Greta Van Fleet, the Grammy-winning rockers from Michigan, delivered a stunning performance at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pa, as part of their Starcatcher World Tour. The quartet, composed of brothers Josh, Jake and Sam Kiszka, and drummer Danny Wagner, played a mix of songs from their albums, “From The Fires”, “Anthem of the Peaceful Army”, “The Battle at Garden’s Gate”, as well as new material from their latest album release “Starcatcher”.
The band opened with “The Falling Sky”, a soaring anthem that showcased Josh’s powerful vocals and Jake’s virtuosic guitar skills. The crowd was instantly captivated by the band’s energy and charisma, as they sang along to every word. The setlist continued with fan favorites such as “The Indigo Streak”, “Meeting The Master”, “Highway Tune” “Fate Of The Fateful”, “Black Smoke Rising” and “The Archer”, as well as some surprises like “Tears Of Rain...
The band opened with “The Falling Sky”, a soaring anthem that showcased Josh’s powerful vocals and Jake’s virtuosic guitar skills. The crowd was instantly captivated by the band’s energy and charisma, as they sang along to every word. The setlist continued with fan favorites such as “The Indigo Streak”, “Meeting The Master”, “Highway Tune” “Fate Of The Fateful”, “Black Smoke Rising” and “The Archer”, as well as some surprises like “Tears Of Rain...
- 9/23/2023
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
It was a night of metal madness as two of the most unique and popular bands in the genre, Baby Metal and Dethklok, joined forces for a co-headlining show at the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia, Pa. The fans were treated to a spectacle of sound, light, and pyrotechnics that showcased the diversity and creativity of metal music.
Baby Metal, the Japanese trio consisting of Suzuka Nakamo (Su-metal), Moa Kikuchi (Moametal) and Momoko Okazaki (Momometal), opened the show with their signature blend of kawaii pop and heavy metal. They performed songs from their latest album, The Other One, as well as some of their classics like Gimme Chocolate!!, Road Of Resistance, and Megitsune. The crowd sang along to the catchy choruses and cheered for the impressive choreography and musicianship of the band and their backing band, the Kami Band. Baby Metal proved that they are not just a novelty act,...
Baby Metal, the Japanese trio consisting of Suzuka Nakamo (Su-metal), Moa Kikuchi (Moametal) and Momoko Okazaki (Momometal), opened the show with their signature blend of kawaii pop and heavy metal. They performed songs from their latest album, The Other One, as well as some of their classics like Gimme Chocolate!!, Road Of Resistance, and Megitsune. The crowd sang along to the catchy choruses and cheered for the impressive choreography and musicianship of the band and their backing band, the Kami Band. Baby Metal proved that they are not just a novelty act,...
- 9/22/2023
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
Vulture Watch
With episodes airing twice a night, season 11 airs over five weeks. Has the American Horror Story TV show been cancelled or renewed for a 12th season on FX? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of American Horror Story, season 12. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
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A horror anthology series airing on the FX cable channel, American Horror Story: NYC stars Joe Mantello, Billie Lourd, Zachary Quinto, Russell Tovey, Leslie Grossman, Charlie Carver, Sandra Bernhard, Isaac Cole Powell, Denis O'Hare, and Patti LuPone. Guests include Rebecca Dayan, Kal Penn, Gideon Glick, Sis, Nico Greetham, Dot-Marie Jones, Hale Appleman, Kyle Beltran, Clara McGregor, Matthew Bishop, and...
With episodes airing twice a night, season 11 airs over five weeks. Has the American Horror Story TV show been cancelled or renewed for a 12th season on FX? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of American Horror Story, season 12. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?
What's This TV Show About?
A horror anthology series airing on the FX cable channel, American Horror Story: NYC stars Joe Mantello, Billie Lourd, Zachary Quinto, Russell Tovey, Leslie Grossman, Charlie Carver, Sandra Bernhard, Isaac Cole Powell, Denis O'Hare, and Patti LuPone. Guests include Rebecca Dayan, Kal Penn, Gideon Glick, Sis, Nico Greetham, Dot-Marie Jones, Hale Appleman, Kyle Beltran, Clara McGregor, Matthew Bishop, and...
