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	The Castle (film) Summary
		The Castle was largely filmed in Melbourne, Australia.
		The movie title is named for the English saying, repeatedly used in the film, "A man's home is his castle." The film also refers to the land rights movement of the Australian Aborigines, with Kerrigan drawing an explicit parallel between his struggle and theirs.
		Throughout this film many messages are put forward about Australia so that by the end of the film we are left with a feeling that we understand the little world in which this family lives, and we could watch them through and assortment of adventures.
	www.bookrags.com /The_Castle_(film) (1900 words)

	Political Film Society - The Castle
		The Castle, immensely popular when it was released during 1997 in Australia, is designed as a comedy about a situation more serious than the one depicted, and our laughter at the satire quickly diminishes as the plot thickens.
		This time the case is won, with Hammill citing in his summation such Darryl’s rhetoric about a house as a home with memories that cannot be fairly taken or adequately compensated.
		The deeper meaning is that Australians should correct the dishonor done to its aboriginal peoples, but the message will unfortunately be lost on Americans who are too busy laughing at the satire to realize that similar injustices await redress in the United States.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/castle.html (359 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: I Capture the Castle
		Turns out that it was a good choice to see this film as it is a very fine movie that centers on the coming-of-age saga of a young girl.
		But one day, the sons and heirs of the property arrive at the castle and both men instantly fall in love with Rose who is the prettiest and outgoing of the sisters.
		From the dark gray walls of the castle surrounded by the lush green of the countryside to the dark moat that runs around the outside, the look of the film is simply marvelous.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/icapturethecastle.html (806 words)

	I Capture the Castle
		Garai had a small role in Nicholas Nickleby, and I Capture the Castle is her first lead role.
		The Cotton family owns the land and the castle that the Mortmains live on, and Rose increasingly sees Simon (Henry Thomas, Gangs of New York, All the Pretty Horses) as a way out of poverty.
		The film slows down whenever he has extended dialogue or screen time, but this is a small complaint in an otherwise enjoyable experience.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/i_capture_the_castle.html (636 words)

	Film Review: I Capture The Castle
		Living in a castle sounds like fun, but not if you're reduced to counting the biscuits and reusing candle-ends because your supposedly genius father hasn't done a stroke of work in years.
		As the film begins, tethers are at their end and everyone's starting to snap.
		And the film manages to capture the painful glory of first love, misplaced love and the temptations of sex over true affection, with a brave and uplifting ending.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/i/i_capture_the_castle_2003_r2.shtml (586 words)

	Review: The Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Miramax's release strategy for The Castle could charitably be called "curious." The film was an audience favorite at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.
		Although The Castle is a comedy, it's not entirely without themes and serious ideas.
		The Castle is not an overly ambitious motion picture, but it has a point to make, and does so in an undeniably entertaining manner.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/c/castle.html (730 words)

	Film \| I Capture the Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dodie Smith is best-known as the writer of 101 Dalmatians, but this is her book for teenagers (also still popular, judging by the pile of books at the till in the local newsagents).
		It combines a first rites/romantic tale with a highly eccentric family saga, and it's this latter element that is the triumph of Tim Fywell's film.
		The rest of the weather is mostly rain as Nighy, author of one famous book, gloomily reaches the 12th year of writer's block amid poverty and recrimination.
	film.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4841873-3618,00.html (218 words)

	Silent Era: Events: Silent Film in Pasadena, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The film is the late silent film era’s valentine to the innocence and fun of the industry’s beginnings just a few years before.
		Castle Green can also be reached by the Metro Goldline; Get off at the Del mar Station and walk one short block north on Raymond to the Castle.
		The Castle is at the corner of Raymond and Green.
	www.silentera.com /info/events/pasadena2004-1.html (586 words)

	AAW: Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro Review
		Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro is a marvelous film with enough whimsical action, playful adventure, and satisfying plot to appeal to viewers of almost any age, so long as they've got a little of that youthful rogue in spirit.
		Castle of Cagliostro certainly has everything you could ask for in a Miyazaki film: Lush European scenery, fanciful action, a hint of pure-hearted romance, and a solidly-constructed plot that skips along at a brisk pace but also takes the time to slow down for an occasional touching moment.
		This is probably why, as a Lupin III film, The Castle of Cagliostro seems to be missing something.
	animeworld.com /reviews/castleofcagliostro.html (1680 words)

	Film Review - The Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Castle is such a film and is also the highest grossing, home-grown Australian film in 1997, breaking box office records.
		The Castle is crisp comedy, quickly paced at 82 minutes, and a thoroughly charming, often hilarious film.
		It was a huge hit at the Sundance film festival a year ago where director/co-writer Rob Sitch announced that every American studio passed on this film before audiences went wild for it.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/castle.html (347 words)

