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	Latest film news, reviews and interviews \| Guardian Unlimited
		Daniel Radcliffe echoes the sentiments of film fans across the globe.
		Film Weekly: on a Haitian slum classic, plus the rest of the week's news and reviews.
		As Alain Resnais releases his second film inspired by the plays of Alan Ayckbourn, Stuart Jeffries talks to the pair about their friendship and professional understanding.
	film.guardian.co.uk (574 words)

	Malcolm X (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malcolm X is a 1992 biographical film directed by Spike Lee about the African-American activist and fl nationalist Malcolm X.
		In the film's final scene, South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela — recently released after 27 years of political imprisonment -- appears as a schoolteacher in a classroom in Soweto.
		At the age of nine, Denzel Washington's son John David Washington made a cameo appearance in the film as a student in a Harlem classroom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malcolm_X_(film) (1533 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Linville, Feminism, Film, Fascism
		These films develop distinctive critiques of the conventional social gender order that the postwar era furiously struggled to reinstate; in the process, they create narrative structures and cinematic styles that implicitly oppose the hierarchic and matrophobic dimensions of the postwar discourse on the authoritarian personality.
		In these films, patriarchal social structures, such as the church and state's mechanisms of surveillance, emerge not as potential antidotes to fascism or as vehicles for remembrance and contrition but as apparatuses of authoritarianism and amnesia.
		The film offers a stark assessment of the toll that consumerist dynamics and narrow social blinders take on an adolescent girl, who is isolated and blocked in her efforts at both coming of age and coming to terms with her nation's repressed history.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exlinfem.html (5609 words)

	The Social Value of Filmed Arts Lives
		Biographical film has the generic potential to be a meeting place for the documentary demands of scholarship and the escapist or cathartic demands of audienceship.
		Since the visual and literary artist draws on the lived life as material for art, biographical films of artists are well advised to respect the work for its source value and for its potential to enact traits rather than incidents, personality rather than chronology.
		While biographical treatments of those whose careers are necessarily public affairs have periodically abounded, whether they be athletes, politicians or singers, a variety of factors from our introspective age have come together and can be credited with the current resurgence of the genre in its third generation.
	www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca /murph041.htm (1708 words)

	Russian Biographical Dictionaries
		On the Saur website you can search the World biographical index for free, however the entries contain only brief biographical data, not the actual entries that are on the microfiche.
		This site includes a biographical source entitled Bol'shoi russkii biograficheskii slovar' that is comprised of articles taken from the following pre-revolutionary sources: Entsiklopedicheskii slovar' and Novyi entsiklopedicheskii slovar' of Brokgauz and Efron, Russkii biograficheskii slovar' by A.A. Polovtsov, and the Entsiklopedicheskii slovar' by the Granat Brothers.
		With over 7000 entries, this small biographical dictionary is a quick reference tool for brief information on figures from all historical periods, including the present, and from all over the world.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /spx/class/Biography/Russianbio/rubiodict.htm (1968 words)

	The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective.
		Biographical, autobiographical films and bio-fictions seemed to be the rage of the festival - especially regarding artists.
		The film, directed by she of the stunning visuals, Julie Taymor (Titus, Broadway's The Lion King), is little more than a collection of scenes from the painter's life.
		Most film festivals have separate programs for films that challenge the audience with new ways of making cinematic creations, yet are not quite far enough astray of standard storytelling to be called "experimental".
	www.thefilmjournal.com /issue3/tiff2002.html (5276 words)

	DVD Review: Blow: Infinifilm Series
		I understand that not everything told in some of these films happened the way it does in the movies and that some dramatic license is taken but on a basic level the stories are the same.
		In a biographical film where the story focuses on one primary character it's important to have someone who is believable in the role and that is the case here.
		The film touches upon this subject early on but after the first 30 minutes this story thread is all but forgotten.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviewsmark/blowsedvd2.html (3798 words)

