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	Encyclopedia: Handmade Films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Handmade Films was a British film production company set up by the Beatle George Harrison and his business partner Denis O'Brian in 1979, originally to finance the Monty Python film Life of Brian after the original financers pulled out.
		Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general.
		Life of Brian is a film from 1979 by Monty Python which deals with the life of Brian (played by Graham Chapman), a young man born nearly the same time as, and in a manger right down the street from, Jesus.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Handmade-Films (555 words)

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		The former Beatle even makes a discreet cameo appearance in the film – as a man in a false beard, during a scene when Brian's mother turns round from talking to the crowds out of her window and finds the room full of people wanting her son.
		Handmade Films, the independent film company which Harrison set up, went on to produce a great many films during the eighties.
		Handmade films produced a number of films in the 16 years that Harrison was involved before he eventually sold the company in 1994 due to falling profits.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/6181/86487 (417 words)

	Take One: Beyond the fringe.(Handmade filmmaking, still f... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Handmade films foreground the material, chemical surface of the film and the filmmaker's unique artistry.
		Handcrafted films are by nature personal films, indelibly containing the mark of their maker in their idiosyncrasies and imperfections.
		Rather than drawing attention to the means of their construction, handmade films counteract the illusionism of mainstream cinema in much the same manner as other experimental strategies.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:112313030&refid=holomed_1 (700 words)

	Balagan: Current Programs
		The film’s images were produced through a process of painting liquid emulsion on sand papered, clear film leader, contact printing and then hand processing.
		These films are the result of a series of camera-less collaborations between the filmmaker, the Atlantic Ocean and its underwater inhabitants.
		Starting with a hopelessly inept porno film from the '70s which had deteriorated with age and poor storage conditions--the decay and mold have a sensual interest on their own-- Ahwesh produced a beautiful and powerful film, both erotic and disarming.
	www.coolidge.org /balagan/handmade_spring2002.html (919 words)

	BeatleLinks Fab Forum - Handmade Films...
		Aug 18, 2001 11:11 PM Re: Handmade Films...
		Aug 18, 2001 11:16 PM Re: Handmade Films...
		George created Handmade films because a main financer of the Money Python film 'The Life of Brian' had backed out, possibly due to the films blasphamous content, and the film was getting very close to being shelved.
	www.beatlelinks.net /forums/printthread.php?t=6024 (562 words)

	Quickdraw Articles
		With handmade film techniques the physical properties of the film are manipulated directly by the artist.
		The appeal of these techniques to many artists is that it brings the film making process closer to the realm of sculpture or painting, as the surface they are working with and the image are not separate from each other or with the goal of projecting the material into movement.
		During the short five days of the Handmade Film Extravaganza it is possible for participants to make their own short films.
	www.awn.com /qas/html/articles/julia1.htm (506 words)

	(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Perhaps if HandMade had been a US company, it could have done a fair deal, but it was foreign so the door to the market was half-closed.
		The exhibitors liked the film but were nervous about showing it, in case they offended Hollywood - their regular suppliers.
		Figures on US film production alone are pretty indicative of this trend: from the thousands of films made in the US, only few hundred end up being released of which few dozen are really profitable.
	www.studioangelis.com /blog.html (2505 words)

	bookmunch - online book reviews
		HandMade Films was the Great White Hope of the British film non-industry in the early 80s, and the story of its genesis is as cool and romantic as anything it produced on celluloid.
		Indeed, the first two or three years at HandMade looked decidedly rosey — here was a company that saw itself as a new Ealing — small, defiantly British, creatively-led and free from all the cigar-chomping bullshit that had buried Rank and EMI as film-making outfits in the last years of the seventies.
		Anyway, HandMade struggled along and saw the decade out, but trouble was brewing (very obviously, as the book begins to allude to Denis’ bad judgement and questionable practices with increasing fervour).
	www.bookmunch.co.uk /view.php?id=1219 (1081 words)

	Beatles Reference Library - Harrison Judgement
		Subsequent films, although confirming the company's reputation for innovative projects, failed to match that level of theatrical success for the most part but have had a long life on video.
		Attorneys for the defendant unsuccessfully argued that because Harrison's Handmade Films and Harrisong companies are incorporated in England, the litigation should have been filed there as well, Edwards said.
		HandMade Films, which is not currently producing movies, made films including "Life of Brian" and "Time Bandits."Airdate: Sunday, Jan. 21, 8-9:30 p.m.
	www.beatlesagain.com /breflib/handmade.html (1037 words)

