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	The GATE's Review of 'THE MERCHANT OF VENICE' @ The 2004 Toronto International Film Festival
		The story in a nutshell is about a Christian merchant in Venice who borrows a large sum of money from a Jewish moneylender so that he might give the money to a young friend so that he might use the money to woo a rich woman that he is smitten with.
		The merchant falls on hard luck while his young friend is actually finding success in winning the object of his affection.
		The film is visually lush and authentic looking and the scenes are composed in a straightforward manner so as not to clutter the complexity of the story with over stylization.
	www.thegate.ca /tiff/2004/merchant-venice.htm (454 words)

	Venice information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venexia) 45°26′N 12°19′E, the "city of canals", is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice in Italy.
		It was realised that extraction of the aquifer was the cause.
		Venice was the early center of music printing; Ottaviano Petrucci began publishing music almost as soon as this technology was available, and his publishing enterprise helped to attract composers from all over Europe, especially from France and Flanders.
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	OFFOFFOFF film review THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice) movie by Michael Radford ...
		William Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" is about a Jewish moneylender and his bond to extract a pound of flesh from the wealthy merchant Antonio, the forfeiter of a debt.
		The film is set in 16th century Venice and director Michael Radford relies on setting, mood, and realism to tell its story, rejecting lavish period costumes or a modern setting with a rock score to appeal to a wider audience.
		Merchant has been one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays and analysts have debated for a long time whether it is an anti-Semitic play or simply a play that reflects the prevalent view of Christian society in Elizabethan England about the Jews.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2005/merchantofvenice.php (976 words)

	Merchant of Venice, The (2004): Reviews
		This Merchant of Venice comes roaring to life--when it stops, in effect, apologizing for its terrible anti-Semitic worldview and just gives itself over to some of the most furious courtroom drama ever written.
		William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice may help in bringing some of the Bard's language to life, but this rendition is hardly a freshman course.
		If you can watch Radford's Merchant of Venice from that standpoint, perhaps it's possible to appreciate it for what it is: a remarkably handsome presentation of a clever, engrossing courtroom drama.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/merchantofvenice (1447 words)

	USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
		In the interest of political correctness, the film opens with a written prologue which informs us that "intolerance of the Jews was a fact of 16th-century life," and describes how they were forced to live in the ghetto and practice usury.
		Actually, the film has a good payoff of this interpretation near the end, where Portia, who seems to intuit the unusually strong ties between her husband and the merchant, exacts an assurance of his love and commitment to her.
		The location shooting in Venice makes for ideal authenticity, it goes without saying, though the brief shots of topless prostitutes standing on a bridge amid the teeming crowds, is rather gratuitous, however authentic it might be.
	www.usccb.org /movies/w/shakespearethemerchantofvenice04.shtml (1033 words)

	Hawaii and the Pacific in Film (Hereniko, 2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although film and video play an important part in our lives, rarely are we given the opportunity to critically evaluate what we see, or to learn how to interpret what we see.
		Students will meet once a week throughout the semester to discuss the film(s) assigned for the week (except for 23 September and 4 November) and to view a film or clips of several films.
		Students should view the films as often as possible after the initial screening and should purchase a copy of the film if it’s available.
	www.hawaii.edu /cpis/psi/film/Pacs492Fall2d.htm (947 words)

	The Venice and Toronto Film Festivals
		Al Pacino launched his big screen version of 'The Merchant of Venice' today and called for more of Shakespeare's plays to be given the movie treatment.
		Film Review: "The Merchant of Venice" By Ray Bennett for Reuters/Hollywood Reporter, Pubished September 8, 2004.
		Shot largely on location in Venice by cameras that keep the action fluid and cinematic, Radford's Merchant emphasizes the systemic and brutal anti-Semitism of the period without compromising Shylock's shadowy complexities.
	www.pacinoworldwide.com /id30.html (933 words)

	Fans watch clock in Venice - Film - www.smh.com.au
		The quality of mercy, as Portia observes in The Merchant of Venice, is not strain'd - but much of this year's Venice film festival has become extremely strain'd.
		The latest problem arose at the screening of the film version of The Merchant of Venice, in which Al Pacino plays Shylock: a computer error meant that there was no seat for Pacino, and although one was eventually found for him, the show started more than an hour late.
		Film critic Peter Bradshaw writes: Mike Leigh's new film, Vera Drake, which premiered at Venice this week, is a stunningly acted and heart-wrenchingly powerful drama about postwar working-class life in London.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/09/08/1094530677136.html (713 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice > Printer Friendly
		I think that's why The Merchant of Venice never quite "clicks" as a film, and why structurally it feels awkward; sub-plots are being pushed to take on the importance of main plots, but without the other material being altered accordingly.
		In the end, I was dissatisfied with director Michael Radford's choices in adapting The Merchant of Venice to the screen; he attempts to make a comedy into a tragedy while still being faithful to the original text, and the resulting conflicting forces put the film at cross-purposes.
		It's a film that I'd probably recommend to viewers who are intrigued by the play and know what they're getting into, but it's not one that works sufficiently well that I'd give it a broader recommendation on its own merits.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=15489 (1500 words)