	A Biographical Handbook of Hispanics and United States Film
		Hundreds of actors, directors, cinematographers, and other film professionals are referenced as well as over 1,000 films in order to provide the most complete biographic and filmographic record of the participation of Hispanics in the United States film industry.
		Biographical data includes all available information - full given names and stage names, vital dates, place of birth, a record of the films that the individual participated in, and awards and other recognitions.
		He is also known for his fiction writing; his scholarly studies in the areas of linguistics and bilingual education, literary criticism, tests, and evaluation; and his projects on behalf of minority students.
	www.asu.edu /brp/backlist/cinema/GDKelC2b.html (202 words)

	UB Reporter: Buffalo Film Seminars announces spring lineup
		The film's presentation is possible due to a grant from The Margaret L. Wendt and Baird foundations, whose contribution enabled the installation of a theater-quality, digital-projection system at the Market Arcade Film and Arts Center.
		The film captures the misery and hopelessness in China at the time and was remarkable for its compassionate portrayal of a prostitute.
		In one of the first films produced in Germany dealing with Nazi atrocities, a women returns to the ruins of post-WWII Berlin from a concentration camp and becomes involved with a doctor who was employed in the death camps.
	www.buffalo.edu /reporter/vol37/vol37n16/articles/BFSlineup.html (1452 words)

	Jim's Film Reviews - IRIS
		The film is beautifully designed and shot, and it sincerely tries to dramatize the effects of Alzheimer's disease, but the generic script reveals nothing of substance about Murdoch.
		There is a fiercely humanistic glow as she lectures in the film's opening scene on freedom of the mind as the essential basis for happiness.
		The biographical film may be the most treacherous genre, since we expect to understand something about the connections between an actual person's life and their achievements.
	jclarkmedia.com /film/filmreviewiris.html (459 words)

	Biopics: A Bibliography of Books and Articles in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		Frustrating Schell's desire, however, is the fact that, although she commissioned the film, Dietrich refused to appear in it, leaving the filmmaker-biographer to deal with only photographs and archival film footage.
		Reveals how biographical films of musicians create a certain kind of sympathy for the main characters, using as examples "La bamba", "Sweet dreams" and "The Buddy Holly story".
		Biopics, or biographic films have both love and work as their themes and it is difficult to estimate whether an audience prefers a love story or a work story.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/biopicbib.html (1544 words)

	The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Semmangudi film launches festival at Music College
		The biographical film on the man known as the Carnataka Sangita Pitamaha, captures the glory of his musical career and also has rare scenes of him going through his daily routine breathing and living music till the end.
		The film on Ustad Allah Rakha, the tabla maestro, produced by G.P. Asthana and directed by Shekhar Nair won a diploma in participation at the first Tehran International Film Festival Tehran.
		Films on Yamini Krishnamurthy, Raja Radha Reddy, Sheikh Chinna Maulana, the nagaswaram maestro, directed by V. Pakkirisamy, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, a 62-minute documentary on the sarod maestro, Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam are among the others.
	www.hindu.com /2006/09/16/stories/2006091618990500.htm (518 words)

	Filmography \| Guggenheim Productions, Inc.
		This biographical film about the history of the duPonts, their coming to America, and their personal and business successes over the last two hundred years, was commissioned for the family's 200th anniversary on June 24th, 2000.
		In this film essay about the Statue of Liberty, the great figure's birth, building and rebuilding are seen through the eyes of artisans and laborers whose tasks are separated by a hundred years, but whose vision transcends time.
		In personal terms, this film explores the legal, medical and ethical issues facing the parents of Becky, a mentally disabled child, when they wish to donate her organs to save another child dying of kidney failure.
	www.gpifilms.com /filmography.html (3440 words)

