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	1980s
		In the 1970s and 1980s the cinema trade was increasingly susceptible to a handful of films, with large advertising budgets, released simultaneously across a single market making larger and larger amounts of the overall box office.
		The film goes from a giant close-up of the bikie's eyes to a long shot (subsequently shown to be Max's perspective) of a semi-trailer (prime mover) gradually and inexorably grinding the bikie and his bike into the bitumen.
		It is through this kind of shock of recognition that the film is able to reduce, to abolish to the limited extent that it is possible in the cinema the psychical distance between screen and audience.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/1980s.html (9189 words)

	Timeline of Influential Milestones and Turning Points in Film History
		Herein is a detailed timeline of the key film milestones, important turning points, and significant historical dates or events (organized by decade) that have had a significant influence on the world body of cinema and shaped its development.
		The disastrous film marked the start of the death-knell of the American Auteur period that had blossomed in the 1970s, with original works by directors and producers, including Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976)), Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show (1971)), Woody Allen (Annie Hall (1976)), and Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter (1978)).
		This film was heralded as the first live action film with over 20 minutes of full 3D graphics and computer animation (extensive use of 3-D CGI in the famed 'light cycle' sequence).
	www.filmsite.org /milestones1980s.html (1052 words)

	To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) - A Review by David Nusair
		Though To Live and Die in L.A. is essentially entertaining throughout, the film's reliance on 1980s flourishes (the soundtrack's by Wang Chung, for crying out loud) and underlying element of sleaze keeps it from becoming the biting and gritty thriller director William Friedkin clearly wants it to be.
		The underlying realism of the film is often negated by laughable '80s touches (Chance actually calls someone "righteous," in addition to using the term "man" far too much), although some might say this is actually a positive thing.
		Perhaps the film captures what life was like for an agent in 1985, and that's just the way such a person would speak.
	www.reelfilm.com /tolivela.htm (697 words)

	allAfrica.com: Southern Africa: Catch a Fire: New Film on 1980s Apartheid South Africa (Page 1 of 1)
		Before I say anything about the details of the film, I must say that in today's world, this film, in its depiction of the ANC, represents a perfect example of the old adage that there is a thin line between a revolutionary and a terrorist.
		Much of the film is both a battle between the ANC and apartheid South Africa and between Patrick Chamusso and Colonel Vos as both characters are involved in a game of cat and mouse.
		Overall the film is a fitting tribute to an ordinary man's contribution to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
	allafrica.com /stories/200610301343.html (577 words)

	Variety.com - Film
		In a departure from tradition, a number of films that will be shown at the Cannes Festival this year have never been seen before and, further, will never be available for release.
		The films, in fact, are of two or three minutes duration and were directed by past winners of the coveted Palme d'Or.
		The filmmakers were asked to do the films by Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux as part of the 60th year anniversary of the festival, which kicks off May 15.
	www.variety.com /index.asp?layout=dept_main&dept=Film (615 words)

	Film History of the 1980s
		The decade of the 1980s tended to consolidate the gains made in the seventies rather than to initiate any new trends equal to the large number of disaster movies, buddy movies, or "rogue cop" movies that characterized the previous decade.
		Film budgets skyrocketed due to special effects (expensive digital effects) and inflated salaries of name-recognition stars (and their agents).
		Because costly film decisions were more in the hands of people making the financial decisions, not the film makers, movies were made only if they could guarantee financial success, thereby pandering to a few select, well-known star names attached to film titles without as much attention paid to intelligent scripts.
	www.filmsite.org /80sintro.html (2778 words)

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		As a film, it might appeal to the Academy, not least because it celebrates the abandon of Hollywood’s golden age.
		Scorsese's film was positioned in the middle of his Italian-American trilogy of films, between Mean Streets (1973) and GoodFellas (1990).
		True to life in the Italian ghetto, the film is naturalistically filled with elements of the first generation Italian-American subculture, including colloquial, blasphemous language, the peppering of four letter words, cursing, and non-sequiter un-formed thoughts.
	www.lycos.com /info/martin-scorsese--films.html (534 words)

