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	University of Colorado Ethnic Studies professor and anti-American firebrand Ward Churchill and 70s Kung-fu expert and counterculture icon Billy Jack discuss the social and aesthetic eventualities of Billy's imminent return to the silver screen
		Billy Jack’s Crusade will be a full-length feature film, in a breakthrough film format, weaving together the genres of cinema verite, reality film, documentary and computer graphics into a unique full-length feature film never seen before.
		Billy Jack fights them off at first, but is soon overwhelmed and has to be rescued by 2 resistance fighters, named Naomi and Hitch.
		Billy Jack begins to wander around for the duration of the day until night falls and a television screen begins to show a Fox News report.
	www.proteinwisdom.com /index.php/weblog/entry/18566 (2254 words)

	'Wisdom Tree' fest set to enchant- The Times of India
		PUNE: The Wisdom Tree film festival at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) will glitter with a galaxy of film stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Mahima Chaudhary and Shatrughan Sinha from November 13 to 16.
		Likewise, some of the documentaries selected for the festival are Vidhu Vinod Chopraâs Oscar nominated Encounter With Faces and Ajay Rainaâs personal document Tell Them The Tree They Had Planted Has Grown.
		The festival will be flagged off on November 13 with the screening of renowned director Adoor Gopalakrishnanâs Nizhalkkuthu.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-275064,prtpage-1.cms (283 words)

	Seven Steps to Wisdom
		Whether past, present, or future, film and television take us there.
		Whether realistic, fictional, or impossible, film and television take us there.
		Whether across town, across the country, or around the world, film and television take us there.
	www.wga.org /WrittenBy/1102/business.html (283 words)

	Cult film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wisdom’s films, in which he usually played a family man worker who outsmarts his boss, were some of the few Western films considered acceptable by the country’s communist rulers, thus Albanians grew familiar and attached to Wisdom.
		Although films of all types of genres and plot conventions become cult films, the horror and science fiction genres produce a large number of cult films, perhaps due to the devoted nature of these genres' fan bases.
		Many significant cult films are independently made and were not expected by their creators to have much mainstream success.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cult_film (1146 words)

	The Guru film review
		The film turns out to be a porno however and the only consolation for Ramu is that he meets his co-star Sharonna (Heather Graham), a fount of knowledge and wisdom.
		When Ramu inadvertently fills in for a drunken Guru at an exclusive New York event, he uses the wisdom gained from Sharonna to impress the gullible socialites.
		Unlike the 1968 film The Party in which Peter Sellers bemuses a house full of Hollywood bigwigs with his bumbling Indian fish out of water, The Guru falls short in every department.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/the_guru/archive_o.html (578 words)

	Norman Wisdom home page
		You have come to the right place to purchase elusive film memorabilia AND to find out more about the great British film comedian Norman Wisdom!
	www.dacre.fsbusiness.co.uk (35 words)

	Wisdom (1986)
		The particulars of Wisdom's methods might be a bit muddy, and the end not entirely satisfying to some, but this film is waaay more watchable than what's been out at the theaters lately.
		I've watched Wisdom several times, and still enjoy it every once in a while.
		I've always been attracted to films with an original idea in them, and this is that kind of flick.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0092225 (325 words)

	Norman Wisdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norman Wisdom is a well-known and loved cult film icon in Albania and was the only Western actor whose films were allowed in the country during the Communist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha.
		Sir Norman Wisdom (born on 4 February 1915 is an English comedian, singer and actor).
		Wisdom said he intended to spend his retirement spending more time with his family, playing golf and driving around the Isle of Man, where he now lives (and is a neighbour of John Rhys-Davies).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Wisdom (672 words)

	Norman Wisdom Biography
		Wisdom clung to black and white film as long as he dared, and the eventual switch to colour in 1965 only proved how right he'd been.
		Wisdom’s mother left home when he was nine, and he and his brother were left in the charge of a father.
		Wisdom ran away from home when he was 11, but returned to become an errand boy with a grocery store on leaving school at 13.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /actors/w/005.html (297 words)

