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	Colin Firth in Girl with a Pearl Earring
		Peter Webber's film about a servant girl who inspires a famous portrait by 17th-century master Johannes Vermeer is laughably predictable in its plotting, crude in its symbolism, ploddingly paced and often rendered almost comical by the heavy-breathing overacting of Johansson's supporting cast.
		Peter Webber's debut feature is a languid affair, as studiedly brown as the Vermeer paintings that it builds on for its painstakingly detailed portrait of life in 17th century Delft.
		Webber gives a long, long close-up on Johansson's face as she models for that famous portrait study and the effect really is swooningly beautiful, though a little coercive—as if we were being ordered to swoon.
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		Peter Webber himself was an Art major in college, although he says he did not expect a film like this as his first film.
		Webber fought to cast Johansson: "Way back then, it's just [about] the script, a conversation between director and producer where a producer said to me, 'We can't raise the money from this actress.' Now I never saw anyone else apart from Scarlett who could do the role.
		Webber's love of art provided the initial basis for learning about this mysterious painter and his interest in the story: "Vermeer has always been one of my favorite artists.
	www.sfo.com /~meluchie/articles/03ign1211.html (2275 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Girl with a Pearl Earring at Epinions.com
		Peter Webber's film adaptation of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is filled with breathtaking beauty and imagery with spellbinding performances from Firth & Johansson.
		In the case of Peter Webber’s film adaptation of “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, the result is a film that is breathtaking with its luminous, evocative imagery of mid-17th Century Dutch at the Delft.
		For Peter Webber, it’s one hell of a directorial debut that will be hard to live up with while Tom Wilkinson and Colin Firth give their best performances to date.
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	Ancestors of Brian Clayton BERGSTROM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		son of George W WEBBER and Ellen A MACDOUGALL, was born on 19 Sep 1870 in Greenley, Nebraska and died on 19 Apr 1921 in Midway, St Louis, Minnesota,, at age 50.
		son of Peter WEBBER and Catheria, was born in Mar 1848 in New York and died in 1909 in North Dakota,, at age 61.
		Peter WEBBER was born in 1811 in Pennsylvania and died in 1875,, at age 64.
	www.fast411.com /bergstrom.ws/ancestry/brian.htm (675 words)

	Channel 4 Television - Live Chat! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Peter Webber : OK. Erm...sorry I'm not a Doctor, but Peter Halligan's contact address is available in the backup booklet, available from Channel 4.
		Peter Webber : Unfortunately, the majority of amputations affect the arms and the legs, and thus the hands and the feet these areas have a lot more nerves than, the trunk of your body for example.
		Peter Webber : Unfortuanately - or fortunately - depending which way you look at it, the history of science has been all about changing man's position with regard to world he lives in.
	chat.channel4.com /pastchats/pastchat73.html (2082 words)

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		Based on the acclaimed novel by Tracy Chevalier, Peter Webber’s first feature is a beautiful study of the glorious surfaces and emotional depths of the period.
		When young Griet goes to live and work in the household of Johannes Vermeer, she must maintain her equilibrium in a situation where privacy is hard to come by, the lady of the house, Catharina (Essie Davis), is demanding and perennially pregnant, and her mother, Maria (Judy Parfitt), is tight-fisted and strict.
		Peter Webber directed his first short film, The Zebra Man (94) as soon as he finished film school, then worked as a film editor.
	firthfriends.com /gwape/gwape_tiff.html (843 words)

