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"page_snippet": "In the clip above, I discuss Woody Allen\u2019s 2007 drama \u201cCassandra\u2019s Dream,\u201d which I described at the time of its release as \u201cthe best of his later\u2026More:Cassandra's DreamManohla DargisScott FoundasWoody Allen \u00b7 What we\u2019re watching, listening to, and doing this week, online, in N.Y.C., and beyond. Paid subscribers also receive book picks. ... Astrid Holleeder secretly recorded her brother\u2019s murderous confessions. Will he exact revenge? In the clip above, I discuss Woody Allen\u2019s 2007 drama \u201cCassandra\u2019s Dream,\u201d which I described at the time of its release as \u201cthe best of his later films and one of his best films ever.\u201d My enthusiasm for the film wasn\u2019t shared by most critics, who saw Allen\u2019s rapid pacing, indifference to the particulars of London social life, and forthrightly bleak world view as faults. In the Times, Manohla Dargis complained that it \u201cfeels too lightly polished and often rushed, as if he had directed it with a stopwatch.\u201d Stephanie Zacharek, at Salon, claimed that \u201cthis isn\u2019t filmmaking; it\u2019s thesis defending.\u201d Scott Foundas, in the Village Voice, said it \u201cfeels like one of Allen\u2019s laziest pieces of writing and direction, leaden with heavy metaphor and characters who rarely make it beyond the archetype\u2014marionettes in a miserabilist puppet theater.\u201d In the Baltimore Sun, Chris Kaltenbach called it \u201cperfunctorily staged and lazily written.\u201d Woody Allen is still suffering from the nostalgia of critics who wish he\u2019d go back to making \u2019em like he used to. He was, in his younger years, an urban folklorist, a mainstay of a milieu he mined for its comic potential (and, given that the milieu was New York\u2019s media world, its significance radiated far beyond its links of personal relations). Now he goes straight to the heart of ideas and emotions, concentrating on matters of morality and leaving the study of mores to those who lead busier social lives. Where the auteur theory let us know that movie directors were artists as fully and identifiably as are writers, its latter-day decadent phase gives critics rope with which to tie filmmakers to their earlier work and reproach them for giving it the slip\u2014as Allen has done.",
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DVD of the Week: Cassandra\u2019s Dream | The New Yorker
In the clip above, I discuss Woody Allen\u2019s 2007 drama \u201cCassandra\u2019s Dream,\u201d which I described at the time of its release as \u201cthe best of his later films and one of his best films ever.\u201d My enthusiasm for the film wasn\u2019t shared by most critics, who saw Allen\u2019s rapid pacing, indifference to the particulars of London social life, and forthrightly bleak world view as faults. In the Times, Manohla Dargis complained that it \u201cfeels too lightly polished and often rushed, as if he had directed it with a stopwatch.\u201d Stephanie Zacharek, at Salon, claimed that \u201cthis isn\u2019t filmmaking; it\u2019s thesis defending.\u201d Scott Foundas, in the Village Voice, said it \u201cfeels like one of Allen\u2019s laziest pieces of writing and direction, leaden with heavy metaphor and characters who rarely make it beyond the archetype\u2014marionettes in a miserabilist puppet theater.\u201d In the Baltimore Sun, Chris Kaltenbach called it \u201cperfunctorily staged and lazily written.\u201d Woody Allen is still suffering from the nostalgia of critics who wish he\u2019d go back to making \u2019em like he used to. He was, in his younger years, an urban folklorist, a mainstay of a milieu he mined for its comic potential (and, given that the milieu was New York\u2019s media world, its significance radiated far beyond its links of personal relations). Now he goes straight to the heart of ideas and emotions, concentrating on matters of morality and leaving the study of mores to those who lead busier social lives. Where the auteur theory let us know that movie directors were artists as fully and identifiably as are writers, its latter-day decadent phase gives critics rope with which to tie filmmakers to their earlier work and reproach them for giving it the slip\u2014as Allen has done. His artistry has, in some ways, thinned out (he works in a way that is indeed less like oil painting and more like sketches). It has, in other ways, deepened; certainly, he has changed his life, and his work has changed with it. His famously settled habits are, clearly, far less ingrained and far more malleable than are those of many of the critics who watch his films.
After the pandemic, the strikes, and years of small-scale pictures in the spotlight, the triumph of a brainy blockbuster seemed like a nod to a bygone heyday.
