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Topic: The Big Sleep (1978 film)

	A Film Critics Guide Book
		Films of the 40's and 50's relied more on talent and script, while films of the 80's and 90's rely more on big budgets, action and special effects.
		Films which are made to show natural or mechanical disasters, with large death-tolls, that have befallen mankind.
		The film has a certain bit of maturity, especially during some scenes with Mayo and Kaye, and it some times catches you off guard because of the year the film was released.
	www.mecfilms.com /critic1.htm (4234 words)

	The Big Sleep (1946)
		The film has a curious story, being shot in 1944 and not released until two years later with 18 minutes of footage reshot or altogether deleted.
		In The Big Sleep, Marlowe is hired by General Sternwood (Charles Waldron) to stop the flmailing occasioned by the bawdy behavior of his daughter Carmen (Martha Vickers).
		The crime story itself is not very inspiring, but the film is quite entertaining even if the "risque" scenes are not even PG by today's standards.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /film/reviews/b/big-sleep.html (738 words)

	Sasquatch
		Since that day the film has been scientifically analysed by several experts, including those residing in Russia, and most have found that the film obviously shows that the animal is not a man in a suit.
		The resolution of a film, as stated in Kodak handbooks, is determined under laboratory conditions, as for example on an optical bench, by photographing a fl and white grating pattern, meaning 100% contrast modulation, onto the film.
		Films, on the other hand, can be easily faked with modern equipment, but that equipment did not exist in 1967 when Patterson shot his footage.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/dtrapp/bigfoot.htm (13362 words)

	Halloween (1978)
		Throughout the manipulative, morbid film, the suspenseful stalkings and killings are seen from the subjective vantage point of the killer's or 'peeping tom's' eyes, a few times while looking through a mask.
		Almost every scene is filmed with a constantly-moving camera (the Steadicam variety) to make the audience feel disordered, totally insecure, unsettled and paranoid, believing that every ominous corner, shadow, noise, or space is potentially life-threatening or dangerous and that everyone will be a helpless victim of random violence.
		When the film was aired in 1981 on commercial network television (available in a 1999 re-release DVD version), Carpenter was obliged to shoot about 12 minutes of additional footage to replace the gory and violent scenes, due to the numerous cuts made.
	www.filmsite.org /hall.html (2407 words)

	Frank Showalter » Big Sleep, The (1978)
		The Big Sleep's director, Michael Winner –who also adapted the screenplay– seems to have had good intentions.
		Mitchum was 60 years old when The Big Sleep was filmed and is much to old for the character.
		These two help salvage the second half of the film, and leave you wishing the rest of the casting were as good.
	www.fshowalter.com /movie-reviews/big-sleep-the-1978 (401 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Big Sleep at Epinions.com
		Still, as a big fan of detective movies I was intrigued by an alternate version of the film that made Bogart and Lauren Bacall an item.
		In the original film, the underlying question of what happened to the elder daughter’s husband remains a mystery, however in this version that question is answered.
		I would say The Big Sleep is a fairly dry detective story that would appeal to those who have not seen the original version but would be hard to watch for a fan of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in the 1946 version.
	www.epinions.com /content_87444524676 (795 words)

	Big Sleep, The (1978) - Channel 4 Film review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It's heresy to suggest that a Winner remake of a film starring Bogart and Bacall could be at least as good as the original but this is such a movie.
		Mitchum is Raymond Chandler's private eye Marlowe investigating the flmail of a general's daughter, only to discover that his client is involved with the local Mob, abduction and murder.
		However, Winner stays closer to the Chandler story than the earlier movie, and the result is a solid film noir that delivers a nasty little mystery.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=101142 (181 words)

	The Big Sleep (1978)
		By the way, this film goes one step further by revealing who killed the person driving the car into the sea - a mystery that Chandler "accidentally" left unsolved in the book - but the "explanation" sounds fairly lame and unconvincing.
		The film source itself is relatively clean, apart from the softness and the grain previously mentioned.
		The Big Sleep is a 1978 remake that is far closer to the original Raymond Chandler novel, except it is set in London in the 1970s instead of Los Angeles in the 1940s.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=1534 (1023 words)

	The Big Sleep (1946)
		It is a very complex, confusing, logic-defying whodunit with a quintessential private detective (Marlowe), false leads, unforgettable dialogue and wisecracks, raw-edged characters, sexy women (including the two daughters of a dying millionaire, a bookseller, and others), tough action, gunplay, a series of electrifying scenes, and screen violence.
		Although the film was released in mid-1946, it was actually filmed mostly in the fall of 1944 (about six months before Bacall and Bogart were married).
		In 1997, the original 1945 pre-release version of the film was discovered - it was the film originally intended for release by Warner Bros, but shelved (except for a few showings overseas to US troops in August 1945).
	www.filmsite.org /bigs.html (2807 words)

