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	ALAN DALE \| What We Do Best: American Movie Comedies of the 1990s
		The movie’s Tracy has a few vestigial moments of introspection, in which she says she wasn’t a sexual victim of the teacher who lost his job, that she misses talking to him, that she has no friends and is lonely.
		Election is as much a total satire as Citizen Ruth and with a high school election as the setting the material is just sitting on the vine, waiting to be gathered.
		The movie seems to think it’s stylishly ironic, but with a vacuum at the center, the only thing it has to fall back on is satire of media culture.
	www.weirdprofessortype.com /election.html (6255 words)

	Election Movie Review by Anthony Leong
		It is election season at Carver High School, and it is time for the student body to choose their elected representatives for the student council in the upcoming year.
		And while it does eventually come close to overwhelming the story with its numerous (and some may say gimmicky) asides, the 'he said, she said' exposition sheds more light on the character that is speaking than what is actually being said.
		"Election" is a welcome wake-up call to all those sugarcoated and empty-headed teen romances that have been polluting the megaplexes in recent months.
	members.aol.com /aleong1631/election.html (909 words)

	Election Day: One Day to Make it Count
		ELECTION DAY to be screened as part of Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival
		An experiment in cinema verite filmmaking, Election Day was shot in a single day - November 2, 2004 - by over a dozen camera crews around the United States.
		The stars of this documentary are a lively and eclectic group of citizens from the Florida panhandle to the South Dakota plains - making the most of their right to vote.
	www.electiondaythemovie.com (113 words)

	MMI Movie Review: Election
		The race is for student council president, and from the moment we see Tracy's smug, conniving, cherubic face convinced her election is a mere formality we start licking our lips, waiting for the film to deliver her well-deserved comeuppance.
		But "Election" was written and directed by Alexander Payne, the man who chose a comedy about abortion for his film debut, the clever and daring "Citizen Ruth".
		With "Election" Payne actually pulls even fewer punches and the result is one of the most fully-realized comedies in recent memory.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/election99.html (521 words)

	Hak se wui (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Election is a film that is memorable for the sheer fact of its unpredictable scenes, spontaneous action and violence that are done in a realistic and tasteful (if that's the right word) manner as well as the clever little 'in pieces' of film-making.
		It's difficult to spot during the viewing but Election is really constructed in a kind of three act structure: there is the first point of concern involving the actual election and whoever is voted in is voted in – not everyone likes the decision but what the Uncles say, goes.
		Election is a good film that is structured well enough to enjoy and a film that has fantastic mise-en-scene as you look at what's going on.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0434008 (835 words)

	Election controversy hits Florida, again \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Thus, six years after a messy presidential election forced Florida and many states to spend millions of dollars to bring in electronic voting systems, an influential elections panel is urging better-designed systems that may bring back an element of paper.
		Election officials are wary of current paper-trail systems on the market because printers have been known to jam, printed records can be difficult to interpret, and few voters actually look at the printouts, says Doug Lewis, executive director of the National Association of State Election Directors.
		Homer may be a movie star now but he's as oblivious as ever.
	www.csmonitor.com /2006/1208/p03s03-uspo.html (1134 words)

	Election Reviews
		Election tells the story of Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), a Nebraskan high-school student who is brilliant and hard-working, and who takes part in all manner of worthy student activities.
		Every now and then a movie comes along from a suspect studio, with every indication that it will be a stinker, and to everybody's surprise (perhaps even the studio) the film becomes a critical darling.
		Pitched as a high-school comedy, "Election" is a troubling movie more suited to an arthouse audience despite its mainstream storyline of a young and motivated overachiever working the system.
	www.killermovies.com /e/election/reviews (1101 words)

	Jared's Pick - Movie Reviews: Election
		Tammy's appeal to voter apathy during her election speech is one of the highlights of the movie, and underscores the parallels to grown-up politics that Election often alludes to.
		It's a credit to the film that although Tracy is mostly seen as the enemy, she is also presented as a hard working kid who is trying hard to achieve against the odds.
		Election makes this point abundantly clear - it's hard not to look at Tracy and see a 17 year old Clinton, Quayle or Gore, desperate for acclaim and driven mad by the thought of losing.
	www.angelfire.com /nh/jaredspick/election.html (810 words)

	Election - Reader Reviews: The BigScreen Cinema Guide
		ELECTION is funny because it is not what you expect and because of Reese Witherspoon's great performance as a snotty priss who will do anything to become class president.
		In the movie Election, Matthew Broderick is a history teacher that is the advisor of the Student Government Organization.
		The movie is slow at times and might have been a little too long, but the amount of laughs in the movie makes up for it.
	www.bigscreen.com /ReaderReview.php?movie=Election (1923 words)

	Hardball High School - By David Edelstein - Slate Magazine
		Election unfolds in an Omaha, Neb., high school, where its go-getter, Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), mounts a tireless run for presidency of the student council.
		The Al Manheim of Election is a teacher, Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick), who watches Tracy's hand shoot up in class and can't bring himself to call on her.
		Cronenberg's early movies were somber but had horrific metaphors that ate into the mind, and he showed signs in The Fly (1986) and Dead Ringers (1988) of actually developing a sense of humor to complement his paranoid-gynecologist's vision.
	www.slate.com /default.aspx?id=25716 (1356 words)

