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	The Human Condition
		But what I intended to portray in the film was a much deeper and more universal theme, namely the human dilemma, the human condition created by the particular setting of the last war.
		MK says that it was both a "war-resistance" film and an exploration of "the fundamental evil nature in human beings." MK believes "The war was the culmination of human evil." (Mellon, p.
		In the third film K escapes and attempts to walk home in the middle of the Manchurian winter in order to be with his wife.
	homepage.mac.com /dmhart/WarFilms/OldGuides/HumanCondition.html (1804 words)

	Human condition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The human condition is a term which encompasses the totality of the experience of being human and living human lives.
		The human condition is the subject of fields of study like sociology, anthropology, and demographics.
		This term is sometimes used with a pessimistic or derogatory air by a certain kind of human, to imply that the human condition is in general a wretched one or that it cannot be improved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_condition (386 words)

	Film Fest Journal: 2005 Journal Archives
		Filmed with unflinching intimacy, Compadre is a profoundly humbling (and innately sobering) ethnographic portrait of the widespread poverty, displacement, and marginalization faced by indigenous people in contemporary society as they struggle to assimilate - often as second-class citizens - into the adopted culture and society of their native country.
		In the subtly insightful opening sequence of the film, a disabled parking attendant is brought before a judge in a Rio de Janeiro criminal courtroom for a preliminary hearing stemming from a police arrest on a burglary charge.
		It is, therefore, perhaps not surprising that film recalls the transcendent nomadism, intimacy, and cultural insight of the women passengers (and divorced, middle-class driver) in Abbas Kiarostami's Ten.
	filmref.com /journal/archives/2005_journal (5236 words)

	Naqoyqatsi - a film by Godfrey Reggio, music by Philip Glass
		Despite the film's nonverbal nature, the ultimate effect of its starkly futuristic, computer-enhanced visual fabric is to get people talking about how technology is altering everything: media, art, entertainment, sports, politics, medicine, warfare, ethics, nature, culture and the very face of the human future.
		Some 80 percent of the film's footage is culled from stock footage (from such sources as scientific and military films, newsreels, corporate videos, sports documentaries, cartoons, television shows and commercials), most of which has been radically altered with digital technology.
		NAQOYQATSI is the third and final feature film in "The Qatsi Trilogy" which began with the groundbreaking "KOYAANISQATSI," a revelatory, kaleidoscopic view of clashing urban and natural landscapes in North America, and continued with "POWAQQATSI," a journey around the world unfolding primal traditions and the influx of new technology.
	www.spiritofbaraka.com /naqoy.aspx (1964 words)

	THE TEN BEST FILMS OF 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The film is vast in its scope, covering Nash's life from his days at a student who never attends classes searching for his original idea, all the way through his battle and ultimate triumph over schizophrenia, and his more recent victory being awarded the Nobel Prize.
		The film is ultimately about two lonely, desperate people who find each other and stick with each other because they need each other, they have to have each other, so while not completely love in its most basic definition, it's a sad kind of desperation that brings these people together.
		The themes of abuse are all through this film, Thornton's character having been abused, and Berry abusing her overweight son in some of the most disturbing scenes in the film.
	www.oscarworld.net /2001best.htm (4417 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Features : app1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		He believes in film's capacity to illuminate the complexities of history; he may be the only contemporary film-maker to unabashedly use the term "the human condition" in his press notes.
		To some, Angelopoulos is the sort of auteur to be revered rather than enjoyed; but open yourself up to the slow, incantatory rhythms of his cinema and their deep pleasures become apparent (I speak as someone moved to tears by the closing moments of Eternity and a Day).
		But the Trilogy as a whole might turn out to be far more impressive a farewell to the 20th century than we yet suspect.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /film/features/article15068.ece (1981 words)

	FIBA 2004
		The focus is on the pain and beauty of the human condition and one's role in society.
		We wrote two endings to the film, one where the family got together in the end, and you could see that it was a lie- it was false hope.
		She was on the film even before the script was written.
	filmbank.org.uk /dev/fiba_2003/Danish_Cinema/fiba_04_danish_cinema.html (1757 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Band of Outsiders Film Notes
		Their films, however grim in subject matter, offered hope -- the hope that individual, ethical human action could begin to cure the woes of the world.
		Instead, it is a film of delightful nihilism, as we follow a crew of lesser criminals on a spree which continually assaults the dour realism usually associated with the gangster film; here, it's difficult to tell fantasy from reality, especially when the gang breaks into a musical number.
		In their world, violence is a fact of life, and the film refuses to wag at a finger at them for their way of being in that world.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/fnf03n1.html (636 words)

