Dear Prof Lingle & colleague(s):
How about Jean Renoir's light-hearted "Elena and Her Men" (color; with Ingrid
Bergman, Mel Ferrer, Jean Marais)? Or Renoir's slightly more serious "Rules of
the Game" (B&W; with Marcel Dalio, Renoir himself, Nora Gregoire, Julien Carrette)?
And there should be plenty of other, equally good if not better, possibilities
that other subscribers will suggest.
Cheers,
Steven P Hill,
University of Illinois.
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>Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 00:01:26 -0500
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>Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 12:04:42 -0700
>From: William Lingle <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Request for a film to screen
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>A colleague is looking for a film to show that captures the hubris of
>European culture in the first decade of the 20th century, just before World
>War I -- the idea that everything had been invented, the world was an
>orderly place divided up among the imperial powers, that culture had
>reached its zenith. Ophuls' La Ronde has been suggested, but I think there
>might be a better one, perhaps set in France or Britain rather than Vienna.
>She doesn't want a war film, so La Grande Illusion, All Quiet, The Big
>Parade, Paths of Glory et al won't work. A film like The Remains of the
>Day, set pre-World War I, might work, but even that might be too explicitly
>war linked. Any suggestions?
>William M. Lingle
>Professor and Head
>Department of Mass Communication
>Linfield College
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