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	HONG KONG EXPRESS : BOAT PEOPLE
		Boat People è probabilmente il vertice della filmografia di Ann Hui, spietato documento di impegno civile applicato al cinema.
		Le apparenze vogliono Boat People come un film sul Vietnam e sul disastroso periodo seguente la rivoluzione interna, ma la realtà è molto diversa.
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	Brothers From Vietnam - Sidebar: The Boat People
		Media coverage was non-stop, powered by vivid descriptions and dramatic film clips of rickety boats and thousands of people floundering in the South China Sea.
		Boat people starved and drowned in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
		This had an important impact on the resettlement of the boat people and on the numbers allowed into the country.
	www.whitepinepictures.com /seeds/ii/16/sidebar.html (947 words)

	Boat people
		The people who get all the glamor are people who are risking their lives at a performance, like mountain climbers, race-car drivers, guys like that.
		I just felt that society should include in their admiration people who often have no education, who make very little money, and who are also doing something that is necessary to society.
		It's not that I wanted to make heroes out of the working classes, but I just felt that it was time to focus people a little bit on things like logging -- tremendously dangerous.
	www.providencephoenix.com /archive/movies/00/06/29/STORM_BAR.html (591 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Boat People
		The film centers on a Japanese photojournalist named Shiomi...
		A landmark of the nascent Hong Kong New Wave of the early '80s, this melodrama -- directed by Ann Hui -- concerns the plight of Vietnamese peasants shortly after the fall of Saigon.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/84447/moviemain.jhtml (591 words)

	Titanic (1997)
		Titanic was equiped with twenty lifeboats which were all capable of being lowered with over 65 people in each with the brand new lifeboat davits from the wellen company without strain of the weight.
		James Cameron's Titanic was equiped with 20 lifeboats all of which were not capable of being lowered with more than 30 people in the boat.
		Major error across the whole film: We are shown third class passengers locked below decks whilst first passengers get into lifeboats.
	www.wallywood.co.uk /films/Titanic-5/mistakes.aspx (667 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Lifeboat (REGION 1) (NTSC): DVD
		Lifeboat was an experimental film for Hitchcock; he reportedly wanted to make "order out of all the chaos of movie making," to see if he could really make a compelling movie with the action taking place in one location and the drama developed without recourse to flashbacks or cutaways.
		Lifeboat is all about the breaking down of the social veneers, that of class, education, and nationality, and it charts a group of people's descent into the vengeful darkness where none of them imagined they could ever go.
		While Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 film Lifeboat is not my favorite of his film, it certainly has a lot going for it, not the least of which is a bejeweled and glamorous Tallulah Bankhead playing a feisty war reporter, stranded on a life boat with a mismatched group of survivors.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A9QK7I (968 words)

	Austin Chronicle: An Interview With Jan Krawitz
		In almost 25 years of filmmaking, the 46-year-old former University of Texas doc-maker, now at Stanford, has cut a wide swath through topics as diverse as the demise of the drive-in movie ( Drive-In Blues, 1986), women's body images ( Mirror Mirror, 1990), and the life experience of dwarves ( Little People, 1984).
		Your other films, including Little People, are more "fly on the wall," observational-style, where the subjects speak for themselves and the filmmaker's presence is not obvious.
		On the other hand, a hundred different filmmakers could have set out to make Little People --starting from the same point of departure --and made a hundred different films, each with a different agenda and sensibility in terms of what's interesting about the subject.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue46/screens.doctour.html (968 words)

	Lifeboat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A lifeboat is a boat designed to allow passengers to escape, or a boat kept on land or in a harbour to rescue people in trouble at sea.
		Lifeboats for the North Sea include an electric heater for the engine oil, which is left on in cold weather.
		All lifeboats of this type generally have modern electronic devices such as radios and radar to help locate the party in distress and carry medical and food supplies for the survivors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lifeboat (1270 words)

