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  Disney Animal Films   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Rascal is a sweet and very, very low-key slice of Americana with a nice lesson for kids about the need to sometimes set free the thing we love, and a rather more pointed lesson for parents about responsibility.
Rascal is presented full frame, and as with Monkeys was obviously shot with an eye toward television (with the exception of the opening credits, which have been slightly squished to fit the screen).
As with Rascal, the source material has deteriorated and is somewhat faded, leaving the image generally harsh and not quite natural looking (it must be remembered, though, that the nature-footage that makes up the bulk of the film was not done under optimal conditions).
www.classicsondvd.com /anim1.htm   (2068 words)

  
 Re: The Rascal film setting
Location filming usually only consisted of "background", or, if the principal actors were involved, brief scenes to establish the "authenticity" of a setting.
As a matter of economics, it was cheaper and easier to film in one's "backyard" than to go on location where filming could be complicated by outside factors, ie.
Even though many films utilized the same sets, by altering them slightly, or (especially true in photography and motion pictures) by filming from a slightly different angle, they appeared to be completely different.
www.sterlingnorth.com /discussion/_disc1/0000008e.htm   (419 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Rapper Rascal wins Mercury Prize
Rascal, 19, whose style straddles hip hop and UK garage, beat favourites The Darkness and other high-profile rock bands like Coldplay and Radiohead.
Rascal, who won for his debut Boy in Da Corner, said he had not been expecting to win but was happy to be recognised.
Rascal, real name Dylan Mills, has become one of the most critically acclaimed artists of 2003, and has begun to break into the mainstream with two top 40 singles.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/3092520.stm   (390 words)

  
 Rascal Flatts Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Rascal Flatts, along with SheDaisy (their label-mates on the Disney-owned Lyric Street) and other wholesome acts like The Wilkinsons, create a positive CM image for younger people who might shy away from more traditional sounds.
The film was an adaptation of a 1947 novel by the same name, written by Dorothy B. Hughes, in which the Steele character was clearly a psychopathic killer, but in the film the character's guilt was in question.
Rascal Flatts is suddenly significant because Melt debuted atop the country charts last week, and the male vocal trio won the CMA Horizon Award about the same time.
jdrooneyrascals.homestead.com /reviews.html   (5230 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Rascal: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As Rascal ages, Sterling is aware that the raccoon is having normal springtime urges and is not happy residing in the pen Sterling was forced to construct.
RASCAL falls into the second category, and the Newbery Honor book's down-home narrative is as warm and compelling as a long conversation with your best friend.
Rascal has earned it's status as a beloved classic, by presenting an unforgettable tale of a boy who falls in love, and then must do the right thing.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0807209562?v=glance   (1438 words)

  
 miaminewtimes.com | Music | Look Sharp | 2005-04-14   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
All of twenty years old, Rascal can already claim a Mercury Prize, which he was awarded for Corner (the first rapper ever to win the award, Rascal beat out, among others, Brit darlings Coldplay and Radiohead), and the not-too-shabby feat of bringing music journalists around the world to collective orgasm.
Rascal can't very well talk about stealing cars now that he's able to drive off the lot -- legally -- with any ride he pleases.
Years later, when Rascal was on his fifth and final high school, his music teacher Tim Smith, whom he thanked in the liner notes to Corner and in his Mercury Prize acceptance speech, let him fool around on the school's music software.
music.miaminewtimes.com /issues/2005-04-14/music/music.html   (963 words)

  
 James Connolly Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Foundation’s aims are firstly to assist in making the Connolly film and secondly to apply its share of the profits from the film to programmes to alleviate inequality in educational opportunity caused in the main by poverty.
Rascal Films is raising the remainder of the budget through conventional means; commercial investment, tax investment schemes available in Ireland and the UK, and co-production, distribution deals, etc.
Rascal Films intends that ‘Connolly’ will be brought to the screen in 2006 for the 90th anniversary of Connolly’s execution by firing squad, and that it will become a highly successful Irish film reaching a global audience.
www.labournet.net /events/0507/connolly1.html   (1219 words)

