From:  HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null>
Date:  28 Sep 2024 13:10:36 Hong Kong Time
Newsgroup:  news.alt119.net/sci.lang
Subject:  

Re: Maggie Smith -- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

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On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:38:25 +0000, LionelEdwards wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:41:53 +0000, HenHanna wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:15:38 +0000, LionelEdwards wrote:
>>
>>> They don't make films like this any more. Miss Jean
>>> Brodie before she went beyond her prime:
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crJnW0UU2Ak
>>
>>
>>     Does the movie title mean...
>>              when she was at her most-Confident, Ablest, ...?
>
> 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:
>
> 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.