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	Portmanteau film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A portmanteau film or omnibus film is a film consisting of several different short films, often tied together by only a single theme or premise.
		One of the earliest films to use the form was the 1948 film Quartet based on stories by W.
		The former helped to popularise the format for horror films, and British company Amicus made several such films in the 1960s and 1970s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portmanteau_film (181 words)

	Film styles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A film style is a recognizable group of conventions used by filmmakers to give specific meaning, or depth to their work.
		Film style is distinct from film genre, which defines what a film is about -- Western films are about the American West, love stories are about love, and so on.
		Although some styles are strongly associated with certain genres, a style can be applied to any genre -- Barbarella is a surrealistic science fiction film, for example.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film_styles (119 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Culture Page \| An episodic life
		In the 1960s and 70s a few Egyptian portmanteau films were produced, including the 1960 collaboration between Ezzeddin Zulfuqar, Salah Abu Seif and Fattin Abdel-Wahab, Al-Banat Wal-Saif (Girls and Summer).
		The daughter's involvement with a married man, whose alcoholic wife has orchestrated their affair for her own convenience, and an outing to a nudist beach, are particularly shocking to the mother.
		The last episode of the film provides a fleeting account of a young woman whose dissatisfaction leads to a dolce vita existence.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/459/cu2.htm (432 words)

	CER \| Czech Film: Menzel and Hrabal's Oscar-winning work
		In contrast to the bigger historical films from the fifties that showed the War through battle scenes, the films of the Czech New Wave focused on the intimate stories of individuals whose lives were brutally disturbed by the war's events.
		The story of Menzel's film Postřižiny (Cutting it Short, 1980) is based on one that Hrabal published in the seventies, and it goes back to the time of the writer's childhood (Hrabal was born in 1914) spent at the brewery in Nymburk, a small town close to Prague.
		While Koliha's film keeps the poetry of the original text and could be seen as a successful adaptation, Dušan Klein took only a few motifs from Hrabal and made a film where the writer's style is completely lost.
	www.ce-review.org /01/9/kinoeye9_kosulicova.html (3910 words)

	Portmanteau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		There is indeed a term for such punny mergers, but it's an odd, old-fashioned one: "portmanteau words." A portmanteau is a large leather suitcase that opens...
		A portmanteau, plural portmanteaus or portmanteaux is a large travelling case made of leather.
		An example of a portmanteau is "smog", a combination of the words "smoke" and "fog".
	www.wikiverse.org /portmanteau (298 words)

	Film \| Ealing tragedy
		Hamer began his film career in 1934 as a clapper-boy, then moved to Ealing in 1940 as an editor.
		His debut as a director was as stunning as it was brief: an episode in Alberto Cavalcanti's portmanteau film of supernatural stories, Dead of Night.
		The film's hints at passionate extra-marital sex, prostitution and amour fou were among the most blatant of their time, and there is a diffuse eroticism in the drama quite unlike anything else of its date.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Film/print/0,3858,5087406-3181,00.html (1097 words)

	portmanteau - Wiktionary
		A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections.
		(the noun used as a modifier) Of a word, story, etc, combining two words, stories, etc, in the manner of a portmanteau (in the linguistic sense).
		2002: The overall narrator of this portmanteau story - for Dickens co-wrote it with five collaborators on his weekly periodical, All the Year Round - expresses deep, rational scepticism about the whole business of haunting.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Portmanteau (270 words)

	Film \| Critical review of the year
		Portmanteau films can go all to pieces, and this almost went all to pieces, but in an interesting way.
		But it was a clever film in that it saw what we actually yearn for in those old films and gave it to us in spades.
		The film that won Cannes the year before, Rosetta by the Dardenne brothers was one of the films that made me think old-school social realism could still do the stuff.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Film/print/0,3858,4107306-3181,00.html (4848 words)

	Portmanteau Portmanteau word Portmanteau Portmanteaus Portmanteau film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		portmanteau is a word that is created by packing two other words together.
		FAQ article: portmanteau word The alt.usage.english FAQ "portmanteau word" (Word Origins) This term for "blend word" comes from "portmanteau", "a leather travelling case that opens into two hinged...
		Portmanteau Presentations is a UK based conference, video and exhibition production company with 25 years experience in managing corporate events both in the UK and worldwide Not only do we design and...
	en.powerwissen.com /jG1by5fTJdiuQdXxfDSBtQ%3D%3D_Portmanteau_word.html (113 words)

	Festivals 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The protagonist of his new film is a girl with a head on her shoulders except that she is soon to become an unwed mother and contrary to the impositions of society, she plans to raise her baby on her own.
		The film narrates the story of a fifteen year-old-girl from a lower middle class background who lives with her grandmother as her father is in prison and her mother long dead.
		Filmed in winter, the elements of sea and wind, a dreary sky and a dismal dusk, convey a feeling of longing for warmth and an unrequited love.
	www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca /ff-022.htm (9847 words)

