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	List of Religious Movies Nominated for the Oscars
		This is a list of 26 films with strong religious themes that have been nominated for major Oscars.
		Those films that the Vatican chose for its list of the top 45 films are noted with V45.
		The list is split into three categories, one for films on religion, another for films with moral messages, and a final category for films which are particularly artistic.
	www.geocities.com /richleebruce/oscar-religious.html (1499 words)

	SALALM Latin American Information Series - no. 7
		The objective of showing these films was to increase the exposure of films made in Latin America to both faculty and students and also to magnify the Library’s role as a useful resource, not only for its holdings, but also for its services.
		This bibliography was originally compiled as a part of the film series, with the goal being to offer a current list of materials on Latin American film housed in the Harold B. Lee Library of Brigham Young University.
		It was decided to begin the series with four films from Argentina, with plans to showcase other Latin American countries in future semesters.
	www.libs.uga.edu /lais/laisno7.html (1499 words)

	Rumble Fish (1983)
		His films mostly seemed somehow constrained to an unchallenging format, and avoided the complexity, surrealism or depth so often used to great ends by film directors.
		This talent comes together to create something memorable on film which communicates, as few films have, a certain mood or feeling that is perhaps peculiar to the American midwest, especially during the 1980's.
		Coppola's films will always seem to this author to be part of that distinct class of "Hollywood Films", though some are arguably "really good" Hollywood films.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0086216 (642 words)

	Chicanos/Latinos in Film and Television: A Short Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		These films are self-conscious studies of the directors' principles in which union struggles serve as the vehicle for narrative analogies that express differing philosophies about a key tension in the American identity--that between individualism and community.
		A study of films made in the United States and Mexico throughout the 20th century shows the border region, as expressed in film, remains hostage to the conflict, conquest, and distrust that exist beneath a veneer of accommodation.
		Because these films represent the creation of meanings at two different synchronic sites within the culture, they officer opportunities to inspect how their messages are historically and culturally determined and how they are like, or unlike, the cultural memory of our own time.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/LatinoBib.html (9351 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Something Wicked This Way Comes
		The screenplay for "Something Wicked This Way Comes" was written by Ray Bradbury, based on his novel, and it's one of the rare American films to savor the sound of words, and their rhythms.
		The opening scenes of "Something Wicked This Way Comes" might remind you a little of Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons." Both films begin with a nostalgic memory of what it was like to grow up in a small Midwestern town, back before everything became modern and a sense of wonder was lost.
		What the two films also have in common is a love of language.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19830429/REVIEWS/304290301/1023 (566 words)

	Popcorn Monsters - Review for Scarface by jatremblay
		Without revealing too much more, Scarface is similar to other films in the genre, and as viewers know there are only limited amounts of ways these films can end.
		Though it doesn’t have the polish of the Godfather or the character complexity of the Sopranos, Scarface is destined to remain a fixture in film history.
		Such is the case with Scarface, which introduces Antonio Montana (Al Pacino), a Cuban immigrant with an untraditional perspective on achieving the American dream.
	www.popcornmonsters.com /m/review/258 (397 words)

	Selected Readings for MYTHIC JOURNEYS: THE FILM ARCHIVES OF THE SOUTHWESTERN WRITERS COLLECTION
		Cinema of Solitude: A Critical Study of Mexican Film, 1967-1983 by Charles Ramírez.
		The Chicano/Hispanic Image in American Film by Frank Javier Garcia Berumen.
		Wade, Leslie A. Sam Shepard and the American Theatre.
	www.library.txstate.edu /swwc/exhibits/mythic_bib.html (397 words)

	Family Science
		Science Books and Films is published nine times per year by the American Association for the Advancement of Science ($40).
		Science Is Women's Work: Photos and Biographies of American Women in the Sciences features 26 women who successfully pursed careers in 18 different areas of science.
		Helping Your Child at Home...With Science is a series of books that present information and activities for parents to do with their children on topics included in the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill (P.O. Box 508, Columbus, OH 43272-2174) text series.
	www.west.asu.edu /rillero/Familysci.htm (3777 words)

