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Post-Soviet Descent into Capitalist Chaos: Alex Gibney's Citizen K »
By Michael Sandlin. After narrowly avoiding being nicked by the UK authorities for supposed "document theft" during the filming of his Troubles documentary No Stone Unturned, Alex Gibney…
Babenco's Swansong: My Hindu Friend »
By Ali Moosavi. Death has been a popular theme for filmmakers to explore almost ever since cinema was invented. Some of the films dealing with mortality have contained…
Marion Davies: Gifted Actress and Impossible Boy »
By Thomas Gladysz. I rejoice in this opportunity to record something which today is all but forgotten except for those lucky enough to have seen a few of…
The Best Iranian Films of the Year: A Personal Selection »
By Ali Moosavi. Among the many Iranian films that I have watched this year, six have stood out for me. If we don't consider the purely commercial and state-funded…
"When There Are No Good Answers": Barbara Kopple's Desert One (2019) »
By Kate Hearst. At the New York premiere of Desert One at the DOC/NYC film festival, Barbara Kopple recounted how the History Channel provided her with a list…
Richard Jewell and the Damn Yankees »
By Christopher Sharrett. I have had sympathetic interest in the work of Clint Eastwood over the years, but such interest has been hard to sustain with antics like…
This is the End: 63 Up »
By Michael Sandlin. "Give me the child until he is seven, and I will give you the man," is the bit of ancient philosophy that serves as the…
Much to Remember: Chris Wade on Memories of Lindsay Anderson »
By Tony Williams. Leeds-born Chris Wade is one those unique talents thankfully outside the existing psychologically dysfunctional terrain of higher education. A highly creative and prolific artist, filmmaker…
Real-Life Libertarian Nightmare: Luke Lorentzen's Midnight Family »
By Michael Sandlin. From a strictly academic point of view, 26-year-old boy wonder documentarian Luke Lorentzen's Midnight Family affecting ticks all the boxes of a classic "observational" mode of…
John Waters' Polyester: The Suburbs Arrive (Criterion Collection) »
By Christopher Sharrett. Anyone viewing Polyester for the first time might be a little confused: hasn't all this been done before? Satires or eviscerations of the suburbs have…
The Irishman: Requiem for Very Little »
By Christopher Sharrett. It has been some time since Martin Scorsese has interested me, his achievements in Taxi Driver and Raging Bull still notable, but faded a bit…
Come One, Come All!: The 67th San Sebastian International Film Festival, 20-28 September 2019 »
By Ali Moosavi. San Sebastian is a beautiful coastal town in the Basque region of Spain. It has one of the oldest film festivals in the world which somehow has not become as…
Back with 40 More: AFI Shorts 2019 »
By Gary M. Kramer. There are 40 shorts screening in six programs (as well as in front of features) at this year's AFI Fest presented by Audi. Here are ten highlights from the…
Three from the Open City Documentary Festival 2019 »
By Ali Moosavi. Three interesting documentaries screened at the Open City Documentary Festival in London, September 4-10, 2019. Sergei Loznitsa, the distinguished Ukrainian director known for films such as A Gentle Creature (2017) and…
On Programming Content and Context: 73rd Edinburgh International Film Festival in Review »
By Mina Radovic. A lady patiently cleans her house. The yellow lights of Athens peer in through the windows as her husband smokes a cigarette and between puffs complains to her about his…
Experimentation in NYC: NYFF Shorts 2019 »
By Gary M. Kramer. Two shorts programs at this year's New York Film Festival are designed to provoke audiences. This is a welcome approach to short films, where the format encourages experimentation. As…
Crises in Detail: AFI Docs 2019 »
By Gary M. Kramer. At the 2019 AFI Docs Film Festival this year, five provocative shorts and features tackled important topics ranging from the drug crisis and immigration to the creationism debate and…
Coming of Age with Care: the 21st Maryland Film Festival (2019) »
By Gary M. Kramer. Now in its 21st year, the Maryland Film Festival in Baltimore is a showcase for eclectic independent features, shorts, and documentaries. This year's program features films both homegrown and far-flung.…
Portraits and Passions: Tribeca Film Festival 2019 »
By Gary M. Kramer. The Tribeca Film Festival, April 24-May 5, offers a variety of features, shorts, documentaries, television and new media productions from new and established filmmakers. This year's programs offered some…
By Tony Williams. Leeds-born Chris Wade is one those unique talents thankfully outside the existing psychologically dysfunctional terrain of…
Refusal to Respond – David Shields and Lynch: A History »
By Matthew Sorrento. Review Filmmaker David Shields found an ideal style to document the onscreen (but off the field)…
"Cinema is strong and some people are afraid of it": An Interview with François Ozon »
By Alex Ramon. Speaking with Film International last year, François Ozon asserted that, for him, "the story comes first" when…
A Hidden Gem: Interview with Trương Minh Quý (Nhà cây / Tree House, 2019) »
By Yun-hua Chen. A hidden gem in the sidebar section "Concorso Cineasti del presente" at Locarno Film Festival, Trương Minh…
The Method to His Madness: Grady Hendrix and Satanic Panic »
By John Duncan Talbird. Grady Hendrix is a novelist, sometimes-journalist, essayist, and screenwriter. He's written several horror novels, including…
A Deep Affect for Regional Genre Films: Aaron Harvey on Into the Ashes »
By Tom Ue. Aaron Harvey is the writer and director of several award-winning feature films including Catch.44 (2011), starring…
Scoring Films Quickly, with Inspiration: An Interview with Mike Hall »
By David A. Ellis. Fifty-year-old Mike Hall is a film composer who lives in Le Claire Iowa. He grew…
Joining the Flow: An Interview with Jonathan Rosenbaum »
By Jeremy Carr. On the occasion of two recently published collections – Cinematic Encounters: Interviews and Dialogues (2018) and…
The Arab Comrades in the Spanish Civil War: Amal Ramsis on You Come from Far Away »
By N. Buket Cengiz. The 12th edition of Documentarist, the sole independent documentary festival in Turkey, was held on 15-20…
The Immigrant Dream Life: An Interview with Amir Ganjavie on Pendulum »
By Ali Moosavi. Pendulum is the first film made by Amir Ganjavie, an Iranian diaspora film critic (and a Film…
Dreaming on, Despite Brexit: A Conversation with Sean McAllister »
By N. Buket Cengiz. Documentarist, an independent documentary film festival held in Istanbul since 2007, had the acclaimed British…
Post-Soviet Descent into Capitalist Chaos: Alex Gibney's Citizen K
Babenco's Swansong: My Hindu Friend
A Very English Cinema – Britpop Cinema: From Trainspotting to This is England by Matt Glasby
Empathetic and Unblinking: The Painted Bird
Marion Davies: Gifted Actress and Impossible Boy
Making and Taking: Overseas
"All Archives Create Futures" – Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
To Know Them Doesn't Mean You Love Them: Bombshell
Perforation: On Ken Loach's Factory Humans in Sorry We Missed You
Come One, Come All!: The 67th San Sebastian International Film Festival, 20-28 September 2019
The Best Iranian Films of the Year: A Personal Selection
Into the…Shed
"When There Are No Good Answers": Barbara Kopple's Desert One (2019)
Richard Jewell and the Damn Yankees
A Sense of Loss: Dónal Foreman's The Image You Missed
And You Thought Your Family Was Dysfunctional: Mario Bellocchio's Fists in the Pocket (Criterion Collection)
This is the End: 63 Up
Much to Remember: Chris Wade on Memories of Lindsay Anderson
Real-Life Libertarian Nightmare: Luke Lorentzen's Midnight Family
Strange Metamorphosis: Jessica Hausner's Little Joe
John Waters' Polyester: The Suburbs Arrive (Criterion Collection)
Crafting Place Through Film – The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking: Minor Immigrant Cinemas in Sweden 1950-1990 by Lars Gustaf Andersson and John Sundholm
A Hunt, Sans Suspense: After the Murder of Albert Lima
Transnational Identities in the Dramatically Tense Synonyms
Whose Decision?: To Kid or Not to Kid
The Irishman: Requiem for Very Little
Back with 40 More: AFI Shorts 2019
An Author's World, Extended: George Orwell on Screen by David Ryan
Stuck in Time: Daniel Joseph Borgman's Resin
A Time of Transition: Yasujirô Ozu's Tokyo Twilight
Tony Williams: Thank you for publishing this interview. There may be hope for this "ugly society" if more...