	Senses (The London Film School) - Film Sales Distributors Market - Film TV Production Mandy's Directory
		The stories are not directly related to one another except through their thematic link to one of the five senses, and, in the portmanteau tradition, each story is very different in terms of narrative, tone, and adopted approach to its theme, crossing genre boundaries to give "SENSES" a broad and rich appeal.
		Part One: "Anna": a young cellist travels to a remote church by the coast to stay with a friend, who now lives with a reclusive music conductor, who is afflicted by a mysterious malady.
		If you have a completed film seeking distribution, create a shop window for it here.
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	Collection: The Film Music of Georges AURIC: Classical CD Reviews- November 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In a forty-year film career, Auric composed well over a hundred French film scores and in the latter part of his career scored a succession of big-budget, pan-European co-productions aimed, presumably at the American market.
		The film was a mess due to the wayward excesses of Pascal who was something of an early Michael Cimino.
		This was a portmanteau film that included the story of the demented ventriloquist (Michael Redgrave) and his devilish dummy.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/oct99/auric.htm (1771 words)

	List of movie genres genre Action-adventure film Biographical film Coming-of-age films Historical drama film Fantasy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A film genre is a rough categorization of films into genres, which describe the typical subject matter—what the film is about: Western films are about the American West, love stories are about love, and so on.
		A film style is a recognizable group of conventions used by filmmakers to add visual appeal, meaning, or depth to their work.
		Film style is distinct from film genre, which defines what a film is about.
	en.powerwissen.com /OmMTw8WIdjU8XKdmzo4UKg%3D%3D_Film_genres.html (293 words)

	Movie Review: The Red Violin / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
		The so-called portmanteau film – a collection of stories in a single vessel – is by its very nature a tricky proposition.
		The film returns to it between each episode, but as it does so, it moves the auction story back a notch, so that we see the same action twice – the second time with new information and characters, which only make sense in light of the individual tales.
		The entire film is enveloped in an equally glorious musical score (one that effectively depicts the various eras) by noted American composer John Corigliano, who is probably best known to film fans for his score on Altered States, making for a singularly rich experience.
	www.mountainx.com /movies/r/redviolin.php (980 words)

	Taiwanese Cinema
		This was, of course, tightly controlled by the Japanese, and the local films drew on Japanese conventions in the silent era.
		Dialect film production in Taiwanese soon declined for two reasons: 1) the government attempted to unify the country by declaring Mandarin Chinese the official language of public discourse, and 2) the low-budget fare of dialect films were outclassed by the government-subsidized Mandarin films.
		The film portrays Taiwan during the cold war period when the country developed its economy with the assistance of aid from the United States.
	cinemaspace.berkeley.edu /Papers/CityOfSadness/behind2.html (2493 words)

	Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Liberal Directions: Basil Dearden and Postwar British Film Culture - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Dearden's films, however, are positioned very uncomfortably within these oppositional pairs which helps to explain the critical tendency to pigeonhole his oeuvre as 'consensus' and to level his generic preferences to 'social drama'.
		Victim (Allied Film Makers, 1961), on one hand a liberalist and arguably establishmentarian plea for tolerance of homosexuality, is, on the other hands as Andy Medhurst once suggested, a text that can more radically be read as activating and promoting homosexual desire, again within the visual and narrative economies of melodrama.
		In Ealing's classic portmanteau horror film Dead of Night (Ealing, 1945), his contributions develop their uncanny atmosphere not from historical displacement or traditional Gothic devices and motifs (as in the film's more celebrated episodes 'The Haunted Mirror' and 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy'), but out of familiar, middle-class settings and the monotony of ordinary, everyday life.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2584/is_4_18/ai_53747551 (1106 words)

	World Cinema: Directors -- Larisa Shepitko
		Shepitko graduated from VGIK, where she had studied in the workshop of Alexander Dovzhenko (whom she always referred to as her mentor) and Mikhail Romm in 1963.
		Frequently compared to the work of her master Dovzhenko, this film, like Andrei Smirnov's Angel, was shot as part of a portmanteau film, Nachalo nevedomogo veka / The Beginning of an Unknown Century, made to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Revolution.
		But the films were banned for twenty years, and Rodina elektrichestva surfaced only in 1987, long after Shepitko's death.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Metro/9384/directors/shepitko.htm (256 words)

	Biography for Pier Paolo Pasolini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel, and its violent depiction of the life of a pimp in the slums of Rome caused a sensation.
		He was arrested in 1962 when his contribution to the portmanteau film Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963) was considered blasphemous, and given a suspended sentence.
		Pasolini's first film, Accatone (1961, on which Bernardo Bertolucci served as assistant director), adapted from his novel "A Violent Life," was a neorealist look at Rome's dark underbelly, but subsequent works took different approaches to different subject matter.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0001596/bio (641 words)

