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To: Elle Bee; leadpenny

I’m with leadpenny. There are so many good foreign films and although these aren’t Bergman, Jean De Florette and Manon of the Spring would be a great place to start. See Jean De Florette first, as Manon of the Spring is the sequel to Jean De Florette.


47 posted on 07/30/2007 4:09:04 PM PDT by nuconvert ([there are bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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To: nuconvert

Jean de Florette, to my mind , is at least one of the greatest 100 films ever made. To see the final moments, when Yves Montand realizes what he has done in bringing about the death of his own son, without having ever realized it was his son, and then prepares to take his exit from earthly life,because that is the only thing he can do with this knowledge , is to understand tragedy, once and for all. And no other film I can think of has ever been able to express it with this level of maturity.


49 posted on 07/30/2007 4:30:37 PM PDT by supremedoctrine ("Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length"----Robert Frost)
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To: nuconvert; All

I think I watched them in reverse order.

BTW, it looks like TCM has adjusted their early morning schedule for tomorrow.

2:15am Dick Cavett Show, The: Ingmar Bergman (1971)
Director Ingmar Bergman appears on The Dick Cavett Show in an interview that originally aired August 2, 1971.
C-54 mins, TV-G

3:15am Seventh Seal, The (1957)
A medieval knight challenges Death to a chess game to save himself and his friends.
Cast: Max von Sydow, Bengt Ekerot, Gunnar Bjornstrand. Dir: Ingmar Bergman. BW-96 mins, TV-PG

5:00am Dick Cavett Show, The: Ingmar Bergman (1971)
Director Ingmar Bergman appears on The Dick Cavett Show in an interview that originally aired August 2, 1971.
C-54 mins, TV-G


58 posted on 07/31/2007 3:29:44 AM PDT by leadpenny
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