	Piñero (2001): Benjamin Bratt, Giancarlo Esposito, Talisa Soto, Mandy Patinkin - PopMatters Film Review
		The film is unusually sensitive to the many layers of identity and identification at work in the designation Nuyorican, and especially the political contexts informing it.
		The film's time-jumping structure and sporadic references to the prejudices and class politics that shaped the young junkie's life suggest there are a number of reasons for his "deviance." Still, the narrative weight granted the father-son relationship might suggest a reductive explanation: paternal abuse = homosexuality and self-destruction.
		The film hints at this childhood in quick images of young Mikey, dancing with his mother, street hustling, and thieving -- here he looks eager for experience, willing to be seduced and to grab at what he wants.
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/p/pinero.shtml (1225 words)

	Epic Films
		Biopic (biographical) films are often less lavish versions of the epic film.
		These 'swords-and-sandals' films, with a strong religious viewpoint, were set during Roman times in the ancient world, and were noted for casts of thousands in crowd scenes.
		The landmark film starred Richard Burton as young Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio whose life was affected by Jesus' robe, Victor Mature as his converted slave Demetrius, and Jean Simmons as Diana.
	www.filmsite.org /epicsfilms.html (2915 words)

	World Wide Web Virtual Library - Film History Index - Home Page
		The News Film Library, University of SouthCarolina "In an historic 1980 donation, the University of South Carolina was selected to receive a portion of the Fox Movietonews newsreel collection by the 20th Century Fox Film Corporation.
		The films will be looked at as modes of signification and representation of national, class, racial, gender, and sexuality discourses.
		The Film History Index is a joint project between the European University Institute's Library and History & Civilisation Department.
	vlib.iue.it /hist-film/libraries.html (1302 words)

	Louisiana Film & Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For state and local film officials, the announcement marks the culmination of work that began last fall, when the officials learned that Hackford and Benjamin were considering moving the film to New Orleans in order to take advantage of tax incentives adopted by Louisiana last spring.
		That film had nothing to do with the state's incentive program, but the production's massive film crew and its fleet of motor homes and equipment offered a dramatic example of the economic impact a major film can have on the city.
		The film has qualified for certain Louisiana tax incentives, including payroll tax credits, but producers are still in talks with local investors needed to partake in a lucrative investor tax credit.
	www.lafilm.org /media/index.cfm?id=6 (847 words)

	The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective.
		However, as it hops, skips and jumps across the biographical facts, Bartlett's script arguably reduces a complex personality to a burgeoning ego who is also grappling with his gay identity.
		Brief snippets from Eisenstein's actual films are shown, often projected in clever contexts: for example, as images seen through a camera viewfinder or on an editing machine.
		No biographical film can avoid the eliding and fictionalizing of characters, so it seems fair enough to paint Alexandrov as a career opportunist who went on to function as Stalin's go-between to the film world.
	www.thefilmjournal.com /issue3/eisenstein.html (1161 words)

	Dylan film blowin' in the wind - Music - www.smh.com.au
		Haynes and the head of Killer Films, Christine Vachon, are old friends from college, a spokeswoman for the company said.
		"The film is going to be inspired by Dylan's music and his ability to re-create and reimage himself time and time again," Vachon was quoted as saying.
		In addition to Masked and Anonymous, which was panned by many critics, Dylan's film acting credits include 1987's rock 'n' roll drama Hearts of Fire, the four-hour-plus Renaldo and Clara (which he directed, starred in and co-wrote with Sam Shepard), and the 1973 western Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid from director Sam Peckinpah.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/02/11/1076388426422.html?from=storyrhs (536 words)

	NOW PLAYING - Newsday.com
		The singer (Li Jiamin) is in prison, however; bureaucracies must be overcome, and Takata's preoccupation evolves from the making of the film to reuniting the singer with his young son, to the boy himself (Yang Zhenbo).
		In the midst of all this is a lesson about cell phones, foreigners managing to communicate despite language barriers, and a consideration of the question of why sons can't talk to fathers.
		To say that this may well be the best biographical film we may ever get about its subject does not in any way diminish the achievement of documentary maker Ric Burns ("New York," "The Way West," "Eugene O'Neill").
	www.newsday.com /entertainment/movies/ny-etcaps4871625sep01,0,1399472.story?coll=ny-moviereview-headlines (738 words)