	Film Fest Journal: The CinemaScope Trilogy Archives
		Assembled from excerpts of found film from Sidney J. Furie's, The Entity (1988), Tscherkassky transforms the introductory images of a deserted, seemingly alien landscape into a startling, profoundly fractured (or as the filmmaker suggests in the end credits of L'Arrivée, "manufractured"), and increasingly haunted portrait of human desolation and descent into madness.
		From this fleeting, introductory image of mundane ritual, the film then departs into unexpected and amorphous trajectories of dream state as residual imprints of memories and human interaction fragment, dislocate, replicate, and free associate within the subconscious - while simultaneously infused, reinterpreted, or transformed under the influence of fear, individual will, and desire.
		Indeed, there is an inherent texturality and voluptuous to the film in the repeated sensorial cues of ticking clocks, personal grooming, massaging of limbs, and breathlessness and involuntary spasms of sexual arousal that are cinematically echoed in the sequence looping and frame stuttering of the physical film itself.
	www.filmref.com /journal/archives/the_cinemascope_trilogy (366 words)

	SparkNotes: The Matrix Trilogy: Philosophical Influences
		Although the films are meant to stand on their own and create their own set of philosophical questions, the Wachowskis pay homage to these precedents through both obvious and subtle references.
		Thus, the entire concept of the Matrix films can be interpreted as a criticism of the unreal consumer culture we live in, a culture that may be distracting us from the reality that we are being exploited by someone or something, just as the machines exploit the humans in the Matrix for bioelectricity.
		Baudrillard’s greatest philosophical influence is Karl Marx, and while the Matrix films do not refer to Marx explicitly, the fact that the inhabitants of the Matrix are exploited by means of an illusion that they all inhabit renders the films closer in spirit to Marx than to any other philosopher.
	www.sparknotes.com /film/matrix/section1.html (1286 words)

	Hong Kong Digital #127a: Human Condition I - III
		HUMAN CONDITION I (NO GREATER LOVE) opens in 1943 and introduces Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai), a young man waiting to be called up for the armed forces.
		The tide has clearly begun to turn against Japan in the war and Kaji agrees to accept the new rank on the condition that he be allowed to supervise the new recruits (largely made up of men in their 40s) to ensure that they receive humane treatment.
		The films are divided into two parts (with the opening credits reprised at the start of the second), and part I includes a brief intermission.
	www.dighkmovies.com /v2/127/127a.html (1058 words)

	TRILOGY: THE WEEPING MEADOW (a film review by Mark R. Leeper) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		This film is the first film of Greek director Theo Angelopoulos's trilogy of films simply called TRILOGY.
		Angelopoulos says he wants his film to be a study of the human condition running with deep emotions and sincerity.
		I believe the next two parts of the trilogy will continue the story of Eleni's life, though it is hard to believe with all the experience and anguish in this film that she still has two-thirds of her story to go.
	www.geocities.com /markleeper/meadow.htm (418 words)

	Epinions.com - Foreign film variety: mid 1980s through 1990s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The Bottom Line Films from the 80s and 90s, from many different counties, with male and female leads, treating universal aspects of the human condition.
		Both films are visual masterpieces, filmed lovingly in the villages, farms, vineyards and estates of rural Provence.
		In the first (and in my opinion, best) film, Julie (Juliette Binoche in a cold, somber performance), who has just lost her husband and daughter, desires anonymity but is drawn into the unfinished business of her former life.
	www.epinions.com /content_956276868 (1087 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: Human Condition I - No Greater Love (1959) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		"The Human Condition" is a trilogy of epic films intended to show the brutalities of World War II and their effect on the participants and on Japanese society.
		The trilogy begins with an attack on the inhuman practices within the Japanese Army and ends with a bitter denunciation of Stalinism by the would-be-socialist hero, Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai), a Japanese soldier who has confronted the horrid face of war and found it unyielding.
		Every effort of the hero of the story to maintain his humanity amidst the total degradation imposed by the Japanese upon the Chinese during the occupation of Manchuria and the later War meets with abject failure.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000ILES?v=glance (1447 words)

