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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Senate committee that handles Supreme Court nominees said on Friday he no longer expected an imminent court vacancy, bolstering assumptions that Justice Anthony Kennedy would not retire this year.

FILE PHOTO: Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) asks a question during a Judiciary Committee hearing into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 26, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said expectations earlier this year of a vacancy on the nine-member bench had evaporated.

“Evidently that’s not going to happen,” Grassley said in a telephone interview from his home state of Iowa during the Senate’s summer break. “I don’t have any expectation we will have a vacancy as I thought there would be” earlier this year.

There had been speculation in the spring that Kennedy, a conservative justice who turned 81 last month and has served on the court since 1988, was considering retirement. Kennedy is the regular swing vote on the high court, sometimes siding with the four liberal justices in major rulings.

A court vacancy would give Republican President Donald Trump a chance to appoint a second conservative justice to the high court since taking office in January.

But court watchers expect Trump to nominate a jurist who is more likely to consistently decide cases with the conservative wing of the court, unlike Kennedy.

In the interview on Friday, Grassley noted that every year there is speculation that a justice might retire during the summer at the end of the court’s session.

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Justice Anthony Kennedy participates in taking a new family photo with his fellow justices at the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 1, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

He declined to give details on the “rumors” he had heard earlier this year about an impending vacancy. Grassley added that such talk is often stoked when there are justices in their 70s and 80s serving on the court.

Besides Kennedy, 81, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 84 and Stephen Breyer will turn 79 next week.

Rumors that Kennedy was set to retire reached a fever pitch several months ago after some of his former judicial clerks said he was considering it.

But Kennedy did not announce his retirement at a weekend reunion in June with many of the former clerks. He also did not make an announcement after the court’s rulings marking the end of its term on June 26.

His silence on the matter tamped down the rumors and led to a broad assumption that he would remain on the court, at least for the coming term, which begins in October. Kennedy, like all the other justices, was also assigned responsibility on June 27 to handle applications from a specific regional appeals court, further reducing speculation over his retirement.

Earlier this year, Trump won Senate confirmation of conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Gorsuch arrived on the high court more than a year after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, who had been a leading conservative voice. The Republican-led Senate in 2016 refused to consider then-President Barack Obama’s nomination of federal judge Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy created by Scalia’s death.

Garland would have tipped the court in a more liberal direction.

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Written on: 16/12/2010 by NDW (2 reviews written)

ATP / Bowlie 2 at Butlins Holiday camp, Minehead, Somerset

Friday 10th to Sunday 12th December 2010

The event was curated by Belle and Sebastian

3 nights of gigs and accomodation included) for £175 per person.

The festival was a blast - and not all from the past.

But the array of acts were getting a bit long in the tooth overall, and far too many seemed to be Scottish.

Most likely being due to the members of the Belle and Sebastian becoming middle aged themselves.

The bands were split over three/four adjacent venues, plus cinema, quizes, interviews.

Line-up of bands:

Abagail Grey, Belle & Sebastian, Camera Obscura, Crystal Castles, Daniel Kitson & Gavin Osborn, Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500, Dirty Projectors, Edwyn Collins, Field Music, Foals, Franz Ferdinand, Frightened Rabbit, Howlin' Rain, Isobel Campbell with Mark Lanegan, Jane Weaver, Jenny And Johnny, Julian Cope, Laetitia Sadier, Mulatu Astatke, Saint Etienne, Silver Columns, Sons And Daughters, Steve Mason, Teenage Fanclub, The 1900s, The 1990s [sic], The Go! Team, The New Pornographers, The Vaselines, The Zombies, Those Dancing Days, Trembling Bells, Vashti Bunyan, Wild Beasts, Zoey Van Goey.

First band I saw on the Friday night were Best Coast on the Centre Stage - the rather cheesy 1970s feel upstairs nightclub venue at Butlins

For those of us who saw Throwing Muses or Belly in the nineties, this was much of the same; I almost felt she was channelling Kristen Hersh or

Tanya Donelly at some points.

But Best Coast were excellent nevertheless - a wall of indie guitar noise, clever lyrics sung by a girl who could belt the tunes when required.

Her only 'mistake' was to say that she was too hot in a stripey, woollen top - this caused several shouts of "take it off then".

Next we nipped downstairs to the Pavilion to catch Teenage Fanclub.

They haven't changed since I last saw them almost 20 years ago - they were excellent then and now. Three great songwriters, even if only one

is a great singer too, make for strength in depth; if it worked the Beatles ...

One problem - if ever a band needed a name change, it is Teenage Fanclub; their only connection to teenagers nowadays would be their kids.

On returning upstairs to the Centre Stage, the Zombies appeared. Well, the two vital members of the band appeared:

Rod Argent - the only one of the original band to go on to later success, creating the raawk group Argent in the 1970s, then producing e.g.

Tanita Tikaram (filed under where did she go after her debut album "Ancient Heart" and then "The Sweet Keeper"), etc

Colin Bluntstone, the singer.

The rest of the band appearing at Bowlie were ex members of Argent and some others.

It is unfair to demand members of a band who formed in 1962 to be too wild on stage at their age, but they proceeded to sample their many great

songs including some of the legendary 1968 "Odessey & Oracle" album.

But then they played some Argent. I am glad I missed listening to most 1970s pompous progressive rock at the time (I liked Showaddywaddy), and

am even more glad that I own zero Argent tracks now.

Oddly, Colin Bluntstone's voice appeared curiously unchanged in the 45 years since "Let her go" first reached number 2 in the charts. Murmurs

were made by one fellow-Bowlie regarding the prospect of a recording of his singing being played.

Sarah Cracknell was delayed coming from a funeral in Oxford by a massive crash on the motorway - not involving the lovely songstress - so the

Saint Etienne gig began late at 8.35pm and overran to 9.20pm.

As ever, Ms Cracknell looked sensational (she is 43, looks 33, and the short sparkly dress looked better on her than it would on most of the 23

year olds present), and she enchanted the crowd - or was that just my remaining hormones rampaging?

But Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs, the pair that complete the trio in the band, had the same stage presence as ever i.e. slightly less charisma

than a disused bus stop. And that is combined.

St Etienne haven't had a hit single in the poptastic pop-parade since circa 1994 - but played all the well known songs, and were as great as

ever, a time-warp great gig.

Alone, I went to see the electro-disco of Silver Columns in the nearby Reds venue. It was like listening to Erasure on speed - if you love a

high energy and pop mix, these were your boys.

Not really my thing, but everyone else seemed to love them.

And there were slot machines right by the audience, just in case you wanted to play "penny falls" with 2p pieces in the middle of their set.

The Go! Team were great.

It showed that 2007's Proof of Youth album was not just their one great album, but they have even better and more recent tunes too.

The last act I saw of the evening was Steve Mason, once of the Beta band. I hated it. Ranting against government policies he doesn't like

(gosh, original that - perhaps someone could reanimate Woodie Guthrie and give him this advice too), insulting the audience, etc.

All I kept thinking was "Beta testing" - they love to do it in IT, but he obviously doesn't understand the concept. This numpty was meant to

have been involved in using technology in music in the 1990s, but it wasn't evident here, nor were musicianship, interest, or fun.

I did mean to see The 1990s on Saturday lunchtime, but forgot - perhaps after the night before, trying to get out of bed and in a semi-fit

state for a gig at 12.30pm in the Reds bar was too much.

It is odd going into a venue that smells of stale beer at 1.15pm on a Saturday afternoon, but that was the time Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

were on Centre Stage.

As 95% of those at the festival love Belle & Sebastian (the other 5% of us don't mind them, honest), the audience were swooning over everything

the ex-B&S cellist did.