Matthew Sorrento: Reading about this "misfit" cowboy narrator, I can't help wonder if the Coens...
Matthew Sorrento: This sounds like an interesting mediation on the politics of gender and, more specifically, our...
Melinda: Great interview, John! I enjoyed the specificity of your questions as well as the conversational style of...
Matthew Sorrento: I agree with Tony, Daniel — thanks for commenting on the issues this film addresses. This...
By Michael Sandlin. After narrowly avoiding being nicked by the UK authorities for supposed "document theft" during the filming of his Troubles documentary No Stone Unturned, Alex Gibney is back…
By Ali Moosavi. Death has been a popular theme for filmmakers to explore almost ever since cinema was invented. Some of the films dealing with mortality have contained some autobiographical…
A Very English Cinema – Britpop Cinema: From Trainspotting to This is England by Matt Glasby »
A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. Hear the term "Britpop," and the usual musical suspects come to mind: Blur, Oasis, Suede, and the like. Less obvious is the movement's cinematic…
Empathetic and Unblinking: The Painted Bird »
By Yun-hua Chen. Seldom can film-viewing be such a devastating experience. Having competed in the category of main competition at the Venice Film Festival and being handpicked by Around the…
Making and Taking: Overseas »
By Yun-hua Chen. After a very personal debut Full of Missing Links (2012) about her journey back to South Korea in search of her father and the experience of separation…
"All Archives Create Futures" – Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project »
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. There's a moment in Matt Wolf's documentary Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project where the enormous value of the VHS archival project of the film's title spirals is…
To Know Them Doesn't Mean You Love Them: Bombshell »
By Elias Savada. The stars are blondly aligned: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, as three of the many victims of the "real scandal" at Fox News on which Charles…
Perforation: On Ken Loach's Factory Humans in Sorry We Missed You »
By Susana Bessa. We could never say it had been the worst week of her life. Because to see it as the worst is to be hopeful on its recovery.…
By Christopher Sharrett. I have had sympathetic interest in the work of Clint Eastwood over the years, but such interest has been hard to sustain with antics like his talking…
A Sense of Loss: Dónal Foreman's The Image You Missed »
By James Slaymaker. Jean-Luc Godard once explained that he pioneered his late-period, archival style after realizing that "in a striking manner, film was able to recount its own history in…
And You Thought Your Family Was Dysfunctional: Mario Bellocchio's Fists in the Pocket (Criterion Collection) »
By Rod Lott. Given how ahead of its time Fists in the Pocket is, I'm surprised Mario Bellocchio's first feature isn't more widely known, in the way that François Truffaut's…
By Michael Sandlin. "Give me the child until he is seven, and I will give you the man," is the bit of ancient philosophy that serves as the abiding impetus…
By Michael Sandlin. From a strictly academic point of view, 26-year-old boy wonder documentarian Luke Lorentzen's Midnight Family affecting ticks all the boxes of a classic "observational" mode of nonfiction film.…
Strange Metamorphosis: Jessica Hausner's Little Joe »
By Thomas Puhr. "Who can prove the genuineness of feelings?" a scientist asks in Little Joe (2019). "Moreover, who cares?" These startling questions cut right to the heart of Jessica…
By Christopher Sharrett. Anyone viewing Polyester for the first time might be a little confused: hasn't all this been done before? Satires or eviscerations of the suburbs have been standard…
Crafting Place Through Film – The Cultural Practice of Immigrant Filmmaking: Minor Immigrant Cinemas in Sweden 1950-1990 by Lars Gustaf Andersson and John Sundholm »
A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. It's easy to see a film as a cultural object, a product, but it is much harder to conceptualize the act of filmmaking as…
A Hunt, Sans Suspense: After the Murder of Albert Lima »
By Gary M. Kramer. The earnest documentary After the Murder of Albert Lima depicts the painstaking efforts of Paul Lima to get justice by sending the man who killed his father…
Transnational Identities in the Dramatically Tense Synonyms »
By Travis Merchant. The power of language and assimilation runs rampant throughout Synonyms (2019), Nadav Lapid's semi-autobiographical film about an Israeli immigrant in France. Throughout the film, Yoav (Tom Mercier)…
Whose Decision?: To Kid or Not to Kid »
By Janine Gericke. "When are you having kids?" on my wedding day people half joking (but not really) asked me. Most women ask themselves this very question, but the answer…
By Christopher Sharrett. It has been some time since Martin Scorsese has interested me, his achievements in Taxi Driver and Raging Bull still notable, but faded a bit with time.…
An Author's World, Extended: George Orwell on Screen by David Ryan »
A Book Review by Tony Williams. After reviewing the latest Criterion DVD release of Michael Radford's 1984 (1984), I felt obligated to obtain a copy of the above book since the author's…
Stuck in Time: Daniel Joseph Borgman's Resin »
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. Born and raised in New Zealand, filmmaker Daniel Joseph Borgman has traveled from one of the most southernmost cities…
A Time of Transition: Yasujirô Ozu's Tokyo Twilight »
By Jeremy Carr. There are, in Tokyo Twilight (Tokyo Boshoku), many of the familiar refrains common to Yasujirô Ozu's conspicuously singular filmmaking.…
1984, Revisited in 1984 (The Criterion Collection) »
By Tony Williams. Although envisaged before the rise of Trump and his campaign hate clarion calls of "Send her back!" etc., on…
A War Film without War?: Natalia Shaufert's Resentment (2019) »
By Brandon Konecny. Moldova is currently the least visited country in Europe, attracting fewer tourists each year than Juneau, Alaska. So when…
The Ground Holds the History: Dragos Turea's Soviet Garden (2019) »
By Brandon Konecny. During Nikita Khrushchev's tenure, he wanted to make Moldova an agricultural powerhouse. The "Garden of the Soviet Union," he called…
Let the Glory Flow – Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace »
By Elias Savada. April Wright likes to get the word out about grand things. As with Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of…
Father's Day: Family, Masculinity and Ant Timpson's Come to Daddy (Fantastic Fest) »
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. There's a scene in Ant Timpson's debut feature Come to Daddy where Elijah Wood's character, Norval Greenwood, is being…
Juvenile Offender: Nicholas Winding Refn's Too Old To Die Young »
By James Slaymaker. It's been less than a decade since the momentous critical and commercial success of Drive catapulted Nicolas Winding Refn…
Tangled Webs: Minos Nikolakakis's Entwined (Toronto International Film Festival) »
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. With its world premiere in the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival's Discovery program, stalwart short film director Minos Nikolakakis…
Blackwood Politicized – William McGregor's Gwen »
By Tony Williams. Gwen (2019) is one of those rare surprises in contemporary film reviewing. Rather than fall into the usual mindless…
Forest for the Sleaze: The Prey (Arrow Video) »
By Rod Lott. One of the first lines uttered in 1983's The Prey is "Good chow," a simple statement that could double…
The Spiral and the Fugue – This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia by Joan Neuberger »
A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. Joan Neuberger's This Thing of Darkness (Cornell University Press, 2019) illustrates, perhaps more than any other cinema…
An Artist's Obsession: Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (2018) »
By Yun-hua Chen. Salvodor Simó, the layout artist for Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge (2017), The Jungle Book (2016) and Prince…
Divided: Son – Mother »
By Ali Moosavi. The majority of films occupying the cinema screens in Iran belong to either of two genres: social dramas and…
The Magic Bullet that Is Jim Allison: Breakthrough »
By Elias Savada. Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson, please step aside…at least for 91 minutes…and allow the world to shine a…
Redemption through Chaos: Takashi Miike's First Love (2019) »
By Matthew Fullerton. First Love (Hatsukoi), prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike's sixtieth film in twenty-four years according to last count, is a…
