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What's New at the National Anthropological Archives (February 2003) Working with the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute (which organized the National Film Archives of Australia& film repatration program, through which our archives received the film), our staff tried to identify the film, but without success. Because the film was incomplete and missing its opening credits, it became known as The Arrow Maker, based on its first intertitle. In 1994, when the film archives discovered that it was the recipient of a Selig Polyscope one-reeler of a Native American–themed story, circa 1910, we were ecstatic. www.nmnh.si.edu /naa/whatsnew2003_02.htm   (2015 words)

Truth about Bowling for Columbine If anything, a documentary film purports to be less symbolic and more real: the viewer is shown things, and assumes he is himself seeing reality, rather than hearing a speaker's description, possibly unfair or deceptive, of it. [F]aced with a thoroughly truthful and honest film, those who object to the film's political points are left with the choice of debating us on the issues in the film or resorting to character assassination." Source. And don't give me the claim that filmmaking is somehow different, all filming departs from reality, so truth and lies exist for written media and not for film. www.hardylaw.net /Truth_About_Bowling.html   (6481 words)

Dogme and the Reality of Fiction For example, the subjectivity of the Expressionist film (traditionally a film descended from the European Art Cinema) can make the realism of classical Hollywood (i.e., the Realist film) appear to be “fictional” while the objectivity of the Hollywood film can make the Expressionist appear fictional. Professor Schepelern acknowledges that it is precisely within the level of fiction, the filmmaker’s “subjective preference” and not in “the pursuit of reality’s unembellished truth” that Dogme 95 contends against hi-tech illusory cinema. In sum, the usage of the lens, the framing and its motion in the act of filming is a contrived exploitation of what is being filmed. www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca /gira032.htm   (6481 words)

Star Trek: Enterprise - WWW.SAVEENTERPRISE.COM - Home Christoph Hees, the film's director, and his crew hope to release the movie before the end of 2006 but they still have more footage to film yet. This article on the film and interview with Willi Wiegand, the famous "Vulcan Willi" from Trekkies 2, was part of Week 3 of the Trek United Fan Film campaign. More than 2.5 years in the making, its cast and crew have shown a commitment to making an entertaining fan film that has a character driven plot, carefully crafted cinematography and gorgeous CGI. www.saveenterprise.com   (817 words)

NEI - Critique of The China Syndrome The film's fictional disaster scenario: a nuclear plant accident creates a mass of molten reactor fuel so hot that it burns though a steel reactor vessel, through the plant's reinforced concrete foundation, into the Earth and exits the opposite side of the planet. An actual NRC licensing decision to allow a plant to operate was a far cry from the film's "pro forma hearings in which NRC ignores all critical testimony." McCracken concluded, "A reactor put on-line in 1979 will have gone through a licensing process lasting not a few days, but years." The accident at Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant on March 28, 1979, only 12 days after the release of The China Syndrome, helped make the film a box-office smash and cemented the title as a new catch phrase in the lexicon of the anti-nuclear movement. www.nei.org /doc.asp?docid=565   (817 words)

List of fictional dogs -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article Lassie Come Home (1943), starring (United States film actress (born in England) who was a childhood star; as an adult she often co-starred with Richard Burton (born in 1932)) Elizabeth Taylor and (Click link for more info and facts about Roddy McDowall) Roddy McDowall, many sequels and also a television show. characters in (United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966)) Walt Disney's (Click link for more info and facts about Lady and the Tramp) Lady and the Tramp Percy in (United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966)) Disney's (A Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617)) Pocahontas www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_fictional_dogs.htm   (5891 words)

Doc Films / Series Calendar The film depicts, among many quirky subplots, a teen corrupted by two budding harpies, a precocious neighbor collecting home appliances for her dowry, and July as a wistful performance artist who believes she is destined to grow old with a slightly unhinged shoe salesman. The film is a nonstop, gritty portrayal of a pair of nationalistic young friends as they descend into desperation and disillusionment from their original call to arms. In this film the fate of the Rebel Alliance and that distant galaxy rests on the steely shoulders of the children of technology, and they show what they are made of. docfilms.uchicago.edu /calendar.shtml   (7591 words)

