A Second Glimpse (Quickies)
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Levanon spent a year and a half interviewing the leaders of the right-wing settler movement in the occupied territories of the West Bank. But that was a marginal activity for us. Architecture to Zucchini This documentary explores one of these pockets. There are plenty of statistics here — 2.
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These figures provide important background, but the real story here is that of pioneering businesspeople who are making their business work in tandem with sustainability principles. Typical is the Norm Thompson company, a high-end clothier that would seem unlikely to be involved with progressive policies. The net result is a highly successful company with a strong customer base and a respected workforce. Bill and Karla Chambers of Stahlbush Farms have discovered uses for what are traditionally waste products that end up in the landfill — for example, redeploying thousands of tons of waste from processing corn as cattle feed.
David Yudkin of Hot Lipps Pizza is shown negotiating with a local vegetable provider, holding up eggplants that come from just eight miles away. This relationship helps sustain a local farm, employ workers paid a decent wage, and of course, ultimately provide a better, fresher product.
The connections cultivated in this new business model also help build community, in the process undermining the hegemony of monolithic agribusiness and returning power to the local level. The other interviewees include farmers, nonprofits, lumber companies, businesses focusing on education and government, and others. Breakfast on Pluto Neil Jordan, Neil Jordan, like everyone with taste, loves his trannies. The director who mythologized genderbender Jaye Davidson in The Crying Game and made Tom Cruise look like a drag queen in Interview with the Vampire introduces another major tranny diva in Breakfast on Pluto.
Despite the weird title why not Snacks on Saturn , or Brunch on Uranus? The opening scene shows him strutting down a street in haute couture being propositioned and then insulted by confused construction workers. And Kitten needs one.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works. In addition to editing three volumes of Quickies and co-editing two volumes of Queer Refreshingly unapologetic and inviting glimpses into personal fantasies.
He has no idea who his parents are, a problem that eventually pushes him out of smalltown Irish life and on to London. Once there, his dramatic personality — a mix of fearlessness and coquettish masochism — gets full play. He meets a lonely magician played by Jordan regular Stephen Rea and becomes his assistant and quasi-girlfriend.
Jojo Thatcher and Connor Montgomery were instantly attracted to each other and after one crazy night they woke to realize they had gotten married in Las Vegas! Membership My account Gift voucher Corporate Help center. When they woke the next day, they were both surprised and JoJo ran away. Suriname, in South America, also has an intriguing queer community in its well-integrated older dyke couples. It is a huge trap indeed, and most all organized religions long ago fell into it. They got the car-crash-into-the-hot-dog stand in one take, and the car screeched to a halt on its mark. Please consider turning it on!
In the background is his sympathetic friend Father Bernard Liam Neeson , a priest who hears his confessions and even follows him to London to help Kitten find himself. Typical of the film, he charms his tormentors, one of whom thoughtfully gets him a job as a whore. Brigitte Lin aka Lin Ching-Hsia. Born November 3, in Taiwan, she was discovered by a Taipei movie producer at 18 and made her first film, Outside the Window , in This was one of dozens of romantic melodramas and family comedies that made her a familiar face to Asian moviegoers, even if the films themselves — with titles like Love Love Love and Cloud of Romance — were lightweight efforts, cinema versions of romance novels.
This shift began with a string of collaborations with Taiwanese director Chu Yin Ping. But a year later came Peking Opera Blues. Her image as the revolutionary Tsao Wan, mesmerizing in her crisp military uniform, is one of the most indelible in her career. Lin hit her stride in the early s playing a series of supernatural characters in the second and third installment in the Swordsman and Bride with White Hair series.
Here she effortlessly deploys unforgettable weaponry — sprays of needles, binding threads, lethal bolts of cloth — and has some intensely erotic quasi-lesbian scenes, particularly with Joey Wong. Dragon Inn and The Bride with the White Hair series , sealed her reputation as the preeminent woman warrior of modern HK cinema.
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The work of Deborah Stratman is distinguished by its variety — few filmmakers attach their names to both distinctly experimental and documentary work — and its fascinating formalism. Kings of the Sky , 68 mins. The celebrity is the charismatic Adil Dawaz, a Guinness World Record winner for his extraordinary tightrope walking, a vocation that stretches back through his family over years.
But along the way, other dramas unfold, taking the film beyond individual biography to confront larger issues. In one vivid scene, police harass a crowd of ethnic Uyghurs with large tree branches.
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Woven throughout the journey are the small details that comprise a rich culture. In Order Not to Be Here , 33 mins. This sequence sets the stage for a cutting exploration of the dark side of the modern American mindset. Even the interiors have the sterile feel of a Kubrick set — a perfectly positioned armchair in a room that looks like a window display, a cookbook opened to a recipe in a pristine, empty kitchen. Stratman punctuates these images of a world without humanity or human beings with creepy electronic music and ambient sounds of ominously barking dogs and wailing police sirens.
