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		Canadian films tend to be concerned with an authentic depiction of the 'Canadian reality' as it relates to the physical/cultural world.
		Canada is feminine in that she is defined in relation to the aggressive masculine (United States, Britain), her nature is ultimately passive, and she is representative of the other (in being a multi-cultural melting pot).
		I have shown that within the two protagonists of the film are elements of the fragmented identity (as related to Canada's duality and the language debate), colonial victimization, gender anxieties, and anxieties around the scientific unknown.
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	Dead Sea - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Dead Sea
		The Dead Sea-Jordan Valley Rift is a northward extension of the Great Rift Valley which separates the African and Arabian tectonic plates of the Earth's crust.
		A 270-km/168-mi canal from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea was proposed, to pump water north in order to irrigate the rift valley, restore the level of the Dead Sea, and generate power to drive a desalination plant at Sodom on the southwest shore of the sea.
		The red eastern sky, the northward flness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurts one's lungs: all contributed to an appalling effect.
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	Dead Ringers
		I suspect that women are mortified by this movie because almost everything in the examination scenes is left to the imagination: the familiar squirms and grunts of the female patients are doubly effective in a Hitchcockian manner.
		Dead Ringers unfolds in blue, sterile places--even the Mantle home gleams like an operating room--but the movie is shot through with a curious warmth.
		Cronenberg is a premed student stuck in film school, closely examining situations with a nerd's curiosity and thoroughness though sometimes exercising the freedom afforded by cinema to simply stand back and observe.
	filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/deadringers.htm (521 words)

	Dead Ringers (film) - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dead Ringers (1988) is a psychological horror film directed by David Cronenberg.
		Inspired by true events, the film stars Jeremy Irons in a dual role as Elliot and Beverly Mantle, identical twin gynecologists.
		Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice (Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /dead_ringers_(film).htm (157 words)

	EUFS: Dead Ringers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In trying to cure Beverly, Elliot himself becomes hooked and from then on the film charts their decline into infantilism and madness.
		Gradually their character traits merge and it becomes increasingly difficult to tell them apart - they have become one flesh - vividly exemplified in Claire's horrific dream sequence, Cronenberg's only concession to the gore element of his previous films.
		Dead Ringers confirms his successful transition into the commercial mainstream with a film whose surface normality disguises a psychological profundity and disturbing content far exceeding that of his earlier work.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/dead_ringers.html (221 words)

	David Cronenberg @ Filmbug
		The film was psychologically intense rather than action-oriented, with well delineated characterizations and remarkable imagery that caught the attention of many critics.
		Accompanying the films was an exhibition of 300 artifacts, props, stills and posters and special effects puppets including 16 mugwumps and the sex blob from Naked Lunch.
		Dead Ringers won accolades from the L.A. Film Critics for Best Director and Cronenberg was invested with Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, bestowed by France in 1990 and upgraded in 1997 to Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.
	www.filmbug.com /db/2865 (1644 words)

	Dead Ringers
		Watching the film, it's almost impossible to tell that the two characters were played by one man. Irons deserved an Oscar for this performance, but he didn't get one until playing Claus von Bulow in "Reversal of Fortune" two years later.
		Propelled by the critical and box-office success of "The Fly," this was exactly the kind of film only Cronenberg could make—and he was finally given the budget and total creative freedom to pull off his vision.
		His later films would all fall out of the splatter genre completely, attempting to appeal solely to the arthouse crowd, and would never match the excellence of "Dead Ringers," arguably one of the greatest horror films ever made.
	www.esplatter.com /reviewsatog/deadringers.htm (266 words)

	Dan Shaw: PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINISM IN DEAD RINGERS
		Ambivalence is pervasive in Beverly's responses throughout the rest of the film, and I believe that it is this ambivalence that gives rise to his psychotic assaults on his patients, as well as to his eventual murder of Elliot.
		Dead Ringers is a profoundly pessimistic work, which mocks all efforts of the human will to wrest control of its future from deterministic forces.
		Dead Ringers is the work of a master who has come into his own, a mature creation that is profound in its depth of characterization and psychological insight.
	www.davidcronenberg.de /psychoringers.html (2327 words)

	Dead Ringers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A dead ringer is slang for a doppelgänger.
		Dead Ringers, a film directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jeremy Irons as a pair of identical twins
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dead_Ringers (105 words)

	Dead Ringers
		Dead Ringers is the perfect example of a movie that proves this to be the case.
		Since we do, we realize the film is a constant special effect, for the new moving split screen technique employed makes it impossible to tell that the world wasn't blessed with two Jeremy Irons.
		The "National Enquirer" topic of Dead Ringers is gynecology, but it's simply a metaphor for the subject of the film, the split between body and mind.
	www.metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/deadringers.html (1945 words)

