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  Lost Horizon (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lost Horizon is a 1937 film directed by Frank Capra starring Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt and Sam Jaffe.
The film is based upon the James Hilton novel of the same name and was adapted by Sidney Buchman (uncredited) and Robert Riskin.
Artistically, Lost Horizon evokes many of the themes associated with Capra as an auteur but is somewhat darker and at times, cynical, as with much of his early work.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lost_Horizon_(1937)   (738 words)

  
 Lost film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many films are lost because the nitrate film then used for cinematography has long been known as extremely unstable.
Sometimes when a film which is presumed to be a lost film, a copy of the film is found somewhere in the world and the film is no longer considered to be lost.
The term "lost films" has also been applied to films that do survive in their entirety, but have never been made available to the public on VHS or DVD.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lost_film   (1716 words)

  
 OFFOFFOFF film review LOST BOYS OF SUDAN documentary movie by Megan Mylan, Jon Shenk with Santino Majok Chuor, Peter ...
"Lost Boys of Sudan," a film by San Francisco-based filmmakers Megan Mylan and Jon Shenk, is such a documentary, treating the development and adaptation of two Sudanese refugees who hail from a Kenyan refugee camp but find themselves groping for purchase in America's smooth plains.
The remainder of the film can be either understood as either an indictment of the demoralizing, corrupting effect of prosperity's promise, or understood as a narrative of triumph where a hardworking and talented emigre will find success no matter what the obstacles, thanks to benign government officials and good-hearted, Midwestern religious folk.
This is either the strength or weakness of the film depending on what you want from a documentary; it is so consciously unobtrusive that it aspires to little more than witness, permitting the audience to draw its own conclusions according to its own preconceptions.
www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/lostboysofsudan.php   (1151 words)

  
 CNN - Newfound film shows JFK before assassination - Nov. 21, 1996
The film of events during Kennedy's trip to Dallas on November 21 and 22, 1963, was made by his aide, Dave Powers.
The film was released by the Assassination Records Review Board, which is mandated by federal law to identify, secure and make available all records related to Kennedy's assassination.
Powers said he lost the film, but interest in it was renewed recently when the review board saw an article Powers had written in an old Life magazine.
www.cnn.com /US/9611/21/kennedy.lost.film   (388 words)

  
 FILM RADAR: LOST & FOUND (rare silent film event)
As the premiere presentation in a new screening series of archival rediscoveries unspooling under the banner of “LOST AND FOUND,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is pleased to present a rare public presentation of a film that was believed to be lost, Sorrell and Son.
Released as a silent picture, the film stars H.B. Warner and Nils Asther as a father and son who strive to maintain their relationship and integrity despite being impoverished and deserted by their wife and mother, portrayed by Anna Q. Nilsson.
LOST AND FOUND is a new periodic screening series designed to showcase archival prints of films that have been recently rediscovered, or restored from new materials that improve the presentational quality of their previously available versions.
www.filmradar.com /calendar/item.php?id=921   (429 words)

  
 [islip] LOST FILM FEST 9.0 (The BIG one in Philly) this week! Aug 17-22 [schedule]
Lost Film Fest, originating in West Philly is a laugh-a-riot event (heavy emphasis on both “laugh” and “riot) focusing on pranks against major corporations, government institutions, and cultural self defense.
Lost Film Fest held 252 shows in 13 countries on its world tour in 2003 traveling around the globe.
While Lost Film Fest, sports a strong underground/ guerrilla aesthetic, it regularly appear at theatres and universities, but Its' indigenous environs are that of squats, clubs, warehouses, political convergences, and rooftops.
lists.indymedia.org /pipermail/islip/2004-August/0817-l2.html   (813 words)

