A new upcoming film, Un cel de plom (2023)
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On April 28, Un cel de plom (Ashes in the Sky), the first fiction film by Miquel Romans that tells the life of Neus Català, one of the last survivors of the Ravensbrück Nazi extermination camp, will be released in theaters. Nausicaa Bonnín (Tres díascon la familia, La luz de Elna) puts herself in the shoes of the historic woman in a free adaptation of the homonymous book by Carme Martí (Amsterdam Publishing House, 2012), specifically in one of its episodes, in the which narrates the return home of this activist in the anti-fascist struggle and a reference to the French resistance.
«This is a story of overcoming, of absences and of struggle for memory, a story of women fighters and dreamers. Neus died in April 2019 at the age of 103 and this film wants to be a tribute to her”, explains Romans, who makes his feature film debut with this film that will have its world premiere on the day April 22 as a film in competition in the Official Section of the BCN Film Fest 2023.
Catalá was born in 1915 in Guiamets. Once the Civil War broke out, she worked in defense of the Republic as a nurse, and finally crossed the border with France along with 180 boys and girls from one of Negrín's colonies. There she joined the Resistance, together with her husband, Albert Roger. Her militancy ended in detention and torture in Limoges prison and she was finally deported in 1944 to the Ravensbrück women's extermination camp. From Ravensbrück she was transferred to the Holleischen labor camp (Czechoslovakia), where she joined a group of women who sabotaged the bullet production factory where the Nazis made them work. They were known as El Comando de Gandulas.
In 1945, with the liberation of the Nazi camps, Neus Català returns to France after being imprisoned by the German army. As she recovers her life in freedom, she recalls the events of when she formed part of El Comando de Gandulas. But the true resistance of Neus Català begins now: the fight for memory.
Cast: Nausicaa Bonnín, Rachel Lascar, Roger Batalla, Iria del Río, Natalia Barrientos, Paula Vélez, Laura Conejero, Quitterie Picamoles, Pep Ferrer, Daniel Horvath, Christiane Dollmann and Fernando Corral.
• Screenplay: Miquel Romans, Lydia Zimmermann
• Photography: Marc Zumbach
• Production: Miquel Romans
Un cel de plom is produced by Principal 2 Films and Comando de Gandulas AIE in co-production with TV3, with the participation of Aragón TV and the support of the ICEC. Filmax will distribute it in theaters.
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TOGETHER AGAIN SPOILERS
A thread of lore, Easter eggs, episode connections, and background details from Adventure Time: Distant Lands: Together Again! Let me know if I missed anything! This is adapted from my original Twitter thread.
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1. I was expecting them to perhaps do a classic style title sequence for this episode, but I wasn't expecting them to straight up use the original title sequence. The only difference is this final screen saying "Distant Lands".
2. The background of the title cards is also the hill from the title sequence.
3. The ice cream having "50 flavours" and having an image of an enlightened soul is an obvious reference to the 50th Dead World as we see it later in the episode.
4. Continuing with the metaphor, the dirt in the ice cream could be a parallel to the fact that Jake's Nirvana actually wasn't perfect, because his inaction was allowing for injustice to perpetuate.
5. This whole scene feels immediately slightly off. Finn has his Scarlet sword and is out on a classic Ice King adventure, but he speaks in his grown voice and all the slang feels much more forced than it did in the real season one. Turns out this was deliberate.
6. The snow golem speaks with a baby voice like it did in the pilot episode, even though in canon it has a deeper voice. This further hints that something is not quite right.
7. The first major break in continuity is these snow golems resembling Uncle Gumbald and Peace Master, who Finn didn't meet until later in his life.
8. LSP sitting on Finn's head like this is reminiscent of Pen Ward's piece for the 2018 Ble crew zine.
9. Finn being given the choice of helping somebody but ending up helping everybody reminds me of "Memories of Boom Boom Mountain". It's the kind of resolution that wouldn't happen so much in the late seasons of the show, which helps make this scene feel even further out of place.
10. Jake is half frozen by Ice King in pretty much the exact same way as he was in "Prisoners of Love", and even has a very similar line.
11. The Snail is seen here. The crew have said that the Snail has been deliberately left out of previous Distant Lands specials, so its placement here is another very deliberate hint that this whole sequence is "trying too hard" to be like the early seasons.
12. The book "Mind Games" appears a couple of times, as seen in several previous episodes of Adventure Time. The first is as Finn is approaching the library in his dream. It also appears as one of the items in Finn's backpack later.
13. Jake is hurt when Finn fist bumps him with his metal arm, revealing that this scene is not real. This is also a callback to the title sequences of "Islands" and "Elements".
14. A whole bunch of familiar skeletons are seen in the bird's nest: Dirt Beer Guy, Abracadaniel, Me-Mow, Lemongrab, Mr. Pig, and the Snail again. This doesn't necessarily mean that all these characters are dead, since this scene is just a hallucination.
