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By: Steve Pattee
Cinderella DVD Review
Written by Steve Pattee
DVD released by Tartan Video
So pretty... – Spooky Voice
Directed by Man-Dae Bong
Written by Kwang-Soo Sohn
2006, Region 1 (NTSC), 97 minutes, Not Rated
DVD released on April 10th, 2007
Ji-Won Do
Se-Kyung Shin
For teenage girls, Hyun-Soo's mom probably has one of the best jobs ever: plastic surgeon. You know Hyun-Soo's friends love reaping the rewards of that friendship.
But when her friends who have gone under the knife start dying off — after going a little nutty — Hyun-Soo starts unraveling a web of family secrets to find out what is happening to her chums.
And as the mystery unfolds, Hyun-Soo will soon discover that nothing is as it once seemed.
There are times when I just want to write something like "Nothing new to see here, move along" in a review, because, sometimes, that's what it feels like.
As in the case of Cinderella.
The movie isn't bad, by any means. It's well put together, and a rather enjoyable hour and a half. The problem is, it doesn't bring anything new to the table. Plus, it doesn't utilize what it has appropriately enough to make it stand out.
One of the problems is the movie's convoluted story. If told in a linear fashion, it really wouldn't be that tough to understand. But a language barrier, coupled with a story that sometimes goes to flashback to tell its tale, makes for some confusion. I damn near had to take notes on what the hell was going on in the last quarter of the movie to figure out who was who and what was what. And it certainly didn't help that the flashbacks come with little-to-no warning and seemed to be shot with no difference from "current time." So you have to be on your toes as to what's a flashback and what's not, because by the time you realize you just saw a flashback, the scene has moved on and you may be scratching your head wondering just who the hell that little girl was.
Plus, as it's necessary for many Asian horror flicks, a long haired ghost pops up on occasion (although I freely admit that the first time I saw this particular freaky-deak, it creeped me out). Yet, even with that little bit of a creep out, it's getting harder and harder to appreciate these Asian spooks like I once did (with, of course, the exception of my recent viewing of Shutter).
Say this, though: The last 10 minutes of Cinderella are incredibly sad, with one especially heartbreaking scene. And for a movie that didn't grab me like maybe it should have, that should say something.
And that's a tough thing, because there were quite a few scenes that showed what Cinderella could have been capable of, but it didn't quite make it. Fans of Asian horror may want to rent this before they buy it. Cinderella has its moments, but it's a slipper shy of the big ball.
Cinderella has pretty nice 16:9 anamorphic transfer. Darks are exceptional, and colors natural if a tiny bit soft. There are no specks to be found, nor digital noise, nor anything that would distract from the viewing experience.
The Korean DTS soundtrack kicks at the appropriate times, and I never had the need to adjust the volume or strain to hear. I wish the sides and rears were used a bit more, but overall, it's an adequate presentation.
Korean Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 are also offered, as well as English and Spanish subtitles.
The Making of Cinderella
Original Trailers
Tartan Asia Extreme New Releases
"The Making of Cinderella" featurette is actually a series of five featurettes — "Desire," Jealousy," "Death," "Secret," and "Curse" — that can be played individually or as one big 25 minute package.
My favorite of the five is "Death," as it covers one of my favorite scenes in the movie — two Asian girls covered in blood. And strangely beautiful.
In addition to the trailer for Cinderella, there are trailers for The Red Shoes, The Maid, Cello, A Tale of Two Sisters, and The Heirloom.
Author: Steve Pattee
Administrator, US Editor
He's the puppet master. You don't see him, but he pulls the strings that gets things done. He's the silent partner. He's black ops. If you notice his presence, it's the last thing you'll notice — because now you're dead. He's the shadow you thought you saw in that dark alleyway. You can have a conversation with him, and when you turn around to offer him a cup of coffee, he's already gone.
Bloody Hell Arrives on DVD/Blu-ray Tomorrow
Enter The Funeral Home Next Week
Barbara Crampton Stars in the Upcoming Sacrifice
Sator Arrives Next Month
Hunted Now Available on Shudder
Steve Pattee
Tartan Video
Tartan Asia Extreme
Man-Dae Bong
Kwang-Soo Sohn


