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  American Pie (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American Pie is a 1999 teen comedy film directed by Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz and written by Adam Herz.
The movie is based upon four boys who make a pact to lose their virginity by their high school graduation, and their subsequent adventures.
American Pie is the story of four Michigan high school seniors (played by Jason Biggs, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Chris Klein, and Eddie Kaye Thomas) who make a pact to lose their virginity before graduation after failing to do so at a party at Steve Stifler's (played by Sean William Scott) house.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Pie_(movie)   (1836 words)

  
 American Movie Classics
The room, painted fl and white (the purity of American Movie Classics), is filled with the sounds of Gordy Kilgore's big band playing Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" as more than two hundred couples spin, remembering a better time.
No, this was a late 1980s marketing device by American Movie Classics and the local cable system (owned by Time Warner), in Wichita Falls, Texas, a moment designed to launch AMC in that market.
American Movie Classics runs these incomplete prints, deciding not to spend the necessary moneys to create a complete version.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/A/htmlA/americanmovi/americanmovi.htm   (697 words)

  
 Movie Review -- American Beauty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In American Beauty, however, he plays just an average, boring, half-dead man with a family and a house in the suburbs.
Sure, by the end of the movie he rebels, does a few things that lead others to question his sanity, but not a single mass murder.
It's hard to put it in one sentence (it took Mendes and Ball and entire movie to have their say), but it has a lot to do with the sheer joy of being alive.
www.theshrubbery.com /1199/movie4.html   (864 words)

  
 American Splendor Movie Review at Hollywood Video
American Splendor is not a movie that lends itself to pat synopsis.
Although Giamatti dominates American Splendor, he does not hog the screen or overwhelm the other actors, who are uniformly excellent; special mention must be made of Judah Friedlander, who plays Pekar's misfit co-worker Toby Radloff without a trace of condescension.
In a movie filled with nuanced performances, Judah Friedlander does a note-perfect turn as Toby Radloff, Pekar's co-worker and a man so nerdy you initially think Friedlander must be overacting—that is, until the real Radloff turns up onscreen and proves to be virtually indistinguishable from the actor's portrayal of him.
www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=136846   (1521 words)

  
 ALAN DALE | What We Do Best: American Movie Comedies of the 1990s
For instance, the movies I looked at to analyze specific works of a limited set of artists for this book and my previous one, Comedy Is a Man in Trouble, made me realize that I think comedy has been the most aesthetically satisfying genre in American movies.
These movies, together with various single-shots, flukes, and unclassifiables, display the widest range of verbal and physical styles; a focus on intense comic personalities, both in front of and behind the cameras; an unfailingly down-to-earth attitude about getting by in the world; and all in a profusion that no country on the planet could match.
Which isn't to say that the "classic" American movie genres don't have identifiable characteristics that are interesting and even fun to outline, which is the solid premise of Kevin Williamson's Scream (1997).
www.weirdprofessortype.com /introduction.html   (1540 words)

  
 American Movie : Synopsis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It takes a village to make a movie, but when that village is Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin and not Hollywood, CA, the results are at times bizarre, comical, and very American.
AMERICAN MOVIE is the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream.
Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, AMERICAN MOVIE is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream.
www.americanmovie.com /synopsis.html   (165 words)

  
 American Pie - Movie Preview
Finally, add one apple pie and you get one of the funniest movies of the year and certainly the only one which features pastry products as sex aids.
With its cast of mostly fresh faces, the $10.8-million production is already being touted as one of the summer’s potential break-out hits, much to the mock horror of Paul and Chris Weitz, the brothers who, respectively, directed and produced the film.
Hertz, though, denies that anything in the movie was based on his own schooldays.
www.preview-online.com /july_august/feature_articles/americanpie   (406 words)

  
 American Outlaws Movie Review
American Outlaws is an attempt at a western for the 21st century.
American Outlaws is a very, and I do mean VERY, loose interpretation of the story of Jesse James, portrayed here by Colin Farrell.
Anyhow, despite the flaws and the distractions from the crisco twins, the movie did provide some really slick action sequences and enough good laughs to be enjoyable and worth the price of admission.
www.moviesforguys.com /action/reviews/americanoutlaws.shtml   (632 words)

  
 American Movie
He has the dream of making a movie called “Northwestern.” He sees it as the moment in his life when he’ll become more than he is right now.
The DVD for “American Movie” is as pleasant a surprise as the movie itself.
Since “American Movie” is all about the making of this short film, allowing the public to see the finished product adds an additional level to the story.
movies.zertinet.com /movie.php?id=47   (968 words)

  
 Movie Photos: American Psycho
Orlando Bloom has admitted that he isn't quite as keen on making a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie as Johnny Depp is because he doesn't have as much fun on the high seas as his co-star.
AMERICAN PSYCHO is a dark, dark comedy that feels like it was directed by Alfred Hitchcock on overdrive and scripted by the Marquis de Sade for a late night movie on The Comedy Channel.
Actually the movie is directed by Mary Harron (I SHOT ANDY WARHOL) and the script, based on Bret Easton Ellis's controversial and popular novel, is written by Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner.
www.allmoviephoto.com /photo/2000_American_Psycho_photo.html   (834 words)

