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	Slaughterhouse-Five (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yet it is the bombing of Dresden in World War II which serves as the critical event motivating the themes of the film as a whole.
		In addition to the inevitable condensation, there are a number of differences between the novel and the film, including the following:
		His life as a husband to Valencia (played by Gans), and father to Barbara and Robert (played, respectively, by Near and King) are also depicted, as they live and sometimes even enjoy their life of affluence in Ilium, New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five_(film) (769 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: So it goes.
		Mother Night and Slaughterhouse-Five are centered around WWII, and Vonnegut repeatedly refers to it as "HIS" war.
		In 1972 Between Time and Timbuktu is produced for public television, and Slaughterhouse-Five is released as a major motion picture.
		Mother Night was finally realized as a movie in 1996, and met with vast critical acclaim, but failed miserably in the marketplace.
	www.wdog.com /rider/writings/KVJ_soitgoes.htm (769 words)

	Latino Review
		Well, let’s think of … it’s never had an adverse effect on fiction, like a bad film of Slaughterhouse Five doesn’t negatively affect the legacy of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five.
		The original movie is a peculiar film, because a lot of people don’t have any idea that it even exists, and then the people that love it are fanatical about it, and feel that it’s some kind of sacrilege to even make this movie.
		So then to be on the critic’s list – it’s very rewarding, mostly because I think it’s very good for the legacy of the film.
	www.latinoreview.com /films_2005/focusfeatures/assault/hawke-interview.html (1453 words)

	Slaughterhouse-Five - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A successful film adaptation of the book, also called Slaughterhouse-Five, was made in 1972.
		A disoriented and ill-trained American soldier named Billy Pilgrim is captured by German soldiers and is forced to live in a makeshift prison, the deep cellars of a disused slaughterhouse in the city of Dresden, Germany.
		Billy has become "unstuck in time", for unexplained reasons, and randomly repeatedly visits different parts of his life, including his death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five (1192 words)

	Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
		Kurt Vonnegut was more than worthy of the National Book Award that he received for the novel Slaughterhouse Five, but his humor and literary expertise are often lost in screenplays.
		The key to enjoying Slaughterhouse Five is to focus on the best scenes and performances -- much like Billy Pilgrim's advice on living.
		This flawed movie was a cult classic since its release because legions of Vonnegut fans were so fond of the novel that they could overlook the film's flaws.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0069280 (521 words)

	Slaughterhouse
		Many years back I was reading about a new film on the way called 'Slaughterhouse'.
		Yeah sure, the opening titles are slightly contentious (more so with the great mood setting music which is great throughout) with the inclusion of the slaughterhouse footage, but this is easily forgiven for the great fun you'll have checking out this wee retro gem.
		'Slaughterhouse' is a great fun romp through the genre cliches of the eighties horror scene.
	www.sexgoremutants.f9.co.uk /slaugh3.html (355 words)

	The Slaughter / Footage and photos from a slaughterhouse in New Zealand
		It was filmed at a New Zealand Slaughterhouse in September 2002.
		The following is a short video clip and slideshow from a students film project.
		The Slaughter/ Footage and photos from a slaughterhouse in New Zealand
	gio.f2o.org /slaughter (110 words)

	Slaughterhouse-Five - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A successful film adaptation of the book, also called Slaughterhouse-Five, was made in 1972.
		A disoriented and ill-trained American soldier named Billy Pilgrim is captured by German soldiers and is forced to live in a makeshift prison, the deep cellars of a disused slaughterhouse in the city of Dresden, Germany.
		When the book was released the bombing of Dresden was not widely known and was rarely discussed by veterans and historians, despite claims that the bombing caused the death of up to twice as many civilians as the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five (1162 words)

	Slaughterhouse-Five - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A successful film adaptation of the book, also called Slaughterhouse-Five, was made in 1972.
		A disoriented and ill-trained American soldier named Billy Pilgrim is captured by German soldiers and is forced to live in a makeshift prison, the deep cellars of a disused slaughterhouse in the city of Dresden, Germany.
		Billy has become "unstuck in time", for unexplained reasons, and he randomly and repeatedly visits different parts of his life, including his death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five (2372 words)

	‘Slaughterhouse’ (R)
		Most of the action occurs in the slaughterhouse, which is vast, spooky and definitely not the kind of place anybody's going to seek out after this particular film.
		There are a few attempts at macabre ambiance a` la "Texas Chainsaw Massacre II" and a dozen other genre films, but Roessler usually opts for the cheap shot and the cheap thrill.
		In fact, the grossest parts of the movie are the opening scenes when the automated slaughterhouse is shown in action.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/slaughterhouserharrington_a0aa66.htm (418 words)

	Babe Film Review - Time Out Film
		Piglet Babe beats the slaughterhouse and is adopted by a sheepdog who coaches him in the art of rounding up sheep.
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		See more cast & crew for this film
	www.timeout.com /film/67212.html (157 words)

