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	Election (2005 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Election was sold to more than 21 territories, including to Optimum Releasing for the U.K. ARP Selection for France and Hopscotch Films for Australia, after screening at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in competition.
		A sequel to the film, Election 2, was released in 2006.
		The film was named best film of 2005 by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society, with To also clinching best director honours for the movie.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Election_(2005_film) (600 words)

	DVD Talk Review: Hopscotch
		Hopscotch isn't a terrible movie; in fact, someone out there must think it's an outstanding one, for it to have made it onto a Criterion edition.
		The trouble with Hopscotch is that it's neither fish nor fowl: neither funny enough to be a comedy nor exciting enough to be a thriller.
		For the curious, there's an option to play the film with the television broadcast soundtrack, in which "foul language" was edited for family viewing.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=4525 (747 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Hopscotch
		There are several films in their collection by directors that are less well known (The Blob, The Vanishing), and there might be a few movies that are worse (The Rock springs to mind), but out of the 150 or so films that they’ve selected to this point, this is clearly their least interesting choice.
		In Hopscotch’s early scenes, we’re introduced to Kendig (Matthau), an amicable CIA agent who doesn’t use a gun and is on friendly terms with enemy agents.
		The film is presumably meant to be playful, since it follows him as he extracts his bloodless revenge on those who have supposedly wronged him, but since Matthau never manages to exude much charm, it feels less playful than inconsequential.
	www.moviemartyr.com /1980/hopscotch.htm (621 words)

	Mini Reviews (April 2004)
		Both sequels of the film have essentially worked as remakes, with slight variations on the story (this time around, it's a girl pledging to join the elite organization).
		The majority of the film is mind-numbingly repetitive: Matthau taunts Beatty, Beatty pursues, and Matthau escapes.
		Even the fight sequences, supposedly the highlight of a Seagal film, fail to impress; Seagal's expanding size requires him to use a stunt man during such moments, and the switch from Seagal to stunt guy couldn't possibly be more obvious (perhaps hiring a thin double wasn't the smartest idea).
	www.reelfilm.com /mini35.htm (1037 words)

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		Film Australia is a government-owned production and distribution company, and one of the nation's largest producers of television documentaries and educational programs.
		Hopscotch is Australia's leading film distributor specialising in quality films from around the world since the end of 2002.
		The MPDAA is a non-profit organisation which undertakes the collection of film exhibition information relating to box office, admissions and admissions prices, theatres, release details, censorship classifications, etc, in order to provide meaningful statistics on the film industry in Australia to members and associated persons, the media and trade publications.
	www.afc.gov.au /marketingyourfilm/distbcast/au_dist_32.aspx (914 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Hopscotch (1980)
		Hopscotch is a leisurely paced caper, a lighthearted lark sans action set pieces and with no violence to speak of (no one even gets hurt, let alone killed).
		Hopscotch isn't a great movie, and there isn't much heft to the storyline, but it entertains all the way through and provides an excuse to watch Matthau play the game like no one else can.
		Hopscotch is a rather low-key comedic thriller, but it's great fun, and provides Walter Matthau with one of the best roles of his career.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=4137 (1027 words)

