Hee! We should get buttons that says: "Singing Nuns Defined My Life."
You totally should visit Norway! I would happily support any such endeavour!
And yes to old movies. Particularly stuff like Casablanca, and the classical Hollywood films from the 1940's and 50'. They are just so much fun. (at least some of them. I've just recently had to watch some John Ford films from the late 1930's and they are so racist it is actually painful to watch them. For instance Prisoner of Shark Island, which I think beats Birth of a Nation in the use of horrific stereotypes.)
True, yet Prisoner of Shark Island at least comes fairly close. There is something so fundamentally wrong with the whole film, that I am a bit aghast that people manage to write about it without succumbing to rage. (Goodness knows I had difficulty doing so). One of the strangest reviews argued for the film's actuality, since it showed a man wrongfully imprisoned "just like the prisoners of Guantanamo". Though that analogy is interested to a certain degree, I think it gives a film with too much vile content too much credit and actuality.
ETA: Also, I have a slight irritability with the implication that history or fiction about historical events are important only because they relate to a current issue. Quiet a lot of historical events are important in and of themselves, and don't need a more modern partner.
The other two film's are noted. Recs are always welcome.
Which reminds me that I should finish the mail I started sometime in July. ;) The fall semester started about two weeks ago, and so things have been a wee bit crazy. (Favorite question so far: "When I study Film Analysis, do I have to watch the films screened as part of the course?" )
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You totally should visit Norway! I would happily support any such endeavour!
And yes to old movies. Particularly stuff like Casablanca, and the classical Hollywood films from the 1940's and 50'. They are just so much fun. (at least some of them. I've just recently had to watch some John Ford films from the late 1930's and they are so racist it is actually painful to watch them. For instance Prisoner of Shark Island, which I think beats Birth of a Nation in the use of horrific stereotypes.)
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True, yet Prisoner of Shark Island at least comes fairly close. There is something so fundamentally wrong with the whole film, that I am a bit aghast that people manage to write about it without succumbing to rage. (Goodness knows I had difficulty doing so). One of the strangest reviews argued for the film's actuality, since it showed a man wrongfully imprisoned "just like the prisoners of Guantanamo". Though that analogy is interested to a certain degree, I think it gives a film with too much vile content too much credit and actuality.
ETA: Also, I have a slight irritability with the implication that history or fiction about historical events are important only because they relate to a current issue. Quiet a lot of historical events are important in and of themselves, and don't need a more modern partner.
The other two film's are noted. Recs are always welcome.
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