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Apollo Bay, Australia
61 Great Ocean Road, Skenes Creek, 3233 Apollo Bay, Australia – Show map
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Beachcomber Motel & ApartmentsOnly a 5 minute walk from Apollo Bay Beach, Beachcomber Motel features beautiful grounds with a sheltered barbecue area. All rooms have a TV, Wi-Fi access and free parking.
Score from 359 reviews Very good
Just 100 yards from the Apollo Bay beachfront, the Seaview Motel features a barbecue area, guest laundry facilities and free parking. Each room has a private balcony or patio.
Score from 539 reviews Very good
The Coastal Motel is ideally located in the heart of Apollo Bay, along the famous Great Ocean Road. It features barbecue facilities, free on-site parking, and rooms with a kitchenette.
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Apollo Bay Waterfront Motor InnJust across from the Apollo Bay Beach, the Waterfront Motor Inn has a variety of accommodations in a lovely garden setting. Guests receive free Wi-Fi access and some rooms provide ocean views.
Score from 685 reviews Wonderful
staff were very helpful & room was comfortable
Television had no reception & apparently this happens frequently & needs to be retuned, however ours would not work.
Rooms were clean and tidy and functional
I found it a little hard to find as the sign is after the drive way and as you are travelling down a main road difficult to stop. No eating facilities close by
Everything you needed for overnight stay. Perfect view. Lovely staff.
Very small room. Bed a bit saggy
View from the room of the ocean was spectacular.
Rooms need renovation, need modernizing.
View is amazing Super friendly staff Close to apollo bay
It was clean and quite. Manager very freindly
Dated for the money asking
We were lucky to have a room with a lovely view of the ocean - not all of them do. Nice people operating the Motel.
Hand basin not in bathroom. No guest laundry.
View Quiet room facilities
Too far from Apollo Bay ie. food, entertainment
Location Staff friendly and obliging.
A little bit run down
I like the location..
All the milk provided has expired... Small heater is not enough For the room to heat up? Curtains are not fully covering the room people can see inside.. Didn't find shower hell. Crockery was not up to standered,
Staff were friendly and helpful, the view was wonderful (We were up graded from hill view to ocean view) it was easy to find.
The room was much smaller than expected, the heater was disappointing. And no fire place that was described.
I like everything!
It was a lil pricey ..
Close to Apollo Bay Ocean View
Bugs all over the kitchenette bench when we arrived A bit pricey for a basic motel
Over priced
The couple that manage te motel should be applauded for their hospitality and for their warm and friendly approach to everything. We would love to go back and recommend it to anyone looking for a peaceful holiday away from the usual rat race you see everwhere.excellente...........
The view is wonderful, be sure to order the ocean view room, excellent to see the sunrise and sunset. The staff is so kind to help arrange the route for us. We follow his instruction and see the amazing rainforest.
The room is not big and the small heating fan is not enought if you travel in late fall or winter.
Friendly welcome lovely view comfy room
thank you very much for evert thing and that you open your doors for us on a late hour
The motel room was very basic and cramped for the cost. There was also quite a bit of noise from plumbing and adjacent rooms.
Sea view
No privacy. Everyone walks past your room and can see in. No point having a view you have to close the curtains in case some one walks to their car. Disappointing.
gave lots of knowledge of the area very friendly ++++++
the family rooms were great but a family member stayed in a queen bed was to much money for what it was
Friendly helpful staff who gave useful local information. Very clean room and comfortable bed.
Price was too high for a tired old small room with badly chipped vanity. No option to just turn on light to bathroom without the sound of a noisy fan in such a peaceful location.
The position was great, opposite the ocean. Listening to the sound of the sea was great. Comfortable bed.
We were disappointed with the condition of the room. It needed a good make over, especially the kitchen facilities & the bathroom. We found hairs in the shower recess,obviously not cleaned properly.
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ALBANY — Two weeks after being suspended for the rest of the season, Sherwood boys basketball coach Bryan Gelfand was fired on Wednesday.
Sherwood headmaster Glen Schultz declined to give a specific reason for not renewing Gelfand's contract, but Gelfand said his termination stemmed from an incident after a Feb. 14 game against rival Terrell Academy when the first-year coach was heard using inappropriate language as he walked off the court.
"The school didn't like my demeanor toward the ref," Gelfand said. "In a show of emotion as I was walking off the court, talking to myself and looking at the floor I let out some curse words, and that's what the suspension was for. It wasn't bad language directed at anybody."
Gelfand said he would have understood a suspension for a couple of games because of the incident, but he was surprised by the school's decision to suspend him for the rest of the season. On Wednesday, he met with Schultz in a one-on-one meeting that he thought would give him a second chance with the Eagles.
