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	Buffalo Soldiers (2001 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buffalo Soldiers is a 2001 film that follows the rogue activities of a group of US soldiers based in West Germany during 1989 when the fall of the Berlin Wall is imminent.
		The world premiere was held at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival in early September.
		However, being a satire of the US Military, the film's wider theatrical run was delayed by approximately two years in response to the increased patriotism and respect for the military within the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buffalo_Soldiers_(film) (207 words)

	Buffalo Soldiers (2003): Reviews
		The film is filled with spot-on performances, by Harris, Glenn, Phoenix, and by Paquin, who has grown up after her debut in "The Piano" to become one of the most gifted actresses of her generation--particularly in tricky, emotion-straddling roles like this one.
		The highest accomplishment of Buffalo Soldiers is its wise invocation of that weirdest of all precincts, the post, and the odd culture it spawns.
		Buffalo Soldiers is not intended to be an expose of how American soldiers spent their days and hours during peacetime, nor is it intended to be an attack on the U.S. military.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/buffalosoldiers (1769 words)

	MrJoaquin.com ~ A Joaquin Phoenix FanSite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Buffalo Soldiers is thebeacon you have been waiting for, a bright, entertaining, film, which is funny withoutbeing a ha-ha comedy.
		Even the film's promotional poster in which Phoenix is depicting flashing a peace sign tied the film company in knots for a spell, as protesters flooded their switchboard to denounce the poster as a slap in the face to America's troops.
		Buffalo Soldiers is ill-timed only in that the issue of warriors in peacetime is no longer relevant; but to suggest that it is shameful or unpatriotic is as absurd as suggesting that American college students should no longer read Joseph Heller's Catch-22, or Tim O'Brien's searing novels about Vietnam.
	www.moxzii.com /joaquin/buffalo (21442 words)

	kamera.co.uk - film review - Buffalo Soldiers directed by Director: Gregor Jordan - reviewed by ...
		Buffalo Soldiers is set in West Germany in 1989, in the days leading up to the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
		Buffalo Soldiers is neither a rant against injustice or a blazing critique of American militarism (the flawed Three Kings at least managed to broach this subject).
		The term Buffalo Soldier was applied to the segregated, all NEGRO batallions and troops of the U.S. Army.
	www.kamera.co.uk /reviews_extra/buffalo_soldiers.php (1247 words)

	Buffalo Soldiers: triple j film reviews
		For Buffalo Soldiers is a film that pokes fun at the American military, in the grand tradition of ‘war is hell’ movies such as Mike Nichol’s surreal Catch 22 (1970), David O. Russell’s searing Three Kings (1999) and even Robert Altman’s MAS*H (1972).
		Buffalo Soldiers is set during ‘peacetime’ on an American army base in 1980s West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
		After watching the film’s narrator Ray Elwood (Gladiator’s Joaquin Phoenix) fall through the drug/dream haze that is the opening title sequence (signs of things to come), we meet a bunch of very bored American soldiers climbing the walls inside the ‘rec room’ of their base.
	www.abc.net.au /triplej/review/film/s927837.htm (506 words)

	Buffalo Soldiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The military in peacetime is boring, muses Ray Elwood, the irrepressible main character in Buffalo Soldiers, a funny, sometimes biting satire set on an American army base in West Germany in 1989, right before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
		That view alone is reason enough to enjoy the film, whose release was delayed for a couple of years due to political constraints.
		Buffalo Soldiers screened at the Toronto Film Festival in September of 2001 and was scheduled to open widely soon after.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies7/BuffaloSoldiers.htm (498 words)

