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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Murder at the Gallop at Epinions.com
		The negatives of this film are its monaural sound and lack of color, which enhance the mood of its period setting.
		This film exposes the viewer to a rare glimpse of English life, set amongst the rural countryside, picturesque Tudor buildings, and animated with that most enduring symbol of the landed gentry horses.
		Moments like these in the film are priceless and show not only the wonderfully detailed eye of the filmmakers, but the dedication of Rutherford and Davis to their craft.
	www.epinions.com /content_54479457924

	The Company Review (DVD Movie/Film)
		The fictional elements in the film are so loosely assembled, plot and characterisation are so slight, especially in light of the use of real-life dancers and fully articulated performances, that The Company falls somewhere in between real-life and fiction in a wholly unsatisfying way.
		The Company may have appeal for fans of ballet, as a complete novice in this area I am in no position to judge the film on the technical and artistic proficiency of the dancers, but as a film it displays only a slight glimmer of interest for fans of this great director’s output.
		The film allows screen time for a number of different dance pieces to be played out in their entirety, much like a musical.
	www.futuremovies.co.uk /review.asp?ID=193 (914 words)

	Biography for Mikhail Baryshnikov
		White Nights (1985) was concocted as a vehicle for him and tap dancer Gregory Hines, and Dancers (1987) was another hand-tailored script about an amorous ballet star.
		Turning to film work in 1977, he won an Oscar nomination for his film-debut role as a self-absorbed ballet star in The Turning Point Since that time he has occasionally dabbled in screen acting.
		Later that year, he also made his debut as a movie star with the film "The Turning Point." He played a tailor-made role as Yuri, a ballet defector from Russia who's a superstar and beds with more ballerinas then he dances with.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0000864/bio (1556 words)

	BBC News TV AND RADIO BBC film's rooftop stunts 'real'
		Others show salsa dancers filmed in Hertfordshire and ballet dancers on the Cornish coast.
		The short film Rush Hour, which is being broadcast several times a day on BBC One, shows Frenchman David Belle leaping from one London rooftop to another.
		A series of spectacular rooftop stunts in a new BBC promotional film are all genuine, the corporation has revealed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1939106.stm (433 words)

	Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1893-1941 at the Alamo Drafthouse
		In counterpoint to conventional dance films that presented static views of dancers in motion, American avant-gardists dispensed with actual dancers in favor of color, shape, line, and form choreographed into novel compositions of light.
		Many of these films have not been available since their creation over a century ago, and until now almost all have been unavailable in quality projection prints.
		Early visual symphony films by Oskar Fischinger, Francis Bruguière, Emlen Etting, and other American artists are compared and contrasted with Hollywood montage sequences created by experimentalist Slavko Vorkapich and a variety of avant-garde arrangements of image and sound.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /news/press/2003/unseencinema.html (1173 words)

	Striptease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many in the striptease industry appear in pornographic movies or magazines to be paid more for appearing at stripclubs as "feature dancers" because they are "porn stars", which clubs advertise to bring in a bigger paying audience.
		For the book or movie Striptease see Strip tease (book) or Striptease (film)
		A striptease is a performance, usually a dance, in which the performer gradually removes his or her clothing for the purposes of sexually arousing the audience, usually performed in nightclubs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Striptease (1318 words)

	Olivia Newton-John : About Xanadu
		Xanadu needed a whole range of styles, from the lavish costumes worn by the cabaret dancers to the flowing, feminine costimes of the Greek muses.
		The critics can harp on about Xanadu all they want, but I found it a blast - here was my favourite singer on great form, she was looking out of this world and singing on a great soundtrack with ELO who performed rather well too.
		The Xanadu building was the Pan Pacific Auditorium on 7600 W Beverly Blvd in LA. However, a sad occurrence on May 24 1989 - the "Xanadu" building burnt down.
	www.onlyolivia.com /visual/xanadu/about.html (498 words)

	AMNH Library - Special Collections - Film List
		This is a William James Morden film of Burmese dancers performing a pwe, a drama or dance with dialogue, in Mandalay on the Irrawaddy River.
		This film was made by Commander George M. Dyott, a professional cinematographer, whose main purpose was to show the environment of India, Nepal, and Burma, and therefore be valuable to the hall preparators designing the dioramas for the AMNH Hall of South Asiatic Mammals.
		The films were shot between 1925 and 1930 by William L. Finley (Director of Wildlife Conservation and field naturalist for the Association) his wife, Irene, and Arthur N. Pack (President of the Association.) Footage of Finley filming through blinds or with costumes is found throughout the films.
	library.amnh.org /special/film_list3.html (498 words)

