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	Rope (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rope (1948) is an Alfred Hitchcock classic film notable for its single location covered in long takes, many of which appear to be continuous shots.
		Rope is the first movie for which Hitchcock received a credit as both producer and director (he was the uncredited producer on Number 13, Suspicion and Notorious).
		Rope may be considered a homoerotic movie, even though the film version never indicates that the two murderers in the film were having an affair.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rope_(movie) (1337 words)

	DVD Review - Rope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But the aspect of this film that was most controversial at the time and was, in fact, censored to the point of only vague innuendo is the homosexual relationship between the two killers and, perhaps, their mentor.
		Film grain is evident but never too distracting and the use of edge enhancement is mercifully restrained as well.
		’Rope’ would certainly never be ranked in the same class as Alfred Hitchcock’s best works but, as something of an experiment on the part of the director, it remains a very interesting film on a number of levels.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/rope.shtml (915 words)

	Rope Film Review - Time Out Film
		One of Hitchcock's more experimental films, with the tale of two young gays, keen to prove their intellectual and spiritual superiority, killing a friend and hiding his body in a trunk in order to see whether dinner guests will suspect anything.
		On a thematic level, however, the film is more successful: while the arguments about Nietzschean philosophy between the couple and their professor, Stewart (whose ideas have inadvertently prompted the murder), are hardly profound, what is interesting is the way Hitchcock's sly amorality forces us, through the suspense, to side with the killers.
		ROPE is based on real-life Leopold and Loeb; two 1920's Chicago men of privilege and brains murder a young boy just because they feel like it, essentially.
	www.timeout.com /film/76944.html?cinema_id=361 (236 words)

	Alfred Hitchcock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The film evokes the fears of a naïve young bride who enters a great English country home and must grapple with the legacy of the dead woman who was her husband's first wife.
		The film was actually shot in eight takes of approximately 10 minutes each, which was the amount of film that would fit in a single camera reel; the transitions between reels were hidden by having a dark object fill the entire screen for a moment.
		His films are known for featuring Alfred Hitchcock in cameos in the film — a technique used by other directors and writers including Colin Dexter in the ITV Inspector Morse series.
	alfred-hitchcock.iqnaut.net (3701 words)

	Desire Roped In: Notes on the Fetishism of the Long Take in Rope
		Rope offers a paradoxical solution: instead of trying to get rid of the body, the murderers place it right in the middle of their apartment and give a party around it: this is the principle of Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’.
		Writing about Rope (which he considered ‘the most important [film] we have seen in many a year’) he claimed that some of the objections made by the film’s detractors might be partially justified if the film had been made in fl and white.
		The film’s characters are prisoners of a hell whose flames are the reddish blaze of the sky and clouds at sunset.
	www.rouge.com.au /4/rope.html (5321 words)

	The DVD Journal: Rope
		What editing there is occurs when the change from one film magazine to another is disguised (rather clumsily sometimes, granted) by having the camera zoom in, say, on the back of someone's dark jacket.
		Rope's use of continuous takes decades after film editing had become a complex artform reminds us of what a daring stylist Hitchcock was.
		Rope was the first time Hitchcock gave a starring role to Stewart, certainly one of Hollywood's "superior few." Their working relationship later flowered into two of Hitchcock's masterpieces, Vertigo and Rear Window.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/r/rope.shtml (2478 words)

	Oedipus at Los Angeles: Hitch and the Tragic Muse
		And by relocating the film in a wealthy American milieu he is able to draw on an equivalent audience fascination with criminality – the sort of appetite that would bring them to thrillers of this kind – ensuring the connection would be drawn between the murder here and the upper-class scandal of the 1920s.
		Yet perhaps the deepest irony of the film is that the audience is seemingly invited to share this ignorance with Rupert as his denial of complicity is coordinated with a narrative trajectory that fashions him as hero.
		Rope takes its point of departure from irrational springs of violence within human personality, but these are seen to be nurtured by the privileges a materialistic society produces, by the masculinist values it propagates, and by the hubris that attaches not only to the individual but to the culture itself.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/03/24/oedipus.html (5606 words)

	Rope Tricks - Adorama Article By Steve Sint
		Stretch the piece of rope between the flash head and the subject and note which knot is closest to the subject.
		If your 10-foot test shot (on the ISO 100) film produced the best slide at f8 the knot at 5-feet requires an f16 exposure, the knot at 7.5-feet requires an f11 exposure, and the knot at 15-feet (or just the end of the rope) means the exposure is f5.6.
		Likewise ISO 64 film requires that you open the lens up one-half f-stop than the ISO 100 settings and ISO 50 film means you open the lens a full f-stop from the ISO 100 f-stop settings.
	www.adorama.com /catalog.tpl?op=article_031504 (1704 words)