- 10/21/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
We don't have to wonder about the future of American Horror Story right now since the series has already been renewed for 12th and 13th seasons. This time around, FX is airing two episodes a night so that the season will air over just five weeks. Could this move help increase viewership? Stay tuned.
An anthology series, American Horror Story: NYC stars Joe Mantello, Billie Lourd, Zachary Quinto, Russell Tovey, Leslie Grossman, Charlie Carver, Sandra Bernhard, Isaac Cole Powell, Denis O'Hare, and Patti LuPone. Guests include Rebecca Dayan, Kal Penn, Gideon Glick, Sis, Nico Greetham, Dot-Marie Jones, Hale Appleman, Kyle Beltran, Clara McGregor, Matthew Bishop, and Lee Aaron Rosen. Season 11 features one story and airs two episodes at a time. As the story begins, mysterious deaths and disappearances ramp up in the city. A doctor makes a frightening discovery, and a local reporter becomes...
An anthology series, American Horror Story: NYC stars Joe Mantello, Billie Lourd, Zachary Quinto, Russell Tovey, Leslie Grossman, Charlie Carver, Sandra Bernhard, Isaac Cole Powell, Denis O'Hare, and Patti LuPone. Guests include Rebecca Dayan, Kal Penn, Gideon Glick, Sis, Nico Greetham, Dot-Marie Jones, Hale Appleman, Kyle Beltran, Clara McGregor, Matthew Bishop, and Lee Aaron Rosen. Season 11 features one story and airs two episodes at a time. As the story begins, mysterious deaths and disappearances ramp up in the city. A doctor makes a frightening discovery, and a local reporter becomes...
- 10/21/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The Big Apple gets scary in the 11th season of the American Horror Story TV show on FX. As we all know, Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like American Horror Story is cancelled or renewed for season 12. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the 11th season episodes of American Horror Story here.
An FX horror anthology series, American Horror Story: NYC stars Joe Mantello, Billie Lourd, Zachary Quinto, Russell Tovey, Leslie Grossman, Charlie Carver, Sandra Bernhard, Isaac Cole Powell, Denis O'Hare, and Patti LuPone. Guests include Rebecca Dayan, Kal Penn, Gideon Glick, Sis, Nico Greetham, Dot-Marie Jones, Hale Appleman, Kyle Beltran, Clara McGregor, Matthew Bishop, and Lee Aaron Rosen.
An FX horror anthology series, American Horror Story: NYC stars Joe Mantello, Billie Lourd, Zachary Quinto, Russell Tovey, Leslie Grossman, Charlie Carver, Sandra Bernhard, Isaac Cole Powell, Denis O'Hare, and Patti LuPone. Guests include Rebecca Dayan, Kal Penn, Gideon Glick, Sis, Nico Greetham, Dot-Marie Jones, Hale Appleman, Kyle Beltran, Clara McGregor, Matthew Bishop, and Lee Aaron Rosen.
- 10/20/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
This article originally appeared on Time.com
(Cannon Ball, N.D.) — Some of the last remnants of the Dakota Access pipeline protest camp went up in flames Wednesday as opponents of the project set fire to makeshift wooden housing as part of a leaving ceremony ahead of a government deadline to get off the federal land.
The camp has been home to demonstrators for six months as they tried to thwart construction of the pipeline. Many of the protesters planned to go peacefully, but authorities were prepared to arrest others who said they would defy the deadline in a final show of dissent.
(Cannon Ball, N.D.) — Some of the last remnants of the Dakota Access pipeline protest camp went up in flames Wednesday as opponents of the project set fire to makeshift wooden housing as part of a leaving ceremony ahead of a government deadline to get off the federal land.
The camp has been home to demonstrators for six months as they tried to thwart construction of the pipeline. Many of the protesters planned to go peacefully, but authorities were prepared to arrest others who said they would defy the deadline in a final show of dissent.
