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Show l Monday • December 8, 2008 Senior films world documentary Cormac McCarthy's The Road New this week The Dark Knight, Dec. 9 H JASON GIBBONS' Life writer Courtesy of Jonathan Martin Martin, with camera, interviewing an emotional Lemko man. The unknown story of the Lemkos HICKMAN Life writer Website: Most students wait until www.bohemianindustries.net after graduating to put mass e m a i l : dragonfunding@ amounts of time, effort and hotmail.com work into huge career building projects. For UVU senior Jonathan Martin, this is not ing the rest to relocate, scatterthe mold he's going to fol- ing them all over the country. Their goal was to accomlow. plish genocide of the Lemko Last summer, Martin took a small crew to Europe, people, tearing and keeping Canada and across the U.S. to them all apart. This move by film a documentary short film- the Polish was called Action titled / Am From Nowhere: Wisla. "Nobody knows how The People History Ignored, many were killed. There are and now he's in preproduc- few photos from that time. tion to start a feature-length It was kept very hush-hush. They did it quietly, like film. What makes his film thieves in the night," Martin unique is that Martin is the explains. Over half a century later, first person to make a docuthe Lemko people are finally mentary telling the history starting to revive their culof the little known Lemko people. The title of the film is ture and customs. "The film derived from a quote by Andy is about the reawakening of Warhol, who is of Lemko her- the people and the adoration itage. When asked where he of their heritage," says Marwas from, Warhol would an- tin. "We traveled through swer, "I am from nowhere." several countries and spoke Most people don't know to many Lemko people, all about the Lemko people or of them very eager to speak how the events of World about their difficult and igWars I and II shaped their nored past." The ultimate goal of / Am history. During WWI, the From Nowhere is to get the Austrian government forced the Lemkos into concentra- European Union to recogtion camps. Once they were nize the Lemko as a people of released, the Ukrainian gov- their own, to obtain donation ernment claimed them as part of Lemko community cenof their own country, no lon- ters, and to encourage those ger possessing their own sov- responsible for the attacks on the Lemko people to apoloereign nation. gize. After WWII had ended, I Am From Nowhere is still the Polish government sent in post-production, but hopes their troops into Lemko vilto be selected and featured in lages, killing many and forc- Courtesy of Jonathan Martin / Am From Nowhere also captures the beauty of the Lemko people. the indie film festival circuit next year. Martin's project, currently in preproduction, is at the other end of the spectrum from / Am From Nowhere. His new film, titled Dragon Slayers, is a comedy about a group of geeks who waste all of their time and money in the Provo comic book store Dragon's Keep. When an unbelievably beautiful female geek moves into town and joins their fel- lowship, everything changes. "Hilarity, evil Italians, grand-ma-ma, Chewbacca, a high-speed chase involving a Vespa and comedy ensue," says Martin. Along with several other UVU business students, Martin is currently raising money to film Dragon Slayers. They've already received over $10,000, and they hope to start shooting in spring. Cormac McCarthy's The Road is a post-apocalyptic picture of an America that no longer exists. An unnamed catastrophe has all but destroyed humanity and left the country an ashen wasteland. A father and his young son fight certain death at every turn as they make their way on the road to the coast and what they hope will be salvation. Both beautiful and horrifying in its scope, The Road is an instant classic and a great choice for reading over the semester break. Be warned: This book is not divided into chapters, and it has no natural breaks. It kept me up until 3:00 a.m. because I was enthralled and couldn't find anywhere to stop. The Road won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007, and a film adaptation starring Viggo Mortenson is currently in production, due out next year. "With the first gray light he rose and left the boy sleeping and walked out to the road and squatted and studied the country to the south. Barren, silent, godless. He thought the month was October but he wasnt sure. He hadn't kept a calendar for years. They were moving south. There'd be no surviving another winter here. When it was light enough to use the binoculars he glassed the valley below. Everything