"Instead, it was a meeting about them letting me go," Gelfand said. "I thought it was going to be more of a meeting about what I needed to do to rectify the situation. I wasn't given that option.
"It's a Christian academy with Christian values, and I graduated from here so I know that. But I also know that I made a mistake in the heat of the battle and the heat of the moment. Unfortunately I wasn't given a second chance to redeem myself next year, especially after leading them to a region championship."
Gelfand, who was employed solely as the boys basketball coach and was not a staff member at the school, later added: "Especially coming from a Christian school with such high Christian values I know they have, it's one of the principles of the Christian walk that no man is perfect and that we all sin. I wasn't given a second chance to redeem myself."
Schultz said it wasn't a lone incident that prompted the school to part ways with Gelfand.
"We wouldn't make a decision based on one incident," Schultz said. "After careful consideration we made the decision to go another direction with our boys basketball program next year. We hold our staff to high standards of conduct consistent with our mission and values, and we felt we had to go that way."
Gelfand, who attends Mt. Zion Baptist Church, said he believed there was an issue with him not attending Sherwood Baptist Church, which all Sherwood Christian Academy staff members are encouraged to do.
Schultz said that wasn't a factor in the decision.
"That has nothing to do with it whatsoever. That was not an issue," Schultz said. "When people come in from the outside and are hired as full-time staff members, that's one of the expectations we have. When we hire community coaches, that's not a requirement."
Gelfand was the fifth head coach of the Eagles in the past five seasons, meaning that the revolving door for head coaches will continue for a sixth straight year. Gelfand, who was instrumental in guiding the team to its third region championship in school history, said he didn't consider Sherwood a tough place to coach until two weeks ago.
"I guess standards-wise it is (a tough place to coach)," said Gelfand, who was a player on Sherwood's 1996 team that won a region championship and was runner-up in the state tournament. "I'm kind of speechless. I knew I was going to be the fifth coach in five years, but I also knew I was an alumni with great ties to the school and church. I wasn't worried about it. … An outsider looking at this is going to look at it and wonder about the stability. A) Do I take this job?, and B) If I'm not from here do I move my whole family to take this job?"
Schultz said the school is looking to hire its newest coach as soon as possible, while Gelfand plans on continuing his coaching career elsewhere.
"At first the plan was to stay at Sherwood as long as I could," said Gelfand, who played college basketball at Division I University of Central Florida. "I didn't have any aspirations to coach at any higher levels, but now that I have the coaching itch I want to keep coaching."
Gelfand is currently coaching the Albany Elite AAU team, which includes Herald Super 6ers Anfernee McLemore from Worth County and Gary McCrae from Randolph-Clay.
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This Week: I know we hate Midichlorians, but here's why we can't forget them.
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Let's talk about The Force, as I guess it's important, and until The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions came out, I was a bit shaky on how the whole thing worked.
The Force, you see, is split into two distinct parts, The Cosmic Force, and the Living Force. The connection between the two is Midicholrians, and the expert on Midichlorians was Qui Gon Jinn. When you look at the story of Anakin Skywalker from this perspective, Qui Gon seems like a mediocre Jedi, unable to look past his dependence on the science of Midichlorians to see the danger of training the boy, something every Jedi in The Phantom Menace recognizes.
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Today, Disney quietly revealed that "Star Wars: Episode VII" has a title - and that it's completed principal photography. Next December, get ready for... "Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens." Y'all ready for this?
To be honest, we're not super thrilled with this title. But we are thrilled that it has a title. "Star Wars" titles have, characteristically been pulpier in nature, giving a welcome, humorous throwback to the serialized Saturday matinees that informed them so heavily. They are usually about a person ("The Phantom Menace" alludes to the shadowy soon-to-be Emperor, "A New Hope" and "Return of the Jedi" are both about Luke, and "Revenge of the Sith" is, of course, about the Emperor) or a specific movement ("Attack of the Clones" refers to the Clone Wars while "The Empire Strikes Back" is about the Galactic Empire tightening the noose around the Rebels). "The Force Awakens" could refer to a character, »
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1 November 2014 9:36 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
We're in the home stretch now, folks. Only two episodes remain. After the elves or whatever showed up last week to save the Earth from a deadly solar flare, Clara Oswald's lies to Danny Pink finally caught up to her. Will she be able to keep him from leaving her? Does she even want to? Everyone take a deep breath, because we're headed into "Dark Water." ******** Never before has Clara — or perhaps any companion — sounded so similar to the Doctor. Ms. Oswald is on the phone with Danny but she's telling him to shut up, shut up, shut up, despite the fact that he can't get a word in edgewise. We can deduce that Danny was on his way over to get the explanation he deserved. But as we all know, sometimes it's easier to talk when you can't see the other person's face. »
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A chilling episode of Doctor Who with major revelations. Here's our spoiler-filled take on Dark Water...
