glenesq
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Post by glenesq on Jun 10, 2017 18:01:39 GMT
I'm particularly interested in The Exiles. Too little is recorded on film (documentary or drama) about Native Americans. So thanks so much for that recommendation in particular. [I just looked up The Exiles on wikipedia and learned this: "In 2009, it was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant and will be preserved for all time." How wonderful is that!] I watched The Exiles in the last year, it's been selected in the newest edition of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. It's shot on a shoe string, but it's subject matter, time, and place are all fascinating. Save
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Post by bravomailer on Jun 10, 2017 18:29:01 GMT
How 'bout the opening segment in 2001? We see the development of leadership, tribes, tools, and weapons. It's my favorite part of the film.
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glenesq
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Post by glenesq on Jun 10, 2017 20:25:26 GMT
Thanks again, glenesque, for suggesting this film, and for following through with me here. I'm going to do my best to find and watch it. EDIT: I found it on the American Indian Film Gallery. Will watch it soon. Thanks again! Has a great late 50s soundtrack, too.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Jun 11, 2017 7:56:18 GMT
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) is a notable distinction in the history of classic film. Filmed on location on the Polynesian Island Bora Bora, in the South Pacific the film was a collaboration between Robert J. Flaherty and F.W. Murnau , they wrote the story and together formed a production company to complete the ambitious project.
Classed as a docufiction. The silent film is split into two chapters. The first, called "Paradise", depicts the lives of two lovers on the remote and traditional South Seas island, paradise until they are forced to escape the island when the girl is chosen as a holy maid to the gods. The second chapter is titled "Paradise Lost" and depicts the couple's life on a colonised island and how they adapt to and are exploited by Western civilisation. A beautifully filmed lyrical tragedy that combines elements of factual and narrative filmmaking, it is an exotic adventure, a poetic Polynesian love story
Cinematographer Floyd Crosby won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on this film. Tabu... has been preserved in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
This was his last film of director F. W. Murnau, he died in hospital after an automobile accident on March 11, 1931, a week before the film's premiere in New York City.
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gadolinium
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Post by gadolinium on Jun 11, 2017 12:55:06 GMT
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984).
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