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	Review: The Vanishing (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		George Sluizer, the man at the helm for this version of The Vanishing, was also the force behind the original 1988 Dutch film.
		The sensationalization of The Vanishing is a painful process to observe.
		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)

	The Film Tribune - The Remains of the Day (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		When a film includes a butler as a major character, it is to be expected that the butler will do more than his regular tasks.
		In contrast, the 1993 film adaptation of the 1989 Booker Prize-winning novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, "The Remains of the Day", emphasizes the life of one butler, who has constantly hidden his emotions behind the characteristic indifference that was expected of his profession.
		The success of the film can be attributed to the well-chosen cast and the excellence of the regular Merchant Ivory team, which had built its reputation producing intelligent films with a period setting: producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts, and composer Richard Robbins.
	www.filmtribune.com /remainsoftheday.html (2613 words)

	Film Preservation Study: Washington, D.C. Public Hearing, February 1993 - National Film Preservation Board (Library of ...
		I would say that as film professionals, most of whom are involved both in research and in the teaching of film study, we members of SCS are concerned about film preservation at both ends of the chain.
		As professionals involved in film study, I feel we are teaching a form of visual literacy and, although much of this literacy involves contemporary issues, I also feel that a knowledge of the history of film, where it came from and how it developed, is essential for visual education.
		Film preservation needs to be especially scrupulous in ferreting out and preserving films which were often made with minority audiences in view, ranging from the films of the avant-garde to those of specific ethnic groups or geographical areas.
	www.loc.gov /film/hrng93dc.html (20658 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Vanishing (1993)
		These two films need to be compared to one another, but only in that they are two tellings of the same story.
		The fact that Sluizer agreed to remake his own film is somewhat of a curiosity, because this new version seems to contradict all of the themes of the original.
		The disappearance scene is the highlight of the film, with a very strong sense of dread and suspense that are reminiscent of Sluizer's direction of the original.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=6356 (988 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Unlike the first VANISHING, in which the explanation for a woman's disappearance is kept hidden for some time, this adaptation opens with the villain, Barney Cousins (Jeff Bridges), preparing for a kidnapping.
		The new film, designed for an American audience that presumably couldn't handle such a bleak ending, not only lets its hero live but allows him to deliver a final coup de grace to the villain, who originally got away with his evil plot.
		Part of what makes the first film so creepy is that, for a while, even the audience has no idea what's happened to the missing woman; the villain's preparations appear only in flashback.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=35667 (757 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Vanishing (1993)
		Fans of the original may well find that they are not in sympathy with the 1993 version's greater accessibility and distinctly different ending, but in terms of pure entertainment, I find the remake to be the more enjoyable and satisfying film.
		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.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/vanishing1993.php (1767 words)

	THE VANISHING (1993) + HARDCORE - DVDs
		1993 was the year that American remakes of two estimable foreign thrillers became instant poster boys for Hollywood condescension.
		Were the film not a box-office flop and had Sluzier's reputation not been damaged by the reports of tyranny that leaked from the set of Dark Blood (the movie that River Phoenix was making before he died), it's entirely possible that Sluzier's name would have some synonymity with Hitchcock's by now.
		The Vanishing sports a glittering anamorphic widescreen version matted to 1.83:1 and a flipside fullscreen alternative that just plain sucks by comparison: obviously taken from a much older master, it's garish and flecked with print debris.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/vanishinghardcore.htm (1031 words)

	VIY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sort of a modern, post-feminist response to films like The Seventh Seal, this film may prove difficult for the average consumer but rewards patient viewers with stunning imagery and plenty of food for thought.
		When her mother falls prey to the persecuting religious practices of the day, Christine comes to realize that perhaps she was not destined to remain an anchoress after all.
		The film wasn't intended to look sleek and glossy, so the appearance here is appropriate at least.
	www.mondo-digital.com /anchoress.html (454 words)

	cinema project \| Fall 2005
		McClure's newest piece, Christmas Tree Stand is a piece for film loops using a combination of two and four 16mm projectors retro-fitted with punched metal plates and mesh grids installed at variable angles between the lens and gate.
		The Metric Films are based upon exploring precise adaptations and deviations from the standard in projected film of 24 still images per second.
		His Metaphoric Films center on the filmmaker as archaeologist, examining the detritus of society (found images and sounds) and re-worked to point toward a cumulative and collective cultural legacy.
	www.cinemaproject.org /screenings.html (1982 words)

