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	The Films of Michael Powell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Contraband (1940) is one of many spy films made in Britain in the 1930's and 1940's.
		There was a tendency in British prose spy novels of the 1930's to reflect the influence of the Realist school of detective fiction, founded by such writers as R.
		The film is so rich in detail it could be used as a documentary of the period.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/powell.htm (391 words)

	MrFulci's movie reviews, Contraband (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Contraband begins with a group of cigarette smugglers gathering in the middle of the sea, the gathering is so boxes of cigarettes can be acquired from a supplier boat.
		Contraband picks up the pace about 30 minutes through and the viewer is treated to plenty of brutal murders, all shown in detail (The bullet through the back of the head was a lovely piece of work).
		Contraband appears to have been filmed rather well, slow motion is used sometimes but it isn't abused, it's present at all the right moments.
	cablespeed.com /~rringeisen/mfmrcontraband.html (812 words)

	Contraband - Kino on Video
		The film is an early treasure from the writer-director team of Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell (The Red Shoes, Stairway To Heaven), who have been hailed by critics as jewels in the crown of British cinema.
		Set in England during the early days of WW II, Contraband stars Conrad Veidt (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) and Valerie Hobson (The Bride of Frankenstein) as a Danish sea captain and his enigmatic passenger who are kidnapped by a cell of Nazi spies operating from a basement in London's Soho.
		What makes Contraband unique is that most of the story takes place under flout conditions (original U.S. release title was Blackout), in which the great city becomes a mysterious dark labyrinth, a potent metaphor for the English population's general confusion at the start of the war.
	www.kino.com /video/item.php?film_id=75 (295 words)

	Political Film Society - Ararat
		We see a few scenes staged for the background film, also entitled "Ararat," which might have been an exciting epic about the slaughter of one million Armenians in 1915 by the government of Turkey, which forced them on a death march to what is now called Syria.
		However, the foreground film is a prop for the background film, which deals with the Armenian genocide.
		The film, which is thus more propaganda than plot, ends with a title that indicates that documentation of the atrocities of the genocide are in a book by Dr. Clarence Ussher, entitled An American Physician in Turkey (1917).
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/ararat.html (541 words)

	Deborah Kerr
		Deborah Kerr (born September 30, 1921) is a British film actress.
		It was her role as a troubled nun in Michael Powell's Black Narcissus in 1947 which brought her to the attention of Hollywood producers.
		However, her most famous role was as the governess, Anna Leonowens, in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The King and I.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/de/Deborah_Kerr.html (160 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Contraband (Blackout) (1940)
		What makes the film unique is that Powell uses the confusion and flout conditions as a tool for his characters to move around in, and the flout regulations are pivotal to several sequences in the script.
		Contraband is clever, humorous, and considering the time it was produced and its setting, a daring work for making light of a very dark time in British history.
		The film is highly watchable and thoroughly enjoyable, with wonderful cinematography, and intriguing plot and interesting characters.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1059 (1261 words)

	Crime and Gangster Films
		Gangster/crime films are usually set in large, crowded cities, to provide a view of the secret world of the criminal: dark nightclubs or streets with lurid neon signs, fast cars, piles of cash, sleazy bars, contraband, seedy living quarters or rooming houses.
		Gangster films are morality tales: Horatio Alger or 'pursuit of the American Dream' success stories turned upside down in which criminals live in an inverted dream world of success and wealth.
		The lead role in each film (a gangster/criminal or bootleg racketeer of the Prohibition Era) was glorified, but each one ultimately met his doom in the final scenes of these films, due to censors' demands that they receive moral retribution for their crimes.
	www.filmsite.org /crimefilms.html (2158 words)

	Filmography
		Taken as part of their historical moment, these films allow us to understand how international tensions influenced and were even influenced by the domestic front and thus of how the great powers struggle was waged not only through military development and diplomacy, but also within everyday processes.
		A film that asks what would happen if Christ returned to earth to campaign for the peaceful use of the atom and world government and answers that he would be shot.
		One of many films that feature a nuclear family on the run from a nuclear assault, and the social organization of the nuclear family as the most fit means of survival.
	www.cmu.edu /coldwar/film.htm (1697 words)

