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Roger Ebert, who gave the film a mere one star in the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote :" The filmmakers must have known that the original Godzilla ( 1956 ) had many loyal fans all over the world who treasured the absurd dialogue, the bad lip-synching, the unbelievable special effects, the phony profundity.
Vincent Canby of the New York Times was similarly unimpressed :" Though special-effects experts in Japan and around the world have vastly improved their craft in the last 30 years, you wouldn't know it from this film.
James Berardinelli, in his review of the film, argues against the dream or fantasy interpretation, stating :" Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader append the perfect conclusion to Taxi Driver.
:" I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight.
Advertising for the film ( pictured at right ) boasted of the extravagant expense incurred in presenting the spectacle :" Actual Sinking of an Ocean Liner. Two Battleships Sunk by United States Navy .$ 18, 000 Used for Ammunition in One Battle. 40, 000 People Employed. 10, 000 Horses in Thrilling Cavalry Charges. 40 Aeroplanes in Great Air Battle. Every Death-dealing Device Known to Modern War in Operation. One Year in the Making. Cost $ 1, 000, 000. 00. Entire Cities Built and Destroyed. An Awe-inspiring Spectacle that one minute makes your blood run cold and another thrills you with its touches of human gentleness. The Story of the Greatest Love of the Ages —- the Love of Humanity.
" Kingsley found the film to be " marvelously well done " but took exception with the awkward dialect in the title cards :" C. Gardner Sullivan appears to have written ' Hell's Hinges ' for the purpose of allowing us to look our fill on fire and fights.
Upon the release of The Italian, the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review which included the following comments :" There are possibilities in the role of Pietro, in ' The Italian ' ... that a less clever character artist than George Beban might overlook ...
The film publication Cineaste published a review of The Italian in March 2009, focusing on the film's depiction of the Italian-American immmigrant experience as a Darwinian jungle rather than a promised land paved with gold :" Against Horatio Alger expectations, The Italian is a story of failure suffused with a soft-focused, dappled nostalgia for the old country ... ' From sunny Italy to the New York ghetto ,' read the taglines on Paramount's original one-sheet, contrasting scenes of ' carefree Beppo at home ' in the serene canals of Old Italy with the mean streets of New York where ' to live your baby must have Pasteurized milk.
A reviewer for the publication Bright Sights wrote that the film had a powerfully downbeat conclusion with a social message :" Projecting overwhelming grief, Beban reveals some hefty acting chops, and The Italian certainly gets its liberal point across, a model of how American movies dress social consciousness in the garb of melodrama.
In his 2004 historical book on the depiction of Italians in Hollywood movies, Peter Bondanella praised the film :" A number of elements sets The Italian apart from the other films treating the Italian immigrant experience.
:" The greatest Irish film.
:" However, I did have some film footage of horses that I wanted to see, for possible use in the picture.
Film historian John DiLeo has written that Magnani's acting in the film " displays why she is inarguably one of the half dozen greatest screen actresses of all time ", and added :" Whenever Magnani laughs or cries ( which is often ), it's as if you've never seen anyone laugh or cry before: has laughter ever been so burstingly joyful or tears so shatteringly sad?
:" the role of Tony in the film reminds me of Jimmy Stewart's in Vertigo.
" Dargis also describes the film :" Routinely criticized for his weak narratives, Mr. Wong is one of the few filmmakers working in commercial cinema who refuse to be enslaved by traditional storytelling.
In Premiere, Glenn Kenny gave the film four stars and ranked it as one of the ten best films of 2005 :" Insanely evocative ' 60s-style landscapes and settings share screen space with claustrophobic futuristic CGI metropolises ; everyone smokes and drinks too much ; musical themes repeat as characters get stuck in their own self-defeating modes of eternal return.
Influential film critic Roger Ebert gave the film a positive review, but was measured in his praise :" If you are attentive to the style, if you think about what Wong is doing, Chungking Express works.
Prolific web reviewer James Berardinelli awarded the film three-and-one-half stars out of a possible four :" Like John Woo, Tsui Hark, and other directors who learned their craft in Hong Kong, Wong infuses his films with style and energy.
:" Color film " redirects here.
:" I wanted to convey in the film the real pathos contained in a four line newspaper report that simultaneously records and dismisses the end of someone ’ s life "
Speaking about the film, he said in an interview with Bollywood Hungama :" MNIK is an unusual Bollywood film, if at all, and doesn't have those quintessential pre-requisite elements that any Bollywood film has (...) All I can say is that MNIK is going to open windows and doors to many people who have stories to tell and are shy to put their story on the celluloid " Upon release, the film was met with overwhelmingly positive reviews and strong box office reports ; My Name is Khan was the highest-grossing Bollywood film overseas at the time, grosseing over 2 billion worldwide.