	People: Maren Monsen: caring through the end (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The film charts Monsen's journey as a doctor, as she accompanies Jim Brigham, spiritual care coordinator for the Midpeninsula Hospice, on his visits to terminally ill patients.
		Monsen admits the film had a profound effect on her, leading her to question the practice of extreme medical intervention in cases where death is inevitable.
		Making the film also helped Monsen confront the fear of her own death, which she is now able to see as just another stage of life.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/news/1998_Oct_28.PEOPLE28.html (695 words)

	The Vanishing [1993] DVD at Shop Ireland
		The Vanishing [1993] starring: Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland Directed by: George Sluizer
		A work of genius, I can't praise this awsome film highly enough, and I am SO please to be able to get it at last.
		How the same man made both versions of this film is beyond me, he must have forgotten all he learned second time around.
	www.shopireland.ie /dvd/reviews/B000063VBJ (817 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)

	Gambling On Americanized Foreign Films / Something gets lost in translation of English-language remakes
		The film was subtitled, and until Roberto Benigni's "Life Is Beautiful" came along in a big way in 1998 ("Money Is Beautiful"?) and Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Profits" last year, multiplex audiences simply wouldn't buy subtitled films.
		The 1993 remake of the great 1988 Dutch thriller "The Vanishing" was a disaster.
		It is still basically a one-joke film, about smelly louts from the past confronting the cacophony of modern life and its puzzling amenities, such as toilets.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/15/PK190351.DTL&type=movies (644 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > The Vanishing > Printer Friendly
		That's the creepy question at the heart of The Vanishing, and although the film is in some ways a fairly conventional thriller, that underlying question gives it an uneasy undertone.
		Sutherland's performance makes the later section of the film, which could have been implausible, work quite well; we see that he's not exaggerating when he says that he'll do anything at all if only he can finally know the truth.
		The Vanishing is an engaging thriller with a creepy premise and excellent performances from Kiefer Sutherland and Jeff Bridges in the two main roles.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=12348 (561 words)

	The Johns Hopkins Gazette: November 4, 2002
		The idea for the film festival was born last summer when Moskowitz, a Writing Seminars major minoring in film studies, had an internship with the University of Maryland Video Press, the Baltimore production company behind the Oscar-winning documentary King Gimp.
		Though Moskowitz isn't sure what his future holds in the film industry, he is actively involved in the present: As a Woodrow Wilson fellow, he's working on a documentary about the university.
		The film was remade by the director as an American film in 1993, but Moskowitz says the French version is "far superior" to its stateside successor.
	www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2002/04nov02/04thrill.html (511 words)

	BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL - 1993
		As someone says in a line in the movie that could refer to the humans and/or the churches and/or the doubtful solace of art, "All that's meant to protect is bound to isolate.
		This hourlong diary film frees up all the themes and motifs that were driven into a cul-de-sac of narrative contrivance in Egoyan's last film, The Adjuster.
		Instead, the film's dark-edged passion bestows a reverberant symbolism on the plainest objects – the sesame-milling machines, the bird-festooned boats that ply the silvery lake – and provides a foil for Siqin Gaowa's superb performance as Ma Sesame Oil.
	americancinemapapers.homestead.com /files/BERLIN_1993.htm (1971 words)

	The Daydreamer Web page: Wong News Articles
		After all, he said, ``Vanishing Son'' hits TV on the heels of a rush of interest in Asian-themed pop culture.
		`Son' co-executive producer Rob Cohen, who directed and co-wrote the 1993 film ``Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story,'' agrees Wong is action material, though he backed away from casting the actor in his Lee biography because of Wong's ``quiet presence.'' ``Lee was not a quiet presence,'' Cohen said.
		He was definitely the guy I was tailoring the picture for.'' In fact, ``Vanishing Son'' was sparked by an attempt from Universal Studios, which released ``Dragon,'' to tempt Cohen into doing a TV show based on Lee's life.
	www.geocities.com /SouthBeach/Port/9571/newsrwB.html (2017 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Head Above Water > Printer Friendly
		Head Above Water (1996) is a remake of a 1993 Norwegian film of the same name, and belongs to my absolute favorite genre of film: the "fl comedy".
		Like the original Norwegian film, there are only five characters in all, which makes for a very streamlined sense of interaction.
		As for the film's presentation, the 93-minute running time is divided into 20 chapters, and no layer change was detected.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=10883 (1032 words)

