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	jonnybaker: big chill
		her set at the chill was beautiful - an amazing set of musicians - you could hear every note of everything and it was an exquisite blend - the percussionist/drummer was possibly the best musician i saw all weekend and together with the double bass player provided a sensational rhythm section.
		the big chill is committed to the organic, the intimate and above all the human...
		the big chill is the seed for lifestyle change...to allow for zeitgeist creativity and social interaction of all kinds (music, visual, art, spirit etc) to flourish in nurturing environments of understanding trust and love, for the benefits of chillers and their chilled children globally!!
	jonnybaker.blogs.com /jonnybaker/big_chill/index.html (2721 words)

	The Big Chill (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Big Chill is a 1983 film which tells the story of several University of Michigan college friends who gather together again for the funeral of one of their number, after not having seen one another for years.
		It was inspired by the John Sayles 1980 film Return of the Secaucus 7.
		The movie was filmed in historic Beaufort, South Carolina, and was shot at the same antebellum home used as a location for The Great Santini, starring Robert Duvall and Blythe Danner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Big_Chill_(movie) (500 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Weather \| Iranian film comes through the big chill of hardline years
		The renaissance in Iranian film parallels the political career of President Mohammed Khatami, the moderate Shi'ite cleric elected in May 1997 on a broad platform of social, political and cultural reform.
		The state withdrew the film after reports that the US Congress was proposing to spend millions of dollars on aid to opponents of the Iranian regime.
		The shah's government banned the film, presumably for exposing the horrors of destitute rural areas, where millions of Iranians survived on next to nothing.
	www.guardian.co.uk /World_Report/Story/0,,324805,00.html (946 words)

	Big Chill, The: 15th Anniversary Collectors Ed (1983) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Only problem was that his role was cut out entirely from the film, so he only briefly appears as unrecognizable parts of the deceased's body.
		Obviously for a film of this age we would expect film artefacts, and unfortunately these are present throughout the film.
		Presented full frame (with film excerpts at 1.78:1 ratio) with Dolby Digital 2.0 sound, this is a very nice encapsulation of the gestation of the film, the way the film was produced, the antics of the cast off set and why the Kevin Costner ending was deleted.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=351 (1182 words)

	Film Festival to Open With 'Big Chill' - New York Times
		''The Big Chill,'' a film directed by Lawrence Kasdan, about the reunion of a group of friends from the 1960's, will open the 21st New York Film Festival Sept. 23 at Lincoln Center.
		The film will be screened at 7:30 P.M. in Alice Tully Hall and at 9 P.M. in Avery Fisher Hall.
		Other films in the festival are yet to be announced.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E6DA1638F934A2575BC0A965948260 (194 words)

	The Big Chill (1983) - IMDb user comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Big Chill is a film that mourns the hippie era and it is also the beginnings and the rise of the yuppie era.
		The film tells the story of a group of college friends from the late sixties who are reunited at the funeral of a best friend named Alex (the role of the stiff was Kevin Costner until his scenes were taken out of the film) who committed suicide.
		I had to look The Big Chill up on the internet to be reminded of the general story line, but the music has stayed with me all these years, and will remain with me, from the first notes of Joy to the World through the rest of the soundtrack and back.
	akas.imdb.com /rg/title-tease/comments-bottom/title/tt0085244/usercomments (3255 words)

	The Big Chill
		Watching this film as a now 30-something makes me convinced: how the mighty have fallen when their youth was blessed with too much of a good time too soon.
		The Big Chill seems to have pulled in an inordinate number of reviews not only negative but often angry, and for a curious set of reasons: "the sets are cheap, the acting is dated and the conversation shallow." I don't agree.
		The sadness in "The Big Chill" was the number of characters whose focus on the past seemed to have blurred their present.
	www.dvdvan.com /info/B00000G3I2/The_Big_Chill.html (1618 words)

	Gallagher: The Big Chill
		In Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill (1983), the interior shotsof the South Carolina home of Sarah and Harold, the pseudo matriarch andpatriarch of the film, where much of the action and interaction of the charactersis set, d ominates the imagery of the film and contributes to the theme ofoutside versus inside.
		At the end of the film, all of the characters gather within the houseto discuss Alex once and for all after they learn of a reason that led inpart to his suicide.
		The film ends with all characters on good term in the kitchen as thecredits begin to role and the song "Joy to the World" which wassung in he beginning by Harold's son is now sung by he artist and the characterscannot hear it.
	people.wcsu.edu /mccarneyh/acad/thebig.html (1104 words)

	The Big Chill Out - Minnesota Daily
		The point of the film is to witness a weekend reunion of a group of friends - all former '60s radicals - as they discover who they are, what this reunion helps them learn about themselves, and how their lessons translate to the viewer's life.
		Sayles shot the film in 25 days, on a budget under $50,000 and it feels alive primarily because of this frugality.
		The film's lack of a strong narrative serves to underscore one of its central messages.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/2002/10/31/3898 (433 words)

