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	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - The Big Red One
		This farcicality is intrinsic to The Big Red One's constitution, since the film's overriding mission is to expose both the inherent absurdity and tragedy of war—a mission it accomplishes with a sober wit and sensitivity that's unmatched in Fuller's canon.
		Still, The Big Red One does exhibit sympathy and sorrow for the innocent children caught in the middle of this bullet-strewn bedlam, using Marvin's Sarge—a man whose soft center is barely concealed by his grizzly exterior—as the conduit for its compassion.
		In the film's fl-and-white opening scene, Sarge—lost on a WWI German battlefield in 1918, completely unaware that the war has been officially over for hours—is attacked by a stampeding horse (a symbol of combat's unpredictable violence) and then murders a German soldier while an ominous woodcarving of Christ on the cross, sans eyes, towers overhead.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1263 (1207 words)

	MAGAZINE \| CRAFT\| Reconstructing Sam Fuller's The Big Red One\| VOL 29-2: July 2004
		It was always in the data base —boxes and boxes of footage, supposedly labeled The Big Red One, were allegedly stashed in the Warner Bros. vault in Kansas City.
		Several boxes of film remain missing, but every scene in Sam's script, with two exceptions (which we think he may not have shot) is now present and accounted for.
		A film that went out 24 years ago at one hour, 53 minutes and 11 seconds is now two hours, 42 minutes and 56 seconds — within seconds, incidentally, of the lost Ambersons' footage.
	www.dga.org /news/v29_2/craft_bigredone_704.php3 (869 words)

	Movie Review: The Big One
		He decides to bring a film crew with him, since he intends to use the tour to meet ordinary, working-class Americans, and find out how they are are faring, particularly in an election year.
		His film captured the spirit of dissatisfaction amongst Americans which would dominate the 1992 presidential campaign, when Bill Clinton (promising a more caring America), dislodged George Bush, while Ross Perot ranted on against NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement).
		Since many smaller cities are apparently reliant on a small number of big employers, the loss of one or more have devastating effects on the economic and social infrastructure.
	www.fortunecity.com /lavendar/heat/435/bigone.htm (708 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - The Big Red One (1980), Samuel Fuller, Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, dvd review
		The Big Red One is Marvin's platoon, which contains four soldiers who seem to survive every kind of horror, no matter how bizarre, and an endless series of young recruits who die before anyone can learn their names.
		Now in 2004, the film critic Richard Schickel has spearheaded a "reconstruction," using the original screenplay and novelization, that brings the film up to 163 minutes, which is much closer to Fuller's original vision and suggests that his "4 hour" version was merely a pipe dream.
		Next is deleted and alternate scenes, with commentary, then a twelve-minute newsreel about the original "big red 1," a 30-minute promo reel for the 1980 release, stills gallery, three trailers (two for the 1980 release and one for the 2004 release) and two radio spots from 1980.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /bigredone.shtml (1074 words)

	Orlando Weekly - Film Review - The Big One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		W ith the 1989 release of his shot-heard-round- the-world feature film, "Roger and Me," Michael Moore became the first dissenting voice to convey the disaster of Reaganomics to a mass audience.
		Knight’s audacity is astounding, and the encounters with the heartland’s forgotten sons and daughters resonate with a particular poignancy.
		Worse, he’s become consumed by his supposed status as a social phenomenon, and so the new film treats us to "framing" footage detailing the itinerary of his promo trek, from appearing on wacky, drive-time radio programs to flying first-class across the 50 states.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /film/review.asp?rid=7689 (1039 words)

	Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 911, Dave Kopel, Independence Institute
		Kopel's lawyerly description of Moore's claims shows the film to be a genuinely impressive accomplishment in a perverse sort of way (the way an ingenious crime is impressive)--a case study in how to convert elements that are mainly true into an impression that is entirely false--and this leads in turn to another thought.
		The Pantagraph's attorney sent Fahrenheit's distributor a letter stating that Moore's use of the faked headline and story was "unauthorized" and "misleading" and a" misrepresentation of facts." The letter states that Moore infringed the copyright of The Pantagraph, and asks for an apology, a correction, and an explanation.
		Yet in another part of the film, one that appears in your previews, you criticize members of the Bush administration for permitting members of the bin Laden family to fly out of the country almost immediately after 9/11.
	www.davekopel.com /Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-in-Fahrenheit-911.htm (13105 words)

	The Big Red One (1980) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Goofs: Miscellaneous: When the sergeant and his unit are in Sicily, they walk in front of a wall with the portrait of Mussolini and a sentence in big capital letters written in Italian.
		It is a bit dated, and the low budget really shows, but SF clearly did the best with what he had, and it stands as a great monument on war from a director who was really there.
		Many of the scenes, especially one involving a group of older sicilian women who cook a big meal for the squad, ring very true, since a fiction writer would obviously try and spice them up--the film is very honest, and it is good that Fuller left this story for us.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0080437 (482 words)

	Media History \| IAMHIST - Forum
		Less archive film is now used in programmes because the fashion is for reconstruction, or computer generated images.
		Film libraries all over the world are under enormous financial pressure anyway, and this must make the situation even worse.
		A preface describes the history of the Marshall Plan film program and the potential interest of the Filmography not only to historians of the era, but also to historians of film, who will recognize the names of many well-known European and American filmmakers involved in the creation of the original films.
	www.iamhist.org /forum.html (6364 words)

	THE BIG RED ONE previously at Film Forum in New York City
		As Schickel wrote recently in Film Comment, “What was a pretty decent war movie is now a true Sam Fuller movie, full of that tabloid absurdity — sudden death and sudden laughter wildly mixed — that was his trademark.
		Film Forum is located at 209 W Houston Street, between 6th and 7th Avenue, in New York City.
		Independent premieres at Film Forum are selected and programmed by Karen Cooper.
	www.filmforum.org /films/bigred.html (135 words)

	Film Scouts Reviews: Big One, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		By such criteria, The Big One is the best film ever made.
		The Big One doesn't tell you much about Moore's deal or publishing in general, but we do meet stealthy Borders bookstore employees (who have to pass a literary/cultural test to get paid minimum wage) trying to form a union in the parking lot by night.
		It's a sad story, but Moore's film The Big One has not told it well.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/review.cfm?File=big-one (857 words)

	Amazon.com: The Big Red One - The Reconstruction (Two-Disc Special Edition): DVD: Robert Carradine,Mark Hamill,Lee ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sam Fuller's The Big Red One was already one of the best films of 1980, despite the fact that the version released to theaters ran barely half as long as the director's cut.
		The Big Red One was his long-dreamt-of account of World War II as experienced by his own squad of the 1st Infantry Division, USA, from the first shot fired (by a dead man, on the coast of North Africa) to the last (in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia).
		The Big Red One shows off a deeper more personal side of the war through the eyes of a typical infantry squad with a darker side of the war being explored on numerous occasions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007TKNLA?v=glance (2936 words)

	Michael Moore Gives You 'The Big One'
		Moore is a smart ass of the highest degree, a literal comic for the working class, and his hysterical new film, The Big One, has plenty of his smart-ass antics in top form.
		He examines 1996 presidential candidate Steve Forbes' inability to blink - and has both the footage to prove it AND a doctor's opinion that such actions are 'not human.' He talks with an ex-con who says TWA hired him while he was imprisoned to telemarket and take reservations for them.
		And as an answer to the questions Moore poses throughout the film, this moment makes you think that, if nothing else, many of the other top executives are not too far behind Knight in their reasons.
	www.theslant.com /arts_media/articles/big_one.html (897 words)

