's search for a surviving niece played by young Natalie Wood becomes an all-consuming obsession. With the help of a family friend Jeffrey Hunter who is himself part Cherokee, Ethan hits the trail on a five-year quest for revenge. At the peak of his masterful talent, director Ford crafts this classic tale as an embittered examination of racism and blind hatred, provoking Wayne to give one of the best performances of his career.
As with many of Ford's classic Westerns, The Searchers must contend with revisionism in its stereotypical treatment of 'savage' Native Americans, and the film's visual beauty the final shot is one of the great images in all of Western culture is compromised by some uneven performances and stilted dialogue.
Still, this is undeniably one of the greatest Westerns ever made. It divided critics at the time of its release and indeed, continues to do so. It is extremely brutal but not gratuitously so. The appalling acts depicted are shown from the point of view that this actually happened, as opposed to: People seeing the film tend to be shocked from the former point of view as opposed to the latter. The film opens deceptively with a Cheyenne massacre of a US Cavalry troop guarding a pay chest. The survivors of the massacre are one naive boy soldier and a savvy, young frontier woman, played superbly by Peter Strauss and Candice Bergen, respectively.
Their adventures and subsequent romance are then chronicled. Along the way they encounter Donald Pleasance's superbly sinister arms smuggler. In an orgy of blood lust, women and children are slaughtered and body parts are taken as trophies. By this time the film has swung degrees from its opening, and has established the root cause of the suffering which is the white man's treatment of the Native American.
During all this, Strauss' character has changed from naive volunteer soldier to conscientious objector while the character of Candice Bergen remains the hope of reconciliation and co-existence. Marriage for most Kurdish brides promises freedom and respectability. But for others, it can bring isolation, cruelty and even death. This Life program explores how oppression of the minority Kurds in the disputed enclave of north Iraq has unleashed a chain of violence -- often directed at the weakest members of Kurdish society: A former doctor, Nasik gave up her career to run a shelter for women living under threat of death from their families.
Dreamland is any indication, the men and women who are serving their country in Iraq could certainly use it.
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Filmed in early , director-editor Ian Olds' documentary for which he was given full access by the U. Many of these young men, a lot of them poor and under-educated, joined the military because they lacked viable career or life alternatives; once stationed in Iraq, they clearly wonder why they are there 'What exactly are we protecting? Their daily lives, at least as depicted rather matter-of-factly by Olds, seem to consist of stretches of drudgery punctuated by occasional outbursts of gunfire and dangerous activity, along with meetings in which officers try to persuade them to re-enlist once their contracts expire.
Although there are snipers and bombers around, we don't witness any casualties filming was completed before the Marines laid bloody siege to al-Falluja in April of that same year. Instead, what we see is an uneasy co-existence between locals who don't want them there They may call their base of operations 'Dreamland' it's actually an abandoned Ba'athist retreat , but for most of these guys, 'nightmare' might be more appropriate. Iraq is permitted to sell a limited amount of oil in exchange for some food and medicine.
Pilger takes the former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Denis Halliday, back to the crippled country for the first time since he resigned in protest over the sanctions back in September Together, they reveal an extraordinary portrait of life in a country with a decaying infrastructure and a population that Pilger says is being held hostage to the compliance of Saddam Hussein. Starting out in the city of Nablus where as many as 80 percent of suicide bombing plots are planned , James Miller and Saira Shah ended up in the Gaza town of Rafah, one of the most dangerous cities in this volatile region.
There they spent several weeks focusing on the activities of three Palestinian children -- two year-old boys and a year-old girl -- who have grown up surrounded by messages of hate against Israel whose military presence in their town is a constant , and taught that the greatest glory is to die a martyr. The film ends on a day like many other days in Rafah, with death -- except that on this day, the fallen victim happens to be the man making this film.
Their journeys lead them to the unlikeliest places to confront hatred within their communities. The film explores what drives them and thousands of other like-minded civilians to overcome anger and grief to work for grassroots solutions. It is a film about the everyday leaders in our midst. For 16 months, the Just Vision crew has been following the stories of ordinary people who feel driven to work for an end to bloodshed and occupation in favor of peace. We have traveled from Tel Mond to Tulkarem, from Hebron to Haifa documenting the courageous, painful and moving stories of regular people who refuse to sit back as the conflict escalates.
These civic leaders navigate suicide bombings and checkpoints to confront militancy on both sides, the wounded and apathetic masses. Using archival footage and extensive interviews with participants, the production begins by explaining conditions in Palestine at the end of World War II and the crisis created by the exodus of European Jews who went to the Middle East after the Holocaust.
