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In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

  
 Renaissance Indian Magazine-John Woo interview, By Arigon Starr, Page1
A maverick film director and writer who honed his skills in Hong Kong cinema, Woo's Hollywood films have both thrilled and shocked audiences.
This thread runs through almost all of his films, from "The Killer" to "Face Off." Woo's films are reminiscent of American director Martin Scorsese, whose films are filled with compelling characters who happen to have very violent jobs (see "Mean Streets" or "Good Fellas").
His films have pushed the envelope of what action-oriented movies suppose to be.
www.renaissanceindian.com /johnwoointerviewP1.htm   (1051 words)

  
 Kenneth Branagh - Films as Director and Actor:, Other Films:
Renaissance acquired a high profile in rapid time, with Branagh and other major British actors directing a variety of productions in which they also appeared, in London and on national and international tours.
The comparisons and contrasts between the two films are genuinely striking, reflective of the periods in which they were made and of the imposing talents of the men who made them.
Filmed on location in Tuscany, Much Ado is visually enchanting, as vibrantly bright and sensually warm as Henry V is consciously dark and (until the wooing scene) cold.
www.filmreference.com /Directors-Be-Bu/Branagh-Kenneth.html   (3019 words)

  
 THE HIGH HAT | NITRATE: Films from the Former Yugoslavia
Not all of these films focus on political issues or even the recent war, but nearly all of them have sharp social commentaries in their work, combined with strong visual accents.
As in her documentary work, this film bridges the political and the personal in exploring the relationship of three girls taking a canoe trip down the Kolpa River, which forms part of the border between Croatia and Slovenia.
His long-delayed follow-up film Dust was surprisingly different from Rain, with the lyrical romanticism and beauty of Rain replaced by the dazzling-yet-violent imagery of Dust.
www.thehighhat.com /Nitrate/003/yugofilms.html   (1215 words)

  
 Society of Biblical Literature
In 2003, a collection of short animation films titled The Animatrix was released, the main goal of which was to develop themes and motifs related to The Matrix Trilogy (The Matrix [1999], The Matrix Reloaded [2003], and The Matrix Revolutions [2003]).
Far from being a mere retelling or rewriting of the biblical account of creation, the 2R films offer a richly nuanced reconfiguration in which elements are borrowed, but also retooled and reapplied, to move the viewer in a different direction than the Genesis story does on its own.
In the biblical traditions and their afterlives, knowledge itself is not usually a major factor, and the aetiology of human culture and civilization that arises from the very act of expulsion may even be seen as a final embrace of the "fall" as a positive feature.
www.sbl-site.org /Article.aspx?ArticleId=392   (3026 words)

  
 Clifford B. West
An interesting and unique body of work was filmed by artist Clifford West, whose more than 25 films on artists and aspects of art history made between 1958 and 1981 utilizes a camera-as-brush technique more in keeping with the approach taken by a painter than a filmmaker.
The film is one of constant motion, resulting from the vertiginous movements of West’s camera, or the movement built into the sculptures themselves.
The film begins with historian Bruno Bearzi showing Donatello's modifications, and his 14 separate castings, on the colossal bronze of St. Louis of Toulouse at the Museo dell'Opera.
www.afana.org /westbio.htm   (1408 words)

  
 Sheffield Hallam Working Papers: Teaching Renaissance Texts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
For most film makers and audiences the Renaissance surely means, in the first place, a time of vivid and colourful personalities leading lives filled with grandeur, passion, and cruelty, thus providing historical justification for the scenes of sex and violence which the audience is assumed to want.
In the film, she refuses to testify that she was raped and Tassi has to nobly ‘confess’ in order to save her from further torture.
The Renaissance was indeed a crucial period in the formation of the English (and British) nation but there are always other stories which can be told about this and students might be invited to think what a film about Elizabeth made from a strongly Catholic viewpoint would be like.
extra.shu.ac.uk /wpw/renaissance/wymer.htm   (5975 words)