	Film Score Monthly.COM: About FSM (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Film Score Monthly is one of the leading voices in film music appreciation.
		The record label Film Score Monthly was founded in 1998 and has released well over 100 CDs of historically important original soundtracks from the 1940s through the 1980s.
		These film scores -- typically unavailable anywhere else -- are licensed from the Hollywood studios and lovingly preserved and restored for commercial presentation.
	www.filmscoremonthly.com /about.asp (337 words)

	Children and film (Norway - the official site in the United States) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The establishment of the Norwegian Film Fund and the introduction of new funding schemes are part of a shift toward the family segment as a target group.
		The state appointed a commission on children’s films, and in 1970 a subcommittee was created to deal with issues such as import subsidies, dubbing and cataloguing.
		The Norwegian Film Institute is responsible for the programme’s various film-related activities, and allocates NOK 3 million annually to facilitate the presentation of film art in schools throughout Norway.
	www.norway.org /culture/film/children (1158 words)

	Film Studies @ Oakland University - Course Schedule and Descriptions
		The study of film as a visual art and the relationship between film and twentieth-century artistic movements.
		Introduction to the art of film by examination of the filmmaking process, study of narrative and non-narrative film, and exploration of film’s relation to society.
		A study of film as a mirror of the cultures and aesthetics of various societies.
	www2.oakland.edu /filmstudies/schedule.cfm (718 words)

	Wes at Home - film reviews - 1980s
		You might think that a first-time film director would fall back on cliche, but this is a stylish and idiosyncratic film, that allows Crouse to spin out of control with perfect composure.
		A very Western film filmed in China, Bertolucci's epic has the trappings of a great film, but the differing accents are a constant distraction from the remarkable design.
		I'm sure the ability to be the first movie filmed in the Forbidden City was a coup for Bertolucci, and he uses the ruddy walls to great if pedantic effect.
	www.killerrobot.com /wes/films_1980.html (629 words)

	The Punisher (1989) \| The Stop Button
		Watching this Punisher film (I have no interest in the new one) again--I’ve seen it multiple times, as the teenager looking for the action film where cars inexplicably blow up, and again as an adult, when it came out on DVD--I noticed just how much of it did succeed.
		The film moves fast (though it’s not particularly engaging for much of the middle), slowing down for the occasional action sequence, but Yakin gives the characters some meat, particularly Gossett’s.
		The film’s a difficult proposition in the first place and the handling of it, given its era and the budget and the cast and crew, has a lot of problems.
	www.thestopbutton.com /indices/film_by_title/the_punisher_1989.html (588 words)

	Filmtracks: Nineteen Eighty-Four (Dominic Muldowney)
		The score, which had promised to greatly enhance the film after its use in the theatrical trailers, ultimately became the largest controversy surrounding the film.
		Needless to say, the inconsistency this caused in the music for the film was a substantial reason for the audiences' cold response to the film.
		The highlight of the album is the main title suite that was the initial demo composed for the film by Muldowney; he includes an interesting 1940s touch at the end (Perhaps a tribute to the time when the story was written?).
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/1984.html (808 words)

	Darcy's Korean Film Page - 1980s
		Borrowing a sound clip from his film The Genealogy where a woman beats her laundry dry by pounding it with wooden rods, Adada is shown doing the same, thus, quite capable of performing a complicated musical rhythm.
		The film follows three generations of Buddhist monks, a young monk, Hae-jin (Huang Hae-jin) around the age of 7, an adult monk, Kibong (Sin Won-sop), around the edges of his 30's, and an elderly monk, Hye-gok (Yi Pan-yong), perhaps in his 70's.
		Buddhist Koans abound throughout the film, such as that of meditating on your face before it was born.
	koreanfilm.org /kfilm80s.html (7117 words)

