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	Elephant (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elephant (2003) is a film by director Gus Van Sant, that takes place in the fictional Watt High School, in Portland, Oregon during a typical 'normal' school-day.
		Elephant premiered in North America at a benefit for a youth shelter held at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, October 4, 2003, with several teenagers who appeared in the film in attendance.
		The film was released for incremental distribution by HBO, in 100 theaters in the United States, beginning October 24.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elephant_(film) (1446 words)

	Elephant (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elephants are the largest species of land animal alive today.
		Elephant fish, one of several species of fish
		Elephant (1872 - 1892), one of the ten South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elephant_(disambiguation) (182 words)

	ELEPHANT - DVD
		And so Elephant is an attempt to exorcise the demons of a post-Columbine Columbine administration that asked all students who wore fl and read Shakespeare--who were, presumably, not part of the jock/nerd dichotomy--to finish out their schooling at home with tutors.
		The rare modern feature film shot for full-gate projection, Elephant is offered in its original 1.33:1 aspect ratio and in a 1.85:1 matted presentation enhanced for anamorphic displays, presumably to better accommodate belligerent 16x9 owners who would've cropped the film at their own peril--this way, they don't lose any scan lines in the process.
		Elephant's goosebump-inducing trailer and a reel promoting HBO Films round out the disc, which is a must-have for the movie alone.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/elephant.htm (981 words)

	PBS Online: Anamalai: A Magical Place
		There was very little left for the elephants to eat in their own forests, which had been ravaged by the overgrazing of domestic cattle and goats.
		They were driven by hunger, and during the harvest, the conflict between the raiding elephants and the farmers defending their fields reached an annual crisis point.
		Apart from man, no other animal influences its world as profoundly as the elephant, and what we wanted to document were the many interactions between the herds and the other creatures who shared their environment.
	www.pbs.org /edens/anamalai/magical.html (1931 words)

	Montreal Mirror - Film: Cover: Elephant
		Elephant captivated critics and audiences alike at Cannes, though it also prompted Variety critic Todd McCarthy to call it anti-American.
		GVS: I didn’t know this, but when we were making the film, apparently some of the rally cries around Columbine were that "Fags did this." The Nazi film that screens on TV at one point, they’re not really watching that because they’re Nazis, they don’t really know what they’re watching.
		And the kiss in the shower is, I don’t know, I just thought that the film was about boys who were like that, boys who spent a year in the basement alone, and if they were on their way to commit suicide, something like that might happen.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2003/082803/cover_film.html (1215 words)

	Shooting down the Elephant - Film - www.theage.com.au
		Elephant is a movie about a teenage killing spree, mostly based on the 1999 massacre at Colorado's Columbine High School that left 15 people dead, including the two student shooters, who committed suicide.
		Elephant is full of scenes like this, some funny, some harrowing, but all perfect snapshots of the trials of adolescence.
		The most violent sequences in Elephant are also the most resolutely quiet; the result is all the more upsetting because we can't retreat into the familiarity of movie-style thrills and chills.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/03/24/1079939711074.html?from=storyrhs (1108 words)

	BBC - Films - Elephant
		The film's violence is presented in similar, anti-sensational fashion.
		Elephant is pseudo-important posturing without either original thought or the excitement of an unashamed exploitation movie.
		See what films are opening in the UK in 2006.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2004/01/19/elephant_2004_review.shtml (421 words)

	Elephant (2003)
		Elephant is one of the first major reactions to Columbine (Bowling for Columbine as well).
		Elephant is woven into a composition of trivial events leading to a brutal and cold massacre.
		The film was cast with non-actors and mostly improvisational.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/Elephant/Elephant.html (675 words)

	Elephant (2003): Reviews
		What the film does extremely well is take us deep into the crime scene, and give faces to the victims so we can experience this epic, incomprehensible and somehow prototypically American act of violence on a more personal and intimate level.
		The film equivalent of Maya Lin's Vietnam monument, that collective gravestone to the fallen, in the way it employs abstract means to quantify the loss of life and elicit a profound sense of grief.
		Elephant is not as bad as the National Rifle Association's decision to hold a pro-gun rally near Columbine High School shortly after the killings.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/elephant (1778 words)

