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A Masterly Emily Dickinson Movie. Before last week’s trip to Berlin, I had never attended a major international film festival. New York doesn’t count—it’s a self- described “festival of festivals,” featuring many movies that have already premièred.) For good reason, these festivals are not part of my regular rounds: I usually write about movies that are available to many readers, because there’s a tease built into festival reviews—let me tell you about some wonderful movies that I’ve seen and that you can’t, or, at least, not yet. But, this time, I can report on a one- off screening that, far from being a tease, may help to resolve one. Last week, while writing in the magazine about the New York première (at Lincoln Center) of the British director Terence Davies’s superb new film, “Sunset Song,” I added that the meticulous filmmaker, who is now seventy, is picking up the pace of production, having already completed another feature, “A Quiet Passion,” a biopic about Emily Dickinson, starring Cynthia Nixon. What I didn’t know at the time was that, because of fortuitous scheduling, I’d get to attend a press screening of “A Quiet Passion” at the Berlin Film Festival.

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I’m thrilled to say that it’s an absolute drop- dead masterwork. Not that I don’t have other paradigms, but the Scorsese one seems to fit again: “A Quiet Passion” is like Davies’s “The Wolf of Wall Street.” It displays an urgent outpouring of pent- up creative energy from a director well advanced in his career but tapping into ideas, impulses, and talents that somehow have been kept under wraps throughout his decades of artistic activity. What’s surprising, even astonishing, about “A Quiet Passion” is that, first of all, it’s funny—not just clever or wry but uproarious, outrageous, hysterical. In depicting Dickinson’s life, fixed mainly at the family home, in Amherst, Davies (who both directed the film and wrote the script) turns the story into a laceratingly epigrammatic comical satire on New England’s narrow mores—until the movie turns into an ink- black physical and moral and spiritual tragedy of thwarted love, thwarted renown, and illness and death confronted brutally, cushioned by no religious convictions. The movie starts with the teen- aged Emily (played by Emma Bell) repudiating, with a calm and steadfast insolence, the pieties of her Christian boarding school. Her father, Edward (played with a loftily ironic, quietly domineering tolerance by Keith Carradine), is a moderate freethinker who accepts and even cherishes Emily’s independent mind. He welcomes her back home from school, lightly disdaining the reproaches of stiff- necked relatives, even as young Emily radically outpaces his liberal purview.

When his strong- minded daughter wants to stay up at night to write poetry, between three in the morning and dawn, he gives her leave to do so, and thus begins the life of the artist. Within the limited rounds of Emily’s moderately reclusive habits enters a new friend, Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey), a brashly outspoken proto- feminist who proclaims her sexual freedom along with the intellectual kind. Vryling’s marriage and the friends’ resulting separation is a quiet trauma, one comforted only modestly by the sympathy of Emily’s sister, Vinnie (Jennifer Ehle), and her brother, Austin (Duncan Duff). But when Emily falls in love with the married Reverend Wadsworth (Eric Loren), who enjoys the intellectual exchange but offers no romantic response, she becomes increasingly bitter. Although, in counterpoint, the scenes showing him bearing up under the outrageously dogmatic pettiness of his wife, played by Simone Milsdochter, have a devastatingly acerbic comedy.) The poet’s frustrations rise as the one outlet for her art—anonymous publication in her local newspaper—dries up as well, through the cruel and vengeful narrow- mindedness of its editor.

