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	Marooned (movie) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marooned is a 1969 movie directed by John Sturges and staring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna and Gene Hackman.
		The film was released only three months before the Apollo 11 moon landing and is clearly tied to the topical public fascination with the event.
		In the 1980s, Marooned was redistributed under the name Space Travelers by Film Ventures International, an ultra-low-budget production company that prepared quickie television and video releases of films that were in the public domain or could be purchased inexpensively.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marooned_(movie) (529 words)

	Marooned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The film consists of the efforts to rescue them, the air that is measured out by the minute, the tensions that arise between the astronauts in the small capsule, and their wives, who bravely try to cope.
		This film is classified as "sci-fi", though in spirit it is perhaps closer to the disaster films that would become so popular in the '70s.
		The film is a bit dry at times, given to so much technical information related throughout the film, but it really seemed the makers of the film focused on trying to make everything as realistic as possible.
	www.home-office-desks.net /prod/B0000CGNEE/Marooned.html (1449 words)

	Director Without Borders
		Ghobadi, whose "Marooned in Iraq" opens in Washington today, comes from a society in which images are constrained because of censorship, difficult to produce because of poverty, and rich in meaning because of scarcity.
		Iranian films about children tend to be about children as children, but bearing the burdens of the world and responsible beyond their years.
		He could be describing a scene from "Marooned in Iraq" in which school is held on a hilltop, a class watching a jet's contrail faint against the blue sky.
	www.puk.org /web/htm/news/nws/news030523b.html (1466 words)

	FilmJudge - Marooned
		Marooned may have won an Oscar for special effects in 1969, but somehow it managed to be missed by most audiences.
		No the film is not without flaws, but there are very few and the film is nearly as intense today as it would have been in 1969 had anyone been paying close attention.
		The film is touching on many things, after all, and one of them has to do with the juxtaposition of the theorists on the ground and the men who are trying to survive in a gravity free vacuum with no resources at their finger tips -- completely dependent on said theorists for their very lives.
	www.filmjudge.ca /m/marooned.htm (863 words)

	OnWisconsin Live Movies: Marooned in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bob Hope, a man who knew war zones and comic travelogues when he saw them, might well recognize "Marooned in Iraq" for what it is: a sorrowful road comedy set in a place where hardship and humor are brothers in arms.
		Ghobadi - whose Cannes Film Festival prize-winning first film, "A Time for Drunken Horses," followed Kurdish orphans smuggling goods across the mountains from Iran to Iraq - makes a similar trek here and finds a grim sense of purpose in the journeys of nomadic people moving from the unsafe to the unknown.
		It is the story of two brothers and their father, all well-known musicians, searching for the father's wife who abandoned him 23 years earlier and who has left a message with others that she needs him.
	www.onwisconsin.com /movies/movie.asp?id=909 (514 words)

	MRC FilmFinder-Full Record: Marooned in Iraq
		Marooned in Iraq takes place during the war between Iran and Iraq in the early ‘90s; a war in which Saddam Hussein also had his forces attacks the Kurdish tribes in the North of Iraq.
		The broad almost slapstick comedy of most of the film is an excellent balance to the harsh realities that end the film Mirza, his sons, and his wife are survivors, the ‘marooned outsiders in their homeland, the political and social maelstrom that was Iraq beginning in the 1990s.
		Marooned in Iraq is not a great film, but is a richly observed, beautifully photographed film about a special people dealing with overwhelming difficulties with grace.
	www.lib.unc.edu /house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=10810 (613 words)

