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Intel Investing $7 Billion in U.S. Manufacturing Facilities
By: Nicholas Kolakowski | February 10, 2009
In January, Intel announced plans to slow production and shutter some chip manufacturing facilities. Now, the world's largest supplier of x86 processors for desktops, laptops and server systems is announcing that it will invest $7 billion in building facilities to manufacture its next generation of 32-nm processors - "Westmere" - which are scheduled to hit the IT market in late 2009. The news of Intel's investment comes as other companies, such as Panasonic, have looked to cut both jobs and costs.
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Intel plans to invest $7 billion over the next two years to build and update its U.S. manufacturing facilities in order to ramp up production for the company's new line of 32-nanometer processors - a vital component for the still-growing "netbook" market as well as for future generations of desktops, laptops and servers.
Intel's investment is a breath of fresh air at a time that other companies, including Panasonic, have cut back on jobs and costs.
The Feb. 10 announcement from Intel comes just a few weeks after the company announced it would close or stop production at five manufacturing facilities, including plants in Oregon and California, and possibly cut between 5,000 and 6,000 employees.
However, most of these chip manufacturing facilities or fabs utilize aging 200-nm technology.
Intel's $7 billion will flow to existing manufacturing sites in Oregon, Arizona and New Mexico; the company claims that the investment "will support approximately 7,000 high-wage, high-skill jobs at these locations."
Intel currently has a work force of 45,000 employees in the United States.
"These manufacturing facilities will produce the most advanced computing technology in the world," Intel CEO Paul Otellini said in a statement. "The capabilities of our 32-nm factories are truly extraordinary, and the chips they produce will become the basic building blocks of the digital world, generating economic returns far beyond our industry."
The announcement also follows a dismal fourth quarter in which Intel's net income fell from $2.3 billion in 2007 to $234 million, a decline described by Otellini during a Jan. 15 conference call as "dramatic." The last three months of 2008 also saw Intel write off a $1 billion reduction in the value of its investment in WiMax provider Clearwire.
Intel's Atom processor for netbooks remained one positive note, with sales rising 50 percent between the third and fourth quarter of 2008 to the tune of $300 million in revenue. However, this was not enough to offset general declines in the processor market.
The U.S. recession, paired with global economic woes, has weighed down the IT industry in recent months, particularly the PC and server sales upon which the processor market depends.
The first 32-nm processors that Intel is developing, code-named "Westmere," could combine the latest Intel microarchitecture - Nehalem - with graphics capability integrated into the processor.
Boosted 32-nm production capability will allow Intel to produce Westmere chips later in 2009, with further 32-nm products rolling out in 2010.
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Graphene Core Project 1. Graphene-based disruptive technologies (Graphene Flagship)
This project is the second in the series of EC-financed parts of the Graphene Flagship. The Graphene Flagship is a 10 year research and innovation endeavour with a total project cost of 1,000,000,000 euros, funded jointly by the European Commission and member states and associated countries. The first part of the Flagship was a 30-month Collaborative Project, Coordination and Support Action (CP-CSA) under the 7th framework program (2013-2016), while this and the following parts are implemented as Core Projects under the Horizon 2020 framework.
The mission of the Graphene Flagship is to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionise multiple industries. This will bring a new dimension to future technology – a faster, thinner, stronger, flexible, and broadband revolution. Our program will put Europe firmly at the heart of the process, with a manifold return on the EU investment, both in terms of technological innovation and economic growth.
To realise this vision, we have brought together a larger European consortium with about 150 partners in 23 countries. The partners represent academia, research institutes and industries, which work closely together in 15 technical work packages and five supporting work packages covering the entire value chain from materials to components and systems. As time progresses, the centre of gravity of the Flagship moves towards applications, which is reflected in the increasing importance of the higher - system - levels of the value chain. In this first core project the main focus is on components and initial system level tasks.
Technological Educational Institute of Crete (TEI) (Academic, Greece)
University of Oxford (Academic, United Kingdom)
Technische Universität Dresden (Academic, Germany)
Technical University of Denmark (DTU) (Academic, Denmark)
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT) (Research Institute, Italy)
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Academic, Bulgaria)
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) (Private, Switzerland)
Umeå University (Academic, Sweden)
Breton spa (Private, Italy)
Nanosc AB (Private, Sweden)
Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH) (Academic, Germany)
Pixium Vision (Private, France)
Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) (Research Institute, Greece)
Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) (Research Institute, Spain)
University of Pisa (Academic, Italy)
European science foundation (ESF) (Private, France)
University of Tartu (Academic, Estonia)
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Private, Italy)
National Institute for Nuclear Physics (Private, Italy)
Amalyst Limited (Private, United Kingdom)
University of Augsburg (Academic, Germany)
University of Kiel (Academic, Germany)
Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) (Academic, Belgium)
Novalia Ltd. (Private, United Kingdom)
University College Dublin (Academic, Ireland)
University of Manchester (Academic, United Kingdom)
University of Padua (Academic, Italy)
University of Crete (Academic, Greece)
Repsol (Private, Spain)
Dyesol Italia (Private, Italy)
Universite catholique de Louvain (Academic, Belgium)
University of Warsaw (Academic, Poland)
University of Geneva (Academic, Switzerland)
Alcatel-Lucent Germany (Private, Germany)
University of Cambridge (Academic, United Kingdom)
Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) (Research Institute, Spain)
Tecnalia (Research Institute, Spain)
Sabancı University (Academic, Turkey)
Guger Technologies (Private, Austria)
FIDAMC (Research Institute, Spain)
Varta Micro Innovation (Private, Austria)
Grinp (Private, Italy)
Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Academic, Germany)
NanoTech Lab (Private, Bulgaria)
Internacional de Composites (Private, Spain)
Polytechnic University of Milan (Academic, Italy)
J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS (Research Institute, Czech Republic)
Universität Bremen (Academic, Germany)
Institute of Electronic Materials Technology (ITME) (Private, Poland)
Trinity College Dublin (Academic, Ireland)
Atherm (Private, France)
Universität Hamburg (Academic, Germany)
Max Planck Society (Research Institute, Germany)
University of Eastern Finland (Academic, Finland)
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (Research Institute, Spain)
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) (Academic, Spain)
University of Sheffield (Academic, United Kingdom)
Grupo Antolin (Private, Spain)
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA (Academic, Italy)
FlexEnable (Private, United Kingdom)
Horiba Jobin Yvon (Private, France)
Belarusian State University (Academic, Belarus)
University of Freiburg (Academic, Germany)
Infineon Technologies (Private, Germany)
ABB Sweden (Private, Sweden)
University of Castilla, La Mancha (Academic, Spain)
Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum (IMEC) (Private, Belgium)
Vienna University of Technology (Academic, Austria)
University of Sunderland (Academic, United Kingdom)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH) (Academic, Switzerland)
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur (Private, Germany)
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) (Public, France)
