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	Rowan Atkinson aka Mr. Bean: DVD: Birdy
		Birdy is now in the psychiatric ward of a military hospital, and Al, covered in bandages, has been called in to see if he can talk Birdy out of his condition.
		Birdy seems to get the song "Wallflower" as his theme (which I think is rather appropriate, given the lyrics of the original) while Al, more or less, gets an instrumental of "Family Snapshot" in his vulnerable and emotional moments.
		Birdy is an innocent and odd young man who has been always fascinated by birds and wanted to learn to fly.
	www.rowanatkinson.org /2-130-B00003L9CH-Birdy.html (1400 words)

	Birdy (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Birdy is a movie directed by Alan Parker starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, released in 1984.
		The film's soundtrack, Birdy, was written and performed by Peter Gabriel.
		The film received the Grand Prize of the Jury at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birdy_(movie) (100 words)

	Birdy (1984)
		Indeed, a major proportion of the film is used to depict Al and Birdy as adolescents in Philadelphia, demonstrating that they are both human beings in spite of their present-day deformities.
		Despite the film taking its time to get into gear, it is a strangely, not to mention surprisingly, compelling drama about two human beings and the events that led to a major crossroad in their lives, not to mention the way they go from there.
		Film artefacts were very occasional and very minor, which is quite a surprise when you think about how long it has been since this film has been seen on any media at all.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=540 (1799 words)

	Birdy the Mighty - part 2 synpopsis
		Birdy is in her spacecraft being briefed by Chief Megius, it turns out that the wine that she sent out earlier contains some sort of chemical drug that causes a person (human being that is) to become more adept at contracting the virus that Hikawa created to increase their Psi abilities.
		Birdy views this as an easy fight but finds out Ondine is no ordinary Arkezoid, Tsutomu tells her that Ondine is nothing to scoff at as she's keeping up and bettering her at anything Birdy does.
		Tsutomu helps Birdy devise a plan to electrocute her using one of the amusement park's nearby power boxes as that seems to be the only course of action possible.
	tetsuwan_birdy.tripod.com /part2.htm (2202 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Birdy
		Birdy is one of those 'uplifting, serious' films, in the same vein as Patch Adams or Mask.
		The film is very slow, told very methodically, mostly in the form of flashbacks as Al tries to reach Birdy by reliving their childhood together.
		Birdy has a fairly normal family, Al's dad is one of those nearly psychopathic fathers who show 'tough love' and yell a lot.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/birdy.php (660 words)

	Birdy (1984) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Above all, "birdy" is this: a story of a friendship between two teenagers brought up in a Philadelphia' popular area.
		Parker films this relationship with its joys, its sorrows in a hearty way and make the two actors friendly.
		"Birdy" is also a well-regulated movie where Parker knows how to sustain the interest in the past sequences as well as present sequences (Birdy's room hospital).
	us.imdb.com /Title?0086969 (589 words)

	British Film Composers complete listing: G-Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The film shifted from fl and white (in which the film was shot) to colour at the moment the ghastly portrait is revealed.
		Film scores also include Of Love and Destiny, Son of Robin Hood (1958), Ice Cold in Alex (The Road to Alex was a fine march extracted from the score) and Yangtse Incident (a march The Amethyst was extracted from the score).
		The film is often on television and was distinguished by the contribution of Gregory Peck.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/britlst2.htm (14164 words)

	peter gabriel: birdy
		The film is an adaptation of William Wharton's wonderful 1978 novel of an unlikely friendship torn apart by war and reconstructed within the confines of a military psychiatric hospital.
		This was Peter's first attempt at a film score and many elements of the record are culled from previous PG records (particularly the third and fourth).
		Not that this is particularly important in today's film industry where you would be lucky to hear more than two soundtrack songs in the movie, but unlike the average "soundtrack album" full of songs "inspired" by some crappy movie we'll all forget about in twelve months' time, Birdy makes quite a convincing package.
	www.solsburyhill.org /essays/birdy.htm (531 words)

	Birdy by Peter Gabriel (1992) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Birdy is an adaptation of William Wharton’s novel of the same title that tells the story of two best friends in their teens, Al and his buddy Birdy who is obsessed by birds and flying.
		After the war, Birdy ends up in a psychiatric hospital perched in his room like a bird, and unable to communicate with the rest of the world.
		Birdy’s other attempt at flight is captured in a more comical sequence and uses "La Bamba" but this song is not included on the CD.
	www.cinemusic.net /reviews/1992/birdy.html (602 words)

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		He soon learns that Birdy is in a Army mental ward, half catatonic and rocking back and forth crouched on the floor.
		As the film unfolds, we explore their friendship, history and some secrets that lie trapped in Birdy's mind waiting to come unhatched.
		Birdy has always been one of those movies you save for a rainy day, and now that it's on DVD, there can no better reason to watch it.
	www.100megsfree4.com /techtronpc/birdy.html (467 words)