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"The darkest day. The blackest hour. Chin up, shoulders back. Let's see what we're made of"
We distinctly remember getting to the end of The Waters Of Mars, one of the best episodes of David Tennant-era Doctor Who, and being taken aback at how cold the ending to that was. Remember it? It still creeps into our thoughts.
Dark Water, though? Yikes. It all but chilled our blood at one stage. With three words in particular - particularly haunting ones for anyone touched by bereavement in recent times - it tapped heavily into a deep human fear. It also instantly proved that words can sometimes be the greatest monster of all.
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Short films director and VFX artist Seth Larney aims to make his feature writing and directing debut on Subject 14, a futuristic sci-fi survival saga.
The film is set in 2067 when the Earth faces an oxygen crisis after deforestation and nuclear spills into the ocean. The protagonist Ethan Whyte boards a time-machine and embarks on a journey as humanity's last hope for survival.
The producer is Lisa Shaunessy, Larney.s partner in Chaotic Pictures. Michael Rymer, currently working on the Deadline Gallipoli miniseries for Foxtel, will serve as Ep after spending several years consulting on script, genre and methodology with Larney. The project has received script and project development support from Screen Australia, Screen Nsw, Aftrs and the Kenneth B Myer Award, Pixomondo Beijing, Arclight Films and Mushroom Pictures, which will distribute in Oz.
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Short films director and VFX artist Seth Larney aims to make his feature writing and directing debut on Subject 14, a futuristic sci-fi survival saga.
The film is set in 2067 when the Earth faces an oxygen crisis after deforestation and nuclear spills into the ocean. The protagonist Ethan Whyte boards a time-machine and embarks on a journey as humanity's last hope for survival.
The producer is Lisa Shaunessy, Larney.s partner in Chaotic Pictures. Michael Rymer, currently working on the Deadline Gallipoli miniseries for Foxtel, will serve as Ep after spending several years consulting on script, genre and methodology with Larney. The project has received script and project development support from Screen Australia, Screen Nsw, Aftrs and the Kenneth B Myer Award, Pixomondo Beijing, Arclight Films and Mushroom Pictures, which will distribute in Oz.
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George Lucas sold his billion-dollar baby to Disney exactly two years ago and it feels like theres been a Star Wars-related announcement almost every week since. From Jj Abrams reuniting the original cast and taking the helm of Episode VII, to cult directors Gareth Edwards and Rian Johnson signing up to expand the franchise in unexpected directions, Disney has been laying track for new projects at lightspeed, convinced that what the universe has been crying out for is more Star Wars, and lots of it.
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Following the Darth Vader photo from Star Wars Rebels that debuted last week, a new trailer has been released for the special airing of Spark of Rebellion on ABC that gives fans a better look at the iconic villain.
Set between the events of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, the Star Wars Rebels story unfolds during a dark time when the evil Galactic Empire is tightening its grip of power on the galaxy. Imperial forces have occupied a remote planet and are ruining the lives of its people. The motley but clever crew of the starship Ghost - cowboy Jedi Kanan, ace pilot Hera, street-smart teenager Ezra, the "muscle" Zeb, warrior firebrand Sabine, and grumpy old astromech droid Chopper - will face threatening new villains, embark on thrilling adventures and become heroes with the power to ignite a rebellion. »
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With Star Wars: Episode VII currently in production (and only a few weeks from wrapping), rumors have been flying fast and furious over the last few months. This has caused a flurry of finger-pointing, naysaying, and even hostility between fans over some of the claims...but this is nothing new. The Prequel trilogy were surrounded by rumors as well, so today, I thought it'd be fun to take a trip down memory lane to remember some of the craziest reports that had us all buzzing.
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David Prowse, the actor who physically portrayed Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, revealed our first look at this iconic villain as he will appear in Star Wars Rebels.
We reported last week that a new Darth Vader scene is being added to the Star Wars Rebels TV movie Spark of Rebellion, which will be shown for the first time during a special airing of the one-hour special Sunday, October 26 at 7 Pm Et on ABC. Take a look at the image below, then read on for more details.
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James Earl Jones is once again providing the voice for the villainous Darth Vader, who will appear at the end of the episode in a scene with the show's primary villain, The Inquisitor, voiced by Jason Isaacs.
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We were a little bummed that Joaquin Phoenix is officially out of the "Doctor Strange" game, but the latest list of names being bandied about is fairly heartening. (Learn more about this Marvel-ously strange superhero here.)