  
 American Movie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American Movie is a documentary about the making of an independent film.
Milwaukee filmmaker Mark Borchardt feverishly works to finish his independent horror film Coven, only to slip into a downward spiral of poor financing and lack of interest by his friends.
The film was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Movie   (109 words)

  
 American Beauty movie review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The movie is about Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), who sees no point to his existence: he is in a cold and frigid relationship with his wife Carolyn (Annette Bening); he barely talks to his daughter Jane (Thora Birch); and he has just been put on the firing line at his job.
As the movie proceeds, each of the characters undergo a transformation that breaks them out of their rut and enables them to proceed to the next level of existence.
Each transformation is strikingly characterised by the movement between living a life in a numbing routine (for the sake of normalcy) and living a dynamic life where everything is uncertain and changing.
www.ram.org /ramblings/movies/american_beauty.html   (421 words)

  
 American Movie (1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Trivia: In the "elevator sequence" that is briefly shown as part of the movie "Coven", the actors that are portraying the doctors are wearing their driver's licenses on their lab coats instead of hospital staff identification badges.
While most of us grow out of our pipe dreams, the main character of American Movie, Mark, has yet to let go of his(and at a thirty-something age too): to become a wealthy acclaimed director.
"American Movie" is, contrary to what people might think, a documentary that anyone can enjoy(even though my sister, who watched some scenes, seemed to think it was downright bizarre).
www.imdb.com /title/tt0181288   (739 words)

  
 American Movie (1999)
Though it was thoroughly overlooked at the Academy Awards, American Movie shares a distinct similarity to 1999's Oscar breadwinner, American Beauty.
American Movie studies Mark Borchardt, an irrepressible filmmaker bent on producing his low-budget horror short, Coven.
Charismatic as any L.A. movie shark, the ambitious Borchardt is limited by his dreary existence in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.
www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=128321&PID=10085335&Tab=reviews&CID=18   (851 words)

  
 Watch this Movie Damnit - American Psycho
These movies will be ones that make it under the radar but are definitely deserving of a viewing.
The first movie I focused on was American Movie, and I'm back again with another movie with "American" in the title, American Psycho.
American Psycho is about thinking beyond the box and being sucked into a character like you never have been before.
www.gyeah.com /ezine/columns/columns/WatchThisMovie/issue2_americanpsycho.html   (565 words)

  
 Movie Photos: American Wedding
AMERICAN PIE is a series clearly running out of creative gas, but AMERICAN WEDDING, the third and hopefully last in the series, shows that it still has a little juice left.
The movie's opening sequence, in which most of the action happens under a restaurant table, is too old a joke to be very funny.
Since the movie's title is AMERICAN WEDDING, it will be no surprise to hear that Jim "The Pie Guy" Levinstein (Jason Biggs) and Michelle "The Band Girl" Flaherty (Alyson Hannigan) are finally getting married.
www.allmoviephoto.com /photo/2003_American_Wedding_photo.html   (623 words)

  
 American Movie . Memphis Flyer . 03-28-00
American Movie is a sad, funny documentary from Chris Smith, a struggling, Milwaukee-based filmmaker.
One of the significant pleasures of American Movie is its lovingly rendered but honest depiction of a milieu you don't often seen in a feature film.
In this way, American Movie acts as a corrective to Fargo that "classic" from the relentlessly smug Coen brothers that seems to have defined the Upper Midwest for too many moviegoers.
www.filmvault.com /filmvault/memphis/a/americanmovie1.html   (451 words)

  
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Of course, AMERICAN JOB - a dark-humored, minimalist account of dead-end minimum-wage labor, made in 1995 - is a far cry from COVEN, but Smith wasn't any more of an industry player than Borchardt at the time.
AMERICAN MOVIE ends shortly after COVEN's 1997 premiere, but the film itself has become an intervention into Borchardt's fate.
Probably, but I came away from AMERICAN MOVIE recalling the grueling work and risk-taking that went into COVEN, rather than the excitement of its completion.
home.earthlink.net /~steevee/america.html   (737 words)

  
 Zap2it.com - Movie review - American Movie
"American Movie" is a story of a man following his dream at all costs.
The sections of "American Movie" devoted to Borchardt's work on "Coven" play like a blooper reel from hell.
When the ebullient Borchardt shows him a photo of a sexpot actress and announces, "She wants to star in your movie, Uncle Bill," the old man seems delighted by all the fuss.
movies.zap2it.com /movies/movies/reviews/text/0,1259,---1412,00.html   (321 words)

