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	The Believer - Online Exclusives
		Dan Kois goes to bat for the late Robert Altman’s much-maligned Popeye film.
		Eli Horowitz talks with Miranda July — the mind behind the acclaimed film Me And You And Everyone We Know — about filmmaking, performance art, mundane longing, and a short taxonomy of interview questions.
		The man who would teach the Left to stop speaking the language of the Right tells James Verini a thing or two about “framing”.
	www.believermag.com /exclusives (488 words)

	Rental of the Week: The Believer \| Film School Rejects
		The Believer might have been a stronger, or at least more interesting, film had it provided a tempered backdrop against which Gosling could explore his crisis of self, or if it dwelt more on an issue it only address peripherally: that, in a world increasingly controlled by capital and markets, racial politics are becoming outmoded.
		The Believer is nothing but a cheap-indie, not merely in its production values, which would be forgivable, but in its tone and style.
		Film School Rejects reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules.
	www.filmschoolrejects.com /dvd-reviews/rental-of-the-week-the-believer.php (551 words)

	Political Film Society - The Believer
		The Believer, directed and written by Henry Bean, is the most controversial film of the year, so any review is bound to be misinterpreted until the reader sees the film.
		In the film, skinhead Danny Balint (played by Ryan Gosling), the central character, purports to be a Neo-Nazi Jew.
		The debate is presented as a paradigm for passivity of the Jews in the face of the Holocaust, which in turn is later mirrored in the resignation of Danny's father, an invalid who sits at home resigned to his fate.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/believer.html (466 words)

	The Believer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Believer is a 2001 film written by Henry Bean and Mark Jacobson, and directed by Bean.
		The film follows the story of Daniel Balint, once a Yeshevite Orthodox Jew, now a New York neo-Nazi in his early 20's, as he rises through the ranks of an American neo-fascist party whilst attempting to reconcile his past and the Jewish part of his identity, as well as hiding it from his fellow neo-Nazis.
		The Believer: Confronting Jewish Self-Hatred by Henry Bean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Believer (172 words)

	Mirror : Film reviews - The Believer
		The inspiration for Henry Bean’s disturbing directorial debut, The Believer, is such a shocking true story, it’s a wonder a film hasn’t been made on the subject before.
		Ironically enough, the film, which Bean says is “really about hate,” was supposed to have its eagerly anticipated launch at the Toronto International Film Festival last year.
		Despite the film’s obvious reflection on Jewish identity and the nature of anti-Semitism, Bean insists his film is “not just about being Jewish.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2002/091902/film4.html (0 words)

	Oliver Cromwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Finally, Cromwell was also a firm believer in "Providentialism" - the belief that God was actively directing the affairs of the world, through the actions of 'chosen people' (whom God had "provided" for such purposes).
		Cromwell believed, during the Civil Wars, that he was one of these people, and he interpreted victories as indications of God's approval of his actions, and defeats as signs that God was directing him in another direction.
		Some authors believe that Oliver Cromwell was a freemason, although no definitive record currently exists to prove this contention.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Cromwell (0 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: The Believer
		First off, this film was originally scheduled for release on in September of 2001, but was one of the many films postponed due to the attacks on the WTC.
		The film is based on the true story of white supremacist Danny Burros, who was revealed by the New York Times in the 1960's to be Jewish.
		Both names and events are changed in this film, but the tragedy of the real life scenario is all the more tragic in this film adaptation, which goes along with "American History X" as a sterling example of the narrow mindedness and idiocy involved in the white supremacy movements.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/believer.html (0 words)

	Believer, The (2002): Reviews
		There are a couple of technical rough spots, but this daring film challenges most widely held notions about religious conviction while providing a complex portrait of an identity crisis that's run amok and a good mind that's jumped the tracks.
		The film's anti-Semitism is articulate but wrong, and the conflict between what the hero says and what he believes (or does not want to believe) is at the very center of the story.
		The film is so full of ideas and so dense that its narrative splinters, moving tangentially, and ultimately is weighed down by its rant and rhetoric.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/believer (0 words)

