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	The Pianist (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pianist is a 2002 movie directed by Roman Polanski starring Adrien Brody.
		He also says that he is a pianist and so he is asked to play a piece by the officer.
		The piano piece heard at the beginning of the movie is: Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor.
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	movie review \| the pianist (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Polanski is probably one of a scant handful of natural cinema geniuses alive today, a director born for his art, whose own life has been an unhappy shadow of his films’ obsession with tragedy.
		The Pianist is a return to his peak form, the period that produced Rosemary’s Baby, Macbeth, Chinatown and The Tenant.
		When Szpilman finally emerges from hiding, it’s to a lunar landscape of rubble and dust, and Polanski presents this vision of hell on earth as an almost miraculous vision, awful but miraculous for a man resigned to die.
	www.rickmcginnis.com /movies/pianist.htm (305 words)

	Pianist, The (Germany, France, Poland, etc., 2002). Movie reviews by Dr. Edwin Jahiel.
		His Hollywood movies "Rosemary's Baby," and "Chinatown" were huge successes, as was the made-in-England, humorous "The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck." In 1969, at a gathering of Polanski friends, the Manson "family" gratuitously murdered Roman's wife, the actress Sharon Tate, an several other guests.
		The acting is terrific, starting with the American Adrien Brody (as Szpilman, the pianist) and on to everyone else from major supporting roles to small ones.
		Here are the other Oscar nominees for best picture, all released in December 2002, with their take at the box-office as of a few days ago: "The Lord of the Rings" $321 million, "Gangs of New York," $70 million, "Chicago" $64 million, "The Hours" $22 million, "The Pianist" $3 million.
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	Top Box Office Movies - The Pianist
		So with The Pianist as his comeback project, it’s only natural for Polanski to identify with his heroic protagonist Wladyslaw Szpilman as both a complicated man battling his overwhelming woes as well as a tremendous artist waiting to burst out at the seams.
		The Pianist is an amalgamation of all that is precious and preferential to the delicacies of life: hope, faith, resiliency, resourcefulness, pain, inadequacy, self-reflection, determination, inspiration, integrity, cynicism and loss.
		Brody is absolutely moving as the droopy stone-faced pianist who takes us on a harrowing ride on his frail shoulders as we get a mundane front seat view to the real claustrophobic and pervasive alienation behind the rotting Warsaw ghetto walls.
	www.theworldjournal.com /special/movies/2002/pianist.htm (1240 words)

	The Sound and the Saved - The Pianist is the best film of 2002. By David Edelstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		It's 1939, and the celebrated pianist is annoyed when the windows of the control room are shattered; he keeps playing after the technicians have fled, until he's blown off his bench.
		The pianist is sickened by that prospect, but when his brother Henryk (Ed Stoppard) is hauled in for likely execution, Szpilman's appeals to the vanity of a collaborator, Itzak Heller (Roy Smiles), get Henryk sprung.
		Szpilman is paralyzed as he watches from the window of an apartment on the outside of the ghetto as the uprising begins and the German tanks converge on the wall—and, a month later, as the defeated Jews hurl themselves out of windows or are lined up and machine-gunned.
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	The Pianist Movie Review
		Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman and his family, along with all other Warsaw Jews, are persecuted by the Germans and placed inside a bricked-off ghetto until further notice.
		The movie also isn't afraid to show some of its captives in their negative light, with certain Jews needing to work "with" the Germans in order to save themselves, as well as a sequence of rebellion.
		I don't think this movie offers enough of an emotional angle to reel one in entirely, but it does present a sick sense of the voyeur, as we witness much of the visceral violence and inhumanity that plagued that dark period of our history.
	www.killermovies.com /p/thepianist/reviews/jaj.html (682 words)