Handsomely Treating Dirty Deeds: Where's My Roy Cohn? »
By Michael Sandlin. Since 2016, documentaries about influential far-right sociopaths have been on the uptick, having become almost an industry within an…
Synchronic Is Kangaroo Shit Loony »
By Elias Savada. H.G. Wells, move over. In the century-and-a-quarter since his science fiction novella popularized the notion of time travel, the…
The Language of Lovecraft: Richard Stanley's Color Out of Space (Fantastic Fest) »
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. To say that the US premiere of cult filmmaker Richard Stanley's much-awaited return to feature filmmaking was one of…
Making America Dumb Again: The Death of Dick Long »
By Elias Savada. There's a swarth of idiocy running through this so-called dark comedy, but for the most part it fails at…
Wild Women and the Great Karoo: Jenna Bass's Flatland (Toronto International Film Festival) »
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. South African filmmaker Jenna Bass has made somewhat of a splash with her third film, Flatland, as it makes…
Bringing the Magic To Her Music: Linda Ronstadt – The Sound of My Voice »
By Elias Savada. No, Linda Ronstadt is not dead. While Parkinson's Disease has sadly removed her from the public and concert stage…
A Young Woman's Noble Fight: Ms. Purple »
By Yun-hua Chen. Justin Chon, the American actor of Korean descent who made his name since his role as Eric in The…
Hitler is Not Your Friend: Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit (Toronto International Film Festival) »
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. With its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit functions as the final…
Portrait of a Lady on File: Seberg (Toronto International Film Festival) »
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. Although often unspoken, there is a frequently assumed "right" and "wrong" way to approach an artist's body of work,…
Drenched with Grim Teen Angst: Monos »
By Elias Savada. There's a certain phantasmagoria at play in Alejandro Landes' Monos, in which a group of eight teenagers are living…
Think You Know the Syrian Conflict? Think Again: For Sama »
By Ali Moosavi. Many years ago, I attended a scientific conference in Damascus. I was touched by the beauty of the place…
On Mutants, Monsters and Mushroom Clouds – Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951-1967 by Mike Bogue »
A Book Review by Matthew Fullerton. Apocalypse Then (McFarland, 2017) is an informative and entertaining examination, and comparison, of science fiction films from…
Theatrical, Organic Unity: Marcel Pagnol's The Baker's Wife (Criterion Collection) »
By Tony Williams. Though most notably associated with the Marseille Trilogy of Marius (1931), Fanny (1932), and Cesar (1936) as well as…
Two from Venice 2019: The Scarecrows and Corpus Christie »
By Ali Moosavi. Two films which premiered in the 2019 Venice Film Festival, both looking critically at the role of religion in…
Dachra: A Different Kind of Tunisian Revolution »
By Greg Burris. Early on in the Tunisian horror film Dachra (Abdelhamid Bouchnak, 2018), we see a class of university students as…
Scared Second – American Horror Project: Volume Two (Arrow Video) »
By Rod Lott. One could find irony in the United States' collective history of regional horror films being written by a Brit.…
Oy, Vat a Story! Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles »
By Elias Savada. At moments during filmmaker Max Lewkowicz's lovely homage to one of the world's greatest musicals, I was verklempt. I…
Dividing Lines: Tony Richardson's The Border (Kino Lorber) »
By Jeremy Carr. Immigration enforcement agent Charlie Smith (Jack Nicholson), who moves from Los Angeles to El Paso, where he joins the…
Danish Redux: After the Wedding »
By Elias Savada. Sad to say, but it wasn't a good idea for American filmmaker Bart Freundlich to remake the Oscar-nominated Best…
Compelling, if Problematic: William Friedkin's Crusing (Arrow Video) »
By Gary M. Kramer. Arrow Films' new Blu-ray edition of William Friedkin's Cruising offers viewers the opportunity to reconsider this "controversial" thriller nearly…
A Subjective and Concise Triumph – The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media and the Radical Imagination by Greg Burris »
A Book Review Essay by Ali Moosavi. There is an old adage that oppression and suppression fuels creativity. In the world of…
An Invigorating Romp: Murray Pomerance's A Dream of Hitchcock »
A Book Review by John W. Fawell. The title of Murray Pomerance's latest book on the films of Alfred Hitchcock, A Dream…
Coming of Age, in Detail: Third Wife »
By Janine Gericke. There is a significant amount of symbolism throughout Ash Mayfair's feature debut The Third Wife. The director and cinematographer…
The Truth Lies….: Cold Case Hammarskjöld »
By Michael Sandlin. It's now been eight years since Scandinavian prankster filmmaker Mads Brugger donned his pith helmet and jodhpurs in Angola to…
An Old Soul Gone Too Soon: Love, Antosha »
By Yun-hua Chen. Paying tribute to the late actor Anton Yelchin's life, this biographical documentary extends far beyond his acting career. As…
Mike Wallace is Here – and Isn't »
By Christopher Sharrett. The premises of the new documentary Mike Wallace is Here are contradictory, and I suppose meant ironically so. The…
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché – Saluting the Film Archival Community »
By Elias Savada. In a way, I consider myself a film archivist. I don't do that for a living now, but I…
The Excelling Historical Document – Film and the Historian: The British Experience by Philip Gillett »
A Book Review by Tony Williams. Some months ago, I struggled through a book about remembering British Television published by the BFI.…
Enthralling Familiarity: Claudio Giovannesi's Pirahnas »
By Ali Moosavi. Pirahnas, which won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, is based on a…
The Mountain: A Discouraging Word »
By Christopher Sharrett. My subtitle is taken from a moment in Rick Alverson's film The Mountain, where we see a black-and-white, furniture-bound TV,…
Diverted Dreams: Astronaut (2019) »
By Jeremy Carr. Septuagenarian grandfather Angus (Richard Dreyfuss) has harbored dreams of space since he was a child. Although the waning years…
On the Border, with Soap Opera: Tel Aviv on Fire (2018) »
By Yun-hua Chen. What would bring the two opposing sides across the Israel-Palestinian borders together? Tel Aviv on Fire's answer is, through…
The Kurious Kase of a Kinski Krimi: Riccardo Freda's Double Face »
By Rod Lott. Ah, young love! When John (enfant terrible extraordinaire Klaus Kinski) meets Helen (Margaret Lee, Venus in Furs) on holiday…
In the Heart of the World: Soap Opera Meets Social Realism in Brazil »
By Martin Kudláč. The Brazilian cinema has been in the viewfinder of the International Film Festival Rotterdam for some time now and certainly…
Joker: Notes from Underground »
By Christopher Sharrett. In what follows I am conscious that Todd Phillips' Joker is another addition by a corporation to its "DC…
Before Kane – Marching Song: A Play by Orson Welles with Roger Hill, Edited by Todd Tarbox »
A Book Review Essay by Tony Williams. As we move further into the new millennium, we appear to benefit not only from development…
The Clown in the Mirror: Todd Phillips' Joker »
By Jake Rutkowski. There's an old Simpsons bit that I often turn to in times of ambivalence: Homer, faced with the prospect…
Versatile Journeyman – Edmond O'Brien: Everyman of Film Noir by Derek Sculthorpe »
A Book Review Essay by Tony Williams. This book is the latest production of prolific archivist Derek Sculthorpe. If not, "The Man…
Daredevils of the Red Circle and Other Cliffhangers: Hollywood (1939-1942) and Spy Smasher »
"Daredevils of the Red Circle and Other Cliffhangers" is a blog on serials by Geoffrey Mayer, the author of Encyclopedia of American Film Serials (McFarland, 2017).…
A Complete Man of the World – Jean Gabin: The Actor Who Was France by Joseph Harriss »
A Book Review Essay by Tony Williams. Usually, I'm hesitant when presented with another biography for review. Despite the dedication and research…
The Journey, Not the Destination: Godard x 3 from Kino Lorber »
By Jeremy Carr. After concluding what was ostensibly his second phase of filmmaking – if one accepts the admittedly blurred lines that divide a…
City of Losers, Losing City: Pacino, New York, and the New Hollywood Cinema »
By Heather Hendershot. The following is excerpted from When the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited, edited by Jonathan Kirshner and Jon Lewis…