	Film Comment Magazine: Online Only: Buffalo Soldiers
		Buffalo Soldiers, based on a novel by Robert O'Connor and directed by Australian Gregor Jordan, unfolds amidst the drear concrete and slick linoleum of the Theodore Roosevelt Army Base in Stuttgart, West Germany, during that time, in October of 1989, when the political bisection of Berlin was inexorably moving from reality into history.
		Phoenix's precise, almost completely opaque performance is certainly the most interesting thing about Buffalo Soldiers; his Elwood is a smokescreen of controlled indifference, mouth teeter-tottering between a sneer, a smile, and a smirk, gray-blue eyes registering whatever you want them to register, and a voice with all modulations attenuated for maximum impenetrability.
		But for all that, this is a film that stays K-ration vacuum-packed against the possibility of laughter, against even a contact-high of amoral giddiness.
	www.filmlinc.com /fcm/online/reviewbuffalo.htm (788 words)

	News for Buffalo Soldiers (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Miramax has found itself caught in yet another controversy over its movie Buffalo Soldiers, about a group of rogue U.S. soldiers stationed in Germany prior to the collapse of the Berlin wall.
		Although it has a reputation for releasing controversial films, Miramax has once again delayed the release of the satirical Buffalo Soldiers -- concerned about how the public might react to its theme, about the questionable activities of a group of American soldiers in Germany just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
		A Sundance Film Festival screening of Buffalo Soldiers, bought by Miramax Films in Sept. 2001 and shelved following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, turned into an uproar Tuesday when a woman in the audience denounced the film during a Q&A period afterwards.
	us.imdb.com /TNews?0252299 (601 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Reviews \| Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
		Buffalo Soldiers is an excellent satirical swipe at George Dubya's defenders of freedom.
		The scenes with the tank are some of the funniest committed to film.
		This film has an edge, it bristles with danger and chaos underneath the seemingly ordered world of the army.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Reader_Review/0,4163,-96268,00.html (458 words)

	Buffalo Soldiers (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Films that are kept on the shelf for a while usually sign bad news, but this movie came out at an ill-timed moment.
		The Buffalo Soldiers were a historic fl infantry division in the segregated army.
		US soldiers have let their lives here, but they were certainly not the only ones and they were all soldiers, contrary to millions of civilians here.
	www.chokingonpopcorn.com /popcorn/index.php?p=291 (4442 words)

	Buffalo Soldiers (2001): Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Anna Paquin, Scott Glenn - PopMatters Film Review
		Still, Buffalo Soldiers makes an often witty, sometimes overkilled case that the military is designed to incite hostilities and rivalries with a series of escalating contests on the U.S. base.
		According to Jordan's film, the soldiers serving after the Vietnam War were not volunteers in a conventional sense -- they were the "dregs" of society, only willing to "enlist" in order to be paroled, from prison or otherwise desperate circumstances of their lives ("Vietnam," says Elwood, "was the thorn in everybody's side").
		The film is ambitious and gorgeous, the landscape serving as a kind of objective correlative for characters' cravings and astonishments.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/b/buffalo-soldiers.shtml (1571 words)

	Modamag.com \| Buffalo Soldiers - Movie Review
		Purchased at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival by Miramax Films, the film was quickly shelved when the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred in New York.
		Fearful of director Gregor Jordan’s rather timely view of trained soldiers with no enemies left to fight but themselves, the picture was left to gather dust for a year.
		“Buffalo” bucks that trend with its roaring comedy and precise satire of the state of dormant military personal.
	www.modamag.com /buffalosoldiers.htm (614 words)

	Buffalo Soldiers (2001) reviewed by AllZone4DVD.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Often compared to 'Catch 22', 'Buffalo Soldiers' plays more like a matter-of-fact and darker satirical reworking of 'MASH', where the stress of casualties and menace of the Koreans is replaced by the threat of the soldiers turning in on themselves or each other.
		'Buffalo Soldiers' is a derisive, ironic and unflattering examination of the lunacy inherent in peacekeeping politics.
		Layered with deadpan humour, a sharp, witty script and a cast of characters who deliver their performances with believable assurance, 'Buffalo Soldiers' is a highly provocative film ultimately advocating that some truths are indeed stranger than fiction.
	www.allzone4dvd.net /review_details.htm?id=758 (734 words)

