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	Beloved film review In Film Australia
		Beloved’s strange actions and manner of speaking no doubt demanded a lot of talent from Thandie Newton, but her character frustrated me for those reasons.
		I was patiently waiting for Beloved’s emotional climax in which her actions would form a basis of understanding for her character, but that never came.
		It is a film that attempts to be better than most but ends up falling behind, primarily due to inefficient scripting and editing.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/beloved.htm (647 words)

	Beloved
		Beloved's success as an adaptation of the novel is in many ways an impossible and frivolous standard by which to judge; no one involved seems to have approached this material with the idea of animating Morrison's vision without sacrifice or compromise.
		The ghost of Beloved, a daughter whose early death is clearly a memory of great pain for Sethe, continually racks the house with spasms of pained fury that send crockery crashing, propels panicked dogs on brutal trajectories through the air, and burns light itself into a humid, livid red.
		Beloved is unfortunately another character whose arc virtually stops after Hour Two, but the impression Newton makes is so vivid, particularly during her initial emergence from the moonlit Ohio, that she haunts the whole movie from the moment she arrives.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /beloved.html (1594 words)

	Beloved . Nashville Scene . 10-26-98
		Sethe is determined, at all costs, to protect her daughter from the life she fled 18 years before, and the film echoes her consistent denial by refusing to give its audience backstory.
		Be patient: Beloved structurally reenacts Sethe's defense against her unbearable past until at last she is forced to tear down that final wall.
		Beloved argues that the dividing line between past and present is artificial, a human construct.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/nash/b/beloved1.html (952 words)

	Movie (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The film deals frankly with the psychic and physical scars left from a legacy of human ownership, which linger long after a former slave is "free." But it's also very much a ghost story.
		In a haunting vision of birth and reverse baptism, Beloved emerges from seemingly primordial waters, clad from head to toe in formal mourning clothes, and heads straight to the Ohio home of Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), hell-bent on claiming a lifetime's worth of maternal affection.
		Before Beloved's arrival, the long-ostracized Sethe was beginning to form a makeshift family with Paul D (Danny Glover), also once a slave at "Sweet Home," and her wary, introverted daughter, Denver (Kimberly Elise).
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=51239 (388 words)

	Cork Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		'Beloved Enemy' a 1936 film based on the life of Michael Collins and recently restored by the Irish Film Archive is to premiere at the 50th Cork Film Festival which takes place in Cork from 9th until 16th October, 2005.
		In 'Beloved Enemy' Helen Drummond, daughter of a senior British Diplomat falls in love with the IRA leader Denis Riordan who is fighting for Irish independence.
		The Irish Film Archive based at the Irish Film Institute in Temple Bar holds the largest collection of Irish film and related materials in the world with a collection covering the period 1897 to the present day.
	www.corkfilmfest.org /ciff/press-v.html (470 words)

	Ultimate AV: Beloved Haunts Film Lovers
		Beloved is blessed by a remarkable cast: Winfrey, in her return to the big screen, is masterful as the haunted Sethe; Danny Glover gives the performance of a lifetime as Paul D, an old friend and a gentle, if ultimately weak, companion.
		Beloved isn't a comforting film—these characters are trying to survive lives filled with pain and suffering—and it's not without flaw.
		It may not be the easiest film to watch, but it's hard to conceive of any American movie of the last few years that has had more important things to say.
	www.guidetohometheater.com /news/10571 (451 words)

	CNN - Review: 'Beloved' is loud Oprah vehicle to Oscar - October 20, 1998
		This is Beloved (Thandie Newton, in a heroically grating performance), a childlike conglomeration of tics, bad table manners, and wordless yelps who's a less-than precise metaphor for something or other...
		You see, this is a Very Important Film, and the idea that one of the main characters is a childish puzzle is raised up the flagpole and saluted every ten or so minutes to prove the point.
		Films like "Handle With Care," "Melvin and Howard," and "Something Wild" are very forgiving works; Demme has a huge talent for finding a character's quirk and then convincing us that we should love the quirk as a symbol of uncompromising individuality.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9810/20/review.beloved/index.html (1163 words)

