On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:38:25 +0000, LionelEdwards wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:41:53 +0000, HenHanna wrote:
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>> On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:15:38 +0000, LionelEdwards wrote:
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>>> They don't make films like this any more. Miss Jean
>>> Brodie before she went beyond her prime:
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>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crJnW0UU2Ak
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>> Does the movie title mean...
>> when she was at her most-Confident, Ablest, ...?
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> Yes and quoting Keats at the end. A golden age of high-brow
> film-making seems to be dying with that generation. "A Room
> with a View" from 1985:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzLsrAx0n4k
iirc... this film (a Room with a View) launched Merchant&Ivory, and....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchanted_April_(1991_film)
Didn't this one have a Merchant&Ivory feel?
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i could never get into [A Separate Peace] or this one (The Prime
of Miss Jean Brodie)
(seems too old, and/or too foreign)
as much as into [Dead Poet Society] or [Paper Chase]
a teacher who remained "in his prime" (most-Confident, Ablest, ...)
and got petrified, fossilized in that state is Prof. Kingsfield.
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