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	Oliver Twist (2005 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oliver Twist is a 2005 film directed by Roman Polański.
		It is based on the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
		This adaptation of Oliver Twist is not generally thought of as a success at the box office or with critics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oliver_Twist_(2005_film) (220 words)

	Polanski unveils new children's film 'Oliver Twist'. 25/09/2005. The Space: Arts News.
		Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski unveiled his latest film Oliver Twist, in which he leaves a large place for the imagination rather than special effects, admitting he is glad he has finally made a film his children can watch.
		The film took four months to produce in the studios of Barrandov of Prague where the sets were made by local teams under the close of the French-Polish director.
		But Polanski is most proud of the film's construction, describing the structure of the 1838 novel by Dickens as "loose and meandering" due to its publication in series by a weekly newspaper.
	www.abc.net.au /arts/news/artsnews_1468029.htm (468 words)

	Oliver Twist (2005): Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark, Jamie Foreman, Harry Eden - PopMatters Film Review
		And yet, Polanski's Oliver Twist is of a piece with his previous film in almost uncanny ways, demonstrating that such easy oppositions -- between,say, Jews and Gentiles, are inadequate for understanding human distress and survival.
		Oliver's fate is hardly so simple, of course, as to be rescued once and be done with it.
		Oliver is only saved from a similar descent into wickedness and madness, the film suggests, because he's rescued as a child.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/o/oliver-twist-2005.shtml (866 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Oliver Twist (2005)
		Oliver is a bystander in his own story, which is perhaps more interesting to read than to watch.
		By the story's end, Oliver seems more haunted and disturbed than he did at the beginning, and the final embrace of sorts between he and Brownlow doesn't give much assurance that Oliver is going to turn out a well-adjusted person.
		Oliver's unconscious influence and general good nature brings about his eventual salvation, but his appears to be a unique case.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=8291 (1092 words)

	Barney Clark (actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clark began acting in school plays and appeared in the 2003 film The Lawless Heart.
		He successfully auditioned for the title role in the 2005 version of Oliver Twist, directed by Roman Polanski; 800 children had auditioned for the role.
		The film opened in September 2005 and was mostly considered a financial and critical disappointment, although Clark received positive reviews for his performance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barney_Clark_(actor) (141 words)

	Oliver Twist (2005) + Kings and Queen (Rois et reine)
		Barney Clark is around the age (eleven) of Oliver Twist (and of Roman Polanski when he was separated from his parents, as it happens) and plays him with the right raffish look, but he lacks a certain fire in the eyes.
		The characters are stock, their situations the stuff of pabulum, but in Desplechin's hands, they ring with the formalist, almost-stodgy scholarship--stitched at the hip with verve and the joy of filmmaking--of the French New Wave.
		An important film, with the kicker that the moments where it strains a little under the tension of its headlong flight indicate that Desplechin, for as reckless and courageous as he seems (the film analogy is Col. Kilgore on the beach), has room still to improve.
	filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/oliverkings.htm (1019 words)

	Film Review: Oliver Twist
		This is without doubt a children's film, although with Oliver constantly under threat of being eaten by his roommates, beaten by his employers, hanged by the authorities, or murdered by his new "family", there is no denying that this is relatively dark material for the little ones.
		In one sequence, a terrified Oliver is pursued by a baying crowd, who had just moments before been watching a Punch and Judy show, leaving behind a single boy to remain riveted by the puppetry that is no less violent, if somewhat more mediated, than what is happening in the street around him.
		If Dickens' Oliver Twist is now regarded as a classic book, then Polanski has crafted something that already feels like a classic film, beautiful to look at, combining accurate period detail with a certain gothic expressionism and brimming with earthy characters and high drama.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/o/oliver_twist_2005_r3.shtml (531 words)

	Oliver Twist (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is expertly paced, slowly immersing the viewer into the plight of the young orphan and its predicament in Victorian England.
		Through a meticulous period reconstruction, superb acting, and effective characterization (all the secondary characters are memorable), the typically Dickensian theme of the survival of Innocence against all odds is dramatized with utter conviction.
		The omission of the excessively melodramatic elements from the original story (Oliver's family back-story for instance) contributes greatly to the story's strength by minimizing any trace of implausibility or mawkishness, thus providing a wide-ranging portrait of the Victorian society with its intrinsic inequalities and its rather warped sense of justice.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0380599 (423 words)

	Oliver Twist (2005): Reviews
		It's worth noting that Oliver Twist will likely be no Harry Potter at the box office, due in no small part to a lack of bombastic special effects and supernatural subplots, yet it's nearly as entertaining, even without the wizardry.
		Filming on locations in Prague and in various Czech locations serving as London and the English countryside, the director delivers Dickens' tale with some style.
		The film is not for everyone and it certainly isn't a "feel good" extravaganza like the 1968 musical "Oliver" directed by Carol Reed.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/olivertwist (1477 words)