	The Pianist
		Szpilman was a popular pianist, and was actually playing on Polish radio when the Nazis destroyed the building he was in.
		The Pianist, adapted from Szpilman's autobiography, is an inspiring movie that caught the eye of Roman Polanski, himself a survivor of World War II.
		In fact, The Pianist is the type of films sure to appeal to critics and attract tons of nominations at the various award shows.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/pianist.html (403 words)

	The Pianist (novel) : The Pianist (2002 movie) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The Pianist is a biographical novel written by the Polish musician of Jewish origins Wladyslaw Szpilman[?].
		A 2002 film version was adapted by Ronald Harwood[?] and stars Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox[?] and Michal Zebrowski[?].
		Polanski was awarded the Palme d'Or[?] (Golden Palm) award of the Cannes film festival on May 26, 2002.
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	Censorship in Movies<br>Movie: <i>The Pianist</i>
		Wladyslaw Szpilman, a brilliant Polish pianist escaped deportation and is forced to live in the heart of the Warsaw Ghetto.
		Film producers and movie studios are arguing that this compromises the artistic integrity of their films.
		Imagine that every part of the movie The Pianist that was violent or contained swear words was simply removed from the film.
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	IMDb user comments for The Pianist (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The present government's indifference to law, whether in Iraq, at Guantanamo or in the domestic detention of suspects, and its apparent ability to lie with impunity merely reinforce the impression that we are witnessing something new here or perhaps rather something old that we thought we put behind us after 1945.
		The second half is a chase whose outcome is already known (it wouldn't be a movie if the hero died before the end).
		So I wonder what this fine movie provokes in the minds of the audience: that this couldn't happen to us again or that it could, if we forget the history it brings alive for us.
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	OscarSights 2002 Movie Reviews
		I respect this movie for what it is, a movie that shows some of the behind the scenes work in screenwriting and making a movie.
		She is definitely the show-stopper in the movie for me. She got her start with theater, and she is the one actor in the movie that is the most comfortable and natural at this line of work.
		This is a movie with all the looks and feels of the 1950s movie genre, but with issues that could only be hinted about in the movies during that time period.
	members.cox.net /rsjtransform/reviews2001.htm (6333 words)

	Interview: THE PIANIST (2002)
		Polanski has always known that he would return to his native Poland to make a movie about this era, but he did not want it to be based on his own life.
		Whereas a movie that sets out to be about all aspects of the war, or the Holocaust, that's over-ambitious.
		I had a six month movie in front me, and I was starving myself and having four hours of piano a day.
	www.aboutfilm.com /features/pianist/interview.htm (5683 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "The Pianist" review (2002) Roman Polanski, Adrien Brody
		An emotionally and factually detailed, uniquely personal true story of day-by-day Holocaust survival, "The Pianist" is a labor of passion on the part of director Roman Polanski (who as a child escaped German-occupied Cracow), a monument to those who persevered through the Nazi onslaught and a memorial to those who could not.
		In one year, Szpilman (whose autobiography was the basis for the film) saw Warsaw go from a place where he was a respected musician to a place where Jews weren't allowed in public parks and had to wear blue Star of David armbands in public.
		The terrible beauty of this moment is the movie's every emotion in a nutshell, and the astonishing results a testament to the humanity that can be found in the worst circumstances of dread one can imagine.
	www.splicedonline.com /02reviews/pianist.html (681 words)

	Review: Pianist, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The film's protagonist is celebrated Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), who, along with his family, is forced to watch as the restrictions against Jews become increasingly more odious.
		Recognizing that The Pianist is a true story adds another layer to its impact (although it is the case that most Holocaust films are based on factual incidents).
		With The Pianist, Roman Polanski has not only given us the most recent motion picture to remind future generations of what happened under Hitler's regime, but he has also provided us with hope that his own career, after numerous dead-ends, may finally be back on track.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/pianist.html (663 words)

