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	The BigScreen Cinema Guide: Reader Reviews - Beloved
		In her 1988 novel Beloved, Toni Morrison mints the word "rememory." Although Jonathan Demme's film does not make use of the word, its connections are there, reminding us that memories are what we're made of; more insistently, they are what we cannot escape from.
		In her portrayal of Beloved, Newton is appropriately clumsy and regressive in speech: she's reminiscent of those who have been aroused from a coma and act much less than their age.
		Beloved causes a lot of problems for the family, and it is confusing.
	www.bigscreen.com /ReaderReview.php?movie=Beloved (2333 words)

	Beloved Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Beloved was filled with the anger and the angst that Sethe built within her.
		The cast and directors of "Beloved" captured the raw essence of this masterpiece.
		However, because this movie only shows a slice of the book, students will still have to do their reading and not just rely on the film.
	www.movie-pages.com /movie/beloved/0788815474 (1329 words)

	Movie (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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).
		Gradually, Beloved emerges as the story of Denver, a child born in the faith of a new life who must discover the courage to live it.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=51239 (393 words)

	Beloved Movie Review
		Those movies which are based on books are almost always a testament to their source - the author wrote such a visually or mentally outstanding novel that it begged to be brought to life on the screen - but as cinema alone they are often disappointing ventures.
		BELOVED is a three-hour long movie which lacks anything substantial to power it through such an unlikely length.
		The only thing that BELOVED has going for it are the hints of a ghost story, which, sadly, are dropped without realization very early in the movie.
	www.killermovies.com /b/beloved/reviews/89q.html (643 words)

	Movie review - 'Beloved'
		Beloved's arrival forces the family members to make uncomfortable choices where they must either grow as people or snap under the pressure of their lives.
		Despite Winfrey's high-profile appearance, the performance of Elise anchors the movie with a character so developed and realistic she becomes the centerpiece of the film.
		The oppression in "Beloved" refers mostly to the emotions of the characters in their home, with old memories constantly haunting them.
	home.sbu.edu /bonaventure/98fall/981023/features/movie.html (524 words)

	Immortal Beloved
		The movie focusses on Beethoven's secretary who is trying to find out whom Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved" is; for she is the rightful owner of his estate.
		The person who defends this movie by saying "it's not a documentary" and likening it to Amadeus has it wrong - Amadeus was a big, sumptuous, blockbuster movie that celebrated and totally captured the spirit and style of Mozart, with an exquisite, evocative performance by Tom Hulce as its centerpiece.
		But with "Immortal Beloved," whether or not the finer points are historically accurate or not is of little consequence, for at it's heart this is a love story that is engrossing drama that is altogether transporting.
	blog.markwshead.com /info2/Immortal-Beloved.html (16320 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Beloved (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cranky knows he didn't get it because there were at least three occasions in the flick where parts of the audience broke into exuberant laughter and Cranky didn't have the slightest idea why.
		Beloved is the story of Sethe (Winfrey), a runaway slave in free Ohio where the story begins in 1865.
		The mystery of who she is and how she came to be is enforced by a truly heart-stopping performance by Newton and, once resolved, the movie veers off again and Beloved disappears into the mist.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive98/beloved.html (586 words)

	Dr. Daniel's Movie Emergency - Beloved - Oprah Winfrey, Jonathan Demme, Thandie Newton
		Forrest Gump was a book, and the movie turned out pretty dang good, even though the movie and the book are as far apart in style as a Ming vase and a Mason jar.
		Beloved tells the story of a freed slave named Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), who's now living in the Reconstruction-era farming country of Ohio.
		Sethe takes Beloved in and ignores her disgusting behaviors like vomiting on everything and wetting the bed and trying to seduce Paul D. I'll let you guess who Beloved actually is, if you haven't read the novel, but it's quite obvious onscreen after about ten minutes.
	www.stairwell.com /doc/exam/beloved.html (1267 words)

	Beloved movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		It’s only fair to point out straight away that Beloved is a harrowing experience, an unsettling and emotionally challenging film about a woman’s sins literally coming back to haunt her which requires a fair amount of stamina if you want to make it through to the end credits.
		Beloved is really more of an ordeal, mostly because it’s such a long and distressing experience, which offers glimpses of Sethe’s pain and suffering (whiplash scars on her back and nightmare flashbacks) before Newton’s character sparks the unveiling of the awful truth.
		It’s uncomfortable viewing and as a movie it makes considerable demands on the viewer, but this is a film of real heart and substance, a vivid retelling of a brutal yet brilliant book which may give short shrift to its male characters on the big screen, but which is nevertheless compelling stuff.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /features/beloved.htm (875 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Beloved (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Beloved may well be the defining novel of slavery in America, the one that all others will be measured by.
		One of the central problems I had with this book was that it was based so entirely on a symbol: the ghost of Beloved and her coming back from the dead, for the simple reason that this device never rang true.
		"Beloved" is full of unexpected, eccentric events that revolve around the fl community and 124, a house haunted by the spirit of a spiteful baby.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452280621?v=glance (2798 words)

