just a quick note to clarify, David: were there burning people in "The
Sacrifice"? I recall that the house is burned down by the main
character but don't remember people burning. A character played by the
same actor (Erland Josephsson), though, does set himself on fire in
"Nostalghia."
Also, someone mentioned the footage of a monk burning himself, and I
believe that footage appears in the film "Persona" with Liv Ullman
looking at the television in horror. A young "witch" is burned in
Bergman's Seventh Seal, and in Dreyer's Day of Wrath. Finally, there
is a burning person scene in Wicker Man (I haven't seen the "remake"
with Nick Cage so can't say if it is repeated there).
Nate Andersen
Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy and Film Studies
Eckerd College
> Re burning people, don't forget "The Sacrifice" by Tarkovsky, and if a
> burn=20
> victim will do, see the early-nineties film "War is Menstrual Envy" by
> Nick=20
> Zedd.
> Re writing about film, I wouldn't want to be outdone by Judith
> Williamson, s=
> o=20
> send me your address and I'll send you a signed copy of my book
> "Guiltless=20
> Pleasures," where I discuss this and related areas from the standpoint
> of a=20
> practicing film critic.
>
> David Sterritt, PhD
>
> Chairman, National Society of Film Critics
> Professor Emeritus of Theater and Film
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