text: Film Freak Central tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-99928295733106445 2015-06-16T23:01:00-05:00 TypePad Green Lantern (2011) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01bb0842f08c970d 2015-06-16T23:01:00-05:00 2015-06-16T23:01:00-05:00 ZERO STARS/**** starring Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Tim Robbins screenplay by Greg Berlanti & Michael Green & Marc Guggenheim and Michael Goldenberg directed by Martin Campbell by Walter Chaw Martin Campbell's Green Lantern is just awful. It's a mess, a boring mess, featuring boring Ryan Reynolds in a skin-tight green super suit (and not-boring Blake Lively, not) trying to "grow up" and accept the responsibility of becoming an intergalactic Dudley Do-Right--a titular "Green Lantern," which in the DC UNIVERSE parlance apparently means that you say crap about will being stronger than fear and manifest a giant Matchbox race set as the best way to save a crashing helicopter. Cool? Cool if your concept of cool is The Last Starfighter as written by Tony Robbins. There's just so much empowerment going on in this thing, and unresolved daddy issues that are raised without any clue as to how to parallel the dysfunction in the characters or honour what is fast turning out to be this year's driving thematic force. It's no wonder, really, that the bad guy in this one is a giant mess of cosmic goo called "Parallax": the picture jumps around from one point-of-view to another with... Bill Chambers Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01b7c781f43a970b 2015-04-29T15:38:20-05:00 2015-04-29T19:56:26-05:00 */**** starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson written and directed by Joss Whedon by Walter Chaw It's pointless to recap this edition of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's endless cycling through decades of storylines, melodramas, loves and blood feuds, deaths and resurrections--this Möbius strip of punching and quipping and punching and quipping and punching and... It's an ouroborosian worm devouring itself into eternity, if you let it, and the sanction that a few billion dollars confers suggests it'll keep devouring itself for a while longer. Still, it's a cripplingly expensive endeavour, meaning that surprise and individuality are crushed in its logarithmic march towards solvency--and the human collateral caught in its gears is the tragedy that the place we get to see Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson (the two best, most interesting actors in the United States right now) share an emotionally complex scene is in this vacuous light show-cum-cash register, Avengers: Age of Ultron (hereafter Avengers II). You could say that at least it happened--you could also say that you wish it had happened in a vehicle that actually cared about them, and it wouldn't be too much to ask. There are things to like, in other... Bill Chambers Justice League: The New Frontier (2008) [Two Disc Special Edition] + The Adventures of Aquaman: The Complete Collection (1967-1970) - DVDs|Justice League: The New Frontier - Blu-ray Disc tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01bb07f9d3c3970d 2015-02-28T00:01:00-05:00 2015-02-27T21:29:26-05:00 JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER *½/**** DVD - Image A Sound B+ Extras B- BD - Image A+ Sound A- Extras B- written by Stan Berkowitz with additional material by Darwyn Cooke, based on the graphic novel DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke directed by David Bullock THE ADVENTURES OF AQUAMAN: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION Image C- Sound C Extras D+ "Menace of the Black Manta/The Rampaging Reptile Men," "The Return of Nepto/The Fiery Invaders," "Sea Raiders/War of the Water Worlds," "The Volcanic Monster/The Crimson Monster from the Pink Pool," "The Ice Dragon/The Deadly Drillers," "Vassa, Queen of the Mermen/The Microscopic Monsters," "The Onslaugh of the Octomen/Treacherous is the Torpedoman," "The Satanic Saturnians/The Brain, the Brave and the Bold," "Where Lurks the Fisherman!