05-03-2010, 03:43 PM
Quote:Last movie i saw was: The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc from 1928 by Carl Theodor Dreyer).
Wow what an amazing movie. The performance of Renée Jeanne Falconetti is truly magnificent! This is why movies are made.
[url:2l1nvgge]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_Joan_of_Arc[/url]
a clip from youtube: [url:2l1nvgge]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLBn9KK2Ss0[/url]
What a great film this is! The faces are simply amazing -- so expressive. Of course, the director cast these actors with this in mind and he uses them to best effect. It is a marvelous film, and along with the newly restored Metropolis, one of the very best of the Silent Era.
As for Dances With Avatar ...
It goes back even further than Fern Gully of Pocahontas. James Cameron is a fan of the old TV series The Outer Limits and borrowed from the series for some of his earlier films (Terminator has echos of The Demon With The Glass Hand and Soldier, both written by Harlin Ellison). Likewise Avatar seems to have echoes of the episode Chameleon written by Robert Towne (Chinatown) and starring Robert Duvall. Perhaps it only served as an early inspiration, then again...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl_GLxMSjrU
:wink:
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