All the Writers Dreamed They'd be Your Partner: Elaine May Writing for Warren Beatty, Director »
By Dean Brandum. The following was originally written as a chapter for inclusion in ReFocus: The Films of Elaine May (Edinburgh University Press,…
"I Don't Know the Person You Talk About": Ingmar Bergman's Novels »
A Book Review Essay by John Talbird. "Words flown out can't be caught on the wing." Supposedly, this is a saying from…
Producer-Director Aldrich at a Crossroads: The Killing of Sister George (1968) and The Grissom Gang (1971) from Kino Lorber »
A Review Essay by Tony Williams. Following the commercial success of The Dirty Dozen (1967), iconoclastic director Robert Aldrich fulfilled his dream…
Restoring Paul Leni – The Man Who Laughs (1928) and The Last Warning (1929) from Flicker Alley »
By Tony Williams. While we lament today current low standards represented by mainstream Hollywood cinema, those of us resilient enough to resist…
Deadites vs. Adaptation: Media and The Evil Dead »
By Valerie Guyant. The following is an excerpt from The Many Lives of The Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise, © 2019,…
All in the Method – Remembering British Television: Audience and Industry by Kristyn Gorton and Joanne Garde Hansen »
A Book Review by Tony Williams. This recent monograph (Bloomsbury/BFI, 2019) aims to debate the importance of everyday TV memories involving academics,…
Homage to Humanity: La vie de Jesus and L'Humanite (Criterion Collection) »
By Christopher Sharrett. Bruno Dumont is one of the outstanding figures of the twenty-first century's European cinema, so the Criterion hi-definition releases…
DocuChronicles: Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground »
DocuChronicles is a blog dedicated to independent documentary cinema by filmmaker Marjorie Sturm. It includes a mix of reviews, interviews, and longer pieces. By Marjorie…
Transcending the Chains of Illusion – The Assassin: Hou Hsiao-Hsien's World of Tang China, Edited by Peng Hsiao-yen »
A Book Review Essay by Tony Williams. In Mostly About Lindsay Anderson, his long-time friend Gavin Lambert speaks about the in-flight movie…
Researcher Beware! – Frankly: Unmasking Frank Capra by Joseph McBride »
A Book Review Essay by Tony Williams. Joseph McBride's latest mammoth book, well-written and copiously documented as usual, is an unusual production…
Reassessing Blue Velvet: a Criterion Collection Release »
By Christopher Sharrett. I have had a difficult history with David Lynch's breakthrough film Blue Velvet (1986), and for that matter, much…
By Thomas Gladysz. I rejoice in this opportunity to record something which today is all but forgotten except for those lucky enough to have seen a few of her pictures:…
By Ali Moosavi. Among the many Iranian films that I have watched this year, six have stood out for me. If we don't consider the purely commercial and state-funded films which…
By Kate Hearst. At the New York premiere of Desert One at the DOC/NYC film festival, Barbara Kopple recounted how the History Channel provided her with a list of topics…
By Tony Williams. Leeds-born Chris Wade is one those unique talents thankfully outside the existing psychologically dysfunctional terrain of higher education. A highly creative and prolific artist, filmmaker and musician,…
By Jeremy Carr. There are, in Tokyo Twilight (Tokyo Boshoku), many of the familiar refrains common to Yasujirô Ozu's conspicuously singular filmmaking. There are the generational disparities, the struggles pertaining…
By Tony Williams. Although envisaged before the rise of Trump and his campaign hate clarion calls of "Send her back!" etc., on the part of his devoted base who love…
Working Toward Recovery: Fassbinder's 'BRD Trilogy' »
By Jeremy Carr. Over the span of five years, from 1979 to 1982, Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed three films dealing with the tumultuous, complex, and contentious early period of the…
By Matthew Sorrento. Review Filmmaker David Shields found an ideal style to document the onscreen (but off the field) career of NFL running back Marshawn Lynch (2007-18). Far from a…
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. There's a scene in Ant Timpson's debut feature Come to Daddy where Elijah Wood's character, Norval Greenwood, is being verbally abused with such an extraordinarily blend of…
By Ali Moosavi. Among the many Iranian films that
By Ali Moosavi. The box office success of films
Rise of the Tactless Manipulator: Where's My Roy Cohn?
By Elias Savada. I wonder if lawyer jokes
Announcing the Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema
Series Editors David A. Cook –
Film Scratches: Re-Drawing the Table – La Mesa (2018)
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Daredevils of the Red Circle and Other Cliffhangers: Hollywood (1939-1942) and Spy Smasher
Deadites vs. Adaptation: Media and The Evil Dead
By Valerie Guyant. The following is an excerpt from
Film Scratches: Multiple Remembrances of Things Past – Luz en la Copa (2017)
Film Scratches: Listening to the Invisible – Notes from a Journey (2019)
DocuChronicles: Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
DocuChronicles is a blog dedicated to independent documentary cinema
Gentrification on Film: Capital Expansion and the Limits of Video Activism
By Anthony Killick. Our current period of urban-environmental
Film Scratches: the Beguiling Play of Illusion – Gelateria (2019)
DocuChronicles – Elsa Flores Almaraz on Carlos Almaraz: Playing With Fire
DocuChronicles is a blog dedicated to independent documentary
Film Scratches: Symphony of Bugs – Flesh City (2019)
Sundance Film Festival – in London!
The word Sundance to cinephiles tends to be
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PS4 gets GTA5 – YEAH!
Grand Theft Auto 5 is certainly currently the most coveted video game of the year 2012 Few other titles provide in this form for so much interest and attention among followers enjoyable games. So it is little amazing that the video game scene nearly day is already confronted by day with brand new speculations. Most recently, new statements about release date and contents on the E3 were expected. Fans and editors were unfortunately disappointed because Rockstar was no new details at the best. Various news reports by both of October or the holiday shopping season of the year as well as the spring of 2013, are likely. Because it previously but are no public statement on the part of the producers, these speculations remain pure speculation continue. Grand Theft Auto 5 for PS4 has an interesting history. In each of the many phenomena Rockstar could fascinate the PS4 gamers on a new and set an example in the world of video games. Accordingly, it is not surprising that the computer game is published in its fifth edition and has million followers throughout the globe. In Grand Theft Auto 5 on PS4, the user can break into the gaming world in and around Los Santos, a fictional metropolis which is to be modeled on the US-American world city LA. Even the protagonist remains like so much hitherto secret. Enthusiasts speculate, meanwhile, whether the player slipping in the person of an aged T. Vercetti or even can control the known Lopez. Looking at the storyboards past but parts of one can rather expect a completely new player character, known this was always changed in previous titles. Regardless of who's role you must empathize, GTA V on PS4 will code of the action in no way different from the other gaming platforms and is available here. It is certainly to be expected that the version will once again appear a little late for the PC u. DLC (downloadable contents) will appear as a little later on the video game consoles. GTA 5 will once again offer its players on PS4 new technologies in terms of programming and design. The virtual world is supposed to be accompanying a lot of extensive inter alia, incredibly rich in detail, so much let the fans the screenshots shown from the game already believe. Ingenious environment was long time a property of this series u. They are also notorious for spectacular innovations considered one technical and creative sophistication. Game Technically, the fan can look forward to much improved development of his character as well as many new innovations. Recently, Mr. Houser, Vice President at Rockstar Games has already given a hint: As in Max Payne 3 for the first time possible multiplayer friends will be able to gangs, sg Crews may occur. This robberies and the fight against police and the FBI still a lot to be significant. But the multiplayer mode also so is now fixed it. In the older games, players had to put up with less good amateur solutions to use a multiplayer can. This can now after a long wait to be different with GTA 5. We are curious.