	shots - news
		Peter Webber, who is currently enjoying global success with his debut feature, Girl With A Pearl Earring, has signed to Love in London for commercials representation.
		Webber is currently promoting Girl With A Pearl Earring internationally, before heading to LA to shoot an episode of Six Feet Under in March.
		Webber will be working with ex-2AM Films producer Stephen Brierly, who is currently freelancing but will be working with Webber through Love.
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	WEBBER, Peter John/
		I also give and bequeath to my beloved daughters Mary Myers, Nancy Harper and Eliza Webber one hundred and fifty acres of land adjoining the land to the Westward of that I have bequeathed to my son Thomas, the same to be equally divided among them, share and share alike.
		I also give and bequeath my beloved son William Webber my share of the Scallop Four Sisters, but it is my intention that my three sons James, Peter and William do eventually assist and help to maintain the Mother and Sisters.
		Peter Webber squatted on 250 acres of vacant land at Clam Bay which was later granted to him in April 1818.
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	"Girl with a Pearl Earring": Kate Hudson Walks, Vermeer Gawks, and Webber Talks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Webber: From the producers' point of view, what's good about Luxembourg is that there's a 25 percent tax credit.
		Webber: It was an interesting period for British cinema, but this film is much more restrained I would say.
		Webber: You have to really work on the visual scale to take something very small and make it have a large impact on the audience.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_031218webber.html (1279 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Girl with a Pearl Earring -- Peter Webber - DVD - Wide Screen
		Peter Webber's direction must be credited for the subtle, understated performances of his principal players, who convey deep emotions with the simplest of glances and expressions.
		The subject of one of Johannes Vermeer's most enduring portraits becomes the focus of this biographical period piece from director Peter Webber.
		Girl With a Pearl Earring is told from the point of view of Griet (Scarlett Johansson), a teenaged girl who leaves her family's care in the country to become a servant for the Vermeer household in the comparatively bustling, canal-laden burgh of Delft.
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	BBC - Films - Girl With A Pearl Earring DVD
		"A superior British costume drama", Peter Webber's Girl With A Pearl Earring generated a lot of buzz for actress Scarlett Johansson, although she'd later get the Oscar nod for her role in Lost In Translation.
		Meanwhile, Cillian Murphy explains the difficulty of moving his facial muscles in sub-zero temperatures, and director Peter Webber tells how something as simple as a jammed window-shutter can leave you unstuck.
		Everything from the continuity of cutlery, to lighting and editing is put under scrutiny to demonstrate exactly how Webber achieved the tension that lies beneath this seemingly jolly get-together.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2004/05/25/pearl_earring_2004_dvd_review.shtml (558 words)

	51st San Sebastian International Film Festival 2003, September 25, 2003
		Webber explains that he made films for television and was developing a thriller when a chance, overheard conversation with his producer's assistant about the impact his first viewing of "Girl with the Pearl Earring" (a replica was hanging outside the producer's office) had on him resulted in a chance at the job.
		When asked about Colin Firth by a female journalist, Webber laughed, saying that the ladies always asked about Firth, who was presently shooting "Bridget Jones 2." Webber said that Firth had a brooding quality but that he could also express great tenderness on screen.
		Webber went on discuss the film's costumes, which he said were stripped back and made simpler than the period would have dictated in order to pay attention to the characters.
	www.reelingreviews.com /sanseb92503.htm (1755 words)

	Haber's Art Reviews: Girl with a Pearl Earring
		Peter Webber's quiet film adaptation of the Tracey Chevalier novel shows enormous sympathy to its subject.
		Webber captures a culture's peculiar blend of sobriety and luxury, clean clothes and dirty hands, firm social structures and religious tolerance.
		Webber and his director of photography, Eduardo Serra, linger on the details—above all, the studio and the light.
	www.haberarts.com /pearl.htm (2264 words)

	Colin Firth in Girl with a Pearl Earring
		Webber’s appreciation for Vermeer was one reason he landed the directing job.
		Webber assembled a talented cast, starting with Firth, a British sex symbol and star of films like The English Patient, Bridget Jones’s Diary and The Importance of Being Earnest, and Johansson, who is becoming one of Hollywood’s most exciting young actresses.
		Webber gave Serra and van Os other Dutch paintings from the period as a reference: “We wanted to make sure the whole film didn’t look like a Vermeer,” Webber said.
	www.firth.com /gwape_art1.html (958 words)