	Beaufort County Library, SC -- About Movies in Beaufort, County, SC -- When and Where (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The French documentary was filmed on the Marine Corps Depot at Parris Island and it chronicles the training of recruits at the facility.
		The film is narrated by a child not yet born, and ancestors already dead also seem to be as present as the living.
		A Beaufort County ordinance was amended to permit the film crew to demolish and remove the road around the oak tree (and to replace the pavement afterwards).
	www.co.beaufort.sc.us /bftlib/film.htm (3860 words)

	"The Big Chill" To Fill Academy Theater
		Beverly Hills, CA - In honor of the film's 20th anniversary, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a screening of Best Picture nominee "The Big Chill" on Friday, October 10, at 8 p.m., followed by a panel discussion featuring members of the cast and crew.
		In addition to Place and Williams, "The Big Chill" stars Tom Berenger, Glenn Close (who earned a nomination in the supporting actress category), Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt and Kevin Kline as a group of thirty-somethings reunited in order to attend a former classmate's funeral.
		Tickets for "The Big Chill" 20th anniversary screening are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members.
	www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2003/03.09.29.a.html (324 words)

	Big chill in Hollywood North @ workopolis.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Over the past few years, Ouellet has seen her level of auditions and jobs go from a boom in the late 1990s to a low point during the SARS crisis in 2003.
		Another problem is that in recent years U.S. writer and producer guilds have protested against "runaway productions," a term used to describe Hollywood film and TV projects that leave the country for such places as Canada.
		Deputy Mayor Mike Feldman agrees the film trade here is in a slump but said he believes business is already rebounding.
	www.workopolis.com /servlet/Content/tprinter/20041030/chill (1126 words)

	Big Chill definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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		When the deck crane's cable snapped, that seaman came very close to the Big Chill.
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861686149/Big_Chill.html (94 words)

	Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
		The film veered from its dramatic nature for a broadly comic episode starring W.C. Fields as a charlatan health expert who buys the coat from a second-hand clothier and wears it to a lecture he is presenting to a high society gathering.
		Right before the film was to open, he decided that Paxinou’s sequence slowed down the pace of the movie and the entire segment was cut.
		A year later, filming began anew but with new leads: German actor Horst Bucholz was signed as Marco Polo and Italian star Elsa Martinelli played “The Woman with the Whip.” Why Delon and Dandridge did not resume their roles is not clear, and the footage they shot was reportedly scrapped.
	www.filmthreat.com /index.php?section=features&Id=1713 (1406 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Big Chill (The)
		The Big Chill is the best look yet into the colourful and complex Baby boom generation.
		For one long weekend, they reminisce about the past; talk about their work, relationships and problems; eat, drink, smoke dope and have sex; listen to music, dance, jog and play football; watch television and make videotapes of each other; share their fears and express their dreams.
		The great selections of rock and soul music, which punctuate the storyline, are some of the many wise touches, which makes The Big Chill such an exhilarating film experience.
	www.hour.ca /film/movie.aspx?iIDFilm=1376 (413 words)

	The Big Chill (1983)
		While the film isn't without its charms, it essentially comes down to nearly two hours of "deep talk" from a group of smug Boomers about their "ideals" and how they've changed since college.
		This film possesses a famed soundtrack, but the music doesn't get much of a treatment here; again, it comes off as glorified mono with absolutely no use of the rear channels.
		Even if you discount my dislike of the film itself, this DVD fails on the most basic count: it simply doesn't look very good, and the sound mix also is quite limited.
	www.dvdmg.com /bigchill.shtml (1706 words)

	Academy's "Monday Nights with Oscar® "Screening Series Feels "The Big Chill"
		The 1983 Academy Award®-nominated film "The Big Chill" starred William Hurt (seated left), Meg Tilley (seated), Jobeth Williams (back left), Jeff Goldblum, Tom Berenger and Kevin Kline as a group of thirty-somethings reunited to attend a former classmates funeral.
		In addition to Close, "The Big Chill" starred Tom Berenger, JoBeth Williams, William Hurt, Mary Kay Place, Jeff Goldblum and Kevin Kline as a group of thirty-somethings reunited to attend a former classmates funeral.
		This print of "The Big Chill," which recently was restored by Sony Pictures Entertainment, screened in October at the Academy's headquarters in Beverly Hills.
	www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2003/03.12.01.a.html (420 words)

	1983 film a 'Big' reminder of need for friends
		The Big Chill was the actor's first movie, and as a friend of mine says, it was his best.
		The film's soundtrack has become one of the most popular of all time with its track list full of the "who's who" of Motown, including Marvin Gaye and The Temptations.
		This is a film that rests upon its script and the performances of the actors.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2002/01/01-25-02tdc/01-25-02darts-08.asp (593 words)

	bigchill.net -people film great music festival dance documentary
		No celebs, no big rock stars, no presenters, no big names - yet people really connect with the Big Chill and the kind of other-wordly, eccentric world it creates for a weekend.
		Big Chill at Union Chapel was one of Mixmag's Five Star clubs of the month; Tony Marcus covered the Norfolk festival.
		An advance screening of the film is scheduled at The Big Chill Bar on Monday 22 November 8pm, more details to follow.
	www.bigchill.net /story.html?id=1007 (1093 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Big Chill at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Big Chill is about friends who get back together 15 years after college, because Alex off-ed himself.
		Alex was kind of the glue that kept this group together in the 60s, and he was a leader but didn’t really keep that power after he graduated.
		Every generation deserves a Big Chill film, but it’s hard to capture the heart of a time period.
	www.epinions.com /content_83284692612 (1009 words)

