Date sent: 28-JUL-1994 06:57:46 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. >From: IN%"[log in to unmask]" "Film and TV Studies Discussion List" 27-JUL-1994 23:57:15.38 >To: IN%"[log in to unmask]" "Recipients of SCREEN-L digests" >CC: >Subj: SCREEN-L Digest - 26 Jul 1994 to 27 Jul 1994 > >Return-path: <@UA1VM.UA.EDU:[log in to unmask]> >Received: from UA1VM.UA.EDU by vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu (PMDF #5575 ) id > <[log in to unmask]>; Wed, 27 Jul 1994 23:57:09 CDT >Received: from UA1VM.UA.EDU by UA1VM.UA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id > 5939; Thu, 28 Jul 94 00:00:04 CDT >Received: from UA1VM.UA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UA1VM) by UA1VM.UA.EDU (LMail > V1.1d/1.7f) with BSMTP id 3204; Thu, 28 Jul 1994 00:00:03 -0500 >Date: 28 Jul 1994 00:00:01 -0500 >From: Automatic digest processor <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: SCREEN-L Digest - 26 Jul 1994 to 27 Jul 1994 >Sender: Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> >To: Recipients of SCREEN-L digests <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-to: Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> >Message-id: <[log in to unmask]> >Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > >There are 22 messages totalling 448 lines in this issue. > >Topics of the day: > > 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 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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! > >- Eric Freedman >USC School of CNTV > >------------------------------ > >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 > >------------------------------ > >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 > >------------------------------ > >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 > >------------------------------ > >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 >[log in to unmask] > >------------------------------ > >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 > >------------------------------ > >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. > >------------------------------ > >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 > >------------------------------ > >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. > >------------------------------ > >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 > >------------------------------ > >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 >[log in to unmask] > >------------------------------ > >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 >[log in to unmask] > >------------------------------ > >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 > >------------------------------ > >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] >> > >------------------------------ > >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.? > >------------------------------ > >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 > >------------------------------ > >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 >> > >------------------------------ > >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: > >[log in to unmask] > >thanks, > >DGB > >------------------------------ > >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 > >------------------------------ > >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? > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Margaret Arnold BITNET: [log in to unmask] > INTERNET:[log in to unmask] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > >------------------------------ > >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. > > > >*************************************************************** > >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 / > >------------------------------ > >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 > >------------------------------ > >End of SCREEN-L Digest - 26 Jul 1994 to 27 Jul 1994 >*************************************************** Dan, which is to say [log in to unmask]