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Federico Fellini - Fellini, Federico (1920-1993), Italian film director. Entering the Italian film industry as a scriptwriter and assistant director in the early years of Neo-Realism, he was co-director (with Alberto Lattuada) on Luci del Varietà (1951; Variety Lights) before progressing to sole direction with the comedy Lo Sceicco Bianco (The White Sheik) in 1952. Federico Fellini- Fellini, Federico (1920-1993), Italian film director. International recognition came with La Strada (1954) and The Nights of Cabiria (1957), both of which starred his wife, Giulietta Masina, as (respectively) a waif-like circus performer brutalized by the troupe's leader (Anthony Quinn) and a naive but spunky prostitute. www.greatitalians.com /fellini.htm

Film, Television, and Media Studies Subject Guide : UVM Libraries Screensite: For the Study of Film and Television Within our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960 Includes material on dance, film, drama/theater, stagecraft, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and the performance business. library.uvm.edu /guides/subjectguides/film/index.html

Review: The Vanishing (1993) George Sluizer, the man at the helm for this version of The Vanishing, was also the force behind the original 1988 Dutch film. Of course, some of the credit must go to Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu (the actor playing the kidnapper), who manages to create a personality that is paradoxically creepy, sympathetic, and hateful. The sensationalization of The Vanishing is a painful process to observe. movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/v/vanishing2.html

Film Preservation Study: Washington, D.C. Public Hearing, February 1993 - National Film Preservation Board (Library of Congress) Film preservation needs to be especially scrupulous in ferreting out and preserving films which were often made with minority audiences in view, ranging from the films of the avant-garde to those of specific ethnic groups or geographical areas. As professionals involved in film study, I feel we are teaching a form of visual literacy and, although much of this literacy involves contemporary issues, I also feel that a knowledge of the history of film, where it came from and how it developed, is essential for visual education. I would say that as film professionals, most of whom are involved both in research and in the teaching of film study, we members of SCS are concerned about film preservation at both ends of the chain. www.loc.gov /film/hrng93dc.html

The Film Tribune - The Remains of the Day (1993) In contrast, the 1993 film adaptation of the 1989 Booker Prize-winning novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, "The Remains of the Day", emphasizes the life of one butler, who has constantly hidden his emotions behind the characteristic indifference that was expected of his profession. The success of the film can be attributed to the well-chosen cast and the excellence of the regular Merchant Ivory team, which had built its reputation producing intelligent films with a period setting: producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts, and composer Richard Robbins. The result is one of the most beautiful and moving films of the 1990's. www.filmtribune.com /remainsoftheday.html

1993 Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ CompleteIdiots.com 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). The aftermath of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. October 31 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (b. completeidiots.com /encyclopedia/1993   (3112 words)

Theatre and Film Studies Reference - Subject Portals - Library - University of Canterbury PN 1993.45.C934 (2001) Critical dictionary of film and television theory This list of film and theatre reference titles, in classified sequence, is intended for quick browsing only. PN 1995.9.M56.W824 (1997) Within our gates : ethnicity in American feature films, 1911-1960 www.library.canterbury.ac.nz /tafs/tafs_ref.shtml   (3112 words)

Film Studies-Research Tools-The Library-University of California, Berkeley Articles on each film include a plot summary, critical notes on directing, acting, screen writing, cinematography, and the film's place in the history of its genre. Encyclopedia of Film Directors in the United States of America and Europe. Cites reviews to over 7000 feature films between 1914 and 1986 in both popular and trade journals. www.lib.berkeley.edu /doemoff/film/sources.html   (3112 words)

BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL - 1993 This hourlong diary film frees up all the themes and motifs that were driven into a cul-de-sac of narrative contrivance in Egoyan's last film, The Adjuster. Once again Horst Benzrath shows that a festival press chief doesn't have to hide behind a million doors, to which the vis­itor hacks his way through a jungle of minions all making Masonic gestures and speaking no known language. Instead, the film's dark-edged passion bestows a reverberant symbolism on the plainest objects – the sesame-milling machines, the bird-fes­tooned boats that ply the silvery lake – and provides a foil for Siqin Gaowa's superb performance as Ma Sesame Oil. americancinemapapers.homestead.com /files/BERLIN_1993.htm   (3112 words)

The Johns Hopkins Gazette: November 4, 2002 The first-ever ThrillerFest at Johns Hopkins will bring some classic creepy films to the Homewood campus throughout November and December, with four free screenings in the Donovan Room, 110 Gilman Hall. The film was remade by the director as an American film in 1993, but Moskowitz says the French version is "far superior" to its stateside successor. The idea for the film festival was born last summer when Moskowitz, a Writing Seminars major minoring in film studies, had an internship with the University of Maryland Video Press, the Baltimore production company behind the Oscar-winning documentary King Gimp. www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2002/04nov02/04thrill.html   (3112 words)