	Review: The Big One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Having said that, however, it's necessary for me to point out that Moore is a talented film maker who is capable of putting some very funny moments on screen.
		And, regardless of what methods were used to produce the movie, it still makes an extremely valid point about the way big business mistreats its workers, laying off people and transferring manufacturing to third-world countries rather than sacrificing a little profit.
		The film maker, apparently not expecting this, seems genuinely moved by her plight.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/b/big_one.html (513 words)

	Jurassic Park Legacy - The web's largest JP Information Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This is the official map from the Official Souvenir Magazine and Seen on the Brochure in the film; however, Herrerasaurus was editted to be in it's current position from the transfer from Brochure to the magazine.
		Although cartoonish, and it contradicts the paddock structure seen in the film on the computer screens as the fences are going out this map is considered to be canon.
		Also please note this map is combining what we see on all of the maps seen in the film into one big map.
	www.jplegacy.org /index.php?page=nublar.shtml (349 words)

	channel4.com/film - The Big Red One
		Fuller's first outing for eight years, and his final war film, is a summation of all his previous works on the subject and the most autobiographical.
		The film, shot mostly in Israel, chronicles the movements of a squad from the 1st US Infantry Division ('The Big Red One') through the World War II, from a beachhead assault in North Africa, through France, Sicily and Belgium, up to the horror of liberating a Nazi concentration camp.
		Lean, mean, powerfully acted and effectively written (this despite the fact that the film was cut by the studio against Fuller's wishes), The Big Red One remains an exhilerating and fiercely authentic depiction of men at war.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=101136 (228 words)

	The Big One
		To be perfectly honest about it, we hadn't even seen this film, no less voted for it.
		What he does is not "fiction," but it isn't objective film reporting either, in any sense of the term.
		He makes a pretty good standup comic as he preaches to the converted, and The Big One is easy to watch, mildly amusing from time to time.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/BigOne.htm (384 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Disney 'blocks' Moore documentary
		Controversial director Michael Moore has said film studio Disney is refusing to release his new documentary, which heavily criticises President Bush.
		But Disney has "officially decided to prohibit" Miramax from distributing the film, the director said on his website.
		Disney bought Miramax 10 years ago but retained the rights to block films it deemed against its interests, such as adult-rated films.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3685633.stm (379 words)

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		Hij maakte zijn naam als enfant terrible van de Amerikaanse film volledig waar door bij de Oscar-ceremonie – geheel tegen het protocol - een woedende tirade tegen Bush en de oorlog in Irak af te steken.
		In Roger and Me (1989) stalkte hij Roger Smith, CEO van General Motors, en in The Big One (1997) richt hij zijn pijlen wederom op het perfide grootkapitaal, dat rücksichtslos hele fabrieken sluit en daarmee lokale gemeenschappen de doodssteek toedient.
		René Boomkens plaatst voorafgaand aan de vertoning van de film The Big One kritische kanttekeningen bij Michael Moore, de film en de vraag of en op welke manier de film bijdraagt aan het debat over de gevolgen van globalisering voor lokale, regionale en nationale economieën.
	www.rug.nl /corporate/nieuws/persinfo/week36/101_09?lang=en (223 words)

	[Wa] THE BIG ONE- a film by Michael Moore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		"The Big One" is also seasoned with political commentary, since most of the film takes place right before the November elections.
		But perhaps the most depressing thing about the film is that for all of the filmmaker's efforts, things aren't likely to change soon.
		At least "The Big One" encourages laughter in the face of adversity, and in the end, the truth and a smile seem to be Moore's best defense - and corporate America's greatest foe.
	lists.cat.org.au /pipermail/wa/2003-June/000208.html (411 words)

	The Big Red One Film Review - Time Out Film
		No heroics, no anti-heroics, no 'drama' to speak of; instead a racy description of incidents from a great war correspondent, married with a Bressonian concentration on feelings of isolation and dislocation.
		Visually and philosophically, it's Fuller's equivalent of Kurosawa's Kagemusha, although Fuller's film is more complex, more absurd and more haunted.
		Big Red One - The Reconstruction, The (Wide Screen) (Two Discs)
	www.timeout.com /film/67795.html (191 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Big One (The)
		Not because I agree with everything he says, but because he's a great film maker.
		He used this tour as a chance to (surprise surprise) target corporations, and their massive layoffs.
		In this film, he attacks Barnes and Nobles, a risky move since they sell his books...
	www.hour.ca /film/movie.aspx?iIDFilm=1380 (692 words)