	Peter Webber Interview, Director of Girl With A Pearl Earring
		In Peter Webber’s debut feature film, Girl With A Pearl Earring, a passionate, yet unconsummated love develops between the Seventeenth century Dutch painter Jan Vermeer and a beautiful maid in the service of his household.
		After working in television for the past decade compiling an impressive list of documentary and drama credits, Webber had to call upon knowledge gleaned from a degree in art history to set about stylistically recreating the period in a way that recalls the work of Vermeer and his contemporaries.
		Future Movies caught up with Peter Webber, jet-lagged but still full of enthusiasm, and found out some of the secrets that emerged from the dark, smoky interiors that he and his team worked so meticulously to construct.
	www.futuremovies.co.uk /filmmaking.asp?ID=63 (2268 words)

	Girl with a Pearl Earring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Webber said that his project — starring Colin Firth as Vermeer, Scarlett Johansson as Griet (The Girl) and Tom Wilkinson as Vermeer's mercenary patron, Van Ruijven — is "more than just a quaint little film about art." It is, he says, about money, sex, repression, obsession, power and the human heart.
		Webber said that this slightly dreamy atmosphere was a contrast to the highly colored peasant world of bustling Delft, where the artist lived and much of the action would take place.
		Webber was part of a strong Lions Gate presence at Telluride.
	www.sfo.com /~meluchie/gwape_articles.htm (6337 words)

	Peter Webber to work for IMBA - Boulder Offroad Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Peter Webber to work for IMBA - Boulder Offroad Alliance
		Webber has been a top competitor since ‘93 on the national and international
		Webber, who raced five years for Team Gary Fisher, was a three-time member of
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	Variety : Brush with fame: director Peter Webber paints a well-received picture in Lions Gate's 'Girl With a Pearl ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Director Peter Webber is being whisked in a polished fl Mercedes through the streets of Toronto, where Iris debut feature, Lions Gate's well reviewed "Girl With a Pearl Earring,'" has just shown in one of the finest slots at the city's film festival.
		Surrounded by a generation of filmmakers all but programmed to play it cool, especially on the festival circuit, Webber is one helmer not afraid to admit he's a bit caught up in the red carpet hysteria that goes along with such events.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Girl with a Pearl Earring at Epinions.com
		I've already discussed Webber's success at creating intimacy and eroticism, but he also deserves co-credit for the film's masterful visual sensibility.
		The film is shot in the color palette and lighting style of the work of the Dutch masters, an experiment which could have looked artificial and contrived, but come off totally.
		In other scenes, the characters seem to be sitting for portraits, with the colors and light and shadows playing on a variety of planes.
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	Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003): Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Peter Webber
		"Director Peter Webber's 1665 Holland is all grimy streets, picturesque canals and plump-faced schoolchildren, opting for atmosphere over character development."
		"Peter Webber’s gorgeous Girl With a Pearl Earring is a work of lightweight conjecture."
		"Webber perfectly captures the life of an elusive artist trapped in the politics of a household run by three generations of women"
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	GWAPE article in Premiere US May 2003
		Dressed in a turquoise corduroy suit and sporting a shoulder-length mop of hair, the great Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (Firth) is in the midst of a turbulent domestic scene with his wife (Davis), who has discovered that the servant girl, Griet (Johansson), has modeled for him - wearing her earrings.
		Based on the best-selling 1999 novel by Tracy Chevalier, this fictional story about the relationship between the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (Firth) and the servant muse in his famous painting (Johansson) is the kind of clothes-on love story audiences rarely see these days.
		First-time director Webber realized he wanted to make the film when he read the script's sexiest scene, in which Vermeer pierces the young girl's ear.
	firthfriends.com /periodicals/03premus_may.html (695 words)

	Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
		Webber is a passionate admirer of Stanley Kubrick's 18th-century epic, "Barry Lyndon." But upon reading Olivia Hetreed's screenplay for "Pearl Earring," Webber saw a key difference between Kubrick's film and the one he was about to make.
		After a director search, Peter Webber was tapped for the job and held auditions for a new female lead.
		Webber's masterstroke is the use of Vermeer's eerie, empty studio, familiar from so many paintings but here untenanted except for the uncanny, robot-like wooden life model and, in one scene, the camera obscura device that is Vermeer's link with the modern world of image.
	firthfriends.com /gwape (11755 words)

