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"Park Row is one of the greatest love letters in the history of film, and it's a love letter to journalism." -- Quentin Tarantino "Brimming with passion and conviction -- just like its hero, and its creator." -- Leonard Maltin "Park Row continues to stun through its outrageousness, which at inspired moments becomes a worship of pure energy." -- Jonathan Rosenbaum, Film Comment Iconic American filmmaker Samuel Fuller began his career as a tabloid reporter, and thrillingly drew on those skills and experiences in his extraordinary labour-of-love Park Row. An exhilarating tribute to the ideals of the free press and noble popular journalism, this two-fisted tale of battles on and off the printed page in 1880s New York is a major American rediscovery. When Phineas Mitchell (Gene Evans), a visionary newspaperman, launches his own title The Globe, his eye-catching headlines and approach quickly catch fire with the New York readership. But less impressed is Charity Hackett (Mary Welch), proprietor of long-established rival The Star, and attempts to undercut The Globe soon escalate into all-out war. Packing more dynamite into eight reels than most directors unleash over a career, Fuller's self-financed Park Row is a passionate, idiosyncratic work of gritty myth-making. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Park Row for the first time for home viewing in the UK, released in the UK on DVD on 22 October 2012. Available to pre-order from: Amazon http://amzn.to/TlPaRD Play http://tidd.ly/416f0d58 The Hut http://tidd.ly/94ff966f Follow Masters of cinema on twitter http://www.twitter.com/mastersofcinema Follow Eureka on twitter http://www.twitter.com/eurekavideo Like Eureka on facebook http://www.facebook.com/EurekaEntertainment
AERIAL SHOTS of fires in the Brazilian Amazon as the rainforest has recorded more than 42,000 forest fires from January 1 to August 19, according to the INPE, the worst number in nearly two decades. IMAGES
Firefighters from the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation), Brazil's federal protected areas agency, use helicopters and make firebreaks to combat a blaze in the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2024, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. IMAGES
The death toll from the Amazon warehouse that partially collapsed in Edwardsville, Illinois has risen to six, local fire chief James Whiteford announces, bringing total killed from storms that devasted parts of the US to more than 80. SOUNDBITE
Fire Will Come - a film by Oliver Laxe, opens March 20th.
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, widely criticized over policies that favor deforestation and a delayed reaction to the wildfires, appears via videoconference to participate in a regional summit on fires that have devastated the Amazon. IMAGES
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