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	"Traffic" - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The film is an Americanized version of a British TV miniseries, "Traffik," directed by Simon Moore for the U.K.'s Channel 4, and I don't think there's a scene in it that doesn't demonstrate Soderbergh's ambition or innovation.
		The film also tells the stories of two Los Angeles cops (Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman) working on turning a midlevel dealer (Miguel Ferrer) and of a woman (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who discovers that her husband (Steven Bauer) is a drug importer and slowly takes over the reins of his business.
		The separation of the four stories (which somewhat overlap) bluntly articulates the film's thesis: that everyone, from the user to the most powerful dealer, from the lowliest street cop to the government's biggest drug honcho, is caught in the same cycle.
	dir.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/12/27/traffic/index.html (624 words)

	Traffic (2000 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Traffic is a 2000 film directed by Steven Soderbergh that explores the intricacies of the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: user, enforcer, politician and trafficker.
		The film is a shorter adaptation of the British Channel 4 television series Traffik; the Pakistan plotline of the miniseries was replaced with the Mexican plotline in the film.
		Harrison Ford was originally sought for the film, but he turned down the opportunity in favour of starring in K-19: The Widowmaker, a decision described by the magazine Total Film as the 5th "dumbest decision in movie history".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Traffic_(2000_movie) (1067 words)

	2000 in film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film stars Mel Gibson and Milla Jovovich, and is directed by Wim Wenders.
		Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2000; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year.
		The top ten films of 2000 as of January 26, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), January 26, 2006 (UK) and January 26, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2000_in_film (309 words)

	Political Film Society - Traffic
		In the closing frames of Traffic, when the color returns to the blue-gray of the world of middle-class whites and official Washington, the daughter is at a Drugs Anonymous meeting alongside her mother and father.
		In short, Traffic is heavy medicine for a country divided between affluent addicts and naïve adults who want to criminalize drug addiction and then throw money at the problem in a self-righteous gesture, with a message that the War on Drugs has already been won by the drug lords.
		The tagline of the film, "No one gets away clean," hits the nail on the head, as the problem is that the demand for drugs creates the supply.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/traffic.html (818 words)

	Press: TRAFFIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		At its core, the film is a sober-minded look at the drug trade, from an all-inclusive angle that takes on both the War on Drugs’ policymakers in our nation’s capital to the dealers, users, cops and DEA agents on the streets, and everyone in between.
		As the film opens, we meet Mexican cops Javier Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro) and Manolo Sanchez (Jacob Vargas), who intercept an airborne shipment of cocaine in the midst of the Mexican desert, only to have their haul promptly taken from them by the heavily armed General Salazar of the Mexican Army.
		In the film’s third narrative skein are DEA agents Montel Gordon (Don Cheadle) and Ray Castro (Luis Guzman), who nail drug kingpin Carlos Ayala (Steven Bauer) and leave his hapless, unknowing wife Helena (Catherine Zeta-Jones) suddenly adrift in a hell of unpayable mortgages and general familial destruction.
	www.anchoragepress.com /archives/documentd208.html (625 words)

	Traffic (2000 film) - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Traffic is a film directed by Steven Soderbergh that explores the intricacies of the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: user, enforcer, politician and trafficker.
		Catherine Zeta-Jones was pregnant during filming, and the role was adjusted to suit her condition.
		Director Steven Soderberg is known as being first camera on many of his films, as a result, he was operating the camera for most of the shooting.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Traffic_(movie) (1187 words)

	Traffic (2000 film) Essays
		There are 3 essays on Traffic (2000 film).
		Essay analyzes the Steven Soderbergh's film, "Traffic" by using methods such as semiotics, semantics, and juxtapostioning.
		A review of the movie "Traffic," directed by Stephen Soderbergh, with its themes of the drug trade and a wide variety of emotions.
	www.bookrags.com /essay/Traffic_(2000_film) (72 words)

	AboutFilm.com - Traffic (2000)
		One should ask, after viewing the film, if the side effects should be attacked at all, or if efforts are better spent treating the necessary ills that accompany our thirsts.
		Traffic works so well not because of its content, but how its content is communicated, and how it manages to accrue feeling scene by scene to its magnificent finale.
		In many films with dozens of speaking parts, the writers try to dazzle you with their ability to tie everyone and everything together neatly.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/t/traffic.htm (921 words)

	Traffic Movie Homepage
		Traffic (2000)/####/*** The stories of several drug dealers, drug addicts, and anti-drug officials are interwoven to present a picture of current battlefield conditions in the War on Drugs.
		What this film makes most clear is that the War on Drugs is a war, a civil war, with real casualties, real prisoners, that spreads well beyond the mark of its originating participants to touch even the lives of those who seem most removed from it.
		One of the DEA agents is killed; one of the Mexican police is killed; the drug czar's daughter is addicted; the czar resigns; and the drug-dealer and his wife are headed for prison.
	www.missliberty.com /Filmtraffic.html (592 words)

