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	Freeway II (1999) - RUTHLESS REVIEWS: Movies
		Freeway II is significantly more daring than its predecessor and, as with certain John Waters films, the sheer audacity of Freeway II can be fun (and difficult) to watch.
		Shock added to a decent film has a much greater impact than a film based on shock because the shock is not a crutch; the film doesnt have to be shocking so its more shocking when it is shocking.
		Freeway II is a limited film, but the limitations of the film give it an enjoyable, B-movie feel and give it the freedom to plummet to new depths.
	ruthlessreviews.com /movies/f/freeway2.html (464 words)

	Matthew Bright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matthew Bright born June 8, 1952) is an American film director, writer and actor.
		His first major role in film as the twins Squeezit and Renee Henderson for the film Forbidden Zone began with his characters being thrown in a garbage can, raped in a alternate dimension's bordello and decapitated by Satan (played by Danny Elfman).
		Films he directed include: Shrunken Heads (1994), Freeway (1996), Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (1999), The Story of Ted Bundy (2001) and Tiptoes (2003).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Bright (224 words)

	Freeway (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Freeway is a 1996 movie starring Kiefer Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon and Brooke Shields.
		The movie is a dark comedy loosely modeled after the story of Little Red Riding Hood; Witherspoon is Red Riding Hood, while Sutherland plays the Big Bad Wolf.
		The scenes that take place on the northbound I-5 freeway actually were filmed on the I-5.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freeway_(movie) (381 words)

	luxonline: Under The Freeway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		The space of the film is a public one; an intersection of streets in a poor neighbourhood, dominated by the overhead freeway of the title.
		Under the freeway life proceeds at a different pace - in its examination of the cityscape the film offers space and time to observe city life, one's sense of closeness to, or distance from the reality represented controlled in part by the coming and going of the sound.
		It is tempting to see, in the pace of the shots and the pace of the actions filmed, a critique of both life in the world of the freeway, and of its customary film or television representation.
	www.luxonline.org.uk /work/id/603803 (281 words)

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		The group of researchers who argue that the Zapruder film is a fake have become known as the "alterationists." At the time that they were proposing their theories of the alteration of the Zapruder film, I had what none of them had.
		The alterationists claimed that the Zapruder film motorcade sequence was the only film in the world which exhibited that phenomenon, so therefore this must have been a defect created in the Super Top Secret CIA photo lab where the CIA supposedly altered the film.
		A couple of them were filmed under similar conditions, such as maximum telephoto, dark areas and grass in the background, and bright objects in the foreground.
	karws.gso.uri.edu /Marsh/Puzzle_Palace/zapruder.txt (2402 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Freeway at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Though the film was a box office hit and gained her attention to the Hollywood A-List, as a fan, I found myself uncomfortable with the attention she’s receiving and seeing her in such mainstream magazines as “Entertainment Weekly” and “US” magazine.
		“Freeway” is a modern remake of the children’s story “Little Red Riding Hood” but with a 90s dark twist that is reminiscent to the Oliver Stone flick “Natural Born Killers” and the independent films of Quentin Tarantino.
		The story for “Freeway” is set in a Southern California redneck type-of-place where a young illiterate girl named Vanessa Lutz (Witherspoon) who is also a potty-mouth finds her mother Ramona (Amanda Plummer) prostituting herself again in order to score drugs for herself and husband Larry (Michael T. Weiss).
	www.epinions.com /content_40001441412 (1057 words)

	FREEWAY
		After her mother and stepfather are arrested, Vanessa Lutz (an incredibly over-the-top Reese Witherspoon), tired of the system that she knows so well and not wanting to enter another foster home, steals a car and it’s over the freeway and through the penal system, to grandmother’s house we go.
		If this sounds twisted and sick, that’s because it is. And it’s also hysterically funny because of the attitude the film takes (and I am a firm believer in the theory that anything can be funny if it is displayed in the right tone or attitude).
		It beings with a little light comedy as Vanessa is in school and struggles for two or three minutes to read the sentence “The cat drinks milk.” As the film progresses, the humor becomes darker and darker until it reaches one of the most perversely funny endings I have ever seen.
	www.geocities.com /agirlandagunreviews/freeway.html (332 words)

	AFT - Higher Ed Department - More News - 2003 - Film Captures Adjunct Plight
		Janakos, a community college English professor in Santa Monica, was moved by the lack of respect, compensation and rights that California part-timers have, and she decided to self-finance the documentary to inform the public.
		Their "offices" often are either vehicles or common mailrooms; they receive the summons to teach on the first day of some classes, and most adjuncts willingly accept the work--teaching at three, four, or even five colleges simultaneously to maintain a living wage.
		The state chancellor and community college presidents are shown in the film explaining how they understand the plight of adjuncts but just don't have the funding to compensate the part-timers.
	www.aft.org /higher_ed/news/2003/film_captures.htm (503 words)

