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	The Lower Depths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was written during the winter of 1901 and the spring of 1902.
		The presentation of the lower classes was viewed as overly dark and unredemptive, and Gorky was clearly more interested in creating memorable characters than in advancing a formal plot.
		Japanese director Akira Kurosawa adapted The Lower Depths into a film of the same name, starring Toshiro Mifune, in which the characters have been moved to Edo-period Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Lower_Depths (300 words)

	The Lower Depths
		"The Lower Depths" is an intricate story of poverty and those who fall into the deepest of socioeconomic despair based on the writer Maxim Gorky's eponymous play.
		Renoir's adaptation of "The Lower Depths" was thoroughly appreciated by Gorky as Renoir concentrated on how people shift social class either up or down.
		Kurosawa's "The Lower Depths" never leaves the pit in which the poorhouse exists, as it instills an enhanced feeling of hopelessness.
	www.mediascreen.com /l/lowerdepths.htm (662 words)

	The Lower Depths
		First performed in 1902 at the Moscow Art Theatre, this play scandalized the public by daring to speak for the dregs of society; its characters are the hungry, the poor, the sick, everybody who is on the skids: the thieves, the alcoholics, the prostitutes, the gamblers.
		The setting is the literal lower depths, some dreadful, filthy, airless cellar where the characters pay to sleep in various bunks and beds.
		The landlord is a mean-spirited, prissy older man (Robert Christophe), with a young, mean-spirited wife (Lisa Connaughton) who is in love with one of the cellar-dwellers, Vaska (Jason Kolotouros), who is in love with her sister (Jamie L. Hurley), who gets beaten by her desperate sister who wants to escape her hideous marriage.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/042596/article024.shtml (538 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: The Lower Depths (1957) (Criterion Collection) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Lower Depths is an intricate story of poverty and those who fall into the deepest of socioeconomic despair based on the writer Maxim Gorky's play with the same name.
		This focus is enhanced by the cast with the exception of Junie Astor whose face remains as motionless as a dusty bust when she is in focus of the camera.
		Kurosawa's Lower Depths never leaves the pit in which the poorhouse exists as it instills an enhanced feeling of hopelessness, which lends support to the empathy that the audience builds for the desperation that the characters must feel.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000A02TW (1336 words)

	DVD: The Lower Depths (Criterion)
		Criterion's, heavily delayed, release of Akira Kurosawa's The Lower Depths (1957) is a change of pace from the company's usual releases.
		The commentary is pretty informative, and the depth at which he dissects the film is intriguing; unfortunately, his voice is a little monotone, which makes the commentary sound a little dry.
		For Kurosawa's The Lower Depths, there is a eight page essay by Keiko McDonald and Thomas Rimer, which covers the influence of theater on Kurosawa's work and his appreciation of it.
	www.tohokingdom.com /web_pages/dvd/lower_depths_criterion.htm (1156 words)

	Cherry depths of the Lower Orchard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In The Lower Depths, the middle class is found in the character of Kostiloff, the lodging-house keeper.
		The only male in The Lower Depths who appears to treat the women with respect (excepting Wassilissa, who isn’t a very likeable chracter whatsoever) is the pilgrim, Luka.
		Gorky also gives readers of The Lower Depths a taste of the cultural diversity found in Russia’s cities of the time, via the character of the Tartar, who despite being from a different culture and religion than the other inhabitants of the basement, still manages to live with them in relative harmony.
	homepages.ius.edu /rvest/Cherrydepths.htm (939 words)

	The Lower Depths -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Lower Depths -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Lower Depths is perhaps (additional info and facts about Maxim Gorky) Maxim Gorky's best-known play.
		It became his first major success, and a hallmark of Russian (additional info and facts about Socialist realism) Socialist realism.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_lower_depths.htm (228 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Lower Depths, The
		Jean Renoir’s The Lower Depths is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
		The Dolby Digital 1.0 signal will be directed to the center channel on 5.1-channel sound systems, but some viewers may prefer to switch to two-channel playback for a wider dispersal of the mono sound.
		Akira Kurosawa’s The Lower Depths is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=239 (374 words)

