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	John Carpenter Biography
		John Carpenter was born on January 16th 1948 in Carthage, NY and spent his formative years being raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky, which he regards as his home town.
		John Carpenters next project as a director was Christine (1983), the Stephen King novel about a possessed car, teenage angst and rock'n'roll.
		Carpenter is a consistently successful director, while some of his films are more well received than others, none of his films have ever lost money for the studio (a pretty big achievement).
	www.geocities.com /j_nada/carp/biog.html (2865 words)

	John Carpenter- His Music, His Films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		John Carpenter is called the master of atmosphere by many, most likely because he paints vivid scenes onto the screen, using every available technique to place the viewer inside of the story.
		John Carpenter's ability to transform the ordinary happenings of life into important cinematic events, as well as his talent for pulling the viewer deeper into the movie through his detail to atmosphere and to the viewer's emotional state, ensure his status as one of the true masters of theme music.
		John Carpenter reinterprets the meaning of the song by suggesting that the doom for the two young women in the car is near, and for them to not fear the inevitable; death brought by the reaper himself, Michael Myers.
	www.furious.com /perfect/johncarpenter.html (3275 words)

	Outpost #31 - John Carpenter Film Festival
		John Carpenter himself was present to speak after the film and answer a few questions from the audience.
		John was answering the questions pretty quickly (actually to be honest he was quite curt with them) and didn’t really go into detail.
		John asked me what part I was talking about and I again said it was a scene that was filmed from Bill Lancaster’s script where the lights go out that was shot but cut out.
	www.outpost31.com /carpenter.html (2691 words)

	John Carpenter: The Man
		Carpenter who is celebrated as the most manly of thriller directors is regarded as a film-maker whose heroes are paradigms of ferocious masculinity.
		JOHN CARPENTER'S GHOSTS OF MARS, like his first vampire thriller and his previous JOHN CARPENTER'S ESCAPE FROM L.A., (the sequel to his 1981 sci-fi adventure ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK,) continues Carpenter’s history as a triple-threat filmmaker, composing the score as well as writing the screenplay and directing.
		Carpenter is married to Sandy King who produced JOHN CARPENTER'S GHOSTS OF MARS as well as such recent films by the director as JOHN CARPENTER'S VAMPIRES (through her Storm King Productions for Largo Entertainment,) IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS and VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED.
	www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com /pages/theman.html (729 words)

	John Carpenter - film composer
		John Carpenter is best known as the creator of B-films with a strong horror, science fiction or fantasy element.
		That Carpenter has used electronic music in his scores is no surprise given the pop nature of his thematic material.
		Carpenter's minimalist style has also been borrowed on a number of films, see for example "Shaun of the Dead" scored by Dan Mudford and Pete Woodhead.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/John-Carpenter.htm (385 words)

	John Carpenter
		Unfortunately, this is also John Carpenter's biggest box-office bomb, but to most Carpenter fans this is probably his most popular.
		Carpenter seems to deliver a better product when he is not so tightly controlled by the studio's pressure to succeed.
		John Carpenter has remained very loyal to the horror genre over his career.
	www.houseofhorrors.com /carpenter.htm (431 words)

	John Carpenter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, and is considered one of the most accomplished and influential horror and science fiction directors in Hollywood.
		Carpenter is a big fan of widescreen, and all of his theatrical movies (with the exception of Dark Star) have been filmed in anamorphic widescreen with an aspect ratio 2.35 :1.
		Carpenter was married to Barbeau from January 1, 1979 to 1984.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Carpenter (3145 words)

	IHAS: Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		ogether with Charles Wakefield Cadman and Deems Taylor, John Alden Carpenter was considered one of the foremost "modern" composers of the 1920's and 30's.
		Carpenter's resulting composition, SKYSCRAPERS, eventually was premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1926, greatly enhancing his reputation as a composer.
		Carpenter's vocal literature is enlivened by his impeccable taste in poetry, his luxuriant melodic inspiration, and his fluid settings of text.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/ihas/composer/carpenter.html (265 words)

	John Carpenter
		In the early 1980s, John Carpenter was easily the best horror film director working in the world.
		Carpenter was able to capture a mood that was all his own in these early films.
		But he came back with the box office bomb "Ghosts of Mars," which, despite its lack of commercial and critical success, was still a great Carpenter movie, returning him to the vibe he delivered in the 1980s.
	www.esplatter.com /profiles/carpenter.htm (438 words)

