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"HITS & MISSES AT THE MOVIES" by Gerald Wright

"STATE OF PLAY" Directed by: Kevin MacDonald Running time: 117 mins. Release date: April 17, 2009 Genre: Drama, Political and Action Distributor: Universal Pictures MPAA Rating: PG-13 The spy flick genre deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way or as a basis for fantasy. In this slick thriler Oscar winner Russell Crowe leads an all-star cast in a blistering tale...More

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CINEMATIC STRUGGLES AT THE BIJOU by Gerald Wright

44 INCH CHEST Directed by: Malcolm Venville Running time: 94 minutes Release date: January 29, 2010 Genre: Drama and Crime Distributor: Image Entertainment MPAA Rating: R In this British crime film that brings together the U.K. heavies of cinema Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Ian McShane is a story of revenge by hoods. Screenwriters Louis Mellis and David Scinto orchestrate a story where...More

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SUPERIOR COLLABORATIVE FILMMAKING by Gerald Wright

Posted on 2/6/10 at 4:42 PM | Last edited on 2/7/10 at 5:45 PM

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AJAMI (Russoun)

Directed by: Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani

Running time: 120 minutes

Release date: February 3, 2010 (NY) and February 12, 2010 (LA)

Genre: Drama, Art and Foreign in Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles

Distributor: Kino International

MPAA Rating: Not rated

In this remarkable film, Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers Copti and Shani use their combine skills as writers and editors to project a breathtaking story on screen. They have taken an enomously complex issue of life in the Middle East and made it engagingly accessible for viewers in their debut outing as co-directors.

Ajami is Israeli's submission to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and winner of numerous international film festivals. In this well balanced take on individual living (and dying) during the Palestinian and Israeli conflict the film tells the story of how cultures and different views among Jews, Muslims and Christians converge.

Thirteen year old Nasri (Fouad Habash) and his older brother Omar (Shahir Kabaha) face constant fear when their family becomes a target of assassination, after their uncle foolishly wounds a prominent clan member. At the same time, and not too far away, the young Palestinian refugee Malek (Ibrahim Frege) works illegally in Israel to finance his mother's ;ife-saving surgery. An affluent Palestinian man who dreams of building a life with his Jewish girlfriend, and a Jewish cop obsessed with finding his missing brother round out this unique multi-character piece that parallel each other.

What makes this superb film so important is how it concisely introduces very complicated and controversial topics. It is skillfully crafted by these two filmmakers and the cinematography beautifully captures the street dynamics of this multi-faceted area of the world. This powerful narrative offers outstanding performances by professional actors and locals recruited from the Jaffa neighborhood giving the movie an authenticity of its lifestyle.

I highly recommend this film.

FOR MORE FILMS by Gerald Wright go to [url=http://www.HDFest.com]www.HDFest.com and [url=http://www.FilmShowcase.Blogspot.com]www.FilmShowcase.Blogspot.com.

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THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER CINEMA SERIES by Gerald Wright

Posted on 2/7/10 at 4:01 PM | Last edited on 2/7/10 at 4:04 PM

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NEW FILMS FROM HUNGARY- Extremely Hungary Film Series

Series run February 12-18, 2010

Faced with competition from a globalized Hollywood and dwindling theatrical audiences at home, Hungarian cinema has nevertheless managed against all odds to remain fresh, provocative and highly creative. A selection of highlights from recent productions, works which provide ample testament to the vitality of Hungarian cinema as well as invaluable insights into life in the post-communist world.

EXTREMELY HUNGARY, is yearlong festival showcasing contemporary Hungary visual, performing, and literary arts in New York and Washington, D.C. The festival is organized by the Hungarian Cultural Center in New York, which sponsors s range of programs celebrating Hungary's past, present and future, and is made possible in part by funding from the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture.

