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	Ishtar - AOL Music
		Ishtar is a mother goddess, fertility goddess, the goddess of spring, a storm goddess,...
		Ishtar was nominated for Worst Picture in the 1987 Golden Raspberry Awards.
		Negative buzz about Ishtar and its outrageous budget was widespread in the...
	music.aol.com /artist/ishtar/39570/main (134 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Comment Selects 2006
		A quietly shocking moment during its second half wakes the film from its torpor but carries an insulting implication—that the daughter needed to be punished in order to prove the father right.
		The film gets by for a while because of its relatively exotic Kyrgyzstanian locale (a tract house suburb nestled between rolling mountains and untilled farmland) and its panoply of Central Asian faces (beautifully captured via crisp and penetrating close-ups for which the oft-abused term "humanism" was almost certainly invented).
		Inert for the most part, the film finally explodes in a sweet flurry of emotions when the characters leave the bar and embrace the tangle of the trees outside.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/features/fcs2006.asp (1283 words)

	Ishtar (1987): Reviews
		Ishtar is a good movie, but you can't help but wonder if, lurking somewhere in those cans of outtakes, there isn't a great movie, too.
		Ishtar is an unabashed vamp for a pair of household names, and as such it works, often hilariously.
		Ishtar isn't funny, it isn't clever, and it isn't entertaining, the complete opposite of Young Frankenstein, a true comedy classic.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/ishtar (681 words)

	The Fireworks of Elaine May - New York Times
		Her first film, it is the funniest and perhaps the most distinctively hers because she wrote, directed and stars in it.
		The film that followed, "The Heartbreak Kid" (1972), turned out to be her most famous and commercial movie, but Neil Simon's script hasn't aged well.
		And then she got to "Ishtar." Unexpectedly, the first 20 minutes is hilarious, with Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman as Rogers and Clarke, a team of starry-eyed songwriters totally deluded about their lack of talent.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/02/24/movies/24may.html?ex=1298437200&en=2f5d7387a95d2a4b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1229 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Ishtar at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The whole film, in fact, is peppered with cultural flare-ups, though it's not really about the stupidity, barbarity or silliness of the Arab world.
		True it is that Elaine May never went on to direct another film after Ishtar, though whether that was her punishment or simply her choice is beyond me. What I do know is that May is a talented writer, who never got credit for her work on Warren Beatty's Reds or Dustin Hoffman's Tootsie.
		After weighing down the film's beginning with a kind of featurette about these characters and their odd obsession with bad music, both Hoffman and Beatty relax a little and let the story take them on a cruise down the lazy river.
	www.epinions.com /content_224943181444 (2711 words)

	Ishtar, Inanna - Demons, Demonology, and Evil of the Eastern and Asian Cultures
		In Babylonian tradition, Ishtar, the daughter of Sin and sister of Shamash, was a fertility and storm goddess as well as goddess of love, marriage, spring, and the hunt.
		At Uruk, Ishtar, as the daughter of Anu, the sky god, and the goddess, Anat, was worshipped as the goddess of love and desire.
		She cursed the eunuch, consulted with the Anunnaki, & then ordered the release of Ishtar, who was given back her possessions as she passed through the seven gates & out of the underworld.
	www.deliriumsrealm.com /delirium/articleview.asp?Post=116 (687 words)

	Ishtar Films: Films on "Films on Women Writers and Artists" - "Ishtar Films presents distinguished films ...
		From her portraits of the avant-garde taken in Paris during the 1920's, to her documentation of New York in the 1930's, to her science photogrphy of the '50s, and her studies of small-town America, Abbott's genius is in the incredible range of her work.
		Filmed during her 91st and 92nd years, the open-hearted Abbott takes us on a guided tour of her century.
		A Film By Martha Wheelock and Marita Simpson
	www.ishtarfilms.com /page2.htm (260 words)

