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Georgia Popplewell <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 9 Oct 1996 01:44:10 -0700
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Emily M. Davies wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of any films which deal with an intellectual quest- like
> an academic mystery involving ideas?  For example, if they made a movie of
> "The Double Helix" about Watson and Crick's discovery of DNA.  I'm
> interested in protagonists whose motivation is to know (and not...who
> dunit), to understand, to make sense of the world.  Obviously these would
> be character driven stories.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Emily Davies
>
 
Resnais' "Mon Oncle d'Amerique", and, in a certain weird way, I suppose,
Denys Arcand's "Decline of the American Empire"?
 
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