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CHAMELEON (Kameleon) - 2008

Directed by: Krisztina Goda

Running time: 105 minutes

Genre: Drama, Comedy and Thriller

Language: Hungarian with English subtitles

Gabor (Ervin Nagy) a night cleaning man is a petty con man who decides to expand his art of manipulation. He is a suave young man who carefully chooses and charms women out of money and valuables. However, in this dramatic narrative it often gives a humorous theme for the audience to follow. As in a plot that sets a stink operation on the victims, the perpetrator finds himself falling victim to a clever woman named Hann (Gabriella Hamon) and her deceptive psychologist.

As a well crafted film that involves love, blackmail and the swindling of money Chameleon is a remarkable movie that goes beyond the ordinary.



FILM COMMENT SELECTS FILM SERIES

Series run February 19 - March 4, 2010

The Film Society of Lincoln Center presents, 2010's first FILM COMMENT SELECTS series. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, this annual showcase of discoveries, special previews, rediscoveries, and films without distribution is handpicked by the editors of Film Comment magazine, America's leading tabloid of film critism. Drawn from their travels on the international film festival circuit, this year's eclectic and cutting-edge mix has something for everyone: art-film rarities, down-and-dirty genre movies, choice revivals from Europe, Asia, and the U.S., not to mention new and classic works from Edward Yang, Raul Ruiz, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Patrice Chereau, and Jean-Luc Godard, plus the mind-blowing cinema of Phillippe Grandrieux.

Select Film Previews:

BE GOOD (Sois Sage) - 2009

Directed by: Juliette Garcias

Running time: 90 minutes

Genre: Drama and Mystery

Language: French with English subtitles

In this psychological drama, writer/director Juliette Garcias makes her directorial debut with a creepy tale of dark obsession. Eve (Anais Demoustier) is a strange girl with a false identity who stalks a married man named Jean (Bruno Todeschini) in a rural French village. Eve, the mythomaniac protagonist takes on a job as a delivery girl for a local bakery. However, her delivery route is a journey in peculiar behavioral antics. This intriguing film takes on the theme of a masterful suspense drama leaving the audience guessing what will happen next.



NUCINGEN HOUSE (La maison Nucingen) - 2008

Directed by: Raul Ruiz

Running time: 94 minutes

Genre: Horror

Language: French with English subtitles

From cinema's truest inheritor to the playful metafictions of Borges, Raul Ruiz, comes this surreal haunted-house riff on a story by Balzac. Featuring transferred identities, over-the-top theatrical performances, and behavioral non sequiturs, Ruiz's 1920's set film centers on a mysterious house in Chile that an American gambler wins in a bet. When the dubiously lucky man William James (Jean-Marc Barr) inspects the place with his nervous wife Anne-Marie (Elsa Zyberstein), he finds the house filled with strange entities and a household odd characters. This sets the stage for another Ruizian derangement of the mind and senses.

FOR A FULL SERIES CALENDAR AS WELL ASS TICKETING INFORMATION AND GENERAL INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT www.filmlinc.com

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CINEMATIC STRUGGLES AT THE BIJOU by Gerald Wright

Posted on 1/29/10 at 10:02 PM | Last edited on 1/31/10 at 8:44 AM

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44 INCH CHEST

Directed by: Malcolm Venville

Running time: 94 minutes

Release date: January 29, 2010

Genre: Drama and Crime

Distributor: Image Entertainment

MPAA Rating: R

In this British crime film that brings together the U.K. heavies of cinema Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Ian McShane is a story of revenge by hoods.

Screenwriters Louis Mellis and David Scinto orchestrate a story where the protoganist Colin Diamond (Ray Winstone) a garage owner and family man learns from his attractive middle-age wife Liz (Joanne Whalley) of 20 years she is leaving him for a younger man. This young lover of Liz's is a suave Spanish waiter. Colin loses his mind and temper and attacks Liz, however she is able to escape this once petty hood of the underworld.

