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	scottlord- Swedish Film and the Svenska Filminstitutet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		To present, the films of Sweden continue to contribute to the making of film being a creating of a form for the presentation of the content belonging to new and arising literatures, literature in front of the camera that is transcribed into screen literature.
		films that are well known the audiences in the United States from arthouses or their first run but also films of exceptional quality that were only introduced to viewers in the United States during the advent of Cable Television.
		Charles Magnusson, filmed in 1908, which can be included as part of his short participation in what could have been a cinema of attraction before his having established the tradition of narrative and the tradition of an inscription of place through the use of exterior locations in Swedish cinema.
	www.geocities.com /lord02141/scottlord.html (4098 words)

	Jerry Orbach - Music Downloads - Online
		Orbach had had roles in a couple of more films (Mad Dog Coll [1961], John Goldfarb, Please Come Home [1965]), but it was not until 1971 that he got a starring role on film in the crime comedy The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight.
		His film career was not yet ready to take off, however, and he returned to the Broadway stage in the comic play 6 Rms, Riv Vu in 1972.
		Orbach had continued to take the occasional film role (A Fans Notes [1972], Foreplay [1974], The Sentinel [1977], Underground Aces [1980]), but it was his appearance in Prince of the City (1981) that was a turning point in his career.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/738/Jerry-Orbach/12254570.html (858 words)

	Giacomo Casanova
		Casanova's memoirs are a fascinating but unreliable account of his adventures with 122 women - according to his own counts - but they also provide an intimate portrait of the manners and life in the 18th century.
		Casanova's father died in 1733 but Zanetta turned down all her suitors and decided to support her children on her own.
		Casanova was denounced as a magician and sentenced for five years in lead chambers under the roof of the Doge's Palace.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /casanova.htm (1598 words)

	Casanova (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Casanova is a 2005 comedy film directed by Lasse Hallström based on the life of Giacomo Casanova.
		Casanova is in love with Francesca (Sienna Miller), who writes illegal feminist books under the name of a man. However, her mother (Lena Olin) pushes her to marry Paprizzio (Oliver Platt), a corpulent rich man from Genoa, whom she has never seen.
		Casanova is arrested for crimes against sexual morality, such as debauchery and heresy with a novice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Casanova_(film) (361 words)

	Casanova (2005): Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Oliver Platt, Omid Djalili - PopMatters Film Review
		Casanova happens by at this moment and quite appreciates her feisty performance, and surmises that, while he won't conquer her, she will be unable to resist him.
		Casanova doesn't have time to chat, only ogle, for he is, after all, trying to elude the clutches of the Inquisition, here embodied by the paler than death Pucci (Jeremy Irons).
		Though Casanova can't understand the man's apparent personal dislike for him ("All I do is worship beauty," He protests), he must stay a step ahead at all times, which leads to hijinks of the most tedious sort, including mistaken identities and marriage plots.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/c/casanova-2005-dvd.shtml (878 words)

	DVD Times - Fellini's Casanova
		Casanova however is a bit of a mess as a film and Fellini’s dislike for his subject is quite evident.
		Film music composer Alexandre Desplat is called upon once again, as in the extra features of the French edition of Amarcord, to talk about Nino Rota’s music for the film, which he regards along with Amarcord as among the composer’s best work for Fellini and a personal influence on his own work.
		Those films are of interest therefore for the particular Fellini-esque slant he applies to them, but they never make the full connection that would make Fellini’s Roma such a delight, and his lack of interest in those aspects that could not be filtered through his own ego is evident particularly in Casanova.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=55660 (2896 words)

	"Casanova" (2005) / a review and/or comments from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		The film opens with a mother leaving her son because she is running away with a man that she wants to have a sexual relationship with.
		Casanova has once again gotten himself in trouble and his advocates in high places conspire to allow him to slip away and continue his sex-addicted lifestyle.
		Casanova is set on winning her hear but not allowing her to know who he really is, because of his tainted reputation.
	www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2005/casanova2005.html (2536 words)

