spiderwort
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 28, 2018 21:37:11 GMT
Any time or place; in the process of moving, or after resettlement has occurred. A topic that also encompasses the refugee experience.
A few I really appreciate:
The Emigrants (1971) - Jan Troell
In America (2002) - Jim Sheridan
America America (1963) - Elia Kazan
I Remember Mama (1948) - George Stevens
The Immigrant (1917) - Charlie Chaplin
The Namesake (2006) - Mira Nair
out of many more. . .
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 28, 2018 22:02:09 GMT
Hard to top America, America
El Norte
The Border
I Remember Mama
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Post by kijii on Mar 28, 2018 22:27:00 GMT
Exodus (1960), based on Leon Uris' novel is (IMO) a good epic (3'28") on this subject.
(And, to boot, Otto Preminger helped break the Hollywood Black List by hiring Dalton Trumbo to write the screenplay.)
It is long, but it held my interest by focusing on several aspects of the creation of Israel.
The New World (2005) is a visually beautiful movie. These British settlers were immigrants to a new land. This Malick movie shows how foreign the experience must have been for both the immigrants and people who lived in Virginia before these strange new immigrants arrived.
The Immigrant (2013) is another interesting movie.
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Post by delon on Mar 28, 2018 22:36:02 GMT
Stroszek (1977)
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 28, 2018 23:11:15 GMT
THE GODFATHER, PART II  |
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 29, 2018 1:44:32 GMT
"The Sweet Land" (2005). I had a discussion about this fine film with Jefferson Cody on the weekly thread a while back.
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 29, 2018 2:06:33 GMT
"Salt of the Earth"
"Gangs of New York"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2018 8:43:22 GMT
Sin Nombre, 2009
Dancer in the Dark, 2000
Scarface, 1983
Brooklyn, 2015
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 29, 2018 9:58:21 GMT
AVALON (1990) -- Director Barry Levinson's semi-autobiographical tale of his Polish family's arrival in Baltimore.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 29, 2018 13:50:08 GMT
"The Sweet Land" (2005). I had a discussion about this fine film with Jefferson Cody on the weekly thread a while back. I love this film, mike! It's from a short story by Will Weaver called "A Gravestone Made of Wheat." I wanted to make into a film when I first read it, but Ali Selim beat me to it and did a such beautiful job in his feature film debut. Wonderful cast, beautiful locations and a perfect recreation of the post-WW I period. So glad to see another fan. And I'm sorry I missed the discussion between you and Jefferson. If you an give me a link to that, I'd appreciate it. It was a short one. We agreed that the film was wonderful. I commented that My Lovely Wife was amazed at how close the experiences were (in general) of that of the settlers in the film to her recent ancestors. Her father was U.S. born but both his parents had been born in Norway (back when Norwegians had a reason to come to America, our Republican President notwithstanding). Like Olaf in the movie (her father’s name was Otis, his father was Ole), he would never take out a loan to buy anything. All the farms he owned as well as all his cars were paid in full with cash. JC answered with a short reply about his own family history who came to South Africa. I'll try to find a link later this afternoon. We are off for adventures (the usual routine errands) this morning. |
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Post by outrider127 on Mar 29, 2018 14:27:33 GMT
America America(1962) not really a good movie but my Great Aunt has a pivotal scene in it, playing the rich American woman fanning herself as our poor Greek protagonist looks up at her--it lasted 30 seconds but she told me it took all day to film it
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 29, 2018 16:06:37 GMT
One of the side stories of Milos Forman's RAGTIME follows Tateh, an Eastern European immigrant, who slowly rises from the tenements of NYC to become a pioneer in the motion picture industry. RAGTIME is an oddly paced but beautiful film based on a novel by one of my favorite authors, E.L. Doctorow. Tateh is played by Mandy Patinkin but it wasn't until just now that I realized the small role of his unfaithful wife was played by Fran Drescher.  |
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 29, 2018 16:25:50 GMT
After my post about Tateh from RAGTIME I thought of this fantastic book I read by Neal Gabler. So many of the biggest pioneers of Hollywood (Laemmle, Zukor, Mayer...) were immigrants from Europe and Russia. I can't recommend this book enough. It covers the whole birth of the film industry and without the people it covers we wouldn't have anything to chat about here.  |
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Post by kijii on Mar 29, 2018 16:53:02 GMT
Hester Street (1975)
The Light Between Oceans (2016) After WWI a German immigrates to Australia.
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Post by neurosturgeon on Mar 29, 2018 17:24:31 GMT
King Vidor's AN AMERICAN ROMANCE with Brian Donlevy give an over optimistic view of the immigrant experience.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 29, 2018 17:51:21 GMT
King Vidor's An American Romance 1944, even if it's a rags to riches story.
Edward Dmytryk's Give Us This Day 1949.
Sophia Turkiewicz' Silver City 1984, Polish immigration to Australia after WWII.
Gabriela Pichler's Äta sova dö 2012 (Eat Sleep Die), Eastern European immigrants working in factories in Sweden.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 29, 2018 18:10:23 GMT
The New Land (1972)
Heaven's Gate (1980) – partly
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Post by kijii on Mar 29, 2018 18:19:25 GMT
Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
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