Libre Societa' a Responsabilita' Limitata (Research Institute, Italy)
Delft University of Technology (Academic, Netherlands)
Linköping University (Academic, Sweden)
Eindhoven University of Technology (Academic, Netherlands)
Thales Group (Private, France)
Technical University of Munich (Academic, Germany)
Instituto de Tecnologias Emergentes de la Rioja (Research Institute, Spain)
Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Academic, Switzerland)
Stiftelsen Chalmers Industriteknik (Private, Sweden)
Lille 1 University of Science and Technology (Academic, France)
Airbus Group (Private, Netherlands)
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) (Private, Italy)
STMicroelectronics Agrate (Private, Italy)
Basf Se (Private, Germany)
Universite De Namur Asbl (Academic, Belgium)
Karolinska Institutet (Academic, Sweden)
Lancaster University (Academic, United Kingdom)
Polytechnic University of Turin (Academic, Italy)
Delta Tech (Private, Italy)
Graphenea SA (Private, Spain)
Laboratoire National De Metrologie Et D'essais (LNE) (Private, France)
University of Ulm (Academic, Germany)
University of Trieste (Academic, Italy)
Polymem S.A. (Private, France)
Bielefeld University (Academic, Germany)
CIC nanoGUNE (Research Institute, Spain)
Sapienza University of Rome (Academic, Italy)
G24 Power Limited (Private, United Kingdom)
CIBER - Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (Research Institute, Spain)
University of Montpellier (Academic, France)
NVision Systems and Technologies SL (Private, Spain)
Stichting Katholieke Universiteit (Academic, Netherlands)
Centro de Investigacion Cooperativade Energias Alternativas Fundacion (CICe) (Research Institute, Spain)
University of Nottingham (Academic, United Kingdom)
University of Bologna (Academic, Italy)
Technische Universität Chemnitz (Academic, Germany)
University of Salerno (Academic, Italy)
GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development UK (Private, United Kingdom)
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) (Academic, Germany)
Centro de Investigación Cooperativa en Biomateriales CIC biomaGUNE (Private, Spain)
Nokia (Private, Finland)
Aalto University (Academic, Finland)
CNM Technologies GmbH (Private, Germany)
Selex ES (Private, Italy)
University of Zürich (Academic, Switzerland)
University of Ioannina (Academic, Greece)
Nanesa SRL (Private, Italy)
M-Solv (Private, United Kingdom)
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Academic, Germany)
RWTH Aachen University (Academic, Germany)
Queen Mary University of London (Academic, United Kingdom)
Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Energiatudomanyi Kutatokozpont (Private, Hungary)
University of Zaragoza (Academic, Spain)
Prognomics Ltd (Private, United Kingdom)
AMO (Private, Germany)
University of Minho (Academic, Portugal)
Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) (Academic, France)
University of Strasbourg (Academic, France)
Oxford Instruments Limited (Private, United Kingdom)
University College London (UCL) (Academic, United Kingdom)
NPL Management (Private, United Kingdom)
Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) (Private, Finland)
Ericsson (Private, Sweden)
August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS) (Research Institute, Spain)
Avanzare Innovacion Tecnologica Sl (Private, Spain)
University of Basel (Academic, Switzerland)
Aixtron (Private, United Kingdom)
Alcatel-Lucent Italia S.p.A. (Private, Italy)
DSM Food Specialties (Private, Netherlands)
University of Regensburg (Academic, Germany)
University of Groningen (Academic, Netherlands)
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) (Research Institute, France)
Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF) (Research Institute, Italy)
Consiglo Nazionale Delle Richerche (Research Institute, Italy)
Italcementi Group (Private, Italy)
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Academic, Israel)
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Professor at Department of Physics
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Saroj Prasad Dash
Professor at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Quantum Device Physics Laboratory
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Sergey Kubatkin
Professor, Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Quantum Device Physics Laboratory
Jan Stake
Professor, Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Head of Laboratory, Terahertz and Millimetre Wave Laboratory
Jan Stake is Professor in Terahertz Electronics and is the Head of the Terahertz and Millimetre Wave Laboratory at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience. He was born in Uddevalla, Sweden...
Herbert Zirath
Professor and unit manager at the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Microwave Electronics Laboratory
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Who shops at RadioShack?
Aarti Shahani Nov 7, 2013
The company founded 88 years ago is hurting for cash. Some analysts say RadioShack needs to have a killer holiday shopping season to survive another year. And to get much further, it has to answer a question it's long avoided: Is RadioShack a convenience store for techies, or a brand that inspires customer loyalty?
While RadioShack's storefront with the red and white awning is familiar, fewer shoppers are venturing inside the store. In downtown San Francisco, Sunday afternoon is peak shopping time. But the RadioShack on Market Street is nearly empty.
There are a couple of creative types like Angel Whitney. She's here to buy a six volt battery.
"I'm actually making colloidal silver at home. It's silver that you can drink."
Jos Cocquet loves the variety.
"There's all these cool electronic components here, like Arduinos." That's a microcontroller that lets you build your own electronics.
But Cocquet is not here to buy an Arduino, or anything else for that matter. Here's here to do research.
"I'm actually just checking out the floor space because I develop an iPhone case and I want to see what the packaging looks like."
On the other side of the country, in Manhattan, there's another Radioshack with only one customer. Trish Scanlan just got to America and she's looking for SIM card to use her international phone. After not finding it at a dozen stores, including RadioShack, she settles on a pre-paid phone.
"They were kind enough to have a very good value phone that I'm buying instead."
From coast to coast, Radioshack is a familiar haven for Do-It-Yourself junkies and last minute shoppers. It's got something for everyone.
"That's the problem," says Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Securities.
"Radioshack has something like ten thousand different products," he says, "The stores are cluttered."
Pachter says RadioShack is on its last leg and while its new CEO is a competent man, he doesn't have enough capital to solve all the company's problems.
"The CEO is making changes there but it's really a confusing place. It's not a real pleasant experience, and you have to look for the cool stuff."
Pachter says RadioShack does not neatly fit into the well-known tale of 'retail store dies as Internet sales surge.' The company survived as others like Crazy Eddie and The Wiz died.
But now, Radioshack has to build a relationship with a core group of dedicated customers.
"Home Depot has paint matching. You can come in with a chip and they'll match the paint color. Abercrombie and Fitch has private label merchandise that you want. But RadioShack has neither."
Last year, RadioShack got a bit of a boost by selling the iPhone. But this past quarter, profit decreased $98.1 million, or 28.8 percent when compared with the same period last year.
RadioShack is now clearing out old merchandise and undertaking minor and major renovations in two thousand stores nationwide.
The company didn't respond to our interview request. Last month on a quarterly earnings call, Chief Financial Officer Holly Etlin curtly dismissed an analyst who asked if the newly remodeled stores are making more money.
"We're not going to engage in commentary on profitability of individual stores. Next question please?"
On that same earnings call, CEO Joseph Magnacca said RadioShack's now going to move on to health gadgets for fitness junkies. But he also wants to win back the Do-It-Yourself crowd Radioshack neglected over the last decade.
"The new RadioShack can be relevant to both audiences by connecting on their shared mindset."
This strategy of casting a wide net, winning back the old customers and recruiting the new — it just might be what got RadioShack into this predicament in the first place.


