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	Franz Kafka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kafka in Film Internet Movie Database listing of Soderbergh's film, Kafka.
		Kafka also had some knowledge of French language and culture; one of his favorite authors was Flaubert, and he had a sentimental fondness for Napoleon.
		While it is generally agreed that Kafka suffered from clinical depression and social anxiety throughout his entire life, he suffered from migraines, insomnia, constipation, boils, and other ailments, all usually brought on by excessive stresses and strains.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franz_Kafka (1522 words)

	Kafka (1991)
		Whether or not you believe the story to have taken place entirely in Kafka's head [note how the last shot of the film sees Kafka at his writing desk] or whether you see it as the mirroring of fact and fiction is entirely up to you, the viewer.
		So with Kafka we not only have the externally referential - of Kafka writing a story whilst involving himself in a real-life plot that will in turn become the story he is writing [The [* Bo#The-Castle#Castle] ]- but also the internal references to Kafka*'s own biographical history...
		This is a popular device from Kafka's work.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0102181 (786 words)

	Franz Kafka: Tutte le informazioni su Franz Kafka su Encyclopedia.it
		Diretto da Steven Soderbergh, il film miscela vita e fiction fornendo un presentazione semi-biografica della vita e dell'opera di Kafka.
		Kafka nacque il 3 luglio 1883 in una famiglia ebrea della media borghesia di Praga.
		Franz Kafka and Libertarian Socialism (http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue23/lowy23.htm) Kafka e l'anarchia (in inglese).
	www.encyclopedia.it /f/fr/franz_kafka.html (553 words)

	Amazon.com: Loser: DVD: Mena Suvari,Greg Kinnear
		Franz Kafka is her reference point for "Loser"; a strange choice given Kafka famous line "women are traps which lie in wait for men everywhere, in order to drag them down into the finite".
		'Loser' features a lot of very funny cameos, by Andy Dick, David Spade, Andrea Martin, Colleen Camp, many others, and, to Heckerling's credit, these 'guests' never detract from the positive message of the film.
		Loser brings to the screen the story of a college freshman who does not fit in well with his peers nor with the city of NY as a whole.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CXK7?v=glance (2656 words)

	Learn more about Expressionism in the online encyclopedia.
		Expressionism is also found in other art forms - the novels of Franz Kafka are often described as expressionist, for example, and there was a concentrated Expressionist movement in early 20th century German theatre centred around Georg Kaiser and Ernst Toller.
		Expressionism is, generally speaking, a tendency in any art form (painting, literature, film,architecture and so on) to distort reality for emotional effect.
		There was also an expressionist movement in film: see expressionism (film).
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /e/ex/expressionism.html (310 words)

	UNCW News
		Vincent received this grant on Dec. 9, 2002, in recognition of her film, Conversation with Kafka.
		Wilmington – Dr. Renee Vincent, associate professor of art and theatre at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, was one of only two filmmakers in the state to receive an $8,000 grant from the North Carolina Arts Council.
		In addition, Vincent, director of the film, was awarded a Research Reassignment Award and a Summer Research Initiative from UNCW’s College of Arts and Sciences to facilitate the film project.
	www.uncwil.edu /news/headlines/2003/JAN/20030122-04.html (381 words)

	Genre Browser: Fantasy
		Imagine Kafka via Monty Python, with a dash of film-noir and a twist of surreal fantasy.
		The film's elaborate plot is set in motion by a typographical error, whereby an innocent man named Buttle is mistaken for a terrorist named Tuttle (Robert DeNiro).
		The original vision survived only because Gilliam surreptitiously screened his cut for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, who named it the best movie of 1985.
	us.imdb.com /Sections/Genres/Fantasy (295 words)

	Good Night, And Good Luck. Film Site
		His subsequent films include "Kafka," starring Jeremy Irons, "King of the Hill" and "The Underneath." Soderbergh then returned home to Baton Rouge and shot "Schizopolis" for $250,000, employing used equipment, a bare-bones crew and casting himself in a dual lead role.
		Clooney was executive producer and co-star of the live television broadcast of "Fail Safe," an Emmy-winning telefilm developed through his Maysville Pictures and based on the ‘60s novel of the same name.
		For the 1995-96 TV season, Donovan joined the parade of film stars who turned to sitcoms, heading the cast of "Partners" opposite Jon Cryer.
	wip.warnerbros.com /goodnightgoodluck (10846 words)