paling away into the murk. The soft ash blowing in loose swirls over the blacktop. He studied what he could see. The segments of road down there among the dead trees. Looking for anything of color. Any movement. Any trace of standing smoke. He lowered the glasses and pulled down the cotton mask from his face and wiped his nose on the back of his wrist and then glassed the country again. Then he just sat there holding the binoculars and watching the ashen daylight congeal over the land. He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke." Mamma Mia! The Movie, Dec. 16 Amazon.com ^The Duchess, Dec. 23 Ghost Town, Dec. 23 Amazon.com S1& The Day The Earth Stood Still, Dec. 12 Yahoo.com Nothing Like The Holidays, Dec. 12 Yahoo.com The Brothers Bloom, Dec. 19 Yahoo.com Seven Pounds, Dec. 19 Yahoo.com Yes Man, Dec. 19 The Curious Case Cf Benjamin Button, Dec. 25 Coping with finals stress HJENN GREGORY I Shelf Staff writer With finals just around the corner, students, including myself, are finding ourselves more and more stressed with last minute projects, papers, tests and assignments. Sounds like the end of the semester is nearing! On top of all the multitasking that comes with school during finals week, we are also balancing jobs, social lives, and dating lives. Life in college is stressful and finals do not make it any easier. So what are some basic ways to keep our stress level from causing prematurely gray hair? Eating h e a l t h y : Eating healthy meals will increase physical, mental and emotional stamina. Eating healthy is not only going to stop that freshman 15 — it can also help you keep your immune system up during the upcoming flu season and help you to feel better about yourself. P h y s i c a l Activity: Physical activity provides immediate stress relief. Just 20-30 minutes a day can give you more energy, help you put things into perspective, improve your sleep, and help you with your school work and selfconfidence. S l e e p : Sleep is one of the most important factors in keeping your stress level low during finals week. If you do not get a sufficient amount.of sleep each night, everything from your immune system to your memory and your capacity to form memories will suffer. •JP Time Management: Learn to become a good time manager. This skill will not only help you balance all those last minute papers, but will also help you throughout life. 'mth Yahoo.com CD Dusting off deserving favorites I S JENNIE NICHOLLS Editor at Large Revisiting this film time and again has never disappointed me, ever. Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums is easily my favorite movie of all time ~ reason being the quirky characters. Anderson picked a stellar cast, including Gene Hackman as Royal Tenenbaum, Luke Wilson as Richie Tenenbaum, Gwyneth Paltrow as Margot Tenenbaum, and Ben Stiller as Chas Tenenbaum, just to name a few. The plot follows the dysfunctional family during a transitional period for each of its members. The cast is simply outstanding in their transformation to these odd and complex characters. Anderson's use of color is a feast for the eyes the entire duration of the film. The soundtrack is possibly one of the greatest ever assembled, and includes a symphonic version of Hey Jude, some Elliott Smith, and a classic from the Rolling Stones. It is apparent that each song was carefully selected to ensure proper emotion, successfully establishing mood in momentous scenes. This film should have been more popular during the time of its release, but it was overlooked for reasons I cannot begin to comprehend. The dark humor of the film leaves you pondering, while silently smirking. You owe it to yourself to see this film, to add a little Wes Anderson to your collection; doing so will leave you yearning for more films of this caliber. Why you must see this film: In possibly one of the most beautiful cinematic moments ever captured on film, Richie is waiting for his adopted sister, Margot, to pick him up from the Green Line Bus station after returning from a stint on the Cote de Voir. While Richie sits at the station among rows of luggage, the scene slows the bus comes to a stop in front of the station, and silence ensues. Once Margot steps off the bus, Nico's These Days begins to play, and she walks toward Richie as the film staggers to slow motion. Intensely moving and incredibly artistic, the scene becomes more significant each time I see it. atres Fall Out Boy: Folie A Deux, Dec. 16 Amazon.com The Kinks: Picture Book, Dec. 16 Amazon.com Maroon 5: Call And Response, Dec. 19 Amazon.com The Fireman, Youth Paul McCartney: Electric Arguments, Amazon.com D e c . 3 0 |