	Film Review: Buffalo Soldiers
		The narrator has a good line to describe what this is about: "Soldiers with nothing to kill but time." American troops in the Supply Corps in West Germany, 1989.
		A couple of soldiers are killed in that incident, news of which is swept under the carpet with everything else.
		Films out now: March Of The Penguins, After Midnight, Crying Fist, Calvaire, The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, Scorched, Lower City, Doom
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/b/buffalo_soldiers_2001.shtml (452 words)

	Illinois Times: A & E: Videos: A few hidden gems at the video store
		Green's films are very poetic -- he has been compared with Terrence Malick -- and the narrative drifts from scene to scene in a quiet slumber.
		Buffalo Soldiers, an anti-military satire, premiered at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival, and it was picked up for distribution by Miramax on Sept. 10.
		Buffalo Soldiers is an excellent film that fell victim to political correctness.
	www.illinoistimes.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:3057 (647 words)

	Buffalo Soldiers (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Buffalo soldiers was supposed to have been a nickname given to African-American cavalrymen by Indians after the Civil War because the soldiers wore buffalo robes.
		And poor Harris is made to play a full colonel, one step away from generalhood, but is so lacking in military presence, in common sense, that he apologizes to Phoenix after yelling at him a little.
		This film made me sick, and that's a good thing.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0252299 (978 words)

	The GATE: Buffalo Soldiers Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This sets up the rest of the film, showing the audience just how careless this group of guys are and it also lets you in on the dark comedy of the film when you see the body unceremoniously dumped out a window.
		The script for her parts in the film weren't that inventive and she definitely didn't need to be in the film at all, but not all of that is her fault.
		The feel of this film is darker of course, and more of a drama than Police Academy, but all of the comic bits, especially the drugged out guys in the tank rumbling through a nearby city, just felt too much like the stuff you'd see Mahoney do to Lieutenant Harris as Commandant Lassard watched.
	www.thegate.ca /tiff/2001/buffalo-soldiers.htm (933 words)

	Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
		After debuting at the Toronto Film Festival in 2001, Buffalo Soldiers got quickly shuffled out of the limelight after the terrorist attacks of September 11th (and the subsequent war in Afghanistan).
		Snappily-paced, with many quite funny (and wrong) scenes, Buffalo Soldiers is carried by a fine cast, led by the charismatic Joaquin Phoenix who is coming into his own as a versatile actor.
		Though the film is completely un-politically correct in these highly patriotic times, hopefully audiences will find the time to relax and enjoy this over-the-top (or not?) flick for what it is: a laugh out loud dark comedy with a bitter bite.
	www.moviepie.com /rent/buffalo_soldiers.htm (460 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Buffalo Soldiers [2003]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Buffalo Soldiers is an original film with a wonderfully sharp script.
		It seems that the soldiers of the late 80s were as undisciplined and as drug addicted as the soldiers in Viet Nam, only the men in Germany have boredom as their curse, rather than thousands of determined guerillas seeking to eject them from their homeland.
		This film is well made with great performances by all, the characters work on many levels, (which is a rare quality for a film these days.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00018HTJ6 (1231 words)

	What DVD :: Buffalo Soldiers :: DVD Reviews, Film Reviews, Interviews ::
		Buffalo Soldiers is a biting military satire in the same vein as MAS*H (1970) and Three Kings (1999).
		One of the must see films of the year Buffalo Soldiers is a refreshing change for those that may be left cold by the usual onslaught of summer blockbusters.
		BUFFALO SOLDIERS was his second collaboration with Jordan, his third being the forthcoming picture, Ned Kelly.
	www.whatdvd.net /review.asp?ID=114 (8145 words)

	pw: philadelphia weekly online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Buffalo Soldiers plays like something out of a time capsule from the late-'90s nadir of overly entitled nihilism.
		In fact, watching Buffalo Soldiers is a lot like looking at an embarrassing old high school picture of yourself in a denim jacket, acid-washed jeans and a mullet.
		Buffalo Soldiers yearns for a place at the table next to angry military satires like MAS*H or Three Kings, but Jordan doesn't seem to understand that satire stems from outrage, not smug self-satisfaction.
	www.philadelphiaweekly.com /view.php?id=5983 (558 words)

