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	Film Noir - Films
		The criminal, violent, misogynistic, hard-boiled, or greedy perspectives of anti-heroes in film noir were a metaphoric symptom of society's evils, with a strong undercurrent of moral conflict, purposelessness and sense of injustice.
		Film noir films (mostly shot in gloomy grays, fls and whites) thematically showed the dark and inhumane side of human nature with cynicism and doomed love, and they emphasized the brutal, unhealthy, seamy, shadowy, dark and sadistic sides of the human experience.
		Film noir films were marked visually by expressionistic lighting, deep-focus or depth of field camera work, disorienting visual schemes, jarring editing or juxtaposition of elements, ominous shadows, skewed camera angles (usually vertical or diagonal rather than horizontal), circling cigarette smoke, existential sensibilities, and unbalanced or moody compositions.
	www.filmsite.org /filmnoir.html (2169 words)

	Using Film to Explore History (printer-friendly version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Films serve here as a stand-in for reality; their function is to recreate another place or time, ideally in a way that will both inform and entertain.
		The bulk of the film, however, takes place years after the event and is a study of how people remember the event and how they come to terms with it (or fail to do so).
		The various conflicts that the film stages—the marauding bandits against the villagers and samurai, the tensions between the samurai and the villagers—are possible for other periods of Japanese period, yet they take on particular importance in this period because the final outcomes are not yet set.
	www.indiana.edu /~japan/Digests/film-2.htm (1672 words)

	Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
		This is not to imply that Aldrich did not have a sense of film form or that his films did not have prevailing stylistic motifs.
		This is heavy stuff, even for a film produced amid the height---or depths---of the violent, amoral B-noir pictures of the 1950's.
		According to the film notes, the original release featured an even grimmer ending than the one intended by the screenwriter and director.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Noir/Articles/KissMeDeadly/KissMeDeadly.html (1354 words)

	Period films are back, to stay : Bollywood News : ApunKaChoice.Com
		The film has Aamir Khan essaying the role of Mangal Pandey, who was executed for leading the revolt that killed many British officers.
		Another film on the anvil is N Chandra's "Indira Gandhi-A Tryst with destiny", a film based on the life and times of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
		Four ambitious period ventures this year, and many more in the coming year, means the tide has definitely turned in favour of period films in an industry where such ventures have, in the past, been usually few and far between.
	www.apunkachoice.com /scoop/bollywood/20031124-0.html (291 words)

	Venkatesh - Telugu Cinema interview - Telugu film Hero
		60% of the film is period-based and 40% of the film is contemporary.
		The period part of the film is not treated as a documentary.
		Media should find out how the films are running after a couple of weeks of release and it should encourage others to attempt these kinds of films.
	www.idlebrain.com /celeb/interview/venkatesh.html (2196 words)

	Film noir and the German-Hollywood Connection
		In film noir, events often occur in the dark of night, and the characters also tend to have their dark side.
		Despite many variations, most film noir heroes/villains are paranoid loners headed for some dark destiny, but who nevertheless manage to exchange a few snappy lines of dialog with the inevitable femme fatale along the way.
		Purists claim that “true” film noir can't be in color, which would exclude almost all of the neo-noir films from the 1960s to the present.
	www.germanhollywood.com /noir.html (1078 words)

	City of Lights, City of Angels Film Festival
		The films will be co-presented by France's L'ARP (Auteurs, Realisaeurs, Producteurs - a group of directors, producers and screenwriters), the French Film and Television Office of the French Consulate in Los Angeles, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
		Venus Beauty Institute, the opening night film, was directed and written by Tonie Marshall and stars French film favorite Nathalie Baye as a pretty middle-aged beautician who discovers that her one-night stands become meaningless when she is pursued by a man whom she ignores but who pays attention to her anyway.
		Of Women and Magic (La Chambre des Magiciennes) is a Claude Miller film which focuses on a graduate student who's been suffering six months of headaches and her experiences in a hospital room with two other women.
	www.filmfestivals.com /int/overviews/2000/citylights_angels_00.htm (668 words)

