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	Cineaste: The Cinema of Peter Watkins
		Watkins is, after all, a provocateur, determined to smash complacency, to reveal injustice, hypocrisy, and ignorance, and to spur his audience into action—not goals which tend to sit easy with producers or distributors, no matter their stripe.
		Watkins films are all shot in mimicry of a newsreel documentary esthetic (an apparent nonesthetic), complete with hand-held camera-work, action seemingly caught on the sly, and participants who invariably look directly into the lens, usually accompanied by the off-screen voice of the director (or interviewer).
		Watkins has never shown much interest in his characters' psychology, and while this approach may seem like a shortcoming in his speculative films, where the characters threaten to slip into abstraction or empty symbolism, here it registers as an honest and admirably materialist acknowledgment that the real Munch can only be an enigma.
	www.cineaste.com /articles/the-films-of-peter-watkins.htm (3097 words)

	Watkins, Peter
		These two titles extend Watkins repertoire of effects by their focus on individual characters caught up in evil times, though the use of montage cutting and extreme naturalism in performances combine to minimise identification, and increase the intellectual engagement of the viewer with the narrative.
		Watkins' peripatetic life, spent developing and trying to complete projects in cinema and TV, and his occasional embittered polemics in print, are all that is certain.
		Watkins' intelligence, passion and skill have been consistently masked by controversy: he is the most neglected and perhaps the most significant major British director of his generation.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/W/htmlW/watkinspete/watkinspete.htm (1146 words)

	Film Review - The Cinema of Peter Watkins
		Peter Watkins was always functioning at counterpoint-level with the industry, and he was utterly uncompromising in his work, and so he found himself at odds quite often with the money people as well.
		Watkins was born in ’35 and, unlike my friend Barbara Steele, who was born in ’37 and remembers the bombings of England in WWII as something of a child-like adventure, for Watkins the two years made all the difference.
		Watkins is brought into the montage with a lecture during which he draws a simple diagram of his ‘Monoform’ organism, elaborating on it whenever Bowie returns to him.
	www.filmsinreview.com /FilmReviews/DVDs/watkins.html (3259 words)

	Webroot \| Peter Watkins
		Peter Watkins assumed the role of chief executive officer of Webroot Software, Inc. in January of 2007.
		Peter was responsible for the strategic direction and day-to-day operations of Resonate before its sale in 2003.
		Peter received a BA in economics from Wesleyan University and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
	www.webroot.com /company/bios/watkins.html (274 words)

	Uncomfortable Truths: The Cinema of Peter Watkins
		Watkins has spent the bulk of his professional career in self-imposed exile from his homeland, a result of the BBC’s banning his 1966 film The War Game and the critics’ drubbing of Privilege the next year.
		Assembling a cast of 192 nonprofessional actors, Watkins constructs the intricate story of a strike in a Copenhagen shipyard, prompted by the management’s acceptance of a contract to build the hulls for four nuclear missile submarines for the French navy.
		Watkins made this film in response to what he perceives as a postmodern cynicism, "where ethics, human collectivity, and commitment (except to opportunism) are considered ‘old-fashioned.’" To portray the possibility for such commitment, he has created this masterfully photographed, powerfully enacted, and thoroughly engrossing "revolutionary" work.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/01janfeb/watkins.htm (1597 words)

	EdvardMunch_PeterWatkins
		The terrific intensity with which Peter Watkins began his dramatic documentary about the painter Munch was such that no spectator could have supported it for three hours and a half without smashing something near at hand or passing into a form of psychiatric care...
		Peter Watkins’ Edvard Munch is a remarkable piece of work.
		Watkins’ initial task was to establish firmly the elements in the Norwegian painter’s early life which were to haunt him continually and dictate the nature of his artistic preoccupations...
	www.mnsi.net /~pwatkins/munch.htm (1452 words)

	The Films of Peter Watkins
		Peter Watkins was born in Surrey, England in 1935.
		Through bold montage, revealing close-ups, and hand-held camera movements, Watkins deconstructed both the historical myth surrounding the battle of Culloden and the cinematic conventions of traditional costume drama.
		The film introduces us to Peter Watkins, who for the last three decades has proven that quality TV may be made without compromise.
	www.frif.com /filmmkr/watk.html (478 words)

	Peter Watkins
		Began his career in advertising as an assistant producer and turned to...
		Father of Gérard Watkins and Patrick Watkins, by his first marriage.
		The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins (2001)....
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0914386 (270 words)

	Peter Watkins Gladiatorerna The Gladiators DVD Peter Watkins Gladiatorerna The Gladiators DVD
		There are some minor blemishes, mostly in the form of speckles, but they do not detract from the viewing experience.
		Overall the unification of New Yorker and Groom is a very desirous one for film fans and DVD-ophiles.
		This is another essential for Watkins fans and those keen on exploring his thought-provoking work.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReviews20/the_Gladiators_dvd_review.htm (288 words)

