Speaking of Orson Welles, Citizen Kane could be read this way to an extent in that it is a conflict between a man's public life and his ethical/personal one. I bet there are a lot of FAUST related movies lately related to the Internet, as if you look in the Marlowe play, Faust asks first (I think) for infinite knowledge and proceeds to describe something similar to the Internet. Perhaps: anything concerning Nixon, like Oliver Stone's NIXON Finally, a rather imaginative film but unimaginative choice: Dutch animator Jan Svankmajer's FAUST, which pulls out all the gimmicks: stop motion, puppets, surrealism, etc. Here, the only lines of dialogue are actually from the play but they are done in such a way that hte play itself surrealistically forces itself upon a single main character. This would be a very good film about semiotics, because it seems as though the distinction between the representation and what is represented break down throughout the movie--a man playing FAUST is Faust, a puppet of a devil is a devil. hope this helps ken ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Davis" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 5:46 AM Subject: Re: Faust Films > I caught this discussion in mid-stream -- film references to/portrayals of Satan? > > Billy Crystal's character in DECONSTRUCTING HARRY is great. He turns up the air conditioner to mess up the ozone. > > bill > > HR Greenberg <[log in to unmask]> writes: > > << It isnt recent, but THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI's crippled lawyer who almost does > the Orson Welles' hero in -- part played by the estimable Everett Sloane -- > is an unmistakeable reference to Satan. Cloved foot, so forth. HRG MD ENDIT > > ---- > Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the > University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > >> > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html