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	Traffic (2000 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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".
		Based loosely around the British Channel 4 television series Traffik, the film avoids sanctimony and was responsible for renewed discussion of drug issues in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Traffic_(movie) (218 words)

	Traffic movie review, In Film Australia
		The world seems to be twisted around the wrong way, where eyewitnesses need to be closely protected from assassination attempts, where politicians mouth sentences like "fight for the children" with careless ease, where the US drug war budget does not even compare with the amount of funds the barons are playing with.
		‘Traffic’ is connected by dramatic circumstances that occur in the film.
		That’s the way Soderburg is narrating ‘Traffic,’ using his hand held cameras and colour filters to piece it together in documentary style, avoiding the stable, stylised shots that go synonymous with action films (sadly, what the film has been marketed as).
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/traffic.htm (1067 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Traffic
		Rarely has a film so energetic and suspenseful presented a more complex and nuanced view of an issue of such international importance.
		Traffic is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
		At the request of the director, English subtitles for the Spanish sequences are presented as they were on the U.S. film prints, rather than as optional subtitles.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=151 (177 words)

	Traffic review
		These scenes are filmed in bluish tones, symbolizing the official dimension (and policy) as well as the cleanliness of this rich world and how it is the antipodes of Del Toro’s world, to better accentuate the contrast.
		Traffic is the successful crossing of an independent film (through its pessimistic and non-conformist artistic vision) and a commercial movie (by way of its casting).
		With this film, Steven Soderbergh is the most interesting director of the moment, the only one successfully able to preserve his independence in Hollywood while using all of its resources, thus ensuring total artistic freedom.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/traffic.html (1091 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Reviews \| Traffic
		But despite an apparent equivalence of moral squalor between Mexico and the United States, Traffic makes it subtly clear that the official corruption is all happening south of the Rio Grande; the worst that the Americans are guilty of is a surfeit of innocence.
		Soderbergh appears to be inviting us to consider his eventual reunion with her, and support for her therapy programme, as the morally redemptive centre of this big complex film.
		Traffic aspires to show a total vision of drugs, and yet the only actual users shown are The Kids: whereas we all know the users are The Adults, too: blue-collar and white-collar, lawyers, truck-drivers, cops and, erm, movie folk.
	film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/0,4267,428800,00.html (966 words)

	Traffic Movie: Traffic DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		The film tells three seemingly disparate stories that loosely intersect and overlap, unfurling at a frantic, relentless pace.
		TRAFFIC was inspired by the English miniseries TRAFFIK (1989), which was produced for Channel 4 Films.
		Among the cameos in the film are appearances by Albert Finney, Salma Hayek, Benjamin Bratt, and James Brolin.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/696306018124IE (897 words)

	Traffic Movie Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		But it is an important film, because it's one of the first to make clear that the participants in the drug trade--the pitied junkie, the greedy drug dealer, the dead and/or corrupt cop--are not "them." They are often us and those we love.
	www.missliberty.com /Filmtraffic.html (592 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Reviews \| Traffic
		In the next part, the film observes some rich teenagers in a fashionable suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, partying with recreational drugs, a scene that concludes with the 16-year-old Caroline (Erika Christianson) passing out after free-basing cocaine.
		What unites these people is their involvement on both sides of the US-Mexican border in the traffic in drugs and while most are not even vaguely aware of the others' existence, everything that happens in one part of the story produces reverberations in the others.
		Families are central to Traffic - the two big drug-dealing families in Mexico that exact total obedience; the two complacent middle-class families in the States driven to question their values.
	film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Critic_Review/Observer_review/0,4267,430492,00.html (862 words)

	1/23/01: Cliff Martinez Traffic
		Traffic, which deals with America's escalation of the war on drugs, features an all-star cast including Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Quaid and Catherine Zeta-Jones; and appears to be another notch on the director's ladder of recent success.
		Martinez adds that although the backbone of the score for Traffic is the guitar of David Torn, there's not a lot of material that's recognizable as a guitar.
		"Traffic was a lot of fun because I got such a kick out of the idea that this was a $50 million picture and it (has) music that was certainly nothing all that unique or all that original, but for a film like this that's cast like this, it is," says Martinez.
	filmscoremonthly.com /articles/2001/23_Jan---Cliff_Martinez_Traffic.asp (803 words)

