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	The Vanishing (1988 film) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Vanishing (Spoorloos) is a (Photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies) film directed by George Sluizer and produced by Anne Lordon and George Sluizer.
		It was released internationally in 1988 and is in (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French and (The West Germanic language of the Netherlands) Dutch.
		The film was later (additional info and facts about remade) remade by Sluizer in (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_vanishing_(1988_film).htm (149 words)

	Scott Stark
		Filmed in heavily over-developed areas of northern and central Spain, the dehumanizing and impersonal architectural structures that the inhabitants call "home" are edited into a bittersweet array of rigid geometric forms and bland textures.
		Oddly enough, the story itself, though it is diminished, disrupted and often ignored by the film's narrative structure, still seems to evoke a logical continuity; and despite all the distractions and activity around the edges of the frame, one's attention is still drawn toward the "events" represented on those flimsy pieces of paper.
		The film is a succession of visual and aural "notes" generated by the patterns in the animals' hides, which are arranged and re-edited into a complex musical architecture, developing intricate rhythms not unlike the complex syncopations found in traditional African music.
	www.hi-beam.net /mkr/ss/ss-bio.html (3534 words)

	ipedia.com: Pluto (planet) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pluto was determined to have an atmosphere from an occultation observation in 1988.
		In 2003, another occultation of a star by Pluto was observed and analyzed by teams led by Bruno Sicardy [1] and by Jim Elliot.
		Surprisingly, the atmosphere was estimated to have a pressure of 3 microbars, even though Pluto was farther away from the Sun than in 1988, and hence should be colder and have a less dense atmosphere.
	www.ipedia.com /pluto__planet_.html (2288 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)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Vanishing (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In retrospect, one of the biggest surprises in the casting is that Sandra Bullock plays the relatively small role of Diane; had this film been made just a few years later, she would certainly have had the star power to snag the larger role.
		It shows just how much films have changed over the last 11 years that The Vanishing received an R rating, when today, with the excision of a couple of cuss words and a glimpse of gore, it could be aired on television without raising an eyebrow.
		Sluizer is acquitted of the charge of spoiling his 1988 film by remaking it.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/vanishing1993.php (1767 words)

	University of Tennessee: Language Resource Center: Film Collection M-R (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This film protrait, made very shortly before his death in 1985, takes the viewer on a journey through time and place on the trail of this enigmatic artist.
		Her film paints a rich impasto of native life under French colonial rule, filtered through the coming-of-age of a bright, sweetly opportunistic fl boy learning to reconcile the value of his shanty-town roots with the educational opportunities that beckon him to the big city.
		The film traces the young boy's escape from poverty through a combination of ambition, education, a surrogate father's wisdom, and a grandmother's indomitability.
	web.utk.edu /~mfll/LRC/filmsm_r.html (9302 words)

	The Vanishing (1988) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And the film is all the more dangerous for doing so, lulling one with comedy and by depicting the psycho of the show as a harmless buffoon.
		A second viewing of the film, after one knows the ending, becomes even more fascinating in realizing the meaning of some of the initially enigmatic behaviour and seeing the early appearances of Donnardieu and his car in the parking lot.
		The film underwent a disastrous English-language remake as The Vanishing (1993), which abandoned all the elliptical storytelling, added an explain-all ending and substituted a performance by an enigmatic Jeff Bridges for the jollity of Bernard-Pierre Donnardieu.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/vanishing.htm (672 words)

	VANISHING (1993), THE - Jeff Bridges Kiefer Sutherland Good George Sluizer Mystery Suspense Action 1993 - R
		Everything about THE VANISHING is disturbing, from Diane's disappearance, to the storytelling of Barney.
		The film will probably elicit nightmares if you're claustrophobic (or have other phobias that I won't mention because they will give away the plot).
		THE VANISHING is a remake of Sluizer's 1988 film of the same title, which critics consider superior to the later version.
	www.movies2go.net /review/Vanishing1993The.html (241 words)

	The Vanishing (Spoorloos) (1988/2001) - PopMatters Film Review
		The producer Val Lewton transformed the horror film in the 1940s when he abandoned the otherworldly figures like the vampire or the werewolf and replaced them with the terror wrought by the stranger next door.
		An art-house hit in 1988 (and re-made in the U.S. by the same director in 1993, with predictably lamentable results), the picture is a chilling reinterpolation of the plot device Hitchcock used in The Lady Vanishes (1938).
		All of a sudden, she vanishes, and Rex Hofman (Gene Bervoets) is overcome by grief, confusion, and guilt.
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/v/vanishing.shtml (1226 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Insomnia (2002)
		Sluizer's 1988 Dutch film was deemed to be of such grim, honest, surprising quality that it was sacrilege to mess with it.
		In fact, in the silent era there was little need to actually re-make a film since the lack of a dialogue track disguised the truth that a given film was an import (though certainly the people in the films must have looked funny).
		The trick of both films is that the investigator cannot adapt to days of never-ending sun in the northern latitudes, and this condition of insomnia prevents him from thinking clearly.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/i/insomnia02.shtml (1872 words)