First up: Ewan McGregor! The frequently pantsless young Obi-Wan is reportedly "prepping for the role," according to our pals at Badass Digest. "I contacted one of my usual sources and asked if this was true, and I was told, 'They're looking at him,'" Devin Faraci wrote yesterday. Although "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace," "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones," and "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" didn't exactly rock our worlds, McGregor is a very talented actor whose name we wouldn't mind seeing up on a marquee.
Variety got in the game later last night with a few more names, and they're equally interesting. »
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Earlier this month, fans got their first look at Star Wars Rebels with the one-hour special Spark of Rebellion, before the series debuted last night on Disney Xd. The television movie garnered rave reviews at last month's San Diego Comic-Con fan event for its story (set between the events of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope) and its look -- akin to the classic Star Wars trilogy, with series designs iluenced by the work of original Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie.
With the series now under way on Disney Xd, Disney and LucasFilm have released the one-hour TV movie Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion on DVD, which also includes four Star Wars Rebels shorts a Ghost 3D model ship and an exclusive sneak peek at Season 1 of Star Wars Rebels that you can't see anywhere else. »
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Welcome to the nuke-em year. This is where the newly minted adolescent would gladly drop a neutron bomb onto the property in order to rid it of the unsightly infestation of family but keep the property.
I hate to tell you, but your daughter is normal. Those of us who have made this difficult passage agree that adolescents are the best birth control on the planet.
Here's the bad news: This will last for years.
Here's the good news: The bad times are interspersed with good times and they do come out the other side.
There are no real hard and fast rules to surviving adolescents, although the books and experts abound. It sounds like you have a great kid on your hands so far--no drugs, no boys, no running around. Give thanks for this. I was one of the kids your parents warned you about, so I can testify from personal experience that it could be worse.
I can, however, at least give you some hints to dealing with your tall two year old with the adult vocabulary:
Set ground rules for attitude, voice tone and what they're allowed to say. They need the right to their own opinions and beliefs, but they don't get to treat you or anyone else like so much garbage. They need to express themselves, but with the basic respect they'd give any stranger. Remember that time outs work for big kids, too. If she can't be civil, she can be uncivil in her room.
Get a game plan with all the parents involved here--you, her biological father, her stepfather, and anybody else on the list. Adolescents are masters at playing their parents; she will try to go from parent to parent until she gets her way. Make sure the same rules apply everywhere--if she's on restriction in your house, she needs to be on restriction in her dad's house, too.
She needs a house chore that is hers on a regular basis, not just her own room. She needs to know her contribution is expected and also necessary. It's okay to make kids pull some of their own weight.
When she ignores the baby, she's possibly expressing unexpected jealousy, but I'm willing to bet there's some power play there, too. Her attitude may possibly be a power-over thing with you; it is within her power to hurt you by ignoring her brother, and she does. Right now, her little brother isn't hurt by this, but he might if this goes on. Get her involved in the fun parts of baby care. When you give the munchquito his bath, have her help. If she doesn't like that, have her pick some aspect of baby care you can do together. Then, when you're doing that, start playing with the baby in a way that involves her. If your son is smiling at people yet, I bet this will get him smiling at her, and that's a great start. She needs to see he is a person, a real part of the family equation, as human as she is and eager to love her.
Raising adolescents is just plain hard, and you are just starting this journey. I have two daughters--one biological (age 28 now--she sent me the link to your letter), one step (age 24), and adore them and they love me back. It was, however, a terribly rocky road to our current bliss. I won't lie to you. It will hurt. You will be more furious with her sometimes than you ever dreamed you could be. She'll get mean. They just do. It's a combination of hormones, assertion of independence and social influences. Very nearly every one of us did it to our parents--didn't you?
Your job is to remain as calm as you can and not allow her to get you embroiled in the dramas. Love her as passionately as ever, but stay serene. The first one who loses her temper--loses. I learned that the hard way. Stay to as high a ground as you can, and when you feel you're losing it, give her a time out.
Give yourself times out, too. Nurture yourself. Refill your well of strength and energy by doing things you truly love--and don't you feel guilty about it, either. Do what makes you happy because you will need it for the rough times.
Remember, too, that there will be some very good times where you and your daughter can explore the whole business of growing up. This is your opportunity to share what it was like for you to be a teenager--to compare notes. After all, we teach them to be human, and this is definitely a human stage.
These are just generalities, but from where I stand on the other side of the great adolescent divide, I sure could have used them!
Take care, and write me if you need to :)
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I'm a lurker here and just had to say that I thought your post was incredible.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom in such a wonderful way.
