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	ND/NF REVIEW: Childhood Stinks (and Transcends); "Ratcatcher"'s Sublime Portrait of Youth
		Set during a garbage strike in the late 1970s, "Ratcatcher" serves up an unforgettably grim housing project that's a living, breathing, biological entity replete with a digestive tract (a nearby canal that swallows a child during the film's grim opening scene) and a recurring bout of gastric distress.
		The recurring domestic scenes in "Ratcatcher," which verge on the social-realist kitchen sink drama of Loach and Leigh, are a continuation of themes addressed in Ramsay's 1997 short film "Gasman," in which a divorced father accompanies his restless brood to a joyless holiday function in a neighboring tenement.
		"Ratcatcher" may be fraught with contradictions, vague in its own intended message, and in brash defiance of the rules of conventional narrative filmmaking.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/rev_000406_Ratcatcher_NDNF.html (787 words)

	Ratcatcher
		Ratcatcher begins with an fatal event -- the accidental drowning of James's friend in the canal -- and soon envelops us in a world of physical and emotional brutality.
		The most impressive aspect of Ratcatcher is its unflinching view of frequently troubling subjects: Sorrows often go unmourned and unresolved, and judgment is never passed.
		Richly textured and directed with a refreshing, minimalist sensibility, Ratcatcher is one of the finer meditations on urban decay in recent memory.
	www.findthefun.com /movies/m00/m0013426.htm (179 words)

	RATCATCHER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ratcatcher offers more of the same bleak-beyond-belief storytelling you’ve come to expect from a film set in 1973 Glasgow and offers nothing new except accents so thick the film had to be subtitled for those unfamiliar with the Scottish brogue.
		Ratcatcher takes place in and around a dilapidated Glaswegian housing project on the banks of a filthy canal.
		Ratcatcher was written and directed by Lynne Ramsay, who won the Best Short Film award at the 1998 Cannes fest.
	www.sick-boy.com /ratcatcher.htm (541 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Ratcatcher review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ratcatcher is a smashing and assured debut feature and a grim, almost dreamlike look at a troubled childhood.
		Ratcatcher is more a visual experience than an aural experience, so the accompanying Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo mix is fine.
		Ratcatcher is a highly recommended rental and a worthy addition to the Criterion library.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_5/ratcatcher.html (1550 words)

	DVD Booty - Ratcatcher - Criterion Collection
		Ratcatcher is a study into the effects of one's actions.
		Ratcatcher, set in the midst of a Scottish garbage worker's strike, is fill with intense imagery that some will not be able to take.
		Ratcatcher, Lynne Ramsay's first feature length film is a piece of art house which has some nice scenes.
	www.dvdbooty.com /dvds/ratcatcher-criterion-collection (438 words)

	RATCATCHER
		Yes to Maya Deren, whose Meshes of the Afternoon gave her a Pauline revelation (as in saint, not Kael) at film school and clearly cued Ratcatcher's opening image of a child twining herself in a curtain as if in the tulle of a dream.
		All the hullabaloo we didn't get with boy one's death is heaped on this episode, absurdly, comically – including a Mayoral medal for dad – although the dark coda to the applause is the hero-of-the-hour's beating-up by thugs on the way back from celebrating at the pub.
		Ratcatcher freshens reality and outfoxes cliché by constantly decoupling cause and effect, and – more important – cause and affect.
	americancinemapapers.homestead.com /files/ratcatcher.htm (1418 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Ratcatcher
		Set during Scotland’s national garbage strike of the mid-1970s, Ratcatcher explores the experiences of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams and his guilt with the abjection that surrounds him.
		Utilizing beautiful, elusive imagery, candid performances, and unexpected humor, Ratcatcher deftly contrasts urban decay with a rich interior landscape of hope and perseverance, resulting in a work at once raw and deeply poetic.
		Ratcatcher is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=162 (120 words)