Colin is a broken man and suffers a nervous breakdown, until four of his friends - Archie (Tom Wilkinson), Old Man Peanut (John Hurt), Meredith (Ian McShane), and Mal (Stephen Dillane) find him. Together, they kidnap the young Spanish waiter known as Loveboy (Melvil Poupand) and take him to a remote derelict house so Colin can restore his manhood with revenge. The motley crew stage a kangaroo court while Colin finds himself in no mental state to be judge and executioner.

I watched this film and reflected on the 2000 movie Gangster No. 1 from the cast members shown on screen. However, the celebrity status seem to neglect the cinematic opportunites of the story. I found some characters unbelievable while the plot does not successfully import the theme to the viewer. Areas of the movie staged good dialogue between and among the characters, but the protoganist gives long boring speeches of his private thoughts. This type of monologue does not work well in this movie. As the story uses romance and tragedy as a sub-type of drama, it finds merit. However it becomes stale with dreadfully boring talk and places a halt in its plot development.

This film talks and talks the talk - But does not walk the walk.



SAINT JOHN OF LAS VEGAS

Directed by: Hue Rhodes

Running time: 85 minutes

Release date: January 29, 2010

Genre: Comedy and Drama

Distributor: IndieVest Pictures

MPAA Rating: R

In this dramedy Steve Buscemi plays John a compulsive gambler who picks up residency from Las Vegas and takes on an insurance position in Albuquerque. While he thinks he is in recovery from his addiction by working in the straight world, he is really in denial. Because a day doesn't go by that he doesn't buy a lotto, lottery or quick pick ticket to get his gambling fix.

When is boss, Mr. Townsend (Peter Dinklage), asks John to accompany his top fraud debunker, Virgil (Romany Malco) on an investigation of a dubious car accident near Las Vegas, John sees an opportunity to get a promotion. The threat of returning to the gambling world is John main concern, however he wants the promotion to impress his eccentric co-worker Jill (Sarah Silverman).

The movie takes on the theme of a road-trip flick as John and Virgil find many complicated scenarios to resolve. As a comedy, the simplest way of looking at it is to say that it surprises, startles, shock or delights an audience and the essential aspect of all comedy is that it goes beyond the ordinary, the dull and the familiar. This film seems to strain itself in its endeavor of being funny. This film's lacks the full use of comedy, because it doesn't use the whole range of comic tactics, which is from absurdity to mockery and to sarcasm to irony. Many scenes in this movie are exaggerated to allow the audience to feel a kindship to characters with laughter, and at times it works.

As we live in social norms with standards for everything, this film attempts to push over the limit. The plot is fundamental in structure, however each absurdity in this movie is a metaphor of a world that is familiar to us. I found this movie to be uneffective in delivering its message on screen.



FOR MORE FILM REVIEWS BY GERALD WRIGHT go to [url=http://www.HDFest.com]www.HDFest.com, [url=http://www.CriticaWomen.net]www.CriticaWomen.net (He Said/She Said), and [url=http://www.FilmShowcase.Blogspot.com]www.FilmShowcase.Blogspot.com .

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SELECT FILMS AT MOMA GLOBAL LENS 2010 by Gerald Wright

Posted on 1/19/10 at 7:42 AM | Last edited on 1/19/10 at 8:34 AM

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GODS (Dioses)

Director: Josue Mendez

Running time: 91 minutes

Language: Spanish with English subtitles

Country: Peru 2008

Production Company: Chullachaki Productions

In this dramedy writer director Mendez opens this film at a lively dance club where young and pretty Andrea (Anahi de Cardenas) is dancing and partying with all of the young men available. The dancing is hot, close and sexually motivating and it leads to intimacy. In the shadows is Diego (Sergio Gjurinovic) Andrea younger brother who is watching her intensely and sexually obsessed with her. The two young people are part of a group of rich and spoiled upper-class kids who drink and party everday/night. One of the subplots of this dark film is the incestuous sibling relationship that sparks a sad yet highly dramatic theme.