	Rope Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The film was blessed with an outstanding script and excellent cast to channel it.
		The film was a risqué glance into the minds of cold-blooded killers for the 1940’s, even though it had a "Hollywood" ending.
		Because the film is shot completely from inside one apartment, it forces its audience to pay fanatical attention to the characters.
	www.deadrabbit.org /movievault/ropereview.htm (686 words)

	rope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Strangling their friend with rope, they stuff his corpse into an antique chest and then ready the apartment for a cocktail party.
		(Feature films generally have about 600 shots.) Since the maximum length of a reel of 35mm film is around 10 minutes, the reels were joined by stopping the camera behind a character with his back filling the entire frame.
		Because of the homosexuality in ROPE, however discreet, the film was initially banned in Chicago (perhaps because it evoked memories of the real case), Spokane, Memphis, and Seattle, and was morally condemned in many other towns.
	yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/r/rope.html (566 words)

	Rope - Review - Hitchcock's most experimental film
		Rope was a first for Hitchcock in many ways - his first colour film, and a film he wanted to be as close to theatre as possible.
		It was a very experimental film for HItchcock, as he attempted to shoot the whole film in one continuous shot, that required the set to have fly-away walls on silent casters so that the huge technicolor camera could follow the actors into other rooms, and swirl around them to follow them back.
		The longest reel of film that would fit in the camera was about ten minutes so Hitchcock had to contrive objects or people to pass infront of the camera and momentarily fully block out the lens so that they could cut, reload, and start shooting again from exact same position.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /vhs-title-r/rope/252002 (701 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Rope
		The film opens with his killing, and quickly he is stuffed into a trunk in the living room.
		The film was made in 1948, and as films of this age go, the transfer is pretty good.
		The documentary "Rope Unleashed" by Laurent Bouzereau is the crown jewel of the collection, and is a 30 minute in-depth look at the film, with interviews from writers Hume Cronyn, who wrote the treatment, and Alan Laurents who wrote the screenplay, along with Pat Hitchcock O'Connell and co-star Farley Granger.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/rope.php (1184 words)

	Eureka Fluid Film - Technical Data: Wire Rope Lubricant, Extreme Pressure Corrosive Protection, Lubrication
		Rusty wire rope and cable should be first treated with Fluid Film® Liquid A or Liquid AR, to attain maximum penetration.
		When a considerable length of wire is to be coated, it may be advantageous to apply as follows: Form a cone of leather, about two feet long and six inches in diameter at the base.
		Both base and apex are left open with the wire rope passing through the apex.
	www.eurekafluidfilm.com /about/tech_data_wep.html (319 words)

	DVD.net : Rope - DVD Review
		Rope is based both on the real life case of Leopold-Loeb, two Chicago students who pulled essentially the same twisted stunt, and a play by Englishman Patrick Hamilton entitled Rope's End - and boy does the latter show.
		My main criticism of Rope is that unlike most of the acknowledged Master of Suspense's films, he dispensed with his key element of suspense almost at the outset of the film.
		The film has a number of natural points that would have been perfect to sneakily slip in the change, but instead some dolt decided to put it at a pivotal, and extremely unnatural, spot.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=836 (1425 words)

	Rope (1948) - Film Talk
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		After strangling Dave with a piece of rope, they dump his body into a chest and decide to celebrate by throwing a dinner party, inviting David's parents and girlfriend, along with Rupert Cadell (played by James Stewart), a former teacher of theirs.
	www.film-talk.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=8434 (1662 words)

	Movie Review - Rope - eFilmCritic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alfred Hitchcock's Rope is one of three excellent films based on The Leopold/Loeb murder case.
		In Rope, Hitchcock uses a method of filming that allows him to make the entire movie appear as if it had been done in a single take.
		In the opening sequence we are shown a silhouette of a man being strangled with a rope by the two killers, Brandon and Philip.
	efilmcritic.com /hbs.cgi?movie=3045 (979 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Rope / DVD-Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I would say ROPE is a fine film to introduce a newcomer to the world of Alfred Hitchcock.
		Rope is a great hitchcock film, and this film really made me appreciate classic films, and all hitchcock films.
		ROPE is a curious experiment: a film shot in real time, with only one "cut" in the action--see if you can spot it.
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?partner_id=28207033&item_id=23014 (435 words)