	Casanova (2005): Reviews
		When Giacomo Casanova (Ledger) discovers Francesca Bruni (Miller), he met his ultimate romantic match, succumbing to the only woman ever to refuse his charms -- until he could prove himself to be one man worthy of her romantic ideals.
		Although Casanova is far from a stinker, I can't join in the chorus of praise for what is essentially a coy farce replete with arch performances and even archer dialogue.
		Casanova doesn't seduce so much as lull the audience into a stupor with tedious blather about the battle of the sexes, intermittent but pointless swordplay and clumsy slapstick.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/casanova (1437 words)

	cbs5.com - Film Review: Casanova
		Casanova, the new historical romantic comedy starring Heath Ledger as one of the most famed seducers of all time, is the film equivalent of the latter.
		Casanova was co-written by Jeffrey Hatcher and Kimberly Simi; Hartcher wrote the very similar Stage Beauty, and there are also echoes of Shakespeare in Love, Chocolat and a dozen similar films.
		Casanova' is a nice diversion, but don't be surprised if you walk out of it focused more on calling your travel agent than on the story you just saw.
	cbs5.com /entertainment/local_story_360123530.html (614 words)

	USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - Casanova
		This "Casanova" (Touchstone) is a handsome but leisurely paced 18th-century Venetian period piece about the ultimate ladies' man (Ledger), focusing on a previously untold (fictitious) love affair.
		When the film opens, Casanova is an old man writing his memoirs, and recollecting his youth as a notorious rake, seducing women of every class, including a novice in a convent.
		Casanova's friend and protector, the Doge (Tim McInnerny), informs him that unless the ne'er-do-well marries, he will be forced to exile him.
	www.usccb.org /movies/c/casanova.shtml (810 words)

	HippoPress -- The Hippo -- Guide to Manchester and Nashua NH
		Heath Ledger stars in Casanova, to remind you that not only is he not gay but he’s quite attractive to the ladies.
		Meanwhile Francesca is attempting to figure out if the man Casanova is pretending to be is really the enlightened sensitive guy he seems to be or just a horndog spouting lines to try to get in her corset.
		Casanova climbs in and out of windows, girls prance around in dresses that look like Faberge eggs and the whole film has a cotton candy feel of sweetness and sunshine.
	www.hippopress.com /film/casanova060112.html (625 words)

	Loving a Lover: Is Casanova's Reputation as Reprobate a Bum Rap?
		But the popular portrayal has obscured Casanova's exploits as a magician, a spy, a translator of the "Iliad" and possibly, a co-author of the libretto for Mozart's "Don Giovanni." Casanova was said to be the only person ever to escape from the Doges' Palace in Venice.
		Judging from Casanova's own account of his early exploits, he was a beautiful boy, androgynous in appearance, with curly hair that young girls liked to run their fingers through.
		Casanova's days in the castle, as described by Prince Charles de Ligne, the Duke's uncle, and quoted in the Childs biography, were not happy.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/books/100197casanova.html (1805 words)

	Amazon.com: Casanova (Masterpiece Theater): DVD: David Tennant,David Foxxe,Tamzin Griffin,Peter O'Toole,Clare ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This re-telling of the Casanova legend is a thoroughly modern romp with rollicking escapades, a sly anachronistic tone, and wardrobe malfunctions.
		Casanova was a nobody who used his good looks, charm, and intellect (all three of which were considerable) to make fortunes, lose fortunes, circulate in the highest social circles, sink to the lowest prison, and have a great time doing it.
		Casanova was well-casted with the energetic and playful aura of David Tennant, the frank and enigmatic Peter O'Toole, all brought to life from the white-hot imagination of Russel T Davies.
	www.amazon.com /Casanova-Masterpiece-Theater-David-Tennant/dp/B000HEWGWE (2514 words)

