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	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Planting the seeds of change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The last time a film on female genital mutilation (FGM, the removal of the clitoris and often part or whole of the labia minora to ensure a woman's premarital and extra-marital chastity) was screened there was a public uproar.
		The earlier film, produced by CNN in 1994, was condemned on all sides for its lack of cultural sensitivity and its sensationalist and Orientalist approach.
		The film is structured in such a manner that the reasons given by individual women for circumcising their daughters are set against those cited by other women from the same community who are not circumcised and who can reply to their arguments.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/428/feat3.htm (1359 words)

	Caveh Zahedi - Articles
		The film got some favorable critical attention, and a small theatrical release from Strand as a result of being at Sundance, but my own experience of being at Sundance was a lot more like being in Hell.
		And of course, we collaborated on the film a lot (I ended up editing it), but it was really his baby -- it was his vision of life, not mine.
		It's a film I've been trying to get made for many years, and it looks like Greg and I are going to be co-directing it in the Fall.
	www.cavehzahedi.com /film_threat.html (2194 words)

	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		When I later asked leftist film critic Tadao Sato if being on TV had forced Oshima to compromise his politics, he replied that, on the contrary, it had enabled him to express his political positions to a wider audience.
		The filming was all done in Kyoto, using a few temples for some of the exteriors and the Shochiku studio that specializes in period films for everything else.
		Taboo is also like the former film in that it links eros with death, and it's like the latter in that it explores homosexuality within a military context.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/2001/0101/010119.html (1156 words)

	Asani Sanket (Distant Thunder): A film by Satyajit Ray :: SatyajitRay.org
		The film is set in 1943-44, when the famine struck Bengal during the British rule in India.
		The film begins with an image of Ananga in a pond with her hand projecting out of water like a water lily.
		The film is not about the famine but the events leading to it at a micro scale.
	www.satyajitray.org /films/ashani.htm (684 words)

	Korean Movie Reviews for 2001: My Sassy Girl, Musa, Friend, Take Care of My Cat, My Wife is a Gangster, Volcano High ...
		The film stars Lee Sung-jae and Cha Seung-won as two former high-school classmates who grow up into unexpected professions: Lee, the smart kid in school, becomes a gangster; while Cha, the school bully, decides to be a physical education teacher (perhaps that one wasn't quite as unexpected).
		The undisputed star of this film, however, is Jeon Ji-hyun, an icon for her generation who trades in the nice girl image of her previous films for something with a little more fire.
		When casting for his new film, he decided that a new-styled genre deserves new actors, so he chose Jang Hyuk and Shin Min-ah for his leads, both of whom are making their film debut.
	www.koreanfilm.org /kfilm01.html (10380 words)

	IGCS - Film and Movies (China WWW VL - Internet Guide for Chinese Studies)
		Film titles are listed in the transcription that came with its release, but all (known) translations in other languages are listed, too (no Chinese characters, though).
		Film titles are mostly transcribed in Pinyin, but note that there are mixtures of Pinyin and other transcription systems especially in the case of Hong Kong movies.
		Hundreds of Chinese films are to be found here including their German or international title, orginal title, production company, distributor (if available both video and cinema), rating, duration, a synopsis and director and main actors.
	sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de /igcs/igfilm.htm (3038 words)

	Film Festivals . com - People
		With his latest film Nationale 7, he breaks the taboo of disabled sexuality with a ferocious humor and a small DV camera.
		I wanted to shoot the film at my sister's institution, but it proved impossible when, only 15 days before the shooting, the director of the association got out of the project, fearing that the parents of handicapped persons belonging to the governing body would be shocked.
		The film was in great danger here, because among the 21 characters of the story, 18 were to be portrayed by professional actors, very sought-after ones, like Olivier Gourmet, from La Promesse and Rosetta (Palme d'Or Cannes 1999), and Nadia Caci.
	www.filmfestivals.com /htm/people/sinapi/people_sinapi.html (1069 words)