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Positively Different, Short Film Festival, 19 - 21 Μarch 2021, Athens
Gender, sexuality, race, class, ethnicity, religion, able-bodiness – are determinants of our present and future, life prospects and obstructions. PDSFF2021 focuses on their intersections and follows stories of characters, individuals and communities that experience oppression due to identities they carry. Shedding light on life paths of "others" – often through realism and humor and other times through abstraction and experimentation – the festival aims to give space to co-creation, networking and shaping of collective claims. Our aspiration is to turn PDSFF into an institution for promoting intersecting identities and raising awareness on issues of discrimination and oppression experienced by individuals and groups that fall through the cracks of representation in contemporary polities.
Produced by: Inter Alia
Submissions for 2021 are now open!
This year's call for submissions is up!
Building up on the success of 2020's event, urged by intensified injustices as a result, among others, of the pandemic; moved by the uprisings against racism: Positively Different Short Film Festival returns!
We invite all filmmakers, documentarists, visual artists and film students to submit short movies from the fields of fiction, documentary or visual arts.
Check out the official call in the link below, submit your films, and see you in March 2021!
RSVP: Positively Different Short Film Festival 2021
Positively Different Short Film Festival joins Zagoriwood
Up in the mountains of Epirus under a magical August full-moon, PDSFF held a screening of selected movies from the 2020 catalogue in the framework of Zagoriwood film festival and workshop. Along with local citizens and film students, in the main square of Kato Pedina, films about intersecting stories and shared struggles against oppression were screened. The discussions that followed with participants and teachers in the workshop were enlightening as to how to make the upcoming festival even better.
Big thanks to Zagoriwood organising team for the invitation and to the local community of Kato Pedina for the warm welcome. See you next year!
Positively Different Short Film Festival at CinePark
Thank you for this great turnout and the participation in the screening of these wonderful short films.
We especially would like to thank Navarinou Self-Managed Park for hosting us – see you at the next one!
Pre-festival screening Photos
PDSFF was introduced to the audience with its first pre-festival event on Friday, 10th of January, almost a month prior to its official opening at the 13rd of February at Trianon. The attendees had the chance to discuss the festival's core thematics and to participate in crafting the official 2020 festival selection by selecting amongst the semi-finalists.
Positively Different 2020 Trailer
Positively Different 2020 Teaser
Pre-festival screening: Exile Room - 10th of January 2020
19:30-20:00 Opening & Welcome
20:00-22:00 Coming Together
Celebrating collective organising as a source of safety and power that make our struggles just a little bit easier to take on.
Easy man (2018)
Ada (2019)
At Intersections (2019)
Green Right (2019)
Compartment 33 (2019) *
Asheng (2018)
Fourth Wall (2019)
22:15-00:15 Personal Revolts
A tribute to the ones who go beyond and against their own limits, even when the outcome isn't guaranteed.
Ficus (2018) *
Girlfriends | Amigas (2018)
I Am Mackenzie (2019) *
Down To The Wire | In Zona Cesarini (2018) *
Until The Morning (2019) *
Reonghee (2019)
17:30-18:30 Free screenings of amateur young filmmakers
18:30-19:15 Structured discussion between youth groups and professional filmmakers
What would you tell them? | ¿Qué les dirías?
Where my home is
A Romanian Movie
19:30-21:45 Overcoming Barriers
Smiling from the other side of the fence.
Unbecoming (2019) *
The Beds Of Others (2018)
Soccer Boys (2018) *
Ladies Of Wakaliwood (2019)
In The Glass House (2019) *
Abot Kamay (Within Arm's Reach) (2019) *
22:00-00:00 Experiences of Oppression
[trigger warning | content warning: ab*se, r*pe, s*x]
When the structures of normativity and oppression overwhelm us, the happy end is at times nowhere to be seen.
The Voice Over (2018) *
Aleksia (2018) *
71 Questions (2019)
Portraits Of My Mother (2019) *
Joc (2018) *
Zohal (2019)
Lebollo (2019)
From Above *
The White Swallows in the Community
Football for refugees
The myth of the wandering womb
Love, Lacuna
Double-check
Double-check/2
19:00-21:00 Films for All
Funny, sweet and romantic stories opening sensitive topics to adolescents and youth.
Broken Doll (2019)
Why Oh Why Can't I Touch the Sky (2019) *
Just Like Our Lives (2019) *
The School Bus (2019) *
Cleats (2019) *
Manuel (2019) *
Uonted! (2018) *
The Unusual Bath Of Mr. Otmar (2019)
21:10-23:15 Contemporary Dead Ends
[trigger warning | content warning: s*icide]
Stories about the "here" and "now" of a contemporary society that has taken a peculiar turn.
Panic Attack!
Gold Leaf | Bladgoud (2018) *
Suicide Candidates (2019) *
Still Life (2019) *
Fireflies (2018) *
Brooklyn Park (2019)
23:15-00:00 Award Ceremony
00:00 Lost Bodies live | Closing Event
*The producers of films marked with an asterisk (*) will be attending the festival.
Thursday 13th of February - Day 1
Directed by: Rosine Kaboré, Lisette Pires
Synopsis: Franck and Stephane share their misadventures with women.
Country of Filming: France
Directed by: Rafaela Uchoa
Synopsis: Brazil, 2030: Lia, a journalist and programmer, is called to action by the Ada group. Formed by female hackers, the organization fights to overthrow the Evangelist Dictatorship.
Trailer: YouTube
Country of Origin: Brazil
Country of Filming: Brazil
Directed by: Fern Sim Mei
Synopsis: A film about feminism, and the intersections of identity.
Country of Filming: Australia
Directed by: Valentina Cayetano Kelly, Paz Bustamante, Vanina Bustos
Synopsis: On the street, groups of women and allies await the Senate ruling on the legalization of abortion. Testimonies of women give a new sense to the need for abortion to be safe and legal.
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Country of Origin: Argentina
Country of Filming: Argentina, Cuba
Compartment 33 (2019)
Directed by: Ulla Fudge
Synopsis: Three men are in a train compartment, travelling to an unknown destination. There is George, an upper-middle class Englishman, Zaza, glamorous drag queen, and Jamal, an Arab man. With full of resentment and animosity the unforeseen circumstances bring them.
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Directed by: Mohamad Sadeq Esmaeili
Synopsis: 7 women living in a frontier village of south-eastern of Iran, work together to afford their livelihood; they decide to find a way to release their husbands who have been imprisoned for 18 years for drug dealing .
Trailer: vimeo
Country of Origin: Islamic Republic of Iran
Country of Filming: Islamic Republic of Iran
Directed by: Dimitris Gkotsis
Synopsis: "The 4th Wall" is the side of the society that remains invisible, but similar throughout the globe. The only significant difference is people's characteristics. A world that is reproducing itself in order to produce, surviving rather instinctively.
Country of Origin: Greece
Country of Filming: Various
Language: Greek
21:30-22:00 Q&A Session
Ficus (2018)
Directed by: Andrey Volkashin
Synopsis: Almir is a closeted gay man struggling with self-acceptance. Left high and dry by his married lover, Almir decides to spend New Year's Eve with his dying friend Militsa. As the city celebrates, the two talk about their lives and loves, but does Almir dare to tell his closest friend his deepest secret?
Country of Origin: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Country of Filming: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Language: Bosnian
Directed by: Camila Rodó Carvallo
Synopsis: After an unfortunate event at a party, two friends decide to take action.
Country of Origin: Chile
Country of Filming: Chile
I Am Mackenzie (2019)
Directed by: Artemis Anastasiadou
Synopsis: Caught among toxic masculinity, a sequin dress and a teenage crush, a teen skater, growing up in rural Texas, will have sex for the first time in the back of their dad's truck. "I am Mackenzie" is a short coming of age drama about adolescence and the feeling of not belonging; the feeling of being an alien to your home, your peers, your body, your gender. It is a story about rushing towards love, and making mistakes; a story about finding the courage to look honestly at yourself.
Country of Filming: United States
Down To The Wire | In Zona Cesarini (2018)
Directed by: Simona Cocozza
Synopsis: Sitting at the same table are a conservative, working-class father, a loving mother who is a little too devoted to her husband, a grown-up man who is still trapped in playing the role of the good son, and an unexpected guest of impeccable manners. Something that has always divided them, yet has been kept under wraps for decades, is about to emerge. Will they finish lunch and get to their dessert in one piece, or will this family's harmony be irreparably damaged at the first meatball?
By playing with important national traditions like the passion for football and the regularity of Sunday lunch, "In Zona Cesarini" portrays, with ironic realism, four characters immersed in the type of everyday family life so common to all of us, made up of precarious balancing acts and tough but necessary confrontations,
Bon appetit, and have a good Sunday!
Country of Filming: Italy
Until The Morning (2019)
Directed by: Itay Akirav
Synopsis: Until recently considered the prodigy of Israeli poetry, she was surprised to be rejected after publishing a book on the experience of rape. Now in Berlin, Poet Hila Lahav is searching for the home she's left in memories and words.
Country of Origin: Israel
Country of Filming: Germany
Directed by: Jegwang Yeon
Synopsis: Reonghee and I are undocumented aliens. Yesterday, Reonghee died while running away from the Immigrant Office Agents. The company we worked for is only concerned about covering up the mess. I'm going to find Reonghee, whose body is hidden somewhere by the company; I will give her the funeral that she deserves.
Country of Filming: Korea
Friday 14th of February - Day 2
Catalonia, Spain – 15'
Fundació Catalunya Voluntària
This film shares the story of four boys with similar characteristics. Moroccan, young and
migrated in dangerous ways to find a better future. What difficulties did they face? What
motivated them to put their lives at risk? And especially and more importantly, what is
their life like here? This documentary tries to explain the difference between who these
boys are, and how society perceives them.
Italy – 13'
This film is about the oppression and discrimination that people received just because
of their skin color and language differences; It is about how these experiences didn't let
them down. Instead they tried to make a change in the community where they live,
where they feel at home! Because home is not where you sleep but where you stand.
Romania – 10'
A.R.T Fusion
Τhe perspective of three women on gender and ethnicity.
Thessaloniki, Greece – 20'
Thessaloniki Pride
The stories of three young people, living in Thessaloniki, Greece and the intersection of
their identities.
Directed by: Siobhán Smith
Synopsis: Optimistic Harry attends an interview which will decide if he can carry on receiving benefits that enable to him to live a sustainable life. The tough, unforgiving interview forces him to retreat to his imagination, a softer world, full of wool and crochet.
Stitch is an animated short film which highlights the need for change in the way we treat the sick and disabled in the UK.
Trailer: positively-different.net
Country of Filming: –
Unbecoming (2019)
Directed by: Navid Mashayekhi
Synopsis: We all try to be something, to become someone. "Unbecoming" chronicles the life of Logan, as he fights to "unbecome" everything he's been until now, that wasn't really him in the first place, as we follow his story from early childhood, to a traumatic adolescence, and beyond.
Country of Origin: Canada
Country of Filming: Canada
Directed by: Jonay García
Synopsis: Laura is a sexual assistant for people with functional diversity. Her boyfriend, Marco, is desperate to find work to change the situation. Perhaps the only thing all we need is a little affection to feel alive.
Country of Origin: Spain
Country of Filming: Spain
Soccer Boys (2018)
Directed by: Carlos Guilherme Vogel
Synopsis: In Bolsonaro's Brazil, a fascist government, Beescats Soccer Boys players, the first gay soccer team in Rio de Janeiro, prepare for a championship while discussing important issues regarding homosexuality in sport and homophobia in contemporary Brazilian society.
Directed by: Linn Björklund
Synopsis: Ready, set, action! And we mean action, both figuratively and literally. In our documentary we follow three kick-ass women involved in Uganda's most exciting action film studio – Wakaliwood. We will follow one lady in particular, who is doing her very first action film. This is a documentary about finding your path in life. It's about refusing to adapt to the role that is given to you and to have the courage to do what you love.
Country of Origin: Sweden
Country of Filming: Uganda
In The Glass House (2019)
Directed by: Anna Zhukovets
Synopsis: What does your inner world look like? What rooms do you flee to when the outside world is unbearable? How does this world smell? Does it smell like traces of human scent? How do you connect your inner world with the outer world? A documentary not only about those who ask themselves these questions every day. A film not only about autism spectrum disorder or Asperger's syndrome, but about all of us. Every human being has autistic traits. Everyone has their inner world, their perception, their glass house.
Abot Kamay (Within Arm's Reach) (2019)
Directed by: Mark Garcia
Synopsis: In a pursuit of having a better life, Jess Lacebal – a guy born without both hands, labors out his day-to-day living by doing different money making hustles in the streets of Manila.
Despite his disability, Jess compensates his struggles by having a positive outlook and being the joker of the bunch, making him quite a popular personality in his town.