	The Problems of the Literary Biopic
		Both films were financial and critical failures, condemned for their inability to generate more than a modicum of suspense.
		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)

	Amazon.co.uk: Video: The Vanishing [1993] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		What is unusual is the director of the original getting the chance to helm the new version with an American cast, which is what happened with this film based on an intensely creepy Dutch film of the same name (both directed by George Sluizer).
		The Vanishing is one of those rare movies that insinuates itself under the skin of the mind and cannot be dislodged.
		On the DVD: The Vanishing comes to DVD with these slim pickings: the theatrical trailer, a filmography for Sluizer and a gallery of stills.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CO27 (1256 words)

	11/11/04: Not Even Nominated Part Fourteen
		John Williams was the inevitable choice to score the film, and reportedly threw his back out while conducting the score so Artie Kane had to take over the baton for some of the sessions.
		Elfman wrote not only the film's incidental music but wrote the music and lyrics for the film's songs and was the singing voice of the film's hero, Jack Skellington (whose dialogue was voiced by Chris Sarandon).
		Despite the somber ending, the film was a surprising if modest hit, and Elfman's score was one of his finest, effortlessly capturing the drama and the period (post Civil War) with none of his trademark musical mannerisms, and the film's production company, Regency, later used a snipped of the score as its logo music.
	www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/2004/11_Nov---Not_Even_Nominated_Part_Fourteen.asp (4023 words)

	The Vanishing (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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)

	Biography for Kiefer Sutherland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		On the Freeway (1996) DVD cover, he has a five o'clock shadow, but in the film itself, he is clean shaven.
		During the fourth season of "24" (2001), he filmed a Public Service Announcement to tell viewers that the show's creators were not trying to exploit 9/11 in their storylines, and that the whole terrorist storyline was fictional.
		More ensemble films with hot young actors followed, including Young Guns (1988), its 1990 sequel, and Flatliners (also 1990), which costarred Julia Roberts, to whom he was briefly engaged; the last-minute cancellation of their planned Hollywood wedding was headline fodder for months.
	us.imdb.com /name/nm0000662/bio (1750 words)

	The Vanishing Film Review - Time Out Film
		If you were registered for Time Out Film you would automatically see the cinemas near you showing this film.
		New films from Terry Gilliam, George Clooney, Michael Heneke and Cameron Crowe will be screening at the event.
		The annual Time Out Film Guide includes 15,000 films reviewed over the last 36 years by Time Out critics, covering every area of cinema: Hollywood mainstream and B-movie horrors, documentaries and avant garde, French, Far Eastern, classic silents and 1930s comedies.
	www.timeout.com /film/62861.html (293 words)

	Breakdown : Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies : Breakdown
		"The Vanishing" was a 1988 Dutch film that got Americanized by the original director, George Sluizer, into a 1993 film of the same title starring Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland.
		This film is also less a psychological thriller and more an action picture -- Jeff takes matters into his own hands, leading to a series of events that make less and less sense as the film unfolds.
		Given that blatant, naked rip-offs are now deemed an acceptable expression of the Hollywood creative process, wannabe filmmakers ought to start bombarding film execs with their ideas.
	www.mrcranky.com /movies/breakdown.html (541 words)

	The Vanishing (1993)
		A young woman vanishes at a highway rest stop and her boyfriend spends three years searching for her.
		The abductor begins dropping clues, leading the man to recreate the woman's final steps.
		Original Dutch-language film has more disturbing, downbeat feel, stomach-turning suspense.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?mid=2062 (77 words)

	The Vanishing (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Trivia: The cabin by the lake scenes were filmed at Camp Omache, a Boy Scout summer camp near Monroe, WA.
		For the critics here, I suspect it is sort of like the effect where you read a book before seeing a movie--it is hard for the movie to measure up.
		Anyway, The Vanishing definitely had strong performances, suspense, emotion and terror.
	akas.imdb.com /title/tt0108473 (396 words)

	Misdirections Magic Shop -- Videos & DVDs
		Eric DeCamps - Shadow Coins~ A beautiful, compact coin routine wherein three coins are cleanly vanished and then are caused to magically reappear one at a time.
		A thought-of colored ball vanishes and appears in the magician’s pocket.
		Filmed at the prestigious Magic Castle, this lecture was the finale to Michael's 1989 World Tour that included over 125 appearances spanning 18 countries.
	www.misdirections.com /shop8.html (10495 words)

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