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Topic: Phenomenon (film)

	Flickering Shadows: Quantifying the European Film Festival Phenomenon (1997)
		To analyse what could be labelled the "European Film Festival Phenomenon" and to try to quantify its relative importance within the audiovisual sector, a first step is to identify the existing, although very scarce, sources of information.
		In the course of a feasibility study on monitoring of admissions and box-office revenue on individual films across Europe, the Observatory has established that the total number of new features actually put into distribution during 1996 is somewhere in the region of 830 titles.
		Even if patrons of film festivals tend to see not only one, but a number of films during a short span of time, the number of individuals enjoying what is on offer in film festivals is impressive, maybe 3-4 million.
	www.obs.coe.int /online_publication/expert/00001262.html (2793 words)

	Phenomenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Phenomenon has a specialized meaning in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant who contrasted the term 'Phenomenon' with 'Noumenon'.
		Phenomenon is also the name of a 1996 film starring John Travolta and Forest Whitaker.
		Phenomenon is also the name of a 1997 album by rapper LL Cool J.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phenomenon (440 words)

	FOOTBALL FILMFESTIVAL 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Football Film Festival is intended by the cultural associations Stilling and Swung as a synthesis, a meeting between an artistic form of expression, and an activity with public and cultural appeal.
		Film has portrayed football as a documentary, as a social phenomenon and as a cultural phenomenon which forms the foundation for especially modern surrogate communities.
		Furthermore, film has portrayed football as a political and economic phenomenon and, of course, as an aesthetic phenomenon in which the sophistication of football, its details and subtle nuances, merge with its sweaty brutality, temper and roughness.
	www.nozebra.dk /OLD/fodboldfilmfestivalen.dk/docs/Eng/HTML/ide.htm (606 words)

	The Three Regimes
		The reason that film music survived and flourished, in that Cambrian explosion of diverse enjoyments in the late 1800s and early 1900s, was and is that it represents a flowering unfoldment3 of a deeper necessity, located in the way subjects process reality.
		The film experience is literally caused by this retroactive integration, moment by moment, of the prior moments of the film, yet the film music resists this integration, it is sublimated, unremembered.
		In the dimension of film music, as in that of quantum physics, the observer is part of the observed system, which is to say, essential to it in a way that procludes their theoretical separation.
	uselessindustries.com /robobo/filmmusic.html (4684 words)

	'Phenomenon' leaves audience feeling empty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Director Jon Turtletaub's "Phenomenon" is the kind of movie that's pretty bad to begin with, but ends up seeming even worse when you begin to think about the sheer wastefulness of the whole project.
		Instead, "Phenomenon" proceeds to take itself far more seriously than itshould for a film that remains steadfastly elusive as to the cause, meanings or repercussions of the events in its own narrative.
		Travolta doesbecome somewhat more charismatic toward the film's end, as his character begins to crack under the strain of his newfound knowledge, but it's all too little too late, as are Robert Duvall's precious few moments as a friendly town physician.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V128/N08/02-phenom.08d.html (618 words)

	Phenomenon (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Phenomenon is a story about energy that is in everything and everyone.
		Phenomenon will not provide the answer, at least it is not pretentious in that direction because the makers realize that the human-mind is unfit to grasp this in the first place.
		The film shows that it is often slightly or profoundly different from how it looks at first hand.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0117333 (555 words)

	One: The Development of a Semiotic of Film
		Film has been made a part of our lives--a dominant mode of human expression, relatively little studied and understood at a time when the study of other, perhaps similar modes, such as verbal language, painting, and music, have developed venerable bodies of theory and analytic methods.
		Although the meaning of a film is inferred in large part from the images and sounds in sequence in a film, meaning is also clearly that which the filmmaker implies in his arrangement of the elements, units, and parts of the film.
		Most film communication is not, as pictured in figure 1-1, the perfect correspondence between the feeling-concern, the story-organism, and the image-events they dictate, and as their reconstruction by the viewer.
	astro.temple.edu /~ruby/wava/worth/sone.html (14989 words)