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Investor Relations | Navios Maritime Partners L.P.
Set forth below are the names, ages and positions of our directors and our executive officers.
Name Position
Angeliki Frangou Chairwoman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Efstratios Desypris Chief Financial Officer
George Achniotis Executive Vice President-Business Development and Director
Shunji Sasada Director
Serafeim Kriempardis Director (Class III)
Kunihide Akizawa Director
Alexander Kalafatides Director (Class I)
Orthodoxia Zisimatou Director (Class II)
Vasiliki Papaefthymiou Secretary
Serafeim Kriempardis Chairman
Alexander Kalafatides
Orthodoxia Zisimatou
Conflicts Committee
Alexander Kalafatides Chairman
Serafeim Kriempardis
Biographical information with respect to each of our directors and our executive officers is set forth below. The business address for our directors and executive officers is 7 Avenue de Grande Bretagne, Monte Carlo, MC 98000 Monaco.
Angeliki Frangou has been our Chairwoman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer since our inception. Ms. Frangou has also been Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of Navios Holdings (NYSE: NM) since August 2005. In addition, Ms. Frangou has been the Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of Navios Acquisition (NYSE: NNA), an affiliated corporation, since March 2008 and Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of Navios Containers (Nasdaq: NMCI), an affiliated limited partnership, since April 2017. Ms. Frangou has been the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Navios South American Logistics Inc. since its inception in December 2007. Ms. Frangou is the Chairwoman of IRF European Finance Investments Ltd., listed on the SFM of the London Stock Exchange, and is also a Member of the Board of the United Kingdom Mutual Steam Ship Assurance Association (Bermuda) Limited. Since 2015, she has also been a Board Member of the Union of Greek Shipowners, as well as on the Board of Trustees of Fairleigh Dickinson University. Since 2013, Ms. Frangou has been a Member of the Board of Visitors of the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science. Ms. Frangou also acts as Vice Chairwoman of the China Classification Society Mediterranean Committee, and is a member of the International General Committee and of the Hellenic and Black Sea Committee of Bureau Veritas, and is also a member of the Greek Committee of Nippon Kaiji Kyokai. Ms. Frangou received a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, summa cum laude, from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University.
Efstratios Desypris has been the Chief Financial Officer of Navios Maritime Partners L.P. since January 2010. In addition, Mr. Desypris is the Chief Financial Controller of Navios Holdings, Navios Partners' sponsor, since May 2006. Mr. Desypris has also been a Director of Navios Containers since November 2018. He also serves as a Director and the SVP- Strategic Planning of Navios South American Logistics Inc. and as a Director of Navios Europe. Before joining Navios Group, Mr. Desypris worked in the accounting profession, most recently as manager of the audit department at Ernst & Young in Greece. Mr. Desypris started his career as an auditor with Arthur Andersen & Co. in 1997. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of Piraeus.
George Achniotis was appointed to our Board of Directors in August 2007 and he has been our Executive Vice President-Business Development since February 2008. Mr. Achniotis has been Navios Holdings' Chief Financial Officer since April 12, 2007. Prior to being appointed Chief Financial Officer of Navios Holdings, Mr. Achniotis served as Senior Vice President - Business Development of Navios Holdings from August 2006 to April 2007. Prior to joining Navios Holdings, Mr. Achniotis was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1999 to August 2006. Mr. Achniotis holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Manchester and he is a member of the institute of chartered accountants in England and Wales. Mr. Achniotis is also a member of the institute of certified accountants in Cyprus.
Shunji Sasada was appointed to our Board of Directors in August 2007. Mr. Sasada has also served as a director of Navios Holdings and President of Navios Corporation since January 2015. Mr. Sasada started his shipping career in 1981 in Japan with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. ("MOSK"). In 1991, Mr. Sasada joined Trinity Bulk Carriers as its chartering manager as well as subsidiary board member representing MOSK as one of the shareholders. After an assignment in Norway, Mr. Sasada moved to London and started MOSK's own Ultra Handymax operation as its General Manager. Mr. Sasada joined Navios Holdings in May 1997. Mr. Sasada was Senior Vice President - Fleet Development of Navios Holdings from October 1, 2005 to July 2007 and Chief Operating Officer until December 2014. Mr. Sasada has been a member of the North American Committee of Nippon Kaiji Kyokai since inception. Mr. Sasada is a graduate of Keio University, Tokyo, with a B.A. degree in business and he is a member of Board of Trustees of Keio Academy of New York.
Serafeim Kriempardis was appointed to our Board of Directors in December 2009. Mr. Kriempardis previously served as the Head of Shipping of Piraeus Bank from 2007 to 2009 and as the Head of Shipping of Emporiki Bank of Greece from 1999 to 2007. Prior to serving as Head of Shipping at Emporiki Bank, Mr. Kriempardis served in the Project Finance and Corporate and Feasibility departments of the bank. Mr. Kriempardis is an accountant by training and holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business and a Diploma in Management from the McGill University of Canada. Mr. Kriempardis also serves as chairman of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee, and serves on the Conflicts Committee. Mr Kriempardis is an independent director.
Kunihide Akizawa has 40 years of experience in shipping and logistics. Mr. Akizawa started his shipping career in 1982 in Japan with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. He worked in the accounting department, the export department focusing on the Red Sea and Mediterranean areas, the bulk department, and a chartering manager of Skaarup Shipping International Corporation, which was a joint-venture company with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. In 1995, Mr. Akizawa joined ITOCHU Corporation in the logistics division. In 2011, he became President of MarineNet, a subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation as well as five other major Japanese trading houses. In 2016, he was appointed as President of IMECS Co., Ltd, the ship-owning arm of ITOCHU and full subsidiary. In 2021, he joined Fleet Management Limited as Vice President Business Development. Mr. Akizawa is a graduate of Gakushuin University, Tokyo with a B.A. degree in Economics.
Orthodoxia Zisimatou was appointed to our Board of Directors in June 2017. Mrs. Zisimatou has been a practicing maritime lawyer since 1988, focusing on S&P contracts and contracts of affreightment. She has been a member of the Permanent Committee of Maritime Policy, Security and Protection of the Environment and of the Legal Committee of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping since 2007. She has also served as a Maritime Arbitrator for the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping since 2007. Since 2009, Mrs. Zisimatou has acted as the Secretary General of the Union of Piraeus Shipping Lawyers. She earned a bachelor's degree in Law from the faculty of Law of the University of Athens. Mrs. Zisimatou also serves on our Audit and Conflicts Committees and is an independent director.
Alexander Kalafatides has been a member of our board of directors since 2019. Mr. Kalafatides has nearly 30 years of experience in general management and marketing. Mr. Kalafatides holds the position of global sales and marketing director of IUC International LLC, a designer and importer of consumer products, and he also serves as an adjunct professor in International Business at Drexel University. He has been involved in considerable turnarounds in various sectors including the marine sector, where he served as Partner and Vice President of CCSI, Inc., a company acting as the sales agent of the Chevron/Texaco joint venture. Following its successful turnaround, the company was acquired by the Chevron/Texaco group. Mr. Kalafatides received his M.B.A. in marketing and international business from the New York University, his B.S.E. in computer engineering & science at the University of Pennsylvania and a Certificate of Director Education from Drexel University's Gupta Governance Institute. Mr. Kalafatides also serves as chairman of the Conflicts Committee and he is an independent director.
Vasiliki Papaefthymiou was appointed our Secretary in August 2007. Ms. Papaefthymiou has been Executive Vice President - Legal and a member of Navios Holdings' board of directors since August 25, 2005, and prior to that was a member of the board of directors of ISE. Ms. Papaefthymiou has served as general counsel for Maritime Enterprises Management S.A. since October 2001, where she has advised the company on shipping, corporate and finance legal matters. Ms. Papaefthymiou provided similar services as general counsel to Franser Shipping from October 1991 to September 2001. Ms. Papaefthymiou received her undergraduate degree from the Law School of the University of Athens and a Master degree in Maritime Law from Southampton University in the United Kingdom. Ms. Papaefthymiou is admitted to practice law before the Bar in Piraeus, Greece.
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Any discussion of finances at St. Ignatius Parish must start with gratitude for your generosity. So many of you have made our parish one of the most important works you support, and I am truly grateful for that. Many have responded generously to my appeals over the years, most increasing your annual gift when asked, so that we could continue to build and expand upon what we already do, as well as stretch ourselves into new ministries and programs to meet needs as they get expressed by you and your fellow parishioners. Thank you.
You are also very generous when it comes to the second collections we are asked by the Archdiocese to take up, you give from your hearts when we seek to help the victims of earthquakes and fires, to build water wells in the Dominican Republic, to provide blankets for the poor in Tijuana, and more. You teach me about generosity.
I'm writing today to inform you about a change we will be making in the way we participate in the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal (AAA). As you know, the AAA is how each of us contributes to and supports the work of the Church throughout the Archdiocese. Beginning next month, we are returning to the way we used to collect those donations, which is to run the AAA campaign separately from our own parish fundraising (this is the way that all other parishes in the Archdiocese conduct this drive.) I believe this will bring greater clarity and focus to our own mission as we more consciously share in the financial support of critical ministries and services managed outside our parish. In the coming weeks, we will be highlighting how these benefit our parish, our parishioners, and the entire San Francisco Catholic Community. Our 2018 assessment is $230,240 and next month we will begin our drive to meet that goal.
On another note, this year's Dead of Winter event is an evening of Pasta and Bingo. The hoedown has been great fun the past several years, but there was a desire to mix it up a bit and do something different (it was suggested that Bingo will make us an authentically Catholic parish!) There is more information on page of the bulletin. Please mark your calendar for February 3, after the 5:00 pm Mass. I look forward to seeing you there. N-27!