They was excellent, I have to confess - and I hadn't even heard any of her solo work previously.

I missed Edwyn Collins at 3pm in the Centre Stage, as I went to the swimming complex.

Well, when was the last time you got to ride FOUR (yes, 4) different water slides without having to queue for ages?

When I found that his backing bands were members of Franz Ferdinand and Teenage Fanclub, I was impressed; but I still loved the swimming centre

in the camp, I don't care.

My friends said Edwyn Collins (& supporting musicians) was great, and it is good to know his recovery from the brain haemorrhage in 2005 is

going well.

I did make it in time to catch Julian Cope in the Pavilion soon after 4pm.

I have seen him thrice (why does no one use that word?) before.

Every gig, a different incarnation of St Julian arrives.

If you know what to expect i.e. the unexpected (a la Spanish Inquisition), then Mr Cope does not disappoint, but he is always (slightly) mad.

This weekend, he was in a black leather ensemble that would not be out of place in a Village-People concert.

The music was, well, Julian Cope; he defies categorisation. This time he played entirely solo, initially on keyboard, then on guitar.

At 4.45pm, I went back upstairs to the Centre Stage, to see the latter stage of Dean Wareham (of Galaxie 500).

Perhaps I was tired, perhaps I was missing the Black Hole water tunnel (very scary, pitch black with spooky noises) at the swimming pool,

perhaps it was because I had never even heard of Galaxy 500. Anyway, it seemed musically adept, but not very exiting.

Probably just me wanting to eat and sleep.

I was about to return to the chalet for kip when I remembered Cynthia "Plaster Caster" Albritton was giving a talk at 6pm in the Crazy Horse

The venue has awful 1970s fake wild west deep-brown wooden decor (toilet doors marked "squaws" and "braves"), and even has saloon door entrance

to the main room.

But this legendary lady, her term for herself is a "recovering groupie", was fantastic.

She is a legend for casting male band member's members since the 1960s.

Her presentation was endearingly amateur but totally genuine. And shocking. I cannot recall the last time I saw three indie girlies in their

early twenties shocked by the sexual frankness of a woman in her sixties.

As all my friends asked when I saw them later (none, err, 'came' with me to her show), did we did get to see and if desired (I did not) touch

the plaster casts? Those casts supplied by the Plaster Casters of Chicago were of the willies of Jimmy Hendrix & Noel Redding, plus both

breasts of Peaches.

This, I hate to type, was one of the most interesting events ("happenings, man" in hippy-speak) of the festival.

Along with most of the festival goers, I went to see Belle and Sebastian in the Pavilion at 8.15pm. They were much less twee than their

recordings, and a lot more exiting to boot.

Then I went back to our luxury chalet for a kip - I am too old for much partying.

Our accommodation was surprisingly warm in a Somerset December for somewhere single-glazed and with thin 1950s walls.

Then I proceeded to sleep - until gone 9am Sunday morning, a mere 11 hours.

Which meant I missed the "mystery band" i.e. Franz Ferdinand at 11.45pm Saturday night.

It transpired as they played the smaller Centre Stage (the bigger Pavilion downstairs has a 10pm curfew due to being a large tent rather than a

true building, so noise permeates too easily across town for Minehead residents), that many people did not get in due to restrictions in

numbers attending.

So my friends queued but got in to see FF play just one (1) song. And then they had to leave the venue as the FF gig was over.

Perhaps sleep was not so foolish.

The Amphetamines in Reds bar on Sunday at 2.30pm were a great festival band, they will never be anything more career wise.

A ska-pop band, even with a fat bald bloke singing, it was a brilliant rebirth of Bad Manners. If the male singer had announced he was the son

of Buster Bloodvessel, it would have been completely believable. A great band to have fun times listening and jumping around to.

Then I went for a walk on the beautiful Minehead beach in the winter sun, and measured the temperature of the sea. It was 5.1 degrees Celsius.

This made me glad I had swum in the pool complex the day before, and not in the briny Bristol Channel.

The Vaselines, apparently loved by Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, were in the Pavilion on Sunday at 6.15pm.

Frances McKee told so many jokes about sex between songs that I wondered if I had walked into a comedy event by mistake.

Showing my age, I was shocked to see some parents in the crowd not ushering their ten year old children from the venue during these rather

frank comments on sexual escapades. My friends commented on my prudery, but said it to me in unprude ways.

The Vaselines were excellent, but one wonders why a band would break up the week their first album was released.

Ms McKee ran a yoga class in the morning. I didn't go, but those who did seemed very chuffed to shout thanks to her during the evening gig.

Camera Obscura were good in the Pavilion on the Sunday evening, even if sounding a little too much like early B & S, for my liking anyway.

Upstairs in the Centre Stage room, Them Beatles came on stage at 10.15pm.

You would never guess this was a Beatles tribute band, as the chap posing as "Paul McCartney" was playing his bass guitar right-handed.

Whilst the band were unsurprisingly unoriginal, they were great. They played a couple of more obscure tracks - it was the first time I had

listened to "Baby's in Black" for a very long time, and now I realise what a great song it is.

Weirdly, this was the only band I saw all weekend getting demands for an encore.

My feet were killing me by this stage, so I went to the (free) ABC cinema in the holiday camp, and saw the late night screening of the

docudrama "The Runaways", the story of the eponymous 1970s girl rock-punk band.

A superb if shocking story of their rise and demise, and an excellent cinematic depiction of the story.

One cannot imagine the horror that is Simon Cowell and his dregs creating anything so fantastic yet scary as these five barely-legal age

bitches and their borderline insane manager - would you let your 15 year old daughter go on tour with a load of other girls no more than 18

years old? Again, my middle age views are all too evident these days.

Overall, a top event.

Lots of great bands (only one I disliked), good venue except for the climbing tower & high ropes courses were shut for the winter season, easy

parking, Tesco's and Morrison's supermarkets nearby to the camp ensured the Spar shops on site could not over-charge, millions of arcade

machines, ten-pin bowling, free films, DJs playing until 4am, a late bar open until 6am (a friend of mine sat drinking with one of B+S until it

shut on Sunday morning), pints were £3.50p and real ales were widely available, there is a Burger King if you like such fare (I don't, but many

seemed to), and pleasant staff, accomodation included until 10am Monday 13th December.

Did I mention they had water slides in the swimming centre?

Bad things? Well, only a few and all rather minor. The hire centre was open from 12pm-1pm each day. All Butlins sports and activities were

shut except crazy gold and the swimming centre. The Cornish Pasty place was charging a rip-off price of £2.95p, but oddly you could buy bigger

and nicer pasties four doors along the main building on site. The Butlins hot-dogs and fish-and-chips were very expensive and tasted atrocious

- so we hired a microwave for £3 per day and visited the shops instead.

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i ordered from dp and paid a fiver for next day delivery. The tracking website said i have received and signed for it but i haven't! Customer services just offered a refund. Not much use if you ordered for tomorrow. I am pregnant and its not easy to buy maternity clothes. Won't be buying from dp again!

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You’ll arrive in Bandipur by private car, as there is no public transport to the town. This is all part of the charm. You’ll immediately feel like you’ve stepped back in time – the narrow streets are cobbled and lined on both sides with traditional wooden Newari houses. You’ll stay in a welcoming hotel that mixes local touches with a colonial style. The hotel has a great atmosphere, friendly service, spectacular mountain views and tasty food to boot. It’s also centrally located, but you can quickly wander out of town to see farmers working the land with oxen and women passing by with huge baskets. In the evening, head to one of the small local restaurants in the centre, where you’ll be served a warm welcome.

