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  Field of Dreams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Field of Dreams (1989) is a movie about a man who becomes convinced that he's supposed to construct a baseball diamond in his corn field.
Field of Dreams is a movie about a man who through an apparently supernatural revelation feels compelled to construct a baseball diamond on his farmland, regardless of the financial consequences of so doing.
During the filming, in the summer of 1988, the midwest was stricken with a severe drought.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Field_of_Dreams   (1286 words)

  
 Dreams, Film and American Society
Wes Craven, the film's director, has acknowledged a fascination with dreams and nightmares, and has said that the basic nightmare theme of being relentlessly pursued by a malevolent antagonist is the backbone of his film's story.
At the most basic level, the dreams in both films are about the struggles of adolescents in American society: struggles which in our society are conceptualized as a transformation from childhood to adulthood, from dependence to independence, from innocence to sexuality, from a life of play to a life of work.
And the dreams in both films sharply criticize the failure of parents, and of the whole adult social order generally, to protect adolescents from evils, injustices, and threats to their budding sense of emotional and physical integrity.
kellybulkeley.com /articles/article_films_dreams_american_society.htm   (2741 words)

  
 Dreams
Although he made several other films before his death in 1998, this film is in many ways a summation of his life and career.
Dreams explores a lifetime of the 80- year old director's dreams, from shimmering childhood ones to those of a rueful, but hopeful, old age.
Kurosawa's films from the 50s and early 60s created the legacy of one of the undisputed geniuses in film history.
www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDDreams.htm   (616 words)

  
 Japanese Film :: Firefly Dreams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Not only does this echo aspects of the scene in Williams’ film, the two directors also have in common the fact that they have written and directed films that are predominantly not in their native language, and done so convincingly—a considerable feat in itself.
Dreams are, as much as anything, communications with ourselves, and it is no coincidence that Naomi has her firefly dream during her stay in the countryside that she used to visit when she was a child (filmed in Horai-cho, Aichi Prefecture).
Koide walks the same path in the forest as Naomi’s father in her dream, suggests the impact that both people have had on her life, and perhaps on shaping the path that she is to follow in the years to come.
www.japanvisitor.com /jc/reviews.html   (1214 words)

  
 Dream Videophile by Deirdre Barrett - International Association for the Study of Dreams
The dream sequences are denoted by the dry-ice fog or red lighting surrounding the heroine as she wanders around in a flimsy nightgown looking confused.
The film is most concerned with the monk's sidekick, The King of the Monkeys, who angers the Goddess Kuan Yin and is flung to a far corner of the earth and transformed into a man, doesn't remember that he's been either a monkey or a king.
Dreams as preparation of death is discussed as a concept in diverse cultures from the Australian concept death as return to the Dreamtime to Rev. Jeremy Taylor leading a dream group for elderly Californians to the Dali Lama discussing dreams in relationship to the Bardo state of the Tibetans.
www.asdreams.org /videofil.htm   (10223 words)

  
 Field of Dreams Movie Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Filming lasted 14 weeks during the middle of a drought in the Summer of 1988.
After some initial filming, the wrap around portion of the porch was constructed and modifications were made to the interior of the house to accomodate filming equipment.
True to the simplicity and pristine quality that made the film so endearing, the "Field of Dreams Movie Site" and all who visit benefit by the property remaining as it was originally intended and so well depicted in the movie.
www.fieldofdreamsmoviesite.com /shoot.html   (247 words)

  
 Unofficial Hoop Dreams
The film was cut from over 250 hours of videotape (mostly shot on professional Beta) down to nearly three hours and transferred to 16mm for film festivals and 35mm when it was released in October of 1994 by Fine Line.
Fineline has a Hoop Dreams page with production notes, a transcript of an on-line session with Peter Gilbert and other great information (they have also added a new banner to their main page with images from Hoop Dreams).
When Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel reviewed Hoop Dreams on their show even before it was shown at Sundance in January of 1994, it became the film to watch at the festival.
www.well.com /user/srhodes/hoopdreams.html   (807 words)