/Mephisto's Marine Marauders," "Trio of Terror/The Torp, the Magneto and the Claw," "Goliaths of the Deep-Sea Gorge/The Sinister Sea Scamp," "The Devil Fish/The Sea Scavengers," "In Captain Cuda's Clutches/The Mirror-Man from Planet Imago," "The Sea Sorcerer/The Sea-Snares of Captain Sly," "The Undersea Trojan Horse/The Vicious Villainy of Vassa," "Programmed for Destruction/The War of the Quatix and the Bimphars," "The Stickmen of Stygia/Three Wishes to Trouble," "The Silver Sphere/To Catch a Fisherman" by Ian Pugh Utterly incomprehensible thanks to... Bill Chambers Batman: Year One (2011) - Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01b7c73752dd970b 2015-01-16T00:01:00-05:00 2015-01-16T00:01:00-05:00 ***/**** Image A- Sound A Extras B screenplay by Tab Murphy, from the comics story by Frank Miller directed by Sam Liu and Lauren Montgomery by Jefferson Robbins Before he was a grouchy and politically-nearsighted old man with enough clout to cast Scarlett Johansson in a $60M fetish video, Frank Miller truly did change the face of mainstream superhero comics. Doing so brought him fame as a visionary, a label that implies prophetic or pioneering concepts but--at least in comics art--is most commonly applied to artists fusing pre-existing styles into a successful hybrid, or distilling an old story to its barest elements. Miller did both. In fact, between 1986's "The Dark Knight Returns" and the 1987 "Batman: Year One" arc, his reengineering of the Batman mythos wasn't so much a thrusting of the character forward into the 1980s as a slingshotting back to the 1970s. The core fact of Batman, viewed in the light of Taxi Driver, is that he's Travis Bickle with a cape and lots of money. What is Travis's mohawk if not a costume to strike fear into the hearts of criminals? What is his trick pistol sling, fashioned from a typewriter carriage, but a blue-collar utility... Bill Chambers Catwoman (2004) [Widescreen Edition] - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01b8d0b97af1970c 2015-01-10T00:01:00-05:00 2015-01-06T22:20:40-05:00 ZERO STARS/**** Image A+ Sound A+ Extras C starring Halle Berry, Benjamin Bratt, Sharon Stone, Lambert Wilson screenplay by John Brancato & Michael Ferris and John Rogers directed by Pitof by Walter Chaw Catwoman is all the bad that Gigli promised to be and more. It's bad enough that not only are careers over, but somebody should be slapped. The question arises as to whether it's as bad as Glitter, and though the answer is "sure," that doesn't fully address the fact that it's bad in the same way as Glitter. It's fabulously, deliriously, egregiously awful--a queer camp classic in the making, and the second film so far this summer to squeeze a lovely young actress into S&M gear (see: Keira Knightley in King Arthur). If this is the face of modern feminism ("I'm bad, but only as bad as I wanna be," Berry's Catwoman skanks), then count me in: I'm strangely un-threatened by the show-all boom-boom girl power of Jessica Simpson, Christina Aguilera, the Olsen Twins, and so on. Call me crazy. RUNNING TIME 104 minutes MPAA PG-13 ASPECT RATIO(S) 2.37:1 (16x9-enhanced) LANGUAGES English DD 5.1 French DD 5.1 CC Yes SUBTITLES English French Spanish REGION 1 DISC TYPE... Bill Chambers Hulk (2003) [2-Disc Special Edition] - DVD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01b8d08c7cb1970c 2014-11-08T00:01:00-05:00 2014-11-07T16:40:04-05:00 **/**** Image A- Sound A Extras B- starring Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas screenplay by John Turman and Michael France and James Schamus, based on the Marvel comic directed by Ang Lee by Walter Chaw The first in a troika of films to focus on rage as the catalyst for physiological change (the others being Danny Boyle's brilliant 28 Days Later... and Stephen Norrington's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which counts Mr. Hyde among its gentlemen) this past summer, Ang Lee's Hulk is a plodding dirge about the sins of the fathers that struggles mightily between the requirement to awe and the desire to mean something. Its story of repressed memories of abuse and reconciliation amounts to not-much when the tortured protagonist seems supremely capable of suppressing his rage, only losing control when jolted with a cattle prod or when his girlfriend is menaced by a trio of mutant hounds. An oh-so-subtle suggestion--embedded in a dream within a flashback--that emotionally distant Bruce Banner (Eric Bana in full zombie mode) may have abused his ex-girlfriend Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly) speaks to a canny chronicler of dysfunction in Lee (The Ice Storm) struggling with the demands of a film... Bill Chambers Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a73df81a92970d 2014-07-30T20:39:57-05:00 2014-07-30T20:46:08-05:00 ***/**** starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Benicio Del Toro written by James Gunn and Nicole Perlman directed by James Gunn by Walter Chaw After years of looking for a Star Wars for my son (too little for Lord of the Rings; nothing to attach to in Pacific Rim), here's James Gunn's awesome Guardians of the Galaxy to fit the bill. It's science-fiction in exactly the same way that Star Wars is science-fiction--essentially a serial