	Syracuse New Times: Film Review
		Saw II boasts a new writer-director, music video specialist Darren Lynn Bousman, whose original spec script was reshaped by original Saw co-creator Leigh Whannell to fit into the burgeoning franchise.
		Saw II viewers, however, finally get to see Bell's Jigsaw, who turns out to be a white-haired, albino-eyed wheelchair-bound cancer patient taking hits off an oxygen tank.
		Take, for example, Saw II's opening salvo, as some drugged and kidnapped sap wakes up to find a spring-loaded, time-release spiked mask around his neck that he's about to permanently wear.
	newtimes.rway.com /films/sawII.htm (788 words)

	Learn more about List of zoos in the online encyclopedia.
		Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, humans in a zoo on another planet
		Jurassic Park, film and novel with genetically reconstructed Tyrannosaurus rex
		Site Map 2 3 4 5 6 7
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_zoos.html (788 words)

	The Official Jean Rollin Website
		With a film, you have to consider that there are actors, who often don't want the same things you want; there are technicians, money problems, a producer, and you have to fight with all these elements.
		I made films with sex and violence at a time when censorship was very strong, so that was certainly a political statement as well, although again, not a conscious one.
		Sam Selsky, the producer, needed the film to be finished as soon as possible because of the availability and cost of the actors, and also because of fixed agreements with the distributor.
	www.shockingimages.com /rollin/interview.htm (788 words)

	Toronto Part V: The Little Things The A.V. Club
		This is a film where even festering, severed cow heads (and there are many of them in one section, which takes place in an outdoor slaughterhouse in Nigeria) look GORGEOUS.
		The first Pusher film is ten years old and nothing special, but it was a hit in Denmark.
		It's ridiculous that this film is technically a sequel to a far inferior movie.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/40620 (1382 words)

	MONDO MOVIES AND SHOCKUMENTARIES from The New York Film Annex
		In true Mondo form the film starts off with a visit to a slaughterhouse and then takes off on a non-stop sonic run through Africa in search of firewalkers, Snake charmers, babes In bikinis and anything strange and unusual.
		Finally, the film ties everything together with a special focus on witchdoctors and their sundry rites and mutilations.
		No, this is not just any mondo sleazo film; this is historically important cinematic trash.
	www.nyfavideo.com /content/cat-SHOCKUMENTARY.htm (533 words)

	Slaughterhouse Five DVD at Video Universe
		If film is supposed to mirror life in new, creative ways then "Slaughterhouse Five" will be your cup of tea.
		Einstein was right about time travel, but Kurt Vonnegut extended that premise to new dimensions in "Slaughterhouse Five." The story revolves around Billy Pilgrim, a conservative everyman who jumps back and forth in time.
		The word bizarre can't truly describe Billy's unstable life, and the "fabric of the universe," and its inherent truths, are seamlessy woven throughout.
	cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/6678604/a/Slaughterhouse+Five.htm (745 words)

	Written in blood - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		In Cave's words, the film has one foot in the art house, the other in the slaughterhouse.
		It's an impressive film, partly because it has a powerfully idiosyncratic visual and storytelling style.
		Set in the 1880s, it is the confronting story of Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce), a bushranger taken into custody by a cop (Ray Winstone).
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2005/10/06/1128191823454.html (637 words)

	Julianne Moore
		Her first movie was Slaughterhouse II, an abysmal Canadian thriller from 1988, and her first American film role came two years later, as a mummy's victim in Tales from the Dark Side: The Movie When she was rejected for a role in Robert Altman's The Player, it wasn't because she was not pretty enough.
		She made her prime time acting debut in a glitzy-trashy miniseries of Judith Krantz's I'll Take Manhattan, starring Valerie Bertinelli.
		Instead, producers told her she was "too beautiful."
	www.nndb.com /people/670/000023601 (439 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Film Review 07 13 04
		His film, one of the most blissfully abstract comedies in recent memory, seems unstuck in time, to borrow a phrase from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five.
		Like much of the rest of the film, he looks like he stepped out of a time machine covering anywhere from the late '70s to the early '80s.
		That Napoleon Dynamite can live forever, and maybe even get the girl along the way, is a minor miracle -- like the film itself.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2004-07-13/film_review.html (740 words)

	Lifelike Pundits: Lolita's Collecting Social Security
		And there seems to be a feminist-led backlash against his work, with the 1997 film attracting more controversy than the 1962 version.
		Of course, in the same poll, the only science fiction book chosen was Slaughterhouse 5, a book that no science fiction devotee would put in his top 100, and the greatest book was Ulysses, the only book that I have started and failed to finish out of sheer boredom twice.
		Lolita represents to the left a point on a line, which started with Joyce, continued to Nabokov and culminated in the late 1960s when all restraints on print effectively disappeared and porno novels exploded.
	www.lifelikepundits.com /archives/001491.php (752 words)