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Lémeute anti-juive de Constantine culmine le  après plusieurs jours d'affrontements entre les communautés juive et musulmane de la ville. Elle connaît à l'époque un retentissement très important et fait l'objet d'interprétations diverses.

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La ville de Constantine est, en 1934, une capitale administrative et commerciale spécialisée dans les tissus et les grains. Passée de  à  habitants en une vingtaine d'années, elle fait cohabiter, dans un cadre encore très traditionnel, des communautés juxtaposées : Musulmans (52% de la population) dans la ville basse, Juifs (12-13%) sur les hauteurs, Européens entre les deux. De nombreux Juifs se sont cependant installés hors de leur quartier traditionnel.

Politiquement, l'antisémitisme a alors localement le vent en poupe, depuis le député-maire, le virulent Émile Morinaud, ex-radical et directeur du journal Le Républicain, jusqu'aux représentants locaux des Croix-de-Feu, en passant par les deux feuilles locales entièrement dévolues au sujet : L'Eclair et Tam-Tam.

Alors sous domination coloniale française, l'Algérie voit le statut de ses différentes communautés régi par les lois de la République. Tandis que la place des colons européens ne pose pas de problème particulier au législateur français, celle des Juifs et des Musulmans indigènes a fait, au fil du temps, l'objet de législations particulières.

En 1870, le décret Crémieux a ainsi conféré la citoyenneté française aux Juifs d'Algérie, leur retirant officiellement l'étiquette « indigène », tandis que la population musulmane se trouve assujettie, en 1881, à un Code de l'indigénat porteur de nombreuses interdictions et sanctions spécifiques.

Toute la population vivant en Algérie est donc nominalement française, mais les colons sont les seuls à bénéficier de tous les avantages (et inconvénients) de cette reconnaissance. Les Juifs, devenus citoyens français de par le décret Crémieux, restent considérés à bien des égards comme des indigènes par les colons.

Les Musulmans, enfin, doublement discriminés (par rapport aux colons et par rapport aux Juifs), entament alors un long plaidoyer pour se voir reconnaître une citoyenneté pleine et entière. Ce n'est qu'après la Première Guerre mondiale que la loi Jonnart (4 février 1919) se décide à leur accorder une forme limitée de citoyenneté avec droit de vote aux élections locales, mais dans un collège électoral séparé, perpétuant ainsi la discrimination entre les ex-indigènes israélites et les indigènes musulmans.