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Unzipped: Car sharing takes a bite out of Americans' drive time
By Greg Hanscom on Dec 22, 2011
Kids these days — they don't like cars. What's up with that?
A new survey by the car-sharing company Zipcar finds that Millennials just don't see cars as the ticket to freedom that their parents did. According to the survey, 55 percent of Millennials have actively made an effort to drive less, while 78 percent say that the high costs of gas and maintenance make owning a car difficult. That's good news for Zipcar: The company says that Millennials make up more than half of its members.
But here's a little secret about Zipcar: It's just cool enough to make you realize that you can live without your own vehicle, and just inconvenient enough to keep you from using it very much. A study earlier this year found that Zipcar users were more apt to use public transportation — or just bike or walk — than they did when they owned their own car.
Double awesome, right? Well, yeah, unless you really need to get someplace in a hurry.
Enter peer-to-peer car sharing, which promises to spread the concept of the communal auto far and wide. What is it, you ask? Here's a somewhat roundabout answer:
Waaaaay back in the late '90s, my wife and I bought a century-old house in a small town in Colorado. We were so starry-eyed about the place (we'll remodel the kitchen the first weekend, the bathroom the second … ) that we failed to notice that it was sinking into the swamp. Literally. It took us seven years to bang the place into shape, starting with the foundation and working our way up through the wiring, plumbing, and, eventually, the kitchen and bathroom.
During that time, we hauled a tremendous amount of junk out of that house — and brought in just as much new material. We needed a truck, but only during the few days a week we were working on the place. So we pooled our money with a handful of friends and bought a 1968 Ford half-ton pickup truck with a silver racing stripe up the hood. We called it Big Blue.
The rules were simple: You could use Big Blue any time you liked (we left the keys in the ashtray), you just had to empty the bed and fill the tank when you were done. We shared the cost of insurance and upkeep. It wasn't a perfect system, but we got a lot of use out of that truck, and when our various home improvement projects were done, we sold it. No doubt it's still rumbling around the high desert somewhere. (We had a similar system with a television and a VCR, which had the Zipcar Effect on our TV-watching habits: We usually found other ways to entertain ourselves.)
Peer-to-peer car share works kind of the same way, only they've improved the technology a bit since our key-in-the-ashtray days. You use a kit to install a card-swiper on your car, allowing car share members to use it when you're not. You set the hourly price, somebody gets the use of your car for the afternoon, and you make a little money on the thing, which otherwise sits around 90 percent of the time, draining $8,000 from your wallet each year, according to the American Automobile Association.
Peer-to-peer car sharing has been pioneered on a small scale by companies such as Getaround, RelayRides, and Spride Share. This month, Getaround landed a $1.7 million grant from the Federal Highway Administration to launch a major effort in Portland, Ore., so we'll have a chance to see how it works in a bigger venue — albeit one that is predisposed to this kind of mad, hippie, share-tastic enterprise.
"Collaborative consumption" comes with its risks, of course, as in the case of the woman in San Francisco who rented out her flat via the web service Airbnb and returned to find it trashed. But states like Oregon are tweaking insurance laws to allow for coverage of these programs, so in theory, if someone drives your car into a ditch, you're covered — though you may have no choice but to ride the bus for a few weeks while it gets fixed.
But there you go again with the unintended consequences — and heck, if it pries us out of the car, even for a day, I'm all for it.
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If we live on a easterly coast, we competence have listened that we're about to get destroyed by an epic blizzard. If we hadn't listened that, well, contemptible to mangle it to you. we theory now we know.
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I could suggest this diversion since it has an beguiling "Winter" section during that we cater a dipsomaniac in city and make a snowman, though really, I'm usually recommending it since it's unequivocally good and we gamble some of we haven't played it.
Nothing raises your physique feverishness utterly like removing really, unequivocally pissed. The visit clenching, cussing, and controller throwing you'll be doing while personification Superman 64 will keep we good and warm, that is critical when a heat outward drops.
Since you've already got your N64 plugged in, we competence as good play something good on it, too. This one is Jason Schreier's go-to Mario Party game, guaranteed to get we and your roommates relocating around, laughing, and therefore not solemnly frozen to death.
Skiers and snowboarders are among a usually maniacs who indeed like it when winter continue decides to hurt everything. In times like these, who improved to obey than a star snowboarder of Alto's Adventure, a neato iOS diversion that recently done a list of the best iPhone games?
Speaking of snowboarding, we should substantially play by a initial 30 or so hours of Final Fantasy VII so that we can get to partial where Cloud starts snowboarding. It's not like we have anything else to do.
You know where it fundamentally never snows? The desert. we don't know from a deserts of Kharak, specifically, though I'm presumption they're like many deserts, and there isn't a lot of snow. As a bonus, apparently this diversion is really good.
Come tomorrow we competence be totally frozen and lonesome in snow, though during slightest we won't also be gutshot and draining out. Unless we are, in that case, yikes. What are we doing reading Kotaku??
Several of a games on this list should assistance we forget about a fact that you're usually an in. of windowpane divided from a slow, frozen death. The Long Dark is some-more about preparing for that worst-case scenario. If we can tarry in this diversion but frozen to death, there's during slightest some kind of possibility you'll be means to do a same thing when a energy goes out and it's each male for himself. As always, beware of wolves.
You've substantially satisfied by now that many of these suggestions are usually half serious. In all honesty, we could play any video diversion that we have on any system—hell, we could even try something new! If you're looking for inspiration, we've got a garland of lists of games we can try out.
If you're scheming for a storm: Remember to batch adult on toilet paper and comfortable drinks, and assign your 3DS now in box a energy goes out. Good luck, and see we on a other side.
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Covid-19 and drug overdoses drive US life expectancy to lowest level in 25 years, CDC reports | CNN
Life expectancy in the United States dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling to the lowest it has been since 1996, according to final mortality data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
Covid-19 was a major contributor to the decline in life expectancy, which is now nearly two and a half years shorter than it was at the start of the pandemic. After a drop of 1.8 years in 2020, another cut of 0.6 years last year brought US life expectancy down to 76.4 years in 2021.
"What we're seeing in terms of the patterns of mortality, it's being driven, I think, largely by the pandemic," said Robert Anderson, chief of mortality statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics. The drop isn't necessarily surprising, but it is "substantial."
The final mortality data is less severe than earlier estimates predicted; provisional data suggested life expectancy might have dropped nearly a full year in 2021. But it is still historic – life expectancy typically only changes by 0.1 or 0.2 years.
Nearly 1 in 8 deaths in 2021 were due to Covid-19, up from about 1 in 10 deaths in 2020. It was again the third leading cause of death. Heart disease remained the leading cause of death, followed by cancer. About half of all deaths last year were from these three causes.
Drug overdose deaths also increased significantly throughout the pandemic, reaching record levels in 2021. Nearly 107,000 people died of a drug overdose in 2021, driving the age-adjusted death rate for overdoses up more than 14% in one year and 50% over the past two years.
"These data are very tragic but not surprising," said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "The pandemic had a magnifying effect on an already-devastating overdose crisis, and exacerbated many of the stressors in society that make people more vulnerable to taking drugs."
The final CDC mortality data shows that between 2020 and 2021, overall death rates increased for all age groups except infants younger than one year. But the largest increase was among those ages 35 to 44, a group that was most affected by drug overdose deaths.
"We also know that substance use is more dangerous than it has ever been, as fentanyl has continued to permeate the illicit drug supply, increasing the risk for overdoses among both people with substance use disorders as well as those who use drugs occasionally," Volkow said.
Deaths involving synthetic opioids such as fentanyl increased by a marked 22% in 2021, according to the CDC data. Deaths involving cocaine and psychostimulants such as methamphetamine were also significantly more frequent, while those involving heroin decreased.
Overall, life expectancy for women was nearly six years longer than it was for men in 2021, a gap similar to that in 2020. Age-adjusted death rates were lowest among Asian men and women, while they were highest – and increased significantly – among American Indian and Alaska Native men.
