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	Metroactive Movies \| The Neon Bible
		The Neon Bible, published after A Confederacy of Dunces, is a book of memories told by the sheltered adolescent David (Jacob Tierney) during a train journey.
		The problem with The Neon Bible is that Davies is making the same film again and again, and all that's changing is the quality of the production values--he has hundreds of extras where he once had dozens.
		The Neon Bible is a story not as affecting as the tale of a writer who was considered to be worth nothing until he was dead.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/07.03.96/neon-bible-9627.html (648 words)

	The Neon Bible - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Kennedy Toole's first novel, The Neon Bible, was written at the age of only 16.
		It is rumoured that the Montreal band, The Arcade Fire have named their upcoming album, The Neon Bible.
		The film "The Neon Bible" was directed by Terence Davies, with a screenplay by Terence Davies based on Toole's novel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Neon_Bible (923 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Neon Bible: Books: John Kennedy Toole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I was reminded many times of the writings of Jackson McCrae (thinks his "Bark of the Dogwood" or his "Children's Corner" with their colorful descriptions et al.), but NEON BIBLE has something else and this is probably due to the author's suicide and the legacy or lack thereof, that he left.
		"Neon Bible" was written by Kennedy when he was almost a kid so the passages do not have the craft of Fitzgerald and Hemingway but that does not reduce it literary value.
		NEON BIBLE is slower than DUNCES and while you'll recognize Toole's humor and wit, there's an element of the slapstick missing.
	www.amazon.ca /Neon-Bible-John-Kennedy-Toole/dp/0802132073 (1889 words)

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	The Neon Bible
		he Neon Bible'' was shown as part of the 1995 New York Film Festival.
		That is one of the problems of ``The Neon Bible,'' the English director Terence Davies's hallucinatory portrait of the American South half a century ago.
		With ``The Neon Bible,'' his adaptation of a novel by John Kennedy Toole, he applies the same pictorial vocabulary and poetic structure to unfamiliar territory.
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	Strong acting can't help Neon Bible overcome weak plot
		It would be great to report that The Neon Bible is not only worth seeing but also a satisfying movie experience, but unfortunately, only the first statement is true.
		The novel on which The Neon Bible is based is a juvenile work of John Kennedy Toole, the eccentric Louisiana author noted for posthumously winning the Pulitzer Prize for literature eight years after committing suicide.
		Toole wrote The Neon Bible when he was 16 years old; it would probably never have seen print without the bizarre and phenomenal success of his later work.
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	Chicago Reader Movie Review
		I don't care much for The Neon Bible, a hackneyed mood piece set in a rural backwater of the deep south, but I think the movie, which seems 100 percent Davies, is wonderful.
		The Neon Bible may not qualify as a masterpiece, as Distant Voices, Still Lives and The Long Day Closes do, but it still contains moments and achievements that are as impressive as anything Davies has ever done--and to have done this with alien material makes his achievement even more remarkable.
		In another such moment in The Neon Bible--one that's no less mysterious--the camera slowly approaches a large white bedsheet hanging on a clothesline until the wind-rippled sheet fills the entire 'Scope frame, while all that one hears on the sound track is the opening theme music of Gone With the Wind.
	www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/0496/04056a.html (1413 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: The Neon Bible
		THE NEON BIBLE is a innovative film by Terence Davies, who did the acclaimed DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES.
		THE NEON BIBLE has a highly confusing narrative but with much technical brilliance underneath.
		Although it is by a British director, it is set in a Southern United States Bible Belt town in the 40s.
	all-reviews.com /videos-3/neon-bible.htm (903 words)

	Soul Food Movies: The Neon Bible
		Born in 1937, he wrote THE NEON BIBLE during last high school year, a moody Flannery O'Connor-inspired piece about growing up in backwoods Baptist country.
		THE NEON BIBLE was published in 1989, and Terence Davies' film adaptation was booed off the screen at the Cannes Festival in 1995.
		THE NEON BIBLE is almost nothing but moving pictures – the essence of cinema, or a crashing bore.
	soulfoodmovies.blogspot.com /2006/08/neon-bible.html (678 words)

	The Neon Bible - Arts and Faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I always half-jokingly describe the visual exquisiteness of The Neon Bible as akin to Night of the Hunter in color.
		Not nearly as visually stylized as NEON BIBLE, though, is it.
		Stylistically speaking, all of his films previous to The Neon Bible are done in that exquisite tableau style.
	artsandfaith.com /index.php?showtopic=10449 (3407 words)

	`Neon Bible' Is One to Savor Slowly
		In his newest, ``The Neon Bible,'' which opens today at the Castro, Davies extends the same themes and cinematic style that he developed in such earlier works as ``Distant Voices, Still Lives'' and ``The Long Day Closes,'' delivering a film that's gorgeous, deliberately slow and tinged with a beautiful sadness.
		Based on an early novel by John Kennedy Toole (author of ``A Confederacy of Dunces''), which he wrote for a literary contest at age 16, ``The Neon Bible'' is a coming-of-age tale set in the American South of the 1940s.
		``The Neon Bible'' is a lovely, rewarding film, but it requires some work and some faith on the part of the viewer.
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	MMI Review: The Neon Bible
		There are only two things I liked about Terence Davies' latest film, "The Neon Bible," and one of them is something that doesn't happen: no one sings "Danny Boy" at the end.
		His mean-spirited dad gets killed in the war, his mom goes looney, and when a hot teenaged girl comes on to him, he has the bad judgment to ask her to marry him instead of trying to make out.
		"The Neon Bible" is based on a novel by John Kennedy Toole, who wrote the deeply bitter, but hilarious, novel "A Confederacy of Dunces," and then killed himself.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/neonbibl.html (473 words)