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:" This urn was presented to Lord Darnley by some ladies of Melbourne after the final defeat of his team, and before he returned with the members to England.
Instead, the philosopher encounters a problem :" Now, if the ' to be ' of a thing could be conceived apart from that which exists, it should be represented in our mind by some note distinct from the concept of the thing itself ....
:" It was stated ... that ' a function is effectively calculable if its values can be found by some purely mechanical process.
More than the name separates each church example :" Independent Christian Church " will not accept a woman as a minister when some of the " Disciples of Christ " congregation will.
:" It was believed that the hold of the brainwashing over the cognitive processes of a cult member needed to be broken – or " snapped " as some termed it – by means that would shock or frighten the cultist into thinking again.
:" The severity of mutilations for some of these individuals can be astounding – including long term survivors with completely severed tails, major tail mutilations, and multiple disfiguring dorsal lacerations.
:" James's view is that the raw material out of which the world is built up is not of two sorts, one matter and the other mind, but that it is arranged in different patterns by its inter-relations, and that some arrangements may be called mental, while others may be called physical ".
While some schools regard this as features attributed to Shakyamuni Buddha others underline that he identifies himself as a votary of the Lotos Sutra :" Shakyamuni Buddha is the father and mother, teacher and sovereign to all living being ...” and similarly mentioning in his letter ' The Opening of the Eyes ':“ I, Nichiren, am sovereign, teacher, and father and mother to all the people ...”..
:" If the pantheist starts with the belief that the one great reality, eternal and infinite, is God, he sees everything finite and temporal as but some part of God.
:" It has recently come to our ears, not without great pain to us, that in some parts of upper Germany, [...] Mainz, Koin, Trier, Salzburg, and Bremen, many persons of both sexes, heedless of their own salvation and forsaking the catholic faith, give themselves over to devils male and female, and by their incantations, charms, and conjurings, and by other abominable superstitions and sortileges, offences, crimes, and misdeeds, ruin and cause to perish the offspring of women, the foal of animals, the products of the earth, the grapes of vines, and the fruits of trees, as well as men and women, cattle and flocks and herds and animals of every kind, vineyards also and orchards, meadows, pastures, harvests, grains and other fruits of the earth ; that they afflict and torture with dire pains and anguish, both internal and external, these men, women, cattle, flocks, herds, and animals, and hinder men from begetting [...]"
The Association of Social Anthropologists discourages this use, asserting :" To describe any living group as ' primitive ' or ' Stone Age ' inevitably implies that they are living representatives of some earlier stage of human development that the majority of humankind has left behind.
:" You alone of all the gods saved Zeus the Darkener of the Skies from an inglorious fate, when some of the other Olympians — Hera, Poseidon, and Pallas Athene — had plotted to throw him into chains ... You, goddess, went and saved him from that indignity.
:" We can guess that Susan original title of Northanger Abbey, in its first outline, was written very much for family entertainment, addressed to a family audience, like all Jane Austen ’ s juvenile works, with their asides to the reader, and absurd dedications ; some of the juvenilia, we know, were specifically addressed to her brothers Charles and Frank ; all were designed to be circulated and read by a large network of relations.
:" I was outside the cabin smoking some meat.
:" Case 10-On the night of December 15th, a number of Japanese soldiers entered the University of Nanking buildings at Tao Yuen and raped 30 women on the spot, some by six men.
:" The Conservative belief that there is some law of nature which prevents men from being employed, that it is ' rash ' to employ men, and that it is financially ' sound ' to maintain a tenth of the population in idleness for an indefinite period, is crazily improbable-the sort of thing which no man could believe who had not had his head fuddled with nonsense for years and years.
:" NSA Security-enhanced Linux is a set of patches to the Linux kernel and some utilities to incorporate a strong, flexible mandatory access control ( MAC ) architecture into the major subsystems of the kernel.
:" I find it gobsmacking that some people see the play as misogynistic.
:" For some say, at Dracanum ; and some, on windy Icarus ; and some, in Naxos, O Heaven-born, Insewn ; and others by the deep-eddying river Alpheus that pregnant Semele bare you to Zeus the thunder-lover.
:" many contrapuntal and other church items ; further a great number of symphonies, some only à 4 but others with all the customary instruments ; likewise more than 30 large serenades in which solos for various instruments appear.
The Italian historian Polydore Vergil said that some of the English royal council objected to the match, saying that it would bring the Stewarts directly into the line of English succession, to which the wily and astute Henry replied :" What then?
:" Simonides has a simple style, but he can be commended for the aptness of his language and for a certain charm ; his chief merit, however, lies in the power to excite pity, so much so that some prefer him in this respect to all other writers of the genre.

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