	Hitchcock's "Rope" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rope was NOT edited from end-to-end to appear to be one continuous shot--despite what a substantial number of film "historians" have written.
		A look at the film "Rope" reveals that in addition to the cut that occurs immediately after the opening credits, there are four conventional cuts.
		Typically, the cut is made to a close-up of a face while the person who was talking at the end of the previous take continues talking at the beginning of the new take.
	articles.dhwritings.com /q16.html (251 words)

	Rope
		As for Rope, I thought it was a one trick pony, the "continual" take was mightily impressive (particularly in the way hidden cuts are made) technically, but seemed mightily restrictive in terms of narrative.
		The film is shot as a series of 8 minute takes, all edited together to create the illusion of one continuous take.
		But although I'd read the reviews for "rope" and realised that people thought that it definitely wasn't as good as his other films I still have to say that it is very good but I still think I prefer his other films.
	www.empireonline.com /forum/printable.asp?m=84262 (2745 words)

	Space and Time in ‘Rope’ (Page One)
		Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) is known as a questionable experiment because of its virtual abandonment of cutting in lieu of a moving camera.
		Rope explores some of the fundamental characteristics of the cinematic abstraction of time and space by using the mobile camera as an agent that gives plastic reality to subjective material.
		The movement of the camera throughout the film places the viewer in the ethically, emotionally, and psychologically uncomfortable position of perceiving perversity in the relationship between image and dialogue.
	home.comcast.net /~flickhead/RopeOne.html (682 words)

	1948 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		February 11 - Sergy Eisenstein, Russian film director (b.
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1948 (2545 words)

	Bounce Press Kit
		The film at once glorifies and pokes fun at these supremely macho men whom we have all encountered, but to whom we have seldom devoted much attention.
		The movie was filmed at some of the hottest and cheesiest clubs in London, Manhattan and Queens such as: Chaos, Dreams International, Scores, Carbon, Cheetah, Life, Shine, Decade, System, Equinox, Casablanca, NV, G, Jet Lounge, Jet 19, Spybar, and The End of the Line.
		His work on the film helped convince Cantor, already an accomplished filmmaker, to partner with Laikind, who is 27, to create the New York based production company Stick Figure Productions, where they recently completed their first feature film, "Endsville", which Laikind co-wrote and produced.
	www.artlic.com /press/kits/bounce_kit.html (3963 words)

	Amazon.com: Rope (1948) (1948) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Rope, based on a play of the same name, which was in turn based on a real murder case in 1924, opens with two friends - played by John Dall and Farley Granger - strangling a classmate with a length of rope.
		Rope is a great piece of film that really requires more than one viewing, even from people who may not have enjoyed it for its story.
		Rope is a very short film, even by today's standards, clocking in at one hour and twenty-five minutes.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6300183580?v=glance (3769 words)

	Rope (1948) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was the first Hitchcock movie to feature James Stewart and it is easily the most underrated of the four movies they made together.
		The technical "gimmick" of 'Rope' is usually mentioned more than anything else about it (Hitchcock wanted one long continuous take, which wasn't possible at the time, but compromised by using several long ones, a very innovative approach at the time), but there is a lot more to it than just that.
		'Rope' deserves to be mentioned in any list of his ten best movies.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0040746 (634 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Rope [1948]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is a fascinating film from a master of the genre.
		"Rope" is not one of Hitchcock's better movies, however it is an absorbing film and full of suspense.
		All of "Rope" is set in one room in a large penthouse suite and as a result the film is more like a play.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005EAX9 (947 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Rope
		His films were and are the epitome of what psychological (with a smattering of violence of course) dramatic films and "ROPE" is no exception.
		A man (David) strangled with a rope by Brandon and Philip, and the man they've killed is a friend of theirs from the same prep school.
		Rope was shot all in one apartment in real time with just a few takes, with the handful of cuts in the film masked in such a way they are almost unnoticeable.
	www.hour.ca /film/movie.aspx?iIDFilm=4909&v=vo (771 words)

	Rope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The director decided to adapt the play Rope's End by Patrick Hamilton and film it as close to live theater as possible.
		Rope explores the Nietzsche concept of the superior being.
		Rope is far too manipulative, but it has Stewart.
	www.filmsondisc.com /dvdpages/rope_dvd_review.htm (608 words)

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