Re: the experience of justice on film--multiple responses

From: Henry M. Taylor <[email protected]>

=85 And Justice for All

A Civil Action

Perhaps also =85 Young Mr. Lincoln (?)

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From: Leo Enticknap <[email protected]>

 Gene Stavis writes:

"All of the films of the Frenchman Andr=E8 Cayatte
concern matters of justice. As a former lawyer, films like An Eye For an
Eye and Tomorrow is My Turn are quite relevant."

Good luck getting to
see them if you're not a French speaker, though.

Studio Canal published
an excellent DVD of 'Nous sommes tous des assassins' a few years ago,
complete with a well done, hour-long MOD (it includes interviews with
actual participants in the movie and historians grounded in French
social and political history in the immediate post-WWII period, not just
the usual suspect film studies rentaquotes). The transfer of the movie
was professional and from decent preservation masters, too. It's
currently out of stock on amazon.fr [1], sadly, but well worth buying if
it comes back into print. However, it doesn't have English subtitles,
and in fact, I'm not aware of any DVDs or BDs of Cayatte pics that
do.

The BFI has a tolerable 16mm print (though it's a reversal dupe,
probably reduction printed from a 35mm release print, and so looks very
contrasty and washed out), which I showed at a University of Leeds
research seminar earlier this year. It has subtitles, though a lot of
the dialogue is untranslated and the lines that are are translated into
very idiomatic US English.

It's a very interesting film, though,
arguing implicitly that the French political establishment threw the
former resistance fighters to the economic wolves in the immediate
aftermath of the war, for fear of exposing their willingness to
capitulate to and then work with the Nazis.

Leo


Links:
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[1]
http://www.amazon.fr/Nous-sommes-assassins-Marcel-Mouloudji/dp/B0000DCTPU/r=
ef=3Dsr_1_1?s=3Ddvd&amp;ie=3DUTF8&amp;qid=3D1385936231&amp;sr=3D1-1&amp;key=
words=3Dnous+sommes+tous+des+assassins<http://www.amazon.fr/Nous-sommes-ass=
assins-Marcel-Mouloudji/dp/B0000DCTPU/ref=3Dsr_1_1?s=3Ddvd&ie=3DUTF8&qid=3D=
1385936231&sr=3D1-1&keywords=3Dnous+sommes+tous+des+assassins>

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From: Paul Schulte <[email protected]>

Could I suggest "Helter Skelter" although made for TV is on dvd.

Paul Schulte
Arizona Educational Consultants
Gilbert, AZ

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