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The Film Asylum - Identity (John Cusack, Ray Liotta) The film was shot in a perpetual downpour (the likes of which I have only ever seen in Wales) and because of this the actors were subject to one of two states: either wet or just on the verge of getting wetter. All too often in films, when there is a need of some rain it looks false, falling in sheets or very obviously out of immovable hoses, making it look like there are a lot of tiny little very well defined rain clouds all trying to outdo each other. It’s not that the film is overly complex or taxing, it’s just that to really appreciate it you should watch it and try to understand what is going on, rather than (as with no brainers) just let it wash over you. www.thefilmasylum.com /reviews/identity/identity.htm   (1080 words)

Identity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Identity theft is the deliberate appropriation of someone else's identity (without that person's permission) for criminal purposes. In the philosophy of mind, the identity theory of mind holds that the mind is identical to the brain. An identity is an equality that holds regardless of the values of its variables. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Identity   (281 words)

Identity (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Identity is a 2003 movie, directed by James Mangold and written by Michael Cooney. The film itself didn't perform very well upon its release, but was reasonably well received in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The film was nominated for a Teen Choice Award in 2003. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Identity_(movie)   (575 words)

Mistaken Identity Identity, a film that banks on John Cusack's star power and a convoluted third act, is part Friday the 13th, part Scream, and part The Usual Suspects. The film is atmospheric, utilizing drenching, non-stop rain, and expressionistic lighting as key components that amplify the film's sense of dread. Not only does the film cheat its way through the character's underdeveloped psychopathology by omitting details that might allow the audience to partially identify with someone in this film, the film uses that pathology only as means to an end. www.cinescene.com /reviews/identity.htm   (702 words)

Identity Movie Review - MovieWeb Identity is a good, solid, horror film with as much brains as it has blood. Identity is, by years end, still probably going to be the best thriller of 2003. In the end, Identity will take the audience in a direction they probably wont see coming but its what will make this film as memorable as it is and may even have people coming out of it questioning their own Identity. www.movieweb.com /movies/film/01/601/review77.php   (626 words)

Mindfuck identity films 4 And film may an art form especially appealing to a fascistic artist, to a director or screenwriter who seizes the responsibility for psychic definition by controlling the viewer’s eye and the ear, who manipulates what we believe and what we trust, who creates characters for us. When those unacquainted with moving pictures see a film, their assumption is that the film stock itself must have a free-flowing collection of images which, when projected, create an image of continuous motion. Film has consistently told women that they are incapable of independence, that they are defined by those around them, by their men and their families. www.ejumpcut.org /archive/jc46.2003/eig.mindfilms/mind4.html   (2166 words)

The Bourne Identity film movie trailer review at The Z Review He has no idea of his identity except for a range of extraordinary talents in fighting, linguistic skills and self-defense that speak of a dangerous past. Dealing with the concept of an amnesia ridden character, I believe if the film is either smart, like Memento (2001), or has a concrete use of the amnesia, like Conspiracy Theory (1997), and then it works very well. The Bourne Identity is directed by Swingers and Go helmer Doug Liman and features the acting talents of Matt Damon in the lead role. www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/b/bourneidentity.htm   (364 words)

Identity (2003): Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The film mixes the psychological with the supernatural, the profane with the ridiculous, the self-indulgent with the understated, and dares you to assume anything. Identity steams my broccoli big time and not just because its surprise twist is an insult to the intelligence of every audience member. Identity's first 30 minutes is quite well done, but the movie seems to crack under its own pressure. www.metacritic.com /film/titles/identity   (1378 words)

Identity review - movie review of the James Mangold film starring John Cusack The plot for the first three quarters of the film is trite and overused, and the saving grace of the film is the twist at the end, explaining the connection between all the victims, and why they ended up at that particular place that night—other then what is hinted by the trailer. The film, with its conning use of trailers, gives one the impression that the film is one thing, but unmasks itself to reveal another. Overall, the film is worth watching for its concept and the way it manipulates the audience, only to turn them and (what they perceived the film to be) on its ear in the end. www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/identity.html   (646 words)

Film Review: Identity (2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) I expected Identity your standard horror/slasher movie in which strangers are brought together through dubious means to a remote locale, only to have said strangers picked off in grim fashion by an unholy madman. The film has some major twists to it that turn all expectations and assumptions upside down, so much so that I was completely unprepared for the final shocker - the identity of the one responsible. Identity carries a profound psychological subtext that we later find is the core of the movie. www.lightsoutfilms.com /film_identity.html   (489 words)