- 2/22/2017
- by Blake Nicholson and James MacPherson / AP
- PEOPLE.com
Discussion Groups April 27, 2012 Nyu Stern School of Business Tisch Hall, 40 West Fourth Street (Note: You must be registered for the Conference to attend.) Room Uc.03 Disruptive Innovation 2.0 Adam Smith Revisited: Towards a Moral Capitalism? Craig Hatkoff - Co-Founder Tribeca Film Festival Irwin Kula - President of Clal Matthew Bishop - Us Business Editor and NY Borough Chief, The Economist Is Capitalism under attack or is the current distress a normal part of creative destruction? Is polarization paralyzing society and making politics hopelessly dysfunctional? Does applying Disruptive Innovation 2.0 provide a useful framework for gathering insights or creating solutions? Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments may provide a number of prescriptives. New business models for moral capitalism are beginning to emerge rooted in individual and collective identity will be discussed. Room Uc.04 The Importance Of Failure In Disruptive Innovation; Innovation As Art Dr. Gill Pratt - Darpa Program Manager Matt Keennon...
- 4/24/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
For anyone interested in the charity work of the rich and the famous, Philanthrocapitalism by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green is – in the words of Bill Clinton – “an important book.”
With a foreword by Clinton and featuring interviews with the movers and shakers of the charity world – including Bono, Bill Gates, Angelina Jolie and Richard Branson – Philanthrocapitalism is a highly readable and thoroughly researched study of who is doing what to tackle the big issues facing humanity today. It gives in-depth accounts of where the world’s wealthiest entrepreneurs and business leaders are spending their money and exactly what effect their efforts are having – both negative and positive. Even the most skeptical reader will get an insight into how money is being used to bring new solutions to age-old problems.
Bishop and Green give a well-rounded and in-depth view of the changing face of philanthropy in today’s world, detailing...
With a foreword by Clinton and featuring interviews with the movers and shakers of the charity world – including Bono, Bill Gates, Angelina Jolie and Richard Branson – Philanthrocapitalism is a highly readable and thoroughly researched study of who is doing what to tackle the big issues facing humanity today. It gives in-depth accounts of where the world’s wealthiest entrepreneurs and business leaders are spending their money and exactly what effect their efforts are having – both negative and positive. Even the most skeptical reader will get an insight into how money is being used to bring new solutions to age-old problems.
Bishop and Green give a well-rounded and in-depth view of the changing face of philanthropy in today’s world, detailing...
- 11/28/2011
- Look to the Stars
DVD Playhouse: January 2011
By
Allen Gardner
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (20th Century Fox) Sequel to the seminal 1980s film catches up with a weathered, but still determined Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, who seems to savor every syllable of Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff’s screenplay) just out of jail and back on the comeback trail. In attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forges a reluctant alliance with her fiancé (Shia Labeouf), himself an ambitious young turk who finds himself seduced by Gekko’s silver tongue and promise of riches. Lifeless film is further evidence of director Oliver Stone’s decline. Once America’s most exciting filmmaker, Stone hasn’t delivered a film with any teeth since 1995’s Nixon. Labeouf and Mulligan generate no sparks on-screen, and the story feels forced from the protracted opening to the final, Disney-esque denouement. Only a brief cameo by Charlie Sheen,...
By
Allen Gardner
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (20th Century Fox) Sequel to the seminal 1980s film catches up with a weathered, but still determined Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, who seems to savor every syllable of Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff’s screenplay) just out of jail and back on the comeback trail. In attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forges a reluctant alliance with her fiancé (Shia Labeouf), himself an ambitious young turk who finds himself seduced by Gekko’s silver tongue and promise of riches. Lifeless film is further evidence of director Oliver Stone’s decline. Once America’s most exciting filmmaker, Stone hasn’t delivered a film with any teeth since 1995’s Nixon. Labeouf and Mulligan generate no sparks on-screen, and the story feels forced from the protracted opening to the final, Disney-esque denouement. Only a brief cameo by Charlie Sheen,...
- 1/21/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
The year started off with a bang with accountability questions related to Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti Foundation. From April on, people berated Bp and cringed as the CEO told us one thing about the environmental and economic damage caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, while images flooding the media showed quite another story.
At conferences throughout the year--from The Economist, to the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (Cecp), Business for Social Responsibility (Bsr), the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and others--the more visionary company CEOs took to the microphones to proudly share their plans for corporate social responsibility (Csr). In interviews throughout the media, including blogs by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green: Philanthrocapitalism, Fast Company (mine and others), and Vault's Csr blog: In Good Company, corporate leaders talked about how their companies are committed to advancing social, economic, and environmental progress because that's just good business.
The Csr trends...