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Guided hike to Ramkot

This morning, you can enjoy an al fresco breakfast. As the morning sun climbs higher, the mist slowly rises from the mountains. Next, you’ll be picked up by a local guide for a hike to the village of Ramkot. As soon as you leave Bandipur, the hills will turn a richer shade of green, with steep cliffs, rocks and tiered terraces. Walking in the fresh mountain air will give you an appetite, so you’ll find a good spot for a picnic, lie back in the grass and soak up the scenery. Crisp mountain air, birds chirping around you – this is mountain life at its very best. After lunch, you’ll hike back to Bandipur.

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After breakfast, your stay in Bandipur comes to an end. If you have time before heading to your next destination you could take a walk through Bandipur’s dusty streets to the Thani Mai Temple, perched on a hilltop with fantastic views over both the mountains and the town itself.

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Brazil is so large how do I get around?

For 2-week Brazil itineraries you will most likely need to fly to cover the large distances and there are many routes and great airfares available. However, if you are lucky enough to have the time then buses are a possibility and with a large budget private transfers also.

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As this is one of the largest festivals in the world this is best to book well in advance (at least 6 months) especially as hotels in Rio will only offer minimum stay periods of at least 4 nights with increased rates. Booking sooner will help you budget for the extra costs at this time of year.

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NEW YORK, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Global oil markets fell 3 percent to settle down for a third straight day on Monday on worries that U.S. crude stockpiles had reached new record highs, while a Saudi-Venezuela meeting to boost prices showed little progress.

Oil was also hurt by tumbling U.S. equity markets amid persistent fears about the global economic slowdown.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories and gasoline stocks, already brimming at record high levels, were forecast to have risen last week even as stockpiles of distillates likely fell, a preliminary Reuters survey showed.

The survey came after Sunday's meeting between Saudi Arabia's oil minister, Ali al-Naimi, and his Venezuelan counterpart produced no tangible signs that OPEC and non-OPEC suppliers were ready to meet to discuss the price slump in oil.

U.S. crude settled below $30 a barrel, finishing down $1.20 at $29.69. Global crude benchmark Brent settled down $1.18 at $33.88.

"Everyone's fearing new builds in crude," said Donald Morton, energy trader with Fairfield, Connecticut-based Herbert J. Sims & Co.

U.S. crude stocks likely rose by 3.9 million barrels in the week ended Feb. 5, said the Reuters survey, taken ahead of weekly inventory reports from industry group American Petroleum Institute and the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration.

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Feb 19 (Reuters) - U.S. oil and gas executives bet big on 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush - they donated more to his White House run than to all of his rivals combined, according to a Reuters review of campaign disclosures.

But that was last year.

Now Bush faces what party strategists and donors view as a make or break moment on Saturday in South Carolina's Republican primary, or early nominating contest. Polls show him trailing in the single digits. If he fails to do well, there will be pressure on him to quit, strategists say, and the oil money will be looking for a new home.

The main beneficiaries in the Republican race would likely be Ted Cruz, a U.S. Senator from Texas, and Marco Rubio, a U.S. Senator from Florida. After Bush, the two candidates received the most contributions from the oil and gas industry, according to the Reuters review.

When Bush entered the White House race last year, the petroleum sector saw him as their natural choice: he was the son and brother of former presidents and he came from a West Texas family with historically close ties to the oil industry.

"Bush is part of a family that is a friendly face to the oil industry," said Sarah Emerson, director of Energy Security Analysis Inc. in Boston.

He drew more than $2 million from the chief executive officers of companies like Exxon Mobil, Halliburton , Kinder Morgan, and Chief Oil & Gas in 2015, making up about 56 percent of all the industry's contributions to the race so far, according to the review.

The review covered contributions from 75 oil and gas companies, their employees, and their political action committees to presidential candidates' campaigns and allied Super PACs. When counting donations only to Republican candidates' campaigns, employees favored Cruz among the Republicans, with Bush in second place and Rubio in third.

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Several of Bush's biggest oil CEO donors have links to his family. Richard Kinder of Kinder Morgan, for example, campaigned for George H.W. Bush's run for the White House in 1992, and for George W. Bush's run in 2004. Halliburton's CEO, David Lesar, meanwhile, succeeded Dick Cheney after George W. Bush nominated him vice president in 2000.

"Some of those people may be thinking support can get them a place in Bush-world," said one Washington D.C.-based oil industry lobbyist, who asked not to be named. "The question is, where does that money go if Bush bleeds out?"

Bush is now running in fifth place among seven Republicans in a national Reuters/Ipsos poll. He has just 8 percent support leading into Saturday's primary, compared with front-runner Donald Trump's 40 percent. Cruz and Rubio came second and third in the poll with 17 percent and 11 percent, respectively.

Donations directly from oil companies and their political action committees or PACs have been practically nil - suggesting that millions of dollars remain on the sidelines of the race that could be deployed once the field of candidates narrows.

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This year's election is particularly important to oil and gas executives because of a steep slump in energy prices that has slashed profits and worries that another Democratic president could strengthen curbs on drilling and carbon emissions introduced by President Barack Obama.

"There is a pronounced partisan agenda on energy," said Robert McNally, founder and president of the Washington-based global energy consultancy The Rapidan Group, explaining the two parties have moved farther apart on energy policy. "There's no middle of the road anymore," he said.

As a group, oil and gas company CEOs have doled out nearly $3.2 million in support of presidential candidates so far - more than three times more than all oil company employees did in the equivalent period of the 2012 race. One million dollars of that went to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who dropped out in September.

The CEOs are not alone in giving big. Some families that made their cash in the oil industry have also been major donors, like the Wilks brothers of Texas, who have given Cruz's Super PAC $15 million.

The biggest oil company CEO donations to current candidates have come from the heads of Kinder Morgan and Chief Oil and Gas, at more than $1 million each to Bush's campaign and his allied Right To Rise USA Super PAC, according to the filings to the Federal Election Commission. Rubio, meanwhile, took some $38,000 from chief executives at Devon Energy, AGL , and Atmos. Cruz received no money from energy company CEOs.

Individual donations from oil company employees who were not CEOs appeared to favor Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton, who took in more than $110,000. Cruz was next with nearly $105,000.

(Editing by Ross Colvin)

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Directed by Benoit Jacquot

The love affair at the heart of Benoit Jacquot's The School of Flesh has to be the longest shot on the board. Pairing a woman of the world with a boy of the streets, it is fueled by sexual obsession and casual cruelty, by the same huge contrasts in temperament and experience that will inevitably destroy it. While it lasts, the affair is a fascinating high-wire act, full of daring, folly and, occasionally, great tenderness. It's at once a beautiful and a terrible thing to watch.

Dominique, played by the timeless French star Isabelle Huppert, is a sophisticated fashion executive with her career and life seemingly in order. But the moment she locks eyes with Quentin (newcomer Vincent Martinez), a self-absorbed street hustler and part-time boxer who scrapes by selling his body to the highest bidder -- male or female -- something unravels in her. Quentin's raw carnality plays havoc with Dominique's sense of reason, if not her unflappable cool. She stirs something in him, too -- not only lust, but a sense of material and spiritual possibility that he's never felt before. She's not just lover but mentor. Soon, they slip into an enthralling and dangerous symbiosis -- the ever-appraising sugar mommy and the sullen, beautiful boy-toy.

In a French movie of an earlier era (or, for that matter, an American one), the roles and genders would be reversed, of course. But director Jacquot, who distinguished himself in A Single Girl and Seventh Heaven with his insights into the feminine mystique, doesn't hesitate to explore new territory.

