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	Zapruder film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Zapruder film is the 8mm home movie footage made by an assassination witness, Abraham Zapruder in Dallas, Texas, within Dealey Plaza while standing next to the grassy knoll during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
		The Zapruder film footage has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and was selected for permanent preservation in the National Film Registry.
		In 1998 the original film was purchased by the United States government under the doctrine of eminent domain, and Zapruder's heirs sued to increase the amount paid for the film to $16,000,000.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zapruder_film (920 words)

	Possession (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Byatt, the film tells the story of two scholars, Roland Michell and Maud Bailey, who investigate the affair of fictional Victorian era poet Randolph Henry Ash, described in letters between him and another invented poet, Christabel LaMotte.
		The film is directed by Neil LaBute and stars Jennifer Ehle, Jeremy Northam, Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart and more.
		Possession here means the relationship between a man and a woman that had lived together and created a family; but it means also the devil of sex that lures the woman away.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Possession_(film) (165 words)

	Zapruder film -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The film has been used by the (Click link for more info and facts about Warren Commission) Warren Commission and all followup investigations of the (Murder of a public figure by surprise attack) assassination.
		The Zapruder film footage has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States (Click link for more info and facts about Library of Congress) Library of Congress and was selected for permanent preservation in the (Click link for more info and facts about National Film Registry) National Film Registry.
		There are 59 witnesses affidavits that claim the limousine came to a near or complete stop during the shooting, but, the film does not show this, and shows the limousine slowing from 13 miles-per-hour to slightly less than 9 m.p.h.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/z/za/zapruder_film.htm (744 words)

	Possession / 1981 / film review / Andrzej Zulawski / Isabelle Adjani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Possession must surely rank as one of the most gory and shockingly anarchistic horror films made in the 1980s (which is saying something — this was after all the decade of the video nasty).
		The film has certainly lost some of the impact which won it instant notoriety on its initial release in 1981 but it remains a palpably bizarre and unsettling cinematic experience, alternating between the patently ridiculous and the down-right disturbing.
		The one area where the film genuinely does impress is in the quality of the special effects — although the multi-tentacled monster appears only briefly on screen, it is certainly on a par with anything produced by the best science-fiction films.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_Possession_rev.html (513 words)

	Film Review: Possession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Possession is directed by Neil LaBute and adapted from the prize-winning novel by A.S. Byatt by writers David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), Laura Jones and LaBute.
		The film uses a rather unimaginative storytelling technique, alternating shots between the two couples in the two different periods, sometimes in the same physical location.
		The most disturbing aspect of Possession-a movie that should be, in my view, entertainingly intriguing, sexy, and heartrending-is its celebration of heterosexuality, not as romance, but as the family.
	www.kusp.org /film/archive86.html (433 words)

	Possession (2002) - Page 2
		The most successful part of "Possession" is how it uses prose, not sheer sexuality, to envelop its characters in passion, lust and desire.
		For one thing, the film is not peppered with the four-letter words that his screenplays and stage plays usually feature.
		In "Possession," I was surprised to find that most of the passion came from the unexpected -- and where I thought passion would be, it wasn't.
	www.ldsfilm.com /LaBute/Possession2.html (2668 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Film Review 08 27 02
		Possession is a deceptively simple film, on the surface just another entertaining partial period-piece love story.
		The film necessarily loses a lot of Byatt's rather witty analysis of academia, Victorian poetry, and cultural and literary criticism, focusing less on how we deal with history and more on how we deal with each other.
		In case his message hasn't quite gotten through yet, LaBute captivates with his final scene, a devastating visual metaphor demonstrating that the truest of human things, the imprints of the heart and the mind, are not always written in stone; sometimes, they are written on the wind.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2002-08-27/film_review2.html (880 words)

