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	Ship of Fools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ship of fools is an old allegory, which has long been used in Western culture in literature and paintings.
		Ship of Fools (Narrenschiff), a 1494 satire by Sebastian Brant
		Ship of Fools, a 1962 novel by Katherine Anne Porter
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ship_of_Fools (217 words)

	Station Information - Ship of Fools
		The Ship of Fools was inspired by a frequent motif in Medieval Art and Literature, and particularly in religious satire, due to a pun on the latin "navus", which means a boat and also the Nave of a Church.
		The Ship of Fools is also a peculiar custom of solving the local mental health problem in medieval towns by gathering the local "lunatics" and unemployables, putting them in a cart, and obliging them to "hit the road" to beg a living.
		Ship of Fools is also the name of a UK-based Christian website, which was first launched in 1977, on April Fool's Day, no less.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/ship_of_fools.html (535 words)

	Review \| Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo
		Richard Paul Russo's Ship of Fools is a science fiction novel set in an unspecified far-future, long after the Earth has been made uninhabitable, presumably because of human mismanagement.
		It describes the events surrounding the ship's discovery of a deserted human outpost on a planet many on board the ship want to colonize and, shortly thereafter, its first contact with evidence of intelligent alien life: an apparently derelict spaceship clearly of non-human design.
		In Ship of Fools, the tense scenes of exploration aboard the alien craft certainly evoke that film, but Scott's alien seemed (ignoring the sequels by other hands), ultimately, to be obeying a biological imperative to survive, whereas Russo's aliens are truly nasty, if somewhat unfathomable (as aliens should be).
	www.januarymagazine.com /SFF/shipoffools.html (950 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ship of Fools (satire) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ship of Fools is a satire published 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by Sebastian Brant, a conservative German theologian.
		The Ship of Fools was inspired by a frequent motif in medieval art and Literature, and particularly in religious satire, due to a pun on the Latin word "navus", which means a boat and also the Nave of a Church.
		Ship of Fools is also the name of a 1965 American film.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ship-of-Fools-(satire) (158 words)

	ipedia.com: Ship of Fools Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ship of Fools (Narrenschiff) is a satire published in 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by Sebastian Brant, a conservative German theologian.
		A famous painting by Hieronymus Bosch is called The Ship of Fools, which shows humans wasting their lives foolishly with playing cards, drinking, flirting, eating etc. instead of spending it in "useful" ways.
		Ship of Fools is a 1965 film based on the novel by Katherine Anne Porter.
	www.ipedia.com /ship_of_fools.html (342 words)

	DVD : Ship of Fools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Having lost what relevance it had in 1965, Ship of Fools is still fascinating as a showcase for well-drawn characters (including an observant dwarf, played by the late, great Michael Dunn) whose inner lives and outward interactions reflect a turbulent world irrevocably headed for war.
		Ship of Fools is a cruise-board drama filmed in 1965, but set in 1933.
		That's what probably makes director Stanley Kramer's 1965 "Ship of Fools" look all the more old-fashioned with its omnibus international cast and heavy emphasis on dialogue, and neither an iceberg nor a tidal wave to be seen within its lengthy 149-minute running time.
	www.ajeno.com /ItemId/B0000DGKI8 (401 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Ship of Fools at Epinions.com
		My experience with Ship of Fools is no exception, yet I don’t think it matters so much, as Ship of Fools is a movie that doesn’t seem to offer a whole lot on its end to really necessitate complete remembrance of it.
		Besides the regular crew and passengers, the ship is forced to take on hundreds of Mexican peasants, who are being deported (forget if it’s to Cuba or Spain), apparently for something to do with some sort of workers grievances (I forget; it’s been a week and I forgot to take notes).
		Overall, Ship of Fools is, while not foolish, a huge, heavy, overbuilt affair that may be good for those who like soap opera, but isn’t particularly brilliant.
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	Richard Paul Russo Ship of Fools Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Richard Paul Russo's fine novel 'Ship of Fools' is an excellent example of the latter.
		'Ship of Fools' is for nearly all tastes an excellent science fiction novel.
		When the ship receives a signal from a nearby planet, the hopes of the crew are raised.
	www.trashotron.com /agony/reviews/russo-ship_of_fools.htm (635 words)

