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	The Films of Josef von Sternberg
		It shares the word "Last" in its title with Murnau's film, and the plot of a man whose self esteem comes from wearing a fancy uniform, and being broken in spirit when he is forced to give it up.
		Such works are the models for the later films of Mizoguchi Kenji and Max Ophuls, and the fountainheads of their style.
		His men in earlier films are often in officer's uniforms, clothes that suggest the last degree of refinement.
	hometown.aol.com /mg4273/sternb.htm (4412 words)

	s h o t g u n r e v i e w s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the film "The Last Castle" Lt. General Eugene Irwin (Robert Redford), is one such man. He is a gifted tactician and on of the nations greatest military leaders.
		Aside from a brief visit early in the film and a letter whose content is unknown, we learn little as to why they have such tension in their relationship other than the fact that his career kept him away, and we learn nothing of her mother.
		While the pacing of the film and some plot points could have used some strengthening, the film is an interesting character drama and an entertaining film, that if given some depth, could have been a classic in the lines of Redford's early works such as "Brubaker".
	www.shotgunreviews.com /reviews/lastcastle.html (1256 words)

	Safer World
		In the film, there were some security measures in place, but they were defeated because the terrorists were successful in recruiting insiders with knowledge of security procedures to help them steal enough material to make a nuclear bomb.
		Moreover, there are greater risks today than during the Cold War of a breakdown in Russian command and control over nuclear forces, or the deliberate seizure of nuclear arms by rogue elements, increasing the risks of an unauthorized nuclear launch.
		Some of nuclear material shown in the film is housed at civilian research facilities; it is used for scientific research and can have peaceful applications, such as for making nuclear medicines.
	www.lastbestchance.org /discussionguide.html (1891 words)

	Harvard Film Archive: Turkish Documentaries
		This film tells the story of the women who carry the weight of a life of seasonal migration on their shoulders, in constant battle against a hostile natural environment.
		The adopted daughter of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Gökçen was born in 1914.
		The film documents the strong influence of German and Jewish academicians and artists in the development of modern Turkey through the stories of two children of German exiles.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/05_fall/turkish.html (738 words)

	TED Blog: Film
		Encounter Point, an incredible documentary that follows a former Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother who risk their lives and public standing to promote a nonviolent end to the conflict, is opening in select cities in the US and the Middle East tomorrow.
		The film tends to wear its message on its sleeve, but a cast of colorful characters (including one of the more adorable on-screen romances of all time) plus unspoken parallels between the short-lived EV-era and the demise of the LA Red Car keep it moving.
		The deliciously campy (and sweetly sincere) fan film was wildly impressive at times -- both in its faithful execution of sets, stunts and special effects (all funded with teenage allowances) and its clever substitutions (a motorboat for a seaplane; a well-trained puppy for a monkey).
	tedblog.typepad.com /tedblog/film/index.html (4358 words)

	Film Reviews of "Last Just Man", "Justifiable Homicide", and "Georgie Girl,", 1/03
		Silver’s film -- a masterful, real-life political thriller -- skillfully portrays Dallaire’s despairing paralysis over the subsequent months, as he faces the brewing horror that leads inexorably to tragedy.
		At once suspenseful and informative, "The Last Just Man" is not to be missed, a haunting, vital film about one of the most significant historical events of its time.
		Osman’s film simultaneously evokes both the anguish of knowing that the government is capable of utter wrongdoing and the hope of knowing that citizens will always find ways to resist and expose injustice.
	www.newenglandfilm.com /news/archives/03january/reviews.htm (900 words)

	The Last Command (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Overstraining himself he dies, his last words inquiring if they'd won the battle.
		There's also a 1955 movie dealing with the Alamo called The Last Command starring Sterling Hayden.
		This page was last modified 03:27, 10 December 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Last_Command_(film) (392 words)