	Lifeboat The A.V. Club
		A lot of directors would have let that stand as the film's message, but Lifeboat is a film in which people's capacity for kindness and cruelty go hand in hand, particularly when they find themselves removed from their usual environments.
		For the 1944 film Lifeboat—new to DVD in a nicely restored edition filled out with a scholarly commentary and a making-of doc—Hitchcock fixed his action to a single location even more claustrophobic than Rear Window's: a lifeboat drifting from the wreckage of a ship sunk by a German U-boat.
		For a director with such a boundless command of film language, Alfred Hitchcock had an odd compulsion to restrict himself.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/42023 (465 words)

	Lifeboat Movie: Lifeboat DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Based on a story by John Steinbeck, LIFEBOAT tells of the desperate struggle for survival of a group of people whose boat was torpedoed by a German U-boat during the Second World War.
		LIFEBOAT is an unusual yet thrilling film from Alfred Hitchcock.
		LIFEBOAT is an intense thriller crafted around the psychological drama produced when eight unlikely companions are thrown together by drastic circumstance.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/024543172260IE (396 words)

	Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat Music Review
		Blueberry Boat is the equivalent of a David Lynch film: beautiful, strangely twisted with no real answers to be found.
		These are the type of people that try to tell you what the meaning of a David Lynch film is. Actually, that is the best analogy of this album I can offer.
		Blueberry Boat is a 76 minute tea cup ride on acid.
	www.zboneman.com /music/871.html (550 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Knife in the Water
		The annals of filmdom ring with directors rueing the day they ever set foot on a boat: John Huston losing cameras and entire whale props while filming Moby Dick, for instance.
		The sailboat isn't that big, and the camera seems to be all over it, always showing the three, the boat, the water and the sky - but no crew, which had to be at least three more people.
		Disc two has the treasure for old fans of Polanski: all eight of his short films, not just the ones frequently shown at festivals.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s947knife.html (550 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Roman Polanski - 2003 [1962] - Knife in the Water (Nóz w wodzie) Movies Review
		Roman Polanski's first feature-length film, which is also his only Polish feature film, is a fairly minimalist (low-budget) portrayal of three people that takes place mostly on a sailboat.
		Polanski takes credit for framing the shots and acknowledges the challenges photographer Jerzy Lipman overcame while filming the boat and on the boat.
		It is an atmospheric, low-budget film of a simple story, not comparable to the complexities of Chinatown, Macbeth, or Tess, etc. And for a three-character drama of shifting power relations, Polanski's film of Ariel Dorfman's play Death and the Maiden is more consequential and accomplished (with particularly memorable performances by Sigourney Weaver and Ben Kingsley).
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10005303 (550 words)

	MediaRights.org Using Grassroots Documentary Films for Political Change
		Because so many people appeared in the film, it essentially "dumped sources into laps of reporters," and the general respect for the historical accuracy of the film meant that these sources could not be simply dismissed as vehicles for pro-union propaganda.
		The film is also regarded by some activists as contributing to the momentum toward the eventual passage of a Mining Moratorium bill in the Wisconsin State Legislature, which was one of the specific goals of the coalition of anti-mining groups.
		The film also provoked labor activists and historians to undertake further research into events in their own localities, and this led to greater awareness of other strikes and labor activities in the 1930s and after.
	www.uwm.edu /People/type/FilmDept/Events/DanielsonFGU_White/UsingGrassRootsDocs.html (1471 words)

	Lifeboat Situations - Mises Institute
		After he is convicted, it would be the right of the lifeboat owner or the heir of the person tossed out to forgive Smith, to pardon him because of the unusual circumstances; but it would also be their right not to pardon and to proceed with the full force of their legal right to punish.
		A pragmatic point related to the rarity of the lifeboat case is that, as we know from economic science, a regime of property rights and the free-market economy would lead to a minimum of "lifeboat situations"â”a minimum of cases where more than one person is battling over a scarce resource for survival.
		In a lifeboat situation, indeed, we apparently have a war of all against all, and there seems at first to be no way to apply our theory of self-ownership or of property rights.
	www.mises.org /fullstory.aspx?Id=1628 (2139 words)