	Modamag.com \|Freeway 1988 (DVD Review)
		The police are desperate to catch the freeway terror before he kills anybody else on the air, Sunny starts an investigation of her own that attracts unwanted attention and a mysterious stranger named Frank Quinn (James Russo, “Deep Core”) has made it his mission in life to bring the killer down.
		While “Freeway” isn’t the worst film ever made, it does tend to play more like a TV movie-of-the-week than a theatrical release.
		In any case, the film does tend to show its age a bit with some grain, flecks and specs, but it’s not horrible by any means.
	www.modamag.com /freeway1988_dvd.htm (621 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Freeway (1996)
		The film is seedy and profane, but it's not gratuitous -- these characters are the lowest of the low, and their speech and manner seem natural.
		For the first half, I was taking the film on its own twisted terms, and, while not exactly liking it, admiring its skillful execution and morbid sense of humor.
		Many critics are fooled into praising Freeway because of the skill with which its purpose is fulfilled.
	www.rinkworks.com /movies/m/freeway.1996.shtml (414 words)

	FILM REVIEW -- `Freeway's' Wild, Funny Ride
		The movie seduces with its humor, all the while presenting a realized vision of a harsh, absurd world: Moms are crack addicts, dads molest their daughters and the friendly stranger who picks up the distressed motorist is actually a psychotic killer.
		The picture's executive producer is Oliver Stone, a fact that invites comparisons between ``Freeway'' and Stone's ``Natural Born Killers.'' Both involve cars going down the road and contain distressing scenes of violence.
		``Freeway'' suggests that the only thing that's a fairy tale is the suggestion that such stories are fairy tales.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/08/23/DD13791.DTL (584 words)

	The Claremont Courier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		City officials have been working with the film crew to ensure lighting and noise does not disturb residents living in the area.
		Crews are using a portion of the paved freeway near the Towne Avenue bridge to film a scene where, according to city spokesman Michael Maxfield, time has stopped.
		Because the freeway is not being used, vehicles can be parked on the 210 extension for the purpose of the scene; otherwise, the production company would have to shut down a working freeway.
	home.earthlink.net /~claremontcourier/041702/angelfreeway.html (185 words)

	afireinside.org/subvulture.com - humour articles
		Since then, film adaptations of dark fairy tales have always appealed on some level; many have even be super.
		Witherspoon plays the role with the same innane cheerfulness that she uses in 'Legally Blonde', which given she is meant to be an abused killer (admittedly in self-defense) is a little bit confusing.
		While the whole white trash act gets a little overdone towards the end, with even her dreams of her grandmother's santuary being of a gaudy trailor decorated by inflatable animals and clowns, the film was generally enjoyable.
	www.subvulture.com /archive/136.html (309 words)

	Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby is a 1999 crime thriller, directed by Matthew Bright.
		It stars Natasha Lyonne as Crystal, known as "White Girl", a career criminal, who makes money by posing as a prostitute and then robbing her would-be client.
		Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby at the Internet Movie Database
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freeway_II:_Confessions_of_a_Trickbaby (108 words)

	David Ellis - Interview
		The freeway sequence was very involved with a lot of stunt guys, and a lot of intricate action, but it’s all fun.
		The logistics of getting access to freeways is tough and you have to work around peak traffic hours, weekends, etc. It was great that we got to film 35 days in a row on our own freeway unrestricted; we could blow it up and damage it, do whatever we wanted with it.
		The brothers didn’t want anybody directing their film, they wanted to direct everything themselves, so they made it clear in the interview that they didn’t really want a Second Unit Director, but they were being forced into having one just because of the circumstances.
	whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com /cmp/rl_interview_d_ellis.html (2775 words)

	Canyon Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		The film explores issues that center around the tragedy: root causes of the attack, the meaning of patriotism, the use of American military force to protect US corporate interests in the Middle East, how America and US Government policies are perceived abroad, and the role of the media throughout the crisis.
		When projected the film resembles a moving impressionist painting but the passing of time is not represented by the coloured marks of a painters brush but by the colored emulsion of the film stock.
		The film is a study of the undulating chiaroscuro of rivers, creeks and shorelines in fl, white, and silver.
	www.canyoncinema.com /new_releasesSZ.html (5721 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Freeway
		I suppose the reason there are so many films like this these days is because of the influence of Quentin Tarantino, particularly his films "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction." Tarantino used these low-life crooks as a kind of shorthand for society.
		In this film, the central character is Vanessa (Reese Witherspoon of "Fear").
		This film rates a B. Click here for links to places to buy this movie in video and/or DVD format, the soundtrack, books, even used videos, games and lots of other stuff.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/freeway.html (555 words)

	FILM REVIEW -- `Freeway's' Wild, Funny Ride
		``Freeway'' has wit and complexity, while ``Killers'' was an overblown riff on a simple idea.
		There are many moments in ``Freeway'' that work in two ways -- funny, but with a chill running underneath.
		In between the laughs, ``Freeway'' shows the complexity of the culture of violence, and it does so without any kneejerk moralizing.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1996/08/23/DD13791.DTL&type=printable (571 words)