	Amazon.com: The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Books: David Thomson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Film scholar Thomson (Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick) offers extensive but not comprehensive coverage, with entries ranging from a couple of paragraphs to several pages.
		Like other serious film writers his age, Thomson admits that he no longer finds movie-going the "transforming experience" it once was, adding "I think I have learned that I love books more than films." This probably shapes some of his outspoken opinions.
		Instead of the high-minded film theorist he believes himself to be, when all is said and done, Thomson is just another pseudo-intellectual who has spent far too many hours in a darkened room.
	www.amazon.com /New-Biographical-Dictionary-Film/dp/0375411283 (2326 words)

	Hamlin Garland on Film
		Early in 1937 film maker Guy D. Haselton made a silent, fl and white biographical film of Garland in his Hollywood home.
		The film exists in two states: a 625 foot version, including stills of his books; and a 400 foot version, without the stills.
		When the film was completed, prints of it accompanied the exhibit as it went on tour to at least eleven libraries, among them the state libraries of California, Iowa, Ohio, and Wisconsin, as well as to university libraries in Indiana, Chicago, and Ohio.
	people.uncw.edu /newlink/garland/hg-video.htm (203 words)

	MAXEDU >>> eduaction @ its best
		Animation art of process of filming a series of static drawings to give the impression of movement, as of cartoon films
		Back projection projection of a film onto the reserve side of a screen, as a background for filming in front of it
		Film a clef apparently fictional film based on facts, but with the names of places and characters changed
	www.angelfire.com /mac/miedu/misc/filmterm.htm (488 words)

	The Ben Franklin Story -- The Movie
		Viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing can select "Watch With Captions," thus seeing the film with words at the bottom of the screen.
		This allows those who are hearing-challenged to enjoy the narration of the film.
		Since the films in this series are produced in FLASH, you will need the FLASH plug-in software installed on your computer.
	www.earlyamerica.com /ben-movie.htm (97 words)

	American Experience \| Ansel Adams \| Film Description
		In making the biographical film, Burns blazed trails of his own through the Sierra to capture the essence of Adams's unique relationship with his subject matter.
		As it charts his dramatic accomplishments as an artist, the film provides intimate glimpses into Adams's private life, especially his eight-year-long, on-again, off-again, courtship of Virginia Best, who would eventually become his wife and mother of his two children.
		The film also looks at the defining emotional crisis of Adams's life -- his relationship with his printing assistant, a young former model named Patsy English.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/ansel/filmmore/fd.html (885 words)

	Habitat Film Club - Film Calendar - March 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Film Scholar Madan Gopal Singh will introduce the film and co-ordinate the discussion.
		This docu-fiction film tells the story of an impoverished, religious father and his twin daughters.
		Synopsis: " Living a horror film might be a fantasy for most monster movie buffs, but when three creatures jump off the screen and into real life, the horror really hits home".
	www.habitatfilmclub.com /filmarchive/march04.asp (413 words)

	Online NewsHour: Republican Convention 2000 -- Biographical Films
		Terence Smith examines the biographical films candidates shown at nominating conventions.
		GEORGE W. : The GOP-produced biographical film on the Republican presidential nominee.
		The media consultant for this year's GOP convention bio film, discusses the packaging of George W. Bush.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/election2000/gopconvention/biofilms.html (173 words)

	Filmstalker: Scorsese and De Niro biographical film?
		The film might talk about their younger days growing up in the same New York...
		There's a story out today that Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro are making a film about their growing up together through life and film.
		The film might talk about their younger days growing up in the same New York neighbourhood and their work on such classics as Goodfellas, Mean Streets and Raging Bull.
	filmstalker.co.uk /archives/2006/09/scorsese_and_de_niro_biographi.html (274 words)

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