As a parallel plot the film shows Elisa (Maricielo Effio) a young fiancee of a wealthy industrialist. He the father of Andrea and Diego, and flaunts his trophy wife among the rich and affluent community. Elisa's background is from a peasant lifestyle and she is in denial of ever letting her new found wealthy friends know of it. The story is well designed to indicate the class distinctions in the country of Peru.

As the perverted persona of Diego and the sexual permissiveness of Andrea interrupt the storyline of Elisa's deception, the film takes the viewer to a point of noticing that Andrea is much of a "sperm recovery system" and Diego is a "slacker". She gets pregnant and he is forced to take a job at his father's plant. Their wealthy father wants more for his children, however they have very little ambition. I'm not trying to be a spoiler, however the theme of this movie can be distasteful to some viewers yet the film is crafted extremely well and deserves kudos.

I was impressed that the plot and character developement moves productively in this emerging narrative. This is a story of conflict with stimulating performances by a good cast.



ADRIFT (Choi voi)

Directed by: Bui Thac Chuyen

Running time: 110 minutes

Language: Vietnamese with English subtitles

Country: Vietnam

Production Company: Vietnam Feature Film Studio

Set in a contemporary setting of modern Hanoi, Adrift (Choi voi) is an intimate and sensual drama about a newlywed couple that explores sexual awakening. These are topics still largely frowned on by the conservative Vietnam population. The newly change from the traditional communist regime to a modern social minded state gives rise to this poignant film.

Young and naive Hai and Duyen played by Nguyen Duy Khoa and Do Thi Hai Yen are newlyweds. The groom Hai is a taxi cab driver and the bride Duyen is a tourist guide. In this atmospheric psychological story Hai is inept sexually with child like ways and declines to consumate the marriage while his older wife Duyen is yearning to embrace that part of their life. As she makes advances, he avoids intimacy. This sets the stage for the complexities within the film.

Duyen's best friend Cam (Linh Dan) is a writer, who has progressive ways. She keeps a complicated and unhappy relationship with a "bad boy" named Tho (Johnny Tri Nguyen). Tho is a man who exploits women and Cam puts her bestfriend Duyen in a situation with him where she is seduced. As a writer this is fuel for book yet it puts Duyen in a relation with Tho that escalates into a sexual healing that can not be reversed.

Director Bui Thac Chuyen skillfully uses languid shots on film to highlight the emptiness and solitude of the characters, while slowly developing the landscape of the story. With crisp pacing and terrific performances, this riveting film is fascinating to watch.

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A SAPPY POST-APOCALYPTIC FILM by Gerald Wright

Posted on 1/16/10 at 6:50 PM | Last edited on 1/16/10 at 9:39 PM

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THE BOOK OF ELI

Directed by: The Hughes Brothers

Running time: 1 hour, 58 minutes

Release date: January 15, 2010

Genre: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Western

Distributor: Warner Bros.

MPAA Rating: R

The tagline on the post-apocalyptic tale is that in the not-so-distant future, some 30 years after the final war, a solitary man named Eli (Denzel Washington) walks across the wasteland that was once America. He is a warrior not by choice but necessity to seek peace, but is challenged by threats of violence. It's not his life he guards but the hope of the future; a hope he has carried and protected for 30 years. He is driven by his commitment and guided by his belief and faith. The power Eli holds is by religion, however a self-appointed despot Carnegie played by Gary Oldman along with a band of bandits want his book of enlightment to enrich their dynasty. Meanwhile, Carnegie's adopted daughter Solaris (Mila Kunis) is fascinated by Eli for another reason: the glimpse he offers of what may exist beyond her stepfather's domain.

There are a good range of movies relating to the end of the world and how the characters cope. The films range from very good to awful, with a couple of stinkers. Directors Hughes Brothers who are known for their urban crime film genre such as Menace II Society and Dead Presidents has garnered success. However, this film in many parts is entertaining and has a good concept, I think the execution was a little trite. At moments when something interesting and exciting was about to happen, suddenly it would end or would skip through the action. On the surface like many fantasy films, this one employs a cyclical rhythm in its presentation of escapades--new locale, followed by capture or separation, then dangers and threats, ending with flight or escape. The encounters become more advanced, while the plot takes liberties while deteriorating in more elaborate and more troubling ways. Thus leaving the main characters in whimsical and troublesome performances.

