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	The City of God - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The City of God (Latin: De Civitate Dei, also known as De Civitate Dei contra Paganos: The City of God against the Pagans) is a book written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century, dealing with issues concerning God, martyrdom, Jews, and other Christian philosophies.
		The "City of God" is marked by people who forego earthly pleasure and dedicate their lives to the promotion of Christian values.
		An introduction to The City of God by James J. O'Donnell
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/City_of_God (348 words)

	City of God (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		City of God (Portuguese: Cidade de Deus) is a Brazilian movie, released in its home country in 2002 and worldwide in 2003.
		Most of the actors in the film had never acted before and were, in fact, residents of favelas such as Vidigal and the "City of God" itself.
		Alexandre Rodrigues and Alice Braga in City of God
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/City_of_God_(movie) (546 words)

	City of God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The City of God housing project is one of the more notorious ones, and the events depicted in the movie, based on the novel by Paulo Lins and adapted by Braulio Mantovani (Palace II), seem even more brazen given that it is based on a true story.
		City of God takes place over fifteen years, and weaves together a myriad of interconnected stories to give a complex, multilayered look at life in the slums, and the bleakness and hope that arises from it.
		Rocket narrates City of God, and according to him, the story of the slum is the story of some of its inhabitants.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/city_of_god.html (520 words)

	City of God movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		City of God is for sure one of the best films about gangs that I have ever seen or experienced.
		City of God is not a film for everybody, even though I believe it is an accurate depiction of gang warfare and its means of survival.
		City of God is one man's life story of living in circumstances that no one ever wants to encounter.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/c/cityofgod.htm (808 words)

	MOVIE - CITY OF GOD - Review Rating $$$$$ $$$$ (OUT OF 10)
		City of God, a name that epitomizes Orwellian doublespeak, is a housing project in Brazil's largest city (Rio de Janeiro) meant to house and hide that country's "tired...poor...
		City of God is narrated by, Rocket (Rodrigues), one of the few to escape the clutches of the cycle of violence that permeates the ghetto.
		City of God is, to be as plain and simple as possible, a must see movie.
	radio.weblogs.com /0108788/stories/2003/04/12/movieCityOfGodReviewRating.html (478 words)

	City of God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		City of God is so transfixing in the vitality of its horror that Meirelles doesnOt need to supply much light relief.
		The City of God (Latin De Civitate Dei) is a text written by St.
		The City of God was written by Augustine, Bishop of Hippo in North Africa, to explain Christianity's relationship to competing religions and philosophies, and to the Roman government with which it was increasingly intertwined.
	hallencyclopedia.com /City_of_God (383 words)

	City of God - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		City of God, a new movie from Brazil, is a bravura piece of filmmaking that takes the gangster movie and brings it powerfully into the 21st century.
		Though the story of two rival factions battling over turf is one of the oldest gangster cliches, City of God tells its story with such panache and style that the whole enterprise seems fresh and new.
		This is a movie that embraces a familiar genre and then elevates it to something spectacular.
	www.tollbooth.org /2003/movies/cityofgod.html (1014 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review CITY OF GOD (Cidade de Deus) Brazilian movie by Katia Lund, Fernando Meirelles with Alexandre ...
		Brazil's "City of God" — not just the biography of a drug gang, but a portrait of a whole generation in a forgotten ghetto outside Rio de Janeiro — is both masterful storytelling and high-octane filmmaking.
		Our guide to the City of God is Rocket, a local kid whose no-good older brother labels him too smart for a gangster's life but who would surely wind up another corpse on the street if he didn't find his life's calling: photography.
		The movie's exhilarating visual and storytelling style — which are really one and the same — grabs you by the collar and yanks you through time and space until you've seen the whole picture.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2003/cityofgod.php (857 words)

	City of God Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		City of God, which concerns two decades of gang warfare within a Rio de Janeiro ghetto (called a favela), is kinetically filmed, wildly entertaining, and profoundly sad.
		The bulk of City of God concerns a drug-trade rivalry between Li'l Zé (Leandro Firmino da Hora) and Carrot (Matheus Nachtergaele), with a kid named Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues) serving as the witness to their misdeeds.
		City of God never flinches from the horrors at hand — the shooting of a young boy by one of Zé's initiates is particularly hard to watch, as is the criminal rise of a formerly peaceful man named Knockout Ned — but while the film is extremely artful, the killings never are.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=135376 (853 words)

	City of God reviewed by Steve Sailer for UPI; Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Paulo Lin, Fernando Meirelles, Bráulio ...
		Surprisingly, though, "City of God" is set in a flat, dusty, drab neighborhood of tiny single-family homes that the government built in the 1960s to move poor people as far away from the wealthy beaches as possible.
		Unfettered by the law, the City of God's youth quickly took up armed robbery, graduating to cocaine dealing in the 1970s, and to mass gang warfare in the early 1980s.
		At the chilling end of "City of God," the arch-villain crime lord is finally gunned down, only to be immediately replaced by the next generation of killers, "The Runts," a gang of even more vicious twelve year olds.
	www.isteve.com /film_city_of_god.htm (854 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "City of God" DVD Review by Dennis Landmann
		The streets of the world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's "City of God," are a place where combat photographers fear to tread, police rarely go and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20.
		Before City of God there was another film that depicted slum life, drug and sex exploitation, and corruption.
		City of God is an incredible film that tells a harrowing story over a span of twenty years, and it's the characters who emerge as the fuel to the film's success.
	www.moviefreak.com /dvd/c/cityofgod.htm (1127 words)

	Encyclopedia: City of God (movie)
		This was widely regarded as an injustice, which some attributed to the fact that most of the voting members to participate in that category were among the eldest in the Academy, and their vision would be a relatively more conservative one, which would have met the movie with less enthusiasm, given its context and format.
		In the mid-1960s, Little ZÃ© (Leandro Firmino da Hora) and BenÃ© (Phellippe Haagensen) are wannabe gangsters in the dangerous Rio de Janeiro slums called Cidade de Deus ("City of God").
		Cidade de Deus (City of God), is the name of a slum located in the district of Jacarepaguá, west zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/City-of-God-(movie) (1105 words)

	[ Empowerment4Women - City of God ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		City of God, or Cidade de Deus, is the based on the true story of the world renowned "City of God" slums in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
		It is a "city" overrun with violence, crime, and poverty.
		They have done a fabulous job of bringing to life the story of the "City of God," and have created a film experience that despite its intense nature is utterly captivating from start to finish.
	www.empowerment4women.org /attitude/movies/cityofgod.html (481 words)

	Movie Habit: Review of City of God (2003), ****
		The movie is still outstanding on home video, but in the age of extra features and audio commentaries, City of God is a sparse package.
		City of God's story is told by a young photographer named Rocket (Alexandre Rodriguez), who narrates from the present.
		Nowhere on the DVD does it explain the connection between the documentary and the movie: that Paulo Lins, one of the subjects in the documentary, wrote the novel on which City of God is based.
	www.moviehabit.com /reviews/cit_fd04.shtml (717 words)

	"City of God" - Movie Review by Boxman (Nate Zoebl) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		City of God is a loud announcement to the world of the arrival of a fresh, invigorating and monumental talent with director Fernando Meirelles.
		The movie has its definite squirm-worthy moments of discomfort and will not be a good choice if you and your date are looking for that perfect weekend movie.
		City of God is one of those movies that once you’ve left the theater you excitedly claim, "Now that’s why I see movies." City of God is simply a cinematic masterpiece and not only the best film I’d seen in 2003, but also one of the best movies I’ve seen in my life.
	www.smart-popcorn.com /reviews/519 (1004 words)

	Movie Forums - City Of God
		For those of you who don't know about the film, The City of God is a Brazilian movie about one of the worst slums of the world (called "The City of God") and it spans three decades (60's-80's) and tells the stories of myriad hoods.
		The City of God does not, at all, revel in it's violence, but the violence is presented in a very detached, and indifferent way that makes it horrifying to witness.
		The City of God does have important themes, and it's interesting to witness how warlords can come to power by offering the poor something that the rest of society and government refuses: safety.
	www.movieforums.com /community/printthread.php?t=3677 (779 words)

	City of God - DVD Movie Central
		In the slum which is referred to as the City of God, the supreme desire for quick cash and a certain feeling of power is to get in on the action.
		City of God is not only one of last year’s most brilliant achievements, but it’s quite simply one of the most striking film experiences I have ever had.
		City of God is much deserving of all the acclaim it has received from critics and audiences worldwide, and the DVD handling, I hope, will increase the acclaim by those who are fortunate enough to have a chance to see it.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/city_of_god.htm (1217 words)

	City Of God Movie Review
		City of God, I actually saw over a year ago, and upon reviewing past articles, it occurred to me that I’d never written a review.
		City of God has recently been re-released in select theaters and will soon make it’s DVD and Video debut.
		I don’t know if City of God will bag any Oscars, but I’m extremely happy that the Academy recognized the film, even though it certainly was a surprise.
	www.zboneman.com /movies/740.html (447 words)

	City of God Review (DVD Movie/Film)
		City of God (Cidade de Deus) is a film based on real-life accounts, located in the Brazilian slum called The City of God of Paulo Lins.
		Even though City of God might be set in the outskirts of Rio it has universal echoes.
		City of God is already a contender for the best film of 2003 from Future Movies and Fernando Meirelles & Katia Lund are names that you will definitely hear again.
	www.futuremovies.co.uk /review.asp?ID=107 (571 words)

	City of God - Movie Review - Stylus Magazine
		And slipping under the radar, the Brazilian film City of God examines the poverty-stricken circumstances that breed gang life and anarchic violence in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
		Apart from Westerns, gang movies are the oldest tradition in Hollywood, and directors constantly try to reinvent the genre, to varying degrees of success.
		The film’s parts are played not by professional actors, but by residents of the real City of God who rehearsed for the movie but improvised a large portion of the dialogue.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /feature.php?ID=187 (1131 words)

	City of God: Movie-Source.com City of God Movie, City of God Preview, City of God Review
		The movie examines the rise and fall of two gangs and the few innocent people, if there are such people, stuck in the middle.
		City of God is one of those movies that takes a deep breath at the beginning, starts running, and doesn't take a break until the ending credits are rolling.
		City of God is effective on many levels, though it definitely works better technically than it does from other points of view.
	www.movie-source.com /movie_page.asp?movieID=1509 (653 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| City of God \| E. L. Doctorow
		And like Ulysses, City of God is more than anything a work of skilled mimesis, mirroring in prose the nature of one New York writer’s consciousness and concerns at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
		Doctorow was born in New York City on January 6, 1931, and, like the novelist Everett in City of God, attended the Bronx High School of Science.
		One critic has written that City of God is a story about storytelling—about the ubiquity of narrative; about the whole of language existing as a storytelling tool to reflect and respond to reality; about consciousness perceived as a narrative (hi)story.
	www.penguinputnam.com /static/rguides/us/city_of_god.html (1271 words)

	City of God R2 - Movie-List Forums
		City of God, the brutal, devastating, kinetic, thrilling, cinematic masterpiece is out to own on DVD and video from 22 September.
		City of God is the directorial debut from Brazilian commercials director Fernando Meirelles who has been tipped as the next Scorsese.
		This award-winning film based in Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous favela (City of God) ‘blew the minds’ of critics and cinema audiences alike, creating a cult following and promises to be a DVD and video classic.
	www.movie-list.com /forum/showthread.php?t=6122 (377 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: City Of God [2003] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the vortex of this maelstrom is L'il Z (Leandro Firmino da Hora--like most of the cast, a non-professional actor), self-appointed king of the dealers, determined to eliminate all competition at the expense of his corrupted soul.
		City of God is a great movie, and you're going to have to find a better excuse than "I want to watch a film, not read it" to miss this.
		City of God is one of the best films i've ever seen and i'm postive it will remain that way.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008W64Q (1271 words)

	City of God review
		City of God tells the gritty tale of children of a Rio de Janeiro favela, or slum, coming to terms with their harsh environment over a 20+ year period.
		And because this is the City of God, you also know someone is waiting in the wings to take power.
		There's the obvious parallel between the formation of the underclass (or the forgotten class) in City of God and Gangs of New York.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/cityofgod.html (1071 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The City of God (Modern Library Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		City of God is, as its final words proclaim itself to be, "a giant of a book." --Michael Joseph Gross--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
		Against the 'city', i.e., society, of many gods, there is but one alternate society, this Augustine calls The City of God, adopting the expression found in several of King David's psalms.
		City of God also shows Augustine to be interested in the goods of Greek and Roman philosophy and rhetoric and in purging the negative elements of these while and Christian revelation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679783199?v=glance (3837 words)

	Three Movie Buffs Review City of God (2003) Starring: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen
		City of God tells how the street-gang culture of guns and drugs developed in the slums of one of Brazil's largest cities.
		This movie is filled with colorful characters, the majority of whom die violently before the end credits.
		The movie ends with a group of young boys ranging in age from maybe six to thirteen.
	www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=cityofgod (608 words)

	City of God Review :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		A lack of opportunities and hope often leads the children of the City of God onto a path of drugs, crime and corruption, and it seems more palatable to many of them to have their 15 minutes of fame and die young than to live a life of misery and submission.
		With few exceptions, real slum kids and actors from local amateur drama clubs were cast in City of God, and the result is truly believable characters and a gritty, realistic film.
	www.hollywood.com /movies/reviews/movie/1704573 (471 words)

	Review: City of God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The irony of calling this movie City of God will not be lost on the viewer, since the location in question — the slums (or favelas) of Rio de Janeiro — is, at the best of times, purgatory, and, at the worst of times, hell.
		City of God is based on actual events that occurred in Rio de Janeiro during the 1960s and 1970s, and which formed the factual background for Paulo Lins' novel of the same name.
		The movie tells the tale of the rise and fall of the fearsome, sociopath gang leader Li'l Zé (Leanadro Frimino da Hora), who reigned as king of the drug lords during the '70s.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/c/city_god.html (703 words)

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