Re: INSECT FILMS

From: Myron Ort (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2008 - 10:24:21 PDT


On Jul 30, 2008, at 9:05 AM, Clint Bergeson wrote:

> The opening to Bunuel's L'age d'or (1930) re-purposes portions of
> Eclair's 1912 Scientia film Le scorpion languedocien.
>

Thanks, that is nice little bit of info. How did you happen to know
that, or is that "well known"?

Myron Ort

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Roger Beebe
> <email suppressed> wrote:
> And in slightly less mainstream stuff, but not maybe experimental:
>
> Microcosmos
> and
> The Hellstrom Chronicle (which, despite not being a doc, was award
> the Oscar in 1971 over The Sorrow & The Pity)
>
> ...
> Roger
>
> On Jul 30, 2008, at 11:22 AM, Stoffel Debuysere wrote:
>
>> Oh, if we're goin' towards B-movies, what about 'Starship
>> Troopers' (Paul Verhoeven) then? "The only good bug is a dead bug"!
>>
>> (-:
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>>
>> Op 30-jul-08, om 16:49 heeft Val Zchest het volgende geschreven:
>>
>>> Phase IV (Saul Bass, 1974)
>>> Them! (Gordon Douglas, 1954) based on the book by HG Wells
>>> Empire of the Ants (Bert I. Gordon, 1977) also based on the book
>>> by HG Wells
>>> Mac Guyver: Trumbo's World (Lee H. Katzin, Donald Petrie 1985 TV)
>>> The Swarm (Irwin Allen, 1978)
>>> Ants! - It Happened at Lakewood Manor (Robert Scheerer, 1977 TV)
>>> Attack of the Giant Killer Leeches (Bernard L. Kowalski, 1959)
>>> Tremors (Roy Underwood, 1990)
>>> Antz (Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson 1998)
>>>
>>> Ant fact: If ants were the size of humans, they would be the
>>> dominant culture within one year
>>>
>>> All best
>>> Val
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>>
>> Stoffel Debuysere
>> email suppressed
>> www.diagonalthoughts.com
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