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NEW ZEALAND FILMS
 
Prof. Greg. Waller at Univ of Kentucky, English Dept., had a Fulbright in
NZ and said he saw most of the recent NZ films while there.
 
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>Topics of the day:
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> 1. <No subject given> (2)
> 2. Medieval/Food in Film (7)
> 3. Lawyers on film
> 4. LOOKING FOR A FILM
> 5. Lawyers on Film--Welles Films
> 6. More Lawyers/Medieval Food
> 7. Medieval/food in film (4)
> 8. New Zealand Cinema
> 9. Desperately Seeking Films
> 10. Roles of The Deaf in Films...
> 11. lawyer movies (warning - long post)
> 12. medieval pursuit/trivial food
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>Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 22:44:33 PDT
>From: "Eric M. Freedman" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: <No subject given>
>
>This may be a rather naive request falling on deaf ears/hands, but can
>someone
>drop me a line about accessing SCREEN-L. Thanks!
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>- Eric Freedman
>USC School of CNTV
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>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 11:18:16 +0300
>From: Naomi Tirosh <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Medieval/Food in Film
>
>EL CID (1968) Dir. by Anthony Harvey
>LA VOIE LACTEE (1969) Dir. by Luis Bunnuel
>IVANHOE (1952) Dir. by Richard Thorpe,at the begining of the film there is a
>scene of eating. Also in BECKET (1964) Dir. by Peter Glenville there is a big
>scene of food.
>BROTHER SUN SISTER MOON (1972) Dir. by Zeffirelli
>
>Good luck
>
>Naomi Tirosh
>Media Librarian
>Haifa University
>
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>Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 23:49:02 -0400
>From: Gerald Forshey <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Lawyers on film
>
>Don't forget Humphrey Bogart in a classic, "Knock on Any Door." He tries
>hard to save John Derek from his "live fast, die young, have a good looking
>corpse" philosophy
> Gerald Forshey
> Daley College
> City Colleges of Chicago
>
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>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 12:07:36 +0300
>From: Naomi Tirosh <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Medieval/Food in Film
>
>Some more films on the above subj.
>RAN (1985) Kurosawa. Japanese version of king lear, the food in japanese
>style.
>THE COURT JESTER (1955) Norman Panama
>PERCEVAL LE GALLOIS (1978) Eric Rohmer
>
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>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 08:36:00 EDT
>From: PATTY HORNBECK <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: LOOKING FOR A FILM
>
>Dark Side of the Moon is available from Ivy Films, 725 Providence Road,
>Charlotte, NC 28207, phone 704-333-3991.
>Patty Hornbeck
>Media Services
>Middlebury College
>Middlebury, VT 05753 (802)388-3711, ext. 5506
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>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 08:08:01 -0600
>From: Donald Larsson <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Lawyers on Film--Welles Films
>
>Yes, LADY FROM SHANGHAI has Everett Sloane and Glen Anders as two truly
>sleazy lawyers and a nearly surreal courtroom scene.
>
>These 2 aren't Welles, but I don't recall if anyone has listed
>a) REVERSAL OF FORTUNE, with Ron Silber as (still-alive) Allan Dershowitz
>(BTW, is AD still on OJ's defense team?)--an interested case of a hard-
>driven lawyer whose devotion to principle overcomes his aversion to his
>clients (and did you notice Scar's line, "You have no idea!" in THE LION
>KING?)
>
>and
>b) REGARDING HENRY, where Harrison Ford has to suffer brain trauma to become
>a human being and a noble, instead of sleazy, lawyer.
>--Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN
>
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>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 08:09:57 -0500
>From: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Medieval/Food in Film
>
>It's been a while since I've seen them, but Olivier's Henry V has a
>dining scene, also possibly Jabberwocky and Monty Python and the Holy
>Grail.
>
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>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 08:30:52 -0600
>From: Donald Larsson <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: More Lawyers/Medieval Food
>
>Another lawyer I don't recall being listed is played by Gregory Peck (at his
>most wooden) in Hitchcock's THE PARADINE CASE. (Charles Laughton has a
>supporting role as a despicable barrister.)