	Immortal Beloved
		Immortal Beloved is a costume drama based on one of the great mysteries about Beethoven's life: he willed everything to his "Immortal Beloved," but never named her.
		The film may have muddied up the details to make the story more interesting, but Beethoven was presented accurately, not as a noble hero and genius, but as the hateful man many found him to be, with a genius for stealing simple melodies, and turning them into symphonies.
		Films rated below five are generally awful even if you like that kind of film - this score is roughly equivalent to one and a half stars from the critics or a D on our scale.
	www.scoopy.com /immortalbeloved.htm (1464 words)

	Movie Review - Beloved
		Beloved is a film based on the Pulitzer prize winning novel by Toni Morrison about Sethe, an escaped slave, who is haunted by the spirit of her deceased daughter.
		When Beloved is first seen in the film, she is near a pond and ladybugs are crawling all over her face and arms while butterflies are flying all around her.
		Throughout the film horses are seen pulling wagons, trotting from point A to B, tied up at a hitching post etc. Pigs, cows, chickens, and other farm animals are seen in various settings during the film.
	www.ahafilm.info /movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=37 (443 words)

	Film: Beloved (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The logical extension of her wildly successful book club, Beloved is the end result of Oprah's long struggle to have the book brought to the big screen--with herself in the lead role.
		Morrison's book effectively evoked the pain and suffering caused by slavery; based loosely on a true story, the film's protagonist (played by Oprah) murders her own child rather than allow her to be taken to the same plantation Oprah escaped from years earlier.
		Much of the film is told in flashback, as Oprah is haunted by the ghosts of her past.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1998/101598/film4.html (401 words)

	Orlando Weekly - Film Review - Beloved
		Winfrey, who read the book in pre-publication, immediately bought the film rights and has spent more than a decade as producer, shepherding the screenplay to completion and attempting to convince various directors of her ability to play Sethe, the former slave haunted by a murdered infant daughter.
		"Beloved," flawlessly directed by Jonathan Demme ("The Silence of the Lambs," "Philadelphia"), is a bracing, constantly surprising and sometimes experimental evocation of the physical, emotional and spiritual scars left by slavery.
		Just as in the novel, there's no tidy conclusion to ease minds about the traumatic events related in "Beloved." Beloved mysteriously vanishes, Sethe is driven to a temporary madness, Paul D leaves and returns and Denver finds the strength to pursue a life outside the four walls of her claustrophobic home.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /film/review.asp?rid=4708 (722 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Movies / Director reaches another chapter with his beloved 'Christmas Story'
		Film lovers might sneer at Clark's body of work -- "Baby Geniuses," "Turk 182!" and "Rhinestone" are among the more high-profile films -- but he will be remembered for two genre milestones.
		The film became a surprise hit, spawning sequels and modern-day gross-out imitators such as "American Pie" and the Farrelly brothers' films.
		Shepherd, who narrated the film and who died in 1999, was a notorious curmudgeon, but he and Clark "hit it off from the beginning," the director said.
	www.boston.com /ae/movies/articles/2003/12/02/director_reaches_another_chapter_with_his_beloved_christmas_story (721 words)

	Films in English about Beethoven : The Immortal Beloved by Bernard Rose - Ludwig van Beethoven's website - Dominqiue ...
		Although without doubt the film 'streatches' historical reality, the film is never tiring and the flashbacks are never too heavy.
		I have to strongly disagree with you about the American film "Immortal Beloved," which is a travesty and a mockery in the worst Hollywood tradition.
		The Abel Gance film, on the other hand, is just the opposite, for it captures something of Beethoven's spirit, even if it's loose with historical fact.
	www.lvbeethoven.com /Fictions/FictionFilmsImmortalBeloved.html (400 words)