  
 Rascal DVD Review
Though nothing in Rascal is particularly unpredictable or exceedingly funny, the film does manage to capture a poignant sense of childhood spirit and the closeness to an animal that plays a large part of many youths.
Rascal is one of many "boy and animal" films that the Disney studio has released over the years.
Fans of the film are bound to be a bit disappointed by this DVD release, but those unfamiliar with the film may be pleasantly surprised.
www.ultimatedisney.com /rascal.html   (774 words)

  
 riverfronttimes.com | Music | Dizzee Rascal | 2004-09-22   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the Caribbean, however, Jamaican dancehall producers liberated the snare drum from the stuffy confines of the 4/4 beat by pushing the two snare pops to the front, and the resulting double-pop emancipation has fundamentally changed not only hip-hop, whose producers now infuse dancehall into their rhythms, but dancing.
Luckily, Rascal's patois is often impenetrable to American ears -- half the time he could be rhyming about British foreign policy or English setters and we wouldn't be any the wiser.
Where American hip-hop producers have, for the most part, ignored European techno and drum 'n' bass, Rascal was reared on the deep synthetic hums and rhythms of the music, as well as house, hip-hop, dancehall and U.K. garage.
www.riverfronttimes.com /issues/2004-09-22/music/rotations3.html   (427 words)

  
 Rascal - DVD film: Totaltiorden.dk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Everyone in the small town gets to know Rascal, whether they want to or not - the bandit-masked mammal is especially fond of the eggs in the neighbor's chicken coops.
But this film was made before the days of high-tech computer animations, and the coons used in it--are real--and therefore a true representation of this wonderful, mischievious critter.
While Rascal is mainly a children's film, it also good for viewers who love animals.
www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/dvd_details.php/B00006675W|dvd   (597 words)

  
 CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times
The film, first seen in the Youth Forum section of the Berlin International Film Festival in February, left some critics mystified at a recent press screening.
As Detkina admitted after the screening, the film's English-language title doesn't quite capture the meaning of the original, given that the Russian root pakost means "dirty trick" as much as anything else.
Perhaps the film is best defined as a few vague hints of "The Cherry Orchard," stirred in with elements of psychotic thriller and a touch of lunacy along the lines of veteran Odessa director Kira Muratova, who managed to do something similar in her own fl-and-white film, "Chekhov's Motifs," from 2002.
context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2005/04/29/111.html   (1131 words)

  
 Rascal (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rascal is a 1963 book by Sterling North about his childhood in Wisconsin.
In 1969 it was made into a movie, Rascal, by the Walt Disney Company.
This page was last modified 14:52, 23 October 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rascal_(book)   (63 words)

  
 Foster on Film - Captain Blood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was the first film with a score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who is arguably the greatest composer to ever work in Hollywood.
Flynn was uncertain of himself when the film began; he had yet to develop his easy manor with stylized dialog.
The film changes tone dramatically with each part; some are in deadly earnest while others are nearer to comedy.
home.comcast.net /~fosteronfilm/blood.htm   (1280 words)

  
 Singin' In The Rain (1952)
Because the colorful, witty film is set in 1927, it humorously satirizes and parodies the panic surrounding the troubling transitional period from silents to talkies in the dream factory of Hollywood of the late 1920s as the sound revolution swept through.
Surprisingly, this great film that was shot for a cost of $2.5 million (about $.5 million over-budget), was basically ignored by film critics when released and treated with indifference (with box-office of $7.7 worldwide).
Fortunately, silent film audiences are unaware of Lina's horrible speaking voice, but it is difficult to keep her quiet and have Don make all the speeches.
www.filmsite.org /sing.html   (2083 words)

