The practicalities of the shoot underlined that ethos: Korea had to stand in for Japan, as production for the Japan-set scenes began right as the pandemic started. “We didn’t want to create a refined, still sensibility for the past. “The show was emphatic about finding what’s similar about these environments and time periods rather than focusing on what’s different,” Ellenberg said. Showing that the struggles of the past are struggles still being faced was paramount. Anamorphic lenses allow you to get close to the characters but see their environment.” We wanted it to be relatable and accessible. We used anamorphic lenses and handheld cameras to increase the immersion. “But I wanted the audience to be viscerally living this time. “When you see period pieces, they tend to be inaccessible, they’re presentational,” Chon said. From ‘Y Tu Mamá También’ to Disney+: Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal’s 20-Year Journey
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At the end of his final autobiography, Douglass looked back favorably on his life's work, concluding that "although it has at times been dark and stormy, and I have met with hardships from which other men have been exempted, yet my life has in many respects been remarkably full of sunshine and joy" (p. He published four versions of his autobiography: the 1845 Narrative My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881) and an expanded version of Life and Times (1892). Marshal for the District of Columbia, President of the Freedman's Bank for former slaves, and Consul General to the Republic of Haiti. Presidents, a city council member and U.S. He went on to serve as an advisor to several U.S. Upon his return to the United States, Douglass officially parted ways with William Lloyd Garrison's American Anti-Slavery Society and began to publish a series of abolitionist newspapers. Abolitionists in England purchased his freedom in 1846. After his Narrative was published, Douglass traveled and lectured throughout England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Douglass won early renown as a fugitive slave on the abolitionist lecture circuit, and the 1845 publication of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave extended his fame throughout the U.S. Throughout his life, he worked to advance the twin causes of abolition and racial equality in the United States. Frederick Douglass is one of the most celebrated writers in the African American literary tradition. Basically, it’s a fancy gothic prison, and the beautiful, worldly warden is running experiments on the inmates.ĭark Hall plays like a classic fairy tale, but there’s one moment that sneaks an adrenaline shot into a movie otherwise fully dedicated to the terror of dread. The house, called Blackwood, is run by Madame Duret (Uma Thurman being wonderfully extra with a mostly French accent), and while she seems like the one who will finally channel each of their unique energies into something productive, what she’s actually doing is preying on the castoffs, who possess powerful sixth senses they’ve been repressing their whole lives. The stylish haunted-house film from Spanish director Rodrigo Cortés focuses on a group of teen girl misfits who end up at a posh alternative school after they’ve exhausted all the other educational and therapeutic resources in their daily lives. But amid all the flesh-eating is Down a Dark Hall, a good old-fashioned ghost story based on the novel of the same name by Lois Duncan. This year’s horror cinema has been a zombie-heavy slate, not to mention the inexplicable number of mutant Nazi movies coming in the back half of 2018. 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The events take place during one week in October of 1992, just before the presidential elections.Īfter locking his Vette, he noticed a passing coach full of elderly tourists, probably going somewhere like La Jolla, where they’d discover that they could spend two months at a timeshare at the Lawrence Welk Resort with unlimited golfing for what a simple “frock” would cost in a pricey La Jolla boutique. Finnegan's Week is set entirely in San Diego and Tijuana. What a great read! I loved that from the word go you know that none of them are completely innocent but one of them is a murderer. Now they are wondering who could want vengeance and if they figure out who the murderer is, can they offer them up in exchange for the rest of their lives? They all think it’s a sick joke and can’t understand who organized the whole thing until the first body is discovered. But have they forgotten Callum and the way they treated that gentle soul before he was murdered? Or that one of them was, or rather is, a murderer? When all receive invitations under various pretenses to go to Wolfheather House on a remote island in the Scottish Highlands they are shocked to find that the only guests are the five surviving housemates. Twenty years go by and the survivors go on with their lives. The survivors know that one of them is a killer. No one could have guessed that by the end of term one of the housemates would be dead. As expected there was conflict in the home but there were good times too. In 1995, six university