She confronts her brother’s romantic hypocrisy and her sister’s staunch amiability, and then she gets sick. Davies films his literary script with a directorial daring that’s both precise and free, blending delicately composed close- ups and group portraits with audaciously confrontational and uninhibited visual imagination, involving three- hundred- and- sixty- degree pans and haunting special effects (including a jolting documentary interlude regarding the Civil War). He also makes exemplary use of Dickinson’s poetry, recited by Nixon, on the soundtrack, playing like a sort of music that meshes with the actual music track, which is dominated by well- chosen touches of further New England audacity, such as Charles Ives’s “The Unanswered Question.”Great acting usually coincides with great direction, and, while the entire cast moves and speaks with a sense of inner purpose, Nixon’s performance is special. If she’s not nominated for an Oscar in whichever year this movie is released, I’ll eat the pixels.) Her incarnation of Dickinson seems to rise outward from the bone; she seems frozenly poised with, yes, a quiet passion that’s all the more impassioned for its unplanned quietness. Nixon’s Dickinson would like, rather, to make a little noise, and when she does so it’s with a disagreeable, disruptive, hostile bitterness that exemplifies Davies’s view of the poet’s unhappy anonymity. After the tautly spirited dialectic of Dickinson’s creative days, the scenes of her illness have a terrifying emotional splendor.

Nixon plays Dickinson’s death like a childbirth scene in which the body is wrenched apart to yield up the soul, which then doesn’t ascend to heaven but remains on Earth to inhabit the world more fully after death than Dickinson ever managed to do in life—the wicked metaphysical irony of posthumous renown. Davies does more than film Dickinson’s life; he creates a world that is, above all, her inner world, confined to the increasingly narrow circles of her activity that, as they contract, raise the repressive force on her repressed emotional life and raise the heat on the emotions that she presses into her brief, curt, only seemingly cool verses.“A Quiet Passion” is one of the rare movies about a writer that convey the sense that the character, as depicted, is capable of artistic creation at a world- historical height of achievement. Norman Mailer said that the one character that novelists can’t successfully create is that of a novelist better than themselves.

Similarly, no filmmaker can make a movie that’s as good as a good novel or story or play unless that filmmaker is an artist at the same level as the writer; no filmmaker can create a convincing portrait of an artist without being an artist of comparable imagination. Davies has been, for thirty years, among the world’s best filmmakers, certainly not as concealed or unheralded in his time as Dickinson was in hers, but not nearly receiving the acclaim or the support that he has deserved. A Quiet Passion” will take its place as one of his finest creations, as one of the great movies of the time. I can’t wait to see it again—and to see it become widely available. It ought to make quite a splash.

Things That The Mainstream Media Is Being Strangely Quiet About Right Now – The American Dream. As the mainstream media continues to be obsessed with Anthony Weiner and his bizarre adventures on Twitter, much more serious events are happening around the world that are getting very little attention.  In America today, if the mainstream media does not cover something it is almost as if it never happened. Right now, the worst nuclear disaster in human history continues to unfold in Japan , U. S. nuclear facilities are being threatened by flood waters, the U. S. military is bombing Yemen, gigantic cracks in the earth are appearing all over the globe and the largest wildfire in Arizona history is causing immense devastation.  But Anthony Weiner, Bristol Palin and Miss USA are what the mainstream media want to tell us about and most Americans are buying it.

In times like these, it is more important than ever to think for ourselves.  The corporate- owned mainstream media is not interested in looking out for us.  Rather, they are going to tell us whatever fits with the agenda that their owners are pushing. That is why more Americans than ever are turning to the alternative media.  Americans are hungry for the truth, and they know that the amount of truth that they get from the mainstream media continues to decline. The following are 1. The crisis at the Fort Calhoun nuclear facility in Nebraska has received almost no attention in the national mainstream media. Back on June 7th, there was a fire at Fort Calhoun.  The official story is that the fire was in an electrical switchgear room at the plant.  The facility lost power to a pump that cools the spent fuel pool for approximately 9. According to the Omaha Public Power District, the fire was quickly extinguished and no radioactive material was released. The following sequence of events is directly from the Omaha Public Power District website….

There was no such imminent danger with the Fort Calhoun Station spent- fuel pool. Due to a fire in an electrical switchgear room at FCS on the morning of June 7, the plant temporarily lost power to a pump that cools the spent- fuel pool. The fire- suppression system in that switchgear room operated as designed, extinguishing the fire quickly. FCS plant operators switched the spent- fuel pool cooling system to an installed backup pump about 9.