	RoaldDahlFans.com - Short Stories - "The Ratcatcher"
		The ratcatcher's theory that licorice is made from rat's blood is echoed years later in Boy.
		The ratcatcher, who looks a lot like a large rat, formulates a cunning plan: he will leave oats around the rick for a few days to gain the rats' trust, and then he'll spread poisoned oats that will kill them.
		The ratcatcher begins to stare at the rat, moving closer and closer, until finally he strikes like a snake with his mouth open and his yellow teeth biting.
	www.roalddahlfans.com /shortstories/ratc.php (424 words)

	Paul Bond reviews Ratcatcher --a film by Lynne Ramsay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		What we experience, thanks in great part to an absolutely stunning performance by William Eadie as James, is a portrayal of a child in a world set adrift, a child who is forced by circumstances to be more adult than he really is.
		This is strikingly confirmed in Ratcatcher in the following fashion: the images of fl dustbin bags are a much more powerful expression of social conditions than the almost perfunctorily realistic treatment of the ending of the strike, when the army is sent into the tenements to clear the refuse away.
		There is a brief interlude of social realism, as television news broadcasts hail the ending of the strike and a man shouts “scabs!” at the army.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/nov1999/rat-n27.shtml (1547 words)

	Ratcatcher (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lynne Ramsay's film, 'Ratcatcher', is an utterly unsentimental portrait of those times, though imbued with a measure of hope that only hindsight proves false.
		Taking this film together with 'Morvern Callar', her second feature, my feeling is that Ramsay is a director of considerable talent, but maybe still trying, in this early phase of her career, a little too hard.
		'Ratcatcher' is not a great film; but hopefully hints at a great one to come.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0171685 (386 words)

	Ratcatcher Movies Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest.
		- Niels Bohr Ratcatcher "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a State depend.
		-- Ernest Hemingway Ratcatcher "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.
	www.themoviesonline.com /Titles_R_Ratcatcher.html (1669 words)

	DVD Review - Ratcatcher (The Criterion Collection) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ratcatcher has got to be one of the most pretentious, manipulative films I have ever seen (and I saw Pay it Forward).
		Nothing like watching a film that thinks it's more than it is, and tries to manipulate you in every way that it can to make you think it is more than it is. What an awful film.
		Criterion has released Ratcatcher on DVD and present it in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on this singele-sided, dual-layered DVD.
	www.dvdcollectorshaven.ca /CriReview.asp?ID=517 (1913 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Movies - Rat Catcher Review - Ratcatcher offers bleak vision
		Ratcatcher is a beautifully-made film, but so unremittingly depressing that you really need to be a serious cinema lover or possibly in a permanent bad mood to take it on.
		Not counting the sweetness of a few scenes shared by James and Margaret Anne and the sequences when James goes to the new houses, Ratcatcher is uniformly dark and predictably dark, at that.
		Ratcatcher is in English, but has subtitles to help viewers ken what's going on under the heavy Scots accents.
	xjam.canoe.ca /Movies/Reviews/R/Rat_Catcher/2001/02/09/753979.html (396 words)

	Xiibaro Reviews: Ratcatcher, Along Came a Spider, Blow, In the Mood for Love, and The Sopranos
		Ratcatcher, Along Came a Spider, Blow, In the Mood for Love.
		In the opening of Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher, we are introduced to Ryan, a seemingly normal young boy in 1973 Glasgow.
		During the interim, James must deal with the guilt that hits him whenever he remembers accidentally killing Ryan -- the occasional reminder is found in his dark eyes, which absorb the actions of everyone else, never really considering them to be lesser evils of his mistake.
	xiibaro.hypermart.net /archive/03/14.html (4086 words)

	Ratcatcher: Criterion Collection on DVD - MovieWeb
		As the garbage piles up and rats take up residency around the complex as if they were new tenants, James finds temporary solace in his friendships with Kenny, an odd boy who loves animals, and Margaret Anne, a teenage misfit who lets the local boys use her body as they wish.
		While undeniably grim, RATCATCHER manages to combine unusually rich imagery and spare use of dialogue to create a realistic portrait of a simultaneously beautiful and cruel world.
		"...RATCATCHER is clearly the work of a natural film artist, and experiencing her debut is as much a privilege as it is a pleasure..."
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?037429171820 (365 words)