	Waggish: Alexander Kluge and Peter Watkins
		Watkins is an extremely clever filmmaker who is also extremely left-wing, sliding somewhere into the anarcho-socialist category.
		I have a distaste for many documentaries because, due to the need to organize messy material into a compelling storyline, the invisible hand of the editor/director is often far more apparent than if the facts could be smoothed over in fiction, and the result is all too apparently manipulative.
		Watkins exposes these methods and those used in news reports, often with stunning verisimilitude.
	www.waggish.org /2004/06/alexander_kluge_and_peter_watk.html (549 words)

	Peter Watkins' Edvard Munch: Diagnosing panic and dread
		Watkins’ film succeeds in demonstrating that Munch’s ability to penetrate deeply into the subjective, an ability itself that had an objective component, generated an immense internal and external tension.
		Watkins indicates that Munch’s psychological self-examination was not merely an individual endeavor, but reflected something significant about the growing self-awareness of a new age.
		Watkins saw in Munch a similar marginalization and “quickly came to understand that in making a film about Edvard Munch, I was also making a film about myself.” Watkins projects onto Munch certain real and imagined problems, including something of his own martyrdom complex.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2006/mar2006/mnch-m25.shtml (1924 words)

	MAGPIE » ALEX COX ON PETER WATKINS.
		Watkins wanted to draw parallels between Culloden and Vietnam, of course, and to warn of the consequences of nuclear war.
		Kubrick and Watkins were alike in other ways, perhaps: both famously resisted the trappings of Hollywood and film festivals; both have a reputation for reclusivity and intelligence.
		Watkins has made 14 films in all, ranging from a 17-minute amateur short to an anti-nuclear documentary, Resan (The Journey), which runs for 14 and a half hours.
	www.arthurmag.com /magpie/?p=1038 (1392 words)

	Video MASS-MEDIAS : PETER WATKINS - Peter, Watkins, commune, mass-medias, clara - Dailymotion Share Your Videos
		Le point de vue de Peter Watkins, réalisateur de " Punishment Park "et" La Commune", sur le pouvoir des mass-médias, la mondialisation, la monoforme...
		Ce que dit watkins est tres interressant surtout du point de vue historique; il a commenté en 2000 si j'ai bien compris...
		On a tous du taf, et c'est evidemment pour l'ensemble que nous devons construire, et chacun peut a son echelle...
	www.dailymotion.com /group/2255/video/x4d26_massmedias-peter-watkins (554 words)

	Peter Watkins—Notes and Questions: (3) Edvard Munch. By By John Gianvito
		Peter Watkins: In the winter of 1968 I was working in Stockholm, editing The Gladiators, which was shot entirely in Sweden.
		Watkins: I find that most media professionals, including critics, are loathe to acknowledge that Edvard Munch is—among other things—a political work, and refuse to discuss, or allow it to be discussed in political terms.
		Watkins: I think that the main impact on my work, on the making of this film, came from the intensity of the similarity I felt to Edvard Munch as a man, as an artist, as someone who struggled throughout his life.
	www.cinema-scope.com /cs25/feat_gianvito_watkins.htm (3651 words)

	notcoming.com \| The Radical Histories of Peter Watkins
		Peter Watkins’ films are always situated in an uneasy relation to their subject matter.
		In so doing, Watkins uses his documentaries not only to interrogate the historical or imminent periods he is depicting, but also to question the assumptions and conditions of the present time.
		Watkins situates his audience in a disquietingly ambiguous position between past and future, fact and fiction, and a variety of different political viewpoints.
	notcoming.com /features.php?id=60 (649 words)

	notcoming.com \| The Radical Histories of Peter Watkins
		Peter Watkins’ films are always situated in an uneasy relation to their subject matter.
		In so doing, Watkins uses his documentaries not only to interrogate the historical or imminent periods he is depicting, but also to question the assumptions and conditions of the present time.
		Watkins situates his audience in a disquietingly ambiguous position between past and future, fact and fiction, and a variety of different political viewpoints.
	www.notcoming.com /features.php?id=60 (649 words)

	The War Game Revisited
		Watkins prepared for The War Game by interviewing scientists, civil defense workers, doctors, artists, and the media for their estimates on the probable effect of nuclear war in Britain and a few thoughts on the dense silence emitted from official quarters on this important matter.
		Watkins refused to budge on either point and the film was sent on its way up the BBC hierarchy.
		Watkins was hired to direct Privilege (1967), a project that originated in a story by Norman Speight (Til Death Do Us Part, the British TV series that formed the basis for All In The Family).
	picpal.com /peterwatkins.html (2247 words)

	Peter Watkins - Punishment Park - Review - Uncut.co.uk
		Since the mid-1950s, Peter Watkins has been making radical and challenging films that have mixed improvisational, dramatic and documentary techniques to incredible and often innovative effect.
		There is one story that Watkins halted filming at one point because he was worried that the actors playing the National Guardsmen had loaded real shells into their rifles.
		The extent to which Watkins found the pulse of the times can be measured in the extreme hostility of contemporaneous US reviews.
	www.uncut.co.uk /film/peter_watkins/reviews/8636 (485 words)