  
 James Connolly Film
Globalised cinema presents very few opportunities to working men and women to see films that portray the lives and struggles of those individuals who take on the rich and powerful so as to lift ordinary people out of poverty and oppression.
It will also be the first feature film to deal with the context and background of the Irish revolution of 1916, and to challenge the establishment version of that great event as being a bourgeois rebellion.
Rascal Films will raise the remainder of the budget through conventional means; commercial investment, tax investment schemes available in Ireland and the UK, and co-production, distribution deals, etc.
www.wageslave.org /jcs/jc_film.html   (972 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Rascal [1969]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
One of the highlights of the film is the race which takes place between a motor car and a horse and cart, in order to find out which is the fastest.
In general the film is very formulaic and the two most interesting parts are the two mentioned above and the ending, which I won't spoil for you.
On the whole Rascal may not be one of Disney's blockbuster films, however is still very solid and does hold together well.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001IMCCU   (624 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Filmed entirely from user posts, the documentary provides a glimpse of the variety and breadth of the experiences of the website’s users.
Eight film crews, also found through a single post on craigslist, were sent to film 121 different stories posted on August 4, 2003.
Annual tours of their films and installations, most of which can be categorized by the term “experimental documentaries,” throughout the Pacific Northwest (occasionally reaching the rest of the country, as with 2002’s 75-city Lucky Bum tour) have developed a small but devoted fan base in each of their regular stops.
www.lazylimabean.com   (1028 words)

  
 Shrek 2: All Zip, No Heart
It's not a martial-arts film or a spaghetti Western.
At 19, Rascal is too young to attempt artful autobiography or social critique; he's just spitting about the stuff he sees around him.
But to revisit this flick is to be reminded that Murphy used to be a very volatile talent, the type of high-watt genius a film couldn't hope to contain.
www.thesimon.com /magazine/articles/consumables/0607_shrek_2_all_zip_heart.html   (1135 words)

  
 PopMatters Music Feature | Dizzee Rascal: The End of Garage's Beginning
He toasts with the dreadful intensity of Capleton, produces with the menacing heft of El-P, and crafts lyrics with all the irony and sly double-meaning of Donald Fagan's.
The flipside of that is "Jus a Rascal", where the iconic sound of a flatpicked reggae bassline is sped up and fed through muddy distortion to render it terse, aggressive, all too immediate.
Similarly, the distance between Dizzee Rascal, the on-record persona, and Dylan Mills, the young man who voices him, ranges from broad and complex to slight to nonexistent.
www.popmatters.com /music/features/031024-dizzeerascal.shtml   (1536 words)

  
 The Stranger - Music - Feature - Respect Due
Dizzee Rascal is a brain-joltingly distinctive MC and producer who released two devastating albums by age 19.
Dizzee Rascal (20-year-old Dylan Mills) cut his teeth on London's pirate radio stations and on the UK garage-rave circuit, where improvisation is essential.
Rascal somehow makes a song about stasis utterly compelling.
www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=20954   (695 words)

  
 Rascal Films - Producers of a feature drama biopic of James Connolly socialist leader of the Easter 1916 Revolution in ...
Rascal Films - Producers of a feature drama biopic of James Connolly socialist leader of the Easter 1916 Revolution in Ireland
Every human community, from the family to the Nation, is driven to tell its story to the world it inhabits.
When we do that we better understand ourselves, and in reaching that understanding find our place in, and our potential influence on, the wider world.
www.rascal-films.com   (157 words)

  
 Dizzee Rascal - PopMatters Concert Review
As skilled a rapper as Mills is, he should have pulled in a more diverse crowd, if only because Howard University, one of the oldest and most prestigious historically fl universities in the U.S., is within two blocks.
It is worrisome to see Dizzee Rascal, as Tricky was before him, embraced in the U.S. more by fickle trend-scavengers than by hip hop heads.
The big hits were "Jus' a Rascal" and "Stand Up Tall", which ended the show, no encore.
popmatters.com /music/concerts/d/dizzee-rascal-050425.shtml   (1320 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | News | Former 'Little Rascal' murdered
A former child star of the Our Gang films has been stabbed to death in Las Vegas.
Jay R Smith, 87, appeared in more than 30 of the Our Gang shorts (the series is also known as The Little Rascals) between 1925 and 1929.
Smith once described his movie career as "a very pleasant time in my life." Police are seeking a homeless man, Graydon Brooker, for questioning over Smith's murder.
film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Exclusive/0,4029,817469,00.html   (110 words)

