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	DVD Review - Khartoum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While the film opens and closes with some rousing battle scenes, the bulk of the movie is much more deliberately paced and dialogue-oriented than one might at first expect.
		While designed to be projected in Cinerama theaters with their giant curved screens, the film was shot using the Ultra Panavision 70mm procedure and not the better known 3-strip Cinerama process (you’ll not see the three vertical splice marks indicative of the original process).
		While "Khartoum" certainly doesn’t measure up to that other sweeping desert epic, "Lawrence of Arabia," it does offer an engaging story about a little-known historical event and will be of some interest to history buffs.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/khartoum.shtml (813 words)

	British Empire: Films: Khartoum
		The film Khartoum marks something of the end of an era for films dealing with the empire.
		The film holds very tightly to the mythology of the story expounded by the Victorians after his death.
		The film was quite a large budget affair and so has plenty of good sets, props, extras and wonderful scenery.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /media/war/khartoum.htm (366 words)

	Khartoum (1966) - IMDb user comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Film on the other hand is essentially a visual medium, and subject to the demands of dramatic form and structure.
		In the film, for filmic purposes, we assume he is genuine; that he is in fact jeopardizing his own life at low odds doing something most political experts consider impossible because he cares about the Sudanese and their (we assume) more-hopeful future under British rule than under that of a pseudo-religious murderous and highly-intelligent zealot.
		KHARTOUM deals with the events from 1883 to January 1885, when a fanatical Islamic fundamentalist known as "the Mahdi" arose in the backwater of the Sudan, preaching destruction of the infidels who were controlling Islam, and eventual domination of the globe by a reinvigorated Islam led by himself.
	imdb.com /title/tt0060588/usercomments (3424 words)

	Rowan Atkinson aka Mr. Bean: DVD: Khartoum
		More talk than spectacle, the film falls short of Lawrence but is nonetheless a compelling story of colonial politics, cynical maneuvering, and the unconventional heroics of another colorful British maverick abroad.
		Khartoum is a masterpiece and made so by a great actor- Charlton Heston.
		Gladstone realizes if Gordon is sent to Khartoum and fails to prevent a massacre, it is he who will be blamed; not the Briish government...
	www.rowanatkinson.org /2-130-B000062XF0-Khartoum.html (1020 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Khartoum
		By 1965 the bigscreen roadshow epic was in full swing, and Khartoum had most of the elements considered necessary for success: exotic locales, huge battles, history writ large.
		Khartoum is resolutely colonial in its insistence that Gordon is some kind of savior to the Sudanese - in one scene, his main fl lieutenant confuses him with Jesus Christ.
		Khartoum is critical of British policy, but it is still told, more or less, from only the British point of view.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s495khartoum.html (1412 words)

	TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
		Khartoum producer Julian Blaustein was a stickler for authenticity, and so every detail of the film from the costumes to the armaments are historically correct.
		One of the film's most memorable sequences, a four-minute prologue and stunning helicopter shots of the Nile River Valley, were eventually cut from the film after its release.
		Khartoum arrived on the tail end of a dying genre, the epic cycle, and because of that, performed poorly in its theatrical run.
	www.tcm.com /thismonth/article.jsp?cid=31482&mainArticleId=72479 (1126 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Khartoum at Epinions.com
		Khartoum, for those who attended school in the 60's or later and are deficient in geography, is an ancient city in the Sudan desert.
		This film was shot as "Super Cinerama" using the Super Panavision 70 anamorphic lens system to accomplish the Cinerama format with a single camera on 70mm film.
		The film blames Gordon's failure on procrastination by his relief forces, and totally ignores the imperialistic weakness of British traditional militarism of that era.
	www.epinions.com /content_89392451204 (1071 words)

	Political Film Society - The Four Feathers
		The film's director, Shekhar Kapur, may have enjoyed portraying British arrogance and racism, but the screenplay is the sixth film version of the century-old novel of the same title by A.E.W. Mason.
		Those who have seen Khartoum (1966) will be already familiar with the threat, in which a Moslem leader in the Sudan declares a jihad against British imperialism that had the potential for uniting the entire Moslem or at least Arab world, but The Four Feathers spares filmviewers of the megalomaniacal motivations of the Moslems.
		However, to make the trip from Khartoum, he pays a merchant who is delivering slaves, male and female, along the way, to take him to his destination, but the merchant exacts one condition--that Harry must dress like a nomadic Arab.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/fourfeathers.html (563 words)

