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<DIV>I LOVE THAT MOVIE! I actually showed it to one of my writing classes
in tandem with "And The Band Played On", and gave them an assignment to write
about social effects of disease. They were put off by subtitles
and the BW photography at first (so many that age lack imagination these days),
but they surprised me and really got into it.</DIV>
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<DIV>If I can get down to Houston for that, I'd love to see it in that
setting! It will probably be the Saturday showing for me, though.</DIV>
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<DIV>Detlef</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 7/4/2007 4:13:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
byzytym@charter.net writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>For your information:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>On August 18 & 19 (Sat. &
Sun.), 7 PM at The Museum of Fine Arts Houston there will be a showing of the
director Ingmar Bergman's movie "The Seventh Seal". (Sweden, 1957, 92
min.) Even though this showing is subtitled it is so worth seeing.
Watching the English version of this movie when I was very, very young
started my fascination with everything Medieval.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>> After fighting in the
Crusades, a 14th-century knight makes his way back to his home country of
Sweden, which is suffering the effects of the Black Plague. Along the
way, the knight meets Death and challenges the hooded figure to a chess game
to postpone his inevitable demise. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>Although Bergman had been directing
films for more than a decade, "The Seventh Seal" is the one that made him a
household name. "What amazes me about this film - which has a
reputation for heavy philosophical stuff and drags a ton of academic baggage
around with it - is that it's so watchable, so accessible. "The Seventh
Seal" is not great because it's an allegory about the human condition, it's
great because it's a film about life and death" <A
title=http://www.worldfilm.about.com/
href="http://www.worldfilm.about.com/">www.worldfilm.about.com</A>
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<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2>Perhaps we will see you
there. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" size=2><A title=http://www.mfah.org/film
href="http://www.mfah.org/film">www.mfah.org/film</A> </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Pax,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Andy size=3>MARIVS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">"what shall it profit a man,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">if he shall gain the whole
world,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">and lose his own soul ?"</FONT></DIV>
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