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1. The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric.
2. Directed by Brad Silberling. With Will Ferrell, Danny McBride, Anna Friel, Jorma Taccone. On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time.

The English Patient Movie Review (1. Backward into memory, forward into loss and desire, “The English. Patient” searches for answers that will answer nothing. This poetic, evocative. Michael Ondaatje circles down through. It is the kind of movie you can. The film opens with a pre- war biplane flying above the desert.

The film will tell us who these. All of the. rest of the story is prologue and epilogue to the reasons for this flight. It. is told with the sweep and visual richness of a film by David Lean, with an.

Advertisement. The “present” action takes place in Italy, during the last days. World War II. A horribly burned man, the “English patient” of the title, is. When he grows too ill to be moved, a nurse named. Hana (Juliette Binoche) offers to stay behind to care for him in the ruins of.

Here she sets up a makeshift hospital, and soon she is joined. Caravaggio (Willem. Dafoe). The patient's skin is so badly burned it looks like tortured. His face is a mask. He can remember nothing. Hana cares for him. I must be a curse.

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Anybody who loves me- -who gets close to. Caravaggio, who has an interest in the morphine Hana dispenses.

Ask your saint who he's killed. I don't think. he's forgotten anything.” The nurse is attracted to one of the bomb disposal. Sikh officer named Kip (Naveen Andrews).

But as she. watches him risk his life to disarm land mines, she fears her curse will doom. Meanwhile, the patient's memories start. Herodotus, with. drawings, notes and poems pasted or folded inside. I will not disclose the crucial details of what he remembers. I. will simply supply the outlines that become clear early on. He is not English.

He is a Hungarian count, named Laszlo de Almasy (Ralph Fiennes). Egypt before the war was attached to the Royal Geographic Society as a.

English troops in case of. In the frantic social life of Cairo, where everyone is aware. Almasy meets a newly married woman at a dance. She is. Katharine Clifton (Kristin Scott Thomas). Her husband Geoffrey (Colin Firth) is.

Almasy follows her home one night, and she confronts. Why follow me? Escort me, by all means, but to follow me . It is clear to both of them that they are in love. Eventually they find.

Geoffrey is called. In a stunning sequence, their camp is all but buried in a sandstorm. These are the two people- -the count and the British woman- -who.

But under what conditions that flight was. Caravaggio, the strange. Actions that may have led to Caravaggio having his thumbs. Nazis. All of this back- story (there is much more) is pieced together.

There are moments of great effect: One in which she plays hopscotch. A scene involving the nurse, the Sikh, and a piano.

Talks at dusk. with the patient, and with Caravaggio. All at last becomes clear. Advertisement. The performances are of great clarity, which is a help to us in. Binoche is a woman whose heart has been so. Fiennes, in what is essentially a dual role, plays a man who. Thomas is one of those bright, energetic British.

Dafoe's character must remain murkier, along with his motives. And Andrews, as the bomb- disposal. Ondaatje's novel has become one of the most widely read and. Some of its readers may be disappointed that more is not. Andrews character; the love between the Sikh and the nurse could. But the novel is so. Anthony Minghella, has done a creative job of finding visual ways to show how.

Producers are not always creative contributors to films, but the. The English Patient,” Saul Zaentz, is in a class by himself. Working independently, he buys important literary properties (“One Flew Over. Cuckoo's Nest,” “Amadeus,” “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” “At Play in.

Fields of the Lord”) and savors their difficulties. Here he has created. Minghella a film that does what a great novel can do: Hold your attention.

Land of the Lost (1. TV series)Land of the Lost is a half- hour Saturday- morning children's series that debuted on ABC in the fall of 1. Re- runs were later picked up by Nickelodeon from 1. Tiger Toys received the license to produce a toyline based on the series, which included regular and "talking" action figures, several dinosaurs and playsets, an electronic Crystal Sword, as well as an electronic LCD game and a board game. Synopsis[edit]Motivated by the success in syndication of the cult. Land of the Lost, Sid and Marty Krofft created a new version of it.[1] The new Land of the Lost had advanced special effects and a lighter, less survivalist- oriented tone. Frequent writers Len Janson and Chuck Menville had previously crafted numerous scripts for assorted Filmation series, while producer Jerry Golod had earlier collaborated with George A.

Romero on Tales from the Darkside. The series ran for 2. It featured the Porter family - father Tom, son Kevin and daughter Annie - trapped in a parallel universe after their Jeep Cherokee fell through a time portal while exploring the back country. They soon meet another human, a beautiful "jungle girl" named Christa who came from 1. San Francisco. Christa became trapped in the Land of the Lost when she was very young and grew up alone.

An earlier concept would have featured an adult Holly Marshall as the "mystery girl" along with Cha- Ka but due to casting the characters were revisualized as Christa and Stink). The Porters live in a large "treehouse" (although it is actually built between a series of large logs and not rooted trees) that the family built after they realized their tents provided little safety from dangerous predators. After their first encounter with Scarface, they devised an alarm system by stringing up a series of empty tin cans surrounding the treehouse perimeter that would shake and make noise if Scarface were to show up again. Intelligent natives of the Land of the Lost include chimpanzee- like Pakuni and the lizard- like Sleestaks, and there are many species of dinosaurs filling the jungle.