	Hopscotch (1980)
		It's also a film firmly set during the Cold War, but with its emphasis on the covert operatives that still exist today, in the 20-plus years since its theatrical release, it has dated very little.
		Based on Garfield's novel of the same name, Hopscotch is as paranoid as the much darker The Parallax View, but director Neame keeps the atmosphere as light and breezy as the child's game that lends the movie its title.
		The current DVD version of Hopscotch is part of the Criterion Collection, so it should be no surprise that the high-definition digital transfer is generally beautiful.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=575&buy=closed&PID=10101794&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (761 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Hopscotch
		The most surprising aspect of Hopscotch, however, may not be how well it walks that tightrope, but that its makers accomplished this balancing act in an era that saw the spy movie genre reduced to tales of relentless despair.
		Nor was Hopscotch a simplistic anti-establishment movie—a close look at the plot reveals it as not so much against the concept of the CIA as against what the CIA was perceived as having become, in the hands of bureaucrats like Myerson (Ned Beatty).
		Hopscotch gave Matthau the chance to portray the hero, a highly unorthodox but gifted counterintelligence agent—in effect, the Cary Grant role—and he proved as funny and charming in that role as Grant had in his.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=163&eid=234§ion=essay (596 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Hopscotch
		Hopscotch is a movie your mother will love, a lightweight spy film more in tune with The Rockford Files than XXX.
		Hopscotch supposes that the world's greatest spy is an ordinary but very smart guy who can predict his opponents' reactions and act accordingly, and thus slip through every net employed to catch him.
		Hopscotch is a refreshing change in the filmography of writer Bryan Forbes, in that it's so light-hearted - a look at Forbes' filmography shows him acting in minor roles in serious movies, writing even more sober ones, and directing some of the least humorous films of all time.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s566hopscotch.html (1103 words)

	hopscotch proposal
		Another master of both the hopscotch editing technique and the use of discarded detail was the French film producer, Jacques Tati.
		According to Evans, even the rituals of the Cretan labyrinth can be seen to linger in modern practice, especially in one of the spiraled variations of the hopscotch diagram.
		Interestingly, the topology of these primaries can be adopted easily to many popular culture applications, such as the urban courtyard of Hitchcock's Rear Window, where the theme of hopscotch returns as a strategy and structuring motif aided by the "acousmatic" role of background music and noise.
	art3idea.psu.edu /hopscotch/main.html (832 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Film teaches 'Tolerance'
		Organizers of the Slamdance Film Festival, which gets almost 3,000 submissions annually, said the quirky fl-and-white short caught their eye because it was unique and fresh.
		With the film version in hand, the group submitted it to Slamdance and was flattered with the acceptance and the chance to share their message with a bigger audience, said David Hedengren, Mark's brother and the show's producer.
		The first filming was in January and Zimmer's hands shook so much she said her final card's writing looked like a child wrote it.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635177445,00.html (685 words)

	Screen Hub \| News
		Hopscotch did this by ensuring the film was screened at festivals so as to accumulate accolades before its release.
		She talked about “keeping aspects of a film alive” and stated that the producers role is not finished after a film has completed its theatre run.
		She said that a film should be watched closely for a long period afterwards, and that the requests for clips and stills will still roll in - there are opportunities for further marketing further down the track.
	www.screenhub.com.au /news/newsarticle_sendfriend.asp?newsID=4213 (1235 words)

	Festival wins Moore movie - Film - www.theage.com.au
		Hopscotch's national publicist, Sally Steele, said the emails, mainly from the US, warned the company that it released the film "at our own peril", and only stopped when Hopscotch asked US internet service provider AOL to track them.
		Hopscotch CEO Troy Lum said he and his company "stand behind Michael Moore's right to say what he believes and we just hope that this film can sustain the inevitable scrutiny.
		Given the influence Moore hopes his film will have on the impending US election, Mr Hewison agreed a similar impact may be felt by Prime Minister John Howard's campaign.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/05/26/1085461832787.html (402 words)