	DVD Verdict: Masaki Kobayashi (1916-1996)
		The next two films in the trilogy, Road to Eternity (1959) and A Soldier's Prayer (1961), follow Kaji on his harrowing odyssey through military training (Kubrick borrows elements from this for the first half of Full Metal Jacket), a brutal Russian prison camp, and finally, his lonely death wandering the icy wastes of Manchuria.
		His 1983 film, The Tokyo Trials, is a documentary which chronicles the war crimes trials against Japanese officers following World War II (bringing him full circle back to the territory covered in The Human Condition).
		In his films, Masaki Kobayashi explores the boundaries of storytelling, and the consequences facing those who expose the truth.
	www.dvdverdict.com /columns/deepfocus/kobayashi.php (1653 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Features - Into the Light (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		He deals with psychoanalytic theory (Freud’s repetition compulsion), the mechanics of photography, musical and literary compositions, the screenplay of a James Bond film, the invention of LSD and in his filmic trilogy, characters such as the shipwrecked pirate, the Edwardian dandy and the lonesome cowboy.
		The film consists of an elaborately timed sequence wherein the clock strikes 12 as the dandy, complete with one ominously pointed shoe, kicks the bumpkin in the derriere of his well-padded trousers.
		But he seems to hide within the films, despite the accompanying wall text, which states, "These works are conceived more as Hollywood style star vehicles and less as auteur films." Even though Graham’s films have the trappings of typical Hollywood genres, they are experimental in form, and comment very directly on the human condition.
	deathstar.artnet.com /Magazine/features/carson/carson7-28-04.asp (1891 words)

	Washington Times interview with Ron Maxwell
		Although Shakespeare was very cognizant of entertaining his audience of the time, he was still dealing with the human condition in ways that resonate across the centuries.
		I am interested in presenting them in their full humanity, and part of Jackson's full humanity is that he was a tough, severe character.
		We have a scene earlier in the film when he is arguing with Jeb Stuart that the Confederacy does not understand that they're up against superior men, superior power, superior industry, and the only way they are going to win is by the policy of the fl flag.
	www.ronmaxwell.com /timesinterview.html (2725 words)

	DVDAnswers.com - DVD Reviews - Day of the Dead (Region 1)
		Again, this film is nothing more than the natural, logical conclusion of Romero’s three part study of the human condition.
		While this film is much more “talky” than the others, it is up to the audience to really listen to what these characters are saying.
		However, taken as a capper to a fantastic trilogy, this film can hardly be faulted for trying to point out that it will be ourselves that destroy humanity and it will all happen on “the darkest day of horror the world has ever known”.
	www.dvdanswers.com /index.php?r=0&s=2&c=820 (1664 words)

	Film Fest Journal: The CinemaScope Trilogy, 1998-2002
		Assembled from excerpts of found film from Sidney J. Furie's, The Entity (1988), Tscherkassky transforms the introductory images of a deserted, seemingly alien landscape into a startling, profoundly fractured (or as the filmmaker suggests in the end credits of L'Arrivée, "manufractured"), and increasingly haunted portrait of human desolation and descent into madness.
		From this fleeting, introductory image of mundane ritual, the film then departs into unexpected and amorphous trajectories of dream state as residual imprints of memories and human interaction fragment, dislocate, replicate, and free associate within the subconscious - while simultaneously infused, reinterpreted, or transformed under the influence of fear, individual will, and desire.
		Indeed, there is an inherent texturality and voluptuous to the film in the repeated sensorial cues of ticking clocks, personal grooming, massaging of limbs, and breathlessness and involuntary spasms of sexual arousal that are cinematically echoed in the sequence looping and frame stuttering of the physical film itself.
	filmref.com /journal/archives/2005/03/the_cinemascope_trilogy_199820.html (929 words)