	The CHUD.COM Message Boards - Film School
		People who will SHOW UP even if they are not getting paid, because you are all in the same "boat" so-to speak.
		Film school, especially the good ones, isn't about learning stuff you could learn from talking to directors-hell, I learned all the stuff my friends in the Film/TV program are learning in a month at Miami when I was in High School-it's about making--AND KEEPING--contacts.
		It's about having teachers (depending on the film school) who have actually worked in the industry, whether it be H-wood or independently, who have at least made a few films and have experience to share with students.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=31255 (2139 words)

	DVDActive - Reviews - Video Discs - Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (US - DVD R1)
		The original Anaconda was an entertaining and campy horror film, one of those movies that seeing with an audience was half the experience; people yelling at the screen, screaming and then laughing in unison was all part of the fun.
		Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid is presented with the choice of either an anamorphic widescreen transfer at the film’s theatrical aspect ratio of 2.40:1 or a 1.33:1 pan and scan transfer for its release on DVD.
		The film’s sound is crisp and clear, but I found too much of the film’s sound forced through the centre and front channels creating an audio experience that isn’t as immersive as it should be for a film that takes place in the jungle and features gigantic, slithering reptiles.
	www.dvdactive.com /reviews/dvd/anacondas-the-hunt-for-the-blood-orchid.html (1553 words)

	Fiji has grip on ‘Anaconda’ - Saturday 17 May 2003 - News & Press Releases
		The original film, about a giant anaconda that stalks a group of people on a boat, starred Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight and Owen Wilson, and was shot in the Amazon.
		Films with budgets exceeding F$25 million ($13 million) qualify for the rebate regardless of what percentage of local expenditure of the budget is spent.
		As with the first film, Sony is handling distribution on the sequel, which will be called “Anaconda 2: The Black Orchid.” It starts shooting in
	www.fijiaudiovisual.com /content/publish/printer_59.shtml (341 words)

	And You Call Yourself a Scientist! - Orca (1977)
		The film draws a distinction between women and Native Americans, who are "primitive" and thus "instinctively" know what’s going on, and white men, who are creatures of "intellect" and must learn that there are more things in heaven and earth, yada-yada.
		When Orca first played TV here it was, for reasons that escape me at this distance (never mind what distance!), the film that everyone was planning on watching.
		As the film’s heroes – or rather, protagonists – no, no, central characters, that’s it – Richard Harris and Charlotte Rampling are fittingly terrible in terrible roles.
	twtd.bluemountains.net.au /Rick/liz_orca.htm (1195 words)

	Ilayaraaja's New malayalam film "Manasinakkare"
		The gut & gir; on Boat is from the film "For the people".
		Folks, the film is a big hit in kerala (thats what i heard) and the songs are being repeatedly aired in all private channels.
		The film is doing excellent business & has good a good film verdict....The Sify review says : "However the selling point of Manasinakkare is Sheela and the music of Ilayaraja".
	www.tfmpage.com /forum/21133.10.25.28.html (1479 words)

	London in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1999 film The World is Not Enough opens with an extended boat chase from the MI6 building down the river to the Millennium Dome, while in Die Another Day (2002) Bond visits a secret base in a disused Underground station, and makes a rare trip to his club Blades.
		The films follow the awkward love lives of largely upper-middle class characters (aside from The Tall Guy, always including one played by Hugh Grant) in a London which is sunny (even at Christmas), glamorous, clean and full of people who smile at each other.
		The London underground of the 1920s is also recorded in Anthony Asquith's silent classic Underground (1928), while the 1969 film Battle of Britain shows the tunnel network converted to provide shelter for Londoners during the Blitz.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_in_film (1479 words)

	Documentary film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They were single shots, moments captured on film, whether of a train entering a station, a boat docking, or a factory of people getting off work.
		Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional.
		In the sixties and seventies documentary film was often conceived as a political weapon against neocolonialism and capitalism in general, especially in Latin America.
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Documentary_film (1275 words)

