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Life at the Movies
Showing mercy
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pveugelaers
DVD movie commentary/review The existential worldview is a certainty in Far From Men (2015, France, and subtitled), but there is more. The film is adapted from the short story The Guest by French existential writer Albert Camus. His short story was published in 1957. The film adaptation, Far From Men, takes its cue from 1954…
Shared experience
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pveugelaers
The story of Mary Poppins author Pamela Travers, or P.L. Travers, as told in Saving Mr. Banks (2013), is not only about her reluctance to part with her children’s book Mary Poppins, but about why she wrote it in the first place. In that vein, Saving Mr. Banks shares a lesson about experience. For two…
The challenge
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pveugelaers
A challenge for an author is to sign away film rights to a published work. This tendency is because a writer’s characters are precious and the writer has invested a significant amount of personal pride in a work as a whole. The finished product shouldn’t be tampered with. However, a few authors seem to have…
Quest for peace
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pveugelaers
There are movies that hold up the ideal of peace, but it can be a difficult road to hoe. Battlestar Galactica (1978, USA) was one of those movies. Battlestar Galactica was something of a cult phenomenon and the movie merchandise was short lived, but memorable for some boys. It was like Star Wars (1977, USA),…
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