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  The Guardian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Guardian and its parent groups are a participant in Project Syndicate http://www.project-syndicate.org/, established by George Soros, and have recently intervened to save the Mail and Guardian in South Africa http://www.mg.co.za/, but Guardian Media Group later sold the shares of the Mail and Guardian it held.
The Guardian's Newsroom visitor centre and archive (No 60), with an old sign with the name The Manchester Guardian The Manchester Guardian was founded in Manchester in 1821 by a group of non-conformist businessmen headed by John Edward Taylor.
The Guardian has announced plans in 2004 to change to a "Berliner" or "midi" format similar to that used by Le Monde in France and some other European papers; at 470×315 mm, this is slightly larger than a traditional tabloid.
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 The Guardian (2006 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Guardian is a 2006 film starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher, directed by Andrew Davis, released on September 29, 2006.
Both of the film's stars, Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher, are members of the same college fraternity, Delta Chi.
The Guardian was one of two Aston Kutcher films to open on September 29, 2006, the other being Open Season.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Guardian_(2006_film)   (1340 words)

  
 Informat.io on Guardian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Guardian (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero and a Silver Age DC Comics hero.
Guardian Unit of Nations, from the Sonic the Hedgehog fictional universe.
Guardian, one of the four temperaments according to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter.
www.informat.io /?title=Guardian   (290 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | The Caiman
This is all the more disappointing, as Moretti made one of the finest Palme d'Or winners of recent times with his exceptional picture The Son's Room (2001).
There are scenes Bruno imagines as he reads the script; there are the different scenes he shoots when the movie is up and running; there are still other scenes when he has to recast and reshoot at the very end.
The real-life TV clips of the boorish and ugly Berlusconi in the European parliament have a power and political pertinence that the rest of the film entirely lacks.
film.guardian.co.uk /cannes2006/story/0,,1781048,00.html   (445 words)

  
 East Lansing Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A bittersweet film about a lonely widow, played to perfection by Joan Plowright, who moves to London to live in a retirement hotel.
Totally fascinating and often hilarious, this crowd-pleasing film follows tough-minded state prosecutor Vera Ngassa and court president Beatrice Ntuba as they help women in their Cameroon village fight difficult cases of rape and abuse.
Set in Kurdistan on the eve of the American invasion of Iraq, this amazing film is a poignant, heart-tugging portrait of an unlikely gang of children who become the innocent victims of conflict.
www.elff.com /index/v2/filmsociety_archive/2006/01   (608 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Guardian internet edition
Guardian and Observer digital editions combine online delivery with the look and feel of the printed newspapers.
Subscribers are able to see Guardian and Observer articles, images and adverts as they appear in print, through a web-based interface without the need to download any files or install special software.
If you live outside the UK or travel abroad frequently, the digital editions allow you to enjoy original Guardian & Observer page layouts and colour photography anywhere in the world.
www.guardian.co.uk /guardian   (124 words)

  
 BBC - Movies - review - The Guardian
In other words, The Guardian is Top Gun in a swimming pool, and thoroughly mediocre with it.
Costner can be highly entertaining given the right script, but The Guardian casts him as the familiar world-weary superhero type we've seen so many times before; a taciturn lifesaver at odds with his own brilliance.
Much of the film is set at A-School, a training camp for rescue swimmers where the recruits do press ups and yell "Hoo-RAH!" every five minutes for no discernable reason.
www.bbc.co.uk /films/2006/09/27/the_guardian_2006_review.shtml   (401 words)

  
 Lia Scott Price Productions Sets Record Straight for 'The Guardian' Film
The correct film belonging to Price is also called 'The Guardian' (2005), (C) 2001, filmed in 2005, and released in September 2006 on DVD on customflix.com (http://www.customflix.com/212860) by DarkAngel Distributors.
Price's 'The Guardian' (http://www.liascottprice.com/films.htm) is a horror flick based on Price's horror/sci-fi novel 'The Guardian' (http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-22865-8) which features her creation, a Serial Killer Guardian Angel(TM) targeting people who pray for help.
Price contacted the correct producers for the Costner/Kutcher Guardian film to alert them to the credit snafus and released this statement to them: "The issue is not with the title but the fact that my production company name was being listed in the credits for a movie I didn't produce.
prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-04-2006/0004445753&EDATE=   (433 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Le Carré film wins critical acclaim
But 40 years after his biggest film hit, Le Carré is savouring the prospect of a commercial and critical triumph with his five-year-old novel The Constant Gardener, which has been made into a film starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz.
An excoriating account of the corrupt practices of pharmaceutical companies and complicit western governments in modern-day Africa, the film was directed by the Brazilian Fernando Meirelles, nominated for an Oscar for City of God, his account of street life in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.
He believes one of the keys to making the film work was to not try to remain slavishly faithful to the book, but to make a film in its own right.
www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1561193,00.html   (664 words)