	DVD Times: Other DVD Reviews: Dead Ringers
		Dead Ringers is the story of two identical twin gynaecologists and their problems with themselves, each other and the women they meet in the course of their work - and it's not a light romantic comedy.
		One is a gregarious, outgoing womaniser, the other a shy, bookish recluse, but, as the film makes clear, they're two sides of a very similar coin.
		No-one's ever going to pretend that Dead Ringers is easy viewing - but Criterion have done another excellent job of bringing out its virtues to the full.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /reviews/other/deadringers.html (461 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Dead Ringers [1989]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The film marked a directorial breakthrough for Cronenberg, who was able to continue some of the themes explored in his earlier horror films while graduating to a higher, more critically "respectable" level of artistic sophistication.
		In this way Dead Ringers becomes a fascinating and stylistically clinical study of duality, and Cronenberg doesn't shy away from the dark and unpleasant aspects of the story.
		In talking about the film Cronenberg has said that men have proven to be much more squeamish about this film than women as lying on the gynecological chair is an experience that many women have gone through.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004D34A (929 words)

	Dead Sea Scrolls - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Dead Sea Scrolls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Dead Sea Scrolls on display in a shrine.
		They were made available for inspection on the Internet April 1996, one of the first times ancient material has been made available in this way.
		The caves were located 12 km/7 mi south of Jericho and 2 km/l mi from the north end of the Dead Sea.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Dead%20Sea%20Scrolls (249 words)

	Dead Ringers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I suspect that women are mortified by this movie because almost everything in the examination scenes is left to the imagination: the familiar squirms and grunts of the female patients are doubly effective in a Hitchcockian manner.
		Dead Ringers unfolds in blue, sterile places--even the Mantle home gleams like an operating room--but the movie is shot through with a curious warmth.
		Cronenberg is a premed student stuck in film school, closely examining situations with a nerd's curiosity and thoroughness though sometimes exercising the freedom afforded by cinema to simply stand back and observe.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/deadringers.htm (521 words)

	The Edge: Film, DVD, Video - M. Butterfly
		At first sight, the film adaptation of a successful Broadway play is hardly the kind of material to attract that master of the perverse, David Cronenberg.
		Cronenberg has long shown his ability to work outside of pure genre (Dead Ringers, for one), and with little effort it is easy to see why this tale of identity and transformation should so appeal to his idiosyncratic talents.
		When the film is given over to the two of them alone (and with the requisite suspension of disbelief) it takes on an undeniable power - particularly in a compelling, extended, almost stagy sequence toward the end, where having revealed himself as both man and spy, Lone bares himself (literally and metaphorically) to Irons.
	www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk /filmsmr/mbutterfly.htm (876 words)

	Film Scouts Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cronenberg is the Toronto-bred director of such itchy films as "Videodrome", "The Fly", "M. Butterfly", and "Dead Ringers".
		The sex scenes in the film, which was greeted by walkouts and boos in its screenings at the 49th Cannes Film Festival, "are the movie.
		Based on the1973 cult novel of the same name by JG Ballard, "Crash" was physically difficult to shoot," Cronenberg relates, due to the high incidence of night shooting, moving vehicles and the time and delicacy of shooting sexual activity.
	www.filmscouts.com /intervws/dav-cro.html (527 words)

	Dead Ringers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This film traces the shared career and dissolution of Beverly and Elliot Mantle, male identical twins (both played, thanks to seamless special effects, by Jeremy Irons) who are gynecologists, running a successful fertility clinic in Toronto in the 1980's.
		To this extent, Dead Ringers can be seen as a parable about the dangers of creating and maintaining the double life apparently required of ambitious explorers of bodies.
		Whether taken literally as a story about twins, or more metaphorically as a parable about the modern divided self, Dead Ringers is a fascinating and disturbing exploration of the physician's identity and the frightening capacity for distortion and impairment inherent in such a demanding role.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webfilms/dead.ringers31-film-.html (610 words)

	DVD.net : Dead Ringers - DVD Review
		Often referred to as a horror film, Dead Ringers is, in fact, an intense psychological drama that bears little resemblance to any kind of genre horror at all (though the emphasis on the word “dead” on the front cover of the DVD, along with the odd cover art, might suggest otherwise).
		Dead Ringers has never looked especially good on home video until recently, when Cronenberg and cinematographer Peter Suschitzky supervised a new transfer of the film for its tenth anniversary in 1998.
		The entire 111 minute film, though, is crammed onto a single-layered disc, and this does present a challenge for the authoring team at Madman; who’ve responded by massively varying the encoding bitrate depending on content - it ranges from 3Mb/sec to over 8Mb/sec, and the average is high overall.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=1390 (1355 words)

	product > 1559408871 > Dead Ringers - Criterion Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The film is loosely based, amazingly enough, on a true story about twin gynecologists who routinely traded each others' identities, lives and even lovers.
		The score by Howard Shore is sumptuous, especially during the endgame of the film.
		It is Irons by himself, and if you're like me and rank Dead Ringers at the top of the DC heap, you will find this Warner disc well worth the money just for the commentary alone.
	www.ilectric.com /shop/info.cgi/1559408871 (856 words)