	ATTIRE - Foxhunting in Virginia
		Informal dress, known as ratcatcher, is usually worn during autumn hunting (cub hunting) prior to opening meet.
		Ratcatcher may also be worn for informal meets during the regular season.
		Ladies wear a tweed coat or hacking jacket; natural-colored (buff or tan, but never white) breeches; shirt and colored tie or ratcatcher shirt with collar and stock pin; tattersall vest; brown leather gloves; brown or fl field boots; and hunt cap or derby with a hat cord.
	www.foxhunting.freeservers.com /PgsMain/attire.html (1844 words)

	Ratcatcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Like other directors who’ve made the transition from poetic shorts to more conventional features (Jane Campion, Under the Skin’s Carine Adler), Ramsay sprinkles her narrative with arty tableaux which sometimes derail the story — you can get away with such indulgences in a short, but the full-length format is less forgiving.
		Still, sometimes it’s a relief to be given a chance to breathe, as Ratcatcher’s plot is unremittingly bleak.
		Beginning with 12-year-old James (William Eadie) accidentally drowning another boy in a waste-clogged canal, the film is set during a garbage strike; filth piles up literally in the streets as it does metaphorically in the characters’ lives.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/r/ratcatcher.shtml (182 words)

	Ratcatcher/Lynne Ramsay - de Filmkrant net-versie van maart 2000, nr 209
		Ratcatcher bewijst het lyrische talent van deze Schotse 29-jarige regisseur, die in haar debuutfilm een sobere Schotse jeugd tussen ratten en vuilniszakken geheimzinnigheid en poëzie verleent.
		Terwijl in Derens films de lyrische beelden samen een surrealistische, niet-chronologische film vormen die meer droom is dan werkelijkheid, vertelt Ramsays film een realistisch verhaal over een jongen die in een isolement raakt omdat zijn ouders het te druk hebben met overleven en hij bij vriendjes niet terecht kan.
		In Ratcatcher overschaduwt de beeldlyriek de realistische inhoud en blijf je als toeschouwer toch wat onbevredigd achter.
	www.filmkrant.nl /av/org/filmkran/archief/fk209/ratcatch.html (650 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Ratcatcher" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Set in and around a Glasgow, Scotland, housing project in the early '70s, "Ratcatcher" follows James (William Fadie), a watchful, largely silent boy of about 12 who may or may not be responsible (Ramsay is ambiguous) for the drowning of a younger boy in a garbage-strewn canal behind the projects.
		With the exception of the periodic appearances of a gang of adolescent toughs, whose presence always heralds bad news, there is none of the overt brutality that has become a depressing staple of films about the lower classes (Gary Oldman's punishing "Nil by Mouth," for example).
		The characters in "Ratcatcher" seem too knocked out by the mere challenge of getting through the day to inflict their frustrations on one another.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/10/24/ratcatcher (954 words)

	[trikes] Re: trike manufacturers / Ratcatcher 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I have ridden the Ratcatcher in it nearly final form and it certainly rides well - this was at the Open Road holiday at Escrick in August 2000.
		I was there on my titanium Gold Rush and the only time I could be sure I could stay ahead of Mike was going downhill, where the higher gearing and the fairing make a big difference.
		This is not to be confused with the original Ratcatcher, > which was an experimental MWB (about five were built).
	www.ihpva.org /pipermail/trikes/2001q1/007656.html (342 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Ratcatcher (Criterion Collection) (1998)
		Lynne Ramsay's debut feature Ratcatcher is a gritty but often lyrical portrait of a boy growing up on the wrong side of the Scottish tracks.
		James (William Eadie) is a 12-year-old coming of age in a rough working-class section of Glasgow.
		James accidentally knocks the boy into the water and he drowns; James is too scared to tell anyone, but the incident weighs heavily on him, adding further tension to an already strained relationship with his alcoholic father.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=20254 (532 words)

