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	Baptista Film Mission - Collection 225
		Almost all of the material in the collection was produced by the Baptista Film Mission and either document the history of the mission or the broader theme of the use of films and filmstrips for evangelism and Christian education.
		Several of the scripts for films and film strips are in folders 1-8 through 1-43, with additions or changes penciled in the margins.
		Film of C. Baptista, seated, speaking to the Christian Activities Conference in new York, explaining why he was unable to attend.
	www.wheaton.edu /bgc/archives/GUIDES/225.htm (3128 words)

	At-A-Glance Film Reviews: Mission: Impossible (1996)
		Most of the original Mission: Impossible television series episodes were brilliantly constructed "sting" operations, skillfully executed by a team of top notch agents one could only admire for their professionalism, efficiency, expertise, and sheer ingenuity that enabled them to perform seemingly impossible tasks.
		The plans for a film were in the works for upwards of fifteen years, delayed again and again for various reasons, until it fell in to the hands of director Brian DePalma and producer/star Tom Cruise.
		Mission: Impossible's third strike is the filmmakers' blatant irresponsibility in handling the legendary screen characters of the original series.
	rinkworks.com /movies/m/mission.impossible.1996.shtml (444 words)

	film page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		rebuilding a unique film production curriculum is a priority of the program in the new millennium.
		in the past year, we have built a film editing room, obtained 16mm film cameras, and invested in field grip/lighting equipment.
		the mission is to give our students the chance to practice filmmaking and utilize related cutting edge technology.
	www2.sjsu.edu /faculty/sarrafan/film.html (134 words)

	The Mission: The Film and Its Music
		The film opens with a close-up of an emissary of the Catholic Church dictating a letter to the pope in Rome.
		In the film, Father Gabriel uses the hymn to petition the Church (the “Mother”) to intercede on behalf of the Guarani and preserve the missions so that they have a refuge against the slavers.
		The Miserere is sung by a single boy soprano—one of the surviving children—as we view the destruction of the mission at the end of the film.
	chnm.gmu.edu /worldhistorysources/d/268/whm.html (1862 words)

	Horrorview: The Mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It’s a film with Christianity in it all right, but it’s more about what it means to be a human being, and the inevitable fall out from the clash of two very different cultures.
		But the real heart of the film comes from the Indian tribe at the centre of the story, played by a genuine tribe rather than extras, who are all remarkably strong, relaxed and naturalistic.
		It’s a consistently interesting film in visual terms (although Joffe is perhaps rather restrained in terms of his use of camera positioning and movement), and cinematographer Chris Menges was rewarded with an Oscar for his troubles.
	www.horrorview.com /Mission.htm (1143 words)

	English 233: Extra-Credit Assignment on "The Mission"
		The film is set in towards the middle of the 18th Century in a region of South America that used to be administered by the Jesuit Order as a remarkable network of missions that functioned as a virtual state within a state.
		The film opens with the Cardinal dictating to his secretary a report he is composing to be sent to the Pope, back in Rome.
		At the end of the film, the Cardinal, Don Cabeza, and the Portuguese Official are discussing the news that the mission has been dispersed by force.
	www.k-state.edu /english/baker/english233/ec-The_Mission.htm (1143 words)

	Spirituality & Practice: Film Review: The Mission, directed by Roland Joffe
		At the large mission of San Miguel, he is impressed by the economic prosperity and the equal distribution of the wealth to all members of the community.
		As European troops close in on the mission, he assembles the women and children as a choir in front of the church.
		At the same time, The Mission is a deeply moving film that reminds us of the vitality of love, the miracle of grace, and the transforming power of acts of conscience.
	www.spiritualityandpractice.com /films/films.php?id=5042 (889 words)

	PROCESSING AERIAL FILM
		Film processors must be checked and verified according to the quality-assurance procedures established by your imaging facility.
		When the aircraft returns from the mission, the film is removed, and the appropriate postflight counter settings are entered in the Maintenance section of the form by maintenance personnel.
		The film is processed according to the information entered in the Mission Data section of the form.
	www.tpub.com /photographyadv/62.htm (475 words)

	The Mission (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mission is a 1986 British film about the experiences of a Jesuit missionary in eighteenth century South America.
		The film was written by Robert Bolt and directed by Roland Joffé.
		The movie is set during the Jesuit Reductions, a programme by which Jesuit missionaries set up missions independent of the Spanish state to teach Christianity to the natives.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Mission_(film) (512 words)

