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		Filming is due to last for 9 weeks and, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the films will be shot using prototype Red One 4K digital-cinematography cameras.
		The films will be shot in Spanish and Variety reports Steven's comments at a press conference regarding this: At a press conference Friday, Soderbergh was asked about the pics and made a point of talking up the validity of filming characters in the language in which they would ordinarily be speaking.
		From CD Reviews: Film director Steven Soderbergh was reportedly once asked what it takes to ensure a successful film.
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	The Good Shepherd (film) at AllExperts
		The Good Shepherd is a film directed by Robert De Niro for a release in 2006.
		The film is a part fiction/part fact based look at the early history of the CIA through the eyes of Edward Wilson (Matt Damon), a character based on James Jesus Angleton.
		Filming began in August 2005 in New-York and finished on 31 January 2006 with a release date set for December 22, 2006.
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/th/the_good_shepherd_(film).htm (861 words)

	Tail Slate - Film Review - The Good Shepherd
		Where the film falls just short of greatness is in its ability to meaningfully connect Edward’s familial drama with the politically charged story of mystery and intrigue.
		The mystery of the film takes a back seat and unfortunately suffers a lack of real excitement, which left me wanting a little more and wishing that the CIA storyline had been fleshed out in a movie all of its own.
		The Good Shepherd may not be an especially important movie, like it might have been, but it is undoubtedly a good one.
	www.tailslate.net /reviews/index.asp?id=322&lst=n&dpt=film (614 words)

	Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, an ELCA church serving Wilmington, DE
		Theologically, the film's emphasis is on its understanding of Jesus' role as a substitutionary victim who bears the punishment we rightly deserve.
		Although the Gibson film clearly places its emphasis on the physical suffering of Christ as the heart of the meaning of his death, the earliest teaching and creedal statements of the church on the matter were never so specifically dogmatic about the meaning of the atonement.
		Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ focuses on the physical suffering of Jesus and on his role as a substitute victim for human sin.
	www.goodshepherd-wilmington.org /may04.html (1323 words)

	The Good Shepherd (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Good Shepherd is a 2006 film directed by Robert De Niro (his second directorial effort after A Bronx Tale) and starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, and De Niro himself, in addition to an extensive supporting cast.
		The film, which was rated "R" for "some violence, sexuality and language" by the MPAA, is advertised as telling the untold story of the birth of the Central Intelligence Agency.
		Edward Wilson, the character played by Matt Damon, is based at least in part on James Jesus Angleton, the long-serving director of the CIA's counter-intelligence staff who also fell victim to intense paranoia during his career, and covert operations specialist Richard Bissell.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Good_Shepherd_(film) (647 words)

	THE GOOD SHEPHERD (a film review by Mark R. Leeper)
		Borrowing much from the "Godfather" films, THE GOOD SHEPHERD is instead about the machinations and the wheels within wheels in the intelligence community.
		While the rest of the film adds texture and builds up the characters it is only in the final reel that the real emotional action takes place and what has led up to that time begins to pay off.
		THE GOOD SHEPHERD is loosely based on the career of James Jesus Angleton, who rose to be the Chief of Staff of the Central Intelligence Agency.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/6960/goodshep.htm (1067 words)

	Good Shepherd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Good Shepherd Community Church Toronto, member of the Congregational Christian Churches of Canada
		Good Shepherd Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of Easter in the new liturgical calendar
		Parable of the Good Shepherd, parable found in John 10:1-21 in which Jesus is depicted as the Good Shepherd
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Good_Shepherd (174 words)

	Rolling Stone : The Good Shepherd : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The film is stuffed with undeveloped characters far worthier of screen time than Edward's domestic crises with his wife, deaf mistress (Tammy Blanchard) and resentful son (Eddie Redmayne).
		The film cuts back and forth from present to past, when Edward, as a 1939 Yale undergrad, is inducted into the secret Skull and Bones society and gets hooked on stealth.
		From what I hear, the two main characters of the year's best film, "The Departed" moved on to ruin their high rollercoaster that continued to go up by doing each a movie afterwards and the coaster came tumbling down to rock bottom.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/movie/7405477/review/12812399/the_good_shepherd?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed (1342 words)

	The Good Shepherd - Film Reviews - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		The "good shepherd" is Matt Damon's Edward Wilson, a dour, grey-suited CIA man whom we first meet in 1961.
		At the behest of De Niro himself as a wily old retired general intent on building the US's first intelligence service, Wilson is seconded to work with Britain's Office of Strategic Services, where he rapidly becomes acquainted with the more brutish aspects of the spying game.
		In its efforts to cover all stops on the serpentine road leading to the hardening of Wilson's character - and the CIA's as well - the film is rather like a train that gives you tantalising glimpses of a world you'll never reach.
	www.smh.com.au /news/film-reviews/the-good-shepherd/2007/02/20/1171733749676.html (1077 words)