	Film Review: Oliver Twist
		He has declared that the film is designed to be watched primarily by children and on those terms it's a success.
		The least interesting element in the film, Oliver is often reduced to the status of a passive observer and Barney Clark, who plays him, is pretty unconvincing.
		Although there is a lot of dark and occasionally macabre humour in evidence and at least one scene of heartless violence, the brutality of which took me somewhat aback, considering the film's PG certificate, there is none of the uncompromising cynicism that was once his trademark.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/o/oliver_twist_2005.shtml (916 words)

	Oliver Twist: Rachel Portman: Film Music on the Web CD Reviews December 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		At half the duration of the piece, and while it had opened in a somewhat careless and typical manner, a fast, rhythmic, tense and rousing string ostinato is introduced.
		The cue begins with the subordinate secondary theme for Oliver and moves into a new, bright and heartbreakingly uplifting theme which immediately adds light and hope to the overall mood.
		Oliver Twist is fundamentally pleasant, light, elegant, classy and uplifting.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/2005/fall05/oliver_rp.html (1116 words)

	Oliver Twist Film Review - Time Out Film
		As a novel, ‘Oliver Twist’ is episodic and often sentimental, especially in its wish-fulfilment ending – all too easy to serve up as saccharine ‘family-friendly’ stuff.
		Having seen the original fl and white musical, I was a bit disappointed that the film failed to complete the story as did the original.
		The film ends a bit suddenly and left me feeling rather depressed as the character of Fagan slips into insanity whilst in the gallows awaiting his execution....
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	Amazon.com: Oliver Twist: DVD: Roman Polanski,Barney Clark,Jeremy Swift,Ian McNeice,Richard Durden,Timothy Bateson,Andy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ever since Charles Dickens first penned OLIVER TWIST in 1837, no one ever thought that this sentimental tale of an orphan boy bounced between a gang of thieves and all-too-often uncaring London society would be the classic that it is today.
		For starters, the film is basically a bare bones version of the story, with many of its wonderful characters and dramatic plotlines either shortened or cut completely.
		Barney Clark's portrayal of the foundling born in a countryside workhouse, enslaved at age 10 by a feeble funeral director and his imposing wife, and escaped to the bowels of London, is nothing short of magnificent.
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	/FILM - Oliver Twist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		For those of you who don't know the story, little Oliver is an orphan who gets the short end of the stick too many times to be believable.
		Little Oliver, played by Barney Clark, does a fine job of being cute and cherubic amongst the throng of outcasts he surrounds himself with, and Ben Kingsley really puts himself into the role of Fagin.
		Overall, the film never falls into the traps that doing a period piece can sometimes lead; rather, Polanski here directs the film with competence and without schmaltz or hokiness.
	www.slashfilm.com /article.php/20050928olivertwist (708 words)

	Movie Review - Oliver Twist (2005) - eFilmCritic
		With this film, he demonstrates that he has the ability to direct a reasonably faithful and acceptable version of “Oliver Twist” but never gives us a hint as to why he would want to do such a thing in the first place.
		In addition, the elaborate sets of period London are quite striking in the way that they approximate the stylized look that one might find in the illustrations of a book from that time while still maintaining the sense that people are actually living in the filthy hovels and walking on the crowded streets.
		This realistic and lived-in look also comes across in the characters themselves—for once, the kid playing Oliver Twist genuinely looks and seems as if he truly is bedraggled and malnourished instead of coming across as just another fresh-faced little punk stuffing himself with pudding from the honey wagon between takes.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=12890 (807 words)

	Oliver Twist (2005) - Film Trailers @ Ultimate DVD
		Following their Academy-Award winning film, "The Pianist," director Roman Polanski and writer Ronal Harwood re-imagine Charles Dickens' classic story of a young orphan boy who gets involved with a gang of pickpockets in 19th Century London.
		Abandoned at an early age, Oliver Twist (Barney Clark) is forced to live in a workhouse lorded over by the awful Mr.
		Penniless and alone, he is lured into a world of crime by the sinister Fagin (Sir Ben Kingsley) - the mastermind of a gang of pint-sized pickpockets.
	www.ultimatedvd.org /Nl/Trailers/Details.aspx?Trailer_Id=2142859763 (182 words)

	Orlando Weekly - Film Review - Oliver Twist
		The time is ripe to revisit Twist, in which poor souls like the orphaned Oliver (Barney Clark) are shunted from exploiter to exploiter, valued for their laboring abilities yet despised for the random humility of their station.
		Don't expect Oliver and his sometime protector, the pubescent delinquent Nancy (Leanne Rowe), to share a cheery chorus of "I'd Do Anything." It isn't Dickens the musical-theater fountainhead that Polanski is interested in, but Dickens the impassioned reformer.
		Polanski's Twist is a serious and credible movie with a great many virtues – gorgeous cinematography and an activist zeal chief among them – but it's something you watch rather than lose yourself in.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /film/review.asp?rid=9837 (471 words)