	Zemblan Grammar: Film
		I haven't talked up the film in class yet, as am sure I will get all sweaty, gesticulating madly about the influence of Nietzsche and Camus and Kafka on contemporary detective narratives.
		It's a set of black and white vignettes filmed over the course of about twenty years, all featuring two or three people consuming the title substances.
		Monday, 03 January 2005 in Academia, Film, Paedagogy Schmaedagogy
	zembla.blogs.com /grammar/film/index.html (1991 words)

	Film Noir Series 2000 - SNIPER
		Following prison and the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk (1908-1999) made four films for producer Stanley Kramer, including THE CAINE MUTINY and this lesser known, yet equally powerful, noir thriller.
		Arthur Franz is Eddie Miller, a deranged soul who cannot stop killing women, and Adolphe Menjou is Lt. Kafka, hellbent on fulfilling the madman's request to capture him.
	www.laemmle.com /series/filmnoir/sniper.html (57 words)

	Film & TV: Film Reviews (Austin Chronicle . 07-08-97)
		Although the film tends to suffer from a severe case of overt preachiness in the third reel (shades of James Cameron's The Abyss), it's still a wonderfully visual, exciting ride.
		Director Martha Coolidge, whose wonderful early films such as Valley Girl, Real Genius, and Rambling Rose starred such strong teen characters, is stumbling badly in her more recent work (Geena Davis' star turn as Angie, the film version of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, and the fantasy romance Three Wishes).
		Angelo Badalamenti's score is wondrously arcane, and Lynch's choice of soundtrack recordings perfectly echoes the spiraling sense of onscreen disorientation, from Trent Reznor's eerie soundscapes to Lou Reed's ominously carefree "This Magic Moment." Couple that with Peter Deming's dark, spare lighting and camerawork, and you've got Lynch/Kafka overkill.
	weeklywire.com /ww/07-08-97/austin_screens_film.html (11375 words)

	Trial (1963) - DVD film: Totaltiorden.dk
		This film version of Kafka's novel is particularly nice, for its portrayal of what Sartre would call a "bad faith" response to this situation.
		I won't focus much on the merits of the film aside from saying that the story of the film is one of the most important works of the twentieth-century and is central to the modern, and post-modern, human experience.
		The end doesn't seem to me to be at all puzzling or obscure (as several others have suggested in their reviews of the film), when the film as a whole is "read" as an allegory of life and the despair of a universe where there is no fixed meaning.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/dvd_details.php/6303093345dvd (1477 words)

	Mulholland Drive Film Comment - In Dreams
		While Lynch's films all have dream-like qualities, Mulholland Drive is his first since Eraserhead to employ "the logic of a dream- a nightmare" (how Welles described Kafka's The Trial in the voiceover intro to his film adaptation) from beginning to end.
		The phrase, repeated like the chorus of a litany, becomes a free-floating signifier for a film that, crossing Vertigo with Persona (and maybe Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon), is one of the most disturbing portraits of woman as patriarchal pawn and victim in American movie history.
		As movie fans - the little people in the audience who both adore and envy the larger-than-life stars - they know that Betty's in for a nightmare, and they will return, Lilliputian size, at the end of the film, to slip under her door and into her dreams, scaring her to death.
	www.lynchnet.com /mdrive/filmc2.html (1606 words)

	Amazon.com: After Hours: DVD
		This well-regarded cult film is a tense Kafka-esque tale concerning what happens to a likable computer guy who is in the wrong place at the wrong time in the city that never sleeps--New York.
		After tackling heavy topics in his previous films, Scorsese made a departure from form and directed a comedy.
		A minor criticism of the film is that the indignities heaped on Dunne may be a little overdone at times.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000286RNE?v=glance (2270 words)

	The Castle (Das Schloss) Film Review - Time Out Film
		Haneke's made-for-TV film of Kafka's classic is faithful in letter and spirit to the very end.
		A strong sense of absurdity imbues the overall atmosphere of guilt, paranoia, misplaced ambition, desire and impotence, and Haneke's cool, characteristically austere direction and the stark design (the village is merely a scattering of smallish houses linked by forever snowy streets) lend the film a strange, mesmerising logic all of its own.
		See more cast & crew for this film
	www.timeout.com /film/68939.html (165 words)

