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	Film Basics
		Films don’t usually call attention to how they are made, or ask viewers to reflect consciously on how we learn to "read" and make sense of film narrative.
		Since film story telling grew out of literary and oral story telling, and films often base their stories on novels and short stories, it is useful to compare film narrative to the familiar story-telling forms of novels and short stories.
		A film performance, then, may be elusive regarding many aspects of a character’s emotions, thoughts, past history, etc. Or the film narrative may be presented with significant gaps in the story’s past or present action--that viewers are expected to fill in, infer, puzzle out, and interpret.
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/resources/filmbasics.htm (4924 words)

	Boston Review: Alan Stone on The Remains of the Day (film review)
		We are constantly reminded these days of the difficulties in communicating across the ethnic divides that have shattered the canons of shared human understanding.
		The Remains of the Day is a memory palace of wealth and its privileges -- footman filled dining rooms and fox hunters riding through beautiful countryside, all of it owned by the Lord.
		The contents of her letter are ambiguous and the film at least temporarily preserves the ambiguity of the novel.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR19.2/stone.html (4231 words)

	The Remains of the Day (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		IMDb > The Remains of the Day (1993)
		If the film has a weakness it is that it doesn't judge the rich - even the Nazi sympathisers.
		The rather crude message of `seize the day' is beautifully told in a rich tapestry of one man's life.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0107943 (869 words)

	Film Review - The Remains of the Day
		But if Howards End was Thompson's film by the size and magnitude of her role, Remains of the Day belongs to Hopkins, from the very first frame all the way to its last.
		One of the most touching sub-plots of Remains of the Day is the relationship between Hopkins and his father (played to perfection by Peter Vaughan), a man who insists on carrying on all his duties up until his death.
		Always engaging, if sometimes old-fashioned, Remains of the Day offers insightful observations about the everyday life and interaction between lords and servants, an interaction which is largely determined by official norms, but also allows for some flexibility and deviation, based on long-term familiarity.
	emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=1056 (863 words)

	mfiles - film music soundtracks, film composer biographies and CD reviews
		A number of established film composers provided opportunities for her talents as orchestrator and conductor on their film projects, including Hans Zimmer, Brad Fiedel, Mark Snow and Carter Burwell.
		The three films by Godfrey Reggio known as the "Qatsi" trilogy are remarkable for their visual impact, with some images being indelibly edged into the minds of viewers.
		The first film is Koyaanisqatsi which contrasts the natural and urban landscapes of North America.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /film-music.htm (2328 words)

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		This is a haunting film that focuses on one survivor of the genocide and her experience of trauma, displacement, and hope as she makes a new life in Canada.
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	Amazon.com: The Remains of the Day (Special Edition): DVD: Terence Bayler,Peter Cellier,Paul Copley,Peter Eyre,Patrick ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		One day in the 1950s (which is "present-day"), he finally decides to take a short vacation by borrowing his employer's motorcar for some sight-seeing of the country and to convince Miss Kenton (who has since married and is now Mrs Benn) to come back to work for Darlington Hall.
		The Remains of the Day is one of the better films to come out of Britain in a generation.
		REMAINS OF THE DAY is a wonderful film that is not quite as good as the fabulous novel it is taken from.
	www.amazon.com /Remains-Day-Special-Terence-Bayler/dp/B00003CXC9 (2639 words)

	Remains of the day (West End Word)
		Remains tells the story of Mace Preston, a security guard from Mars whose wife, Helen, was reported missing while on assignment.
		Remains has a lot in common with Tiedemann’s other works mainly because of the book’s intrest in the control of the state and the individual’s place within it.
		While one could see Remains as offering a pessimistic view of the future with corporations running planets and cyberlinks, Tiedemann said that his book is not dystopian, but a view of survival.
	www.westendword.com /moxie/ae/books/remains-of-the-day.shtml (1278 words)

	DVD Review: Remains of the Day: SE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Most of the film presents the story in flashback, as Stevens is recalling his years of service, thinking mostly about his relationship with Sally Kenton (Emma Thompson).
		SOUND: "Remains of the Day" is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 and, as one might expect, the film's audio remains largely rooted in the front speakers.
		Final Thoughts: "Remains of the Day" is a moving and well-crafted picture that is carried superbly through two masterful lead performances.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/remainsofthedaysedvd.html (774 words)

	The Man Who Knew Too Much - The Films of Doris Day
		Day and Stewart follow, where they attempt to get some answers and to locate their son, on their own, without the help offered by Scotland Yard.
		The film reaches it's exciting climax during a concert at Albert Hall in which Day suddenly realizes what is about to occur.
		The team of Livingston and Evans composed a song for Day to sing to her son as part of the plot.
	www.dorisday.net /man_who_knew_too_much.html (983 words)

