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	Witness (1985 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Witness is a 1985 movie released by Paramount Pictures and starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, and Lukas Haas.
		It was also the feature film debut of Viggo Mortensen, who appeared in a minor role.
		Directed by Peter Weir (his first American film), it was filmed in Philadelphia and Intercourse, (Lancaster County), Pennsylvania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Witness_(1985_movie) (484 words)

	Cyber Film School Moviemaking Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Film is different from every other form of storytelling because it absolutely relies on the use of pictures to convey a story.
		A film can exist without sound or music, although these elements are critical to the way the story is told.
		The film "Witness" (1985), for instance, describes the world of the Amish community in rural Pennsylvania.
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	Film Appreciation - Film Composers - music including Bernstein, Elfman, Goldstien, Herrmann, Horner, Jarre, Mancini, ...
		After a stint scoring student films for the American Film Institute in the late 1970's Horner went on to compose a series of memorable film scores that frequently integrate choral work into the orchestration and are often punctuated with a distinctive four-note trumpet blast which generally occurs during a significant moment in the film.
		It was Steiner’s original film score for King Kong (1933), (this was the first original score ever utilized in a motion picture) that launched the second phase of film music – prior to this film scores consisted of adaptations of previously published works.
		The film was the brainchild of the producer / director team of Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper who gave a quick preview of the film for studio executives prior to the addition of a musical score.
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	Social and Cultural Circularity in
		The film is set in Buenos Aires during the waning period of the military government in the early 1980s after the disastrous war over the Falklands, with a ‘live’ background of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo demonstrating regularly and loudly as they demand to know what has happened to their children.
		Witness, for example, his first menacing look at Ana at dinner and his later treatment of her when she comes to warn him in the parking garage scene.
		Witness also his mistreatment of the family dog and his subsequent outbursts of temper with his father and brother during the family luncheon scene.
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	Trivia Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After her success in the stage and film treatments of The Miracle Worker, Patty Duke was the first teenager to be given her own American TV show — The Patty Duke Show — which aired from 1963 through 1966.
		Film producer Edward S. Feldman was looking for a "Gary Cooper-type" to play the part of the Philadelphia cop who hid out among the Amish.
		Considered to be one of the most influential talents in film history, he was married four times and was the father of 11 children.
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	Witness Movie Rewind «
		Witness is one of the examples that prove that the 80's was just as much an era of beautifully crafted, thoughtful movies as any other.
		The film has an unusually slow pace as Weir is in no hurry and gives us time to adjust to the different worlds, but like all great directors, the film is just as spellbinding as any fast paced movie.
		Maurice Jarre's original synthesized score for the film is a very unusual and brave choice for the film, but it is also impossible to imagine the movie without it.
	www.fast-rewind.com /witness.htm (2092 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Witness
		1985 saw its fair share of ultra-trashy thrillers but Peter Weir's "Witness" bucked the trend with an overall far calmer veneer, under which hid considerable tension.
		A young Amish boy (Lukas Haas) is witness to a murder in a train station where he and his mother (Kelly McGillis) have been travelling to visit her sister.
		On that level this is a deep and moving film.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/09/04/witness_review.shtml (369 words)

	Witness (1985) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		Australian Peter Weir's first Hollywood film tells the story of John Book (Harrison Ford), a Philadelphia cop whose life is altered while trying to help Rachel (Kelly McGillis), an Amish woman, and her son Samuel (Lukas Haas), who witnesses a murder in a Philadelphia train station bathroom.
		Peter Weir has given us many films that allow us to see what happens when a person is taken out of their environment and has to confront other issues.
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	www.hollywoodjesus.com /witness.htm (1207 words)

	Witness (1985)
		Unfortunately, every second of the sixteen years this film has aged shows up in the shadow detail, where fls are exactly that: fl sections with little or no discernable picture detail.
		Film artefacts are a consistent problem in this transfer from the get-go, with a sprinkling of fl marks peppering the picture from
		There aren't many enveloping uses of the surround channels during this film, but the biggest of the musical cues are well served by a feeling of literally coming from all directions.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=214 (1530 words)