	The Lower Depths: Two Films By Akira Kurosawa / Jean Renoir Movie: The Lower Depths: Two Films By Akira Kurosawa / Jean ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Lower Depths: Two Films By Akira Kurosawa / Jean Renoir Movie: The Lower Depths: Two Films By Akira Kurosawa / Jean Renoir DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		This release finds two of world cinema's most influential directors trying their hands at cinematic adaptions of the same Maxim Gorky play, THE LOWER DEPTHS.
		Akira Kurosawa's 1957 version is set during Japan's burgeoning Edo period and stars Toshiru Mifune and Isuzu Yamada, while Jean Renoir's 1936 version was filmed during Hitler's rise to prominence in Germany and stars Jean Gabin and Louis Jouvet.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/037429181324IE (175 words)

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		He had thrown off his earlier romanticism and wrote realistically although optimistically of the harshness of the life of the lower classes in Russia.
		He was the first Russian author to write knowledgeably and sympathetically about workers and such people as tramps and thieves, emphasizing their courageous fight against overwhelming odds.
		His best-known play is The Lower Depths (1902; trans.
	sangha.net /messengers/gorky.htm (475 words)

	French Culture \| Cinema \| Jean Renoir: Lower Depths (Les bas fonds) (1936) / Criterion DVD June 22, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Criterion's two-disc double bill of The Lower Depths (Renoir's 1936 version combined with Akira Kurosawa's 1957 version) provides a scintillating lesson in comparative cinema.
		When Jean Renoir adapted Maxim Gorky's acclaimed 1902 play in 1936, he changed the setting from Czarist Russia to a French slum, casting the great Jean Gabin as a thief struggling to rise from his misery, and Louis Jouvet as the benevolent Baron, a flat-broke gambler on a downward social spiral.
		Two decades later, Kurosawa remained faithful to Gorky while daring to craft The Lower Depths as a comedy, in which Edo period peasants (including Toshiro Mifune, in Gabin's role) concoct lavish illusions to ease the burden of their impoverished reality.
	www.frenchculture.org /cinema/releases/renoir/lowerdepths.html (276 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : The Lower Depths : Main
		Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa transferred the setting of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths from Imperial Russia to his own country's Edo Period--which, like Gorky's...
		Lower Depths: Akira Kurosawa's The Lower Depths/Jean Renoir's The Lower Depths
		Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa transferred the setting of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths from Imperial Russia to his own country's Edo Period--which, like Gorky's 19th-century setting, was an era of great cultural advances, offset by the miseries of those who weren't in the aristocracy.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/21399/moviemain.jhtml (142 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Demiurge
		This led to the wildest orgies of Antinomian Gnosticism.
		According to Valentinus the Demiurge was the offspring of a union of Achamoth (he káta sophía or lower wisdom) with matter.
		The Demiurge, fearing lest Jesus, whom he had intended as his Messias, should spread the knowledge of the Supreme God, had him crucified by the Jews.
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	LANDS END The Lower Depths reviews and MP3
		The Lower Depths was recorded from various parts of the globe.
		A kitchen sink tune, which allows each member the space to explore his craft in depth, or should I say Lower Depth, in an open format.
		When certain musicians were not available to do their parts friends were brought in to fill the gaps, and this has only added to the depth and texture of the music.
	www.progarchives.com /Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=6648 (2571 words)

	Bas-fonds, Les (1936) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Jean Renoir's The Lower Depths is centered around a contrast in personalities.
		The storytelling is sometimes casual and organic as in Renoir's masterpieces Grand Illusion and Rules of the Game, but there are other times when the plot-mechanics show through.
		Renoir normally smooths over these rough-spots, but in The Lower Depths he seems to have left them in, perhaps intentionally - perhaps meaning to give the film a certain conventional sense of climax.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0027336 (729 words)

	Donzoko (The Lower Depths)
		But while it is a very theatrical film, The Lower Depths is also very much a Kurosawa film in its dynamic use of cinematography and editing.
		In the case of the later film, the painterly use of colour and heavy doses of sentiment sugar-coat the message; in the case of The Lower Depths, squalor, poverty and disease are not aestheticised, but grimly and brutally portrayed.
		At the same time, life in the lower depths is shown as not so grim, so long as its residents can drink, joke, sing and dance.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/04/donzoko.html (999 words)