	Stiller says would be excited about Cruise film \| Entertainment \| Reuters
		The proposed "Hardy Men" film, not expected to go into production until next year at the earliest, would feature brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, now adults but estranged, teaming up to solve a mystery, according to entertainment press reports.
		Cruise, a longtime Hollywood action star of films from "Top Gun" to the "Mission: Impossible" series, has attracted more attention of late for his off-screen life, including his marriage to actress Katie Holmes, 17 years his junior, and his involvement with Scientology.
		His prize, a golden pudding pot, is part of a tradition that dates to 1795 when 21 Harvard students pledged that each member of their new club would provide "a pot of hasty pudding" for each meeting.
	www.reuters.com /article/entertainmentNews/idUSN2217928020070224 (511 words)

	The Mission : Film Study -- Prologue
		The film opens with a piece of written text, establishing where we are geographically and historically.
		These images fade to be replaced with images of the mission at San Miguel, a Jesuit priest playing the violin with a group of Indian children and herds of domesticated animals; all contributing to a sense of peace and harmony.
		As the cross on to which the priest is tied plunges over the falls, the sound of the falls dominates and the camera zooms out to an extreme long shot of the Iguacu Falls and the titles come up on the screen.
	www.sun.ac.za /forlang/bergman/real/mission/film1.htm (374 words)

	The Mission-film-article-Marianna Scheffer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		His penance is to climb up a waterfall to the mission that the Priest has founded, dragging behind him his suit of armor and his weapons.
		He and the Priest build a mission, which is a sanctuary, a place where Indians can be safe from soldiers and slave traders.
		Although the Cardinal knows it is evil, he allows the Portuguese government to order the destruction of the Mission, because he believes that preserving the power of the church and the Jesuit order is more important than the lives of individuals.
	www.ilhawaii.net /~mscheffe/the_mission.htm (328 words)

	Mission: Impossible (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mission: Impossible (1996) is the first film based on the television series Mission: Impossible.
		The second sequel, Mission: Impossible III however, was praised for its use of teamwork in various missions; a trait very much in line with the original series.
		The train sequence was filmed on the Glasgow South Western Line in Scotland (hence the landscape not appearing much like Kent) using a normal British train with the image of the TGV overlaid using CGI, indeed in a few frames the real diesel locomotive at the front of the train is visible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mission:_Impossible_(film) (1466 words)

	Essay on The Mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In Part I of the Mission we see the "moral" transformation of Rodrigo Mendoza, a transformation precipitated by Mendoza’s crisis of conscience (after killing his brother) and the subsequent challenge to Mendoza by the Jesuit missionary Fr.
		In Part II of the Mission, Rodrigo joins the Jesuit brotherhood, exchanging the sword for the cloth, with the goal of helping the establishment of a mission for the Guarani at San Carlos.
		The logic of both altruism and egoism are both portrayed in vivid fashion in the closing scenes of the film.
	www.homestead.com /philosophy_of_society/files/Missionsynopsis.htm (534 words)

	The code of The Mission (Johnnie To, 1999)
		The films of John Woo are often cited as some of the finest examples in the genre.
		In To's film, the action style of Hong Kong cinema is shown to have reached a mature state of repose (and I'll gradually show what I mean by that) as the industry underwent a period of financial crisis from 1997 onwards.
		Thus, The Mission evolves into a character-study of how gangland brothers (who are the modern variants of chivalric knights-errant) relate to each other and pay off obligations or redeem themselves when they have wronged a brother or a big boss.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/17/mission.html (1541 words)

	Mission Film
		In the presence of Mission film, the thinner became the hero of
		The man's a mission film, and George Inness, went straight to the contrary, was to him.
		And already he was faithful in voting as he called at the old contractor, and a mission film of women was temperamental rather than that; under him to the handling of his in West Philadelphia and indeed, she was so nervous that mission film did not.
	www.qlfg.com /154/mission-film.html (479 words)

	American University Library - Film Studies: Internet Sites
		Two very handy features of their movie databases are the inclusion of four-star rating system and also when a film is to be shown on television in the coming month, it is noted with an icon linked to the air date and channel.
		The mission of the site is to facilitate the serious study of film and television, unlike the majority of film websites that are targeted primarily to fans rather than scholars.
		There are always a wide variety of films showing in the Washington area, from multiplexes to arthouse theatres to the national museums.
	www.library.american.edu /subject/film/internet.html (1108 words)

	The Mission - LA Film Festival (June 23, 2006)
		The film stars Houshang Touzie as an Islamic revolutionary who undergoes a crisis of conscience when he is sent to assassinate an erstwhile colonel in the Shah's secret police.
		At once gripping, thoughtful, and leavened by bits of comedy, THE MISSION combines narrative tension with a naturalistic depiction of quotidian life among Iranian exiles displaced to early-'80s America.
		The last film Sayyad directed in Iran before going into exile, DEAD END (1977), has the double distinction of being banned by the Shah and the post-Revolutionary Islamic government.
	www.parstimes.com /gallery/the_mission (384 words)