	Professor Richard K. Sherwin
		The film consists of interviews with the witnesses, lawyers, judge, and defendant in a real capital murder case.
		Widely billed as a documentary, Morris's film is actually permeated with numerous fictional devices such as reenactments and dramatic visual overlays.
		Nevertheless, stemming largely from the impact of this film, the criminal case was reopened and the defendant ultimately was set free after spending more than eight years on death row.
	www.nyls.edu /pages/400.asp (551 words)

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		The Vanishing is a challenging psychological thriller about a nightmare that comes true and an obsession that leads to bizarre results.
		She goes to the toilet and returns to buy a Frisbee and they bury a few coins by a tree to mark the spot as a reminder of their holiday and he makes a promise that she insists on, that he will never abandon her again.
		What is the scariest thing is that his family does not see his dark side, as he is considered a good husband and father to the children and he fits so well into the community that no one would ever suspect him.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/vanishing.htm (1075 words)

	Berlin Film Festival 1998
		It seems fitting that director George Sluizer sets his political thriller in multinational Brussels - the Dutchman was born in Paris and remade his own film Spoorl (1988) in the US as The Vanishing, and directed an international cast in The Commissioner.
		The film, produced by Berlin producers Christina Kallas and Luciano Gloor (Metropolis Film Production) with various European and German subsidies, interested Sluizer because of its gripping plot, based upon a story by Stanley Johnson.
		Under the self-assured direction of the Dutch George Sluizer (The Vanishing, 1992), Stanley Johnson's novel The Commissioner has been adapted for the big screen as a Euro-thriller about finance, with complex characters, elegant images (the cameraman is Bruno de Keyzer) and psychological suspense to the fore.
	www.filmfestivals.com /berlin98/bfilm7.htm (440 words)

	1988 Chronicle
		The film is a long (163 minutes), fascinating, sumptuous epic following the life of Pu Yi from the time he succeeds to the throne of China at the age of three, to his dotage as a gardener in a Peking park.
		The film marks a directorial breakthrough for Cronenberg, who was able to continue some of the themes explored in his earlier horror films while graduating to a higher, more critically "respectable" level of artistic sophistication.
		The rest of the film is taken up with Rex's search for her -- how he obsesses on her disappearance, goes on TV to make public appeals, keeps annual appointments where he is surreptitiously observed by her abductor, and is unable to maintain a new releationship because of his concentration on the past.
	theoscarsite.com /chronicle/1988c.htm (4632 words)

	DVDLaser: the largest database of DVD reviews on the web
		Both of George Sluizer's thrillers are available on disc, the original 1988 film, in Dutch and French with English-language subtitles and the 1993 English-language remake, starring Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland.
		Whereas the original film had a downer European existentialist ending, Sluizer has supplied an upbeat Hollywood ending for the American version that makes the film especially entertaining if one is watching the two as a double bill--it's as if you have to watch both movies to achieve a satisfying resolution.
		Both films tell the converging story of a young man haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend and the guardedly obsessive behavior of the psychopath who abducted her.
	www.dvdlaser.com /cf/detail.cfm?ID=26092 (430 words)

	Review: The Vanishing (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		George Sluizer, the man at the helm for this version of The Vanishing, was also the force behind the original 1988 Dutch film.
		The performers in this The Vanishing are every bit as good as their foreign counterparts, and the characters are equally well-realized.
		However, what begins with promise degenerates into a typical stalker film, with an ending that is pat and predictable.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/v/vanishing2.html (465 words)

	Movie Forums - The Vanishing (Spoorloos) (1988) a George Sluizer film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I wouldn't really consider it hitchcockian but it was in the spirit of his films.
		Remakimg this film was a wrong thing to do it's got holloywood written all over it which just became a easy meal ticket for grossing money which becomes overly obvsion from start to finish.
		A commentary track by Sluzier explaining what the hell he was thinking in remaking the film would have been interesting to hear.
	www.movieforums.com /community/printthread.php?t=1651&pp=6 (759 words)

	Amazon.com: The Vanishing (1991): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Leading up to the day of the vanishing, the film alternates between scenes of Rex and Saskia vacationing, and Raymond, as he methodically plans and calculates his cold-blooded crime.
		What puts the real bite into the impact of this film is the way it's presented; this is no boogeyman-in-the-closet or "slasher" type horror film-- it goes way beyond that and takes you into a very real world of very real horror.
		The film is famous for the having one of the most heart-halting climaxes in the last 20 years, and when you see the ending of this film, you'll never look at other people the same way again.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305077800?v=glance (3607 words)

	The Problems of the Literary Biopic
		The film was shot on a modest budget in and around Copenhagen, starred mostly young, inexperienced actors, and had next to nothing by way of special effects or dramatic set-pieces.
		But one consequence of these films' prioritization of spectacle over plot is that both The Vanishing and Nightwatch are high on shock, low on suspense, whereas the opposite holds for their European counterparts.
		We learn during the course of the film that the letters in her can be rearranged to spell "vanished." Cute, and of course completely unbelievable.
	www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca /schn021.htm (7438 words)