I should print this out, as my DD is only 3, and I'm sure I'll be asking these same questions.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Lars Von Trier before Dogma95
This fine film is, to some tastes, a bit "tricksy" and far too self-knowing. However this movie was made before Trier became an exponant of the Dogme95 philosophy towards film-making (watch films like Festen, The Idiots, etc if you want to know more about this anti-hollywood style of movie making).
However, Europa is a damn good thriller as well as being clever...
Published on 20 Feb 2006 by Tim Spencer
62 of 63 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars A magnificent and unforgettable film, alas, on a flawed DVD
This is easily one of the most striking and memorable films I have ever seen. It draws the viewer in immediately and tells a well-paced, rewarding and dark tale of a cruel and tragic time in Europe's recent history, from an unusual perspective. In 1992 as I watched it unfold in the cinema I was convinced it was the best film I had seen in perhaps ten years...and the final...
Published on 14 Aug 2002 by feverpitch96
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62 of 63 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars A magnificent and unforgettable film, alas, on a flawed DVD,
feverpitch96 "Can't see nothin' in this half ... (Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Europa [1991] [DVD] (DVD)
This is easily one of the most striking and memorable films I have ever seen. It draws the viewer in immediately and tells a well-paced, rewarding and dark tale of a cruel and tragic time in Europe's recent history, from an unusual perspective. In 1992 as I watched it unfold in the cinema I was convinced it was the best film I had seen in perhaps ten years...and the final scene left me literally speechless and rather disturbed during the 30-minute drive home with my partner afterwards. This is not easy to do.
"Europa" (renamed "Zentropa" for its non-European cinema release) is a stunning conclusion to eccentric Dane Lars von Trier's so-called "Europa Trilogy", begun with "The Element of Crime" in 1984 and continued with "Epidemic" in 1988. Why Tartan Video have chosen to release only two of these three films at this point on DVD seems somewhat of a mystery.
Filmed in Denmark and Poland, with German, French, American and Danish actors (and a Swedish narrator!), in the English language with occasional passages of German, this is truly a multi-national effort.
von Trier presents us with a dark, wet, dreary, frequently-sinister and mainly-monochrome world in which there are few happy endings, brutally realistic vignettes of human nature and no easy solutions. The end of WWII has left Germany a broken, violent, mean, amoral and mercenary place, its remaining people deeply brutalised, its society and industry almost totally destroyed by the invading and retaliating Allied forces. The American occupying force is reorganising ex-Nazi Germany's industries and economy and offers the only stability of law, and it is clear that Compromise is the order of the day if Germany is to find its feet as a nation again. The society is divided between those who welcome the efforts of the American occupiers and the "Werewolves", those who still harbour Nazi sympathies and wreak vengeance on those of their German countryfolk who collaborate with the Americans.
Into this situation arrives Leopold Kessler (played by French actor Jean-Marc Barr), a young American of German origins. During WWII, he had taken a pacifist stance and refused to fight in the US Army, deserting instead. Now he has come to Germany in the belief that he can make a positive difference to help rebuild Germany in this uneasy peacetime. His dour and war-embittered uncle finds him a job on the newly-relaunched Zentropa national railway (which was used to transport Jews to death camps during the war) as a trainee sleeping-car conductor. Effectively an American foreigner, his presence is resented by many. He quickly falls foul of a deeply inflexible and perfectionist German work ethic (the most often-used German phrase in the film translates into English as "those are the rules"). As an idealist, he falls between the two camps into which Germany is divided and, particularly once he falls in love and becomes involved with the story of the Zentropa-controlling Hartmann family, finds that his idealism is making him a well-intentioned pawn of both sides in the struggle for power.
Critics of von Trier's feature films often argue that his films are lacking in "humanity", and that they therefore simply follow a cynical formula to manipulate an audience. But surely this criticism is more fairly aimed at most latter-day Hollywood "human interest" films, and whatever one's views of von Trier as auteur, there is much to emotionally affect most viewers in this grandly surreal cinematic postcard from late-1945 Germany, which frequently stylistically quotes many of von Trier's own idols, from Welles to Hitchcock and many more. Here, von Trier borrows heavily from the epic style of so many wartime and post-war romance/thrillers (Third Man, Casablanca, etc), adding his own signature twists and curveballs along the way, and it certainly pays off! Beautifully composed throughout, this one bears many viewings.
von Trier makes frequent and powerful use of front/rear-projection techniques, as well as selective and judicious use of colour, to tell the story with an added dreamlike quality. This is initiated at the film's memorable beginning, as Max von Sydow's hypnotic introductory narration invites the audience to sink into a celluloid dream.
