I personally prefer Shaws “Saint Joan” starring Jane Seberg in comparison to most modern versions. The saint joan has its idiosyncratic events, a largely too international cast some good perfomances from some of the english actors, and a little hamming up from americans playing french peasants, but Jane seberg really placed herself into the passion of the role, and her childlike delusion quality she emits as concerns her visions, swims well with the obsession necessary to create such a character historically as joan.

does anyone know why it was so critically blasted when it first came out ?

May Jane be resting happily wherever she may be.

Having watched some of the other Joan of arc films i’ve come to the conclusion that perhaps. “The Passion of Joan of Arc” is in fact a slightly more adult film, it is the most moving portrayal, if you let it take you, and for a silent film is captivating, in fact no voices with just the choral background which I saw, seems better than if I heard the actors voices, which would no doubt pail to my imagined versions of them, the silence forced and focussed the mind on to the expressions on the faces involved, and what faces, this film must surely win the most moving and powerfull facial closeups ever done ? At points this seems to highlight even better the poignancy of the totally futile game of words spoken within the trial.

Wishing him well wherever he is, and hoping he is alive, and being helped to reduce the constant suffering, that his face must be … hopefully diminished such that he may know, of some of the other good things, that life can sometimes offer.

Does anyone know whether Jose Mestre is alive and well ?

Part 1 of my dissection lies here :

and this retort is made with reference to the following comments made in relation to my original post:

nina jo rees Says:
January 11th, 2010 at 9:48 am e
I understand your point and you make it well. However, the object of charity shops is to make money for their charity. Anything that can be done to enable the shops make more money is to be welcomed. I don’t think regular charity shop shoppers would miss out if the shops were more professionally run. In fact we all might benefit.
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Money, I dont think is the only objective of charitys ? the object of charity shops is not just to make money and money alone, that is the realm of our rather over commercial business sector, hence the difference in categorisation and status between ‘charitable organisations’ and ‘business’s’, Charitys and Charity shops should have multiple objectives, such as behaving morally in their activity’s generally, noting the worth of free unpaid volunteer labour, and putting that time and energy to good use, without being insulting and treating those people as though they were being paid, when they quite clearly are not. I think charity, is also as much about being clever in the use of resources received, whether money or labour to ultimately acheive best result for all the people involved in their activity and those they are trying to aid.

Often throwing money at a situation where charity is concerned, does nothing but breed a false sense of entitlement and reliance on charity and that reliance on charitable culture, is often their to sustain a greater injustice elsewhere in the makeup and structure society and culture itself. I can also see plenty of arena’s, where lots of charitable money has been spent and very little lasting result has occured. this to me would indicate that too tight a focus on money, can easily lead to a scenario whereby it is wasted. Money has not and will not solve all the problems of the world today, it is a false god and those that perceive it as the total solution to all things are idiots, it is just a transactional token, which enables us to distribute goods and services, more of it in circulation does not automatically imply that those goods and services are more equally or fairly distributed. It is our will and desire to make a better world, that is of greater value.
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lionel stander and old mickey rourke, maybe theyre are or are not facilally similar but theyre something about they way they act that seems similar to me, something rugged lies there in.

maybe i’m wrong about this ?

Impractical inteligence weekly

interesting ish

what a corny cheesy and pointless documentary this was below :

how much do you think you have in common with people 20000 years ago ? > not much. genetically maybe allot : culturally and intellectually very little.

to imply by genetics that we are only 1 in a 1000th different from each other, may well be true, but 1/1000 difference represents a large amount of information change considering 1/1000th of 6 billion bits is 60,000 bits of possible difference in human makeup, even a 10th of 60,000 would be allot of possible code change, considering some bits of dna work in conjuction with each other, ie have combinative effect, meaning that possible ramifications of that combinative genetic effect are much larger than 60,000 bits of change, all the possible inheritable diseases are in that 60,000 bits of change.
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This new disney Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe has been given the Disney treatment, and what a mess they made of it, again a complete lack of hollywood subtlety.

scene errata :
lucy enters the room mid a game of hide and seek, and ‘she slows down in some misplaced sense of awe at a sheet covered object ?’ unrealistic please ! first of all if you were rushing to hide you would not to slow down at an ordinary wardrobe which as yet has shown no magical qualties established, secondly the wardrobe is ridiculously overwrought and ornate, and carved, the whole point of this story is that it is an ordinary wardrobe ! and it is not described to closely on the basis that children can imagine it to be the wardrobe in their own house, ie the wardrobe is the symbol of a wardrobe rather than an explicit version in itself
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everything is propoganda, but banks employing people purely because of their religious beliefs and quite extreme ones in this case, makes you want to sock them in the face for their own ignorance, down with the idiot banks. May all people fall from supporting the selfish privateer classes.

creeping sharia anyone

A list of shariah law compliant banks, bloody barclays, proof that banks go wherever money is, and they dont care who holding it.