	K A B I N E T
		Ishtar is not the "truly dreadful film, a lifeless, massive, lumbering exercise in failed comedy" that Roger Ebert gleefully eviscerated back in 1987.
		Of course, comedy is a very subjective thing, but even someone hell-bent on proving that the film deserves its reputation would have a tough time keeping a straight face while Rogers and Clarke run through their repertoire.
		As it is, the film's 22:17 opening serves as a sort of life support for the dire second act -- which flatlines the second Chuck and Lyle step off the plane.
	www.kabinet.org /magazine/issue6/ishtar.html (1317 words)

	Ishtar: The Movie - Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Elaine May, Paul Williams
		Ishtar The Movie.com (fan created and maintained) salutes this rarity, hoping you'll enjoy digging deep into the movie, it's creators experiences, and the history-making behind the scenes dirt.
		This website is maintained and updated by fans of Ishtar, and is in no way affiliated with Columbia Pictures, or claim copyright to all images, sounds or text used.
		Copyrights and trademarks for the film, articles, photographs, sound clips, fan submissions and other promotional materials are held by their respective owners.
	www.ishtarthemovie.com (267 words)

	Make Films Not War: East-West Coexistence Award
		The Beirut Film Foundation and Make Films Not War are pleased to announce the selection of Tunisian filmmaker Nacer Khemir as the winner of this year's EAST-WEST COEXISTENCE AWARD.
		As they journey towards their destiny, he recounts to Ishtar the tale of the legendary Prince who gave up his kingdom to become a dervish.
		Make Films Not War is a new initiative drawing on the unique vision of the film community to promote peace with justice through education, communication, and political engagement.
	www.makefilmsnotwar.org /ewca/ewca.html (464 words)

	Ereshkigal - Demons, Demonology, and Evil of the Eastern and Asian Cultures
		She took pity on him and agreed to take his position in the underworld for half the year, while he would spend the other half the year in the underworld.
		Ishtar descended to the underworld and threatened her way inside.
		She cursed the eunuch, consulted with the Anunnaki, and then ordered the release of Ishtar, who was given back her possessions as she passed through the seven gates and out of the underworld.
	www.deliriumsrealm.com /delirium/articleview.asp?Post=119 (639 words)

	BATTLEFIELD EARTH - ISHTAR OF THE APES?
		That this film even got made is clearly one testament to that fact, and that they're already planning a sequel is another.
		There are only two ways to react to a film this completely awful — you can either flee in abject horror, or better still, you can embrace it in all of its cheesy, stupid glory.
		The film strives for the cheeky spirit of a high-toned B-flick: It's crammed with slick-but-chintzy special effects and has a campy sense of humor.
	www.scifimoviepage.com /art_critics_bf.html (1414 words)

	The Art and Technique of Postproduction sound
		The process certainly does not describe how the average film is made abroad; few other cultures have such a fetish for perfect lip-synching as ours--so even dialog is recorded after the shoot in many countries.
		In some cases, however, sound designers are thought of as artists who are brought on staff during the planning stages of a film, along with the set and costume designers, and who do their own mixing.
		For the sake of clarity, a film composer must orchestrate with instruments that do not overlap much with the frequency of the human voice or any dominant sound effects to be heard at the same time.
	www.filmsound.org /synctanks (5345 words)

	Cinematic Terms - A FilmMaking Glossary
		In order to be knowledgeable about film-making, the vocabulary of film studies and the techniques of cinema, some of the most basic and common terms must be defined.
		Film noirs, often crime films, were usually set in grim and seedy cities, with characters including criminals, anti-heroes, private detectives, and duplicitous femme fatales; see also tech-noir
		the flickering image in early films gave rise to the generic term flicks when referring to the movies; often used in a condescending way, such as stating that a film is a 'horror flick' or 'chick-flick'
	www.filmsite.org /filmterms9.html (1432 words)