	John Carpenter
		John Carpenter and Adrienne Barbeau in the light house on the set of the Fog.
		This is John Carpenter's Village of the Damned.
		This is John Carpenter's Assault of Precinct 13.
	www.hugereviews.com /Presents/JohnCarpenter/default.htm (531 words)

	John Carpenter
		John Carpenter is sometimes referred to as the “master of the horror film.” This is a reasonable title, bearing in mind that he has proved to be not only a director with a visually and thematically consistent body of work, but also a true visionary of the horror genre.
		Carpenter created a complex web of paranoia where trust is completely nonexistent, and offered a unique study of the conflictive relationships generated among the group of men.
		Carpenter offers a sharp commentary on faith and religion, which according to the film's plot are mere inventions created by our ancestors to try to understand extraordinary, but nevertheless real and tangible, physical phenomena.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/carpenter.html (3711 words)

	John Carpenter: The Music
		Carpenter composed the score for his film, John Carpenter's Vampires, which set a box office record for the biggest Halloween opening and the film's DVD stayed on top of the best seller charts for weeks.
		John Carpenter personally helped return the horror genre to box office prominence and cutting edge artistic expression with the smash success of his 1978 thriller, Halloween, for which he composed the score as well.
		In 1981, Carpenter continued exercising his composing genius through music to Halloween II (directed by Rick Rosenthal), as well as Escape From New York.
	www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com /pages/themusic.html (308 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		Though most of Carpenter's heroes are men of action, he doesn't ignore the strength and valor of women.
		John Carpenter was born in Carthage, N.Y., and raised in Bowling Green, Ky. He enjoyed westerns as a child, which may explain the stalwart outlook of most of his heroes, as well as the high-action energy he brings to his work.
		Carpenter: Irwin Yablans said, "I want a movie about babysitter murders, about a stalker, a killer going after babysitters." He thought that all teenagers could relate to that, because they all babysat some point.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue339/interview.html (1359 words)

	SoundtrackNet : John Howard Carpenter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Carpenter, an esteemed graduate of the USC Film School who has pioneered new directions for Hollywood over the past quarter century, personally helped return the horror genre to boxoffice prominence and cutting-edge artistic expression with the smash success of his Halloween in 1978.
		Carpenter, ever the film student, is a scholar on the works of director Howard Hawkes.
		Carpenter is married to Sandy King, who has produced several of his films.
	www.soundtrack.net /composers/database/?id=27 (474 words)

	Fires...Floods...Riots...Earthquakes... John Carpenter!
		Carpenter watches an anamorphic image of the action on a large video monitor.
		Carpenter is pleased and moves on to run through the next shot with Corraface.
		Carpenter talked about the film, his methods and other upcoming projects -- a documentary on Howard Hawks and a special laserdisc reissue of his 1982 version of The Thing.
	www.dga.org /news/mag_archives/v21-3/carpenter.html (3310 words)

	John Carpenter
		Hailing from Bowling Green, Kentucky, Carpenter always had a deep interest in filmmaking and started making short fantasy films at the age of eight.
		The son of a music professor, Carpenter attended Western Kentucky University, only to drop out years later to enrol in film school at the University of Southern California.
		Carpenter has been married twice, first to actress Adrienne Barbeau for five years, then to current wife, producer Sandy King in 1990.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=2328 (396 words)

	JOHN CARPENTER - PRINCE OF DARKNESS
		Also, no use in badmouthing, let’s say, John Travolta as the scientologist stooge that he is because you might just have to work with the man again.
		On the whole however, Carpenter seems to be on the level.
		Carpenter may not tackle any “high art” like Bergman or Tarkovsky, but his use of wide lens photography and music is distinctly his — quite an achievement in era where most Hollywood movies look and feel basically the same.
	www.scifimoviepage.com /art_carpenter_1.html (666 words)