	Offscreen :: The Mondo Film: Bizarre Rituals and Steamy Nights
		The strip teasers being filmed are real dancers.
		Filmed in black and white, this strange film (banned in France in its initial release) ends with an intrusive transition to color cinemascope: from atop the Eiffel Tower we witness the suicide attempt of a young woman dressed in a wedding gown.
		At its peak, the mondo film attracted a mainly male audience whose principal interest was in seeing shocking imagery consistently fed by the theme of the forbidden.
	www.offscreen.com /biblio/essays/mondo_film (2303 words)

	African Films & Resources - Annotated Index
		Film Summary: Award-winning Hidden Faces ( 1990; 52 min.) is a fascinating collaborative documentary featuring Safaa Fathay, a young Egyptian woman living in Paris, who journeys home to make a film about famed feminist activist and writer Nawal El Saadawi.
		Film Summary: This critically-acclaimed film (1985) of Athol Fugard ’s confessional drama depicts a white adolescent’s personal initiation in the abuses of racial power during a long afternoon of crisis and revelation.
		Film Arts: Humanities Dept. Video List (July 2004): http://web.cocc.edu/humanities/courses/film/dept.html
	www.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum211/afrfilms.htm (2303 words)

	gangster films, coolly revisited
		The dancers avert their eyes as the chief gangster shoots his girlfriend.
		Gangsters and their molls come and go through it to maximum effect, when they are not slipping out from and into the wings.
		Morris's new "Resurrection," a world premiere commissioned by the American Dance Festival here, is a sleek retooling of the American gangster movie, set, like Balanchine's "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue," to that number from the Richard Rodgers musical "On Your Toes." It is also the perfect cool, sweet treat for a very hot summer.
	www.globalaging.org /elderrights/us/gangsterfilms.htm (544 words)

	Exotica
		At Exotica (as in, one supposes, an erotic film), voyeurism is a frustrated alias for emotional intercourse, and mother figure Zoe respects the power of those relationships, even as she zealously protects her dancers from customers who commit the ultimate transgression of touching a performer.
		Exotica itself is a lush and fantastic place -- sort of a sinister cross between The Playboy Channel and a Fellini film, with a thundering Leonard Cohen soundtrack.
		Egoyan's achievement in Exotica is singularly fitting, as he yokes the experience of the movie audience to that of the audience in his film, acknowledging erotic needs without condemning them, and stripping down the obsessions that color a life.
	www.deep-focus.com /flicker/exotica.html (684 words)

	Review - Elizabeth
		Imagine filming a ballet or a swing dance demo and only showing the dancers' torsos.
		The crowning idiocy of the film, however, is the execution of the Earl of Sussex for his involvement in the Northern Rebellion.
		Walsingham (played in the film as a worldly wise older man) was actually only three years older than Elizabeth and played no significant part at Court until the latter half of her reign.
	www.peers.org /reveliza.html (1018 words)

	Frankland's walkabout - Arts - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		By taking Roeg's film script, a stage script by Jane Harrison, original film footage and his own songs, Frankland has created an alternate way for the audience to view the journey of the two white children and their black rescuer.
		Everyone who saw Nicolas Roeg's 1971 film will remember those skies and the feeling of an ancient land that was no place for two English schoolchildren (Jenny Agutter and Roeg's son, Luc).
		The 1971 film Walkabout, inspired Richard Frankland to "fill in the gaps" with a live show.
	www.theage.com.au /news/arts/franklands-walkabout/2005/08/17/1123958120074.html (925 words)

	Filmtracks Modern Soundtrack Reviews
		His conservative, clean-cut FBI agent attitude is challenged by his quarter Indian heritage, with the film showing his slowly-developing mystical visions of ghost dancers as he is eventually forced to choose between the law and the Indians.
		But the film's unoriginal, drawn out story follows predictable paths of the daughter's coming of age and the nosey sister-in-law/aunt who attempts to first set up the ailing father on a blind date (before eventually trying to steal custody of the girl).
		While the first film had the advantage of conveying the most interesting story, the subsequent entries suffered from a lack of self-importance as the criminal attention turned more towards Ryan and his family rather than events of a global scale.
	www.filmtracks.com (925 words)