	David Cronenberg
		The film itself was exposed to the judgmental ardor: its text encompassed, picketed by female members of parliament and removed from public screening, the subtext of subtext.
		Dead Ringers (1988) was adapted from the true crime novella Twins, a documentation of the Mendle twins, New York City gynecologists who committed suicide to exude malpractice.
		It was filmed in China, Budapest, Paris, and Toronto, and the sheer presence of landscape, architecture, and costume lends the images an opulence that goes beyond anything in Cronenberg's previous films.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/cronenberg.html (5291 words)

	Dead Ringers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Once the inevitable events are set in motion, the film drags tediously to its conclusion, and could easily have been thirty minutes shorter.
		Dead Ringers is more interested in the relationships between Elliot, Beverly, and Claire than in her physical "mutation" and the brothers' identical appearances but, these are integral components of the story.
		The film is an adaptation of the novel Twins by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland (the film's title was changed to avoid confusion with the Schwarzenegger-DeVito comedy released the same year).
	www.greenmanreview.com /film/film_deadringers.html (333 words)

	Dead Ringers Movie: Dead Ringers DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		The film is loosely based on the true case of the Marcus Twins and the novel about them, TWINS by Bari Wood.
		The Mantle brothers, Beverly and Elliot, are brilliant gynecologists with an upscale Toronto practice.
		"Dead Ringers" is based on a true story.
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	Definition of David Cronenberg
		David Paul Cronenberg (born March 15, 1943 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian horror and science fiction film director.
		Cronenberg's films follow a definite progression, a movement from the social world to the inner life.
		This trajectory culiminates in Dead Ringers, in which a twin pair of gynecologists spiral into codependency and drug addiction.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/David_Cronenberg (402 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Dead Ringers (Widescreen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		With Dead Ringers however the idea operates less as science-fiction than as a psychological drama.
		the visuals in this film are numbing and one walks away with various shades of horrific red seared into your brain (and of course we know red equals both sex and death, an understandably favorite obsession with cronenberg).
		by the time this film is finished you are mentally drained and i remember walking out of the theatre mumbling (probably incoherently) to myslef.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1559408871 (1240 words)

	Dead Ringers (1988) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This is a David Cronenberg film, so we are in the familiar realm of horror, mind games and perverted science.
		Essentially, the 'dead ringers' of the title are the brothers, who regard their mental and emotional oneness as being something more.
		Identity is at the core of this film, and the dualities and ambiguities of personality recur with brain-teasing frequency.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0094964 (875 words)

	David Cronenberg: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		The film presents viewers with a technologically intense, fast-paced urban environment in which a television-commercial director, who has experienced a head-on collision, is drawn into a group of people, who are sexually obsessed with car crashes and their visible effects on the body.
		The film's main characters spend their time practicing sodomy with each other and anyone else they meet, and, on meeting a psychopath who stages car wrecks and is sexually aroused by the sight of bloodied corpses and scarred flesh, they become even more depraved.
		He explains that the film is a "political melodrama" set in postrevolutionary China, telling the story of a French junior diplomat driven to spying during an 18-year-long affair with a Chinese transvestite whom he never realizes is actually a man, the emphasis being on the blatant banality of the Western sexual/colonial fantasy.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/cronenberg.html (14888 words)

	Dead Ringers: Brief: Film: Creative Loafing Tampa
		There's no denying that Death of a President is one provocative movie -- but, skillfully made though it is, the film's provocations amount more to cheap tabloid thrills than to any genuine engagement of hearts and minds.
		Range blends his historical "re-creation" with a series of staged talking heads who walk us through the events of that fateful day, and the film's first half carries a lurid but undeniable kick as we watch the President on his way to meet his inexorable end.
		Death of a President isn't bad during its first half as it details the assassination and events leading up to it, but the film completely falls apart during a last act depicting the aftermath of Bush's murder.
	tampa.creativeloafing.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=131863 (383 words)

	The DVD Maniacs - Forum - "Warming Up" To David Cronenberg
		His pre Dead Ringers film had a violent set piece and dealt with biological horror in a physical way.
		His post Dead Ringers films would go more into the psychological aspects of his biological horror themes.
		Of course, being a Cronenberg film, one could say that it really is happening, but those who take the realistic approach in analyzing his films would say that it's all in the character's mind.
	www.dvdmaniacs.net /forums/printthread.php?t=10531 (1048 words)

	IMDb user comments for Dead Ringers (1988) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I had just seen The Fly and eXistenZ, both of which I loved, and I was bent on renting Crash, but the idiotic Puritanical video store (Hollywood Video) only had the R rated, edited for content version.
		It was very difficult to understand what was going on, and even when the film ended, I was confused.
		This film is surely worth seeing for its amazing first half.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0094964/usercomments-11 (255 words)

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