Best Picture Winners of the 1950's The film holds many scenes intact from the novel: its depiction of women, sex on the beach and barracks language, and manages to show the earliest effects the war had on Americans. Cecil B. DeMille was awarded for this film as a salute to the films he produced and directed over the years. The film starts with Private Prewitt joining the barracks and refusing to join the boxing team, despite his talent. academyawards.20m.com /sums/bpwin50s.htm   (1353 words)

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Horrors (A Pinch of Snuff) A number of horror films use as their premise the making of a snuff film or the discovery of same. Balun fiercely asserted that the film was a hoax and was merely a series of startling special effects. The truck was later dumped and most of the film given away, but Manson kept one of the NBC cameras. www.snopes2.com /horrors/madmen/snuff.htm   (3363 words)

The Silence of the Lambs [1990] - Review @ EOFFTV Accepting for the moment the sheer inanity of the FBI sending a trainee out into the field, interviewing one of the most dangerous and manipulative killers they have in their cells [and doing so alone], the film proceeds well enough until we, the audience, are made privvy to the identity of Buffalo Bill. Still, despite all these reservations [and as yet nothing has been said about the ludicrous decision to cast Dr Chilton, the head of the psychiatric hospital containing Lector, as the comic relief], the film was a major success, touching a public nerve with its portrayal of violent criminals on the loose. Ressler expressed many reservations about the script as it stood, but suggested that a few very minor adjustments could turn it into a film that would accurately reflect both FBI procedure and the behaviour of serial killers without detracting from the film's value as entertainment. www.eofftv.com /review/s/silence_of_the_lambs_review.htm   (3363 words)

John Cassavetes: Inventor of Forms He almost exclusively attaches Cassavetes to a certain tradition of fictional writers (including Henry James, Edith Wharton and Tennessee Williams), unique film artists (Dreyer and Capra, mainly) and 'transcendentalist' philosophers (including Emerson and Thoreau) in a way that is sometimes reminiscent of Stanley Cavell's work on American film genres. One can read Carney on Mabel as 'American heroine', for instance, and possibly not realise that her character is seriously dysfunctional - nor that the film has a close affinity with contemporary, widespread debates associated with the anti-psychiatry movement, as do other movies of the period including Ken Loach's Family Life (1971). Carney's push for a 'non-ideological understanding' of Shadows, and Cassavetes' work in general, seems to me specious: "[The characters'] racial confusions pale in comparison with (and in fact are only as a kind of metaphor for) emotional confusions that have nothing to do with race" ( Shadows [London: British Film Institute, 2001], p. www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/16/cassavetes_forms.html   (3363 words)

Umberto Eco Afterword In her case the power in question is necromancy, that is,communication with the deadófor instance, with the dead Absalon, to whom Anne is talkmg at the end ofthe film. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental." Raging Bull has the formula at itís end, even though its subject, Jake La Motta, is listed as a consultant and the film is remarkable in its evocation of the boxing milieu and the constraints of manliness in Italo­American families of the 1950s. I cite this landmark decision not so much to chide the producer for inventing a seduction, although he seems in fact to have done so, but to underscore what the filmmakers had to say about the truth status of their creation. www.stanford.edu /dept/HPS/HistoryWired/Davis/DavisAuthenticity.html   (6627 words)

Encyclopedia: Ronald Reagan Reagan smoothly improvised a fictional play-by-play (in which hitters on both teams gained an ability to foul off pitches) until the wire was restored. He said "I want you to know that Nancy Reagan is my everything...thank you partner thank you for everything...by the way are you doing anything tonight?" As Reagan's film roles became fewer in the late 1950s, he moved into television as a host and frequent performer for General Electric Theater. In 1940 he played the role of George "The Gipper" Gipp in the film Knute Rockne, All American, from which he acquired the nickname the Gipper, which he retained the rest of his life. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ronald-Reagan   (6627 words)

HTLSEL THEORY The film collage which is being used to provide the participants with a 'filmic' and fictional field of reference for their experiences at the location, is based on the principle of fragmentation. It produces not only a description of the real as experienced at the location, it also 'doubles' the fictional condition of the project which implies that the video will present 'a film of a film'. The hard line between the real and the fictional is broken down: subjectivity is encountering the virtual. members.chello.nl /l.steinkamp/theory.htm   (6627 words)