	Oliver Twist Review (2005)
		The film shows a grittiness much like that in The Pianist as Oliver and the other lads must tramp through muddy, wet, rat infested parts of London to reach their lair.
		The film wouldn’t be Polanski without touches of cruelty but in his typical fashion he offers scenes of implied violence and suffering which strike more of a chord that showing the actual events.
		Other films include Dance of the Vampires, adaptations of Macbeth and Tess, What?, The Tenant, dire comedy Pirates, thriller Frantic, the ridiculous Bitter Moon, Death and the Maiden, The Ninth Gate and he won an Oscar for directing Holocaust drama The Pianist, which he followed with an adaptation of Oliver Twist.
	www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1397 (678 words)

	Review: Oliver Twist (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		At its heart, Oliver Twist is a story of misery relieved by the occasional expression of kindness.
		Brownlow (Edward Hardwicke), gives Oliver a chance at a better life, but Fagin and his cutthroat associate, Bill Sikes, are unwilling to let him move on.
		Parts of 2005's Oliver Twist rush by in an instant, making it apparent that things were cut or condensed.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/o/oliver_twist.html (561 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Reviews \| Oliver Twist (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		None of the story relating to Oliver's family was included (and Monks and the Maylies do not even make an appearance), and I have to admit that this left me feeling cheated, with the heart of the story ripped out.
		Polanski's London is a hyperreal dystopian theme park where everyone seems to be spilling out of taverns in mid-fistfight.
		But it's Lionel Bart's glorious songs we most associate with Oliver and, tellingly, this version feels strangely hollower for their exclusion.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Reader_Review/0,4163,-108177,00.html (262 words)

	Oliver Twist (2005)
		Roman Polanski's adaptation of the classic Dickens tale follows a penniless orphan who is lured into a world of crime by the sinister Fagin and his gang of pint-sized pickpockets.
		Is it possible that a film made in 1948 and by David Lean could exceed the darkness and controversy of a Roman Polanski picture?
		After watching the newest screen version of Oliver Twist, the answer is yes.
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	Combustible Celluloid film review - Oliver Twist (2005), Roman Polanski, Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark, dvd review
		The Twist story, with its poor eponymous orphan going through interminable psychological torments on the streets of a muddy, corrupt London, seemed perfect fodder for Polanski, who specializes in lone heroes and their inner demons.
		Additionally, Polanski's Oliver (Barney Clark) is terribly passive and muted, and it's difficult to crawl into his tattered shoes.
		In essence, each version of the film has something it does better than all the other versions, and each can be enjoyed as such.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /2005/olivertwist.shtml (666 words)

	The CHUD.COM Message Boards - 2005-- The year of Ben Kingsley?
		After, the trailer(which contains lame-looking visual effects scenes), many people predict that "A Sound of Thunder" will be the worst film of 2005.
		In fact, according to Baldwin Entertainment(the company of this movie's exec producer-Howard Baldwin), this movie' release date has been delayed for several times "is mostly due to the fact that the movie involves so many special effects, and it takes a long time to get all of those shots in.
		I really Hope that Kinsley does well in some of his 2005 roles, to begin the road of redemption by agreeing to be in a Uwe Boll film.
	www.chud.com /forums/printthread.php?t=76768 (683 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Oliver Twist (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It helps in these situations to be a very talented filmmaker, and 2005's adaptation of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist has the benefit of being made by Roman Polanski as his follow up to The Pianist (2002), which netted him an Oscar for Best Director.
		Fagin mentors Oliver in the ways of thievery, but on his first outing Twist is too scared to do any robbing, although he's fingered by the police anyway.
		It's easy to draw biographical parallels in the stories of Twist, Dickens, and Polanski: All were orphaned, and through this Polanski is able to draw a strong narrative out of the book.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/o/olivertwist05.q.shtml (452 words)

	Oliver Twist (1948) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Plot Summary: Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London...
		What a combination; a novel by one of the greats of 19th century literature brought to film by one of the 20th century's best directors.
		I'd read "Oliver Twist" years ago, and watching the movie transported me back to the Victorian London of the novel.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0040662 (457 words)

	CBS News \| Polanski On 'Oliver Twist' \| September 30, 2005 12:33:08
		Polanski said he discovered while filming a new version of the Charles Dickens novel that his own childhood as an orphan during World War II in Poland allowed him to identify with the film's penniless title character.
		It debuted last week in the Czech Republic, where it was filmed, and opens in theaters Friday in the United States and Poland.
		The film is based on Dickens' classic tale of a young orphan turned pickpocket in the squalor of Victorian London.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/09/30/entertainment/main891661.shtml (458 words)

	Cinemarati Blog » Oliver Twist (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I’ve noticed that several of the early notices for Roman Polanski’s Oliver Twist have focused on the problem of Polanski not having much of anything new to add to the tale.
		Still, I think this film was generally well-done; Polanski doesn’t put an obvious personal stamp on it, but there is a certain focus on background and milieu found more frequently in the films of Polanski’s prime (late 60’s/early 70’s) than in today’s large-scale productions.
		There’s a trade-off to that — unfortunately, the major characters are not as vivid as they could be — but as a depiction of the indifferent brutality of Victorian England, it’s pretty compelling.
	www.cinemarati.org /index.php/archives/oliver-twist-2005 (755 words)

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