	Portmanteau : Portmanteau word (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In linguistics, a portmanteau word (also called a blend, portmanteau or frankenword) is a word that is formed by combining parts of other words.
		For example, "smog" is a combination of the words "smoke" and "fog." Carroll used such words to humourous effect in his poems, especially "Jabberwocky." James Joyce used portmanteau words extensively in Finnegans Wake.
		In the meantime the boys were gazing very forlornly at Wendy, they were dejected, not merely because they were about to lose something nice to which they had not been invited.
	www.termsdefined.net /po/portmanteau-word.html (412 words)

	Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
		The portmanteau horror movie was resurrected in America in 1962 by Roger Corman (Tales of Terror) and in Italy in 1963 by Mario Bava (Black Sabbath), both films linked by the presence of Boris Karloff.
		The film was directed by Freddie Francis, who made a number of horror films for both Amicus and Hammer, but whose talents lay in cinematography for which he won two Academy Awards.
		At the very top of the frame, three-quarters of the way to the right, there seems to be a tiny white mark that changes shape during the film, possibly a result of a hair in the gate when the print was made.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=5870 (2154 words)

	The Second Annual Boston Irish Film Festival
		The Second Annual Boston Irish Film Festival recognizes this truly global nature of Irish culture and in the course of its second weekend, at the Harvard Film Archive, pays particular tribute to the Irish in America.
		The Boston Irish Film Festival presents recent and vintage Irish film and video on the weekends of March 24, at Boston College, and March 31, at the Harvard Film Archive.
		The first of Bateman’s novels to be filmed (followed by the highly successful Divorcing Jack, screened here last year), Crossmaheart is testament to the author’s singular vision—an entirely new, dare we say hip, version of Northern Ireland.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/00marapr/irish.htm (1335 words)

	Portmanteau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A portmanteau (pronounced UK: /pO:t'm{nt@U/, US: /pOrt'm{ntoU/, plural portmanteaus or portmanteaux) is a large travelling case made of leather.
		In linguistics, a portmanteau word (also called a blend, portmanteau or frankenword) is a word that is formed by combining two other words.
		For example, "smog" is a combination of the words "smoke" and "fog." Carroll used such words to humorous effect in his poems, especially "Jabberwocky." James Joyce used portmanteau words extensively in Finnegans Wake.
	www.fact-index.com /p/po/portmanteau.html (168 words)

	Portmanteau film -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Portmanteau film -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		A portmanteau film is a (Photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies) film consisting of several unrelated, or mostly unrelated, short films.
		Often each one is directed by a different (Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show) director.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/portmanteau_film.htm (203 words)

	screenonline: Dead of Night (1945) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As the guests share their own tales of the supernatural, Craig is filled with a growing dread.
		The film was a truly collaborative venture, including many of the figures who dominated
		The film sets up a classic horror genre opposition between science and the supernatural, and makes it clear from the outset which side it is on.
	www.bfiscreenonline.com /film/id/491909/index.html (339 words)

	Film Music on the Web: Scrolling covers CD Reviews with cover graphics Oct 1999 : PART 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I won't comment on the film, as being a Super Panavision 70 epic which failed at the box-office, hardly anyone can have had the opportunity to see the film properly in 35 years.
		This the town in which the Academy Award-winning film, Life is Beautiful was shot and it was where my daughter-in-law and her 10 year-old daughter had been studying for the better part of a year.
		The film was a box office failure due mainly to the Zanuck's insistence on the film being shot in fl and white when the glorious Italian locales cried out for colour.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/oct99/oct99scr2.htm (5125 words)

	DVD Times - An Autumn Tale
		With a short break halfway through when he made the portmanteau film Rendez-vous à Paris (soon to be released on DVD in the UK) and the political satire The Tree, The Mayor and the Mediathèque (the only Rohmer feature never to be released in the UK), this series took up most of the decade.
		She went on to play the major role of Anne in The Aviator’s Wife and was centre stage in The Green Ray, for which she received a co-writing credit.
		An Autumn Tale was filmed open-matte in 35mm, with an intended aspect ratio of 1.66:1.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=57998 (1103 words)

	Film Festivals . com - People
		She was a member of the jury of the Berlin Film Festival in 2003.
		She taught at FAMU, the Prague film school, and is currently a member of its arts council.
		She has been contributing to the Variety International Film Guide since the early 1990s, and in 1996 she was appointed curator of an extensive retrospective of Czech and Slovak film by the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cgi-bin/shownews.pl?obj=ShowNews&CfgPath=ffs/filinfo&Cfg=news.cfg&news=general&text_id=28017 (1175 words)

	August 21, 2002: Catching Up with This Year's TIFF Titles - FESTIVALS
		The film captures Reno's one-woman, stand-up comedy show in New York, where the sanctimony and patriotism of a post-September 11 society becomes material for a performance that is at once comic, self-effacing, and healing.
		Screening with Savoca's film are two shorts: THE VOICE OF THE PROPHET, from Robert Edwards, is a 1998 profile of Rick Rescorla, head of security for an investment firm on the 44th floor of the World Trade Centre.
		This year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) line-up is complete: final selections--a few of which came as pleasant surprises to me--were announced yesterday morning at the Windsor Arms.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /tiff/082102.htm (1102 words)

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