Fellini's E La Nave Va (And the Ship Sails ON), though it is rather metaphoric and sardonic rather than strictly historical. -- Frank Burke, PhD Professor, Dept. of Film Studies Queen's University Kingston, ON Canada K7L 3N6 Tel 613 533-2178 Fax 613 533-2063 In Italy: Viale Castracani, 282 Arancio 55100 Lucca Italia Tel: (011 39) 0583 49 17 73 Cell: (011 39) 338 851 5330 > From: William Lingle <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 12:04:42 -0700 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [SCREEN-L] Request for a film to screen > > 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 A460 > 900 SE Baker St. > McMinnville, Oregon 97128 > USA > Phone: 503.883.2521 > Fax: 503.883.2360 > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.ScreenSite.org > ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html