VANISHING (1993), THE - Jeff Bridges Kiefer Sutherland Good George Sluizer Mystery Suspense Action 1993 - R THE VANISHING is a remake of Sluizer's 1988 film of the same title, which critics consider superior to the later version. Remake of the 1988 film "The Vanishing (Spoorlos)" also The film will probably elicit nightmares if you're claustrophobic (or have other phobias that I won't mention because they will give away the plot). www.movies2go.net /review/Vanishing1993The.html   (3112 words)

DVD Verdict Review - The Vanishing (1993) Fans of the original may well find that they are not in sympathy with the 1993 version's greater accessibility and distinctly different ending, but in terms of pure entertainment, I find the remake to be the more enjoyable and satisfying film. Of course, as good as the cast and other elements are, there is still the lingering shadow of the original film, widely touted as being superior. It shows just how much films have changed over the last 11 years that The Vanishing received an R rating, when today, with the excision of a couple of cuss words and a glimpse of gore, it could be aired on television without raising an eyebrow. www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/vanishing1993.php   (3112 words)

Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] Part of what makes the first film so creepy is that, for a while, even the audience has no idea what's happened to the missing woman; the villain's preparations appear only in flashback. The new film, designed for an American audience that presumably couldn't handle such a bleak ending, not only lets its hero live but allows him to deliver a final coup de grace to the villain, who originally got away with his evil plot. The most obvious difference between the two versions of THE VANISHING is the alteration--more precisely, the extension--of the ending. online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=35667   (3112 words)

People: Maren Monsen: caring through the end Making the film also helped Monsen confront the fear of her own death, which she is now able to see as just another stage of life. Monsen admits the film had a profound effect on her, leading her to question the practice of extreme medical intervention in cases where death is inevitable. The film charts Monsen's journey as a doctor, as she accompanies Jim Brigham, spiritual care coordinator for the Midpeninsula Hospice, on his visits to terminally ill patients. www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/news/1998_Oct_28.PEOPLE28.html   (3112 words)

dOc DVD Review: The Vanishing (1993) The fact that Sluizer agreed to remake his own film is somewhat of a curiosity, because this new version seems to contradict all of the themes of the original. The disappearance scene is the highlight of the film, with a very strong sense of dread and suspense that are reminiscent of Sluizer's direction of the original. These two films need to be compared to one another, but only in that they are two tellings of the same story. www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=6356   (3112 words)

THE VANISHING (1993) + HARDCORE - DVDs 1993 was the year that American remakes of two estimable foreign thrillers became instant poster boys for Hollywood condescension. Were the film not a box-office flop and had Sluzier's reputation not been damaged by the reports of tyranny that leaked from the set of Dark Blood (the movie that River Phoenix was making before he died), it's entirely possible that Sluzier's name would have some synonymity with Hitchcock's by now. Consider the set-up for a particularly ingenious shot: Diane Shaver (Sandra Bullock), the girlfriend of Jeff Harriman (Sutherland), has gone missing from a gas station (the titular "vanishing") and Jeff is reporting her disappearance. filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/vanishinghardcore.htm   (3112 words)

The Three Musketeers (1993 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Three Musketeers is a 1993 movie version of the classic story from Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Stephen Herek. Filming locations included Cornwall, England, UK, and Castle Landsee (Burgenland); Burg Liechtenstein, Maria Enzersdorf, Hinterbrühl, Korneuburg (Lower Austria); and Vienna (particularly Schönbrunn Palace) in Austria. The movie is based on the novel The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) by Alexandre Dumas, père. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Three_Musketeers_(1993_movie)   (237 words)

The Film Tribune - The Musketeer (2001) This film is way under the two hour length mark, but the screenplay by Gene Quintano tries to incorporate too much of three elements than the movie's length can allow: too many action scenes, too much romance, and too much humour. The last adaptation of "The Three Musketeers" to the screen was the Disney version of 1993, but it was generally considered a failure (apart from Tim Curry's delectable portrayal of the scheming Cardinal de Richelieu). And he mostly does it alone until the final rescue: the other musketeers are absent from half of the film, and when they indeed are on screen, they are limited to a few lines of inept dialogue. www.filmtribune.com /musketeer.html   (2118 words)

The Secret Garden (1993 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Secret Garden is a 1993 American Zoetrope film adaptation of the book of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden is adapted from the 1909 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. She discovers her aunt's secret garden, which has been locked for ten years and enlists Dickon to help her bring it to life. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Secret_Garden_(1993_movie)   (514 words)

Untitled Document Contemporary Authors PN 771.C6 Dictionary of Literary Biography PN 451.D5 Encyclopedia of Science Fiction PN 3433.4.E53 1993 Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies E 45.E53 1993 Encyclopedia of Gun Control and Gun Rights KF 3941.A68 U88 2000 library.dixie.edu /help/EncyclopediasPrintable.htm   (514 words)

