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. __ _ __ __ _ __ _ ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 00:01:26 -0500 >From: SCREEN-L automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: SCREEN-L Digest - 20 May 2005 to 22 May 2005 (#2005-97) >To: [log in to unmask] >Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 12:04:42 -0700 >From: William Lingle <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: 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 >************************************************************** ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]