From Hetty to Nancy , 45 mins. This landscape film counterpoints majestic shots of rugged mountains, raging oceans, and other natural imagery with two texts: The women emerge as hilariously overcivilized as they laugh at and complain about their schoolgirl charges and the conditions of travel. Drawing Out the Demons David Vaisbord, Canadian painter Attila, aka Robert Lukacs, gained notoriety in the s for a stunning series of epic-scale homoerotic portraits of skinheads, working-class butches, and other representatives of the much-vaunted hypermasculine queer ideal.
His work recast traditional subjects like the Garden of Eden as queer sex spaces with no Eve in sight. A major diva, he puts everyone through hell — lovers and ex-lovers, his art dealers, his supportive parents, moving men — demanding that the movers treat even his packing materials peanuts and bubble wrap! Drawing out the Demons superbly nails him in one of the most incisive portraits of an artist — and a queer one at that — in the genre. The Dying Gaul Craig Lucas, The script is apparently a dark love story featuring two gay men, which Jeffrey dismisses as box-office poison, proposing instead to make it a comedy with heterosexuals.
Things get exponentially more unbelievable from there. If the plot sounds contrived, it is — big time. And for a queer filmmaker whose other credits include Longtime Companion , Craig Lucas serves up one of the most stereotyped faggots this side of Jack in Will and Grace. Sarsgaard inexplicably, and annoyingly, plays Robert as an ultra-sensitive, eye-rolling queen right down to an unconvincing lisp and a fascination with flowers.
Some viewers will cringe at the sex scene in which Sarsgaard, whose alluring nipples and fuzzy butt were seen to better advantage in Kinsey , wails and screeches and freaks out to operatic excess. The Hitchcockian cat-and-mouse game between Elaine and Robert in the queer chat room is engaging despite the quasi-supernatural trappings, not unlike a message-y episode of Twilight Zone.
File this one under Guilty Pleasures. The Eternal Present Otto Buj, He apparently did everything but mop the floors. Well, he may have done that too. All this energy pays off in one of the more striking studies in urban paranoia and alienation in quite some time. As a programmer, Buj was obviously schooled in the masters, and The Eternal Present has a formalist panache and sophistication that keeps it watchable even when the seams are showing. Craig Gloster plays Tim, a grim young man who gets a job doing obituaries for a local newspaper.
He meets a sexy girl at a nightclub, and voila, a beautiful corpse. From here the film spirals into a Twilight Zone -style mind-fuck as Tim becomes increasingly unhinged, and what we see on screen may or may not be happening outside his head. Think the existential torpor of Roger Corman or Del Tenney, with a twist of Resnais and German silent expressionist film. Not just a second or two, but sometimes agonizingly long, an ingenious combination of economics how expensive can a black screen be? There are, inevitably, art-school touches Buj was a drop-out, it seems and hommages to film classics, e.
But these potentially pretentious elements in fact contribute to the otherworldly mood of this surprisingly effective debut.
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The DVD contains solid commentary by the articulate Mr. Loic Pierre Chatagny is a fetching young Swiss homo who works at a chocolate factory, day after day turning out perfect gold-wrapped squares of the tasty treat. At night he works even harder, traveling to Lausanne to pick up Internet tricks and fucking their, and his, brains out. And he takes photographs with his camera phone. Less easily remedied is the monotonous pattern of his life — chocolate and tricks, tricks and chocolate.
And his world is starting to unravel. Marie gets a boyfriend, which sends the selfish Loic into a rage. Gay Sex in the 70s Joseph Lovett, Many of those who played hardest in — and presumably would have known the most about — those days are dead. And not only from AIDS.
This scene was so wild okay, decadent that a few mad queens known today as sex addicts engaging in gymnastic blowjobs on the upper floors of abandoned buildings plunged to their doom in the Hudson River. No report if this was before, during, or after orgasm. Of course, most were in fact hit by HIV, but a few survived, and some of those few are interviewed here. Add a crooked lawyer of an angry musician who's searching for the stolen cash, and another hippie cook who's real last name is Aquarian, and what we have is a quality episode. I'll disagree with the other reviewer about the final scene between Jim and Sky, who's once again changed her name because of a new devotion to Jesus instead of her fallen guru.
It appears that Rockford felt sorry for this woman and offered to buy her coffee, and is clearly disappointed she turns him down. Jim gives us some solid human emotion during this scene, even if the scene appears slightly forced. Jane Curtin's cousin Valerie plays Sky Aquarian, a new age Krishna type who has been meditating and staying in a shelter on the beach.
The script is very typical David Chase, and that's a good thing. He always does a good job showing the motivations and reasoning of the bad guys which probably lead to his work on "The Sopranos". He also gives us some nice moments like the one where Rockford takes on a couple of goons who are following him one with the name Dijion!
Curtin is actually pretty solid as Sky. She's pretty whiny, but that's the character. Watch her scene in the trailer as she subtly plays the whole thing constantly standing a little too close to Garner--in the body bubble as it were. This episode seems to be loaded with writer- actors.