11/11/04: Not Even Nominated Part Fourteen Four years later, Williams scored the inevitable sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, giving the film an entirely new, more sinister and less triumphant main melody, at times evoking Max Steiner's immortal King Kong, and for 2001's underrated Jurassic Park III, Don Davis adapted Williams themes while contributing a new main theme of his own. Despite the somber ending, the film was a surprising if modest hit, and Elfman's score was one of his finest, effortlessly capturing the drama and the period (post Civil War) with none of his trademark musical mannerisms, and the film's production company, Regency, later used a snipped of the score as its logo music. Elfman wrote not only the film's incidental music but wrote the music and lyrics for the film's songs and was the singing voice of the film's hero, Jack Skellington (whose dialogue was voiced by Chris Sarandon). www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/2004/11_Nov---Not_Even_Nominated_Part_Fourteen.asp   (514 words)

DVD Talk > Reviews > Head Above Water > Printer Friendly Head Above Water (1996) is a remake of a 1993 Norwegian film of the same name, and belongs to my absolute favorite genre of film: the "black comedy". Like the original Norwegian film, there are only five characters in all, which makes for a very streamlined sense of interaction. As a remake, I can't say for sure how close it is to the original in other areas, as I haven't seen the 1993 film. www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=10883   (514 words)

The Problems of the Literary Biopic We learn during the course of the film that the letters in her can be rearranged to spell "vanished." Cute, and of course completely unbelievable. But one consequence of these films' prioritization of spectacle over plot is that both The Vanishing and Nightwatch are high on shock, low on suspense, whereas the opposite holds for their European counterparts. Both films were financial and critical failures, condemned for their inability to generate more than a modicum of suspense. www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca /schn021.htm   (514 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Video: The Vanishing [1993] How the same man made both versions of this film is beyond me, he must have forgotten all he learned second time around. A work of genius, I can't praise this awsome film highly enough, and I am SO please to be able to get it at last. What is unusual is the director of the original getting the chance to helm the new version with an American cast, which is what happened with this film based on an intensely creepy Dutch film of the same name (both directed by George Sluizer). www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CO27   (514 words)

The Vanishing Film Review - Time Out Film The annual Time Out Film Guide includes 15,000 films reviewed over the last 36 years by Time Out critics, covering every area of cinema: Hollywood mainstream and B-movie horrors, documentaries and avant garde, French, Far Eastern, classic silents and 1930s comedies. New films from Terry Gilliam, George Clooney, Michael Heneke and Cameron Crowe will be screening at the event. If you were registered for Time Out Film you would automatically see the cinemas near you showing this film. www.timeout.com /film/62861.html   (514 words)

Gambling On Americanized Foreign Films / Something gets lost in translation of English-language remakes The 1993 remake of the great 1988 Dutch thriller "The Vanishing" was a disaster. It is still basically a one-joke film, about smelly louts from the past confronting the cacophony of modern life and its puzzling amenities, such as toilets. The film was subtitled, and until Roberto Benigni's "Life Is Beautiful" came along in a big way in 1998 ("Money Is Beautiful"?) and Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Profits" last year, multiplex audiences simply wouldn't buy subtitled films. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/15/PK190351.DTL&type=movies   (514 words)

The Daydreamer Web page: Wong News Articles `Son' co-executive producer Rob Cohen, who directed and co-wrote the 1993 film ``Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story,'' agrees Wong is action material, though he backed away from casting the actor in his Lee biography because of Wong's ``quiet presence.'' ``Lee was not a quiet presence,'' Cohen said. But it's the continuing adventures of ``Vanishing Son'' that may turn him into a household name. He returned to the United States and appeared in TV shows such as ``21 Jump Street'' and ``The Equalizer,'' as well as theatrical films ``Eat a Bowl of Tea,'' ``China Cry,'' ``New Jack City'' and ``The Joy Luck Club.'' www.geocities.com /SouthBeach/Port/9571/newsrwB.html   (514 words)

Misdirections Magic Shop -- Videos & DVDs Filmed at the prestigious Magic Castle, this lecture was the finale to Michael's 1989 World Tour that included over 125 appearances spanning 18 countries. A thought-of colored ball vanishes and appears in the magician’s pocket. The result is a fascinating, first ever recording of a future star of magic.! www.misdirections.com /shop8.html   (514 words)

Breakdown : Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies : Breakdown This film is also less a psychological thriller and more an action picture -- Jeff takes matters into his own hands, leading to a series of events that make less and less sense as the film unfolds. "The Vanishing" was a 1988 Dutch film that got Americanized by the original director, George Sluizer, into a 1993 film of the same title starring Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland. Given that blatant, naked rip-offs are now deemed an acceptable expression of the Hollywood creative process, wannabe filmmakers ought to start bombarding film execs with their ideas. www.mrcranky.com /movies/breakdown.html   (514 words)

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