15. Old Man Finn! He's still got the chest tattoo of Jake, and this time we know that Jake is dead, so the theory that Jake died before "Obsidian" seems pretty likely. He looks similar to his old man design from "Puhoy", with the same facial hair.
16. There are several cameos of familiar characters who apparently died at the same time as Finn. The first is this duck, who previously appeared in "Ocarina".
17. The second is Donny, from the episode... uh, "Donny".
18. This goblin guy is an unnamed background character from “The Silent King”.
19. This old lady first appeared in "The Enchiridion", way back in season one. Old ladies are a species in the Land of Ooo, so I guess she wasn't actually very old back then, given she just about outlived Finn.
20. This is the cobbler who first appears in "His Hero". Amazing that he lived so long given all the trouble he got into in that episode.
21. Land of the Dead! This place was first seen in season two's "Death in Bloom", and now we are finally learning its actual purpose. It's a sort of gateway and hub to all of the other dead worlds.
22. There are some more minor cameos at the gates: a house person from "Donny", a soft person from "Gut Grinder", and a wood person from "When Wedding Bells Thaw". And, of course, the gate guardian himself from “Death in Bloom”.
23. Finn completely ignores the gate guardian in the same way he did in Death in Bloom. This also has the convenient effect of not having to reveal how Finn died, leaving it up to the audience's imagination.
24. Mr. Fox! We already knew he would die at some point because BMO had his skull in the finale.
25. Finn has his design from the first Distant Lands poster in this scene. Turns out it's young Finn in old Finn's clothes. But they gave him a shirt in the poster so you wouldn't be able to see the tattoo.
26. The clapping that Finn does while he's looking for Jake is a callback to "James Baxter the Horse", when Jake tells Finn to listen for that same rhythm if they are killed and need to find each other in the afterlife.
27. Mr. Fox talks about a "past life quotient", suggesting that there might be some kind of limit to how many times somebody can reincarnate. Finn's reincarnations are also seen in this scene; a callback to "The Vault", and confirmation that reincarnations share the same soul.
28. Boobafina, the goose who Mr. Fox was in love with in his debut episode “Storytelling”, apparently reincarnated into a tugboat. We've already seen that objects can have souls in the episode "Ghost Fly".
29. Finn is initially assigned to the 37th Dead World, which is the same one that Jake went to when he died in "Sons of Mars". We can only guess at what the other numbers on the ticket mean ;)
30. Tiffany! Despite several lucky escapes throughout his life, Tiffany has finally died. I like the use of this imagery to express Finn's conflicted feelings about him.
31. The 50th Dead World has long been established as the "highest" dead world, and the one synonymous with Heaven within Adventure Time's universe. It was first mentioned in "Ghost Princess" back in season three.
32. It's unclear what happens to souls which are destroyed within the dead worlds. It is a similar question to asking what happened to the ghosts that were killed in "Ghost Fly".
33. Death doesn't speak at all in Together Again because his voice actor, Miguel Ferrer, passed away in 2017 long before production began.
34. Finn phases through New Death when he tries to attack him, just like what happened way back in "Death in Bloom".
35. The 30th Dead World contains Tree Trunks as well as many of her love interests; Mr. Pig, her alien husband from "High Strangeness", Danny and Randy who first appeared in "Apple Wedding", and several more who we don't recognise, including at least one who presents as a woman.
36. Literally yelled when these two showed up. Joshua calls Finn a crybaby, which is a callback to "Dad's Dungeon".
37. The wall of weapons in Joshua and Margaret's house includes the iconic Demon Blood Sword, which was broken in "Play Date", as well as Margaret's auto-loading crossbow from "Joshua & Margaret Investigations".
38. Jermaine is sidelined a few times through the episode, in reference to his attitude in "Jermaine" where he feels that Finn and Jake were always their parents' favourites. I would have hoped things would be a bit better by now.
39. Fern gets name dropped while Finn and Jake are reuniting. A shame he doesn't actually show up in the episode.
40. In this scene, Finn says "What time is it?" This is a very subtle reference to the 2010 cartoon "Adventure Time".
41. In a couple of shots during this fight scene it looks like Jake might have a tattoo. It seems like it only becomes visible when he stretches out his arm.
42. New Death's amulet in this scene resembles parts of the Lich's cape, foreshadowing his influence on New Death.
43. There are several more cameos in the 50th Dead World: Booshy from "High Strangeness", one of the Marshmallow Kids from "Scamps", and Ghost Princess and Clarence, who were seen ascending to the 50th Dead World in "Ghost Princess".
44. Finn didn't interact with Booshy in "High Strangeness", but it seems they must have met at some point before they both died because Finn knows his name.
