vagrant story review

• Out-of-Town Directors Create Fantasy Tokyo

French director Leos Carax offers the entry that actually dares to be rude to its host country, starting with its title Merde. That happens to be the name of a vagrant (Denis Levant) who crawls forth from the sewer to wreak havoc on the populace, first by walking the streets, robbing, licking and assaulting anyone in his path, and later upping the ante with a bag of Second World War-era grenades he finds in his subterranean haunt. Where the other films are wry, non-offensive reflections of contemporary Japanese society, Carax clearly enjoys stomping on nicety, picking at the scab of Japan's role in the war, and having [Merde] voice his offensive, racist observations of the Japanese. Perhaps that's why the middle film leaves the strongest impression, and even the Japanese would have to a...

...) starts things off with an all-Japanese story, Interior Design, in which a woman (Ayako Fujitani...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• October 08, 2009

• Montana Band v. Canada, 2006 FC 261 (2006)

...[10] Before turning to a review of the evidence, a brief description of the claims... learned a number of stories, including a story about the difficult times during the period of the..., or pursuing hunting, or leading a vagrant life shall be discharged; exceptional cases may af...

• Federal Court

• Pop and Rock

...The Hold Steady. Heaven is Whenever (Vagrant). JUST in time for summer comes a new Hold Steady ... lots of catchy tunes and a compelling storyline, Here Lies Love is more than a curiosity, but outs...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• May 10, 2010

• The first Noel.

... not his own thugs but a collection of vagrant magi to search for the child? And when the magi di... the physician Luke should be drawn to the story of a pregnant woman in difficulties near her time ... of Michael Grant (Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels, London 1977, p. 72) for Nazareth o...

• Catholic Insight
• Vol. 11 Nbr. 10, December 2003

• New On Dvd

Like Arnie, [Johnson] hails from the realm of a not-overly-respected field of athletic endeavour -- not bodybuilding but pro wrestling. Hence, Johnson has tended to walk in Arnie's foosteps whenever he could. If The Scorpion King is The Rock's version of Conan, this offers a two-for-one Arnie combo: Predator meets Kindergarten Cop. It may not be a terribly original film: Johnson tends to play it even safer than Arnie when it comes to choosing material. (Where's his Total Recall? Where's his Terminator?) But it does deliver its PG goods, and the Blu-ray disc delivers a plethora of other goods besides, including a digital copy of the film. ''' The DVD extras shed a little more light on the story with a doc revealing the involvement of [Steve Lopez], [Nathaniel Ayers Jr.], and L.A. Philhar...

..., before madness sent him to a homeless vagrant's existence on the unforgiving streets of Los Ange...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• October 13, 2009