	KDHX Film Review - Ratcatcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ratcatcher's setting is a Glasgow housing project during several weeks in the early 1970s' garbage strike.
		Among the mounds of refuse is a dog carcass, commented on sarcastically by a smug teenage boy, perhaps the kind James could become if he lost his sensitivity.
		But throughout Ratcatcher, British director Lynne Ramsay doesn't sentimentalize the tough lives and resilience of these Glasgow adults and children.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/ratcatcher.html (296 words)

	Ratcatcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For anybody turned off by the continual optimism, accessibility, and warmth of Billy Elliot, Ratcatcher is the movie to watch.
		The streets in the town are filling with garbage, and rats are beginning to take up residence.
		Ratcatcher is not an easy movie to watch and will most likely turn off many people.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/ratcatcher.html (382 words)

	Ratcatcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Believing that they were unobserved, and fearful of being implicated, James keeps the incident a secret.
		Whether that secret will be uncovered is just one underlying source of the tension that Ratcatcher generates in a gradually developed crescendo of despair.
		James' father is a drunk whose face is crisscrossed with scars that look like they might have originated in a knife fight.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies2/Ratcatcher.htm (621 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Ratcatcher outlines plans, but is silent on predator
		Ratcatcher outlines plans, but is silent on predator
		The sell-off - and a raft of smaller initiatives - was billed as long-awaited plans by chief executive Doug Flynn to put the badly tarnished crown back on the head of the ailing "royal ratcatcher".
		This is not only an offensive to build a new future for the support services group but also a defensive attempt to ward off the takeover approach from Gerry Robinson, which has enlivened its share price.
	www.guardian.co.uk /business/story/0,3604,1556692,00.html (513 words)

	Ratcatcher (2000): Reviews
		Ramsay has made a movie in which a universe of hopelessness and decay is penetrated by shafts of light that remake these bleak surroundings in strange and beautiful ways.
		There’s a light touch in evidence, balancing the bleakness with odd lyrical moments and unexpected humor and tenderness that infuse the gentle drama with a bracing freshness.
		A large part of the movie's problem is that both the characters and the actors who portray them serve as vehicles for Ramsay's stylistic flourishes.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/ratcatcher (603 words)

	Amazon.ca: Video: Ratcatcher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The cast is excellent, and writer-director Lynne Ramsay coaxes astonishingly good performances out of her child actors.
		Utilizing beautiful, elusive imagery, candid performances, and unexpected humor, Ratcatcher deftly examines the landscape of urban decay and a rich...
		I was warned in advance that "Ratcatcher" was a bit "drecht" (Glaswegian for gloomy).
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000069CFA (1020 words)

	In compelling 'Ratcatcher,' less is more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Ratcatcher" is such a film, joining such remarkable movies as "My Life as a Dog," "Kes," "Distant Voices, Still Lives," "Pelle the Conqueror" and "The War Zone."
		What's unique about "Ratcatcher" is the way Ramsey -- and her young actor Eadie -- twist what could have been a familiar tale into something compelling.
		Ramsey subscribes to the theory that less is more and she uses the camera to glimpse a sexually confusing, sometimes violent world through innocent eyes.
	seattlep-i.nwsource.com /movies/ratcatchq.shtml (388 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Ratcatcher"
		Some of Ramsay's touches in "Ratcatcher" are amazing: A shot of James framed through the picture window of his dream house as he runs through a golden field looks as if the boy has dreamed himself into a widescreen movie of his own devising.
		I don't want to be unfair to a first-time director by comparing her with two of the greatest filmmakers who ever worked, but when you take on the subject of the hopes of childhood dashed by poverty those are the comparisons you're risking.
		In the U.K. "Ratcatcher" has been the most praised debut in years, and there's always understandable excitement about a filmmaker whose work shows the signs of a developing visionary sensibility.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/10/24/ratcatcher/index1.html (833 words)

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