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froopy seal

04-22-2008 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by grady (Post 94055)

I hope that old thread can be re-upped as there was a great deal of history and recommendations that I never copied to a personal text file.

Seconded.

grady

04-24-2008 01:45 AM

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After seeing the Alain Resnais film Last Year in Marienbad twice this past weekend I've been on a binge consuming essays on the film and searching for the British Film Institute's a book on the film as part of their BFI Classics series.

After locating the book I've dropped other readings and made the following my primary focus.

Last Year in Marienbad by Jean-Louis Leutrat.

jOHN rODRIGUEZ

04-24-2008 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by grady (Post 94551)

aaaah, truth is stranger than fiction.

grady

04-24-2008 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by jOHN rODRIGUEZ (Post 94586)

aaaah, truth is stranger than fiction.

You know the film?

stimpee

04-24-2008 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by grady (Post 94014)

Did the thread fall victim to spam?

no its fallen victim to Yan not uploading the rest of the old forum posts. :(

grady

04-24-2008 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by stimpee (Post 94621)

no its fallen victim to Yan not uploading the rest of the old forum posts. :(

ok, it's good to know they still exist in some form.

jOHN rODRIGUEZ

04-24-2008 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by stimpee (Post 94621)

no its fallen victim to Yan not uploading the rest of the old forum posts. :(

OK, get off Yan. He's busy. j/k

Yep. Need to view again though. I'm kinda slow with movies.

grady

04-25-2008 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by jOHN rODRIGUEZ (Post 94654)

OK, get off Yan. He's busy. j/k

Yep. Need to view again though. I'm kinda slow with movies.

It was a pretty great film. Having never seen it I was confused and attracted to it. The first showing I went to Saturday evening, four people walked out about an hour in. Sunday afternoon for my second viewing two people walked out.

It's such a strange and compelling film, but not for everyone.

The BFI book, though short has been enlightening with a large amount of production anecdotes and information, but has been a bit unsatisfying as far as the criticism and interpretation of the film goes.

ceramic'cow

04-26-2008 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by ceramic'cow (Post 94264)

Hmmm. I've sort of got Ancestor's Tale on the go as well. I've got some scientific background, and I think it does get a bit heavy going at times. But I'm never sure if that's just Dawkins' writing style. I raced through God Delusion, but get him on to genetics and I find him harder going.

I'm going to have to make a bit of a U-Turn here. I've dived back into Ancestor's Tale and I'm racing through it now. I think it was all the early-human stuff that I got bogged down in. Australopithecus this, proto-hominid that Sahelanthropus the other . . .

But since then, it's been really good. I'm still on mammals, which is kind of my area, I guess, but it's definitely been much easier going once out of the Human evolution stuff.

Deckard

04-27-2008 08:19 AM

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^^ That's good to know.

If my memory serves, I'm sure Adam (does he still frequent these boards?) had good things to say about it as well.

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