western, with Chris Pratt as both Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, green Zoe Saldana as Princess Leia, and a raccoon and a tree subbing for Wookiee and droid. It has a secret history for our hero, a scary baddie in a black cloak, and an entire universe of wonders it treats like an amusement park. It's also fun in the same way Star Wars was fun, and fresh in the same way, too: heedlessly, carefree, even bratty, which explains the post-credits cut-scene that's easily the best of them. Furthermore, it has a soundtrack packed with AM Gold that lends the picture camp and hipster cred simultaneously. Heavy on exposition at times, squandering a few opportunities to demonstrate a better team action dynamic, and not... Bill Chambers Fantastic Four (2005) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a3fd2c8a67970b 2014-07-07T23:01:00-05:00 2014-07-07T23:01:00-05:00 ½*/**** starring Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Chiklis, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans screenplay by Michael France and Mark Frost, based on the Marvel comic directed by Tim Story by Walter Chaw Terrible. Tim Story's Fantastic Four is just terrible. It's not overly offensive, not sociologically damaging, and the only way it'll pervert your children is by making them stupider. But if you love and respect the cinema as a medium capable of giving life to fantasy and passion to the impossible, the picture's crimes are no less egregious. Fantastic Four is a prime example in every respect of how not to make a movie: it's badly cast, poorly written, clumsily-directed, respects no internal logic, and looks extremely ugly to boot--it resembles those '80s production-line comedies (Police Academy, Hot Dog: The Movie) populated by fashion-plate superheroes instead of fashion-plate stoners. The pacing is so mortally off that it feels like days have been slipped in there in place of minutes, and there's so little rapport among the cast that it often appears as though the actors were filmed separately and later composited in some dork's basement mainframe. You can feel your life being siphoned away by this thing. Did I fail to mention... Bill Chambers The Incredible Hulk (2008) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a3fd1ceb65970b 2014-06-12T23:01:00-05:00 2014-06-12T23:01:00-05:00 ½*/**** starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt screenplay by Zak Penn and Edward Harrison directed by Louis Leterrier by Walter Chaw Pretty much the unmitigated disaster its trailers predicted it to be, Louis Leterrier's noisome The Incredible Hulk is a cacophony of bad CGI, bad acting, and gravid serio-melodramatics that leaves only the disturbing image of Liv Tyler's acres of bangs standing in the aftermath of its absurd wreckage. It's a vanity piece for Edward Norton (as if Norton is ever in anything else these days) that washes out as one of the more puzzling examples of such, in that the only thing anyone's there to see is Hulk smash. Maybe not so puzzling upon further reflection; I heard someone describe Jim Carrey at a certain point in his career as the six-hundred pound gorilla--find Norton at the apogee of his own ego bloat in The Incredible Hulk. Rumoured to have rewritten wide patches of Zak Penn's script (and credited here as, tee hee, Edward Harrison), Norton strikes me as a player/coach in the mold of Sylvester Stallone but unburdened with Stallone's sense of temporal place and popular self-awareness. Norton's acts of persona-construction are involved with painting... Bill Chambers X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a73dc8cbe1970d 2014-05-22T12:12:48-05:00 2014-05-22T12:12:48-05:00 ***½/**** starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James McAvoy screenplay by Simon Kinberg directed by Bryan Singer by Walter Chaw The seventh X-Men film including the two Wolverine flicks, Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past (hereafter X7) is a sterling return to form for Singer, exiled after X2 for choosing to helm the spectacularly-underestimated Superman Returns. He brings with him, as he brought to the Superman mythology, a complete empathy with the material. He understands that the X-Men property--comic-book mutants battling human bureaucrats aiming to outlaw them as alien threats--is, just like the Superman property, at its heart about the pain and complexity of being born different. They're assimilation melodramas that present their heroes with the seductive choice to pass as "normals" when possible, to seek vengeance against bigotry as it presents itself, or to rise above it to achieve a sense of self and carve out a corner of the