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byneddiedingo · 6 months

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D.J. Mendel in Meanwhile (Hal Hartley, 2011)

Cast: D.J. Mendel, Danielle Meyer, Chelsea Crowe, Miho Nikaido, Penelope Lagos, Lisa Hickman, James David Rich, Hoji Fortuna, Kanstance Frakes, Scott Shepherd, Christine Holt, Stephen Ellis, Soraya Soi Free. Screenplay: Hal Hartley. Cinematography: Daniel Sharnoff. Production design: Richard Sylvarnes. Film editing: Kyle Gilman. Music: Hal Hartley.

The knock on Hal Hartley's Meanwhile from, for example, the commenters on IMDb, is that it's just a guy wandering around talking to people. Which could, I suppose, be said of James Joyce's Ulysses. Not that Meanwhile, with its slightly less than an hour run time, bears extended comparison with Joyce's mock-epic tour of Dublin. But it does have something of that novel's semi-affectionate take on a city, in Hartley's case New York. Joseph (D.J. Mendel) is an ordinary Joe in the way that Leopold Bloom was an ordinary man, which means that you wouldn't take a second look at him in a crowd but if you took time to observe him you'd discover multiple ways in which he's unique. Hartley intercuts Joseph's peregrinations with apparently irrelevant scenes in which a worker in his own office at his production company, Possible Films, picks up an advance copy of a novel titled Meanwhile, a big fat book that she takes home and apparently reads. But what we have here isn't a novel; it's a New Yorker short story. Nothing is concluded but everything is potential. For me that was enough to savor and appreciate.

#Meanwhile #Hal Hartley #D.J. Mendel

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The Book of Life (1999) Hal Hartley

December 23rd 2022

#the book of life #1999 #hal hartley #martin donovan #thomas jay ryan #pj harvey #dave simonds #miho nikaido #d.j. mendel #katreen hardt #james urbaniak #william s. burroughs

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badgaymovies · 2 years

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The Book Of Life

The Book Of Life by #HalHartley starring #MartinDonovan, "an experiment that has little more to offer than its clever conceit"

HAL HARTLEY Bil’s rating (out of 5): B France/USA, 1998. Haut et Court, La Sept-Arte, True Fiction Pictures. Screenplay by Hal Hartley. Cinematography by Jim Denault. Produced by Caroline Benjo, Thierry Cagianut, Pierre Chevalier, Matthew Myers, Carole Scotta. Production Design by Andy Biscontini. Film Editing by Steve Hamilton. Hal Hartley takes stock of millennium anxiety in this featurette…

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mrepstein · 5 years

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Brian Epstein’s Address & Telephone Book

A small leather bound pocket address and telephone book that was owned and used by Brian Epstein. The book dates to 1967 and it consists of 57 pages of addresses and telephone number some of which are typed, some of which are in Epstein’s hand and some which have been added by hand on his behalf. // (click HERE to view more pages from the book)

The book contains a total of 404 entries - a selection of them are listed below:

ATV Ltd

ABC Television Ltd

AIR London Ltd.

Tom Arnold Ltd

Neil Aspinall

Artistes Car Hire

Annabels [nightclub]

Alexander’s Restaurant

Ashley Steiner Famous [talent agency]

Al Aronowitz

Atlantic Records

Eric Andersen

Bob Anthony

Bryce Hanmer & Co [accounting firm]

Bedford, Okrent & Co

BBC Television Centre

BBC Broadcasting House

Al Brodax

Cilla Black

Mr. & Mrs. Tony Barrow

Mr. & Mrs Don Black

Bryan Barrett

Jack Barclay Ltd [Bentley dealership]

Peter Brown

Mr. & Mrs. B. Bullough

Mr. & Mrs J. Bullough

Miss J. Balmer

Mr. &. Mrs. Ivan Bennett

Eric Burdon

Francisco Bermudez

Lionel Bart

David Bailey

Bag O’Nails

Tony Barlow

Ray Bartell

Rodney Barnes

Bruno One Restaurant

Sid Bernstein

Kenn Brodziak

Leonard Bernstein

Al Bennett

Beverly Hills Hotel

Brian Bedford

Scotty Bower

David Ballman

Bob Bonis

Bill Buist

Arthur Buist

Dr. Norman Cowan

Curzon House Club

Crockfords Club

Clermont Club

Cromwellian Club

Paddy Chambers

Radio Caroline

Michael Codron

Cap-Estel Le

Mr. & Mrs. J. Cassen

Columbia Pictures Ltd

Eric Clapton

Capitol Records Mexico

Michael Cooper

Roger Curtis

Neil Christian

Maureen Cleave

Thomas Clyde

Cash Box

CBS Records Ltd

Denny Cordell

William Cavendish

Caprice Restuarant

David Charkham

Capitol Records

Columbia Broadcasting System

Bob Crewe

May Cunnell

Car Hire Co. for Lincoln

Dr. Kenneth Chesky

Capitol Records (Voyle Gilmore)

