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	Thirteen Women - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thirteen Women is a 1932 film, produced by RKO Studios and directed by George Archainbaud.
		The film was described as a drama or mystery film, but with its plot revolving around a series of murders, it is also a very early example of the slasher film which became popular in more recent times with films such as Halloween and I Know What You Did Last Summer.
		The film was not a popular success, however it has acquired a cult film status, and critics have stated that its theme was ahead of its time and out of step with the tastes of early 1930s cinema patrons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thirteen_Women (369 words)

	Thirteen (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thirteen is a 2003 film co-written by Catherine Hardwicke (who also directed the film) and Nikki Reed.
		It is a semi-autobiographical film based on Nikki's experiences as a thirteen-year-old and those around her in the same age group.
		The film is currently rated as 81% fresh on the Tomanator, including 89% fresh among cream of the crop critics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thirteen_(movie) (370 words)

	Betty Furness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her first film role was as the "Thirteenth Woman" in the 1932 film Thirteen Women but her scenes were deleted before the film's release.
		Among her film successes were Magnificent Obsession (1935) and the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Swing Time (1936).
		By the end of the decade she had appeared in over forty films, but during the 1940s found it difficult to secure acting roles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Betty_Furness (673 words)

	Filmtracks: Thirteen Days (Trevor Jones)
		Thirteen Days: (Trevor Jones) A composer and instructor of great talents, Trevor Jones is an artist on the brink of bursting through into the elite of the film music hierarchy.
		As the history of the film conveys, at no point was the world closer to nuclear annihilation, and the film very well captures the paranoia of the two week Cuban Missile Crisis without yielding too much to the nobility of America's somewhat-immature pride.
		Upon listening to the theme of the film, it is almost as though it was a John Williams rendition of the American President theme by Marc Shaiman.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/thirteen_days.html (1116 words)

	Thirteen Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Thirteen has been compared to both Heavenly Creatures and The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love, both because of the homoerotic subtext and, in the case of Heavenly Creatures, the near-psychosis fueled by teenager passions.
		It's too bad this film is rated R, because in many ways it's a film that should spark discussions among families&3151;discussions about the choices Tracy makes, why Evie acts as she does, and perhaps most importantly, tying those topics into the lives of the kids in each viewing family.
		Yet, perhaps because director Catherine Hardwicke wrote the script with her teenage co-star Reed, the film is seductive, attuned as it is to the language and rituals of actual 13-year-olds with spot-on dialogue and terrific performances from its young cast.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=138401 (1842 words)

	Thirteen
		For while the film implies that teen-age girldom, at least as lived in the fallow, prefab suburbs of Los Angeles, is a ghastly and ever-gathering storm of unbridled impulse and squandered gifts, the publicity campaign is almost rapturously reverent of the "true" perspective conferred by Nikki Reed's hard-won wisdom.
		Almost everything in Thirteen—the hyperactive zoom lens, the rapid editing, the shocked and awed reaction shots to her dress and behavior, the looping narrative that juxtaposes her wildness in a preamble sequence with her primness in the flashback—creates a structure in which Wood's performance is not only lavishly showcased but virtually accomplished on her behalf.
		It offers one stunning performance, from an actress who clearly believes in the film (Hunter is credited as an executive producer) but who nonetheless labors at every minute to either focus the movie at its moments of near-dispersal or deepen the movie in its stretches of pure cliché.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /thirteen.html (1314 words)

	Thirteen, a cautionary bad-girl film. By David Edelstein
		After that walloping start, Thirteen, which is set in Los Angeles, jumps back in time to introduce Tracy, four months earlier, when she was still a good girl: when she listened to her mom and didn't pierce herself, use drugs, steal, or have sex with boys.
		Thirteen is a cautionary bad-girl picture, a genre that's been kicking around since before movies could talk: It's the stuff of laughable '50s juvenile delinquent films, '70s TV movies with Linda Blair, and Afterschool Specials.
		Thirteen is too early for kids to be at the mercy of rapacious market forces.
	www.slate.com /id/2087221/device/html40 (1080 words)