	Browse Collections
		The collection consists of both documentaries and feature films and will be of interest not only to media studies departments, but also to all those interested in the political and social history of Britain in the last 30 years of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.
		This selection is from the IWM film and video collection recognised as one of the most important moving image resources for the study of all aspects of the major conflicts in which Britain was involved in the 20th Century.
		The films are suitable for use in a wide variety of disciplines, including military, political, social history, defence and war studies, American studies, colonial and post-colonial studies, women's studies, media studies, cultural studies, international relations, town and country development, art, literacy and the uses of propaganda.
	www.jisc.ac.uk /index.cfm?name=collbrowse (8020 words)

	Possession film review
		Possession delights in the sensuousness of the English language, and makes Roland and Maud's investigations seem genuinely thrilling, as they race against ruthless collector Cropper (Trevor Eve) to unearth the truth of Ash and LaMotte's forbidden past.
		The film elegantly cuts back and forth between the two time frames, and contrasts the two relationships, and the seemingly insurmountable hurdles which stand in the paths of the would-be lovers: stifling Victorian morality, and a crippling fear of commitment.
		By stark contrast, the 21st century is emotionally cold and drained of colour, reflected in the nervousness of Roland and Maud's courtship.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/possession/2 (506 words)

	Possession: DVD Review
		When faced with Hollywood's unceasing parade of romantic films that sport their saccharine happy endings like labels for Calvin Klein's ready-to-wear range, it is, to say the least, refreshing to find a film that views romantic love as a form of apocalypse.
		It was distributed in America as a grindhouse exploitation film, gaining in notoriety as a laughably absurd cult film.
		Adjani and Neill seem to be in a state of cataclysmic seizure for most of the film: their bodies are in constant and aimless movement, lurching and jerking as if trying to exorcize some unspeakable evil.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/05/35/possession_dvd.html (1103 words)

	Possession - DVD
		Most of the interiors in "Possession" showcase yards and yards of flat white paint, and the furnishings lack the character of say plastic milk crates and unfinished lumber.
		In "Possession" we are presented with an exaggerated expression of a broken marriage - a marriage smashed to a bloody pulp and screaming in agony.
		In many ways this film is an examination of the internal landscape of Zulawski at that moment; divorced from his wife and exiled by his beloved homeland.
	www.wensstyle.com /product/6305839980.html (1414 words)

	UM City - Polish director Andrzej Zulawski's "Possession"
		This bizarre oddity was a film that nobody quite knew what to make of it when it came out, but is one that has steadily been gaining ground as a weird headspace classic ever since.
		The film is lit in a washed-out blue light and the characters all painted in white-face - along with the hysterically shrieked performances of both Neill and Adjani the film seems more like kabuki theatre colliding with European art house cinema at its most willfully pretentious.
		Indeed Possession almost seems to inhabit the same kind of surreal interior territory as Polanski’s mental breakdown film Repulsion (1965) - it seems to be a subjective work from the inside of the emotional traumas of separation.
	www.umfm.net /city/threads.php?threadid=11605 (1832 words)

	"The Exorcist" by Bill Van Wert
		The explicit ordeals of possession and exorcism, which fill up the last forty-five minutes of the film, seem tame in retrospect when compared with the scenes involving doctors mechanically desecrating the little girl's body in their exploratory probing.
		Possessions thus are ritualistic (Regan always throws up green bile, always uses language that relates to sex, always attacks herself or others in the genital area).
		I must admit that my hypothesis that Regan is not possessed but possesses and even kills other characters as her own kind of radical therapy is a much more chilling thought than the hypothesis that she is taken over by the devil, in which case she is a victim and an innocent.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC1folder/exorcist.html (3144 words)

	Possession
		Demon possession Demon possession is the act of one or more exorcism that enables the exorcist to expel the demon(s) fro...
		List of items for which possession is restricted Contraband consists of items of which possession may be illegal, depend...
		Possession Island National Park Possession Island is a national park in Brisbane.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/possession.html (133 words)

