Mickle's

Jim Mickle's Stake Land, a vampire flick which got some love from the critics at Fantastic Fest this year, fails due to unwise deviation from the norm.

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Jim Mickle A page from Mr. Mickle's notebook about the shoot of the film 'The Phlebotimizers,' from 2001 4.

Tracing One Film From Inspiration to Release Steve Dollar 2011

When first seen in Jim Mickle's rough-edged vampire movie, Stake Land, opening in limited release Friday 4/22/11, Kelly McGillis is in a badly torn nun's habit, blood running down her face, shrieking at the top of her lungs while running to save her own life.

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Sir Walter Scott felt the like fascination in youth (and he tells us it was not entirely gone even in age) in Mickle's stanza, --

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

In the later eighteenth century voluminous comment accompanied Hoole's _Ariosto_ and Mickle's _Camoens_.

Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos

Mickle's preface to _The Lusiad_ states with unusual frankness what was probably the underlying idea in most of the theory of the time.

Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos

Here, while waiting for the keys, we looked at an old wall of the churchyard, piled up of loose gray stones which are said to have once formed a portion of Cumnor Hall, celebrated in Mickle's ballad and Scott's romance.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various

He has never shown any such intolerance of public contradiction as Mickle's friends chose to attribute to him.

Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

Smith did not think much of Mickle's translation of the Lusiad, holding the French version to be much superior, [279] but if he happened to express this unfavourable opinion to the Duke of Buccleugh, it could not have been with any thought of injuring a struggling and meritorious young author.

Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

A dedication in those days was often only a more dignified begging letter, and Mickle's friends declared that he had been cruelly wronged, because the Duke had not only done nothing for him himself, but by accepting the dedication had prevented the author from going to some other patron who might have done something.

Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895