	Filmtracks: The Last Castle (Jerry Goldsmith)
		The Last Castle: (Jerry Goldsmith) Perhaps forgotten in the legendary composer's recent string of ethnically powerful action and solemn mystery scores is the fact that Jerry Goldsmith is very capable of assembling a rousing, patriotic score for brass.
		For The Last Castle, a story about a revered, but court-martialed U.S. general who leads an insurrection against the harsh policies of a mere Colonel in charge of the prison, Goldsmith returns to the kind of emotional grass that is closest in relation to the complexly vengeful Rambo scores.
		For a film that was advertised as having a substantial amount of action, The Last Castle is an introspective score, exploring the patriotism within.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/last_castle.html (852 words)

	Latino Review
		Images of Western influence is seen throughout the film from soldiers mocking the samurai wardrobe to telegraph lines strung across the tops of wooden houses in the shadow of Japan's Mt. Fiji.
		One aspect of the code exploited in popular film was the suicidal act known as "seppuku", the slitting of one's belly, where the soul is believed to exist.
		In the film Algren witnesses Katsumoto performing "kaishaku", assisted suicide by beheading, with a former samurai comrade and General of the opposing Japanese army.
	www.latinoreview.com /films_2003/wb/lastsamurai/review-2.html (1506 words)

	WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Film
		Last week, The Animation Show, the love child festival of Don Hertzfeldt and Mike Judge, posted a list of the Top 10 Animated Shorts on You Tube, all of which are worth a watch.
		The process of making the film is almost as exciting as watching it, film images were printed on paper and origamied all to hell, then animated in hand-made style and fed into the computer to be layered.
		Last night I went to a party where Flipper played, which seems pretty hotsy-totsy to me, but it turns out no one under 40 even knows who Flipper is. I discovered this a couple of years ago, when I was out at WFMU during Pseu Braun’s Marathon show.
	blog.wfmu.org /freeform/film (8393 words)

	Independent Film Guide: Why We Fight - Moviefone
		Debuting at last year's Sundance Film Festival, where it won the documentary competition's Grand Jury Prize, the film then took a buzz-generating tour of the 2005 fest circuit.
		We are past the point of no return on a lot of ways that the world is run, and it is increasingly run by a smaller and smaller handful of figures and elite corporations who are making those decisions about when it's necessary to use force without democrat consensus and without a democratic process.
		The film is quite dominated by Republicans, so there's been some concern that it will be seen as some center-Republican film.
	movies.aol.com /franchise/indiefilmguide/spotlight/why_we_fight_movie (1347 words)

	Political Film Society - Downfall
		A touching interview with Junge from an earlier documentary film ends the film, and Alexandra Maria Lara, the actress playing her part in the film, provides a voiceover prologue, which points out that she naïvely agreed to be Hitler's secretary from early 1942 to April 30, 1945, when Hitler (played by Bruno Ganz) committed suicide.
		The film provides many events that are familiar to historians and some grisly details that filmviewers may not want to know about.
		The mysteries will never go away, even though the film ends by revealing what happened later to the main characters in the film (who were mostly incarcerated by the Russians, later released, and are now dead).
	www.geocities.com /polfilms/downfall.html (599 words)

	The Caine Mutiny (1954)
		The film follows in the long tradition of naval mutiny and court-martial films, such as Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), The Sea Wolf (1941), Treasure Island (1950), and Billy Budd (1962).
		The film with the tagline: "Big As The Ocean," was based upon Herman Wouk's best-selling, and 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, from a screenplay by Stanley Roberts.
		The truths of this film lie not in its incidents but in the way a few men meet the crisis of their lives.
	www.filmsite.org /cain.html (1450 words)

	The Last Command - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the film of the same name, see The Last Command (film), or for the W.A.S.P. album with the same name, see The Last Command (album).
		The Last Command is the third and final book in the popular Thrawn Trilogy by author, Timothy Zahn.
		The Battle of Bilbringi is the highlight of The Last Command and the last battle of the Thrawn Campaign in the Galactic Civil War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Last_Command (576 words)