	Nothing That Is Not There, and the Nothing That Is: Language and The Blair Witch Phenomenon
		The film’s intertextuality (the quality that undermines the audience’s ability to identify the primary text) may be a clever effort on the part of the directors and marketing experts to create a cultural phenomenon reminiscent of the internet.
		The film became evidence for a larger murder mystery and legend, and thus the fiction of the Blair Witch expanded upon the limitations of the medium.
		The failure of the film to signify in isolation can be observed in the dissatisfaction of the audience members who have not previously experienced any of the multiplying promotional items that embellish on the subjects of the film.
	pcasacas.org /SPC/spcissues/22.3/keller2.html (3743 words)

	Film Theory Defined (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Film theory is the construction and verification of propositions about film or some aspect of film.
		Film theory tries to explain the meanings, effects (psychological and physical), and other factors surrounding the phenomenon of film.
		Based on the assumption that knowledge of underlying premises or principles of a phenomenon lead to a better understanding and therefore a greater appreciation for the phenomenon.
	mailer.fsu.edu /~jgm8530/instructor/Film_Theory.htm (695 words)

	Phenomenon \| John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick \| Underrated, moving film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I came to this film with low expectations, seeing as how it only has a 53% positive RottenTomatoes.com rating and a lot of critics panned it as being corny and sentimental.
		Actually this is a very good film, largely carried by the strong cast of John Travolta, Kyra Sedgewick, Forest Whitaker and Robert Duvall.
		"Phenomenon" actually has a lot of Eastern philosophy behind it---the idea that we are all connected at a deep cosmic and psychical level which most of us never imagine nor dare to access, as well as the New Ageish belief that we only use about 10% of our brains' full capabilities.
	www.this-is-great.com /info/jafislnif-x (1387 words)

	Film bares all about ‘Deep Throat’ - MORE MOVIE NEWS AND FEATURES - MSNBC.com
		The sexually explicit film "Deep Throat" quickly became the flashpoint for an unprecedented social and political firestorm.
		Yet “Deep Throat” was a cultural phenomenon with theatrical grosses estimated at $600 million, and it became an emblem of decadence for anti-pornography crusaders and the namesake for an informer who helped bring down a president.
		Co-star Harry Reems, the film’s lighting director who stepped in after the original male lead did not work out, played a doctor helping a patient played by Lovelace cope with an unusual “condition” — a sexually sensitive area at the back of her throat.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6929059 (815 words)

	The Definitions of Persistence of Vision
		Apparently, it was film historian Terry Ramsaye who, a hundred years later in 1926, adopted Roget’s illusion, gave it a slick-sounding, intellectual moniker (persistence of vision), and applied it to an understanding of our ability to perceive motion in film.
		This phenomenon is widely known as “after-images” and has no real relation to perception of motion in film, according to both Nichols and Lederman (1978) and Anderson and Fisher (1978).
		Prince (2001) defines persistence of vision as the phenomenon where “the retina of the eye retains an image for a fraction of a second after the source is gone“ (p.
	www.pamcole.com /DOCS/POV.html (3495 words)

	Post-war Australian Film - the Crocodile Dundee Phenomenon
		Film critics, trained to make the films sensible in relation to the `film' world, had problems confronted with texts that were created to be consumed by audiences for whom the films were sensible in relation to `the media' in the figure of Hogan as public figure, `personality', and bare-foot philosopher.
		The film is a throwback in that it calls upon the old fantasy of the "country-man" at the heart of the Australian experience; it uses the metaphor of the country, the person from the centre - to stand in for and summon up what is an urban national experience.
		The film's dimunition of the cultural argument and Australian/American dichotomies of the first in favour of the telling of a more or less coherent story with relatively tight chains of cause and effect indicates the extent to which its makers opted to position the film in `the film world'.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/Croc.html (10976 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Germans flock to nostalgia film
		It is also a cultural phenomenon - a comedy about the fall of the Berlin Wall, and an attempt to recreate East Germany in a 79-square-metre flat.
		The film centres on the relationship between a young man, Alex, and his ailing mother, a die-hard communist who has a heart attack shortly before the Berlin Wall falls.
		There is also a sub-plot about Alex's father, who fled to the West when he and his sister were young children and who re-appears in time for a reconciliation with his mother before she dies.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/2836215.stm (690 words)

