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	Film noir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Film noir is a film style and mood primarily associated with crime films, that portrays its principal characters in a nihilistic and existentialist world.
		Film noir is primarily derived from the hard-boiled style of crime fiction of the Depression era, (many films noir were adaptations of such novels), and may first be clearly seen in films released in the early 1940s.
		Film noir was defined in retrospect by film historians and critics; many of the creators of film noir later professed to be unaware at the time of having created a distinctive type of film.
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	Greed (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greed is a 1924 dramatic silent movie about an honest dentist whose wife wins a lottery ticket, only to become obsessed with money.
		The hours of cut film were destroyed (although it appears that much of it survived until at least the late 1950s), and this film is known as one of the most famous "lost" films of Hollywood.
		In 1999, Turner Entertainment (the film's current rights holder) decided to "recreate," as close as possible, the original version by combining the existing footage with still photographs of the lost scenes, in accordance with an original continuity outline written by director Erich von Stroheim.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greed_(1925_movie) (461 words)

	GREED
		The mutilated fragments of the film which remain offer a window onto what was very likely the greatest movie ever made in America and indeed one of the greatest works of art ever created in America.
		The original tinting of "Greed", which highlighted gold whenever it appeared in the frame, stated the theme of the film with unapologetic simplicity -- but the theme was so potent, so resonant, that it never descended into facile metaphor.
		He destroyed the film, destroyed the evidence that it had ever existed in its original form, and hoped thereby to avoid the judgment of posterity.
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	Greed (1924)
		Greed (1924) is one of the greatest silent films ever made, although the film was a box-office failure at the time.
		Greed, still a powerful masterpiece, is only a truncated fragment of its original form that was first presented to the Goldwyn Company (the first cut was 47 reels, the second cut was approximately seven hours and 42 reels long).
		Gold-related objects in the fl-and-white film (i.e., gold coins, gold plates and vessels, gold tooth fillings, a giant gold tooth, a brass bedstead, gilt frames, the birdcage, the canary, and gold itself) were hand-tinted frame-by-frame in the original release prints.
	www.filmsite.org /gree.html (3556 words)

	PLOTS WITH GUNS! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		[Film noir], flourishing in America in the period 1941-58, generally focuses on urban crime and corruption, and on sudden upwellings of violence in a culture whose fabric seems to be unraveling.
		Both films show economics as the new system of law enforcement, but one is from the detective/hero’s perspective while the other is from the criminal’s.
		Without greed motivation, Keyes is simply not corruptible, for he does not possess the desires that Neff or Phyllis or Hammer or many of the other characters have in the noir world.
	www.plotswithguns.com /dixie-july.htm (3791 words)

	greed
		Greed was begun at Metro studios under Louis B. Mayer but shortly after the film began production, Metro and Goldwyn merged and von Stroheim once again found himself under the thumb of Irving Thalberg, production manager.
		Greed starred Gibson Gowland as a dimwitted behemoth, McTeague, who rises from the life of a gold miner to become a dentist in San Francisco.
		Greed takes a more fatalistic approach to life; when Mac takes to drink, it is the realization of his internal tendencies, seen earlier in the example of father MacTeague.
	alt.tcm.turner.com /MONTH_SPOTS/99/12/greed.htm (1930 words)

	Philosophy Department - Proceedings of the Heraclitean Society
		Films are usually assumed to be types, with their templates or performances being tokens of those types.
		As to the genuineness of each film, it seems undeniable that, if the single, spliced master print produced by Steve was exhibited to audiences, they would then agree that they are at least watching a film.
		The upshot of this discussion is that Leslie's film is indeed logically independent from that of Steve, because it is a realistic possibility that she could have, and would have, made the same film, with the same overall artistic intentions, even if Steve had played no causal part whatever in her film-making.
	www.wmich.edu /~phil/heraclitean/vol21/dilworth (2300 words)

	Greed
		While most lost films disappeared due to the fragile nature of nitrate film stock or studio neglect, GREED was willfully butchered by the studio that made it, Metro-Goldwyn (soon to be Metro-Goldwyn Mayer).
		GREED is a film that derives much of its power from a series of interlocking motifs, most of which are robbed of much of their power of repetition in the studio version.
		The portrayal of Zerkow in the novel and the film verges on anti-semitic stereotype, even though the director himself was from a Jewish family.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Silents/Articles/Greed/Greed.html (1518 words)

	greed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pitts, who was so well-known for her comedy roles that contemporary audiences laughed practically every time she came on screen in the film, does fine work in a tragic role.
		'The only truly realistic films are those made at the scene of the action.' The final scenes were shot in Death Valley in the hottest part of the summer in 1923.
		And the moral decline of three people, brought on by their lust for gold, is portrayed with a bitterness and cruelty equaled only by the most pessimistic novels of some Russian authors and without their grandiloquence and didactism.
	yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/g/greed.html (935 words)