As he touches on the sad face of reality, Jess reflects on things that he couldn't do and questions fate why this condition happened to him.
Country of Origin: Bahrain
Country of Filming: Philippines
Language: Tagalog
The Voice Over (2018)
Directed by: Claudia Cortés Espejo, Lora D'Addazio, Mathilde Remy
Synopsis: Bobby has a problem: he hears voices in his head… and they seem to narrate everything he does.
Aleksia (2018)
Directed by: Loris Di Pasquale
Synopsis: Aleksia is a turbulent teenager of Russian origin. She has grown up with her mother and her little brother in the suburbs of Marghera. After confessing to her friend Angela that she is pregnant, she is pushed to steal a tablet to get money for abortion. With the theft, things turn bad and Aleksia is arrested by the police.
Language:Italian, Russian
Directed by: Justine Léaux
Synopsis: The interrogation of a lifetime.
Portraits Of My Mother (2019)
Directed by: Tavo Ruiz
Synopsis: This is a documentary about my mother and the moment that changed her life. Through her narration, my mother confesses to me what she remembers from the moment she was raped as a child. By painfully recalling this traumatic event, she reflects on the sexual abuse of children and the scars that these events leave in a person's life.
Country of Filming: Mexico
Joc (2018)
Directed by: Andreea Valean
Synopsis: Dani, a 12 year old boy living in the outskirts of Bucharest, toils in the busy stop-light traffic selling cold water to support his family. He attempts to pay off all debts by betting all his money in a game organized by children with cardboard boxes on the streetcar tracks.
Country of Origin: Romania
Country of Filming: Romania
Language: Romanian
Directed by: Nasrin Mohammadpour
Synopsis: As defined by UNICEF: child marriage is a truly global problem that exists across countries, cultures, religions and ethnicities.
Over 650 million people have married at an early age resulting in various harmful situations; including dangerous pregnancies, HIV/AIDS, domestic violence and so on.
The country of Afghanistan in south Asia has the highest rates of child marriages.
Directed by: Thais Drassinower
Synopsis: An unnerving encounter with her estranged father at a night club while on a weekend back home in Lima is enough to remind Lía (19) that there are unhealed wounds. She will be forced to understand that the only person who can take care of her now is herself.
Directed by: Palesa Mashao
Synopsis: A woman reminisce about her traumatic experience as a young girl.
Country of Filming: South Africa
Language: SeSotho
Directed by: Nándor Lörincz, Bálint Nagy
Synopsis: Budapest, 7th district, general clearance. The one-cut film starts with a simple argument between two strangers for a parking spot. The fight brings a dramatic change in every character's life.
Country of Filming: Hungary
Language: Hungarian
Saturday 15th of February - Day 3
Turkey, 14'
EPEKA
The stories of children refugees arriving to the city of Sinop. Turkey.
Bulgaria – 20'
Free Youth Centre – Vidin
This film shows the life of the people in the Roma community in Vidin, Bulgaria; it is about those roma people who have achieved personal success. Against negative stereotypes that exist in many countries, this film shows that not everyone is like the others.
Germany, 3'
Institute for Roma and Minorities
Sometimes the integration process can start from something as simple as playing football all together.
Greece – 10'
A film about the struggles, intersections and societal pressures of the identity of a mother. Can you go on being anything else, when you become a mother?
UK, 8'
Sirius Training
This film depicts a story of a woman living in parallel worlds. She belongs to her past as much as she does to her present. Her memories in Syria continue to shadow her as she pursues a new life in the UK.
Love, Lacuna is a semi-autobiographical short film which follows the daily routines of women of colour and non-binary people of colour in the chaotic city of London. Through various streams of consciousness we see the innermost thoughts of those who are usually marginalised. The film – like the literary magazine, Lacuna – is an assertion of identity. Rather than ask for space, the Lacuna actors and writers show how space can be claimed. They show that their identities have always been here and are here to stay.
Hungary, 15'
Az emberség erejével Alapítvány
Double-check: to make certain of something is correct or safe usually by examining it again (Cambridge Dictionary).
In our first movie we introduce Gergő to you. He is a Hungarian disabled young person from Pécs, who definitely has a fruitful life. You can see him having a direct conversation with us and you can get an insight into the backstage part of his life. We show you how much extra effort he puts into maintaining his simple existence.If you consider it a general success story, you should probably double-check the Hungarian circumstances and opportunities provided for disabled people…
A movie that aims to show us a single individual's way into activism and community organizing. A journey that shows us not only the available choices of a disabled person in Hungary, but also the systematic oppression they face as a group. Discrimination is not a phenomenon coming from one way, it can appear on many grounds. From kindergarten to university and the world of hungarian civil organizations, it is an educational yet personal showing of the life of Zóra Molnár.
Directed by: Gaspar Aguirre, Román Sovrano
Synopsis: A young teenager is going through a hard phase because of their self-image and the external pressure of how they should be.
Why Oh Why Can't I Touch the Sky (2019)
Directed by: Ava Shacklady
Synopsis: Cora the starfish wonders why she isn't a star in the sky. See her crazy attempts to try and touch the sky… will she get up there?
Just Like Our Lives (2019)
Directed by: East Riding Children in Care Council
Synopsis: A short animation made by children and young people in care which explores their experience of education.
Genre: Animation, Visual Arts
The School Bus (2019)
Directed by: Ramazan Kılıç
Synopsis: Nebahat, a teacher in her 20s, has just been appointed to a rural village school in Anatolia. She realizes that her students are struggling to arrive at school, hitchhiking tractors, using whatever means they can find. She asks the Ministry of Education for a shuttle, but without a driver, the vehicle is useless. She decides to be the bus driver for her students, but there is one small problem!
Country of Origin: Turkey
Country of Filming: Turkey
Cleats (2019)
Directed by: Abdullah Şahin
Synopsis: Ilyas and Ahmet are two close friends. Emir, a Syrian refugee completes the gang. Ilyas wants to make the tryouts for a local football team and saves money to buy new cleats. Emir shares his dream. After seeing his father pay off the debts of Emir's family to the grocery store, Ilyas gives his new cleats as a gift to Emir in order to join to the tryouts.
Manuel (2019)
Directed by: Javier Robles Álvarez
Synopsis: Manuel lives far from his family, immersed in a routine from which he can´t escape.
Directed by: Arun Fulara
Synopsis: When the middle-aged Kamble makes his weekly visit to the neighbourhood barber shop, it's not just for a shave. He can't wait to be touched by Jaan, the new barber-boy he has a crush on. It's the highlight of his otherwise dull existence as a married man leading a dual life in a society that abhors homosexuality.
Country of Filming: India
Uonted! (2018)
Directed by: Daniele Bonarini
Synopsis: Arezzo, these days. There is turmoil in the "Casa del Sorriso", a social cooperative for the disabled: the participants have been given the opportunity to independently choose the destination for their next trip. Titian, however, does not want to know about democratic votes: he wants to go at all costs to the amusement park "Cinecittà World" to visit the Old West! Will he make it? And what will he invent if he finds that the attraction is very different from how he imagined it?
Directed by: Niko Radas
Synopsis: Mister Otmar's way of living is not aligned with the society he lives in. He's been brought before court as being deemed as dangerous for the collective thinking and sentenced to a psychiatric treatment with the aim of returning him to socially acceptable frameworks. However, the prescribed therapy confronts with unexpected resistance.
Country of Origin: Croatia
Country of Filming: Croatia
Language: Croatian
Directed by: Eileen O'Meara
Synopsis: You know the nagging thoughts that start with "did I leave the coffee on?" and turn in to "am I pregnant with a devil-baby?" This hand-drawn animation explores anxiety, obsession, and one woman's slippery hold on reality.
Gold Leaf | Bladgoud (2018)
Directed by: Vincent Tilanus
Synopsis: Owen, a twenty-something couch surfer, is forced to stay at his sister's home for a few days. His growing deceptions begin to tarnish the image that he is presenting to others. Driven by a growing despair, Owen tries to do everything possible to keep up his appearance and conceal his truth at all costs.
Country of Origin: The Netherlands
Country of Filming: The Netherlands
Suicide Candidates (2019)
Directed by: Hamza Atifi
Synopsis: In this unique futurescape, the marginalised and impoverished are targeted by government-sponsored suicide initiatives that encourage sacrifice for the greater good. Whether the true horror lies in the acceptance of such horror or the impact it has on those involved, this weave of dark humour and technical brilliance is an original insight into the thin border between utopia and dystopia.
Country of Origin: Morocco
Country of Filming: Morocco
Directed by: Bruno Fraga Braz
Synopsis: An old woman spends her last days apart from the world, taking care of her sister. Steeped in silence, she dreams about music and everything she left behind. "Still life" is a film about the invisibility and solitude of the ones that the city has forgotten. Based on a true story.
Country of Origin: Portugal
Country of Filming: Portugal
Language: (No Dialogue)
Fireflies (2018)
Directed by: Amelia Nanni
Synopsis: An afternoon, two children, two worlds meet.
Country of Filming: Belgium
Directed by: Nikola Duravcevic
Synopsis: Alone in New York, Somali rideshare driver Abdi begins his nightshift with the news of a tragedy back home. The faces in the backseat change as he wrestles, unable to connect, with whether the unthinkable can be true—until a vision provides the clarity he seeks. Poetic and lyrical, BROOKLYN PARK is a modern-day immigrant tale that explores alienation, grief, and transcendence.
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PDSFF2020 Programme
Nikos Papakostas
Margaret K. Chomatianou
Melina Kalfanti
Boyka Boneva
Alexandros Vakoulas
Boróka Bálint
Antigoni Karnesioti
Alex Papathanasopoulos
Antonis Megalogiannis
Elisabeth Fischer
Enri Hysenbelli
Ifigeneia Beli
Giorgos Tsivakis
Ioanna Micha
Kornilia Chalkidi
Evgenia Tsori
Fenia Kaptsiki
Hara Papadatou
Jenny Krithara
Angelos Georgakis
Nefeli Tsakanika
Jury Committee
Maria Paradeisi
Maria Paradeisi is associate professor of History and Theory of Film, in the Department of Communication, Media and Culture, of Panteion University, Athens. She studied Law, Political Science and Cinema (Aristotle University of Thessalonica, Paris X and Paris VIII) and she obtained her Doctorate Degree in Political Sociology, in 1984 (the title of her dissertation is "The Representation of Women in Hollywood cinema). She worked for Greek radio, television and cinema from 1985 to 1989 and directed films for Greek television.
She is the author of the book Cinematic Narration and Delinquency in the Greek Cinema (1994-2004), Athens, Greece, 2006, Typothito Press, 2013. She published a large number of papers on Greek cinema and women's cinema in Greek and foreign journals and books. Her most recent publication is the collective volume, Maria Paradeisi, Aphrodite Nikolaidou (eds), From the early to the Contemporary Greek Cinema. Questions of Methodology, Theory, History. Gutenberg 2017.
Jacqueline Lentzou
Jaqueline (Athens, 1989), graduate of London Film School (2013), is a screenwriter and director. Her work revolves around non-traditional family structures, dream construction, love and the lack of it.
Her shorts have competed and been awarded on an international scale (ALEPOU, Locarno 2016, HIWA, Berlin 2017, HECTOR MALO: THE LAST DAY OF THE YEAR, Cannes 2018).
Retrospectives of her work have taken place in Vienna, Montreal, Naimen.
Jaqueline just finished shooting her first feature film 'SELINI, 66 QUESTIONS'.
Alin Tasciyan
Alin Tasciyan was born in 1969 in Istanbul. She graduated from the University of Istanbul with a BA in journalism and public relations in 1991. She began working for the Milliyet Art Review and Milliyet daily newspaper the same year. During the 16-year period in this media group she has been a correspondent, film critic and the editor of the Art Review. Meanwhile she made various cinema programs for the cultural channel of the Turkish Radio and Television TRT 2 including the Magic of Cinema which screened almost 500 classic films for 10 years. She programmed and presented the Thematic Films Ribbon for the news channel 24 between 2009 – 2012. She worked as a critic and a columnist for the Star daily newspaper 2008 – 2014. She is currently a film critic for the channel of culture & art TRT2 and writing for the culture & art website sanatatak.com.
Tasciyan has been an advisor and programmer for many film festivals including Istanbul IFF and Antlaya IFF in Turkey. She is currently an advisor for Adana International Film Festival, Flying Broom Women's Film Festival in Ankara and she is the head programmer for International Filmmor Women's Film Festival. She has served in many national and international film festival juries. She is a member of the European Film Academy.
She had been the vice president and president of FIPRESCI, International Federation of Film Critics between 2009-2017. She is currently the Deputy Secretary of FIPRESCI.
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Q: SQL - Does not have a PK Key ERROR Got an Excel file that contains nearly 10k rows.  I transferred it with a Codeplex Guide and created a new DB with a table that contains all data.
 When I use:
SELECT *
  FROM RenewDatabase