	Walkabout
		The survival of the white protagonists and the fate that awaits the Aborigine at the end of this journey is a forewarning of an encroachment upon Aboriginal culture and its wisdom of the ancient continent.
		In a way the film marks the movement from conventional 'white' urban society to Australia's outback by creating this feeling of timelessness (the meaning of 'time' in the traditional Western sense is lost), or through abstracting time and taking on an eerie, eternal feeling of time and being.
		She has a film playing in the CineTAP final, a short film festival run by the Tap Gallery in Darlinghurst (Sydney).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/13/walkabout.html (1374 words)

	Stigmata
		If the stigmata really come from God, it would be unworthy of His wisdom to participate in such futility, and to do so by a miracle.
		Stigmata is usually accompanied by several other supernatural phenomena, including the powers of prophecy and healing, bilocation (being in two places simultaneously), levitation, and very often inedia (the ability to forgo nourishment).
		The sufferings may be considered the essential part of visible stigmata; the substance of this grace consists of pity for Christ, participation in His sufferings, sorrows, and for the same end--the expiation of the sins unceasingly committed in the world.
	www.livingmiracles.net /Stigmata.html (8213 words)

	Film: Marie Baie des Anges
		Orso is one of them, and is just as liberated as she is. There isn't an adult in sight in Pradal's film; all the teenage protagonists could be orphans for all we know.
		Of course Orso and Marie, despite their youthful wisdom, make an attempt to escape from reality, but it is doomed to failure.
		Official website of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
	www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com /en/film/3172.html (8213 words)

	The Heistmasters
		The planning can be the heart of the heist film, or the execution of the plan, or the aftermath of the heist; the chase, the gang defections, the self-imploding nature of the beast.
		Like the noir film, which the heist film overlaps, there is a relish to the darkness that threads its way into the fabric of these films.
		The heist film often seduces audience through precision planning, while a sense of doom pervades casts a cloud over the proceedings.
	www.filmsondisc.com /features/heistmasters/heistmasters.htm (4098 words)

	Metroactive Movies Pacific Rim Film Festival : 'Asoka'
		Asoka is loosely based on the life of Chandragupta Maurya's grandson, King Asoka, the bloodthirsty ruler of Magadha who famously renounced violence and turned to Buddhism, spreading its wisdom across his lands.
		"This film does not claim to be a complete historical account of Asoka's life," reads the preface to the film.
		Asoka begins with the legendary moment when emperor Chandragupta Maurya throws down his sword to become a Jain ascetic, warning his grandson that the weapon is a demon and only wants blood.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/10.05.05/prff-asoka-0540.html (445 words)

	The Biography Channel - Norman Wisdom Biography
		Wisdom's comedy films were so low budget that they appeared to have been filmed in someone's basement, but each one of them made a fortune.
		Comparatively little known outside Britain, Norman Wisdom won the hearts of Broadway-ites by starring in a 1966 musical version of H.G. Wells' 'Kipps', titled 'Walking Happy'; and in 1967, Wisdom scored as a bethumped burlesque comedian (teamed with, of all people, Jason Robards Jr.) in the American film 'The Night They Raided Minsky's'.
		Wisdom was born in humble circumstances and had a tough childhood, until he joined the army at the age of fourteen, as a bandsman with the 100th Hussars.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/373:0/Norman_Wisdom.htm (371 words)

	BOOMERANG
		Unfortunately Boomerang’s gimmicky courtroom climax nearly tips the film into Perry Mason territory, an association reinforced by Dana Andrews’ steady unpicking of the threads of the prosecution’s case.
		'Elia Kazan: American Stories', in the Northwest Film Center - Exhibition Programs for March/April/May 2002, at http://www.nwfilm.org/archives/schedule_2002/marmayapr/exhibition_body_2.html
		We see the story partially through the eyes of newspaperman Dave Woods (Sam Levene) as he limns the moral trajectory with both a subversive wit and the wisdom to see around corners (as when he spots banker Ed Begley’s car outside a nighttime meeting with Dana Andrews, the politically ambitious D.A.).
	www.crimeculture.com /Contents/FilmReviews/Boomerang.htm (445 words)

	network television trio
		popular arts television channel highlighting the best in music, dance, theater, and film.
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		Firm uses direct response TV to test the television sales appeal of its clients' products, develops a track record, then presents products to the home shopping networks.
	www.just-television-links.com /network_television_trio.html (445 words)