	Film Fest Journal
		The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005)
		In the subsequent film Privilege, the author uses the term "unhooked" to describe the physiological and emotional changes that the retired dancer, Jenny experiences with menopause: the idea of liberation from body and from biological processes, as well as psychologically, from the social competition of desirability.
		Ullmann shares another anecdote in her character's befriending of a sheep in the film that, as she recalls, died in real-life (as it does in the film).
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	greed
		The completed film as originally done is not recoverable as the studio burned its copy and if one is to believe von Stroheim, they got money for the silver nitrate in the film.
		All this did not endear the director to the cast or the film crew, as well as to the studio bosses, but the brilliant result he got from his method of filming makes all those expenses incurred and inconveniences seem irrelevant.
		It should be duly noted that the film in its butchered form was a box office flop when it finally opened, though the AFI film critics still listed it as one of their 100 best films.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/greed.htm (2406 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| The adaptation racket
		This "Greed" reconstructs the grand design of von Stroheim's four-hour cut and goes a long way toward filling it in.
		In von Stroheim's plan, McTeague, Marcus and Trina occupy the middle of a spectrum encompassing, on one end, the scabrous shared venality of a gold-mad junk dealer and maid and, on the other, the sweetly furtive late-life romance of a veterinarian and his next-door neighbor.
		Though Agee never wrote a full-scale review of the film, his essays are replete with references to it.
	www.salon.com /ent/col/srag/1999/12/02/adaptation/index1.html (1136 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Erich von Stroheim: Greed
		But then Stroheim, better known to film-goers for his acting as Gloria Swanson's butler in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, was one of the most extraordinary film-makers of all time.
		Greed was to have been the culmination of his career - an adaptation of Frank Norris's tragic tale of McTeague who, after losing his livelihood because of a rival's machinations, becomes a drunk and murders his wife.
		Sequence after sequence is stunning, like the one in which Pitts, having won the lottery, caresses her naked body with gold coins.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,87539,00.html (436 words)

	TCM Press Room
		GREED is one of the most famous missing pieces of film history.
		Von Stroheim intended for the GREED to be released as a four and hour, two-part film, but MGM studio head Irving Thalberg insisted that it be cut to its current two-hour version.
		Schmidlinís reconstructed version restores several subplots to the film, including a story centered on the difficulties of the immigrant experience and a brief foray into the life of an abusive junk dealer and his gypsy wife.
	alt.tcm.turner.com /PRESS_ROOM/99/11/greed.htm (441 words)

	Greed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Look up greed in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
		Greed can be an emotion similar to desire.
		Greed is one of the Seven Deadly Sins, meaning covetousness.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greedy (118 words)

	Story of greed and lust confuses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Revenge, lust and greed are the topics of the new film by director Temistocles Lopez.
		With a rather unoriginal story, the film is pretty predictable and fails to engulf the audience.
		The film itself ran at the pace of a foreign film, and I most likely would have enjoyed it as a foreign film.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V129/N26/01-story.26d.html (499 words)

	Greed - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Greed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Silent film 1923–25, written by Joseph Farnham and June Mathis and directed by Erich von Stroheim.
		The small grey eyes blinked, the lips moved, with greed; greed was the ruling passion; and though there was some good nature, some genuine kindliness, a true human touch, in the old toper, his greed was now so set afire by hope, that all other traits of character lay dormant.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Greed (277 words)

	Greed Reconstruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"Greed," which upon its release was described by one trade paper as "the filthiest, vilest, most putrid picture in the history of the motion picture business," was voted one of the three most important American films of all time in a 1976 poll of critics.
		All right, "Greed" is not "Singin' in the Rain"; it's more like "Croakin' in the Desert." It was von Stroheim's intention to expose the viewer to the same parched existence that Trina made for Mac, and in that it is remarkably, artfully successful.
		To bring a condemned film back to life was a challenge nearly as monumental as the one von Stroheim set himself to make his monumental movie.
	www.welcometosilentmovies.com /features/greed/recon/time.htm (1065 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		Greed therefore exists primarily as an idea about filmmaking, which has passed among directors and writers, critics and moviegoers, for three-quarters of a century.
		Their grim relationship is driven by greed and mutual mistrust and lighted and framed mainly in an expressionist manner.
		Contrary to the absurd legend that Stroheim simply "filmed" Norris page by page, nearly a fifth of the plot in the script published by Lorrimer—recounting Mac's life prior to his arrival in San Francisco—transpires before he's found eating his Sunday dinner at the car conductors' coffee joint, the subject of the novel's opening sentence.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/1999/1199/991126.html (3976 words)

	Greed
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		"Greed" examines the destructive psychological effects of wealth on a couple when the woman wins a lottery; as she gradually becomes more and more consumed with the piles of gold she now owns, the relationship falls violently apart...
		GREED was filmed over the course of two years at a cost of more than $700,000.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/greed/about.php (402 words)

