And further to my last, I've just watched one of the sections of the film,
and have to say that H.D.'s acting is, er, *special* ...
On 15 June 2011 20:50, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks for that link, Barry.
>
> The other day I was watching a documentary on the life of the British film
> and stage comedian Alistair Sim. In it his widow recalled that it was only
> during the Second World War that 'Alistair started acting human' (on the
> stage, that is!) before then, she said, people wanted *acting*.
>
> Now to see just how erm distinct H.D.'s acting is
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> On 15 June 2011 19:02, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I've witnessed this film on the two occasions it was screened in
>> Washington DC, at the National Gallery of Art and the American Film
>> Institute. I remember H.D.'s acting as particularly "over the top", but now
>> that I discover the whole silent film available online in 8 separate parts
>> (to which has been added an undergraduate freely improvised jazz orchestral
>> soundtrack), you can decide for yourself starting at:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YOnSBjBG30
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>>
>> Barry
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>>
>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:44:07 +0100, David Bircumshaw <
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>> >I didn't know about this:
>> >
>> >"A ground-breaking film for its treatment of race and sexuality,
>> >Borderline(1930) was directed by Kenneth
>> >Macpherson, editor of the influential intellectual film journal *Close
>> >Up*(1927-33), the first British journal dedicated to film as a
>> >modernist art form. Macpherson had previously made three short films, but
>> >this was his first feature and by far his most ambitious effort.
>> >
>> >Borderline stars the poet H.D. (real name Hilda Doolittle) and
>> Macpherson's
>> >wife, writer Winifred Bryher, both on the editorial board of *Close Up*,
>> as
>> >well as the black American actor, singer and political activist Paul
>> >Robesonand his wife, Eslanda
>> >Robeson. The narrative is relatively simple, depicting an inter-racial
>> love
>> >triangle, but Borderline's attempts to portray the extreme psychological
>> >states of its characters render it a quite complex film."
>> >
>> >
>> >http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/443504/
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>> >
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