	Exotica
		At Exotica (as in, one supposes, an erotic film), voyeurism is a frustrated alias for emotional intercourse, and mother figure Zoe respects the power of those relationships, even as she zealously protects her dancers from customers who commit the ultimate transgression of touching a performer.
		Much is made of the erotic conundrum at the heart of a striptease (or, one supposes, an erotic film): the dancer's actions are meant to arouse and excite the patron, who is helpless to be anything but a passive viewer.
		Here is what the last scene in the film meant, he explained, his four- or five-word declamation a stark and numbing negation of the gentle, almost languid spirit of the film, which invites the audience to its own discovery.
	www.deep-focus.com /flicker/exotica.html (684 words)

	Striptease
		In light of that attention, Andrew Bergman's "Striptease," which is no "Showgirls" (and is instead an easygoing film version of the hilarious novel by Carl Hiaasen), may well leave audiences wondering what all the fuss is about.
		Hiaasen, whose writing brings to mind the best of Elmore Leonard, has set this story in a strip joint and managed to turn nudity into its biggest joke, since the club's staff and dancers are oblivious to the erotic effects of being undressed.
		Written mostly as ensemble comedy, "Striptease" grinds to a halt whenever the star goes through her dance paces, most of which prove awkwardly strenuous and are daring only by the standards of A-list movie stars.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/striptease.html (905 words)

	South Asian Slate
		It even includes a climactic scene in a water fountain that conveniently renders the dancers completely wet—a motif that has appeared all too often in Indian films, but is somehow inappropriate and extraneous in the over-the-top musical.
		The stoner film seems to do what few if any films have done so far in the American film industry—and that is portray what has been termed the “model minority” in a transformation that allows both characters to be non-submissive and forthright.
		More fusion films such as Bend It Like Beckham and the upcoming, Bride and Prejudice by the director Gurinder Chadha are beginning to more clearly show the world of Indians growing up in Western society and the complex combination of tradition and values compromised between the two.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~sasiasoc/slate/fall2004/samedia.html (651 words)

	platoon - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about platoon
		When the ship rolled to starboard the whole platoon of dancers came charging down to starboard with it, and brought up in mass at the rail; and when it rolled to port they went floundering down to port with the same unanimity of sentiment.
		To heighten the excitement and confuse the guessers, a number of dry poles are laid before each platoon, upon which the members of the party "in hand" beat furiously with short staves, keeping time to the choral chant already mentioned, which waxes fast and furious as the game proceeds.
		I mentioned this noble idea to Harris, with enthusiasm, and was about to order the Expedition to form on the Gorner Grat, with their umbrellas, and prepare for flight by platoons, each platoon in command of a guide, when Harris stopped me and urged me not to be too hasty.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /platoon (255 words)

	Boxoffice Magazine [PECKER Film Review]
		But this is a John Waters film, which means that the neighborhood is in Baltimore, the boy is named Pecker, and his wholesome, loving friends and neighbors include lesbian strippers, male exotic dancers who specialize in the unmentionable practice of "teabagging," and a talking statue of the Virgin Mary.
		Pecker's revenge on the art-world snobs is overly obvious and a trifle preachy, but "Pecker" is a fun flick all the same.
		Young Pecker (Edward Furlong) is a budding photographer who supposedly got his nickname from pecking at his food.
	www.boxoffice.com /scripts/fiw.dll?GetReview?&where=ID&terms=4172 (297 words)

	Review: Network
		Network was brought to the screen by a film maker with a tremendous track record, and this was undoubtedly one of his greatest success stories.
		As Beale says in his most inspired speech: "Television is not the truth Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players.
		An Oscar-winner for Stalag 17, Holden went on to star in such memorable films as Sunset Boulevard, Bridge on the River Kwai, and The Wild Bunch.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/n/network.html (1535 words)

	CBC.ca - Arts - Film - Kids Rock
		The formula is this: a small group of kids is pushed to greatness on a public stage by heretofore untapped internal forces (that’s the feel-good part that makes the films so charming) and also aggressive, competitive grown-ups (the less-discussed feel-bad part).
		Yet while today’s kids are coddled, they’re also fetishized for behaving like adults; when the barely pubescent dancers of Mad Hot Ballroom dropped their sexiest moves at a screening I attended, the audience breathed a giant awww.
		In the winning new film Rock School, 12-year-old guitar prodigy C.J., short and shy enough to pass for nine, is so adroit on a fretboard that he slays the toughest crowd of all: a days-long Frank Zappa festival in a German town where the main park actually contains a Zappa statue.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/film/kidsrock.html (1109 words)