À partir de là, la minorité israélite, qui poursuit un projet d'assimilation, se trouve prise en étau entre les colons européens qui voient ses progrès comme une menace et chez lesquels prospère un antisémitisme tenace, et la population musulmane qui n'a pas obtenu la même reconnaissance sociale, mais s'est vu ouvrir un espace politique qui lui permet de faire progresser des revendications appuyées par la masse de la population.

Le débat sur l'origine des émeutes est ainsi résumé par Cole :

Les événements du 3 au 6 août 1934
Le vendredi 3 août 1934, Eliaou Kalifa, un maître-tailleur israélite commissionné dans un régiment de zouaves, rentre vers  à son domicile situé près de la mosquée Sidi Lakhdar. Pris de boisson, il injurie des Musulmans qui procèdent à leurs ablutions. L'affaire s'envenime : des Musulmans  lapident les fenêtres de son logement ; les locataires juifs des immeubles voisins leur jettent en retour des projectiles divers. Dans le chaos, des coups de feu retentissent. La police, puis la troupe, s'interposent. Vers trois heures du matin, un ordre précaire est rétabli, mais on compte déjà 15 blessés, dont 3 agents de police. Un Musulman, blessé au ventre par une balle de revolver, décède peu après. Six magasins de bijouterie appartenant à des israélites ont été forcés, quelques voitures lapidées.

Le lendemain samedi, les notables des deux communautés, convoqués à la Préfecture, s'engagent à apaiser leurs ouailles. Vers 19 h, le Dr Bendjelloul et le cheikh Abdelhamid Ben Badis, leaders de la communauté musulmane, confirment à la Grande Mosquée leurs consignes de calme et les engagements pris. En échange la Préfecture fait relâcher 40 manifestants musulmans arrêtés la veille.

Le dimanche 5 août, aux premières heures, des centaines de Musulmans se réunissent, sans doute à la suite d'un malentendu, sur le plateau de Mansourah. Vers 9 h, des querelles éclatent au marché de la place des Galettes, dans le quartier juif. Des coups de feu tirés d'un immeuble font plusieurs blessés parmi les maraîchers arabes, puis les Juifs attaquent les boutiques arabes situées dans leur quartier, faisant de nouveaux blessés par balles, aux cris de « à mort Bendjelloul ! ». Dans la confusion, les Musulmans, qui ont été rejoints par les manifestants revenant de Mansourah, imaginent que leur leader a été tué.

La colère s'empare de la foule qui se déchaîne contre les magasins et les personnes.

L'accès au quartier juif est limité par une compagnie de zouaves qui ne reprend le contrôle que vers midi et ne parvient pas à empêcher le pillage.

Dans la rue Nationale et les rues adjacentes, les manifestants débordent la troupe. A 10 h 45, un Musulman est tué par un coiffeur israélite : son magasin est pillé et les boutiques juives sont prises d'assaut. L'émeute fait rage jusqu'à midi. Un bataillon de tirailleurs musulmans dégage alors la rue Nationale et fait fuir les émeutiers. Le 6 à l'aube, une troupe de 600 à 800 manifestants venus de Batna est dispersée pacifiquement par les militaires. Vers 10 h, l'arrivée d'importants renforts venus d'Alger rétablit définitivement la situation.

Le bilan de l'émeute est lourd : officiellement, il se monte à 26 morts (23 Israélites et 3 Musulmans) et 81 blessés (38 israélites, 35 musulmans, 7 militaires et 1 pompier). On compte  sinistrés. La communauté juive fournit une liste nominative de ses victimes comprenant 24 israélites et un inconnu : .

Commission d'enquête
Le 10 août, le gouverneur général annonce la création d'une commission d'enquête administrative pour déterminer les origines de la violence et évaluer le comportement des autorités locales. La commission soumet son rapport au gouverneur général le 7 octobre après avoir reçu les témoignages de cent vingt-six personnes.

Le comportement des forces de l'ordre
Aux obsèques des victimes israélites, la passivité des forces de l'ordre est publiquement dénoncée.

Constantine ne dispose alors que de 300 hommes de troupe, Français d'Algérie, et de 700 tirailleurs musulmans. Le samedi, la Préfecture, misant sur un contingent de 250 zouaves venant de Philippeville et pensant la situation rétablie, a refusé une offre de renforts faite par Alger.  En sous-effectifs, refusant dans un premier temps d'engager les tirailleurs musulmans, réticentes à faire feu sur la foule, les autorités se trouvent dans l'impossibilité de protéger le quartier juif tout en dégageant les places et les rues.

Mais selon certains témoignages, la passivité des forces de l'ordre tourne parfois à la complicité.

Il semble que la Préfecture ait sous-estimé la violence des émeutiers et donné aux militaires instruction de laisser piller en imaginant ainsi calmer la foule en lui abandonnant des biens matériels tout en sauvant des vies.

Interprétations
Dès le lendemain de l'émeute, les notabilités juives se montrent convaincues que l'affaire a été préméditée et minutieusement organisée, mais la Commission d'enquête mise sur pied pour investiguer le massacre rejette cette hypothèse.

Elle ne reconnaît pas, dans la masse de 700 à 800 personnes qui ont participé aux violences, les équipes spécialisées décrites par les victimes, et n'y voit qu'un  accompagnés pour l'occasion d'enfants  et .

Dans les milieux politiques, cependant, on évoque, à gauche, « une provocation policière » ou « un complot impérialiste », à droite, un « mouvement insurrectionnel », une « émeute anti-française » conduite par de jeunes meneurs ambitieux instrumentalisant pour ce faire un antisémitisme sous-jacent, ce qui permet de justifier les demandes de fermeté déjà transmises à l'État, en concluant que .

Ces interprétations complotistes sont immédiatement dénoncées par les leaders musulmans. Le cheikh Ben Badis se contente de répondre que la Presse Libre était dans le vrai quand elle affirmait le  : . Quant aux Franco-européens de Constantine, ils ne condamnent pas absolument, et certains estiment, comme le journal La Brèche de Constantine, .

L'enquête administrative conclut, quant à elle, au caractère local et spontané de l'émeute, les responsabilités immédiates retombant sur les Juifs qui avaient tiré les premiers coups de feu.

Acteurs, ressorts et retombées de l'émeute
Les émeutiers sont en majeure partie issus de la masse de miséreux générée par la crise économique : journaliers et saisonniers désœuvrés, chômeurs, ruraux déracinés et jeunes  Constantinois sans travail, sans logis et sans ressources.