The withdrawal of the British, who had controlled Palestine for decades, is detailed, as is the creation of the state of Israel. Much of the region's history is complex, with the local struggles being conducted at times as a part of the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union, but these videos do an admirable job of explaining the complexities of the situation. The segment on the Six Day War, for example, is masterful, with the scenes shifting from Israel to Egypt to Washington to Moscow, the story developing before the viewer's eyes.
The 50 Years War is often a tale of mistrust and betrayal, but this production strives to present a balanced view of history, and is not only impressive for its command of the facts but for its skillful and often dramatic presentation of history. The operation ended with Jenin flattened and scores of Palestinians dead. Palestinians as well as numerous human rights groups accused Israel of committing war crimes in the April attack on the refugee camp.
Jenin Jenin shows the extent to which the prolonged oppression and terror has affected the state of mind of the Palestinian inhabitants of Jenin. Bitterness and grief are the prevailing feelings among the majority of the population. Many have lost loved ones or are still searching for victims and furniture among the debris. A little girl, who does not seem to be much older than twelve, tells her story but knows no fear.
The ongoing violence in her day-to-day life only nourishes her feelings of hatred and the urge to take revenge. On June 23, as Israeli forces besieged Yamun, Samoudi was shot and killed as he was leaving a military-closed area with three friends. Based on the book Vengeance: But director Steven Spielberg uses that as a starting point to delve into complex ethical questions about the cyclic nature of revenge and the moral price of violence.
The movie starts with a rush. The opening portrays the kidnapping and murder of Israeli athletes by PLO terrorists at the Olympics with scenes as heart-stopping and terrifying as the best of any horror movie. After the tragic incident is over and several of the terrorists have gone free, the Israeli government of Golda Meir recruits Avner Eric Bana to lead a team of paid-off-the-book agents to hunt down those responsible throughout Europe, and eliminate them one-by-one in reality, there were several teams. It's physically and emotionally messy work, and conflicts between Avner and his team's handler, Ephraim Geoffrey Rush , over information Avner doesn't want to provide only make things harder.
Soon the work starts to take its toll on Avner, and the deeper moral questions of right and wrong come into play, especially as it becomes clear that Avner is being hunted in return, and that his family's safety may be in jeopardy. From the ferocious beginning to the unforgettable closing shot, Munich works on a visceral level while making a poignant plea for peace, and issuing an unmistakable warning about the destructive cycle of terror and revenge. As one of the characters intones, 'There is no peace at the end of this.
The event stopped the games, gripped the world, and perhaps for the first time fully illustrated the volatile state of affairs in the Mideast to the world. Kevin Macdonald's Academy Award-winning documentary painstakingly reconstructs the events, shedding light on what the world saw on television with the exasperating revelation of behind-the-scenes blunders. This visceral, tense film uses riveting news footage to great effect, weaving in affecting interviews. Macdonald mourns the deaths of the innocent Olympic hostages and dutifully gives a voice to the Palestinian cause through interviews with Jamal al-Gashey, the only survivor of the eight terrorists, who briefly came out of hiding for the film.
He earnestly but half-heartedly sketches a picture of the social and political situation that fueled the act, reserving his anger for the grossly unprepared German police force. Even the irresponsibility of the media circus gets off lightly. It's a sobering, angering, often frustrating piece of non-fiction cinema, a thorough piece of historical research brought to life with an angry immediacy. Macdonald simply doesn't know what lessons to draw from it all. Khaled and Said Ali Suliman and Kais Nashef, both making striking film debuts believe fervently in their cause, but having a bomb strapped to your waist would raise doubts in anyone -- and once doubts have arisen, they respond in very different ways.
Paradise Now is gripping enough while the men are preparing for their mission, but when the set-up goes awry and Khaled and Said are separated, it becomes almost excruciatingly tense. The movie passes no judgment on these men; impassioned arguments are made for both sides of the conflict.
This is a work of remarkable compassion and insight, given the shape and sharpness of a skillful thriller. Much of the movie is simply long pans of the wall itself, which is made of concrete barriers in some places where the government feels there is a higher risk of gunfire and a fence topped with razor wire in others, while the filmmakers hold off-screen conversations with children, Israelis, and the Palestinians who have been hired to build the wall. Periodically the movie returns to a brusque interview with the Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, who defends the wall and shrugs off concerns about the damage the wall -- which may end up being over kilometers long -- is doing to the natural environment as well as the political one.