  
 Film: In Dreams   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Neil Jordan's horror film is a confused drama loaded with continuity flubs and basic illogic.
While detained in an asylum, she dreams of her husband's death and realizes that her dreams are directed by a stalker who used to be locked up in the very same room at the nut house.
The film's only scary bits are about Bening's frustration inside her padded cell and the desensitized attendants at the asylum.
www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1999/011499/film3.html   (402 words)

  
 Cinema of Japan at Film-North, Kurosawa
The film as a whole consists of their variations and permutations, which are tightly interconnected in fuguelike construction.
The way the dreams are presented make their interpretation very open ended and with each viewing I have had a different interpretation of many of the dreams.
This dream is finished by joyous funeral procession which works as an excellent bookend to the film and is very reminiscent of the Fox wedding in the first dream.
film.vtheatre.net /japan.html   (2536 words)

  
 Toronto International Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
It is the beginning of the eighties and even in the poor, mountainous Guizhou province, adolescents listen to Boney M and wear bell-bottoms.
But Qinghong’s youth is imprisoned by her father’s narrow dreams of a better life in Shanghai.
Dreaming of returning to his native city, Qinghong’s father (Yan Anlian) wants to prevent her from putting down roots in Guizhou.
www.e.bell.ca /filmfest/2005/films_description.asp?id=239   (403 words)

  
 In Dreams: Cinephiles Movie Review
In his most recent film, In Dreams, director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) toys with the notion of the rationality and the irrationality of dreams.
While her husband Paul (Aidan Quinn), the police and her psychiatrist, Dr. Silverman (Stephen Rea) attribute the disturbances to a mental decadence, Claire is convinced that she is sane and is communicating with a mad murderer, whose messages could provide enough evidence to save future victims and to disprove her insanity.
By means of the exteriorization of the characters' internal --or mental-- states (i.e., their dreams) Jordan creates a world (an "aesthetic" one composed of the "painted", abstract images from specific dreams), and he populates it with characters whose functions are determined by and depend on the motions of a world turned inside-out.
www.cinephiles.net /In_Dreams/Film-Synopsis.html   (223 words)

  
 Dreams on Film: The Cinematic Struggle Between Art and Science, by Leslie Halpern
She tacks back and forth between film narratives and scientific dream research, showing how the empirical findings of the latter are almost entirely absent in the dream portrayals of the former.
Cinematic dreams are always ripe with deeply symbolic meaning that the characters are eventually able to interpret, while actual dreams are far more opaque, banal, and difficult to understand.
The conflict she portrays between filmmaking and dream research may be extremely widespread, but it is not inevitable.
www.kellybulkeley.com /articles/rev_halperns_dreams_on_film.htm   (529 words)

  
 Cannes Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The film's heroine is nineteen and lives in Guizhou province with her parents and her brother.
The official in-competition screening of the film Shanghai Dreams was an opportunity for the film's cast and crew to reunite and mount the stairway to the Palais together.
Representing the film were director Wang Xiaoshuai, actors Gao Yuanyuan, Li Bin, and Qing Hao, director of photography Wu Di, and the producer Pi Li.
www.festival-cannes.fr /films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=4279993   (1009 words)

  
 Field Of Dreams (1989)
Field of Dreams (1989) is a fairy tale celebration of the love of baseball, adapted by screenwriter/director Phil Alden Robinson from W. Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe.
The film is almost dreamlike (aided by the mystical score by James Horner).
He also meets with a small town doctor, Dr. "Moonlight" Graham (Burt Lancaster in his final theatrical film role), a rookie player who years earlier yearned to make it into the major leagues, but whose pro baseball career was limited to only one inning.
www.filmsite.org /fiel.html   (530 words)

  
 Citybeat - Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Otherwise, In Dreams is a rather stale entry in the serial-killer scrapbook.
Unlike similar films in the recent past, the heroine is not a cop or a professional profiler.
In Dreams has the dankness of Kiss the Girls, the plot devices of Copycat and the supernatural overtones of Candyman.
www.citybeat.com /archives/1999/ISSUE519/FILMART6.HTM   (322 words)