Pour cette population issue principalement de la communauté musulmane, une partie de la communauté juive peut sembler privilégiée, d'autant qu'elle s'incarne souvent dans des figures d'autorité, et parfois de réussite (administrative, commerciale, politique) considérée par certains comme insolente. La communauté israélite d'Algérie se trouve alors prise en tenailles entre la montée du nazisme , le réveil du nationalisme arabe et les espoirs d'émancipation portés par le projet sioniste.

Dans cette dynamique globale qui sous-tend localement les relations entre Européens, Arabes et Juifs, ces derniers, surtout les plus jeunes, adoptent une position d'autodéfense agressive, formant des réseaux de quartier prêts à défendre leurs familles et leurs biens. Ils se trouvent ainsi fréquemment mêlés à, et souvent à l'origine d'incidents, d'agressions, d'altercations ou de rixes (59 faits recensés dans les 5 années précédentes) les opposant à leurs voisins musulmans sous le regard ambigu des colons. Selon Cole, .

Dans ce contexte, l'incident déclencheur du 3 août ne serait pas un acte isolé, mais « la goutte d'eau qui fait déborder le vase ». L'émeute antijuive qui s'ensuivit généra des répliques à Am Bei'da, à Jemmapes, à Hamma où des magasins juifs furent pillés. Puis vint un boycott plus ou moins général de tous les commerces juifs, à Constantine et dans d'autres villes d'Algérie. De graves incidents éclatèrent à Sétif le  et à Oued Zénati le .

Constantine semble avoir été au croisement des divers courants d'agitation qui animaient la communauté musulmane, durement frappée par la crise économique, mais aussi travaillée par l'espoir d'une Renaissance nationale. Avec le recul, il apparaît que l'émeute antijuive d'août 1934 ne doit rien à une organisation clandestine, à un complot international ou à une machination policière, et qu'elle naît bien davantage de la misère, de l'envie et de la colère du sous-prolétariat de la ville.