It compiles and its soft clouds everywhere. When I add a ADO EF to my project, just for taking out all objects to a simple console application. I get the errorMessage:

The table/view 'DBO' does not have a primary key defined and no valid primary key could be inferred. This table/view has been excluded. To use the entity, you will need to review your schema, add the correct keys, and uncomment it.

Well, I have tried a lot of different ways to configure this.  Now I have a table with a primary key that is the ProductID.  It is located as a PK in the "Keys" directory...
Trying to refresh, reconnect and all, but nothing changes. I still have the problem that the map over  my DB aint showing. Neither of my properties or columns is in the Visual Studios Data Model Designer.

A: DBO is usually the default database schema, not a table. Maybe your context has gotten confused somewhere?
Assuming this is a database-first approach (i.e. you have created an EDMX with the WYSIWYG editor), I would recommend you delete all your entities and re-import them. The database-first update wizard does not refresh renamed / re-defined relationships or columns (though it will add new ones), and it can be a bit confusing to sort them out manually, especially if you're not familiar with how DBMS's work.

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eWEEK CASE STUDY: Otis Elevator is creating smarter buildings by using Internet of Things technology to monitor the health of its people-moving equipment to enable predictive maintenance and boost customer satisfaction.
In the area of "smart" buildings and cities, internet of things applications are starting to appear that accentuate convenience and customer satisfaction rather than new revenue streams.
Otis Elevator, for example, is looking to make sure passengers in its elevators get a smooth ride while giving building owners more insight into their infrastructure and making maintenance workers' jobs easier.
Over the rest of this year, Otis Elevator is rolling out to early adopters in the U.S. and China a new IoT system, Otis ONE, which is an enhanced service that gives customers real time data and transparency to elevator operations.
With Otis ONE, building managers can monitor elevators via the web or phone apps, but ONE is really more for Otis maintenance engineers, who can spot, diagnose and fix a problem before anyone in the building notices.
"Our customers are asking for three things—predictive [maintenance], proactive communication, and transparency," said Christopher Smith, Vice President, Service Innovation for Otis Elevator, in an interview with eWEEK.
"Whether it's uptime or down time, they want less disruption to the building," he said. "Customers know they will be running better and will be moving their people more efficiently. What building owners really care about is a service call that shuts down an elevator and causes disruption to their building."
Otis is building on decades of experience installing and maintaining its elevators. The company maintains more than 2 million elevators—more than 300,000 of which are already tied to its Remote Elevator Monitoring (REM) system, Smith said. With REM, maintenance engineers could "dial in" to an elevator to get information, but it was not a real-time system.
Within the ONE system, which is part of Otis' Signature Service package, sensors akin to accelerometers on an iPhone are installed on an elevator along with an edge gateway that connects to partner Microsoft and its Azure Cloud. The data collected goes into a dashboard accessible to Otis engineers and building managers.
The system is part of the evolution toward modernizing product monitoring technology. In recent years Otis has developed a series of mobile apps to put into the hands of maintenance crews—about half of Otis' 68,000 employees work in maintenance—that enable them to share data about problems and their solutions.
One such app, called Tune, enables engineers to enter any elevator, connected or not, and get a quick look at ride diagnostics by placing the iPhone on the floor of the cab. Speed and vibration data can provide insight into the health of an elevator's equipment.
Most maintenance issues involve elevator doors, Smith said, as dust, dirt and constant use can cause doors to malfunction and render the elevator unusable. The issue presented a good opportunity to apply predictive analytics to get a head start on failures.
Time will tell how accurate the predictive models can be as customers are still testing them out. But what is clear is that with more data comes more visibility into the system and more information about the health of the building, which gets back to the convenience factor driving this use case.
Further out, Otis believes that smart elevators can go beyond smart buildings to be a more integral part of the city they are in. "The elevator can have a role as the spine of a building, as a key ecosystem component of a building," Smith said.