At conferences throughout the year--from The Economist, to the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (Cecp), Business for Social Responsibility (Bsr), the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and others--the more visionary company CEOs took to the microphones to proudly share their plans for corporate social responsibility (Csr). In interviews throughout the media, including blogs by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green: Philanthrocapitalism, Fast Company (mine and others), and Vault's Csr blog: In Good Company, corporate leaders talked about how their companies are committed to advancing social, economic, and environmental progress because that's just good business.
The Csr trends...
- 12/30/2010
- by Alice Korngold
- Fast Company
A newspaper article about zoo animals in Kuwait City after the Iraqi invasion inspired Matthew Bishop to write "The Zookeeper".
Director Ralph Ziman took his inspiration from a zoo in Angola during its civil war. Producer Juliusz Kossakowski saw the story as taking place in Eastern Europe. Consequently, "Zookeeper", starring Sam Neill, has an allegorical feeling in which characters act out a tale of brutality and humanity that pathetically repeats itself.
This is a slow, thoughtful, overcalculated effort that is best-suited for art houses and possible cable exposure. Superb and intimate acting by Neill, British actress Gina McKee and a Bosnian-born, Danish-reared boy, Javor Loznica, make the film feel more like a play despite its war scenes and large zoo setting.
The unnamed locale is probably Bosnia. Neill, the enigmatic title character, is a cynical ex-Communist bureaucrat with a troubled past. When his fellow zoo workers flee a city coming under bombardment and sniper fire, he stays on with a veterinarian (Om Puri) and an aging guard. But the guard disappears, and racist partisans kill the vet.
Barely able to keep the animals alive without the vet, Neill nevertheless perseveres, flinging what remains of meat supplies into the cages and injecting medicine into sick ones.
Then a wounded boy (Loznica) turns up. After Neill reluctantly nurses him back to health, the boy returns with a woman (McKee) who is his mother. The zookeeper doesn't want the two around, fearful that the nationalists' murderous captain (Ulrich Thomsen) will discover them. But the unlikely "family" continues the struggle to keep themselves and the animals alive until U.N. troops arrive.
Clearly, Neill is living in self-imposed penance for past deeds during the Communist era. The boy, hardened by war into a tiny soldier who will kill if necessary, shies away from human contact, which he no longer trusts. And his mother, toughened as well by her ordeal at the hands of militia who treated her as a sexual toy, struggles to make sense out of this quiet man who secretly writes poetry.
The story by Bishop and Ziman does not lack for dramatic incidents. Yet the characters never emerge as fully rounded. They move in a haze of symbolism and allegory. They lack specificity and details that would individualize their plight.
At times, Ziman seems more sympathetic to the caged, frightened animals. He explores their horrifying predicament with concern and tenderness. But this does slow down the drama.
Cinematographer Piotr Kukla bathes the screen in blue-gray tones, as if the war had banished the cheer of rich colors. The sequences where explosions and gunfire rock the zoo, causing the animals to shake with terror, contain the film's strongest, most troubling images.
THE ZOOKEEPER
A Svendsen Films presentation
in association with Apollo Films Ltd.,
Pavel Novy Produckce and Maborosi
Producers: Juliusz Kossakowski, Michael Alden
Director: Ralph Ziman
Screenwriters: Ralph Ziman, Matthew Bishop
Executive producers: Michael Lunderskov, Michael Laursen, Gavin Poolman, Rob Langestraat
Director of photography: Piotr Kukla
Production designer: Martin Maly
Music: Nikolaj Egelund
Editor: Christopher Holmes
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ludovic: Sam Neill
Ankica: Gina McKee
Zioig: Javorf Loznica
Dragov: Ulrich Thomsen
The vet: Om Puri
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Director Ralph Ziman took his inspiration from a zoo in Angola during its civil war. Producer Juliusz Kossakowski saw the story as taking place in Eastern Europe. Consequently, "Zookeeper", starring Sam Neill, has an allegorical feeling in which characters act out a tale of brutality and humanity that pathetically repeats itself.
This is a slow, thoughtful, overcalculated effort that is best-suited for art houses and possible cable exposure. Superb and intimate acting by Neill, British actress Gina McKee and a Bosnian-born, Danish-reared boy, Javor Loznica, make the film feel more like a play despite its war scenes and large zoo setting.