	Greatest Film Scenes Tribute - Silents (1)
		Without a moment to lose, in an exciting, tense, "last minute rescue scene," he dashes out onto the wobbly icecakes and nimbly jumps from one moving, bobbing ice block to another to try to reach her before the ice jam gives way - rushing to the falls toward her death.
		This film earned Harold Lloyd, the bookish, horn-rimmed glasses-wearing comedian, his nickname "the King of Daredevil Comedy." The film is best remembered for its thrilling, hair-raising climax - a reckless, 'safety last,' humorous stunt on the side of a twelve-story skyscraper above busy city streets.
		The scene of the parting of the American troops from a French village in King Vidor's war film is one of the most famous and memorable in cinematic history.
	www.filmsite.org /scenesA.html (1833 words)

	Wing Commander movie review, In Film Australia
		All of the games were based around the space combat, flying around in a multitude of fighters hewing up the bad guys, yet once that mission had finished, your character was free to roam through your base, talking to people and continuing the plot in cinematic sequences.
		Blair and his friend Todd ‘Maniac’ Marshall are transferred to the TCS Tiger’s Claw straight from the Academy, under the command of one Colonel Deveraux (Saffron Burrow’s first film before Deep Blue Sea).
		Every set in 'Wing Commander' - whether it be the ships, the barracks, the hangar or the shuttle- shows age, wear and use.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/wcommander.htm (818 words)

	Film to Digital Video in Cinema Tools: An Alternative Workflow
		There was a different film clip transferred as 8-bit uncompressed 4:2:2 NTSC with the 3:2 pulldown, so it ran at 29.97, and the same clip transferred again with the same codec but transferred at 30 frames per second with no pulldown.
		16mm or 35mm film is often transferred at 30 fps for broadcast, but this has the unfortunate side effect of speeding up the action by about 25%, and changing the pitch of the sound.
		Some labs may offer 24 fps progressive transfer of your film at NTSC resolutions, in which case this process is unnecessary (unless of course you want to conform your 24 fps clips to 23.98).
	www.kenstone.net /fcp_homepage/film_digital_video_cinema_tools.html (1690 words)

	Special Film Effects from DV
		Okay, here it is. While Shawn's film look was the best that I have seen (including the expensive L.A. version), there were still some subtleties of film that I hoped to imitate, in conjunction with the newly found film look.
		Unlike a video camera, which records the first frame of a shot at the same speed as every other frame, the film camera actually accelerates to the speed that it is set up to shoot, and decelerates to a stop.
		Not unlike a roll of film that you use in your 35 mm still camera, the edge of the film has perforations that run the entire length of the strip.
	www.kenstone.net /fcp_homepage/special_film_effects_dv.html (3536 words)

	Latino Review
		“The Last Samurai” is an epic adventure that will leave you breathless one moment, cheering the next, and admiring the enduring effect a powerful narrative with brilliant performances can have on the senses.
		This film is different in that it took me almost a year to physically be able to make this picture.
		And I have made very diverse films, from ‘Born on the 4th of July,’ to ‘Interview with The Vampire,’ because as an audience I enjoy different types of movies.
	www.latinoreview.com /films_2003/wb/lastsamurai/tom-interview.html (2727 words)

	Political Film Society - Uprising
		Originally a November 2001 television miniseries, the film was released theatrically in Beverly Hills for a week during December 2001.
		Sprinkled liberally with titles to demarcate the major events of the occupation, we see the senseless brutality of the German soldiers in trying to subdue some 500,000 Jews in the Ghetto.
		Much of the last minutes of the film focuses on how the German army tries to hunt down the last remaining resistance fighters, who continue to be more clever.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/uprising.html (417 words)

	DVD Review: The Last Castle
		Neither really showed a strong visual style, but Lurie's films have certainly showed improvement technically and "Last Castle", with its terrific widescreen compositions, is the best looking of the three.
		Yet, it's unfortunate that, while the film boasts a superb cast, the material never really becomes particularly believable and, as the first hour comes to a close, the movie isn't getting to the point fast enough.
		Overall, "The Last Castle" is a mixed effort; good performances and solid technical credits are seen, but the story is difficult to believe at times and the characters aren't that well developed.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/lastcastledvd.html (974 words)