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November 30, 2012, - 3:57 pm
Weekend Box Office: Hitchcock, Anna Karenina, The Collection
I did not particularly like any of the new movies at the box office, this weekend, but if you must see one, it should be . . .
* "Hitchcock": Despite a star-studded cast (and a cameo by Ralph Macchio of all people), this movie is mostly slow and boring, the exact opposite of Alfred Hitchcock's tremendous body of work in the creepy and thrilling. Sadly, little of that is captured in this dull, nutty, bizarre "portrayal" of Hitchcock. Anthony Hopkins (who said I was his favorite personality on the "Howard Stern Show"–not sure if that's a good thing) looks ridiculous in his fatsuit and makeup and more like a caricature or cartoon character than the legendary filmmaker he plays. Sorry, Sir Anthony. It gets even more absurd because the movie shows repeated scenes of Hitchcock talking to the ghost of Ed Gein, the Wisconsin serial killer on whom the "Psycho" story was based. Those scenes are just stupid.
The movie focuses on Hitchcock's making of "Psycho" and his rocky partnership with his writer wife (Helen Mirren). But it goes off key when it spends too much time on a side story of the wife's writing relationship with another writer who Hitchcock sees as a sort-of competitor. The parts about the actual making of "Psycho" were interesting, if they are accurate. The movie shows Hitchcock's fight with the studio and censors to make such a dark movie . . . dark and shocking for that time. He fought the censors for the right to make the shower scene with its multiple stabbings. And he fought the studio to make the movie and get it distributed. After betting his savings and home on the movie, it was interesting to see what he had to do to make it a success. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't show enough of that stuff and focuses, instead, on esoteric, likely fictional stuff.
Unfortunately, the movie chooses to make Hitchcock as both a creepy weirdo who stares through peepholes of actress' dressing rooms and as a pathetic, whiny, emotional manchild. Methinks they did this brilliant Hollywood mind a huge disservice with this dumb–and failed–attempt to be campy. As a Hitchcock fan, I wanted and expected better, but didn't get it. I'm being generous when I give it . . .
HALF A REAGAN
Watch the Trailer . . .
* "Anna Karenina": This is one of those movies that ruins a great novel. You'd be best off just reading the book, which has already been made into several eponymous movies and didn't need to be made into yet another. This was long, slow, very boring, and I felt like I'd seen this story a gazillion times before, including with one of the same actresses–Keira Knightley, who plays the lead role. She's played this before: the wife in a period piece who is married to a noble man and has the good life of a rich woman, but wants to leave him to live with her real love, her extramarital paramour with whom she's pregnant. In fact, Knightley played this exact type of character in 2008's "The Duchess" (read my review).
Also, the filmmakers use a technique that doesn't quite work here. They use a stage and moving stage sets to make it look like a Broadway play. They also have some scenes in which the characters move in unison, almost as if they're about to break out in song and dance, like a Broadway musical. It seems gimmicky and takes away from their attempts at getting the audience to pay attention and take the movie seriously. I didn't. I just couldn't wait for it to be over, so I could take a bathroom break.
This movie is high on style and should win a lot of Oscars for hair and makeup, costumes, and set design. But as for substance, there's little here. And, yet, they managed to stretch that very little into over two hours. It's stretched quite thin.
HALF A MARX
* "The Collection": That they greenlit a disgusting, bloody, violent movie like this makes me sad for America. This was so full of sickening, nauseating killing and dismemberment, that it didn't just make me sick. Someone literally threw up on the way out of the screening I attended. Oh, sure, this kind of torture porn attracts a cult following and tries to be "campy." But it isn't. It's just sick, warped, tortured. Oh, and it's grisly, graphic, and all-around gross.
This is, sadly, a sequel to what I understand is an equally disgusting first movie, "The Collector," which features two of the same characters. In this movie, the daughter of a wealthy man sneaks out with her friends to a party at a secret underground disco at the dark side of town. Soon, the serial killer who wears a mask and was featured in the first movie, murders most of those who are dancing and partying, using devices resembling a giant lawnmower and huge sling blades. People are beheaded, dismembered, and otherwise bleeding to death.
One guy, who has been trapped in a trunk–Arkin–escapes. The killer keeps the daughter of the wealthy guy alive and takes her to an abandoned hotel, where he keeps others inside trunks and also has a menagerie of body parts and human bodies in various severed states on display, as well as some insects. There he tortures people in unspeakable ways. While Arkin is in the hospital, recovering from his wounds from being tortured, the police question him. Then, a man working for the rich girl's father blackmails Arkin into helping him find the daughter and rescue her, so they go to the abandoned hotel and fight it out with the crazed serial killer and get caught in his booby traps and torture devices.
The movie has very little of a plot, never explains who the serial killer is or why he is doing this. But a plot and explanations aren't the point of these sick, twisted movies. The point is to give people two hours of unspeakable, unwatchable, mind-numbing disgusting blood, gore, killing porn, and torture porn. We are really dead as a society, when mainstream Hollywood puts more and more of this kind of sickening "cinema" out there, and even has screenings for movie critics like me. I was going to walk out on this a million times and wish that I had (but studios do not allow me to review movies unless I've watched the whole thing). That I was able to sit through this (albeit with my hands over my eyes for a good part of this) tells me that I've unfortunately become desensitized to this brutality as I've sat through more and more of this horror as a movie critic.
If there was one redeeming thing about this movie, it was that the audience at the promotional screening I attended still rooted for the good guys and cheered when the bad guys got theirs. But that was hardly a "saving grace" and wasn't enough to justify this depraved crap. Not even close. And I fear that a day is coming when they cheer for the torturers and murderers against the innocent victims and their would-be rescuers. Making movies like this hastens the arrival of that day. (In fact, we've already reached that point, as I've seen it at other movie screenings I've attended.)
I wonder how many real-life future serial killings and torture this sickness will inspire. Thanks, Hollywood. You have blood on your hands. What a great service to America. Whoever dreams this stuff up ought to be locked up and given a lobotomy.
Maybe the lobotomy has already taken place.
In any event, the guy who says, "Hey, I'll make a movie with a lot of shocking torture, dismemberment, and killing, and make a ton of money," is a traitor. The trailers for this movie tell us it's about escaping "pure evil." But the real pure evil is the people who made this.
Remember the good old days . . . when snuff films were considered uncivilized?
FOUR MARXES PLUS PLUS PLUS
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Wish you could have done "It is no dream", the docu about Hertzl and narrated by Ben Kingsley (i know you're no fan of his)..
I'm going to watch it today here in TO hoping it's not a liberal bashing fest of our Zionist leader…
maybe next week Debbie?
Yossi on December 1, 2012 at 10:09 am
I have read many, many times that Hitchcock had a very dark side and was definitely peculiar with many of his Leading Ladies as well as having affairs with most of them. If you look at some of the most important ones; Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly and Tippi Hedren, Janet Leigh to a lesser extent, they all bear a startling resemblance to his wife. In many ways he WAS a man-child which takes nothing away from his artistic genius.
Italkit on December 1, 2012 at 11:51 am
Nice to have the movie critiques done BEFORE I spend the dough and waste my time. Sad, most every remake and movies taken from books are always disappointing at least to me. I guess I am getting old…I just want to stay home and watch "real movies" on TCM…over and over and over…I never tire of any of the longtime greats..seems my movie/film tastes have become akin to my political leanings….slim to narrowing?
Jack Kates III on December 1, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Of course I am a Hitchcock fan. I used to read his books at the library when I was a kid. I have always been drawn to the dark side of things…reading and watching that is. I never had the lack of intellect to partake in anti-social darkness (other than punk rock).
This is the second movie on him that shows him to be so weird & freakish. I'd be interested in the truth. Is it real of is Hollywood having a go at him now he is dead? I'd be interested in the truth.
I agree with Anthony Hopkins. You are definitely my fav personality from the Howard Stern show. I listened 1993-2005 (or when he left terrestrial) and now I don't listen to him anymore (because I don't have time and don't wanna pay the extra for my satellite). I have learned much from this blog and that's a great thing!
Skunky on December 1, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Yes, Hitchcock was a rally dark, odd interesting guy. If you really want to get to know what his was like read "
Hitchcock" by Francois Truffaut. Truffaut interviewed Hitchcock for hours before writing this book, it's man's story from his own mouth.
pete bone on December 2, 2012 at 11:16 am
Yes, 1960 was the year that degeneration in movies really took off. The key event was the release of Spartacus a few months after Psycho, which infamously broke the blacklist keeping Hollywood free of open Communists.
Although I enjoyed Psycho, I would rather have had the shower scene censored if it could have been coupled with keeping Hollywood free of open Communists. All things considered, the censorship of the 50s would have been more beneficial for our country in the long run than what developed soon after 1960. Considering the depravity of society, maybe some constructive censorship is needed.