The unnamed locale is probably Bosnia. Neill, the enigmatic title character, is a cynical ex-Communist bureaucrat with a troubled past. When his fellow zoo workers flee a city coming under bombardment and sniper fire, he stays on with a veterinarian (Om Puri) and an aging guard. But the guard disappears, and racist partisans kill the vet.
Barely able to keep the animals alive without the vet, Neill nevertheless perseveres, flinging what remains of meat supplies into the cages and injecting medicine into sick ones.
Then a wounded boy (Loznica) turns up. After Neill reluctantly nurses him back to health, the boy returns with a woman (McKee) who is his mother. The zookeeper doesn't want the two around, fearful that the nationalists' murderous captain (Ulrich Thomsen) will discover them. But the unlikely "family" continues the struggle to keep themselves and the animals alive until U.N. troops arrive.
Clearly, Neill is living in self-imposed penance for past deeds during the Communist era. The boy, hardened by war into a tiny soldier who will kill if necessary, shies away from human contact, which he no longer trusts. And his mother, toughened as well by her ordeal at the hands of militia who treated her as a sexual toy, struggles to make sense out of this quiet man who secretly writes poetry.
The story by Bishop and Ziman does not lack for dramatic incidents. Yet the characters never emerge as fully rounded. They move in a haze of symbolism and allegory. They lack specificity and details that would individualize their plight.
At times, Ziman seems more sympathetic to the caged, frightened animals. He explores their horrifying predicament with concern and tenderness. But this does slow down the drama.
Cinematographer Piotr Kukla bathes the screen in blue-gray tones, as if the war had banished the cheer of rich colors. The sequences where explosions and gunfire rock the zoo, causing the animals to shake with terror, contain the film's strongest, most troubling images.
THE ZOOKEEPER
A Svendsen Films presentation
in association with Apollo Films Ltd.,
Pavel Novy Produckce and Maborosi
Producers: Juliusz Kossakowski, Michael Alden
Director: Ralph Ziman
Screenwriters: Ralph Ziman, Matthew Bishop
Executive producers: Michael Lunderskov, Michael Laursen, Gavin Poolman, Rob Langestraat
Director of photography: Piotr Kukla
Production designer: Martin Maly
Music: Nikolaj Egelund
Editor: Christopher Holmes
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ludovic: Sam Neill
Ankica: Gina McKee
Zioig: Javorf Loznica
Dragov: Ulrich Thomsen
The vet: Om Puri
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
A newspaper article about zoo animals in Kuwait City after the Iraqi invasion inspired Matthew Bishop to write "The Zookeeper".
Director Ralph Ziman took his inspiration from a zoo in Angola during its civil war. Producer Juliusz Kossakowski saw the story as taking place in Eastern Europe. Consequently, "Zookeeper", starring Sam Neill, has an allegorical feeling in which characters act out a tale of brutality and humanity that pathetically repeats itself.
This is a slow, thoughtful, overcalculated effort that is best-suited for art houses and possible cable exposure. Superb and intimate acting by Neill, British actress Gina McKee and a Bosnian-born, Danish-reared boy, Javor Loznica, make the film feel more like a play despite its war scenes and large zoo setting.
The unnamed locale is probably Bosnia. Neill, the enigmatic title character, is a cynical ex-Communist bureaucrat with a troubled past. When his fellow zoo workers flee a city coming under bombardment and sniper fire, he stays on with a veterinarian (Om Puri) and an aging guard. But the guard disappears, and racist partisans kill the vet.
Barely able to keep the animals alive without the vet, Neill nevertheless perseveres, flinging what remains of meat supplies into the cages and injecting medicine into sick ones.
Then a wounded boy (Loznica) turns up. After Neill reluctantly nurses him back to health, the boy returns with a woman (McKee) who is his mother. The zookeeper doesn't want the two around, fearful that the nationalists' murderous captain (Ulrich Thomsen) will discover them. But the unlikely "family" continues the struggle to keep themselves and the animals alive until U.N. troops arrive.
Clearly, Neill is living in self-imposed penance for past deeds during the Communist era. The boy, hardened by war into a tiny soldier who will kill if necessary, shies away from human contact, which he no longer trusts. And his mother, toughened as well by her ordeal at the hands of militia who treated her as a sexual toy, struggles to make sense out of this quiet man who secretly writes poetry.