	The Believer - Articles
		The film's problem - if it can be said to be such - is that Bean uses irony and ambiguity to express the tension between Judaism and Nazism within his central character.
		When The Grey Zone was screened in Haifa recently, opinion ranged from a prominent radio broadcaster recommending that the film be shown to every Israeli high-school student, to a newspaper claiming that Nelson had crossed the line and the film was unacceptable.
		This is why, says Nelson, American films "were being homogenised and dumbed down in an effort to offend as few people as possible" long before the terrorist attacks on America panicked Hollywood into cancelling the release dates of some films, and expensively re-shooting parts of others.
	thebelievermovie.com /scotsman.htm (0 words)

	Amazon.com: The Believer: DVD: Ryan Gosling,Summer Phoenix,Garret Dillahunt,Jack Drummond (II),Kris Eivers,Glenn ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When the film was released, the press was so bad that the film never was distributed widely, especially since it came out around the time of 9/11.
		This film revolves around a young man who was born and raised into Judaism only to become heavily fed up with the styles, rules, rituals, and apparent hypocrisies therein.
		The film follows him as he struggles with the faith he was raised with and the Nazi ideals he adopts against it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008AOSC?v=glance (0 words)

	THE BELIEVER
		The Believer, co-scripted by Bean (who has penned shlock like Deep Cover and Internal Affairs) and Mark Jacobson, was partly inspired by the story of Daniel Burros, a Nazi and self-hating Jew who ran into trouble when the New York Times outed him back in the '60s.
		There is also likely to be a big chunk of people who dug X but will dislike this picture because there is no final-reel redemption to tie everything up into a neat little package that makes you feel better on the way home from the theatre.
		The Believer won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2001 and was pegged for a cable premiere on September 30, 2001, but was subsequently pushed back after the 9/11 attacks (I saw it at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, and it did seem a bit less upsetting back then).
	www.sick-boy.com /believer.htm (0 words)

	The Believer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is one of those films with the kind of handheld camerawork that plays as immediate and exciting on a TV screen, but would more likely induce nausea in a multiplex (is there a such thing as “horizontigo”?).
		And the answer is, strangely enough, yes; The Believer culminates in a denouement that, irrational and even nutty as it is, gives Danny Balint a chance to play savior, persecutor and martyr all at once, followed by a bleak coda that strongly belies any sense of resolution, in both the character and the audience.
		The Believer is indeed provocative and challenging, but not in the way you expect; Henry Bean has made a picture that is less an examination of neo-Nazism than a probe into the nature of faith itself.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies4/Believer.htm (0 words)

	Sundance Film Festival
		The Believer is the Sundance debut of writer/director Henry Bean.
		The controversial film is based on a true story of a young Jewish teenager who leaves behind his religious orthodox background and becomes a menacing neo-Nazi.
		While Bean acknowledges that the film will be controversial and that some groups may be shocked or offended by it, he "tried to treat the audience with respect and leave it up to them to make up their own minds".
	www.filmfestivals.com /sundance/2001/believer.shtml (0 words)

	The Believer - Reviews
		The film — the story of a violent young man who joins a neo-Nazi group and both struggles with and hides his Judaism — is something of a test of faith itself, forcing audiences to wrestle with the relationships between their own beliefs and the modern world.
		Despite critical acclaim, the film struggled to get distribution before being picked up by Showtime for a fall premiere —postponed indefinitely at press time due to a sensitivity over some of the film’s content in the wake of 9/11 — and IDP for a theatrical run this winter.
		My favorite scene in the film — because I felt like I really designed it — is the one where Ryan goes back to shul for the first time on Rosh Hashanah and he has that argument with his friend outside the door, I was really going for the His Girl Friday thing.
	thebelievermovie.com /h_interview1.htm (0 words)