	Thirteen (2003): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The film is not without its share of awkward moments, but as an insightful critique of "Girl Culture" and the mounting war over the hearts and minds of adolescent girls that's currently being waged in the media, it's mandatory viewing.
		Though thirteen too often mistakes hard realism for overheated spectacle, the heightened drama brings out the best in Wood and Hunter, who turn their climactic scene into an actors' workshop, charged with raw emotion.
		If you boil Thirteen down to its flimsy bones, you'll find that it's not really so much about peer pressure in contemporary teen life as it is a story about a classic bad egg.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/thirteen2003 (1393 words)

	Thirteen Days film review
		Thirteen Days is a fascinating and chilling reminder of the period in 1962 when John F. Kennedy held America's, and the world's, fate in his hands as he dealt with what became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
		The film opens with clips of an atomic mushroom cloud to establish, for those too young to remember, exactly what was at stake.
		It was a tough decision and one that Thirteen Days dramatises superbly with strong performances from Bruce Greenwood as the beleaguered JFK and Steven Culp as his attorney general brother Robert.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/thirteen_days.html (629 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Thirteen Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Thirteen Days is very long film that has no point and it is very boring.
		I love historical drama films and I loved the film JFK and I think that Kevin Costner took this film because he thought that it was going to be as good as the film JFK but it was not.
		Thirteen Days is a film I will likely watch again for the taut story and worthwhile performances.
	www.hour.ca /film/movie.aspx?iIDFilm=1604&v=vo (774 words)

	Thirteen (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The only shocking part of "Thirteen" was how the girls suddenly turn on each other.
		Predictably, this movie (which is aimed at young teenage girls) was given an 18s rating by the Irish film censor.
		But the overall feeling of "Thirteen" was that it's nothing special.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0328538 (381 words)

	Boston Review \| Film
		Thirteen Days is a moving recreation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, especially when you knew the principals.
		A Czech film explores human cruely and the possibility of forgiveness.
		Burnt by the Sun is a remarkable film with one large flaw -- it sentimentalizes Stalinism.
	bostonreview.net /onfilm.html (484 words)

	channel4.com/film - Thirteen
		But the film takes care to point out that even hard-cases like Evie are just kids who are afraid of their moms.
		Thirteen doesn't try to moralise, nor is it trying to be a 'wake up' to parents.
		It is well acted and with the added realism from Reed as co-writer, the film is an intuitive and biting reminder of how horrible growing up can be and, when taken to extremes, how much scope there is for angst to be turned into self-destruction.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=124924 (312 words)

	View London \| Film Review \| Thirteen Ghosts (2002)
		Thirteen Ghosts, like the equally appalling The House on Haunted Hill before it, is a remake of an old William Castle film.
		Castle was famous for inventing ‘gimmicks’ to go with his movies (an electric buzzer under the seat for a film called The Tingler and so on) and apparently the original version of Thirteen Ghosts had a special viewer that allowed the audience to choose whether or not to see the onscreen ghosts.
		two of the most important characters disappear about half-way through the film and, although they later re-appear at the end, we never find out where they were); a complete disregard for the film’s internal logic (the ghosts chase people on foot); and the fact that they throw away their nastiest moment really early on.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /review_934.html (604 words)

	"'THIRTEEN' DAYS": Film Freak Central Interviews Director Catherine Hardwicke
		But as our interview progressed, and Hardwicke held forth on the circumstances surrounding her directorial debut Thirteen, the setting fell away, and I was left with a woman whose passion for her work surged forth from every word she said.
		Even if we grab a digital camera, go to your house and film this, we're gonna make something together!" And she was like, "Okay." She got on board with that idea--she didn't believe me, of course, because I've tried to make other movies, get other projects off the ground, and nothing's ever happened.
		Well, I think a lot of films handle this kind of material in, like, a comedic fashion, in a light fashion, which is great, and it's one cool approach to it, but we were not going for that.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /notes/chardwickeinterview.htm (1758 words)