Supporting cast members Malcolm McDowell, Michael Gambon, Jennifer Beals, Frances de la Tour and Ray Stevenson have serious problems in stimulating this troublesome and whimsical plot that fizzles out in the final scenes.

One could argue that the Hughes Brothers has created a microcosm of human history, but managed to tell a less great story on screen.

FOR MORE FILM REVIEWS by Gerald Wright go to: HDFest.com ([url=http://www.HDFest.com]www.HDFest.com), Critical Women on Film-He Said, She Said ([url=http://www.CriticalWomen.net]www.CriticalWomen.net) and Google's Film Showcase ([url=http://www.FilmShowcase.Blogspot.com]www.FilmShowcase.Blogspot.com) .

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GLOBAL LENS 2010 at MOMA by Gerald Wright

Posted on 1/14/10 at 9:40 PM | Last edited on 1/14/10 at 9:51 PM

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GLOBAL LENS 2010 at MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MOMA) *********JANUARY 14 - 29, 2010

This film series at the Museum of Modern Art (NY) is presented by The Global Film Initiative, a non-profit film organization based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2002 with the mission of promoting cross-culture understanding through cinema. Its Global Lens film series and four compimentary programs support the growth of vibrant global filmmaking communities and introduce audiences to the remarkable stories told in every corner of the world.

The Global Lens series was launched in 2003 to support the distribution of unique and critically acclaimed cinematic works from around the world. Since its founding, the series has provided a platform for exceptional storytelling and opened the window into the diverse world in which we live. Now, in its seventh year, Global Lens 2010 continues to attract dynamic new audiences and discover extraordinary new films, building upon the unique perspectives that have come to define the Global Film Initiative's library of films.

This years' line-up is:

ADRIFT (Choi Voi), dir. Bui Thac Chuyen, 2009-Vietnam

BECLOUD (Vaho), dir. Alejandro Gerber Bicecci, 2009-Mexico

GODS (Dioses), dir. Josue Mendez, 2008-Peru

LEO'S ROOM (El Cuarto De Leo), dir. Enrique Buchichio, 2009-Uruguay

MASQUERADES (Mascarades), dir. Lyes Salem, 2008-Algeria

MY TEHRAN FOR SALE, dir. Granaz Moussavi, 2009-Iran

OCEAN OF AN OLD MAN, dir. Rajesh Shera, 2008-India

ORDINARY PEOPLE, dir. Vladimir Perisic, 2009-Serbia

THE SHAFT (Dixia De Tiankong), dir. Zhang Chi, 2008-China

SHIRLEY ADAMS, dir. Oliver Hermanus, 2009-South Africa

Note: Selective film reviews coming soon by Gerald Wright.

FOR DETAIL INFORMATION ABOUT TICKETS, FILMS AND SCHEDULE go to [url=http://www.moma.org]www.moma.org or [url=http://www.globalfilm.org]www.globalfilm.org.

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MOVIES OF AMOUR TO GORE by Gerald Wright

