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	Archive of past screenings: 2000 Schedule: Mary Pickford Theater (Motion Picture and Television ReadingRoom, Library ofCongress)
		The series (starting tonight and for seven consecutive Tuesdays thereafter) will include both British and American adaptations, for both movies and television, from the earliest silent films to the first Holmes "talkie," up to the present.
		However, feature film versions of the shows were made in England, while the television series was still being created, and these movies were distributed in the United States and subsequently shown on television.
		In movies and television, Holmes is the most-depicted fictional character on screen, and this series will show a variety of examples of this work, including many of the most rarely-seen.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mopic/pickford/2000-archive.html

	Film Reviews and Film Criticism: A Selective Guide to Sources in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		Film journals indexed: American Film, American Cinematographer, Cahiers du Cinema, Cineaste, Cinema Journal Film Comment, Film Quarterly, Film Criticism, Film Culture, Films and Filming, Films in Review, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Sight and Sound.
		Film Index International provides in-depth indexing of over 100,000 films - from the first silent movies to the latest blockbusters - and biographical information for over 40,000 personalities.
		Produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute (bfi) it is based on the Summary of Film and Television (SIFT) database collated by the bfi over the past 70 years.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/filmstudies/reviewslist.html (1480 words)

	Strange Magic: Pop Soundtracks
		American Graffiti appeared more or less simultaneously with Mean Streets in 1973, and even though the style and sensibility of their directors are worlds removed from each other, the two films are closer than you might think in the way their characters relate to pop music.
		The Virgin Suicides, High Fidelity, and American Psycho are very different films in terms of tone and genre, yet their soundtracks all feel like clear departures from the Scorsese/Lucas-influenced style of the past quarter-century.
		American Graffiti, where the music would seem to be of paramount importance to Lucas' cross-section of seven California teenagers, is somewhat trickier.
	www.rockcritics.com /features/strangemagic.html (1973 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Ron Howard
		As a teenager, Howard found fewer prominent roles, until he played a leading part in American Graffiti (1973), a nostalgic film of teen life in the early 1960s by American director George Lucas.
		Subsequent films, including Splash (1984), Cocoon (1985), and Parenthood (1989), established Howard's reputation as an able director of mainstream, popular motion pictures.
		Howard, Ron, born in 1954, American television and motion-picture actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, a popular child- and teen-actor during the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the most consistently popular filmmakers of the 1980s and 1990s.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761582045__1/Ron_Howard.html (1973 words)

	Texas Monthly June 1973: Film Fatale
		Its purpose was to exhibit and honor the best of current American films; to bring to Dallas legions of stars, starlets, directors, producers, screen writers and any other celebrities who would come; and generally to promote an interest in American cinema.
		He sat on the stage in front of the screen, legs crossed, smoking a cigarette, and responded to questions in a voice so soft and shy that it was difficult to hear even though he spoke into a microphone.
		In the lobby of the theater, the organizers of the festival, their eyes slightly glazed from the night before, gazed joylessly at the meager crowd that wandered back into the lobby after Minelli's discussion was over.
	www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/1973-06-01/feature.php (1415 words)

	Film Festival Channel - North American Film Festival
		Background: North America northern most independent film festival is getting ready for it's third year of bringing hungry moviegoers in from the cold and dark to watch fresh hot films from around the globe.
		Background: This festival founded in 1973, features mainsteram films as well as 16mm film work and video.
		Formerly known as the Acapulco Black Film Festival, it was founded in 1997 by Jeff Friday, President and CEO, Film Life Inc. The festival was born out of a belief in the need to stimulate independent Black film development and promote cultural diversity within the film industry.
	www.filmfestivalchannel.com /spanish/northamerica_a.html (1415 words)

	Greatest Films of 1973
		American Graffiti (1973), 110 minutes, D: George Lucas
		Mean Streets (1973), 110 minutes, D: Martin Scorsese
		The Exorcist (1973), 120 minutes, D: William Friedkin
	www.filmsite.org /1973.html (126 words)

	George Lucas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American Zoetrope never really succeeded, but from the financial success of his films American Graffiti (1973) and Star Wars (1977), Lucas was able to set up his own studio, Lucasfilm, in Marin County in his native northern California.
		Eventually he co-founded the studio American Zoetrope with Francis Ford Coppola, hoping to create a liberating environment for filmmakers to direct outside the perceived oppressive control of the Hollywood studio system.
		The American Film Institute awarded Lucas its Lifetime Achievement Award for 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Lucas (126 words)

