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  Multiplicity of suits Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Multiplicity of suits is a term to describe when more than one lawsuit exists regarding the same transaction or occurrence.
Multiplicity Ltd has announced it has recently installed a Capic blancher/cooling system for rice, pasta and potato for use in prepared salads...
Trauma and multiplicity in Nieh's Mulberry and Peach.(Critical Essay)
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 Tribeca Film Festival-News - TAA Program Release
The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff after the attacks on the World Trade Center to help economically and culturally revitalize Lower Manhattan through an annual celebration of film, music, and culture.
The Festival’s mission is to assist filmmakers to reach the broadest possible audience, enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film, and to promote New York City as a major filmmaking center.
As Founding Sponsor of the Tribeca Film Festival, American Express is committed to expanding the Festival, bringing it to new audiences in compelling ways while offering Cardmembers and the general public special benefits that enhance the festival-going experience.
www.tribecafilmfestival.org /news-taa-program-release.html   (2040 words)

  
  Multiplicity (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Multiplicity is a 1996 film starring Michael Keaton and Andie MacDowell.
The film was produced and directed by Harold Ramis.
In the movie Keaton's character, Doug Kinney, is a stressed-out family man who meets up with a scientist who has developed a successful means for cloning humans.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Multiplicity_(movie)   (250 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Since the plastic film 10 is melted and conforms to the shape of the apertures 36, the shape of the macro-apertures 60 corresponding to the apertures 36 become substantially regular and thus the plastic film 10 with the dimensionally stable macro-apertures 60 becomes substantially dimensionally stable and resilient.
During this process, because a region of the wall 61 of the plastic film 10 melts, the fine scale, volcano-like micro-apertures 50 on the wall 61 tend to disappear such that the wall 61 of the plastic film 10 conforms to the apertures 36 of the forming structure 35 and is substantially without micro-apertures.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The material to fill the capsules is supplied between the films as the films deform into the cavities ; as the dies move the films come together and are sealed together by application of heat and/or pressure at the dies.
The recesses may be formed by moulding, preferably by placing the films against a mould having a multiplicity of cavities corresponding to the shapes of the recesses to be formed.
The film 12 with filled recesses 16 covered by the thinner film 13 is hence released, and moves forward as the next set of recesses 18 is moved into the welding position.
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 Keaton's latest filled with cliches
And so, "Multiplicity" plodsalong in the gentle, reassuring manner of a TV sitcom (allthat's missing is the laugh track), with the expected "wacky"confusion resulting from the interaction of the three Dougs.
Truth be told, a couple of moments of genuinely riotousfarce do result from some rather obvious shenanigans (such asan encounter between two of the Dougs in the same restaurant),but it comes as a disappointment to see Ramis and his four (count`em: four) co-screenwriters content themselves with such simplepleasures.
For Keaton, "Multiplicity" is a field day that allowshim to (ultimately) play four variations on his staid screenpersona.
www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V128/N10/01-keaton.10d.html   (864 words)

  
 Multiplicity.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
is a film about a man who clones himself in order to have more time to spend with his wife (his marriage is failing and he believes that this is because he works too much).
The film fails to achieve any noteworthy discussion on reproducability, unless we are to believe that it is positing that gender characteristics are defined by action.
The film takes an unexpected turn by emphasizing the masculinity of working man "2" and contrasting that burping, lounging in boxers, football watching character with the femilinity of anally precice, house husband "3".
cinemaspace.berkeley.edu /~rachel/repro/multi.html   (380 words)

  
 Movie Reviews: The Visitors, Multiplicity, Dancougar
The film is just a setup for some slapstick, and there is no emotion behind the characters or the clones.
Basically, this film is a male fantasy movie for men trapped in all that terrible family responsibility stuff (working for a living, watching their own kids, picking up after themselves and...gasp...being supportive of their wives).
Multiplicity is a chuckle because of all the Michael Keatons, but there's not much else to admire.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue26/movie.html   (1424 words)

  
 Genders OnLine Journal - Multiplicity and Its Discontents: Feminist Narratives of Transnational Belonging
There is a general sense that the double or multiple attachments afforded by diasporic modes and sensibilities lead not to disunity, diffusion, and treason, as nationalist discourses would maintain, but to a gainful multiplicity of perspectives, languages, and knowledges.
The film traces the roots of her breakdown, ending with her recovery through therapy and determination to alter her role in the family.
Vasu says her conflict is borne of the multiple relocations and readjustments and as an adult her ambivalence regarding the compulsion to give of herself unceasingly to her two sons and husband.
www.genders.org /g37/g37_kandiyoti.html   (7930 words)

  
 Show #132 of Reeling: The Movie Review Show with Robin and Laura Clifford
A film like this provides the release valve that the 90's audience needs, almost like the way the audiences of the 50's needed relief from thinking about the bomb.
The film starts off as broad comedy, with Frank and his netherworld buddies doing a bit of free enterprise in drumming up their own business.
"Multiplicity" is the latest film by director and sometimes actor Harold Ramis and stars Michael Keaton as an overworked construction contractor who just doesn't have time to get his job done AND be the husband/father that his family needs.
www.reelingreviews.com /reel132.htm#independenceday   (4079 words)