world for themselves. There's a brilliant sequence in X2 where Bobby (Shawn Ashmore) makes the painful decision to "come out" to his family as a mutant and his mother asks him if he couldn't maybe just choose not to be different. Singer gets it. His Superman's promise... Bill Chambers Real Questions: FFC Interviews James Gunn tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a73db8cf18970d 2014-04-30T15:52:49-05:00 2014-04-30T15:52:49-05:00 April 3, 2011|James Gunn has spent most of his career rewriting icons of decades past (Tromeo and Juliet, Dawn of the Dead, the big-screen Scooby-Doo pictures), and while I share many of my editor's misgivings about Gunn's latest post-modern exercise, Super, I was looking forward to interviewing him when his PA tour came around to Boston. Gunn had fifteen years on me, but it seemed apparent that our genre obsessions had sprung from similar sources. (Fresh out of college, I relished in the insanity of Gunn's then-recent Slither.) Still, despite our common lexicon, it took us a few minutes to get a bead on each other. "Just don't be like that last guy," Gunn told me with a laugh as I turned on my tape recorder. "He had two recording devices. He turned off the first one, and then I said some stuff that I shouldn't have said, and the thing was still recording. And I'm like, 'oh, fuck'--'cause he got me to say exactly what he was trying to get me to say." Gunn's piercing blue eyes give him a Daniel Craig vibe, making him seem much more serious and severe than he actually is. At first, I thought... Bill Chambers The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a73db7f6f0970d 2014-04-30T12:13:03-05:00 2014-04-30T12:13:03-05:00 ***/**** starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Sally Field screenplay by Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci & Jeff Pinkner directed by Marc Webb by Walter Chaw A notable improvement in almost every way on Marc Webb's first film in this reboot series, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (hereafter Spidey 2) sports the same weaknesses, the same bloat, the same catering to the summer cult of boom-boom, but it ramps up the intelligence and a certain comfort with darkness that pays off in a pair of genuinely gratifying character resolutions. Despite what the trailers would spoil, it really only has one antagonist, Jamie Foxx's Electro--well, him, and our hero's (Andrew Garfield) struggles with trust in his relationships, whether they be with his Aunt May (Sally Field) or girlfriend Gwen (Emma Stone) or best friend Harry (Dane DeHaan) or lost father Richard (Campbell Scott). It's a film about class struggle, as May picks up double-shifts and moonlights in nursing school to provide tuition for her adopted boy (giving Sally Field the chance to resurrect her blue-collar Norma Rae), while shut-in Max (Foxx), electrical engineer at monolithic Oscorp and low man on the corporate totem pole, comes clear, fascinatingly, as a riff on... Bill Chambers Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a73da11236970d 2014-04-03T14:33:02-05:00 2014-04-03T14:37:00-05:00 ***/**** starring Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Samuel L. Jackson screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely directed by Anthony and Joe Russo by Walter Chaw A fine companion piece to last summer's The Lone Ranger, with another hero whose essential goodness has become anachronistic in a world defined by its ugliness and venality, the Russo Brothers' Captain America: The Winter Soldier (hereafter Cap 2), for all its boom-boom, is surprisingly thoughtful--and surprisingly doom-laden. It's dark as hell. Gone are the pulp machinations of Joe Johnston--this one is more The Empire Strikes Back than The Rocketeer, where the victories are Pyrrhic and the bad guys are smarter and better-equipped. By the end, this most optimistic of superheroes resolves himself to rescuing a friend, while his closest comrade-in-arms advises him to look for love again. They're small goals, the kind of goals that mere mortals happen to share with this demigod. As such, they provide the film with an unexpected payload of pathos and nostalgia for lost selves that used to believe the world would be better if only we had a friend upon which we could always depend, and love that would remain evergreen. Cap 2 is about our... Bill Chambers Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a51195ef06970c 2014-04-03T11:26:47-05:00 2014-04-03T11:27:02-05:00 ***½/**** Image A- Sound B+ Extras B starring Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Stanley Tucci screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely directed by