	Free Essay Birdy - Psychological aspects of characters
		Birdy creates a world of his own, a place were he could feel safe, proud and needed.
		Birdy is not capable of finding his own place in the surrounding reality and in the eyes of others he is perceived as insane.
		Al and Birdy have objectives for their lives but they are not capable of adjusting to social stereotypes.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25910 (1673 words)

	HOPE FLOATS
		Since Birdy doesn't know who she is anymore that makes it fairly difficult to create a compelling character for the audience to grab onto.
		There are some compelling moments between Birdy and her mother, played by the always amazing Gena Rowlands, and her and her daughter, but they are sandwiched in between too many scenes of her hiding from the world.
		The film's focus is on her finding her future, yet I think a little trip into the past would have made the journey more involving.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsH/f_hope_floats.html (1029 words)

	Birdy (1984)
		It is up to Al to draw Birdy out of his protective (egg)shell before he is lost forever, or before the Army relegates him to the incurables ward; meanwhile, the traumatized Al feels himself slipping toward insanity as well, and sees his friend's restoration as his only hope for putting himself back together.
		Birdy, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes in 1985, is a stunning showcase for the talents of two rising stars at their youthful best.
		Birdy is a unique cinematic gem; offbeat and often disturbing, Parker's film also features one of the best endings of any drama I have ever seen.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=1923&PID=10072292&buy=closed&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (588 words)

	Birdy
		As the story unfolds, Birdy`s past is foreshadowed and the viewer comes across his passion, curiosity and obssession with birds, that starts to increase and soon reduces his bonds to other people and experiences.
		Birdy has his own little world and soon gets stuck in it, and one of his few contacts with "common reality" is his only friend that struggles to understand his point of view.
		Filmed almost entirely in fl and white with an occasional dash of color for symbolic effect, this tale of alienated youth centers on gang leader Rusty James (Matt Dillon) and his band of punk pals.
	www.dvd-today.com /dvd/B00003L9CH/Birdy.html (1466 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Birdy review
		But the depth of Birdy's dysfunction are deeper than just what the war has done to him and may require memories of their past together for Al to bring him to the present.
		Birdy is a film with charm, humor and tenderness.
		Birdy was filmed with a slightly desaturated and natural look and the picture brings that through without flaw with solid colors and no bleeding or oversaturation.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_2/birdy.htm (873 words)

	Alan Parker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The film was a musical pastiche of 1920's gangster films with an entire cast of children.
		This was followed in 1979 by Parker's film "Fame," a celebration of youth and the arts, which won two Academy Awards ®, six nominations and four Golden Globe ® nominations and was later adapted into a successful television series.
		No stranger to controversy, his next film, "Angel Heart," written and directed by Parker in 1986 and starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro and Lisa Bonet, opened in the United States amidst a storm caused by the X rating initially imposed on it by the MPAA.
	www.zaney5.freeserve.co.uk /alanparker.html (695 words)

	Movies that begin with B
		This film, based on Jerry Kosinski's novella of the same title, is an excellent pedagogical complement for a number of courses such as introductory sociology, social psychology, and mass media and human behavior.
		It is a rich film of character diversity and plot complications, but at the bedrock of it all lies in honesty and the betrayal of it.
		In the film, the inmates applauded Brubaker as he was driven from the prison, and their support for him suggests he was right in his actions.
	arachnid.pepperdine.edu /goseweb/b.htm (6570 words)

	Birdy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Look up birdy, birdie in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
		Birdy (film), starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, based on the book
		Birdie the Early Bird, the first identifiably female McDonaldland character
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birdy (125 words)

	Tentative Review by The Christopher Currie: Peter Gabriel - Birdy
		Birdy, the soundtrack to Alan Parker's film of the same name, is the probably the most atypical album in Peter Gabriel's catalogue.
		Birdy might seem like little more than an early prototype; accordingly, it doesn't tend to receive too high of a position in most assessments of the Gabriel pantheon.
		Birdy was the result of a session (lasing "a couple of weeks") wherein Gabriel manipulated the basic tracks of some earlier releases.
	www.tranglos.com /marek/yes/tr_128.html (1386 words)

	filmsgraded.com: Birdy (1984) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Our story is set in the 1960s, in an American military hospital in the U.S. Bird-obsessed Birdy (Matthew Modine) is traumatized by his Vietnam War experience, not that he wasn't already half nuts, and is now in an extreme autistic state.
		If the motivation of the film's true lead is in question, another problem is Modine's mental illness.
		Birdy ends abruptly, with a joke that shows Modine is recovered.
	www.geocities.com /filmsgraded/reviews/2005/11/birdy1.htm (383 words)

	Movie Database - tvguide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		BIRDY is one of those rare movies that successfully brings a psychological novel to the screen without sacrificing its saliency or complexity.
		Although the book by William Wharton is set in the days after WWII, the film has been updated to the post-Vietnam era to tell the story of the deep friendship between Birdy (Modine) and Al Columbato (Cage), a pair of young men whose lives have been scarred by the war experience.
		Birdy has had an obsessive affinity for birds since childhood (scenes of which are shown in flashback), but in the period after his wartime service he believes he has actually been transformed into a bird.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=9840 (278 words)

