âI was half-dreading the 100th anniversary, but in fact, the research and the events that happened were very, very considered,â says Murphy.
âIn 1966, it was just an utterly unquestioning, nationalist commemoration. I remember as a schoolgirl buying into that, like a lot of us did, in those days. There was a TV series that went on all week, called Insurrection, a mockumentary of each day of the Rising. Iâve seen it since; itâs kind of fascinating. We were kind of thrilled by that. We felt it was like a totally accurate representation of the way things were, had television cameras been there. So to move from that, directly after that, to Belfast, was quite a shock. We had moved â inadvertently â into a fairly loyalist neighbourhood. And then when the trouble started, we moved into a nationalist neighbourhood. I can remember hearing gunfire and thinking: the Rising must have been like this. That it wasnât this kind of great, glorious flag-waving
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Migrants in Tijuana with the hope of rebuilding their lives will be able to take advantage of free classes at a new school that opened last week.
The Scalabrini Immigrant Training Center plans to educate and certify adult migrants to promote integration and improve their job opportunities, education, and personal development.
The Scalabrinian missionaries purchased the land, which was previously used as a car body shop, while the U.N. Refugee Agency financed the construction. The Vista Hermosa Foundation will help with operating expenses.
Giovanni Lepri, a refugee agency representative, acknowledged that the number of people requesting asylum in Mexico has increased in the last three years.
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A steady flame of rapture and pain burns through Pat Murphyâs captivating Maeve from 1981, now rereleased: it is vehemently acted, superbly composed and remarkably shot on the streets of Belfast. It is a fierce, gaunt prose poem of a movie, born of the British Film Instituteâs art-cinema aesthetic of that era, starkly realist and yet at the same time mysterious and wan. It is theatrically stylised, always stumbling across dreamlike tableaux of its own devising. There is something of Terence Davies here, and also Ibsen and Beckett. This was an approach that went out of style in British cinema quickly enough, although Richard Billinghamâs Ray & Liz from 2018 is a potent, intelligent reminder.
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Here is the 1983 zero-budget underground movie from radical feminist director Lizzie Borden (who was born Linda Borden and took the name of the famous â40 whacksâ woman) now on rerelease after a recent restoration.
One factor that may have kept this film long under the radar is its quite extraordinary climax in which a revolutionary bomb blows up one of New Yorkâs World Trade Center towers â a low-budget but remarkably potent and dreamlike special effect just before the closing credits. And the scene in which this bomb is planted, with someone making her way up to the top floor, creeping through a service door and leaving a suspicious suitcase in a dark empty area full of wires, shows every sign of guerrilla-filming without permission in the place itself.
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A long-standing London industry has sold its property and building, but the company has no plans to close or scale back production.
In fact Accuride Corp. on Firestone Boulevard plans to hire about 10 workers, plant manager Kevin Webster said Monday.
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Accuride, which makes steel rims for truck tires, sold the land and building for $16.5 million but is leasing the space back, Webster said.
“We are not going anywhere. We have contracts extending past five years.”