	Zeek: Film: Far From Heaven: Excavating Paradise
		Todd Haynes' new film Far from Heaven moves from his 1995 dissection of 1980s west coast suburbia in Safe to an excavation of social mores of Connecticut in the 1950s.
		Such an event would be unremarkable in most current films, impossible in the films of the 1950s.
		This is the main stylistic turn of Haynes' film: to address those aspects of 1950s life that Sirk and his contemporaries could not show, but to do so in their own highly developed cinematic language.
	www.zeek.net /film_0301.htm (411 words)

	Film Festival Today - Features - Archives
		Founded in 1999 by former Dubliner Peter Flynn, a film instructor at Emerson College and his colleague, professor Jim Lane, the Festival seeks to spotlight previously unheralded Irish filmmakers through a series of screenings of feature films, documentaries and shorts that explore a variety of Irish social and political issues.
		Film lovers last year were presented their first glimpse of the Oscar-nominated In America at the festival.
		These films, plus the success of the Irish comedies such as "Waking Ned Divine" and A-list star Colin Farrell (in "Intermission") have enabled Irish films to cross over into mainstream pop culture and are a testament to the growing versatility of contemporary subject matter.
	www.filmfestivaltoday.com /archive_item.asp?id=546 (377 words)

	Film Festivals . com - Toronto
		In town with her latest film My Generation, Kopple has been a fan of the Toronto International Film Festival since 1976 -- "when I was so young and so innocent," she joked -- when her first film, Harlan County screened here.
		The film was first presented at the Venice Film Festival, has a Gala Screening here in Toronto and then goes on to the New York Film Festival at the end of September.
		The film, a biopic of Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas who was imprisoned for homosexuality, stars Spanish superstar Javier Bardem in his first English-speaking role, and a cast that includes Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, Olivier Martinex and Hector Babenco.
	www.filmfestivals.com /toronto_2000/index_altman.htm (917 words)

	Period Piece * Study Guide
		This film explores the general discomfort around the subject of menstruation, and the pain girls experience as they negotiate relationships with their bodies and their culture.
		This section addresses the educational films that were used in school to teach girls about menstruation.
		One woman mentioned that there was fear in her family that once she got her period, she would begin to have sex.
	www.jayrosenblattfilms.com /period_guide.html (1454 words)

	Film Comment
		I doubt that even Leigh, who felt very confident about the film, realized how successful it would be, or indeed how contentious the issue of abortion would have become in the United States by the time the film was released.
		But then I realized that the year 1950 was still in the postwar period but you also get just a whiff of the spirit of the Fifties to come in the son and also in Joyce, the upwardly mobile sister-in-law.
		And therefore to make a film where abortion is both a matter of life or death for the women who need to have one, and also a matter-of-fact occurrence in the lives of perfectly ordinary people - that's a very different treatment of this material.
	www.filmlinc.com /fcm/artandindustry/leighint.htm (2147 words)

	Film noir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key fl-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography, while many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Depression.
		Film noirs embrace a variety of genres, from the gangster film to the police procedural to the so-called social problem picture, and evidence a variety of visual approaches, from meat-and-potatoes Hollywood mainstream to outré.
		The makers of film noir turned all this on its head, creating sophisticated, sometimes bleak dramas tinged with mistrust, cynicism, and a sense of the absurd, in settings that were frequently either real-life urban or budget-saving minimalist, with often strikingly expressionist lighting and unsettling techniques such as wildly skewed camera angles and convoluted flashbacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film_noir (8753 words)

	Daniel Webster College :: Library :: Locating Film Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There are also reference sources that focus on specific aspects of the topic whether it be a specific time period in film history, a particular director or movie or a certain type of film genre such as science fiction, suspense, film noir.
		REF PN 1993.5.U5B776 The Films of the Sixties
		Silent Film and the Triumph of the American Myth.
	www.dwc.edu /Library/film.shtml (537 words)