The story by Bishop and Ziman does not lack for dramatic incidents. Yet the characters never emerge as fully rounded. They move in a haze of symbolism and allegory. They lack specificity and details that would individualize their plight.
At times, Ziman seems more sympathetic to the caged, frightened animals. He explores their horrifying predicament with concern and tenderness. But this does slow down the drama.
Cinematographer Piotr Kukla bathes the screen in blue-gray tones, as if the war had banished the cheer of rich colors. The sequences where explosions and gunfire rock the zoo, causing the animals to shake with terror, contain the film's strongest, most troubling images.
THE ZOOKEEPER
A Svendsen Films presentation
in association with Apollo Films Ltd.,
Pavel Novy Produckce and Maborosi
Producers: Juliusz Kossakowski, Michael Alden
Director: Ralph Ziman
Screenwriters: Ralph Ziman, Matthew Bishop
Executive producers: Michael Lunderskov, Michael Laursen, Gavin Poolman, Rob Langestraat
Director of photography: Piotr Kukla
Production designer: Martin Maly
Music: Nikolaj Egelund
Editor: Christopher Holmes
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ludovic: Sam Neill
Ankica: Gina McKee
Zioig: Javorf Loznica
Dragov: Ulrich Thomsen
The vet: Om Puri
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Director Ralph Ziman took his inspiration from a zoo in Angola during its civil war. Producer Juliusz Kossakowski saw the story as taking place in Eastern Europe. Consequently, "Zookeeper", starring Sam Neill, has an allegorical feeling in which characters act out a tale of brutality and humanity that pathetically repeats itself.
This is a slow, thoughtful, overcalculated effort that is best-suited for art houses and possible cable exposure. Superb and intimate acting by Neill, British actress Gina McKee and a Bosnian-born, Danish-reared boy, Javor Loznica, make the film feel more like a play despite its war scenes and large zoo setting.
The unnamed locale is probably Bosnia. Neill, the enigmatic title character, is a cynical ex-Communist bureaucrat with a troubled past. When his fellow zoo workers flee a city coming under bombardment and sniper fire, he stays on with a veterinarian (Om Puri) and an aging guard. But the guard disappears, and racist partisans kill the vet.
Barely able to keep the animals alive without the vet, Neill nevertheless perseveres, flinging what remains of meat supplies into the cages and injecting medicine into sick ones.
Then a wounded boy (Loznica) turns up. After Neill reluctantly nurses him back to health, the boy returns with a woman (McKee) who is his mother. The zookeeper doesn't want the two around, fearful that the nationalists' murderous captain (Ulrich Thomsen) will discover them. But the unlikely "family" continues the struggle to keep themselves and the animals alive until U.N. troops arrive.
Clearly, Neill is living in self-imposed penance for past deeds during the Communist era. The boy, hardened by war into a tiny soldier who will kill if necessary, shies away from human contact, which he no longer trusts. And his mother, toughened as well by her ordeal at the hands of militia who treated her as a sexual toy, struggles to make sense out of this quiet man who secretly writes poetry.
The story by Bishop and Ziman does not lack for dramatic incidents. Yet the characters never emerge as fully rounded. They move in a haze of symbolism and allegory. They lack specificity and details that would individualize their plight.
At times, Ziman seems more sympathetic to the caged, frightened animals. He explores their horrifying predicament with concern and tenderness. But this does slow down the drama.
Cinematographer Piotr Kukla bathes the screen in blue-gray tones, as if the war had banished the cheer of rich colors. The sequences where explosions and gunfire rock the zoo, causing the animals to shake with terror, contain the film's strongest, most troubling images.
THE ZOOKEEPER
A Svendsen Films presentation
in association with Apollo Films Ltd.,
Pavel Novy Produckce and Maborosi
Producers: Juliusz Kossakowski, Michael Alden
Director: Ralph Ziman
Screenwriters: Ralph Ziman, Matthew Bishop
Executive producers: Michael Lunderskov, Michael Laursen, Gavin Poolman, Rob Langestraat
Director of photography: Piotr Kukla
Production designer: Martin Maly
Music: Nikolaj Egelund
Editor: Christopher Holmes
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ludovic: Sam Neill
Ankica: Gina McKee
Zioig: Javorf Loznica
Dragov: Ulrich Thomsen
The vet: Om Puri
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/5/2001
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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