During the interruption of cooling, temperature of the pool increased a few degrees, but the pool was never in danger of boiling. Due to this situation, FCS declared an Alert at about 9: 4. Watch Jim Breuer: Let&Amp;#X27;S Clear The Air Online Goodvideohost. June 7. An alert is the second- least- serious of four emergency classifications established by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

At about 1: 1. 5 p. June 7, FCS operators declared they had taken all appropriate measures to safely return to the previously declared Notification of Unusual Event emergency classification. See first item above.)But the crisis at Fort Calhoun is not over.  Right now, the nuclear facility at Fort Calhoun is essentially an island. It is surrounded by rising flood waters from the Missouri River. Officials claim that there is no danger and that they are prepared for the river to rise another ten feet. The Cooper Nuclear Station in Brownville, Nebraska is also being threatened by rising flood waters.  A “Notification of Unusual Event” was declared at Cooper Nuclear Station this morning at 4: 0. This notification was issued because the Missouri River’s water level reached 4.

Right now the facility is operating normally and officials don’t expect a crisis. But considering what has been going on at Fukushima, it would be nice if we could have gotten a lot more coverage of these events by the mainstream media.#2 Most Americans are aware that the U. S. is involved in wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.  However, the truth is that the U. S. military is also regularly bombing Yemen and parts of Pakistan.  If you count the countries where the U. S. has special forces and/or covert operatives on the ground, the U. S. is probably “active” in more countries in the Middle East than it is not.  Now there are even persistent rumors that U.

S. ground units are being prepared to go into Libya.  Are we watching the early stages of World War 3 unfold before our eyes in slow motion?#3 The crisis at Fukushima continues to get worse.  Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, recently made the following statement about the Fukushima disaster….“Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind”TEPCO has finally admitted that this disaster has released more radioactive material into the environment than Chernobyl did.  That makes Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster of all time, and it is far from over. Massive amounts of water is being poured into the spent fuel pools in order to keep them cool.  This is creating “hundreds of thousands of tons of highly radioactive sea water” that has got to go somewhere.  Inevitably much of it will get into the ground and into the sea. Arnold Gundersen says that the scope of this problem is almost unimaginable….“TEPCO announced they had a melt through.

A melt down is when the fuel collapses to the bottom of the reactor, and a melt through means it has melted through some layers. That blob is incredibly radioactive, and now you have water on top of it. The water picks up enormous amounts of radiation, so you add more water and you are generating hundreds of thousands of tons of highly radioactive water.”The mainstream media is not paying as much attention to Fukushima these days, but that doesn’t mean that it is not a major league nightmare. Elevated levels of radiation are being reported by Japanese bloggers all over eastern Japan.  There are reports of sick children all over the region.  One adviser to the government of Japan says that an area approximately 1. Manhattan is probably going to be uninhabitable.

Of course the mainstream media has been telling us all along that Fukushima is nothing to be too concerned about and that authorities in Japan have everything under control. If the mainstream media is not going to tell us the truth, how are they going to continue to have credibility?#4 Members of Congress continue to mention Christians as a threat to national security.  For example, during a recent Congressional hearing U. S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee warned that “Christian militants” might try to “bring down the country” and that such groups need to be investigated.#5 China’s eastern province of Zhejiang has experienced that worst flooding that it has seen in 5. China has already been having huge problems with their crops over the past few years and this is only going to make things worse.#6 Thanks to the Dodd- Frank Act, over the counter trading of gold and silver is going to be illegal starting on July 1. Or at least that is what some companies apparently now believe.  The following is an excerpt from an email that Forex. Important Account Notice Re: Metals Trading We wanted to make you aware of some upcoming changes to FOREX. As a result of the Dodd- Frank Act enacted by US Congress, a new regulation prohibiting US residents from trading over the counter precious metals, including gold and silver, will go into effect on Friday, July 1.

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