Heroes Television

http://www.heroestelevision.com/

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Video: Mitcham’s 6 dives, ...ny | Outsports 2008 Olympics

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ariafic: the naming of things (Part I) koschei/theta

http://ariafic.livejournal.com/9695.html

Being proved wrong — and by such a silly argument, all pathos but still right — rankles. Koschei grits his teeth. “What if it was small things? Not just preventing paradoxes, but setting little things to rights?”

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thorne_scratch: Swimslash, w...got to give it to your mama)

http://thorne-scratch.livejournal.com/1844...

“You have the weirdest dysfunctions ever,” Ian said, leaning in the doorway behind Brendan. Aaron was slouching just behind him, squinting like a caveman. “It’s like you have an Oedipus complex that had a baby with your competition drive, and then that dysfunction shacked up with the offspring of your gayness for Thorpe and some penis envy.”

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What’s Alan Watching?: Generation Kill,

http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2008/08/gene...

While talking about the thematic similarities between “Generation Kill” and “The Wire” — specifically, how both shows give their loyalties to the footsoldiers on the ground, and eye their bosses with extreme suspicion — he said, “To be fair, it would have been a different book if (Wright) had hung with Ferrando.”

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Confessions of a blogger - Roger Ebert’s Journal

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/08/co...

Your comments have provided me with the best idea of my readers that I have ever had, and you are the readers I have dreamed of. I was writing to you before I was sure you were there. You are thoughtful, engaged, fair, and often the authors of eloquent prose. You take the time to craft comments of hundreds of words. Frequently you are experts, and generous enough to share your knowledge.

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Helping ‘Bourne’ rise to the occasion - CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/...

Listen, then, for what might be called Jason’s theme. First heard as the rogue espionage agent was found by fishermen floating in the Mediterranean in “The Bourne Identity” (2002), it only became an eerie, mournful bassoon solo because Powell couldn’t make it heard over the sound effects of a storm otherwise.

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FlickFilosopher.com: The Good Thief (review)

http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2003/0...

In our hyperkinetic entertainment environment, where fast and loud and obvious is never fast, loud, or obvious enough, Neil Jordan’s languorous The Good Thief is even more decadently delightful than it might otherwise be. Not that there’s anything necessarily inherently wrong with having your ears assaulted and your heart pounding while you hover on the edge of your seat… but too much of it can be exhausting.

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The Good Thief (2002) (Ferdy on Films, etc.)

http://ferdyonfilms.com/2007/09/the-good-t...

Jordan’s remoulding of the material is far from another Hollywood cash-in on vintage product, but one of the warmest crime films imaginable, a condensation of many of Jordan’s pet themes, and a dense and loving mash note to film noir, the French Riviera, old-school tough guy romance, modern art, rock ’n roll, and everything else beautiful and sexy and a bit seamy.

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Movie review, ‘The Goo...ef’ | Metromix Chicago

http://chicago.metromix.com/movies/review/...

The main virtues of Melville’s “Bob” - inspired in equal measure by “The Asphalt Jungle” and “Rififi” - were rigor, clarity and a sharp sense of honor among thieves and “flics.” “The Good Thief” is anything but austere. Jordan, one of the lushest visual stylists in movies today, keeps the screen drenched in colors, shadows and constant, propulsive movement.

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Here Comes Mr. Jordan: Film ...ntral Interviews Neil Jordan

http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/notes/njor...

Actually, I did watch a lot of Chris Doyle-shot films before that movie with Chris, all those stop motion things and the neon-soaked lighting. I’d never before been so self-conscious with the camera—I wanted the whole film to feel like a hangover. It’s a film that’s really in love with other films, I think—I had an excuse because Jean Pierre-Melville had done his version (Bob le flambeur -Ed.) of John Huston’s old noirs and so I took that as an opportun…

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Moviecrazed

http://www.moviecrazed.com/critics/goodthi...

Most of all, ‘The Good Thief’ shows Jordan’s sympathy for human folly to be generous, insightful, visionary. He’s not just repeating genre; he’s pursuing human truth. Working again with the great cinematographer Chris Menges, Jordan reminds you how wondrous movies can look…It’s the first color noir movie I can think of that rivals the emotional subtlety of black and white…‘The Good Thief’ holds attention agreeably but it’s also just plain dazzling to look at. At last…

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FILM REVIEW; Decadence and D...s Art Forms - New York Times

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Mr. Jordan gives ”The Good Thief” a 50’s jazz elegance that would have suited ”Bob le Flambeur” and adds the glorious visual scheme of the French pop art that was inspired by that period’s music, like Coltrane’s ”Blue Trane.” By setting the picture on the impossibly gorgeous Riviera and using shades of blue as visual metaphors, Mr. Jordan, working with the cinematographer Chris Menges, makes the film’s look exemplary: it combines…

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Nick Nolte’s magical h...d Edelstein - Slate Magazine

http://slate.msn.com/id/2081157/

What Cohen brings to The Good Thief is the same air of beautiful fatalism he brought to Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Atom Egoyan’s Exotica (1994). The music meshes perfectly with Chris Menges’ cinematography, the glamorous dilapidation of Bob’s gambling haunts juxtaposed with the swank of Monte Carlo, where the climactic heist is set. The movie is tightly plotted, but you don’t think about the plot. You focus on the people and the colors an…

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The Good Thief :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews

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Nick Nolte plays a great shambling wreck of a wounded Hemingway hero in “The Good Thief,” a film that’s like a descent into the funkiest dive on the wrong side of the wrong town.

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“The Good Thief” | Salon

http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/movies/revi...

Essentially, Melville was indulging himself in a form of weepy cabaret while, here, Neil Jordan is making jazz. There’s a playful springiness to the movie that keeps any hard-boiled sogginess at bay. You hear it in some of the movie’s lightning-fast exchanges. The actors aren’t talking noticeably fast; they just live in a world where everyone functions at the same syncopated tempo. The wit of the dialogue sometimes catches you on the rebound.

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reverse shot : The Good Thief

http://www.reverseshot.com/legacy/aprilmay...

Chris Menges’s elegant handheld camerawork, bathed in blues and reds, breathes an opium haze into the sordid surroundings, which is authenticated by the eclectic club jazz score. The narcotic rhythms are punctuated with a series of brief freeze-frames, an initially distracting device which lends a woozy, hung-over perspective to a woozy, perpetually hung-over protagonist.

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Neil Jordan (The Good Thief).../ ClaudesPlace.com Interview

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The Good Thief (2003): Nick ...ryo - PopMatters Film Review

http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/g/g...

Most intriguing is the subtle relationship between Bob and Anne. For all its many deceptions and illusions, The Good Thief allows this to develop as if in a real world, where genuine affection and appreciation grant generosity rather than competition or arrogance. Bob sees in Anne a younger version of himself — ambitious, vital, thrilled by surfaces. This “vision” indicates Bob’s self-knowledge, his consciousness of own limits and considerable gifts.

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PopMatters Film Interview | Neil Jordan - The Good Thief

http://www.popmatters.com/film/interviews/...

I can’t do a film if I don’t start with the writing. I can’t even know where to place the camera or where to get a visual image. I write the script first, to see if it’s even vaguely interesting, and then if the script becomes compulsive, then I can do the film. But that’s because I started as a novelist, and I suppose it’s where the ideas come from for me. For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

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