	M!I Classics: THE EXORCIST MADE ME DO IT: 70s Possession Flicks
		The popular scientific approach of psychoanalysis easily explains cases of possession as mere hysteria, "diabolical possession is caused by belief in diabolical possession."1 The metaphysical answer endorsed by the religiously inclined is an exorcism.
		Cinematically, possession films have been a recent sub-category of the horror genre, their popularity building to a manic zenith within a four-year period after the release of William Friedkin's THE EXORCIST (1973).
		Exorcism and possession cannot be the central plot of a film anymore, it is too "old fashioned" nowadays to be able to pull in an audience - unless the priest packs an uzi and the possessed female is a body-building, ultra-feminist, tough-as-nails adversary.
	users.aol.com /monsterint/1996/possession.html (12174 words)

	BinaryFlix.com
		Films that appeal to the viewer generally speak to the viewer's rhythms.
		I know that she made exactly the film she set out to, and though I don't like it, I know that it speaks to a lot of people.
		It would have been easy for this film to be a movie only edition, but the film has been well preserved by one of the best DVD companies.
	www.binaryflix.com /movie.asp?scope=p&ID=407 (891 words)

	DVD : Possession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Full of anger, jealousy, emotional suffering, and vindictiveness, this bizarre, bleak horror film is a mix of Hollywood melodrama, European psychodrama, and the raw, blunt emotions of personal art cinema.
		Andrzej Zulawski (who claims that the film was inspired by his own divorce) directs this obscure and often alienating film with unrelenting intensity.
		The 2-hour film was cut down to 80 minutes for its original American release, and has only now been restored to full length.
	www.morroccan.com /6305839980/Possession.shtml (550 words)

	Film Threat - Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Given his twisted track record, one could plausibly be led to believe that Neil LaBute's "Possession" is a remake of the freaky (in more ways than one) 1981 Euro-horror-art film in which Isabelle Adjani did the nasty with an octopus-like creature.
		His last film, Nurse Betty, may have been considerably lighter on its feet than the cinematic cynicism of his "In the Company of Men" and "Your Friends & Neighbors," but it still operated within a darkly comic milieu.
		But it's possible to be too restrained, and that's how "Possession" ultimately comes off as: so restrained as to be detached and almost as chilly as his darker films--not exactly what one would want from a story about a love so strong that it echoes through the ages.
	www.filmthreat.com /Reviews.asp?Id=3549 (480 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Reviews \| Possession (2002)
		I have not read the book but I have seen the previous films of the director and that is why I was so annoyed by the overall flatness of this film.
		Possession is a lovely film, well done, and with decent acting.
		The film captured the humour of the academic world portrayed in the book very well but entirely lost the tension of the chase for knowledge and this meant that the film dragged from quite an early stage.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Reader_Review/0,4163,-93289,00.html (882 words)

	The Mediadrome - Film - Reviews - Possession
		LaBute's brutal take on relationships is what gives the film its edge, as the animosity that keeps the lovers apart in the modern day is in complete contrast to the unconditional love that binds the poets in the past.
		Possession falls short of being the sweeping, seductive epic that it could have been, but it's still worth seeing if you're looking for a romantic moviegoing experience.
		In fact, while watching the film, I couldn't help but be reminded of other romantic book-based movies like The French Lieutenant's Woman and The Bridges of Madison County.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/reviews/possession.shtml (696 words)

	Possession News
		I was not at all disappointed with the film as had been previously speculated and though it differs from the book (drastically in places) I really enjoyed it.
		The film was beautifully shot and the attention to small details was astounding.
		Filming moved to Lincoln for five days of work around the University campus, the train station and pubs within the city.
	shootingthepast.tripod.com /possession/news.htm (731 words)