A Paku named Stink and a baby dinosaur named Tasha were befriended by the Porters. Acting as antagonists were a trio of exiled Sleestak criminals named Shung, Keeg and Nim. Shung is their leader and possesses a powerful crystal sword. Another major obstacle faced by the Porters was a one- eyed Tyrannosaurus named Scarface, who lived near the area where the family made their home and frequently chased after them in an attempt to eat them. A sorceress named Keela with genuine magical powers was introduced in the second season and appeared in two episodes. Another character added in the second season was Namaki, a strange fish- like humanoid who befriended Christa when she was just a little girl.

Twelve episodes of Season 1 were released onto videocassette at two episodes per video. As of 2. 01. 6 the series has yet to be released on DVD or Blu- ray. Characters[edit]The Porters[edit]Thomas "Tom" Porter (played by Timothy Bottoms) is the widowed father of Kevin and Annie. After his wife, Natasha, died in a car accident, he spent the next few years burying himself in his work as a lawyer. Before his wife's death, Tom would take his family camping most weekends in order to devote more time to them. Continuing the tradition, he arranged to take his children on the camping trip which ultimately led to their arrival in the Land of the Lost.

As a result, he feels enormous guilt for trapping his family in this dangerous place and strives to find a way back home to San Francisco at every opportunity. He is a compassionate man with a deep sense of morality and fairplay even when dealing with those who would threaten him or his family. Tom is a devoted and protective parent but is not above giving his kids "space" when he feels it is acceptable to do so. Back home, he often spent his afternoons jogging, hoping one day to win a marathon race. In the episode, "Flight to Freedom", it is revealed he is approximately 1.

He says to Scarface that he is, "1. Kevin Porter (played by Robert Gavin) is Tom's 1. He is the most laid- back member of the family.

Not only does he accept their situation but he actually grows to like it. Unfortunately, his carefree attitude breeds indifference to the dangers around him and he often finds himself in more peril than he expected. He likes to think of himself as an adult and will often disobey his father if he thinks Tom is being unfair.

Of all the Porters, Kevin is the one most reliant on the comforts and conveniences of the modern world. Watch Hitler Meets Christ Online Ibtimes here. In addition to the usual camping gear, Kevin also smuggled in a portable six- inch TV, a camcorder, a boom- box, and a bag of various junk foods which he keeps hidden from the others.

His goal is to one day become a world- famous director, and he carries the camcorder with him at all times to capture the sights and wonders of the Land of the Lost. He expects this footage to propel him to stardom once they return to their own world. He is also a capable, self- taught mechanic, and one of his primary responsibilities is taking care of the family truck to ensure that it is running smoothly when they need it. Kevin often prefers to explore alone and dislikes having to "babysit" his sister.

He thinks of her as being a complete "nerd" and often trades insults with her. However, deep down he's very much a caring brother and will not hesitate to act if she's in danger. Kevin has a crush on Christa and often goes out of his way to impress her. Anamarie "Annie" Porter (played by Jennifer Drugan) is Tom's 1. She is very bright and intuitive for her age and resents her family (especially Kevin whom she considers a "dork") for treating her like a baby. She has had to grow up rather quickly in a hostile environment and has shown that she is more than capable of taking care of herself on many occasions. Annie is a vegetarian, and one of her responsibilities is maintaining her garden at the base of the treehouse.

The sorceress Keela takes her on as an apprentice and entrusts her with her spellbook when she has to leave for extended periods. Annie is extremely protective of the dinosaur Tasha and treats her not as a pet but as a member of the family. She is also a bit of an artist, as shown in the episode, "The Thief", when she draws a picture of Christa to give her as a present for the birthday party they throw her.

In, "Annie in Charge", her full name is revealed to be, "Anamarie". Visitors to the Land[edit]Christa (played by Shannon Day) like the Porters, the beautiful cave- girl Christa is from San Francisco back on Earth but was born in Chicago. Her family was trapped in the Land of the Lost through similar circumstances to the Porters. At one point, Christa's family built a raft to try to sail to the other side of the ocean, hoping to find signs of civilization. In a subsequent storm, Christa was washed overboard but found refuge on a floating tree trunk where after several days of drifting she found her way to a far away beach. Separated from her parents, Christa grew up practically alone, and by the time the Porters met her, had repressed almost everything about her previous life.

She is fiercely independent and feels safe and at home in the jungle. However, she's not oblivious to its many dangers and uses her knowledge of its topography, inhabitants, and various medicinal plants to aid the Porters whenever she can. She is fluent in Pakuni often greeting her human friends with "Acuba Ne" to express both "hello" and "goodbye". She is like an older sister to Annie and the object of Kevin's infatuation.

Flashbacks of Christa as a child were seen in "Life's a Beach". Young Christa was played by Farrah Emami. She also has a yell similar to Tarzan's that can calm certain animals which she presumably learned from Stink. Christa was originally intended to be Holly from the original Land of the Lost, but casting made this impossible.