	TDS Internet Services: News:
		Ishtar is a 1987 box-office flop starring Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty as lounge singers caught up in a Middle East espionage tangle.
		The film is available on DVD in Spain, but the disc won't work on U.S. players because of regional coding, launched in 1997 to combat DVD piracy.
		"The film was pummeled in the media before it came out because of big-time cost overruns," he says.
	portal.tds.net /news.php?story=20145 (435 words)

	Film Clips: Film Clips: Film: Creative Loafing Charlotte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		And while most of the film is played in a genial, straightforward manner, the sequences involving a pampered rich girl (Andie MacDowell) and her macho father (Charlton Heston) are as bizarre as anything you'll find in David Lynch's Eraserhead.
		As a diehard film noir aficionado who fondly recalls the brilliant plotting of classic crime flicks, I tend to be strict when it comes to gaping plotholes, so those folks who don't mind that one plus one equals three may want to raise my rating for Along Came a Spider a notch or so.
		But that's where the film works its mojo: Memento is as crafty as any other well-constructed murder-mystery, because every time we think we know the score, the movie pulls in a new component from the past that forces us to reflect (and re-reflect, and re-re-reflect) on what we thought we already knew.
	charlotte.creativeloafing.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:105 (2789 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ishtar: Video: Elaine May,Warren Beatty,Dustin Hoffman,Isabelle Adjani,Charles Grodin,Jack Weston,Tess ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		When Ishtar first came out in the theaters - my husband and I wondered aloud "was this the worst movie we've ever seen, or the BEST?" We decided it was the BEST -- at least one of the best, anyway.....We usually have to rent it once a year (sometimes more) to get a good laugh.
		Ishtar is on the verge of civil uprising as the singing duo are booked to perform there and get involved with a CIA operative (Charles Grodin) involved in the coup and a mysterious woman (Isabelle Adjani).
		Despite the film's reputation as one of the biggest box office failures of all time, Ishtar did, in fact, hold the #1 box office position in its first week of release.
	www.amazon.ca /Ishtar-Elaine-May/dp/6302814146 (1116 words)

	DaaVeeDee Ishtar
		Somehow they become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
		Ishtar was an attempt by writer/director Elaine May and stars Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty to do a modern-day road picture in the style of the much-loved Bob Hope and Bing Crosby comedy classics.
		On their way to accept the job, Lyle, Chuck, and their blind camel are sidetracked by a mysterious woman (Isabelle Adjani) and a scheming CIA agent (Charles Grodin), who are involved in a rebellion against the country's emir.
	www.daaveedee.com /product_info.php?products_id=100426 (222 words)

	Mad City: Film Crew
		The film, starring Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Jacques Perrin and Jean-Louis Trintignant, won an Edgar Allen Poe Award and was recognized as one of the ten best films of the year when released in the U.S. In 1967 he made "Shock Troop", followed by the internationally acclaimed "Z", which he directed and co-wrote.
		The film won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, a second Oscar for Editing, and the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, for which its star, Jean-Louis Trintignant, was named Best Actor.
		The New York Film Festival voted "Z" the Best Picture of 1970 and Costa Gravas was honored as Outstanding Director by the New York Film Critics and the Director's Guild.
	www.cinephiles.net /Mad_City/Film-Crew.html (1011 words)

	Intolerance (1916)
		"The Priest of Bel, frenzied at the worship of Ishtar, prophecies the loss of their souls and the downfall of Babylon." Belshazzar restrains the sinister, self-aggrandizing High Priest from motioning against the statue of Ishtar.
		In an impressive moving crane shot, the outdoor court is adorned with massive sculptures, one hundred foot high walls, columns, dozens of steps on two stairways, and a moving procession of feasting and dancing celebrants.
		"To thee, oh Ishtar, all praise for the victory." On the tops of two sky-high balconies above and in front of colossal statues of elephants on their hind legs are joyous people witnessing the feast.
	www.filmsite.org /into3.html (3120 words)

