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- From: d40937@pascal (Jean Yves Desbiens)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Films that Educate & Entertain
- Summary: Would like info on films that express an era, a culture
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.094151.2672@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 09:41:51 GMT
- Sender: news@vlsi.polymtl.ca (USENET News System)
- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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- I adore film that truly recreate the ambiance of a place, that
- lets us peak at the morality, the fealings, of an era.
- Many recreation are merely decors and costumes when its the
- little things, the attention do details, to characters that
- make us believe we are peaking into their lives.
- Historical pieces can be recreations, but they can also
- true expressions of the time they were made in; history
- seem to run rampant through their veins.
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- I would like examples from both forms : esquisite recreation of
- character and places and times & those time capsule films
- that express an era or a place or a way of living.
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- Examples , recreations :
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- A Room With a View, Howards End ( Late victorian, Edwardian )
- A Passage To India ( Colonial India in the 20s)
- Cabaret ( decadent Berlin )
- My Mother's Castle, My Father's Glory ( French provincial life some time ago)
- The Killing Fieilds ( Cambodia during the Kmer Rouge's horrific rule )
- etc...
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- Could also be a film that for example expresses perfectly what one feels
- when living in a particular city,country, right now, New York, Paris, etc.
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- Examples , timepieces & culture snapshot:
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- Doctor Mabuse Gambler ( decadent Berlin in the early 20s)
- Wings of Desire ( Wall and surrounding just before it came down )
- Alexanderplatz ( Massive documentary, Long but interesting )
- Open City ( Italy after the war )
- Children of Paradise ( Paris after the war)
- etc...
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- Can also look at current culture, events anywhere in the world.
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- Any title documentary or films are welcomed, for the timepieces they
- don't need to be the greatest entertainment on earth, but it is preferable
- that they be well made. With this, We could have a way of absorbing
- with little or no pain, maybe this is what the MTV generation needs,
- culture, history, etc. Society must adapt to the new age, teachers
- must use every means they possess, and great movies can profoundly
- affect people, make them remember and understand, don't we know it,
- we read this group with fervor for a reason... :-).
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- post if it is of general interest or
- email at d40937@info.polymtl.ca ( I have problem with my Reply To header
- line so you may have to change the
- address manually )
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- SEIZE THE DAY, MAKE YOUR LIFE EXTRAORDINARY . "Dead Poets Society"
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- Jean-Yves Desbiens | d40937@info.polymtl.ca
- Etudiant en genie informatique |
- Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Can | To indeed be a god ...,
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