Little Al on December 1, 2012 at 1:37 pm
I might be missing something (save it Skunky, it ain't worth it) but what dose the Communist ban have to do with the shower scene?
I kind of agree with you about 50's censorship, not so much because of the censoring of ideas, but because writers had to think more and write subtext to get things by the censors. They really had to create deeper stories that weren't always what they seemed at first blush.
I don't think writers, in general, work as hard at creating stories about things bigger than the basic plot.
The shower scene and the lifting of the Communist ban occurred within months of each other, and were two events that greatly weakened censorship/oversight of Hollywood movies.
Together, they were key in ushering in the present era.
Little Al on December 2, 2012 at 12:18 pm
I see your point, but part of the genius of the shower scene is that there isn't anything in it that could be censored. Everything people thought they saw in that sequence was all in their heads. Spartacus well…that's a differant story.
pete bone on December 2, 2012 at 3:06 pm
What is worth pointing out, Cockroach, is that you are again posting on an esoteric thread (as opposed to the hardcore political ones because you're not smart enough to) and are taking a contrarian stance. As you always do.
What is worth pointing out, Cockroach, is that you seem to read read almost all the columns but the truth and the reporting never seem to permeate your empty, Liberal brain. That means your mentally ill and stubborn in your ignorance.
It's worth pointing out, Cockroach, because in 2012 and where we are in America and what has happened to this country…it is important that REAL Conservatives know their enemy. As for me, I have no desire to be nice to stealth idiots like you who think you know more than learned Conservatives who have actually done their homework and know what the TRUTH is.
If I have done that and neon lighted you as such, my work is done.
Skunky on December 2, 2012 at 12:28 pm
So your not interested in the book, then?
i don't watch most hollywood crap.
bruce on December 1, 2012 at 1:44 pm
We STOPPED going to movies many years ago. PURE TRASH since Hollywood was taken over by the radical leftists who want to destroy America. They are doing a great job so far. Movies made since the 60's have progressively gone down and this is no accident. BOYCOTT ALL HOLLYWOOD, HBO AND SHOWTIME.
Fred on December 1, 2012 at 2:21 pm
The ghost of Ed Gein? Ed Gein only died in the 1980s. His ghost wasn't around in 1960.
dee on December 1, 2012 at 5:02 pm
I love a good slasher flick…. you know the one where the dumb blond girl dies in the first scene and the rest of the movie every one tries to expose the killer.
"The Collector" is just garbage! Hollywood can no longer make a decent horror film!
NormanF on December 1, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Alfred Hitchcock directed the greatest thriller films in American cinema, many of which define our culture.
There is no one like him today in Hollywood. Any one who has watched "Rear Window" – with Jimmy Stewart – that is the quintessential American thriller – two hours of pure escapist entertainment.
No one seems to have Hitchcock's touch anymore.
I may have seen Hitchcock's complete filmology (always enjoyed trying to spot his "hidden" cameos)or close to it, but "The Birds" has always been my favorite.
I'm not sure Hopkins was the right choice to portray him. I think Philip Seymour Thomas would've been better.
DS_ROCKS! on December 1, 2012 at 9:15 pm
I guess we are the new Babylon.
Hollywood has been making psychopathic behavior sexy for so long it's no wonder people have started cheering for the bad guys. Hitchcock was a seminal director but I doubt he was the kind of quirky,interesting, engaging guy next door I'm assuming Hopkins is trying to portray him as in this biopic.
I think the ghost of Ed Gein probably fills in as a sort of premonition for the reality of people like him. Serial killer flicks are the logical progression of what Hitchcock did in psycho so you'll get a nice introduction to the inner workings of both him and them here.
As usual Hollywood will invite you to open the door and get up close and personal all for the modest price of some entertainment value.
If we live in a "clockwork orange" pop culture universe and to me it's starting to feel like that a little I wonder sometimes if it's not really because guys like Stanley Kubrick didn't have the emotional intelligence to imagine anything better, notwithstanding his other talents which are plastered all over the screen.
Frankz on December 2, 2012 at 12:42 am
Frankz, your post had me thinking. I agree with you about Hollywood making psychopathology sexy. That's queerstreet if you ask me. But what COULD be done didactically is that people who make movies COULD craft them as to warn the general public of the danger of psychopaths (most are not of the homicidal sort but all are capable of being so…). For every 100 people FOUR are psychopaths. People should know they should be able to identify and protect themselves from them.
And this is in my mind this week because I got to see "We Need To Talk About Kevin" and it was a strange film. I didn't NOT like it but the ending was typical Hollywood BS. The movie took pains to portray the psychopath as evil from day one BUT in the end left it dangling as IF the psychopath COULD be redeemed or had some remorse. This pissed me off because it is NOT true and people are too naive on this issue as it is. It does society no good to act as if these freaks can be redeemed. They can't.
I don't like garbage like "Funny Games" but I do enjoy films that are didactic on psychopathology and/or if they are horror films for a cheap thrill. I did not like Rob Zombie's "The Devil's Rejects" and I consider myself a fan. I liked the original "The Vanishing" because it ended in a way that was more truthful (no matter how morbidly depressing) than the dumb American version (done by same director BTW).
"Hitchcock wasn't so much a master of suspense as he was a poet of anxiety." Can't remember which critic it was who really hit the nail on the head with that description.
lee, of the lower case "l" on December 2, 2012 at 1:22 am
"Psycho" was not based on Ed Gein. In Robert Bloch's (author of "Psycho") autobiography, "Once Around the Bloch", he said knew virtually nothing about Gein and he did not base "Psycho" on anyone from the Gein case, and, if I recall correctly, that he wrote the book to explore the idea of what would happen if a quiet serial killer lived in a small community and people didn't know it.
MH on December 2, 2012 at 2:19 am
I attended the screening of Hitchcock this past week. I have a different take on his speaking with the "ghost" of Ed Gein. As another person put it, Gein died in jail in the 80's.
Could this have been the director's attempts at showing Hitchcock trying to get into his brain to create Psycho?
As you are aware, being a Hitchcock fan, the story is based off the serial killer Gein. I agree the fatsuits were silly, if he was truly a method actor he would have done like DeNiro in Raging Bull and added th weight for the movie.
I enjoyed it, and found humor in many of the scenes.
Paul on December 2, 2012 at 10:18 am
Skunky, I think the problem with sociopaths is that they are very difficult to detect even for trained psychologists.
They're usually very socially adept and so are very capable of acting in any way they perceive as acceptable.
I also saw "We need to talk about Kevin", it didn't make much impression on me either. The only thing I can remember about it is that it blurred the moral lines so much that by the end it was more like watching a traffic accident than a murderer at work. But I think that's par for the course these days.
Liberals basically see human beings a complicated machines and psychopaths are simply machines that are defective in some way.
So guilt and morality are outmoded concepts for them although they do have a lot of touchy feely sentimentality to soften the blow if you know what I mean.
The point they're trying to work to now is to have sociopaths seen as struggling members of society who need assistance. There's been murder cases where its been accepted as a form of partial legal defense.
To me there's and undercurrent in Hollywood movies I've noticed for a long time now where there's tendency to trivialize sociopathic behavior. 7 Psychopaths although it's a comedy would be an example of what I'm talking about.
Frankz on December 3, 2012 at 7:00 am
There's no point arguing with ignoramuses who insist that Hollywood sometime around 1960 was "taken over" by the radical Left. As for the blacklist so beloved by certain posters here, it ruined careers, turned industry people against one another, and diminished the quality of movies — oh yeah, a real achievement! Repeating a lie hundreds of times over doesn't make it any more true than if saying it only once. I have seen literally thousands of old, mid-period and recent movies, so I know something about whereof I speak.
By the way, the latest "Anna Karenina" is a British, not a Hollywood production. It was shot in England with an English cast and was directed by an Englishman, Joe Wright ("Pride and Prejudice"). Not every film can be filed under "Hollywood." "Anna Karenina" is long all right, but definitely not "slow" or "boring." Some films require patience on the part of the audience.
Seek on December 3, 2012 at 11:38 am
Thank you for your movie reviews.
I have been a quiet fan of AH since I was a teen and "Psycho" was a hit. Also, watched his TV show regularly.
I recently picked up a collection of some of Hitchcock's older movies. Some are short and some are full length. He used trains as a set in several of them, and trains coming out of tunnels to shock the viewer visually and with sound in several of them. Two of the movies had women removing their silk stockings, which presented a sensual side. He was a presenter of the dark side but did it in a somewhat humorous way. His movies ware exciting and fast paced too keeping the viewer on "the edge of his seat" until the twist at the end.
I do not think I will see any of these including the AH movie.
panhandle on December 3, 2012 at 12:19 pm
I saw the The Girl with Tobe Jones playing Hitchcock. I thought he did a pretty good job. What I've seen of Anthony Hopkins playing the part doesn't compare well with Jone's performance.
The portrayal of Hitchcock in The Girl is pretty negative. I think the fact that he refused to let Tippi Hedren out of her contract with him proves that he was, at the very least, a very vindictive person.
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