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DAILY BRIEFS: Docs in Dallas; Premieres for San Rafael >> Rafael Film Center Sets Opening Date; "Breakfast of Champions" and "Election" Premiere The festivities occasion the long-awaited re-opening of the Rafael Theater by the Film Institute of Northern California. The Film Institute of Northern California is the parent organization of the annual Mill Valley Film Festival.[Carl Russo] www.indiewire.com /biz/biz_990326_briefs.html   (493 words)

election: Information From Answers.com Election is a 1999 film adapted from a novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta. The teacher in charge of the election and the student government, Jim McAllister (Broderick), finds the notion of Tracy walking away with the election distasteful. The film was directed by Alexander Payne and stars Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, and Chris Klein. www.answerbar.com /topic/election-movie   (493 words)

FLYING INKPOT THEATRE REVIEW: Election Day by Checkpoint Theatre Election Day demonstrates that grown-up politics can be just as juvenile, taking as its setting the 1999 Malaysian general election that swept UMNO back into power. In the film Election, Reese Witherspoon and Chris Klein battled for the student council presidency in a high school contest fraught with name-calling and petty vindictiveness. In the end Election Day is a rather charming study of how human beings in a claustrophobic environment can get just a little carried away with their beliefs. inkpot.com /theatre/04reviews/04revelecday.html   (513 words)

Why we must stay silent no longer During the European elections in 1999, less than half of the electorate voted, and less than a quarter came out in the UK. The accompanying Channel 4 film, The End of Politics will be broadcast as the curtain raiser to Channel 4's general election coverage. In the UK, the landslide victory for Labour in the election of 1997 was achieved on a turnout of 69 per cent - the lowest since the war. www.zmag.org /meastwatch/hertz.htm   (513 words)

Election (movie) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 1999 film directed by Alexander Payne that stars Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Broderick, and Chris Klein, see Election (film). The 2005 film directed by Johnnie To, see Election (2005 movie). This page was last modified 01:06, 24 December 2005. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Election_(movie)   (77 words)

MA in Media Studies - The Faculty In 1999, he was appointed Managing Director and Executive Producer of Corbis Documentaries, a production company with the aim to produce films with a strong visual and social sensibility. He has also been honored by election to the Board of Directors of the Film Forum in New York and serves on the Advisory Board of MediaRights.Org. She has exhibited her films internationally on the film festival circuit, taught digital video documentary and other courses at Duke University. www.newschool.edu /mediastudies/faculty   (77 words)

Errol Morris Elsa Dorfman photographed Errol's film subjects since 1999. Roger Ebert has said, "After twenty years of reviewing films, I haven't found another filmmaker who intrigues me more...Errol Morris is like a magician, and as great a filmmaker as Hitchcock or Fellini." More GOTHAMIST: This election year, this political climate and national divide has become overwhelmingly stressful. www.errolmorris.com   (77 words)

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FLYING INKPOT THEATRE REVIEW: Election Day by Checkpoint Theatre Election Day demonstrates that grown-up politics can be just as juvenile, taking as its setting the 1999 Malaysian general election that swept UMNO back into power. In the film Election, Reese Witherspoon and Chris Klein battled for the student council presidency in a high school contest fraught with name-calling and petty vindictiveness. The set piece at the heart of the play is a wickedly funny portrait of the different groups canvassing outside a polling station, each side convinced that their candidate has been chosen by god to lead the constituency. inkpot.com /theatre/04reviews/04revelecday.html   (513 words)

SurfWax -- News and Articles On Guatemala Election As documented in the film, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Chavez was forcibly removed from the presidential palace on April 11, 2002 by forces acting on behalf of Venezuelas propertied class. Jerry Weller (R-11th) of Morris has announced plans to marry a lawmaker from Guatemala, he has asked federal election officials what role his fiancee can play in his campaign... An appeals court had overturned a 1999 conviction for Lt. Camilo Lacan and the soldiers, but surviving villagers persuaded the nation's top court to order a retrial. politics.surfwax.com /files/Guatemala_Election.html   (513 words)