	Reagan, Ronald Wilson. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Adopting a hardline stance against the Soviet Union and other Communist countries, Reagan advocated and oversaw the largest peacetime escalation of military spending in American history; in 1983 he proposed the controversial and expensive space-based defense system known as the Strategic Defense Initiative.
		After a recession in 1982, the economy picked up between 1983 to 1986, spurred largely by the tax cuts and deficit financing; on the strength of the economic rebound, the successful invasion of the Marxist-controlled island of Grenada, and his personal popularity, he defeated Democratic nominee Walter Mondale in 1984 by a landslide.
		Although never a major star, Reagan appeared in 50 films, including Knute Rockne—All-American (1940), King& (1941), The Hasty Heart (1950), and Bedtime for Bonzo (1951).
	www.bartleby.com /65/re/Reagan-R.html (645 words)

	About White Pine Pictures: PETER RAYMONT
		Margaret Mead Film Festival, 1983/Native American Film Festival, INPUT Conference of Public Television, Leige, Belgium, 1983.
		Raymont's films are often provocative investigations of "hidden worlds" in politics, the media and big business, as well as Native, social and environmental issues.
		Exploring charges of corruption, graft and greed, the film follows Raajkumar Keswani, the local journalist whose prediction of the Union Carbide disaster proved prophetic.
	www.whitepinepictures.com /peter.html (645 words)

	Smith Aquatic Safety Services: Expert Witness Testimony
		"Alcohol, Trauma and Hypothermia." Fire Department Instructors' Conference, Cincinnati, March 1984; National Association of EMT's, 1985; Mid American Symposium on Trauma, 1984.
		Minneapolis: Lutheran Brotherhood Insurance Company, Countryman/Clang Films, 1980.
		Recognition, Field Management, Transport of the Hypothermia Victim, Fire and Emergency Television Network (FETN) January, 1994
	www.aquaticsafety.com /resume.html (645 words)

	HBO Films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While much of HBO Films' output is created directly for the television market, such as the mini-series Band of Brothers and Angels in America, it has also branched into theatrical distribution with such critically acclaimed films as Elephant and American Splendor.
		HBO Films productions are generally regarded to be high-quality and groundbreaking productions; the films produced by the company have garnered hundreds of Emmy and Golden Globe awards; HBO Films productions have won the award for the Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Made for Television Movie" every year from 1993 to 2002, except 2000.
		HBO began producing films in 1983 with their HBO Pictures banner; their first film, The Terry Fox Story, was also the first feature film produced expressly for pay television.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HBO_Films (230 words)

	AllRefer.com - Peter Weir (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		His early work helped to bring Australian film to world attention; his later films, made in Hollywood, mingle American movie technique with the style of European art films.
		His films include Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), a brooding turn-of-the-century tale involving the disappearance of Australian schoolgirls; Gallipoli (1981), a drama of idealistic young Australians fighting a bloody, pointless World War I battle; and The Year of Living Dangerously (1983), a story of love and political intrigue in Sukarno's Indonesia.
		Among his later films are the dramas Witness (1985) and Dead Poets Society (1989), the comedy Green Card (1990), and his most commercially successful work, The Truman Show (1998), which tells of a man whose life is, without his knowing it, the subject of an avidly watched television show.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Weir-Pet.html (230 words)