	THE BELIEVER Review
		The Believer, written and directed by Henry Bean, is an extremely moving film about a young Jewish boy who turns into a Nazi.
		The Believer has drawn comparisons to the Australian independent Romper Stomper (starring Russell Crowe) and the American film American History X (starring Edward Norton and Edward Furlong).
		Overall, this film was definitely one of the best of the year.
	www.moviefreak.com /reviews/b/believer.htm (0 words)

	SoundtrackNet : The Believer Soundtrack
		The one thing about The Believer everyone seems to agree on is the effectiveness of composer Joel Diamond's score in the context of the film.
		While I personally haven't seen the film yet (supposedly it will be running on the Showtime Network in September), it is safe to say that after listening to Milan's fifty minute CD release of Diamond's work that the composer really did take a some chances here.
		And the New Yawk vibe of the film is evoked well by the backbeat and trash-talking samples of "Walking In Queens".
	www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database/?id=2993 (0 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Believer: DVD: Ryan Gosling,Summer Phoenix,Henry Bean,Garret Dillahunt,Jack Drummond (II),Kris ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Despite the film's troubled history, however, The Believer is a film that is certain to linger in viewers' minds by offering both a disturbingly fascinating subject and a stellar performance by star Ryan Gosling (Murder by Numbers).
		Though some viewers will undoubtedly be repelled by the film's controversial subject matter, it nevertheless remains an intelligent study in faith and inner conflict as presented through the mind of a troubled youth unable to come to terms with his origins.
		The Believer is not an easy film to take in, and the questions it raises may be objectionable and difficult to endure for the majority of viewers.
	www.amazon.ca /Believer-Henry-Bean/dp/B00049QQJ6 (0 words)

	Show Business Weekly: Review: Film: The Believer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Believer is a tough, sobering film of extraordinary originality.
		But this would be a superficial, and incorrect, interpretation of this fascinating film, and the character at the center of it.
		The first scene in the film is the key to his plight.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/176/film-believer.shtml (0 words)

	BBC - Films - review - The Believer
		Or does he truly believe (and want to act out) his statement that "the worse the Jews are treated, the stronger they become".
		Deconstructing the politics of hate, the neo-Nazi movement's obsession with racial purity and the soil, and brave enough even to confront the issue of the Holocaust survivors, Bean's film is a late contender for one of the best films of the year - an intellectually breathtaking, profoundly moving film.
		See what films are opening in the UK in 2006.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2001/12/04/the_believer_2001_review.shtml (0 words)

	The Believer
		This is a powerful story by helmer Henry Bean about a young man who eschews his religious upbringing as a Jew when he questions the tenets of his faith and his rabbi cannot answer the queries.
		"The Believer" was inspired by the true-life story of Daniel Burros, a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 60's who committed suicide when the press revealed that he was a Jew.
		Danny Balient is a Swastika-wearing skinhead who gets the attention of intellectuals Curtis Zampf (Billy Zane, "Titanic") and Lina Moebius (Theresa Russell), leaders of a sophisticated NYC white supremacist group, with his revolutionary plans that begin with the murder of a prominent Jewish liberal.
	www.reelingreviews.com /thebeliever.htm (0 words)

	The Believer
		But the leap from that viewpoint to membership in neo-fascist groups is one the film is never able to come to terms with.
		"Believer" opens with Danny a full-fledged skinhead roaming New York streets searching for Jews to beat and crashing upscale fascist circles in which his grasp of the Jewish question startles the most fervent anti-Semites.
		While the film plants its share of hints along the route to Danny's self-destruction, one cannot help suspecting that the reason the film never examines these clues more closely is that Bean never figured out his character.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/awards/sundance/reviews_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=793065 (0 words)