MTV.com - Movies - Chris Klein It was while he was in high school that Klein was discovered by director Alexander Payne, who was busy casting his upcoming film, Election (1999). Klein played a similar character in his next film, the 1999 summer smash American Pie. As Chris "Oz" Ostreicher, Klein was again seen as a sweetly dim high-school jock, who, rather than wanting to win an election, channeled his energies toward losing his virginity. www.mtv.com /movies/person/234620/bio.jhtml   (332 words)

Alexander Payne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Payne was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Election. His film Election, starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon, which takes aim at politics and education in America, attracted attention when New Yorker film critic David Denby named it the best film of 1999. Constantine Alexander Payne (born February 10, 1961 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American film director and screenwriter of Greek descent (his Greek name is Alexandros Papadopoulos). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Payne   (290 words)

1998 1998 in film See also: 1997 in film, other events of 1998, 1999 in film, list of 'years in film'. Venezuelan presidential election, 1998 A presidential election was held in the 1998. Elizabeth (1998 movie) Elizabeth is a Elizabeth I of England. www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/1998.html   (290 words)

Jurassic Park 3 Movie Review The other two writers are the writing and directing team behind what I thought was the best film of 1999/2000, Election. Alexander Payne, the director and co-writer of Election, also helped write a few other features, Citizen Ruth and the soon to be released About Schmidt, which was co-written with Jim Taylor, who was the other writer in JP3. This is something I watch for in just about every film I see. www.wordsfromhere.com /movies/16.html   (1211 words)

t r u t h o u t - Warner Refuses to Release Anti-War Films In the documentary, the director revisits some of the Iraqi extras and advisors from the 1999 film "Three Kings" and the result is not favorable to the current administration. A clash between David O. Russell and Warner Bros. over the DVD re-release of his Gulf War film "Three Kings" intensified Thursday as studio executives informed the filmmaker the video could not be released before the November election. The director says Warner Chairman Barry M. Meyer told him he was in favor of releasing "Three Kings" before the election, "but the people under him seem to be in such a state of panic that they have no intention of doing so…. www.truthout.org /docs_04/090604Z.shtml   (606 words)

October Films Celebrated film-maker Leslie Woodhead returns to the subject of his 1999 film 'Cry From The Grave' to discover what has happened since to the survivors of the slaughter of thousands of men and boys who were abandoned by Dutch UN forces in the supposed 'safe haven' of Srebenica A Modern Times special filmed over 24 hours the day after election of London’s new Mayor. Clive Gordon’s film about the abduction of children in northern Uganda to fight in a strange and brutal army. www.octoberfilms.co.uk /productions.php   (606 words)

2000 See also: 1999 in film, other events of 2000, 2001 in film and the list of 'years in film'. November 7 - U.S. presidential election, 2000: Republican challenger George W. Bush defeats Democrat Vice President Al Gore, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida. See also: 1999 in science, other events of 2000, 2001 in science, and the list of years in science. www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/2000   (5614 words)

Alexander Payne His next film, Election (1999), starred Reese Witherspoon and was Payne’s first film to earn a wide release. Born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, Alexander Payne became interested in filmmaking at the age of six, when his father was given an 8mm camera. Payne and his co-writer, Jim Taylor, won several "Best Screenplay" awards from various film societies, and as well, were nominated for an Oscar®. www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=2229   (318 words)

February 10 [Definition] His film Election, starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon, which takes aim at politics and education in America, attracted attention when New Yorker film critic David Denby named it the best film of 1999. 1961 - Alexander Payne Constantine Alexander Payne (born February 10, 1961 in Omaha, Nebraska), American film director and screenwriter. Payne was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for E... www.wikimirror.com /February_10   (318 words)