	Sydney International Film Festival 2003
		However the under-representation of Asian films in her programming, and the lack of quality on display, is a sad testimony as to why Sydney needs Paul De Carvalho's and Juanita Kwok's Sydney Asian Pacific Film Festival, when Melbourne and Brisbane seem to be able to survive without a similar entity.
		Whether this is the result of poor programming (I counted 9 films that Gayle lake probably saw at Pusan) or whether the director's of the Melbourne and Brisbane festivals have outmanoeuvred her when it comes to inviting films, it is difficult to say.
		The film hits all the right marks and while the cast is good (including Chen himself who has a supporting role), the boy who plays (and actually plays violin) Xioachun is spectacular.
	www.heroic-cinema.com /festivals/syff2003_1.htm (577 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Evolving Sundance retains its independents
		Nineteen years after the first Sundance Film Festival rose from the ashes of the tiny US Film Festival based in Salt Lake City, Robert Redford's little shindig in the Utah mountains has turned into the grand carnival of American independent film (whatever that means nowadays).
		There are more foreign films on hand this year than ever before, and despite premieres of such mainstream studio fare as "The Butterfly Effect" -- featuring Ashton Kutcher playing hopscotch with his past -- Sundance continues to be mostly about the singular vision of the lone filmmaker.
		Similarly, the 32 films entered in this year's dramatic and documentary competitions are overwhelmingly the work of first-timers, fueled by little more than passion, talent, credit cards, and luck.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/01/14/evolving_sundance_retains_its_independents (911 words)

	Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimedia Produktions Gmbh.
		A film database is developed for the short-film distributor Sixpack Film; this database is used to administer the rental of Austrian short films throughout Austria and abroad.
		A marriage of film and electronics gives birth to the short film entitled "tx-transform," which was created together with Martin Reinhart; this short presents an innovative new technique which transposes the time and space axes in film.
		The tx-transformator is exhibited at the Diagonale Film Festival in Graz.
	www.widrichfilm.com /english/bio2.htm (2421 words)

	Revelation Film Festival 2006 : Guests / 2004 Guests
		Hopscotch are now working in areas of film development and production, providing excellent opportunities for filmmakers around the country.
		Eddie's first passion for film was realized whilst he was living overseas as a professional skateboarder.
		On returning to Australia Eddie completed tertiary studies in film and since then Eddie has been working as a freelance editor and graphic designer to support the development of several personal projects the first of these projects is a feature documentary Jisoe.
	www.revelationfilmfest.org /index.cfm?objectId=02E74F50-C09F-1F3C-C88B13B50D99A623 (880 words)

	eFilmCritic - THE VIDEO STORE GRAB 'N' RUN: Muskewitz plays Hopscotch
		When the film opens, the cast and crew of a German film about “human brutality” (Fassbinder’s theme of choice) are cooped up in a disreputable Spanish hotel by the shore, awaiting the arrival of one of the actors (Eddie Constantine as himself) as well as the director (Lou Castel, accoutered with Fassbinder’s leather jacket).
		The backstory behind the film, according to the cast, is that its depiction is a direct result from the real events that took place behind-the-scenes on the previous Fassbinder film, Whity.
		The film opens with a Japanese husband and wife dining at a high-end restaurant, and the wife leaving while her husband takes care of the bill.
	efilmcritic.com /feature.php?feature=994 (2074 words)

	USATODAY.com - Film producer Otto Plaschkes dead at 75 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Plaschkes, born in Vienna in 1929, came to Britain as part of the "Kindertransport" of Jewish children from Austria, Czechoslovakia and Germany to Britain, and stayed temporarily with a family in Liverpool.
		In 1980, he produced Hopscotch, a thriller starring Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson that was his most commercially successful film.
		Plaschkes, who was at work on film projects until his death, is survived by his wife, Louise, and a daughter.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-02-17-otto-plaschkes-dies_x.htm?csp=36 (321 words)

	Butterfly - DVD Review
		Flavia is driven by guilt and desire at the same time, in itself a great complexity the film deals with as well as the fact that consequences are unavoidable and it all will spark debate if you're so inclined.
		He then gives us a solid take on the meaning of the film from his character's perspective and his radically different choice of ending on a comedic level as well as on a serious one.
		As Hopscotch were invited to Sweden's Global City Music Festival, the members apparently took to heart the various signs of the local subway system and incorporated them into the booklet illustrations.
	www.sogoodreviews.com /reviews/butterfly.htm (1819 words)