  
 Fine Line Features | Hoop Dreams | Synopsis and Production Notes
No longer a film short, the project realized its own impossible dream of becoming an epic chronicle of the boys and their families' lives over nearly five years.
Indeed, we discover that the dreams of basketball glory at the center of the film are dreams of entire families, not just two boys.
And it does it in a way that no other film on sports has done before: it gives viewers an intimate look at the pursuit of the basketball dream while it is actually happening.
www.finelinefeatures.com /hoop/hdsynops.htm   (878 words)

  
 MMI Book Review: Dreams and Damn Reality: The Swedish Film Institute
Dreams and Damn Reality by Swedish film critic Mikael Timm (Dröm och Förbannad Verklighet) is a welcome book about the Swedish Film Institute in operation the past 40 years.
The Swedish Film Institute falls under the banner of cultural politics, a foundation that receives a percentage of the box office after a reform made in 1963 called the Film Reform Act.
The idea of the institute was to make Swedish films better known abroad and the 60's was a wonderful period enjoying a golden age with films by Ingmar Bergman, Bo Widerberg and Jan Troell.
www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/dreamsanddamnre-ms-120789155.html   (476 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Hoop Dreams (1994) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Yet, what makes the film more impressive is how James moves his scope beyond a competitive sports drama (although the movie has plenty of terrific, nail-biting basketball footage) and addresses complex social issues, creating a scathing social commentary about class privilege and racial division.
The film opens by introducing William Gates and Arthur Agee, two Chicago hopefuls, as they are being courted and recruited by various high schools to play ball, and continues until the pair are college freshmen.
Hoop Dreams is a documentary that follows two Chicago inner-city boys from their freshman year in high school to their freshman year in college as they try to make it into the NBA.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303413145?v=glance   (3317 words)

  
 Calypso Dreams
Winner of the Best Caribbean Documentary at the Jamerican Film Festival, Audience Favorite at the DC Film fest, Pan- African film festival, Mill Valley Film Fest and embraced by an entire nation in Trinidad, Calypso Dreams chronicles the rich and complex cultural roots of calypso music in Trinidad and Tobago.
Dreams does a fantastic job of introducing and celebrating the complex history and unique energy of the art form.
Dreams presents a virtually definitive introduction to, and celebration of, calypso.
www.calypsodreams.com   (309 words)

  
 PBS: Accordion Dreams - About The Film
ACCORDION DREAMS is a musical journey into the heart and soul of conjunto, a unique musical tradition born in the 19th century that continues to thrive today.
It also weaves in the exciting and unique new sound of today's innovators with performance clips of young rebel accordionists who are making the accordion a symbol for the younger generation and at the same time connecting them to a rich, cultural past.
ACCORDION DREAMS, filmed by Hector Galán in 2000, had a national broadcast premier on August 30, 2001 on PBS.
www.pbs.org /accordiondreams/about   (170 words)

  
 Yume (1990)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The resulting film will stay with you like expertly written poetry, like a masterful gallery of the best paintings.
DREAMS is made up of eight dreams that Kurosawa had during his life.
Is it one of the few Kurosawa films with a happy ending.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0100998   (313 words)

  
 Reality Film: 'Hoop Dreams' Star Steps into a New Spotlight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Steve James directed the 171-minute film, which took roughly 5 years to film and nearly 3 years to edit.
Spanning a total of 5 years, filming began when Gates was in the eighth grade and was tapped to play for St. Joseph's High School in Westchester.
Curtis - Gates' older brother whose own failed hoop dreams played prominently in the film - was killed in a car-jacking in September 2001.
www.realityfilm.com /news/gates.html   (548 words)

  
 film festival de 1931   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
dream project try to make new definition of dreams in the movies www.geocities.com/miftarovski/fnry.html
Film Festival 1931 2004 - August 29th to August 31rd The application forms for submitting a film to the Film Festival 1931 2004 and the revised rules and regulations will be on-line on December 10th, 2003.Please wait until December 17th before submitting your film.
The dead-line for submitting a film will be March 15th, 2004.
www.geocities.com /filmfestivalde1931/film.html   (227 words)