	The Film Pie Reviews - Elephant
		The film is receiving a very small release and this can be attributed to its distinctive art-house style.
		An inspiration to Van Sant was a BBC documentary on school violence shot filmed in 1989 by late Alan Clarke.
		Clarke’s use of the title came from his saying that the problem is as easy to ignore as an elephant in a living room.
	www.thefilmpie.com /Reviews2004/zz-elephant.html (592 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| All the world's an art school
		Elephant, "inspired" by the Columbine school massacre, is about two students who go on the rampage.
		He can talk film until the cows come home - from popular film to film theory to the interactive movies of the future that will enable the audience to take an active part in their creation.
		Clarke called his film Elephant because he saw Northern Ireland as the elephant in the living room: the taboo staring us in the face that we dare not acknowledge.
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,1128806,00.html (3617 words)

	Political Film Society - Elephant
		Straight film critics, in other words are admitting that they unable to understand what might have driven two gay teenagers over the precipice.
		The analogies to the homophobic disruption of the lives of gays and lesbians fit, and elephants indeed crush anything in their paths while running amok.
		Elephant suggests that those who discriminate against anyone, gays and lesbians or others, should think twice before pushing them to the edge.
	www.geocities.com /polfilms/elephant.html (517 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Elephant
		The closest physical approximation for this metaphor is the rotunda in one of the high school's hallways the characters repeatedly circle throughout the film.
		And far scarier than the violence that closes the film is how Van Sant's camera charts the school's topography (what with all the bizarre noises and nature sounds that drown the film's soundtrack, what else can it be called?) and sets up the film's characters as sitting ducks.
		By the time the two killers lay out a map of the school on top of a table, the audience is already too familiar with the layout of the school, not to mention its potential safe zones: the photo department's darkroom, the kitchen's meat locker, and the girl's bathroom.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=817 (736 words)

	Elephant Review - FilmFocus.Co.UK
		Elephant is clever to draw the line between documentary and movie, and this scene is an example of that.
		Elephant is a genuinely moving film, thoroughly deserving of its Cannes honour.
		The most serious film I have ever seen in my life, films that emotional move me (and believe me there are not that many out there) should certainly be mentioned.
	www.filmfocus.co.uk /review.asp?ReviewID=24 (785 words)

	Mediajonez.com: FILM: Movie Review - Elephant (2003) Gus Van Sant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The film is shown from the perspective of several teens at an unnamed high school, as they go through the normal daily routine.
		The film's signature style is a series of long steadicam shots from just behind the subject -- an effect which allows us to see their world from their perspective.
		It is a delicate, poetic film that succeeds at being that.
	www.mediajonez.com /film/review-elephant1004.html (691 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Elephant
		Despite the fact that this film portrays a Columbine massacre-esque day at a seemingly quiet high school, the killings themselves are almost dwarfed by the tension shown before we even see the camoflaged gunmen approaching the school.
		Elephant isn't for everyone, it's odd silence and use of pacing are quite out of the norm and allow for the viewers to draw their own conclusions.
		This film is based on the events that occurred on April 20,1999 when two teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a school shooting rampage that left 13 dead.
	www.hour.ca /film/movie.aspx?iIDFilm=5971 (2902 words)

	Elephant Film Review - Time Out Film
		The surprise recipient of the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2003, Van Sant's movie began life as a conventional Hollywood psychological drama inspired by the massacre of 12 students and a teacher by two teenagers at Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colorado, on 20 April 1999.
		Filmed in long, languorous travelling shots (like Van Sant's Gerry, it's influenced by Béla Tarr, as well as the Alan Clarke film about sectarian murders from which the director took his title), sometimes slowing almost imperceptibly to savour a fleeting emotion, Elephant sucks us into the lives of some half dozen students.
		Weakest when it comes to 'motivation' (whatever that is), the film doesn't try to explain, but to put us in a subjective time and space, a place where it's impossible not to feel the abject horror of random violence.
	www.timeout.com /film/63793.html (276 words)

	Elephant Review
		But for all their banality, a feeling of dread grows as various story threads intersect, allowing the audience to slowly piece together all the different pieces of the narrative puzzle, building to the moment where we first hear that unmistakable metal on metal clack of a gun being cocked.
		Filmed in the same detached manner as the rest of the film, these scenes pack a visceral and emotional wallop equal to any shotgun blast.
		Elephant is the most affecting and powerful film of the year.
	www.filmbuffonline.com /Reviews/ElephantReview.htm (668 words)

	The Elephant Man (1980) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I believe that everyone should get a chance to see this film, for those of an open mind, and a caring soul, there is nothing else like it.
		John, in the film starts as a severely deformed mute figure being badly mistreated, as the story progresses, he becomes the hero.
		As in the film, John's mother says "Nothing will Die", Joseph Merrick will live on in the hearts and souls of everyone who has witnessed the story of his life.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0080678 (508 words)