	Agency Life/Death/Limbo: One Big Happy Family! · MadisonAvenueJournal.com
		Rosenfeld got his first big time job on Madison Avenue at DDB using letters he wrote which promoted a local janitorial company.
		Marlon Brando played Colonel Kurtz in the film "Apocalypse Now" where we learned that earlier in his career, Kurtz had fire in his belly and knew how he could win the war.
		That was before he was confronted with Viet Nam's own version of the CHCO's, who even today, try to manage Madison Avenue's front lines from the rear and know very little any more about what it takes to create great advertising.
	www.madisonavenuejournal.com /agency_lifedeathlimbo/index.php (2760 words)

	Amazon.com: The Big One (1998) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Like Moore's earlier film "Roger and Me", "The Big One" (Moore's tongue-in-cheek term for the large, all-encompassing corporate bohemoth that this country may eventually become) takes a disturbing yet often comical look at how Big Business is running roughshod over whatever is left of Corporate Responsibility in this country.
		Mainly, however, you want to shake Moore's hand for having the chutzpah to shove a microphone and camera in Corporate America's faces and demand they explain their "outsourcing" actions directly to the faithful and long-term employees (generations of them, in some cases) who were unceremoniously dumped in favor of cheaper overseas or over-the-border labor.
		Moore rushes up to the Corporate Big Dogs (or at least the highest-ranking ones he can find or the nearest media outlet he can find) and asks the questions we wish we could ask -- he expresses the common-man outrage we wish we could express.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305087415?v=glance (1737 words)

	BBC - Films - Film 2003 - The Nation's Worst Film Ever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		BBC - Films - Film 2003 - The Nation's Worst Film Ever
		The votes have been counted, the nation has decided and Film 2003 can now announce the Worst Film Ever Top Ten.
		"As the film went silent before the closing credits I said aloud: 'That was ****!' and got a round of applause."
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/film_2003/worst_film_ever/top_ten.shtml (244 words)

	The Big Red One
		The reconstruction of Samuel Fuller’s epic account of his days in North Africa in World War II elevates the film into the pantheon of great war movies.
		For all its merits, the 1980 version of the film denied audiences that connection.
		"The film's overriding mission is to expose both the inherent absurdity and tragedy of war."
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/big_red_one (1191 words)

	channel4.com/film - The Big Red One The Reconstruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The authenticity Fuller and Marvin bring to The Big Red One makes it among the most compelling WWII movies to come out of Hollywood.
		As such, Fuller's film lacks the thrills of your average WWII film.
		But the realism that permeates every frame of The Big Red One is more powerful than any amount of submachine gun fire.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=145027 (308 words)

	MovieGoods.com - movie posters, photos and other movie memorabilia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Dudley Moore was once co-owner of the restaurant, Maple Drive, which is located in Beverly Hills.
		MovieGoods is home of the web's largest selection of movie memorabilia, including posters, photographs, lobby cards, film cells, hats, mugs and much more.
		We also offer a full selection of poster frames and lightboxes.
	www.moviegoods.com /search.asp?MGAID=BUTE1089&find_spec=big+one (374 words)

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		Sam Fuller directs in his comeback film this epic story of five fighting men who cut a path from North Africa to Czechoslovakia, based on Fuller's own experiences as a rifleman with the Army's First Infantry Division.
		A German airman (George Peppard) becomes a national hero for his courage and skill in World War II dogfights in this spectacularly filmed adventure.
	www.worldlanguage.com /ChineseTraditional/Products/13540.htm (270 words)

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