  
 The Luzhin Defence - Sub Page
Renaissance Films was founded in 1988 by Stephen Evans, David Parfitt and Kenneth Branagh.
Renaissance will handle international sales on at least five films to be produced under the agreement, with ‘The Luzhin Defence’ as the first project under that deal.
Watson’s film debut was in Lars von Trier’s ‘Breaking the Waves’ for which she was Academy Award nominated and won the New York Critics Circle Best Actress Award, the British Newcomer of the Year Award at the London Film Critics Circle and the Felix Award for Best Actress.
www.sonypictures.com /classics/luzhin/sub_pages/index.html?w_knightl   (4796 words)

  
 Black & White Renaissance: Films (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Although a number of fl and white films have been discontinued in recent years there have also been others that have been made available, either new films or ones that had previously been restricted to a limited market, particularly those manufactured in central European countries.
Apparently a special version of this film is also made for reversal processing, as well as 120 and sheet film sizes, although the sheet film is only ISO 25.
The same Copex Pan film is also available as a special kit from Spur containing two films and their special developer which gives a speed of EI 25-40 with this material.
photography.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /od/choosingfilm/a/newfilms.htm   (757 words)

  
 Black & White Renaissance: Films (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Not all films are suitable, and each has very individual results, very different from their properties as negative materials.
Their are descriptions of how the films react and sample images on the web site, and they are generally very impressive.
Many photographers who were using Afga Scala stocked their fridges before it disappeared, and this film is said to give improved results in dr5 to the Agfa process which is no longer available or to alternatives in use by other labs offering a Scala processing service.
photography.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /od/choosingfilm/a/newfilms_4.htm   (777 words)

  
 Films Media Group - The End of the Renaissance?
In this program, Andrew Graham-Dixon proposes that the Renaissance slowly faded away due to pressure from the Council of Trent, the industrialization of northern Europe, and the ending of Venetian mercantile hegemony.
This program, hosted by Andrew Graham-Dixon, explores the princely courts of Renaissance Italy, revealing their role in the emergence of the modern concept of the artist as a celebrity.
Films Media Group, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, Shopware and their respective logos are trademarks of Films Media Group, a PRIMEDIA company.
www.films.com /id/1176/The_End_of_the_Renaissance.htm   (384 words)

  
 New U.S. Black Cinema by Clyde Tayor
By the time films of great innovation and energy began emerging from UCLA in the early seventies from Haile Gerima, Larry Clark, and Charles Burnett, it was clear that a new path had been broken toward a liberated fl screen image.
The semantics of this film are akin to those of the instrumental jazz theater, in which the performer calls the audience together to celebrate shared passages of life through his/her voicing of a familiar tune.
The independent films of Afro-Americans since the late 1960s, it should be clear by now, have made a departure from all prior examples of fl imagery sharp enough to be considered a distinct aesthetic phenomenon.
www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC28folder/NewBlackCinema.html   (5559 words)

  
 Henry V (1989 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry V is a 1989 film directed by Kenneth Branagh, and based upon the Shakespeare play about the famous English King.
The visual and verbal styles of the film are much grittier than the Laurence Olivier film (see: Henry V (1944 movie)), particularly with respect to the Battle of Agincourt scenes, which are strongly reminiscent of the battle scenes in the films of Akira Kurosawa.
Henry V received near-universal critical acclaim for Branagh's Oscar-nominated performance and direction, for the accessibility of its Shakespearean language and particularly for its music by first-time composer Patrick Doyle, which was performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Simon Rattle.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_V_(1989_film)   (286 words)

  
 http://xft001/metz/blaxploitation.htm
The Blaxploitation film, a film made at a Hollywood studio in the late 1960s and early 1970s for a specifically urban, African-American audience, offers a worthy case study for sorting out these competing definitions of the Hollywood Renaissance.
The film radically posits that it is the white police force that is the problem, and Priest, the character who in a traditional Hollywood film would be the crook, turns out to be the hero.
The film thus works to re-inforce, not dismantle, the racist supposition that fl male sexuality is bestial, and a threat to white womanhood.
www.montana.edu /metz/website/filmamer/blaxploitation.htm   (1417 words)