The death rate for Black men declined slightly in 2021, but was still the second highest among the demographic groups.
"Anytime the death rate drops, it's a good thing," Anderson said. That drop aligns with patterns in the pandemic, as Covid-19 death disparities narrowed in 2021, he said.
But 2021 life expectancy data broken out by race and ethnicity has not yet been finalized, and it's possible that life expectancy for Black men may have fallen even through death rates improved.
"If death rates are disproportionately higher at the younger ages than at the older ages, that can have an outsized effect on life expectancy," Anderson said.
White people, however, saw a significant jump in death rates – up about 7% between 2020 and 2021 among both men and women – another change that aligns with pandemic trends. Only about half of White people in the US have gotten their initial Covid-19 vaccine, well below the national average, and CDC data estimates that the risk of dying from Covid-19 was about seven times higher for unvaccinated people in December 2021.
There was an extremely mild flu season last year, and influenza and pneumonia dropped out of the 10 leading causes of death in 2021. Along with heart disease, cancer and Covid-19, the other leading causes of death in 2021 were: unintentional injuries, of which drug overdoses represent more than a third; stroke; chronic lower respiratory diseases; Alzheimer's disease; diabetes; chronic liver disease and kidney disease.
Age-adjusted death rates increased for eight of the 10 leading causes of death between 2020 and 2021, changes that are "significant," Anderson said.
While not attributed to Covid-19 directly, many changes in death rates are "almost certainly pandemic-related," he said, pointing to the 3% increase in heart disease and 6% increase in stroke.
"These are the things that need to be watched carefully in the coming years, both in terms of surveillance data and in terms of final data as well," he said. "They need to be monitored to see how things are progressing post-pandemic."
Long-term, it's hard to know what trends in life expectancy will look like.
"We know it didn't happen in 2022, but for 2023, let's say everything goes back to normal. We could end up with life expectancy going back to where it was, essentially," Anderson said.
"But I think there are enough people who've had (Covid) and enough people who have chronic problems that Covid has caused whose life expectancy is likely to be shortened in the long run, which may mean higher death rates."
The opioid epidemic could hinder progress, too.
"We have treatments and tools available, but we must prioritize taking them off the shelf and using them to their full potential," Volkow said. "To curb the overdose crisis, it is crucial that we put this same urgency and infrastructure into action to accelerate discoveries in addiction science, provide treatment and support for people with substance use disorders, and deploy prevention interventions to save lives."
Anderson said there are still a substantial number of Covid-19 deaths occurring in the US, but it's a lot better than it was.
"I'd like to think that we will go back to at least a trend of increasing life expectancy. But, how long it will take for us to get back to 2019, it's hard to know," he said.
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In 2017, the Society became a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, Registered in England (Charity No 1174720).
The Objects of the Houghton Regis Heritage Society
To advance the education of the public in the history and heritage of the town of Houghton Regis, in particular but not exclusively through the collection, preservation and making available to the public of material and artefacts of historic significance by the establishment and maintenance of an archive and collection for the preservation of such material and artefacts and by the production of literature, films and recordings.
The History Of Houghton Regis
The Red House
The Red House on the Green is an important building in the Heritage of the Town.
THE WHITEHEAD FAMILY AND THE RED HOUSE
The Whitehead family had a house on the green called "Strangers" known today as The Red House. Thomas Whitehead claims in his Will to have been born there, but no baptismal entry can be traced for him.
He is probably the Thomas who studied for Matric at Magdelene College, 1635, and studied for his degree between 1638 and 1639.
A 'relative' (probably his father) had been headmaster at Repton School, Derbyshire, where Thomas became First Usher (senior master) from 1642 until he died in 1654.
At the age of 43, Thomas became seriously ill. He returned to Houghton Regis, but by the time he made his Will, he was so weak he could only scratch his mark; however, he was perfectly clear in his mind as to what to do with the family property.
'Strangers', the house which Thomas Whitehead had inherited, faced the village Green; it had various outbuildings and ¼ acre of land. He instructed that either it should be converted into a school or be pulled down and the materials used to build a new specially designed school.
The first two schoolmasters were local vicars who did not need a school house and it is likely that the first group of boys were taught in the church while a new building was being erected. Later documents describe a school house and classroom which suggests that the premises were purpose built.
In addition to the house and garden, Thomas Whitehead left the large sum of £250, and when the expenses of setting up the school were complete, the remainder was invested in 15 acres in England's Field (the 'inlands' behind Station Road) in Dunstable.
In his Will Thomas Whitehead stipulated that the school would be made up of 15 boys from poor families in Houghton and five boys from poor families in the hamlets (probably Thorn, Calcott and Sewell).
The Heritage Society has been pressing Central Bedfordshire Council for some years to tell us what they were planning to do with the Red House when the last housing tenant vacated the building.
When planning permission was granted to build All Saints View, it included renovation of the Red House and this is going ahead. The importance of the Red House was illustrated in the report from Albion Archaeology, which is set out below.
Extract from
LE18001: THE RED HOUSE, HOUGHTON REGIS, LU5 5DY – REFURBISHMENT WORKS FOR CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE COUNCIL 2018
Albion Archaeology 'Historic Building Assessment Report (Reference: C02821-216-147 Version 1)' identifies the 'Heritage Values' of the building as follows:
Heritage Values
Evidential Value:
The primary range of the building dates from the 17th century. Although subject to later alterations, the original plan from this period remains largely intact and readable. It also retains historic building fabric with elements of the timber frame in the walls and ceilings being visible inside the building.
Changes made to the house during the 18th century are evident in the façade, which was replaced in brick with sash windows. It is quite likely that other alterations would have been made at this time but no evidence remains for this.
The most significant 19th century feature of the building is the outbuilding that forms the present southern range. Apart from its plan form and much- altered openings, nothing remains to indicate its original internal layout and function. The flint and brick construction is typical of the late 19th century when its use was revived during the vernacular revival.
A single storey outshot would have stood at the rear of the building and is indicated in the continuation of the brickwork in the north-west elevation. However, later alteration and extension has removed most of the historic fabric in this part of the building.
Historical Illustrative Value:
The earliest surviving parts of the building are an example of a type of house that developed during this period. It has a central fireplace and similar-sized bays to either side, producing a near symmetrical plan. The clasped purlin roof over the primary range appears to form part of its 17th century construction and is an interesting example partly due to its unusually steep pitch.
The re-fronting of the house in brick during the 18th century is an example of how buildings were updated in accordance with the aesthetic tastes of the period.
Historical Associative Value:
It is clear from the design of the building with 2½ stories and its high roof line that it would have been a building of some standing when it was built.
Aesthetic Value:
The Red House forms a very significant element in the character and aesthetic value of the historic village green. It is the only surviving historic building on this side of the Green. The front of the building survives largely intact with the mid-20th-century porch respecting the character of the building.
Extract from The History of Bedfordshire (early 1900)
Houstone, Houghton.
The Parish of Houghton Regis, to the north of Dunstable, contains about 4,390 acres, of which some 3,162 are arable land and 843 permanent grass. The soil is loam and chalk, and the subsoil chalk with cllay in parts. The principle crops are wheat, barley, beans and peas.
Houghton, owing to the fact of it being Crown Property, early became known as 'saelig Houghton or 'fortunate Houghton,' and later as Houghton Regis or Kings Houghton, to distinguish it from the parish of Houghton Conquest in Redbornstoke Hundred. At the time of the Domesday Survey a great part of what is now Dunstable was included in Houghton parish. At the present day the northern part of Dunstable extends into Houghton parish and is known as Upper Houghton Regis, and includes the two railway stations, as well as a Wesleyan chapel off the Watling Street and a mission church in Union Street served from Dunstable parish Church.