	Elephant (2003) - A Review by David Nusair
		Elephant transpires over the space of a few hours one fateful day at an American high school, where a couple of put-upon students are about to go on a Columbine-esque rampage.
		The first thing one notices while watching Elephant is how visually striking the film is. The majority of the movie has been shot using a SteadiCam, and there are numerous uninterrupted takes that go on for several minutes.
		Having said that, Elephant is nonetheless a remarkably intriguing look at a modern day high school - not to mention one of the most interesting movies on a purely visceral level to come around in a while.
	www.reelfilm.com /elephant.htm (521 words)

	FRINGE REPORT
		Elephant is directed and edited by Gus Van Sant, and produced by Diane Keaton.
		In the last minutes of the film, the camera tracks their walk round the school as they locate and shoot pupils, some of whom have tried to hide.
		The title refers to a 1989 film about violence in Northern Ireland by Alan Clarke 'a problem that is as easy to ignore as an elephant in the living room.' A detailed explanation is given on the company's website.
	www.fringereport.com /0403filmelephant.shtml (826 words)

	Amazon.com: Elephant: A Film By Gus Van Sant: DVD: Gus Van Sant,Alex Frost,Eric Deulen,John Robinson (IX),Elias ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Elephant doesn't attempt to explain their behavior; it simply places the audience back in the brief yet interminable window of adolescence, when life is trivial and painfully important at the same time.
		Elephant demonstrates that high school life is a complex landscape where the vitality and beauty of young lives can shift from light to darkness with surreal speed.
		The film does have a haunting aura to it, but in the end it's just a dull look and unhelpful and unentertaining look at two homosexual kids who snap and kill students at their school.
	www.amazon.com /Elephant-Film-Gus-Van-Sant/dp/B0001EFUFK (2504 words)

	Elephant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		He is only showing part of the elephant while acknowledging we will never know why some of these kids resorted to such tragic means.
		The film goes in and out of slow motion emphasizing simple moments in life we otherwise take for granted – a glance at the sky, playing with a dog.
		Elephant is about experiencing the beauty of youth and the horror of seeing it extinguished, a theme Van Sant delivers powerfully as he resists playing the blame game, a fruitless endeavor.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies7/Elephant.htm (659 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'Elephant'
		This week's slouch toward Columbine is an experimental film by Gus Van Sant that won the Palme d'Or and the Best Director Award at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
		Shot in a recently abandoned high school in suburban Oregon, Elephant film stalks a mixed group of students during the morning before an attack.
		One is "the elephant in the room that no one wants to see." Spot the pachyderm in this movie: it's a drawing of an elephant on the wall of Alex's bedroom, where the two murderers hang out during the piano scene.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.06.03/elephant-0345.html (865 words)

	Elephant Review (DVD Movie/Film)
		The reason for this is that Elephant is an improvised film with no concrete dialogue, populated by a bunch of unknown kids.
		The film takes as its point of origin the horrific shootings that blighted American schools between 1997 and 1999 (hence Elephant being imbued with a feeling of tension throughout).
		Elephant is a film that treats its audience with the respect they deserve.
	www.futuremovies.co.uk /review.asp?ID=156 (578 words)

	Cannes Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This film draws its inspiration from the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, where two students went on a murderous rampage, killing 13 students and teachers, before turning the guns on themselves.
		Using a cast of mostly unknown actors from Portland, Oregon, the director explores the subject of high-school violence, pondering the long-lost era of innocence as well as the hard-line desperation and madness of two cold-blooded killers.
		For the presentation of Elephant, director Gus Van Sant, actors Elias McConnell, Alex Frost and John Robinson, director of photography Harris Savides, producers Dany Wolf and Bill Robinson, and Colin Calender, president of HBO Films, made it to Cannes to tell the tale.
	www.festival-cannes.org /films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=4071982 (1226 words)

	Film Reviews \| Elephant
		Van Sant’s pre-opening statements and the movie’s apparent premise notwithstanding, the film is not about the Columbine High School shooting deaths, at least not beyond a nominal point and certainly not in any empathetic, or even sympathetic, way.
		True, Van Sant shot Elephant in a Portland, Oregon suburban area high school that features the same general style of blandly modern school architecture that fits the Columbine type.
		Elephant’s final image is Alex as the embodiment of death and sexuality, the only character left alive in the film who has dealt with – or out – both of these events.
	www.henrysheehan.com /reviews/def/elephant.html (826 words)

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