He's got some powerful allies along for the ride. The able veteran Jacques Fieschi (Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud) is the screenwriter here, and his source is the legendary Japanese novelist (and famous suicide) Yukio Mishima. Mishima's book is set in postwar Japan, and transplanting it to present-day Paris must have been a daunting task. But the filmmakers have retained its essence beautifully. Mishima's great subject, he once revealed in an autobiographical essay, is the tension between mind and body that he believed lay at the core of modern civilization's ills. That tension is everywhere evident in Flesh, particularly in Dominique, a woman of intellect who finds herself inexorably drawn to a young man whose only asset, only survival tool, has always been his body.

For Huppert, who in her prodigious career has portrayed everyone from the simple country heroine of The Lacemaker to the father-killer of Violette to Madame Bovary, this is another opportunity to delve deep into the mysteries of life, and she doesn't disappoint. Every gesture, from the way her Dominique holds Quentin's face in her hands to the barely concealed rage in her step, transmits character. For the simmering, mercurial Martinez, who is making his film debut, Flesh is an opportunity to learn from the best, and he's made the most of it. Defiant but vulnerable, his Quentin is a memorable manchild and an embodiment of symptoms common to the day.

What Jacquot observes most carefully here are the sacrifices, large and small, that his lovers must make to maintain a kind of equilibrium, and the little bargains and betrayals they enact trying to bridge the unbridgeable gulfs between them. Quentin may be the younger member of the couple, but both are students in The School of Flesh. Their education is less sentimental than searing, charged with friction, cloaked in doom. By the end, when the opposites that first attracted begin to repel and Dominique finds herself burning incriminating photos of the lover she will now reject, they've both been through the mill. We learn a few things, too, or have at least been reminded of things we know. For instance: Despite our best efforts, mind and body seek to be separate provinces, and wherever passion and knowingness violently collide, it's never easy to pick up the pieces.

Too little known in the United States, Benoit Jacquot, in the company of a sublimely talented pair of actors, has explored these issues with fluency and verve, transforming Yukio Mishima's old obsession into a new vision for our time.

In French with English subtitles.
Opens April 30 at the Plaza Frontenac.
-- Bill Gallo

Written and directed by James Merendino

The "SLC" in SLC Punk! stands for Salt Lake City, but it might as well stand for Some Lucky Chump. The filmmaker, James Merendino, has stated that this tale of two punk buddies trying to spread anarchy through the Utah capital in 1985 reflects his own rebellious teenage years there. Part of his strategy for calling this youth-runs-wild, semitragic farce SLC Punk! is to rouse curiosity about the Ramones' followers partying and punching out "rednecks" near the world headquarters for the Church of Latter-Day Saints. But judging from the movie, Merendino never took too long or close a look at the mainstream scene before he decided it wasn't for him.

Of course, the film slaps away mightily at the Mormons' moral hegemony. In a typical digression, our heroes journey to Wyoming to buy "real" beer, because private stores in Utah can sell it with only half the normal alcohol (and the state-owned stores that sell the real stuff are punk-unfriendly and have bad hours). But there are no Mormon characters. What the setting mostly does is provide an apt picturesque backdrop -- full of great swaths of "nothing" -- to the tear-it-down shenanigans of the blue-haired Stevo (Matthew Lillard) and the Mohawked Heroin Bob (Michael Goorjian). Heroin Bob, who somehow got his nickname because he refuses to use drugs, has a girlfriend named Trish (Annabeth Gish) who summarizes their point of view succinctly: "The police -- what an untidy group of little fascists. What do you expect in a town of God? Mormons run the state, and that is the state of things, I'm afraid." And I'm afraid that the friction between them and everyone else rarely gets more specific than that.

On its frenetic surface, the film offers a burlesque Baedeker of the mid-'80s youth scene in Squaresville, U.S.A.: Brit-inspired punks vs. Yank-inspired punks vs. Nazi punks, mods and rockers, and cowboys. What it offers at its shockingly sappy core is a familiar view of adolescent rebellion as a goofy but inevitable phase. Stevo wants to break out of the trajectory plotted for him by his Harvard Law-schooled father (Christopher McDonald, who appears in TV's Veronica's Closet), a Vietnam protest veteran who insists he hasn't "sold out" but "bought in." Heroin Bob fears that he'll grow up to be just like his paranoid, reclusive old man (and also worries that he somehow let the fearsome old coot down). As their season of protest winds down, these conflicts get resolved in the most shameless, heart-tugging way. Even punks get the blues.

When I was growing up, anyone who dressed weird or threw a tantrum was said to be "acting out" -- externalizing some psychic blip or primal urge that couldn't be expressed otherwise. Stevo and his friends aren't even acting out -- most of the time they're acting, period. Stevo is obsessed with unveiling poseurs (or, as he says, "posers"), until he finds that everyone he knows is one, including himself. But does writer/director Merendino know how shallow Stevo really is? Stevo keeps talking about "anarchy" when all he and his pals aspire to is an addled pop nihilism that finds beauty in "the end" and connection in dance-floor punch-outs.

If there were any depth in Merendino's script, his ensemble's collective performing style -- wild mood swings rendered in seriocomic mugging or ostentatious deadpan -- wouldn't find it. And if there were any resonance to their acting, Merendino's directing style would obscure it. Despite its free-form storytelling and hyperactive editing, the movie has an unsettling slickness. Stevo narrates straight to the camera, whether introducing (or reintroducing) characters or delivering a cheerfully useless little essay on the unknowable roots of punk violence. The result is as presumptuous as a standup comic pretending to be a monologuist. Stevo's punk worldview doesn't encompass a vision of America's future; this film does not engender hope for the future of American movies.

Opens April 30 at the Tivoli.
-- Michael Sragow

Directed by Jon Amiel

Sean Connery has always been a terse, minimalist actor, spitting out his lines in tight bursts of Scottish brogue. But in Entrapment, the kingly Scot goes beyond minimalism to the point where he's practically doing semaphore with his eyebrows.

As the legendary art thief Robert MacDougal, Connery isn't just reserved, he's comatose. The picture opens with MacDougal scaling a New York skyscraper in order to steal a priceless Rembrandt. Or at least we think it's MacDougal. At any rate, the heist catches the attention of a foxy agent with a prestigious New York insurance company. Gin (Catherine Zeta-Jones), it seems, has been on Mac's trail for some time. She tells her boss (an unusually sedate Will Patton) she's sure Mac is the only man alive with the moves smooth enough to have pulled off the Rembrandt job and begs him to let her go after him. The boss, who has a little crush on Gin, is skeptical. He already sent two of his best agents after Mac, and they vanished without a trace. Yes, she says, "But they were men."

Indeed, the one thing Gin is not is a man. Mac notices this, too, and, before long, the two have partnered up to steal a precious gold mask. Up to this point, nearly every aspect of this phenomenally dull movie is phenomenally routine. As expected, there is a bit of sexy banter between the male and female leads, most of it barbed and all of it designed to make it look as if the two can't stand the sight of one another. But there is not even the slightest trace of freshness or originality in either the script -- which was written by Ron Bass and William Broyles from a story by Michael Hertzberg and Ron Bass -- or in Amiel's stodgy direction.

As an actor, Connery has established great reserves of goodwill with his audience, but he seems determined to do nothing except cash in on it. The problem is, he has been doing that so long now that he's just about emptied the tank. (When was the last time he was actually good in a film?) And, first with The Mask of Zorro and now this, Zeta-Jones seems to have proved that her talents extend to the decorative and no further.