The village of Houghton Regis is in the main uninteresting, though a few old timbered cottages and barns are still standing among the modern red brick houses. At the east end there is a large village green, on the southside of which is Houghton Hall, the seat of the Brandreth family since the 17th century. it is a low red brick building and a fine example of late 17th century architecture, standing in extensive and beautiful ground. The staircase hall is a good specimen of the type of work prevalent at that period. The principle rooms are are wainscoted. Some tapestry panels are still in situ. The joinery throughout is in excellent preservation. The exterior has been robbed of its original appearance by alterations made about 50yr's ago . On the north side of the green is the site of the old manor-house, where there is a stone dovecote in a ruinous condition, about 26ft by 17ft outside measurement, standing about 15ft high.
The church, with vicarage, lies away from the green on the outskirts of the village, at the junction of the roads from Dunstable and Streatley. In the village are also Baptist, wesleyan and Primitive Methodist Chapel. At the west end of the straight village street a path leads across a field to the rising ground on which a mill, still in use, is placed. The path continues to the hamlet of Pudele or Podele. It is known as Chalk Hill. Here is a small Wesleyan chapel. From here the road leads south-west to Sewell, another hamlet, which is the subject of a seperate entry in the Domesday Book. It now consists of five or six farms near the Dunstable branch of the London and North-Western railway, and is very picturesque.
The little hamlet of Thorn (la Thorne, Thornbury) lies a half a mile north of Puddlehill.
Bidwell is a picturesque hamlet lying to the north-west of Houghton village and separated from it by a hill. It is said to take its name from a holy well dedicated to St Bridget that formerly existed there, though local tradition does not corroborate this.
Calcutt Farm, about half a mile north of Bidwell, is surrounded by a moat. The house itself appears to be mainly of late 17th or early 18th-century date. There is a good semicircular-headed doorway of gauged brickwork.
When Henry 1st founded Dunstable he gave in compensation to the men of Houghton a wood called Buckwood.
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The History Of Our Park
The Brandreths, who owned Houghton Hall in the 17th Century, were following national changes in landscape fashion.
17th century gardens were enclosed around the house and largely formal.
In the 18th Century, there was an ever increasing trend towards agricultural improvement and the enjoyment of nature.
The genius of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-1783) was to combine these two influences into a unified approach to design that was both an economically productive unit, and aesthetically pleasing landscape.
This became known as English Landscape Park.
Although in miniature, the Brandreth's park contained most of the essential features characteristics of a parkland, the exception was a waterbody (accumulation of water), which the landform (flat) did not favour.
The 2 central clumps may have framed Blows Downs in the Chilterns (still visible) and feature from the Hall.
When South Wood was planted later (by 1900-04) it probably obscured these views.
However, its central avenue was aligned on the Hall.
By the early 19th Century the parkland had been modified, with Humphrey Repton (1752-1818) now it's main proponent, with a terrace next to the house rather than parkland.
Repton also moved kitchen gardens closer to the main house than Brown had done, for convenience.
Houghton Hall demonstrates these developments.
The parkland was created from the late 18th Century to 1848, and there is a rectangle terrace between the hall and the ha-ha (a recessed landscape design element).
The kitchen garden is only on the other side of the stables.
The park has none of the gardenesque additions associated with the Victorian period, such as exotic plant species, and features such as rockeries; these would have been in the now private areas around the Hall not the parkland.
The parkland has a relatively simple collection reflecting the planting of the 18th and early 19th Century and their limited palette.
It comprises mainly native forest species, with the exception or pre-Vicotrian introductions, the Lebanese Cedar (1645), Corsican Pine (1759), and Irish Yew (1780). (Watkins and Wright).
The gardens were further modified in the early 20th Century with the extention to the terrace and cedar lawn, the Formal gardens, it seems likely that this was carried out by the Parts.
In their turn, they reflected the fashions of the Edwardian period, with hedged enclosures or garden rooms; a robust structure design, filled with generous herbaceous and shrub borders now typified by Dissinghurst and Hidcote.
In summary, although relatively small, the landscape of Houghton Hall reflects the changing fashions of garden design from the 17th to the early 20th Centuries, particularly the English parkland style, and the success of its gentry owners in keeping up with the latest styles.
Ref/ Houghton Regis Heritage Society / A1 / 2014 (c)
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3 Interviews From Local Residence
Mrs P Cameron
An Interview with Mrs P Cameron a resident of Houghton Regis by Tracey McMahon from the Houghton Regis Heritage Society. The Interview was part of a Digital Oral Project by the Society for the Houghton Hall Park Heritage Bid in 2014.
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An interview with Mrs Beryl Morton a resident of Houghton Regis by David Hill and Roger Turner from the Houghton Regis Heritage Society. The interview was part of a Digital Oral Project by the Society for the Houghton Hall Park Heritage Bid in 2014.
Mrs P Lovering
An interview with Mrs Pat Lovering a resident of Dunstable by David Hill from the Houghton Regis Heritage Society. The interview was part of a Digital Oral Project by the Society for the Houghton Hall Park Heritage Bid 2014.
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The Director of VENOM Talks about One of the Film's Plot Holes and Admits it Doesn't Work
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Venom actually ended up having a pretty good opening and there's a lot more people that enjoyed it than I expected. I thought the movie was filled with all kinds of problems, but it's good to see that fans are enjoying it.
In a recent interview with GameSpot, the director of the film, Ruben Fleischer, talked about one of the many plot holes in the movie. It involves the first act of the movie with the old lady in Malaysia who is taken over by the Riot Symbiote. There's a pretty significant time jump from the time she's taken over to her arrival to the Life Foundation HQ in San Francisco. There's six months that pass.
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Ruben Fleischer admits that there is a problem here, saying, "That's one of our few, hopefully, few logic bumps. But we had to have a passage of time in order to show Eddie's downfall, and that was the one thing that doesn't entirely track."
In the six-month period of time between Eddie losing his job and breaking up with his fiancé, Fleischer says he'd like to think the old woman was going around feeding on people throughout Malaysia. After all, the Symbiote has to feed!
"I like to think that old lady was going around murdering all throughout Malaysia, and she was just having a good old time just shooting shards through different people in Malaysia."
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League of American Bicyclists Honors 45 New Bicycle Friendly Universities and Colleges
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, a Silver BFU.
The League of American Bicyclists is proud to announce 45 new and renewing colleges and universities with Bicycle Friendly University (BFU) status today. These colleges and universities have proved outstanding in their support of bicycling to ensure healthy, accessible, and eco-friendly transportation and recreation for students and staff. Including this new group of BFUs, there are now a total of 193 colleges and universities that have this designation nationwide.
Of the four achievement levels of Bronze to Platinum, the League presented seven Gold, 16 Silver, and 22 Bronze awards. No Platinum level recipients were chosen. The League did recognize five universities and colleges with Honorable Mention status.
"When the League launched the Bicycle Friendly University Program in 2011, our goal was to inspire higher education institutions to develop more sustainable, livable campuses that made biking better for students, staff and visitors," says League Executive Director Bill Nesper.
"Today, more than 3.8 million students enjoy safe, accessible biking, thanks to the financial, structural and cultural investments of this year's BFU recipients and past awardees," he continues. "By educating and enabling so many young people to make bicycling part of their lives and carry to their future workplaces and communities, our nation will indeed become—as our mission states—a more 'Bicycle Friendly America for Everyone.' Congratulations to this outstanding class of leaders who have transformed outdated, car-focused transportation plans into bike-supportive strategies that generate far more positive returns on investment."
The latest class of BFUs reside in 20 states and range in size as small as Green Mountain College in Vermont with 399 students and as large as Texas A&M with 68,000. According to Amelia Neptune, director of the League's Bicycle Friendly America Program that administers the BFU Program, BFUs can be found in 46 states and the District of Columbia. In 2018, Pennsylvania received the highest number of new BFUs with six, while California, Massachusetts and North Carolina tied for second with four new BFUs each.
"One beauty of bicycling is that positive outcomes can be measured by universities and colleges for even the smallest bike friendly effort and investment," says Neptune. "However, as the 2018 class of Bicycle Friendly University recipients demonstrates, once the institutional and student benefits become clear, campus administrators often set their goals much higher and expand their strategies and investments exponentially. In this round, for instance, 15 renewing BFUs—one-third of this year's honorees--climbed to higher award levels, and 17 even received awards with their first application!"
