Word: jungleã
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...even more stilted and awkward. Hayden Church’s performance is more compelling. As a primarily comic actor—he played the sex-crazed bachelor Jack in “Sideways” and the laughable villain of “George of the Jungle??—he is good at balancing a sense of humor with the demands of playing a more serious, troubled character...
...When he wasn’t drawing, Benton was going with his father to the local movie palace, where—since he couldn’t read—he got his first lessons in narrative. He watched the John Huston film “Asphalt Jungle?? twice, never even leaving his seat in the theater, to try and make sense of the opening documentary footage. Benton called movies a “substitute for life” in his early years, and said that his record for number of movies watched in one day was seven...
...cornerstones of racism, past and present, is the idea of the “backwardness” of non-white societies and civilizations. The “we were exploring the world and building castles while your people were still living in the jungle?? mentality has fueled and justified racist endeavors such as slavery, colonization, and modern far-right propaganda...
There’s another way to describe people who ‘go camping in the urban jungle??—and the word is “homeless.” That’s why it may have been baffling to see hundreds of perfectly well-housed men and women lounging around on Manhattan’s sidewalks in sleeping bags or tents last week. The prize was a Sony PlayStation 3, and the city was waiting. Just ask Angel Paredes who, according to the New York Times, spent three nights outside the Sony Plaza...
...Schmid would revisit the drifting-teenager theme with 2000’s “Crazy” (screening Sunday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m.), a well-crafted story of boarding school angst, based on an autobiographical novel by Benjamin Lebert. In the eleven years since “Jungle?? opened in Germany, Schmid has attracted stateside attention for “Requiem” (screening Saturday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m.), his 2005 film that debuted in America last month. Based on the same events that inspired the 2005 Hollywood horror film “The Exorcism...