	Wilde, DramLit-Playscript, Theatre w/Anatoly
		Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom : A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)
		Oscar Wilde Richard Ellmann capped an illustrious career in biography (his James Joyce is considered one of the masterpieces of the 20th century) with this life of Oscar Wilde, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize on its original publication in 1988.
		Ellmann's account of Wilde's extravagantly operatic life as poet, playwright, aesthete, and martyr to sexual morality is notable not only for the full portrait it gives of Wilde, but also for Ellmann's assessment of his subject's literary greatness; both aims are served by a plethora of quotations from Wilde's own work and correspondence.
	script.vtheatre.net /wilde.html (1336 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Wilde [1997]: DVD
		A thoroughly moving film about a truly inspirational man, Stephen Fry is perfect as Oscar but I would have liked even more of Wilde's gems of wisdom to have been included.
		Wilde could easily have been nothing more than another well-dressed literary film from the British costume drama stable, but thanks to a richly textured performance from Stephen Fry in the title role, it becomes something deeper--a moving study of how the conflict between individual desires and social expectations can ruin lives.
		Oscar Wilde's writing may be justifiably legendary for its sly, barbed wit, but Wilde the film is far from a comedy, even though Fry relishes delivering the great man's famous quips.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004R95H (989 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.
		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.
		Often, when Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) and Evie (Reed), our petulant protagonists, slam a door in the face of Tracy's mother, Melanie (Holly Hunter), the film sweeps us through the keyhole, as it were, and shows us what goes on when young, burgeoning hellions are left by themselves.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /thirteen.html (1314 words)

	U-Entertainment - Film
		Keaton is Sybil Stone, the shrewd matriarch of a New England academic family, and she dispenses nurturing wisdom and harsh judgment with equal, and disconcertingly unpredictable, fervor.
		One good thing that both films share is their refusal to let anybody off the hook for their personal behavior, regardless of their belief systems and moral world views.
		Though she's more buttoned-up than actually conservative, there's no hope for her in this hornets' nest of the most impossible sort of close-minded people (that would be ones who are convinced they're the most open-minded clan in the world).
	www.u-entertainment.com /film/ci_3311654 (578 words)

	Biography of Sybil Danning
		Sybil’s wisdom is the result of a full, young life experience; from her early labor as dental surgeon assistant; from education and degrees earned in Cosmetology and charm; from years as one of Europe’s and Japan’s top print Models; and finally, her struggle to reach international audiences as both “goddess” and actress.
		Sybil's Austrian mother raised her until she married a U.S. Army major, who relocated his new family to the U.S., where her sister, Dolores, was born.
		Sybil fell in love like never before with the game and what she called "her boys." Sybil had broken yet another ground rule, where no woman has dared to tread, as the first ever co-boss of an all-man-territory, German traditional hockey team of 80 years!
	www.sybildanning.net /Biography_of_Sybil_Danning.htm (2096 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Shadows, Lies, And Private Eyes: The Film Noir Collection
		Conventional wisdom holds that the term "film noir" (literally "black film"), coined by French film critics in the 1950s and 1960s, was first used to describe the gritty black-and-white American films to come out of the postwar period in the 1940s and early 1950s.
		The Asphalt Jungle redefined the "gangster" film and inspired what is known as the "caper film," but after decades of imitators—from Rififi (1955) and The Killing (1956) through the recent remakes of The Italian Job and Ocean's Eleven—it remains an indisputable film noir classic.
		The only elements of the film that truly give it this distinction are the shadowy lighting and gangster villain, neither of which are quite enough to call it a pure noir.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/filmnoircollection.php (9832 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Platoon -- Oliver Stone - DVD - Wide Screen / Dolby 5.1 / Stereo
		Elias is the conscience and voice of wisdom in the film; reflecting the changing public views that the Government going to war is, in and of itself, not good enough of a reason to support a war if it doesn't make sense to the people.
		Platoon is probably the greatest war film of our time, or any other time that will ever be.
		Octavius, a lover of great films, May 12, 2004
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?EAN=27616851567 (1182 words)

