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	Northfork, West Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Northfork is a town located in McDowell County, West Virginia, USA.
		Northfork was incorporated in 1901, so named because of its location on the north fork of the Elkhorn River at its junction with the south fork.
		Northfork High School won a national high school record eight consecutive basketball championships in West Virginia AA competiton from 1974-1981, ten championships overall.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northfork,_West_Virginia (454 words)

	Northfork (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It's 1955 and Northfork, a small town on the plains of Montana, is about to be wiped off the face of the earth by a gigantic flood.
		Legend has it that the town of Northfork was originally looked out for by a group of guardian angels and it is from this rather twisted and bent angle that the Polish Brothers have chosen to approach their subject.
		In fact, the characters themselves – the angels, a caring priest, a dying boy, and a father and son whose job it is to make sure no people are left behind when the land is inundated – are as subdued in tone as the film is as a whole.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0322659 (610 words)

	Horrorview.Com: Northfork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Northfork is, quite simply, the most original, refreshing, and breathtaking film of 2003.
		The film is a dreamy and complex meditation on death; the dying Irwin, the dying Northfork, the dying innocence of an America under the weight of it's own progress.
		Northfork is a film that every cinephile out there has to make it their business to see.
	www.horrorview.com /Northfork.htm (696 words)

	Northfork
		A new dam will cause their town to be at the bottom of a great lake of water, and the town hired six men to help move the remaining townsfolk to higher land.
		He is dying because Northfork is dying, and he is looking for his relatives, or somewhere to belong.
		Northfork is their most accomplished film to date, and it will be interesting to see what they do next.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/northfork.html (554 words)

	Northfork (2003): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Northfork may be doomed, but the Polish brothers and cinematographer M. David Mullen (who worked with the brothers on their previous features, "Twin Falls, Idaho" and "Jackpot") make the place feel like heaven on earth.
		Northfork feels like the work of a couple of ardent art students who, for whatever reson, are very keen on pleasing their teacher.
		Northfork's overall ponderousness prevents it from becoming a transcendent fictive poem on the violent domestication of the West.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/northfork (1350 words)

	Northfork
		Northfork, which so badly wants to be a film of ideas, never completes a thought.
		No-one in Northfork even reflects on her actions in the face of imminent destruction -- each just does what she was already determined to do.
		Death is our most interior and personal life event, and Northfork shuts us out of the inner dramas of anyone conscious of the their own and the town's approaching death.
	www.lowiqcanadian.com /id2.html (341 words)

	Movie Review: Northfork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Northfork, from brothers Mark and Michael Polish (Twin Peaks Idaho), is a clear example of the latter.
		For me, whatever serious ambitions the Polish brothers may have had for Northfork are undercut by a number of factors, not the least of which is a jokey subtext of deadpan puns, sophomoric pop-culture references, and sight gags cropping up seemingly pointlessly, as if challenging the audience to decide whether they’re in on the joke.
		In Northfork, by contrast, the jokey elements are artificial, and strike a note of banality that undermines whatever sense of transcendence the film might be attempting in its stark, sweeping cinematography and mystical, dreamy milieu.
	www.catholicexchange.com /vm/index.asp?vm_id=2&art_id=20178 (1203 words)

	Las Vegas Weekly: NORTHFORK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		They present Northfork as a surrealist fable, with the evacuation agents giving stubborn residents pairs of angels' wings as incentive to move on, and a sickly boy named Irwin (Duel Farnes) having hallucinations (or are they?) about a bizarre group of angels who've come to claim him as one of their own.
		The characters in Northfork are all cyphers, collections of pseudo-meaningful pronouncements and over-designed costumes, as much part of the scenery as the meticulous and wonderful sets, some constructed by the brothers' father, a lifelong carpenter.
		Northfork is a remarkably ambitious film made for very little money, and for that the Polishes probably ought to be commended.
	www.lasvegasweekly.com /2003/08_07/cinema_screen2.html (600 words)