	Cinephobia Reviews: The Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Castle is the debut film for the writing team of Rob Sitch, Tom Gleisner, Santo Cilauro, and Jane Kennedy, who will be familiar to Australian audiences for their television work.
		The film tells the story of the Kerrigans, a working class family in the northwest suburbs of Melbourne (it says something about Australian society, however, that the family is shown to own five cars, a boat, and a holiday house, and still be understood to be working class).
		The comedy in the film comes from the contrast between the naive, uneducated Kerrigans (if they lived in the country, you'd call them "down to earth") and the smug, upscale lawyers and judges they come up against.
	home.mira.net /~satadaca/castle.htm (790 words)

	Moving Image Collection, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This film was initially shown to scientists and was later shown to the general public at the SIO Aquarium Museum.
		The film uses film of coastal areas and red tides, moving and still images of plankton, and interviews with scientists to describe research on red tides, plankton, and toxins.
		The film is a comedy spoof that describes the difficulties encountered by graduate students at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
	scilib.ucsd.edu /sio/archives/guides/film.html (13484 words)

	I Capture the Castle (2003): Romola Garai, Rose Byrne, Bill Nighy - PopMatters Film Review
		The castle itself becomes something of a character, with moods depending on the weather and close-up shots of the castle showing as much emotion as any actor.
		While the Cottons are temporarily housed on their ancestral estate (the brothers' father was English) near the castle, the Mortmains hope to marry Rose off to one of the brothers, preferably Simon, since he is heir to the family fortune.
		This is where she attempts to "capture" the castle, to document what it means to live in the castle and be a member of the Mortmain family.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/i/i-capture-the-castle.shtml (1416 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: The Castle (Widescreen Edition) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Castle starts off with an introduction by one of the sons in the family who then goes on to narrate the familiy's struggle with a multinational Australian corporation in the fight to keep their home from being subsumed under the airport next door's burgeoning development.
		This film is not poking fun at the lower class aussie, instead it is showing everyone the meaning of family love in it's most simplest form.
		Also, the final quarter of the film seems a little bit rushed to me. Things were looking tough for the Kerrigan's there at one stage and then all of a sudden (right out of the blue mate) comes a white knight to save the day.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00001U0DW (1493 words)

	The Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Caerphilly castle is most famous for it's leaning tower.
		Information about the castle you might not have come across is that it was used in the film Restoration, starring Meg Ryan and Hugh Grant.
		When Tew Teg arrived at the castle and heard that Alice had been sent back to France he was distraught.
	caerphillynet.x-host.uni.cc /castle.htm (619 words)

	THE CASTLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When the film was then released to the international market, namely the US market, views about what the film was actually saying were divided in the same way as they were in Australia, but again with the majority acclaiming the film.
		This film is also an example of the internationalisation of the industry with it being presented at many festivals around the world, including Sundance, which has then led onto a worldwide release.
		The Castle is a film that deals with the social issues of the ordinary ‘battler’ seen by some critics as a ‘fault’ of Australian cinema in being too far removed from the dominant Hollywood model.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/dbase/2000/Castle.html (2307 words)

	DVD : I Capture the Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But the decaying castle loses its appeal as her novelist father (Bill Nighy, Love Actually) develops writer's block and her mother dies of cancer.
		From this sad beginning, I Capture the Castle turns into an utterly engaging coming-of-age story as 17-year-old Cassandra and her older sister Rose (Rose Byrne) struggle to win the attentions of their new American landlord (Henry Thomas, E.T. The Extraterrestrial)--but when everything goes the way Cassandra hopes, her hopes fall apart.
		Beautifully filmed, subtly acted, and charming from beginning to end, this film is touching, funny, romantic, perceptive, and full of color, verve, and character.
	www.ajeno.com /B0000SX9MS/I_Capture_the_Castle.shtml (518 words)

	CNN - Review: Latest Aussie offering a heartwarming 'Castle' - May 7, 1999
		To them their ordinary, humdrum life is magical and they're living the Australian family's dream; a pool table, a "barbie" (that's the barbecue, not the doll) and a huge TV antenna.
		This film about miscasts is cast mainly with Australian television stars including Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Anthony Simcoe, Stephen Curry, Sophie Lee (who made her feature film debut in "Muriel's Wedding"), and veteran Australian character actor Charles 'Bud' Tingwell.
		Written in two weeks and shot in 11 days with a 16mm camera, this film went on to become the highest grossing Australian film of 1997 and was seen at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9905/07/review.castle (729 words)