	IslamOnline - Art & Entertainment Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Whatever it is, Kurdish-Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi’s Marooned in Iraq works at many levels to introduce the audience to an unknown landscape as important as the story that inhabits it.
		Indeed, the backdrop of the film (which opens in New York at the end of April) is sweeping in a manner that elevates the geography and scenery to the level of a main character.
		From the jagged, craggy mountains that line the Iran-Iraq border to the winter-swept, refugee-camp that dot regions of northern Iraq, the film plays upon the lay of the land as the truest introduction to life in that region.
	www.islamonline.net /English/artculture/2003/03/article15.shtml (818 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Marooned > Printer Friendly
		Marooned wants to be taken very seriously, but in trying to be realistic and believable, it quickly becomes dull and annoying.
		The film opens with impressive second unit work of Cape Kennedy at daybreak whose photography is undermined by more beeping and science fictiony sounds that plays like nothing more than those sound effects records people used to play on Halloween.
		Filmed in Panavision, Marooned is presented in 16:9 anamorphic format with a Dolby Surround remix that can do little to liven up the drab soundtrack.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=7913 (861 words)

	Marooned
		"Marooned" is an often overlooked motion picture because of its poor special effects and non-existent musical sound track.
		The interior we see in the film still represents the earliest thinking concerning interior layout where equipment would simply be bolted to the outer perimeter of the SIVB liquid hydrogen tank while in orbit.
		Although not seen in the film, the XRV would also be equipped with retractable landing gear featuring wheels or skids and it would likely have a small engine buried in the tail such as the XLR-11 (the same type used in the X-1 rocket plane).
	www.cloudster.com /Sets&Vehicles/Marooned/MaroonedTop.htm (971 words)

	The Gold Rush (1925)
		The Gold Rush (1925) is the quintessential Chaplin/Little Tramp film, with a balance of slapstick comedy and pantomime, social satire, and emotional and dramatic moments of tenderness.
		It was Chaplin's own personal favorite film, that showcases the classic Tramp character (referred to as "The Little Fellow" in the re-release version) as a romantic idealist and lone gold prospector at the turn of the century, with his cane, derby, distinctive walk, tight shabby suit, and mustache.
		The film, inspired in part by the gruesome Donner Party story, was shot (over a period of 15 months from spring 1924-summer 1925) both on a Hollywood studio back lot and in Truckee, California/Nevada, and premiered in New York at the Strand Theatre in mid-August, 1925.
	www.filmsite.org /gold.html (728 words)

	ChasingtheFrog Online Movie Forum: “Marooned in Iraq” shown in Iraq from 14th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Bahman Ghobadi’s second film, “Marooned in Iraq” or “The Songs of My Motherland”, will be shown in several cities in Iraq from 14th April.
		Two weeks of the showing of the film have passed in the US at the same time where the film has met with the acclaim of US film critics.
		A short documentary on the showing of the film in the country will be made by the director of “Marooned” while he is there.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /discus/messages/3/304.html?1052675565 (257 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Marooned in Iraq
		Marooned in Iraq is similarly drunk on the horrors that war leaves behind.
		Though the film proves wearisome at times (the monotonous pitch of the film's performances shouldn't come as no surprise to fans of Iranian cinema), there are flashes of greatness here that recall both the earlier works of Mohsen Makhmalbaf and the absurdist apocalypses of Emir Kusturica.
		For Ghobadi, the human voice is not without its allegorical implications and is to be guarded not unlike the fragile earth the Kurd's have been long denied.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=649 (307 words)

	"Marooned in Iraq" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		"Marooned in Iraq" was directed by Bahman Ghobadi.
		As in Ghobadi's other films -- notably, "A Time for Drunken Horses" -- the theme is Kurdish oppression.
		CNN film -- also to be screened -- in which she shows her home, a cultural landmark that was destroyed during the U.S. invasion.
	ksgnotes1.harvard.edu /ksginfo/enews.nsf/details/3BEB151C97341EC185256E3D00745E4B (90 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Coming up, on Film Week, we'll hear from Peter and Lael about the movies, Sweet Sixteen, from English director Ken Loach, Marooned In Iraq, which is, not surprisingly, a film which is set in the Middle East.
		A film released this year, which is described as a martial arts horror film, set in 19th Century China.
		And, you know, given, you know, some of the films he's done in the past, that have been quite lively, this is, sort of, gradez, sort of, Cormanesque vampire stuff, featuring pretty tacky looking vampires, and all sorts of desiccated crumbling flesh.
	www.transcripts.net /transcripts/filmweek/FW030522.doc (7553 words)