The film, then, is worth 5 stars. This disc, however, is another matter. The film notes are interesting reading, and the print of the film seems almost pristine....The occasional English subtitles are optional, which is nice. However, while the feature is anamorphic widescreen, it has been zoomed from the film's original aspect ratio of 2.35:1 to approx 1.78:1, presumably to neatly fit widescreen TVs. This makes a nonsense of many of von Trier's beautifully-composed widescreen images, with so much information missing from either side of the frame. Ironically, the included theatrical trailer is in anamorphic 2.35:1...why? To show us what we're missing in the main feature? The point is rammed home when the image flattens out to 2.35:1 at the end of the film to accommodate the end credits... There also appear to be one or two instances of monochrome being substituted for a splash of von Trier colour, e.g. in one shot in the Ravenstein scene.
So, a thoroughly engaging and affecting film which should reward all who see it is finally released to DVD for the first time, on a seriously flawed disc. ...the von Trier film-buff deserves better. If you must have this film now, in whatever aspect ratio, get it. ...
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Lars Von Trier before Dogma95,
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This review is from: Europa [1991] [DVD] (DVD)
This fine film is, to some tastes, a bit "tricksy" and far too self-knowing. However this movie was made before Trier became an exponant of the Dogme95 philosophy towards film-making (watch films like Festen, The Idiots, etc if you want to know more about this anti-hollywood style of movie making).
However, Europa is a damn good thriller as well as being clever. Parts of the film will keep you at the edge of your seat, Trier really is a true craftsman in film art. Europa also has a very (deliberate) hynotic and dream-like quality.
Without giving away any "spoilers" - the ending is fabulous. It really is about the darkness that is Europe and is aptly set in Germany just after WW2, where Nazi terrorists still lurk in the shadows and occupying forces ruthlessly hunt down any sympathisers. Unfortunately for the main protagonist (played by Jean Marc Barr) sitting on the fence is likely to get you killed...
I can't recommend this film highly enough. It is a shame Trier is unlikely to ever make a film like this again. Much as I like his Dogme95 films (especially Dancer in The Dark and Breaking the Waves) - I feel that this was a style of film-making that could have been continued and developed by Mr Trier...
Buy it now... especially if you want an intellegent thriller and are sick of CGI laden hollywood movies...
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A haunting gem from the Von Trier back catalogue,
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This review is from: Europa [1991] [DVD] (DVD)
Is it a hypnotically induced psychological nightmare or a descent into the reality of a Nazi regime? Lars Von Trier's award winning exposition into post-war Germany takes you on a subconscious journey through the eyes of Leopold Kessler, brilliantly played by Jean-Mark Barr. Von Trier lures you into this post war psychodrama via a train journey on the Zentropa railway complex, which exposes the climate of guilt and anti-American feeling of post-war Germany.
Set in 1945, Leopold Kessler(Jean-Mark Barr) is an American with German heritage, who goes back to Germany to help with the restoration of the country. His pacifist ideals however, are soon challenged upon the realisation that he is being used as a pawn by the Werwolf Nazi organisation. His love interest, seductively played by Barbara Sukowa (The Third Miracle, Johnny Mnemonic), is Katarina, the Nazi sympathising daughter of Max Hartmann the railway owner, played by Jorgen Reenberg.
The story is partly narrated by Max Von Sydow, in the form of hypnotic suggestions that add to the surreal quality of the film. The hypnotic theme runs congruently with the desire of the railway owner to repress the memory of the war-time function of the trains which was to carry Jewish prisoners to concentration camps. This is portrayed in a scene brilliantly handled by the masterful Von Trier, where Kessler walks through the train and time into hidden carriages containing concentration camp prisoners and the inescapable truth of the past. This post war repression is further signified by the constant pulling down of the shutters on the train, in an attempt to block out the reality of post-war Germany and the repercussions of the war.
Barbara Sukowa gives an explosive performance as Katarina, and the gradual discovery as to where her loyalties lie give the film an edge of suspense and mystery. Kessler's long suffering but authoritarian uncle is stoically played by Ernst-Hugo Jaragard, who manages to capture the uneasy union of a militant mentality and avuncular affection.
Von Trier's use of rear projection and manipulation of colour with black and white stand in stark contrast to his later works (The Idiots) as these devices have been curtailed under the conventions of the Dogme Collective. In Europa however, they serve to reinforce the surrealist elements of the film, giving emphasis to the main protagonists and lending a distinctive dreamlike quality to the film. A parallel could be drawn between the surrealist nature of Europa and the use of music in Dancer in the Dark to create a hallucinatory sequence, an element often found in Von Trier's work.