	Good Shepherd
		Early representations of Jesus as Good Shepherd, University of Pennsylvania.
		Christ, the Good Shepherd, Bartolome Esteban Murillo, c 1660.
		The Christ Child as the Good Shepherd, Bartolome Esteban Murillo, 1675-80.
	www.textweek.com /art/good_shepherd.htm (86 words)

	'The Good Shepherd' Exclusive Trailer Premiere - Moviefone
		'Good' Times: The Cold War -- a period in history marked by paranoia and the constant dread of nuclear war -- gave birth to the CIA, an agency wrought by men willing to sacrifice their very souls for America.
		Note to Matt Damon: Be good to Angie...
		Check out the trailer premiere for 'The Good Shepherd,' the new Robert De Niro movie starring Matt Damon as a CIA operative and Angelina Jolie as his wife.
	movies.aol.com /movie-trailer-clip/good-shepherd-matt-damon-angelina-jolie?ncid=AOLMOV00050000000012 (248 words)

	Film Reviews & Movie Showtimes \| 'The Good Shepherd'
		The Good Shepherd commences in mid-April 1961 with the bungled invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.
		The Good Shepherd is the kind of film in which it seems like something is always just about to happen.
		The film's size, however, does this beast in; it is long, but not long enough to unveil its huge canvas without cutting out characters and motives.
	www.metrosantacruz.com /metro/12.20.06/good-shepherd-0651.html (920 words)

	The Good Shepherd Movie Preview, Starring Matt Damon and Robert De Niro, Directed by Robert De Niro
		The Good Shepherd, the film that tracks the evolution of the CIA from its inception, is a go project.
		As for the project itself, The Good Shepherd is loosely based on the life story of James Jesus Angleton, though the name has been changed and the story fictionalized a great deal.
		Filming is currently scheduled for Spring of 2005 but considering the checkered history of the project, that should be taken with a grain of salt.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /tickermaster/listing.cfm?TMID=1201 (393 words)

	USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - The Good Shepherd
		Flip-flopping through time, the film begins with the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, before flashing back to 1939, and Wilson's initiation into the secretive Skull and Bones fraternity at Yale (where, incidentally, there's an amusing scene of Damon performing Little Buttercup in "H.M.S. Pinafore").
		The distant relationship with that son, Edward (played as a young man by Eddie Redmayne) will have repercussions as the film progresses, much as Wilson is himself haunted by the suicide death of his father when he was a child.
		The film includes adultery and premarital sex, a shadowy sexual encounter, innuendo, a predatory gay character, a couple of cold-blooded murders and other spy-related dirty doings, suicides, marital discord, partial nudity, drug use, a few expletives and racial epithets.
	www.usccb.org /movies/g/thegoodshepherd.shtml (577 words)

	AskMen.com - The Good Shepherd (2006)
		He’s a good choice for the job because, as an actor, he understands the value of research, preparation, and realism.
		All in all, "The Good Shepherd" is a classic in the spy genre of films.
		"Shepherd" is also not a movie for movie-goers with a short attention span, and ill-fated knowledge of the film's historical backdrop.
	www.askmen.com /toys/movies/6548-The-Good-Shepherd (1284 words)

	The Good Shepherd - Film Reviews - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		The film feels very much like a one-off hobby project and the top-shelf cast - which includes A-list names in tiny roles - appear to have been attracted more by De Niro's stature than by the opportunity to tell a compelling, powerful story, which this isn't.
		Damon is the film's sturdy linchpin, Angelina Jolie chimes in well as his long-suffering wife and Eddie Redmayne, who recently starred in the fine Australian film Like Minds, shines as their defiant son who is made to pay a high price for his father's dedication to duty.
		It's never the length of a film that is an issue but the lack of pace and style that prompts you to keep glancing at your watch as you wonder about where you're going to go for lunch once the final credits roll.
	www.theage.com.au /news/film-reviews/the-good-shepherd/2007/02/15/1171405361481.html (544 words)

	Movie Review: The Good Shepherd : Film School Rejects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Just looking at the film’s roster makes you want to see it, but whether or not it is good or not is another story.
		This film may not win everything, or even anything for that matter, but deserves to be in the ranks of the year’s 5 best films.
		I looks like it could be good, but I am not sure I need to see another inspirational football movie after already seeing Invincible and Gridiron Gang this year, you can expand that to sports in general and include the very good Rocky Balboa in the mix.
	www.filmschoolrejects.com /reviews/movie-reviews/movie-review-good-shepherd.php (778 words)