  
 Double Articulation: The Doctor Doom Effect: Tim Story’s Fantastic Four (2005) and Four Super-Franchise ...
I want to approach this question circuitously, because even though Doom is the most obvious problem, his weakness as an antagonist is symptomatic of the film’s failure to overcome a larger set of challenges that face every superhero movie that is intended as either a stand alone feature or the first in a series.
Mainstream film audiences generally expect their adventure pictures to have narrative closure, and only in exceptional cases are studios prepared to risk frustrating that expectation by creating open-ended adventures.
Among recent films, the most effective screen villains are either minimally or austerely “costumed” (Magneto, William Stryker, Lady Deathstrike) or else they wear “costumes” that reference an entirely filmic set of frightening images.
doublearticulation.blogspot.com /2005/07/doctor-doom-effect-tim-storys.html   (5013 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
MULTIPLICITY is always about the farce of several Doug Kinneys getting each other into trouble, and the fact that it works so well and so often shows how artfully Ramis is able to execute that farce.
MULTIPLICITY is a very funny film, full of clever touches like the character of a blissfully incompetent sub-contractor played by Eugene Levy and a housing development called "Vista del Nada" (View of Nothing), and it's easy to keep smiling through most of its 110 minutes.
As the film wraps up, Doug is forced to save his marriage by facing hard truths about himself, but exactly what those truths are and how they relate to the cloning escapades which have come before are never quite clear.
www.cc.gatech.edu /classes/AY2005/cs6300_fall/projects/project5/movies/56/5637   (783 words)

  
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In the film, Jacob's Ladder, for example, one is confronted with a flux of seemingly disconnected images, which only make sense to the viewer after having seen the end of the film.
Throughout the film, at least up until the end, the viewer attempts over and over again to formulate a sensible, coherent account of the images portrayed, assuming of course one views it from the upper portion of Plato's divided line.
Likewise, in the case of the projection of a film, the director/producer is one who will have control over the shaping of the myth, and once shot as wished, the film will have a power of stability not guaranteed by the stage play.
www.mtsu.edu /~jpurcell/Cinema/plato_film.html   (3203 words)

  
 Millennium Film Journal: Joe McElhaney
Whatever else one might say about them, the films being made by Epstein, Gance, BuÒuel, Clair, L'Herbier (or, for that matter, virtually any other films cited by Marker in the installation, from Griffith to Garbo to Vertov) are borne of an absolute certainty of the nature of their missions.
In some cases, one would have to be intimately familiar with the original film to know that Marker is violating his own historical parameters, that, for instance, one of the images of Garbo is from the sound film Mata Hari and not from one of her silent films.
Second, while Marker frequently films Belkhodja in such a way that she is intended to evoke the archetypal modes of silent film behavior, what we are most frequently reminded of as we watch these video images is the inability to achieve this symbiosis.
www.mfj-online.org /journalPages/MFJ29/McElhaneyMarker.html   (3805 words)

  
 IAFT Faculty - Film and Acting School: International Academy of Film and Television - Professors, Teachers, Instructors
Was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival, given the Best Film Award in the Molodist International Film Fest and the Gold Award at the New York Expo of Short Films, and the Reel Frontier Special Jury Award at the Arizona International Film Festival in 2004.
Containing film and television, to music videos and documentaries, he holds a long catalog of credits that include many short and feature length films that have made the rounds in renowned film festivals.
The indie film, Napoleon Dynamite, which was their producing debut, took the industry by storm when it swept awards such as MTV Movie Awards, Teen Choice Awards, U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, and Satellite Awards.
www.filmschool.ph /mentors   (2704 words)

  
 FILM REVIEW -- Keaton Divided, Conquered / Cloned actor almost saves `Multiplicity'
`Multiplicity,'' about a busy man who gets himself cloned, is a pleasant two-hour diversion, but it could have been more than that.
In ``Multiplicity'' the clone is an identical replica, with the same mind and memories as the original.
At 110 minutes, ``Multiplicity'' is long for a comedy, and it shows signs of having been heavily edited.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/07/17/DD45872.DTL   (580 words)

  
 ArtandCulture FILM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1896, the famous inventor Thomas Edison won the patent for the Latham Loop, a device that prevented the film inside a camera from snapping.
It is easy to forget, in a time when most universities feature rigorous deconstructions of films in their curricula, that not so long ago the cinema was considered a debased form akin to vaudeville.
TV is a multiplicity: a speeding up, a slowing down, history all at once and not at all.
www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/movement?id=371   (196 words)