	The Ubu Moment: An Interview with Albie Thoms
		The success of Ubu Films (1) and the legacy of experimental filmmaking in Australia in the 1960s can be attributed to the significant presence (2) of Thoms, who relentlessly proselytised for avant-garde filmmaking and personally engineered the development of a synergic support network for production, distribution and exhibition of films outside the industrial aegis.
		The highly visible campaigning for experimental film by Thoms and Ubu was a causal factor in the political developments that led to the formation by the Australia Council for the Arts of the Experimental Film and Television Fund (6) in 1970.
		As the prime activist and spokesperson for Ubu Films, then for the Sydney Filmmakers Co-op; as a demiurge in Australian film culture; and as an architect of the underground, Thoms' reflections on his role in the unique historical moment of experimental cinema in the 1960s are valuable to the inquiry into Australian cinema histories.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/03/27/albie_thoms.html (3500 words)

	TV Cream's A-Z of films
		Nowadays of course there's tonnes of Lottery cash to be put at the disposal of producers who make bad films that no-one wants to watch but in times past producers had to raise their own capital with which to make bad films no-one wanted to watch.
		After the collapse of British studios such as Ealing, Gainsborough, London Films, British Lion (which was most of the rest cobbled together in a British Leyland stylee) and especially, latterly, Hammer, it fell to companies such as David Puttnam's Goldcrest, Bernie's EMI and Lew's ITC to come up with the goods.
		And since HandMade was nationalised it wouldn't suit, although the perpetual crisis bit might have come in handy a bit later on.
	tv.cream.org /specialassignments/films/filmsh.htm (1050 words)

	University of Virginia News Story
		Charlottesville, VA – The 16th annual Virginia Film Festival will debut Festival 101, a filmmaking workshop for high school and college students to be held during the week of October 21st, as the first in a series of educational programs to be held in the new Festival headquarters in downtown Charlottesville.
		Students will also meet with Phil Solomon, whose handmade films will be showcased at the Festival, and receive passes to the Virginia Festival Film Society screening of the handmade films of Luis Recoder and Sandra Gibson on November 19th.
		The Virginia Film Festival is proud to provide this entry-level forum for a new generation of aspiring filmmakers and looks forward to hosting future educational opportunities for the public.
	www.virginia.edu /topnews/releases2003/film-sept-10-2003.html (404 words)

	Boxoffice Magazine [International Update] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For the better part of its first decade, HandMade was the model of an independent production company, a magical place where art and commerce never seemed at odds, where even first-time filmmakers could flesh out their dreams and make money at the same time.
		HandMade was, for all intents and purposes, finishedóand a vibrant era of British filmmaking appeared to have ended with it.
		Jones' commitment to "finding fresh talent" is evidenced in the fact that both films were written and directed by first-time filmmakersó"Intimate Relations" by Philip Goodhew and "Sweet Angel Mine" by Curtis Radclyffeóproof that at least one proud HandMade tradition is alive and well.
	www.boxoff.com /specjuly96uk.html (1498 words)

	Columbus Alive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In a film world that celebrates “independent” productions with multi-million-dollar budgets—and where aspiring directors head to Sundance with their student films under their arms so they can skip the hard-work part and get right to Hollywood—Banks is about as underground as you can get.
		This is film art—a medium that has a great tradition but almost no contemporary recognition—the artist painstakingly manipulating individual frames of film and then projecting them on the big screen for a visual impact that’s not possible on a TV monitor.
		The short Jaded (most of his pieces are three to 10 minutes long)—one of a four-part series about the portrayal of women in the media—is a combination of oddly disjointed and sometimes grotesque images of women putting on makeup, chewing on shoes and mashing their faces against Plexiglas.
	www.columbusalive.com /2001/20011129/112901/11290110.html (610 words)

	Variety.com - Handmade sues WB over promo funds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		The alleged overstated reports, according to a complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, forced Handmade to settle a lawsuit it filed in the United Kingdom against Virgin Vision, Inc. over distribution of a group of films for which Warner was supposed to buy broadcast advertising.
		Handmade says it was damaged by at least $ 3 million because of the interrelationship of two separate licensing agreements.
	www.variety.com /article/VR104350?categoryid=18&cs=1 (169 words)

	HOLLYWOOD PRODUCERS NETWORK
		HandMade's other AFM world premiere, the haunting Sweet Angel Mine is helmed by first-timer Curtis Radclyffe and stars Oliver Milburn, Anna Massey and Alberta Watson (Spanking the Monkey).
		Company executive Hillary Davis, who was with HandMade before the Paragon purchase, gets animated when she explains that trailers of the two new films sparked quite a bit of interest when they were shown at MIFED in October 1995 and generated a lot of heat around the premieres here at the AFM.
		Funding for HandMade projects is as varied as its upcoming slate of films.
	www.hollywoodnetwork.com /AFM/handmade.html (630 words)