	Epinions.com - Foreign film variety: mid 1980s through 1990s
		Both films are visual masterpieces, filmed lovingly in the villages, farms, vineyards and estates of rural Provence.
		In the first (and in my opinion, best) film, Julie (Juliette Binoche in a cold, somber performance), who has just lost her husband and daughter, desires anonymity but is drawn into the unfinished business of her former life.
		Raise the Red Lantern (China 1991) is the beautifully filmed chronicle of the life of a young woman (played by the ubiquitous and beautiful Gong Li) who becomes "Fourth Mistress" to a powerful (and almost never seen) lord.
	www.epinions.com /content_956276868 (1078 words)

	Reworked Film Music
		In addition, the film music is likely to contain short isolated passages or long repetitions that, while advancing the story-telling of the film, make little sense as stand-alone music.
		By the 1980s, a recording of music based on the score of a major commercial film release was considered a major part of the merchandising.
		On the other hand, when the credits rolled after a major commercial film from to 1980s and 90s you could expect to hear a recapitulation of the major music you had already heard prompting you to go into the foyer and buy the album.
	www.whitehat.com.au /Music/Film/Reworked.asp (625 words)

	SPA 3900: Latin American Film
		This film captures facets of this woman's vivid and flamboyant personality and life, recreating some of the defining moments that shaped the artist she was.
		The film painfully depicts the hopelessness of Cuban youth in a prevailing atmosphere of uncertainty.
		ISABEL is a film of a woman coming into a "different image of herself." A powerful exploration of a woman in middle age reflecting on career, love, and marriage seeking to be a "ventriloquist for herself" rather than speaking through cultural expectations.
	clem.mscd.edu /~fornsbro/SPA3900.htm (3973 words)

	The Renaissance of the 1980s: Margaret Thatcher
		A Films Bill in 1985 abolished the Eady Levy; the law that had meant a percentage of box office takings in Britain were put into British production.
		One of these was Channel Four's Film on Four project, probably the biggest single source of investment in British production during the 80's.
		A History of British Film Early British Comedy Early Hitchcock Introduction to Humphrey Jennings Humphrey Jennings and Third Cinema.
	www.zenbullets.com /britfilm/article.php?art=1980s&page=2 (339 words)

	Portugese cinema in the 1980s showcased at Toronto Film Festival
		His next film was O Acto da Primavera (Act of Spring, or The Passion of Jesus), a fairly straightforward production of the Passion Play that suddenly ends with a furious montage of images that parallel the wars of modern history with the crucifixion of Jesus.
		Because this is a filmed record of a theatrical performance, it represents reality twice removed, and de Oliveira's merging of cinematic and theatrical techniques points out the artifice inherent in both stage and film.
		The film movingly reflects the efforts of a family to come to terms with the death of the oldest son Augusto, who was killed while fighting in Angola 12 years earlier.
	www-tech.mit.edu /Issue/V110/N40/man.40a.html (950 words)

	Screen Musicals 1980s
		In an eerie re-enactment of the early 1930s, the film musical was proclaimed dead by most industry executives -- just as musicals started kicking their way out of the grave to become a top-grossing genre by the 1990s.
		That the film dealt with the touchy issue of sexual identity made its success all the more remarkable.
		When they adapted it for the screen in 1986 (directed by veteran Muppeteer Frank Oz), the results were even more entertaining, capturing the humorous sense of fantasy that most stage and screen musicals seemed to have lost.
	www.musicals101.com /1980film.htm (857 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, DEADLY FRIEND (1986)
		Many argue that the film is a complete mess of a horror picture, others may argue that it is a very intriguing horror and love story.
		When one watches this film and you see BeeBee it almost seems more like a Disney film than a horror film, but I suppose BeeBee is meant to be that way to show that as a robot, he is a friendly companion.
		The film and novel are both recommended for those who enjoy stories about the return of the dead.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews3/deadlyfriend.html (763 words)

	film ick: David Lynch's Inland Empire: What Do We Know? What Have I Seen?
		Around two thirds of the way through the scene, something fairly typical for a Lynch film occurs: the diagesis shifts, everything in the film's universe is altered by an unexplained force.
		Certainly a feature film in which the audience are supposed to lose themselves, forget artifice, invest their senses and emotions.
		It was only later, seeing the film again at a different city that I realized that the flickering was unintentional.
	www.filmick.co.uk /2006/03/david-lynchs-inland-empire-what-do-we.html (1539 words)

