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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Epidemic (film)
Epidemic is a 1987 film directed by Lars von Trier.
In epidemiology, an epidemic (from Greek epi- upon + demos people) is a disease that appears as new cases in a given human population, during a given period, at a rate that substantially exceeds what is expected, based on recent experience (the number of new cases in the population during a...
Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film which tells the story of a paralyzed man who convinces his wife to go out and find men and bring them home and have sex with them, then tell him all of the details.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Epidemic-(film)   (404 words)

  
 New York State Writers Institute - Epidemic Film Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
EPIDEMIC is an example of the surprising variety von Trier’s minimalist approach can bring to the screen.
A film about an epidemic is being made.
Reflecting on his film school experience in Denmark, von Trier later wrote, "I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
www.albany.edu /writers-inst/fnf01n3.html   (405 words)

  
 Epidemic: Film von und mit Lars von Trier und Niels Voersel
Epidemic: Film von und mit Lars von Trier und Niels Voersel
Der frühe Low-Budget-Film lief den Erwartungen an den bereits mehrfach preisgekrönten Lars von Trier zuwider und verzeichnete weder kommerziell noch künstlerisch einen großen Erfolg.
Um einen Eindruck von der Kraft des geplanten Filmes zu vermitteln, laden sie einen Hypnotiseur und sein Medium ein, welches ‚in den Film‘ gehen soll.
www.uni-leipzig.de /~kuge/neu/mediathek/epidemic.htm   (785 words)

  
  Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Lars Von Triers Epidemic at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Epidemic is a Mesmerizing & Ominous Film from Lars von Trier.
Epidemic, shot in fl-and-white 16mm and 35mm film, is one of von Trier’s most hypnotic and ominous that grabs you unexpectedly towards the end.
While Epidemic may be the weakest of the three films in the Europa trilogy with The Element of Crime and Europa, it still shares its same themes of paranoia and bleak outlook on European society.
www.epinions.com /content_223116889732   (2163 words)

  
 Epidemic
Originally, Epidemic was to be another collaboration between von Trier, Elling and Gislason, but they dropped out when it became apparent that this was no collective effort but would be very much a Lars von Trier film.
It is not only a film that reflects itself but also a film that mocks itself.
Epidemic, filmed mostly in fl & white, features primarily the director himself, his screenwriter and their private cohorts, while a handful of professional actors are seen in sharply etched cameos.
www.movingimage.us /film_programs/program_notes/e/epidemic.html   (1426 words)

  
 Process of Making a Historical Film: Preproduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The film I imagined would begin as a documentary (with the twentieth century historian and the eighteenth century diary) and evolve into a drama as Ulrich gradually figured out what happened in Martha Ballard's world.
Laurel's arc (in blue) is dominant at the beginning of the film, and Martha's arc (in red) takes over at the point where the two women connect emotionally in the epidemic scene (the climax of Act I).
We then decided which scenes had to be axed (because their function in the film did not justify their expense) and which scenes could be rewritten to accommodate locations we would be working in.
dohistory.org /film/process_preprod.html   (2686 words)

  
 ASCHOPP\html\eng495\film1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
While it is Hollywood summer fluff, this film about the potential end of the world due to an asteroid hit raises interesting questions about the depiction of mass death, especially with its spectacular and beautiful visual effects.
Classic film in which a journalist attempts to understand a man's life by finding the meaning of the man's dying words.
Great ending in which he watches a film of his own murder as a means of realizing he too is a zombie.
www.utm.edu /staff/aschopp/eng495/film1.htm   (348 words)

  
 Lars Von Triers Europe Trilogy: Element Of Crime / Epidemic / Europa - DVD Review: Digital Lard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The film is shot with an orange tinge, that looks so fantastic that you as a viewer soon find yourself hypnotised by what you are watching, in much the same way as Elphick is when he is recounting the story we are watching.
The film is mainly shot on 16MM in fl and white (and according to the accompanying commentary) by Von Trier and Vorsel, who it appears created virtually everything themselves, and has the gimmick of ‘Epidemic’ being written on the top left corner of the film throughout.
EPIDEMIC was previously unreleased in the UK and provides the chance to see a personal Von Trier film starring himself and his closest working companion Niels Vorsel, his co-writer on all the films in this box set.
www.digitallard.com /moviereview/325/index.htm   (6067 words)

  
 Trust Film Sales
A film director and a screenwriter work on a screenplay in witch an epidemic spreads through the entire world.
Lars von Trier is without a doubt the director who has contributed most to the renewal of Danish Film and he has had a great impact on the new 1990´s generation, not least because of his central role in Dogme 95.
His earliest short films were stylistically inventive explorations of themes and symbols, which would later play a central role in his feature films and Von Trier developed a mode of cinematic expression that was heavily symbolic and emotion laden.
www.trust-film.dk /off_vis_film.asp?id=152   (537 words)

  
 moxiefirecracker.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
EPIDEMIC AFRICA was filmed in 1999 as part of the White House Office on National AIDS Policy's delegation to several sub-Saharan African nations.
EPIDEMIC AFRICA encourages support for programs which are designed to help people cope with AIDS in their family and community.
After the screening, Senator Leahy announced that the film had spurred him to add an additional $25,000,000 to the 1999 budget for AIDS support in Africa (a total of $100,000,000 was ultimately committed to fight AIDS in Africa).
www.moxiefirecracker.com /epidemic.html   (315 words)