	Orson Welles
		Filming 'The Trial': Welles enjoyed the experience of making Filming 'Othello' (1978; for all intents and purposes, his last completed and released feature film) so much that he wanted to continue in the same vein with a similar project focusing on his 1962 Kafka adaptation.
		Of primary interest, apart from the film's stunning visual poetry, Welles performance of Falstaff, and the climactic battle sequence, is that it never seemed Welles' intention to be stodgily “faithful” to the text, eliminating his own voice from the creation.
		Welles would later film the famous “hath not a Jew eyes” speech with no makeup or staging—this performance, which is spellbinding, along with shards of the original Merchant, are featured in the One Man Band documentary.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/03/welles.html (2458 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: After Hours
		If Kafka had been working in the 1980s (and Scorsese's send-up of urban chic clothing, design, and styles of the era is worth the price of admission alone), this is the story he'd have written.
		By the end, Paul is on the run from an angry mob who thinks he's a burglar, fleeing in fear for his life.
		Well, rest assured that After Hours is actually a comedy.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/84dbbfa4d710144986256c290016f76e/81dd54bbd4c0c0b388256ac8006bd0af?OpenDocument (511 words)

	EN 080.05, LITERARY FORMS
		A third cluster will include the recent novel by Alan Lightman, The Diagnosis, and two earlier works from which it appears to derive, Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and Plato's dialogues concerning the death of Socrates.
		The first cluster will consider how genre affects narrative, and will include James Joyce's short story "The Dead," John Huston's film of that story, and the recent musical version of that story.
		The texts will be The Book of Job, The Brother's Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevski), and essays by Annie Dillard and Cynthia Ozick.
	www2.bc.edu /~dohertyp/litformsfall01.htm (511 words)

	Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles - Zbigniew Rybczynski
		In 1992 he won Special Festival Prize at the International Electronic Cinema Festival Tokyo/Montreux and the Special Jury Award at the San Francisco International Festival 1993.for "Kafka".
		Then he was studying cinematography in then world-famous Film Academy of Lodz.
		CREATED BY Zbigniew Rybczynski was born on January 27, 1949 in Lodz, Poland, but was raised in Warsaw, where he attended an art high school and was trained as a painter.
	www.polishfilmla.org /people/zbigniew_rybczynski.html (525 words)

	Amazon.com: King of the Hill / Movie (1993) : Video
		"King of the Hill" was Steven Soderbergh's third film, following "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" and the inscrutable "Kafka." Compared to these films, "King of the Hill" is a small and straight-forward tale of the Depression.
		It's obviously a small film, but by focusing on one boy, "King of the Hill" is able to portray the horrors and desperation of the Depression far more vividly than many "bigger" dramas, such as "Ironweed." Most highly recommended.
		That such a terrific film has been so overlooked is nothing short of criminal.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/630301397X?v=glance (1332 words)

	Cate Blanchett
		Other Australian stage appearances include "Kafka Dances," "Sweet Pheobe" and "The Blind Giant is Dancing." Most recently, Blanchett played Susan Traherne in the Almeida Theatre 1999 West End revival of David Hare's "Plenty" directed by Jonathan Kent.
		She appeared in the Australian comedy Thank God He Met Lizzie, for which she won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actress.
		Blanchett made her film debut in 1997 in Bruce Beresford's Paradise Road in which she co-starred with Glenn Close.
	www.tribute.ca /all_actors/bios/2652.htm (394 words)

	Biografía de Orson Welles
		He was able to complete an adaptation of Kafka's The Trial (1963), a little-seen but much-praised film, Chimes at Midnight (1966) in which he starred as Shakespeare's Falstaff, The Immortal Story (1968), an hour-long adaptation of a story by Isak Dinesen, and the pseudodocumentary F for Fake (1974).
		His first film to be seen by the public was Citizen Kane (1941), a commercial failure losing RKO $150,000, but regarded by many as the best film ever made.
		Wanted to make films of two literary masterpices, Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" and Joseph Heller's "Catch-22", but had to be satisfied in having supporting roles in the films made of the two books by John Huston and Mike Nichols.
	spanish.imdb.com /name/nm0000080/bio (4128 words)

	List of Czechs
		\n* Max Brod \n* Karel Čapek \n* Jaroslav Foglar \n* Jaroslav Hašek \n* Václav Havel \n* Bohumil Hrabal \n* Franz Kafka \n* Karl Kraus \n* Milan Kundera \nKarel Hynek Mácha\n Jan Neruda \n* Ferdinand Peroutka \n* Rainer Maria Rilke \n* Jaroslav Seifert, Nobel laureate\n* Adalbert Stifter \n* Tom Stoppard \n* Franz Werfel
		\n* Milos Forman, film director\n* Jiri Menzel, film director, actor\n* Karel Reisz, film director\n* Jan Svankmajer, film director, animator\n* Jan Sverák, film director, actor\nKarel Zeman, film* director
		\n* Jan Santini Aichel \nJan Letzel, architect of the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima \n Adolf Loos
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/l/li/list_of_czechs.html (4128 words)