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		From his porch, David can see the whole valley, including the neon Bible that lights up the sky, emblem of the God-fearing folk who snub his family because Poppa can't afford the church dues.
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	The Edge: Film, DVD, Video - The Neon Bible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Best known for the much optioned/never filmed Confederacy of Dunces, his first book - The Neon Bible - was written when he was just 16, but languished unknown until its publication two decades after his suicide in 1969.
		The Neon Bible is then the least of this fascinating director's work.
		But in the end, The Neon Bible doesn't so much add to this wonderful film-maker's distinctive cannon as simply confirm everything we already knew.
	www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk /filmsmr/neonbible.htm (592 words)

	The Neon Bible movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		These desired after-effects will become more desired, possibly, if any of those teens were to watch this small independent film The Neon Bible.
		It also possesses a animated performance by Gena Rowlands, veteran of many a John Cassevetes film, as a liberated, free-spirited woman who due to lack of funds moves in with her working-class reletives: her sister, brother-in-law, and nephew.
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	The Neon Bible - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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		Chicago Reader Movie Review Roughly speaking, the time span covered in The Neon Bible (the movie) is the late 30s through the mid-40s.
		The Neon Bible - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
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	Artificial Eye -The Neon Bible- ART122
		As he peers through a window into the darkness, David begins to see images of his life, fragments from his past.
		THE NEON BIBLE tells the story of a boy whose life in the American Deep South in the forties is deeply affected by his over-
		The film boasts a remarkable cast including Denis Leary as the boy's father Frank and Gena Rowlands as Aunt May - a fabulously glamorous former night club singer who injects a dash of excitement into small town life.
	www.artificial-eye.com /video/ART122/main.html (145 words)

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		The next time we see David is in the flashback when he was a 10-year-old (Drake) hoping for a Christmas snow, but getting rain and magical-looking icicles on his porch instead.
		What perks David up is the ebullience of his Auntie Mae, who does not fit into this Bible Belt region.
		She prefers to dress and act in the style of her showbiz past, and is therefore loudly chastised for her appearance and sinful attitude.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/neonbible.htm (831 words)

	Movie Info for The Neon Bible on MSN Movies
		David is left to care for his increasingly unstable mother (Diana Scarwid) with the help of his Aunt Mae (Gena Rowlands), a lively big band singer.
		With David's recollections making up the loose plot, The Neon Bible stresses memorably intense images over narrative momentum, with cinematographer Michael Coulter creating sharp, painterly compositions.
		Some viewers will likely be frustrated by the slow pace and elliptical style, though others may be transfixed by the often stunning photography and poetic approach.
	movies.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=59080 (207 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Film Listings
		An American cousin to his Distant Voices, Still Lives, Terence Davies' The Neon Bible is an autobiographical memory film that ponders the childhood mysteries of growing up in a troubled family.
		Set in rural Georgia during the Thirties and Forties, this film (interpreted from John Kennedy Toole's novel) is like a fragmented dream, depicting the life of a callow young boy named David who must cope with a father tortured by failure, an emotionally fragile mother, and a future without much hope.
		And while fundamentalist Christian references in The Neon Bible are many, religion is an ultimately superfluous theme in the film, shaping neither character nor narrative.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:138131 (531 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Neon Bible at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		THE NEON BIBLE, writer-director Terence Davies first literary adaptation, is based on John Kennedy Toole?s coming of age story set in the 1930s and 1940s Bible belt.
		Similar to Davies?s autobiographical TRILOGY, the film is a series of remembrances by 15-year old David (Jacob Tierney), who reflects back on his troubled childhood while riding a train to an unknown future.
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	Toole's proboscis: some effluvial concerns in 'The Neon Bible.' (John Kennedy Toole) - The Mississippi Quarterly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		IF, AS WILLIAM BEDFORD CLARK ASSERTS, A Confederacy of Dunces in the end affirms "a transcendentally comic view of humankind's place in the cosmos,"(1) then The Neon Bible perhaps may be said to affirm a tragic one.
		Since we know that both tragedy and comedy sprang from the same muse, I do not find it implausible to read Toole's only two texts as examples of Aristotle's two primary theatrical modes.
		More specifically, The Neon Bible, thought to be Toole's only juvenile work (written at the age of sixteen), can be productively read as a fledgling attempt to write the tragedy of a poor Mississi...
	www.enotes.com /mississippi-quarterly-journals/15737973 (178 words)

	Amazon.com: The Neon Bible: DVD: Jacob Tierney,Drake Bell,Gena Rowlands,Diana Scarwid,Denis Leary,Bob Hannah,Aaron ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The British director Terence Davies' two previous movies, "Distant Voices, Still Lives" and "The Long Day Closes," were beautiful, poetic fictions that drew heavily on his childhood in Liverpool in the forties.
		(Their transfer of de Oliveira's THE CONVENT to VHS, for example, is very careless.) THE NEON BIBLE appears to be transferred directly from their videotape master.
		The Neon Bible is an excellent rendition of what it is like to be taken to the tent for salvation.
	www.amazon.com /Neon-Bible-Jacob-Tierney/dp/1572524553 (1599 words)

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