	BBC - collective - the big chill 04: roundup
		It was all sunshine for The Big Chill’s tenth birthday.
		It’s that friendly approach that underpins what is good about the Big Chill — the friendly family atmosphere and the beautiful, clean location.
		The Big Chill 04 was at Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire, 30 July - 01 August 04.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/bigchill (755 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| The Big Chill
		Regardless the season, I am not a fan of the "wonderfully warm." But in November, the mother of all warm movies--and still the warmest of the warm--The Big Chill is scheduled to enjoy the sizzling hot attention of a big-screen re-release.
		With the re-release of The Big Chill, the message is loud and clear: obviously, our weak, overloaded minds have forgotten how to walk into a video store and rent one of the most ubiquitous tapes around.
		If The Big Chill dressed up a whole generation of self-obsession, feel-good live-and-let-live attire--and if its re-release introduces a whole season of nostalgia for early yuppie life and that particular code of dress--then this fall offers its share of remedies too.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sfmetro/10.05.98/bigchill-9838.html (479 words)

	The Big Wizard of Oz Chill - Nov 07, 1998 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Wizard of Oz (old movie: circa 1939) and The Big Chill (mostly old movie circa: 1983) are back in theaters--the latest benefactors of Hollywood's post-Star Wars reissue frenzy.
		Sony is taking The Big Chill slower, opening it on 55 screens--a wise move considering the yuppie love-fest's power to annoy as well as entertain.
		A Columbia spokesman tells USA Today Big Chill writer/director Lawrence Kasdan was "adamant" about not altering the film--meaning the infamous Kevin Costner flashback footage got left on the cutting room floor (again).
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,3871,00.html (467 words)

	India's hot stars chill out at Mumbai end of town - Film - Entertainment
		The film's title translates as "July Breeze", but there was more of an icy wind as they shot a musical number outside the old GPO on Monday.
		Director Jeeva is another big name, whose breakout hit was 12B, a Tamil adaptation of the Gwyneth Paltrow romantic comedy Sliding Doors.
		He too is a big star - "the Indian Michael Jackson" - who shared a stage with Jackson at a 1997 charity concert.
	www.theage.com.au /news/film/indias-hot-stars-chill-out/2006/06/13/1149964530331.html (496 words)

	CityBeat: The Big Chill (2001-07-12) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Suffice to say, though, the story is much bigger than a desecrated film or a banned critic.
		The film must be taken as a whole and not reduced to a three-second scene, he says, and as a whole it's clearly an artistic effort, which cancels out one of the three parts of the law's definition of obscenity.
		Goldman told me he wasn't worried about being convicted for showing the film but instead didn't want to deal with the time, money and hassle of defending the Esquire against prosecution.
	www.citybeat.com /2001-07-12/editorial.shtml (851 words)

	Big chill in Hollywood North
		Another problem is that in recent years U.S. writer and producer guilds have protested against "runaway productions," a term used to describe Hollywood film and TV projects that leave the country for such places as Canada.
		Deputy Mayor Mike Feldman agrees the film trade here is in a slump but said he believes business is already rebounding.
		Like others like him, he works part-time outside the industry to pay the bills and is concerned about the future of the performers in the acting trade.
	www.charlesmitchell.com /film_Industry.html (1123 words)

	DVD Times - The Big Chill
		Essentially, the film tells of university friends meeting up years later after one member of their circle has killed themselves, and the film is based on the group's weekend together and their varying ways at dealing with their loss.
		Reunion films tend to pander to soap-opera clichés and melodramatic plot twists, and are in their very nature usually restricted to television.
		Here is a film in which the joy of watching it is not due to the plot events unfolding but more to do with the audience's firm belief in the characters and situations.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=4948 (1312 words)

	The Big Chill (1983) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He is still visible as the body being dressed at the beginning of the film.
		And of course, this film has one of the greatest soundtracks in movie history, and these songs seem to fit the mood perfectly.
		I had high expectations for this film, and although it wasn't quite what I had expected, this film did not disappoint.
	imdb.com /title/tt0085244 (433 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Big Chill (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In any event, I wrote him back that the 1960s were big in the movies right now because the people who make the movies were students in the 1960s, and that the teenagers of 2001 would no doubt be sick and tired of his generation's memories of the olden days of 1983.
		And then I thought about "The Big Chill," a new movie in which survivors of the 1960s ask themselves how they could possibly be in their 30s.
		This is the second movie on almost exactly the same theme -- a weekend reunion among college friends from the '60s, during which they relive the past, fear the present and regret the interim.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19830930/REVIEWS/309300301/1023 (551 words)

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