Greatest Irish movie ever made: The Quiet Girl

Madman Films, 5/12/22; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Best Int'l Feature Film: Why The Quiet Girl deserves to win the award (movieweb.com)

The Quiet Girl (official trailer)

Best Irish-language film ever (The Biz Post)

(Madman Films) The Quiet Girl (Gaelic An Cailín Ciúin) is a delicate drama that follows Cáit, a shy 9-year-old who has been separated from her immediate family and left in the care of two distant relatives for the summer. After sun-dappled days spent milking cows, peeling potatoes, and fetching water from the well, the initially uncommunicative child opens up to her foster parents. Textured and tender, this award-winning film shows that home is where we feel loved. #TheQuietGirl

"A jewel...deeply moving tale or rural Ireland.
Already feels like a classic" (The Guardian).

• Who plays Cáit? First-time actress and newly minted child star Catherine Clinch! Bravo!
• Based on the short story Foster by Claire Keegan
• Directed by Colm Bairéad and up for an Oscar for best international feature film at the 95th Academy Awards
• (OPINION: It seems it's eerily like James Joyce's short story The Dead in terms of its sensitivity and Irishness if Irishness is a thing.)
• More from Madman Films: madmanfilms.com.au

Olivia Newton-John dead of cancer at 73

Grease star and Australian music icon Dame Olivia Newton-John dead at 73 | ABC

(ABC News, Australia, Aug 8, 2022) Messages posted to her official social media accounts said the singer "passed away peacefully" at her ranch in Southern California surrounded by family and friends. Read more here: ab.co/3SAwBMd.

Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73

(9 News Australia, 8//8/22) Legendary Australian singer, actress, and entertainer Dame Oliva Newton-John has died peacefully at her California ranch surrounded by family and friends.

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Marilyn Monroe: "Some Like It Hot" (video)

Vintage News; BBC TV via Adam28xx, 2/15/19; Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot with stars Monroe, Curtis, Lemmon

Marilyn institutionalized? (thevintagenews.com)

his amusing TV documentary details the making of the classic 1959 Billy Wilder comedy Some Like It Hot, starring American sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson), who is now considered fat but was gorgeous and perfect in the standard of those times at the dawn of the Sixties. It features interviews with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as well as director Billy Wilder and other participants in the movie's production. [Monroe was murdered by the US government for her sexual involvement with similarly assassinated Pres. JFK and his brother Robert Kennedy.] This program was first aired in 2001 and was uploaded to YouTube with all due acknowledgements.

"Jackass" star becomes a Buddhist (video)

"Jackass" star Steve-O is a Buddhist
The newly, successfully sober but still crazy stuntman Steve-O practices Nichiren Buddhism. He mentioned his conversion without going into further detail in the introduction to a new interview in the Miami New Times. Tina Turner will be overjoyed:

The best nam myoho renge kyo ever (Larry King)

Rebel Buddha: On the Road to Freedom
Wisdom Quarterly
Maybe Steve-O has been reading this new book (Shambala, $21.95)? Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is a Seattle-based Tibetan Buddhist monk who discusses how we can eliminate fear and unhappiness by awakening the "rebel buddha" within -- the "sharp, clear intelligence that resists the status quo," according to the publisher. The Vajrayana author is the founder of Nalanda West, a Fremont center dedicated to fostering American Buddhism. DailyOM review

• Miami New Times on Buddhism

The Zen of "Tron: Legacy" and religion (film)

Zen Peacekeeper Roshi Bernie Glassman helped develop the Zen of the "Tron" script.

There is a lot of buzz about the Tron/Buddhism connection. There is an interesting National Post piece about Jeff Bridges, Zen, and "Tron: Legacy." And Jeff Bridges’ "Tron: Legacy" co-star Olivia Wilde talks in a new interview about how her character, Quorra, is inspired by in part by Buddhism and the “coolest Zen Buddhist alive” -- her co-star Jeff Bridges. Back in October longtime The Worst Horse reader Sam DeWitt contributed one of the first looks at the Tron/Dharma connection, including some interesting screengrabs. And at the scifi geek site i09 is an article called “Jeff Bridges and Olivia Wilde say Tron Legacy is all about religion” (ShambhalaSun.com).

See also Bridges, Leupp on Buddhist influences in “Tron: Legacy” (hollywood.com)

• Buddhist monks and Biker dudes on TV
  (Theworsthorse.com) “Born to Rage,” a new National Geographic Explorer show, aired noting: “There’s a gene that can, surprisingly, indicate a stronger likelihood for men to engage in violent behavior. The hook is engaging: Punk rock icon and genuinely angry man Henry Rollins serves as a kind of host, interviewer, and lead test subject. Their other test subjects are also interesting: retired gang enforcers, biker dudes, Buddhist monks, and a former Navy SEAL/current successful CEO” (The AV Club). CLIP: Warrior Gene?

This is not the first time Hollywood has shown Buddhist influences: "I Heart Huckabees"

India's film star election candidate

India is the largest democracy in the world. As many as 200 million people have been voting today in the country's general election.

• VIDEO (BBC News)