  
 Times & Free Press Movie Reviews: "Multiplicity"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Multiplicity" is the screenful of comic relief we've been needing from the summer's high-tech juggernauts.
The movie is quite a showcase for Keaton, and he fills it for the most part brilliantly, avoiding the pitfalls of playing himself in quadruplicate and steering the comedy around an overlong script and sometimes poky direction.
Although "Multiplicity" could have been snappier and fizzier, Keaton, Keaton, Keaton and Keaton give it lots of wired verve.
www.timesfreepress.com /cityscape/diversions/filmfinder/multiplicity.html   (583 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Multiplicity: DVD: Michael Keaton,Andie MacDowell,Zack Duhame,Katie Schlossberg,Harris Yulin,Richard ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Multiplicity is now available to download for $9.99 from Amazon Unbox.
Michael Keaton's performance in the hilarious film "Multiplicity" is outstanding.
Michael Keaton is great in this film and he plays three other personalities: a macho man workaholic, a feminine do-gooder, and a mentally inept guy.
www.amazon.com /Multiplicity-Michael-Keaton/dp/0767806808   (1141 words)

  
 Review: Multiplicity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Multiplicity taps into this universal fantasy, using it as the premise for the latest comedy from director Harold Ramis (Groundhog Day).
At best, it could be argued that she does an adequate job, but this is far from a clinic in the art of acting or capturing the audience's sympathy.
Multiplicity is an uncomplicated comedy with a lot of big laughs and a disappointingly weak framing story.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/multiplicity.html   (586 words)

  
 English 101 Section J2 Webpage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The film Strange Brew is constructed on thematic material drawn from Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Prince of Denmark, which is transformed through a pseudo Canadian mystic identity.
This strong indication of post-modern material in a film of pseudo-Canadian content corresponds to Richard Gwyn's assertion that Canada is a post-modern state.
We have included this multiplicity as an essential part of our 'culture,' which may only be loosely defined as such, but may more accurately be called an 'un-culture' due to its resistance to narrowing into a single unity.
www.arts.ualberta.ca /~gifford/eng101/lectures/strangebrew.htm   (1595 words)

  
 Science & Theology News - Clones on Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This 30-minute film from 1999 follows scientists in the cloning field, including the geneticists from the Roslin Institute responsible for cloning Dolly the sheep.
At the emotional center of the film is Gerry McCann, a Parkinson’s disease sufferer, who visits these researchers but remains morally opposed to the production of human embryos, even if it means finding a cure for his debilitating illness.
“Film and fiction are important in helping people to think in advance about ethical issues raised by new technology,” said Clark Wolf, director of bioethics and an associate professor of philosophy at Iowa State University.
www.stnews.org /news-2138.htm   (1183 words)

  
 bowlingforcolumbine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The unwillingness of corporate executives to own up to their inhumane treatment of workers and their families was made painfully clear through the refusal of Roger Smith, then Chairman of the GM Board, to grant an interview with the filmmaker.
Unfortunately, the multiplicity of the film's connections is a weakness.
I went to see this film with another intelligent person, of whom I asked one question when we walked out of the theatre: “What did the film see as the origin of handgun violence?” My friend replied that the film gave no answer, simply raised the question.
www.domlife.org /moviereviews/body_bowlingforcolumbine.html   (836 words)

  
 Multiple Personality - Astraea FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Persons in multiple systems who claimed to be spirits, such as Doris Fischer's Margaret, were often taken at their word as being what they said they were until proved otherwise.
Empowered multiples are those whose people learn to cooperate, perhaps to communicate with each other (whether through notes or directly), to organise themselves into a responsible operating system, and see multiplicity as a positive part of their lives --regardless of how their multiplicity originated.
Multiples who experience living in other worlds when not up front may think of their earth body as a portal or gateway from their own world to the earth world or world-at-large -- that is, present-day physical consensus reality.
www.astraeasweb.net /plural/faq.shtml   (13506 words)

  
 Film review: `Multiplicity' not worth repeating minus Keaton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In Multiplicity, Michael Keaton is one clone short of his own Dream Team.
Had the rest of the film's players been up to his league MVP performance, they'd be looking forward to gold at the medal ceremony.
The computer compositing of the Four Keatons into one image is quite a technical marvel and Keaton individuates and integrates the four entities wonderfully.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/07/17/multipicity.0-1.html   (511 words)

  
 Books, films, and web sites about multiplicity
Interest in multiple personality disorder has generated a staggering amount of media, and the best I can hope to do here is offer a few pointers on where to start wading.
In one priceless early scene, Elizabeth attends a dinner party where one of her alters repeatedly pops out and insults the host; but since the entire scene is written from Elizabeth's perspective, we, like she, have to infer what is going on from the host's reactions.
Real-life multiples are understandably not flattered by the metaphor, but I think the key to these movies' popularity is that everyone has a dark side, and everyone worries about what would happen if the "bad me" got out—or got found out.
home.att.net /~storytellers/multiref.html   (1438 words)

  
 The Mummy (1999)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Here, the makers took the original stock horror film and turned it into an Indianajonesesque adventure in the tradition of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The most visually rich part of the film was the opening scenes set in ancient Egypt.
But Velazquez isn't the only thing to turn heads in the film, Rachel Weisz is appropriately attractive, though not as startling; her character is as solid and believable as she is lovely.
The special effects were the real star of the film, and they were visually rewarding and complimented the story in the right way in the right places.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0120616   (605 words)

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