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Reviewed by Lena Jean Ganley
BOOK BASICS
Author: David Nicholls
Publisher & Pages: Hodder & Stoughton, 435 pages
Blurb: You can live your whole life not realising what you are looking for is right in front of you. 15th Juy 1988. Emma and Dexter meet on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows?
Highlight: An easy to read novel with many humorous anecdotes.
Caution: Clichéd and obvious, it is very hard to drag yourself past page 203.
The Rock Star's Daughter
Reviewed by Ashleigh
Author: Caitlyn Duffy
Publisher & Pages: Lovestruck Literary, 318 pages
Audience: Young Adult
Blurb: At the age of 15, Taylor Beauforte has only met her father twice in person. After all, he is the lead singer of a world-famous rock band, constantly on the cover of music magazines and giving interviews on MTV. He pays for Taylor to attend the Treadwell Academy, a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts, and provides her mother with monthly checks to cover her basic needs, but has never made much of an effort to play an active part in Taylor's life. Taylor's mom Dawn is the only family she has ever really known, and because of Dawn's hard-partying Hollywood lifestyle, studious Taylor is happiest on the other side of the country in Massachusetts with her nose buried in a book.
When Taylor's mom unexpectedly dies the summer before Taylor starts her junior year, she receives a crash course in fame. She has no choice but to join her father and his new family on their summer concert tour before she has even had a chance to mourn the loss of her mother. Life as the daughter of a rock star seems like it would be enviable, but Taylor can't figure her dad out. He seems like a supportive authority figure (even if he's kind of a fashion tragedy), but she is collecting a growing pile of evidence that he's a liar and a cheat. Her stepmother, Jill, can't seem to decide if she wants to treat Taylor like a girlfriend or a nuisance. Having had no time to grieve and say goodbye to her childhood before being thrust into the limelight, Taylor is suddenly finding herself in situations she could have never imagined before this summer.
With no one else to turn to, Taylor falls head over heels in love with Jake, the teenage son of one of the band's touring groupies. Taylor has growing concerns about Jake's background and the suspicious relationship between his mom and her own father, but is desperate for something real in her life onto which she can build a future. When Jake offers Taylor an opportunity to join him on a whirlwind adventure and leave her problems with her father far behind, Taylor has to decide – should she carve out her own way in the world, or try to repair the relationship she has with her only living parent?
Over the course of the summer with the band, Taylor learns the depths of her own strength, the difficulty of overcoming loss, and that the definition of family means much more than shared bloodlines.
Highlight: This book is a great read for girls 15+
Caution: There are some more adult themes.
Highlight: Adults can enjoy this book too!
Pandu the Dabbawalla and other simple short stories
Reviewed by Ivy
Author: Kersie Khambatta
Publisher & Pages: Kersie Khambatta; 1st Edition, 189 pages
Blurb: Pandu the Dabbawalla and other simple short stories.
Includes: Pandu the Dabbawalla; Catch the bull by the horn; Seat 13; Justice; Deflated IV drip; The white farmer; The loser; Ferrari Spider; Oh so wild a region; King postie; The bartender; Cooking an egg; Do cars have teeth?; The mobile phone and me; Cannabis and worse; Foxie; Stick 'em up!; Culture shock; Silverbacks; Bushfire; The rip and the orca; White river; Flashing police lights missing.
Highlight: Very simple style of writing.
Caution: The simplicity takes away the liveliness and dramatic imagery.
Highlight: Each story has either, irony, humour, an unlucky circumstance, or a twist.
Caution: A few short stories are harder to understand and grasp than others.
Author: Louise Bagshawe
Publisher & Pages: Orion Books, 480 pages
Blurb: Three women in search of a dream – but one of them with a nightmare in her heart.
Screenwriter Megan Silver is a waitress in an L.A. burger joint, and her life is going nowhere fast. But she has an idea worth a million dollars – if only she can get someone to read her script . . .
Supermodel Roxana Felix is the richest, bitchiest catwalk queen of them all. But it's not enough; she wants to be a movie star and she'll let nothing stand in her way . . .
Studio President Eleanor Marshall is the most powerful woman in Hollywood, yet the romantic inside her longs for love – and a baby. But right now she desperately needs a smash hit to save her job . . .
Highlight: An entertaining story about three independent women.
Caution: Adult themes (aka many sex scenes).
Highlight: Great for women who need empowerment.
So Much For That
Author: Lionel Shriver
Publisher & Pages: Fourth Estate (HarperCollins), 529 pages
Blurb: Shep Knacker has long saved for 'the Afterlife', an idyllic retreat in the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Exasperated that his wife, Glynis, has concocted endless excuses why it's never the right time to go, Shep finally announces he's leaving for a Tanzanian island, with or without her. Yet Glynis has some news of her own: she's deathly ill. Shep numbly puts his dream aside, while his nest egg is steadily devastated by staggering bills that their health insurance only partially covers. Astonishingly, illness not only strains their marriage but saves it.
Read time: Couldn't finish it.
Caution: Writing dragged on and on and on and on and on and on...
Caution: Far too much 'purple prose'.
Caution: The author really went into depth with each subject.
Caution: This was a snooze-fest.
Story of a Girl
Author: Sara Zarr
Publisher & Pages: Little, Brown and Company (Hachette Book Group), 192 pages
Blurb: I was thirteen when my dad caught me with Tommy Webber in the back of Tommy's Buick, parked next to the old Chart House down in Montara at eleven o'clock on a Tuesday night. Tommy was seventeen and the supposed friend of my brother, Darren.
I didn't love him.
I'm not sure I even liked him.
In a moment, Deanna Lambert's teenage life is changed forever. Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and the stifling role of "school slut," Deanna longs to escape a life defined by her past. With subtle grace, complicated wisdom, and striking emotion, Story of a Girl reminds us of our human capacity for resilience, epiphany, and redemption.
Highlight: Deanna is the perfect example of how resilient humans can be.
Caution: Sometimes the story felt a bit flat.
Highlight: I could feel what Deanna was feeling.
Caution: Sometimes it seems like this book was meant for studying in high school, not reading for enjoyment.
Fifteen and Screaming
Author: Fleur Beale
Publisher & Pages: HarperCollins, 110 pages
Blurb: Mum was sick, Jude was crazy and Gina was nuts. Life was one huge, great bundle of laughs.
Lily has a crushing load of problems to cope with for someone who is fifteen, and then her best friend, Jude, turns away from her for a nerd called Kev, the world's biggest user.
Her mother and young sister, Fish-face Gina, both need a heap of looking after and life becomes one long, hard drag. The bright lights seem so far away.
But there are a few light spots with other friends, and help comes from surprising quarters. Will Gina be taken away to a foster home, or will the gutsy Lily win through?
Highlight: Lily is an awesome example of a strong female character.
Caution: There are some adult themes in this book.
Highlight: The character development is fantastic.
Author: Erica Kennedy
Publisher & Pages: Arrow Books (Random House), 506 pages
Blurb: She's found fame and fortune, but could she lose herself?
In the world of hip-hop Lamont Jackson is a major player. He's CEO of Triple Large Entertainment and he's won his considerable reputation by signing some of the most successful and controversial young rappers in the business. But now he needs to find himself an R'n'B crossover artist to prove to his paymasters that he should succeed his mentor, Irv Greene, as head of Augusta Music.
He thinks he's found her in Marie-Jean Castiglione. Stunningly beautiful, with a voice to match, Lamont intends to mould his discovery into the perfect ghetto-fabulous superstar. But before long Mimi, as she's to be known, is seduced by the clothes, the fame and the sophisticated lifestyle she could only dream of as a naïve young girl growing up in Toledo. Then, as her career gathers momentum, she finds herself losing control of her life.
Highlight: The main character cast features mostly African-American characters.
Caution: There is frequent use of cuss/swear words.
Highlight: The quality of writing is very high and easy-to-read.
Caution: The (greedy) male main character is extremely unlikable, as is his snobby mother.
Bonkers
Author: Michelle Holman
Blurb: What would happen if an Angel decided to play Devil's Advocate?
After a head-on collision between a glamorous sports car and a serviceable but very plain little car, a kind-hearted angel does a swap in Heaven's waiting room.
A short, feisty rugby-loving schoolteacher gets a second chance and finds herself in hospital in the body of a tall, glamorous, philandering American wife. She has a wealthy, drop-dead gorgeous husband who looks as if he's just stepped out of a romance novel – but for some reason he can't stand the sight of her.
She thinks she's gone crazy, and if she tells anyone they'll know she has … and lock her up. They'll think she's bonkers. And she can't run away and hide: she's got a broken leg.
Highlight: It's certainly a unique plot.
Caution: The character's voices felt sort of flat at some points (but only in relation to the situations they were in – so I guess this isn't really a Caution at all.)
Highlight: Fully developed characters.
Author: Rebecca Chance
Publisher & Pages: Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster), 453 pages
Blurb: Stunning good looks, a gorgeous fiancé, a limitless trust fund: London's leading It Girl, Lola Fitzgerald, leads a charmed life, a pampered princess whose rich father funds her every whim.
Evie Lopez is just as beautiful, but she's had to work her own way up life's greasy pole – literally. Now she's hooked herself and indulgent sugar daddy, Evie has abandoned her pole-dancing career, swapping New York's seedy strip bars for a luxury Manhattan penthouse.
But Lola and Evie are on a collision course with their nemesis. When Lola's father falls into a coma, her ruthless stepmother Carin seizes control of the purse strings – and cuts off her spoiled stepdaughter without a penny. Then Carin evicts Evie, her husband's mistress, from her fabulous love-nest and adds insult to injury by stealing her diamonds.
It's riches to rags overnight. Although they loathe one another on sight, Lola and Evie must team up if they are to defeat their common enemy: Carin, the Ice Queen. Let the battle commence.
Highlight: Evie was a real badass character.
Caution: Lola was a spoiled princess and very unlikable.
Highlight: It was great to see two people from vastly different backgrounds work together for justice.
Caution: I did get a bit bored of Lola and her life. I wanted more Evie.
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Time for another Friday Book Blogger Hop, hosted by Jennifer at Crazy For Books.
"What book are you most looking forward to seeing published in 2011? Why are you anticipating that book?"
It's really difficult to narrow it down to just one book, but if I had to choose between all the new releases, I believe I'd have to go with Ghost Story by Jim Butcher. The story arc of the Dresden Files took a very radical turn and left us all with a big cliffhanging mystery. Hopefully, Butcher will resolve this in Ghost Story.
I've meant to read Jim Butcher's books for quite some time. Have heard really good things about them.
Hi, thanks for the visit to e-Volving Books.
I've read about 8 of the Jim Butcher Dresden books, but not the last couple. Perhaps its time to revisit?
@Ladystorm - The books are great - just ignore the fact that they have very little to do with the tv episodes, and you'll be fine.
@Kay - Butcher has written some great stuff - give it a try!
@Deepali - I loved the Codex Alera stuff as well. I'd love to see Butcher take on an sf novel someday.
I chose one of China Mieville's books for my answer this week.


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Jimmy Carr (Personal Life, Career)
James Anthony Patrick "Jimmy" Carr was born on 15 September 1972. He is a British-Irish stand-up comedian and humourist, known for his dark humour. He is also a writer, actor and presenter of radio and television. Stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr is best known from he began to appear in a number of Channel 4 television shows, most notably as the host of the panel show 8 out of 10 Cats. Comedian's girlfriend is Karoline Copping, a commissioning editor for Five, whom he has been with since 2001.
Stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr has both British and Irish citizenship given the fact that his parents were from Limerick: Patrick James "Jim" and Nora Mary. Comedian's parents married in 1970 they separated in 1994, but never divorced. Jimmy Carr has an older brother, Colin, and a younger brother, Patrick.
Future stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr attended Burnham Grammar School, Buckinghamshire and Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe. He then gained a place at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in Political Sciences. In the late 1990s, stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr worked as a marketing executive for Shell.
On 7 September 2001 his nother died of pancreatitis in St Thomas' Hospital, London, aged 57. Soon after, his father married Natasha in 2003.
In March 2004, comedian Jimmy Carr's father, a self-made millionaire, was arrested by the after Carr and his brother Colin accused him of harassment. Later, the stand-up comedian's father was acquitted of all charges and awarded costs by the Court and Police as well as written appologies.
Stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr revealed that he had been a Christian until his mid-twenties, and remained a virgin until the age of 26 due to his faith. He conffesed this things during an appearance on BBC's Would I Lie to You? (Series 1, Episode 3). Things changed when the comedian became aware of the writings of Richard Dawkins and renounced his religion, becoming an atheist.
Stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr currently lives in North London with his girlfriend, Karoline Copping, a commissioning editor for Five, whom he has been with since 2001.
Jimmy Carr stared his career in television in 1999, during the time when he was working at JC Productions with his father. Carr made his first television pilot / short film, a mockumentary called The Colour of Funny.
The stand-up comedian continued with television work, hosting a number of shows like Channel 4's game shows Distraction and Your Face or Mine?. He has also presented the 100s series of programmes for Channel 4: 100 Worst Pop Records, 100 Worst Britons, 100 Greatest Cartoon Characters, 100 People Who Look Most Like Jimmy Carr (a spoof) and 100 Scary Moments. Carr has also presented a series of Commercial Breakdown.
From 2004 to 2006, Jimmy Carr hosted a United States version of Distraction for Comedy Central. He was also nominated for the 2006 Rose d'Or award for Best Game Show Host. The comedian presents the Big Fat Quiz of the Year on Channel 4 each December since 2004 to 2010. He also currently hosts the quiz show 8 out of 10 Cats.
Comedian Jimmy Carr has done radio as well. He is a regular guest and interviewer on Loose Ends (BBC Radio 4) and The Fred MacAulay Show (BBC Radio Scotland). In January 2005, Carr hosted 'It's Been a Terrible Year' — a comedy review of 2004, on BBC Radio 2. Up until July 2006, he had a Sunday morning radio show on XFM, with comedian Iain Morris.
The comedian is also a regular guest on The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 and his voice can be heard in Lloyds TSB adverts. Jimmy Carr appeared in 2 episodes of the radio series of Flight Of The Conchords in 2005 and he was a guest on the Christian O' Connell breakfast show at Absolute Radio on 20 November 2008. On 22 January 2009, the stand-up comedian covered Zane Lowe's evening show on BBC Radio 1 between 7 and 9pm.
Jimmy Carr started his serious stand-up comedy career in 2003 when he sold out an entire month's performances of his Edinburgh Festival show Charm Offensive by the second day of the festival. Same year, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.
In 2004 he performed sold out stand-up comedy shows at Dublin's Vicar Street, Leicester's Comedy Festival, Glasgow Festival, Kilkenny Cat Laughs and the Galway Festival along with appearances at The Bloomsbury Theatre where he filmed his first live DVD. Well known by now, the stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr toured the country with his show, A Public Display of Affection, starting on 9 April 2005 at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury. He also appeared at the EICC during the Edinburgh Festival in August 2005 with his Off The Telly show. In late November, he released his second DVD "Jimmy Carr: Stand Up".
In August 2006, Jimmy Carr embarqued on a new tour, Gag Reflex, for which he won the 2006 British Comedy Award for "Best Live Stand up". He also performed at the 2006 Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, as well as making a return visit to the Newbury Comedy Festival.
Stand-up comedian Jimmy Carr commenced a new national tour in autumn 2007 named Repeat Offender, which began at the Edinburgh Festival that year. He released his third DVD, Jimmy Carr: Comedian in November 2007.
Jimmy Carr also made a stand-up comedy show on Second Life on 3 February 2007 at 7pm, at Adam Street Bar and Members Club in central London. With this show, in March 2007, Carr obtained the world record for being the first comedian in cyberspace, entering the Guinness Book of World Records.
In Autumn 2008, Carr began touring his new show, entitled Joke Technician. Another tour entitled Rapier Wit opened on 20 August 2009 with 9 shows at the Edinburgh Festival before touring the country. The stand-up comedy DVD Jimmy Carr: Telling Jokes was released on the 2 November 2009. In July 2009, Carr revealed that he is currently touring with Las Vegas band The Killers.
Comedian Jimmy Carr's sixth Live DVD, Jimmy Carr: Making People Laugh, was released on 8 November 2010. Carr's 2010/11 tour, entitled Laughter Therapy, was announced on 8 April 2010. The tour started with a run at the Edinburgh Festival before touring the country.
Jimmy Carr is also a writer. His writing credits including Bo' Selecta! (C4), Meet Ricky Gervais (C4) and material for Lily Savage and Frank Skinner.
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Отто I (*Otto I von Brandenburg, бл. 1125/1128 — 8 липня 1184) — 2-й маркграф Бранденбургу у 1170—1184 роках.