	Ship of Fools : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In fact, the whole point of the film is to show a diverse group of people share a 1933 voyage between Veracruz and Bremerhaven in the midst of the rise of the Third Reich in Germany.
		But best of all are the mature illicit lovers, Oskar Werner as Schumann, the married, ailing ship´s doctor and Simone Signoret as La Condesa, the drug-addicted woman en route to a Cuban prison for her role in leading Mexicans to a social uprising.
		Kramer paces the film well, and he also has some nice cinematic shots, like the sight of hundreds of Cuban refugees awaiting the ship to dock, but the constant use of fake backdrops lends an unwelcome staginess to the proceedings.
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	DVD Verdict Review - Ship Of Fools
		The film is set in 1933 aboard an ocean liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, and tells the interlocking stories of the ship's diverse, eclectic group of passengers.
		The film's overall examination of the hypocrisy of the German passengers is sharply drawn, but it would perhaps have been better had it not been stated so obviously.
		Columbia's DVD of Ship of Fools is another in their recent line of bare-bones classic releases that nevertheless features a decent full-frame fl and white transfer, with one unforgivable exception—it's pan-and-scanned.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/shipfools.php (1297 words)

	Amazon.com: Ship of Fools (1965) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Leigh, in her last film, seemingly assimilated all the heartache of her life into this role, and her Charleston near the end is a highlight.
		Ship of Fools is undeniably Stanley Kramer's finest hour as a director, though, ironically, he was passed over for an Oscar nomination, despite a Best Picture nomination.
		Ship of Fools is required viewing, particularly for those wanting to find some reason for World War II and the Holocaust.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302305942?v=glance (1888 words)

	Ernest GOLD - Ship of Fools : Film Music CD Reviews- December 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The film Ship of Fools (1965) was about the voyage in 1933 of a German liner from Vera Cruz in Mexico to Bremerhaven with a mixed bag of passengers.
		There is even a Charleston (for an old fool) that is preluded by some ghostly material as though it were being played in some haunted ballroom.
		At the other end of the album, romance is subjugated to harsher fascist mores as the liner is greeted at its German destination by the strains of a military band divesting the main theme of all its warmth.
	www.musicweb-international.com /film/2000/dec00/ship_of_fools.html (325 words)

	Film & TV: Ship of Fools? (The Boston Phoenix . 03-23-98)
		Huge grosses ordinarily discredit a film at Oscar time, but at a trillion dollars and counting, Titanic passes from the merely mercenary to the mythic.
		The director and film most honored by critics' societies, it will be snubbed by the Academy for that very reason.
		Also in with a chance is Julie Christie, victim of asshole Nick Nolte in Afterglow, as she rediscovers the panache that made her an icon of the '60s -- a plus in a year in which the Academy is going retro.
	weeklywire.com /ww/03-23-98/boston_movies_1.html (910 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Ship Of Fools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ship of Fools was both lauded and derided for its seriousness of purpose when initially released, and like many of director Stanley Kramer's films, it deserves both reactions.
		This film is a must-see, if only for the unsurpassed performance of Oskar Werner, whose pronunciation of the English language may be difficult to follow at first, but whose voice and obvious ear for nuances bring to light this language's expressive possibilities like few others.
		The film is fairly long, but it moves along well, since most of the characters are so interestingly drawn and acted, and there is also a good amount of action on board as people go through various crises.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000DGKI8 (1301 words)

