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  Hou Hsiao-hsien
The film follows the precocious and trouble-prone Ah-hsiao as he experiences the strange, turbulent, and in the end, unalterable events that would prevent his dislocated family from returning to their ancestral home.
The film then follows the plight of the young couple as they drift through the waning days of adolescence between their humble work lives in Taipei and periodic visits to their hometown, reluctantly awaiting Wan's inevitable military conscription with the reassurring knowledge that they will be able to marry after completing his compulsory service.
Inevitably, the trains in the film serve, not only as a reminder of life's unalterable progression, but also as silent, unobtrusive vessels for the commutation of fleeting, isolated personal memories to a more encompassing, elemental landscape of an interconnected human experience.
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 How to Read a Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The film critic Christian Metz has written "A film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand." We are used to sitting back in the dark and viewing a film uncritically; indeed, most Hollywood films are constructed to render “invisible” the carefully constructed nature of the medium.
Further, because a film is constructed of visual, aural, and linguistic components that are manipulated in numerous ways, it is a challenge to take apart the totality of the film experience and to interpret how that experience was assembled.
If film interpretation is new to you, you will not be able to keep track of all these elements while viewing the film—this is an acquired skill.
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 Kino Film: The Cheat
A rare phenomenon of the American cinema, Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat is a film that continues to arrest, arouse and enthrall a full eight decades after its original release.
Establishing a narrative formula that he would cling to in years to come -- whether in gargantuan biblical epics or fables of modern age decadence -- DeMille wove the tale of a wayward wife whose impulsive indiscretions propel her into public scandal, private shame and marital turmoil.
Although Fannie Ward was ostensibly the star of The Cheat, it was Hayakawa (later an Academy Award© nominee for The Bridge on the River Kwai) who emerged as the true attraction.
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 Film Fest Journal: The Story of a Cheat, 1936
From the casual and personably familiar (and inferentially self-confident) running commentary of the film's introductory behind-the-scenes footage of the cast and crew, Sacha Guitry sets the infectiously picaresque and dégagé tone in The Story of a Cheat.
Composed entirely without dialogue and instead, propelled through anecdotal, first-person narration, the film is a droll, infectiously effervescent, and charming satire on greed, opportunism, chance, and destiny.
Guitry's briskly paced, reflexive tone is further reflected in the recursive nature of the film, most notably in the Cheat's repeated encounters with his former lovers and also his military comrade Serge (Roger Duchesne), creating a deceptively lyrical, yet insightful and observant commentary on the ephemeral nature of time and the cyclicality of human experience.
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 Cheat | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
Cheat Mountain, one of the highest mountains in the Alleghenies
A cheat is a deceitful practice of a public nature, in defrauding another of a known right by some artful device contrary to the plain rules of common honesty.
To constitute a cheat the offence must be of a public nature for every species of fraud and dishonesty in transactions between individuals is not the subject-matter of a criminal charge at common law; it must be such as is calculated to defraud numbers and to deceive the people in general.
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 digital film crew   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Films can be any length up to 30 minutes and we invite a wide range of subjects and styles.
Films can be submitted on VHS or DVD and should have been completed within the last 2 years.
We are putting in an application for AFC Short Film Funding due in March, so besides being passionate about drama, we're looking for someone who has had success with FTO or AFC funding, and keen to put their producing skills to the test on a bigger project.
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 Bright Lights Film Journal | Blaxploitation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The plots of most of these films — and they are conventionalized enough to confidently treat them as a group — are pastiches of old Warner Bros. melodramas, with dashes of MGM fashion glamor — via the street — thrown in.
Blaxploitation films were reviled as sexist during their initial release, and it's true that the endless parade of "bitches and "ho's" in gaudy make-up and multicolored elephant bells gives some evidence of this.
When her cop boyfriend is killed, she goes on a rampage, disguising herself as a whore to destroy a dealer's connection with a corrupt judge; getting kidnapped and ripping out the eyes of one of her captors and setting the other on fire; castrating a dealer and presenting his lopped-off dick to his girlfriend...
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 The Cheat
Her youthful appearance was said to be due to paraffin injected under her cheeks, which kept her skin tight and smooth, but which tended to melt under hot lights, necessitating frequent application of ice packs to her sagging jowls.
The surviving version of The Cheat is the 1918 reissue, and there were a number of minor changes made for this release.
The Cheat was remade twice in America, in 1923 with Pola Negri and in 1931 with Tallulah Bankhead.
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 Cheats (2002) - A Review by David Nusair
Cheats (formerly known as Cheaters; retitled to avoid confusion with a Jeff Daniels flick of the same name) was due for release in the Spring of 2001.