  
 'Lost' RP film found in US archive - Feb. 05, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A COPY of the film "Zamboanga," a movie about the exotic life of south sea dwellers daringly shot in the remote island of Jolo in 1936 was found recently in the US.
The film has for decades been considered a lost film, one of the hundreds made before World War II that is irretrievably lost.
After perhaps 60 years that the film has not been seen by any Filipino, there I was watching the film alone in the darkened viewing room of the archive.
www.inq7.net /ent/2004/feb/05/ent_4-1.htm   (545 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lost Horizon (1937) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The lost world of Shangri-La is something different to everyone, and it's not always a land of bliss and happiness as you'll see.
The film, as it exists today, is a bit like Frankenstein's monster, stitched together from a wide variety of sources, some of them in better condition than others.
Similar to what was done with George Cukor's "A Star Is Born", "Lost Horizon" is presented with its complete soundtrack, but missing footage had to be found through other sources, even 16-mm prints recorded from TV broadcasts, and in a few scenes, production stills were sadly the only option to fill in the gaps.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000493Q?v=glance   (2358 words)

  
 Lost Film Festival Homepage
Lost Film Fest 10 is the BIG annual event in Philly happening october 5-9.
The film follows the award-winning reporter-sleuth Greg Palast on the trail of the Bush family, from Florida election finagling, to the Saudi connection, to the Bush team’s spiking the FBI investigation of the bin Laden family and the secret State Department plans for post-war Iraq.
Lost Film Fest is a laugh-a-riot performance incorporating short films (heavy emphasis on both "laugh" and "riot") focusing on pranks against major corporations and government institutions.
www.lostfilmfest.com   (15818 words)

  
 Journal of Religion & Film:Bruce Almighty by Julien R. Fielding
Lost in Translation continues some of the brooding of her earlier Virgin Suicides, but here Coppola offers more ways out, more possibilities for coping with life’s transitions.
While handheld cameras are often used to make a film appear more subjective, here the focus does not stay steady as the object of the gaze overpowers the subjective viewpoint.
Mixed with the metaphor of being “lost in translation,” and filmically followed through with a lack of subtitles to tell English-speaking viewers what the Japanese characters are saying, there are no human Japanese characters here, only Tokyo itself, a city that speaks louder than any character in the film.
www.unomaha.edu /jrf/Vol8No1/Reviews/LostTranslationRev.htm   (925 words)

  
 Alibi Books - The Lost Son, Leclere and the Scala Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The film The Lost Son, released in Europe in early summer ’99, was based on Leclere’s 1995 original screenplay written in collaboration with his wife Margaret.
One of the problems with most people in the film industry who don’t write but who play with and profit from writers’ work is that, when they do happen to like what they read, they also often have no idea why it is that they like it.
We wanted the film to be made and be good, so if losing her would do it, well, it was for the greater good.
www.alibi-books.com /xl/film   (8331 words)

  
 The City of Absurdity: Lost Highway Synopsis
At its outset, LOST HIGHWAY appears to be the story of Fred Madison (Pullman), a successful jazz musician married to Renee, a beautiful brunette who seems strangely withdrawn.
A disturbing study of contemporary marital malaise, this chapter of the film explores Fred's escalating anxiety and insecurity as he begins to realize that Renee may be leading a double life.
At this point, LOST HIGHWAY becomes Pete's story, and we soon learn that he is an auto mechanic with a girlfriend, Sheila (Natasha Gregson Wagner), parents (Gary Busey, Lucy Butler), and a wealthy client, Mr.
www.geocities.com /~mikehartmann/losthighway/lhsynopsis.html   (1434 words)

  
 “Lost in Translation” is the Same Old Story
Sophia Coppola’s new film “Lost in Translation” is this year’s critical darling.
With dreamy shots, understated performances, and a hip soundtrack, critics are touting the film as an innovative and refreshing antidote to mainstream Hollywood.
The attitudes of the film’s central characters, the Americans, Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), towards Japanese culture are just as problematic.
www.aamovement.net /art_culture/filmreviews/losttrans1.html   (339 words)

  
 lost-in-racism.org | Campaign - No Votes for Lost In Translation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The film "Lost In Translation" dehumanizes the Japanese people by portraying them as a collection of shallow stereotypes who are treated with disregard and disdain.
Japanese characters in the film include the weird prostitute and other Japanese who mispronounce their R's and L's; an ineffectual film director, strippers, and doctors who assault you with the Japanese language; the stoic arrogant sushi chef; and an emasculate colorful talk show host and partygoers.
This film is indicative of a level of mainstream tolerance and acceptance of Asian American discrimination that would otherwise be unacceptable if directed towards African and Hispanic Americans.
www.lost-in-racism.org   (1396 words)