	The Mission
		A visually stunning epic, THE MISSION recounts the true story of two men--a man of the sword (Robert De Niro) and a man of the cloth (Jeremy Irons)--both Jesuit missionaries who defied the colonial forces of mighty Spain and Portugal to save an Indian tribe from slavery in mid-18th-century South America.
		Despite their differences, the two men must unite to save the mission when Spain, Portugal, and the Catholic church begin negotiating their boundaries in the area--negotiations that will affect both the freedom of the natives and the well-being of the Jesuit missionaries who have set up safe havens for them.
		Filmed on location over a 16-week period in Colombia and at the waterfalls of Cataratas del Iguazú on the border of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1014027-mission/about.php (604 words)

	Paramount Film Preservation
		At the heart of filmmaking is the visual grammar that we call film editing where each shot is like a bar of music.
		Thus, unlike the drama, poetry and the novel, where the mere copying of words is preservation, the film image is so fragile that it is only with the greatest care and effort that the original integrity of the image can be maintained.
		Of the visual arts, film is the most fragile.
	www.paramount.com /filmpreservation (207 words)

	Idaho Film and Television Institute Home Page
		The mission of the Idaho Film and Television Institute is:
		The mission of the Idaho Film and Television Institute is to find, develop, train, nurture and mentor new and established artists in Film and television, and to promote and facilitate technical and creative innovation.
		The Idaho Film and Television Institute is a proud sponsor of SPUD FEST Drive-in Family Film and Music Festival
	www.idahofilminstitute.org /vision.html (168 words)

	MSUM - CSFT - Film Studies
		The mission of the Film Studies program at MSUM is to provide an integrated educational environment in which students can study the history, aesthetics and production of motion pictures.
		This program is committed to the undergraduate education of students interested in future careers associated with the study of film.
		The mission of the program supports the liberal arts context of MSUM’s undergraduate education, in creating broadly educated well-rounded professionals who can make a difference in their chosen field as well as the world in which we live.
	www.mnstate.edu /csft/filmstudies/about.htm (98 words)

	"The Mission" by Mark Pinsky
		In sharp contrast to THE MISSION's young Jesuits, who were killed by Spanish and Portuguese soldiers, Serra died peacefully in his sleep in 1784 at the age of 71, surrounded by a few Indian converts at Mission San Carlos Borromeo in Carmel.
		Nonetheless, the Franciscans thought their hunter-gatherer society was uncivilized, chiefly because the California natives of the time permitted abortion and divorce, were promiscuous (i.e., they remarried alter divorce), failed to discipline their children, bathed in sweat lodges and worshipped the forces of nature.
		After luring the Indians into the mission settlements with everything from trinkets and musical instruments to a regular and reliable food supply, the Indian converts were compelled to build the structures and grow crops to feed themselves, the priests, colonists, soldiers and civil authorities.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC33folder/theMission.html (1786 words)

	The Mission (1986) - Channel 4 Film review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Mission never lives up to its opening: it's not that the rest of the film is bad, it's just that this sequence is so spectacular.
		Although it isn't equalled in the rest of the film, it does set the tone: superb cinematography, fantastic music and religious despair.
		Their missions lie on a border zone that the Spanish - who claim to have outlawed the slave trade - intend to hand over to the Portuguese - who haven't and will allow it to continue, to the profit of the Spanish.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=106044 (388 words)

	The Jesus Film Mission Trips - Canada
		I have had the privilege of combining the outreach of The JESUS Film with the hands-on experience of building several church roofs in Cameroon.
		It has helped to motivate them in their walk with God and has given them a vision and a desire to be involved in world-wide missions now and into their future.
		As soon as the film was over an older man came running up to me and hugged me again and again.
	www.jesusfilmmissiontrips.ca /news.htm (876 words)

	Cinergía Movie File: The Mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It tells us the Guarani Indians are mainly known for their connection to the early Jesuit missions of Paraguay; the most notable mission foundation ever established in America, and for their later heroic resistance.
		Understanding the message intended by each still gives the viewer an understanding of what the character is like as a person not only at the time of their climb, but also throughout the rest of the film.
		The soldiers in the film are not individual decision makers; they are instead followers and conformists.
	lilt.ilstu.edu /smexpos/cinergia/missionfile.htm (2207 words)

	The Mission film movie trailer review at The Z Review
		The Mission will be an English language remake of the 1999 Johnny To directed Hong Kong action movie.
		The film is expected to include an all star cast and the budget will be $50 million plus.
		This page has no intention to infringe on the rights of the film and intellectual copyright holders of The Mission and hold copyright over the movie, characters, merchandise and storyline.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/m/missionthe.htm (270 words)

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