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	Before Night Falls :: the official website
		Well before night falls has started up again, and were practcing for our next show, and were writing more songs, when we get ahold of a new date of a show, it will be inlisted under shows.
		Before Night Falls is settling down for a couple of months to write some new stuff and set up shows.
		Before that we traveled to Olympia for our show there, and when we arrived the guy told us that the show was cancelled.
	www.freewebs.com /before_night_falls (440 words)

	Political Film Society - Before Night Falls
		Before Night Falls gives filmviewers a unique opportunity to get an inside look at Cuba since the revolution of 1959.
		For example, the inability of prisoners to write love letters serves to question whether there is really widespread literacy, contrary to the claims of the regime.
		Moreover, the regime persecuted gays while military and police continued to enjoy being serviced by them; the most notable example is a prison guard (also played by Johnny Depp) who strokes himself as if to hint at a reward in order to entice Arenas to recant.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/beforenight.html (578 words)

	Before Night Falls
		"Before Night Falls" is an artistic interpretation of a life, shown in an impressionistic manner.
		"Before Night Falls" was adapted for the screen by the director, Cunningham O'Keefe and Lazaro Gomez Carriles, Arenas' lifelong friend (played in the film by Olivier Martinez, "The Horseman on the Roof").
		The tone of the story of "Before Night Falls" is more political and social in nature, showing Arenas' persecution for his homosexuality and his politically motivated work.
	www.reelingreviews.com /beforenightfalls.htm (1162 words)

	A Fistful of Reviews - Before Night Falls (2000)
		“Before Night Falls” is the story of a man who overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds only to find the life he has found may not have been worth the effort it took to get there.
		Before long he gains a job at the National Library and takes honorable mention in a writing contest.
		This meant that homosexuals, writers of propaganda, the mentally retarded, and anyone else who didn’t fall into line with Castro’s ideology were to be sent to concentration camps to be sequestered from society.
	www.afistfulofreviews.com /abcd/beforenightfalls_jj.htm (510 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Before Night Falls'
		Before Night Falls is epic, rounding up some 30 years in the life of the persecuted homosexual poet Reinaldo Arenas, played by the Spanish film star Javier Bardem.
		Before Night Falls features a flashy pair of cameos by Johnny Depp, in a double role: first, in drag; second, as the cop in an interrogation scene that looks like improv gone awry.
		Before Night Falls serves as a reminder of Castro's totalitarianism, which we of the left would like to overlook in the interests of calming relations with Cuba.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/01.11.01/beforenightfalls-0102.html (583 words)

	Amazon.com: Before Night Falls: DVD: Javier Bardem,Johnny Depp,Michael Wincott,Hector Babenco,Sean Penn,Jerzy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Based on the memoirs of the late gay Cuban poet/author Reinaldo Arenas, "Before Night Falls" is a lengthy, depressing, yet brutally realistic film on the life Arenas before, during, and after the Cuban Revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power.
		"Before Night Falls" is based on his memoir and relates his imprisonment in Cuba and subsequent exodus to the United States.
		Before Night Falls was one of the few bright spots in an otherwise dismal year for movies in 2000.
	www.amazon.com /Before-Night-Falls-Javier-Bardem/dp/B00003CXRG (2124 words)

	Before Night Falls (2000): Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano, Johnny Depp - PopMatters Film Review
		In the case of Julian Schnabel's adaptation of Reinaldo Arenas' memoir Before Night Falls, the possibilities and problems are multiplied, because the source is not only the story of one man's life, but also a complicated political history.
		The book Before Night Falls is Cuban novelist and poet Arenas' account of his life, first in Castro's Cuba and then in exile, in the United States.
		Certainly, Before Night Falls is not a "faithful" adaptation on the level of storytelling (too many of Arenas' life has been eliminated) or factual documenting (the film does not present a discernable history).
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/b/before-night-falls.shtml (1279 words)

	BEFORE NIGHT FALLS/ ***
		"Before Night Falls" depicts writing a novel in secrecy, trying to hold a party in a nation where gatherings are illegal and smuggling something out of the country in a way that imparts to us the logistical problems.
		The details of the "Before Night Falls" screenplay and direction elevate it above heroic biography; it is a clever portrait of trying to get on with life in a chaotic environment, where hostile forces remain somewhere in the background, threatening to interrupt at any random moment.
		Movies are more likely to reach kids than Solzenitsyn novels, so "Before Night Falls" should be shown to all those pretentious bourgeois youngsters who go round in Castro and Guevara shirts, thinking it's smart to glorify the paraphernalia of old-school communism.
	www.ukcritic.com /beforenightfalls.html (489 words)

	Before Night Falls
		Zhivago, Before Night Falls is no story about the revolution betrayed but one which depicts the Cuban leader and his cohorts as bad guys from the first time they show up--and they just get worse as the action progresses.
		Before Night Falls is one of the most highly politicized motion pictures to have come along for many years, especially for a commercially produced American motion picture.
		Before Night Falls is the proof a contrario of the wisdom of this decision, since Schnabel has chosen to go in for a babble of English and Spanish.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/davesothermovielog/before_night_falls.htm (1499 words)