The film follows the adventures of four friends as they attempt to cheat their way through high school.
Mary Tyler Moore even pops up as the school's principal, and though her comedic timing is as effective as ever, her appearance is somewhat jarring (she's quite obviously had a lot of surgery done on her face).
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 The Cheat commentary
However, of these films, Card said, "But the biggest surprise to me was 'The Cheat' -- a towering masterpiece of 1915." Card said he felt an "evangelistic compulsion" to show the film to "skeptical audiences" and began a series of screenings both in the United States and Europe over the next several years.
The acting in the film is certainly one of the surprises of "The Cheat," and, without question, of the three leading players, Hayakawa's performance is the far superior.
After Edith "cheats" him, his is a sadistic, revengeful character whose eyes and tautness of jaw instill a sense of fear and foreboding in the viewer.
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 CARDSHARK Online - card cheats   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It is safe to say that the origins of card cheating are as old as the first card game.
My sole intention is to help good card players get even better by educating them about the illegitimate aspect of the game and to make you want to read more, I tried to make all the text not only educational but also fun to read.
The fact is, even if you are not interested in cheating, you can not ignore the fact that everyone is not like that.
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 Powered by The Cheat - Homestar Runner Wiki
The Cheat's toons, which are a parody of the many poorly drawn Flash cartoons on the web, are usually packed with bad animation and character depictions, poor imitations of the characters' voices (provided by Mike Chapman), and nonexistent plots.
The Cheat shamelessly elevates his status in the eyes of others through praise given by his boss Strong Bad while Marzipan finally gives him the attention and affection he has been craving.
Experimental Film — The Cheat co-directs the music video for They Might Be Giants' "Experimental Film" with Strong Sad.
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 UGO.com Film/TV -- Robert Evans Interview
The truth being is that it was supposed to be ready a year ago for the Cannes Film Festival.
I've seen the great reaction to the film and the sad thing is that I didn't produce it.
There are some things I didn't want in the film that I didn't want to get in, but it doesn't bother me. There were some things in the film that I wanted in that didn't make it.
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 The Sims 2 Cheats
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 Amazon.com: Manslaughter / The Cheat: DVD: Fannie Ward,Sessue Hayakawa,Jack Dean,Yutaka Abe,Arthur H. Williams,Raymond ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Highly influential for its dramatic low-key lighting and its frank depiction of extra-marital intrigue, The Cheat tapped into a vein of post-Victorian female masochism, eroticism and Orientalism of the day, exploring the taboo desire to be forcefully seduced and possessed by a man of another (as in Rudolph Valentino's Sheik films several years later).
In the years between the first film: The Cheat from 1915, and the second: Manslaughter from 1922, De Mille went from being a director of quality films to a director of commercial films.
This is the film that is of interest to silent film fans and students, filmed with attention to detail: lighting, framing, acting, camera movement.
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 Cheat Sheet: Intro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 Amazon.com: The Cheat: Video: Fannie Ward,Sessue Hayakawa,Jack Dean,Yutaka Abe,Arthur H. Williams,Raymond Hatton,Hazel ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Although well in her 40s when she made The Cheat, she created her own make-up which DeMille was horrified with but which came out on the screen to stunning effect.
After nearly 85 years, "The Cheat" looks as fresh and striking as it did when it thrilled women still encased in corsets, huge frame hats, dresses which covered their ankles, from boondocks in the South to big cities like Chicago.
This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1993.
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 cheat - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 G4 - Feature - Tips for Low-Budget Filmmakers
Simens' first feature was a 90-minute independent film he describes as "not very good." However, the experience and positive feedback at festivals landed him jobs on the sets of other films.
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Find out if the 2-Day Film School is coming to your town by visiting the HFI site.
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 Scoring For Film FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 film overlay - Filmeffekt Cheat (English to German translation glossary) Cheats,Games / Video Games / Gaming / ...
Ich würde das dann einfach Filmeffekt Cheat nennen.
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The project, scripted by Sheldon Turner, is reportedly a prequel focusing on the early days of Erik Lensherr (played in the X-Men films by McKellen), how he became Magneto and his relationship with young Charles Xavier.
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 How to finance a Hollywood blockbuster. - By Edward Jay Epstein - Slate Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The beauty of the German laws as far as Hollywood is concerned is that, unlike the tax laws in other countries, they don't require that films be shot locally or employ local personnel.
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The remaining budget—less than $7 million—would be covered by licensing the film's U.S. pay-television rights to Showtime (a network owned by Paramount's corporate parent, Viacom).
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 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Video Game Cheat | Hinkypunk | Ghoul | Walkthroughs | Hermione | Ron | Movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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