45. It seems like people in the 1st Dead World are slowly melted away until they become part of the landscape. Nasty.
46. Lots more cameos in this scene: a gnome from "Power Animal", a gnome from "The Enchiridion", a Bath Boy from "The Vault", Blagertha from "Love Games", Maja the Sky Witch, a troll from "Dungeon", Chocoberry, Choose Goose, Wyatt, a spiky person from "Gut Grinder", and possibly more.
47. Tiffany's insults are consistently nonsensical and amazing, as they were in the original series.
48. The Candy Kingdom looks extremely different. Peppermint Butler is wearing the crown so he might be in charge now, which is supported by the kingdom's very magical-looking augmentations. It’s not clear whether Finn and Jake were expecting to find Princess Bubblegum or Peppermint Butler, since both have the initials “PB” and both could be going by the title of “Princess”. Perhaps Peps and Bubblegum share the princess duties now that PB is living with Marceline more of the time.
49. Peppermint Butler has a "Boss" mug, although it's not the same colour as the one from "Obsidian".
50. Jake's ghost has the same design as he did when BMO killed him in "Ghost Fly". I also absolutely love Finn's ghost. This scene establishes that ghosts are just visitors to the mortal plane from the dead worlds.
51. Life has only appeared in animated shorts before now. Namely, "The Gift That Reaps Giving" which establishes her relationship with Death, and "Frog Seasons: Winter". This episode gives her a concrete place within Adventure Time's pantheon: she is in charge of reincarnation.
52. A translation of Life’s angry French dialogue by Shado: “After all I did for that boy. After all I did for him. No, it's not possible. It's not possible no, that... that makes me so mad but it's not possible.”
53. We finally have in-universe confirmation that Shoko's tiger is a previous life of Jake. This was previously confirmed by one of the writers, but wasn't canon until now.
54. I feel like Finn pulled off Shoko's look even better than Shoko did. I wonder whether Finn has gained the memories of his past lives now that he’s dead.
55. No Easter egg here, just want to appreciate this image.
56. There is an elemental symbol on the wall here, as seen in "Jelly Beans Have Power".
57. Tiffany's dramatic internal monologue is a recurring gag, as is his habit of nearly dying from falling into holes.
58. The Jake suit makes a cameo in the fight against New Death. It was last seen in the episode "Reboot”.
59. Finn's backpack contains a few familiar items: the t-shirt with the pocket from "It Came from the Nightosphere", Finn's underwear from "Little Dude" and other episodes, and a copy of Mind Games as I've already mentioned.
60. The Lich's Hand is present in the background of Death's... death scene. This is probably the unseen "friend" who New Death keeps talking about.
61. The Lich's menacing monologues often begin with a single command. Previously they have included "Fall" and "Stop". This time, the command is "Burn".
62. Jake uses the word "boingloings", which is a callback all the way to "Hitman" in the third season.
63. Jake's blue shape-shifter form from "Abstract" appears very briefly during his fight with Finn.
64. Finn's lumpy space person form also makes an appearance. This design was last seen all the way back in the second episode of the entire show, "Trouble in Lumpy Space".
65. Jake steps on the Lich's hand in a very similar way to how he stepped on Ash in "Memory of a Memory", which is itself a Monty Python reference.
66. The credits include a dedication to a few AT cast and crew who have passed away. Polly Lou Livingston was the voice of Tree Trunks. Miguel Ferrer was the voice of Death. Michel Lyman and Maureen Mlynarczyk were both sheet timers on the original series. Rest in peace.
67. The message that Finn and Jake write out on the ouija board is "BUTT", which Peppermint Butler takes as a distress signal. This message is also used as a distress signal by the Hot Dog Knights in "The Limit".
68. Peppermint Butler's reversed dialogue from the scene where he makes contact with Finn and Jake is "Kee-Oth Rama Pancake", the spell from “Dad's Dungeon” for banishing demons.
69. That appears to be President Porpoise with all of Tree Trunks’ other lovers.
70. In this scene, Life is humming part of "Lonely Bones", the song which Death tried to record for her in her debut short "The Gift That Reaps Giving". It's hard to notice because it's so brief.
71. Finn and Jake's cover is blown while in the Land of the Dead because Jake loudly farts, which also happened in "Death in Bloom".
72. The place where Mr. Fox explains the perception mechanics of the afterlife is the exact same location as the River of Forgetfulness from "Death in Bloom", which, as it turns out, was imaginary.
These are sort of out of order at the end because I was adding stuff to the Twitter thread as it got discovered. That’s all for now!
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POOR SAILOR from Victor Carrey on Vimeo.
Short Film, 2015
This is a short film I shot in 2015.