	DVD REVIEW: "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S THE MERCHANT OF VENICE"
		Michael Radford's version of "William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice," closes with Jessica (Zuleikha Robinson), looking out on one of the many canals that crisscross her hometown.
		So you can't miss Shylock's sense of cause, the film begins with an epigraph explaining the abuses of Jews by Gentiles in 16th century Venice and the Jewish population's relegation to a ghetto.
		And in this instant, the film's interests become beautifully clear: her loss, Shylock's defeat, and the wealthy folks' willful ignorance are all part of the same social design.
	www.screenit.com /dvd/2004/william_shakespeares_the_merchant_of_venice.html (989 words)

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		His performance as Shylock in director Michael Radford's 2004 film, "William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice," just out on DVD (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $26.99, rated R), is nothing less than a masterpiece.
		In the film's extraordinary opening sequence, the juxtaposition of written titles and screen images reveals the nature of anti- Semitism in 1596 Venice.
		My guess is that viewers of "William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice" will remember Pacino's performance as Shylock long after the performances of dozens of Academy Award winners and nominees are forgotten.
	www.ushmm.org /newsfeed/anti/viewstory.php?storyid=4157 (618 words)

	Review: Merchant of Venice, The (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		And, as 2004 comes to a close, director Michael Radford (responsible for both Il Postino and Dancing at the Blue Iguana) has chosen to bring us the first big-screen talkie adaptation of The Merchant of Venice.
		Shakespeare's version of The Merchant of Venice is a farce, and Shylock is an overblown caricature - a cartoonish, clownish Jew.
		At a point during the film (immediately after Bassanio and Portia have become engaged but before the message has arrived from Antonio explaining his dire situation), there is such a jagged and abrupt change in scene that I was momentarily convinced the projectionist had missed a reel.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/merchant_venice.html (880 words)

	Man in a Suitcase: Tulse Luper at Compton Verney by Bridget Elliott and Anthony Purdy
		The film starts in a picture gallery in which are hung 92 of Greenaway's drawings, which the voice of the dying narrator-protagonist — Colin Cantlie's brisk, authoritative voice of British documentary — presents in sequence as maps arranged for him by Tulse Luper: “Tulse Luper suggested my journey through H needed 92 maps.
		In a similar vein, Greenaway's compendium films, whether short like A Walk Through H with its 92 maps or long like The Falls with its 92 biographical case studies, are works of loss and mourning that rely on techniques of allegory and montage, coupled with idiosyncratic and incongruous narratives, to resist sentimentality.
		Although Benjamin favoured the visual mediums of photography and film as homeless representations that are not rooted in any site (in contradistinction to fascist celebrations of “blood and soil”) he was more ambivalent about the subjectivity of the homeless person, which he compared to that of the filmed subject who “feels as if in exile.
	www.imageandnarrative.be /tulseluper/elliot_purdy.htm (5067 words)

	calendarlive.com: 'The Merchant of Venice'
		Michael Radford's splendid film of "The Merchant of Venice" is so somber — and rightly so — for so much of the time that it's hard to remember it is one of Shakespeare's comedies, indeed regarded as one of his greatest.
		In all its unique and enduring grandeur, Venice is always a glorious setting for a movie, but especially for "Merchant" because its appearance in the late 16th century is so easily — and richly — evoked.
		These and other complications build to "The Merchant of Venice's" climactic trial, during which Shylock's demand for Antonio's pound of flesh is as righteous and just as it is patently absurd and cruel.
	calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-merchant29dec29,2,5624811.story (766 words)

	Was the Merchant of Venice gay?. 29/12/2004. ABC News Online
		Joseph Fiennes (L) and Jeremy Irons share a kiss in a new film adaptation of The Merchant of Venice.
		A new film adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice raises the controversial question of whether the title character was gay.
		Director Michael Radford's film poses questions when the merchant, Antonio, shares a kiss with his friend, Bassanio, though even the actors who play them do not agree about what the kiss means.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200412/s1273518.htm (609 words)

	Kosher Ham - Pacino chews the scenery in William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. By David Edelstein
		Pacino chews the scenery in William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
		Under a heavy beard—fl shocked with white—he's gnomish and gnarled, and he burns hotter as the film goes on; his eyes seem on the verge of shooting lasers.
		But Radford doesn't solve the problems of The Merchant of Venice, which nowadays is too disturbing to be played for comedy and too unresolved to qualify as tragedy or even that ever-shifting hybrid, tragicomedy.
	www.slate.com /id/2112221 (1173 words)