Irving E. Chezar

Danny Cleary

Bobby Colomby

Bob Casper

Andre Cadet

Daily Express

Disc & Music Echo

Decca Records

Bernard Delfont Ltd

Bernard Delfont

Noel Dixon

Jimmy Douglas

Chris Denning

Simon Dee

Rik Dane

Dolly’s [nightclub]

Hunter Davies

Terry Doran

Pat Doncaster

Norrie Drummond

Alan David

John Dunbar

Peter Dalton

Kappy Ditson

Robert Dunlap

Robert L. David

Diana Dors

Ivor Davis

Tom Dawes

Brandon de Wilde

Don Danneman

Malcolm Evans

Clive J. Epstein

Mr. & Mrs. H. Epstein

EMI Records Ltd

EMI Studios

Geoffrey Ellis

Etoile Restaurant

Tim Ellis

Terry Eaton

Kenny Everett

John East

Bob Eubanks

Esther Edwards

Ahmet Ertegun

Alan Freeman

David Frost

Georgie Fame

Robert Fraser

Andre Fattacini

Dan Farson

Billy Fury

Barry Finch

Marianne Faithfull

Robert Fitzpatrick

Warren Frederikson

John Fisher

Danny Fields

Francis Fiorino

Dr. Geoffrey Gray

Hamish Grimes

Derek Grainger

Rik Gunnell

Rik Gunnell Agency Ltd

Derrick Goodman & Co.

Peter Goldman

Christopher Gibbs

David Garrick

Geoffrey Grant

Mick Green

John P. Greenside

Michael Gillet

General Artists Corp.

John Gillespie

Voyle Gilmore

George Greif

Ren Grevatt

Milton Goldman

M. Goldstein

Gary Grove

Henry Grossman

Mr. & Mrs. Berrell Hyman

Doreen Hyman

Mr. & Mrs. Basil J. Hyman

Mrs. A. Hyman

Steve Hardy

H. Huntsman & Son Ltd

Simon Hayes

Frankie Howerd

Henry Higgins

Chris Hutchins

Tony Howard

Wendy Hanson

Marty Himmel

Casper Halpern

John Heska

Ricky Heiman

Joe Hunter

Ty Hargrove

Hullabaloo.

Walter Hofer

M.A. Jacobs & Son

David Jacobs [lawyer]

Dick James Music Ltd

Mr. & Mrs. D. James

Mick Jagger

Brian Jones

Michael Jeffries

Drummond Jackson

David Jacobs [d.j.]

Brian Joyce

Gerry Justice

Gibson Kemp

Johnathan King

Mr. & Mrs Maurice Kinn

Kingsway Recording Studios

Ashley Kozac

Kafetz Camera Ltd.

Reg King

Andrew Koritsas

Ed Kenmore

Walker Kundzicz

John Kurland

Murray Kauffman

Larry Lamb

Martin Landau

Kit Lambert

Dick Lester

Mr. & Mrs. Vic Lewis

Tony Lynch

Radio London

Mike Leander

John Lyndon

Bernard Lee

Kenny Lynch

Denny Laine

Lomax Alliance

Ed Leffler

David G. Lowe

Richard W. Lean

Goddard Lieberson

Laurie Records

Liberty Records

London Records

Alan Livingston

Melody Maker

Peter Murray

Keith Moon

Mr. & Mrs. G. Martin

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Matthew

Midland Bank Limited

Vyvienne Moynihan

Gerry Marsden

Ian Moody

Michael McGrath

Cathy McGowan

Mr. & Mrs. J. McCartney

Albert Marrion

Robin Maughan

Peter Maddok

Gordon Mills

Brian McEwan

John Mendell Jnr.

Marshall Migatz

Fred Morrow

Chruch McLaine

Vincent Morrone

Jeffrey Martin Co.

Gavin Murrell

Dean Martin

Gordon B. McLendon

Sal Mineo

Scott Manley

Bernard Mavnitte

Verne Miller

John Neville

Joanne Newfield

Tommy Nutter

Francisco Neuner

Tatsuji Nagasima

New Musical Express

NEMS Enterprises Ltd

Graham Nash

Nemperor Artists Ltd

Louis Nizer

Bob Nauss

Gene Narmore

George H. Ornstein

Olympic Sound Studios

A. L. Oldham

Myles Osternak

Roy Onsborg

Col. Tom Parker

Jerry Pam

Plaza Hotel

PAN AM. rep

Bob Perlman

Allen Pohju

Robert H. Prech

John Pritchard

Prince Of Wales Theatre

Don Paul

Sean Phillips

Jon Pertwee

Ricki Pipe

Dr. D. A. Pond

David Puttnam

David Puttnam Associates

Tom Parr

Harry Pinsker

Kenneth Partridge

Larry Parnes

Priory Nursing Home

Viv Prince

Steve Paul

Radnor Arms [pub]

Leo Rost

Keith Richard

Record Mirror

Dolly Robertson-Ward

Charles Ross

Rules Restuarant

Marian Rainford

Bobby Roberts

Bill Rosado

Vic Singh

Speakeasy [club]