	Review: Beloved (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Beloved, Jonathan Demme's much-anticipated adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel, is a powerful and disturbing motion picture that is likely to leave many movie-goers unsettled as they file out of the theater.
		Although the movie probably runs a little too long and occasionally suffers from confusing editing, it is nevertheless the kind of film that stays with a viewer for days (instead of minutes or hours) after the end credits have scrolled across the screen.
		As the movie progresses, however, and more of the story emerges, we come to understand her reasons for acting as she did, even if it's impossible to agree with her.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/b/beloved.html (966 words)

	Beloved Movie Review
		Without getting into the whole "Are movies art or entertainment?" argument, I will say that movies at their basic level are in fact a VISUAL experience.
		In those first 55 minutes of Beloved, the story being told is the one of Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), a former slave who's house in Ohio is haunted by the spirit of her deceased daughter.
		Beloved opens with children screaming and a dog being thrown around a room, seemingly by a spirit in the house.
	www.killermovies.com /b/beloved/reviews/b96.html (625 words)

	Beloved
		The reader is kept guessing; there's a lot more to Beloved than any one character can see, and she manages to be many things to several people.
		''Beloved'' is written in an antiminimalist prose that is by turns rich, graceful, eccentric, rough, lyrical, sinuous, colloquial and very much to the point.
		Here, if anywhere, is her own comment on the goings-on in her novel, her final response to the measuring and dividing and excluding ''schoolteachers'' of this world.
	www.math.buffalo.edu /~sww/morrison/beloved.html (2277 words)

	Beloved movie info - dvds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Beloved translates to the screen with its visceral daring intact, thoroughly immersing viewers in the haunting, haunted landscape of this story.
		Oprah Winfrey, for whom Beloved is the ultimate labor of love, appears in her first starring feature film role since earning an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in The Color Purple, with a performance of undeniable fearlessness.
		Winfrey optioned the rights to Beloved upon its publication and nurtured the project for nearly a decade, personally shepherding it to its current incarnation as one of the most anticipated motion picture events of the year.
	www.mooviees.com /2114-beloved/movie (611 words)

	Beloved - Movie Reviews by Margaret McGurk: The Cincinnati Enquirer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		He sets a stately pace, allowing the movie to accumulate power steadily as it moves back and forth in time, including shocking images of violence and degradation that recur in the characters’ memories of slavery.
		The dark side of the story is also held in check by the tenderness and depth of love between Paul D. and Sethe, in one of the most touching and genuine on-screen relationships we’ve seen in years.
		Beloved is an unconventional film, particularly for a mainstream studio release (from Touchstone Pictures, part of the Disney empire).
	cincinnati.com /freetime/movies/mcgurk/beloved.html (493 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Beloved (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But their brief interlude of familial happiness is shattered by Beloved (Thandie Newton), a strangely backward and vengeful young woman who shows up on their doorstep and soon takes over the household.
		Eventually, Paul D learns the terrible secret that has smothered his lover's spirit and re-enslaved her heart in guilt, anger, and grief.
		Beloved will speak powerfully to all those who have known great sorrow from a past trauma.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_1234.html (360 words)

	Powell's Books - Beloved by Toni Morrison
		Yet Morrison manages to imbue the wreckage of her characters' lives with compassion, humanity, and even humor.
		Part ghost story, part history lesson, part folk tale, Beloved finds beauty in the unbearable, and hope in the horrible.
		Beloved also helped solidify the reputation of one of America's most distinguished writers.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=25631&cgi=product&isbn=0452280621 (370 words)

	Casablanca (1942) at Reel Classics: Article 2: As time goes by, 'Casablanca' is still the most beloved movie of them ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When it opened, late in 1942, "Casablanca" was said to be a lucky movie, its popularity ascribed to topicality and timing - with insufficient credit given to the way creative lightning could strike under chaotic conditions any time a studio gathered under its roof a band of combustible creative types.
		Movies, so central to American life, shaped the American mind, and "Casablanca" is as much about movies as about romantic adventure.
		It brings to a peak the between-the-wars imperative that one was obliged to live life with a sense of style.
	www.reelclassics.com /Movies/Casablanca/casablanca-article2.htm (1740 words)

	Beloved Movie: Beloved DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Unfortunately their plans for happiness are foiled with the unexpected arrival of Beloved (Thandie Newton), a mysterious woman that may be the physical manifestation of Sethe's dead child.
		The story exposes the events that transpire when a stranger named Beloved mysteriously appears on the Ohio land occupied by a former slave named Sethe and her daughter, Denver.
		When her arrival begins to stir memories of the past and strange occurrences begin to unfold, the truth of her identity eventually surfaces, throwing their lives into chaos.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/717951002365IE (428 words)