But documentarian Simone Bitton refrains from metaphor; the considerable impact of Wall arises from her simple and matter-of-fact approach, ranging from scenes of teenage soldiers refusing entry to a woman hanging her clothes with the fence in the background. For her, this affair will be the most decisive experience of her life. For the other woman, Felice Schragenheim Maria Schrader , a Jewess and member of the underground, their love fuels her with the hope that she will survive.
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This is one of the few that explores what happened to some of the others slated by Hitler for extermination, in this case, the Gypsies. After the Jews are rounded up, he learns that the Gypsies will be next. With his wife and son, he seeks out a Gypsy camp outside of town, and becomes involved in an attempt to flee from the Nazis. Perhaps it is a mercy that these people are unaware of how much information they need to successfully escape. They are rounded up and sent to Auschwitz just as the survivors of the journey reach what they believe will be a safe haven in Hungary.
In Auschwitz, though conditions are not as brutal for them as for the Jews, most of them die. Academy Award winner for Best Documentary. More than 25 million copies of her diary -- which has been turned into a play and a movie -- have been sold. This intense, richly detailed documentary paints a broad portrait of Anne. Documentaries are a dime a dozen, but few stories are as truly powerful, as sincerely moving and poignant as Anne's. Director Jon Blair does a phenomenal job with this carefully detailed, thoughtful, emotional film his previous documentary on Oskar Schindler so captivated Steven Spielberg that he was inspired to make Schindler's List.
Blair unearths a interview with the only surviving member of the Frank family, Anne's father, Otto, who offers an unpublished portion of her diary. Blair also discovers previously unseen footage of her watching a wedding, the only known film of Anne to exist; it's a brief, but breathtaking image of a girl who inspired the world. Blair also interviews Peter Pepper, who hid with the Franks, and Hanneli Goslar, who befriended Anne and her sister at camp and depicts the Frank girls' last days.
The most potent interview, though, is with Miep Gies, Otto's employee who risked her life to help the Franks. Gies, modest and not completely comfortable on camera, is so likable that she seems to embody Anne's touching words, spoken amidst the horror of their lives: Inside the Nazi State reveals the inner workings of the Nazi implementation of Hitler's infamous 'final solution. Through painstakingly authentic reenactments of crucial meetings including the Wannsee Conference where the 'final solution' was secretly devised , we see and hear the Nazi thought processes, built on virulent hatred and bigotry, that 'justified' mass murder on an unprecedented scale.
The film version is adapted by the playwright, Martin Sherman, and closely follows his play's story of two gay concentration camp victims who are sent to Dachau and who fall in love, using their relationship as an emotional crutch in their efforts to rebuff the horror of the Holocaust. Max Clive Owen , would rather wear a yellow star and proclaim himself a Jew than be lanced with the pink triangle that designates homosexuality. Horst Lothaire Bluteau chastises him for his homophobia. Later the tables turn on Max, who finds -- through Horst -- the strength both to keep alive indefinitely and to ultimately embrace his sexual identity.
There are many poignant as well as harrowing scenes, and the result is a somber work that stands as a reminder that intolerance cannot overtake individualism and love. While Bent received an NC rating for depicting Berlin's decadent, anything-goes-for-a-price nightlife, MGM opted not to edit out the tone-setting prelude and pushed to preserve the film's integrity despite a rating that is itself a kind of death for any film that bears it. The film is just Frau Junge and the camera, unadorned with newsreel footage, still photography, or even a fade.
The starkness is deliberate: Based on the only surviving record of that meeting, Conspiracy is a powerful combination of historical reconstruction and speculation that attempts to offer new insights into a pivotal moment in history. The cast does a marvelous job of fleshing out the documentary evidence to create convincing characters. Kenneth Branagh is especially chilling as SS Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich, who uses a combination of charm and ruthless power-mongering to gain support for his plans. Colin Firth is fascinating as Wilhelm Stuckart, a lawyer who sees the brutal tactics of the SS as a threat to his own intellectualized anti-Semitism, and Stanley Tucci gives a wonderfully understated performance as Adolf Eichmann.
Conspiracy is a carefully crafted, completely unsensational film that offers ample proof of the banality of evil. There are no histrionics and no comic-book Nazi villains, just a small group of politicians and war-weary soldiers arguing about the meaning of words and the logistics of extermination, calmly preparing to unleash an unimaginable horror on the world.
In February , an official statement was made that Faye had once again left the group in and would be replaced by Emelie Norenberg. Formation and Us Against the World Play was formed as a result of a nationwide talent search led by Laila Bagge, a recording artist a A date UK tour from mid-October to mid-November to promote the album followed. The title track Over the Co The group rose to fame with their debut international album, Backstreet Boys In the following year they released their second international album Backstreet's Back along with their self-titled U.