	Spoorloos (1988) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The title of the film in French was translated by "l'homme qui voulait savoir" (the man who wanted to know).
		It is thanks to this new variation on the serial killer movie that "Spoorloos" draws a big authenticity and it surely explains why Hollywood was interested by making a remake of it several years later.
		Throughout the film, we often see unusual objects which we will learn their real function at the end of the film.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0096163 (680 words)

	Shakespeare on Film & Video: Books in the UC Berkeley Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Laurence Olivier's 1948 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' was the first to be influenced by Sigmund Freud's concept of the Oedipus complex, as interpreted by Ernest Jones' 1910 article 'Hamlet and Oedipus.' Since Olivier's version, the Oedipal interpretation of Hamlet has become standard on film and in performance.
		Family romance is at core of Franco Zeffirelli's film adaptation of 'Hamlet.' This is evident in his casting of actors Mel Gibson and Glenn Close in the principal roles, his manipulation of space and landscape, his alteration of the text and his approach to editing.
		While the film's correlation with political events is explored, it is posited that its message is ultimately apolitical, as humanity between characters is only expressed within domestic and private settings, rather than in the public domain.
	lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/ShakespeareBib.html (13210 words)

	Don't blink now, it's Kazakhstan
		The story of the country’s film industry began with Rashid Nugmanov’s 1988 film The Needle, which was a big hit all over the then Soviet Union and one of the first films to break the taboo of talking about drug addiction.
		These films set a realist tone, and the works that followed—many of them autobiographical—claim to follow in the tracks of France’s “new wave.” With their almost documentary styles and ingenuous touches, these films gave directors the freedom to say exactly what they felt.
		Working conditions are tough, with no laws to encourage private film production, old-fashioned studio equipment, virtually non-existent distribution networks and a public with little money to spend on going to the cinema.
	www.unesco.org /courier/2000_10/uk/doss25.htm (349 words)

	Images - The Vanishing
		The story of a young Dutch man Rex (Gene Bervoets) whose girlfriend Saskia (Johanna ter Steege) disappears while they’re vacationing in France, and who spends the next three years searching for her, The Vanishing was an international cult hit, spreading by word of mouth and nearly unanimous praise from critics.
		Like that film, The Vanishing feels like it's from another era, an era in which movies like Clouzot’s Les Diaboliques and Renee Clement’s Purple Noon worked up a sense of dread in their audiences and then floored them with what seemed like an impossible conclusion.
		The Vanishing is now available on DVD from The Criterion Collection in a new digital transfer (aspect ratio 1.66:1).
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue10/reviews/vanishing/text.htm (1147 words)

	The Vanishing (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Dutch film The Vanishing (1988) was a grippingly good psycho-thriller that left audiences buzzing as they left theatres over its obsessively layered mystery and jolt twist ending.
		In former actor Todd Graff’s screenplay, the original film’s multi-layered story - told via a complex series of crosscuts and flashbacks that eventually came together as an ingenious jigsaw puzzle - has been thrown out for a linear plotline.
		But the new film lacks the directorial obsessiveness of the original - the way the original, like its lead character, returned to the same site over and over again from different angles and points of view; while at most this version offers up a single pallid flashback.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/vanishing93.htm (602 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Top movies of 1988 anyone?
		Guilty Pleasure of 1988: Critters 2 The Main Course (Not as good fun as the original movie but hey it's got it's moments like the kickass space bounty hunter transformation to a naked blonde chick) or Return of the Killer Tomatoes (George Clooney's early starring role and much better than the original movie).
		Well Rambo III was one of the most expensive movies of all time, but you gotta admit it's better than any "XXX" movies, and i mean the recent action flicks of XXX not the pornos.
		It set the standard, it is eminently quotable, villains are memorable, the secondary characters are easy to establish an emotional (or visceral) response to.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=411890 (1222 words)

	U-Daily News - TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Tarantino himself came up with the story, which he rummaged from a 1993 Kiefer Sutherland/Sandra Bullock film called "The Vanishing," itself cribbed from a far better 1988 Dutch film, the title of which means the same but looks kind of silly spelled out (OK, it's "Spoorloos").
		The director's touch is less heavy- handed than on his own films - there are no lingering close-ups on Jorja Fox's toes, no extravagantly choreographed action scenes, only a couple of pointless pop-culture references (including an old "Dukes of Hazzard" board game) and not much more gratuitous gore than a typical episode would feature.
		In fact, Tarantino's contribution to "CSI" is more coherent and boasts more character empathy than his epic "Kill Bill," which may have wowed the cineastes but left everyone else wondering if Tarantino would ever return to Earth and make a movie with some taut plotting and characterizations relatable to someone from the Milky Way galaxy.
	u.dailynews.com /Stories/0,1413,211~23544~2875985,00.html (413 words)

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		The Vanishing is the title of several films:
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