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Top of the class: the five best boarding-school movies
5 December 2009 4:10 PM, PST
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If… (15) Lindsay Anderson, 1968 Starring Malcolm McDowell
Made in the heady days of global unrest and protest, Anderson's boarding-school flick caught the mood of anti-establishment disaffection. Its exotic flourishes – making out with a libidinous waitress; gunning down the faculty with weapons stolen from the cadet force armoury – fuelled the fantasies of rebellious schoolboys everywhere.
Best scene
College House listens in uncomfortable silence as Travis (McDowell) is given a brutal caning by the head whip.
Flirting (15) John Duigan, 1991
Starring Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton
"One thing about boarding school, 24 hours a day, you're surrounded," begins misfit Taylor, stuck in a rural Australian boys' school in 1965. "Either you abandon yourself and become a herd animal, or dig deeper into your head and skulk inside." Taylor finds a different path when he discovers love with Newton from a nearby girls' school.
Best scene
Taylor defends his girlfriend's honour, in the boxing ring against the school's top pugilist.
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Phoenix Theatre Ensemble Presents No Exit, Begins 12/3
25 November 2009 3:37 PM, PST
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Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, an artist-directed theatre company now in its 6th Season, announces that Jean-Paul Sartre's classic No Exit will open on Thursday, December 3 and will run Tuesday through Saturday at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 3:00 pm through December 13 (with a possible extension through January 1) at The Wild Project at 195 East 3rd Street between Avenue A and Avenue B.
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Nightwood Theatre Presents Live-Cinematic Production of No Exit, 11/11-11/21
21 November 2009 9:44 AM, PST
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"Hell is other people". In Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist masterpiece, 'No Exit', three damned souls collide in hell, expecting to be subjected to torture for their mortal sins, only to be left at the mercy of one another. Sartre's philosophical journey into the human psyche will be staged as a 'live movie' in a hybrid film and theatre performance presented by Nightwood Theatre from November 11-21 at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. The production is conceived and directed by Kim Collier.
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The Box (2009) Movie Review
9 November 2009 5:29 AM, PST
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If you’re a fan of writer-director Richard Kelly, or even just mildly interested in his career, the trailers for “The Box” might convince you it’s the kind of movie everyone was waiting for him to make. After two confusing and overindulgent films (cult favorite “Donnie Darko”, and the not-so-cult favorite “Southland Tales”), “The Box” promised to be a smart, simple, taut thriller that wouldn’t take an advanced degree to fully comprehend.
Unfortunately, it’s really just another trademark Richard Kelly film, drowning in oblique excess. Kelly has turned a simple premise into a wild conspiracy yarn involving the Viking Mars mission, sinister public libraries, the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, mysterious nose bleeds, amputated toes, and towering blocks of CGI Jell-o that allow you to briefly pass through the afterlife. It’s almost as hilariously muddled as “Southland Tales”, with the key difference being that “Southland Tales” was trying to be funny.
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- Albert Walker
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Movie Review: The Box (2009)
6 November 2009 2:32 AM, PST
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How much do you know about French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, his play "No Exit" and his ideas of free will? Well, you may want to bone up a bit if you want to have a leg up on your friends before going into Richard Kelly's The Box. This is hardly an accessible film, but it can become increasingly available if you have done a bit of homework in advance.
Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as Norma and Arthur Lewis are presented with an interesting proposition when Frank Langella playing the mysterious Arlington Steward shows up on their doorstep. His face, disfigured due to an initially unknown accident, is a source of unease as he offers the couple a button unit with the promise that should they push the button someone they don't know will die and in return they will be given one million dollars.
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[Movie Review] The Box
5 November 2009 11:17 PM, PST
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It’s a simple question with a not-so-simple answer.
If someone asks you to command the death of another human being you don’t know for a million dollars, would you do it? It’s not a question of options, smarts or assessment. It is a yes-or-no morality that has only one answer. You either place high value on a stranger’s life, or you don’t.
This is the question that drives the story in The Box, a movie by Donnie Darko writer/director Richard Kelly and based on a short story by Richard Matheson that casts a very harsh judgment on humanity. In Langley, Virginia, the year 1976, Nasa scientist Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) and his wife Norma (Cameron Diaz) are visited by a stranger named Arlington Steward (Frank Langella), who gives them a box with a button inside. Push it, and they’ll receive one million dollars, but
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- Arya Ponto
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Uncle Bob Martin: 13 Books That Stuck to the Roof of My Mind
8 June 2009 12:33 AM, PDT
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Wall Street, they tell me, is on an upturn, and the economy is well on its way to recovery. Hooray and Huzzah! But, even if all this optimism is justified (which I doubt), the rough times aren't entirely behind us and, however long they linger, certain businesses are going to suffer -- especially certain businesses that may not be fit for survival in the digital world, like publishing for the niche markets of Sf and horror.
And, even if happy days are here again, some 20th Century businesses won't be coming back, ever.
Every year, March is National Reading Month, and every year it passes by with no one noticing, except for a few librarians who have to get up on ladders to post the banners (of course, this year, no budget for banners, so there wasn't even that).
Well, this blog is going to change everything; we're going to
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Hugh Laurie! Jessica Simpson! They're Big Overseas
12 May 2009 5:00 AM, PDT
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Who says success is measured only by Hollywood's terms?
In France, House star Hugh Laurie is right up there among such literary luminaries as Jean-Paul Sartre, Jules Verne and, oui, Victor Hugo.
The British star's novel Tout Est Sous Contrôle, a translation of his 1996 thriller The Gun Seller, is currently No. 2 on France's best sellers list, according to global news agency Agence France-Presse.
The novel, a James Bond-like spy spoof, has sold more than 100,000 copies since its release in February by a little-known French publishing house Sonatine.
And though the success comes 13 years after it was original published - and
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- Julia Wang
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