Joe Johnston by Walter Chaw Given the opportunity to finally do the sequel to his The Rocketeer that I've sort of been hoping to see for the last twenty years, Joe Johnston comes through with flying colours. The absolutely, unapologetically cornpone Captain America: The First Avenger achieves exactly the right tone of Greatest Generation wartime propaganda without any winking post-modern irony to befoul the stew. It's an earnest, genuine underdog story about a wimpy kid, Steve (Chris Evans, digitally reduced), who's beaten up for defending the sanctity of the movie theatre before finally, on his sixth try, being accepted into the army under the kind auspices of mad scientist Dr. Erskine (Stanley Tucci). Erskine sees an essential goodness in Steve, a decency born from the Great War heroism of his long-gone parents, it's suggested (in high-Fifties style), while crusty Col. Philips (Tommy Lee Jones) is persuaded by this twerp's willingness to dive on a grenade to save a platoon made up of the type of men who spent their childhood tormenting guys like Steve.... Bill Chambers Justice League: War (2014) - Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01a5118dba30970c 2014-03-25T11:40:38-05:00 2014-03-25T11:52:34-05:00 click any image to enlarge **/**** Image A- Sound B Extras A- screenplay by Heath Corson, based on the graphic novel Justice League: Origins by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee directed by Jay Oliva by Jefferson Robbins The red underwear is gone, and with it, all humility. Justice League: War marks the first true animated appearance of Superman and the rest of the DC Universe heroes since the comics publisher's New 52 gambit launched in 2011, resetting at least twenty-five years of pulp history.¹ What that means for viewers is a militaristically-clothed Superman (vocal chameleon Alan Tudyk) who threatens to choke people to death and a dangerously naive Wonder Woman (Michelle Monaghan) who's definitely going to have sex with him after the credits. This, effectively, is the characters' debut. Set aside all those past versions you know, toss out even the previous direct-to-video titles you may have collected (including four "Justice League" movies) since the DCU animated line officially launched in 2007. This is where the Justice League meets--and where we meet them--for the first time. And, boy, are they a bunch of pricks. RUNNING TIME 79 minutes MPAA PG-13 ASPECT RATIO(S) 1.78:1 (1080p/MPEG-4) LANGUAGES English 5.1 DTS-HD MA French... Bill Chambers


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Some don't like it hot
Too many curry houses, not enough diners - the squeeze is on for a pounds 1.5bn industry employing more people than steel, coal and shipbuilding combined New gimmicks spread so fast among the Bangladeshis that they soon lose their appeal for turning profits
Sunday 03 March 1996
If you visit Indian restaurants, you almost certainly know someone from Sylhet. The vast majority of British curry houses are run by Bengalis, and most of them come from this small area. They provide us with the rogan josh, chicken tikkas, tarka dhals and onion bhajis that have become a second national dish. For Indian restaurants are a peculiarly British institution - while Chinese cooking is available worldwide. Ask the right sort of expatriate Briton (urban, middle class) what he misses most about home and like as not he will mutter about curries. It is often said that you can get a better Indian meal in London, Birmingham or Bradford than in Delhi or Dhaka.
Indian (or rather Bangladeshi) restaurants are big business. The 10,000 curry houses in Britain turn over pounds 1.5bn between them and employ between 60,000 and 70,000 people - more than steel, coal and shipbuilding combined.
In theory, the future of the curry house is rosy. The market for ethnic food overall almost doubled between 1990 and 1994, and research shows that customers at Indian restaurants are both younger and more affluent than those at their Chinese rivals. Ever since the Seventies curry houses have been struggling to throw off their "vindaloo after closing time" image - and most have succeeded.
But the reality is somewhat different. Increased competition combined with a tight-walleted population means that curry houses are no longer the toothsome businesses they once were. A survey by the Leatherhead Food Research Association also comes up with a worrying trend: Indian food is lagging behind Chinese in popularity. More than half the respondents said they intended to eat more Chinese food, while none said they would eat more standard Indian grub. Only Balti, a relatively new variation, showed signs of life.