	Martin Castle
		Whether the castle's progress had anything to do with the separation is part of its mystery.
		When contacted his ex-wife whom the castle was built for she said that she just wanted a house surrounded by ten foot walls and it just got a little carried away.
		Over the years, the castle has become a favorite place for tourists to snap photos and it has even caught the attention of Queen Elizabeth and her entourage.
	www.dupontcastle.com /castles/martin.htm (3591 words)

	Wales Castle Captured -- on Film
		When the castle is inherited by two American brothers, the family discovers new ways to pay their debts, but their innocence is lost.
		The story is set in Suffolk, England, but the film's castle scenes were shot in Manorbier, Wales -- an unspoiled village off the American tourist track, sporting the requisite barely habitable castle.
		But the castle's starring role was as the birthplace of Giraldus de Barri, or Gerald of Wales, in 1146.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2003/07/06/AR2005041501427_pf.html (806 words)

	THE FILMS OF HAYAO MIYAZAKI
		As most will be coming to this film only after sampling the filmmaker's late production (it is difficult to find--prior to Studio Ghibli's magnificent box set it was available in the United States only as a fan dub), a perspective uncoloured by hindsight is a luxury reserved only for the lucky, prescient few.
		An enchantment that suffers only for a mildly dated "blip" score, the film carries the evolving hallmarks of Miyazaki's auteurist questions: little girls displaced by a move or a trauma, surrogate parents, magical modes of transportation, the freedom of flight, and the terror and the exhilaration of the possible.
		Where his previous two films were invested in personal tales of little girls finding their way in the world, this picture announces (somewhat obliquely and clumsily) the return to the auteur's stumbling proselytizing (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds).
	filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/filmsofmiyazaki.htm (1136 words)

	The Castle - Rob McKinnon - Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The title, The Castle, is taken from the old saying, "A man’s home is his castle." The story revolves around a quirky but lovable Australian family, the Kerrigans of Cooloroo, Australia.
		Their "castle" is a leaky roofed, very modest house built on a toxic waste landfill, adjacent to humming high-power lines, and directly in the landing path of the local airport.
		The film, by the way, was shot in just 11 days on a budget of less than one million dollars and is already giving Hollywood’s mega-budget movies a run for their money at the box office in Australia.
	www.guitarlizard.com /jeromy/school/film/99the_castle.htm (778 words)

	DVD Times - The Castle of Cagliostro (UK)
		Originally released in 1979, it was the second film created for the Lupin III (Rupan Sansei) universe, which revolves — unsurprisingly — around the exploits of Arsène Lupin III, a master thief with a disposition towards high adventure.
		The film itself is a full-length (over 100 minutes long) action-packed romp in the tradition of the Indiana Jones movies...
		The other legacy of using the film print to make the DVD is that the video also has the rare scratch or white speck now and then.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=5001 (1605 words)

	Film: The Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After all, The Castle, shot in a mere eleven days on a shoestring budget, was a pretty modest little flick.
		Caton plays the film's hero, a father figure vaguely resembling Homer Simpson, who drives a tow truck for a living and fathers a wildly bland family.
		The troupe watch TV together (though they turn the volume down for dinner time), discuss the various bargains they've taken advantage of, and wallow in the glory of the seriously ugly bungalow they inhabit.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1999/061799/film1.html (428 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > I Capture the Castle > Printer Friendly
		At first, the film seems to set up a serious situation: the Mortmain family comes to their new castle home with high hopes, but as twelve years pass and their father remains incapable of writing a single word, we see that they are basically miserable and impoverished.
		Eventually, the film settles on exploring the way that Cassandra and Rose fall in love and deal with the conflict between their desires and what they can actually have.
		The transfer of I Capture the Castle looks good, despite half the disc space being wasted by the inclusion of a pan-and-scan version of the film along with the widescreen version that presents the film in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=8823 (776 words)

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	The Castle movie review, In Film Australia
		It may be pretentious of me to label The Castle as the funniest Australian comedy ever made, but that’s probably not far from the truth.
		This film comes from the Working Dog production company, who were responsible for the classic Aussie TV show Frontline as well as variety news and entertainment talkie The Panel.
		is a small guy versus the big guys film that has a sentimental emotional core, and many jokes are derived from the story of a charming family defending their home against a compulsory acquisition.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/thecastle.htm (297 words)

	Das Schloß / The Castle (Forum, Film Festival Berlin 1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The impenetrable and arbitrary castle administration hinders the clarification of its social and existential situation.
		The castle was supposed to be an allegory of divine grace.
		Albert Camus understood the castle to signify the crisis of contemporary man, an isolated human being who sees the world only in terms of his own psychic drives and needs, who never sees the world on its own terms, therefore never finding anyone but himself.
	www.fdk-berlin.de /forumarchiv/forum97/f019e.html (1815 words)

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