The director Ethan Coen, writing the script with his wife, Tricia Cooke, leans on comical violence and genre winks for this road movie of lesbians seeking love.
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Cassandra's Dream is the soundtrack to the 2008 Woody Allen film Cassandra's Dream and features an original orchestral score by Philip Glass.[1] The soundtrack was released in 2007 by Orange Mountain Music.\n
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Cassandra is a free and open-source, distributed, wide-column store, NoSQLdatabase management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers, providing high availability with no single point of failure. Cassandra offers support for clusters spanning multiple data centers,[2] with asynchronous masterless replication allowing low latency operations for all clients. Cassandra was designed to implement a combination of Amazon's Dynamo distributed storage and replication techniques combined with Google's Bigtable data and storage engine model.[3]\n
Avinash Lakshman, one of the authors of Amazon's Dynamo, and Prashant Malik initially developed Cassandra at Facebook to power the Facebook inbox search feature. Facebook released Cassandra as an open-source project on Google code in July 2008.[4] In March 2009, it became an Apache Incubator project.[5] On February 17, 2010, it graduated to a top-level project.[6]\n
Facebook developers named their database after the Trojan mythological prophet Cassandra, with classical allusions to a curse on an oracle.[7]\n
3.1 through 3.10 releases were monthly releases using a tick-tock-like release model, with even-numbered releases providing both new features and bug fixes while odd-numbered releases will include bug fixes only.[15]
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3.11 released June 23, 2017 as a stable 3.11 release series and bug fix from the last tick-tock feature release.
Every node in the cluster has the same role. There is no single point of failure. Data is distributed across the cluster (so each node contains different data), but there is no master as every node can service any request.
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Replication strategies are configurable.[17] Cassandra is designed as a distributed system, for deployment of large numbers of nodes across multiple data centers. Key features of Cassandra\u2019s distributed architecture are specifically tailored for multiple-data center deployment, for redundancy, for failover and disaster recovery.
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Designed to have read and write throughput both increase linearly as new machines are added, with the aim of no downtime or interruption to applications.
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Data is automatically replicated to multiple nodes for fault-tolerance. Replication across multiple data centers is supported. Failed nodes can be replaced with no downtime.
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Cassandra is typically classified as an AP system, meaning that availability and partition tolerance are generally considered to be more important than consistency in Cassandra,[18] Writes and reads offer a tunable level of consistency, all the way from \"writes never fail\" to \"block for all replicas to be readable\", with the quorum level in the middle.[19]
Cassandra introduced the Cassandra Query Language (CQL). CQL is a simple interface for accessing Cassandra, as an alternative to the traditional Structured Query Language (SQL).
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Cassandra manages eventual consistency of reads, upserts and deletes through Tombstones.
Cassandra introduced the Cassandra Query Language (CQL). CQL is a simple interface for accessing Cassandra, as an alternative to the traditional Structured Query Language (SQL). CQL adds an abstraction layer that hides implementation details of this structure and provides native syntaxes for collections and other common encodings. Language drivers are available for Java (JDBC), Python (DBAPI2), Node.JS (Datastax), Go (gocql) and C++.[21]\n
The keyspace in Cassandra is a namespace that defines data replication across nodes. Therefore, replication is defined at the keyspace level. Below an example of keyspace creation, including a column family in CQL 3.0:[22]\n
Up to Cassandra 1.0, Cassandra was not row-level consistent,[23] meaning that inserts and updates into the table that affect the same row that are processed at approximately the same time may affect the non-key columns in inconsistent ways. One update may affect one column while another affects the other, resulting in sets of values within the row that were never specified or intended. Cassandra 1.1 solved this issue by introducing row-level isolation.[24]\n
Cassandra is not supported on Windows as of version 4, see issue CASSANDRA-16171.[25]\n
Cassandra is wide column store, and, as such, essentially a hybrid between a key-value and a tabular database management system. Its data model is a partitioned row store with tunable consistency.[19] Rows are organized into tables; the first component of a table's primary key is the partition key; within a partition, rows are clustered by the remaining columns of the key.[27] Other columns may be indexed separately from the primary key.[28]\n