	Before Night Falls
		The movie "Before Night Falls" is about the life of Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas based on his own memoirs.
		Under Castro’s regime, Arenas was considered a counter-revolutionary and after spending time in jail for doing nothing more than publishing his poetry, he fled to New York City with his lover.
		"Before Night Falls" delivers a strong and poignant message about many things that are often taken for granted.
	www.amerispan.com /travel/article/Before_Night_Falls/79 (168 words)

	Before Night Falls
		Before Night Falls aspires to a kind of visual poetry, rhapsodic and turbulent.
		While the film does not enumerate his many sexual encounters (the writer claimed to have had some 5,000 by the time he was 25), it does convey, however elliptically, the ferocity of his appetites and his fearlessness in pursuing pleasure, pain, sex — experience of all kinds.
		Before he’s arrested for the first time, Reinaldo spends his days sunning on the beach and nights at parties.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/b/beforenightfalls.shtml (1239 words)

	Flak Magazine: Review of Before Night Falls, 2-01-01
		Before Night Falls sheds light on the Cuba of the last half-century much in the same way Elián did: through a captivating and tragic personal story.
		Although American audiences may be attracted to Before Night Falls as a chance to catch Johnny Depp in drag, the film stands on its own as a narrative, made even more powerful by the truth of the story and the beauty of Arenas’ writings, which are incorporated into the film.
		Aside from the language distraction, Schnabel and Bardem (as it is clear that the two are equal parts of this film) tell a striking story of the Cuban Revolution and the treatment of homosexuals, writers, artists and Cuban society in general during this period.
	www.flakmag.com /film/bnfalls.html (678 words)

	DVD Review: Before Night Falls
		Director and artist Julian Schnabel presented audiences with his second picture in 2000, "Before Night Falls", a dream-like look at the life of famed Cuban poet Renaldo Arenas, who remained an outcast in his society because he was gay and a writer.
		I didn't always understand the relation that some of the supporting characters had to the story and before I knew it, they were no longer in the tale.
		I suppose I liked the core of "Before Night Falls", the story of an attempt at freedom - both as a person and freedom of expression, and certainly Bardem does a very good job.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews2/beforenightfallsdvd.html (1182 words)

	'Before Night Falls'
		He was the least well-known of the best actor nominees and his film, "Before Night Falls," only arrives today at the Denis and Squirrel Hill theaters.
		"Before Night Falls" takes it name from the posthumously published memoir of Arenas, who contracted AIDS and died at 47 while living in New York City.
		When his teacher comes to the family's door to share this news, the dinner table immediately falls silent and the angry grandfather takes this as a shameful betrayal.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20010223falls9.asp (594 words)

	Books
		"Before Night Falls," the book, was published to great fanfare in 1993.
		"Before Night Falls," the recent film by Julian Schnabel, has also garnered great critical acclaim.
		Read "Before Night Falls" and you get inside the head, heart and soul of Reinaldo Arenas -- the great Cuban poet, novelist, rebel, exile and lover of men.
	www.planetout.com /pno/entertainment/books/picks/beforenight.html (301 words)

	Before Night Falls
		Perhaps the supreme accomplishment of Before Night Falls is the ease in which it marries the personal story of writer Reynaldo Arenas to the modern history of Cuba.
		Before Night Falls, based on his memoir, recounts the excitement of discovery and the fight for survival under the most lamentable circumstances.
		The many cinematic textures and lighting treatments of Before Night Falls are transferred to DVD with an fine understanding of the raw material.
	www.filmsondisc.com /dvdpages/before_night_falls.htm (737 words)

	Before Night Falls review
		It’s not so much a chronicle of his life than it is a diary of images: from his early years in the lush Cuban countryside and his sexual initiation, moving on to his carefree life in Havana finding lovers, basking in the sun, and writing, the combination of which leads to years of imprisonment.
		Sade is stripped and chained in Quills, reduced to writing in his own excrement, while in Before Night Falls the most unsettling, claustrophobic scene is when Arenas is crammed into a coffin like cell in which he is unable to up, a single blinding light bulb in.
		While Quills is more philosophical about the right to freedom of expression and is not a truly autobiographical film, Before Night Falls is very tied to its time and while not a political movie in the usual sense, the Revolution plays a major role.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/beforenightfalls.html (701 words)

	BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
		Falls is beautifully shot and exceptionally well put together, with Schnabel using numerous cinematic techniques, usually to perfection.
		Yeah, it's kind of interesting to see how he had to share a bed as a child, and how he was persecuted because of his unique ability as a writer, but we've seen this kind of thing before.
		Falls was based on Arenas' memoirs, which were turned into a screenplay by Schnabel and debut scribes Cunningham O'Keefe and Lázaro Gómez Carriles.
	www.sick-boy.com /beforenightfalls.htm (518 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Before Night Falls (2000)
		By the time I left, I considered Before Night Falls to be the third best film of 2000 (just behind Requiem For A Dream and Dancer In The Dark).
		Before Night Falls is the true story of Reinaldo Arenas, a gay Cuban writer.
		Unfortunately, the commentary on Before Night Falls is one of the worst I've yet heard.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1238 (1589 words)