	WeeklyFilm.com Review-Witness (1985)-"R"
		While on the way to visit Rachel's sister in Baltimore, Lukas witnesses, while hiding in a bathroom stall, the murder of a man who turns out to be a police officer.
		For one, he faced the challenge of making a film about the Amish that was engaging and interesting for viewers, yet without resorting to stereotypes or clichés.
		The action, however, is never the focus of the film; the story is instead told with dialogue and cinematographer John Seale's beautiful visuals.
	www.weeklyfilm.com /witness.html (549 words)

	Best films viewed in 2001. . . A-L
		I saw this film earlier in the summer, and I was dazzled by its integrity as it relates to characterization and plot.
		The film revisits the Upstairs, Downstairs metaphor-a strict division of the classes is enforced, and everyone knows his or her place in life.
		I am drawn to films that reveal the complexities of human interaction in the context of intimate relationships: husbands and wives, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, parents and children, young and old.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~yahnk001/reviews/2001/01-top5a.htm (6139 words)

	Singapore Film Society -- Japanese Film Festival 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		All films are uncut and in original dialogue with English subtitles unless otherwise indicated.
		Later, she is witness to a scandal in which a famous businessman is found dead in the bed of Sho.
		Set in the late 1930s, the film depicts in a leisurely, seemingly casual fashion, the day-to-day experiences of four sisters from a once-powerful Osaka ship-building family, and gradually reveals the lineaments of a disappearing world.
	www.sfs.org.sg /2005/09jff.html (3091 words)

	Ging chaat goo si Movie Review - MovieWeb
		However he does such a good job that his superiors assign him to protect the key witness in the trial, and his girlfriend is none to happy that this involves an attractive woman staying in his house.
		It was in this film that many of Chan's elite stunt workers were seriously injured in the principal photography alone, and the opening bus sequence put a further 4 into hospital.
		These films should be watched in their original language whenever the studio's will allow this.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Witness [1985]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Directed by Peter Weir, the film is extremely successful in drawing the viewer into its world and, accordingly, is immensely entertaining.
		Witness is the sort of timeless offering that we rarely see these days.
		The measure of any film is disappointment that it has come to an end and a feeling that you could see it again and again.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004WCMR (899 words)

	DC Film Society: Storyboard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The film is divided into five segments, each in a different season and set on a tree-lined lake (more on that later) where a tiny Buddhist monastery floats on a raft amidst scenic splendor.
		I made a film, a $9,000 film, and I was banging on the Sundance door and nobody was answering that door then.
		The only thing that matters at the end of the film is that you have seen the world through someone else's eyes--whether that be some comic half-wit or an emasculated barge owner like Les." Mullen feels that the subject of this film is hugely relevant.
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	Witness (1985)
		Peter Weir's memorable Witness (and if you've never seen it, consider this a spoiler alert) holds the same argument.
		Mother and son are then thrust into a case that's been assigned to brash, big-city detective John Book (Ford), who learns that the murderer was, in fact, one of his own—a police officer (played by Danny Glover).
		Using the power of the cinematic medium, Weir films their expressions and actions so perfectly that no hackneyed speech is required.
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	Witness movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods
		A young Amish boy, Samuel Lapp (Haas), traveling from his father's funeral witnesses a murder in a Philadelphia bus station.
		Investigating detective John Book (Ford, in one of his best roles) soon discovers the killing is part of a conspiracy involving corruption in his department.
		McGillis, in her first major role, is luminous as the Amish mother, while Ford is believable as both a cop and a sensitive man. An artfully crafted drama, richly focusing on the often misunderstood Amish lifestyle.
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	Montreal Film Journal
		Actually, this film is not that stupid at its core.
		As for the health clubs, the film shows that if there is something superficial about them, they also respond to a need of people wanting to be the best they can in hope it will help them find love.
		But now I'm being the devil's advocate: as insightful as the film can be here and there, it's a pretty crummy picture for the most part.
	www.montrealfilmjournal.com /review.asp?R=R0000424 (303 words)

	Jews in Film and Television: A Short Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		Suggests that both text and film attest to the centrality of the immigrant experience as a national narrative that reproduces and in turn is reproduced by the American dream.
		His music, celebrated in the landmark film which ushered in the era of sound in the movies, mixed the spirit of the jazz age with a sentiment that was very distinctively Jewish.
		The film, which garnered awards from the Cannes Film Festival and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and is the first foreign-language film to have seven award nominations in the Oscars, is directed, co-written and starred by Roberto Benigni.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/JewishBib.html (14838 words)