	The Good Shepherd
		The film follows Edward Wilson (Matt Damon), a composite of real figures in the history of U.S. espionage—including James Jesus Angleton, an increasingly paranoid CIA counter-intelligence director, and covert operations specialist Richard Bissell.
		The world of The Good Shepherd is one where it's a man's job to locate another's weakness and exploit and manipulate it.
		Choices meant for good slide down a slippery slope, become perverted and lead to isolation, unhappiness and greater sin and weakness—both for individuals and for nations.
	www.divxplanet.com /sub/m/11586/The-Good-Shepherd.html (1108 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: "The Good Shepherd": A life cloaked in secrecy
		Robert De Niro's "The Good Shepherd," a spy thriller entangled in a relationship drama, is cloaked in darkness; nearly every scene, even those in the daytime, takes place in shadows.
		The film, swinging from past to present like a relentless pendulum, covers the next two decades, in which Wilson tries to balance the complexities of his job (he eventually becomes a founder of the CIA, entangled in the Cold War and the KGB) with a real life.
		It's tricky for a three-hour film to center around a man who never cracks a smile, and De Niro wisely surrounds Damon with vividness (including his own canny turn as General Sullivan, who helped create the OSS).
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2003489262_shepherd22.html (696 words)

	identity theory \| film \| review of the good shepherd
		In recent promotional interviews for The Good Shepherd on both Larry King Live and The Charlie Rose Show, the director/actor discussed the frustrations of walking around for eight years with hot material about the history of the CIA which he felt somehow unable to consolidate into a workable screenplay.
		Here then is the film narrative’s most crucial plot point; for Wilson’s willingness to endure the humiliation sets the stage for his becoming the loyal (yet defeatist) and compromising (yet persistent) CIA good soldier.
		To have kept The Good Shepherd from becoming a cynical film -- as opposed to a virtual PR release for the CIA -- had to have been a delicate mid-course to follow for De Niro and screenwriter Roth.
	identitytheory.com /film/wasser_goodshepherd.php (911 words)

	Universal Pictures: The Good Shepherd
		The Good Shepherd DVD, a DVD and HD-DVD/DVD combo, will be released on April 3, 2007 from Universal Studios.
		A tale of secrets, deception and murder played out at the height of the Cold War, The Good Shepherd DVD is a powerful thriller that reveals the untold story of the birth of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
		The Good Shepherd DVD takes audiences deep into the dark world of international intelligence and espionage.
	www.thegoodshepherdmovie.com (258 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: The Good Shepherd
		For an inexcusable 160 minutes, The Good Shepherd jumps back and forth in time but is not so clever to ever double back on itself in a remotely ecstatic way like Oliver Stone's JFK.
		Meshed in the film's I-spy fold is Edward's hunt for a mysterious double-agent who goes by the name Ulysess (after the Joyce novel) and dissections of a grainy, fl-and-white sex tape that threaten to expose the person behind the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
		No actor survives this mess except perhaps for Jolie, who enters the film like a tigress, trying to resist the way the story conspires to reduce her to a grieving-housewife cliché.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=2709 (559 words)

	Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd (LCMS), North Mankato, MN
		Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd (LCMS), North Mankato, MN December 2000
		The Adult Bible Class, for the next three Sunday mornings and the Sunday after Christmas, will be viewing and discussing the film, "Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace." This award-winning production brings to life the heroic rebellion of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a high regarded Lutheran pastor who confronted the horrors of Nazi Germany during World War II.
		This presentation is the compelling story of Bonheoffer’s moral conflict between his conscience and his loyalty to the state.
	homepage.mac.com /gurban/month_news/goodshepherdmnth_dec200c.html (508 words)

	indieWIRE > Berlin International Film Festival
		The film is the story of a woman (Yu Nan) living in rural northwestern Mongolia and facing pressure to abandon her life as a shepherd.
		Continuing in a statement, Laurel Films and Films Distribution also indicated, "The issue of the harm of moral values and sex scenes have been the object of the censorship who asked some cuts of the film." The statement added that the companies hopes to reach an agreement in advance of the public showings.
		The film is the third and final installment in Yamada's samurai trilogy, and the story's protagonist is a young samurai (Takyya Kimura) who serves as a food taster for a lord.
	www.indiewire.com /berlin (7432 words)

	The Good Shepherd : film review
		The Good Shepherd is not so much a study of the CIA as it is a character study.
		One of the highlights of the film is when she confronts him about his infidelity in the middle of a party.
		This is not a fast-moving film, and if you want an action movie you're in the wrong place.
	www.musicomh.com /films/good-shepherd_0207.htm (567 words)

	Film Review - The Good Shepherd
		Excessive length (168 minutes) is not the main problem of Robert De Niro's "The Good Shepherd," his engrossing account of the largely untold story of the birth of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
		No, the film's problems seem to derive from the inability to find the proper dramatic perspective to deal with its timely yet up-until-now neglected subject, and from a lethargic pacing that often makes the potentially absorbing saga longer than it is.
		Indeed, unlike the superb German film, "The Lives of Others," which shows the intimate link between the personal and political arena, "The Good Shepherd" stumbles in showing the inevitable, fateful connection between the film's micro and macro worlds.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=3959 (1305 words)

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