	RollingStone.com: Possession Review
		Possession on film had all the makings of a disaster.
		As Maud and Roland retrace the steps of Christabel and Randolph's affair in 1859, a spark is supposed to ignite between the cool academics.
		Made in an era of casual screwing, Possession aches for a time when secret lovers could turn their passion into unbridled poetry.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/movie/_/id/5948539 (454 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: FILM Possession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That's the tone taken by this adaptation of Possession, the dense, literary 1990 romantic mystery novel by A.S. Byatt.
		Packed with breathtaking scenery of the English countryside and some nifty transitions between the present and the past, the film nonetheless bears a pervasive air of Cliffs Notes simplification, marking it as vaguely unfulfilling, however pretty.
		Unfortunately, the modern part of the film too often buries character development under pithy dialogue that ostensibly allows simple Yank audiences to get past stultifying exteriors to the red-blooded humans underneath.
	www.citypaper.com /film/review.asp?id=2181 (750 words)

	MovieMaker Magazine \| HOP Volume 2, Issue #8 \| Director Neil LaBute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Possession, LaBute’s new movie, which he also wrote with David Henry Hwang and Laura Jones, is adapted from A.S. Byatt’s Booker Prize-winning 1990 literary romance.
		MM: You have really switched gears with your new film, Possession, which is a romantic love story.
		But in film the process and product are constantly combined.
	www.moviemaker.com /hop/16/directing.html (2361 words)

	Possession (2002/I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The aspect of the film which bothered me a bit was the ease with which the modern couple solves the series of mysteries that they are confronted with.
		On the positive side, the fast progression of the mystery kept the film from feeling as slow as I initially feared it might be.
		In the film's favor is the cinematography, which captures England both present and past beautifully.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0256276 (850 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - European Possession Films of the 1970s
		That isn't to say that some great films haven't arisen from this; it simply implies that, with a few notable exceptions, European horror filmmakers are not known for their original storylines.
		Carla Gravini, a sexually repressed, wheelchair-bound young woman is possessed by the spirit of one of her ancestors; a witch burned at the stake during the Middle Ages.
		While sleeping one night, she is transported back to the time of her forebearer's inquisition, where she is force-fed the head of a toad and, in a notorious scene (unhesitantly cut by the USA distributor), is made to tongue the anus of a live goat.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A3474083 (1527 words)

	Possession
		In director Andrzej Zulawski's commentary for his film "Possession" he declares, "Films don't want to bite anymore, they want to lick." Well, get out the tongue depressor boys 'cause "Possession" bites like a mad, hungry dog.
		Adjani and Neill play Anna and Mark, a young couple in Berlin whose marriage is already an open, gapping wound before the first frame of the film is revealed.
		Adjani referred to the film as "psychological pornography" and she isn't kidding.
	www.mediascreen.com /p/possession.htm (224 words)

	Lawrence to get sneak peek at KU alum Neil LaBute's new film April 25
		As in his previous films, LaBute explores and explodes modern relationships in "The Shape of Things." A contemporary story of love, sex and art set in a college town, the film follows the intensifying relationship between Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) and Adam (Paul Rudd).
		In late 2000, LaBute was in England working on the film "Possession" when "The Shape of Things" began to crystallize.
		The initial seeds for the film were sown by the reaction to LaBute's first feature film, 1997's "In the Company of Men." After that movie's premiere at Sundance, people asked the writer/director whether he thought a woman was capable of doing what the men in his movie did.
	www.ur.ku.edu /News/03N/AprilNews/April14/labute.html (901 words)

	Possession Movie: Possession DVD is available from Bestprices.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although this film presents a kinder, gentler LaBute--who is known for emotionally caustic movies such as IN THE COMPANY OF MEN and YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS--POSSESSION still focuses on the relationships between men and women with skillful attention.
		Paltrow reprises her convincing British accent from films such as SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE and SLIDING DOORS, while Northam and Ehle lend gravity to their Victorian characters.
		However, it's Eckhart, a longtime LaBute collaborator, who proves to be the film's heart and soul; his relaxed yet complex personality grounds both the movie and its two intertwined stories.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/025192240324IE (425 words)

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