	The Last Samurai (2003): Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Tony Goldwyn - PopMatters Film Review
		The film cuts to Tom Cruise, and now you know: this is no splendid saga of a people or a culture.
		This last memory -- which trauma recurs in various slow motion images, and leads Nathan to describe the General as "a murderer who fell in love with his own legend" -- grants Nathan a semblance of self-righteousness, underscored when you meet his former commanding officer, the aptly named Colonel Bagley (typecast Tony Goldwyn).
		But The Last Samurai's veneration of old-school principles is just as surely undercut by its lack of nerve, namely, its use of Nathan as that most familiar icon, the grandly galloping hero, hair flying.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/l/last-samurai.shtml (1165 words)

	Gerald Peary - essays - New York Times - Film Critics
		I carped last fall about the unnecessarily offbeat choices by the New York Times for two film critic slots: A.C. Scott, a book editor at Newsday, and Elvis Mitchell, a Ft. Worth, Texas-based journalist, replacing the retired Janet Maslin.
		The Times strategy seems to be to keep high-brow, long-time readers appeased by Scott's intellectual command, his virtuoso vocabulary, his pedantic approach to criticism.
		Last winter, if you'd turn enough arts pages on a busy Friday, you'd finally come to a Kehr review.
	www.geraldpeary.com /essays/mno/nytimes-film-critics.html (277 words)

	LinuxDevCenter.com -- Why Use a Command Line Instead of Windows? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The command line runs two programs connected by a pipe (which is a lot like a water pipe: it lets data flow between programs).
		The command line gives you the glue to put these programs together in an almost infinite number of ways.
		Once you've learned the basic operations on a command line, as well as some basic utility programs, you'll have power that window system users can't dream of having (unless those users also happen to be programmers).
	www.linuxdevcenter.com /pub/a/linux/2001/11/15/learnunixos.html (1337 words)

	Orlando Weekly - Film Review - The Last Castle
		A mini-controversy has erupted over the publicity campaign for "The Last Castle," a middling prison drama that pits a prisoner played by aging superstar Robert Redford against a warden portrayed by "Sopranos" boss James Gandolfini.
		An upside-down American flag, flown as a symbol of distress in the film, was initially front and center in the movie's poster.
		Director Rod Lurie (the mastermind of last year's overwrought political fable "The Contender") can only hope that the flap distracts from the predictability and mediocrity of the film itself.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /film/review.asp?rid=4623 (538 words)

	The Big Picture
		Films were screened that tore the roof off the place.
		Govindini and Jason pushed this thing through from a starting point of zero over the past few months, and their timing was impeccable, as shown by the excellence of the films that were shown on opening night.
		Bannon stated that the film has already opened in movie theaters in the Dallas area, and its per-screen average was the third-highest in the nation last weekend.
	www.bigpicweblog.com /exp/index.php/weblog/the_liberty_film_festival (937 words)

	THE LAST UNICORN - DVD
		Its archetypal quest story--coloured by a psychedelic flash of freakism--the only thing recommending it, the film follows the exploits of the titular beastie (voiced by Mia Farrow) as she leaves her enchanted forest to find out what's happened to the rest of her kind.
		Farrow and Bridges are singularly ill-suited to voice work (not so Lansbury, as exhibited by her work in Beauty and the Beast), while some fun is had in the surprise to find that the character design of Haggard was an obvious inspiration for "The Simpsons"' Mr.
		Artisan DVD does their standard hackjob on The Last Unicorn, bringing this revered title to the format in a grainy and washed-out fullscreen presentation with a 2.0 stereo audio track that is as tinny as it is hollow.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/lastunicorn.htm (553 words)

	London Film Festival - Films - The Last King of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hugely flattered at first, the doctor does not really want to see what is going on around him, and by the time he is forced to face up to the savage atrocities of Amin's command, he is already in over his head.
		Boldly and successfully the film sets a tone of dry comedy early on, which gradually diminishes as the horrors are revealed.
		Balancing psychological insight and historical facts, The Last King of Scotland is vibrant, intelligent and original filmmaking from this talented young director, and a fitting Opening Night for our 50th edition.
	www.lff.org.uk /films_details.php?FilmID=1075 (496 words)

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