  
 MOVIE PASSES: Renaissance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
From Miramax Films comes Renaissance, a bold vision of a stark near future drenched in hidden secrets and technological frontiers.
Directed by Christian Volckman, Renaissance takes film noir to its most stylized edge, utilizing live action motion capture, animated in 3D and rendered in high contrast fl and white to create a graphic novel come-to-life.
The characters in our film are archetypes of that genre but they are of their own time and are now obsessed with things like security, ethnic conflicts, terrorism, world globalization.”
www.popsyndicate.com /index.php/site/story/movie_passes_renaissance   (651 words)

  
 iFMagazine.com News - 'DANGEROUS MIND' IN THE DUMPER
Renaissance has already invested $1 million into the $35.5 million-budgeted Chuck Barris biopic film and will lose that money if production does not continue, sources said.
Artisan Entertainment is confirmed to be eyeing the film's domestic and worldwide rights, and other suitors making their way to the table include Interlight.
Singer was in Montreal, where members of the film's cast and crew had been in preproduction and were breaking down the set but not expected to disband until Saturday.
www.ifmagazine.com /new.asp?article=1615   (462 words)

  
 KING ARTHUR FOREVER--Medieval Studies at the Movies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The final section of this reference work is devoted to the representation of Joan of Arc on film and includes both a filmography of nearly forty works, "in which [Joan] is either a main character or important motif", and a select bibliography of criticism and scholarship on these films (p.
Most of the films cited here, which include films set in the post-medieval era, short films, and educational filmstrips in addition to telefilms and theatrical films set in the Middle Ages, are not noted in Harty's Reel Middle Ages.
For medievalist film, the focus is primarily on studies of historical film and surveys of particular types--Arthurian, Joan of Arc, and Robin Hood--of films depicting medieval subjects.
kingarthurforever.home.att.net /msamml.htm   (4706 words)

  
 Fine Line Features | Twelfth Night | Filmmaker Biographies
For Renaissance Films, Parfitt was associate producer on the Oscar-winning Henry V and line producer for Peter's Friends.
Peter Boyle's many film editing credits include Waterworld, Rapa Nui, Sommersby, Into the West, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Queen of Hearts, The Beast of War, A Prayer for the Dying, Florida Straits and The Razor's Edge.
Her many other films include Plenty, A Private Function, The Good Father, A Prayer for the Dying, Gorillas in the Mist, Mountains of the Moon, The Old Man and The Sea, Shadowlands, Legends of the Fall, Jack and Sarah, A Christmas Carol, Carrington, Haunted, The Innocent and Twelve Monkeys.
www.finelinefeatures.com /twelfth/filmbios.htm   (860 words)

  
 BBC - BBC Films - Press Releases
BBC Films' SHOOTING DOGS has attached John Hurt (LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND, SCANDAL, THE ELEPHANT MAN) to lead this gripping and emotional story of two men’s struggle for survival when caught up in one of the most brutal genocides in the twentieth century.
The film explores the powerful dilemma of peacekeepers caught up in a dangerous world, where they feel powerless to act effectively.
The film will be shot on location in Rwanda in July and August.
www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfilms/press/shootingdogsrelease.shtml   (415 words)

  
 Vessel Films, LLC
VESSEL FILMS, LLC is engaged in the development and production of motion picture films for theatrical and home video release in the United States and abroad.
VF's goals are to make films that inspire, films that reflect positive values such as love, friendship, or spirituality, with the understanding that a wide range of human experience may fall under this banner.
It is VF's goal to make movies which are commercially viable to a mass audience, most often with a skew towards educated viewers of college age and above.
www.vesselfilms.us   (228 words)

  
 http://xft001/metz/sixties.htm
The shift from Classical to New Hollywood as figured by these stars’ appearances in such films is associated with a shift in genre: from woman’s film (where their bodies signified ideal beauty) to horror film (where their aging bodies signify the grotesque).
Fueled by a new generation of filmmakers (the first of which ever to have gone to film school, who would eventually be dubbed the "Hollywood Brats": Coppola, Scorsese, etc.), Hollywood cinema began to import the aesthetic practices of the European art cinema, the aesthetic practices of modernism.
This economic perspective on the Renaissance films opens a space for seeing these films not as truly radical, as the modernist argument would imply, but instead as Hollywood operating as usual to draw in an audience without offending anyone.
www.montana.edu /metz/website/filmamer/sixties.htm   (1312 words)