  
 The Stranger | Seattle | Film | Feature | The Exhumed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Though many of Andersen's sources were obscure and tantalizing, The Exiles--shot in 1961, in glorious, high-contrast fl and white, in a hypernatural style that instantly evoked early Cassavetes--was the one that seemed most Grail-like: a lost film of a lost tribe in a lost city from a lost time.
The visuals are dazzling because of their roughness; a portrait of expat Arizona Indians on the prowl in the pre-gentrified West L.A. neighborhood of Bunker Hill, Exiles is a documentary-narrative hybrid, enlivened by uninflected images of a now-demolished city.
The irony of the film's reemergence is so satisfying that it's easy to overlook the fact that the film itself is not.
www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=20999   (392 words)

  
 Sofia Coppola's Overly Subtle "Lost in Translation"
If "Lost in Translation" did not have the racism and bashing of the Japanese culture and with more leading character developments into a romance that's mix with the rich and beautiful historical Japanese culture, people and scenes as a backdrop, "Lost in Translation" could have been a "Roman Holiday" for the 21st Century.
The reason why "Roman Holiday" which was filmed in Rome, Italy (Sofia Coppola's motherland) is a great romantic film, because it's a great romantic story and the beautiful and cultured city of Rome and the people of Italy were portrayed in a respectul and meaningful ways that worked with the film.
Put all this together leaves a film which is a bad imitation of neon light city (spatial and emotional relations) as has been done successfully by Wong Kar Wai, and private gestures of emotional life and intimacy as done quietly yet profoundly by Lynn Ramsay (also just had her sophomore effort with "Movern Callar").
www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_030917lost.html   (5657 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | 'Lost' Valentino film discovered
The Dutch national film archive discovered the copy of melodrama Beyond the Rocks in a private collection left to the Filmmuseum.
The museum was given the collection of more than 2,000 film canisters in 2000 after the death of a collector in the town of Haarlem.
Mr Van den Brink said the Filmmuseum expected interest in the film from archives around the world as well as the film's producers, Paramount, and planned to produce a copy for international distribution.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3635019.stm   (377 words)

  
 NBC10.com - Local News - What Is The 'Lost Facenda Film'?
The 1961 documentary film you're watching on NBC10.com, 'Dead End 1975?" is truly a "lost film" that was recently found by several strokes of luck and restored to its original condition.
The third film, we determined, was the second half of a special called "Dead End 1975?" that was mentioned on the first promotional film we found.
As we were watching the film, Churchman said he had seen something like it before, but it wasn't the same film.
www.nbc10.com /news/3919951/detail.html   (735 words)

  
 Lost Film Found: Milestone Partners For Release of Rediscovered Swanson/Valentino Silent Film
The company will open the film in the U.S. later this year and is planning a deluxe DVD for release early next year.
"Beyond the Rocks" was considered lost for 80 years until two reels of the movie were found at the Nederlands Filmmuseum, donated by a collector.
At fifteen years old, Milestone is known for its working restoring classic films, and releasing new indie, doc and foreign films.
www.indiewire.com /biz/biz_050202beyond.html   (343 words)

  
 Lost in Translation (2003): Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The fact that this kind of serious material ends up playing puckishly funny as well as poignant is a tribute both to Coppola and to her do-or-die decision to cast Murray in the lead role.
This is one of the year's most subtly moving films, and a strong affirmation of Coppola's substantial talent.
Coppola's film is also a meditation on love and longing, shot through with a sensibility that's all the more surprising for being so unfashionably tender.
www.metacritic.com /film/titles/lostintranslation   (1792 words)