	Election Day: Director's Commentary
		This approach can be many different things but on some level it makes the documentary "feel like a movie." Election Day is meant to play like that, with politics, humor, emotion and history—basically everything you find in life but in movie form.
		Election Day is one of the few days in the United States on which so many Americans are collectively engaged in a common activity.
		As an advisor to Election Day, Spencer screened footage and threw ideas around with us, providing valuable insights into how our footage fit into a larger picture of the election system pressure points that are under scrutiny today.
	www.electiondaythemovie.com /directors_commentary.php (1436 words)

	Review: Election (1999)
		Election becomes the first droplet in the recent deluge of teen comedies to score a palpable hit.
		For the most part, film makers climbing on board the teen movie bandwagon have little regard for the intelligence of their characters, who are made to say and do incredibly stupid things, or their viewers, who are forced to endure two hours of mindless drivel.
		There's also a surprise entrant into the election: Paul's sister, Tammy (Jessica Campbell), an angry lesbian whose view of student elections is that they're "pathetic charades." The race turns into a tight tug-of-war with Paul remaining completely honest, Tammy seeming not to care, and Tracy resorting to unethical stunts.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/e/election.html (949 words)

	2000 Presidential Election
		Although Bush won the popular vote in 60% of the 50 states, and therefore barely enough to win the election, Gore, winning the popular vote in 40% of the states, won a slim plurality of the popular vote nation-wide.
		This was one of the closest elections in history.
		Final Report of the Commission -- U.S. National Commission on Federal Election Reform (August 2001) -- Provides overview of technologies used and issues raised, including characteristics of the different methods, the design of ballots, kinds and sources of voter error, vote counting, and standards; discusses whether changes are needed.
	faculty.saintleo.edu /slu101/research/election_searches/2000_presidential_election.htm (271 words)

	Election
		It has been skillfully designed to be just outrageous enough to draw the disaffected young into the theater, but avoids truly challenging their assumptions and social mores (the task of true satire) in order to assure a profit.
		The movie over-uses voiceovers, which distract rather than add to the drama, depicting in dull words what should be dramatized on screen.
		Election indulges in reverse gender prejudice (as in "reverse racism").
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/Election.htm (412 words)

	Election - Movie - Review - New York Times
		In “Election,” which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005 (and which opens today simultaneously with its sequel, “Triad Election”), the two candidates are a study in stylistic contrast.
		At one point in “Election” a tough guy is trying to get his hands on the baton by walloping another fellow, who might have it, with a log.
		But as the psychological elements of the story push their way into the foreground, “Election” takes on a darker, more Shakespearean hue, and a rich political and moral subtext (which will be extended in “Triad Election”) begins to take shape.
	movies.nytimes.com /2007/04/25/movies/25elec.html (899 words)

	The Election Movie - Kommersant Moscow
		Russia’s Central Election Commission presented late Friday the ad spots to be broadcasted by all TV channels to prompt the nation to attend elections to the State Duma.
		In an effort to prompt the nation to attend elections, the election masterminds staked on the glorious past of the Soviet time.
		The slogans chosen by the Central Election Commission to lure potential voters range from the style of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russia’s famous poet of the first third of the previous century, to weather conditions.
	www.kommersant.com /p814951/r_500/Central_Commission_election_spot (318 words)

	Election (2005) Movie Review, DVD Release - Filmcritic.com
		Election plunges us so deep into the tangled world of powerful Hong Kong triads that it takes a second film, Triad Election (made a year later), to fully untangle all the intrigue.
		One of the most violent scenes is also one of the funniest and most telling: As one gangster beats his rival with a thick log to find out where the baton is hidden, both their cell phones ring, and they're informed that they're now working for the same side.
		Election can be difficult to follow at times, as legions of indistinguishable triad members make deals in the darkness, but all becomes clear in the film's astonishing final scence, in which Lok and Big D establish the pecking order...
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/Election-(2005) (506 words)

	Movie reviews: 'Election,' 'Triad Election' - Metromix Chicago Movies
		When Big D can't buy the election with cash or intimidation, he attempts to disrupt the process by stealing the Baton, an ancient, hand-carved symbol of power in the society.
		Sequel "Triad Election" mines this territory more successfully as, two years later, Jimmy (Louis Koo) places his bid against the incumbent chairman, who refuses to step down peacefully.
		Filmmaker To has been a fixture on the Hong Kong movie scene for decades now, a television director who went on to make hit romantic comedies, then gangster films.
	chicago.metromix.com /movies/review/movie-reviews-election-triad/163953/content (618 words)