>
>Regarding Food in Medieval Films:
>I believe that eating scenes occur in several Shakespeare adapations:
>HAMLET (more in Zefferelli/Gibson than Olivier, I think), Polanski's
>MACBETH, and of course Falstaff rarely stops eating in CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT
>(the Welles reworking of the Henriad). There's the remarkable banquet
>scene in Eisenstein's IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART I.
>
>I haven't seen these, but you might want to check Pasolini's CANTERBURY
>TALES, Robert Wagner in PRINCE VALIANT, and then there are all those
>knights-in-armor movies that Robert Taylor made in the 1950s.
>
>Is it lunch time yet?
>--Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN
>
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>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 09:50:04 EDT
>From: Stephen Brophy <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Medieval/Food in Film
>
> I would guess that almost any film with a medieval setting will also
>at some point have an eating/banquet/feasting scene. It's a good
>opportunity to convey pomp and splendour, while at the same time
>pointing out the relative barbarity of the proceedings, letting us
>feel comfortable at how far we have "progressed." Another example
>would be _Becket_ the early 60's epic bio-pic of Henry II and Thomas
>a Becket, starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. The introduction
>of the fork to civilized dining is touched on during one banquet
>scene.
> Stephen Brophy
> Cambridge, Mass.
>
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>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 10:14:00 EST
>From: Lee Elliott <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Medieval/food in film
>
>On July 26, Christine owen wrote:
>> Does anyone know of films set during the Middle Ages that contain
>sceens of people eating?
>
>Christine, check out Paul Verhoeven's Flesh and Blood for several eating
>scenes.
>
>Lee Elliott
>
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>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 08:23:52 -0700
>From: "Stephen C. O'Riordan" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Medieval/Food in Film
>
>> This may be a real long shot, but here it goes. Does anyone know of
>>films set during the Middle Ages that contain sceens of people eating? I
>>have found a couple: The Adventures of Robin Hood, If I Were King, and A lion
>>in Winter. If anyone has any thoughts I would appreciate them. Thanks.
>>
>>Christine Owen
>>The Sage Colleges Library
>>[log in to unmask]
>>
> * * * *
>
>I'm sure EL CID has been mentioned, but how about an odd piece( also
>w/ Heston ) Schaffner's THE WAR LORD 1965.>
>
>Stephen O'Riordan
>Film/Video Archives
>Media Center, UCSD
>9500 Gilman Dr.
>La Jolla, CA 92093-0504
>Tel: 619/534-7981 Fax: 619/534-7180
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>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 11:28:59 EST5EDT
>From: "Vance Elderkin, NC State Univ." <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Medieval/Food in Film
>
>>
>> > This may be a real long shot, but here it goes. Does anyone know
 of
>> > films set during the Middle Ages that contain sceens of people eating?
>
>How about "The Three Musketeers?" (The version with Racquel Welch)
>Good scene in a tavern and afterwards...
>
>Vance Elderkin
>Department of Communication
>North Carolina State University
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>
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>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 08:28:10 -0700
>From: Marti Mangan <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Medieval/food in film
>
>Did anyone mention * Tom Jones*?
>
>Marti *** [log in to unmask] *** Film Studies Program
>
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>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 10:31:36 -0500
>From: "Steve . Kellman" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Medieval/Food in Film
>
>Try LE RETOUR DE MARTIN GUERRE (THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE), which does
>an excellent job of immersing the viewer in the quotidian realities,
>including ingestion, of medieval life among French peasants.
> Steven G. Kellman
> The University of Texas at San Antonio
>
>On Tue, 26 Jul 1994, Christine owen wrote:
>
>> This may be a real long shot, but here it goes. Does anyone know of
>> films set during the Middle Ages that contain sceens of people eating? I
>> have found a couple: The Adventures of Robin Hood, If I Were King, and A lion
>> in Winter. If anyone has any thoughts I would appreciate them. Thanks.
>>
>> Christine Owen
>> The Sage Colleges Library
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>
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>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 16:53:59 +0100
>From: Gareth P Bentley <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: <No subject given>
>
>Does anyone have anything interesting to say about New Zealand cinema from
>1980 onwards- you know, books, articles, etc.?