Europa is a gripping and absorbing film that takes you on a journey you may wish you had never started. Harrowing, but immensely involving it is a masterpiece that will leave you breathless and aching for more.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Hypnotic viewing,
Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lars Von Trier Europe Trilogy Box Set [DVD] [1992] (DVD)
Seen together, Lars Von Trier's Europa trilogy isn't exactly a profound experience, but it does underline the fact that even when he's boring he's never dull. On one level, none of them should work and none of them do, yet on another there's an audacity to them that engages far more than the subject matter: at times, the hypnotic execution is more than enough to compensate for the narrative confusion. Indeed, the whole trilogy seems to be driven by dreams and trances. Element of Crime is a tale emotionlessly told by a detective under hypnosis, his lack of passion in his voice-over often mirrored by the artificiality of the performances and the dreamlike imagery of a burned out, waterlogged Europe that feels like one of the fevered headaches that consume him as he becomes the monster he is supposedly tracing down. Epidemic even ends with an apocalyptic hypnotic trance as the parasitic pair of Von Trier and his insufferably smug screenwriter Niels Vorsel, who have been feeding on the pain and misery of others for inspiration for a script, even turning a painful memory from Udo Kier into a scene in their proposed film, ultimately reap what they sow. A mixture of the odd great image (Von Trier's doctor hanging from a rope with a Red Cross flag attached) and the mundane, it's an apt reminder of just how similar the act of artistic creation can be to a contagious disease that wounds those who come into its orbit.
Europa, aka Zentropa, opens with Max Von Sydow's unseen narrator hypnotising the audience to bring them into the film. The film itself is the closest to a mainstream narrative of the trilogy, but even here Von Trier is constantly undercutting his noirish plot - an idealistic American becomes a pawn in the amoral politics of post-War Germany still plagued by the Nazi `Werwolf' resistance movement - with both strikingly expressionistic imagery (not least an audacious use of backprojected images) and that trademark fevered confusion until mindless destruction seems the only release. Of the three, this is the most visually audacious, with a superb use of black and white scope imagery that helps compensate for the awful performances by Jean Marc-Barr and Barbara Sukowa (who once again proves that she may be able to speak English and German but she can't act in either of them). Still, the presence of Ernst-Hugo Jaregard (so wonderful in The Kingdom) ensures that not all the cast are carved from wood.
Full marks for the excellent presentation - not only is Europa/Zentropa finally presented in 2.35:1 (the previous issue from Tartan was cropped to 1.85:1) but there are a huge number of interviews and documentaries spread over the three discs and the bonus fourth disc telling you everything you could want to know and more (sadly at least one doc is not subtitled in English). As well as trailers (including additional trailers for all Von Trier's films to date) and audio commentaries, there are two interesting Easter Eggs - Von Trier's graduation film Images of Relief (on Epidemic) and the short film Nocturne on Element of Crime.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Why go to all the trouble and then no Widescreen?,
Evilronin (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Europa [1991] [DVD] (DVD)
Why does Tartan Video continue to get the rights to these great films for DVD release, do a great job at cleaning the prints, good transfer, then chop up the frame? WHY?! This is a great film, never before released on DVD, Tartan was ahead of the pack, I was excited, then the big let down. I saw this when it first came out and the scope and framing never been more essential in a film than this one, and Tartan dropped the ball badly. And they continue to do so with other great films. Maybe is just the British market over all, for some reason, most of the distributors like to put ALL films on 1.77:1 Anamorphic WS regardless of the original aspect ratio. Eureka putting our Kwaidan, another beautiful 2.35:1 AR movie, cropped to 1.77:1, WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?! I say hold out, don't encourage these people. Rent it if you have to, but buying it would only supports this awful behavior.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars One-star DVD release of a five-star film.,
Jonathan James Romley (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Europa (Zentropa) [DVD] (DVD)
All the criticisms voiced by the previous reviewers regarding the quality of this particular DVD are true. If you want to see Europa as it was meant to be seen, in a correct 2:35.1 aspect ratio, with 5.1 surround sound and the much needed colour corrections, then I would recommend purchasing the 'E Trilogy Box Set' (2005), which includes digitally re-mastered versions of von Trier's first three films The Element of Crime, Epidemic and the film in question (my review of that particular product can be found on this very same site). As a result, this review will focus entirely on the merits of the film itself, which for me, is one of the greatest and perhaps most underappreciated films of the last thirty-five years. The review is as follows...
Concluding the trilogy of films that began almost a decade earlier with the dark, industrial influenced film-noir experiment The Element of Crime (1984) and continuing with the largely unseen experimental horror-satire Epidemic (1987), this multi-layered, visually expressive post-war thriller finds precocious auteur Lars von Trier in his cinematic element; creating a mind bending and deeply hallucinogenic film-noir appropriation that references sources as diverse as Hitchcock, Bergman, Welles and Murnau, to create a myriad of expressionistic images, philosophies and moments of heart-stopping tension.
