A modest pageant : Children, Madonna and child, Death and transfiguration, Distant voices, Still lives and The long day closes : six screenplays with an introduction / by Davies, Terence, 1945-2023

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Distant voices

“…Distant voices, still lives…”


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Tundra Passages : history and gender in the Russian Far East by Rethmann, Petra, 1964-

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Revisioning history : film and the construction of a new past

Table of Contents: “…Distant voices, still lives : the family is a dangerous place: memory, gender, and the image of the working class / Geoff Eley -- The home and the world : the invention of modernity in colonial India / Nicholas B. …”


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Not to be missed : fifty-four favorites from a lifetime of film by Turan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…The day after Trinity (1981) -- First contact (1983) -- Distant voices, still lives (1988) -- The Nineties. Howards End (1992) -- Leolo (1992) -- Unforgiven (1992) -- The new century. …”


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Not to be missed : 54 favorites from a lifetime of film by Turan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…The day after Trinity (1981) ; First contact (1983) ; Distant voices, still lives (1988) -- The Nineties. Howards End (1992) ; Leolo (1992) ; Unforgiven (1992) -- The new century. …”


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Not to be missed : fifty-four favorites from a lifetime of film by Turan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…The day after Trinity (1981) -- First contact (1983) -- Distant voices, still lives (1988) -- The Nineties. -- Howards End (1992) -- Leolo (1992) -- Unforgiven (1992) -- The new century. -- Spirited away (2001) -- The best of youth (2003) -- The five obstructions (2003) -- Documentary double feature : Stranded (2007) and Senna (2010) -- A prophet (2009) -- Of gods and men (2010) -- Footnote (2011) -- Orson Welles double feature. -- Touch of evil (1958) and Chimes at midnight (1965) -- The fifty-fifth film -- A second fifty-four.…”


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Not to be missed 54 favorites from a lifetime of film by Turan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…The day after Trinity (1981) ; First contact (1983) ; Distant voices, still lives (1988) -- The Nineties. Howards End (1992) ; Leolo (1992) ; Unforgiven (1992) -- The new century. …”


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Not to be missed : fifty-four favorites from a lifetime of film by Turan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…The day after Trinity (1981) ; First contact (1983) ; Distant voices, still lives (1988) -- The Nineties. Howards End (1992) ; Leolo (1992) ; Unforgiven (1992) -- The new century. …”


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Essential cinema : on the necessity of film canons by Rosenbaum, Jonathan, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…(Guy Maddin's Archangel), with an afterword: Ten years later (please watch carefully: The heart of the world) -- Ragged but right: Rivette's Up down fragile -- Critic with a camera: Marker on Tarkovsky -- Riddles of a sphinx: From the journals of Jean Seberg -- International harvest: National film histories on video -- International sampler: Ghost dog: The way of the Samurai -- Not the same old song and dance: The young girls of Rochefort -- Flaming creatures and Scotch tape -- Ruiz hopping and buried treasures: twelve selected global sites -- Pt 4: Disputable contenders -- Back in style: Bertolucci's Besieged -- The young one: Bunuel's neglected masterpiece -- In dreams begin responsibilities: Kubrick's Eyes wide shut -- The best of both worlds: A.I. artificial intelligence -- Under the chador: The day I became a woman -- Chains of ignorance: Charles Burnett's Nightjohn -- Good vibrations: Waking life -- Hell on wheels: Taxi driver -- Meat, John, Dough: Pretty woman -- Tashlinesque -- Weird and wonderful: Zakeshi Kitano's Kikujiro -- *Corpus callosum -- pt. 5: Filmmakers -- Mann of the west -- Otto Preminger -- Nicholas Ray -- Exiles in modernity: Films by Edward Yang -- Hou Hsiao-hsien: Becoming Taiwanese -- The countercultural histories of Rudy Wurlitzer -- Samuel Fuller: The words of an innocent warrior -- The mysterious Elaine May: hiding in plain sight -- Visionary agitprop: I am Cuba -- The battle over Orson Welles -- License to feel: Distant voices, Still lives and The neon bible -- Death and life: Landscapes of the soul-The cinema of Alexander Dovzhenko -- Appendix: 1,000 Favorites (A Personal Canon).…”


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The resistance : ten years of pop culture that shook the world by White, Armond

Table of Contents: “…Pop Gospel (Sing a New Song, Like a Prayer) ; A metaphysical movie musical (Distant Voices, Still Lives) ; Living in metaphor (3 Feet High and Rising) ; From Burkina Faso with Art ; Michelle Shocked ; 1990: Miss Daisy's moral anachronisms (Driving Miss Daisy) ; Just say no to the white girl ; Ideology on the waterfront (Last Exit to Brooklyn) ; Vogue ; Dopplegangerbanger: Rap's loss of reason (Amerikkka's Most Wanted) ; An "Oh Bleek" defense of ego (Mo' Better Blues) ; Alas, L.L. …”


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