	Arts: Movies: Studios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Focus Films - The specialty films unit of Universal Pictures.
		Films include 'Under Suspicion', 'Circle William' and the upcoming 'Rendezvous with Rama'.
		Wheelhouse Entertainment - The company that produced such films as "We Were Soldiers", "Braveheart", and "Pearl Harbor." Company background, film and other project details, news, and merchandise [requires Flash].
	freshlinks.net /odp.aspx/Arts/Movies/Studios (411 words)

	BeatleLinks Fab Forum - New Book on Handmade Films
		A new book about Handmade Films will be released on March 15th in the UK.
		on the other hand, it may have some interesting info on the films in other ways.
		Also, according to AbbeyRd, Elliott J Huntley, the author of Behind That Locked Door, is also going to publish a book on Handmade Films.
	www.beatlelinks.net /forums/printthread.php?t=11864 (223 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Very Naughty Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		HandMade Films was personally set up by George Harrison to make Monty Python's Life and Brian.
		Handmade Films is known to Python fans for having
		Luckily the great majority of the actors, writers, directors and producers from all of HandMade's films were only too happy to relive their experiences and share funny and sometimes painful memories.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1843580934 (765 words)

	Daily Llama - NEWS 2004_12_16 - 'Very Naughty Boys' Chronicles History of HandMade Films
		Handmade Films is known to Python fans for having been founded by Beatle George Harrison for the sole purpose of financing Monty Python's Life of Brian so that George could watch it.
		Handmade Films also later went on to produce Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl, Time Bandits, Nuns on the Run, and many other famous British films.
		It amazed me that here was arguably Britain’s most successful film company of the 1980s, headed by an ex-Beatle in George Harrison and Britain’s greatest comedy team in Monty Python, and yet no one had tackled the subject.
	www.dailyllama.com /news/2004/llama265.html (814 words)

	MMI Tribute: George Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Handmade Films, one of the leading independent production companies over the next decade, was born.
		George often said that he would never have produced “The Long Good Friday”; if he had known how violent it was, but the film launched Bob Hoskins & Helen Mirren as international stars & helped to revitalize 1980's-style film noir.
		If “Mona Lisa”; was “Handmade Films” at its best, “Shanghai Surprise”; with Sean Penn & Madonna, made the same year, was definitely its worst.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/george-harrison.html (393 words)

	> Arts> Movies> Studios
		Focus Films - - The specialty films unit of Universal Pictures.
		Serendipity Point Films - - Includes a studio profile, biography of founders, list of films and contact information.
		Wheelhouse Entertainment - - The company that produced such films as "We Were Soldiers", "Braveheart", and "Pearl Harbor." Company background, film and other project details, news, and merchandise [requires Flash].
	www.wizzle.co.uk /dir/Arts/Movies/Studios (420 words)

	Netribution > News > Industry Buzz > George Harrison HandMade Films
		The company produced a number of films in the 16 years he was involved before finally selling up in 1994 due to falling profits for UKP5m.
		Three of those films remain as cult classics: Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) was an all Python affair with Terry Jones directing a script contributed to by all but Gilliam, Harrison made a cameo appearance.
		The most successful of Handmade's films, critically and finacially, has to be Bruce Robinson's, Withnail and I (1987).
	www.netribution.co.uk /news/industry_buzz/94/11.html (291 words)

	GregHeadley.com: Brakhage
		It feels strange to watch the hand-painted and handmade films in digital form.The rear-projected light of the film projector gives Brakhage's work much of it's luster, but the digital transfers are very good just the same.
		Brakhage made the camera unnecessary in his handmade works; these are really (numerous) small paintings more than they are films.
		He often worked at the slower 16 frames-per-second (rather than 24) so that he could engage with the reality of film: still images projected in quick succession.
	www.gregheadley.com /archives/2003/06/24/brakhage.html (218 words)

	AT&T Worldnet Service - Directory
		Provides details of upcoming films and links to films already produced.
		Details of past and current film, television and video projects.
		The company that produced such films as "We Were Soldiers", "Braveheart", and "Pearl Harbor." Company background, film and other project details, news, and merchandise [requires Flash].
	www.att.net /cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Arts/Movies/Studios (405 words)

	Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Information on current and future films, with trailers, cast lists and synopses.
		Feature film production and distribution, video and DVD worldwide distribution, and production of programs for television broadcast and syndication.
		Contains a list of films produced, company profile and contact details.
	www.alearning.org /cgi-bin/index.cgi?/Arts/Movies/Studios (290 words)

	SANTOSH SIVAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Education: Film and Television Institute of India, Pune [graduated in 1984].
		Santosh Sivan on 'The Terrorist': 'The film is made on a very low budget, in fact, nothing at all.
		I want to make films that are very real, even though I make my bread and butter shooting commercial musical films, but when I want to make a film, I want to make it as real and as interesting as possible.
	www.beer1.freeler.nl /PaginasDoPh/sivan.htm (388 words)

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