	Casanova (2005): Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Oliver Platt, Omid Djalili - PopMatters Film Review
		During the first moments of Lasse Hallström's film, Casanova boasts of his many lovers, the charm with which he seduces all, and his efforts to keep track of them in the "pages of my life." "Oh god, I'm tired," he sighs, and already, you know what he means.
		Casanova happens by at this moment and quite appreciates her feisty performance, and surmises that, while he won't conquer her, she will be unable to resist him.
		Though Casanova can't understand the man's apparent personal dislike for him ("All I do is worship beauty," He protests), he must stay a step ahead at all times, which leads to hijinks of the most tedious sort, including mistaken identities and marriage plots.
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/c/casanova-2005.shtml (853 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Casanova at Epinions.com
		Considering a bit, Casanova settles on courting a very virginal, angelic little blonde, Victoria (Natalie Dormer), and it doesn't hurt either that her father is going to settle a nice, fat dowry on her.
		Casanova has seen her before, as she's a lively one, eager to reform the lot of Venetian women, but she's also being forced to marry a merchant from Padua.
		Curiously, this film got an R rating for the sexual content, where you actually don't see anything happening, just a prostitute acting coy, several naked legs in a brothel, and one very brief bit at the begining with Casanova in bed with a lover.
	www.epinions.com /content_293000220292 (978 words)

	Casanova - Atomicduster Film Review
		Casanova: Venice 1753, inquisition, sex, sex, sex and yet you see nothing except suggestion and damnation.
		Clever dialogue plays joyfully between believable characters on a parchment setting so well crafted it draws you in and with a film that is at times so fast paced, you find yourself trying to work overtime just to keep up, that said this is half the fun (a permanent furrowed brow is essential).
		The film is peppered with such suitable innuendo, although with a 12A certificate, is all in the suggestion.
	www.atomicduster.com /filmreviews/casanova/index.php (333 words)

	Casanova (2005): Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Oliver Platt, Omid Djalili - PopMatters Film Review
		During the first moments of Lasse Hallström's film, Casanova boasts of his many lovers, the charm with which he seduces all, and his efforts to keep track of them in the "pages of my life." "Oh god, I'm tired," he sighs, and already, you know what he means.
		Sadly, at this moment Casanova doesn't have time to chat, only ogle, for he is, after all, trying to elude the clutches of the Inquisition, here embodied by the paler than death Pucci (Jeremy Irons).
		As he endeavors to keep her separate from the real Papprizzio, Casanova is also trying to keep himself out of sight from Pucci, while charming both Victoria and Andrea in order to give himself enough room to seduce Francesca.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/c/casanova-2005.shtml (812 words)

	Movie Review: Casanova \| Mountain Xpress \| mountainx.com
		Casanova is a throwback to such artifacts as William Dieterle's Madame DuBarry and Gregory La Cava's The Affairs of Cellini -- 1930s films that took historical characters and put them in stories that bore more resemblance to bedroom farces than history.
		By the end of the film, Casanova (Heath Ledger) has passed himself off as at least four people he isn't; Francesca (Miller), who leads a double life to begin with, has disguised herself in drag three times; and so on.
		Heath Ledger is a perfect Casanova, bringing to the character just the right mix of carnality, amused cynicism ("Well, she's hardly a novice," he mutters when accused of debauching a nun in training), indolence (he's forever broke and dodging creditors), and genuine romance.
	www.mountainx.com /movies/c/casanova.php (930 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Casanova (xhtml)
		It must be a wondrous thing to be the lard king of Genoa and I would have wished Casanova time to quiz Papprizzio about his lofty estate, but the Inquisition is fed up with Casanova's flaunting of morality and appoints Pucci (Jeremy Irons) to apprehend and imprison him.
		As I watched the film, I kept having flash-forwards, or were they flash-sidewayses, to the forthcoming film, "The Libertine," in which Johnny Depp plays a Casanova wannabe who spends so much time sticking his nose into other people's business that it eventually falls off and has to be replaced by a silver one.
		In the 1954 comedy "Casanova's Big Night," she is courted by Pippi Poplino (Bob Hope), a Casanova impersonator who puts on a mask and tries to seduce her.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051222/REVIEWS/51220002/1023 (629 words)

	BBC - Movies - review - Casanova
		In this new take on the legend of Casanova, director Lasse Hallström turns the 18th-century bed-hopper into a sensitive New Age man. Heath Ledger puts on the powdered wig and wink-wink demeanour and promptly falls in love with a flame-haired feminist played by Sienna Miller.
		However, the sad truth is, the Aussie star generated more electricity with Jake Gyllenhaal, in Brokeback Mountain and Hallström pulls the plug completely with a tentative approach that wavers uneasily between slapstick and sentimental.
		Casanova is unaware of her extracurricular activities (and she of his) so all that draws him to her is the fact that she rejects his advances.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2006/02/03/casanova_2006_review.shtml (365 words)

	BBC - Movies - interview - Heath Ledger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He starred in a whopping five films - The Brothers Grimm, Lords Of Dogtown, Brokeback Mountain, Casanova and upcoming Aussie pic Candy - garnering rave reviews and awards as he went, and, as if that wasn't enough, became a dad with Brokeback co-star Michelle Williams.
		That's what Casanova was for me. I don't have to take myself seriously, I don't have to prove anything, I just wanted some fun, and that's what the script was.
		It's not Fellini's Casanova, but upon learning about his life, I thought how much I wanted to really do his life, and really try to connect with him, as he was a complex fellow.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2006/02/06/heath_ledger_casanova_2006_interview.shtml (734 words)

	Scripps Howard News Service
		Aside from having little to say, the new edition of "Casanova" _ directed by Lasse Hallstrom of "Chocolat" fame _ tries so hard to serve a crowd-pleasing buffet that it turns into a scattershot series of unrewarding nibbles.
		To answer, the movie resorts to limp dime-store psychology, telling us that Casanova is less a fiendish lothario than an emotionally wounded little boy who's trying to find the love he lost when his mommy abandoned him for a career as an actress.
		Ledger's Casanova might be able to seduce an entire convent (as he does in an early scene), but the movie that bears his name may have more difficulty charming audiences.
	www.shns.com /shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=CASANOVA-FILM-01-04-06 (419 words)

	KarateParty.org - Casanova (2005) - **1/2
		Sure, it’s a film about the world’s greatest lover with no sex or passion in it, but this is Lasse Hallström, and I managed to get out of the theatre with some laughs and an over-the-top chase scene, so that’s the best I could have hoped for.
		A film where Casanova starts out rooting women and ends up rooting them would be the storyline of Casanova-themed porn out there, which may be the best genre to tells his stories in.
		After the film I wouldn’t be able to pick her generic face out of a line-up of generic pretty girls.
	www.karateparty.org /content/view/395/30 (951 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Fellini's Orchestra Rehearsal
		In the last scene, Casanova dreams of a former love as they dance on an icy Venetian canal, but Fellini will not even allow the dream to be uncorrupted as the legendary lover embraces a mechanical woman that had once seduced him.
		Indeed, the way the film describes the group seems a perfect dramatization of Georg Simmel’s sociology: society (the orchestra) is a crystallization of the individual interactions (musicians and their instruments).
		In a sense, his films, especially the one under consideration here, are Society rehearsals, readying individual members of the audience to conduct themselves and be conducted more wisely in a restricted if not repressive world.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /40/fellini.htm (2132 words)

	"CASANOVA" DVD Review by Kevin Carr - 7M Pictures
		Using a politically charged feminist activist of the day, Casanova manages to flip-flop identities in order to keep himself safe and continue his conquests.
		I have to admit, I have labeled a few commentary tracks self-important, most recently Lasse Hallström’s last film, “An Unfinished Life.” It turns out that Hallström is one of the most self-important directors to ever cut a commentary tack (not the most self-important, as that would have to go to P.T. Anderson).
		After watching her in a lead trying to carry a film, it’s clear that she was attempting the Gwyneth Paltrow path of fame (i.e., shacking up with a hot, buzz-worthy actor and riding that press to cobble together an acting career), but she probably will never take hold.
	www.7mpictures.com /inside/reviews/casanovadvd_review.htm (558 words)

	village voice > film > Casanova by Jessica Winter
		His Casanova emanates a sweetish decaying scent of venereal melancholy and late-Fellini mustiness from beneath his Fabergé egg costumery; despite his conquests, he remains utterly alone.
		She is Francesca (blah Sienna Miller), who pens bestselling feminist tracts under a masculine nom de plume and dons drag to gain access to the all-male university.
		Casanova's undaunted support for women's education and spunky disdain for the Inquisition make Chocolat's homilies in defense of candy and different-ness seem positively revolutionary.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0551,winter,71162,20.html (563 words)

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