	Western Folklore: Folkloristics: An Introduction / The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction / The Dynamics of Folklore / Amerikanische Folkloristik
		Ironically, Richard Dorson answered the question "Is Folklore a Discipline?" (Dorson 1973:199) in part by noting that "surveys and textbooks indicate the coming of age of a subject" and "the subject [of folklore] has sufficiently established itself so that several textbooks...
		The authors bolster this thesis by composing their text primarily of summaries and critical discussions of numerous exemplary folklore studies (including films) which manifest the various perspectives.
		Georges and Jones identify four perspectives from which the materials of folklore have been or can be conceived and studied, and organize their text around these: folklore as "(1) historical artifact, (2) describable and transmissible entity, (3) culture, and (4) behavior" (23, original text in italics).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3732/is_199804/ai_n8799995 (937 words)

	Blogcritics.org: American Graffiti
		There were, of course, other teenage movies before Graffiti, but Graffiti didn't have the cautionary tone of Blackboard Jungle, the sturm und drang of Rebel without a Cause, or the sheer silliness of the Beach Blanket films.
		But back in 1973, most of the cast was unknown, so it's impressive that Lucas got the cast that he did.
		Graffiti has its laughs, its emotional moments, and its dramatic moments, but it's the last five minutes of the film that elevates it to true greatness.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2004/08/03/173240.php (2030 words)

	American Graffiti: The Movie
		Incidentally, in the film, the marquee on the movie theater read "Dementia 13," which was one the first films directed by Frances Ford Coppola, the producer of “American Graffiti" and a friend of Lucas.
		Anyone who has seen the timeless “coming of age” film classic, “American Graffiti”, directed by George Lucas, is bound to recognize Petaluma as the setting for many of the film's most memorable moments.
		"American Graffiti" opened in June 1973 at the theater now known as "McNear's Mystic Theatre and Music Hall" at
	www.petalumabgc.org /main_sublinks.asp?id=15&sid=90 (1669 words)

	American Graffiti
		AMERICAN GRAFFITI was released in 1973 without much fanfare, but it quickly touched a nerve with movie audiences everywhere.
		AMERICAN GRAFFITI was more than just a box office hit - it was a critical hit as well.
		There was something about this look back to a summer night in a small California town in 1962 that made moviegoers nostalgic for a time of innocence, of romance, and of uncharted possibilities.
	homevideo.universalstudios.com /americangraffiti/about/retrospective.html (430 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1973 in film
		American Graffiti is a 1973 film directed by George Lucas that is set in California during 1962 against the backdrop of commentary and music created by disc jockey Wolfman Jack from his US broadcasting studio that is linked to the transmitter of border-blaster XERB in Mexico.
		Although the film is generally considered by film critics to be one of the weakest in the company's history (many cited re-use of animation within the film and from older films, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), the film was successful upon its release.
		1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1973-in-film (427 words)

	American Graffiti (1973)
		Young George Lucas' influential hallmark film American Graffiti (1973) recreates the feel, landscape, and sounds of early 60s, small-town America - an historical time period (of JFK's Presidency and the New Frontier before the jarring assassination of late 1963 and the rest of an unpredictable era) that has since been irretrievably lost.
		The trailer for the PG-rated film begins with the opening of a 1962 high school yearbook, accompanied by the voice of Wolfman Jack announcing: "American Graffiti.
		Creating a demand for other popular teen-oriented films, a less successful sequel was also produced - director Bill W. Norton's More American Graffiti (1979) that covered the years 1964-67.
	www.filmsite.org /amerg.html (2861 words)

	American Graffiti
		AMERICAN GRAFFITI was one of the first films that firmly established the importance of a new breed of American (mostly film school educated) directors sometimes known as the "Movie Brats." Also included in this school were Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Jim McBride.
		AMERICAN GRAFFITI presents a powerful collage of youth on the brink of maturity just before the assassination of J.F.K..
		Set in 1962; Produced and released in 1973.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/american_graffiti/about.php (898 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - More American Graffiti
		"More American Graffiti" may be one of the most innovative and ambitious films of the last five years, but by no means is it one of the most successful.
		In trying to follow the success of George LucasGeorge Lucas' immensely popular 1973 hit, writer-director B.W.L. Norton overloads the sequel with four wholly different cinematic styles to carry forward the lives of "American Graffiti"'s original cast.
		Rest of the thesping and tech work is all more than acceptable but doesn't help "More American Graffiti" offer conclusive proof that in the case of sequels less can be more.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117793234?categoryid=31&cs=1 (726 words)