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Походив з династії Асканіїв. Старший син Альбрехта I Ведмідя, маркграфа Бранденбургу, і Софії фон Вінценбург. Народився між 1125 та 1128 роками. Замолоду долучився до військових походів проти слов'ян. Починаючи з 1144 року (відповідно до знайдених грамот і хронік) Оттон правил Бранденбургом разом зі своїм батьком Альбрехтом I. У 1157 році вони отримали титул маркграфа.

У 1148 Оттон одружився з донькою польського князя Болеслава III. Дата і місце укладення шлюбу невідомі. Рішення про шлюб на підтримку П'ястів було укладено в ході хрестового походу проти ведів на зустрічі Оттона і знаті 6 січня 1148 року зі участю архієпископа магдебурзького Фрідриха I Веттіна.

Після смерті батька у 1170 році стає одноосібним володарем Бранденбургу. З 1172 року на постійній основі починає використовувати титул маркграфа Бранденбурга. Втім з самого початку стикнувся з протистоянням слов'янським племен. За роки правління Оттонові I вдалося стабілізувати ситуацію на своїх землях за рахунок їх інтенсивного заселення німецькими колоністами та шляхтою. Після смерті Юдіт у 1175 Оттон одружився вдруге в 1176 році на доньці Флоріса III, графа Голландії. У 1177 Оттон отримав звання ерцканцлера Священної Римської імперії.

В ході війни 1178—1180 років з Генріхом Левом Вельфом, герцогом Баварії та Саксонії, Оттон I підтримав імператора Фрідриха I Барборосу. Натомість союзник Вельфа — Казимир I, князя Західної Поморянії, вдерся до Бранденбургу, але був розбитий Оттоном I неподалік від міста Деммін. Завдяки цій перемозі маркграф заволодів значними територіями на схід від річки Толлензе поблизу Нойбранденбурга — Альтмарк, область племені гаволян, Цаухе.

У 1180 році Оттон I заснував в Цаухі перший монастир на бранденбурзькій землі — абатство Ленін. Цістерціанскій монастир став домашнім монастирем і усипальницею Асканієм і потім Гогенцоллернів. Перші ченці з монастиря Зіттіхенбах з'явилися в 1183 році. Монастир Ленін стрімко перетворився в одне з найбагатших абатств і зміцнив становище Асканієм завдяки своєму значному економічному становищу і місіонерській діяльності, що проводилася ченцями серед місцевого слов'янського населення.

Оттон I помер в 1184 році і був похований в заснованому ним монастирі Ленін. Владу успадкував старший син Отто II.

Родина
1. Дружина — Юдіт, донька Болеслава III, верховного князя Польщі.

Діти:
 Отто (1149—1205), маркграф у 1184—1205 роках
 Генріх (1150—1192), граф Гарделеген

2. Дружина — Ада, донька Флоріса III, графа Голландії.

Діти:
 Альбрехт (1176—1220), маркграф у 1205—1220 роках

Джерела
 Jasiński K., Rodowód pierwszych Piastów, wyd. 2, Poznań 2004, ISBN 83-7063-409-5, s. 258.
 Lutz Partenheimer: Albrecht der Bär. 2. Auflage. Böhlau Verlag, Köln 2003, ISBN 3-412-16302-3

Маркграфи Бранденбургу
Асканії


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Early last month I was invited away to chase big Snaps in the beautiful Doubtless Bay by Steve from Swordfish Marine, Steve looks after our Penn international reels – servicing and repairing.
Steve and I enjoy our stray lining and it took awhile for the fish to really came on the bite but over the 3 days, Day1 & Day3 produced some magnificent fish on light gear. Each morning we were on the water at first light catching Mac's on the way out of the harbour.
Filling up the tank we raced off on our adventure to track down some big reds, putting down our strayline gear once the fish came on the bite we put these noodle like rods fully to the test. What a great trip it turned out to be and it was amazing to see what these light micro jig sets stood up to with the best fish well over 10 kilo's.
This little movie is to show you not only the fun we had on this light gear but how great these little sets performed.


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About 1/2 hour before cooking the steak, set steak on counter to bring to room temperature. Preheat a large cast iron skillet over medium heat. Lightly brush the steak all over with oil and season generously with salt and pepper. Raise the heat to high, add the steak and cook, turning once, until well browned. It should take about 7 minutes for the first side, and 4 minutes on the second side, for medium-rare. Hold the steak with tongs and sear the edges. (An instant-read thermometer inserted perpendicularly into the steak registers 125 degrees F for medium rare.) Transfer the steak to cutting board and cover loosely with foil. Let rest for 5 minutes. Cut the tenderloin and strip from the bone, and slice against the grain. Transfer to a serving platter and serve au natural, with mustard, compound butter, or horseradish sauce.


Learn to Live provides online self-help programs to address psychological problems such as depression, social anxiety, stress, anxiety and worry. Learn to Live is part of an exciting movement within behavioral health, providing lower cost but highly effective methods of web-based healthcare treatment. The programs are modeled on over a decade of clinical research that demonstrates that internet-delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ("iCBT") is as effective as face-to-face therapy.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Learn to Live — a Minnesota online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy company — has raised over $1 million led by Minnesota's largest health plan, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross). Blue Cross contributed a significant share to the raise, with additional funds coming from TreeHouse Health, Matchstick Ventures and several angel investors, including Daren Cotter, CEO of InboxDollars.
The financing will be used to fund an expansion of Learn to Live's technology platform, extend their market reach, and further their mission of reaching people suffering from social anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions with their revolutionary, low-cost and highly effective self-help programs.
Learn to Live and Blue Cross participate in TreeHouse Health, an innovation center designed to invest in emerging companies and facilitate innovation between large and emerging players in the industry.
Learn to Live was launched in 2013 by CEO Dale Cook and Co-Founder and Chief Psychology Officer Dr. Russ Morfitt. After proving their model directly with consumers, the company began selling directly to employers, universities and healthcare providers in 2015. The company's unique delivery, combined with leading edge engagement and accountability tools, has produced engagement rates six times the industry average for their clients, compared to the industry average of 1% - 5% engagement.
"Blue Cross believes the work of the Learn to Live team closely aligns with our own mission of making a healthy difference in people's lives," said John Uribe, vice president of business development at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota. "The self-directed nature of Learn to Live's technology platform offers a new approach for helping people address depression, social anxiety and like conditions. Blue Cross is committed to investing in emerging business models that expand choice while advancing shared health goals."
"Our team is honored to have such highly respected investors behind us," says CEO Dale Cook. "The financing and the experience they bring in healthcare, technology and consumer-focused offerings will enable us to expand our services to members and to continue to improve the technology we use to deliver these services."
Learn to Live provides online self-help programs to address psychological problems such as depression, social anxiety, stress, anxiety and worry. Learn to Live is part of an exciting movement within behavioral health, providing lower cost but highly effective methods of web-based healthcare treatment. The programs are modeled on over a decade of clinical research that demonstrates that internet-delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ("iCBT") is as effective as face-to-face therapy. In addition to providing programs directly to consumers, Learn to Live partners with large self-insured employers and health care providers who can benefit from the low-cost delivery model, their behavior tracking capabilities, data analytics, and powerful program outcomes. Find out more online at https://www.learntolive.com or follow Learn to Live on Twitter (@LearntoLiveCBT) and Facebook.
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Aleksandr Gawriłowicz Iwanow (ros. Александр Гаврилович Ивано́в, ur. 1898, zm. 1984) – radziecki reżyser i scenarzysta filmowy. Ludowy Artysta ZSRR (1964). Pochowany na Cmentarzu Serafimowskim.