	Traffic: Cinephiles Movie Review
		Traffic explores a set of diverse characters who fight against or for drugs, supply or consume them.
		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.
	www.cinephiles.net /Traffic/Film-Synopsis.html (412 words)

	Traffic film review
		The film deals with the pervasive and destructive influence of drugs on all aspects of society.
		Traffic weaves three separate tales, each of which explores a different facet of the drug world and those who inhabit it.
		The film uses elipses rather than full stops at the end of each story to indicate they're not over; that they'll never be over.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/traffic.html (553 words)

	Film Threat - Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The contrast easily identifies a character's location throughout the tightly edited film, and subtly serves to highlight the different and rules and dangers of the worlds on each side of the border.
		In "Traffic," one high-school student even states that for the average teenager, drugs are easier to buy than beer.
		What the makers of "Traffic" wish to communicate is that as long as we poison the big discussion with politics, there will be little effect upon the individuals who poison their bodies.
	www.filmthreat.com /Reviews.asp?File=ReviewsOne.inc&Id=1388 (1555 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Traffic [2001]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The cinematography is impressive especially how the film moves between the three locations and the way the characters from the three stories are interlinked with other is well executed on screen.
		What I really like about Traffic is that you get an insight of all the different types of people whose lives have been blighted by drugs and that drugs is a worldwide problem that effects everyone irrespective of their ethnic origin, religion or socio-economic group.
		However, the real star of the film is director Steven Soderbergh, who masterfully juggles all of the intertwining stories with skill, and shoots the film exquisitely, using a hand-held camera that almost looks like a documentary.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000057X1O (1021 words)

	Traffic Film Review
		For what its worth I feel that a film is about telling a story and that the direction should add to the story not detract from it, as these flashy effects do here.
		Overall Traffic is a good film, it is complex and entertaining and stands up well to repeated viewings, that is if you can get past all of the flashy camera tricks.
		The film itself gives a poor transfer, and there is not the most prolific selection of extras, especially on such and important film as this.
	www.domicilium.com /loganandglitz/reviews/g-traffic.htm (701 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Traffic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Traffic" tells three separate tales, which don't overlap, but are all held together by one thematic thread.
		Michael Douglas is Robert Wakefield, the newly-appointed US drug czar who is forced to confront addiction first-hand in the shape of his wayward daughter (excellent newcomer Christensen).
		The director is not afraid to use offbeat techniques to achieve what he wants and as such the documentary feel, different colour settings for each story, and the Spanish-heavy dialogue of Del Toro's story, create an air of immediacy and authenticity.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2001/01/22/traffic_2001_review.shtml (386 words)

	Traffic (2000 movie) : Traffic (film) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Traffic is a film directed by Steven Soderbergh that explores the intricacies of the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: user, politician, trafficker.
		Based loosely around the Channel 4 television series Traffik[?], the film avoids sanctimony and was responsible for renewed discussion of drug issues in the United States.
		Rumour has it that George W. Bush sat down with his drug czar[?] and told him to watch Traffic, saying, this is what is what the drug situation is like in America.
	www.explainthis.info /tr/traffic-(film).html (315 words)

	Traffic. A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		Traffic had an amazing cast of actors who all should all be recognized for their work in bringing the world of drugs, which so often those of us who live in suburbs or who are not directly affected by drugs ignore, to vivid life.
		Traffic is a gritty movie that employs many different techniques to convey the imagery and the feelings of the drug world.
		All film stills, trailers, video clips and trademarks are the property of their respective owners and may not be reproduced for any reason whatsoever.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /traffic.htm (2722 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Traffic at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At the beginning of the film she appears to be an innocent wife only trying to raise her family.
		By the end of the film she becomes just as corrupt as her husband.
		I will say that the film can be very graphic at time when it comes to its depiction of drug use.
	www.epinions.com /content_8124075652 (592 words)

	Human Traffic 2 film movie trailer review at The Z Review
		This time the film will be set on the party island of Ibiza, rather than Cardiff, where the original was set and filmed.
		The word is that producers are trying to persuade superclub Manumission to let them film on their closing night.
		The plot of Human Traffic 2 is still unknown, but the original was based around the antics of five clubbers who live for the weekend.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/h/humantraffic2.shtm (298 words)