	Qwipster's Movie Reviews - The Pianist review (2002)
		THE PIANIST adapts Szpilman's autobiographical book, telling the tale of how he managed to survive the seemingly insurmountable odds using his own need for survival and with the help of many other good people along the way.
		Another director might have been motivated to underscore every dramatic scene with the lovely music that Szpilman had been known to play, but Polanski knows that silence is just as effective as any music, and he uses the absence of it to full advantage.
		When we hear Szpilman play again, the effect pays off beautifully, as we had forgotten what it sounded like and what it meant to him to be a pianist almost as much as he did during that time.
	www.qwipster.net /pianist.htm (485 words)

	Three Movie Buffs Review The Pianist (2002) Starring: Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox, Michal Zebrowski
		Roman Polanski, who was forced into a concentration camp as a child, and whose mother died in the camps, directs the movie with restraint, avoiding sentimentality or heroics, instead letting the events and the actions tell the story.
		This movie is not a thriller as some of the ads for it would have you believe.
		Instead he treats this movie more like a book, in the sense that much of what is going on in the title character’s head and heart is left unspoken.
	www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=pianist (1371 words)

	The Pianist - The Book, The Movie. Wladyslaw Szpilman - Official Homepage
		The "Palme d’Or", three "Oscars" and various European film prizes were among the awards collected by "The Pianist", Roman Polanski’s film based upon Wladyslaw Szpilman’s bestseller book "The Pianist", dealing with his "miraculous survival" (as he called it) in Warsaw during the German occupation and final destruction between 1938 and 1945.
		Szpilman's initial training as a pianist was in the Chopin School of Music in Warsaw under Josef Smidowicz and Aleksander Michalowski, both of them former students of Liszt.
		Before Roman Polanski's The Pianist became possibly the best film ever made about the Holocaust, before it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and garnered seven Oscar nominations, this story of the against-all-odds survival of the Jewish musician in German-occupied Poland was a book with an unusual publishing history.
	www.szpilman.net (3081 words)

	The Pianist (2002)
		The reason the Pianist is unique and refreshing is mainly the point of view it takes, as suggested by its singular title.
		Andrian Brody stars as a reputable pianist in Warsaw, living with his well-to-do family under the forced leadership of the Nazis, who by the beginning of the film have already invaded Poland.
		No movie has ever made me respect and cherish the bed I am privileged to sleep in and the excess of food in my refrigerator more than this one.
	www.moovees.com /review/pianist.html (727 words)

	AboutFilm.com - The Pianist (2002)
		The Pianist recounts Szpilman's astonishing story in careful, attentive detail, but it is filled with particulars from Polanski's own life, from the reality of life in the Jewish ghetto to the awkward position a woman's corpse assumes after she is shot in the head while Szpilman observes from his hiding place.
		But The Pianist doesn't try to be a movie with important things to say, going out of its way to examine questions of ethics and choices.
		The often heartbreaking details (look for the scene where the Szpilman family shares a piece of caramel in their last moments together) accumulate into a narrative, and the narrative becomes a testament to human capacity for both good and evil, weakness and strength.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/p/pianist.htm (747 words)

	Pianist DVD at Video Universe
		THE PIANIST, in the subtlety of its sublime and heartbreaking tale, is carried by the intensely moving performance of Brody, whose transformation is truly unforgettable.
		The movie gets you to the heart of the horror, no details are sparred from the viewer, the child beaten to death for smuggling food, the brutal evacuation from the ghetto and many more scenes are conveying precisely the fearful atmosphere of the events.
		The contrast between the inhumanity of the Nazis and the humanity of the German officer who listens to the music of the Jewish pianist and eventually saves him is among the strongest scenes of the movie.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/5740698/a/Pianist.htm (1045 words)

	Ararat (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		His movies are often filled with bizarre twists and sexual relationships, they always feature his wife Arsinee, and their commercial appeal seems to take a back seat to Egoyan's sense of aesthetics.
		Because of that, the movie is not directly about the genocide, but about how the genocide is being remembered by the Armenians, and about how it is still causing friction between the Armenians and the Turks.
		Much of the movie revolves around Raffi, coming back from Turkey with extra footage that he somehow hopes to integrate into the film, being interrogated by a customs agent.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0273435 (628 words)