	Northfork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		With Northfork, Mark and Michael Polish have created an ambitious fable encompassing the American Dream and Christian mythologies to explore the broader, universal theme of transition--the constant condition of unending change that is inherent in the human experience and the ultimate transition, death.
		In mid-20th century Montana, the town of Northfork has been "dammed/damned"--a dam has been built to generate hydroelectric power and, as a result, Northfork will be inundated by the trapped waters.
		Northfork, unlike the Polish brothers superb and underseen first film, Twin Falls, Idaho, does not build fully realized characterizations that engage the emotions.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies6/Northfork.htm (515 words)

	The Carroll Boards - Taming Montana. "Northfork" 3.5 stars.
		“Northfork” becomes a dream-like tale of death and change — and many/most scenes seem like eeiry nightmares that could easily have been dreamed by a homesteader the night after the evacuators came to visit.
		In the end, “Northfork” is an ode to the rolling Big Sky lands which are ever so slowly but surely being “tamed” by civilization.
		But “Northfork” is not for John Wayne fans, but more for Bergman fans — the power lies in the haunting un-translated imagery, more than in the tale of uprooting settlers.
	www.carroll.edu /boards/printthread.php?t=1386 (676 words)

	Playback St. Louis Reviews - Northfork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		So when Northfork, their third film, screened relatively successfully at Sundance earlier this year, I was reasonably enthusiastic about seeing it, as it looked a lot more interesting than Jackpot had, if nothing else.
		The plot is scattered and nonlinear, involving the denizens of a town called Northfork who spend their time looking for angels, building arcs, and generally doing any other heavy-handed thing they can to draw broad metaphors with heaven.
		To be more specific as to how Northfork feels like a twice-removed Lynch knockoff, consider the fact that it (as well as the Polish brothers’ other two features) focuses exclusively on the citizens of an odd, small town, just as Twin Peaks did in the early ’90s.
	www.playbackstl.com /Current/NP/northfork.htm (490 words)

	Northfork (2003) - About the Production
		Northfork was conceived by the Polish Brothers as a fairytale, complete with comedy and fantasy, as well as room for many different interpretations.
		Northfork also became about the nature of dreams, as the brothers decided that their Angels would visit Irwin while he was in a twilight state of illness.
		Northfork’s unconventional storytelling style and surreal mood attracted a cast of some of the finest actors working in Hollywood today, despite the fact that they worked for scale in physically and emotionally demanding circumstances in the middle of some of America’s most remote country.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /northfork_about.htm (11147 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Northfork
		"Northfork," which concerns the impending flooding of a town on the Montana Plains as part of a hydroelectric damming project, is like a frappe of "Wild River," "Heaven's Gate" and "Barton Fink," with a little "Wizard of Oz" thrown in for good measure.
		And the plot, as it were, of "Northfork" concerns an evacuation team of six fedora- and trenchcoat-outfitted men, among them the father-son team of Walter (James Woods) and Willis (Mark Polish) O'Brien, placed in charge of moving Northfork's few remaining residents from their low-lying homesteads to higher ground.
		But what is most impressive about "Northfork" is the fierce commitment of its actors, particularly Woods, to pic's inner rhythms and hidden logic, so that they become our guides through the Polishes' idiosyncratic and frequently intimidating world, and so that we are deeply moved by their work even without knowing exactly why.
	www.variety.com /index.asp?layout=review&reviewid=VE1117919790&categoryid=31&cs=1 (760 words)

	Northfork - a Movie View review by Ryan Cracknell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Northfork used to be a quiet town in Montana.
		The idea of Northfork's leaders flooding their town shows that progress has gotten to a point where man can not only build, but destroy as well.
		Northfork marks the final installment of the Polish brothers' small-town America trilogy.
	www.theplaza.ca /moview/Films/N/northfork.html (563 words)

	Northfork (2003) - FilmAffinity
		Northfork is a beguiling story of loss and resurrection, about adjusting to the strange new places towards which we sometimes find ourselves heading.
		Blending surreality and history, the film is spun in the manner of an American fairy tale that tackles such themes as land, life, faith, death, the afterlife and the power of dreams with a distinctively playful touch.
		Northfork is the latest installment from the Polish Brothers, who previously won acclaim for Twin Falls, Idaho and Jackpot, the first two films in a series about America’s Heartland -- and the country's shifting dreams and visions.
	www.filmaffinity.com /en/film568254.html (413 words)

