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Somptueux, inattendu, tonique... Mon film préféré à Cannes cette année. Et tant pis pour le petit critique de "Libération" qui le qualifie de conservateur réac...Favorite Films
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- Serene & subtle
- Fashionable alienation
- Deliriously surreal
- Rebellion!
- Canonical classics
- Neorealist
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Kenji
14Jun11
Thanks for the follow; i played for Verdun v Strasbourg at rugby in my youth, big plate of Choucroute after the match.
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Les films du miroir magique
15Jun11
This is nice but after almost twenty years spend in Strasbourg, I still do not feel Alsacian !
Robert Regan
13Jun11
Thanks, LFDMM, for fanning Louise. It still needs some work. I'll get to it when I finish Borzage. Bob
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Les films du miroir magique
14Jun11
Ah Borzage ! Do not forget "The ay I met Caruso". I know, this is a TV film and not a feature film. But it was a TV masterpiece. I had pleasure to show it to my students. they were amazed.
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Robert Regan
14Jun11
Working chronologically, I'm only up to 1937 now, but I do intend to track down the tv films which at this time are easier to get in France than the US. I wish I had a nickel for every American film I had to order from Europe! What age are your students and what subject are you teaching?
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Les films du miroir magique
14Jun11
I was teaching "History of television" at the University of Brussels. It was some kind of hobby. "The day I met Caruso" was broadcast years ago on France 3, Sunday midnight. I was lucky to record it. Would be impossible to find now on DVD. A Borzage coffret was released some months ago in France, but not as rich and nice as the US one.
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Les films du miroir magique
14Jun11
On Borzage, there is a definitive book in French by Hervé Dumont. I think he is also at the origin of the DVD released by Carlotta.
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Robert Regan
14Jun11
Dumont's excellent book is my bible, even though the translation has a few problems and, I understand it is not as well illustrated as the original edition. The Carlotta Borzage DVDs each has one of the tv films among its extras. Caruso is on the disc with Lucky Star and The River. Whatever the price, it is a bargain. Have you seen those last four silent masterpieces?
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Les films du miroir magique
15Jun11
Yes, I have seen them. "The River" on France 3 and "Lucky Star" in the NFT in London, years ago. An epiphany !
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Robert Regan
15Jun11
Thanks for the follow, and don't miss Seventh Heaven and Street Angel. My favorite of those four gems is whichever one I have just seen. So, it changes often. They are all great!
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