	Cobb: The Believer
		I don't take film seriously because serious film almost always requires discussion, and discussion of film very much like the discussion of music requires language to do things that can't be done with language.
		There has not been, on film I think, such a comtemplative story on the meaning of faith and the conflicts of the nothingness to be found at the end of the search for God as 'The Believer' presents.
		The implications of a sky devoid of God is perfectly logical: a maniacal adherence to man made law down to the detail of knocking the phone off the hook with your elbow after the candles are lit.
	www.mdcbowen.org /cobb/archives/000718.html (0 words)

	The Believer (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This was a choice of the filmmaker that may contain the key to understanding what his approach to filmmaking was in the case of this film.
		I found these speeches interesting and I think they reveal the filmmaker's deep insight into the matters that he is trying to focus in the movie, but they are not subordinated to the story: the plot and the characters are simply an excuse to those verbal utterances.
		Trop peu connu ce Film, c'est bien dommage...
	www.ymdb.com /the-believer/f0247199_frfr.html (0 words)

	The Tenth Annual / Toronto Jewish Film Festival / Festival Films (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Director Joseph Vilsmaier, whose earlier film The Harmonists was also a tale of Jews suddenly stripped of their rights in fascist Germany, delivers another fine drama which compellingly explores the line between love and friendship in a hate-filled time.
		The TJFF and the National Center for Jewish Film are proud to present this newly restored version of a seminal Yiddish classic, with music by acclaimed composer Sholem Secunda and an appearance by famed cantor Laibele Waldman.
		Focusing on a labour dispute in the garment district of New York City, the film survives as an important historical document highlighting the hardships of the Jewish immigrant experience in America.
	www.tjff.com /2002/festival_films.html (0 words)

	The Believer - Reviews
		And they all came in handy for The Believer, a film about a young Jewish man's search to understand the meaning of Judaism in his life.
		Based on a true story, The Believer follows the life of Danny Balint from impassioned religious student to rising star in a neo-Fascist political movement that contradicts everything he was brought up to believe.
		The film was the 2001 Grand Jury Winner at the Sundance Film Festival and also took the Best Picture honor at the Moscow International Film Festival in June.
	thebelievermovie.com /d_interview1.htm (0 words)

	felixsalmon.com: — The Believer
		Because The Believer is a radically different kind of review, and not because most of its articles have a lot of first-person stuff in them, and not because of the witty drawings and the jokey NYRB-style insertions ("Query: For several years I have been working on a song involving both muskrats and love.
		And while The Believer has one excellent piece (Paul LaFarge on Nicholson Baker, giving the master close reader a masterful close reading of his own, bringing in everything from Pale Fire to September 11), a huge chunk of the magazine's 128 pages are taken up with that most wasteful and unenlightening prose format, the QandA.
		Most egregiously, The Believer seems to have decided (according to this article) that there will be an interview with a philosopher in every issue of the magazine, and that this interview will be in QandA format.
	www.felixsalmon.com /000156.php (0 words)

	CinemaSpeak.Com - Feature Review - The Believer
		Perhaps certain groups are offended by a film, which does not condescend to its audience by issuing easy solutions to questions one could ponder for a lifetime.
		First of all, The Believer is a film about the character Danny Balint, almost to the exclusion of the supporting figures.
		His confliction is palpable in his every action throughout the film, whether berating a holocaust survivor for not doing more to save his family or teaching Carla how to read Hebrew.
	www.cinemaspeak.com /Reviews/thebeliever.html (0 words)

	Movie Review: The Believer : A Man Divided - Daily Nexus Online (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Henry Bean’s film “The Believer” proves there’s no need to travel to a galaxy far, far away for an exploration of the human psyche; self-contradiction is rife all around us.
		In fact, Bean believes that while this film relates to Judaism, it could have just as easily been the story of a homophobic gay man or a misogynistic woman.
		It is a film about the kinds of overly melodramatic feelings that pull you in different ways.
	www.dailynexus.com /artsweek/2002/3140.html (0 words)

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