Her best scenes here are the ones in which she gets to put her athletic ability (and her pert bottom) on display. It would be impossible to say that she and Connery generate any heat together. Throughout most of the picture, the partners have played by Mac's rule, which is, "Nothing personal." And to convince themselves that they are making the right decision, they keep telling themselves, over and over, "Alone is good. Alone is good." And if that's not bad enough, the dialogue further sabotages Connery in his big romantic moment with his co-star by having him stammer out the line, "My situation is so ... complicated." Never before has this great actor seemed so unmanned.

The finale of the picture takes us to Kuala Lumpur, where they keep the world's tallest building and the really big money. The amount? A cool $8 million, which we get to see our heroes download as one millennium gives way to another. In addition to being anticlimactic, this last section has the added feature of being entirely incomprehensible, both in its action and in its relationships. Ving Rhames has a small part (mercifully) as (we think) Mac's good friend, but, ultimately, everything is left so scrambled that we don't know exactly who is allied with whom. What we're left with, finally, is a maddening feeling of frustration. We are told what the title means, though. "Entrapment" is what a cop does to a crook. Maybe. But it's also what you feel watching a woefully unremarkable movie.

Opens April 30.
-- Hal Hinson

Written and directed by Edoardo Winspeare

Documentary filmmaker Edoardo Winspeare's first feature takes its name, its rhythm and much of its spirit from the musical tradition of his birthplace, the Salentino peninsula of Southern Italy. The pizzica is a folk dance that comes in three highly symbolic variations, each continued on next pagecontinued from previous pageof which is seen in the film and mirrored in its tragic, romantic story. In the first, the pizzica de core, a man and woman circle each other suggestively but are never allowed to actually touch. The second, the danza della scherma, is a mock sword battle performed by two men. Whereas these two dances have their counterpart in other folk cultures, the third dance, the pizzica tarantata, is a strange ritual with an almost primitive history, dating from a time in which women suffering from a variety of mental or emotional disorders of the sort that used to be labeled "hysteria" were believed to have been bitten by a poisonous spider. Possessed by the creature, they were encouraged to perform a convulsive, exorcising dance for days at a time while praying to St. Paul for release. Every year on June 29 the tarantate of the Salento villages would re-create their possession in the town square.

Pizzicata takes place in the summer of 1943. World War II is dragging on, adding more hardship to the lives of the already struggling peasant farmers. An American plane is shot down, and the surviving pilot, Tony Marciano (Fabio Frascaro), is found and nursed back to health by Carmine Pantaleo (a fine performance by Cosimo Cinieri, the only professional actor in the cast), a widower who lives with his three daughters. Tony, who was born in a nearby village and moved to the U.S. as a child, is introduced to villagers as a distant cousin of the Pantaleos and soon finds himself falling in love not only with the country of his ancestors but with Carmine's engaged daughter Cosima (Chiara Torelli, whom the press notes say has since become a dentist, brings a proud, natural beauty to the role).

As a celebration/re-creation of Italy's peasant culture, Pizzicata joins -- and is perhaps overshadowed by -- the films of Francesco Rosi, the Taviani brothers and others, though Winspeare's portrait of rural life is motivated more by an emotional affinity and less by ideological interests than his predecessors. Similarly, it could be said that his sympathetic depiction of wartime Italy shares with Bernardo Bertolucci's Novecento (1976) (and to some degree Life is Beautiful) an interest in reclaiming the country's cultural past from the nightmare of 20th-century history. The fascists, villains in Bertolucci's film, are barely seen, and the war itself, although much discussed, is only a vague, distant threat. The villagers mourn the loss of their young men but seem indifferent to the outcome. Having no faith in either side, Carmine tries to protect his daughters from Tony's rosy description of a prosperous New York, loudly insisting, "In my family, nobody needs America for work."

Surprisingly, this wartime Romeo and Juliet never quite becomes the melodrama you keep expecting. Though the elements are there, Winspeare is more interested in sensuality than in pathos, filtering the story of the growing love between Cosima and Tony through the latter's hesitant discovery of the country and its customs. There is a sense of distance in Winspeare's handling of their story, a feeling that the young lovers are being helplessly carried along by the predetermined motions of the pizzica. The film avoids the pitfalls of melodramatic cliche by following its more intense and timeless rhythm.

In Italian with English subtitles.
Plays at 8 p.m. April 30-May 2 at Webster University.
-- Robert Hunt

Directed by Rodman Flender

The most surprising thing about the new teensploitation horror film Idle Hands is the lack of masturbation jokes. It is a movie about a 17-year-old boy who loses control of his right hand to an evil demon, yet there's only one such obvious crack. As the gloriously lazy hero, Anton (Devon Sawa), prepares to slice off his possessed paw with a bagel guillotine, he explains why he's attached to his other hand: He needs it for channel surfing, lighting up his bong and "relieving tension." And when his friends (both zombies back from the dead) leave to get a first-aid kit -- "And burritos!" -- it's obvious that the film is answering to a higher power, that it's not a metaphorical trip into teenage sexuality or tedium or toilet humor. This, horror fans, is a good old-fashioned monster movie.

Amid a frenzy of films pitched at the wallets of today's teenagers, we're seeing young stars crammed into dozens of well-worn plots and genres, with mixed results. But this shot at the good old days of gory, over-the-top horror flicks -- '50s werewolf movies, Sam Raimi and Roger Corman stuff from the -'80s -- nails the mood of the moment: Enough, already, with that aging-Gen-X-irony-and-self-reference-Scream thing and the tedious stalking of Jennifer Love Hewitt. This wry and surprisingly high-gloss production brings back the good stuff: zombies, latex body parts, screaming women on altars, errant eyeballs and guys with no necks trying to eat burritos. Director Rodman Flender, a Corman disciple, revels as much in the mundanity of the teen years as in the biology of the dismembered. But the script keeps these disturbing images behind such a smart layer of detached humor that the whole thing comes off as a lively, if empty, romp in the plasma.

Somehow -- and who cares exactly how -- Anton's right hand becomes possessed by a demon that forces him to kill and kill again, starting with his parents and his basement-dwelling stoner buddies (Seth Green and Elden Henson). All this happens without his leaving the house or even putting on pants. His pals, too lazy to trek through a bright afterlife tunnel surrounded by "uncool music -- like Enya," return, and crash on the sofa, as zombies with makeup right out of Night of the Living Dead, one with a beer bottle stuck in his temple and the other holding his own head. The hand then goes after a nubile next-door love interest (Jessica Alba), while Anton searches for answers about "evil" from a metal-head neighbor wearing a Quiet Riot muscle shirt.

The possessed-hand metaphor has seen a good run in horror films but usually as a serious psychological device: Tortured pianists lose control of their digits in both Mad Love (1935) and The Beast with Five Fingers (1947), and Oliver Stone's The Hand (1981) tells of a flawed cartoonist. Anton is just lazy. That's all. The metaphor is simple. There's something grotesquely fascinating about a man who can't stop his own hand from performing unspeakable acts, and Sawa stretches this extreme bored-evil duality into some great slapstick moments.

Just about nothing in this film is original, but it borrows so well from the classics that it seems almost natural for George A. Romero's blue-faced zombies to go to the school dance with the cast of Dazed and Confused. Fans of Raimi's Evil Dead movies, perhaps the best examples of latex/slapstick horror, will feel right at home in the landscape of vaguely silly terror. And instead of simply updating an old story with a young cast -- as the bland, very-Stepford Disturbing Behavior did last year -- Idle Hands slyly swipes and parodies, skewering, for example, the cliched high-school-dance finale featuring some hot band. (The Offspring! Squeal!)