Wybrana filmografia

Reżyser
 1932: Trzech żołnierzy
 1946: Synowie
 1953: Gwiazda
 1960: Zorany ugór

Scenarzysta
 1932: Trzech żołnierzy

Nagrody i odznaczenia
 Ludowy Artysta ZSRR (1964)
 Ludowy Artysta RFSRR (15.06.1960)
 Zasłużony Działacz Sztuk Łotewskiej SRR (1947)
 Order Lenina (1939)

Bibliografia
 Aleksandr Iwanow w bazie IMDb
 Aleksandr Iwanow w bazie kino-teatr.ru

Ludowi Artyści RFSRR
Ludowi Artyści ZSRR
Odznaczeni Orderem Lenina
Pochowani na Cmentarzu Serafimowskim
Radzieccy reżyserzy filmowi
Radzieccy scenarzyści
Urodzeni w 1898
Zasłużeni Działacze Sztuk Łotewskiej SRR
Zmarli w 1984


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Isildurs Bane - Colors Not Found In Nature
I'm proud to announce the release of my collaboration with Swedish chamber-rock band Isildurs Bane (IB). We made an album called "Colours Not Found In Nature".
IB were originally formed as a Progressive/Experimental rock band in 1976 and, over the years have developed and expanded into a full-blown mini-orchestra.
I was introduced to IB by my chum, Richard Barbieri and have been added to their luminous list of collaborators (David Torn, Tony Levin, David Rhodes, Richard Barbieri, Pat Mastelotto ...to name but a few) before being invited last year to co-write their album.
I wrote the words and sang all the lead vocals, while the IB "orchestra" have composed and played the music. I recorded my voice in hotel rooms around the world during the Marillion tours of last year.
I do hope you enjoy the songs.
Available now - CLICK HERE
Friends, Romans
A new Live DVD from Steve Hogarth. DVD 1 is the movie of the solo concert and "one-night-only" collaboration with Italian band Ranestrane ("Strange Frog") in Rome on September 12, 2015.
Along with DVD 1 is a bonus DVD of h's Christmas show in the Museum of History, Stockholm in 2015.
Two very different evenings but each with their own atmospheres in two of the world's most precious cities.
A substantial slice of my life, Volume 1 & 2 of "The Invisible Man" the h Diaries have been packaged together into one er.. substantial paperback, and this is now available to order at Miwk Publishing
Also Vol 1 also available on Kindle:
www.amazon.co.uk/Steve-Hogarth-Invisible-Diaries-1991-1997-ebook/
Vol 2 also now available on Kindle:
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A collaboration with Richard Barbieri "Arc Light" is released on December 4 2013.
Mr H and Mr B are proud to announce the release of a 5-track mini-album entitled "Arc Light". A "little brother" to their album "Not The Weapon But The Hand."
The album features 4 new tracks and a new version of "Intergalactic" featuring guitars from Aziz Ibrahim, who also plays on two of the new tracks.
Track list below:
Arc Light
Intergalactic
Daddy Does Work
Oil (featuring Dalbir Singh on Tabla and Aziz on guitar)
This will be a limited edition, available in a numbered "Jewel case" CD format with an 8 page booklet featuring beautiful photography from Luigi Colosanti and H lyrics.
Ancient history..
Before joining Marillion, Mr. h was keyboard player and co-vocalist for the Europeans from 1981 to 1984, releasing the albums Vocabulary, Europeans Live, and Recurring Dreams.
After limited success in Europe and a radio hit (The Animal Song) in the US with the Europeans, Steve left the band with guitarist Colin Woore to record under the name How We Live, releasing one album, Dry Land (the title track of which was subsequently covered by Marillion on Holidays in Eden) in 1987.
In 1997 Steve recorded his first solo album outside Marillion. Ice Cream Genius was released under the band name "h" in Europe, and later in the US simply as "Steve Hogarth."
After touring with the all-star "h Band" from 2000-2003 h released a double live album "Live Spirit Live Body".
The start of 2006 saw Steve embark on his "h Natural" project - a series of intimate shows featuring just h and a piano playing songs from his entire career, and songs by other artists who have influenced him over the years.
2007 saw the release of the aptly titled h Natural DVD - a complete film of one of the shows, recorded in Sheffield. In 2008 he released a second h Natural DVD "Naked In The Chapel" of the live show at London's Union Chapel and 2010 saw the release of a best-of-live CD "Natural Selection".
Downloads of h Natural live shows are available HERE also.
More recent history..
2012 and '13 has seen h collaborating with Richard Barbieri releasing critically-acclaimed album and mini album "Not The Weapon But The Hand" and "Arc Light".
With 2014 came the release of Mr h's first book "The Invisible Man" Diaries in two volumes - Volume 1 (1991-1997) released in June and Volume 2 (1998-2014) released in November.
December 2016 saw the release of "Friends, Romans" - a DVD of the collaboration between h and Italian virtuoso-rockers "RanestRane" performed in Rome Sept 12 2015. An audio CD is to follow in January 2017.
A new complete single volume of "The Invisible Man" Diaries was released. During the summer of 2016 (whilst finishing the Marillion album F E A R) h collaborated with Swedish chamber-rock band Isildurs Bane, writing all lyrics and singing lead vocals on forthcoming album "Colours Not Found In Nature" (available March 2017).
On 26 November 2016 he performed this entire work with Isildurs Bane in Halmstad, Sweden. A third collaboration project with Richard Barbieri is ongoing.
In January 2017 h was voted Best Lead Vocalist and Man of the Year in the readers poll by Prog magazine. Individual members of Marillion each achieved #1 status in their respective fields.
He has 3 children and currently lives near Silverstone ...where they race the cars.
Further h Natural shows can be found in the Marillion "Tour" section.
SOLO RELEASES
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But The Hand''
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The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) says it cannot afford to clean up all the toxic mess left over from the grounding of a bulk coal carrier on the reef in 2010.
Chinese ship Shen Neng One ran aground on Douglas Shoal off the central Queensland coast on April 3, 2010, after veering more than 10 kilometres outside the shipping lane.
The grounding damaged one of the ship's fuel tanks, resulting in a four-kilometre-long slick of heavy fuel oil and leaving toxic antifouling paint embedded in the sea floor.
It also carved a three-kilometre-long, 400,000-square-metre scar in and around Douglas Shoal, about 120 kilometres east of Rockhanmpton, which was the largest known damage to the Great Barrier Reef caused by a ship.
The Federal Government is pursuing legal action against the owner, Shenzhen Energy Company.
GBRMPA chief executive officer Russell Reichelt said the clean-up needed to happen "urgently".
"It's our view and was briefed to the Minister — the Minister's view — [this] should be done as soon as we possibly can," Dr Reichelt told Senate Estimates.
"It's preventing the natural recovery process in the more than 50 hectares of sea floor."
Dr Reichelt said GBRMPA did not have the budget to do the clean-up itself, so legal action was required.
"[It's about] resourcing," he said.
"It would be a substantial cost beyond the capacity of our budget ... it would exceed $50 million.
"It remains our best avenue to achieve those funds.
"It is an issue for the authority and we've repeatedly made it clear through the courts to the company."
Shen Neng One caused unprecedented damage and in 2012, the captain of the ship was fined $25,000 and the second-in-charge was sentenced to three months' jail.