As with his later, more widely seen work, such as Breaking the Waves (1996) and The Idiots (1998), von Trier structures the film with a complete disregard for mainstream movie conventions - not just throwing out the cinematic rule book, but proudly stampeding it - as he strings together scene after scene of ethereal beauty; all backed by the haunting and distinctive narration of Max Von Sydow and the thrilling music of Joakim Holbek. The result is a film like no other; revelling in pretension and cinematic excess; Europa (1991) knows exactly what it is and raises a middle finger to anyone who refuses to buy into its central ideology. In keeping with the director's earlier works, the plot of Europa is threadbare, but never less than interesting; as Jean Marc Barr's bookish American goes back to Germany in the wake of World War II to discover his roots and lend a hand in the rebuilding of the country. Barr's character, Leopold Kessler, is a brazenly idealistic young man, peering out from behind his spectacles with wide eyes as he bravely suffers ridicule and contempt from all around him. Amongst this central narrative device we have the usual film-noir conventions of shadowy businessmen, the femme-fatale, etc. However, the film always comes back to von Trier's central ideology. If we have learned anything from the director's work, it is the ultimate image of the idealist being brought slowly to their knees and eventually destroyed. In both Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark (2000), von Trier concludes that those who live in false hope will sooner or later be smashed by a manipulative and un-loving system.
His most successful realisation of this was with the aforementioned Dancer in the Dark, in which he mixed elements of melodrama and musical theatre with social-realist concerns to create a somewhat misguided indictment of the American judicial system within the context of a 1950's cinematic universe. His most controversial film, Breaking the Waves, again saw the destruction of a central martyr, with the childlike Emily Watson sacrificing her body to Christ - and various lecherous old men - in order to cure her crippled husband. With Europa, von Trier would lay the groundwork for these following films, whilst once again condemning the American's shallow, self-riotous image and animosity in the face of war (though perhaps more multi-faceted than that one-line assessment might suggest). The director also throws in ideas of fascism, terrorism and a hearty helping of post-modern references, though all in the name of cinematic experimentation, high style and unashamed visual manipulation.
Shot in a sort of off black and white - meaning that the images have been given a silvery blue tint, with deeply rich shadows - and framed in anamorphic cinemascope, Europa twists and turns with one jaw-dropping set piece after another. A simple assassination sequence is drawn out using forced perspectives, colour juxtaposition and rear screen projection to dizzying effect, and the way that the camera cranes and tracks, constantly offering us layer upon layer of visual symbolism is truly amazing. The iconography is bold, yet slightly clear-cut in comparison to the courageous departures that von Trier made with his earlier film The Element of Crime. Here we have he an expressionistic vision of Europe in severe decline, with Germany attempting to claw themselves out of the ashes and regain power as an important society (leading up to the eventual economic miracle of the early 1950's). Some have criticized Barr's character for not being heroic enough, missing the point of the film entirely. Kessler isn't supposed to be the hero, but rather a patsy or a puppet. He's an American going back to a country that his own military helped destroy, representing arrogant idealism; pointing out Germany's own weaknesses and posturing to gain acceptance. This is a much bleaker film once we start dealing with the issues of sub-text, as the scene that prefigures a prominent funeral will attest. For me, this is a stirring and imaginative film dealing with themes such as deception, manipulation and eventually, corruption.
With Europa, von Trier has structured a beautifully designed and thematically quite gripping thriller with both political and cinematic reference points in abundance. Most filmmakers would be terrified to put the viewer to sleep within the first five minutes, but Europa takes up that challenge, using Von Sydow's haunting voice to lull the viewer into a state of assumed hypnosis. Needless to say the film employs ideas of dream-logic, unfolding subjectively and expressionistically from the central character's point of view. The is a film that will linger long in the mind of anyone who experiences it, as the closing moments leave the audience adrift at sea, or as lost as Leopold Kessler. As Von Sydow observes in the film's closing narration; "we want to wake up, to leave behind the images of Europa... but it is not possible".
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars only interesting,
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This review is from: Europa [1991] [DVD] (DVD)
I viewed this film on the strength of previous reviews. But I can only agree with some aspects of those reviews. The style is interesting with unusual uses of colour within black and white shots. A clear attempt at producing both hypnotic and dream like qualities, using a monotone narrative and strange camera trickery, largely fail and become annoying. It is interesting hystorically, as my awareness of the nazi resistance to occupation prior to this film was nil, but the film does not show any interest in the motivation of the resistance. The characters are dull and I found myself completely uninterested in their fate. At the end of the film I just wanted to know more about Germany after the war but was totally unmoved.
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