  
 'The Guardian' -- Jump, swim, save. Rinse. Repeat.
In fact, long before "The Guardian" is over, what starts off seeming like an exciting job begins to seem like a boring way to spend one's life: Yet another day, yet another jump out of the helicopter, yet another flailing drowning person, yet another bout with hypothermia.
Underneath the sensitive, stoic facade is a loquacious, intellectually alert actor with an encyclopedic understanding of the film tradition he occupies: the rugged, humble movie hero, embodied by the likes of Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda.
He doesn't preen in "The Guardian" and even displays touches of self-deprecation and archness, at least to the extent that this grim film allows.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/29/DDGIULDEOF1.DTL&...   (799 words)

  
 Mindjack Film: June 2006
Issues of drug abuse, mental illness and abortion are dealt with on the same superficial terms as the chi chi fashions, sets and shellacked hairstyles.
It might be Valley's biggest legacy that it stands as one of the few films that shows taboo situations while simultaneously being embalmed in a studio-shined veneer of its own outlandish datedness.
But he soon begins to descend into madness, culminating in perhaps the film's defining sequence, when he delivers a dictatorial speech to a group of cardboard cut-outs before storming in a chuch with a shot gun, promising to "shoot the kid" if God doesn't show himself.
www.mindjack.com /film/archives/2006_06_01_archive.html   (550 words)

  
 The Guardian (2006) Movie Review - RopeofSilicon.com
The Guardian is yet another movie that goes on top of the pile of movies I wished I had hated before I saw them.
The easiest way to describe The Guardian is to call it Top Gun with the Coast Guard instead of the Navy, Ashton Kutcher instead of Tom Cruise, Kevin Costner instead of Tom Skeritt, boredom instead of action and no Iceman or Jester.
This film runs nearly 2 hours and 20 minutes and how they managed that much time out of a movie that might have been watchable at 90 minutes is beyond me.
www.ropeofsilicon.com /review.php?id=2531   (521 words)

  
 Cinema Confidential Review: The Guardian (2006)
"The Guardian" is a movie that doesn't to adhere to the basic rules of story structure.
The drama of the film has very little meat per se, but at least the action at sea does have its "Perfect Storm"-inspired moments.
Training sequences of course are used to prepare us for “action” out at sea, and "The Guardian" attempts to do everything it can to dazzle us, but it’s a wash-out of repeated actions on top of repeated actions.
www.cinemaconfidential.com /review.php?id=guardian   (848 words)

  
 The Guardian (2006)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In that film, there was a strong half of a film, where I have heard convincing arguments that ‘that was the movie’, and the next hour not as impacting.
What keeps the film glued together is that it slowly becomes clear that Fischer is the younger mirror of Randall.
I do think that a film about the Coast Guard efforts during the Katrina hurricane aftermath, which is mentioned by a character, might be a moving film all by itself, however.
www.chokingonpopcorn.com /popcorn/?p=892   (1330 words)

  
 TheMovieBoy Review - The Guardian (2006)
There's one other problem, however, that writes this film's death warrant: it overstays its welcome by at least thirty minutes and tacks on a cornball climax that should have been cut even before it was filmed.
Directed with straightforward style by Andrew Davis (2003's "Holes"), "The Guardian" is a motion picture that, well-made as it is, doesn't know when to quit.
"The Guardian" isn't a bad film, and is sure to please wide audiences looking to have their emotions manipulated, but its tendency toward long-windedness and unrefined editing gets the best of it.
www.themovieboy.com /reviews/g/06_guardian.htm   (923 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Football | World Cup 2006 | Tim Lovejoy on the continued success of England
I asked David Beckham to film a television documentary a while ago, as he was getting so much criticism for his football from the press.
He took quite a lot of convincing, as he was sure the public were fed up of seeing him.
I always knew he was a Guardian reader.
football.guardian.co.uk /worldcup2006/comment/story/0,,1806531,00.html   (840 words)

  
 The Guardian
The Guardian is a male soap opera with echoes of An Officer and Gentleman and enough military movie clichés to fill a book of regulations.
The Guardian accomplishes what it sets out to do with a reasonable amount of skill, and there's something undeniably admirable about watching men and women push themselves to the limit for only one purpose: to save other people's lives.
That the film doesn't rise above the formulaic is a particular disappointment as these stunningly brave Rescue Swimmers deserve a film as daring as they are.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/guardian   (1163 words)

  
 Author Lia Scott Price's Novel 'The Guardian' Becomes Film
Price is the author of a series of novels, which feature her vampire and supernatural serial killer characters in a disturbing and controversial form: Guardian Angels.
In her first film "Dominion", which was based on her novel of the same name, Price wrote the screenplay, worked as crew and did background acting.
Price also decided to try acting and stars in her second soon-to-be released film "The Guardian", a supernatural thriller based on her novel of the same name.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-06-2006/0004375525&EDATE=   (292 words)

