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	Encyclopedia4U - Brief Encounter - Encyclopedia Article (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Brief Encounter (1945) is a British film directed by David Lean starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard.
		In the film, there is voice-over narration (quite unnecessarily, one might argue), with Laura addressing her husband, or rather Laura imagining addressing her husband, in a dream-like state.
		In her book Noël Coward (Macmillan, 1987), Frances Gray says that Brief Encounter is, "after the major comedies, the one work of Coward that almost everybody knows of and has probably seen; it has featured frequently on television and its viewing figures are invariably high.
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	Family and Love in The Stars Look Down and Brief Encounter. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Brief Encounter demonstrates a post-war abandon that sees a wife sacrifice time with her children for another woman’s husband and the husband who has to leave his country in order to sever ties with another man’s wife.
		It is the subverted marriage, the brief encounter of the title, that represents an ideology different to that we would expect.
		Despite the fact that she constructs the brief encounter as love as opposed to lust, we see her spend time with Alec at the expense of her children, made worse when her son is hit by a car.
	www.talkingpix.co.uk /ArticleBriefEncounter.html (1924 words)

	Interview with Filmmaker Doug Martin about his film "Brief Encounter", 8/03
		"Brief Encounter," which plays as part of the shorts program at Wood’s Hole and will be shown prior to the feature film "Monkey Business" in Rhode Island, was a labor of love for Martin.
		"Brief Encounter" tells the simple tale of a timid man (a "goober," as the director describes him) in a laundromat who is bewitched by a saucily-swaying, uninhibited woman doing her wash next to his.
		Martin: "Brief Encounter" began as a project while I was a student at Emerson.
	www.newenglandfilm.com /news/archives/03august/martin.htm (1482 words)

	Brief Encounter: A Woman’s Picture • Cinema Review
		While Brief Encounter (1945) was popular with audiences and critics alike in its day (it won the Grand Prize at the first Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for three Academy Awards), its status as romantic masterpiece is still undecided.
		Brief Encounter was what the studios at the time called a “woman’s picture” (we’d call them “chick flicks” or “date movies” today).
		Brief Encounter distinguishes itself from similar genre pictures of the time by depicting women not as they are, but as men see them.
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	Brief Encounter - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Brief Encounter (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Classic 1945 British film directed by David Lean, starring Celia Johnson as a housewife who falls in love with Trevor Howard and struggles to stay faithful to her husband.
		I had never heard in the theatre lines that were alive, that presupposed and took for granted, like those which passed between Varville and Marguerite in the brief encounter before her friends entered.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Brief+Encounter (184 words)

	David Lean - Brief Encounter (1945) \| Movie Review
		He was thirty-two when Brief Encounter was made and Celia Johnson eight years older.
		Brief Encounter was their fourth collaboration, following on the heels of This Happy Breed (1944) and Blithe Spirit (1945).
		At the end of a day's filming the unit camped on location at Lake Naivasha, miles from the comforts of their Nairobi hotel, were sometimes shown a film in the main dining tent.
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	Brief Encounter Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Brief Encounter is told from Laura's perspective, as she sits in miserable domestic bliss with her husband Fred (Cyril Raymond).
		His knowledge of Brief Encounter and the principals involved is exhaustive.
		Laura and Alec's encounter may be brief, but in restoring the film to its original majesty, Criterion has ensured that cinephiles can carry on their love affair with this exquisite classic for a long time to come.
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	Brief Encounter (1946)
		Brief Encounter (1946) is director David Lean's brilliantly-crafted, classic British masterpiece.
		She intrudes unexpectedly, garrulously dominating the conversation until it is time for Alec to abruptly part to catch his 5:40 train to Churley ("I go in the opposite direction").
		Dolly spoils their final few, painful moments together, forcing their farewell to be brief and offhandedly deceptive.
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	Brief Encounter: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Brief Encounter (1945) is a British[For more info, click on this link] film Film quick summary:
		Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general....
		Dame celia johnson (1908-1982) was an english actress, famous for her role in the 1945 film, brief encounter, opposite trevor howard....
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	Brief Encounter (1945)
		Brief Encounter was David Lean's first major success both in popular and critical terms.
		The source of Brief Encounter was Noel Coward's 1935 play Still Life, and the first step of the adaptors (Lean, Neame, Havelock-Allan, and Coward himself) was towards opening the play up.
		Brief Encounter is a classic romantic drama set in 1945 during WWII in and around the fictional Milford railway station.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /directors/d_lean/filmography/008.html (431 words)

