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Battle Royale (2000)

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2008-02-01 02:32:18 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
...Battle Royale Act. The government selects one class each year to participate. The students have three days to kill each other until only one remains. Failure to comply results in the detonation of the collars around their necks Each student is given water, food, flashlight and a map, which they must use to navigate away from certain grids at...
 
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Tolkien, Eisenstein, Montage and The Battle on the Ice

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2008-03-08 17:30:00 by Jonathan Lapper in Cinema Styles
...battle that will work its way into our story soon. Eisenstein is known to all students and scholars of film. There is not a student of film alive who does not connect his name with "montage" and rightly so although most people's idea of montage has something to do with Rocky working out to Eye of the Tiger . Montage as Eisenstein saw it was...
 
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Battle for Haditha.

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2008-05-07 01:05:55 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
...Battle for Haditha , British documentarian Nick Broomfield brandishes his verità techniques for a fictional recreation of the November 2005 killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by US Marines," writes Nick Schager at Cinematical . "Aspiring to be a modern Battle of Algiers , the film falls far short of that lofty goal, hawking standard-issue...
 
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WES BRITTON: ANALYZING "THE BATTLE FOR BOND"

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2008-05-13 17:59:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
Battle for Bond Redux: Robert Sellerss Thunderball Book Returns By Wesley Britton To put my proverbial cards on the table, since 1995, I didnt think any book in print matched Andrew Lycetts Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond for providing authoritative history, biography, and background into how 007 came to be. Then, in 2007, Robert...
 
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Battle Royale, Battle Royale 2, PTU, Triad Election

2008-08-30 16:51:00 by Noel Vera in Critic After Dark
 
...Battle rowaiaru ( Battle Royale , Kinji Fukasaku, 2000) , about a future Japan whose economy has collapsed, whose students have become delinquent, whose government has passed the 'Battle Royale' act (where high school classes are kidnapped and put on an island to try kill each other off), and it's shockingly bad. Not so much for the violence...
 
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Battle in Seattle.

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2008-09-17 05:50:00 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
...Battle in Seattle is too frantic to make more than a transitory impression, yet too responsibly hackneyed in its characterizations to achieve pure tabloid hysteria," writes J Hoberman in the Voice . "In that sense, it's true to the actual event. The impression that the movie leaves is less what the French activist Yves FrÃmion termed an...
 
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Battle: Los Angeles

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2008-04-11 20:59:16 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...Battle: Los Angeles thanks to our good friends at comingsoon Columbia Pictures has preemptively picked up Battle: Los Angeles, a sci-fi script from screenwriter Chris Bertolini, for Neal Moritz to produce via his Original Films, says The Hollywood Reporter. The story follows one Marine platoons encounter in the battle against an alien...
 
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Full Battle Rattle.

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2008-07-07 07:53:52 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
...Battle Rattle may also be the most conveniently made of all records of US military failure in Iraq - because everything you see in it happened in just three weeks, about forty miles outside Barstow, California The film is freaky, amusing, and sickening in equal measures - part fly-on-the-wall vÃritÃ, part multiple-perspective Altmanesque...
 
Tags: battle rattle, iraqi town fragments, writes david edelstein, fireworks aimed lower, writes stuart klawans, direct cinema, american occupiers, comments, forty miles
 
 
 
 
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New Reviews: Ask the Dust, Battle in Heaven, Hard Candy & The Zodiac

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2006-03-13 18:26:00 by Ken Knox in The Ken Knox Movie Review Blog
...Battle in Heaven , Hard Candy and The Zodiac . Read on, and don't forget to post your comments ASK THE DUST Paramount Classics, rated R, # min Colin Farrell is one of those talented actors that inevitably becomes more famous for their off-screen actions than for their performances in movies. No matter how good they are on the big screen,...
 
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"BATTLE FOR BOND" BOOK PULLED FROM DISTRIBUTION; IAN FLEMING HEIRS HAD THREATENED LAWSUIT

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2008-03-09 17:51:00 by Cinema Retro in