	DVD REVIEW \| alien quadrilogy, to live and die in l.a., hud, ship of fools, lone wolf and cub: sword of vengeance, pale ...
		Each of the four Alien films are represented by their original theatrical release and an expanded cut, either approved or assembled by the director.
		This star-studded film is typical of the agonized soul-searching that went on for decades after the end of World War 2.
		The ship in question — an ocean liner making the trip from Mexico to Germany in 1933, the year Hitler took power, is populated with a cast of clichés and metaphors, like the budding Nazi and the charming, idealistic Jew who are forced to share a cabin.
	www.rickmcginnis.com /dvd/063.htm (938 words)

	Rockmine: The Doors: Ray Manzarek Interview. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jim was a student in the film department as I was and we were just...
		Well, we went to the film school and we were involved in movies.
		Everything can go together to making films so it was a very important part of our lives and still is to this day...
	www.rockmine.music.co.uk /Doors/Manzarek.html (4393 words)

	IMDb user comments for Ship of Fools (1965) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The title SHIP OF FOOLS was picked up by Katherine Anne Porter, who (for most of her literary career) was an excellent short story writer.
		Werner Klemperer, as a ship's officer, responding from signals from Vivien Leigh for some type of shipboard sexual encounter, discovering that Leigh is simply using him for a matter of trivial amusement.
		"Ship of fools" is an uneven movie:it's praised to the skies in America (where Maltin gives him four stars)and generally dismissed as stodgy in Europa.The golden middle best describes it:not a masterpiece,but deserving to be watched.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0059712/usercomments (3021 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Ship of Fools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The first person the audience sees in Ship of Fools is dwarf Michael Dunn, who speaks to viewers directly and acts as a Greek chorus throughout the film.
		The cross-section of humanity on board includes ship's doctor Oscar Werner, Spanish political activist Simone Signoret, aging coquette Vivien Leigh, hedonistic baseball player Lee Marvin, philosophical Jew Heinz Ruhmann, a smattering of pro- and anti-Hitlerites (Jose Ferrer plays the nastiest and most vocal "pro") and young lovers George Segal and Elizabeth Ashley.
		Ship of Fools was adapted by Abby Mann from the novel by Katharine Ann Porter.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/31449/plot.jhtml (272 words)

	village voice > film > A Talking Picture by Dennis Lim
		Despite touristy locales, the film's style is so austere as to be almost primitive.
		Forward motion is established with the same deadpan shot of the ship's prow cutting through the water.
		Oliveira unleashes the clash of civilizations that we belatedly realize has been simmering all film long: Pointedly, the tragedy is set in motion when the ship is docked in the Red Sea port of Aden, gateway between East and West.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0449/lim2.php (457 words)