  
 2003 Toronto International Film Festival
Greenaway said that the films were to be released in a 92 dvd set and gave an interesting introduction to the film calling it “arrogant and deeply immodest,” I would have stayed for QandA after the film but had to rush off across town to see Zatoichi.
Two films came to mind while I was watching Hour of the Wolf, the first was Lost Highway which has a similar nightmare logic and uses darkness similarly and the other was Bergman’s masterpiece Shame which the film echoes in its level of post-apocalyptic doom.
A very immature film (the director looked like he was 14 years old), with hip and violent plots intersecting in unpredictable, playful and stupidly contrived ways: this is another film where every character seems to be tied to one another by the cosmic coincidences of fate.
www.bentclouds.com /toronto.html   (2901 words)

  
 The Korea Times : Korean-Chinese Experience on Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Produced during the SARS epidemic, the film was financed with Korean capital and had a limited run in Seoul earlier this year.
Once again the film is a Sino-Korean co-production and the story focuses on a single mother of Korean ethnicity making her living by selling kimchi on the streets of a small town in Northern China.
The formal pattern of the film follows the rules of Tang poems that prescribe verses of only seven or five characters; this is mirrored by the pattern of use of the three different location in the film.
times.hankooki.com /lpage/culture/200507/kt2005070620341611710.htm   (1756 words)

  
 Search Results 'epidemic' » Netscape.com
Ministers are sabotaging laws to control toxic chemicals despite fears that they are causing a "silent epidemic" in British children, a leaked document shows.
An epidemic is a disease that goes over a large area and lots of people.
Epidemics are when a diease goes from person to person faster than doctors thought...
www.netscape.com /search/39/?s=epidemic   (604 words)

  
 Internet Archive: Details: How to Survive a Zombie Epidemic
It uses clips from the film "Night of the living Dead", and "Amid the Dead".
This film is an amusing instructional video on how to survive a zombie epidemic.
The majority of the footage is taken from the other films mentioned, but the witty voice-over narrative is what makes this video a must see.
www.archive.org /details/How_to_Survive_a_Zombie_Epidemic   (711 words)

  
 Lars von Trier
Although his films are a complex dialogic extension of his own paradoxical nature, in general they follow the trajectory of T.S. Eliot, first depicting the wasteland and then transcending it with faith.
His second film Epidemic (1987) is not available in the U.S. and this is a shame because it is a brilliant and beautiful film.
In Epidemic we see the director's two distinct styles; on the one hand there are the breathtakingly composed shots for the film within the film, yet also present are the hand-held cameras, natural light and a five-day improvised script for the story about the writers.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/vontrier.html   (4250 words)

  
 Epidemic (1987)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Anyways the basic plot of this film is that two screenwriters lose their original script they were going to sell and so must start over so they write a new script titled Epidemic about a doctor who goes to help a country but ends up spreading an epidemic.
We learn that von Trier felt that a film titled Epidemic had to be a hit so thats how the title came about.
If you are a von Trier fan then the commentary is a must and the film is good enough on its own also their is a special feature on the DVD where wim wenders, von trier and some other film makers have a phone discussion its pretty interesting.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0092972   (497 words)

  
 Epidemic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He was writing, directing, producing and partially filming a story that was about himself as he attempts to make a movie, and in which he plays two of the leading roles.
The film functions as both a playful reflection on the filmmaking process itself and a somber exploration of the psychology of plagues and the mythology they give birth to.
Epidemic, filmed mostly in fl & white, features primarily the director himself, his screenwriter and their private cohorts, while a handful of professional actors are seen in sharply etched cameos.
www.ammi.org /film_programs/program_notes/e/epidemic.html   (1426 words)

  
 The Painted Veil -- The Official Film site. Warner Independent Pictures
When he uncovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic, and takes her along.
The film stars Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber and Toby Jones (who stars as Truman Capote in Infamous), is written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by John Curran.
The film stars Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber and Toby Jones, is written by Ron Nyswaner and directed by John Curran.
wip.warnerbros.com /paintedveil   (440 words)

  
 Newsletter #30—BCA Collaborates on Major New Documentary
The film is entitled Rachel's Daughters, in memory of Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring and herself a casualty of breast cancer.
The film will investigate the industrial, agricultural and nuclear forces that may be contributing to the problem through interconnected interests that profit from breast cancer.
The breast cancer epidemic is still growing and the medical/pharmaceutical/governmental complex known as the "cancer establishment, continues to profess ignorance of probable causes, particuIarly environmental factors such as chemicals, radiation and electromagnetic fields.
www.bcaction.org /Pages/SearchablePages/1995Newsletters/Newsletter030A.html   (746 words)