	Tower Records - The Lower Depths (Sub) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Between the dingy walls of their dilapidated flophouse, a motley group of down-and-out characters measure their hopes and dreams against the desperation of their shared situation.
		Director Akira Kurosawa's adaptations of Shakespeare's MACBETH (THRONE OF BLOOD), and Maxim Gorky's THE LOWER DEPTHS were both released in Japan in 1957.
		Toshirô Mifune and Isuzu Yamada respectively play the Macbeth and Lady Macbeth characters in the former and the roles of Sutekichi and Osugi in the latter.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=2897829 (567 words)

	Kelp Introduction, Kelp Forest Characteristics, Threats, Giant Kelp, Bull Kelp, Kelp Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Water clarity is a key factor determining the depth of water a kelp forest can thrive in, as sufficient light must reach the depth where kelp are anchored to the sea floor and first start to grow.
		Although it begins life as a microscopic spore at the ocean floor, this species may grow to lengths of 60 m (200 ft) with its upper fronds forming a dense canopy at the surface.
		Giant kelp prefers depths less than 40 m (120 ft), temperatures less than 20ø C (72ø F), hard substrate such as rocky bottoms, and bottom light intensities above 1% that of the surface.
	www.lookkelp.com (3241 words)

	Turner Classic Movies - Movie News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In a move destined to confound video collectors who like to arrange their foreign film collections by country of origin, Criterion presents a double bill of two great directors from France and Japan tackling the Russian play by Maxim Gorky (which was also filmed at least three times within his own homeland as well).
		A typical dramatic piece of its period and an influence on future playwrights like Eugene O'Neill, the tragicomic story depicts a group of lower class denizens squabbling, playing games, and fighting for each other's affections while the world outside passes them by.
		The thick packaging features a hefty booklet with two sets of liner notes, one by Alexander Sesonske devoted to the Renoir film and the second by Keiko McDonald and Thomas Rimer for Kurosawa's.
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /MovieNews/Index/0,,77688,00.html (566 words)

	Magill's Survey of Cinema: THE LOWER DEPTHS; LES BAS-FONDS; THE UNDERWORLD@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Abstract: THE LOWER DEPTHS is a minor but affecting work by French director Jean Renoir.
		An adaptation of the 1902 Russian play by Maxim Gorky about the lowly inhabitants of a cheap rooming house, the film is marred by excessive theatricality, but it is strong in its camerawork and its depiction of the friendship between a fallen baron (Louis Jouvet) and a proud thief, Pepel (Jean Gabin).
		Summary: Producer Alexandre Kamenka suggested that Jean Renoir make THE LOWER DEPTHS, from the 1902 play by Russian author Maxim Gorky...
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:42602797&refid=ip_almanac_hf (212 words)

	The Lower Depths
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	www.thelowerdepths.blogspot.com (5444 words)

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		This period was confirmed by the Voyager observations, which recorded a large number of interactions between the Great Red Spot and much smaller disturbances moving in the current at the same latitude (Figure 43).
		The Voyager pictures showed the interior of the spot to be remarkably tranquil, with no clear evidence for the expected upwelling (or divergence) of material from lower depths.
		The Great Red Spot, therefore, appears to be a huge anticyclone, a vortex, or eddy, whose lateral dimensions are greater that the Earth’s diameter.
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	Underground - The Lower Depths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Underground - The Lower Depths to receive a rating.
		Describing the subject of Maxim Gorky's classic play as "the poetry of the loss of dignity," Jean Renoir was commenting on a widespread phenomenon in the 1930s.
		THE LOWER DEPTHS stars Louis Jouvet as the Baron, an aristocrat who has just been cashiered from his official post for embezzling.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/underground_the_lower_depths (347 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Lower Depths, The: 2 Disc Special Edition / DVD-Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		DVD Empire - Item - Lower Depths, The: 2 Disc Special Edition / DVD-Video
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		A 33-minute documentary on The Lower Depths from the series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, including interviews with Kurosawa, actress Kyoko Kagawa, art director Yoshiro Muraki, and others
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=536896&partner_id=10007512 (197 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Lower Depths (1936) & The Lower Depths (1957)
		DVD Savant Review: The Lower Depths (1936) & The Lower Depths (1957)
		Akira Kurosawa is no stranger to stage adaptations and his intense version of The Lower Depths is faithful to the restrictions of the play.
		In this Japanese re-thinking we never leave the flophouse, which has become some shacks at the bottom of a literal pit.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1262low.html (1420 words)

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