	BBC - Movies - review - Brief Encounter
		Ignore the voices who claim that Brief Encounter is the epitome of sexless, class-bound and emotionally timid British cinema.
		That her relationship with Alec (Howard) hinges on their joint fear of being discovered and shamed - at one point she is terrified at being addressed by a passing policeman - suggests a gay subtext, especially given the identity of the writer Coward and the historical era.
		Crucial to Brief Encounter's impact is the the soundtrack of Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto, which dramatizes the yearnings of the reticent lovers.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2006/02/06/brief_encounter_2006_review.shtml (394 words)

	Brief Encounter (1946)
		Their first meeting is innocent enough, as is their next when they run into each other in the street.
		After a third chance encounter when they share a table at a cafe, they can no longer deny their mutual attraction.
		Brief Encounter is a beautiful film and Criterion's transfer does it full justice.
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	ESA - Rosetta - Giotto’s brief encounter
		Giotto encountered Comet Halley about one day later, when it crossed the bow shock of the solar wind (the region where a shock wave is created as the supersonic solar particles slow to subsonic speed).
		When Giotto entered the densest part of the dusty coma, the camera began tracking the brightest object (the nucleus) in its field of view.
		The historic encounter ended 15 March when Giotto’s experiments were turned off.
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	eBay - VHS: Brief Encounter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lean's fourth film, BRIEF ENCOUNTER--which was also his fourth and final collaboration with Coward--adapts the playwright's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love.
		The pair soon find themselves drawn together through weekly meetings at the station cafe, their casual encounters blooming into a chaste love affair marked by intimate conversation, longing glances--and the tragic realization that neither of them will be able to break the bonds of social propriety that keep them wedded to other people.
		Brief Encounter, for all its occasional quaintness, is a deeply engaging character study as well as a doomed romance.
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	Brief Encounter (1974) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And the answer was obviously always the same: the allure of a sexually titillating romance could not be overcome for a victim of WWII the wonderful stability of home and family, no matter how 'boring'.
		Definitely a morality tale, 'Brief Encounter' is based on a Noel Coward play which I find intriguing.
		The movement is slow, the dialogue similarly, and you are left wondering what exactly was missing from her home life that she should turn to this fellow.
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	San Antonio Current - Music Brief encounter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At first blush, ultra-sensitive indie popsters such as Death Cab for Cutie might seem to be what the Briefs find wrong with Seattle’s music scene, but it’s actually emo that turns out to be their kryptonite.
		As a result, the Briefs donned stage costumes — skinny ties, plastic sunglasses, bottle-blond coifs — that were a direct protest against the sort of woeful droning that was slowly redefining the Seattle punk scene they loved so much.
		For this question, Travanti asks drummer Chris Brief for his thoughts and in the background you can hear Brief shout his reply.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Brief Encounter [1945]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The story seems slight--a respectable suburban housewife has a chance meeting with a handsome married doctor, their friendship becomes romance, but they feel the pressures of convention pulling their relationship apart--but the writing, acting and direction are sublime, turning what might have been just another melodrama into a memorable and heartbreaking story of impossible love.
		"Brief Encounter" is a beautifully directed and acted film about two middle aged married people who enter into a short adulterous affair after meeting by chance at a railway station cafe.
		However they are wracked by guilt and their joy is dampened by the lies and deceit required to continue their illicit relationship and their desire not to hurt each other or their spouses.
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	GreenCine \| product main - Brief Encounter (Criterion Collection) (1946) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Based on Noël Coward's play "Still Life," Brief Encounter is a romantic, bittersweet drama about two married people who meet by chance in a London railway station and carry on an intense love affair.
		Sentimental yet down-to-earth and set in pre-World War II England, the film follows British housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson), who is on her way home, but catches a cinder in her eye.
		A deserved classic in so many ways, BRIEF ENCOUNTER--now 60 years old--tells a love story about an affair between two married-to-others (without sex, yet!) that is every bit the equal on any modern film of similar subject.
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	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| David Lean: Brief Encounter
		But when David Lean's Brief Encounter (1945) was previewed in Rochester, a coarse laugh from near the front of the audience enlivened the first love scene.
		The risk came off triumphantly, and Brief Encounter remains a piece of cinema remembered with affection by almost everybody who saw it.
		Lean did nothing to interrupt the main thrust of the story, in which a happily married woman with a nice husband and children falls for a man with whom there can be no future.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,365685,00.html (703 words)