	SPLICEDwire "Boat Trip" review (2003) Mort Nathan, Cuba Gooding Jr., Horatio Sanz
		Driven entirely by tedious clichés, vulgar stereotypes, tawdry and low-brow raunch-as-comedy gags, and the degrading, almost minstrel-show antics of a mugging, rubber-faced Cuba Gooding Jr., "Boat Trip" is a gay-themed movie aimed squarely and exclusively at stupid straight people.
		And the film concludes with one of those shopworn and misogynistic "happy endings" in which immature men are taken back -- after a brief, half-hearted apology -- by women they've betrayed and treated with contempt.
		Inexplicably, she has the hots for him too -- not because there's anything attractive about him whatsoever, but because the director is transparently more interested in any excuse for bug-eyed boob shots than he is in anything remotely resembling story or humor.
	www.splicedonline.com /03reviews/boattrip.html (349 words)

	American History Through Film
		In his films, easterners were portrayed as corrupt and effete, men who controlled power to the detriment of hte people.
		The film portrays the counter-culture as hypocritical, hollow and destructive.
		The film presents the history from 1963 to the present as a series of tragedies--assassination, war, civil unrest, death.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /mintz/lec6.htm (5400 words)

	Rejs
		The film is constructed around hilarious events that took place during a cruise on a river boat of a group of unfamiliar people.
		Rejs (The Cruise) - 1970 - is a famous Polish film by Marek Piwowski.
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	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Rejs.htm (185 words)

	Documentary film - explanation-Guide.info - for information, definition, meaning, reference - free encyclopedia, glossary of terms
		They were single shots, moments captured on film, whether of a train entering a station, a boat docking, or a factory of people getting off work.
		The newsreel tradition is an important tradition in documentary film; newsreels were also sometimes staged but were usually reenactments of events that had already happened, not attempts to steer events as they were in the process of happening.
		These short films were called "actualities." Very little storytelling took place before the turn of the century, due mostly to technological limitations: cameras could hold only very small amounts of film; many of the first films are a minute or less in length.
	explanation-guide.info /meaning/Documentary-film.html (185 words)

	Pearl Harbor mistakes, goofs and bloopers
		Factual error: In the first view of Pearl Harbor, just before the nurses are shown in the small transport boat as they arrive at Pearl, you clearly see the Arizona Memorial in the background as the camera pans down from sky to harbour.
		Visible crew/equipment: During the attack on Pearl Harbor, when the people are jumping off the ships, you can briefly see a crew member (dressed as a sailor) holding a camera (covered in green plastic) floating next to him in the water.
		Please note: Most mistakes in this film are fair game, but Disney's said numerous times that it's meant to be a love story, and not historically accurate in every detail.
	www.moviemistakes.com /film964 (973 words)

	Films by G P O Film Unit on DVD & VHS - MovieMail UK
		GPO Film Unit documentary showing the effect on the British people of the first 2 years of War.
		Features The Saving of Bill Blewitt (Harry Watt, 1937), a film made in documentary style about two fishermen whose boat is wrecked but who manage to save up enough to buy another; North Sea (Har...
		Marvellous collection of eight innovative and interesting films made by the GPO film unit when they were pioneers of the short film.
	www.moviemail-online.co.uk /directors/1368 (973 words)

	Timeline 1879-1882
		Washington as a "normal" school and industrial institute where "colored" people with little or no formal schooling could be trained as teachers and skilled workers.
		He moved on to vaudeville and, by 1916, he was the wisecracking star of Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies." As a newspaper columnist and book author, Rogers poked fun at important people and events, and he was equally successful as a motion picture actor.
		Part Cherokee Indian, Rogers once told a Boston audience, "My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat." Rogers got his show business start in 1902 doing rope tricks in a Wild West show.
	timelines.ws /1879_1882.HTML (973 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Twin Dragons [1999]
		Twin Dragons is basically about two identical people who switch lives.
		The story is quite funny, as you can find scenes which are unbelievably hilarious, and it proves to be an entertaining film.
		There's plenty of action, with an opening fight sequence, a boat chase (during which the other twin gets seasick in a restaurant), assorted fights and car chases, culminating in the final set piece of a running fight in a vehicle testing centre.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000634C7 (973 words)

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