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Kanye West "Doesn't Care" About Criticism Of Yeezy Season 2, Source Claims: "He Ignores The Haters"
By Elinor Cosgrave in Fashion / Beauty on 20 September 2015
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Kanye West, the rapper turned designer turned presidential hopeful, appears to have accepted criticism comes with his high-profile role. As such, he isn't remotely interested in what his haters have to say about his recently premiered Yeezy season 2 collection.
Kanye West "doesn't care" about the criticism his Yeezy season two fashion line faces. The second season of West's designs premiered at New York Fashion Week on Wednesday (16th September) and it certainly provoked mixed reactions on social media. According to a source, West isn't upset by those who only had negative things to say about his designs.
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Ice-T And Wife Coco Confirm They Are Expecting Their First Child Together
By Stephanie Chase in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 27 July 2015
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The couple have been married since 2001 and will soon be hosting their own talk show.
Rapper and actor Ice-T is set to become a father again after his wife of 14 years Coco announced she was pregnant with the couple's first child. The happy news was confirmed on Monday morning by Coco via Twitter, with the model sharing a pic of her baby bump.
Ice-T and Coco are epxecting their first child together.
'Remember I told u this yr I had LOTS of surprises 4 u? 1st was my new lingerie line, then the release of new Talkshow! NOW FOR THE BIG NEWS,' 36 year old Coco wrote on Twitter. 'I'm pregnant!!! Yah!! Ice & I are so excited! I announced it Friday on our new talkshow which airs Aug 3rd,' she added, along with a photo of her tiny baby bump from the set of the couple's talk show.
Continue reading: Ice-T And Wife Coco Confirm They Are Expecting Their First Child Together
Video - Ice-T Brings Along Wife Coco To 2015 NBC Upfront Presentation - Part 2
Rap legend Ice T, who stars in 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit', was spotted arriving on the red carpet at the 2015 NBC Upfront Presentation held at Radio City Music Hall in New York alongside his curvaceous wife Coco Austin.
Continue: Video - Ice-T Brings Along Wife Coco To 2015 NBC Upfront Presentation - Part 2
Straight Outta Compton - Redband Trailer
In the 1980s, the streets of Compton were brutal. Five friends were brought together by their raw talent for translating the struggles they faced into powerful, poetic music. As the group came together, adopting the name N.W.A., their world steadily began to change around them, becoming a far darker place. And with the release of one particularly controversial song in the wake of a horrific tragedy, N.W.A. were thrown into the public eye, and became the forerunners of a revolution. But looking back, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella still saw themselves as just a group of friends, straight outta Compton.
Continue: Straight Outta Compton - Redband Trailer
Ice-T's Grandson Arrested For Accidentally Killing Roommate
By Nick Hill in Music / Festivals on 28 June 2014
The rapper's 19 year-old grandson has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after accidentally shooting his roommate in their Georgia apartment.
Ice-T's grandson is looking at a lengthy prison sentence.
Elyjah Marrow was arrested for accidentally killing his roommate on Tuesday (June 24th).
The 19 year-old fatally shot Daryus Johnson in their Marietta, Ga., apartment while he was playing around with the gun's trigger, police told the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Continue reading: Ice-T's Grandson Arrested For Accidentally Killing Roommate
Pictures: Coco Austin Bares Pretty Much Everything For Peepshow Debut, Las Vegas
By Michael West in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 18 December 2012
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Crikey! Coco Austin certainly got into the swing of things during her debut performance in Peepshow on Monday night (December 17, 2012). Unleashing her killer curves at Sin City's Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino, the 33-year-old glamour model and wife of Ice-T flaunted her figure in nude lingerie...and not much else.
Wowzers! Coco Austin Struts Her Stuff In Peepshow, Las Vegas
Austin plays the lead role of Bo Peep in the huge production - a role previously filled by Playboy model Holly Madison. Speaking to Vegas.com, Coco said, "It's an exhilarating feeling to be practically naked, but you know I was just hoping that people would like my body. I've been working out really hard lately." Though she clearly fits the Peepshow mould, Austin admits she never envisaged herself starring in her own Vegas show, adding, "I never even thought about it. First of all, I don't have the body. I'm short, and I'm kind of stocky. So I would think, that will never happen. I always discussed it in dance class when I was nine years old. You know dancers, when you're that age, you're always trying to get to Vegas, that's the level you want to get to, but even though I talked about it I never thought I was really going to be there someday."
Continue reading: Pictures: Coco Austin Bares Pretty Much Everything For Peepshow Debut, Las Vegas
Ice-T Disrespected: Twitter Rage About Wife's Photos With Another Man
By Lorna Greville in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 11 December 2012
Ice-T took to Twitter to express his distinct distaste regarding recent instagram photos of his wife seen posing with another guy. Ice considers it disrespectful and is letting everyone know about it.
The photos were of Coco having a bit of a cuddle with rapper AP.9 in Las Vegas where she's currently performing in a burlesque show.
Although both the photos and his tweets have since been deleted, Yahoo managed to catch them in time. They report that he said: "Don't get it twisted, I'm not happy about this sh*t." Adding, "Most of [the pics are] disrespectful and in bad taste. She's made me look and feel like sh*t." Ice defended his Twitter rage: "I say this on Twitter because there's no way to avoid the obvious misconduct of a married couple."
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Ice-T Disrespected - Coco Apologizes To Her Husband For The Public Shame
By Hayley Avron in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 11 December 2012
Ice T was disrespected by his own wife, Coco, when pictures of her canoodling with another rapper (AP.9, from Mob Figaz) were obtained by MediaTakeOut.
It's bad enough finding out your wife has been somewhat less than faithful to you, but finding out because there are pictures of your wife humiliating you, all over the internet? Well, that's got to be pretty galling, huh?
Coco was quick to apologise, according to E! Online (though, presumably, only after the pictures went online). As with all the best celebrity relationship feuds, this one was played out on Twitter, where Ice T sought refuge in order that he may defend his honour. He has since deleted the pictures that he took, after posting messages such as "Don't get it twisted, I'm not happy about this s—t… Most of [the pics are] disrespectful and in bad taste. She's made me look and feel like s--t." And Coco responded by saying "Ice is right,the pics I took with this man were in poor taste & I disrespected my husband however the pics were the only thing that happened… I feel so sad,the bottom line is I love Ice & I can understand why he's upset theres no excuse for my actions.I'm so sorry baby & to everyone."
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Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap Trailer
Hip hop has always been more of a culture than just a genre of music. It represents a huge portion of the marginalised world of America and how they managed to create something from nothing; how their lifestyle and previously buried literary talents created a culture that has inspired millions. The frontman of rap/ metal band Body Count Ice-T takes his audience on the road to visit the founding fathers, the major superstars and the rising stars of the rap genre including Afrika Bambaataa, Eminem, Nas, Mos Def, Kanye West, Chuck D, Krs-One, Snoop Dogg, Run-DMC, Dr. Dre and Ice Cube and discover the skill and feeling behind what has made them international music heroes. One of the frequent interviewees is Grandmaster Caz who we are taken to visit on several occasions as he writes a new set of rhymes called 'The Art Of Rap'.
Directed by Ice-T with help from Andy Baybutt, 'Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap' is a feature length music documentary delving into what goes into making the seminal hip hop records that have dominated music since the late '70s. It came about when producer Paul Toogood asked Ice-T the simplest of question which the star had never before been asked: How did he write seminal tracks such as '6 In The Mornin' and 'Colors'?
Featuring: Common, Ice Cube, Chuck D, Mos Def, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Nas, Kanye West, Darryl McDaniels, KRS-One, Big Daddy Kane
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3000 Miles To Graceland Review
By Christopher Null
Those of you hoping to hear about a clever casino heist picture in the style of Ocean's Eleven are in for a sore disappointment. From this movie's opening frames, featuring dueling CGI-animated scorpions, it's obvious that we're in for some punk-ass director's idea of a snazzy action film.
3000 Miles to Graceland is not the realization of that dream.
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Ice-T Tweets
Tue Jan 31 15:05:56 +0000 2023 ICE T
ICE COLD FACT 💎 'Those looking and waiting on the EASY route… Usually end up stuck in place.' https://t.co/Eq3g6Hztqm
'Never feel bad or embarrassed about your Past... It's your past, and you CAN'T change that.. It's all about who yo… https://t.co/okepmdbZCx
Mon Jan 30 18:08:49 +0000 2023 ICE T
'Stay away from people who Criticize more than they Compliment people and things… It's a Fd up character trait.' 💎
Filming episode #16 of 22 for season 24 SVU. @WolfEnt https://t.co/FRR7thiSij
Sun Jan 29 21:33:12 +0000 2023 ICE T
ICE COLD FACT 💎 https://t.co/GKzXWMgY9Y
It is a contrast... But its all Acting.. My next role might be a Slave Tom like Samuel Jackson... Or a Snitch.... Y… https://t.co/pmqgbyYZ1x
Its kinda like doing a Horror movie... Then writing a book for the kids.... It's ART. https://t.co/MZsbIijXCV
This @BodyCountBand Tattoo is about as HARD as it gets.. 💥💥💥 https://t.co/4zb2K4ET9u
💎 https://t.co/XCk0Vu4jHQ
Fri Jan 27 16:15:42 +0000 2023 ICE T
I've never been or liked 'Fake it till you Make it' type MFs.. They always stay Fake. 💥
People are really full of shit.... Watch till the end.. smh https://t.co/CzcCk147H9
BONUS ICE COLD FACT: 'Life is DIFFICULT.... Anyone who says otherwise is a Fn Liar.' 💥
ICE COLD FACT 💎 'Simply do your best to be the Best 'YOU' you can possibly be.. You may Win. You may Lose. But at l… https://t.co/mfl14gWQZQ
LifeTime 'Real Nigga' Award! That would be an extreme Honor!!! https://t.co/nnwVgwLM3G
Lol... The exact opposite.. #SVU https://t.co/3mPiY3Zz4d
Thu Jan 26 23:29:54 +0000 2023 ICE T
All NEW SVU tonight! Part 3 of the Bronx Trilogy.... Do not miss this.. 💥💥💥💥💥💥 @WolfEnt 💎 https://t.co/BpVPldpjlS
Just finished my all ICE SVU episode with @CabralRichy It's CRAZY. I'll keep you posted on the air date.. #SVU Seas… https://t.co/laFklHBKlw
Wed Jan 25 20:04:20 +0000 2023 ICE T
Don't get caught out there by the Fly clothes and Smooth demeanor… I can turn that P into a G real fast.. 💎 #Izim https://t.co/pGEwsT61KZ
REV RUN keepin it Real.. In 83 I was that guy.. Trying my best to get into the HipHop scene.. Every show, every pla… https://t.co/dct07EVLrR
ICE COLD FACT 💎 https://t.co/nvyUXHKuIV
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The video was made with Wizibel, however I notice it has some problems with the compression of the red text, at least on my screen (5k Retina iMac). It looks alright in smaller sizes. Wizibel is great in that it makes it easy to load a song and auto-generate a music video for uploading to my YouTube channel, which is turning more and more important these days. It is what the kids are using, they say.