	Ronald Neame
		Ronald Neame was one of the first "second-generation" moviemakers: he was the son of silent film director Elwin Neame, and his mother was silent film star Ivy Close.
		After several years of uncredited work on silent films and early talkies from A Little Bit of Fluff to Hitchcock's Blackmail, his first film as full-fledged cinematographer was Happy.
		As a director many of his films were great artistic and commercial successes, but most are too British or too dated to be known to modern American audiences.
	www.nndb.com /people/403/000078169 (393 words)

	Hopscotch Study Guide
		Hopscotch is a novel with an appreciable and central theme: Horacio Oliveira's quest to experience a wholeness founded on truth.
		His goal is to touch truth directly without the aid of intellectual concepts or philosophical language.
		Hopscotch is a child's activity in which the player attempts to reach the final goal (heaven) by successfully kicking an object from one square to the next.
	www.bookrags.com /shortguide-hopscotch/themes.html (155 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hopscotch (Widescreen): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Over-the-top silliness seems to be a common theme in these films, but Hopscotch (1980), based on a book written by Brian Garfield, also a comedy involving spies, manages to rise above, avoiding the slapsticky and crude humor, rather providing a charming and intelligent story that entertains throughout.
		Hopscotch is a wonderfully witty, light comedy with a dash of sophistication that nearly everyone can enjoy.
		I read that he'd actually come into shooting late due to the film he was working on prior, Heaven's Gate (1980) ran past its' shooting schedule, and is the reason why Waterston looks so very tired in some of the scenes in Hopscotch.
	amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JL3W (1575 words)

	Somersaults for film - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		The awards were held in Melbourne tonight, honouring music composers in film and television, and were determined by a specialist industry judging panel.
		"Film soundtracks frequently enjoy great success and are celebrated for their existence - often independent of the films that spawned them in the first place."
		Receiving this year's international achievement award was industry veteran Bruce Rowland for his body of work across film and television.
	www.theage.com.au /news/film/somersaults-for-film/2005/11/08/1131407609728.html (397 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Otto Plaschkes, producer of 'Georgy Girl,' other films
		Otto Plaschkes, producer of films including "Georgy Girl" and "Hopscotch," has died at the age of 75, his family said yesterday.
		His first feature as producer was ''Georgy Girl," the 1966 film starring Lynn Redgrave that helped popularize the image of ''swinging London" in the 1960s.
		He produced a string of thoughtful movies for the American Film Theater in the 1970s, including ''The Homecoming," ''Butley," and ''In Celebration." In 1980, he produced ''Hopscotch," a thriller starring Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson that was his most commercially successful film.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/02/18/otto_plaschkes_producer_of_georgy_girl_other_films?mode=PF (310 words)

	Aussie film industry out of the doldrums
		A year ago the Australian film industry was languishing, producing a dwindling number of movies that were released to unenthusiastic reviews and quickly sank after a poor box office showing.
		But thanks to a reinvigoration of the way films are financed down under, 2005 has seen a crop of more edgy, highly praised movies emerge in the lead-up to the national film awards.
		The latest crop, which includes the winner of the critics' award at the Toronto Film Festival "Look Both Ways" and Nick Cave's "The Proposition", contrasted with "a lot of films that were green lit in the last five or six years which were films pieced together by the financiers", Woods says.
	news.ninemsn.com.au /article.aspx?id=69343 (1272 words)

	EvenHand Cast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Film and Televisie Interview (Mei/Juni 2004) The interview was conducted in Deauville, France in September of 2003.
		The freak show landscape is perhaps the most interesting aspect of the film, though actors Bill Sage and Bill Dawes capably fill their roles as neighborhood cops.
		The film, a South Texas cop story, is being shot by Spirit Award nominee Tim Orr (DP for David Gordon Green's "George Washington") and stars Bill Sage ("American Psycho," "Boiler Room") Bill Dawes ("Sex in the City," "Law and Order").
	www.evenhand.com /Publicity_Press_&_Sales.html (1143 words)

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