	Welcome to Ethics Daily.com!
		Her clients have included Ray Bradbury (“Fahrenheit 451”), Tony Bill (“The Sting”), William Kelley (“Witness”), ABC, CBS and the “MacGyver” series.
		There are some Jewish films that have been very specific, such as “The Chosen”.
		But if you want to express and tell stories, if what’s pushing at you is stories and you want to bring characters to life and you want to show their struggles and their overcoming of struggles and you want to deal with images and emotions and dimensionality, then be a screenplay writer.
	www.ethicsdaily.com /article_detail.cfm?AID=330 (1328 words)

	3to6 :: A Dedicated Movies Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Starring an unknown Mel Gibson, the film was about Australian soldiers serving for England during WW1.
		The story of a tough cop who has to protect an Amish boy from a murderous police officer was a hit with both audiences and critics.
		The year was 1998 and the film was The Truman Show.
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	1985 Retroactive @ The Film Experience
		I started watching the Oscars is 1983 (for the 1982 film year) but 1985 is the first year in which awards season build-up started to interest me. I specifically remember reading an article in People about the huge number off contenders in the Best Actress field and wondering "who will it be!?".
		Though the film did kick off the interest in Michelle Pfeiffer it was only really a seed planted (which did not really sprout until 1988/1989).
		In 1985 I was also heavily invested in anything involving the Brad Pack: Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy...
	www.thefilmexperience.net /Awards/1980/awards85.html (711 words)

	Johns Hopkins Gazette \| January 30, 2006
		A visit this week from director Peter Bogdanovich, and a showing of his 1985 film Mask, opens the new Friday Night Films series, organized by a student-run club of the same name on the Homewood campus.
		Working with Film and Media Studies, the group has assembled a semester-long lineup of films that will be shown each week at 8 p.m., free to JHU affiliates with I.D. ($5 for the general public).
		Witness Theater presents the Ben Kingsland comedy Whitehill.
	www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2006/30jan06/weekcal.html (1031 words)

	Witness (1985) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Plot Outline: A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.
		In the midst of this culture clash, he finds himself increasingly attracted to young widow Rachel (Kelly McGillis) who's the mother of a juvenile murder witness (Lukas Haas).
		This movie is a genuinely affecting combination of several themes - a cop movie, a forbidden romance, and an exploration of a very "plain" culture.
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	Chinese Film, Chinese Media, Print Culture 1
		Tracing the engendering conditions within the film industries of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, Song Hwee Lim argues that the emergence of Chinese cinemas in the international scene since the 1980s created a public sphere in which representations of marginal sexualities could flourish in its interstices.
		Examining the politics of representation in the age of multiculturalism through debates about the films, Lim calls for a rethinking of the limits and hegemony of gay liberationist discourse prevalent in current scholarship and film criticism.
		He provides in-depth analyses of key films and auteurs, reading them within contexts as varied as premodern, transgender practice in Chinese theater to postmodern, diasporic forms of sexualities.
	mclc.osu.edu /rc/filmbib.htm (12789 words)

	30th Street Station - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The cavernous main passenger concourse contains a large Winged Victory statue erected in honor of Pennsylvania Railroad employees killed in World War II.
		The station also played a prominent role in the 1983 film Trading Places and in the 1985 film Witness starring Harrison Ford.
		Currently, trains from SEPTA, Amtrak, and NJ Transit serve this station.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /3/30/30th_street_station.html (337 words)

	Snippets: Thornton has `A Simple Plan' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Billy Bob Thornton is reportedly nearing deals to star in three films.
		Variety reports that the actress is back at the center of several film, network TV and stage projects.
		McGillis broke through in the 1985 film Witness as Harrison Ford's Amish love interest.
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		He played the lead in the 1985 film, Witness, filmed in and around the quaint town of 1,200, where every where you look are the signs of Intercourse.
		Today, Europe is devoid of Amish, but the sect continues to thrive in a string of colorfully named Lancaster towns like Bird in Hand, Blue Ball, Paradise and Intercourse, where horse-and-buggy traffic is almost as prevalent along the streets as motor vehicles.
		It was here in Intercourse that filmmakers shot the 1985 Harrison Ford movie Witness.
	www.chrisrodell.com /NewFiles/intercourse.html (688 words)

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