Mohammad Shanjab is owner and chief cook of the Curry Cabin, a small restaurant in south-east London. He came from Sylhet with his parents in 1971, when he was 15. Two years later he became a trainee cook at the Curry Cabin, then the only Indian restaurant in the area. The owner took to him and in 1978 sold him the business. Since then he has been providing a rich and consistent taste to those who like their Indian restaurants traditional - no flock wallpaper, but plenty of red plush and oriental imagery.
The good times rolled from the mid-Seventies until 1991. Then the recession and the Gulf War slammed in and flattened the market: it has yet to recover. "I haven't been able increase my prices for the last four years," Mr Shanjab complains. He has also had to start free home delivery to fight off the take-aways. "I'm surviving," he says. "But it is not as profitable as before." His problems have not been eased by the competition, which has continued to grow. The area now has eight Indian, three Thai, two Chinese, one Mexican and one French restaurant, as well as chip shops and take- aways.
Hussain Ali, the Curry Cabin's head waiter, is even more pessimistic than his boss. "People think we're in a good business, but it's very bad nowadays," he says. "It used to be busy - now it's terrible."
Ashraf Uddin, organising secretary of the Bangladesh Caterers Association, confirms that these problems are typical. "It's quite difficult to make a profit because the recession is still on," he says. His association is concerned that some curry houses have been driven to offering half- price meals. This will affect the quality of the food, it says, and "will bring a bad name to our prestigious cuisine".
The best hope for the industry lies in the enterprise of the restaurateurs and their adaptability. In the Curry Cabin's kitchen is a clay Tandoor oven, in which tikkas and naans are made. The Tandoor is not part of the Bengali cuisine - it comes from north-west India and Pakistan - but a restaurateur tried one out in the Sixties and found himself with a hit. Before long, a mass of Bangladeshi restaurants were reborn as Tandooris. Now some Tandooris are in turn becoming Baltis - selling dishes whose origins lie in Afghanistan. It is something of a con, it seems. "Baltis are not really any different from our cooking; they just change some of the spices," Mr Uddin says.
Some small chains have been built up, mainly by second-generation immigrants. But the great majority of restaurateurs are rubbing along much as they always have done - one family owning one restaurant. This fits with the Bangladeshi tradition of self-reliance that lies behind the industry's past successes.
A scattering of Indian restaurants appeared in Britain many years ago: the Salut-e-Hind, founded in 1911 in London's Holborn, is believed to be the first. But the foundations of today's industry were laid in the Forties. The people of Sylhet had strong links with the UK because of the tea trade, and many of them joined the British army or merchant marine when war broke out. Some then settled in London, and wondered what to do.
There was no great culinary tradition in Sylhet but, Mr Uddin says: "When they came here they lacked education and found English very difficult. But they were mostly self-employed at home, so they were used to running their own businesses." He believes the first Sylhet restaurant was the Greenmarks, founded by Mashraf Ali in Tottenham Court Road, London in 1943. By 1960 there were 1,000 restaurants run by people from the area - then in East Pakistan - and when the country seceded to become Bangladesh in 1971 there was another wave of immigration. The easiest business for them to enter was the Bengali-speaking restaurant industry.
Although there are different types of Indian restaurants (vegetarian from the the south, Gujarati, Punjabi), Sylhet still dominates the curry industry. A steady flow of new immigrants supplies the labour market - which is why it is rare to find a waiter who has completely fluent English.
Hussain Ali's story is typical. His father came to England in the Fifties, working first in a brewery then in a factory in the Midlands. His wife stayed in Sylhet and Mr Ali, who was born in 1967, hardly saw his dad until the whole family moved to England when he was 14. "We were very poor and I didn't have much schooling," he recalls.
He was sent to live in Kendal with a cousin; as the only Asian in a school of 500 he learned English quickly. Then
he came to London and found work as a waiter in Brick Lane, a centre for restaurants in the East End. Four years later, he was approached by a man who came from a neighbouring village in Bangladesh; he ran the Surma restaurant in south-east London, and Mr Ali left to work for him. After a while, Mr Shanjab popped in and asked him if he knew any good waiters. He was offering more money, so Mr Ali moved down the road to the Curry Cabin.