  
 Renaissance Films Limited information and related industry information from Hoover's
The Renaissance was noted for the artists it produced; Renaissance Films wants to be known for the artistic films it produces.
Renaissance Films has been involved in the production of such films as 2001’s The Safety of Objects (Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney) and the 2002 George Clooney-directed Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
There are 11 competitors for Renaissance Films; see more.
hoovers.com /renaissance-films/--ID__130998--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml   (424 words)

  
 Renaissance (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Renaissance is a French-language animated cyberpunk/science fiction detective film, co-produced in France, United Kingdom and Luxembourg, directed by Christian Volckman and released on March 15 2006 in France and September 22, 2006 in USA by Miramax Films.
The movie uses the motion capture technique to create a 3D universe, its quirkyness coming from the fact it is entirely fl and white (except some few elements in color at the end of the movie).
Further information might be found in a section of the talk page or at Requests for expansion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Renaissance_(film)   (240 words)

  
 Vulcan Productions
The film, adapted for the screen by director Rose Troche (GO FISH, BEDROOMS AND HALLWAYS), is based on the critically acclaimed A. Homes short stories, which chronicle bittersweet modern day angst in suburbia.
The film was directed by Marleen Gorris (ANTONIA’S LINE) and stars John Turturro and Emily Watson.
The film is being distributed in the US by Sony Pictures Classics.
www.clearblueskyfilms.com /TemplatePress.aspx?id=15   (271 words)

  
 BBC - BBC Films - About BBC Films (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is firmly established at the forefront of British independent film-making and co-produces approximately eight films a year.
As well as cinema features, BBC Films has been responsible for some of the most groundbreaking and acclaimed BBC television dramas in recent years, working with award-winning writer-directors such as Stephen Poliakoff, Dominic Savage and Francesca Joseph.
BBC Films continues its commitment to make British films and television dramas of integrity and ambition while widening its scope to include international and American coproductions.
www.bbc.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /bbcfilms/about   (174 words)

  
 Keyword   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The American Renaissance Film Festival was scheduled for the third anniversary weekend of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and it was a fitting tribute.
The film festival, scheduled Sept. 10-12, is the brainchild of Jim Hubbard, a law school graduate who felt conservatives have sat on the sidelines too long while liberals dominate moviemaking.
The American Film Renaissance hopes its festival will be the opening salvo in a battle to get more patriotic and traditional-values oriented movies produced and seen by the film-going public in the U.S. Using a war analogy, festival president and cofounder Jim Hubbard explains his vision: "Conservatives have been on defense in...
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=afr   (3061 words)

  
 BBC - BBC Films
BBC Films Rights and Commercial Affairs, led by Jane Wright, has a remit to work with BBC Films providing a professional and commercial service for the development and coproduction of feature films.
Co-Production Finance: We secure third party financing for BBC Films theatric films in the commercial market place and public sector by sourcing equity, rights presales to agents or distributors, bank gap, tax funds and international co-production.
We provide BBC Films with marketplace knowledge about talent values and information on sales and distribution results.
www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfilms/rights   (223 words)

  
 UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies | CMRS Goes to the Movies (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
·  Aziza, C. "The Renaissance As Depicted in Films." Nouvelle Revue du Seizieme Siecle 15.2 (1997) 359-369.
"Film History as Social History: The Dieterle/Warner Brothers Bio-pic." Wide Angle 8.2 (1986) 16­31.
Joan of Arc in History, Literature, and Film.
www.humnet.ucla.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /humnet/cmrs/Cinema/bibcont.htm   (580 words)

  
 The Dreaming: The Neil Gaiman Page » Renaissance Sees ‘Omens’   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The film is slated to shoot in the U.K. toward the end of 2001.
Renaissance itself has an output deal with Entertainment Film Distributors in the U.K. The Gilliam pic, which has been long in negotiation, reps the first fruit of Renaissance’s policy to make larger A-grade projects, co-financed through its newly inked $210 million credit line with the bank Dexia BIL.
Renaissance is picking up all the development costs.
www.holycow.com /dreamnew/archives/2000/10/23/renaissance-sees-omens   (408 words)

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