Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Increasingly disturbed by the dark energies building within him, Ryu is unexpectedly confronted with the appearance of Shun - a boy claiming to be the long-lost brother he never knew. Soon, signs of their common lineage are revealed as Shun enters a martial arts competition and manifests the same fearsome Dark Hadou. But before Ryu has the chance to consider whether Shun's timely appearance might be more than coincidental, agents of the insidious Shadowlaw organization kidnap the boy.
To recover the child, Ryu must undertake the ultimate journey of self-discovery and learn to control the power threatening to consume him. But with his confidence waning, will he have what it takes to confront Akuma - the vicious lord of the Dark Hadou himself?
Find out as allies old and new join forces against a sinister new threat in the pulse-pounding prequel to the phenomenally popular Street Fighter II - The Animated Movie.
To recover the child, Ryu must undertake the ultimate journey of self-discovery and learn to control the power threatening to consume him. But with his confidence waning, will he have what it takes to confront Akuma - the vicious lord of the Dark Hadou himself?
Find out as allies old and new join forces against a sinister new threat in the pulse-pounding prequel to the phenomenally popular Street Fighter II - The Animated Movie.
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
'Audition' is an eerie tale of a man (Ryo Ishibashi) who, in his search for a new wife at the insistence of his son, holds an audition for potential mates. He disguises his actual intentions by saying that the audition is for an actress to star in a new movie that he is making. When at last he finds the perfect woman (the model Eihi Shiina), she disappears, leaving a bizarre trail of gruesome murders in her path...
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Sunday, April 18, 2004
At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nation's youth is spiralling out of control. With school children boycotting their lessons and physically abusing their teachers, a beleagured and near-defeated government decides to introduce a radical new measure: the Battle Royale Act.
Overseen by a former teacher, (Takeshi Kitano), and requiring that a randomly chosen school class be taken to a deserted island and forced to fight each other to the death, the Act dictates that only one pupil be allowed to survive the punishment. He or she will return, not as the victor, but as the ultimate proof of the lengths to which the government are prepared to go to curb the tide of juvenile disobediance.
Likened to Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' by many critics, this explosive film shocked a nation with its violent portrayal of a society in ruins.
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Overseen by a former teacher, (Takeshi Kitano), and requiring that a randomly chosen school class be taken to a deserted island and forced to fight each other to the death, the Act dictates that only one pupil be allowed to survive the punishment. He or she will return, not as the victor, but as the ultimate proof of the lengths to which the government are prepared to go to curb the tide of juvenile disobediance.
Likened to Stanley Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' by many critics, this explosive film shocked a nation with its violent portrayal of a society in ruins.
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Thursday, April 15, 2004
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Tuesday, April 06, 2004
£1 million raised…
All sectors of the UK video industry have teamed up to form a new company to help fight piracy and has raised an initial £1.2 million to fund its activities.
The Industry Trust for IP Awareness Ltd has been registered as a non-profit making company with the objective creating a fighting fund to tackle the growing menace of copyright theft.
Key high street retailers and video distributors, including Buena Vista Home Entertainment and Blockbuster met in March to agree the terms of engagement for a concerted effort to fight IP theft.
British Video Association chairman and MD of Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, Marek Antoniak, described video piracy as "a problem which affects every part of the supply chain of our industry".
He added that, as video generates the largest return to movie makers, and the public has demonstrated an insatiable desire for more new movies, we have a responsibility to continue look after our industry for the future.
The founding company members (12 distributors and four retailers) have already committed £1.2 million in voluntary contributions and will now decide how funds will be spent across a range of tactics, including retail training, government lobbying, additional support for the industry enforcement agency, FACT and to raise consumer awareness of the links between counterfeiting and serious and organised crime.
HMV's product director, Steve Gallant, one of the directors of the new company, said: "We have been talking about this for some months and now, after a record year of pirate seizures, it is the time for action. We will be launching our programme this summer, in time for the popular car-boot sale season, and by then we hope that many more will have joined the new Industry Trust to protect our future business."
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All sectors of the UK video industry have teamed up to form a new company to help fight piracy and has raised an initial £1.2 million to fund its activities.
The Industry Trust for IP Awareness Ltd has been registered as a non-profit making company with the objective creating a fighting fund to tackle the growing menace of copyright theft.
Key high street retailers and video distributors, including Buena Vista Home Entertainment and Blockbuster met in March to agree the terms of engagement for a concerted effort to fight IP theft.
British Video Association chairman and MD of Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, Marek Antoniak, described video piracy as "a problem which affects every part of the supply chain of our industry".
He added that, as video generates the largest return to movie makers, and the public has demonstrated an insatiable desire for more new movies, we have a responsibility to continue look after our industry for the future.
The founding company members (12 distributors and four retailers) have already committed £1.2 million in voluntary contributions and will now decide how funds will be spent across a range of tactics, including retail training, government lobbying, additional support for the industry enforcement agency, FACT and to raise consumer awareness of the links between counterfeiting and serious and organised crime.
HMV's product director, Steve Gallant, one of the directors of the new company, said: "We have been talking about this for some months and now, after a record year of pirate seizures, it is the time for action. We will be launching our programme this summer, in time for the popular car-boot sale season, and by then we hope that many more will have joined the new Industry Trust to protect our future business."
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Monday, April 05, 2004
The alternation of crowd scenes and small interpersonal scenes becomes much more intense as night fails: the brother talks to his girl about getting married as he cuts into a log with the knife that will be the murder weapon; the two brothers take a drink in front of the family campfire; crowds surround a bonfire in the dark; there is a fight between the two brothers and Scrub White, climaxing in Scrub dead and a knife from one of the brothers identified as the murder weapon; Cass cries out "murder," and the crowd around the bonfire, now holding torches, gathers at the murder scene, reacts and heads off to arrange a lynching. The bonfire/fight/lynch mob scenes move so quickly that it is less than five minutes from bonfire to attempted lynching--and since the mob carries torches as they leave the murder scene, it feels as if the bonfire has passed through the murder to become a crowd set aflame.