But this fun comes at a price. The characters' total disregard for the living, the dead or the undead can get under your skin, especially when coupled with their constant puffing of pot. Anton doesn't notice that his parents are dead for days, and one zombie passes the time throwing Cheetos into the mouth of his buddy's lopped-off head. But the, um, lovable Seth Green (Oz on Buffy and Scott Evil in Austin Powers) pulls off a cool little asshole zombie so lackadaisical and chummy that you kind of want to sit in his basement smoking weed and eating Cheetos, too.

You still don't care when he dies, though. Or when anybody dies. They all deserve it, or maybe they don't. Nothing's clear, nothing matters, and the outrageous violence is only slightly quelled by the kids' postmodern detachment from it: It's not really happening. During the climactic battle against evil (we're not giving anything away here, believe me), the hand just quietly disintegrates. No explosions. No squealing. No coming back for more. Green's zombie protests: "What -- is that it?" He's watching the movie, too, and he's just a little disappointed.

Opens April 30.
-- Glenn Gaslin

The Human Rights Film Festival at Webster University concludes this Tuesday with two distinctly different works: a cliched East German fictional film paired with an insightful, 60-minute nonfiction video. Showing little originality and bogged down by a sluggish pace, Coming Out melodramatically chronicles social prejudice against and personal struggles with homosexuality. Promoted as "the first and last East German film about gays," Coming Out remains superficial and banal. By contrast, Crossroads explores new territory, thematically and geographically, interviewing refugees in and neighbors of Benaco, a West Tanzanian boomtown. This 1997 documentary from the Netherlands marvels at human adaptability while never minimizing the devastating impact refugees have on receiving communities.

A 1989 production that shows its age, Coming Out begins with 19-year-old Mathias Seifert whisked to an emergency room where he bemoans his homosexuality as the cause of his overdose. In flashback, his and lover Philipp Klarmann's story unfolds. Philipp, a newly hired high-school teacher, initiates an intimate relationship with a female colleague. Determined, Philipp denies and resists but, eventually, can't repress his attraction to men despite having to face his mother's and societal disapproval.

Unfortunately, writer Wolfram Witt and director Heiner Carow focus on trite bar scenes of casual sex and outrageous transvestites, exploiting the voyeuristic aspects of what they otherwise fail to explore in any meaningful way. The handsome young Philipp fights his demons through tedious, dull dialogue punctuated with boring pauses. The predominance of long shots keeps us at a distance -- not contemplating the bewildering predicament and rampant injustice, but impatient for the inevitable capitulation. When Philipp finally makes a heroic stand before school evaluators, the film elides the important, confrontational moment. A half-hour shorter with much less studied reserve, Coming Out may have personalized one man's struggle. Instead, it reinforces the negative, tortured gay stereotype in thoroughly unimaginative ways.

In striking contrast, Hillie Molenaar and Joop Van Wijk's Crossroads particularizes repercussions of the Hutu-Tutsi tribal war from a novel perspective: the country inundated with refugees. After briefly establishing the precipitating horror, including the thousands of corpses (many mutilated) clogging the local river, the focus turns to the refugee camp and its dichotomous micro-society. In addition to creating numerous business opportunities for local Tanzanians, the refugees severely alter the physical environment: denuding the landscape, exhausting food supplies and occupying all available spaces in hospitals, schools and empty houses. Criminals strain local police and judicial systems while a woman who ran a beauty parlor in Rwanda rents optimistic brides the one good wedding dress she's salvaged.

Through first-person interviews and camp footage, a complex picture emerges of this lovely land sustaining cataclysmic changes. Letting the Tanzanians and the refugees speak for themselves (from an insurance salesman to orphaned children), Crossroads calmly but powerfully delineates the ripple effect of any such forced mass migration. This glimpse behind and beyond the headlines brings this year's festival to a fitting close, encouraging us to demand more analytical media coverage of all such issues.

Coming Out, in German with English subtitles, plays at 7 p.m. and Crossroads, in Swahili with English subtitles, at 9 p.m. May 4 at Webster University.

-- Diane Carson

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So, with Black Friday just a few days away, you might get ready for the shopping frenzy and budget busting. Well, hopefully you won’t do that because Black Friday is actually that time of the year when you should take advantage of the sweet deals to buy stuff that you really need, not to end up spending money randomly on things just because they are cheap.

With so many stores and retailers offering so many goods during the Black Friday madness, you might be tempted to make a lot of purchases. However, just take some time, breathe a few times and think honestly: do you really need the items that you want to purchase? Don’t you already have a dozen and a half pairs of socks and more t-shirts that you need? Do you really need a new TV and smartphone. And do you really have the time to waste waiting in line and getting bullied by angry mobs looking for the biggest discount?

I am surprised to see that sales during Black Friday go up every year and stocks never seem to be enough. That’s because we are made to believe that we’re indeed scoring a great deal. But are we really? Probably if somebody was to make a study, 90% of the stuff bought during Black Friday is part of the “wants” category and not something that we really need. In other words, money thrown away.

Pro tip: Instead of standing in line and getting angry for whatever you want to buy, why not keep an eye on Amazon or other online retailers? They also have amazing deals during the Black Friday madness and you can do all the shopping from your comfy chair at home.

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  1. An anti-consumerism magazine I used to subscribe to, Adbusters, started a campaign to change Black Friday to “Buy Nothing Day”. It’s pretty cool, and I think you might like it, C.

    I’m with you though. I’ll be buying no gifts or other consumer goods on Friday (though since I’ll be in an airport waiting for flights, I’ll probably buy some mediocre food). 🙂

    • Nice idea! I ended up buying nothing on Black Friday (because here in Romania they decided to host it one week early) and I am not upset at all. I’d love some mediocre food in an airport, though, as it would mean I’d be going somewhere :))

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Critic Consensus: American Desi ends up being rather amateurish and doesn't mine its subject matter as thoroughly as it could.

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A feature film debut for Indian director Piyush Dinker Pandya, American Desi centers around Krishna Reddy (Deep Katdare), who calls himself Kris to escape the traditionalism of his Indian family. Desiring to be an all-American type of guy, Kris enters college with good friend Eric (Eric Axen) and begins a new world of freedom away from his protective family. As soon as he arrives on campus, he learns that he has been roomed with three Indian roommates: Jagjit (Ronobir Lahiri), a budding artist, Salim (Rizwan Manji), an old-fashioned believer in Eastern ideals, and Ajay (Kal Penn), who immerses himself in Afrocentric culture. Kris also meets a young student named Nina (Purva Bedi), with whom he falls instantly in love, but fails at first to realize that she too is Indian. An unforeseen opponent, Rakesh (Anil Kumar), threatens to separate the two, with his appreciation of the lifestyles Kris has often rejected in favor of a more American bent. Through his relationship with Nina, Kris begins to get in touch with his heritage, finding that the Western adoptions he has clung to his whole life have prevented him from discovering his true identity.

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Suffers from a lack of sophistication and polish.

March 30, 2001

The main flaw ... is its willingness to sacrifice the intrinsic fascination of its subject, and the charm of its talented cast on the altar of cultural correctness.

March 16, 2001

Clubfooted but earnest, Pandya's movie never forgets about its second-gen issues, but never quite plumbs them, either.

March 15, 2001

Has some amusing moments, most involving the unwinding of the strait- laced Salim. But most of the conflicts it sets up are paper tigers.

March 15, 2001 | Rating: 2.5/5

Extremely funny whether or not you are an American Desi.

February 7, 2005 | Rating: 3/5

An entertaining breakthrough film that puts Indian faces on the screen.