	CityBeat: Boyz N the Wood (1999-07-15)
		There's been some underlying discontent concerning exactly who has the right to use the word, why it's acceptable for some circles to use it and not others, and whether a group of people are systematically bringing about their own downfall by indulging in it too excessively.
		Films like Boyz N the Hood and Menace II Society, while seeking to explain the circumstances driving young fl men to kill each other, nevertheless leaves a lasting image in the collective mindset of fl men as drug-addled malfunctionals.
		Even a few more allegedly positive films, Waiting to Exhale, which may be a fine empowerment film for fl women, has been justifiably criticized for portraying fl men as drunken monstrosities who can't keep their thing in their pants.
	www.citybeat.com /1999-07-15/film.shtml (1658 words)

	Taboo (1999)
		Who better, then, to tackle this risqué subject than taboo-shattering Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (although some may be disappointed that he doesn't go to the graphic extremes of his infamous In the Realm of the Senses, which blurred the line between highbrow art and hardcore porn).
		While it's unclear who is whacking whom (a rival militia might also be involved), what is clear is that the whole regiment is on edge, and its deputy commander Hijakata ("Beat" Takeshi Kitano) is hard-pressed to find a solution, since the commandant is smitten with Sozaburo, too.
		Taboo evolves into a complex murder mystery, with added elements of forbidden love and harsh military justice thrown into the mix.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=131887&Tab=reviews&buy=open&CID=13 (419 words)

	Film Festival Today - Features - Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is the film directorial debut of one of Turkey's leading actors, Ugur Yucel, who has been acting in Turkish film and television for two decades as well as directing and producing for television.
		According to festival director Mevlut Akkaya, the film represents the "first time in Turkish [film] history of dealing with many conflicts we don't want to face." Yucel was in New York for its premiere where he spoke about his film.
		There are two stories in the film, and people want to bring the two stories together, but you can't bring two sides of a coin together.
	www.filmfestivaltoday.com /article_item.asp?ID=741 (634 words)

	Inside Film Online - 1999 Sundance Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At a press conference for the film the next morning, Altman acknowledged that he and the film were selected for Sundance to draw media and public attention which could then be channeled to the lesser-known and unknown filmmakers at the fest.
		Although Altman is a strong supporter of Sundance and of film festivals in general ("they are probably the most important thing keeping this creative art together"), he doesn't approve of competitions at film festivals and therefore turns down all requests to serve on festival juries.
		It was also the first foreign language film to win either of those prizes and the first American film to be shot in Vietnam since the war.
	www.insidefilm.com /sundance99.html (1658 words)

	pan african film festival II
		The film gives a historical account of the portrayal of fl actors in the media, particularly in the telenovelas which are shown throughout Latin America.
		This year during the festival we were talking to local film- and videomakers, actors, women, teenagers, and capoeira clubs and then tried to find films that speak to their concerns and reflect their realities.
		Films are the most expensive means of expression and the Afro-Brazilians (and African Americans) are in the worse economic conditions.
	www.africanfilmny.org /network/news/Wfroes.html (1542 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| The Sound of Music
		The film is substantially different than the musical play it is based on, primarily because the director has chosen to interpret the musical cinematically rather than remain loyal to the stage version.
		The film borrows heavily from the Austrian and German Heimatfilm, a genre popular in the from the 1930s to the 1960s, which ranged from provincial dramas that highlighted the idyllic countryside and emphasized conservative and Christian social values (National Socialist values during the Third Reich) to later comedies that spoofed the originals.
		As Linda Schulte-Sasse explores in her study of National Socialist film, the use of the 18th century Enlightenment to valorize bourgeois culture in Nazi cinema, naturally contradicted the politics of National Socialism, but the appeal and familiarity of its underlying literary paradigms guaranteed an illusion of wholeness and believability.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /41/soundofmusic.htm (6611 words)