	Game Caravan Movies Details Page
		When KHARTOUM was filmed in 1966, it was meant to be another Charlton Heston epic.
		Khartoum is set in 1884 Sudan where an Islamic fanatic calling himself the Mahdi has gathering an army and started wresting Sudan from Egypt.
		The Mahdi is determined to destroy Khartoum as a prelude to wider conquest.
	www.gamecaravan.com /qMoviesDetails.asp?qkey=59 (398 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Khartoum [1966]: DVD: Charlton Heston,Laurence Olivier,Richard Johnson,Ralph Richardson,Alexander ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Khartoum brilliantly portrays General Gordons struggle as he attempts to defend the ancient city of Khartoum.
		Khartoum falls and Gordon's head is paraded around the city that night, atop a giant pole.
		The sense of tension and desperation in Khartoum is easily felt and leaves you infuriated by the casual stance the British generals adopt towards the inhabitants.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Khartoum-Charlton-Heston/dp/B000089AUD (1438 words)

	Amazon.com: Khartoum: Video: Charlton Heston,Laurence Olivier,Richard Johnson,Ralph Richardson,Alexander Knox,Johnny ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Though the historical events in this film took place in 1884-85, there are aspects of it that remind one of today's headlines; this is a sadly underrated film, with a fantastic cast, massive battle scenes, and a beautifully written script about an extraordinary man.
		There are scenes that take "artistic license", but the film is quite accurate in its facts on General Gordon; a military genius who hated war, a deeply religious man who worked to end slavery, and who fell in love with the desolate scorching sands and the people of the Sudan.
		This film sparked my imagination and made me want to know more about Gordon's fascinating life and the history that surrounded him, and it is one I could watch repeatedly.
	www.amazon.com /Khartoum-Charlton-Heston/dp/6301972236 (1780 words)

	The American Spectator
		The film purports to be "a fascinating history lesson." Unfortunately (though not surprisingly), the "fascinating history lesson" is a false one, and one that defames the Knights Templar and the West, while portraying Saladin as a hero.
		The film itself is marred by some really bad painted backdrops and the film critic Leonard Maltin is somewhat justified in calling it "too talky," but it is a great story.
		But he had no intention of leaving Khartoum and the rest of the Sudan to the mercy of the Mahdi (who did not have Saladin's reputation for magnanimity) and he made clear to the British government the he, and the Egyptian garrison, would stay to defend the city.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=6072 (1416 words)

	Floating Films - Films by Randy Bell
		Information at www.state.gov/p/af/live/index.htm The film is also being broadcast on the State Department's internal television station.
		Particular attention is paid to the effect of the influx of small arms on intra-tribal conflict, and to the sanitary conditions that lead to cholera outbreaks for Southern Sudanese returning to the South from Khartoum via the Nile.
		The film is based around interviews conducted with Americans who survived the attack and friends of the two kamikazes who hit the ship.
	www.floatingfilms.org (635 words)

	www.myspace.com/khartoumcapers
		Khartoum Capers was conscripted into service in the year of our lord 2006AD.
		Khartoum Capers are one of the most respectable and diverse groups of the 22nd century.
		Hi Khartoum Capers, just a quick hello from the Jazz Pistols - hope you are doing fine and have a nice christmas season.
	www.myspace.com /khartoumcapers (592 words)

	Centre for Middle East and North African Studies, Macquarie University
		Much of the film was made in the Sudan, a remarkable achievement in the late thirties.
		In the mid-seventies, the British Embassy in Khartoum [NOTE 1] drew the attention of the Australian Embassy in Cairo to the impoverished condition of March and his wife, Teresa, born of an Italian father and an Eritrean mother.
		Khartoum was and, I suspect, still is a sprawling, flat and featureless city next to the confluence of the Blue and White Nile Rivers.
	www.mq.edu.au /mec/hutton/four.html (2313 words)

