The Six Wives of Henry Lefay – Movie Review

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Nov 102010
 

“The Six Wives of Henry Lefay” is a comedy film released in 2009 and is rated PG-13.

Henry Lefay (Tim Allen) is a rich and successful businessman from Ithica, NY. He owns a chain of audio/visual discount stores and does very well at it. In the opening of the film Henry is in Cancun, Mexico getting ready to go out to sea for a para-sailing excursion. He is accompanied by another tourist named Lipshitz. As we watch, Lefay puts the jacket on and gets strapped to the parachute. The camera moves back to the beach, and we see a man fall from the sail into the sea.

Barbara “Barbie” Lefay receives a phone call telling her that her father has died and she should come to New York from California for the funeral. She thinks that it is a prank from he father but finds that it is the truth. She and her boyfriend Lloyd travel to Ithica to attend what is sure to be a circus of a funeral. As it states in the title, Henry Lefay has been married six times, though two of them were to the same woman. As they get ready to leave Barbie recalls the last time that they spoke and we are taken back one year to see the events of that time.  Read more...

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Film Review: Into Great Silence

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Oct 052010
 

An edited transcription from a public email discussion of “Into Great Silence” indicates that this film is a winner: director Philip Groening’s study of the Grande Chartreuse monastery.This is the opening email, written by Father R. and talks about the main character of the movie. Keep in mind that the film is silent, with subtitles, and that it took more than ten years for the filmmaker to receive permission to film the inner life of the monastery. Father R. writes in his message:

“Fr. Laurence Freeman…made a fascinating point, that the major character of the whole is the mysterious God, there everywhere: in the monks, in the hallways and the church, out in the fields. And the implication is that God should be the main character in our lives, in our hallways and church and fields.”

The life of a monk is one dedicated to God. “Into Great Silence” documents the events in the life of monks who live in a Carthusian monastery. The DVD I own has two disks, with the second disk containing a statement by a Italian Cardinal, (that is an added attraction and certainly worth the price of admission). There are other interesting commentaries on the second disk. Regarding the film, which is on the first disk, I found this a powerful film.

In response to Father R., I wrote in my public email:  Read more...

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Book Review a Companion to American Technology,

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Aug 142010
 

Title of the book, A Companion to American Technology, explains very briefly three points which I am to explain a little more elaborately. First of all, this book is a companion book, therefore we can’t expect many details about the issue, thus this book is a compact, all-inclusive and comprehensive one.

Second, this book has a chronological view to American technology, as it is one of the books of a series which are published by Blackwell about American history such as 19 th century America and, 20th century America. Thus in order to do this important job as well as it is possible , the editor Carroll Pursell, who is chair of history department at Case Western Reserve University ,gathers a group of historians of different fields to write about history of technology in America from the eighteenth century up until the present day .

Hence as the writers are experts in different fields ,this book is the interaction spot of technology with many aspects of American society including environment, science engineering ,government, gender, labor, culture ,art and so on . Therefore articles which are gathered in 435 pages in five parts, including twenty

two chapters ,don’t explain details but they review briefly and comprehensively history of technology and its impact on society ,art ,culture and conversely,  Read more...

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NYU Film School: A Review

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Aug 142010
 

I obtained the BFA in Film Production from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.  As someone who has also attended USC’s Film School as well as having taken classes at UCLA’s Film Program, I thought I could offer some good perspective of what I thought of each and start with the one I spent the most time at; NYU.

The Location

NYU’s film school is located in Greenwich Village on the island of Manhattan in New York City.  Going to school in such an urban location offers both positives and negatives.  On a positive note, New York City is your campus and therefore you are in the mix of all the limitless cafes, stores, famous locations, iconic neighborhoods and interesting New York personalities that the city is famous for.  On the negative side, also, New York City is your campus so you don’t have the ‘protected campus experience’ you would have at a school with a closed off dedicated campus. 

In my opinion I viewed living, taking classes and making films in NYC to be a tremendous advantage.  Where else would you get such great inspiration and material to draw from than in one of the greatest cities in the world.  The only negative would be if you wanted to get out of the city to shoot or just to get some quiet away from the hustle of the city.  It’s hard to keep a car in the city without spending a fortune but subways and trains can take you just about anywhere you need to go affordably.  Read more...

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Review of Some of the Best Films From India, at the London Film Festival

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Jul 312010
 

Review of some of the Best Films from India, at the London Film Festival

 

Best films from India were screened at the London Film Festival that promotes world films, which may not be available for screening in the cinemas across the nation. The festival is an important venue for development and promotion of films from UK and abroad. Some of the films from India are reviewed below:

‘Frozen’: Shivajee Chandrabhushan/India: ‘Frozen’ is a story told from a young girl’s perspective.

Frozen is a film that makes the audience transfixed to their seat till closing credits disappear! It is the brilliance of the black and white landscape and the directorial restrain in bringing the conflict between individuals and society. Frozen tells the story of an aging father Karma, his teenaged daughter Lasya and her ‘little brother’ Chomo and the story is told through Lasya’s eyes. The action takes place in Ladakh, Indian side of Jammu-Kashmir border, 15000 feet above sea level in freezing conditions at 30 degree below. Lasya grows up watching her father making apricot jam and selling his product at the local market place. Unfortunately, he is unable to compete with others in the trade, as they use machines to make jam. Karma is in financial ruin, having to borrow from unscrupulous moneylenders. Their simple lives are shattered by the arrival of the army that protects the frontier and sets up a camp close to their house. Karma is asked to take his children and leave his ancestral home, which brings him close to a breaking point. Amidst all this, Lasya is blossoming into a very attractive woman and a local boy Romeo gets interested in her. Karma is oblivious to his daughter growing up, till one of the moneylenders tells him that he is willing to forget the money in exchange for her! The turmoil of the financial ruin, worrying about his daughter’s safety and having to move out of his safe haven play havoc on the aging Karma. Unexpected disaster sets in and Lasya runs away to escape from it all, only to be stopped by a barbed wire…  Read more...

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