  
 Blogcritics.org: The Lost Film Festival
The Lost Film Festival started out geographically grounded in West Philadelphia, but in its current incarnation it travels from town to town with Festival Director Scott Beibin.
The Lost Film Festival is predicated on the notion, described by Bill Nichols in the Winter 2005-06 issue of Film Quarterly, that "the public debate about pressing issues has effectively screened out everything but the conservative, institutionalized voices of established media outlets" (page 3).
Films like An Unconventional Critical Mass and The Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade (available online here) celebrate protesters as their heroes, but they take it for granted that that view is already shared by their audience.
blogcritics.org /archives/2006/04/10/093446.php   (742 words)

  
 ABC TV Documentaries: The Lost Film of Dian Fossey
THE LOST FILM OF DIAN FOSSEY contains magical moments: Fossey caring for and playing with two orphaned baby gorillas; the baby gorillas’ rambunctious play with Fossey’s dog, Cindy; and touchingly, Dian with her favourite friend, Digit.
THE LOST FILM OF DIAN FOSSEY contains magical moments: Fossey caring for and playing with two orphaned baby gorillas; the baby gorillas’ rambunctious play with Fossey’s dog, Cindy; and touchingly, Fossey with her favourite friend, Digit.
Sigourney Weaver, who portrayed Fossey in the film ‘Gorillas in the Mist’ narrates THE LOST FILM OF DIAN FOSSEY, adding an intuitive and compassionate note to this compelling documentary.
www.abc.net.au /tv/documentaries/stories/s890063.htm   (750 words)

  
 bibloi.com ¦ film review ¦ Lost in translation (2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The film’s premise is so simple and could be so boring that it helps to underline
one of the most satisfying films of the year.
Lost in Translation is such a film for
www.bibloi.com /performingarts/film/2003/lost.html   (526 words)

  
 OFFOFFOFF film review LOST IN LA MANCHA documentary movie by Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe with Bernard Bouix, René ...
At times during "Lost in La Mancha" several crew members refer to Gilliam's 1988 financial disaster "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and swear, categorically, that this is not "Munchausen 2." And in some regards they're right.
That film, at least, wrapped and opened in theaters, only to go on to become one of the biggest bombs in box-office history.
And Fulton and Pepe's film captures both the sadness and the madness of what might well prove to be Terry Gilliam's impossible dream.
www.offoffoff.com /film/2003/lamancha.php   (761 words)

  
 Red Scream Films LLC Acquires Rights to “Lost” film by Cult Director Oleksiy Chaukin
In 1962 he directed his first horror film, “Gore Shriek of the Violated” which is regarded by the few who have actually seen it as one of the worst movies ever made, if not the worst.
The finished film was about 40 minutes long so he added some public domain travel footage he found to pad it to 60.
Chaukin delivered a first cut but the film was never completed as Chaukin was found murdered in his home studio and the film stolen.
www.emediawire.com /releases/2006/1/emw338080.htm   (841 words)

  
 Local man assembles footage for documentary on ‘lost’ film
Lost in La Mancha is a film about a film that does not exist.
Fiascoes such as flooding, fog, continuous rain, actors falling ill, uncooperative horses and the attack of a swarm of NATO jets were just a few unfortunate incidences that contributed to the crumbling of Don Quixote.
"Most moviegoers are used to seeing the standard type of Hollywood film, and this is not like that," she said.
www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2003/02/02-27-03tdc/02-27-03darts-09.asp   (532 words)

  
 Original Movie Ads for Films now lost
Presumed lost for years, it was found among a bunch of film cans donated to the museum by a private collector.
Frank Thompson’s book "Lost Films" described Arbuckle’s appearance in "Hollywood", which was intended to communicate this sad period of his career.
Since the film is lost, we’ll never really know if it was "the fastest, peppiest, most tuneful musical extravaganza ever produced on stage or screen." But, I think it would sure be fun to find out.
www.missingfilm.com   (2584 words)

  
 News: Lost RP Film Found in US Archive
The film joins the distinguished line-up of pre-war films "Tunay na Ina" (1938), "Pakiusap" (1938) and "Giliw Ko" (1938).
An American mestizo from Manila was employed to direct the film, Eduardo de Castro.
Running for 65 minutes and shot in 35mm, the film is about a sea-faring tribe where a kindly and well-loved Datu Tanbuong rules.
www.aenet.org /family/zambonews.htm   (1010 words)

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