	Review: Before Night Falls
		The answer, as least in the case of Before Night Falls, is a qualified "yes" - Schnabel tells a compelling story and his style is polished and confident.
		At the center of Before Night Falls is actor Javier Bardem.
		Before Night Falls received its world premiere at the 2000 Venice Film Festival and its North American premiere at the 2000 Toronto Film Festival.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/b/before_night.html (709 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Before Night Falls" review (2000)
		In "Before Night Falls," artist/filmmaker Julien Schnabel pays devotional homage to the writer with a soul-probing and beautifully cinematic adaptation of his memoirs, begun in a Cuban prison in 1973 and published posthumously after he succumbed to AIDS in New York in 1990.
		Every moment up to this point is utterly absorbing, and the 133-minute film only begins to drag after Arenas's escape to the United States in the Mariel Harbor boatlift, during which Castro allowed undesirables (gays, ex-cons, the mentally ill) to leave Cuba en masse.
		Once he becomes stricken with AIDS, "Before Night Falls" takes 15 minutes too long to wind down and it becomes a get-on-with-it deathwatch.
	splicedwire.com /00reviews/beforenight.html (545 words)

	LIGHT VIEWS FILM REVIEW: BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
		I didn't know anything about Arenas before I saw "Before Night Fall." After seeing the film, I still don't know much about the man. Writers Cunningham O'Keefe, Lazaro Gomez Carriles, and Julian Schnabel deliver a patchwork of a script that seems to be all over the place.
		Schnabel and his co-writers are in such a hurry to get to the end that they seldom stop long enough to allow the characters and scenes to mature.
		Perhaps the best thing about "Before Night Falls" is that it will encourage people to learn more about Arenas, and perhaps read some of his work.
	www.lightviews.com /beforenightfalls.htm (787 words)

	EI > Reviews > Before Night Falls (2001)
		With that said, we come to Julian Schnabel’s acclaimed film Before Night Falls, a work bursting with beauty and poetry, but like a ship that’s lost its way on a splendid voyage, eventually find itself dead in the water.
		Based on the best-selling autobiography of the extraordinary life of Cuban novelist and poet Reinaldo Arenas, the film follows his childhood of poverty in 1940s Cuba, through his persecution by the communist regime as a political dissident and homosexual, to his tragic finish, as an exile living in New York City.
		Before Night Falls is one of those films that I truly wanted to like.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/archives/beforenightfalls.php (452 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Before Night Falls"
		"Before Night Falls" is such a vivid experience that it holds you fully in each moment.
		But in confidence and sensuality "Before Night Falls" suggests the calm that can come with fever, that heightened and slowed state of awareness where each perception and sensation takes on a vibrant clarity.
		Schnabel immerses us in the atmosphere before giving us our bearings and he doesn't always identify the characters or their relation to each other.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2001/01/26/before (919 words)

	Before Night Falls
		Before Night Falls wurde 1999 in 60 Tagen in Mexiko gedreht, vor allem in den Regionen Veracruz und Merida (siehe den Artikel: Merida - Kulturhauptstadt Amerikas 2000).
		Doch je länger Before Night Falls dauert, desto flüssiger wird der Erzählstil.
		Before Night Falls wurde in Venedig mit dem Grossen Jurypreis ausgezeichnet; Javier Bardem erhielt den Preis als bester Hauptdarsteller.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /cosmo28/before_night_falls.htm (1518 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Before Night Falls" review (2000)
		In "Before Night Falls," artist/filmmaker Julien Schnabel pays devotional homage to the writer with a soul-probing and beautifully cinematic adaptation of his memoirs, begun in a Cuban prison in 1973 and published posthumously after he succumbed to AIDS in New York in 1990.
		Every moment up to this point is utterly absorbing, and the 133-minute film only begins to drag after Arenas's escape to the United States in the Mariel Harbor boatlift, during which Castro allowed undesirables (gays, ex-cons, the mentally ill) to leave Cuba en masse.
		Once he becomes stricken with AIDS, "Before Night Falls" takes 15 minutes too long to wind down and it becomes a get-on-with-it deathwatch.
	www.splicedonline.com /00reviews/beforenight.html (545 words)

	Jaime Manrique on Reinaldo Arenas
		Too many friends had died before we had a chance to say things we wanted to say.
		Even before the revolution, it was bad enough the agony of being an intellectual queen in Cuba.
		As night fell, the neon of the billboards of midtown Manhattan and the lights of the skyscrapers provided the only illumination.
	www.actupny.org /diva/CBmanrique.html (1440 words)

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