	: : REGINA GLEESON : : Synapse To Circuit : : review irish young-bloods : :
		Langan’s trilogy uses these natural phenomena in a way that can be construed as commenting on the forces of nature lashing out at humanity’s abuse of the planet but there is more than a moral tale in place here.
		If this trilogy is about desolation and alienation, then perhaps the most devastating element is the fact that we are not offered the release afforded by a finite end.
		The tone and potential implication in the trilogy is on the same wavelength as much of Keifer’s oeuvre where the work explores the aftermath of destruction, be that manmade or natural.
	homepage.eircom.net /~rgleeson/think/review_langan.html (1023 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Through a Glass Darkly
		Yet, to a previous generation, Bergman was the real deal——a stringently ascetic artist who didn’t just use the film medium as an instrument of personal catharsis, but seemed to suffer Christ-like on the viewer’s behalf.
		The first part of a trilogy completed by Winter Light (1962) and The Silence (1963), Through a Glass Darkly offers novices the advantage of being among the director’s most representative works.
		Yet, only believe, and you have the whole human civilized condition in a tightly impacted nutshell.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=209&eid=322§ion=essay&page=2 (340 words)

	Books \| Cascade Festival of African Films \| Portland OR
		This is both a moving story of a girl's coming of age and a compelling narrative of the human loss involved in the colonization of one culture by another.
		This novel is a masterpiece of human compassion, reflecting the material, moral, and spiritual problems of an Egyptian petit bourgeois family confronted with poverty during the Second World War.
		Both an autobiographical novel and a social commentary on a childhood in the crowded back streets of a ghetto area in Pretoria, South Africa, this work is a brilliant contribution to the new genre of the autobiography as a vehicle of protest.
	www.africanfilmfestival.org /resources/books (2370 words)

	Ganashatru (Enemy of the People): A film by Satyajit Ray :: SatyajitRay.org
		The film is an adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People.It is set in a small town in Bengal.
		Due to his medical condition after a heart-attack during making of Ghare-Baire, Satyajit Ray was told by the doctors not to do any location work.
		Ironically, when he began making films, Ray himself had said that he wanted to remove "the last trace of theatricality" from his work.
	www.satyajitray.org /films/ganasha.htm (480 words)

	Wings of Desire (1987) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Wenders calls his films from the 1970s ‘road movies’ but they are less road movies in the traditional cinematic sense - a picaresque series of adventures and oddball encounters - than they are films absorbed by the sense of existential discovery that the road movie embodies.
		One of the single loveliest shots in the entire film is the one which pans through a library where we subtly become aware that all around the angels are sitting in amongst the ordinary patrons unobtrusively observing.
		The film was later remade as a glossy Hollywood romance City of Angels (1998).
	www.moria.co.nz /fantasy/wingsofdesire.htm (660 words)

	Ningen no joken I (1959) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Kaji, the young man, seeks to humanize the brutal conditions at a mining operation in Manchuria.
		Even late in the film, when he takes a very brave stand against some executions, his effort is a bit late and his stand is successful only when the Chinese prisoners take up the protest.
		A valuable film because it explores areas of the pacific war that are not well know in the west.
	us.imdb.com /title/tt0053114 (480 words)

	SparkNotes: The Matrix Trilogy: Visual Style
		Over the course of the trilogy, fights take place in subway stations, in grand halls, on speeding eighteen-wheelers, in empty warehouses, in spaceships, in the ravaged real world, and even in the sky above the city as Neo and Agent Smith take to flying.
		Although the Matrix films reference a dizzying variety of philosophies and religions, the genre conventions of science fiction and action films tend to meld large questions about the human condition with the pure entertainment of fantastic spectacles.
		The “bullet time” effect, for which the Matrix films are famous, gives the audience the vicarious visual thrill of omniscience, of being able to stop time and see an event from several points of view at once.
	www.sparknotes.com /film/matrix/section4.rhtml (545 words)

	The Institute for Regional Education
		As the general focus of the QATSI Trilogy is the technological milieu, it is the purpose of this site to foster a web-dialogue on this little understood, yet ubiquitous subject – the nature of technology.
		Infinite capacity, virtual immortality, super human cognition – attributes that have until now been reserved for the divine are indicated for technology.
		As the human race accelerates into the twenty-first century, we enter a virtual, digital environment, a world where far and near, past, present and future are simultaneous realities.
	www.koyaanisqatsi.org /aboutus/aboutus.php (912 words)

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