	San Francisco Film Society
		His latest film, The Crash, which was shown October 28 on the History Channel, documents the stock market crash of 1929.
		Next, he’s hoping to do a film on the 1980s financial boom, examining the impact and fallout generated from that time.
		He doesn’t feel that film school is necessary in order to tell a good story as a filmmaker.
	www.sffs.org /membership/profiles/winton.html (702 words)

	University of Colorado-Boulder Major in Film Studies 2002-2003
		The Film Studies Program requires a minimum of 49 hours in support of the B.A. requirements, including film courses and courses taken in other departments.
		(This course is a prerequisite for FILM 2000 and 3051)
		(FILM 2300 may be taken instead of FILM 2000; however, only one of the two courses may be counted toward the B.A. degree.
	www.colorado.edu /ArtsSciences/prospective/guides/AIMS/aimsfilm02-03.html (938 words)

	X-Men (2000): Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry - PopMatters Film Review
		The film's anti-mutant faction is headed by Senator Kelly (Bruce Davison), whose Mutant Registration Act aims to classify them at birth and record any potential danger they pose for "normal" humanity.
		Because the film builds some sympathy for Magneto (and McKellan's performance nearly steals the show), he is not reduced to one note, and provides a worthy opponent to the high-minded Xavier.
		As a means to draw distinctions between the Brotherhood and Xavier's crew, the film focuses on the most popular X-Man, Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), whose abilities include an enhanced ability to regenerate damaged tissue, super-keen senses, and an implanted metal alloy skeleton, complete with retractable claws, making him one hell of a dangerous fighting machine.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/x/x-men.shtml (1284 words)

	Koreanfilm.org - Movie reviews, news, actor info and more from Korea
		Critics Poll - Short ratings and opinions of recent films.
		Film Awards Ceremonies in Korea by Darcy Paquet
		Darcy Paquet writes for Variety magazine and is a consultant for the Udine Far East Film and San Sebastian film festivals.
	koreanfilm.org (497 words)

	Self-Reliant Filmmaking
		Films in bold are not sequels or based on previously existing franchises (i.e., a comic book or television series).
		Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise (1984) is generally considered one of the key films of the American independent film movement of the 1980s, occupying the same rarefied historical space as The Return of the Secaucus Seven (1980) and She’s Gotta Have It (1986).
		Unlike those films, however, this was not Jarmusch’s debut (though it is often erroneously attributed as such).
	www.selfreliantfilm.com (2735 words)

	1980s in film Summary
		The Talent Oligopoly The industry's evolution during the 1980s concealed a paradox.
		American Documentary in the 1980s CARL PLANTINGA The 1980s brought remarkable developments to documentary film-flaking in the United States.
		The decade saw the continued rise of the blockbuster, and the increasing emphasis in the American industry on film franchises, especially in the action, science fiction, and horro...
	www.bookrags.com /1980s_in_film (158 words)

	Amadeus (1984) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The film deals with the last few months of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's (Oscar-nominee Tom Hulce) life, told in flashbacks by an old, washed-up musician named Antonio Salieri (Oscar-winner F. Murray Abraham).
		Salieri tells of the genius, the ingenuity, and the insanity of the young musician who died mysteriously at the age of 35.
		By mixing fact and probable fiction, the film-makers succeeded in creating a truly remarkable motion picture that is easily one of the best of the 1980s.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0086879 (368 words)

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