	‘The Remains of the Day’ (PG)
		"The Remains of the Day" perfectly captures the melancholia that sometimes settles on a body like the gloaming, when the dying light seems profoundly sad and yet magical.
		The film opens in 1958, when Stevens sets off for the west country in hopes of persuading the former housekeeper, Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson), to return to Darlington Hall, where they worked together for so many years.
		Thompson, in a performance as polished as the Darlington silver, infuses the film with warmth, humor and enormous passion despite the starchiness of her apron.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/theremainsofthedaypgkempley_a0a3cd.htm (522 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Remains Of The Day (1993)
		Filmed entirely on location, the visuals are sumptuous, from the magnificent and elegant interiors to the lush but somber greenery of the outdoors.
		As the film is primarily dialogue, this focuses the soundfield to the center front, making the return of the score that much more dramatic.
		Filmed during the production, this one focuses more on the main characters and their reactions to each other, and the two stories that make up the film: that set in the 1950s, and the recollections of Anthony Hopkins' Mr.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1866 (2151 words)

	Qwipster's Movie Reviews - The Remains of the Day review (1993)
		Their names are already synonymous with the genre of the British "period piece", but as long as they can produce such fine films, I wouldn't want them to ever emerge from their chosen pigeonhole.
		Most of the film is told in flashback to the years shortly before the second World War, where some important people met with German officials in order to find a peaceful solution to their troubles at any cost.
		It may be a film that some find slow, but for those who enjoy intelligent films or costume dramas, you'll be hard pressed to find anything to dislike in the entire production.
	www.qwipster.net /remainsoftheday.htm (457 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Remains of the Day: Special Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Like its predecessors, The Remains of the Day examines the tension between classes, but Remains, with its more contemporary setting, digs deeper and more profoundly into the matter, eschewing the obvious economic and social struggles to focus on the smaller, more devastating repression of emotional and political ideas amongst the serving class.
		The Remains of the Day is a masterpiece of detail, fascinating in its depiction of a grand manor, its vast estate and ornate furnishings, and the complex mechanisms through which its large staff operates and maintains it.
		As the film's central character, Hopkins is faced with the tricky demands of reconciling the stiff nature of his character with an audience's need for empathy.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/r/remainsoftheday.q.shtml (654 words)

	SparkNotes: The Remains of the Day: Context
		The Remains of the Day (1988), Ishiguro's third novel, won him the Booker Prize.
		The Remains of the Day is commonly branded a post-imperialist work, as its protagonist harbors nostalgia for the English way of life before World War II, when Britain still held colonies all over the world.
		Furthermore, though many of Ishiguro's works are branded as post-colonial novels, The Remains of the Day again does not fit into this classification: Ishiguro's Japanese heritage is not relevant to the plot nor to the narrative.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/remains/context.html (533 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Remains Of The Day [1993]: DVD: John Haycraft,Christopher Reeve,Anthony Hopkins,Emma ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Certainly the film is superior to any number of others,but I do hope that one day somebody will have the courage to do cinematic justice to this beautiful,disturbing and complex work.
		There are two parallel developments throughout the film: in the first we see Lord Darlington (James Fox) use his wealth and position to try and soften the resentment that Germany feels over the harsh Treaty of Versailles, only for him to be disillusioned in the end.
		There is no indication in the film that Stevens considers his ideal of service as more important, or a substitute, for his emotional life (we are told his father worked as a butler, and yet he married).
	www.amazon.co.uk /Remains-Day-John-Haycraft/dp/B00005N52R (2493 words)

	Remains of the Day, The (1993): Reviews
		In the film it is undeniably repeated many times in order to simply establish the importance of it to the readers and the viewers of Remains of the day.
		But Stevens remained cold and formal as usual and expressed only congratulation that was inadequate and ignited subtly Miss Kenton’s emotional feelings(film- remains of the day).
		According to one of the critiques of the Remains of the day, Jennifer Bussey “ what a terrible mistake he realized that he made about both his failed romance with her and his support of Lord Darlington’s Nazi sympathies.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/remainsoftheday (1448 words)

	Filmtracks: Star Wars: A New Hope (John Williams)
		At a time when the Silver Age of film music had emphasized smaller orchestras and pop style genres of music in film, it was feared by long-time film score collectors that the glory days of Ben-Hur and Lawrence of Arabia had passed.
		It may seem elementary by post-2000 standards of film music composition, but the use of a prominent title theme and several leitmotifs in 1977 was a refreshingly bold move back to the Wagnerian influence of Hollywood's Golden Age.
		A person could easily ramble on for days about the people and technicalities behind all of these albums; every time you think you've purchased the definitive and final version of any of the classic trilogy scores, you can wait a few years and be treated to yet another re-release in the stores.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/star_wars.html (2505 words)