	The DVD Maniacs - Forum - More American Graffiti (1979)
		I really love AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973); it's one of my favorite films ever.
		I saw More American Graffiti on cable years ago and the only thing I can remember about it is Cindy Williams standing up on a bus singing "Baby Love" as some sort of protest.
		So I always had to have this unworthy sequel along, which is probably one of the most disappointing followups to a great film that I can think of.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /forums/showthread.php?t=9129 (528 words)

	Film Literature Index Project >> Proposal & Press >> Grant Proposal
		Additionally, the online version of the Film Literature Index will complement other NEH-funded projects, notably the American Film Institute Catalog of feature films.
		Film Literature Index is the most comprehensive of the three indexes, with approximately 564,000 citations from 1973 to the present.
		The second problem the editors faced was to identify film periodicals beyond the standard titles used by serous film scholars-those publications covering the often- neglected popular culture and technical dimensions of film activity-and foreign language periodicals.
	www.dlib.indiana.edu /projects/fli/grantProposal.html (6113 words)

	DVDSoon.com : DVD: Buy American Graffiti ( 1973 ) and get 43% discount + free shipping World Wide
		This Academy Award-nominated classic, voted one of the American Film Institute's top 100 Films Of All Time, features the coming-of-age of four teenagers on their last summer night before college.
		Capture the heart of America's last age of innocence with American Graffiti.
		The incredible soundtrack brings you the most memorable rock 'n' roll hits of the era.Directed by George Lucas and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, this classic stars Harrison Ford, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Suzanne Somers, Cindy Williams, Wolfman Jack and Mackenzie Phillips.
	www.dvdsoon.com /show-title-details.xml?uid=5227&partner_id=10000 (130 words)

	WNM (Wednesday Night Movie) Liner Notes - 1999.
		"Night of the Hunter [1955] is considered now by critics to be one of the greatest of American films.
		This movie was the star vehicle of its day, Beery/Cooper having made a tremendous impression with The Champ the year before.
		"The Blues Brothers grew out of a Saturday Night Live shtick, wherein Aykroyd and Belushi warmed up the audience singing the blues before the show.
	www.wednight.org /movienight99.html (8352 words)

	American Graffiti movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
		Genre(s): Checkered Flag, Comedy Drama, Coming of Age, Dream Girls, Motor Vehicle Dept., Period Piece: 1960s, Producers: Coppola/American Zoetrope, Teen Angst, This Is Your Life, Top Grossing Films of 1973, Up All Night
		Atmospheric, episodic look at growing up in the innocence of America before the Kennedy assassination and the Vietnam War.
		For complete review and film details, click here..
	www.moviegoods.com /movie_product.asp?sku=141490&master_movie_id=4749 (505 words)

	Pinochet Watch
		Cultural performance- Chilean-Latin American Folk music by Luisa Ankamil and the Condor Pasa Group), food (empanadas, Chilean wine and other goodies.) September 14, 2003, A popular mass in honor of those fallen in the struggle in Chile to take place at San Romero Church to be conducted by Father Luis Barrios and other community leaders.
		Join the Dallas Peace Center for a showing of a video on the US role in Chile in 1973.
		On September 11, 1973, the Chilean military, led by General Augusto Pinochet, overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in a violent coup.
	www.tni.org /pin-watch/watch0309.htm (505 words)

	Talk:Films that have been considered the greatest ever - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Simply using the word 'considered' essentially conveys this without having to qualify it with "that have been", since a film has been officially been 'considered' whether it's Film E that was 'considered' the worst/greatest ever in 1973 or Film Z that is 'considered' the worst/greatest ever of 2005.
		Reason being is, I don't think the "that have been" part is actually needed to convey that these films have been considered the worst/greastest ever, and it doesn't even seem correct when one considers that recently released films or particularly infamous/famous films 'are' considered the worst/greatest ever for a period of time.
		City Lights, another of Chaplin's films, is the highest-rated movie without any dialogue, spoken or sung.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Films_that_have_been_considered_the_greatest_ever (3525 words)