>
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>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 11:39:40 -0600
>From: Donald Larsson <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: New Zealand Cinema
>
>There's an overview of developments in David Cook's HISTORY OF NARRATIVE
>FILM (2nd ed.), pp. 615-616. Also check the newly released FILM HISTORY:
>AN INTRODUCTION by Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell. The latter has
>excellent bibliographies, but I don't have page numbers at hand.
>
>One source that's a must for research but most likely found in academic
>libraries is THE FILM LITERATURE INDEX. You should be able to find
>individual articles indexed year by year, although there is some inevitable
>lag time.
>--Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN
>
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>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 14:22:21 -0500
>From: "Steve . Kellman" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Medieval/food in film
>
>Not to be too fastidious, but the 18th century is not medieval.
> Steven G. Kellman
>
>On Wed, 27 Jul 1994, Marti Mangan wrote:
>
>> Did anyone mention * Tom Jones*?
>>
>> Marti *** [log in to unmask] *** Film Studies Program
>>
>
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>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 17:52:44 -0400
>From: "Douglas Baldwin (GD 1996)" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Desperately Seeking Films
>
>Does anyone know where one might find either _Towers Open Fire_ or _The
>Cut-Ups_, two Gysin-Burroughs-Balch works from the 1970s, in video? Or,
>also in video, _Taking Tiger Mountain_ (?)
>
>Reply to:
>
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>
>thanks,
>
>DGB
>
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>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 15:19:55 -0700
>From: Marti Mangan <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Medieval/food in film
>
>God! I'm *so* embarassed!!
>
>Marti *** [log in to unmask] *** Film Studies Program
>
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>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 21:53:00 EDT
>From: "Margaret E. Arnold" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Roles of The Deaf in Films...
>
>I'm doing research on roles of the deaf in films. It is not limited to
>character roles in film but rather a broader range from deaf film makers to the
>portrayal of deaf in films to screenwriters. Could anyone enlighten me with
>any information pertaining to any of this?
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>
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 23:42:12 -0500
>From: Sally Waters <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: lawyer movies (warning - long post)
>
>Because of the number of you naming lawyer movies, I thought
>y'all might be interested in seeing the list of movies in our
>law school's video collection. These all feature
>a lawyer, a trial, or some kind of commentary on justice or the
>political system. Some have been specifically requested by the
>professors of different subjects (such as Norma Rae, requested
>by the Labor Law prof); and some, quite frankly, are here because
>I got complaints from students with children that there weren't
>any videos they could watch with their kids (hence, Ernest Goes
>to Jail, and Alice in Wonderland....thank goodness, these were
>inexpensive videos!)
>These are available for free checkout by faculty, staff, and
>students; some are also shown in class (and so, fall within the
>copyright laws) by professors (the criminal law professor likes
>to show Anatomy of a Murder; the Jurisprudence professor,
>A Man For All Seasons).
>I'm getting ready to order our next batch soon, and so would
>welcome any comments or suggestions. We'll be getting Philadelphia,
>The Pelican Brief, In the Name of the Father, Brother's Keeper,
>and probably Jurassic Park (hey kids, this is what happens to
>obnoxious lawyers!). ....And Justice For All, at least last year
>when I ordered, was out of print; Compulsion hasn't yet come out
>on video; and the other I'm dying to get, The Strange One (with
>Ben Gazzara & George Peppard) - filmed on the beautiful campus
>of our law school! - also isn't on video yet.