	The Cinema - More Than a Social Phenomenon. Film History Essay
		Hugo draws an analogy to his favourite film of all time “Man On A Tightrope” directed by Elia Kazan, which tells the simple story of a circus led by Cernik to escape their government and cross the border.
		In the early 1920s, film shows were held the purpose of was not only to entertain, but also to “demonstrate to and subject African populations the unassailable supremacy of the white nations”.
		Seeing the film for the second time with his friend, Marcus anecdotally describes the immediate but brief discussion of their impressions of the film “ ‘Greatest Movie I ever saw’ he said flatly, as if he didn’t want to talk about it, and he didn’t.
	www.freeonlineresearchpapers.com /node/360 (1835 words)

	Film: How it All Started (Free Interactive CyberCollege Mass Media Course)
		As the films got more popular and longer, the vaudeville acts disappeared from the nickelodeons and the motion picture theater was born--if you can call a small room with wooden benches a motion picture theater.
		Before that, films were shot from a single wide-shot camera position while actors paraded in front of the camera--a stage play on film, only you couldn't hear the actors speak, and the whole thing was in fl and white.
		he film editor's job in those days was simple; just take out the film leader at the beginning and ends of reels and splice the whole thing together.
	www.cybercollege.com /frtv/frtv001.htm (2564 words)

	Henry Sheehan \| film criticism, film reviews and commentary
		This isn't a new phenomenon; it stretches all the way back to 1979's The Brood which despite its horror elements and occasions of suspense was almost a term paper.
		Henry Sheehan, current president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, has been a professional film critic for over 25 years and has been published in Film Comment, Sight and Sound, the Chicago Reader, the Boston Globe, and LA Weekly.
		"Film Week" can also be heard on KPCC’s web page.
	www.henrysheehan.com (1456 words)

	New Media Musings: The fan films strike back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I just tripped across this well-done look at the fan film phenomenon from the Daily Standard: The Fan Films Strike Back.
		Thanks to digital cinema and the Web, geeks are filming their own "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" stories.
		"Fan Films" are works that steal characters and situations from a licensed movie...
	www.newmediamusings.com /blog/2004/06/the_fan_films_s.html (212 words)

	SMR DVD Review: Phenomenon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		One of my favorite Travolta films (along with Get Shorty), Phenomenon is the touching and heartfelt story of George Malley (Travolta) and the effect he has on the residents of his small town home.
		Backed by solid supporting performances from Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, and Kyra Sedgwick, Phenomenon is a warm and uplifting kind of film rarely done these days and all the more enjoyable because of it.
		While I readily admit a critical bias toward this film, from a technical standpoint, one is not likely to find a DVD that makes a better presentation of a film than this edition of Phenomenon.
	www.smr-home-theatre.org /dvd/reviews/Phenomenon.html (374 words)

	David Swenson's electrostatic "invisible wall" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The film was taken off the main roll at high speed, flowed upwards 20ft to overhead rollers, passed horizontally 20ft and then downwards to the slitting device, where it was spooled onto shorter rolls.
		The charge on the entire length of moving film MUST be equal in magnitude to the charge on the spool, yet the charge on the film is very large and is continuously increasing.
		If so, your repulsion phenomenon would not occur if the "tent" of film was replaced with highly charged metal plates, since the source of oppositely-polarized electric wind would then be missing.
	www.amasci.com /weird/unusual/e-wall.html (1193 words)