Simon and Marijke

Simon Shops

Judith Symons

Keith Skeel

Tony Sharman

Simon Scott

Barrie Summers

John Singleton

Squarciafichi

Don Short

Dr. Walter Strach

Walter Shenson

John Sandoe Ltd

Bobby Shafto

Harry South

Brian Sommerville

Robert Stigwood

David Shaw

Chris Stamp

Aaron Schroeder

Stephen, Jacques & Stephen [law firm]

Leo Sullivan

Gene Schwann

Herb Schlosser

Gary Smith

Jim Stewart [co-founder, Stax Records]

John Simon

Jerry N. Schatzberg

Lex Taylor

Robert Shoot

Lauren Stanton

St. Regis Hotel

Eric Spiros

Howard Soloman

Taft Limousine Corp

[Sidney] Traxler (lawyer)

T.W.A. Ken S. Fletcher [director, public relations, TWA]

Derek & Joan Taylor

T.W.A. (Victor Page)

Martin Tempest

Evelyn Taylor

Twickenham Studios

Kenneth Tynan

Alistair Taylor

F. T. Turner & Son Ltd.

R. S. Taylor

Michael Taylor

George Tempest

Norm Talbott

United Artists Corp Ltd

U.P.I.

Klaus & Christine Voormann

V.I.P. Travel Ltd

Mark Warman

Gary Walker

Robert Whitaker

Peter Watkins

Peter Weldon

Mrs. Freda Weldon

Alan Warren

Orson Welles

Sir David Webster

Alan Williams

Dennis Wiley

Terry Wilson

Nathan Weiss

Norman Weiss

Gerry Wexler

Murial Young

Bernice Young

Peter Zorcon

#Brian Epstein #handwriting #60s

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elizabethmillerposts-blog · 7 years

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03-28 Gilles Mendel and D.J. Adi Naumann attend Verdura’s 70th Anniversary at the Verdura Salon on October 27, 2009 in New York City. ... http://dlvr.it/NlLBPy

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byneddiedingo · 6 months

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The Book of Life (Hal Hartley, 1998)

Cast: Martin Donovan, PJ Harvey, Dave Simonds, Thomas Jay Ryan, Miho Nikaido, D.J. Mendel, Katreen Hardt, James Urbaniak. Screenplay: Hal Hartley. Cinematography: Jim Denault. Art direction: Andy Biscontini. Film editing: Steve Hamilton.

The Girl From Monday (Hal Hartley, 2005)

Cast: Bill Sage, Sabrina Lloyd, Tatiana Abracos, Leo Fitzpatrick, D.J. Mendel, James Urbaniak, Juliana Francis, Gary Wllmes, Edie Falco. Screenplay: Hal Hartley. Cinematography: Sarah Cawley. Production design: Inbal Weinberg. Film editing: Steve Hamilton. Music: Hal Hartley.

As the millennium approached -- remember the Y2K jitters? -- two producers from the French company Haut et Court teamed with a European TV network and asked filmmakers from around the world to make hourlong movies that would reflect their visions of the imminent future. Hal Hartley, fresh off the success of Henry Fool (1997), was the American director chosen, and The Book of Life was his response. It's a fable about the Second Coming: Jesus (Martin Donovan) arrives in New York City, tasked by God to fulfill the prophecies about the end of the world recounted in the book of Revelation. He is accompanied by Mary Magdalene (PJ Harvey). Jesus likes New York and its people so much that after retrieving the Book of Life (an Apple Powerbook) from a storage locker (No. 666) and breaking the fifth of the seven seals he calls the whole thing off. Apocalypse? Nah. His decision is hotly protested by attorneys from the firm of Armageddon, Armageddon, and Jehoshaphat. God, Jesus observes, is all about the Law, so lawyers are his favorites. Jesus is somewhat aided by Satan (Thomas Jay Ryan) who wants the world to continue so he has somewhere to meddle. The film's brevity is its chief virtue: Too much more and the wit would have cloyed -- as it sometimes does -- into whimsy. The humanistic outlook of the film seems to have stuck with Hartley into his next movie, The Girl From Monday, a venture into science fiction that doesn't quite work. In the future, the United States has become a conglomerate, and people are traded on the stock exchange. (The more sex they have, for example, the higher their value.) Bill Sage plays Jack, an advertising executive who is secretly a member of the resistance to this new order, but he's so disillusioned that he drives to the seashore where he plans to kill himself. Instead, he just passes out after taking pills, and awakes to see a woman (Tatiana Abracos) emerge from the sea. She's an alien from a planet where people are part of an incorporate whole, and when he asks her name she says "No Body." Jack takes her home with him and teaches her how to perform simple physical tasks like drinking and eating. He also learns that she's there to bring back with her a fellow being from her planet (known on Earth as Monday after its discoverer) who came to Earth years ago. The problem with The Girl From Monday is that the satire on consumerism doesn't mesh well with the sci-fi premise. The film is a muddle of ideas, many of which are half-baked. Hartley's inspiration is said to have been Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965), but Godard's movie has a coherence and dry wit The Girl From Monday lacks.

#The Book of Life #The Girl From Monday #Hal Hartley #Martin Donovan #PJ Harvey #Tatiana Abracos

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