Tables may be created, dropped, and altered at run-time without blocking updates and queries.[29]\n
A column family (called \"table\" since CQL 3) resembles a table in an RDBMS (Relational Database Management System). Column families contain rows and columns. Each row is uniquely identified by a row key. Each row has multiple columns, each of which has a name, value, and a timestamp. Unlike a table in an RDBMS, different rows in the same column family do not have to share the same set of columns, and a column may be added to one or multiple rows at any time.[31]\n
Each key in Cassandra corresponds to a value which is an object. Each key has values as columns, and columns are grouped together into sets called column families. Thus, each key identifies a row of a variable number of elements. These column families could be considered then as tables. A table in Cassandra is a distributed multi dimensional map indexed by a key. Furthermore, applications can specify the sort order of columns within a Super Column or Simple Column family.\n
Cassandra is a Java-based system that can be managed and monitored via Java Management Extensions (JMX). The JMX-compliant nodetool utility, for instance, can be used to manage a Cassandra cluster (adding nodes to a ring, draining nodes, decommissioning nodes, and so on).[32] Nodetool also offers a number of commands to return Cassandra metrics pertaining to disk usage, latency, compaction, garbage collection, and more.[33]\n
Since Cassandra 2.0.2 in 2013, measures of several metrics are produced via the Dropwizard metrics framework,[34] and may be queried via JMX using tools such as JConsole or passed to external monitoring systems via Dropwizard-compatible reporter plugins.[35]\n
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^\"The meaning behind the name of Apache Cassandra\". Archived from the original on 2016-11-01. Retrieved 2016-07-19. Apache Cassandra is named after the Greek mythological prophet Cassandra. [...] Because of her beauty Apollo granted her the ability of prophecy. [...] When Cassandra of Troy refused Apollo, he put a curse on her so that all of her and her descendants' predictions would not be believed. [...] Cassandra is the cursed Oracle[.]\n
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"page_name": "Cassandra's Dream - Metacritic",
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"page_snippet": "Set in contemporary London, Cassandra's Dream is a powerful and thrilling story about two brothers who are desperate to better their troubled lives. One is a chronic gambler in debt over his head, and the other is a young man in love with a beautiful woman he has recently met.Summary Set in contemporary London, Cassandra's Dream is a powerful and thrilling story about two brothers who are desperate to better their troubled lives. One is a chronic gambler in debt over his head, and the other is a young man in love with a beautiful woman he has recently met. Their lives gradually become entangled in a sinister situatio... Read More ... Summary Set in contemporary London, Cassandra's Dream is a powerful and thrilling story about two brothers who are desperate to better their troubled lives. Combine that with some of the weakest direction I've seen in a Woody Allen picture to date and you get the experience of watching \"Cassandra's Dream,\" a marginally thought-provoking, decently acted morality play, with some upsettingly sub-par writing interspersed throughout it. ... Brothers buy boat after winning on horses, one brother meets actress, falls in love, other brother gambles & loses lots of money, ask rich Uncle for help, zzzzzzzzzzzz. The two leads, Colin Farrel & Ewan McGregor have such chemistry and Farrel gives a truly poignant performance makes a gambling addiction understandable in a way I've not seen before on screen. Please see this film ... I really enjoyed Cassandra's Dream. Tense, sad, and dramatic, Cassandra's Dream is a very different film from Woody Allen, but shows that an old dog may be able to learn new tricks. Find release dates for every movie coming to theaters, VOD, and streaming throughout 2024 and beyond, updated weekly. ... Find out what critics are saying about over 40 notable films that debuted at this year's Sundance Film Festival, including this year's award winners. ... For the 14th straight year, we invited Metacritic users to list their favorite movies, TV shows, albums, and videogames of the past calendar year.",
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SummarySet in contemporary London, Cassandra's Dream is a powerful and thrilling story about two brothers who are desperate to better their troubled lives. One is a chronic gambler in debt over his head, and the other is a young man in love with a beautiful woman he has recently met. Their lives gradually become entangled in a sinister situatio...
SummarySet in contemporary London, Cassandra's Dream is a powerful and thrilling story about two brothers who are desperate to better their troubled lives. One is a chronic gambler in debt over his head, and the other is a young man in love with a beautiful woman he has recently met. Their lives gradually become entangled in a sinister situatio...
Woody Allen\u2019s latest excursion to the dark side of human nature, is good enough that you may wonder why he doesn\u2019t just stop making comedies once and for all.