students shared a home at 215 Caldwell Street. Review by Yvonne Selander, collection development librarian But the shadow of Hitler overpowers Joe’s imagination, sending him on an odyssey of revenge (to Greenland Station as a naval technician, in a furiously imaginative sequence) and into retreat from both his celebrity and the surviving people he still loves. The pair dream up, and draw the exploits of, such superheroes as “the Escapist” (a figure resembling “Houdini, but mixed with Robin Hood and a little bit of Albert Schweitzer,” whose sources are revealed in extensive flashbacks that also detail Joe’s training as a magician and escape artist)-and “Kavalier & Clay” become rich and famous. A stroke of sheer conceptual genius links the themes of illusion and escape with that of the European immigrant experience of America in this huge, enthralling third novel from the author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988) and Wonder Boys (1994).Ĭzech immigrant Josef Kavalier arrives in Brooklyn in 1939 to stay with his aunt’s family, and sparks are immediately struck between “Joe” (a talented draftsman) and his cousin Sammy Klayman, a hustling go-getter (and hopeful “serious writer”) who dreams of success in the burgeoning new field of newspaper comic strips. "My own ten would certainly vary from time to time because every now," she wrote in 1972, in response to a Japanese translator's list of her top books, "and then I re-read an early book for some particular reason, to answer a question that has been asked me perhaps, and then I alter my opinion-sometimes thinking it is much better than I thought it was-or not so good as I had thought. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best-selling author of all time. Her debut, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was published in 1920 and introduced Inspector Hercule Poirot, a character who would go on to feature in half of her novels, in addition to fifty short stories and two plays.Ī few years before she passed away in 1976 at the age of 85, Christie shared a list of her own top 10 works. By age 18, she was crafting short stories, and during World War I, she started writing detective novels. Now considered "the queen of mystery," Christie was born into a well-off middle class family in south west England, and taught herself to read by age five. Many of her novels went on to be adapted into TV shows and films-with the most recent being Death on the Nile, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Agatha Christie was a prolific writer, putting out 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections over the course of her illustrious career. When he can not prevent his death (or murder?) at Ball’s Bluff, Raines must use all of his guile and intelligence to free himself from suspicion as the killer. The devious Pinkerton coerces Raines to try and protect Senator Baker. Raines, a Virginian whose allegiance lies with the United States and not with the rebellion, is a Washington gambler and horse trader who was enlisted in the Union secret service by Allan Pinkerton. Michael Kilian, a student of the Civil War and the author of the well-received Murder at Manassas, uses Ball’s Bluff as the setting for his second Harrison Raines novel. This defeat spurred the creation of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War by Congress and this politically active group would grow to play an increasingly powerful role in Federal decision-making. Civil War historians and enthusiasts know it chiefly as the battle in which Abraham Lincoln’s good friend, Senator Edward Baker, was killed in action leading a doomed Union force. A Killing at Ball’s Bluff: A Harrison Raines Civil War Mysteryīall’s Bluff was a relatively insignificant affair when compared with the carnage at Shiloh, Antietam, and Gettysburg. Her area of expertise centers around somatic and body-based treatments to heal trauma holistically. Zaleski has specific training on neurobiology and modern day attachment theory. She also consults with television production companies on how to represent mental health realistically on their programs.ĭr. Zaleski sits on the board of two Orange County non-profits- Center for Law and Military Policy and HOPE 365- where she advocates for survivors of human trafficking, sexual violence, and forced marriage around the world and within the United States military. Zaleski continues to be affiliated with USC as an adjunct professor and Founding Director of the USC Keck Human Rights Clinic which is a pro-bono organization offering forensic evaluations for survivors of international human rights abuse.ĭr. Zaleski came to the Mental Health Collective after a decade-long tenure at University of Southern California as Clinical Associate Professor for the Suzanne Dworak Peck School of Social Work. Dr Zaleski is the author of two books, multiple research articles, and is a consultant and trainer on trauma disorders and survivorship to entities such as Facebook and the U.S. Kristen Zaleski, PhD, LCSW is a nationally-recognized author, researcher, and psychotherapist on trauma related disorders and an expert on sexual trauma within both civilian and military culture. |