	Cult Films
		Most cult films cut across many film genres (science fiction, horror, melodrama, etc.), although some film genres are also more prone to being cultish, such as the horror or sci-fi genres.
		They were highly-acclaimed, award-winning films that were prominently shown in the mainstream, and it had been too early to judge them as cult films.
		Another highly-regarded cult film is Monte Hellman's low-budget Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) - a late 60s to early 70s entry in the road film genre - that was both an existential character study and a car-chase/race film.
	www.filmsite.org /cultfilms.html (1151 words)

	Amazon.ca: Taboo: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It's an interesting revelation to those of us only familiar with the tough samurais of Kurosawa films or the Zatoichi blind swordsman-type TV series; that these men of the sword were also men of a different type of sword.
		This is a four-star film that gets three for revealing an aspect of the samurai that many hardcore fans may not be comfortable with.
		Taboo is a film that portrays homosexuality in a male dominating society where men carry themselves with an outmost social confidence providing for terrific film experience.
	www.amazon.ca /Taboo-Takeshi-Kitano/dp/B0000687F5 (1510 words)

	Spirituality & Practice: Film Review: The Son, directed by Luc Dardenne
		That's a little of what the film demands of the spectator." It is a difficult assignment given the short attention spans of modern-day audiences.
		The Italian film The Son's Room does a remarkable job probing the anguish of a father over the accidental death of his son.
		In the Bedroom, in which a son is murdered, is a daring and unsettling film about the complex and taboo dimensions of grief.
	www.spiritualityandpractice.com /films/films.php?id=5486 (963 words)

	The approved Nagisa Oshima fanlisting
		The studio in which he worked as an assistant director was in the throes of a financial crisis and needed new blood, and Oshima was elevated to the rank of director, and in 1960 he released his landmark 'Cruel Story of Youth'.
		The film was striking in its unprecedented depiction of sex and violence mixed with anti-Americanism and utter nihilism, and it caused immediate sensation.
		The film was so explicit that it could not even be developed in the country, and an uncensored print has yet to be officially shown in Japan.
	www.twilightforest.net /taboos/extras.php (476 words)

	Berlin International Film Festival 2000 - 50th Berlinale
		The film is complete and is likely to surface somewhere on the Croisette.
		The $2 million film, which deals with what Müller calls "the authoritarian nature of Brazilian society," will be ready by the autumn.
		The film shoots in June and will be ready by spring 2001.
	www.filmfestivals.com /berlin_2000/market/market_fabrica.htm (293 words)

	GEN ART Film
		Wristcutters, a dark comedic film, imagines the afterlife as it might be seen through the eyes of a young suicide.
		In a world where everyone still bares the scars of their death and reality is a twisted mirror image of the mortal world, this witty and engaging story follows lost souls on a journey across the afterlife in search of love, courage, and their dreams.
		Taboo, obscene and notorious, these famous four letters permeate every aspect of our culture; from Hollywood to the playground, even to the Senate floor in Washington D.C. Using archival footage, interviews with scholars, performers and the public, the history of ”f*ck” is thoroughly examined in this provocative, comedic and insightful documentary.
	www.genart.org /film.event.htm?itemid=1207 (1110 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Sex Madness
		This is a typical sex exploitation film from the early 1930s - complete with wild parties, sex out of wedlock, lesbianism, etc. A chorus girl's exposure to the "casting couch" also exposes her to syphilis.
		Films like this would tour the United States for years - mostly being shown in rundown, skid row theaters.
		This film has been re-edited and re-titled ("Human Wreckage", "They Must Be Told", "Trial Marriage", "About Trial Marriage") many times to attract the same audience to film, to take advantage of a taboo subject which may have gotten press recently or to appease local censors who disapproved of the film's content.
	www.archive.org /details/sex_madness (987 words)

	2006 Philadelphia Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gregg Araki delivers his most powerful film to date with this unyielding look at the lingering effects of childhood sexual abuse on a pair of young men from a small Nebraska town.
		Set in the heartland hamlet of Huntington, Kansas, the film follows the wildly divergent lives of two young men whose paths fatefully crossed when they were 8 years old.
		Brian (Brady Corbet) has grown into an introverted 18-year-old whose only memory of the trauma is that five hours of his life disappeared, and he has become convinced that he was abducted by aliens.
	www.phillyfests.com /pff/templates/film_details.cfm?id=3886 (406 words)