	Kurdish films marooned in Wexner - The Lantern - Arts
		Jamsheed Akrami, a film and television professor at William Paterson University and the curator of this series, will be on hand at 6 p.m tonight for a free public reception in the Wexner Center Cafe.
		Typical of a road movie, the film is made up of numerous episodes along the journey of the three protagonists, each of whom, as it turns out, have their own personal reasons to go out searching.
		At times along the journey, the camera itself becomes its own participant, distancing itself from the protagonists in order to show us something the other characters fail to see, be it the manual labor of the Kurdish women or two handcuffed policemen dressed only in their skivvies running across a field of snow.
	www.thelantern.com /news/2004/01/09/Arts/Kurdish.Films.Marooned.In.Wexner-579402.shtml (502 words)

	The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective.
		For 12 years, the Philadelphia Film Festival (formerly the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema) has been carving out a niche as a topnotch place to catch independent and international films.
		Concerning a group of teens who role-play as vampire, the film soon becomes an exploration of madness and suspicion, as one of the youths begin to suspect that there may be actual vampires living amongst them.
		A game of wits begins, with outrageous plots twists and head-scratching platitudes, the film resolves itself in one of the most distasteful ways possible: by turning the victim of systematic abuse into a mere object of lust by the two male characters.
	www.thefilmjournal.com /issue5/phillyfest.html (1326 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| 'These are the people we never see on TV'
		Filmed on location last winter, using minimal equipment in the mountainous terrain of Iraqi Kurdistan, Turtles paints a radically different picture of life in Iraq from the one most western audiences have seen on their news channels.
		A week after the film's premiere in Arbil, Gobadi still bore the bruises from what he described as "the astonishing reaction" of the audience.
		Gobadi was born in 1969 in the border town of Baneh in Iranian Kurdistan.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1384271,00.html (1065 words)

	MCN Notepad ... Commentary
		The film will open in Sulleimanieah and Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan on the 14th followed by the Baghdad premiere on May 17.
		Following MAROONED IN IRAQ's opening in larger centers, the film will travel to smaller Kurdish towns and refugee camps, where, in the absence of movie theaters, it will be shown by mobile video projection systems.
		MAROONED IN IRAQ is Kurdish-Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi's tribute to his people, a nation of wanderers who, despite the ravages of war, continue to embrace life and celebrate it with their music.
	www.moviecitynews.com /notepad/2003/030513_tue.html (377 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Marooned' filmmaker knows feeling well (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Marooned, which opens April 25 in New York and tentatively for May 23 in Los Angeles, has won prizes at the Chicago and São Paolo film festivals.
		The film follows an old musician, an Iranian Kurd who sets out on an odyssey to find his long-lost wife in Iraq, meeting strange characters along the way.
		Though Marooned is a funny movie with a varied cast of lovable eccentrics, it manages to touch on deadly serious issues, including Hussein's reign of terror, chemical warfare and the isolated, nomadic lifestyle that has been forced on the Kurds.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2003-04-09-marooned_x.htm (523 words)

	Deals for "Weather Underground" and "Other Side of the Bed"; Ghobadi Screens in Iraq; Tribeca Recap & Much More
		Film Festival head of programming, Rajendra Roy and Mark Rabinowitz, the Hamptons' new industry liaison on the Croisette in Cannes.
		The film is the first to be publicly screened in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
		The film, the directorial debut of NYU Film School grad Paul Hough, looks at the scary world of backyard wrestling, where kids put on matches with staple guns, razor blades, and barbed-wire-covered baseball bats.
	www.indiewire.com /biz/biz_030516buzz.html (1224 words)

	Marooned (1969) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is an sf film that sets itself very much within the realms of science prediction - it is science fiction not in terms of imaginary science or technology but only by virtue of depicting a situation that had not yet happened.
		The film bristles with a determined realism - the launch sequences are highly convincing, you are never sure if what you are seeing is real or special effects.
		Sturges builds suspense well and the film moves with quite a degree of dramatic urgency, being particularly gripping when it comes to the mounting hopes and possibilities during the launch in the middle of the hurricane.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/marooned.htm (509 words)