Encyclopedia: 2001 See also: 2000 in film, other events of 2001, 2002 in film and the list of years in film. For the 1968 science-fiction film and novel, see 2001: A Space Odyssey. Major controversy over U.S. presidential election, 2000 September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on New Yorks World Trade Center and Virginias Pentagon killing almost 3000 people. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/2001   (318 words)

comments.htm This film makes compelling viewing and, through to the end, the viewer, like the characters involved, lives in the hope that the murder of the innocent inmates of the Moscow apartment building, destroyed by a bomb on 9 September 1999, will be resolved and justice redressed. Nekrasov's view, which was reinforced by last week's election, is that Russia is again becoming a powerful one-party state with empire on its mind. Nekrasov calls his film a documentary composition and indeed it achieves a happy synthesis of two genres?the documentary and the feature film. www.disbelief-film.com /comments.htm   (3089 words)

Ah-nuld Elected Governor! - Oct 08, 2003 - E! Online News Schwarzenegger's reign begins immediately, or as immediately as possible once the election results are finalized and a transition team is in place. Schwarzenegger, whose last starring film, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, was the sixth highest-grossing movie of the summer, is essentially out of the movie business at least through 2006, when he'd complete Davis' unfinished term. He is the second butt-kicker from the 1987 sci-fi/action flick Predator to leave behind the set for the statehouse, after Jesse Ventura, who served as Minnesota's governor from 1999-2003. www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,12648,00.html   (3089 words)

Chris Klein @ Filmbug Klein made his professional acting debut opposite Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon in Election, Alexander Payne's satirical comedy set in an Omaha high school. Klein next starred in the 1999 box-office hit American Pie, then starred opposite Leelee Sobieski and Josh Hartnett in the romantic drama Here on Earth and with Heather Graham in the comedy Say It Isn't So. During his senior year, Klein literally bumped into Payne as he was scouting Klein's high school as a possible location for Election. www.filmbug.com /db/29813   (242 words)

The Hindu News Update Service Kumaratunga, who since the 1999 assassination attempt has lived largely in heavily secured seclusion, hasn't publicly said a word about her one-time protege's election. Kumaratunga's husband, a rising political star and former film idol, was killed by a leftist assassin in 1988 as she looked on. His defeated opponent, opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, said the result would produce ``a lot of question marks and uncertainty'' and called Rajapakse's election ``a setback for the peace process as you have a very polarized society.'' www.hindu.com /thehindu/holnus/003200511201427.htm   (841 words)

Guardian Unlimited Film Features Starring you and me The third school film that is pretty well canonical is Election, the 1999 movie in which immature teachers and sophisticated students meet in an electrifyingly dangerous middle ground. These are school films about class and caste; the teachers rule over the pupils and the pupils grimly sense there is another, similar status war waiting to be lost once they leave school and get a job. So when she stands for class president in the school election, Broderick begins a series of dirty tricks designed to undermine her candidature: an undignified plan made even more awful by the fact that he can get an erection in bed with his wife only by imagining Tracy. film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1154936,00.html   (841 words)

NPR : Interview with ADAM SCHLESINGER and CHRIS COLLINGWOOD cont'd Fresh Air from WHYY, June 10, 1999 · Interview with ADAM SCHLESINGER and CHRIS COLLINGWOOD cont'd.TOM PERROTTA is the author of "Election: The Novel" which the new film "Election" is based upon. The book is set in a New Jersey high school amidst a hotbed of political activity: students are voting for their school president. Interview with ADAM SCHLESINGER and CHRIS COLLINGWOOD cont'd www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1110687   (207 words)

Chris Klein @ Filmbug Klein made his professional acting debut opposite Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon in Election, Alexander Payne's satirical comedy set in an Omaha high school. During his senior year, Klein literally bumped into Payne as he was scouting Klein's high school as a possible location for Election. Klein next starred in the 1999 box-office hit American Pie, then starred opposite Leelee Sobieski and Josh Hartnett in the romantic drama Here on Earth and with Heather Graham in the comedy Say It Isn't So. www.filmbug.com /db/29813   (242 words)

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