	KODAK HAWKEYE Traffic Surveillance Color Film
		This film may be "pushed" 1 stop by exposing at EI 800, and extending the development time in Process C-41.
		Traffic Surveillance Color Film negatives can be easily scanned with a variety of photomultiplier tube (PMT), linear-array charge-coupled device (CCD) and area-array CCD scanners.
		The sensitivity of a scanner to a film's dye set is determined by the spectral sensitivity of the CCD and the spectral distribution of the colored filters used to capture the red, green and blue information contained in the film.
	kodak.com /US/en/business/aim/industrial/techPubs/ti2420/ti2420.shtml (1420 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Why Colombians support Traffic film
		"Traffic showed what we have been saying all along - that drug consumption cannot be stopped by sending us more soldiers and helicopters and fuelling the fighting," said 30-year-old university teacher, Cristina Jimenez.
		Today many see their country and society unravelling in the orgy of killing and blame just one thing - the billions of dollars in drug revenue that finance over 30,000 guerrillas and paramilitaries and the many drug cartels dedicated to organised anarchy.
		At the end of the film, when the former US drug czar, played by Michael Douglas, attends a session with his daughter in a rehab clinic, the family-mad Colombians cheered.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1257000/1257904.stm (721 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 /video/titles/traffic (1359 words)

	Traffic - DVD - Title T Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		This film won a lot of awards when it was released, 4 Oscars and 5 Golden Globe Awards, and was also in receipt of much critical acclaim.
		The first time that I saw this film I was disappointed and certainly did not feel that it deserved the praise that it received.
		The film's origins are set in a Channel 4 mini-series and taken across the Atlantic to America.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /dvd-title-t/traffic (318 words)

	kamera.co.uk - film review, Human Traffic
		Billed as the film for the rave generation, Human Traffic seems to have all the ingredients necessary for it to capture the crucial youth market it is aimed at: drugs, sex, inert 'hipness', furious and inventive filmmaking, a cast of young talented 'Brits', memorable quotes, and hilarious situations.
		The film’s cast does well enough, and their obvious improvisations are sometimes entertaining, as are their facial expressions, but no one stands out in particular.
		There are parts of the film where the background is slighty toned down and blured and the two people are in front have an almost film on film look, making them look like your mates messing around infront of the tv.
	www.kamera.co.uk /reviews_extra/human.php (3801 words)

	Traffic Review Movie Review Film Traffic: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Don Cheadle, Miguel Ferrer; Review by Mike ...
		Writer/director Stephen Soderbergh broke the mold with his film "Traffic", an updated adaptation of an acclaimed miniseries run on BBC in the late 1980s.
		Traffic is not a simple film and was never intended to be.
		In Traffic, I thought the outcome proves that there are few directors in Hollywood who are capable of pulling off a series of vignettes and bring them all into one overall plot.
	www.movieeye.com /reviews/read_movie_review/53.html (854 words)

	Traffic Film Removers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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	www.cloverchemicals.com /prod_cat/traffic_film_removers.htm (84 words)

	Amazon.com: Traffic (2001): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The film examines the trafficking of drugs between Mexico and the United States, and the long-ranging effects thereof; and Soderbergh tells the story through a number of perspectives, which effectively presents the "big picture" of the drug trade and the subsequent impact it all has on the lives of so many people.
		An important film of gut-wrenching implications and staggering emotional proportions, "Traffic" evokes a sense of futility and loss (especially in the final scenes) that is, at times, overwhelming.
		Basically this is a propaganda film in which Steven Soderbergh uses a dramatic story to semi-successfully disguise a very tired anti-drug message as a profound social statement.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00003CXN4?v=glance (2588 words)

	Traffic @ Film-North and Virtual Theatre
		Traffic is beneficial to people that have online businesses, workers from home who use the Internet for their primary source of business leads and sales, and small business owners that do not have the funds to launch huge online/off-line marketing campaigns.
		If you have this decent traffic, it does mean that your pages will start making money.
		There are many systems for generating traffic but there are only a few that really work.
	afronord.tripod.com /business/traffic.html (1243 words)

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