Anu Pennanen But more often The locations, the set design, the overall fictional space or architecture of a film actually make up a persona or character in itself. The central part of her project is a semi-fictional film depicting two new commercial zones in Helsinki, built in the typical corporate style of steel and glass. Traditionally we consider staging, whether in film or theater, as a spatial and temporal marker whose primary function is to act as the background for the progression of a narration and the development of characters. www.frame-fund.fi /aom/pennanen/introduction.shtml   (833 words)

The Sweet Shop: Teenage Suicide Don't Do It Or did Stick Aitkin and Watermin nick the name of their new 'band' from a fictional band in a film which takes the piss out of that fictional band? For two, the band are mentioned repeatedly and heavily in the film, and in a non-too-flattering way, so you'd expect that they'd have to be fake because the management and record label of the real band wouldn't allow it. Just watching the film, you'd probably assume the band are fake, and the song made up. thesweetshop.blogspot.com /2005/07/teenage-suicide-dont-do-it.html   (833 words)

The Plainsman (1937) Archival sequences are removed from their original narrative context whether these be fictional or documentary films and employed as a narrative resource within new story structures. Within the fiction film the establishment of a film’s point of view is usually signalled by camera perspective (indeed that is one of the original and restrictive meanings of the term). Actually it was only after attending more closely to the use of narration in fiction film – namely those of the Nouvelle Vague and in America of Terence Malick – that I as a practitioner began to re-evaluate this orthodoxy. www.arts.uwaterloo.ca /FINE/juhde/bell041.htm   (833 words)

Dotcommies Revisited The producers even created dummy Web sites for the fictional companies featured in the film: crysanthemums.com and The film was photographed by Dan Hundley, a Minnesota-based video production professional who co-owns a local company, Token Media. It was written, directed and financed by Neil Orman, a Minneapolis-based filmmaker. www.dotcommiesrevisited.com   (247 words)

Douglass Dumbrille - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Considered as one of film's great character actors, over his long and successful career Douglass Dumbrille had roles in more than 200 motion pictures and with the advent of television he made numerous appearances in shows throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In the Great Depression of the 1930s, when jobs were scarce, Hollywood films provided a brief escape from the stresses of the difficult times and the film industry still offered an opportunity for quality actors to earn a decent living. The respect he earned was such that he played the same role in Capra's 1934 film Broadway Bill and its 1950 remake, and also appeared in DeMille's 1938 version of The Buccaneer and twenty years later in its remake. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Douglass_Dumbrille   (531 words)

more6.html It is an epic film in that it incorporates such a huge fictional universe, plans two sequels and poses quite obvious and fundamental philosophical questions. True to the genre, they (especially the second installment) still expand the fictional universe to include the hyper- urban city, often not a feature in science fiction films. The films are not afraid to tackle huge and complicated sci- fi themes such as time travel, nuclear war, technology and dystopic versions of the future. home.no.net /hsjovaag/more6.html   (550 words)

metropolis-cine libreria dello spettacolo e del collezionismo This special centenary edition includes a hundred-year history of the cinema, a complete list of Academy Award winners through the years, a run-down of the major film festival awards and a section on sequels and remakes. Is a complete volume guide to the stars of the film world, past and present - the actors, directors, producers, writers, editors and other key personalities - from in front of the camera and behind. All this, plus a wealth of detail about the major studios, national film industries, key movements and cinematic themes. www.metropolis-cine.com /online/cat049.htm   (550 words)

Sorrow in Harmony With the Sublime - New York Times Although "inspired" by the last days of Kurt Cobain, the film ends with a disclaimer stating that "it is a work of fiction and the characters and events portrayed in the film are also fictional." A similar disclaimer could have been fixed to Cobain himself. At the end of Gus Van Sant's mesmerizing dream of a film, "Last Days," the director adds a cautionary note. By the time he put a shotgun to his head in April 1994, it had become hard to tell which Cobain was real and which was fiction - tortured genius, reluctant rocker, henpecked husband, depressive, addict or martyr - a mystery that only deepened after he was nailed to the cross. www.nytimes.com /2005/07/22/movies/22days.html?ex=1279684800&en=70af6f1a7912a1fe&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (1398 words)