After a two-year hiatus, they regrouped and released a comeback album Never Gone After the conclusion of the Never Gone Tour in , Richardson left the group to pursue other interests. Unbreakable and This Is Us In , the group announced that Richardson had rejoined them permanently. The song was originally released in on their album Jailbreak.
Reception "It was and we were touring America," recalled Scott Gorham. Which song are you talking about? We owe it all to two DJs in Louisville, Kentucky. They fell in love with the fucking song and played it incessantly until other stations in the surrounding area picked up on it… Had that song not kickstarted the sales of the album, then the band was over.
The band has experienced several line-up changes, with vocalist, guitarist, and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member. The Cure first began releasing music in the late s with their debut album Three Imaginary Boys ; this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the post-punk and new wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom.
During the early s, the band's increasingly dark and tormented music as well as Smith's stage look was a staple of the emerging style of music known as gothic rock. Following the release of the album Pornography in , the band's future was uncertain. Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had acquired, introducing a greater pop sensibility into the band's music. The material was recorded in the mid s, and producer Billy Russell replaced Tom Brown's vocals with Baldry's vocals. The group is brought back together at the funeral of Larry, who died of pancreatic cancer.
They revisit the same apartment in Manhattan as the first play, and again begin talking and arguing. The dialog and story is relayed in "real time. Michael angrily defends Scott, and yells at the new character Jason, a "strident young activist" who had been romantically involved with Larry. Emory and Harold get involved in the arguments, while non-combative characters include Donald, Bernard, and Rick, a male nurse who had been harboring feelings for La The Hackensaw Boys are a string band based in central Virginia that formed in The band has drawn on many musical influences and are "[k]nown best for rowdy, energetic live shows.
The band tours continuously and claims twenty or more current and former members. The current four-piece lineup contains only one original member, David Sickmen, who rejoined the group in after quitting in In April the band released Charismo on Free Dirt Records, their first studio album in almost a decade[2] — which was produced by Larry Campbell. Ours who were all living in Charlottesville, Virginia at the time. Sickmen and Bullington met in Harrisonburg, Virginia in the early s when the latter was attending James Madison University there.
Bullington was playing in a band called Frie Since then, the band has undergone many variations in composition, with representation by fill-ins onstage. As of , the only principal members included in the Beach Boys' touring band are co-founder Mike Love and addition Bruce Johnston. Early years The Beach Boys' original lineup performing in The group's instrumental combo initially involved Brian Wilson on bass guitar and keyboards, Carl Wilson on guitar, and Dennis Wilson on drums.
The Four Seasons are an American rock and pop band that became internationally successful in the s and s. Since , they have also been known at times as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. The legal name of the organization is the Four Seasons Partnership, formed by Gaudio and Valli taken after a failed audition in While singers, producers, and musicians have come and gone, Gaudio and Valli remain the band's constant with each owning fifty percent of the act and its assets, including virtually all of its recording catalog. Boys in the Sand is a landmark[1] American gay pornographic film released at the very beginnings of the Golden Age of Porn.
The [2] film was directed by Wakefield Poole and stars Casey Donovan. Promoted by Poole with an advertising campaign unprecedented for a pornographic feature, Boys in the Sand, which premiered in at the seat[9] 55th Street Playhouse E. A sequel, Boys in the Sand Boys Next Door may refer to: Kids Next Door , a fictional organization in the animated television series Codename: Boys were a hard rock band originally from Perth, Western Australia. Madness are an English ska band from Camden Town, north London, who formed in One of the most prominent bands of the late s and early s two-tone ska revival, they continue to perform with six of the seven members of their classic line-up.
Both Madness and UB40 spent weeks on the UK singles charts over the course of the decade, holding the record for most weeks spent by a group in the s UK singles charts. However, Madness did so in a shorter time period — Despite limited commercial success, The Birthday Party's influence has been far-reaching, and they have been called "one of the darkest and most challenging post-punk groups to emerge in the early '80s.
Disillusioned by their stay in London, the band's sound and live shows became increasingly violent.
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They broke up soon after relocating to West Berlin in The creative core of The Birthday Party — singer and A boy band or boyband is loosely defined as a vocal group consisting of young male singers, usually in their teenage years or in their twenties at the time of formation,[1] singing love songs marketed towards young women. Being vocal groups, most boy band members do not play musical instruments, either in recording sessions or on stage, making the term something of a misnomer. However, exceptions do exist. Many boy bands dance as well as sing, usually giving highly choreographed performances.