	The remains of the day at Ground Zero
		After it was all over, in the summer of 2004, on the day Kristen and her young daughter finally moved from their Jersey home to start a new life on Central Park West in New York City, she received a shattering message.
		They may linger to this day, having caused serious respiratory illnesses to firemen, policemen and EMS workers from 9/11, and to the residents of the surrounding downtown area, nearby Stuyvesant High School, grade schools and businesses, as well as residents from nearby areas in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and parts of New Jersey.
		Stevens is a prototype for the sheeple of our day as well, all those so preoccupied with their jobs and lives that they no longer bother to question or resist the Bush Cabal, buying the notion of terrorists at the gate, but not the wolves ensconced in our government.
	onlinejournal.com /artman/publish/article_1476.shtml (1925 words)

	Merchant Ivory Productions :: The Remains of the Day
		The Remains of the Day is told in a series of flashbacks as Stevens, near the end of his life, makes a trip across the English countryside for a meeting that he hopes might reconcile his past mistakes.
		The film is pervaded with the air of something lost, both in the England of Stevens's road trip -- in pub chatter, in bedside photographs of the war dead -- and in the butler's missed opportunities.
		In an often--quoted scene, Stevens refuses to reveal to Miss Kenton the title of the book he is reading; persistent, she eventually peels his fingers away to find a sentimental love story.
	www.merchantivory.com /remains.html (433 words)

	The Remains of the Day Translated into Film
		The film version stars Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, and one suspects immediately that the alterations were made that we might see a powerful chemistry between two fine and well-respected actors.
		In the film, the relationship between Miss Kenton, the housekeeper for most of the period of Stevens' reminiscences, and Stevens as head butler, is the central point; the political wheelings and dealings are present but their significance is altered.
		In the film, somehow, indefinably, with those and other words missing, one is left with a criticism of the fascist leanings of the British nobility prior to World War II, but there is little feeling of the critique of imperialism and Stevens' struggles with the hegemony that has controlled his life.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /uk/ishiguro/gg4.html (695 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Remains of the Day: Books: Kazuo Ishiguro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The film was released a few years ago, and it's good, but doesn't really capture the emotional journey of the book.
		The other day I was looking for something to read and I went for The Remains of the Day.
		For many, this is a heartbreaking evocation of old English etiquette as embodied by the emotionally stunted Butler, whose unswerving devotion leaves him on the cusp of a new age with nothing but the `remains of the day'.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Remains-Day-Kazuo-Ishiguro/dp/0571225381 (1297 words)

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		"The Remains of the Day" A film review by Linda Lopez McAlister on "The Women's Show" WMNF-FM (88.5), Tampa, FL November 26, 1993 The art of the screenwriter is often underestimated in this medium of film where the director is sometimes thought to be the "auteur" or author of the film.
		Like the violin maker in "Un Couer en Hiver" that played here recently, Stevens is unable to allow himself to express, or even to feel, emotion, and he gets his sense of identity from his work and his identification with the great house and all the past glory and tradition it stands for.
		Even in the narrative present of the film, the 1950s, when the new American owner has moved in and Stevens is free to go to the West of England to seek out the former Miss Kenton, he is still unable to change his lifelong patterns and to let his feelings come out.
	www.mith2.umd.edu /WomensStudies/FilmReviews/remains-of-day-mcalister (641 words)

	Alter Bridge - One Day Remains : album review
		And if Down To My Last tries a little bit too hard to be like Creed's life-changingly good hit Higher, then Tremonti's superb fretwork and guitar tone partially atones, leaving you in no doubt that the man is truly one of the finest rock guitarists out there.
		One Day Remains is way better a debut than anyone had right to expect.
		The rhythms are tight, the guitaring immaculate, the vocals accomplished, there's everything from commercially-minded radio rock to balls-y heavy metal, and most of the choruses hit the sweet spot.
	www.musicomh.com /albums2/alter-bridge.htm (603 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Remains Of The Day (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Stevens comes from a tradition of personal service; his goal in life is to serve his employer to the best of his ability, and as we get to know him, we realize that this was his only goal: He allowed it to blind him to all of the other promises of life.
		"The Remains of the Day" is based on the Booker Prize novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, which I would have thought almost unfilmable, until I saw this film.
		The film demonstrates this in a series of quiet, almost secretive scenes, in which she pushes, and he flees.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19931105/REVIEWS/311050304 (899 words)

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	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/top_tens (2334 words)

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