	The Pianist review
		The Pianist is the academic and literal adaptation of musician Wladislaw Szpilman's memories.
		Divided between incomprehension, fear and absurdity, the protagonists quietly undergo the Nazi oppression, before revolting: it is the famous episode of the Warsaw ghetto's resistance.
		The film becomes truly enthralling when, isolated, the pianist must ensure his survival in the ruins of Warsaw (haunting sequences of devastation).
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/thepianist.html (514 words)

	Movie Habit: Review of The Pianist (2002), *** 1/2
		The Pianist is a powerful, devastating movie about a young man who survives the Nazi occupation of Warsaw.
		So although the film is about the pianist Wladislaw Szpilman, it is told by a director who lived through the same experience.
		The Pianist is a biography and is told as a linear timeline of events, rather than with a conventional setup-conflict-payoff story structure.
	www.moviehabit.com /reviews/pia_ab03.shtml (828 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: The Pianist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		During the German invasion of Poland in 1939, renowned pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) is in a Warsaw radio station performing Chopin's "Nocture in C-sharp Minor" when the bombs start falling.
		The last portion of The Pianist focuses on Wladyslaw's isolation and loneliness in Warsaw over a three-year period.
		After escaping from the ghetto, he contacts the resistance and is shuttled from one vacant apartment to another where his presence has to be kept secret.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_5462.html (544 words)

	Pianist, The (2002): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		A great movie on a powerful, essential subject -- the Holocaust years in Poland -- directed with such artistry and skill that, as we watch, the barriers of the screen seem to melt away.
		The closing scenes of the movie involve Szpilman's confrontation with a German captain named Wilm Hosenfeld -- Polanski's direction of this scene, his use of pause and nuance, is masterful.
		The major highlight of this movie I must say is Adrien Brody's absolutley compelling performance as a Polish Jewish composer in hiding during the holocaust.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/pianist (1954 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Pianist [2002]: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		As he and his family are slowly stripped of their rights, they endure the humiliation of being forced to live in a walled ghetto, already overcrowded with the entire Jewish population of Warsaw.
		THE PIANIST is based on an autobiography by the Polish classical pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman.
		The Pianist is one of those films that you watch and for some time afterwards there is an ache as you remember the horror and sadness suffered by those portrayed.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00007KGC4 (1463 words)

	The Pianist (2002) [J.C. Laughed, Cried and Learned]
		What I expected from The Pianist when I saw the film advertised was a sort of true life Playing for Time in which the pianist of the title actually performs for the Nazi captors in order to prove his worth and to survive the Holocaust to tell the tale.
		The movie is exciting and action packed, but it's mostly a journey of the emotions.
		The ugliness of Szpilman's life is captured here too from the false hopes of an allied rescue to the one scene during which it appears that he has lost it all and his shoulders and face simply dissolve into the pain of defeat.
	www.worldsgreatestcritic.com /pianist.html (1444 words)

	Pianist, The : Movie Review
		Wladsilaw Spilzman is a Jewish pianist from Varsovia during World War II.
		The movie has won the golden palm during the last Cannes' festival, and it's deserved !
		Polanski has made a historic movie which shows us the way of life of ghettos' inhabitants.
	www.cinema.com /films/7641/pianist/articles/1389/movie_review.phtml (222 words)

	Amazon.com: The Pianist (Widescreen Edition) (2003): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The pianist is a film based on the life of Wladyslaw Sziplam, a Jewish pianist.
		This movie is definetly violent, but I think in a sense you need that to really know what happened during world war II, Adrien Brody I believe in his finest performence yet.
		The Pianist is a great film and it is even cooler to know that it was directed by someone who is a survivor of world war II who lost almost his whole family.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JLT5?v=glance (2323 words)

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