	Hindi Films
		The posters for these films often have pictures of the male and female leads as well as the villain(s), a chorus of dancers, and sometimes a mythical religious figure.
		The films I saw there were exactly like the music—there were completely absurd and random changes throughout the films, which veered from serious drama to comedy, romance, action, religious and musical.
		A taste for Indian pop music was my entre to the Indian film world.
	www.stim.com /Stim-x/0696June/Automedia/hindi.html (467 words)

	Glitter (2001) Film Review - MovieWeb
		The 80s burst from the ruins of this shattered childhood like a street sweeper, erupting into a colorful montage of flashing rainbow lights and disco dancers.
		Glitter tells the uninspired story of pop icon Billie Franklin and her cheese log of a boyfriend, DJ Dice.
		Glitter hits a true downward spiral when Mariah and Max go on a date and end up at his place.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/film/35/235/review292.php (1569 words)

	African Family Film Foundation - Documentary Films on African Families and Culture
		Filmed over a period of two decades, Great Great Great Grandparents' Music presents an intimate portrait of the remarkable Koné family, three generations of jeli (West African musicians-singers-dancers and carriers of collective knowledge and culture).
		Filmed over a span of two decades, in the Sahelian region of West Africa, Zakaramba, a Family for All Seasons presents an intimate portrait of three generations of an extended Moose [pronounced "mo say"] family of farmers and their community.
		An entrancing film of dance performed to humming and handclapping on the southern reaches of the Sahara desert.
	www.africanfamily.org /films.html (294 words)

	Fetishization in "Exotica"
		Just as the customers at the club Exotica are prohibited from touching the dancers, viewers of this film are not encouraged to use “Exotica” as material for masturbation- in other words, for thoughtless or exploitative self-gratification.
		These unambiguous examples of sexual pleasure in the film all deviate from the fetishistic regime by revealing themselves to be entwined with love, attempts at emotional healing, guilt, nostalgia, and the idealization of innocence.
		None of these involvements takes place within the film, neither visually nor chronologically; all are revealed through dialogue as having occurred at some point in the past which is not included in the film’s non-linear chronology.
	strangerbox.topcities.com /exotica.html (1110 words)

	Spirituality & Health
		Tender Mercies is a remarkable film about a country and western singer, a widow, and her son who try to drive away the shadows of the past in order to become strong in the broken places of their lives.
		In America is one of the best films of 2003 with its soulful and buoyant portrait of a poverty stricken Irish family's winning battle to move beyond the wrenching, contradictory, and chaotic emotions of grief into a new life in Manhattan.
		The Matrix Revolutions ends as the film trilogy began with a salute to faith that is comfortable in the face of mystery, firm in its resolve to see things through, and propelled by choices that make all the difference.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/lists/pthp_moviereview_16.html (1110 words)

	Using Super 8 Double 8mm Film Stock
		Dancers, athletes, cars and fast moving events all call for filming at 24 fps to smooth out motions that are the center of attention.
		Super 8 film and Double 8mm filmmaking seems to be best suited to the solo filmmaker who can enjoy the subject of the film and the making of it.
		Super 8 and 8mm filmmakers have maintained a strong interest in black and white film, particularly for the gritty grain of Tri-X and the platinum-surfaced, mid-range tones of Plus-X. Kodak offers two excellent black and white Super 8 reversal (direct projection) films.
	www.8mmfilmstock.com /fundamentals.html (2575 words)

	Collateral Film Reviews Henry Sheehan
		Mann is so digitally adept that I’m still not sure if he switched back to film for an extraordinarily well-edited (Jim Miller and Paul Rubell are the editors) shoot-out in a nightclub jam-packed with dancers and drinkers.
		Happily, the issue doesn’t arise in Collateral, the new crime drama from Michael “Macho” Mann, in which Cruise plays an out-of-town hitman who drafts an L.A. cab driver as his personal chauffeur for a night of assassination.
		Vincent grabs Max’s ride as Annie gets out, and this is nearly the last time Mann uses film in the movie.
	www.henrysheehan.com /reviews/abc/collateral.html (937 words)

	Olivia Newton-John : Xanadu Programme
		Although XANADU marks Greenwald's feature film debut, he has a very successful career with the stage as well as television.
		She was in no hurry to do another film, however - until the right project came along.
		Olivia Newton-John's first American film, Grease, turned out to be the most successful film musical in history.
	www.onlyolivia.com /visual/xanadu/program.html (1352 words)

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