	CONTRABAND
		Later in the film, when the crisis calls for a meeting between the captains, they collectively agree not to ever run drugs.
		This shocking set piece is as lovingly filmed by Fulci as any of the more famous gore moments in his horror flicks.
		For what is an essentially simple, straightforward story the film is populated by a number of extraneous characters (mostly law enforcement types) who really have nothing to do with the plot; their claim on available screen time tends to bog things down.
	www.eccentric-cinema.com /cult_movies/contraband.htm (857 words)

	Red Ensign (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The character of David Barr is seen as an early precursor of Powell's own alter-ego in Michael Powell films such as Eric Portman's Colpeper in A Canterbury Tale (1944) and Roger Livesey's Dr Reeves in A Matter of Life and Death (1946).
		Indeed the whole film is seen as a parallel with the struggles of a young bold film director, and a plea for a strong British film industry.
		The strong crusading tone of the film prefigures Powell's wartime propaganda films such as 49th Parallel and Contraband.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Ensign_(film) (365 words)

	FilmFestivals.com - Cannes 2000
		Kids smuggling contraband crawl towards the border, past armed guards, hidden in the middle of a vast flock of sheep.
		The film was shot on location in a remote part of Kurdistan.
		In preparation for the film, Samira travelled widely across Iran with her director father Mohsen Makhmalbaf in tow.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cannes_2000/official/blackboards.htm (733 words)

	Deborah Kerr Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		She was immediately cast in a bit part in director Michael Powell's film "Contraband" but her part was eventually cut from the film.
		Filming commenced on Major Barbara in late 1940 and it was released in Britain in August of 1941.
		The film opened to glowing reviews and it was apparent that a new star was on the horizon.
	home.hiwaay.net /~oliver/kerrbiography.html (323 words)

	CONQUEST; CONTRABAND; ZOMBIE (BLUE UNDERGROUND) - DVDs
		I think a lot of people would argue that this is the role of the film critic, but I'd offer that a critic--a good one--loves film so much that he or she is offended when a movie is terrible.
		The films don't really belong to him anymore once they belong to us, you see, and the lack of respect he's showing to our memories and pleasures is worse than just larceny, it's something as indecent and invasive as emotional rape.
		He is the worst kind of enfant terrible, armed with a bestial cunning and taste and intent on demonstrating his disdain with an insistently predictable parade of cheap rip-offs that use schlock and celluloid catcalls as camouflage for his ape mentality.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/fulcitrio.htm (1993 words)

	Amazon.com: Contraband: DVD: Guido Alberti,Salvatore Billa,Marcel Bozzuffi,Virgilio Daddi,Daniele Dublino,Giordano ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Let's face it, several of the maestro's films are all but incomprehensible in terms of script, pacing, and cinematography.
		For a Fulci beginner this film biography of the director is an excellent summary of his career and major works.
		Fulci completists will want to obtain "Contraband" for their collections, but for the rest of us who admire the work he did in a few memorable films this production falls solidly in the "to rent" category.
	www.amazon.com /Contraband-Guido-Alberti/dp/B00008974K (2611 words)

	Human contraband
		The film Stowaways (1997), co-written and co-directed by Denis Chouinard and Nicholas Wadimoff, centers on a motley crew of refugees who meet in a European city and, with harbor security guards in hot pursuit, are herded into a steel container on a ship heading for Canada.
		The film uniformly depicts the depressing plight of human traffic across the seas and borders and is a gripping film of social consciousness.
		This film is based on facts surrounding eight African stowaways who hid in the sweltering belly of a cargo ship bound for Europe.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/jmlc/zharen31.htm (2759 words)