Directed by VICTOR CARREY
Based on "Poor Sailor" by SAMMY HARKHAM
A ESCAC FILMS production
CAST: Tatín Revenga, Manuel Manquiña, Maria Rivera, James Giblin, Hugo Cortés, Antoni Llorca, Pep Rosés, Ricard Gómez, Chus Leiva, Norberto Morán, José Luis Climent, Laia Serra, Marta Olivella, Cristian Aquino, Karl Lawrence, Sergio Blaya, Fermín Galán, Agost Alustiza
Producers: Lita Roig, Sergi Casamitjana
Line Producer: Carles Cambres
Cinematography: Bet Rourich
Production Designer: Anna Pujol Tauler
Stylist: Ester Palaudàries, Vinyet Escobar
Sound: Agost Alustiza
1st AD: Anna Jorquera, Daniel J. De Ventrosa
Focus puller: Patricia Torres, Alba Alarcón, Maria Parés
Camera ass: Sofi Perez-Portabella, Arnau Mata
Gaffer: Leo Calzoni
Best Boy: Lluis Maymó
Sparks: Ferran Serra, Marc Romeu, Enric Miranda, Carlos Rigo, Dani Jareño, Juli Carné, Albert Bada, Marc Llusià, Maria Codina, Thais Català
Editor: Martí Roca
Music: Rauelsson, Jaume Sisa
Script: Helena Mariño, Aina Seguí
Make Up: Danae Gatell
Head of Production: Janna Thamers
Coord. Production: Cristina Tapia
Prod. Assistants: Armando J. Ríos, Xavi Toll, Yaiza Navarro
Aux. Production: Oscar Perez, Ona Martinez, Txetxu Garcia, David Barreda, Raul Arranz, Franki ALarcon, Carlos Solano, Miquel Calvo, Nacho Sanchez, Bety Fortuny
Art director ass: Iris Santamaria
Ambientadoras: Alba Bravo, Lorena Tapia
Atrezzista: Laia Serra
Ass. Rodaje: Cristina Hontilluelo
Aux. rodaje: Teresa Caballero
Atrezz. montaje: Pep Oliver, Oscar Hernandez, Manel Domenech, Juan ANtonio Santos
FX: Bernat Puig
Stylist Assistant: Laia Pajares
Microfonistas: Idoia Iñarritu, Gerard Tarrega, Roc Codó, Cora Delgado
Medina del Campo Unit:
1st AD: Rodrigo Molleda
DOP: Gina Ferrer
Head of Production: Lucia Miret
Prod. Assistant: Primavera Ruiz
Prod. Assistants: Cecilia M. Ruiz, Rachel Chantada
Focus Puller: Arnau Mata
Aux. Camera: Diego Comendador
Make Up: Cristina Fernandez
Sound: Lin Chang
Colorist: Xavi Santolaya
Postproduction house: Lastcrit
Sound mix: Dani Zacarías
FX Supervisor: Alex Villagrasa, Laura Pedro
FX compositors: Real Flow, Txetxu de la Portilla, Ione Monroy, Raquel Enriquez, Nico Zarza
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Cavalier Bob
Yep, I’m a Lehman grad
A Lehman alumni
And Always a Cav!
Had to borrow the above photo
And the original Cavalier logo
“Cause that’s all I have.
I was at the homecoming game on a 2019 October Friday night.
And I saw a dude...duded-up as whom I call “Cavalier Bob”
On the sidelines of the Sidney Memorial Stadium field
Posing with the homecoming queen..oh what a sight.
It reminds of the original 1950s Cavalier drawing
Dating back to the Piqua Catholic High School era
Depicting Jose Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac
Back when I went to Lehman in the early 1970s
The only Catholic high school left in the Upper Miami Valley area.
I remember a big huge dude with a slightly sluury voice
With a bald head
Shouting at the team at the pep rally:
“WHO WE GONNA BEAT???”
The voice was that of Bob Heil, Lehman’s first football coach
Who also coached at the former Piqua High
When it done merged up with SIdney Holy Angels
On July 1st of 1970...a memory so neat, awesome and sweet.
Bob Heil’s coaching skills likened him with that of Knute Rockne
Though I myself struggled academically, financially and socially
I made many freinds there over time..though at first it was tough
But forty years later some of the classmates that bullied me
Later matured over time as I did
But eventually I forgave them
And are now some of my closest freinds.
I’m proud to be #Always a Cavalier
Though I wasn’t able to afford to send my own sons there
Coach Heil’s memory inspred me that homecoming night
To name the new mascot on facebook “Cavalier Bob”
May the Cavs revert back to their glorious football might!
May Bob Heil’s spirit live on.
“WHO WE GONNA BEAT???
WHO?
WHO?
WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO TO ‘EM? “
IN MEMORIAM:
ROBERT L. “COACH” HEIL
(1931-2006)
JML 10/20/19
http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18752620/robert-l-_heil
For more poetry go to https://batjmlworld.tumblr.com
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