Posted on 1/10/10 at 8:22 PM | Last edited on 1/12/10 at 7:55 AM

JANUARY 8, 2010 OPENINGS

Yash Raj Films, one of the 27 biggest film distribution houses in the world and India's largest production company has brought a gem of a Bollywood movie to the cinema community titled Pyaar Impossible (Love Impossible). Film actor turned director Jugal Hansraj is at the helm as director of this romantic comedy that features Uday Chopra as Abhay Sharma a computer geeky nerd who carries a torch for a beautiful young woman named Alisha Merchant (Priyanka Chopra). From university years to young adulthood, Abhay hoped for the love of this girl every girl wants to be like and every guy would like for his girlfriend. However, what insignificant looking guy gets an attractive woman. With several years passing and a relocation of both, they find each other under peculiar circumstances where a stolen software design and a hidden identity brings them together. Abhay is the software genius and now Alisha is a single-working mom. Pyaar Impossible is a naturally sweet film that allows characters such as the villianous Varun Sanghvi/Siddharth Singh (Dino Morea), Anupam Kher as Abhay's father and the mischevious Tanya, Alisha's daughter to shine. The only flaws in this charming flick, and not that it is bad to gaze at, is the extremely short dresses that Chopra sports thoughout the 2 hour 25 minute film - causing none-stop leggy scenes that's overbearing.

Next on the love train is Youth in Revolt, a product of Dimension Films that gives Michael Cera a role that can be considered a tantalizing comedic treat. This a story based on the acclaimed novel by C.D. Payne of Nick Twisp - a unique, but affable teen with a taste for the finer things in life like Sinatra and Fellini. However, he is hopelessly in love with free-spirited Sheeni Saunders (Portia Doubleday) while on a family vacation. With Sheeni's encouragement, Nick dumps his dull and unpleasant persona and cosmeticize himself. Nick becomes superficially attractive by taking on a suave French exterior of a moustache, ascot and pipe. In a farce of complications with fine performances by Justin Lang, Steve Buscemi, Ray Liotta, Fred Willard, Zach Galifianakis and Mary Kay Place, Youth in Revolt gives an audience a funny and romantic 90 minute coming-of-age ride.

Now, lets make room for the gore films. First up is Bitch Slap, directed by Rick Jacobson and distributed by IM Global. Inspired by 'B' Movie/Exploitation films of the 1950s-70s such as Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Kung Fu Nun, and Dragstrip Girl this is a movie about three women - Hel (Erin Cummings) a powerbroker, Camero (America Olivo) a drug-running killer, and Trixie (Julia Voth) a stripper - who travel to a remote desert hideout to steal $200 million in diamonds from a ruthless underworld kingpin. This she-gang kicks butt, shoots to kill and make love whenever possible. Though this movie is rated R, it is really soft-porn and lacks the real thought of marketable cinema. This is a combination of the grindhouse and exploitation genres. With women exposing their breast constantly and getting it on sexually they still find time to shoot-up the bad guys. Look for Lucy Lawless as Mother Superior and Renee O'Connor as Sister Batrill in this sly bloody parody.

Two-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawkes stars in this vampire thriller of Daybreakers as Ed Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world's population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm the remaining humans for their blood. The alternative is to find a blood substitute before time runs out. With help from a covert group played by Willem Dafoe and Claudia Karvin the plot is an action-packed adventure of grusome scenes of blood and guts. This is a fast pace Lionsgate Films flick that proves to be quite stylish. Thanks to The Spierig Brothers as directors, they give the audience more for their buck.



FOR MORE FILM REVIEWS by Gerald Wright go to HDFEST.com [url=http://www.HDFest.com/]www.HDFest.com.

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UNITE TO REBUILD AMERICA'S URBAN SCHOOLS by Gerald Wright

Posted on 1/11/10 at 8:51 PM | Last edited on 1/11/10 at 11:34 PM

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CAMPAIGN KINSHIP!!!

Giving Something Inner City Kids Haven't Had For Generations---A FUTURE

*Is the area that your readers reside in being victimized by gangs?

*How can your readers find a new way to resolve this growing problems?

*Does the community need to raise funds for programs and scholarships for students?

WHAT: The mission of CAMPAIGN KINSHIP is to inspire inner city schools to create conflict resolution programs and non-violence zones so their students can co-exist with gang members in a peaceful educational environment.

GOALS:

CAMPAIGN KINSHIP's goal is to reach out to communities to create dialogue through round table discussions and community outreach.

To reach out to alumni of urban schools across the country to raise funds for college scholarships and activities to broaden the horizons of inner city students at their alma maters.

WHEN: CAMPAIGN KINSHIP launches for Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday, January 18th and continues throughout February, Black History Month and beyond.