	MoMA.org \| 2003 Film and Media Exhibitions \| Heddy Honigmann: Direct Address (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Heddy Honigmann’s films are distinguished by their beautifully composed images and elegant structures, but what makes the Dutch filmmaker’s work unique is the manner in which she gains access to the farthest reaches of her subjects’ souls.
		Her fiction features and shorts, while less well-known, are characterized by the same complex yet straightforward presentation of images and emotions buried beneath the surface of quotidian existence as are her documentaries, and are no less afraid of dealing with taboo subject matter.
		The film’s characters tell their tales of exile and describe the Sunday nights as providing them with their zest for life—the rhythm of the drums giving them the feeling of “almost Cuba.” World premiere.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/film_media/2003/honigmann_2003.html (750 words)

	Amazon.com: Taboo (Gohatto)(1999 Film): Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Milan Records presents this awesome score of Sakamoto's for "Taboo" (Gohatto), from master filmmaker Nagisa Oshima with this revisionist Samurai epic...film is set in 1865 during critical times in Japanese history, a struggle between tradition and internationally minded government.
		With breath-taking cinematography by Toyomichi Kurita, takes on epic proportions with an outstanding cast of actors...this film was screened in competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
		For "Taboo", Sakamoto uses every electronic sound from elaborate to technical for dramatic and mood swings for his cues...lightness in tone, softer, with mid-range support of counterpoints, rising and falling synthesized tones.
	www.amazon.com /Taboo-Gohatto-1999-Ryuichi-Sakamoto/dp/B0000523KV (712 words)

	Gohatto (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It reveals itself to be the difference in the world of film that a Monet, Michelangelo, or Van Gogh is to sidewalk chalk drawings.
		Oshima has long had a fascination with the dichotomies in Japanese culture (and frankly most cultures) between how behavior is proscribed and how the more primal, instinctual urges (mostly sex) always find their way to the surface in spite of those mores.
		Oshima has also found a fascination in seeing how both Western and Eastern cultures have, at one time or another (or more than one), put strict moral taboos on homosexuality, adultery, and even on prostitution, but these strictures have never eliminated or even slowed down their existence.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0213682 (590 words)

	German Cinema: A Selected Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		Issues concerning the use of historical films to study society and values is discussed, with particular attention to the propaganda films made by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945.
		The film can be read as a close examination of an individual's narcissistic disorder and its origins and development in his family, with hints at such things as the narcissistic disturbances in other families.
		In this film, she contends, maleness can be studied by watching the protagonists act like members of an unknown--and at the same time familiar--tribe.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/Germanfilmbib.html (13279 words)

	IMDb Title Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Taboo di una moglie perversa ovvero Molly P.R. porca e scatenata (1993)
		Everything Taboo (2003) (V) Taboo: The Controversy of Black/White 'Race Mixing' in America (2005) (V) Taboo: The Single and the LP (1980)
		There may be additional title matches amongst all the alternative titles we have for various regions and languages.
	www.imdb.com /Title?TABOO (180 words)

	Documentary Film Interviews -- Interview Index of Directors, etc...
		In filming his doc about three Amerasian families who take the leap between worlds from Vietnam to the United States, he spent six years and traveled to three countries.
		The film The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg follows the life of one of the first Jewish major league baseball players.
		An interview with the subject of the film is also available, and provides insight into being the subject of a documentary.
	www.documentaryfilms.net /interviews.htm (524 words)

	Power & Taboo - The British Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A film based around archive footage shot by anthropologist George Milner in the 1950s which focuses on the traditional Samoan way of life.
		Flaherty’s film attempts to capture the traditional daily life of the Pacific islanders.
		Murnau’s last film is a simple Pacific Islands folk tale of two young lovers who violate a local taboo and have to flee their village with tragic consequences.
	www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk /powerandtaboo/events/films.html (159 words)

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