	Northfork (2003) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		Northfork is the latest installment from the Polish Brothers, who previously won acclaim for Twin Falls, Idaho and Jackpot, the first two films in a series about America’s Heartland – and the country’s shifting dreams and visions.
		Northfork, Montana, is about to be removed from the face of the earth.
		Northfork is a mixture of narrative and dream and inspiration with the boundaries between them all very blurred.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /northfork.htm (1383 words)

	calendarlive.com: 'Northfork'
		Michael and Mark Polish's "Northfork," the third of their films delving into the yearnings of the American heartland, is an enigmatic yet seductive film that presents a challenge to the viewer even as it evokes a mystical feeling of transcendence.
		"Northfork" is an evocative piece of Americana, rich with feelings of loss and longing — a consideration of the eternal cycle of life and death and of the ruthless inevitability of change, of the interplay of cruelty and kindness, wisdom and foolishness, that constitutes human nature.
		"Northfork" is also a prairie folk tale expressing with hand-hewn charm and tenderness the possibility of an afterlife, or at the very least that there's always a lot more to life than meets the eye.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-thomas11jul11,0,637051.story (745 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Northfork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Somewhere in the desolate Midwest, the town of Northfork is about to be drowned in the waters held back by a new dam.
		Northfork would be a textbook case of style over substance, if there were any substance there at all.
		Various subplots involve three teams of related men hired to move the locals who refuse to leave their homes; the priest who runs the local orphans' home, which is left with a sole orphan to place; and four individuals impossible to describe who are searching for a relative.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000UJL82 (1116 words)

	Northfork (2003)
		Review: Northfork is one of those movies that will garner two kinds of reviews: the kind that hail it as one of the best films of the year (and one of the best films of all time, as I read in one review), and the kind that deems it a meandering snoozefest.
		The film cuts freely between this reality and the surreal dreamscapes of a sick young boy, though it becomes increasingly evident that neither one makes any more literal sense than the other, and that the boy's delusions may in fact not be figments of his imagination.
		Images of a graveyard which must be completely excavated before the flooding remind us that Northfork is much sadder than a ghost town, because not even its ghost will remain.
	www.moviepie.com /filmfests/northfork.htm (594 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Northfork
		Northfork (2003) is the third film in the Polish Brothers' trilogy (following Twin Falls, Idaho and Jackpot) that utilize towns in the Midwest as a backdrop for their imaginative storytelling.
		The story of Irwin, with its fairy-tale imagery, is an obvious parallel of the death of the town itself, although this presents a certain amount of pretentiousness to the overall narrative.
		Paramount presents Northfork in an anamorphic transfer (2.35:1), and while the Dolby Digital 5.1 audio sounds good, the vocal track is very quiet and may require listening at a high volume to capture all of the dialogue (or watching the film with optional subtitles).
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/n/northfork.q.shtml (482 words)

	Northfork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I hate to come down hard on a film as non-traditional and cinematically assured as Northfork when there are Bad Boys II and leagues of ‘Extraordinary Gentlemen out there but come down hard I must.
		It’s like the pie shell of an early Cohen Brothers drama without the filling, a shaggy dog story told with confidence and authority but one that soon becomes a little too silly for its own good (around the time the knowing winks kick in).
		Northfork is admittedly well crafted but otherworldly and aloof.
	members.dca.net /dnb/reviews/northfork.htm (102 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Northfork
		Northfork (2003) is the third film in the Polish Brothers' trilogy (after Twin Falls, Idaho and Jackpot) intended to serve such a purpose.
		Each of these characters, along with their pet (a walking dog seemingly made of sticks), can be seen in the various items that rest on Irwin's nightstand — a Hercules comic, a cup of tea, a bottle of cod liver oil, Father Harlan's cane, a vase in the shape of ceramic hands, and his Viewfinder.
		The story of Irwin, with its fairy-tale imagery and whimsical nature, is an obvious parallel of the death of the town itself, although this presents a certain amount of pretentiousness to the overall narrative.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/n/northfork.shtml (1246 words)