WHERE: High Schools, Colleges, Universities, Community Centers, Churches, Synagogues, Corporations.

WHAT CAN I DO?

* Consider CAMPAIGN KINSHIP for a feature on education or the challenges of urban schools for Martin Luther King's Birthday and/or Black History Month.

* Interview the Director, Alumni from WHS (Weequahic High School) and Teachers at WHS.

WHY: This effort was born out of the documentary film HEART OF STONE released in select cities in 2009. Juveniles in crisis - from serious, violent, and chronic offenders to victims of abuse and neglect - pose a challenge to the nation. As reported in the latest National Youth Gang Survey, some 788,000 gang members and 27,000 gangs were active in more than 3,550 U.S. jurisdictions in 2007. As most gang members join between the ages of 12 and 15, prevention is a critical strategy within a comprehensive response to gangs that includes intervention, suppression and reentry. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

MORE ABOUT THE FILM:

HEART OF STONE, directed by Beth Toni Kruvant, focuses on Jewish and African American Alumni who come together to give back to the current students at Weequahic High School (WHS). Before 1960 WHS in Newark, New Jersey was known as one of the top schools in america. By 2000 it was one of the most violent schools in the 12th most dangerous city in the country. HEART OF STONE is the true story of WHS's quest to return to its former glory.

The Weequahic High School experience as portrayed in the film, is a model for other inner city schools to follow to rejuvenate their schools by reaching into their own past. Inner cities were once proud downtown districts with excellent programs that graduated professionals who long ago moved to the suburbs. HEART OF STONE shows how disparate groups can join together to give their old communities something they haven't had for generations - a future.

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XMAS-NEW YEARS, FAMILY AND EPIX by Gerald Wright

Posted on 12/23/09 at 9:09 PM | Last edited on 12/23/09 at 9:34 PM

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SPEND THE HOLIDAYS WITH EPIX

CHRISTMAS WITH THE FAMILY - CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY EVENT -STARTS 12/24 AT 5PM ET on EPIX

Christmas With The Family unwraps a festive marathon of gifts you can't refuse - beginning Christmas Eve, experience a non-stop string of mob hits including the HD re-master of Academy Award Winning director Francis Ford Coppola's legendary THE GODFATHER TRILOGY, Brian DePalma's untouchable masterpiece THE UNTOUCHABLES with stars Kevin Cosner and Sean Connery, and Academy Award Award Winning director Jonathan Demme's MARRIED TO THE MOB.

THE GODFATHER - THURS. 12/24 @ 5PM, FRI. 12/25 @ 8:30AM (R)

THE GODFATHER: PART II - THURS. 12/24 @ 8PM, FRI. 12/25 @ 11:30AM (R)

THE GODFATHER: PART III - THURS. 12/24 @ 11:30PM, FRI. 12/25 @ 3PM (R)

THE UNTOUCHABLES - FRI. 12/25 @ 6PM (R)

MARRIED TO THE MOB - FRI 12/25 @ 8PM (R)

AN EPIX ADDED ATTRACTION FOR THE NEW YEAR IS FROM THE SPY WE LOVE WITH THE JAMES BOND MOVIE EVENT:

EPIX is celebrating the beginning of a new year by paying tribute to the spy whose tomorrow never dies - with a complete wek of James Bond films. The Spy We Love movie marathon is a definitive retrospective of James Bond through the last century and beyond, including the rarely screened, ultra-rare studio treasure, CASINO ROYAL (1954) the American James Bond television pilot.