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A mysterious swordswoman named Golden Swallow is sent to rescue a young official who has been kidnapped. Aided by Drunken Cat, a kung-fu master disguised as a beggar. She hatches a daring plan to assault the corrupt monastery where the official is being held.

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The film soars on a lyrical mix of scruffy singing heroes, cross-dressing heroines, narcissistic villains, and fantastical action choreographed like dance.

June 16, 2008 | Full Review…

Cheng's performance has a dancer's grace and razor-sharp intensity; if her sword doesn't get you, her eyes certainly will.

June 12, 2008 | Full Review…

Raised the bar for two generations (and counting!) of the historical martial arts epic.

January 22, 2004 | Rating: 7/10

A seminal film in a genre experiencing an unprecedented western diffusion and visibility: a bit of the old magic for a suddenly receptive audience.

August 9, 2003 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

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[font=Century Gothic]"Come Drink with Me" starts with a ruthless gang of bandits attempting and failing to rescue their leader who has been condemned to death. At least they escape with Zhang(Wong Chung), the son of the local governor, who they are planning to exchange for their leader in five days' time. If that does not work, they will kill him, figuring they will at least break even.(Come to think of it, they are not doing so badly on their own.) Soon enough, Golden Swallow(Cheng Pei-Pei) shows up at the local tavern to negotiate and demonstrate that she can play with the big boys...[/font] [font=Century Gothic]While not as polished as some of its younger cousins(the editing leaves something to be desired), "Come Drink with Me" is still an enjoyable action movie whose best scenes are the ones where the characters size each other up. On the minus side, as cool a cat as Drunken Cat(Yueh Hua) is, the movie becomes less interesting the more he takes center stage along with unnecessary subplots and mysticism.(Hey, I was prepared to overlook the musical numbers.) It would have been best to have left him as a people's champion for a third way between the government and the brigands. [/font]

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With singing heroes, cross-dressing heroines, narcissistic villains, and fantastical action choreographed like dance, the film launched a new wave of Hong Kong filmmaking and you can feel its' influence in everything from Bruce Lee in the 1970s to Jackie Chan's Drunken Master to the Tsui Hark new wave of high energy, special effects adventures in the 80's. Cheng Pei Pei is stunning in the role as Golden Swallow, a young woman on a mission to free her brother who has been taken hostage by a group of ruthless bandits, while retaining poise, elegance and coolness when delivering some deadly kung fu action. Rent this before considering Tarantino's remake coming soon.... Photobucket

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After watching A Touch of Zen, I decided to check out a few more classic martial arts movies. I decided to check in on a DVD series called Dragon Dynasty, having been impressed by the work they did on the copy of John Woo's Hard Boiled I picked up a while back. Looking through their catalog I noticed they had a movie from King Hu, director of Touch of Zen. The movie's inelegant title didn't excite me, but I decided to check it out anyway. I was quite surprised to find myself almost enjoying them movie more than Touch of Zen, even if Zen is ultimately a better work. I thought the choreography here was probably better, and the funky editing was used a lot more sparingly. The story lacks Touch of Zen's epic scope and depth, but in its simplicity it was probably easier to follow. It was also very interesting to see Cheng Pei-Pei forty years before she played the villain in Crouching Tiger, Hidden dragon. I was baffled by a few things, namely a point late in the film where they start shooting some kind of arousal spray out their hands, I have no idea what the hell that was supposed to be. Also there's a strange reversal in the last five minutes where a male character suddenly turns into a hero instead of Pei-Pei. This wasn't the achievement Zen was, but as a lean little action movie it was probably more enjoyable. Also, I was right Dragon Dynasty, the visual quality of this DVD was a million times better than the Touch of Zen DVD.

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Je Tu Il Elle was the first feature-length effort from avant-garde filmmaker Chantal Akerman. The story, simple in extreme, concerns a high-strung woman taking a lengthy journey through France. Her life up until now has been one huge question mark. By dwelling long and hard on every experience, she hopes to find answers during her cross-country odyssey. Chantal Akerman herself plays a major role in Je Tu Il Elle, which also features Niels Arestrup and Claire Wauthion. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Akerman must have had enormous confidence in herself to be so bold both aesthetically and sexually so early in her career.

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Stark yet brimming with sensation

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A masterpiece that would be the crowning achievement for many directors.

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The film made her name on the film festival circuit, for the nudity and extended sex scene... as much as the focus and intensity of the eerily disconnected portrait.

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... plays well as a sexual odyssey.

September 9, 2006 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

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The 225-minute "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" is a legendary endurance test for film buffs, but "Je Tu Il Elle" is also quite a trial -- even though it lasts about a third as long. "Dielman" director Chantal Akerman's first feature has just three actors in the cast, including herself (her character is named Julie, so the story is not directly autobiographical). A single camera follows Julie in gritty black and white through a spell of creative and emotional frustration. At first, she idles around her apartment, obsessing over an epic letter while crudely eating powdered sugar out of a bag. This lengthy segment spans four weeks and is extremely hard to watch. The "action" becomes more bearable once she decides to hit the road. She catches a ride with a truck driver (the destination does not seem relevant), and they become more intimate along their journey. He offers a long monologue about his wife and children while Julie's hand stimulates him. Later, she ends up at the door of an ambivalent woman, who's presumably the target of the first section's troubled letter. If you've forced yourself to stick around this long, you're rewarded with a prolonged, erotic lesbian scene. Akerman's bravery about displaying her own flawed body could have influenced "Girls" creator Lena Dunham.

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In "Je, Tu, Il, Elle," a young woman(Chantal Akerman, who also co-wrote and directed) spends her days in her tiny apartment rearranging the furniture, subsisting on a diet of sugar. She writes a letter and then reads it over and over. Time passes and eventually it is 28 days since she has been outside. For all we know, there could have been a zombie apocalypse in the meantime and this morose person could conceivably be the last human being left alive which is really depressing. She gets undressed, either putting on a show for the neighbors or inviting potential zombies to lunch. Eventually, she musters the energy to get dressed and leave, hitchhiking with a trucker(Niels Arestrup). Okay, as pretentious as that sounds, what follows is worse. On the other hand, it does become clear what the woman's story is. In any case, "Je, Tu, Il, Elle" is an object lesson in that just using a stationary camera and pointing it in a random direction is not filmmaking by any means. The director has to capture something of interest to the viewer, or else his mind is going to wander and he is going to be very silly when he has to write the review. Luckily, Akerman's first feature does transcend some of her inexperience as a director, winning the day by the movie's confrontational attitude and sheer nerve.

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Je: I am a man who wants to love a woman. Tu: as in the second person who I'm responding to,and yet nothing is quite certain or as it was supposed to be... Il: domineering,bipolar,strict,even truck-drivers get the blues! Elle: fierce,emotional,witty,the artistic,carnal fulfillment for both sexes. Result: ? Argument: "Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men" Joseph Conrad

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Lawyer Will Burton, known as The Escape Artist because of his ability to get clients discharged from court on technicalities, gets his latest client Liam Foyle acquitted of torturing and killing a young woman. However, Burton soon finds out that Foyle has lodged a complaint against him.

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The solar hot-water system, which makes use of evacuated-tube technology is spotlighted. Included: an overview of the completed work, including the rough plumbing; adding prestained shingles to the exterior wall panels; preparing the shower stall for tile.

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An examination of the impact of the Norteño street gang and its prison-based counterpart, Nuestra Familia, on a small California farm town, as seen through the eyes of a family whose father groomed his son to join the gang before attempting to turn his life around.