	Foreign-Language Films
		An extensive list of films for rent, part of the German Language Video Center, an American-based source for German language videos.
		Z (1969) and State of Seige (1973) - Powerful political films by Costa-Gavras.
		However, it would be unfair to ignore all the great classic films made in countries where English is not the official language, as well as the actors, actresses, and directors associated with those films.
	www.classicmovies.org /articles/aa032199.htm (1333 words)

	Martin Scorsese - MSN Encarta
		Scorsese's style, distinguished by his intense scenarios and unpredictable camerawork, was influenced by his youthful attraction to the films of the French New Wave, his fondness for the work of British filmmaker Michael Powell and American filmmaker Vincente Minnelli, and his knowledge of American films of the 1940s and 1950s.
		Martin Scorsese, born in 1942, American motion-picture director, whose best films have reflected the Italian American experience of his childhood in New York City's Little Italy neighborhood.
		In 1973 Scorsese made the first of his films set in New York City, Mean Streets, a powerful portrayal of life in Little Italy.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761563997/Martin_Scorsese.html (606 words)

	John Ford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was one of the most accomplished American film directors of the 1930s to 1960s, known particularly as a director of the Westerns, although his tributes to the veterans of World War II and Americana are also equally effective.
		Ford would define images of the American West with some of the most beautiful and powerful cinematography ever shot, including those in Stagecoach, The Searchers, Fort Apache, and She Wore A Yellow Ribbon.
		He made numerous films there (including some that are out of character/setting).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Ford_(film_director) (789 words)

	Encyclopedia: Academy Award for Best Picture
		John Ford (February 1, 1894 â€“ August 31, 1973) was one of the most accomplished American film directors of the 1930s to 1960s, known particularly as a director of the Westerns, although his tributes to the veterans of World War II and Americana are also equally effective.
		Frank Capra Frank Capra (May 18, 1897 â€“ September 3, 1991) was an American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films.
		Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of a novel and several films based on the Mutiny on the Bounty, the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of HMAV Bounty in 1789.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Academy-Award-for-Best-Picture (9384 words)

	MSN Encarta - John Ford
		Ford, John (1894-1973), American motion-picture director, winner of six Academy Awards, who in his 50-year career achieved renown with his portrayals of the American frontier and of the Irish immigrant experience.
		Ford's powerful film The Grapes of Wrath (1940), adapted from the novel by American writer John Steinbeck, and his moving portrait of a Welsh coal-mining family, How Green Was My Valley (1941), won him the Academy Award for best director two years in a row.
		With the professional alias of Jack Ford, he entered the motion-picture industry as a prop man in 1914, soon securing other assignments and directing his first films in 1917.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576544/John_Ford.html (9384 words)

	MSN Encarta - John Ford
		John Ford (1894-1973), American motion-picture director, winner of six Academy Awards, who in his 50-year career achieved renown with his portrayals of the American frontier and of the Irish immigrant experience.
		In 1939 three important Ford motion pictures inaugurated a remarkable succession of films that would carry him, with a brief wartime interruption, on an unprecedented wave of popular success into the late 1950s: Drums Along the Mohawk, set during the American Revolution (1775-1783); the historical biography Young Mr.
		Ford's powerful film The Grapes of Wrath (1940), adapted from the novel by American writer John Steinbeck, and his moving portrait of a Welsh coal-mining family, How Green Was My Valley (1941), won him the Academy Award for best director two years in a row.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576544/John_Ford.html (453 words)

	Frank Film
		Esteemed as "probably the most celebrated American short," Frank Film is a collection of 11,592 collages sequenced to illustrate the chronology of the filmmaker's life.
		Spanning the years of 1945-1973, this wildly entertaining short film goes beyond the story of one man's existence to become a collective autobiography of our time.
		This title can also be found in: Academy Award Winners, Animated Films, Art & Artists (Visual), Artists, Musicians & Performers, Autobiographies/Self-Portraits, Experimental Films, Filmmakers & Filmmaking, Mouris, Frank & Caroline -- Films by, Short Films
	directcinema.com /dcl/title.php?id=135&list=367,43,44,135,373,69,401... (104 words)

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