	Amazon.com: The War Game (1966-England): Video: Peter Watkins (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But the film director Peter Watkins gave them was never aired, and the BBC released a statement saying it was "too horrifying" for television.
		Watkins, who began his career in the 1950s as an assistant producer of television commercials, vividly portrays the effect of nuclear war by combining cleverly filmed simulated newsreels and interviews with a take-no-sides narration.
		Peter Watkins produces a BBC Documentary which is so shocking the network won't show it.
	www.amazon.com /War-Game-1966-England-Peter-Watkins/dp/B0001H0A8O (1672 words)

	Peter Watkins - Overview - MSN Movies
		October 29, 1935 in Norbiton, Surrey, England, UK Biography:Distinguished filmmaker "Peter Watkins" is best remembered for his powerful look at the potential horrors of nuclear war in "The War Game".
		Before becoming a director, "Watkins" was educated at Christ College, Cambridge, and at the London Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
		The Gladiators (2003) The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins (2002) La Commune (Paris 1871) (2000) The Freethinker (1994) The Journey, Vol.
	entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?c=169801&stab=1 (183 words)

	MoMA.org \| 2004 Film and Media Exhibitions \| Peter Watkins's The Journey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of the most significant filmmakers of his generation, Peter Watkins has made compassionate, uncompromising films and videos that challenge not only conventional styles and techniques but also notions of history and the media.
		Watkins worked with support groups around the world to raise money and assemble crews while shooting the film in the United States, Canada, Norway, Scotland, France, West Germany, Mozambique, Japan, Australia, Tahiti, and Mexico.
		He spent eighteen months editing the more than 100 hours of footage he compiled, weaving together extended family interviews, documentation of the global arms race, recollections of survivors of the bombings in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Hamburg, community psychodramas of possible disaster scenarios, and works by other artists.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/film_media/2004/watkins_2004.html (243 words)

	The History of Cinema. Peter Watkins: biography, reviews, links
		Peter Watkins cominciò a dirigere giovanissimo negli anni Cinquanta, realizzando con metodi amatoriali diversi mediometraggi antimilitaristi.
		Il tono dell'accusa e il pessimismo di Watkins condanna tutti gli aspetti della società moderna, fondamentalmente guerrafondaia, malvagia e stupida.
		Le angosce degli ostaggi nucleari europei vengono da Watkins inserite in un contesto ideologico che delinea la responsabilità delle superpotenze, bisognose di mantenere uno stato di crisi, e se necessario, pronte a scatenare una guerra, per controllare un mondo dilaniato da così tanti problemi (sovrappopolazione, fame, crisi energetica) che rischia di sfuggire loro di mano.
	www.scaruffi.com /director/watkins.html (686 words)

	Amazon.ca: Edvard Munch: DVD: Peter Watkins,Eli Ryg,Geir Westby,Gro Fraas,Knut Khristiansen,Nils-Egar Pettersen,Iselin ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edvard Munch (Geir Westby) was born in 1863 into a well-to-do and privileged family, but he had a unhappy upbringing; his mother and his younger sister died when he was at an impressionable age, and his father was cold, judgmental, emotionally distant, and unsupportive of his ambitions.
		From a storytelling point of view, its portrayal of the constant torment that led to Munch's art is oddly enthralling throughout its 3+ hr length.
		I have always marveled at how little-known Peter Watkins' Edvard Munch is, and I've been so thankful that it found me. You will be too.
	www.amazon.ca /Edvard-Munch-Peter-Watkins/dp/B000E1NX90 (729 words)

	Webroot, Peter Watkins - Webroot Names Former McAfee Exec CEO - CRN
		Peter Watkins, a current member of the Webroot board and former president and COO of Network Associates (now McAfee), has been named CEO of the Boulder, Co.-based security vendor.
		Watkins comes to Webroot from NAC startup Elemental Security, where he was CEO.
		Although he was never implicated in any wrongdoing, Watkins resigned as president of Network Associates on Dec. 26, 2000, along with CEO Bill Larson and CFO Prabhat Goyal amid massive losses and rumors of "channel stuffing," or recording sales to distributors as revenue.
	www.crn.com /sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=193600085 (252 words)

	The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins \| MTV MOVIES
		Bowie follows Watkins as he makes his most recent work La Commune, (Paris 1871), an epic six-hour reimagining of the legendary 19th century uprising against Napoleon III by the Communards.
		For Watkins, the making of a film is a political act and as such he recruited almost 200 people to work not as mere actors but as creative partners who extensively researched their parts, formed discussion groups, and contemplated modern society in relation to life in the commune.
		Contrasting Watkins' unorthodox ways, Bowie also features footage and a number of interviews from the MIP-TV, a Canadian television trade show where industry high rollers hawk documentaries.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/208464/moviemain.jhtml (351 words)

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