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		His films are usually marred by the fact that he doesn't really seem to care about his material.
		Parker appears to care deeply about this story, which allows his talents to make the film come to life, whereas in previous films they were engaged in pro forma exercises which suggested ability without benefiting the film much.
		Birdy starts off raising pigeons, then moves on to an attempt to fly in a homemade ornithopter, then falls in love with his canary.
	fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu /reiher/reviews/birdy.html (1159 words)

	What is Birdy about (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Birdy is a 1984 movie starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage directed by Alan Parker.
		Matthew Modine is Birdy, a diffident, ornithologically obsessed youth whose tenuous grasp on reality is maintained through his friendship with Al.
		Told in a series of flashbacks, the film opens with Al traveling to a military hospital to visit Birdy, who squats in a corner of his room all day staring out the window with his head cocked like a bird.
	www.ingsoc.com /gabriel/albums/birdy/movie.html (263 words)

	HPR1.com / Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Like the best films noir, the resulting mess spirals into a series of missteps that all point the protagonist to his doomed fate; revealing any of them would be as difficult as it would be unfair to those who have not seen the movie.
		This being a Coen film, Ed’s botched flmailing scheme affords myriad opportunities to introduce wondrous characters, and two of their finest are embodied by Tony Shaloub and Scarlett Johansson.
		With each film, and during the course of his TV series “Twin Peaks,” Lynch seems to stretch the bounds of what is accessible to his audience.
	www.hpr1.com /archives/Nov2201/movies.htm (1500 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Birdy
		"Birdy" (Matthew Modine) is an Army mental hospital patient in a catatonia so extreme that his doctors can do little for him and thus summon his boyhood friend Al Columbato (Nicolas Cage), an infantry soldier who also has been wounded, in an attempt to break through Birdy's withdrawal.
		The several small vignettes — all of which illustrate Birdy's rejection of conventional society and his fascination with the freedom of birds — are alternately funny, surprising, and profoundly sad, reminiscent (in structure at least) of a collection of Hemingway short stories.
		Cage, in one of his first film roles, tries to be dramatic but is just whiny and impulsive (a few years before his whiny and impulsive performance in Raising Arizona launched his career into orbit — perhaps the Coen Brothers saw something here that others didn't).
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/b/birdy.q.shtml (304 words)

	Birdy
		This film will totally sweep you in and take you off in directions you may never have expected.One thing is for sure, thoughafter watching this film, you'll reach out to others just a little more than you did before.
		BIRDY REVIEW: By Kasey "What struck me the first time I viewed Birdy is that although Matthew Modine and Nic are 'similar' in appearance, Nic "shines" because he has an awareness of his body language.
		Al's devotion to Birdy moved me. He never gave up on him, and that is what true friendship is all about.
	members.aol.com /eursin/films/82-90/birdy.htm (748 words)

	Peter Gabriel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Backing vocals in Genesis during Gabriel's tenure in the band were usually handled by bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford, keyboardist/guitarist Tony Banks, and (most prominently) drummer Phil Collins, who (after a long search for a replacement) eventually became Genesis's lead singer after Gabriel left the band in 1975.
		During the writing and recording of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Gabriel was approached by director William Friedkin, allegedly because Friedkin had found Gabriel's short story in the liner notes to Genesis Live interesting.
		Gabriel's interest in a film project with Friedkin was another contributing factor in his decision to leave Genesis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Gabriel (3386 words)

	Birdy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lying in a state of amentia, Birdy (Matthew Modine) fantasizes about birds in flight, an obsession that has haunted him since childhood.
		After doctors' efforts fail to cure him, his childhood friend Al (Nicolas Cage)--also a discharged soldier nursing wounds from the war--is brought in to try to coax Birdy out of his hallucinations.
		BIRDY, told largely in stark, lyrical flashbacks from Al's point of view, is both a heartrending examination of the psychological consequences of war and an ode to the spiritually rejuvenating powers of friendship and imagination.
	www.allocine.co.uk /film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=140.html (201 words)

	Birdy (1984) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Plot holes: The story is told in flashbacks between Birdy and Columbato who are in their early 20's in 1972, but are shown to be teenagers in the 1950's.
		But this would mean they age only six years over the course of seventeen years.
		This movie is a definite "must see." The ending was unexpected, to say the least, and made one realize that reality is, perhaps, not what it seems.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0086969 (284 words)

	Birdy - VHS - Title BA - BI Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		It’s a very emotional film, disturbing in a way but certainly a must see, and the ending is truly...
		I had heard nothing about what this film was about but watched it because I was on a mission to see every film Nicolas Cage had ever been in.
		Granted it is not a run of the mill film but it is a lovely story with a great twist at the end.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /vhs-title-ba-bi/birdy (204 words)

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