	AFI Life Achievement Award: Barbra Streisand
		Whereas in 1916, there were 12 female directors making films, 67 years later, in 1983, while Streisand was shooting YENTL, she was one of only two women shooting a major motion picture.
		For the tremendous joy this consummate artist has brought to audiences worldwide as she transports us with her wondrous talents both in front of and behind the camera, the American Film Institute is honored to present Barbra Streisand with AFI’s 29th Life Achievement Award.
		Over the next 15 years, many films followed, including hits such as WHAT’S UP, DOC?, THE WAY WE WERE and A STAR IS BORN.
	www.afi.com /tvevents/laa/laa01.aspx (230 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.
		In 1983, after the More American Graffiti movie, Steve Fitch acquired the coupe in a sealed auction bid.
	www.petalumabgc.org /main_sublinks.asp?id=15&sid=90 (1669 words)

	About the...
		He is the recipient of The Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute and the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
		In 1983, he left to work on his first independent film, "Prehistoric Bear," a 10 minute film which was shot entirely in his garage and took two years to complete.
		An innovator who took stop-motion photography to new heights, Tippett's animation for the 1980 film "Dragonslayer" is regarded as one of the best, if not the best example of the art form.
	www.lost-world.com /Lost_World02/Jurassic_Park.Site/Bios.html (977 words)

	The journalism and films of John Pilger
		The Americans were deployed on a "humanitarian mission" and found themselves menaced by people who, one of them said, "appear to be primitive".
		This is a Reaganite enterprise, set up by the extreme right in the United States and launched in 1983 by Ronald Reagan himself, who called on a "successor generation" on both sides of the Atlantic to "work together on defence and security issues": in other words, to maintain the imperial project.
		In this space a fortnight ago, I reported that the Anglo-American or "Atlanticist" freemasonry known as the British American Project for the Successor Generation was meeting in New Orleans.
	pilger.carlton.com /media/articles/19226 (977 words)

	Scarface (1983)
		Although she had some ten films prior to this one, Scarface is the flick that brought Pfeiffer into the start of her ‘A’ list recognition.
		As mentioned, the excesses in this film are a two edged sword, propelling the film into the collective consciousness of American film and at times detracting from the ultimate development of the story and characters.
		This is the basis of the tale of the Cuban immigrant Tony Montana (Al Pacino) as told in Scarface.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /scarface_1983.htm (1148 words)

	Scarface - Wikiquote
		Scarface is a 1983 film about a Cuban political refugee, Tony Montana (Pacino), who in the early 1980's entered America to live the ulimate American Dream.
		Wikiquote links: People - Literary Works - Proverbs - Films - TV Shows - Themes - Categories
		Perhaps the most famous quote from the film.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Scarface (1197 words)

	Scarface (1983)
		Although she had some ten films prior to this one, Scarface is the flick that brought Pfeiffer into the start of her ‘A’ list recognition.
		As mentioned, the excesses in this film are a two edged sword, propelling the film into the collective consciousness of American film and at times detracting from the ultimate development of the story and characters.
		This is the basis of the tale of the Cuban immigrant Tony Montana (Al Pacino) as told in Scarface.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /scarface_1983.htm (1148 words)

	Ira H. Latour: Films
		Honored Showing, 27th Annual Unifilm Festival, Tokyo, Japan (the only film representing the U.S.); Bronze Medal, 1983 International Film & TV Festival of New York; Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival 1983.
		Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival; Motion Picture Excellence Award, San Francisco International Film Festival; Premio Ciudad Barcelona, Grupo profesionales, 1965: Honored Showing, Flaherty Film Festival 1965.
		Filmed on grant from the Shaw of Iran.
	www.iralatour.com /films.cfm (285 words)

	SPANISH 9: Writing and Speaking: A Cultural Approach
		The independent film El Norte (1983) was the first U.S. feature in the 1980s to portray believable and well-rounded Latin American characters attempting to take charge of their own troubled lives.
		I think that films need to entertain us, and I mean entertain in the broadest sense of the word, which is partially to enlighten us about who we are.
		Cineaste: The theme of immigration to the U.S. is central to both El Norte and My Family.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~span09/norte.htm (285 words)