	Film Review: The Merchant of Venice - Elites TV - Your Elite News Source
		The Merchant of Venice is released in the US on December 29th 2004 and in the UK December 3, 2004.
		As we approach the end of 2004, let me lay it on the line and say straight up, The Merchant of Venice is right up there as one of my favourite films of the year.
		This film will possibly not reach as far as it deserves to, but warrants the ticket price alone for the superb performances from the talented cast and it's another opportunity to see film royalty like Al Pacino let rip and dominate yet another motion picture that he almost always does.
	www.elitestv.com /pub/2004/Nov/EEN41ab6c19a7a06.html (613 words)

	Merchant of Venice, The (2004) - MovieMeter.nl
		Plechtige film met een zeer overtuigende Pacino en een verbluffend mooie art-direction, die constant is. De prachtige muziek van Jocelyn Pook (die ook in Eyes Wide Shut de film van mooie muziek verzorgd) draagt mooi bij bij de toch ietwat dromerige sfeer van deze film, die heerlijk traag voorbij kabbelt.
		The Merchant of Venice wordt gezien als een christelijk stuk, hoofdthema is 'vergeving' [een centraal element in het christendom].
		The Merchant of Venice is een prachtig dramatisch verhaal waarin een diversiteit aan morele zaken met elkaar op amusante manier in conflict wordt gebracht: rechtvaardigheid met gerechtigheid, vergeving met wraak, liefde met loyaliteit, fundamentalisme met liberalisme en passie met rede.
	www.moviemeter.nl /film/20711 (1342 words)

	A very Jewish villain \| Features \| Guardian Unlimited Film
		Film is an emotive medium, uniquely able to manipulate through lighting and music as well as words.
		Shylock's daughter lives in a dank, dark hellhole when she is still a Jew; once she betrays Shylock and converts to Christianity, she is shown in the flush of youthful love and only in the most sumptuous of locations.
		Even if she gives the odd rueful stare into middle distance, hinting at loss, the visual language of the film is that joy, laughter and sex live on the Christian side of the ghetto wall.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1369708,00.html (1221 words)

	Home Theater Forum - 2004 Film List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		William Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice - This new film version of The Merchant of Venice is a tale of two movies.
		The film certainly isn't on the level of his 60's classics, but at a time when so many of Godard's contemporaries are no longer with us, it remains a pleasure to watch this artist at work.
		The film begins in a fairly entertaining way but becomes more serious, or at least no longer funny, with the introduction of a mentally challenged brother character and the requisite love interest.
	www.hometheaterforum.com /htforum/printpost.php?postid=2687063 (678 words)

	RTÉ.ie Entertainment: The Merchant of Venice (15PG)
		Set in 16th century Venice, when Christians confined Jews to a walled ghetto, Radford transports us to a time where religious hatred was widespread and Jews' only source of income was money lending.
		The story centres on the merchant, Antonio (Irons), who is forced to secure a short-term loan from Shylock (Pacino) for his close friend Bassanio (Fiennes), in order that he may woo the wealthy and fair Portia (Collins).
		When the merchant's ships run into misfortune, his debt to the moneylender is far greater than monetary, the forfeit for non-payment a pound of Antonio's Christian flesh.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2004/1202/themerchantofvenice.html (408 words)

	Radford on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		AFI Fest 2004 Screening of "William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice"
		Premiere of "The Merchant of Venice" - Arrivals
		AFI Fest 2004 Screening of "William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice" - After-party
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/Radford.asp (583 words)

	AboutFilm.com - The Merchant of Venice (2004)
		Al Pacino as the bilious Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
		The merchant of Venice is Antonio (Jeremy Irons), who is feeling out of sorts and can't quite put his finger on why.
		That the film is in thrall to the reputation the latter more than the performance of the former is perhaps its greatest misfortune.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/m/merchantofvenice.htm (1230 words)

	'The Merchant of Venice' - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com
		Michael Radford's splendid film of "The Merchant of Venice" is so somber — and rightly so — for so much of the time that it's hard to remember it is one of Shakespeare's comedies, indeed regarded as one of his greatest.
		These and other complications build to "The Merchant of Venice's" climactic trial, during which Shylock's demand for Antonio's pound of flesh is as righteous and just as it is patently absurd and cruel.
		What Radford above all accomplishes in his filming of "The Merchant of Venice" is to suggest that, in essence, it is that most modern of entertainments: a dark — indeed, very dark — comedy.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-merchant29dec29,2,5624811.story (808 words)

	Merchant of Venice
		The film is set in 16 th century Venice and director Michael Radford relies on setting, mood, and realism to tell its story, rejecting lavish period costumes or a modern setting with rock music to appeal to a wider audience.
		In the film, the merchant Antonio (Jeremy Irons) spits upon Shylock in public, yet feels no shame in going to the usurer to borrow 3000 ducats to help his friend and suggested lover Bassanio (Joseph Fiennes) to properly court Portia (Lynne Collins), a wealthy heiress.
		The Merchant of Venice is not only about an unpaid debt but also about the estrangement of Jews from Christian society and their desire for belonging.
	www.cinescene.com /howard/merchant.htm (781 words)

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