Friday, November 22, 2013

Brilliant 1985 movie OUT OF AFRICA


HERE  IN  CALGARY, ALBERTA,  CANADA,  WE  HAVE  ONE  MOVIE  HOUSE  THAT  PLAYS  SOME  OF  THE  OLD  CLASSIC  FILMS.  THIS  WEEK  "OUT  OF  AFRICA"  WAS  PLAYING.  I  SAW  IT  DECADES  AGO  BUT  FORGOT  JUST  ABOUT  ALL  OF  IT.  SO  WENT  TO  SEE  IT.  TRULY  A  BRILLIANT  EPIC [2 HOURS AND 40 MINUTES]  MAJESTIC  LOVE  DRAMA.  IT  HAS  EVERYTHING,  WONDERFUL  AFRICAN  SCENERY;  AFRICAN  ANIMALS;  AFRICAN  NATIVES  AND  THEIR  SINGING;  VISIONARY  SPECTACULAR;  DRAMA;  ROMANCE  AND  HEART-BREAK,  TO  MAKE  YOU  CRY.  I  WILL  INDEED  BUT  THE  DVD  NOW  I'VE  SEEN  IT  AGAIN  AS  LIKE  FOR  THE  FIRST  TIME.

A  LITTLE  FROM  WIKIPEDIA:


Out of Africa (film)

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 directed and produced by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The film is based loosely on the autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), which was published in 1937, with additional material from Dinesen's book Shadows on the Grass and other sources. This film received 28 film awards, including seven Academy Awards.
The book was adapted into a screenplay by the writer Kurt Luedtke, and directed by the American Sydney Pollack. Streep played Karen Blixen; Redford played Denys Finch Hatton; and Klaus Maria Brandauer played Baron Bror Blixen. Others in the film included Michael Kitchen as Berkeley Cole; Malick Bowens as Farah; Stephen Kinyanjui as the Chief; Michael Gough as Lord DelamereSuzanna Hamilton as Felicity, and the model Iman as Mariammo.

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