Quinn the Eskimo

[debbieann]

Back to seeing films! Saw Savage Innocents with Anthony Quinn and Peter O'Toole
and "Anna May Wong", but not the AMW I was thinking of, at least per imdb.
Anyway, it is a film made in 1960 and it certainly seemed like a very outsider
view of another culture and I think it is likely it gets a lot wrong. One of the themes is that
you lend out your sled it comes back cracked, you lend out dogs, they come back tired, you
lend out your knife it comes back dull, but if you lend out your wife, she comes back
happier. Quinn the Eskimo song came from this film supposedly.

The next film in this series is Birth of a Nation, and I'm thinking there is a racism
in film theme going on. I've never seen Birth of a Nation.

Coming up this Saturday at AGNSW is Sunday Too Far Away. I have a friend I met at the films
at her ex-husband is in the film. Last Saturday we saw Paradise and Highway both at AGNSW -
films from 1996 and 1999 by a Kazakhstan director -Dvotsevoy - who also directed Tulpan, which will
be coming up later.

Also on our list Ponyo in Japanese, this week sometime. I also want to see Blessed and The
Girlfriend Experience.

It was about five weeks of no films! Glad to be back in it.

Also reading Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich and loving it.

The ravens are busy eating and I think there are babies in the nest, can't wait to meet them.