Some such bands form on their own. They can evolve out of church choral or gospel music groups, but are often created by talent managers or record producers who hold auditions. Due to this and their general commercial orientation towards a female audience of preteens, teenyboppers, or teens, the term may be used with negative connotations in music journalism.
Boy bands are similar in concept to their counterparts, girl groups. Boy bands' popularity peaked four times: The film is about two brothers who move to California and end up fighting a gang of young vampires. The title is a reference to the Lost Boys in J. Barrie's stories about Peter Pan and Neverland, who, like the vampires, never grow up.
The film was followed by two direct-to-video sequels, Lost Boys: The Tribe and Lost Boys: The Thirst and spawned a franchise with the same name. Plot Brothers Michael and Sam Emerson travel with their recently divorced mother Lucy to the small beach town of Santa Carla, California, to live with her eccentric father, referred to simply as Grandpa. Michael and Sam begin hanging out at the boardwalk, which is plastered with flyers of missing people, while Lucy gets a job at a video store run by a local bachelor, Max.
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Dead Boys are an American punk rock band from Cleveland, Ohio. The band was among the first wave of punk bands, and was known as one of the rowdiest and most violent punk groups of the era. Dead Boys were initially active from to , briefly reuniting in , and then later again in and for the first time without Bators, who had died in In September , Chrome and Blitz reunited the band with a new lineup for a 40th anniversary tour along with a new album, Still Snotty: Young, Loud and Snotty at 40, a re-recording of their debut album. The Blind Boys have toured for seven decades and created an extensive discography.
In the on-stage configuration of the group consisted of eight people: The Blind Boys of Alabama sing mainly spiritually uplifting songs, as well as giving encouragement to those with disabilities. Blind group member Ricky McKinnie said "Our disability doesn't have to be a handicap. It's not about what you can't do.
It's about what you do. And what we do is sing good gospel music. The Beach Boys' catalogue has been released on reel-to-reel, 8-track, cassette, CD, MiniDisc, digital downloads, and various streaming services. The group has released 29 studio albums, eight live albums, 55 compilation albums, and 71 singles.
October 1, Label: LP 32 — — — — Surfin' U. March 25, Label: Gold[6] Surfer Girl Released: September 16, Label: They are considered a one-hit wonder, though they released an EP, two albums and several singles. By the mids, the band's line-up had stabilised around principal members Richards and keyboardist Brian Chatton one of the session players on the debut EP , along with Jeff Seopardi on drums, Nico Ramsden on guitar, and Mark Smith on bass.
Chatton had previously had a brief stint on keyboards with s progressive band Jackson Heigh Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo, formed in London in and consisting of Neil Tennant lead vocals, keyboards, occasional guitar and Chris Lowe keyboards, vocals.
Pet Shop Boys have sold more than 50 million records worldwide,[7] and are listed as the most successful duo in UK music history by The Guinness Book of Records.
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They were part of the mod subculture,[1] and played soul music-influenced pop music. After the stint with Barry, Pete Watson was recruited as lead guitarist, and in they changed their name to The Action. Shortly after their formation, they signed to Parlophone with producer George Martin. None of the Action's singles achieved su Friends is the 14th studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on June 24, through Capitol Records.
The album is characterized for its calm and peaceful atmosphere, which contrasted the prevailing music trends of the time, and for its brevity, with five of its 12 tracks running less than two minutes long.
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It sold poorly, peaking at number on the US Billboard charts, the group's lowest US chart performance to date, although it reached number 13 in the UK. Fans generally came to regard the album as one of the band's finest. As with their two previous albums, Friends was recorded primarily at Brian Wilson's home with a lo-fi production style. The album's sessions lasted from February to April at a time when the band's finances were rapidly diminishing.
Some of the songs were inspired by the group's recent involvement with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and his Transcendental Meditation practice In , Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford, and the band began developing a following in Boston. They were signed to Columbia Records in , and released a string of gold and platinum albums, beginning with their eponymous debut album, followed by Get Your Wings in The name subsequently became a backronym for Beyond the Scene in July On June 12, , they performed the song "No More Dream" from their initial album 2 Cool 4 Skool [4] to commemorate their debut on June 13, Young Forever , with the latter two entering the U.
Except for the first iteration of the series featuring O-Town, all seasons of Making the Band have been overseen by Diddy, acting as the man of the house who makes the final decision on who will be in the band. Making the Band The first iteration of Making the Band started on March 24, , and aired for three seasons, finishing on March 30,