	American Family . About the Series . The Series Creators PBS
		Co-written with producer Anna Thomas, "El Norte" garnered a number of international awards and in 1996 the film was named an "American Classic" and designated for special preservation by The Library of Congress.
		Martinez Jitner continues to work with Nava as the Vice-President of El Norte Productions, and is developing several feature films, including a biopic on the life of Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata for Disney, "Tattooed Soldier" for HBO and "Bordertown," a thriller set on the U.S./Mexico border.
		Writer/Director/Producer Gregory Nava became a major international filmmaker with his 1983 film "El Norte," for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay as well as a Writer's Guild of America Award nomination.
	www.pbs.org /americanfamily/crew.html (285 words)

	Chicanos/Latinos in Film and Television: A Short Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		From silent movies to urban gang films, stereotypes of the Greaser, the Lazy Mexican, the Latin lover and the Dark lady are examined.
		This subtle form of censorship caused movie makers to choose the ethnicity of their characters and villains wisely.
		Poet Tino Villanueva comments on this simplistic view in Scene from the Movie "Giant." Oscar "Zeta" Acosta recounts his ingrained obsession with skin color in The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and his emancipation from it in The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973).
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/LatinoBib.html (285 words)

	HBO Films: REALWOMEN: Cast & Crew
		She also had a major role in Gregory Nava's 1983 film, "El Norte," among the 100 films selected for preservation by the Library of Congress.
		She was in the original cast of Luis Valdez's ground-breaking play, "Zoot Suit," the first Mexican-American play to play the Great White Way.
		Among Ontiveros' notable television appearances are "Leap of Faith," "Pasadena" and "Veronica's Closet" in which she was a recurring guest star.
	www.hbo.com /films/realwomen/cast/lupe_ontiveros.html (584 words)

	SPANISH 9: Writing and Speaking: A Cultural Approach
		The independent film El Norte (1983) was the first U.S. feature in the 1980s to portray believable and well-rounded Latin American characters attempting to take charge of their own troubled lives.
		I think that films need to entertain us, and I mean entertain in the broadest sense of the word, which is partially to enlighten us about who we are.
		So the film wants to express all of these kinds of things and be a real celebration of the beauty of Latino culture without sugarcoating any of the tough things that are going on in the barrio, and the difficulties that people have in surviving in the barrio.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~span09/norte.htm (3047 words)

	American Family . About the Series . The Series Creators PBS
		Co-written with producer Anna Thomas, "El Norte" garnered a number of international awards and in 1996 the film was named an "American Classic" and designated for special preservation by The Library of Congress.
		Martinez Jitner continues to work with Nava as the Vice-President of El Norte Productions, and is developing several feature films, including a biopic on the life of Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata for Disney, "Tattooed Soldier" for HBO and "Bordertown," a thriller set on the U.S./Mexico border.
		Nava is currently developing a film about the life of Emiliano Zapata for Disney and is slated to direct "Bordertown," a thriller set on the U.S.-Mexico border.
	www.pbs.org /americanfamily/crew.html (470 words)

	Digital History
		Gender and Representation in the Films of Ingmar Bergman.
		Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction.
		A Guide to Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino-Made Film and Video.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /historyonline/world_cinema.cfm (1498 words)

	About the...
		He is the recipient of The Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute and the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
		He has been associated as director or producer on five of the Top 20 grossing films of all time.
		Muren, who traces his interest in visual effects to the age of ten when he started making his own films on an 8mm camera, began his career as a visual effects cameraman and worked on such productions as
	www.lost-world.com /Lost_World02/Jurassic_Park.Site/Bios.html (977 words)

	At Festival, an Inside Look at 'Insider' (washingtonpost.com)
		Three Japanese films of extraordinary quality will be shown at the American Film Institute's Silver Theatre Friday through Tuesday in the "Cherry Blossom Cinema" special.
		They include Kon Ichikawa's 1983 "The Makioka Sisters," about the daughters of an upper-class family that faces climactic social changes in 1930s Osaka.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A34127-2005Apr7.html (977 words)

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