	Review: Freeway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		And, when you put all the pieces together, you realize that Freeway is making a penetrating statement about the general populace's endless fascination with the lurid and violent.
		As incisive as Freeway's story is, the film wouldn't be nearly as successful without terrific turns by the two leads.
		This cynical view of human nature is what fuels the films of David Lynch and the Coen brothers, and it's very much in evidence here in Bright's directorial debut.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/f/freeway.html (633 words)

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		In addition to the clear film, VK-40, a softly tinted gray film, is available for a higher degree of heat, fade, and glare control.
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	PRODUCTION NOTES - There is no spoon: impossible stunts & combat
		It took seven weeks to film the chase on a mile-and-a-half-long freeway loop constructed specifically for the film at the Alameda Naval Base.
		Moss’s Freeway duties also included stunt driving for the Chase sequence, in which she pilots a Cadillac through a hail of bullets as a full-scale fight erupts between her passengers.
		Another key event in that rivals the Freeway Chase in both complexity and exhilaration is the Burly Brawl, a furious battle between Neo and an army of one hundred relentless Agent Smith replicas.
	whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com /rl_cmp/rl_production_05.html (2116 words)

	The Stemmons Freeway Sign and the Lamppost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		He declares the film a fabrication based on discrepancies he observes between the photo and the film frames.
		The first discrepancy to consider is the apparent difference between the Stemmons Freeway sign as seen in the Zapruder film and as seen in the Barnes photo.
		Costella claims that it is impossible for this to be a genuine effect of the film.
	home.earthlink.net /~joejd/jfk/zaphoax/costella.html (2180 words)

	Freeway Building Materials
		Film, television, commercial and photo propmasters have known about and relied on Freeway for a wide range of props, fixtures, building supplies and unusual items.
		Freeway Building Materials specializes in buying and selling building materials, fixtures and rare objects built before 1960.
		Freeway has been in the same Los Angeles location for over 50 years, and has been owned and operated daily by Alejandro Acevedo for over 30 years.
	www.wayhome.com /freeway (188 words)

	Movie Review: 'Freeway' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		This scene instantly told your normally-open-minded reviewer that the usual Jewish suspects made this film; and, since it was written and directed by a man with the Jewish-sounding surname of Bright, and was produced by a subsidiary of Jewish mogul Aaron Spelling, it seems his instincts were correct.
		A jailhouse lesbian scene involving Witherspoon and a really weird girl is also thrown into the film for no apparent reason other than to turn on the producers; equally telling is the scene in which Witherspoon struggles to secret a shiv in her anatomy.
		The film's so rife with vulgarity you can almost hear the producers musing: "you know, we could have Reese say 'pecker' one more time, right about here, and then, we could insert another jailhouse, lesbian make-out scene here, 'cause Reese didn't really go far enough in that first lesbian scene....and then......." Ugh.
	www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com /movie77.htm (766 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Film Listings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Once li'l Red and Big Bad Wolf meet, however, Freeway takes an odd turn: It becomes a Linda Blair B-movie, a would-be feminist manifesto in which its frazzled protagonist embarks on a crime spree, striking back with adolescent fury at a world that won't leave her be.
		The girl has got a mouth on her, whether she's politely saying, “Yes, ma'am,” out of force of habit, or letting fly a string of four-letter invectives that are as startling as they are comical.
		As the benign face of evil in the film, Sutherland is eerie, but only for the fact that he is sounding and looking more and more like his father.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gbase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:138010 (497 words)

	Freeway . Austin Chronicle . 03-29-99
		The opening credits for this film show R. Crumb-ish drawings of sexy Little Red Riding Hoods being chased by a lascivious wolf and that's exactly what it turns out to be; a modern-day Little Red Riding Hood story.
		Freeway is disturbing, terrifically violent, and funny as hell, breaking free of clichés you'd expect to see in this kind of film.
		The Vanessa character is a real switch as well; when you think she's going to be another helpless victim, she turns out to be self-reliant and tough.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/austin/f/freeway1.html (256 words)

	channel4.com/film - Freeway
		Unfortunately, the kindly stranger who gives her a lift (Sutherland) turns out to be - you guessed it - a freeway cruising psychopath.
		The film is a mixture of many things: a gleefully trashy thriller, knowing fl comedy, and even a liberal plea for better child welfare.
		Witherspoon's performance promoted her from the B-List into one of the most exciting young actresses around, while Sutherland seems to have found a new niche for himself after the lead roles dried up.
	web.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=103605 (173 words)

	Open Directory - Arts:Movies:Titles:F:Freeway Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		The Freeway films are modern adaptations of old fairytales.
		Freeway (1996) Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (1999)
		Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby is a 1999 drama about two girls who escape from prison.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Movies/Titles/F/Freeway_Series/desc.html (159 words)

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