	Thirteen
		Thirteen, the start of the turbulent teenage years, typically a very difficult and explosive time, not only for the new teenager but for the parents as well.
		With the new film ‘Thirteen’ we see this tumultuous period in the first person, through the eyes of a girl that has just turned thirteen.
		The screenplay for this film was co-written by Nikki Reed when she was just thirteen; she acted in the film at the ripe old age of fourteen.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /thirteen3.htm (1117 words)

	Political Film Society - Thirteen Days
		Thirteen Days makes much of the confusing Soviet response to Kennedy’s quarantine ultimatum and the important meeting between Attorney General Robert Kennedy (played by Steven Culp) and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin (played by Elya Baskin) which served to bring the crisis to an end.
		Thirteen Days also depicts United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson (played by Michael Fairman) as politically isolated in his preference for a diplomatic solution, whereas The Missiles of October gives him a more crucial role in raising issues that had not previously been considered seriously.
		The drama of the film appears to teach lessons to Americans who perhaps should reconsider the legitimacy of recent wars against Iraq and Serbia, where diplomatic options may have been pursued much less carefully.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/thirteendays.html (520 words)

	BBC - Films - Thirteen
		Thirteen opens with an almighty wallop (literally) as two stoned teenage girls repeatedly punch each other in the face - just for laughs.
		In short, Thirteen is to parents what The Exorcist once was to teenagers: terrifying.
		In all, Thirteen could be described as the anti-American Pie.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2003/11/21/thirteen_2003_review.shtml (414 words)

	Film Review: Thirteen *** - Life & Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hardwicke co-wrote the script with Nikki Reed, who was 13 at the time of writing, and 14 when she made her acting debut with a major role in the film.
		She proposed screenwriting as a way to calm her down and the result was this fictional account of the difficult time Reed was going through in her early teenage years.
		The film begins with a brutal scene showing Reed and the film's star, Evan Rachel Wood (Simone), sitting on a bed, each begging the other to punch her in the face.
	media.www.thehurricaneonline.com /media/storage/paper479/news/2003/09/05/LifeArt/Film-Review.Thirteen-458127.shtml?sourcedomain=www.thehurricaneonline.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com (557 words)

	Film Review: Thirteen Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		By taking the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962, and dressing it in thriller genre clothes the film manages to vividly bring back to life a frightening time when nuclear war was a lot closer than many people might now realize.
		Having said all that, Thirteen Days has an irksome smugness and "rah-rah America" tone that I don't recall feeling when I first saw the classic 1974 piece The Missiles of October, starring William Devane and Martin Sheen as Kennedy the Elder and Younger, respectively.
		In Thirteen Days, the "communist threat to the American way of life" is illustrated by a scene where Costner goes to watch his kid's football game and genuinely laments that this is what might be lost.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/t/thirteen_days_2000_r2.shtml (536 words)

	Thirteen Days (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Plot Outline: The film is set during the two-week Cuban missile crisis in October of 1962, and it centers on how President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and others handled the explosive situation.
		During the filming of the movie, the planes were actually being towed.
		Thirteen Days brings back the good old fashioned (and I mean good) nailbiter film here and even if you know history (thus knowing the outcome), there is still some good stuff here.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0146309 (445 words)