	Ship of Fools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Adapted from the best selling novel by Katherine Anne Porter, director Stanley Kramer's Ship of Fools is a high class, high-gloss ship-board soap opera that successfully weaves into its story an underlying sense of seriousness.
		Among these are aging divorcee Mary Treadwell (Vivien Leigh in her final film), who is all too painfully aware of her lack of love and her lost youth.
		Nominated for eight Academy Awards, Ship of Fools is a film that remains surprisingly effective despite its soapier aspects (which at times do threaten to overwhelm it).
	www.classicsondvd.com /shipoffools.htm (468 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Ship of Fools (1965)
		Known throughout Hollywood as the king of so-called "message films," Kramer has been accused throughout his career of bludgeoning audiences with heavy social themes, but in Ship of Fools, the message is often so submerged it tends to get lost in the web of competing stories.
		Ship of Fools received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, but one wonders whether, in 1965, the relatively fresh memories of World War II lent the production a power and resonance it lacks today.
		Ship of Fools surreptitiously weaves its subtle, yet potent, message into the fiber of Stanley Kramer's glossy, all-star production, but never achieves the level of impact we crave.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/123378 (1005 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Ship of Fools
		Join our ship of fools in this satirical animation as they embark on a journey for what the college professor calls "social justice" despite the trifle whining of the lowly cabin boy.
		Ted Kaczynski's "Ship Of Fools", a dramatization of a controversial short story written, in prison, by the convicted Unabomber, which has been published in an underground student magazine at SUNY Binghamton.
		In this tale of a near-mutiny on the high seas, an outbreak of political correctness aboard a sailing vessel threatens the lives of the ship's officers, crew, and passengers.
	www.archive.org /details/ShipOfFools (165 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Ship of Fools
		Ship of Fools is a lumbering and obvious soap overflowing with self-importance.
		Ship of Fools is not a cheap movie, as it has several large sets and a couple of instances with crowds of extras.
		I kind of doubt that their relationship on this film gave anybody the idea of asking Leigh to guest star with Bob Crane in Stalag 13.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1017fool.html (1230 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Ship of Fools at Epinions.com
		"Ship of Fools" was nominated for eight Academy Awards, but has since fallen into relative obscurity.
		"Ship of Fools" tries to be many things: a 'Love Boat' with multiple love interests and subplots, a character study, and a satire.
		The ship's doctor is played by Oskar Werner, whose chronically depressed character falls for Signoret.
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	Ship of Fools Movie: Ship of Fools DVD is available from Bestprices.com
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		Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer and Lee Marvin all give mature and passionate performances in this adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's 1962 novel recounting the voyage of a German ship as it leaves Mexico on its way to Bremerhaven, Germany, prior to World War II, in 1931.
		The film highlights how the voyage is fraught with anti-semitism, unrequited love, xenophobia and dissatisfied lives.
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	Classic Coming Attractions by Barrie Maxwell
		What makes the film stronger than just the individual stories is the cement provided by the observational comments of little person Michael Dunn and the presence of a troupe of Spanish dancers (headed by Jose Greco) whose work extends beyond the dance floor.
		The film's story is actually less rewarding than might appear at first glance as it almost descends into soap opera as Kathy becomes enmeshed in a web of her own making.
		Ryan's film noir work is highly regarded but it never seemed to translate into the sort of recognition that elevated the careers of lesser actors.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /articles/barriemaxwell/maxwell122303b.html (3142 words)

	Ship of Fools Film Review - Time Out Film
		Don't look now, but as you might expect with message-mad Kramer at the helm of this adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's novel, there's a heavy allegory aboard: it's 1933, the ship is German, and there's a Jew among the mixed bag of passengers.
		Among them are Signoret as a drug-addicted countess mournfully loving the ship's doctor (Werner), Vivien Leigh as a divorcee looking for a last fling before middle-age sets in, and Michael Dunn as a marvellously sharp-tongued dwarf who finds himself in a minority group of two with the Jew (Rhümann).
		The annual Time Out Film Guide includes 15,000 films reviewed over the last 36 years by Time Out critics, covering every area of cinema: Hollywood mainstream and B-movie horrors, documentaries and avant garde, French, Far Eastern, classic silents and 1930s comedies.
	www.timeout.com /film/74521.html (301 words)

	channel4.com/film - Ship of Fools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It interweaves stories of a cross-section of people on board a ship sailing from Vera Cruz to Bremerhaven in 1933 and is full of heavily ironic and symbolic allusions to the rise of Nazism.
		The film's interest lies in the excellent cast, including Ferrer as an anti-Semite, Signoret on drugs, Werner a 'good German', Marvin a drunken ex-baseball player and Leigh as a sad divorcee, in her final screen role (she died 1967).
		The dwarf Dunn was nominated for an Oscar in the role of Glocken.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=108235 (130 words)

	Intelliflix: Rent Ship Of Fools on DVD
		SHIP OF FOOLS is set on a German ocean liner, during the Nazi regime of the 1930's.
		In the high class section are several well-to-do people, while below deck are a horde of sugar field workers returning to Spain after a season of work in Cuba.
		The ship is a hot bed of disillusionment, prejudice and delusions of grandeur.
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