Documentaries of identity - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au This year's Israeli Film Festival is a selection of films produced in the country in the past year: among the features are romantic comedies, crime stories, a film that's marketed as "the Israeli Billy Elliot" and a drama about two women on a military patrol. The schedule also includes several documentaries, films that, for the most part, focus on the nature of identity in Israel in ways that are often ambiguous and sometimes surprising. The Israeli Film Festival, tonight until August 27, at Como and Bay Street. www.theage.com.au /news/film/documentaries-of-identity/2006/08/21/1156012468272.html   (610 words)

indielondon.co.uk - film - Identity preview Identity, directed by James (Copland/Girl, Interrupted) Mangold and starring the likes of John Cusack, Amanda Peet and Ray Liotta, is set at a creepy motel in the middle of the desert in the middle of a violent rainstorm which has washed out all the roads and all forms of communication. Most films you have do things where character motivates plot, but this is where we are basically elegant chess pieces and it’s a nice change of pace to be in service of that," he adds. The Chicago Sun-Times, meanwhile, wrote that Identity is 'a movie that seems to be on autopilot for the first two acts and then reveals that it was not, with a third act that causes us to rethink everything that has gone before'. www.indielondon.co.uk /film/identity_preview.html   (982 words)

Jennifer VanderBurgh on Canadian Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) If each film has the ability, as Magder states, "to explore the manifold and contradictory ways in which we exist as social beings in our every day lives", there is still much to be learned from an analysis of a film as a social document in and of itself. Despite critics' Atwoodian assertions that the film was an icon of "Canadian identity" and an embodiment of Canadian "victim" mentality, the popularity of the film appears to have been achieved for different reasons altogether. When individual films are not recognized as producers of meaning in and of themselves, and instead are seen as predetermined representations of a "movement" in national cinema, their ability to produce meaning and their ability to "mean" in the future are limited. www.film.queensu.ca /Critical/VanderBurgh.html   (5005 words)

"Identity Check," Film Comment, January/February 1991 I've almost stopped talking to him about lighting going into films, because his conception of a look for a film is inevitably going to be a lot more interesting and appropriate than what I might have dreamed up. By the time it came to film it, I was happily desensitized, to the degree that I could go out and just do it with great gusto and abandon. It's always, Well, she's not that different at the end of the film than she was at the beginning, so what happened to her in the course of the story maybe isn't interesting enough to make a movie about her. www.storefrontdemme.com /identitycheck.html   (5272 words)

Slant Magazine - Film Review: Identity Mangold sets his stage efficiently, jumping back and forth in time to quickly get introductions out of the way and drowns the film in silky fls that are occasionally broken up by the moldy yellows of the motel rooms. Once the characters settle in to their new home, his camera's oblique angles and shadowy mise-en-scène lend a mounting tension to the elimination game at hand, and for a time the answers to the mystery remain entertainingly elusive. Identity is very pleased with its supposedly clever but completely nonsensical ending, and it's a tribute to the cast that they continue putting forth effort all the way up to the anticlimactic finale, by which point their characters' plight has simultaneously taken on heightened significance and become totally irrelevant. www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=669   (565 words)

The South African Film Industry: Fragmentation, Identity Crisis and Unification   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Film and video can be effectively used in intensive educative and informative campaigns in respect of political tolerance and the workings of democracy, as well as health issues. The films had small budgets and were either financed by the producers themselves, by progressive organisations or with the assistance of the tax benefit system of the 1980s (Tomaselli, 1989). The films were chiefly the product of two groups that emerged jointly: a group of white university students opposed to apartheid, and fl workers who yearned for a film form using indigenous imagery that would portray their reality in South Africa, that would give them a voice and space in local films. www.arts.uwaterloo.ca /FINE/juhde/botha951.htm   (3783 words)

Bollywood Film Reviews : The Bourne Identity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The film opens with an Italian fishing boat finding a man’s body with two bullets in his back and a microfilm implanted in his hip, floating in the sea. Marie agrees but the two soon find themselves in the midst of a dangerous chase with the police, the government and trained hitmen gunning for Jason’s life and they don’t have a clue as to what is happening. The film was shot on location in cities across Europe and the cinematography is simply awesome. www.b4utv.com /movies/review/thebourne.asp?ReviewID=thebou10072002   (386 words)

Manyam Ramesh chitchat - Telugu Cinema producer That is the best part of the film except for Nagbabu as a criminal, Nasar as a Psychiatrist and Brahmaji, the remaining cast is strangers. There is only one song in the film and Subi Francis who has earlier worked on a few private albums has provided the music for it. Background is the main feel of the film and provides for the suspense in the film. www.idlebrain.com /news/2000march20/chitchat-manyamramesh.html   (1053 words)

96.03.10: Representation in Art and Film: Identity and Stereotype If there are to be significant fl films, the fl actors, the directors, the writers, the producers, and the technicians who are now being given a chance to work must articulate the contemporary fl’s mind, his/her point of view, aspirations, and goals. Film excerpts or stills could be used to illustrate how the mammy character was portrayed in film, making the connection between mammy and Aunt Jemima. Having done five films in six years, I know for sure I cannot keep up this pace, it could kill me. The reason for this pace is simple: historically, fl filmmakers have found it extremely hard to go from film to film. www.cis.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/3/96.03.10.x.html   (6770 words)