	Sleep Encyclopedia Article @ Unconsciously.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Norwalk - A couple accused of child endangering caused their 11 adopted children significant humiliation and stress by forcing some of them to sleep in wood...
		This is a category of articles relating to sleep.
		The main article for this category is Sleep.
	www.unconsciously.net /encyclopedia/Category:Sleep (334 words)

	film
		Roxy is the featured lead as a reporter's girlfriend who goes undercover to infiltrate a summer camp for radical feminists.
		One was that ridiculous bathtub exterior, with the glued-on red shag rug covering, a swinging light above the tub, and lots of electrical outlets near the tub.
		That's the point of a site like this, to be able get this kind of information that helps us get a clearer picture of Roxy's career and the times she worked in.
	www.roxybrewer.com /film.html (778 words)

	Digital History
		The film's tagline was "the mission that became a fortress, the fortress that became a shrine."
		Based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, the film tells the story of a populist Louisana politician modeled on Huey Long who belies his "man of the people" roots as he ruthlessly maneuvers, lies, and deals his way into the halls of power.
		A henpecked husband and father replaces a drunken film director, foils a bank robbery, and becomes involved in embezzlement.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /trailers/trailers_title.cfm (1099 words)

	The Big Sleep - Drama Classic Movies on DVD (1946) - WEA/Warner Bros. : Oldies.com
		THE BIG SLEEP was shot in 1944 but was not released until 1946.
		THE BIG SLEEP was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1997.
		This incident may have been the source of THE BIG SLEEP's long-standing reputation for having a plot so incomprehensible that neither Hawks nor novelist Chandler was completely sure who committed some of the murders.
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	FILM 203--Course Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		I've chosen the eleven films for the course because I think they are all strong films and represent the time period and cycles of the horror film of the time period in which they were produced.
		The horror film has undergone vast changes throughout the past 100 years, but one thing has remained constant: the survival of the horror genre.
		Because the horror film has undergone cyclical changes in theme and style, our lectures will focus on the impact of these cycles to other horror films and other films in general.
	www.ohiou.edu /summer/online/2000/handbook/Film.html (1311 words)

	The Big Sleep (1946) at Reel Classics: Bibliography
		The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (New York, 1939).
		The Big Sleep by David Thomson (London: British Film Institute, 1997).
		The Big Sleep: From the Novel to the Film by Bocca Cizia (Thesis: Universita degli studi di Venezia, 1987).
	www.reelclassics.com /Movies/BigSleep/bigsleep-bib.htm (825 words)

	Introduction to To Live (Film & Novel)
		Fifth Generation filmmakers were assigned to regional film studios and collaborated extensively, working together in different roles to create a new visual style for Chinese cinema: a mise-en-scene of open landscape and the colors of land and sky, in place of what they saw as the artificial studio interiors of conventional Chinese film style.
		The film ran into considerable trouble with the authorities and had to be amended in terms of plot and characterization before securing a release.
		At the beginning of the film, Jiazhen and their daughter Fengxia are neglected by the dissolute Fugui, a compulsive gambler; and Fugui has broken his promises to stop gambling despite the fact that Jiazhen is now pregnant with their second child (Youqing).
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum210/coursepack/ToLive.htm (4150 words)

	The Big Sleep (1978) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that.
		In a lot of ways, "The Big Sleep" must have seemed tailor-made for a remake in 1978.
		But the deepest problem with this film is that while it follows the externals of Chandler's novel much more closely in terms of the plot and (most of) the dialogue, it fails utterly to capture the real heart and soul of the novel.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0077234 (1244 words)

	The Big Sleep (1946) at Reel Classics: Article 1: Woman Who Nixed the Mimsy
		She was taken for a tennis-playing poet, but in fact Leigh Brackett was the wit behind the hard-boiled screenplay for The Big Sleep
		And her egalitarian women - such as Lauren Bacall's educated, compromised heiress in The Big Sleep - were eclipsed.
		In 1978, at the age of 63, she was called in by Hollywood's newest big boy, George Lucas, whose Star Wars team had tried to imitate her urgent, combative tone.
	www.reelclassics.com /Movies/BigSleep/bigsleep-article.htm (828 words)

	Bigfoot / Sasquatch FAQ
		The film is also evidence that in its case, the bigfoot phenomenon is not due to a catalogued animal that has been misidentified, since we do not recognize exactly what kind of creature is in the film.
		The film could be caused by deliberate human fabrication, but we can tentatively rule out unwitting human fabrication in the form of "mass hallucination" and "a misidentified known animal" as the possible causes behind the Patterson Film.
		If the film was taken at 24 frames per second, then Dr. Grieve found that the stride was similar to that of a human, although the bending at the knee in one position and the angle of the thigh at another were not similar to a typical stride in humans.
	home.nycap.rr.com /wwilliams/BigfootFAQ.html (12763 words)