	2/19/04: New FSM CDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cordell aided the film's romanticized approach with a distinctly British fanfare and melody for Gordon, and strokes of Egyptian exotica for the Mahdi.
		Khartoum features Cordell's re-recorded LP tracks (faithful to the film orchestrations) with a bonus track of exit music from the film itself.
		The 1937 Selznick film had been scored by Alfred Newman, then music director for Samuel Goldwyn, and Newman's original score was adapted by Conrad Salinger and conducted by Johnny Green for the 1952 production.
	www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/2004/19_Feb---New_FSM_CDs.asp (347 words)

	Khartoum Post
		KHARTOUM, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Hundreds of people waving banners welcomed Chinese President Hu Jintao on his first visit to Sudan on Friday when he arrived in the c...
		Khartoum - Child soldiers are increasingly being used in the war-torn region of Darfur, says a United Nations official, even when their use is on the decline elsewhere in Sudan.
		KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - The United Nations hopes the Chinese president will push for a solution to the Darfur crisis during his landmark visit to Sudan on Friday.
	archive.wn.com /2007/02/02/1400/khartoumpost (506 words)

	IRC \| IRC, Sudan Advocacy Coalition Premiere Film Commissioned to Aid Peace-Building in Sudan
		Just Peace, a film commissioned by the IRC and its five partners in the Sudan Advocacy Coalition, was launched in Khartoum, Sunday, June 5, at the annual Drums of Peace Festival.
		The film examines the lives and perspectives of three displaced Sudanese children against the backdrop of the Sudan peace process from May 2004 until the signing of the peace accord in January 2005.
		The Sudan Advocacy Coalition developed the film to encourage awareness about the peace process and the need for increased international support, particularly for inclusion of all sectors of Sudanese society in the country’s development.
	www.theirc.org /news/irc_sudan_advocacy_coalition_premiere_film_commissioned_to_aid_peacebuilding_in_sudan.html (329 words)

	Screen Archives
		The film is well-regarded for Heston's performance as well as those of its British stars: Olivier, Ralph Richardson (as Prime Minister Gladstone) and Richard Johnson (as Gordon's second-in-command).
		Gordon's story has passed into folklore in England and Cordell aided the film's romanticized approach with a patriotic British fanfare, plus a long-lined theme for Gordon focusing on the pride and dignity of the commander.
		Cordell provides aggressive, rhythmic scoring for the film's aerial missions and German assaults, a noble British melody for the RAF pilots, and evocative, romantic scoring for the love story.
	www.screenarchives.com /title_detail.cfm?ID=3806 (334 words)

	FILM AND TV MUSIC.
		In the golden age of Hollywood film scores, cues were often borrowed and re-arranged from music of the baroque, classical, romantic, impressionistic and contemporary styles.
		Today, many film scores are simply collages of quick cuts of popular music with incidental music added by a composer who often scores and performs the music with synthesizers in a recording studio where the music is synched with the video.
		Just to cover a very wide base, the tv and film "westerns" and adventure series of the 1950-1975 or so period have a lot of fine scores by composers whose names are known only to those who wrote them down, worked with them or know (knew) them personally.
	members.fortunecity.com /lamplitr/filmtv.html (232 words)

	Empire Building and The Movies / 2005/1 / Media Development / Publicaciones / Casa - La Asociación Mundial para la ...
		My film research revealed a disturbing pattern of the use of film as propaganda, and only a few encouraging signs that some film makers have left us with films that utilize cinema to explore racist western attitudes toward non-western populations, the attitudes required for an empire to dominate other populations.
		Lawrence of Arabia is a film that returns to memory as we reflect on Powell at the UN, because it deals with deception as a prevailing tactic of colonialism.
		The second film version of Graham Greene’s novel, The Quiet American, David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia, and The Battle of Algiers are three films that show, through the visions of three film artists, the machinations of empires that are ultimately self-defeating.
	www.wacc.org.uk /es/publications/media_development/2005_1/empire_building_and_the_movies (2258 words)