CASINO ROYAL (1954 TV PILOT) - SAT. 12/26 @ 10PM (NR)

DR. NO - SAT. 12/26 @ 11PM (PG)

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE - SAT. 12/26 @ 1AM (PG)

GOLDFINGER - SUN. 12/27 @ 10:30PM (PG)

THUNDERBALL - SUN. 12/27 @ 12:30AM (PG)

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE - MON. 12/28 @ 9:30PM (PG)

ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE - MON. 12/28 @ 11:30PM (NR)

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER - MON. 12/28 @ 2AM (NR)

LIVE AND LET DIE - TUES. 12/29 @ 10PM (PG)

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN - TUES. 12/29 @ 12AM (PG)

THE SPY WHO LOVE ME - TUES. 12/29 @ 2:15AM (PG)

MOONRAKER - WED. 12/30 @ 10PM (PG)

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY - WED. @ 12/30 @ 12:15AM (PG)

NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN - WED. 12/30 @ 2:30AM (PG)

BOND GIRLS ARE FOREVER - THURS. 12/31 @ 7:15PM (NR)

OCTOPUSSY - THURS. 12/31 @ 8PM (PG)

A VIEW TO KILL - THURS 12/31 @ 10:15PM (PG)

THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS - THURS. 12/31 @ 12:30AM (PG)

LICENSE TO KILL - FRI. 1/1 @ 8PM (PG-13)

TOMORROW NEVER DIES - FRI. 1/1 @ 10:30PM (PG-13)

GOLDENEYE - FRI. 1/1 @ 12:30AM (PG-13)

*EPIX IS A CABLE TV CHANNEL, A VOD SERVICE ON YOUR SET-TOP BOX, AND A WEB SITE WITH MOVIES. FOR ONLINE USERS, JUST GO TO THE EPIX WEB SITE LINK: WWW.EPIXHD.COM/.

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CELEBRATE 8 NIGHTS of HANUKKAH with EPIX & WOODY ALLEN by Gerald Wright

Posted on 12/11/09 at 3:58 PM

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HANUKKAH, EPIX-HD and WOODY ALLEN

EPIX honors the eight nights of Hanukkah with eight nights of a different kind of Jewish heritage--guilt, neurosis and self-depracation... 8 nights of Woody Allen! From his Academy Award nominated drama to his "early funny ones" 8 Nights Of Woody on EPIX gives Woody Allen fans a complete eight night retrospective featuring 13 films, including some of his most acclaimed works--"Love & Death", "Interiors" and "The Purple Rose of Cairo". And, because the movies are also available anytime on FIOS video-on-demand and online at EpixHD.com, it truly is the gift that keeps on giving.

What is EPIX? EPIX is the big new movie channel that's more just a movie channel. Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM are turning their biggest movies, original programming, and expansive library into a bold new experience. The movies you see will never change, but the way you watch them is about to...

It's a cable TV channel. It's a VOD service on your set-top box. It's a web site with movies. For online users, just go to the EPIX web site link [url=http://www.epixhd.com/][url]http://www.epixhd.com/ .

Celebrate the OY of the season with a lengendary kosher auteur! Eight nights of classic Woody Allen laughs begin the first night of Hanukkah, Friday December 11th at 8:00pm (ET) with:

Friday, 12/11 @ 8pm (ET) - "What's New Pussycat?"

@ 10pm (ET) - "Play It Again Sam"

@ 11:30pm (ET) - "King Lear"

Saturday, 12/12 @ 10:00pm (ET) - "Purple Rose of Cairo"

@ 11:30pm (ET) - "Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy"

Sunday, 12/13 @ 9:30pm (ET) - "Stardust Memories"

@ 11:00pm (ET) - "What's New Pussycat?"

Monday, 12/14 @ 10:00pm (ET) - "Interiors"

@ 11:45pm (ET) - "Shadows and Fog"

Tuesday, 12/15 @ 9:30pm (ET) - "Another Woman"

@ 11:00pm (ET) - "Alice"

Wednesday, 12/16 @ 10:00pm (ET) - "September"

@ 11:30pm (ET) - "Love and Death"

Thursday, 12/17 @ 10:00pm (ET) - "Casino Royale"

@ 12:30am (ET) - "Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy"

Friday, 12/18 @ 9:30pm (ET) - "Alice"

@ 11:30pm (ET) - "Purple Rose of Cairo"

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