	John Carpenter @ Filmbug
		John Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York and raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father was a college music professor.
		Following Halloween, Carpenter cemented his reputation as a visionary horror film director with such hits as the original version of The Fog, They Live, Prince of Darkness, and Christine.
		Carpenter's motion picture credits also include the comedy-thriller Memoirs of an Invisible Man, the psychological horror film In the Mouth of Madness, the sci-fi love story Starman, which earned Jeff Bridges a Best Actor Oscar nomination and Village of the Damned, the terrifying remake of the classic 1950s horror story.
	www.filmbug.com /db/1393 (320 words)

	Director's Profile: John Carpenter
		Since he was five, Carpenter has been dedicated to movie making and, more specifically, to science fiction and horror films.
		It was in 1978 that John Carpenter became a hit.
		Carpenter is a multi-faceted filmmaker who isn't afraid to take chances.
	pages.emerson.edu /organizations/fas/latent_image/issues/1990-03/print_version/carpenter.htm (954 words)

	Amazon.ca: Christine: DVD: John Carpenter,Christine Belford,Roberts Blossom,Stuart Charno,Richard Collier,Malcom ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Carpenter's atmospheric original score is backed up by a well-chosen collection of rock classics, including George Thorogood's "Bad to the Bone" (the titular character's all-too-apt theme song).
		The young cast is appealing enough, and director John Carpenter manages a few creepy scenes, but the story bogs down into yet another trite nerds & bullies drama whenever Christine is offscreen.
		Instead the worthless John Carpenter skipped the real story of Christine, didn't even have the Lebay alive at the beginning and just his brother- please.
	www.amazon.ca /Christine-John-Carpenter/dp/B0002O7XW2 (1760 words)

	John Carpenter \| The A.V. Club
		Director John Carpenter is a veritable anomaly in modern Hollywood: a veteran craftsman who eschews auteurism.
		Carpenter grew up in Kentucky as a fan of tough genre movies, and went to film school at USC at a time when cinema studies emphasized the old Hollywood masters.
		Now approaching 60, Carpenter has become one of the elder statesmen of fantasy filmmaking, though he tends to shrug off adulation and analysis, preferring again to think of himself, like Hawks, as a humble artisan.
	avclub.com /content/node/41959 (1827 words)

	John Carpenter
		A departure for director John Carpenter, STARMAN is a gentle, simple film that won accolades from critics and applause from audiences.
		John Carpenter's Vampires (1998), James Woods is a present-day vampire hunter working for the Vatican, looking for the undead in the American Southwest led by the master Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith).
		She was John Carpenter's partner on many films including the Halloween movies, The Fog, and Escape From New York.
	www.angelfire.com /mn/nn/Carpenter.html (2012 words)

	Active Essentials: John Carpenter in Editorial > Articles at DVDActive
		Carpenter’s second film for AVCO Embassy Pictures was a gritty look at the ultimate penal system of the future with an anti-hero played by an actor who made a name for himself in a number of family-friendly Disney films made during the 60s and 70s.
		This time Carpenter went all out and made a thriller that not only worked on a psychological level with a constant feeling of desolation and paranoia permeating through every frame of the picture, but also horrified audiences with some truly ahead of its time and gruesome effects work that still holds up today.
		Carpenter’s next close encounter featured an alien visitor who was a bit kinder and gentler than the one who died at the box office in 1982, and as a result 1984’s Starman was a hit with moviegoers.
	www.dvdactive.com /editorial/articles/essentials-john-carpenter.html (3781 words)

	Video Review @ Stomp Tokyo - John Carpenter's Vampires (1998)
		But Carpenter seems to be way off form here, so much so that it seems that nothing can save the film.
		The plot of Vampires is that the Catholic Church has been secretly financing groups of vampire slayers* to go around and kill the pesky beasts.
		Granted, the vampires in Carpenter's movie are inspired more by Anne Rice than by the Tom Savini-esque monsters who appeared in Dusk, but it's obvious that Vampires is trying to capitalize on the popularity of Dusk, which is already something of a cult classic.
	www.stomptokyo.com /movies/john-carpenters-vampires.html (1211 words)

	John Carpenter Forum - A Site Dedicated To The Film Director John Carpenter
		The following information was taken from an interview with John Carpenter held by SFX magazine.
		The interview was mainly concerned with "Escape from LA" but mention was made of "The Thing".
		The very mention of the film transforms the man. His eyes widen, he leans forward - and starts talking with hitherto untapped energy, the cigarette temporarily forgotten.
	www.johncarpenterforum.com (307 words)

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