	MakingTheFilm.Com - Diary
		At the end of this period, the film was almost at a picture lock.
		The period was rounded off nicely by an e-mail from the president of the New York Film Academy, who praised the work thus far on the site.
		By the end of this period, the location scouting was complete, and some of the shots (not involving the actors) had already been filmed.
	www.makingthefilm.com /diary.html (1213 words)

	Film of the 1920-1930
		Film's transition from silent movies to "speakies" has drawn a lot of critical and scholarly attention, both within the larger community of film studies and more specifically within Emerson's campus.
		A comprehensive resource in film history, extensive material about American film in the period of the 1920's and 1930's, organized by period/key movements.
		Film History of the 1920's at http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html and Film History of the 1930's http://www.filmsite.org/30sintro.html
	home.earthlink.net /~russell34/filmweb/film.htm (906 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Giving a damn about Scarlett
		Scarlett Johansson, star of Lost in Translation and Girl with a Pearl Earring, is not only taking the film world by storm, she is also just 19 years of age.
		Although Johansson had not read the Tracy Chevalier book that inspired the latter film, she was instantly won over when she received the script.
		And shooting in period costume, with her hair covered throughout by an unflattering bonnet, was never a problem for the talented teenager.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3333833.stm (752 words)

	FILM OF WINTER 2003
		Lagaan, a period film with an anti-imperial narrative
		The last 75 minutes of the film (which runs a whopping 225 minutes) are given over to the suspense of the arduous three-day match, which exposes the brutal face of colonialism that the facade of gentlemanly sportsmanship can barely conceal.
		Because film production in India is seen as a lucrative way to invest surplus, unaccounted-for profits from other speculative investments, and until recently banks have shied away from financing films, Indian commercial films draw heavily on the larger-than-life image of their stars to deliver box-office hits.
	www.persimmon-mag.com /winter2003/Film2.html (1117 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Period detail
		The fact remains, however, that from serial drama to Merchant Ivory film, there's a certain type of period drama that continues to appeal to British people and to broadcast the appeal of a certain type of Britishness all over the world.
		The toffs are out, you can have a seaweed wrap and spa in the Chinese drawing room, and the coach parties are at the gate with their egg sandwiches, wondering where the toilets are.
		The paradigm of the headstrong girl who won't be told, Helena Period Drama has moved on, but the genre which she ruled has refused.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1566446,00.html (1125 words)

	Film & TV: Period Peace (The Boston Phoenix . 05-10-99)
		If anyone should take the blame for the stagnancy of American independent film -- besides the inevitable Quentin Tarantino -- it might as well be David Mamet.
		House of Games, his first film and one of the best, reflected the spirit of detached play that Mamet seems to share with that other theatrical wunderkind turned filmmaker, Orson Welles, who described movies as the world's greatest model-train set.
		Based on an actual event, it tells the story of an average man who is determined to see that right is done and is willing to sacrifice everything for it.
	weeklywire.com /ww/05-10-99/boston_movies_1.html (1279 words)

	What to See - Neelkanth Darshan (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An epic period film featuring an exciting and inspiring pilgrimage of Neelkanth Varni, a child-yogi, of 18th century India.
		This unique period film, Neelkanth Darshan, was shot in the icy peaks of the Himalayas in the north to the pristine shores of Kerala in the south.
		The large format film depicts India’s holy places, festivals and spiritual traditions on a giant screen that is over six stories high.
	www.akshardham.com.cob-web.org:8888 /whattosee/giantscreenfilm/index.htm (152 words)