	Northfork review - movie review of the Michael Polish film starring James Woods
		A baroque and surrealist work, Northfork, like its village subjected to doom, is located somewhere between art and the sacred, a cinematographic painting transfigured over a foundation of social criticism.
		Northfork, the third installment of this trilogy, or triptych by implication of the angels, imposes in the continuity of the two preceding films through its themes, but finally exposes the singular and ambitious palette of the Polish brothers.
		The desaturated cinematographic palette, allied with the extreme slowness of the full-length film and certain historical elements, causes sadness but also gives the whole work the air of a newspaper yellowed by time: we are in 1955.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/northfork.html (525 words)

	Northfork
		In making "Northfork," the filmmaking Polish brothers, Mark and Michael, had a feeling (a wistfulness, a sense of loss).
		In its place are empty gestures, cute feints, meaningless scenes attempting to get by on gimmick casting and, all in all, a bunch of utter nonsense.
		To see "Northfork" is to hope that the Polish brothers continue to make movies but stop writing them.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/reviews/movies/NORTHFORK.DTL&type=printable (316 words)

	Review: Northfork (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Northfork is moody and atmospheric - a study in tone over plot and pacing over characterization.
		Unfortunately, in devoting all of their efforts towards the film's look and feel, co-creators Mark and Michael Polish have crafted a motion picture that is static, occasionally opaque, and, worst of all, boring.
		Northfork is not entirely without merit, but its good points are likely to be seen only by those who appreciate inert, emotionally stunted cinema and who manage to stay awake.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/n/northfork.html (559 words)

	Northfork (2003): Peter Coyote, Anthony Edwards, Duel Farnes - PopMatters Film Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		While only one component in Northfork's odd vista, Flower Hercules stands out, in part because s/he is not a man, in a film full of them, in pressed suits and ragged duress, by degrees frustrated, bristling, and conniving.
		The reason for their flight is the film's second major plot-point-as-metaphor (after, or in tandem with, the angels): it's 1955, and Northfork, Montana is about to be flooded, owing to a spangly new hydroelectric dam.
		When the parents leave, uttering precious few lines between them, the child serves as the sympathetic, vulnerable, if somewhat mythic, individual; at the same time, the dam, along with its fl-suited, narrow-tied representatives, become emblems of earnest industry and the future from which there is no turning back.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/n/northfork.shtml (968 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Northfork
		Set in 1955, the film concerns the mystical town of Northfork, an austere Montana wasteland that's about to be flooded by the local government.
		Father and son Evacuators team (James Woods and Mark Polish, respectively) try to convince a man with two wives to abandon the arc he's built in preparation for the impending flood, but the pair's advice is at odds with their own conflict about whether or not to move their deceased wife/mother from the local cemetery.
		Northfork strikes an original chord but, I surmise, not one that will be music to everyone's ears.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=713 (373 words)

	Northfork
		Beautifully filmed in tones of fl and white, "Northfork" compares to your typical movie as poetry compares to your typical novel.
		"Northfork" is a beautiful film and artists may certainly appreciate it and perhaps see it several times, but for me it is too stylized, too dark and too surreal.
		Though not my cup of tea, "Northfork" is masterfully filmed, visually stunning in its bleakness and extremely creative.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /20035q/id1990.htm (543 words)

	Modamag.com \| Northfork (Movie Review)
		It is 1955 and the residents of Northfork, Montana are being evacuated to higher ground due to the construction of a dam ready to flood the valley.
		In its finest hour, “Northfork” is a visual wonder, affectionately crafted with patience and artistry.
		“Northfork” does amaze with its photography, but the one place it cannot touch is the heart, and that’s the one area “Northfork” wants to connect with the most.
	www.modamag.com /northfork.htm (455 words)

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