	Popjournalism :: Pop Reviews :: Velvet Revolver, Contraband
		Contraband is made up of tight mean rock ‘n’ roll riffs and catchy choruses.
		What makes the record so gratifying is Slash's contentment to keep his soloing at short intervals, unlike on the Use Your Illusion albums where eight-minute solos got in the way of the songs.
		On Contraband, Velvet Revolver is working towards their own sound but this record echoes earlier STP with the punk attitude of Appetite for Destruction.
	www.popjournalism.ca /pop/reviews/2004/00075.shtml (219 words)

	The Matrix
		Yet, because the humans had deprived the computers of their source of solar power by darkening the skies (an act which has left cities desolate), the computers created the Matrix, an elaborate bio-mechanical cyber-system in which people are bred, sustained and, in death, converted into the form of power upon which the computers thrive.
		Unfortunately, The Matrix is one of those films that doesn't stand up to much mental scrutiny; it seems content to merely echo dozens of sci-fi films while ushering in yet another era of groundbreaking special effects.
		And, although the film borrows heavily from dozens of other films as evidenced by my frequent comparisons above, that seems to be the point; in introducing Baudrillard early, the film announces that it's an exercise in replicating what has gone before, both within the narrative and within the science fiction genre.
	filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/matrix.htm (633 words)

	Equilibrium (2002) - Channel 4 Film review
		It's their job to uphold the strict rules of Libria, a post World War III society built on the tenet that "man's inhumanity to man" arose directly from emotion, so emotion must be banned ("Our own volatile natures could simply no longer be risked").
		The film progresses from one violent gun-fight to another, by way of dramatic cityscapes, the meagre plot seemingly an afterthought.
		Preston kills Partridge because, leaving a crime scene, he pocketed a book of Yeats' poetry - and all artworks are contraband that must be locked away or destroyed (on finding the 'Mona Lisa', Preston states coldly "Burn it").
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=103159 (320 words)

	Steve Lacy Films - The Lady of the Garden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The film, based on another short film, La Jetée (by Chris Marker), was shot in 16 mm fl and white at the American Academy in Rome using fellow artists at the Academy as actors.
		The surreal film was never finished, but the music, performed by Steve Lacy, Richard Teitelbaum and Jon Phetteplace still exists on tape.
		We have been unable to find the Contraband film, but Paul's widow, Virginia Bush (an art historian formerly with the American Academy) is doing comprehensive search for everything ever done by or with Paul.
	senators.free.fr /Read_See/Films/TheLadyOfTheGarden.html (447 words)

	Jean Lafitte - Contraband Days Festival Guide - Lake Charles, Louisiana
		Contraband Days Festival is filled with over 100 events including outdoor concerts, fireworks, food, children's events, thrill rides and attractions all done under pirate rule of Jean Lafitte.
		Legend has it that Jean Lafitte and his band of pirates buried their contraband treasure along the Southwest Louisiana waterways and to this day has never been discovered.
		Contraband Days gives modern day people the chance to live in the time of pirates and experience this extravaganza celebrating a legend of buried treasure and pirates while having fun and frolicking under pirate rule.
	www.visitlakecharles.com /contraband-days.asp (251 words)

	Contraband \| The A.V. Club
		A suspense film that finds Powell using the light, sure touch found in his comedies, the film stars Conrad Veidt (The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, Casablanca) as an imposing but romantic Danish sea captain.
		Not wishing to be held responsible for their actions, he follows them and finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue involving Nazis and the employees of a Danish restaurant.
		It may not be noir—and it's worth thinking about how such a lighthearted film could be made out of such a dire moment in British history—but it's not to be missed.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/972/print (344 words)

	Tupelo Film Festival
		Eventually he comes to realize that he might be a character in a ten minute film, and he decides that he doesn’t like the direction the screenplay is going.
		This film follows the sweat and sacrifice of those who yearn to be the county’s top frog jockey – and be enshrined on the Hop of Fame.
		Asheville, NC When three men running contraband from Miami to New York get lost in a strange place called Rutherford County their lives are forever changed by a strange encounter with the local people.
	tupelo.net /filmfest/pages/lineup.htm (1675 words)