	ASU Libraries: Film and Movie Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An electronic journal concerned with "...the history of film, television and multimedia; the representation of history on/in these media; the role of these media in social history." It is edited by Ira Bertrand at La Trobe University in Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.
		Wide Angle "...presents some of today's foremost scholarship in film studies and examines a variety of topics ranging from international cinema to the history and aesthetics of film." It is produced in cooperation of The Ohio University college of Fine Arts and the Athens Center for Film and Video and edited by Ruth Bradley.
		It is updated quarterly by the Film and Television Documentation Center of the state University of New York at Albany, 1974 to the present.
	www.asu.edu /lib/hayden/ref/art/film2.htm (1457 words)

	Ismail Merchant dies; exponent of period-piece film \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		The Merchant-Ivory brand of worldly, literate costume dramas and occasional contemporary tales spans some 40 films, from 1963's "The Householder," a domestic story set in India; through 2003's art-house hit "Le Divorce," a romantic farce.
		Ivory directed and Merchant produced, but unlike other film duos in which the director usually steals the limelight, the two were equal partners to their devoted public.
		Fans were assured of lavish production values, meticulous attention to period detail, sharp and often profound dialogue and richly melodramatic performances.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/76934 (264 words)

	Articles > Film Noir
		While it is generally agreed that the "classic period" of Film Noir began with "The Maltese Falcon" in 1941, and ended with Orson Welles' film "Touch of Evil" in 1958, there is little agreement on anything else to do with this series-movement-genre.
		Most films classified as Film Noir share a visual motif that uses strong directional lighting and deep shadows (derived from the German expressionist films, although "Citizen Kane" is often cited as the prototype), but there are notable exceptions.
		The "classic period" of Film Noir was an extremely important one in American film history, and these popular films continue to be shown regularly.
	www.pictureshowman.com /articles_genhist_filmnoir.cfm (945 words)

	Period Piece * a film by Jay Rosenblatt on a woman's first menstrual period
		Through focusing on the first menstrual period, we learn about the important and related issues of girl's feelings about womanhood, family dynamics and society's complicated attitude toward menstruation and the menstruating woman.
		Women watching this film will discover their connectedness to others, and mothers are provided with a choice they may not have realized they had about how to aid their daughters in this important and often neglected life transition.
		Period Piece is a celebration of the multicultural perspectives that are a simple fact of life in the U.S. This is an excellent film for educators.”
	www.jayrosenblattfilms.com /period.html (450 words)

	Goddess Vengamamba, on film
		Another period film in the offing is Sree Vengamamba, produced by Madala Janaki Rao and directed by Anjani Kumar.
		The film will be shot in Hyderabad and Narravada, starting from August 1.
		This will be Smitha Madhav's third film after Bala Ramayanam (where she acted as Sita opposite N T R Junior, who played Rama) and Prithvi (a film based on an artist's life).
	www.rediff.com /movies/2006/jun/30look.htm (219 words)

	Favorite Period Costume Films
		Here are some of my favorite costume dramas - the films where I find my brain wandering from the storyline to examine a particular seam on a gown - the films that have me thinking of making a costume from one of them for days after I see the movie.
		The costumes in this film, while not always authentic, and somewhat varying in time period, are none the less very pretty and set the film off wonderfully.
		This film was originally listed as done by Kate Bartlett, who is actually the film producer, as she was the only one credited for the costuming.
	homepage.mac.com /jeflynn/elysium/films.htm (2817 words)

	SUMMER SAMURAI Series previously at Film Forum in New York City
		Like all great genres, what we call the samurai film (to the Japanese, a jidai-geki, period film, or its subgenre chambara, a chop-’em-up) can encompass a wide range of subject matter and tone, while retaining its own unique flavor — as well as reserving for itself the most kinetic and balletic of action sequences.
		All of the films in this series are released by JANUS FILMS, with the exception of the following films courtesy TOHO INTERNATIONAL: Samurai Assassin, Goyokin, and Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo.
		Film Forum is located at 209 W Houston Street, between 6th Avenue and Varick, in New York City.
	www.filmforum.org /films/samurai.html (1966 words)

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