From: JEFFREY PAULL (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Jun 19 2009 - 13:54:46 PDT
I'd never have come across her work, so thanks for posting it.
JP
On Fri 19/06/09 13:37 , Myron Ort email suppressed sent:
> checking Wickipedia I see that the Sistiaga film was silent.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hallock-Greenewalt
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> The link is beyond my linguistic abilities to decipher so couldn't
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> btw, was his film shown with a soundtrack?
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> On Jun 18, 2009, at 9:24 AM, Jorge Amaro wrote:
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> > There is a great book about the film, also in english,
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> > Barcelona, it comes with a DVD of the film, the DVD is
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> > http://www.loring-art.com/html/busqueda/detalle.php?fr_codLibro
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> > 2009/6/18 Freya (address suppressed)
> ahoo.com>:
> >>> Another way of asking this: If you were going to
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> >> 1.85 would be the easiest as you would just have to
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> >> Lastly if you restrict yourself to art house cinemas
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> >> older films you could possibly work in academy. Again
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> >> this slight cropping would be an issue. You'd need to
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> >> the cinema if they can screen academy of course, but a
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