  
 Variety.com - Reviews - The Rascal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Oddly mesmerizing even though its elliptical plot will be a hard slog for non-Russian speakers, "The Rascal" reps a promising feature debut by shorts helmer Tanya Detkina, a former intern of established arthouse helmer Alexei German ("Khrystalyov, My Car!") whose influence here is palpable, not least on the pic's monochrome look.
"Rascal" lacks the wiles to attract distribution outside Russia, but will probably enticemore fests this year.
Somewhere in the Russian countryside, gangly young Pashka (Roganov) is awakened from an erotic dream -- or flash-forward -- by the arrival of his boss Komov (Vladimir Bublikov) who tells him to pack his bags and go, since the family who owns the dasha is expected shortly.
www.variety.com /review/VE1117926237?categoryid=31   (495 words)

  
 Rascal (1969)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Squashed into uniplexes somewhere between "The Love Bug" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" kids were treated to a quiet little bit of Americana called "Rascal." About as Disney as you can get, "Rascal" is the story about a boy and his raccoon.
We've seen it before and after, a boy domesticates a wild animal, animal causes mischief, neighbors blame for every mishap in the area, and by the end of the film the boy must release the animal back into the wild.
At the time of this writing odds of seeing this film at all are very rare and that is a shame considering the inferior product being released direct-to-video for kids today.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0064875   (365 words)

  
 American Cinematographer: A Flexible Finish - page 3
A high-speed interface between the Quantel iQ and Cintel's DSX, C-Reality and Rascal film scanners was recently announced, which means that the iQ can now be controlled by Cintel, boosting productivity in a virtual grading environment.
In another twist on the DI pipeline, iO Film uses the Avid DS HD as a controller for the Spirit.
At Modern Video Film, which relies on the iQ for the middle portion of the DI process, storage is 12 TB, all on Quantel Dylans for online storage.
www.theasc.com /magazine/april03/sub/page3.html   (951 words)

  
 Chico News and Review - Film Review - January 17, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hackman is Royal Tenenbaum in this case, but to refer to this comically dysfunctional family as "the Royal Tenenbaums" is to invoke, and to mock, the patriarchal presumptions of an earlier era.
The earlier era in question might be described as "pre-1950 America," but the setting of the film is in the present and in the part of the 1960s that extended well into the 1970s in general and marked the formative years of the Tenenbaums' "exceptional" children in particular.
Royal himself is a sort of post-New Age version of W. Fields--a wry, self-aware rascal who sees the error of his ways but also knows that there's too much joy in that rascality for him to ever completely mend those ways.
www.newsreview.com /issues/chico/2002-01-17/Film.asp   (540 words)

  
 Craig Chamberlin.com - Home of the Actor Craig Chamberlin
The Rascal Flatts music video I shot a couple of days ago should be airing in about a month.
Florida film, Florida film contests, the florida incubator contest,the miami film festival,the sundance film festival, the cannes film festival.
The final fifteen films were judged by, Kelly M. Devine, she aquires shorts and independent features for the Independent Film Channel.
www.craigchamberlin.com   (2852 words)

  
 Dizzee Rascal: Showtime (2004): Reviews
What Dizzee Rascal has done with this record is find his own - profoundly satisfying - balance between grime's digital vortex of ringtones and car alarms and an older more contemplative electronic tradition.
Dizzee's voice still sounds like a helium-inflected hiccup, and the beats still sound like they were recorded directly from a Nintendo, if not an Atari.
The only complaint I have with this album is that I can't tell if Rascal is changing his sound a bit to keep it fresh, or he's just becoming more mainstream.
www.metacritic.com /music/artists/rascaldizzee/showtime   (969 words)

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