	Broadside Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		In "Beloved," the film adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel, Oprah Winfrey stars as Sethe, a former slave trying to raise her daughter Denver (Kimberly Elise) and maintain her sanity despite a gruesome past.
		In this way the film is an accomplishment, but the down side to its cryptic nature is the cold, hollow feeling of dissatisfaction that it leaves.
		The film's most complex and thought-provoking character is Beloved, and Newton does her best to flesh out a character that was probably never meant to be viewed as an actual person but rather as a symbol or metaphor.
	www.gmu.edu /news/broadside/Archive/100898/Style/beloved_100898.html (491 words)

	Beloved
		BELOVED is named after a character in the story, a mysterious young woman (Thandie Newton) who shows up in the yard of Sethe (Oprah Winfrey) one morning in 1873.
		With the arrival of old friend Paul D (Danny Glover) and, later, the childlike Beloved (whom she takes in), Sethe's life appears to be taking a turn for the better, but the secrets of her tortured past refuse to rest in peace.
		BELOVED is a wearying film, and that comment should be interpreted in all the ways it can be.
	aalbc.com /reviews/beloved.htm (810 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Beloved (xhtml)
		The film tells the story of Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), who was a slave on a Kentucky plantation in the days before the Civil War.
		The film had a curious effect on me. I was sometimes confused about events as they happened, but all the pieces are there, and the film creates an emotional whole.
		``Beloved,'' film and novel, is not a genre ghost story but a work that uses the supernatural to touch on deep feelings.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19981016/REVIEWS/810160301/1023 (962 words)

	Beloved
		It is difficult to translate this into film, although this film does quite a good job, in my opinion.
		Beloved (1998) -- I am the wrong person to be writing a review of this film - in short, I detested it, and found nothing of merit during the entire running time.
		Films under five are generally awful even if you like that kind of film, equivalent to about one and a half stars from the critics or less, depending on just how far below five the rating is.
	www.scoopy.com /beloved.htm (1282 words)

	Amazon.com: Beloved (1998): Video: Jonathan Demme,Oprah Winfrey,Danny Glover,Thandie Newton,Kimberly Elise,Beah ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The film traces the life of Sethe (played in her middle years by Winfrey), a former slave who has rebuilt what seems to be a peaceful, productive life in Ohio.
		Yet through chilling, sparing use of flashback, Demme slowly unveils, as does the Toni Morrison masterpiece on which the film is based, the horrors of Sethe's former life, and the terrible event that led to the haunting of Sethe's home.
		Rachel Portman's spiritual-influenced score is as uplifting as it is haunting, and the glimpses of the post-slavery African American world--as with a simple family outing to a local carnival, or a ladies' sewing-and-gospel circle--make this a treat for the intellect as well as the heart.
	www.amazon.com /Beloved-Jonathan-Demme/dp/6305305846 (2650 words)

	Movie Review: Beloved
		Beloved is - or at least should be - the story of Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), a woman who has escaped from the brutal life at the Kentucky Sweet Home plantation, and now lives with her daughter Denver (Kimberly Elise) on a farm in Cincinnati, haunted by the specters of her past.
		No, Beloved uses the cinematic language of such heartfelt, thought-provoking films as The Exorcist and Poltergeist, replete with all kinds of bodily fluids gushing across the screen, levitating pies, scary red lighting, ominous close-ups of various sharp household tools (axe, ice pick), and squished-out eyeballs.
		If Beloved was simply a schizophrenic melange of a heartfelt drama and a supernatural horror story, it would have been off-putting; as it is, it is simply a torture to sit through, unstructured, unfocused, and way overlong.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V118/N52/beloved.6.1.52a.html (1059 words)

	Beloved - About The Production
		Oprah Winfrey felt that Beloved was unlike any other story she had ever read, and that she was destined to bring it to life as a film.
		The cast of "Beloved" is headed by Winfrey in the role of Sethe, a woman of "iron eyes and backbone to match." Winfrey is a highly respected and versatile actress, producer, television personality, businesswoman, philanthropist and an increasingly influential advocate for literature.
		She said, ‘Beloved is the You in you.’ She is the bit in you that you cannot betray.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/matinee.cfm?Film=beloved&File=productn (2193 words)