	Michelangelo Antonioni's film, "The Passenger"
		Cinema is all movement; at its expressive best, film is like life, all flux and change, encompassing the sensation of growing, aging and shifts of perspective (that occur as a result of ripening wisdom).
		SCENE: At the onset of the film, long lapses of silent desert dunes shot against the vast stillness of the sky indifferently witness the main character's attempts to track down the rebel leaders he wishes to interview for a documentary that is nearing completion.
		The stranger travels incognito; as a passenger [riding in the back seat, as it were], he has learned to deal with the world from a distance, "objectively," as something indifferent and forever changing.
	home.earthlink.net /~tgrillo/stranger.htm (1182 words)

	Review: Mimic
		Mimic's centerpiece is the survival game played out between humans and giant insects, and, while it's marked with moments of tension, the film is a little too familiar to get the adrenaline flowing.
		The most interesting aspect of the film is probably the backstory that sets up the "bug hunt." This postulates that a devastating disease has stricken New York City.
		F. Murray Abraham is on hand in a small role as "the voice of wisdom." The real star of Mimic, however, is Charles Dutton, who plays a NYC cop with the kind of gusto that makes him the most real and likable member of the group.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/mimic.html (788 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Cheaters (2000)
		Unfortunately, in their infinite wisdom, the MPAA decided that the mild expletives used by the teen cast (nothing that can't be heard in five minutes in any school hallway) is randy enough to grant the film an R rating, which in some areas bars purchase or rental by those under 17.
		The issue at the heart of the film is this disparity.
		It depresses me that a film like this is deemed too explicit for youngsters, while the offensive, lewd humor in something like The Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps passes muster.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=916 (1065 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Nobody Is Norman Wisdom
		As Norman Wisdom's film career is sprinkled with sparkling gems so his latter-day TV career is littered with single-series flops, the sum total of which robbed the great little man of a rousing end to a memorable career.
		Not for the first time, Wisdom portrayed the archetypal little man battling against the world, and also here against a domineering mother - a role that another comic to whom the term diminutive could be applied, Ronnie Corbett, also felt obliged to explore in sitcoms.
		Nobody Is Norman Wisdom - in which Norman was Nobody, in every sense of the word - was a sorry attempt to master the sitcom genre.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/n/nobodyisnormanwi_7776920.shtml (256 words)

	Norman Wisdom
		Norman Wisdom appeared in his first Royal Variety Show in 1955 and has performed in nine others as well as entertaining the Royal family at Windsor on several occasions.
		A late, postwar addition to the music hall tradition he enjoyed phenomenal success in variety and TV in the early 1950s after which he was taken up by Britain's largest film distributor, and enjoyed one of the longest unbroken runs of cinema success ever recorded by a British comic.
		One of the cinema's greatest clowns, Norman Wisdom is the entertainer that Charlie Chaplin said would take his mantle.
	www.nmhvfestival.co.uk /normanwisdom.html (879 words)

	BBC NEWS Entertainment Film Sir Norman Wisdom to retire at 90
		Sir Norman was set to appear in the British film These Foolish Things, starring Lauren Bacall, Anjelica Huston and Terence Stamp, but it was announced on Monday that he had pulled out.
		Sir Norman, who lives on the Isle of Man, once described himself as a "short-arse who's been lucky" but he became a national comedy institution.
		Sir Norman's stage and screen career has lasted for more than 55 years and includes a Bafta for a rare straight role in 1978.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3735104.stm (595 words)

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