	Rat (2000)
		This distances the film somewhat from another source, Kafka's 'Metamorphosis', although both share the emphasis on family reaction.
		'Rat' is none of these things, and so is a cause for rejoicing, but to use epithets like 'Borgesian' seems inappropriate - the film has few of the philosophical resonances of true Borgesian films like 'Performance', 'The Spider's Strategem', 'Belle de Jour' or even 'Being John Malkovich', to which this film has been mostly compared.
		'Rat' is a charming, funny film that has been getting somewhat overpraised here because films from this country are generally inept, pretentious and/or cliched.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0234570 (682 words)

	Top 100 Movie Lists - Jacobs Ladder
		Still, Jacob's Ladder is the kind of the film that must be watched numerous times to get even an idea of all it holds.
		Adrian Lyne's (Lolita, Fatal Attraction), Jacobs Ladder is a Kafka-like drama about a man who has lost all capacity for telling what is reality and what isn't.
		Despite the often terrifying and unsettling visuals in Jacob's Ladder, the film is really about coming to peace with one's life or more appropriatly one's death.
	www.geocities.com /aaronbcaldwell/Jacobs.html (271 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Stalker [1979]: Video
		In the film, the stalker does not even have a name, he is simply referred to throughout the film as 'Stalker' (with the occasional referring to with nonsensical names like 'Chingachook', 'Big Snake' and 'Leather Stocking') and details surrounding his environment are virtually non-existent.
		In the film, the Stalker takes a writer and professor (known as 'Writer' and 'Professor') on an unforgettable, hallucinatory journey into the Zone in search of a building known as 'The Room' which has the power to grant wishes to all those who enter it.
		The one image I shall never forget though is that of the dog that appears out of nowhere halfway through the film, to come and sit down by the Stalker as he rests.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CLJI (1320 words)

	kafka.html
		Also related to Egon Kafka and our film, an in-depth article in the Washington Post by William Booth, which has been syndicated in newspapers nationwide.
		"Kafkaesque" is a half-hour documentary Sven Berkemeier and I co-produced about Egon Kafka, collector of vintage transit busses, urban philosopher, and distant cousin of legendary existentialist Franz Kafka.
		In September, 2002, we had the pleasure of visiting three festivals in the Los Angeles area, all of which featured Kafkaesque.
	home.earthlink.net /~ned/kafka.html (500 words)

	Amazon.com: Video: Brazil (1985)
		Brazil - Criterion Collection is a testament to the brave film makers who won't back down to Hollywood bigwigs and censors and fulfil their dreams.
		"The Battle of Brazil" is the high point as Gilliam and some of the Universal Studios execs discuss the crazy backstory that almost led to the demise of the film as we know it.
		The second DVD also includes "What is Brazil?" - a mostly throwaway behind the scenes look at the making of the film that features the cast and some of the writers.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6300184064?v=glance (1887 words)

	Top 100 Movie Lists - Jacobs Ladder
		Still, Jacob's Ladder is the kind of the film that must be watched numerous times to get even an idea of all it holds.
		Adrian Lyne's (Lolita, Fatal Attraction), Jacobs Ladder is a Kafka-like drama about a man who has lost all capacity for telling what is reality and what isn't.
		Despite the often terrifying and unsettling visuals in Jacob's Ladder, the film is really about coming to peace with one's life or more appropriatly one's death.
	www.geocities.com /aaronbcaldwell/Jacobs.html (271 words)

	ideofact: Myths of Caligari
		Given this reading, the end of the film has the enveloping, inescapable terror of Kafka or Gaslight or the last scene of The Vanishing.
		Significantly, two of Caligari's most enthusiastic champions, Paul Rotha writing in 1930 and Lewis Jacobs in 1939, happened to be highly politicised radicals; yet nether sought any political meaning in the film.
		Wiene, by changing the framing device to make Caligari triumphant in the end (we discover that the narrator is an inmate in an asylum, and the doctor his psychiatrist) reversed the film's meaning, making it an ode to authority (to see how prevalent this kind of critique is, see here:
	www.ideofact.com /archives/000306.html (1004 words)

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