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Tokyo has reportedly made plans to create new military outposts on remote islands close to disputed territories in an apparent move to bolster Japan’s defense capabilities amid its ongoing territorial rows with China.

Some 350 Ground Self-Defense Forces could be stationed on the three islands near the disputed islands, known as Diaoyu in China and as Senkaku in Japan, Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun cited unnamed senior Japanese Ministry of Defense officials as saying.

The three uninhabited, disputed islets lie some 2,000 km southwest of Tokyo, and around 200 km north of Taiwan.

According to the report, Tokyo will be establishing three bases close to the strategic location – a base on Amami Oshima Island, Miyako Island (210 km southwest of the disputed islands), and Ishigaki Island (about 170 km south), each staffed by up to 150 soldiers.

Last month, Japan announced it was building a high-tech radar outpost on Yonaguni Island, due to become operational in 2016.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said earlier that Japan had already made decisions to develop its military presence in the southwest and that research had been conducted. However, he added that: “At the moment, however, we have not decided on specific, concrete locations, such as those reported.”

The current absence of military troops close to the strategic islands has caused some concern to Japan, which believes it is making itself vulnerable in the face of an increasingly domineering Chinese approach.

While there has not yet been much grist of military confrontation, being largely confined to coastguard squabbles, close watchers have stated that some naval ships have been lurking beyond the horizon and suggest that further confrontation may be on the cards. Additionally, China has increased spending on its military in recent years, allegedly to develop a two-tier blue water navy – one capable of operating across the deep waters of open oceans, implicitly the Pacific.

In its territorial dispute with China, Japan was supported by US President Barack Obama last month.

“The policy of the United States is clear - the Senkaku islands are administered by Japan and therefore fall within the scope of...the US-Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security,” Obama said during his visit to Japan in April.


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China is risking self-isolation from other nations of the Asia Pacific region, who are working closely with the US to build a NATO-like military alliance, which is a “principled security network” with America at its core, the Pentagon chief said.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Washington, as “the primary security provider in the Asia Pacific” wants China to work with the network rather than be excluded over "expansive and unprecedented actions" in the South China Sea. The US official gave the warning on Friday at the Shangri-La Dialogue, a regional security forum in Singapore.

Unlike the North Atlantic region, the Asia Pacific “has never been managed by a region-wide, formal structure comparable to NATO in Europe,” Carter said. Instead, with the help of the US, regional powers have formed a security network built on bilateral, trilateral and multilateral agreements. Carter praised the security arrangement and the role played by America in forging it.

“The value of American engagement in the Asia-Pacific is irrefutable. And it is proven over decades,” he said, exemplifying deployments of advanced weapons like F-22 and F-35 stealth fighter jets, B-2 and B-52 bombers, strike submarines and surface warfare ships.

“The United States will remain, for decades, the primary provider of regional security and a leading contributor to the region’s principled security network.”

China’s inclusion would make it stronger, and the US would like to see that happen, the official said. But Beijing’s actions are going against the principles of this network, including the freedom of navigation and overflight, he said.

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“There is growing anxiety in this region, and in this room, about China’s activities on the seas, in cyberspace, and in the region’s airspace. Indeed, in the South China Sea, China has taken some expansive and unprecedented actions that have generated concerns about China’s strategic intentions,” he said.

“China’s actions in the South China Sea are isolating it, at a time when the entire region is coming together and networking. Unfortunately, if these actions continue, China could end up erecting a Great Wall of self-isolation,” he added.

China is one of several claimants for various islands in the South China Sea and considers them its sovereign territory. It demands that other nations treat the waters and airspace around them as Chinese. The US does not support any nation’s claims and insists that the entire South China Sea is international space.

The Pentagon has been sending warships and warplanes through the disputed areas do demonstrate its resolve in opposing Beijing’s claims. China considers such actions provocative and potentially leading to hostilities.

The US defense secretary said China should play “a responsible role in world affairs commensurate with its wealth and potential influence.”

“Together in a network represented by all the delegates in this room, we all can do so much. And the United States wants to work with China to find solutions for the global problems we’re both facing and seize the many opportunities before us,” he said.

Among the challenges that China should face as part of the US-backed Asian security network Carter mentioned “Russia’s worrying actions, North Korea’s nuclear and missile provocations, the threat posed by extremist groups, or the growing strategic impact of climate change.”

He added that there was a “growing need for an action-oriented, ASEAN-centric regional institution that builds trust, facilitates practical multilateral security cooperation, and brings the region together to meet these commitments.”


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Kimberley Woods took part in the double Premier Division races 8 & 9 of the 2015 season held at the Tryweryn White Water Centre at Bala in North Wale. Kimberley ranked 1st in the National senior rankings in the Canadian and 2nd in the Kayak class of Canoe slalom was competing in both categories.

The slalom site is on the Graveyard section of the river Tryweryn, 5 miles north of Bala. The river is dam released and provides a year round training and competition site dependant on water release from the Llyn Celyn dam. The weather condition remained good for the whole weekend with no wind making the condition right for an excellent completion.

In the Kayak(K1W) Kimberley made easy work of the technically difficult sections on both of her runs each day completing them in fast times, leading after the first runs on both days, and managed to hold her position on the second runs winning by 3sec on the Saturday and 5 sec on the Sunday. After taking part in only 5 races this season due to international commitments, these results have moved Kimberley to 2nd in the national K1W rankings.

In the Canadian class (C1W) Kimberley set a good time on the first run placing her in second place behind her training partner Mallory Frankin. Although Kimberley had the fastest time on the second run she incurred a 2 sec time penalty dropping her into second place, just 1 sec off the lead. On day two Kimberley again had the fastest time but incurred time penalties and came second by 0.8 of a second.

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Anindita Majumdar did a two months short-term fellowship at the Department of Gender Studies in April till June 2016.

Anindita (third from the right) with colleagues at the Gender Institute

SASNET asked Anindita five questions after her leave:

Who are you?

I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology in School of Liberal Arts at Institute of Technology in Hyderabad, India. My research interests include reproduction, kinship, infertility and sexuality. I have worked on transnational commercial surrogacy in India and will be continuing on a project on ageing and reproduction.

What did you do at Lund University?

During my time at Lund University I developed a proposal to research the reproductive journeys of LGBTQ couples, participated at the Visualizing Kinship conference at Aarhus University, gave public lectures at Lund organized by SASNET and at Uppsala at organized by the Center for Gender Research.

What did your time at Lund University bring to your research?

I developed contacts in gender studies and South Asia through the Nordic region especially through the Network meeting organized by SASNET.

What is currently on your research agenda?

Developing a proposal on linkages between ageing and reproduction through the lens of assisted reproductive technologies, by looking at how infertility, birthing and bodily ageing is understood culturally and within a science and technology idiom. Also, slated to begin work on a Swedish Research Council sponsored project on commercial surrogacy in India with Johanna Gondouin (Stockholm University), Suruchi Thapar-Bjoerkert (Uppsala), and Mohan Rao (Jawaharlal Nehru University).

What was your latest research publication about?

My latest research publication is titled ‘In no-man's land: citizens and kin in transnational commercial surrogacy in India.’ Contemporary South Asia 23(4): 442-455, was on how citizenship and kinship become entangled processes in the identification of children born through commercial surrogacy in India, but to foreign intended parents.

SASNET South Asian short-term fellowship

In early 2015, SASNET announced the results of applications for short-term (1-2 months) PhD or post-doc fellowship stays at Lund University, financed by SASNET, during the academic year 2015–2016. The positions were open to PhD candidates in their final year, recent PhDs, and post-docs who have been students at universities in South Asia (i.e. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka).