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  Conspiracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As a legal term, a conspiracy is an agreement of two or more people either to commit a crime or to achieve a lawful end by unlawful means: see conspiracy (crime), and conspiracy (civil).
Conspiracy (film) can also refer to a 2001 TV film released by HBO, starring Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, and Colin Firth, about the Wannsee Conference in 1942 Germany.
Conspiracy (film), the name of a television film about the Wannsee conference.
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 Conspiracy (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conspiracy is a made-for-TV BBC/HBO motion picture which dramatizes the events that occurred during the Wannsee Conference of 1942.
As the film opens, various officials from different German agencies arrive and mingle at a beautiful manor house in Wannsee, where Colonel Adolf Eichmann, SS Officer for Jewish Affairs, has meticulously planned the meeting.
Conspiracy was intended to be a dark parallel to the film 12 Angry Men, where the inhumanity of the conspirators at Wannsee contrasts the conflict leading to the ultimate display of compassion in the classic Henry Fonda movie.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conspiracy_(TV_movie)   (1021 words)

  
 conspiracy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Such is the case with "Conspiracy," a quietly haunting intellectual docudrama that imagines what it might have been like to be a fly on the wall in the war room while high-ranking members of Adolf Hitler's SS dispassionately plotted the extermination of Europe's Jewish population.
While "Conspiracy" is at times unbearably talky and overly descriptive, its spare style and unfettered, bare-bones direction by co-executive producer Frank Pierson serves to breathe vivid life into the unspeakable malevolence that was as much the Nazi emblem as was the swastika.
For his latest film, Conspiracy, Firth is playing one of Germany's most senior Nazis, who in 1942 attended a secret conference at Wannsee, a suburb of Berlin, to formulate a plan to exterminate the Jews.
www.spring.net /karenr/mdbro/conspiracy.html   (3821 words)

  
 The Conspiracy Thrillers of the 1970s: Paranoid Time - Article - Stylus Magazine
The film is less a response to any one political event than it is a generalized commentary on the erosion of privacy and individuality in American society.
A spectacularly strange film, Winter Kills is known in the movie industry as a sort of minor league Heaven’s Gate, the notorious epic whose utter box office failure nearly bankrupted its studio and essentially consigned director Michael Cimino to the filmmaking wilderness.
All power is essentially tied together, the film suggests, to the point where even a man as rich and powerful as the President’s father (John Huston, in a masterfully grotesque performance) is trapped by the crooks and corporate interests he associates with.
www.stylusmagazine.com /feature.php?ID=1092   (3512 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | Interviews | The Spike conspiracy
His new film She Hate Me is about a whistleblower who exposes corporate corruption and is sacked for it.
She Hate Me is, in effect, two films: a political thriller and a sex comedy.
The criticism of the film is perfectly valid - it is an outlandish portrait of lesbians for the lads.
film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,1306201,00.html   (1635 words)

  
 John's Web Journal - Bravenet Web Journal
A conspiracy theory is a theory that defies common historical or current understanding of events, under the claim that those events are the result of manipulations by one or more secretive powers or conspiracies.
Conspiracy theories in general allege that some particular event — such as an assassination, a revolution, or even the failure of a product — resulted not solely from the visible action of overt political or market forces, but rather from covert manipulation.
But because routine conspiracy theories are often simply allegations of covert action, and because these tend to be based on little or no solid evidence, the expression "conspiracy theory" in common speech is used to refer to allegations of collusion that the speaker considers unproven, unlikely, or false.
jkn1.bravejournal.com   (942 words)

  
 Watch Entertainment, Inc.
As Conspiracy Of Silence deals with direct comment on the current state of the Catholic Church, their official reaction to the film is awaited with interest.
Conspiracy of Silence hopes to shed light on the debate of celibacy and hypocrisy within the priesthood and the need for reform to ensure the survival of the Catholic Church in the twenty first century.
Conspiracy of Silence is Jamie's fifth feature film he has also cut numerous TV productions and short films.
www.watchentertainment.com /films_conspiracyofsilence.htm   (5318 words)

  
 Conspiracy - DVD Film: Totaltiorden.dk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Conspiracy is a carefully crafted, completely unsensational film that offers ample proof of the banality of evil.
Nontheless Conspiracy is a shocking but brilliant drama and I struggle to think of a bad performance.
I've already watched this film several times, and the acting is so finely nuanced, the dialogue so fine, that it continues to be remarkable.
www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/dvd_details.php/B00005YUO1|dvd   (635 words)

  
 Conspiracy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Conspiracy re-enacts the 90-minute meeting in which silky-voiced SS bureaucrat Reinhard Heydrich (Kenneth Branagh) gently bullies a roomful of Nazi functionaries into accepting the Final Solution as a fait accompli.
The setting for "Conspiracy" is an ornate villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, the environment opulent, elegant and refined on a crisp, snowy morning.
The film is based on the concluding protocol and one surviving copy of the minutes of the meeting.
www.spring.net /karenr/mdbro/conspiracy2.html   (8989 words)

  
 Missing Links - The vast international conspiracy behind the Zapruder film. By Charles Paul Freund
Among other things, the film led to a "magic bullet" thesis to account for a lot of wounds from three rapid shots and, later, to the "neurospasm" and "jet effect" theories to account for JFK's "head snap" reaction to the final shot.
Watching dupes year after year, measuring prints with calipers, subjecting the movie to "vector analysis" and performing their own stopwatch experiments, these critics (including several academics) have discovered the film is not merely evidence of conspiracy but is also a part of the plot.
Thus, on close scrutiny, the Zapruder film's ultimate revelation is that Abraham Zapruder was himself a conspirator.
www.slate.com /id/3146   (832 words)

  
 Conspiracy theories settled: Zapruder film Slo-Mo : LA IMC
Even if it hadn't been proven that to be a real person the supposed 'figure' in the picture would have to be standing on a ladder fifteen feet behind the picket fence, its been demonstrated he wouldn't have had an unobstructed view of the President at the time of the fatal head shot.
Conspiracy theorists rarey want to discuss, for example, his attempt on Gen. Walker's life, his decision to kill Nixon or his plans to hijack a plane and have it take him to Cuba.
The same one whose members agreed their conclusion of 'probable conspiracy' was in error as a result of faulty accosutics evidence....
la.indymedia.org /news/2004/11/119592_comment.php   (8272 words)

  
 Conspiracy Convention Report
The film is reminiscent of Trouble in Mind and Streets of Fire, being set in a sort of "future past" where everything seems to be imported from the 1950s, yet is definitely not the 1950s.
Conspiracy had arranged to use a first-run cinema for its 35mm film program in the morning and late at night.
While filming one of the Sinbad movies, for example, a Spanish galleon from the filming of The Armada drifted across the area they were filming.
fanac.org /worldcon/Conspiracy/w87-rpt.html   (7962 words)

  
 Conspiracy (2001) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The action was filmed in extremely long sequences, sometimes 20 pages or more of script at a stretch, which is unusual in this type of production.
This was needed because of the longer film magazines available for those cameras, and also the smaller size, allowing the cameras to get in very close to the performers sitting around a conference table, the setting used for the bulk of the story.
Goofs: Factual errors: As Heydrich arrives for the conference in his Storch aircraft, an overhead shot of the aircraft shows it with swastika markings on the upper surfaces of both wings.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0266425   (549 words)

  
 Colin Firth Career Timeline: Conspiracy - Meeting at Wannsee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Conspiracy premiered April 30 at the Holocaust Museum in D.C. May 7 the film screened in Chicago and later on in N.Y. at the Council on Foreign Affairs.
It recreates the infamous meeting at Wannsee, and is based almost exclusively on the transcript itself, dramatised in real-time: the film lasts for 90 minutes, which is approximately the same duration as the meeting on which it is based.
Heydrich mentions amusedly that one of the effects of the carbon monoxide gas is that the bodies turn pink.
hem.passagen.se /lmw/conspiracy.html   (1681 words)

  
 Proving Conspiracy
Secondly, the Zapruder film shows that there must have been at least two gunmen because there was only a one-second delay between the time Connally reacted to being hit in the back and the time Kennedy was shot in the head.
The chronology in which the "missed" shot was fired cannot be determined; however, Christian David stated that it was the fourth of four shots fired, that it was fired from the rear, and that two shots were fired almost simultaneously (reference Chapter 5).
The conviction that JFK was assassinated by a high-level conspiracy, and that the crime has since been concealed by a conspiracy awesome in scale, is widely held in the grassroots movements and among left intellectuals.
www.jfkmontreal.com /proving_conspiracy.htm   (9823 words)

  
 channel4.com/film - Conspiracy
Conspiracy centres on the infamous Wannsee Conference of 1942.
Organised by Adolf Eichmann (Tucci) and headed by SS General Reinhard Heydrich (Branagh), this was the meeting at which the Nazi high command unveiled the 'final solution' to the 'Jewish question'.
That they do so without recourse to music (Conspiracy has no score) or standard war drama devices (most of the action unravels in one room) is a measure not only of the ability of the writer and director, but the talent of their cast.
www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=137508   (279 words)

  
 POLITICAL SCIENCE 324S DR
In any film analysis, images of women and men and representations of social role division-of-labor ought to be one of the first things one notices.
Film visuals show past events, not as a number of interviewees recall them, but as the film makers (Welles and photographer Gregg Toland) interpret their words.
The lure and psychological appeal of conspiracy in general, of course, is its ever-elusive promise of coherence and meaning in the post-modern, televisual, "virtual" polity-- in which all "truth" is increasingly evident as some kind of construction.
www.montana.edu /wwwpo/rpratt/ps324F2K.htm   (5258 words)

  
 Surveillance & Identification profile: Conspiracy Theory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Despite the emergence of conspiracy theory and 'sociophobics' as fashionable areas for academic research there are few major studies of net-related conspiracy theories.
Timothy Melly's Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America (Ithaca: Cornell Uni Press 2000), Terry Matheson's Alien Abductions: Creating a Modern Phenomenon (Amherst: Prometheus 1998) and Jodi Dean's Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace (Ithaca: Cornell Uni Press 1998) are also of value.
The Conspiracy Theory Research List site seems to be for those who want to pull it all together - the truth is out there and if only you can join the dots (or is it dot coms) you will understand the interrelationship between Elvis, Skull and Bones, the Masons, the Vatican Bank, alien abductions...
www.caslon.com.au /surveillanceprofile7.htm   (1414 words)

  
 Political Science 324S
These sub-categories of film paranoia reflect and illuminate some of the deepest anxieties of Americans about the people who rule over them: in the economy and in their governments, from the cops of L.A. to corporate boardrooms and to the F.B.I. and C.I.A. and other national executive and military organizations.
Pauline Kael, former New Yorker film critic and author of several books of collected film criticism saw the original Godfather as a devastating portrait of/ metaphor for, the corruption of American life, society, politics--an Aepic vision of the corruption of America;@ of Awhat we fear America to be@ [see her reviews on reserve]..
The lure and psychological appeal of conspiracy in general is its elusive promise of coherence and meaning in the post-modern, "virtual" polity, in which all that is presented by authorities as "truth" is-- increasingly-- evident as some kind of construction.
www.montana.edu /wwwpo/rpratt/PoliticalScience324S.html   (6234 words)

  
 Beyond the big coverup / Indie film takes on conspiracy theories
Instead it digs into the lives of dedicated conspiracy theorists who are convinced the tragedy is a big coverup.
Flemming skewers the authorities along with the oddball theorists, and at points in the film viewers may be convinced that Citizens for Truth is on the right track.
The film has been a frustration for Microsoft, but Flemming said the company has made no effort to stop it from being screened.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/02/10/DD61288.DTL   (851 words)

  
 Cool - news, reviews, games, music & stuff from the web
These days, it seems that there is a conspiracy theory to explain almost anything.
Sometimes it's a case of believe one conspiracy theory, believe them all.
These days, it seems that there is a conspiracy theory to explain almost...
www.cool.com.au   (1144 words)

  
 Conspiracy Theory (1997)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Plot Outline: Jerry Fletcher is a man who sees conspiracies everywhere.
Trivia: Jerry's cab license is issued in the name of "Raffi Paloulian," a script clearance researcher on the film and friend of screenwriter Brian Helgeland.
Goofs: Continuity: Jerry and Alice leave the Queensboro Bridge towards Connecticut in broad daylight; a few minutes later when they cross under an interstate highway intersection in the Bronx it is pitch fl dark.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0118883   (416 words)

  
 Improvisational Acting Books and Videos Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
This film generated enormous industry buzz when it was previewed at the Sundance Film Festival, and it turned out to be the sleeper hit of the season (it cost only $60,000 to shoot, and grossed $140,000,000 in four months).
A rare attempt at a true improvisational film, this project was shot in just a few days in 1995 on a tiny budget (the stars worked for union minimum salaries).
Improvised and shot in an edgy, hand-held fashion, the film examines the disintegration of the marriage of a couple in mid-life doldrums.
members.aol.com /geryo/videos.html   (4575 words)

  
 Truth About Elvis: documentary film, Elvis sightings and conspiracy: Welcome
This documentary film covers myths, Elvis sightings, the spelling of Elvis Aron Presley and whether or not Elvis lives.
Filmmaker Adam Muskiewicz investigates Elvis sightings, conspiracies, autopsy reports, Graceland, Memphis Mafia, Priscilla Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, Vernon Presley, Jesse Garon Presley, Colonel Tom Parker and the reason for the spelling discrepancies of Elvis Aron Presley and Elvis Aaron Presley on the tombstone of The King.
The film also explores why Elvis might have considered faking his death and who may have helped him.
www.truthaboutelvis.com /welcome.htm   (491 words)

  
 channel4.com/film - Conspiracy
Conspiracy has plenty of obstacles to overcome including a lack of overt action and the absence of anyone to root for.
But with the cast finding the last shreds of decency within their characters' dark hearts, the film functions superbly as a human drama about an inhumane event.
Certainly Pierson knows how to shoot dialogue (he wrote the screenplays for Dog Day Afternoon and Presumed Innocent) and here he does so in such a way that Mandel's sentences have the same punch as sub-machine gun fire.
www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=137508&page=2   (214 words)

  
 Ziggy's Video Realm: Oliver Stone's JFK (1991)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The biggest and most heavily hyped conspiracy film of all time, Oliver Stone’s JFK is a cinematic circus act filled out by a cast so enormous and star-studded that its dimensions would make even Irwin Allen blush.
Stone defends his actions by stating that he is taking all of the evidence gathered between the time of the assassination and the time of the film and putting it all together in the framework of a single incident.
Though JFK may have made Oliver Stone the darling of conspiracy theorists everywhere, the damage he has done to the truth may be immeasurable.
www.reelcriticism.com /ziggyrealm/reviews/jfk.html   (1504 words)

  
 The Wilby Conspiracy Film Review - Time Out Film
Handcuffed together, white Caine and fl Poitier pursue smuggled diamonds across the veld, and are themselves chased by the Jo'burg fuzz.
Assets there are: Caine is served with some nice deadpan lines by Rod Amateau, and John Coquillon's photography is characteristically cool.
But this is an unpleasant and invidious film, like Soldier Blue creaming the surface off profound racial issues to ease the killing along.
www.timeout.com /film/64582.html   (153 words)

  
 Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness . The Film . About the Film | PBS
His extraordinary acts of kindness continue to reverberate the world over.
Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness is a film by diane estelle Vicari and Robert Kirk.
Presented by Dentsu Inc., in association with David Rubinson and Creative Production Group LLC.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/sugihara/film   (268 words)

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