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Dennis finally gets out of the office and out of running plates to work an undercover stakeout. He demonstrates his marksmanship while Jim figures out a way to use the stakeout to his own advantage more inspired writing! While Sky actually takes a cookie from Jim's cookie jar and doesn't notice the gun! The final scene though it defines Sky's character, comes off a bit flat. She's given up her Krishna lifestyle and now changed her name to Hester and is now deeply involved in a Jesus cult with a charismatic preacher.
It just feels unsatisfying, especially after the clever ending involving the stakeout. CoastalCruiser 19 April As I go through the entire series in chronological order I really appreciate the couple of reviewers who have commented on most every episode. Most of what needs to be said gets said in those reviews, but sometimes an episode has some unique quality that I am compelled to comment on further It is actually quite educational to take a retrospective look at this episode's point of view regarding the new age spiritual movement taking place in the 60s and 70's.
I would like to politely disagree with the reviewer who stated in an otherwise strong review "I especially enjoyed the exchange because I believe the writers were fair and respectful to both sides of the debate". The episode totally made fun of the entire new age spiritual movement. Rockford cuts to shreds every statement, platitude, spiritual philosophy and belief that comes out of Sky.
As to whether the writers actually were trying to make a statement criticizing the new age movement, or simply couldn't resist using new age as the perfect grist for Rockford's always pragmatic mill, I cannot say. However, I trust writer David Chase, and regardless of what his personal points of view may be on such matters, he created a very poignant story that stands up even today. If you stay away from being offended by Chase's searing indictment of the new age movement you will be quite entertained Whatever the movement started out to be And Sky personifies the consequences of that kind of blind faith.
Do you really laugh? Do you really care? Do you really smile When you smile? It is a huge trap indeed, and most all organized religions long ago fell into it. Who would have thought the Rockford Files could be fodder for examining the meta-physical? I first saw this yesterday and found out this is the episode I saw filmed, back in fall I went for a walk one afternoon and noticed some cameras: Rockford Files was filming a scene.
But I did not watch television much in those days, so I never knew what episode the scene was in -- until yesterday. The part I saw was the car-crash and capture of the bad guys. Rockford tells the bad guys to meet him at "Navy and Lincoln," a real intersection, and there is park "Ozone Park" practically right next to that intersection, and also near Rose Ave. I think it was shot at Ozone Park. James Garner was there, and there was an incident that showed he really is a nice guy.
The hot-dog stand that the car crashes through was in the park, where google maps street view shows a sandy enclosed play area for little kids, which was not at the filming site. The car was going to speed down Dewey toward the cameras and veer off into the hot-dog stand. Dewey was all cleared and they were about to shoot the action when, on the right, just about where Bernard dead-ends into Dewey, a homeless guy rolled out from under a bush where he had been sleeping all this time, stood up right in the middle of Dewey, and mumbled "Say, wha's going on? Rather than expect somebody else to deal with this, he casually walked over to the guy, put his hand on the guy's shoulder to gently turn him around, and said, with no irritation at all, something like "hey buddy, we're shooting a scene here, could you head off over there," and aimed him down Bernard Ave.
The homeless guy sort of wobbled away in that direction, and Garner just walked back to beside the cameras. While I was there I wandered over to the hot-dog stand and noticed that it was all pre-cut into pieces, like a giant three-dimensional jig-saw puzzle. This was to ensure that pieces would fly everywhere when the car hit it. I also noticed that along the curb, where the car was going to jump the curb and hit the hog-dog stand, they had put a long triangular insert, so that the wheels of the car would have a smooth path, rather than crash hard-on into the curb, and maybe bounce off, or blow-out the tire.
They got the car-crash-into-the-hot-dog stand in one take, and the car screeched to a halt on its mark. Now it was time to shoot the bit where the guy in the hot-dog-stand costume runs over, and Rockford gets out, and they have an exchange over the top of the car while cuffing the bad-guys. Since I knew nothing about the episode, I always assumed that the hot-dog-guy had been working in the stand that got smashed, and that they had already filmed a scene where he jumps clear. Now I know he was working in a fast-food place across the street from the hot-dog stand but on the real filming site, there was no such place.
Somehow I knew that the hot-dog guy was an undercover friend of Rockford -- maybe somebody mentioned it while we were standing around. But I didn't know he was a cop, and I didn't know he was a regular character in the series.
I couldn't figure out how or why Rockford would have a friend, with a gun, disguised and operating a hot-dog stand in Venice. I assumed he was a character just in that episode, played by an actor hired just for that episode. The hot-dog-stand guy ran over to the far side of the car, Rockford Garner got out on the near side of the car, and the hot-dog guy was supposed to say a short line once Garner stood up and turned to look at him across the roof of the car. First take -- the actor blew the line. Garner gets back in the car. Something like five more times, this happens.
I felt so sorry for the hot-dog-guy actor. I was thinking, "This poor guy, his career in Hollywood is over. Word's going to get around, he's never going to be hired again. Finally the hot-dog guy got it right and they finished the scene. I had no idea, until yesterday, that the hot-dog-guy actor was actually one of the vitally-important series regular actors, Joe Santos, who has had an excellent and long career.
I must have just caught him on a bad day.