>
>Now, here's the list:
>
>Absence of Malice; The Accused; Adam's Rib; Advise and Consent;
>Agnes of God; Alice in Wonderland; All of Me; All the President's
>Men; The Ambush Murders (1982 TV movie); Anatomy of a Murder;
>And Then There Were None (1945); The Andersonville Trial;
>The Awful Truth; The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer; The Big Easy;
>Billy Budd; Bird on a Wire; Black Widow (1986); Bleak House (BBC
>miniseries); Body Heat; The Boston Strangler; Boyz N The Hood;
>Breaker Morant; Brubaker; The Burning Bed; The Caine Mutiny;
>Can-Can; Cape Fear (both versions); A Case of Libel; Chattahoochee;
>Citizen Cohn; Class Action; A Clockwork Orange; Conspiracy - The
>Trial of the Chicago 8; The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell;
>Criminal Law; A Cry in the Dark; Defending Your Life; The
>Deliberate Stranger; The Devil and Daniel Webster; Double Crossed;
>Double Standard; A Dry White Season; Eight Men Out; Ernest Goes
>to Jail (part of our Academy Award series...just kidding!);
>The Executioner's Song; The Falcon and the Snowman; Fatal
>Attraction; Fatal Vision; A Few Good Men; A Fish Called Wanda;
>The Fortune Cookie; Fried Green Tomatoes; From the Hip;
>Fury (1936); Gideon's Trumpet; The Good Mother; Goodfellas;
>Harlan County USA; Helter Skelter; Hook; How to Murder Your Wife;
>Howards End; The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); I Am the Law;
>I Confess!; I Want to Live!; In Cold Blood; In the Heat of the
>Night; The Incident (1990 TV movie); Incident at Oglala;
>Inherit the Wind; An Innocent Man; Jagged Edge; JFK;
>Joan of Arc (1948); Johnny Belinda (1948); Judge Horton and the
>Scottsboro Boys; Judgment at Nuremberg; Kramer vs. Kramer;
>The Lady From Shanghai; The Last Innocent Man; Legal Eagles;
>Les Miserables (1935); Let Him Have It; The Letter (1940);
>Libeled Lady; The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean; The
>Lindbergh Kidnapping Case; The Long Walk Home; Love Among the
>Ruins; M (1931); Madame X; Malcolm X; A Man For All Seasons (1966);
>The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; Marie; Matewan; Melvin and
>Howard; The Milagro Beanfield War; Miracle on 34th Street (my
>favorite courtroom scenes); Mr. and Mrs. Smith; Mr. Smith Goes
>to Washington; Monty Python and the Holy Grail (remember the
>witch trial?); Mortal Thoughts; Murder or Mercy; Music Box;
>My Cousin Vinny; The Name of the Rose; Native Son; Never Forget;
>Night Shift; Norma Rae; Nuts; Oliver!; The Onion Field; Other
>People's Money; The Ox-Bow Incident; Pacific Heights; The Paper
>Chase; The Paradine Case; A Passage to India; Paths of Glory;
>Penalty Phase; The People vs. Jean Harris; Peyton Place;
>A Place in the Sun; Presumed Innocent; Prisoner of Honor;
>A Private Matter; The Producers; Pudd'nhead Wilson; Q & A;
>QB VII (1974 miniseries); Rage; Ragtime; Raising Arizona;
>Rashomon; Rebecca (1940); The Return of Martin Guerre;
>Reversal of Fortune; Roe v. Wade; Rooster Cogburn; Salt of the
>Earth; Seems Like Old Times; Separate But Equal;
>Sergeant Rutledge; Shame (1988); Silence of the Lambs;
>Skokie; A Soldier's Story; Sommersby; Star Chamber; Sudden
>Impact; Suspect; Switched at Birth; Take the Money and Run;
>A Tale of Two Cities (1935); 10 Rillington Place; The Thin
>Blue Line; Things Change; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Trial
>of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977 TV movie); True Believer;
>True Grit; 12 Angry Men; The Untouchables; The Verdict;
>Wall Street; The War of the Roses; What's Up, Doc?;
>Wheel of Fortune (1941); Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Whose
>Life Is It, Anyway?; The Winslow Boy; Witness For the
>Prosecution (1957 - what a great movie!); The Wrong Man;
>You Can't Take It With You; Young Mr. Lincoln.
>
>Any suggestions for purchase, including documentaries
>and older movies, are always appreciated.
>
>
>
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>
>Sally G. Waters, Queen of Reference / "Dignity.
>([log in to unmask]) / Always dignity."
>Stetson Univ. College of Law Library /
>1401 61st St. S. / --Don Lockwood
>St. Petersburg, FL 33707 /
>
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>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 22:50:00 CDT
>From: Allan Siegel <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: medieval pursuit/trivial food
>
>perhaps all these diligent postings RE medieval food scenes might be
>more useful posted at the local video store where those of us at a loss
>for an evenings entertainment could be blown away by a pre-historic meal
>or two or three either that or we might market a sub-section of this
>list specializing in arcane subject matter perhaps starting with when
>did Chevys first appear in films or why car did Bogart drive the
>possibilities are endless. N??<E
>allan
>
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