	Restored 1924 Classic `Greed' To Show on TV
		It is a film known mainly for being cut.
		Schmidlin's goal was to reconstruct the film in such a way that ``when you wake up the next day, you know you saw the whole story but don't remember what scenes were stills and what was live action.''
		In fact, a mere half-hour into the film, that's already the case: The stills are that vivid and Schmidlin's technique that unobtrusive.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/11/30/DD26941.DTL (758 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| 'Napalm' speech tops movie poll
		Other film fans' favourites included Samuel L Jackson's "God's fury" speech in Pulp Fiction, Michael Douglas' "Greed is good" line from Wall Street, and the "Choose life" monologue by Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting.
		Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.
		Greed, in all of its forms - greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge - has marked the upward surge of mankind.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3362603.stm (1011 words)

	LACMA Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Greed will never be restored, but this new-to-video reconstruction, which originally premiered on cable last winter, offers a compromise between what remains and what`s been lost.
		The film is one of several from the late 1920s and early 1930s to ask the question, "what do soldiers do after the war?" Squadron`s former flying aces are noble in combat but lack a peacetime outlet for their close-knit adventurousness.
		Originally titled Walking Down Broadway, the film was the first sound picture from the legendary Erich von Stroheim; hoping to mend the reputation as an egocentric spendthrift he acquired while directing epic-scale silent films, von Stroheim managed to bring in Walking Down Broadway on time and on budget.
	www.lacma.org /art/film/0501JanFilm/stroheim.htm (2349 words)

	Greed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Greed was indeed what got Trina and Mcteague into a lot of trouble after McTeague lost his business.
		So McTeague became greedy and that is the basis of the title of Erich von Stroheim's classic film "Greed." This was a silent movie which gained great respect from audiences and reviewers around the United States.
		Von Stroheim went so far as to actually film the final scene in "Death Valley." This film is regarded by most, including Roger Ebert, as one of the top 100 films ever made.
	www.louisville.edu /a-s/english/haymarket/mattw/wellsgreed.html (248 words)

	Silent Era : PSFL : Greed (1924)
		The film was further shortened to approximately 18,000 feet, editing supervised by Rex Ingram (at Stroheim’s request and with his blessing).
		The film was released in Sweden on 30 November 1925.
		The film’s narrative was expanded with still photos and additional intertitles in 1999 to a length of 239 minutes.
	www.silentera.com /PSFL/data/G/Greed1924.html (462 words)

	Film Forum: Speed, Greed, and other Animal Behaviors - Christianity Today Magazine
		And yet, this film tells this story in a such a way that we feel it is being told for the very first time.
		As I watched Celie's story play out over the years in that wonderful film, and realized that God was indeed at work in her life, and in the lives of others, I began to hope that my situation would someday change.
		Looking at the big picture of Celie's life in that film was one of the biggest motivators in an otherwise dark time for me. I will always be grateful to Alice Walker for having the courage to write of redemption and to Steven Spielberg for so beautifully transferring the story to film.
	www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2001/126/41.0.html (3305 words)

	Ric Burns talk for NNP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For instance, the film seems to suggest that New Netherland was an intentional “experiment in multiracialism and multiculturalism.” New Netherland was intended originally as a base from which to exploit the fur-trade, and eventually as an agricultural community to support the trade.
		Another case where the film ignored research the makers were well aware of, because they had interviewed the author of it, is also a case in early New York, rather than New Netherland itself, but it illustrates the approach they took to the truth.
		One of the most blatant faults of all in the film is that it hardly hints at the influence of Dutch political precedents on the political institutions and traditions of the United States.
	www.nnp.org /project/ricburns.html (2963 words)

	Sunday Mirror (London, England): GREED OF EDWARD; He used charity trip to US for secret film talks He wants Brooke ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sunday Mirror (London, England): GREED OF EDWARD; He used charity trip to US for secret film talks He wants Brooke Shields in Coronation movie March 2 2002 He vows to quit his business for pounds 250k a year April 26 2002 He has secret talks in U.S on Queen movie.(News)@ HighBeam Research
		GREED OF EDWARD; He used charity trip to US for secret film talks He wants Brooke Shields in Coronation movie March 2 2002 He vows to quit his business for pounds 250k a year April 26 2002 He has secret talks in U.S on Queen movie.(News)
		Even though the charity was picking up the bill for his stay he spent a whole day locked in meetings discussing a film about his mum, in which Hollywood star Brooke Shields is tipped for a role.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:89384684&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (295 words)

	IFILM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Considered a masterpiece by the handful of people who saw it in its original form, it was drastically re-edited by MGM studio chief Irving Thalberg, who released it in a two-hour-and-15-minute version.
		But in 1998, film producer Rick Schmidlin (who oversaw the restoration of Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil") discovered 633 still photographs of the missing material as well as the production's original shooting script, and he set out to reconstruct the film into the four-hour version which von Stroheim had envisaged for commercial release.
		Well aware that the public would never tolerate a film of such length, von Stroheim agreed to cut the picture down to four-and-a-half hours, to be shown in two parts.
	vgn.ifilm.com /db/static_text/0,1699,948,00.html (487 words)

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