The buildup to the lynching scene thus traces the gradual mixing together of emotions derived from private scenes and emotions derived from crowd scenes. The emotions that fire the crowd begin as the emotions which fire the brothers: anger at immorality interrupting a day of exciting entertainment. Private motives are magnified into public action. The movie also highlights the central fear of the Hays Code, the danger of mixed audiences. Cass and Scrub are presented as a different kind of person mixed in with the wholesome townsfolk: they attend the festival but they refuse to join the crowd projected as responding to the festival. Instead of watching Lincoln, they watch a married woman. And the result of their being mixed in with the crowd at the festival is that entire crowd ends up transformed, breaking off from following the pleasant imagery provided by Lincoln and following instead a series of false suggestions orchestrated by Cass, the very person who refuses to accept the role as part of the crowd projected for him by the festival. The danger of sexuality and crime in this movie is not that deviant impulses lie deep inside everyone to be revealed when they are alone in the dark (as psychoanalytic theory would suggest); rather the danger is that sexuality and crime produce dangerous results when they are presented to people who are gathered in large groups aroused by watching a powerful light projected to produce spectacular entertainment--the bonfire, which becomes an image of movie projection.
The movie is then partly about the need to counter the power of movies themselves, of false images projected into a crowd by lights and words. The movie even seems to turn against itself: when Lincoln uses a farmer's almanac to show there was no moon at the time of the fight, he raises serious doubts about what we ourselves saw on the screen, since we saw the fight and it was undoubtedly lit up, much brighter than the ground around the bonfire. What the almanac shows then, is that what we saw on the screen was not "reality" but a movie version of reality; the lights by which we saw the fight must have been movie lights, not anything natural at all. The movie itself is exposed as a liar just as Cass is. The sequence of scenes enacts what the Hayes Code asks of Hollywood, letting us experience the power of movies to make us accept quite false suggestions and then reassuring us that Hollywood will use that power only to support morality.
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The buildup to the lynching scene thus traces the gradual mixing together of emotions derived from private scenes and emotions derived from crowd scenes. The emotions that fire the crowd begin as the emotions which fire the brothers: anger at immorality interrupting a day of exciting entertainment. Private motives are magnified into public action. The movie also highlights the central fear of the Hays Code, the danger of mixed audiences. Cass and Scrub are presented as a different kind of person mixed in with the wholesome townsfolk: they attend the festival but they refuse to join the crowd projected as responding to the festival. Instead of watching Lincoln, they watch a married woman. And the result of their being mixed in with the crowd at the festival is that entire crowd ends up transformed, breaking off from following the pleasant imagery provided by Lincoln and following instead a series of false suggestions orchestrated by Cass, the very person who refuses to accept the role as part of the crowd projected for him by the festival. The danger of sexuality and crime in this movie is not that deviant impulses lie deep inside everyone to be revealed when they are alone in the dark (as psychoanalytic theory would suggest); rather the danger is that sexuality and crime produce dangerous results when they are presented to people who are gathered in large groups aroused by watching a powerful light projected to produce spectacular entertainment--the bonfire, which becomes an image of movie projection.
The movie is then partly about the need to counter the power of movies themselves, of false images projected into a crowd by lights and words. The movie even seems to turn against itself: when Lincoln uses a farmer's almanac to show there was no moon at the time of the fight, he raises serious doubts about what we ourselves saw on the screen, since we saw the fight and it was undoubtedly lit up, much brighter than the ground around the bonfire. What the almanac shows then, is that what we saw on the screen was not "reality" but a movie version of reality; the lights by which we saw the fight must have been movie lights, not anything natural at all. The movie itself is exposed as a liar just as Cass is. The sequence of scenes enacts what the Hayes Code asks of Hollywood, letting us experience the power of movies to make us accept quite false suggestions and then reassuring us that Hollywood will use that power only to support morality.
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Thursday, March 18, 2004
The high street price war is hotting up this Christmas, with retailers competing to offer customers the best priced DVDs, some reduced by up to 50 per cent, according to This Is London online.
With shoppers offered a number of discounts and promotions on a wide range of DVDs, Christmas sales are expected to soar about 70 per cent to 150 million discs.
For example, the four-disc set of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is on sale at Amazon for £16.99. Stores such as Virgin are retailing the DVD for £44.99.
Cheaper DVD players are also said to be driving the DVD boom, with some available for as little as £29.99 owosa. Last year prices were more likely to start at £100.
“DVDs are excellent value for consumers and prices are now extremely competitive,” said Mike Brown, head of the DVD Entertainment group at the British Video Association.
Total DVD sales are predicted to surge past the £2 billion mark this year, up more than 50 per cent from last year’s £1.3 billion. About 11 million households own a DVD player.
With shoppers offered a number of discounts and promotions on a wide range of DVDs, Christmas sales are expected to soar about 70 per cent to 150 million discs.
For example, the four-disc set of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is on sale at Amazon for £16.99. Stores such as Virgin are retailing the DVD for £44.99.
Cheaper DVD players are also said to be driving the DVD boom, with some available for as little as £29.99 owosa. Last year prices were more likely to start at £100.
“DVDs are excellent value for consumers and prices are now extremely competitive,” said Mike Brown, head of the DVD Entertainment group at the British Video Association.
Total DVD sales are predicted to surge past the £2 billion mark this year, up more than 50 per cent from last year’s £1.3 billion. About 11 million households own a DVD player.