	Introduction
		Film noir is not firmly rooted in either personal creation or in the translation of another tradition into movie terms.
		In film the dilemma is that narrative is usually explicit and style is usually not.
		If observers of film noir agree on anything, it is on the boundaries of the classic period, which begins in 1941 with The Maltese Falcon and ends less than a score of years later with Touch of Evil.
	members.aol.com /alainsil/noir/noirint.htm (5203 words)

	The Publishing Sensation of 2003 has become the Film Class Phenomenon of TODAY! » Lloyd Kaufman
		Lloyd has taught this seminar at prestigious academic institutions such as Yale University and University of Southern California, as well as overseas at institutions like the St.
		Petersburg Film Museum in Russia, Perth Film Festival in Australia and Norwegian Film Development.
		Creator of the Toxic Avenger, and President and Co-Founder of Troma Studios, the world's longest running Independent film company.
	www.lloydkaufman.com /masterclass (313 words)

	Review: Phenomenon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Presumably, Phenomenon's film makers are aiming for the same audience that made 1994's Forrest Gump a mega-hit.
		It's only a matter of time before the government takes notice, but George is more concerned with catching the eye of the woman he has fallen for, a single mother named Lace (Kyra Sedgwick), who has recently moved into a nearby farm with her two young children.
		Phenomenon goes from a feel-good story to a tear-jerker by using a plot contrivance that makes the "brain cloud" of Joe Versus the Volcano seem reasonable by comparison.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/phenomenon.html (589 words)

	'Fahrenheit 9/11' Is a Red-Hot Ticket (washingtonpost.com)
		Moore, whose previous films took on General Motors and corporate America and the firearms industry, has borrowed all the techniques of modern political campaigns to promote this one.
		A June 24 article incorrectly stated that the Michael Moore film "Fahrenheit 9/11" is being distributed by Miramax.
		It is being distributed by Lions Gate Films and IFC Films.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A849-2004Jun23.html (538 words)

	Phenomenon \| The Brunching Shuttlecocks
		So I saw Phenomenon, terrified that it might actually be a movie version of the failed sitcom Phenom.
		Phenomenon (go ahead and sing the Sesame Street song a few times now and get it out of your head) is a delightful attempt to get John Travolta an Oscar.
		This time, instead of being a cold-hearted thug, he's a lighthearted mechanic struck smart by a very bright flashlight.
	www.brunching.com /phenom.html (669 words)

	brandchannel.com \| Brand Product Integration \| Entertainment Industry \| Brands Placed in Films\| brands \| brand \| ...
		Film is quite possibly the most powerful medium for communication in the world today.
		Film is also able to reach out and touch a global audience in a way that TV programming is just too provincial to accomplish.
		Brandchannel believes that there is something fascinating to be learned by tracking the most watched films of the year and documenting all of the brands that appear in them.
	www.brandchannel.com /features_effect.asp?pf_id=231 (3663 words)

	Review: Phenomenon
		Presumably, Phenomenon's film makers are aiming for the same audience that made 1994's Forrest Gump a mega-hit.
		It's only a matter of time before the government takes notice, but George is more concerned with catching the eye of the woman he has fallen for, a single mother named Lace (Kyra Sedgwick), who has recently moved into a nearby farm with her two young children.
		Phenomenon goes from a feel-good story to a tear-jerker by using a plot contrivance that makes the "brain cloud" of Joe Versus the Volcano seem reasonable by comparison.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/p/phenomenon.html (589 words)

	Phi Phenomenon -- Tastes in Film
		The lists of "Top" [blank] films for each taste indicate what the list of top films would look like if they were made only by people with that taste.
		These lists contain films that correspond to that taste, as well as films that are liked by people with that taste even if those films correspond more with one of the other two tastes.
		The majority of films on each of these lists are liked by people with that particular taste more than by other people, but the lists also include films that are like by people of all tastes.
	www.phi-phenomenon.org /taste (334 words)

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