	Election Movie Review - Election Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe
		Perched somewhere between "The Sopranos," "Dilbert," and a union meeting gone horribly wrong, "Election" and "Triad Election" are gangster movies in which the war of personalities spills blood onto the streets.
		Mostly "Election" tracks the shifting of power among men for whom power is all that matters, no matter how much lip service they pay to loyalty.
		Forty years before Hong Kong rejoins the mainland, the movie says the biggest gangster may not even be on the ballot.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=1633 (624 words)

	ELECTION MOVIE TRAILER PAGE - Videodetective.com
		In this satirical comedy, a hotly contested high school election becomes a metaphor for the current state of American politics.
		Publicly, Tammy's platform is that the student elections are ultimately pointless and if she's elected, she'll eliminate them altogether.
		Privately, Tammy is out for revenge against her brother; it seems Tammy is experimenting with her sexuality, and a recent fling with a bisexual classmate named Lisa (Frankie Ingrassia) ended when Lisa dumped her to start going out with Paul.
	videodetective.com /home.asp?PublishedID=8469 (324 words)

	Chinese Movie Review \| Election 2 (2006) Johnnie To, Nick Cheung, Louis Koo
		"Election 2" is very much the perfect continuation of "Election", with the filmmakers retaining all the elements of the first film without missing a beat.
		As was the case with "Election", while Johnnie To and his screenwriters allow us to feel some empathy toward these men of the Wo Sing Society, we are never allowed to forget that they are men of tremendous violence, capable of actions we can never fathom or approve of.
		Their legacy is seep in blood, their lifestyle drenched in darkness and neverending fear, and there is always the acknowledgement that, no matter how high you climb, you are never too high to fall.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/election2.htm (790 words)

	Election (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections.
		But to see it at this level of understanding, it proves to be quite entertaining.
		It also provides a precursor to our most recent (2000) election.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0126886 (459 words)

	Election - Rotten Tomatoes
		Election is a darkly funny, often twisted, and thoroughly enjoyable film.
		Election is director Alexander Payne's (Citizen Ruth) cynical satire of the American schools and the electoral process.
		Election is a bracingly intelligent adult comedy that shrewdly captures adolescence.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/election (646 words)

	Election Movie Review (2005) from Channel 4 Film
		In any modern HK thriller, and especially those that deal with the ruthless criminal gangs known as the Triads, it's expected that there will be excessive gunplay, Mexican stand-offs, and a healthy dose of balletic violence, transforming any bullet-ridden battles into something closer to a surreal, free-form dance routine.
		The election is quickly resolved, with Lok as the winner - but Big D isn't happy, and sets in motion a struggle for power that could break the entire Triad apart.
		Significantly, the chairman doesn't truly hold his power until he is presented with the symbolic Dragons Head Baton, and both sides in the struggle are suddenly locked into a desperate chase to get to the Baton first, while the police try (and usually fail) to stop the situation from getting out of hand.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=155077 (333 words)

	CNN - 'Election' campaigns on character issues - April 22, 1999
		As high-school senior Tracy Flick in the new film "Election," she displays comic timing worthy of a Swiss watch.
		He's just never come up against anyone with Tracy's blind ambition and is stunned as he watches her claw her way to the top of the school's student government.
		In "Election," Payne has Tammy's parents respond to her rebellion and sexual-identity realizations by sending her to an all-girl Catholic school.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9904/22/review.election/index.html (635 words)

	Election (1999) - Movie review, preview, listings and user ratings
		Election isn't only a comedy but a soaped drama, which gives them a chance to deliver some good lines.
		Election uses flashbacks, freeze frames, voice overs, and other little tricks to give it an original feel.
		Election is a great comedy that shouldn't be overlooked, despite its performance in the theaters.
	www.movie-source.com /movie_page.asp?movieID=380 (625 words)

	Triad Election - Movie Review (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Triad Elections are even slicker and more brutal than those stateside — these guys break more heads before breakfast than Soprano's crew could manage in a month of Sundays.
		The follow-up finds icy-veined HK boss Lok (Simon Yam) coming to the end of his term as head of the assembled Chinese crime families, and none too happy about giving up the mantle.
		It's just enough to elevate the work above the hack-and-slash trash it could easily become, and it's fun to watch as the movie struggles against its darker impulses, just as its hero looks through the flness from chunks of his soul.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=119490 (439 words)

	ELECTION movie review (with photos and clips where possible)
		Election, a wonderfully subversive new comedy, details the efforts of respected educator Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) to do just that.
		The election is only part of the story in this clever, witty, downright devious movie.
		Based on a novel by Tom Perrotta, Election has been adapted for the screen by director and co-writer Alexander Payne, a fresh talent previously responsible for the button-pushing abortion satire Citizen Ruth.
	www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/e/electi.html (470 words)

	Election - Movie Rental Review
		Parents should be aware of the movie's overall negative overtones.
		ELECTION is simply one in a line of quirky comedies directed by Alexander Payne (Citizen Ruth [1996], About Schmidt [2004], and Sideways [2004]).
		Like his other contributions, ELECTION combines fascinating character types, tragic life events, and dark comedy to produce painfully poignant images of contemporary life.
	www.commonsensemedia.org /movie-reviews/Election.html (552 words)

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