	Rosetta Books - Slaughterhouse Five - About the Classic 1972 Film
		At different times, Kurt Vonnegut himself has called the 1972 film of Slaughterhouse Five an artistic success and a flawless translation of his novel, and it thus far seems to be the only film adaptation of his novels and stories that he likes.
		American film was in the midst of a brief but memorable golden age in 1972, when individual vision and idiosyncratic style were the qualities that engaged audiences.
		The literate and thoughtful Hill was then near the height of his career, this film coming between Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), for which he was an Oscar nominee for best director, and the 1973 blockbuster The Sting, for which he won the Oscar.
	rosettabooks.com /pages/title_31_38.html (457 words)

	Andrey Rublyov (1969)
		The crew acquired the horse from a slaughterhouse, and it was going to be shot the next day, so they decided to use it for the film.
		Although his life was troubled and his projects clawed into life randomly from the grip of his film studio bosses, when viewed as a whole they seem to be all part of some great plan that was meant to reach fruition right from the start.
		The trouble is Tarkovsky's films have such extraordinary purity and spiritual depth that no other films seem able to satisfy one in the same way.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0060107 (568 words)

	Glen Gould At The Cinema - Music from the Movies
		The first nine tracks are from music heard in the 1972 film Slaughterhouse Five, directed by Roy Hill.
		The CD is based around two films in which he had an involvement and a further film about him.
		Battlestar Galactica: The A-Z of Fantasy Film Themes
	www.musicfromthemovies.com /review.asp?ID=1652 (1138 words)

	Needcoffee.com DVD Review: Animal Farm (1954)
		And this is definitely not a kiddie film: bits like a surrealistic slaughterhouse hell in the minds of the pigs or the on-camera death of characters let you know that you're far from the Magic Tea Cup Ride.
		Granted, the dialogue is few and far between in the film, but the idea that one guy did all of what there is is pretty daunting.
		And while, sure, some of it looks simplistic and straight from a kiddie film, a lot of it is very spare and effective.
	www.needcoffee.com /html/dvd/afarm.htm (832 words)

	Valerie Perrine -
		She made her motion picture debut with an uncredited part in Diamonds Are Forever (1971), then played the soft-core porn actress Montana Wildhack in Slaughterhouse-Five (1972).
		In 1975, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for playing Honey Bruce in Lenny (1974), for which she was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama.
		She was also nominated for the 1979 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress playing Eve Teschmacher in Superman (1978).
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Valerie_Perrine (291 words)

	The Boondock Saints (1999)
		The first deleted scene, "Rosengurtle Baumgartener," is a fairly humorous, longer version of the scene with the huge lady at the beginning of the film in the slaughterhouse.
		The Boondock Saints, a film written and directed by Troy Duffy, is a relatively small budget ($5 to $6 million, according to Duffy), independent production that became the victim of a terrible release date.
		Like Tarantino with his films such as Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Pulp Fiction (1994), Duffy also wrote and directed his film.
	www.orbitalreviews.com /pages/BoondockSaints.shtml (1690 words)

	John Chambers
		In addition to the inevitable Apes sequels, other credits included Slaughterhouse Five, SSSSSSS, Phantom of the Paradise, The Island of Dr. Moreau and National Lampoon's Class Reunion.
		Father Geek here with [a sad note] for film lovers everywhere...
		In the mid-60s, Chambers left Universal to open his own shop, which he ran from a converted garage at his home in Burbank, and it wasn't long before film and TV producers came calling.
	theforbidden-zone.com /news/chambersnews.shtml (1313 words)

	'Slaughterhouse Five: The Novel and the Movie
		Slaughterhouse-Five, as the title page points out, is written by "a fourth-generation German-American" who fought as "an American infantry scout" and who "as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden...
		Slaughterhouse-Five has two narrators, an impersonal one and a personal one, resulting in a novel not only about Dresden but also about the actual act of writing a novel - in this case a novel about an event that has shaped the author profoundly.
		While Vonnegut's literary style is very noticeable in Slaughterhouse-Five, the novel as a whole differs from the majority of his other works because it is personal with an interesting point of view technique that reflects Vonnegut's own experiences in World War II and specifically, the fire-bombing of Dresden.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/4953/kv_novel_vs_movie.html (1313 words)

	Amazon.com -zShops: BLOOD OF THE BEASTS (Le Sang des Betes): on VHS(European PAL Format)
		This film is a masterpiece, a groundbreaking, landmark documentary, as well as the film which established its creator, Georges Franju, as one of the most formidable and influential of 1950s French filmmakers.
		This film is a masterpiece, a groundbreaking, landmark documentary, as well as the film which established its creator, Georges Franju, as...
		Children play, lovers kiss: then, Franju switches to a slaughterhouse, where workers routinely - and graphically - transform live animals into disemboweled carcasses in an orgy of carnage and blood.
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