  
 The American Thinker
The American movie is entitled Munich, however, the French release of the film reportedly is called Vengeance.
The nexus between Islam and Nazism exists in the “Never Again!” timeline of the 20th century, officially dating to November 28, 1941, when Hitler made a pact with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem – the grandfather of the PLO – to effect The Final SolutionÂ…the extermination of all Jews from the face of the earth.
Steven Spielberg describes his movie as a “prayer for peace.” Although he defines the enemy as “intransigence,” he refers to the “implacable resolve” of the agents who hunted down the PLO assassins.
www.americanthinker.com /articles.php?article_id=5085   (3440 words)

  
 Amazon.com: American Movie (1998) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He began making horror movies as a gangly adolescent, and is now set on finishing Coven (which he pronounces like "woven"), the "35-minute direct market thriller" he has worked on for two years.
Although I am not a movie maker (just a movie fan) I appreciate and empathise with Mark and all of his innumerable obstacles -- scheduling extras, arranging financing, and a vision that no one around him always shares, or even always appreciates.
The movie is pitiful and sad at times, while sweet and funny at other times, but it is inspirational throughout as this man goes for his dream of completing a feature film.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767839145?v=glance   (2127 words)

  
 american movie classics channel | Cars And Motor Clubs
AMC was originally a basic cable channel that aired Originally, the channel's acronym stood for American Movie Classics.
American Movie Classics AMC was originally a basic cable channel that aired classic movies, largely pre-1950s, in a commercial-free, generally.
American Movie Classics is a 24-hour network devoted to the Golden Age of Hollywood.
www.borough18mc.org.uk /american_movie_classics_channel.html   (288 words)

  
 American Movie Freaks :: - Encyclopedia (Movie reviews by movie freaks, for movie freaks)
American Movie Freaks :: - Encyclopedia (Movie reviews by movie freaks, for movie freaks)
Since the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001, our troops have performed their duty to uphold our consititution and defend our freedoms.
To help the average person understand the lingo used in the movie business.
www.americanmoviefreaks.com /modules.php?name=Encyclopedia   (111 words)

  
 Movie Forums - American Wedding
Stiffler is the funniest of them all, but I predict the movie is going to be number one in this weekends box office.Yes half of the cast is missing but you still see this movie as part of the American Pie trilogy, its just as funny as the first two.
Stiffler role got bigger in each pie movie, in this one he is the co-star, he does a fantastic job in this movie.
That snobberish instinct takes in over the year and you denounce the movies to be cheap, immature wastes of time until you actually sit through it again and the infectious laughter takes hold.
www.movieforums.com /community/showthread.php?p=107098   (1426 words)

  
 American Movie
An often hilarious and thoroughly moving portrait of a man, his community and his dream, American Movie is without a doubt one of the year's best.
Borchardt is a true blue believer in the American Dream, and he clings to it with feverish tenacity.
There are so many moments in American Movie that linger in the memory: Schank's maniacal screeching during a sound effects dubbing session; Uncle Bill's repeated attempts to nail his single line of dialogue; Borchardt camping out with his kids in a University of Wisconsin editing suite.
www.culturevulture.net /Movies/AmericanMovie.htm   (839 words)

  
 American Movie (1999): Reviews
This thorough original is a wall-to-wall exercise in gallows humor, a movie whose full funny/sad effect doesn't hit until you reflect upon the subject and the cast of characters.
I'm sure there are many GOOD God-fearing American people who have started out trying to make a movie with the same or worse obstacles than this guy has ever done.
God forbid anyone thinks Americans are anything like the character(s) of these portrayed-vulgar, low-life, disrepectful to parents and family, even using his poor old uncle for his personal gain.
www.metacritic.com /video/titles/americanmovie   (873 words)

  
 American Movie
Mark Borchardt may want to make a movie more than anyone else in the world.
He is a 30-year-old, odd-job man from Menomonee Falls, Wis., who has been making movies since he was a teenager and dreams of an epic about his life, which will be titled "Northwestern," and be about "rust and decay."
"American Movie" is a very funny, sometimes very sad documentary directed by Chris Smith and produced by Sarah Price, about Mark's life, his friends, his family, his films and his dreams.
www.ebertfest.com /two/american_movie_rev.htm   (645 words)

  
 American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States
Clips are taken from speeches, movies, sermons, and sensational media events and delivered by politicians, actors, preachers, athletes, and other notable personalities.
Complete index to and partial text and audio database of the 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century, according to 137 leading scholars of American public address, as compiled by
Included are military movie speeches, sports-oriented movie speeches, forensic movie speeches, and social-political movie speeches, among others.
www.americanrhetoric.com   (252 words)

  
 Salon Arts & Entertainment | "American Movie"-maker
But eventually they edit their 70 hours of footage down to a nicely shaped 107 minutes, and the film is invited to the Sundance Film Festival, where it wins the award for best documentary.
In real life, the Sundance premiere of "American Movie" in January was more the stuff of slapstick comedy than of perfect Hollywood endings.
Smith used the loot to finance his first full-length movie, "American Job," a portrait of a man trapped in a series of minimum-wage, dead-end jobs.
www.salon.com /ent/movies/int/1999/11/02/smith?CP=SAL&DN=110   (962 words)

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