	Film and Video Center at UCI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		These three Iranian films chosen by Professor Roxanne Varzi (Department of Anthropology) show the development of Iranian Cinema from its height, in Bani-Etemad’s little-screened but widely acclaimed May Lady, to new talent in Beautiful City and From the Land of Silence.
		Their stories take place in the capital and on the periphery, focusing on the middle and lower classes, and in the spirit of Rossellini, spotlight the triumph of the human spirit in the face of adversity.
		In search of a subject for her next documentary, she sets out to find an exemplary mother, while questioning her own ability to raise a teenager alone in the shadow of the state.
	www.humanities.uci.edu /fvc/schedS06_persianfilmseries.html (405 words)

	Monsters At Play: Contraband Review
		Contraband really works as a well-executed film, and at the same time, quite a risky undertaking for Fulci.
		Anyone who has seen Contraband before knows that much of the film was shot outdoors on extremely drab and overcast days.
		Any scenes that exhibit muted colors or low-key color schemes are evidence of the films original budgetary limitations or shooting environments and not this DVD transfer.
	www.monstersatplay.com /review/dvd/c/contraband.php (997 words)

	Blue Underground \| Guilty Pleasures For Adventurous Movie Fans [ INTERVIEWS ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Testi began his career as a stuntman in such films as Sergio Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST and quickly went on to co-star in international hits ranging from Vittorio De Sica's Oscar®-winning GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS to Sergio Sollima's white-knuckle crime thriller REVOLVER.
		He seemed to take particular care with this film and I'd have to say that he was right.
		For example when we were filming the boat chase, the extras began applauding when my character escapes from the police.
	www.blue-underground.com /interviews.php?movie_id=16 (813 words)

	Amazon.ca: Contraband: DVD: Lucio Fulci,Ivana Monti,Fabio Testi,Daniele Dublino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Contraband is a lost classic that has now been restored here on this DVD.
		With its' fight/chase scenes, brilliantly catchy cheesy disco score, foul-mouthed dialogue, and hundreds of spent bullet casings, the movie rides on the coat-tails of the then-popular Eurocrime genre.
		It's how vicious the film gets that really sets it apart - someone is boiled in an acid pool, another guy's head is machine-gunned to pieces, a pusher's face is blowtorched into a molten mess, and there's a nearly unwatchable sodomy scene that precedes RIPPER's infamous razor torture scene.
	www.amazon.ca /Contraband-Lucio-Fulci/dp/B0002C9DJK (1852 words)

	FILMCRASH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Film Crash is an international company of directors, writers and producers.
		Film Crash in Cannes: a bootleg screening of Mark Christensen's brilliant BOX HEAD REVOLUTION unspooled at 3 pm at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday May 20.
		The "film (has) the quality of decaying contraband from the indefinite past" is how Dave Kehr of the New York Times describes BOX HEAD REVOLUTION, the first feature launched under Film Crash's producing banner.
	www.plastercity.com /blogs/FilmCrash.html (386 words)

	Contraband (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Contraband (1940) is a film by the British director-writer team of Powell and Pressburger.
		Danish Captain Andersen (Conrad Veidt) is stopped for a cargo inspection in a British Contraband Control Port in the early years of World War II.
		Full synopsis and film stills (and clips viewable from UK libraries).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Contraband_(film) (269 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Film Listings
		This is a reprint of the Austin Chronicle review that ran last March when the film premiered in Austin during the 1995 SXSW FIlm Festival.
		And the film's central character -- a bootlegger who sells his contraband music tapes on the street -- is in keeping with Rhythm Thief's go-for-broke narrative strategies.
		Celebrating the 475th anniversary of the apparitions of Guadalupe, this Mexican film tells the modern story of two scientists who come to understand the miracle.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gbase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:138280 (513 words)

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