	Brief encounter - Fashion - www.theage.com.au
		None of the three fashion festival lingerie shows under his watch were tacky, despite the trend to high-cut, low-slung, often see-through balconette bras and snug-fit French briefs.
		In a high-voltage finale, models and dancers snaked up and down the catwalk in a parrot-coloured congo line, punctuated by semi-bare, bouncing buttocks and breasts.
		The festival's fourth lingerie show, at the Sofitel Hotel, was of Calvin Klein's latest trends: for girls it was soft stretch lace, mesh and satin support bras and boy-leg briefs cut high over the buttocks; and for boys, it was soft stretch trunks with complicated support panels, and no boxer shorts in sight.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/03/17/1079199291154.html?from=storyrhs (341 words)

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		One of the most popular shows of the Golden Age of TV Westerns, CHEYENNE followed the adventures of Cheyenne Bodie (Clint Walker), a strong and silent frontiersman seeking unsuccessfully to avoid trouble and live peaceably in the lawless West.
		Moving from job to job, Cheyenne invariably encountered a steady stream of villains, outlaws, gunfights, and beautiful women.
		The acting and writing for the show was comparable to most westerns of the time, but what sent the show skyrocketing to the top....
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		If it's true that we all have only one true love then Brief Encounter represents the pain and joy of finding that love when already betrothed.
		Part of the joy of this encounter is that Alec and Laura don't immediately jump into each others arms with barely a thought for their families.
		Throughout Brief Encounter the level and subtly of emotion is perfect, from the distance of strangers to the bitter, gut-wrenching pain of leaving your true love.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Brief_Encounter.html (367 words)

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		Brief Encounter : Close Encounters of the 40s Kind
		There are films that a lot of people think they know, but have never really seen.
		David Lean’s ‘Brief Encounter’ is certainly a good example.
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	Amazon.com: Brief Encounter (1946) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		To many, Brief Encounter may seem like a relic of more proper times--or, specifically, more properly British times--when the pressures of marital decorum and fidelity were perhaps more keenly felt.
		In truth, David Lean's fourth film remains a timeless study of true love (or, rather, the promise of it), and the aching desire for intimate connection that is often subdued by the obligations of marriage.
		From this point forward, Lean turns this utterly precise, 85-minute film into a bracing study of romantic suspense, leading inevitably, and with the paranoid, furtive glances of a spy thriller, to the moment when this brief encounter must be consummated or abandoned altogether.
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	Our Brief Encounter -- created with PhotoSite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is a collection of photo's that has been taken over the past two years on Our Personal Tribute to Brief Encounter.
		I notice the basket Celia had with her in the film, Was more or less the same one that she carried with her one year later in Brief Encounter.
		So when you look at the photo with Janet in 2005 with the basket we had made for her and Celia in 1944 and Celia again in Brief encounter in 1945.
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	Grafham Stud - Brief Encounter
		Brief Encounter is a bay stallion by Jumbo out of
		Brief Encounter also has a sister in the USA, Java, who is a Grade A showjumper and was in the Robert Smith yard prior to going to the States.
		Brief encounter came out at the end of 2004 and qualified at Knaptoff for the 4-year-old Burghley Young Event Horse Final where he was placed 7th at the final and top-placed stallion.
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	EDITORIAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pirapaharan’s first press conference in over a decade raised possibilities of new, perhaps radical, announcements - particularly with the Norwegian peace initiative in Sri Lanka moving at breakneck pace.
		With only two hours scheduled - the Tigers later relenting and extending the briefing by over half an hour - there inevitably were several questions that wouldn’t be asked.
		But the time was further constrained by some reporters who apparently mistook the press conference venue for a court room.
	www.tamilguardian.com /tg156/editorial.htm (1183 words)

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