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It could have been any of a million other towns, DeKalb, Ill., where I live, for example.
Up to this point, The Collector was supplying Weller with kids from other towns since local kids were of no use to Weller.
He hooks up with a Mexican revolutionary named Paco, and together they strike a bargain; The Pole will aide Paco in his revolution, for a slice of any profits that the pair and their army 'liberate' from the Mexican towns and villages.
When he is sent to a German officer's office for being out after curfew he hears a report that the Russians are heading in his towns direction and thinks they may free him and his town from the Germans.
Violet worked as a stage hand for a theatrical company that traveled by railroad all through the small towns of America.
ELAH is a powerful film from the brilliant Director Paul Haggis that drives home on the screen in a magnificent performance from Tommy Lee Jones the fear a father may have in the loss of his son and how this war is being played out in the small towns of America where a family wonders if a man, or woman, might return home safe, or in a body bag.
The story is frank (1950s frank) and intelligent about sex and the way that small towns treat it.
He then uses his arms to rob jewels at the towns they play in.
If anything, the film demonstrates the need to move out of college towns and get on with your life.
When one thinks about Northern European cinema you think about frozen landscapes, desert towns, drama, Bergman, Liv Ullman, Von trier...
My tip for directors is: before you shoot a movie, analyze the culture of the people first... On the other hand, KFOR soldiers were not positioned in mountains and rural areas of Kosovo, they were positioned in towns, villages and populated areas.
Even those of us who did not grow up in a small town have small towns inside us.
The Bergen (Norway) Cinema director in 1995 had the sense - at the time when this ghastly film was first (and never again!) sprung upon unsuspecting audiences in Oslo and other major Norwegian towns - to refuse to show it in Bergen cinemas.
He and his fellow performers were forever at the mercy of unscrupulous managers, forced to live in crummy lodgings where they ate poorly, in towns where they were generally regarded as no better than tramps and whores by the disapproving townsfolk.
The writing is top notch (Milch may be the best dialog writer going), and weaves the facts of the real history of Deadwood Gulch (one of the last American gold rush towns) with a few imagined characters amongst the many based on actual personages to craft and pace the storytelling properly.
What's causing these crashes might be mystery to the towns' folk, but for us we know that there's a giant Gila monster on the loose.
You tend to find more of these kids in backwoods towns and deep in the suburbs than in the inner city and this movie seems more like a non-fiction representation of that ridiculous subculture.
Small towns can be most unforgiving about differences, especially differences that are hated and feared, like homosexuality.
Start a service business in any small town America and then bash half of the towns populous.
American small towns don't come much cosier than Liberty Hill, the setting for this very old-fashioned weepie.
I live in this area of England and the stark grey images combined with the lush green fields work fantastically well on film , the characters are your everyman types that everyone knows or knows of in their town .It shows the dark under belly of small towns in central England , its stark imagery doesn't glorify violence in the way usually associated with this type of film .
Aside from the fact that most of the Afro Americans was living in the big towns back than, there were never any small all black communities back than, and I'm pretty sure there where not to many black outlaw gangs at the time.
They do not have towns that neat and cardboard.
The film delves into the history of the oil age and how once booming oil centers such as Baku, Azerbajian and Maracaibo, Venezuela have morphed into ghost towns once the oil was gone.
The big, cosmopolitan cities of Beijing and Shanghai have grown dramatically, but the bulk of the urban migration has been to cookie-cutter small and medium-size industrial towns that have mushroomed over the last decade.
And, as the fate of Mexico’s northern towns suggests, emerging economies are not immune from this process.
Rather than building ever more cookie-cutter industrial towns, China needs to refit and upgrade its existing cities.
Some experiments have had less clear results, making, say, a positive contribution to GDP growth, but also contributing to problems like excess industrial capacity, pollution, corruption, and the creation of ghost towns.
Small cities and towns will allow migrants to apply for the local hukou with no strings attached, and medium-size cities will do the same, with some restrictions.
The answer lies in the unprecedented challenges that China faces, including corruption, pollution, unsustainable local debts, ghost towns, shadow banks, inefficient state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and excessive government control over the economy.
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