	DVD Review: Immortal Beloved
		The film tells the tale of finding the "Immortal Beloved" of Beethoven's life, the one great love that he mentions in a letter.
		Oldman brings the character to life wonderfully, showing the pain of having to have to hide his deafness to the emotion of performing and becoming one of classical music's great stars of the era.
		"Beloved Beethoven": A longer and more in-depth documentary that focuses more on the history of Beethoven and the concepts of how the movie was going to be shaped around his life.
	www.currentfilm.com /immortalbeloveddvd.html (902 words)

	'Beloved': No Peace From a Brutal Legacy
		Bugs and butterflies mysteriously herald her arrival into the lives of the story's other characters, who have their own kind of strangeness; they know what it means to be haunted.
		Its lynchpin is of course Oprah Winfrey, who had the clout and foresight to bring "Beloved" to the screen and has the dramatic presence to hold it together.
		As played astonishingly by Thandie Newton (who has given big performances in little-seen films like "Jefferson in Paris" and "The Journey of August King"), she is a dangerous, captivating riddle, a creature who snores and grunts and drools but embodies dewy perfection.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/101698beloved-film-review.html (1144 words)

	Film Threat
		One film about skinheads, repercussions of white supremist dogma, and race relations in the '90's ("AHX"); and one film about the repercussions of slavery.
		Calling herself "Beloved", the girl is either mentally ill or disabled, and may contain the spirit of another daughter Sethe had lost.
		The qualities of each film lies in the execution and the risks the filmmakers were willing (or not) to take.
	www.filmthreat.com /index.php?section=reviews&Id=879 (876 words)

	Passion for 'Beloved' (Jason's World)
		But at the center of attention was ``Beloved'' star and co-producer Winfrey, who bought the rights to Toni Morrison's novel of the same name when it came out 11 years ago and has been working to get it on the big screen ever since.
		Morrison also turned out for the premiere; the film is the first of her books to be made into a movie.
		Following the affecting, three-hour film, invitees slogged through the rain to an after-party at the N.Y. Hilton, where they were treated to a performance by ``Beloved'' soundtrack artist Oumou Sangare.
	jason.philex.net /film/filmoprah.htm (208 words)

	Oprah's belabored beloved Literature Film Quarterly - Find Articles
		The story of Beloved opens in the Ohio farmhouse on 124 Bluestone Road of Sethe, a former slave-a woman of "iron eyes and backbone to match." The year is 1873 and Sethe lives there alone with her teenaged daughter, Denver.
		Soon after, another visitor arrives, a beautiful but strange young woman whose eyes are so "big and fl that there seems to be no expression there at all." Her voice is a raspy growl, her words are barely articulate, and she seems weak from fatigue and hunger.
		By now, through an almost imperceptible accumulation of details, Denver is aware that Beloved is the ghost of her dead older sister, slain eighteen years ago by Sethe, physically grown, but still retaining the mind of a baby.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3768/is_199901/ai_n8833306 (974 words)

	DVD Review - Immortal Beloved: Special Edition
		It's an honest and beautiful film, that is more an experience than it is a bio-pic.
		The true identity of this love is forever lost to history, but the fun of this film is all in the interpretation of who he or she may have been.
		There are a couple of other extras: a Spanish language track (let's hear it for Columbia Tristar for including alternate languages on their Region 1 releases) and a commentary with director Bernard Rose.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews/immortalbeloved.html (797 words)

	Beloved (1998). A Hollywood Jesus Visual Film Review. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The film is based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.
		Sethe instinctively knew this was the only act to protect her beloved child from the ravages of an evil world.
		Her life is reduced to the care and feeding of the ever-growing pregnant Beloved.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /beloved.htm (1522 words)

	Aquarian Concepts Community Film Reviews: Beloved (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Beloved is both a moving and disturbing film.
		Beloved accurately depicts human tragedy and the near defeat of the human spirit that is unwilling to forgive itself.
		Beloved also shows triumph of the human spirit that draws upon Godly elders, a Godly community of souls, and especially God for its strength.
	www.aquarianconceptscommunity.org /f_beloved.html (315 words)

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