  
 "Burden of Dreams": Film Freak Central Interviews Actor Tadanobu Asano
It was better than any film school, working with these titans of our cinema, I've been amazingly blessed in my career.
To be close to dreams and imagination is vital for an artist--to be in touch with the unconscious is the most important thing because the closer you get to an idea of an authentic vision, the closer you get to speaking to something at the heart of everyone.
That is an artist's goal, I think: to be able to tell your dream to a stranger and for the stranger to recognize the dream as his own.
filmfreakcentral.net /notes/tasanointerview.htm   (1462 words)

  
 In Dreams (1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The color red is very significant in In Dreams, in everything from the apples that seem to represent Claire's (Annette Bening) fears to the red dress that she is dressed in the numerous times that she 'dies' to the weird red color of Vivian's (Robert Downey Jr.) hair towards the end of the film.
In the film's closing scene, in particular, he was able to deliver one final performance that left jaws dropped as the credits began.
I think that for this particular film, there will be people who loved it, people who hated it, and people who just didn't understand it, with probably not much in between.
us.imdb.com /Title?0120710   (482 words)

  
 New York State Writers Institute - Field of Dreams Film Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The story of "Ray Kinsella's" (Kevin Costner) crusade to bring a perfect ballyard to his Iowa cornfield is an unashamed parable of male longing, an excusably sexist paean to a universe untroubled by the emasculating realities of corporate economics, and by the withering of skill that comes with age.
At the end, the film's disturbing reaffirmation of capitalism as a kind of American spirituality is jarring, but even that is oddly fitting.
But when that film was released to almost unanimous critical scorn, Robinson went public with the fact that Stallone had completely rewritten it.
www.albany.edu /writers-inst/fns02n5.html   (2430 words)

  
 Electric Dreams Movie Rewind «
We were thrilled when Rusty Lemorande, the Writer/Producer of the film wrote in to say he "wrote the film inspired by/based on my first year in Los Angeles when I was very lonely and only had an Apple computer to occupy my evenings.
He was assembled by the film makers from a pastiche of computer parts of the time.
Here we filmed the part were Miles has to wrestle his plane ticket from the vending machine, and the computer store where he buys his 'Pinecone' computer.
www.fast-rewind.com /electricdreams.htm   (2036 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (Sub): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
"Dreams" is maybe the most personal, most "Japanese" of Kurosawa's films, and along with that it is perhaps the most difficult one for Western audiences to appreciate.
And that he wouldn't commit other three of his dreams to the screen because there were no sufficient SFX at the time to allow this.
The "moral lessons" contained within the vignettes of Dreams (honor your elders, respect nature, value tradition, be a good person) are so trite and transparent, and forced upon the viewer in each of the short segments that to me it felt more like an assembly line of Japanese Aesop's Fables.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007G1ZC?v=glance   (2181 words)

  
 dreams on film
I think this is the mother of all dream state films.
Elderly man wants to live forever in a dream state with the love of his life.
NOTE FROM SIMON: Well, as long as we are on that "questioning reality as a dream" kick, we may as well throw in Total Recall (I'm sorry) and The Matrix...
www.ladytrap.org /dreams/dreams_on_film.htm   (166 words)

  
 Film Festivals . com - People
A Song for Jade produced and directed by Indy filmmaker, Shari Lynn Himes, is the first place winner in the short film category and a second place, over all competitive film, winner of the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (BFHF), award to be given in Oakland, California, at a date to be determined.
In June, 2001, Shari was awarded an INDY from the Indiana Film Society where she was voted Best Emerging Filmmaker in the Midwest Region.
This is Biffone’s third cinematography award for this short which was filmed entirely in one seven minute Steadicam shot.
www.filmfestivals.com /cgi-bin/shownews.pl?obj=ShowNews&CfgPath=ffs/filinfo&Cfg=news.cfg&news=general&text_id=20540   (394 words)

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