I recently rewatched this film and though I remember liking it the first time it was ( I certainly can't say lovlier) better the 2nd time around.\r\nIt works on so many levels the classic story, the acting, perfect Hitchcokian score courtesy of Philip Glass and finally it is beautifully shot. I agree with Manahlo Dargas maybe Woody should abandon comedies all together? I especially feel that after seeing "From Rome with Love". Cassandra's Crossing is one of those movies you want to rescue the characters, save them from themselves somehow. The two leads, Colin Farrel & Ewan McGregor have such chemistry and Farrel gives a truly poignant performance makes a gambling addiction understandable in a way I've not seen before on screen.\r\nPlease see this film
I really enjoyed Cassandra's Dream. Tense, sad, and dramatic, Cassandra's Dream is a very different film from Woody Allen, but shows that an old dog may be able to learn new tricks. Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell are great together here and have great chemistry as brothers who are asked to kill somebody in return for great financial gain. Though the morality play the film poses and the theme of family relationships may be unoriginal, Allen never fails to elicit tension and thrills along the way, with his two leads game to follow his lead. There is nothing wrong with a genre film and Cassandra's Dream certainly fits the bill as both a drama and a thriller. It executes its well-worn cliches to perfection, while entertaining in spades. Though its ending may be predictable to some, it does not lose its impact and can be quite spellbinding in the lead up as you watch these brothers grapple with the ramifications of the decisions they make; both positive and negative. Overall, Cassandra's Dream is a very good film from Woody Allen that has even better performances, while leaving you on edge for much of the film anticipating the next turn it will take.
Like a tragic overture played at the wrong tempo and slightly off-key, Woody Allen's London-set Cassandra's Dream sends out more mixed signals than an inebriated telegraphist.
Farrell is quite good, though it's hard to buy the Scottish McGregor and the Irish Farrell as brothers. But mostly, the film feels rudderless, almost as if it's been directed on autopilot.
Takes a long time to say nothing new, which is a shame because it wastes fine performances across the board (it's a nice reminder that Farrell, can, in fact, act), and, well, a really effective score by Philip Glass.
I like Woody Allen's work, this might not be his best film, but it's still pretty good. The characters are what move this film forward, they are very well-written, the two brothers both have a bit of good and a bit of bad. I was interested in seeing how things turn out for them in the end. Unfortunately the ending was very rushed and I did not like it very much. I didn't expect anything because I did not know what to expect, it wasn't easily predictable, still... I felt let down by that ending.
In discussing my thoughts on the last movie I saw of his -- "The Purple Rose Of Cairo" -- I talked about the many different shades of Woody Allen we've seen over the years (i.e. "satire Woody Allen," "crime/thriller Woody Allen," "romantic drama Woody Allen," etc.) Welp. I can say this is, without a doubt, my very first exposure to "Woody Allen, the occasionally mediocre screenwriter/director." Don't get me wrong, I'd still say I enjoyed the net product overall, with the second half of the movie presenting moral dilemma after moral dilemma, each **** at the base of your skull like a migraine waiting to happen. It just so happens that there are other migraine-inducing things in play here, namely the hammer-fisted dialogue and character development, ultimately plaguing a good portion of this film's first half. Combine that with some of the weakest direction I've seen in a Woody Allen picture to date and you get the experience of watching "Cassandra's Dream," a marginally thought-provoking, decently acted morality play, with some upsettingly sub-par writing interspersed throughout it.
Brothers buy boat after winning on horses, one brother meets actress, falls in love, other brother gambles & loses lots of money, ask rich Uncle for help, zzzzzzzzzzzz. It is pretty dreadful & not Woody Allen's finest hour. The accents are all over the place, McGregor & Farrell's acting are awful & not even the great Tom Wilkinson can save it. Didn't help that the ending was rubbish too!
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Set in contemporary London, \"Cassandra's Dream\" is a powerful and thrilling story about two brothers (Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell) who are desperate to better their troubled lives. One is a chronic gambler in debt over his head, and the other is a young man in love with a beautiful actress (newcomer Hayley Atwell) he has recently met. Their lives gradually become entangled into a sinister situation with intense and unfortunate results. Written and directed by...\r\n \t\t\tFull synopsis »
\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWoody Allen is one of the most hit-or-miss directors working today, though critics tend to lean toward misses more often than not. I've actually enjoyed a lot of his recent works from Small Time Crooks to The Curse of the Jade Scorpion - and his serious film Match Point was my second favorite film of 2005 - but then again, he has also had movies like Hollywood Ending and Scoop to make me think twice. With his new film, Cassandra's Dream, I had high hopes as it starred two respectable actors and hints of the magic Allen achieved with Match Point. Unfortunately, it wasn't to be.\r\n Full movie review »\r\n \t\t