  
 The Guardian (1990)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Her newest targets, a Las Angeles couple begin to notice her strange behavior as she puts the moves on dad and all of the neighbors start turning up dead.
Jenny Seagrove turns in an excellent performance and there are some rather stylish and chilling moments in the film.
However, the film is never really able to get past the silly premise.
www.imdb.com /Title?0099710   (269 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Guardian: DVD: William Friedkin,Jenny Seagrove,Dwier Brown,Carey Lowell,Brad Hall,Miguel Ferrer,Natalia ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The film's got a lot of stupidity here and there, especially the young couple, who don't bother checking Camilla's references before hiring her, or the fact that this caretaker happens to be able to move around so many residences freely without too much suspicion (okay, for a while, at least).
Still, the film does slide into scenes that simply can't be taken very seriously; you'll know what I mean when you see the chainsaw scene near the end of the movie.
This film is merely a shallow attempt by a movie studio to bank on the naivete of horror fans.
www.amazon.com /Guardian-William-Friedkin/dp/6305614407   (1717 words)

  
 Eye for Film : The Guardian (2006) Film Review
Yes, the man pilloried for his deep sea shenanigans in Waterworld is taking the plunge once again as a swimmer in the US coastguard.
While he may not be about to make the biggest splash ever, it's fair to say that this film at least stays afloat.
The film's biggest problem, however, aside from its predictability, is that it is far too long - a perennial problem for Costner.
www.eyeforfilm.co.uk /reviews.php?film_id=11875   (494 words)

  
 weColumbus: Film Review: The Guardian
There’s a scene in The Guardian in which Kevin Costner’s aging Coast Guard rescue diver-turned-unconventional instructor tells his eager young cadets to tread water for one hour—if they can’t do it, then they’re just not rescue diver material, and...
There’s a scene in The Guardian in which Kevin Costner’s aging Coast Guard rescue diver-turned-unconventional instructor tells his eager young cadets to tread water for one hour—if they can’t do it, then they’re just not rescue diver material, and they’ll be expelled from the program.
To this end, the film is afflicted with a strange tension, because it covers many of the clichés of every other armed service training film you’ve ever seen, and yet it’s also trying to build up the Coast
www.wecolumbus.com /blog/2006/10/film_review_the_guardian.php   (693 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | News | Peter Jackson enters dragons' den
"I never took it seriously until [the film rights agent] called myself and [my literary agent] and said, 'Peter wants the book.' There was lot of screaming in my household when I first got the call," she said.
Novik, who first read JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings aged six, was relieved to have her creation in the hands of the man who brought the books to the screen.
Jackson will next be adapting the Alice Sebold bestseller, The Lovely Bones, and filming is expected to start in the second half of 2007.
film.guardian.co.uk /news/story/0,,1870555,00.html   (450 words)

  
 2006 Tribeca Film Festival - MoviesOnline
The 2006 Tribeca Film Festival is getting ready to kick off in New York and we may be providing some local coverage for you all.
Created by Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro, the mission of the Tribeca Film Festival is to enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience.
The Tribeca Film Festival was founded to celebrate New York City as a major filmmaking center and to contribute to the long-term recovery of lower Manhattan.
www.moviesonline.ca /spot/movienews_7572.html   (425 words)

  
 Blogcritics.org: Movie Review: The Guardian
Despite these unremarkable aspects, the movie was competently filmed and the subject matter is just interesting enough to entertain us most of the time.
On the Side: Kevin Costner was rumored to have refused to urinate in the ocean during the filming of Waterworld, so every time nature called production stopped and he was flown back to shore to relieve himself.
Film School Rejects is the blogosphere's latest gem that delivers movie reviews, DVD reviews, and industry commentary.
blogcritics.org /archives/2006/09/29/124909.php   (1437 words)

  
 Combustible Celluloid film review - The Guardian (2006), Andrew Davis, Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, dvd review
Andrew Davis' The Guardian is so petrified over disrespecting the United States Coast Guard that it stifles itself.
The Guardian is more or less a basic-training, Top Gun-type retread, complete with the cocky, young hotshot (usually played by Tom Cruise) looking to grab the torch from the crusty old veteran.
The Guardian may be all washed up, but it's not entirely dead in the water.
www.combustiblecelluloid.com /2006/guardian.shtml   (541 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Guardian: Books: Nicholas Sparks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Due to differences in the nature of print as compared with film media, I think that the key elements of this story could be an excellent movie (perhaps that is the eventual intention).
The storyline is very straightforward: Julie Barenson's best friend and husband Jim died of cancer when she was only twenty five years old, and four years later when the novel begins she is only beginning to truly deal with the grief which overwhelmed her.
The storyline is weak and predictable, the dialogue is excruciatingly lame, and the characters are poorly developed and lack depth and chemistry.
www.amazon.com /Guardian-Nicholas-Sparks/dp/0446613436   (2069 words)

  
 2006 SXSW Film Festival - A Preview - Cinematical
Though some brushed his presence off as owing to the fact that his pregnant girlfriend, Maya Rudolph, was in the film, P.T. confirmed to the New York Times that he was in fact "pinch hitting" for the 80-something honorary Oscar winning director.
Swanberg has been blogging throughout the film's production process; he'll be joining me and many other good people on the Blogging About Film panel on Monday, March 14.
I saw OLD BOY at the Berlin Film Festival and I thought it was a terrific film.
www.cinematical.com /2006/03/08/2006-sxsw-film-festival-a-preview   (1149 words)

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