	Film Society of Lincoln Center
		Following a sold-out screening of her unfairly maligned 1987 comedy Ishtar, writer-director Elaine May took to the stage of New York’s Walter Reade Theater for an hour-long interview with her former collaborator and old friend Mike Nichols.
		The film was political and it was a satire but it was my secret.
		The period of Altman and Scorsese and your film, Mr.
	www.filmlinc.com /fcm/ja06/elainemay.htm (7214 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The film was based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, which he adapted into a screenplay himself.
		In the film's most famous scene, Olivier tortures Hoffman while repeating the seemingly non-sequitur question: "Is it safe?" The quote was voted as the 70th greatest quote in the history of film by AFI.
		In the film, John Cusack and Rachel Weisz portray two important factors in a large murder trial, one on the jury, working on the inside, and the other playing the outside.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Dustin_Hoffman (3954 words)

	K A B I N E T
		In the film's final few minutes, it's as if the cast and crew finally realize what they were on to back in New York.
		By the time the film was released, public expectations were so low that few were willing to buy a ticket just to confirm their worst fears.
		Ishtar is a tough film to love, but at least give it a chance before you despise it.
	www.kabinet.org /magazine/issue6/ishtar3.html (847 words)

	Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
		The idea behind Ishtar was supposedly to update the silly fun of the Hope-Crosby buddy pictures, where a couple a schnooks parley their stupidity into some outlandishly exciting adventure.
		On it's best leg Ishtar hopes to be a little like the brilliant stupidity brought forth in Rob Reiner's This is Spinal Tap, but Spinal Tap was a dead on parody of existing bad boy Rock and Roll behavior.
		The best parts of Ishtar are Paul Williams goofy, purposely moronic songs, but they really aren't anywhere near as clever as the goofy catalog of Spinal Tap and Rutles classics that people still put into their disk players from time to time.
	www.filmthreat.com /index.php?section=reviews&Id=2187 (779 words)

	Isabelle Adjani
		In 1981, she won the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for Quartet and in 1982 she won the Cesar, which is the main French film award, for Possession.
		But it was her turn as Shirra Assel in the spectacularly bad American film Ishtar that brought her to mainstream American attention.
		The film was considered a bomb, and did a sizable amount of damage to Sharon Stone's new, more serious acting career.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/where_are_they_now/41986 (511 words)

	Film Society of Lincoln Center
		This special event is part of Focus On Elaine May, the retrospective sidebar of May’s films that concludes the Film Comment Selects series.
		Celebrating its 6th year, Film Comment Selects is a series dedicated to presenting cutting-edge, rarely seen movies from around the world.
		Their stalwart manager (Jack Weston) secures them a hotel gig in the fictional nation of Ishtar, where they are quickly embroiled in the local revolution when they fall for a local revolutionary (Isabelle Adjani).
	www.filmlinc.com /special/events/elainemay.html (307 words)

	Ishtar
		While nowadays, that's peanuts for a film (Sandler's The Longest Yard cost over twice that), it was expensive back in 1987: one of the most expensive films up to that point.
		The first twenty minutes of the film is pure comic brilliance.
		The saddest thing about the flop is what it did to Elaine May. She had made three previous films: A New Leaf, The Heartbreak Kid, and Mickey and Nicky.
	www.sff.net /people/rothman/ishtar.htm (1080 words)

	Starship Modeler - Gasaraki Ishtar Review
		The Ishtar and other Ban Dai Gasaraki kits are begging to be used in dioramas because they feature a variety of posing options, and also because they are in scale with plentiful 1/35 military modeling accessories.
		The Ishtar comes molded in pale yellowish tan and fl styrene, with slippery poly caps for the joints and two sheets of markings printed on clear self-adhesive film and gold foil.
		Overall, the Ishtar seemed to be a slightly better engineered kit than the Raiden, with fewer of the tight fit problems that caused me to break a few of the Raiden parts.
	www.starshipmodeler.com /mecha/sl_ishtar.htm (1367 words)

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