Index of Books about Movies This is a detailed look at the 111 "fictional" baseball films produced and released in the United States from 1915 through 2001. Part V is a critical essay and conclusion which places Hooper in horror film history and compares his work to all-time greats such as Romero, Craven and Carpenter. This work is a filmography of every Cuban film (including documentaries, shorts, and cartoons) released from 1897, the first year films were shown and made in Cuba, through 2001. www.discountmovieworld.com /moviebooks/moviebooks14   (3616 words)

List of fictional cats Schrödinger's cat hapless victim and lucky survivor of thought experiment by Erwin Schrödinger illustrating the incompleteness of the theory quantum mechanics (although Schrödinger himself is historical the is the protagonist in a thought experiment thus fictional). The film Cats and Dogs postulates an ongoing war dating back ancient times between cats and dogs. Leo the Lion mascot of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio. www.freeglossary.com /Fictional_cats   (1867 words)

The WORST Films of 2004 (December 31st, 2004) The film does no favours to any of its cast, the jokes all fall flat and Chris Columbus' limp directing all combine to make what would essentially be a forgettable holiday season ham, if it weren't for the slight aftertaste of sulfuric acid it leaves behind in one's throat. The film veers wildly in tone from cloying sentimentality to utterly mishandled slapstick. It's only a fictional movie, but the sad truth not only are there a few places somewhat like this but many people idolize that sort of lifestyle. www.darkhorizons.com /news04/041231f.php   (1545 words)

Bicycle Movies The film includes several scenes of the group's weekly race (which also plays a part in the murderer's alibi), and the final confrontation is done using bikes, not guns. A mountain biking film about a female bike racer who gets tired of the racing life and finds the true meaning of life with the help of an old crochety bike shop owner. This is a *really* big list, with over 100 films from 20 countries, researched, compiled and edited by Séamus King. www.massbike.org /info/movies.htm   (2139 words)

The William Mize Home Page An inventive, stylistic, indie science fiction film from Australia, this film owes more to "Alien" than "Aliens" in that is isn't a shoot-em-up Us versus the aliens kind of movie. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - Where to start with this film? A worthy sequel to Cameron's "Terminator", we pick up the story a dozen years into the future, where Sarah Connor (Hamilton) is now institutionalized and her young son, the future savior of the world in the battle against the machines, John (Edward Furlong, in a career making bullet) is living with a foster family. www.williammize.com /film.htm   (4091 words)

Movie-List - Reviews - The Interpreter The film follows Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman), a young woman, who was born in the US but raised in the fictional African nation of Motobo, which could be Zimbabwe. The lead actors aren’t allowed to fall in love with each other and the film gets utterly and distractingly hung up on that fact. I couldn’t put my finger on it while I was watching the film but the dynamic between the two leads reminded me a lot of the hostage flick, “Proof of Life” with Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan. www.movie-list.com /reviews.php?id=interpreter   (594 words)

MiT4 abstracts and papaers Fiction's role in recovering radical radio practices, telling the story of what radio could be, is demonstrated through a relatively contemporary and geographically relevant example: the Madame Psychosis Radio Hour broadcast by a fictional MIT radio station in David Foster Wallace's novel, Infinite Jest. As these movies became increasingly respected by middle-class audiences, film producers realized the potential, yet relatively untapped profit to be made from entertaining these groups. Both the "fiction" film Wild Style and the documentary film Style Wars represent a version of hip-hop's birth that hip-hop fans accept as "real," the highest of honors in the hip-hop community. web.mit.edu /comm-forum/mit4/subs/mit4_abstracts.html   (11183 words)

DVD Times - Back To The Future Trilogy Box Set Back To The Future was a product of the eighties, but it lives on, not because of the wacky visual inventiveness the film possessed in abundance, but because of the values it preaches and its director Robert Zemeckis' belief that the heart of any classic film lies within a brilliant story. After the two time-periods of 1955 and 1985 were flogged to death in the first two films of the series, its refreshing to have completely new locations for Back To The Future Part III. Dean Cunday's photography gives the film a stunning natural vista for the old-west location, and the blue skies of 1885 Hill Valley act as a decent tourist advertisement for Utah's Monument Valley. dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=3644   (4971 words)

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