	She's no Gidget. 'Thirteen' shows a girl's chilling, desperate search for popularity. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		"Thirteen," about a seventh-grade Los Angeles girl whose hunger for popularity leads her into depravity, is an effective and memorable film that's disturbing in several distinct ways.
		"Thirteen" is Reed's triumph, and yet our awareness of her triumph obviates her triumph, in that it undercuts our perception of the film as a cautionary tale.
		It's ultimately the most disturbing thing about this highly unsettling film: Had Reed stayed a sweet kid, she could never have reached this pinnacle of glamour, as the co-writer and co-star of an acclaimed feature film.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/08/29/DD240506.DTL&type=movies (733 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING movie by Jill Sprecher with Matthew McConaughey, John ...
		Its four interlocking stories rarely emerge from a low-key rut, but the way the film is constructed is a mind-teaser that becomes clear only in the very last scene.
		It tries hard to be a great, deep, thoughtful film, and it isn't bad at all but it comes up well short of greatness.
		Surprisingly, a cast full of consistently fine actors fails to breathe adequate life into the film, maybe because the script lacks warmth or maybe because this is the effect that writer-director Jill Sprecher was going for.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2002/thirteenconversations.php3 (555 words)

	Thirteen: A Ransom Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Though I am pleased for Catherine Hardwicke that Thirteen, the first film she directed, won a number of awards, I suspect that her role in Nikki Reed’s life may bring her the deepest sense of fulfillment.
		“Thirteen is definitely true to my 13th year,” Nikki Reed said in an interview, “but I can’t say it’s autobiographical because, if I do, then everyone would assume that every detail in the movie happened to me, and it didn’t.
		Rather it is a film designed to portray reality and goes a step further by offering commentary on the results of adopting the lifestyles portrayed...
	www.ransomfellowship.org /M_Thirteen.html (1683 words)

	Thirteen (2003): Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed, Holly Hunter - PopMatters Film Review
		The film suggests that she's not, but only from a distance, as the girls perceive her, running down the hallway on the way to work, or through a window as she huddles on her couch, stitched and fl-and-blue from her ear job.
		Though Mel tends to appear from the girls' point of view, framed by windows and doorways, not quite understanding what they're going through, she manifestly cares about them, means to do well, and won't give up on them ("Baby," she pleads, "We have to have a real talk").
		In part, this has to do with Wood and Hunter, who are frequently stunning (Mel's assault on her own kitchen floor tiles is one remarkable moment), but it's also a function of the attention paid to both characters' ongoing efforts to deal with more or less familiar traumas.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/t/thirteen.shtml (1305 words)

	CNN.com - Review: Searing, brilliant 'Thirteen' - Aug. 22, 2003
		Ironically, with an R rating, the film cannot be seen (without an adult) by the very age group depicted in the film -- but it's well worth seeing, both for parents and their children.
		Sure, any parents viewing this film might be tempted to lock their daughters in the house until the girls reach 18.
		"Thirteen" is a provocative peek into the raw world of modern urban adolescence -- but it's a peek with lots of thought, and some fine filmmaking, behind it.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/22/sprj.cas03.review.thirteen (640 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Film Listings
		Both films deal honestly (some would say brutally) with teens out of control, awash in hormones, and drowning in peer pressure, none of it good.
		But where Clark’s film came saddled with the unmistakable air of arthouse bravado, Hardwicke’s picture plays more like one of those old auto-safety films retrofitted for those most luckless among us, the parents of teenage girls.
		This film which examines the second-class status of women in traditional Hindu society is beautiful yet sad, a tale drenched in centuries of stagnant, holy water.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gbase/Calendar/Film?Film=oid:173812 (733 words)

	Thirteen, a film by Catherine Hardwicke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It would have been easy for the film to make her character purely self-indulgent, but early on we see her trying to set limits on her daughter, something that parents of the girl's classmates seemingly don't do at all.
		I've written in this space against the blind acceptance of the DVD format as a replacement for film projection rather than as a supplement, primarily because filmmakers shoot their films intending for the image to be large.
		Like a challenging book, a DVD can conceivably allow a home viewer a chance to take their dispute with a film over days, weeks, as long as is needed to absorb the story.
	home.att.net /~jamestata/thirteen_review.html (508 words)

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