	TORONTO 2001: Caught in the Middle; From "Buffalo Soldiers" to "Dog Days"
		With a budget of roughly $15 million, according to Jordan, the film was always meant to reach a large audience.
		Like "Buffalo Soldiers," del Toro's "Devil's Backbone" (also being sold by Good Machine International, by the way) is a glossy, accessible horror-thriller that seems almost too big to fit the shoes of a specialized company.
		Siedl's film is filled with saggy, sweaty flesh, and corrosive human behavior -- and it is sort of incisive and funny and original, for about an hour (the film lasts two).
	www.indiewire.com /onthescene/fes_01Toronto_010911_half.html (678 words)

	Salt Lake City Weekly - The Winds of War Movies
		At a Sundance Film Festival screening of his new film Buffalo Soldiers, director Gregor Jordan—and one unfortunate audience member—learned what there is to gain by making a war movie that rows against the tide of popular opinion.
		The part-MASH/part-Stripes story of a crew of Army scam artists and drug dealers operating out of a German base in 1989, Buffalo Soldiers premiered at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival and was purchased for distribution by Miramax Films in a deal finalized on Sept. 10, 2001.
		So it may have been predictable that—even in the rarefied air of Park City—an audience member would get incensed enough at Buffalo Soldiers’ “unpatriotic” tone that she would hurl a bottle of water at Jordan, bouncing it off the noggin of a fellow spectator.
	www.slweekly.com /editorial/2003/arts_2003-02-13.cfm (873 words)

	Ned Kelly
		His first short film "Swinger" won the Tropicana Short Film Festival in Sydney before going on to collect the Jury Prize at Cannes in 1995.
		Jordan's debut feature film "Two Hands" starring Heath Ledger and Bryan Brown was selected for the Sundance Film Festival in January, 1999.
		His second feature "Buffalo Soldiers" starring Ed Harris, Joaquin Phoenix and Anna Paquin will be released in the USA later this year.
	www.lycos.co.uk /content/entertainment/nedkelly/nedframe_crew.html (867 words)

	Category:2001 films - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This category lists the titles of films originally released in the year 2001.
		2000 films - 2001 films - 2000 films
		The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (film)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:2001_films (125 words)

	IOFILM.CO.UK - Buffalo Soldiers DVD review
		By the end of this film, death could come to Elwood in so many different ways.
		Jordan uses digital effects throughout film and mostly you don't notice, which is the way it should be.
		All in all, Buffalo Soldiers is a very good offering and the DVD extras lay open the inner workings of its creative elements.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /dvd/b/buffalo_soldiers_2001.shtml (455 words)

	Buffalo Soldiers (2001) - RUTHLESS REVIEWS: Movies
		Unique in that maybe for the first time in the history of cinema, heroin usage is not romanticized by the camera.
		Normally, no matter what else a character does in a film, if they shoot a little smack all of a sudden the director wants us to see some sort of depth or mojo or whatever.
		I must point out that the opening credits of the film show Elwood falling out of an airplane and a voiceover explaining how his greatest fear is falling.
	ruthlessreviews.com /movies/b/buffalosoldiers.html (687 words)

	channel4.com/film - Buffalo Soldiers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It's a song that conveys the angry political mood of the time, and is ideally suited to help score Gregor Jordan's sophomore feature, a fl-as-night comedy that, in its tone and its targets, allies Dr.
		Premiered at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival, just prior to the terrorist attacks of 11 September, the release of Buffalo Soldiers was delayed - distributors believing its anti-American slant somewhat inappropriate given recent world events.
		But if the portrait of the morally-bankrupt grunts of Buffalo Soldiers is to be believed, the sooner US Army officials see this, the better.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=101624 (323 words)

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