	2000 Cannes Film Festival Diaries
		Film Scouts on the Riviera 2000 is presented by:
		Moreover, as the striking janitors were the first unexpected obstacle in what would turn out to be quite a hellish travel day, I therefore assign them blame for setting in motion the unfortunate chain of events.
		One face I did recognize was that of Richard Zanuck, the ex-studio chief, film producer and, most recently, producer of the Academy Awards ceremony.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/diary.cfm?Festival=cannes00&File=2356 (934 words)

	Montreal World Film Festival 2000
		The film is inspired by the aesthetic of important Spanish artists, such as Dali, Miro and Picasso.
		As the film opens, we are intrigued by the strong sounds we hear as yogurts move down a corridor, accompanied by shadows and suspense music.
		The film is a visual rendition of renowned Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s vocals as he performs “Tracery,” composed by Michael Brook.
	www.siegelproductions.ca /filmfanatics/wff2000.htm (4071 words)

	Part 3: Cinematography
		High contrast is usually associated with the low key lighting of dark scenes in genres such as the horror film and the film noir.
		For instance, in a Mizoguchi or a Hou film, two characters may be having a conversation in a room, and after several minutes, the camera might pan and reveal a third person was also present, thus changing the whole implication of the scene.
		In a film like Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000), on the other hand, pans are usually very quick, suggesting that characters have no time to waste, and that decisions must be taken fast, therefore contributing to the sense of imminent danger and moral urgency that the films tries to communicate.
	classes.yale.edu /film-analysis/htmfiles/cinematography.htm (4746 words)

	disinformation \| traffic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		She then points out how Traffic sometimes reverts to stereotypes, such as when the newly appointed drug czar's daughter Caroline, a white woman, "sleeps with a fl dealer, a highly racialized scene which 'proves' the depths to which the filmâ's princess has fallen.
		The many opinions expressed about Traffic in the media, both positive and negative, just goes to show how far away from rational debate we really are about the War on Some Drugs and the specter of drug addiction.
		Bloom reads the film as a much needed change in the portrayal of drug warriors, graphically illustrating the futility of their war.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id1000/pg1 (1517 words)

	POLS Y200 Government and the Sports Business
		The primary goal of this course is to facilitate the ability of students to connect basic political questions and concepts to their portrayal within films.
		When this film was released, there was a great deal of talk that it would foster a frank national discussion on our drug policy and open the possibilities for change.
		The film seems to make much out of the impact on men of being abandoned by their fathers.
	users.ipfw.edu /heyt/syl_y401_fall_01_film.htm (4271 words)

	Montreal Film Journal
		That is, until his very own "Traffic", a film even more skilfully made but also one with a most interesting subject: the so-called war on drugs.
		The film follows a wide gallery of characters placed at different levels of the trafficking, as well as the officials and agents who fight mostly in vain to stop them.
		The film is interesting notably in the way it shows you how drugs go from modest crops down south to the hands of junkies.
	www.montrealfilmjournal.com /review.asp?R=R0000563 (1463 words)

	Traffic (2000) - Moovees.com Review
		Everyone can draw their own conclusions, of course, as the film remains morally ambiguous, but the overall feeling most people will get is that the current war on drugs is a war that can't be won.
		Some people may be disappointed that Traffic doesn't really move them on an emotional level, but for the film to blatantly do so would be a betrayal to its even-handedness and might even make it less powerful.
		Traffic is a brilliant work of art that depicts all sides of a controversial issue, and then allows logic to draw the conclusions rather than manipulate its audience.
	www.moovees.com /review/traffic.html (774 words)

	TRAFFIC
		TRAFFIC is this year's edgy, "independent" choice and I believe it had a right to be up there...even if I didn't really enjoy it all that much.
		This is a picture one should see in a theater where you're forced to stay and sit through the whole thing, to be immersed in the visuals.
		I'm glad Soderbergh won the Oscar for best direction, since TRAFFIC definitely was one of the most unique visual experiences to come down the pike in quite awhile.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsT/f_traffic.html (1297 words)

	Welcome to Bitter Films
		The first ideas for the film - largely constituting what's now the first act - were conceived as early as 1997-8, and were at one point intended to be the first scene of a feature screenplay.
		The length and scope of the film's "animal" sequences expanded far beyond their original conception, eventually rivaling the human crowd scenes in difficulty.
		Animation genius Don Hertzfeldt, whose 2000 film Rejected is one of the funniest animated shorts ever made, has delivered a more varied and textured work than any of his previous line drawing material...
	bitterfilms.com /meaningoflife.html (2631 words)