	Peter Webber @ Filmbug
		A self-confessed cinephile, Peter Webber made his first short film, The Zebra Man, straight out of film school then worked as a film editor, beginning his association with producers Andy Paterson and Anand Tucker on Tucker's drama debut, Saint Ex, starring Miranda Richardson and Bruno Ganz.
		As an award-winning documentary director his subjects ranged from Wagner to crash test dummies via a series on the creatures of the deep oceans and The Curse of the Phantom Limb.
		To confirm his eclectic tastes and versatility, Webber's next film will take him away from Vermeer's Holland to the gritty world of young pickpockets, grifting in the heart of contemporary London.
	www.filmbug.com /db/344012 (239 words)

	Cinema.nl: Een drakerig verhaal, maar dat meisje! En dat licht! [recensie] Girl with a Pearl Earring van Peter Webber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Inderdaad: Webbers debuut oogt, dankzij het weelderige productiedesign van Ben van Os, als een bewegend, beeldschoon schilderij.
		Webber is er glansrijk in geslaagd Vermeers stijl te reproduceren.
		Girl with a Pearl Earring van Peter Webber: production designer Ben van Os vertelt over zijn werk voor deze film, onder meer aan de hand van de schilderijen van Vermeer in het Mauritshuis.
	www.cinema.nl /17210382 (595 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Girl With a Pearl Earring" movie review (2003) "Girl With a Pearl Earring" review, Peter Webber, ...
		Director Peter Webber has such a mesmerizing command over the emotional resonance of "Girl With a Pearl Earring" -- a masterpiece film that imagines the story behind Johannes Vermeer's masterpiece painting -- that there are several moments in the picture so evocative, so stunning that they literally make you hold your breath.
		This scene is the culmination of an unspoken, unattainable desire between them and is a magnificent fusion of performance, intimacy and sudden, startling silences in Alexandre Desplat's stirring musical score -- the combination of which is a demonstrative potency that Webber manipulates at will.
		The director holds sway over such powerfully visceral effects throughout this film, set in the beautifully gritty and gray, canal-traversed city of Delft, Holland, circa 1665, where Vermeer was fatefully beholden for his livelihood to a wealthy but lascivious and manipulative patron, played with oily charisma by the always terrific Tom Wilkinson.
	www.splicedonline.com /03reviews/girlpearl.html (633 words)

	Luxembourg Tourist Office in London
		More recent are the performances of skier Marc Girardelli, a chosen Luxembourger: five times World Cup winner, World Champion, and Silver medalist at the Olympic Games.
		François Mersch made a fine career for himself as a sprinter and long-jumper; the high-point of his sporting career came in June 1938 when he achieved a national record with a long jump of 7.44 metres.
		Peter Webber's movie: "The girl with the pearl earrings" was largely filmed in Luxembourg's Deluxe Studios in Contern and Esch-sur-Alzette.
	www.luxembourg.co.uk /trivia.html (1132 words)

	Girl with a Pearl Earring production notes - Peter Webber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		When we approached the Mauritshuis, the owners of the painting, they were supportive of the project, and of course thrilled that in Scarlett we had an actress who embodied the girl in the painting."
		Peter, Olivia and I all started out in the cutting room and we share a fascination with the nature of story telling on film.
		For Webber, who had studied art history and was already fascinated by Vermeer, the story has the essential elements for drama, money, sex and power.
	www.mooviees.com /8270/production_notes_1 (607 words)

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	Amazon.ca: DVD: Girl With a Pearl Earring [IMPORT] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The production design can't be faulted: Webber and cinematographer Eduardo Serra have bathed their minutely detailed sets in sepia and amber tones, and cast a dull, dusty light over even the most insignificant exterior scenes.
		She is caught between the forbidden feelings and connections she has with her Master and Peter the butcher's son who is so clearly in love with her.
		In Peter Webber's directorial debut, we have a slow methodical telling of how Vermeer painted his "Girl with a Pearl Earring" masterpiece.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001US61O (1343 words)

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