	Kinnopio's Movie Reviews - Beloved (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The most disappointing transplant within the last few years was James Patterson's Kiss the Girls : although the novel was tense and a very exciting read, the movie was lackluster and far from noteworthy.
		Not long after Paul D comes to stay with Sethe and Denver do we see the entrance of Beloved (Thandie Newton), a strange and sometimes horrific young woman who may or may not be the reincarnation of a daughter Sethe once had.
		For therein lies the chief reason for the disappointing outcome of the movie: although Winfrey and Glover give outstanding performances, there is nothing here that we haven't seen between Amistad or Rosewood - and those were certainly more watchable films.
	home.earthlink.net /~kinnopio/reviews/1998/beloved.htm (600 words)

	Beloved : Movie Description, Show times & Film Critics - Films - CinemaMontreal.com
		This movie is sooo boring, the plot is boring, it is quite disgusting and distasteful, and just ughhh.
		This movie is a work of art; ethereal and bizarre, passionate and disturbing.
		It was a good movie but you must understand the history of slavery with the fls...A little too long but very profound...
	www.cinemamontreal.com /aw/crva.aw/p.cm/r.ont/m.All/j.e/i.133/s.0/f.Beloved.html (669 words)

	Immortal Beloved Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Featuring a superb performance by Gary Oldman ( Sid and Nancy) as Ludwig van Beethoven, Immortal Beloved is full of uncommonly vivid, rich imagery as it charts the tumultuous life of the deaf child prodigy and his rise to the height of musical achievement.
		Along the way, he attempts to play mentor to his nephew, attend to his many passionate romances--the most stable one was with a countess (Isabella Rossellini)--and fight bouts of depression and madness that ruled his life and his art.
		Though the movie is well made, and though I am a fan of Gary Oldman, as a Beethoven aficionado, I found myself banging my head several times over the innacurate contents of this movie...
	www.movie-pages.com /movie/immortal-beloved/B00000K3TN (709 words)

	Movie Review - Beloved (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Some of the images may be disturbing, but animal actors today are protected during filming by AHA Guidelines and the wonders of movie magic.
		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.
	www.ahafilm.info /movies/moviereviews.phtml?fid=37 (443 words)

	Paul D in "Beloved" movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The details in the novel could lead us to have the such of thought, that Paul D was a likeable man. We would be sympathetic on his character after we read the novel.
		Unfortunately, I got the opposite impression when I saw Paul D on the movie.
		On the movie, I saw a man full of sexual desire.
	faculty.petra.ac.id /anitalie/_disc1/000002fb.htm (111 words)

	Disney Movie Classics :: Beloved (Vintage International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Comment: The book along with the movie is one of the most haunting and sad stories I've read in a long time.
		I don't think we are supposed to pin down her character, she is sethes dead daughter, she is the girl from the man's basement down the street, she is the embodiment of all african slaves alike.
		Morrison said in an interview regarding BELOVED that she was not concerned with the oppressor, but with the oppressed--what they do with their lives after the tragedies, how do they survive?
	disney-movie-classics.hupsu.net /Beloved-1400033411.html (517 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Cry, The Beloved Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It always comes down to the adaptation, for books always contain more information and story than can be transferred to the movie screen in two or so hours.
		A story of a fl priest and a white landowner; residents of the same area of South Africa and so separated by the barrier of apartheid that, even at the trial of one man's son for the murder of the other, there is no knowledge by the White man of the Black.
		I suspect that many of the subplots that are set up and then drop away, or which appear out of nowhere in at least one case, were of such great significance in the original novel that they had to be represented in some form on screen.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive/crythebelovedcountry.html (787 words)

	Beloved Pictures and Soundtrack Movie Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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	www.reviewedby.com /movies_b/Beloved.html (183 words)

	Immortal Beloved (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I don't want to give the movie away except to say that Gary Oldman (JFK) is fantastic playing "Ludwig van Beethoven." Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet) is perfect for the part of "Anna Marie Erdody" because of her European flair, and her parents that we all respect a lot.
		The theme of the movie is from one of my favorites pieces, Sonata Pathetique, op.13, the Adagio cantabile, The more I play it the more I understand the nuances, Beethoven himself said: " music carries one directly to the mental state of the composer." It is like understanding his soul.
		Through out the whole movie the audience has no idea of who the immortal beloved was.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0110116 (830 words)

	Movie Review of Cry, The Beloved Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It seems that for a movie whose prominent feature is a hated political system to succeed, the politics have to be current.
		In my eyes, the thing that makes the movie work is that the cruel system of oppression is now a fresh but receding memory.
		The fascinating thing of the movie is watching Kumalo put one faithful foot after the other, never failing in his trust, always in the scriptures or in prayer, looking to the Lord.
	www.wheatoncrc.org /reviews/cry.html (493 words)

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