	Traffic: Cinephiles Movie Review
		While Traffic clearly presents the devastating consequences of the daughter's drug addiction, the film also resists offering a clear condemnation of any character for her downfall.
		Rather than prove the premise that everyone is responsible for the negative consequences of drugs, the film's undefined intellectual or moral position seems to be more representative of an overall lack of creativity, as it does not solidly nor clearly develop its own theories.
		As its conclusion, Traffic offers a comment that speaks of the need to find moral support within the family unit before gathering the strength to confront the enemy.
	www.cinephiles.net /Traffic/Film-Synopsis.html (412 words)

	Traffic (2000): Reviews
		Traffic evokes the high stakes and high risks of the drug trade, as seen through a series of interrelated stories, some of which are highly personal and some of which are filled with intrigue and danger.
		Where Traffic stumbles is in its inability to engage the heart with the same fervor it engages the intellect.
		This is not a propaganda film as one person said, it is a film that explores the various perspectives and problems in the "war against drugs".
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/traffic (1224 words)

	DVD Review: Traffic (Criterion)
		The movie tells a few different stories that really don't often link up in a cinematic way, but in a different way, the lives of the characters all are connected in their world, simply further up or further down the chain.
		In terms of the two "drug" films of 2000, I have to say I was a little more impressed with Darren Aronofsky's "Requiem For A Dream", but "Traffic" also remains an outstanding picture.
		Film Processing Demo: This section shows the five steps that were taken to add the sort of yellowed, desaturated look of the Mexico sequence.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/trafficccdvd.html (1365 words)

	Artsandentertainment: Critics: 'Traffic' best picture
		Frances McDormand was named best supporting actress both for her Almost Famous role as the overprotective mother of a 15-year-old rock journalist, and for her turn as a stressed-out academic in Wonder Boys.
		Kate Hudson was selected best newcomer of 2000 for her performance in Famous as a wistful groupie.
		Crouching Tiger was cited as the best foreign-language film of 2000, thanks in part to the panel's choice for best cinematographer, Peter Pau.
	www.sptimes.com /News/010501/news_pf/Artsandentertainment/Critics___Traffic__be.shtml (359 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Traffic [2001]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Utilising the no-frills techniques of the Dogme 95 school, Soderbergh enhances his handheld filming with imaginative editing and film-stock manipulation that eerily captures the atmosphere of each location: a washed-out, grainy Mexico; a blue and chilly Ohio; a sleek, sun-dappled San Diego.
		The basic theme of the film is the fact that the drug trade harms everyone involved in it - there are no real winners, but despite this it manages to avoid coming across as simplistic or moralising.
		In the film, Benicio del Toro was superb, but Catherine Zeta-Jones was slightly unbelievable as innocent housewife turned gangster in the space of a week.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000057X1O (897 words)

	Review of "Traffic" (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It’s become all too rare that a major studio film is released that defies the rules, refuses to play it safe with conventional heroes and a story that comes gift-wrapped in a nice, big package with a bow on top - a package that, more often than not, turns out to be completely empty.
		Many have called his direction on this film “Altman-like,” and I can think of no better way to describe it; the scope of the film is astounding, and Soderbergh does an incredible job of juggling several stories and countless characters at once.
		The film doesn’t pretend to have any easy answers, and leaves it up to the viewer to derive their own opinion.
	www.filmaholic.net /reviews_traffic.html (553 words)

	A Fistful of Reviews - Traffic (2000)
		He is a man who is oblivious to reality early in the film, but, by the end, has become so immersed in the brutal truth that it seems unlikely that he will ever look at things the same way again.
		He filmed the whole thing, himself, hand-held so that it would make the viewer feel like they are more involved in the film.
		This helps to contrast the war on both sides of the border in that it shows that things are handled in a very blunt, straightforward manner south of the border and north of the border things are handled in a professional political fashion.
	www.afistfulofreviews.com /qrst/traffic_jj.htm (1166 words)

	TNT's roughcut.com --Civilian Voices: Jan 13, 2001
		Traffic is one of the few films of 2000 that
		That film only got an audience of any size around summer 2000, by which time it was already on VHS.
		A film that doesn't click at first usually doesn't succeed on second try, by which time it feels old and more of a video view than a trip-to-the-cinema-and-$8 affair.
	www.thehotbutton.com /voices/civilian/20010113_weekend.html (1221 words)

	Traffic (2000 film) Summary
		Traffic is a 2000 film directed by Steven Soderbergh that explores the intricacies of the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: user, enforcer, politician and trafficker.
		The film is a shorter adaptation of the British Channel 4 television se...
		In the following review, Turan offers a generally positive assessment of Traffic, but highlights some of the film's flaws, such as weak individual characterization and moments of melodrama.
	www.bookrags.com /Traffic_(2000_film) (207 words)

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