	HRW International Film Festival
		The film also tells of the aftermath of the massacre, of the women who continue to search for their men in vain, and of the major effort by the International War Crimes Tribunal to find and prosecute the perpetrators.
		This monologue provides the soundtrack for the film and allows the audience to penetrate the inner world of this young Sudanese man, sharing his worries and hearing Ôfrom within' the story of his double marriage.
		Then, through a series of clandestine encounters in Khartoum, the film reveals a labyrinth of racial and religious persecution as the Nuba begin to tell their own story.
	www.hrw.org /iff-00/3london.html (2449 words)

	Ink 19 :: Radio Khartoum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Radio Khartoum is a label with a mission: to break indie pop from its "Anglo-American" bondage and to do it with a flare uncharacteristic of modern independent labels.
		In fact, the label advertises itself as releasing "indiepop music from bands from foreign lands." A strange notion to most American pop kids, who are used to buying only music from domestic bands, but one that they will gladly warm up to, with the mystical and romantic atmosphere that is created by this label.
		I want to make experimental films, but I want to always make films are actually enjoyable to watch.
	www.ink19.com /issues/february2001/inkSpots/radioKhartoum.html (2114 words)

	Eliot Elisofon Papers, Series Descriptions
		Elisofon's roll numbers are letter-coded; an R before the roll number indicates it was taken with his Rolleiflex camera (120mm film); C, with his Contax camera (35mm); K, with Kodachrome 35mm slide film; and P, with his filmpack camera.
		Elisofon's film and television projects, or those for which he served in a technical capacity, are represented by correspondence, agreements, notes, schedules, and similar material, and are arranged in chronological order.
		Elisofon directed the prologue of the film Khartoum, and storyboard drawings, scripts, and correspondence relating to that work are present in this series; in addition, Elisofon photographed the making of the film, so that photographs of the film's production are located in his photography files (Series I).
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/elisofon.series.html (2335 words)

	The Right to Be Nuba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Nuba people are caught in the middle of Sudan's civil war between the northern Islamic Khartoum government and the southern Sudan People's Liberation Army rebel forces.
		The Khartoum government has systematically destroyed many of Nuba's villages and thousands of people have been rounded up and killed.
		He and his crew trekked with camels and on foot through the Nuba hills to capture on film the vitality and customs of a people forgotten by the Western world.
	www.filmakers.com /indivs/Right_to_Be_Nuba.htm (146 words)

	Khartoum (1966)
		Khartoum tells the epic (and true) story of General Gordon's attempts to defend Khartoum and evacuate the resident Egyptians to safety, with no support from his government and nothing more than his own wits and force of will.
		Shot in an appropriately sweeping style, Khartoum is an excellent example of the classic Hollywood epics, and brings together two of the more titanic stars of the era in Olivier and Heston.
		The DVD transfer looks solid, with no more visual pops and streaks than are to be expected in a film of this age, and fewer such glitches than many of its contemporaries have.
	www.needcoffee.com /html/dvd/khartoum.htm (627 words)

	CBC News - Reports from Abroad: David McGuffin
		The entire print run of another Khartoum newspaper was also seized by the government during this time, apparently for criticizing the El Bashir regime over its lack of democratic reforms.
		This was simply the most dramatic moment of what proved to be an incredibly difficult two-week trip into Sudan — including its western Darfur region, where three years of fighting between militants and government-backed militias has killed more than 200,000 people and forced more than two million to flee their homes.
		We are refused the right to film anywhere after we are detained filming spices, vegetables, clothing and vendors in the main market in Darfur's biggest city, El Fasher.
	www.cbc.ca /news/reportsfromabroad/mcguffin/20061003.html (1469 words)

	Radio Khartoum : 18fps
		The fourth volume of Radio Khartoum's 18fps series is a meditation on location and visibility: the hidden and the lost, things no longer here, and things that are elsewhere.
		A soundtrack is projected on the inner ear, momentarily cutting through the urban barrage of light, image and noise, to find a fleeting equilibrium between leaving one place and going to another, or to experience a departed lover's presence in the fragrance of a shirt.
		The resulting mini-album, is a bit more than that: sort of a re-visioning of childhood outings to the cinema.
	www.radiokhartoum.com /18fps.htm (972 words)

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