Identity film movie trailer review at The Z Review Identity will be released on Region 2 DVD in the UK on the 12th January 2004. We have just received a whole pile of promo pics for Identity that will be released in the U.S. on the 25th April and in the U.K. on the 27th June. Identity is directed by James Mangold and stars John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet and Alfred Molina. www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/i/identity.shtm   (376 words)

The Bourne Identity (2002). A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review Filmed entirely overseas, in locations including Prague, Paris and Italy, The Bourne Identity boasts an international cast headed by Franke Potente (Run, Lola, Run), and Chris Cooper (American Beauty, October Sky). The underlying message of the movie was interesting, however, the title of this film is a dead give away. Jason Bourne has no identity and he feels an intense need to find out who he is. But as Jason learns what he was, he doesn't like what he finds. www.hollywoodjesus.com /bourne_identity.htm   (1719 words)

"Identity" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies Without giving away the film's Machiavellian twist, it is fair to say that the movie we start out with is certainly not the one we end up with--but that's not to say the surprise ending is necessarily a good surprise. With Identity, the story we are originally immersed in becomes irrelevant, making us (or at least me) just the slightest bit irritated that we expended so much emotional effort getting involved in it in the first place. Identity reminded me of good stuff to dwell on like Romans 3; I went away from the theater encouraged to remain in the fear of the Lord and submit to the only good thing that lives in me... www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2003/identity.html   (1646 words)

Identity If your identity is stolen, there are things you need to handle right away to protect yourself from further harm. Identity development is the most important developmental task of adolescence. The loss of a tribal identity for modern people has resulted in a loss of personal identity, loss of stability and sense of well-being that can be directly contributable to all our modern neurosis. www.suite101.com /reference/identity   (1865 words)

identity theory | film | submission guidelines identity theory is a regularly published, web-based magazine of literature and culture edited by matt borondy. We recently launched a film section for your enjoyment. All work on Identity Theory — with the exception of the public-domain classics — is copyright its original author. www.identitytheory.com /film/submission_guidelines.php   (421 words)

goTriad.com - Film festival identity politics in action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) This film was well-received at the Tribeca Film Festival, where it was an Official Selection for 2005, and it did well in Durham. It has become the second-largest film festival in the Southeast and is a major event for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people everywhere. The mere fact of existing on film — the idea that gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals can and are complex, dynamic characters, and are the protagonists of the stories that are told — is a powerful message. www.gotriad.com /article/articleview/16370/1/15   (563 words)

"The Bourne Identity" - Salon Some performers seem destined to be in films because of the transparency of their emotions. In the new spy thriller "The Bourne Identity," we watch as fear, anxiety, grief, shock and a host of other emotions scurry across her face. Entertaining, handsome and gripping, "The Bourne Identity" is something of an anomaly among big-budget summer blockbusters: a thriller with some brains and feeling behind it, more attuned to story and character than to spectacle. www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2002/06/14/bourne/index.html   (929 words)

Identity (2003): John Cusack, Jake Busey, Rebecca DeMornay - PopMatters Film Review Paris doesn't know quite what you do, but she knows more than most anybody else in the movie, and not just because she's the savvy girl in what amounts to a slasher film where the victims are adults. And while the film's last half hour feels like it's run itself into a corner (or, maybe, a dead end), it isn't wholly reducible to plotty sleights of hand (though these do occur). As the film is focused on Kenya's dilemmas, Brian is something of a cipher, the primary force for her transformation without a life beyond her vision. www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/i/identity.shtml   (1106 words)

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Bourne Identity grabs top spot The film - which its star said was too violent for its 12A rating - pushed Insomnia, which earned £839,500, down to number two in the chart. The Oliver Parker film, which stars Colin Firth, Rupert Everett and Dame Judi Dench, appears to have survived a poor critical reception to debut at number four, earning £553,000. Billed as a "tinned spaghetti Western", the film stars Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke and Ricky Tomlinson and transplants a Western-style storyline to a working-class milieu in the West Midlands. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/2248714.stm   (301 words)

Identity (2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Identity provides a "double mystery"--a traditional whodunit and an increasingly bizarre "rubber reality" mystery that we must figure out along with the characters. While Identity isn't exactly a bastion of graphic violence, there are a number of strongly visceral scenes and shots that are extremely well done and effective for seeming realistic. It might be difficult to blame either Cooney or Mangold with this, however, as American film studios and test audiences are notoriously allergic to ambiguity, which is depressing, because I love ambiguity in films. www.imdb.com /title/tt0309698   (891 words)

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