	Marooned in Iraq on DVD - MovieWeb
		Set in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, the ultimate aim of the journey is to search for Mizra's missing ex-wife, who fled Iran to find solace in Iraq when the war pulled a sudden halt to her singing career.
		Omnipresent throughout the film are the sounds of Saddam Hussein's jets flying overhead, which serve as a reminder of the treacherous nature of the men's trip.
		Marooned In Iraq - During the end of the war between Iran and Iraq and older Iranian musician and his musical sons start a search for the man's ex-wife.
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?720917539225 (406 words)

	EI > Columns > The 46th San Francisco International Film Festival
		From the funny yet moving Iranian/Kurdish film "Marooned in Iraq," to Brazil's frenetically charged documentary "Bus 174," this is filmmaking at its finest.
		If the Sundance Film Festival is proof that American Independent cinema is still fresh and kicking, the same can be said for the San Francisco International Film Festival and the state of World Cinema.
		Where that film explored the wonderful world of insects that live in our own backyard, Perrin takes to the skies for an even more ambitious and exhilarating project that looks at the awesome journey that birds must take in their never-ending fight for survival.
	www.einsiders.com /features/columns/sfiff_2003.php (1779 words)

	Marooned Supersite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		With the embattled civic authorities finding it hard to rush help to marooned people in different parts of the city, many citizens have come forward to lend a helping hand.
		The Death of Vitus Bering - Weakened by scurvy and marooned on a deserted island, Bering and many of his sailors were unable to move even to defend themselves.
		Marooned in the middle of Malaysian Borneo, the tiny independent kingdom of Brunei is expensive and.
	www.lagunaquilts.com /listings/marooned.htm (418 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Marooned
		Some aspects of Marooned remain fictional, but the fact that something like this could (and almost did) happen adds to the overall uneasiness and suspenseful nature of the film.
		While the film is slow, that is a positive virtue.
		What all those films have in common was that they were exciting films that focused heavily on character rather than plot.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/marooned.php (1048 words)

	Term Papers on Film Studies
		This paper considers the strucutre of the film "Citizen Kane" and how it borrowed elements from earlier films and used these techniques in a new and more effective way.
		The author notes that specific science fiction elements such as the plot, sets, characters, dialogue, wardrobe, and the primary theme of Marooned were designed to appeal to science fiction audiences who were interested in space flight, space technology, astronauts, NASA flight procedures, and the exploration of the unknown.
		The film was not pure science fiction but a blend of science fiction, suspense, and horror, and shared common themes and elements with Star Trek 2.
	www.thepaperexperts.com /term_papers/film-studies-2.shtml (476 words)

	Marooned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		While watching Marooned (1969), one can't help but make comparisons to Ron Howard's much more successful and popular Apollo 13 (1995), but, as the latter was based on real life events, Marooned supposes a very likely scenario, one that asks what would happen if astronauts were stranded in space, unable to return to Earth.
		Oddly enough, similar events did occur in 1970, a year after Maroon's release, events that eventually became incorporated into the film Apollo 13...sweet irony...
		Three astronauts, already debilitated after five months in the Saturn Orbital Laboratory space station, are stranded in their return vehicle, when the engines fail to fire up.
	sf.at-cha.com /movie/marooned.html (1066 words)

	Film 'Marooned' Hit Cape with Hurricane in 1969
		By contrast, the storm in the film had relatively minor destructive effects, mostly serving the narrative function of making a rescue mission to the stranded astronauts more dangerous while impairing communications from ground control.
		The film made extensive use of actual Cape locations for both the early scenes of business as usual at ground control and the climatic chaos that followed.
		"Marooned" was adapted from the novel of the same name by SF writer Martin Caidin, who relied heavily on decades of NASA insider knowledge to help paint a detailed and sometimes harrowing picture of simultaneous catastrophe in space and on the ground.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/marooned.html (394 words)

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