	DVD.net : The Big Sleep (1978) - DVD Review
		This film is perhaps a perfect example of the 'hard boiled' detective genre.
		The way they are introduced tends to give the film a leisurely, even pace although some may say that clues are given piecemeal leading up to the final twist at the end.
		About that, the setting of the film seems to be the late '60s to early '70s given the age of the cars and for some people spotting the various automobiles will be fun.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=1438 (582 words)

	MoMA.org \| Exhibitions Schedule \| Film and Media \| 2005 \| Anime!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It is as if the panels of a comic had been directly translated onto the big screen.
		The films presented here follow the development of anime chronologically: the classics of the ’50s are closer to their manga sources, while the recent productions are hybrid assemblages demonstrating everything high tech has to offer.
		Two boys working to revive their comatose friend discover that her sleep is linked to the secrets of the world.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/film_media/2005/anime.html (1009 words)

	The Big Sleep Copyright Notice
		Reproduced by permission.—Andresen, Bjorn, as Tadzio and Dirk Bog-arde as Gustav von Aschenbach in the 1971 film based on the novella by Thomas Mann, photograph.
		Reproduced by permission.—Bogart, Humphrey, as Philip Marlowe, with Lauren Bacall, scene from the film "The Big Sleep," directed by Howard Hawks, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler.
		Reproduced by permission.—Scene from the film "Mill on the Floss" by George Eliot, engraving.
	www.enotes.com /big-sleep/copyright (1089 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: The Big Sleep (1978)
		This remake of Raymond Chandler's classic detective story is actually more faithful to the story than Howard Hawks' 1946 Bogart classic -- which makes the one major departure all the more enigmatic, namely, transplanting the story from Los Angeles to London.
		This one has small pleasures for Chandler fans interested in seeing scenes played out as he wrote them, but the film suffers grievously from Michael Winner's unsure directorial hand.
		Granted, it's tough living up to one of the best and best-known detective films of all time, which smouldered with the hidden fears and passions of the characters, but this film doesn't really manage to establish itself in its own right.
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	Series 7: The Contenders (2001): Reviews
		Whether Series 7, filmed on digital video for less than $1 million, is reactive or prescient doesn’t change the fact that it’s a dead-on parody of the form.
		One of those films which leaves you a little sheel shocked - a sign of a film trying to convey a message and succeeding.
		Also interestingly produced by film four, channel four being the home of the most popular reality tv in britain, big brother.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/series7 (1214 words)

	Dawn of the Dead (2004): Reviews
		Snyder’s film isn't likely to be considered a classic 20 years down the road like Romero's film is, but it's a winningly extreme episode in the ongoing adventures of Zombie and Harriet.
		Swarming with zombies on both sides of the camera, the film is unrelentingly relentless, leaving no room for original director George Romero's wry satire on consumerism or his slow-paced, creeping undead.
		I got to see the director's cut DVD version of this film and I did find the movie to be exciting but why is it that every comment I see for this movie makes it seem like the original was mega-cheese and this film should recieve an Oscar(I'm talking to you Ebert).
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/dawnofthedead (1382 words)

	Amazon.com: The Big Sleep: DVD: Robert Mitchum,Sarah Miles,Richard Boone,Candy Clark,Joan Collins,Edward Fox,John ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This is the second film of Mitchum as Marlowe (the first being "Farewell, My Lovely") and the man excelled in bringing to life the character created by Raymond Chandler.
		While his first film was placed in LA in the 1940s, this film is set in the swinging London of the 1970s.
		You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell.
	www.amazon.com /Big-Sleep-Robert-Mitchum/dp/B00004U0D5 (2210 words)

	USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - The "Y" Listing of the Movie Reviews
		The following movies have been evaluated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop's Office for Film and Broadcasting according to artistic merit and moral suitability.
		The reviews include the USCCB rating, the Motion Picture Association of America rating, and a brief synopsis of the movie.
		L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling.
	www.usccb.org /movies/y/y.shtml (136 words)

	U.S. National Film Registry -- Titles
		In 1988, the (United States) Library of Congress established the National Film Preservation Board, to preserve film deemed "culturally, historically, or esthetically important".
		Herein is the complete list of those films so honoured to date.
		Librarian of Congress James Billington welcomes public nominations for the National Film Registry.
	www-2.cs.cmu.edu /Unofficial/Movies/NFR-Titles.html (225 words)

	Index to Comic Art Collection: "Big Pain" to "Big Year"
		"Superman vs. the Big Red Cheese : From Whiz Comics to Shazam, the Saga of the Heroes that Wouldn't Die!" / by Joseph Kary.
		Nancy and Sluggo : the Big Surprise / by Jean Lewis ; illustrated by Edward Nofziger and Robert Totten.
		Popeye's Big Surprise / by Barbara Waring ; illustrated by Bud Sagendorf.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/brri/big_p.htm (6453 words)

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