Student with bike-powered smoothie blender at Loyola Marymount University, a Bronze BFU.
The BFU application review process is a mixture of institutional reporting and on-the-ground bicycle advocate feedback. Each applicant must complete a comprehensive audit via more than 100 data points followed by a League call for input from local cyclists. This combination generates a fair, holistic picture of the institution's performance of the "Five E's"--engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement and evaluation. A national judging panel then reviews the information to determine if an award is warranted. For details, visit http://bit.ly/BFU_Scoring.
In addition to awards, the League provides year-round coaching, online tools, trendspotting and case studies to help higher education institutions improve and promote campus cycling.
Visit www.bikeleague.org/university to access this resource library and follow the League's popular blog at http://bikeleague.org/BFU_blogs to read compelling BFU stories, analyses and trends.
Submissions for the 2019 Bicycle Friendly University Awards are now open. The deadline is August 22, 2019.


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Dan Meyers Joins APCO Worldwide as Senior Director
Former George W. Bush White House press representative Dan Meyers has joined public affairs consulting firm APCO Worldwide as senior director and head of advocacy. In addition to his White House credentials, he was special assistant to the political director of the Republican National Committee, and a worked as an aide for Rudy Giuliani during his 2008 presidential bid.
Prior to joining APCO, Meyers spent nearly a decade with public affairs firm DCI Group, leaving the organization as Vice President.
Dan Meyers, in a statement, said of APCO, "In an increasingly divided Washington, APCO has a proven track record of finding ways to create political movements to shape and influence policy. The firm has an established history of working on some of the largest and highest profile issue campaigns in the history of the city. I look forward to continuing that with APCO's dynamic team and ultimately helping clients achieve their goals."
Read the release here: http://apcoworldwide.com/news/detail/2018/01/10/apco-bolsters-its-advocacy-and-public-affairs-expertise-in-washington-with-new-hire
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Masters in Politics Special Edition: Tammy Haddad Goes Inside the Post-Debate Spin Room
September 28, 2016 By Christian Conner
The Press Room at the debate, Photo Courtesy of Haddad Media
In this special debate edition of Bloomberg's Masters in Politics podcast Tammy Haddad was in attendance at Monday's debate and went inside the spin room to interview top campaign officials including Donald Trump himself, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Hillary campaign chairman John Podesta. Haddad also interviewed architect of Obama's 2008 campaign David Plouffe, retired Lieutenant General and current Trump surrogate Mike Flynn, the Clinton campaign's chief strategist and Masters alum Joel Benenson, and Trump senior advisor Sarah Huckabee.
John Podesta revealed his doubts about whether Trump will appear in subsequent debates saying, "I think we have very substantial questions given his performance tonight. We'll see whether his campaign holds a meeting tomorrow and says, 'What's a way that we can get out of these last two debates?' We're very worried about that."
Former NYC mayor and current Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani blasted Secretary Clinton and defended the controversial stop-and-frisk program, "Mrs. Clinton doesn't understand the difference because Mrs. Clinton is a phony and you guys don't get it. She doesn't understand economics and she had a chance to as Secretary of State. Look at the condition of the world. Do you want more of that? Well then vote for her. I think the American people want a change. She's a phony as a lawyer and when she said it's unconstitutional, which is totally incorrect. Stop and frisk is going on right now as we speak all over America. It is approved by the United States Supreme Court and I can give you the entire definition."
Top strategist to the Clinton campaign Joel Benenson was in the spin room to criticise Trump for his birther comments. "I don't know what's worse, the the keeps repeating the lie, whether he really believes it or not, or whether he's just trying to stoke some kind of racial animosity that he thinks benefits hit. But it's disgraceful and he continues to do it and it's shameful."
You can check out more of Masters in Politics' coverage from the spin room here.
Filed Under: Masters in Politics Tagged With: Debate, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Joel Benenson, John Podesta, Masters in Politics, Rudy Giuliani
RNC Day 1: Speakers to Focus on National Security to "Make America Safe Again"
July 18, 2016 By Christian Conner
Photo Courtesy of Haddad Media: CEO of the Creative Coalition Robin Bronk, actor Harry Hamlin, actress Wendie Malick, and Politico's Daniel Lippman
The long awaited Republican National Convention, where Donald Trump will be named the party's nominee, kicks off today, July 18 in Cleveland, Ohio and runs from Monday through Thursday, July 21.
The RNC's first-day theme will be "Make America Safe Again," a play on Donald Trump's famous campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." Tonight's speakers will highlight immigration policy, defense, and counterterrorism policy.
Monday's speakers include Melania Trump, Rudy Giuliani, actor Scott Baio, Duck Dynasty star Willie Robertson, former Texas Governor Rick Perry, Benghazi survivors, Joni Ernst, and Tom Cotton. Pat Smith, the mother of the Benghazi embassy attack victim Sean Smith, will also be speaking as well as survivors Mark Geist and John Tiegen.
Soap-opera actor and model Antonio Sabato, Jr. will be speaking about religion. U.S. Reps. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Sean Duffy (R-WI), and Ryan Zinke (R-MT) also have speaking slots along with Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), and Joni Ernst (R-IA).
You can live stream the entire RNC coverage here.
Filed Under: News Media Tagged With: Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Rick Perry, RNC, Rudy Giuliani


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Netflix's 'Money Heist' Renewed for Season 4
By Allison Schonter - December 9, 2019 04:22 pm EST
Netflix's Spanish-language original series La Casa De Papel (Money Heist) has officially been renewed for a fourth season. After debuting its third outing to record-breakng numbers in July, the streamer announced Sunday that it had renewed the Alex Pina-created series for Season 4, which is set to premiere on Friday, April 3.
La Casa de Papel / Money Heist returns with Part 4 on April 3 pic.twitter.com/wIbepk4tyo
— See What's Next (@seewhatsnext) December 8, 2019
Centering around "The Professor," a criminal mastermind, and his plan to pull off the biggest heist in recorded history, requiring him to recruit eight people to him carry out the mission, the series has gained a loyal fanbase, with many celebrating news of the renewal on social media.
"You shouldn't have said this so early cause now [every day] is a bad day till April 4th," one fan wrote, already dreading the months-long wait for new episodes.
"Yaaaaaas!!!!!!!! I binged the heck out of this show it's so good!!" another fan reacted to the news.
"Waited for this tweet like for ever! Yay," commented a third.
After airing its third season on July 19, the series had given its fanbase hope that a fourth season was in the works. After renowned horror author Stephen King tweeted his need for more episodes, asking when the series would return, the official La Casa de Papel Twitter account responded by teasing, "the gang is working hard on part 4."
The gang is working hard on part 4, but don't worry, we'll make sure you're the first to know when we're back.😏
— La Casa de Papel (@lacasadepapel) August 14, 2019
The renewal doesn't necessarily come as a surprise given that Netflix previously revealed that Money Heist was its most-watched non-English series, with 34.3 million households tuning in for Season 3. Those numbers marked the largest first-week global household turnout for a non-English-language Netflix series, with over 70 percent of viewers finishing the entire season within just seven days.
We're going to need more masks for all of you. 34,355,956 households watched #LCDP3 in its first week, and we can't thank you enough for being part of the gang. 👺 pic.twitter.com/rdNHfA4UH3
— La Casa de Papel (@lacasadepapel) August 1, 2019
Created by Pina, Money Heist stars Alvaro Morte, Ursula Corbero, Jamie Lorente, Miguel Herrán, Darko Peric, Itziar Ituno, Paco Tous, Alba Flores, Esther Acebo, Itziar Ituño, Enrique Arce, Kiti Mánver, Juan Fernández, and Mario de la Rosa.
Seasons 1-3 of series La Casa De Papel (aka Money Heist) are available for streaming on Netflix. Season 4 will hit the streamer on Friday. April 3.
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