  
 Ascully.com - DVD, HD-DVD, Anime, Videogames, Tech & Babes Served Daily
(Epidemic is NOT a Dogme film) Lars von Triers wrote the vows and is obviously instrumental to many fellow filmmakers' inspiration in their work over the past decade.
Taking a journey down the road to understanding art films is as equally challenging as lifting the fog on who to vote for in a presidential election.
The thing about Epidemic is that with all it's style, technique, and attempt at delivering some kind of message, something falls flat for me. I do appreciate the different uses of light, camera handling, composition, the type of film used, and all the other tricks of the trade that von Trier tosses in the mix.
www.ascully.com /modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=407   (1516 words)

  
 epidemic - OneLook Dictionary Search
Epidemic : National Immunization Program Glossary [home, info]
Phrases that include epidemic: epidemic typhus, epidemic disease, epidemic encephalitis, epidemic roseola, epidemic cholera, more...
Words similar to epidemic: epidemical, epidemically, epidemicity, widespread, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=epidemic&ls=a   (326 words)

  
 FilmWorks Pacific (808) 599-6403
A companion film, "A Tribute to Hawaii's Fire Fighters" is available (see Films and TV).
The film received the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Award for Independent Programming, the National Education Silver Apple; the international CINE Golden Eagle; and other awards for writing and directing.
Lee's film is covered in the new book "Progressive Hollywood, A People's Film History of the United States," by Ed Rampell, who places Edgy alongside leading documentary filmmakers such as Oscar winners Errol Morris ("Fog of War"), Morgan Spurlock ("Super Size Me"), Robert Greenwald ("Outfoxed") and Michael Moore ("Fahrenheit 9/11").
www.filmworkspacific.com /books.html   (581 words)

  
 Disaster Movies
While this film is no match technically for the 1997 Titanic film, A Night to Remember beats the blockbuster in almost every other category.
The release of Wolfgang Peterson's epidemic film coincided with the country's obsession with the Ebola virus described in Richard Preston's bestselling The Hot Zone.
As in most technology-driven films, plot and dialogue are secondary to effects, but who cares when cows fly and a tanker truck falls from the sky.
www.infoplease.com /spot/disaster1.html   (1157 words)

  
 epidemic
At a dinner party given by Susan, the wife of the screenwriter, they hope to talk Claes into accepting their new 12-page script as a replacement, as they eat truffles and watch as party guest Gitte volunteers to be put under hypnosis.
Arguably the film's most humorous scene is von Trier regular Udo Kier playing himself and doing a monologue about a WW11 story his dead mother told him, where he tells the conclusion first ruining the story's punchline.
It's an obsessed film that is too murky to be great cinema, but interesting enough to remain intriguing.
www.sover.net /~ozus/epidemic.htm   (444 words)

  
 Academy of Art University: Film School, Film Schools
You'll experiment, but under the guidance of people who have been there, people currently working in the industry, people who know that flights of fancy are the foundation of the future, but budgets are now.
Click here to view the outstanding student films from the Epidemic Film Festival.
From pre-production to filming to post-production, our students learn what it takes to rise to the top of their field and succeed: just ask our film school alumni working in Los Angeles, Vancouver, New York, Toronto, and of course, Hollywood.
www.academyart.edu /film-school   (515 words)

  
 Search Results 'epidemic' » Netscape.com
We are now in a global diabetes epidemic since 1991 as a result of global contamination from depleted uranium.
James Howenstine -- Lung Cancer Epidemic From DU Has Begun in U.S. Children in Iraq are dying in epidemic numbers from malignancies.
The Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 was caused by vaccinations...
www.netscape.com /search/7/?s=epidemic   (556 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: Epidemic (1987)
My experiences revealed that Denmark is a unique film community, perpetuated by the Danish Film Institute, an impressive establishment that encourages a kind of freedom and creativity rarely seen.
In contrast to the grainy 16mm images that dominate the film, these realized scenes from the duo’s new script are in glossy and luminous 35mm, conjuring images of classic horror films and German expressionism.
Filmed in real time, each director was linked by his/her own digital video camera.” The result is a very entertaining and enlightening discussion of the influential Dogme 95 movement from some of its key players, and even an avid fan in the form of Wim Wenders.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=6448   (1220 words)

  
 Africa Torn by AIDS
Her documentary film, "Epidemic Africa" was screened as part of the session.
Panelist Bill Harris of the Children’s Research and Education Institute said that despite woefully inadequate resources, the epidemic in Africa is beginning to be taken seriously in the United States.
This perspective, combined with national security experts’ concern that the worldwide instability created by the epidemic poses a serious national security threat to the U.S. are helping to raise awareness in Washington.
www.ksg.harvard.edu /news/backup/aids_africa.htm   (462 words)

  
 AIDS WARRIOR FILM - www.pmhap.org
We have the entire apparatus in place [to stop the AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa] if the world cared enough.
Civil war prevented the spread of the AIDS epidemic by isolating Angola from neighboring countries with high HIV rates, however a number of factors may lead to an HIV/AIDS explosion.
To stem the spread of the disease, the Angolan army takes a bold and noble move, testing soldiers and encouraging them to engage in safe sex.
www.pmhap.org /warrior   (282 words)

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