Five years ago, he was married to a girl who originally came from his home district, but who was living in England. "My auntie in Birmingham arranged it," he says.
The arranged marriage is critical to the industry because it ensures an influx of potential waiters. Mr Ali hopes that his son, four-year-old Faizzal Hussain, will not be a waiter ("the hours are so long") - and, with a British education and fluent English, it is unlikely he will be.
That means the curry houses need a steady supply of immigrants to staff them - and this is where the marriage comes in. If a Bangladeshi couple have a daughter in Britain, they will at some stage look for a partner for her. They may find one locally; more likely they will ask an aunt or friend in Sylhet to keep an eye out. The chosen young man will then travel to Britain where, with his limited English he will, like as not, have to take a job in a restaurant.
Few people would be waiters by choice. Mr Ali works a split shift, from 11am to 2.30pm, then 6pm to midnight, six days a week. He gets home to Wapping about half past midnight; his wife has his only meal of the day ready. His pay is "OK", he says, but he gets only two weeks' holiday a year. If he had the choice, he says, he would rather work in an office. "But I can't because my English is not good and I'm not educated." Finding a job as a waiter, by contrast, is not difficult - he could use his personal contacts, specialist agencies or even the Yellow Pages to seek out employers.
Indian - or rather Bangla-deshi - restaurants have improved immeasurably in quality, but they still have difficulty differentiating themselves from each other. Not having flock wallpaper was once a handy trick - now it is the norm. Baltis, once unusual, are already common. And it seems that any new gimmick that is thought up spreads so fast among the adaptable Bangladeshis that it quickly loses its profit-spinning appeal.
The restaurateurs are, in that sense, the victims of their own ability. Unless consumers are prepared to unzip their wallets, it seems that consolidation and closures are inevitable. Bad news for tikka-loving consumers; good news for Mr Shanjab and his balance sheet - but only if he emerges as one of the survivors.
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July 5th, 2009 #3082
congrats man, Im sure you that you will blow them away with your crazy art
Hide this ad by registering as a memberJuly 6th, 2009 #3083
Congrats on the WotC Contract
Major props for scoring a WotC contract. Even though they've done some CRAZY things under Hasbro's management their artwork is still top notch! Let us know what books or supplements you get your art into!
All my friends have been watching your sketchbook and are amazed by it. They have gotten artwork done by some of the other main WotC artists at the major cons, but your full color artwork has them mezmorized and I know when we reintroduce our characters they will definetly want to look you up for some private work if possible.
What better way to introduce your character than with a picture? It sure is a better way than saying, "My name is Earl and I look like a fighter!" Heh.
Keep up the awesome work and once more congradulations on the contract!
July 8th, 2009 #3084
your work is awesome :o im so jealous
July 8th, 2009 #3085
This is such a good sketchbook, man.
I looked on every single page of it and now it's all wet because I was salivating that much.
Go on doing your thing, I like the direction you're heading for.
July 11th, 2009 #3086
I don't have much to add to this thread. Just had to say that you are a great inspiration and that I've been looking through all pages and loved it!
It's great to see how much you have been progressing since you first posted here. Made me feel that it was a good idea to start my own sketchbook, very inspiring! :-p
Thank you for sharing your kick-ass paintings/drawings!
Personal portfolio: http://erikfriberg.com
July 11th, 2009 #3087
Very inspiring everything here in this thread. Thank you very much in deed.
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July 12th, 2009 #3088
thanks everybody! Really appreciate all the beautiful comments phew. I eat em up and print em out, melt em down and bathe in em. Lather me up
woops, anyways, heres a quick 1 hour study from tonight
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July 12th, 2009 #3089
diggin it. another step in the right direction for what yer aiming for.
have another cookie, theyre fantastic.
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July 12th, 2009 #3090
Gosh thats a really nice 1 hour study buddy. You're so fast you're like so fast. Good stuff brahh
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July 12th, 2009 #3091
dude. i effin love visiting this sketchbook. it never fails me.. i love the zombie dude sketch and the use of complimentary colors. awesome. i'll be back for the next update
July 12th, 2009 #3092
amazing sketchbook and amazing development from the beginning to now. Very inspiring stuff!
July 13th, 2009 #3093
Thanks everybody! !
Heres a video thing I did... I was gonna make it a full length but for some reason the quality was just shit... I gotta get a new video capture tool. Anyways, I sped it up and added music instead. Hopefully it still serves some purpose
finished speed paint -
better off just clicking the link here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bEEqKETnVo just so you can full screen and actually tell whats happening haha. I'll fix the settings so its not so horrible next time... I promise!
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July 13th, 2009 #3094
I was about to go to bed but then I watch the awesome speed paint video. I like the slight oily moisture you put into your zombie skins.
If I go to bed now and have a nightmare about zombies, I'm going to blame you.
Make a sketchbook happy, feed it a tip to improve!
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Great restaurant for lunch and a refreshing dive in the public swimming poul
Try out the Fungi Misti and the Trout (their specialty). Service is nice and very quick. You can find the restaurant lying next to the road.
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The Lutgert Companies reports record sales at Tavira at Bonita Bay
The Lutgert Companies announced that sales for Tavira at Bonita Bay continue at a noteworthy pace with four sales contracts in the first week of March 2012. The luxury tower is drawing international attention with homebuyers from Southwest Florida to Canada, according to Todd Kendall, director of sales for the Lutgert Companies.
The sleek sophisticated tower had a year-ending sales volume of $30 million, and a record-setting 25 total sales, making it the top selling new luxury high-rise in Southwest Florida in 2011 based upon information compiled through the Multiple Listing Service.
"For second-home buyers, Tavira at Bonita Bay is highly valued for its location and views, amenities and the Lutgert Companies stamp ensures quality is top of the line," said Kendall.
"Last fall, we examined strategies to motivate buyers to make purchasing decisions as the economy began to rebound. We adjusted the price structure to reflect the current market, included flooring and backgrounds in the purchase price and an enclosed garage," said Kendall. "Our Canadian neighbors are capitalizing on their strong dollar to live in sunny Southwest Florida and look here to purchase property as an investment."
Tavira at Bonita Bay, created by the Lutgert Companies, is a 26-story high-rise with single-family home comforts such as gas fireplaces in the living rooms and screened lanais with a grill and outdoor kitchen. Floor plans range from 3,500 to 4,100 square feet of air-conditioned living space. Characteristic of the high-rises are windows that are nearly floor to ceiling in height offering multidirectional views.
"Regardless of where they come from, people have clearly responded very favorably to the incentives and we are now 50 percent sold," continued Kendall. As these are limited time incentives, buyers should not hesitate to get in on these ground-breaking offers and lock-in on current pricing and a residence of their choice."
Tavira joins the other five Lutgert Companies high-rises on an exclusive corridor in Bonita Bay. The towers dot an expanse overlooking a nature preserve, Estero Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
Tavira's amenities include an expansive pool, poolside cabanas, steam and massage rooms, and a rooftop sunset level for all Tavira residents, complete with bar and seating. Newly added to the lineup of building amenities is virtual golf. Bonita Bay has five championship golf courses for members.
Also, coming soon will be a complete design center within Tavira. Residents can peruse an array of flooring and finishes in the ease and convenience of the building, saving them substantial time, which is itself considered a luxury in the fast pace of today's world.
Kendall remarked that the member-owned club has been another selling factor for buyers. Residents may purchase memberships to have usage of the clubhouse, five golf courses, and the tennis and swim center. Through a separate membership, the marina cub has a full-service marina with storage, dining facilities and egress to the Gulf of Mexico via the Imperial River and Estero Bay. As owner-members, residents can participate in the function and management of the club and its facilities.
Tavira is the sixth of eight planned high-rises by the Lutgert Companies in Bonita Bay. Residences at Tavira are priced starting at $1.2 million.
Premier Sotheby's International Realty, the real estate division of the Lutgert Companies, is the exclusive representative for the High-Rises at Bonita Bay. Models are open daily. Online at www.BonitaBay.com.
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