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Kathryn Reed:
One day, years and years ago, just after the war, Bob had nothing to do and he went to a theater in the middle of the afternoon to see a movie. Not a Hollywood movie, a British movie. Title Card:
Brief Encounter - Directed by DAVID LEAN - 1945 Kathryn Reed:
He said the main character was not glamorous. Not a babe. And at first he wondered why he was even watching it. But, twenty minutes later he was in tears and had fallen in love with her. And it made him feel that it wasn't just a movie
One day, years and years ago, just after the war, Bob had nothing to do and he went to a theater in the middle of the afternoon to see a movie. Not a Hollywood movie, a British movie. Title Card:
Brief Encounter - Directed by DAVID LEAN - 1945 Kathryn Reed:
He said the main character was not glamorous. Not a babe. And at first he wondered why he was even watching it. But, twenty minutes later he was in tears and had fallen in love with her. And it made him feel that it wasn't just a movie
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Just think of this for years and years Popeye
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has been chugalugging spinach
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and when he finally gets something to go with the spinach
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it turns out to be a turkey
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Kathryn The critics trashed it and Bob took most of the blame
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It was nowhere near the blockbuster
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the studios were hoping for
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The films that they want to make now
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the major companies um are not
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they're films that I don't want to make
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Also I can't make
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I can't make Superman and Raiders of the Lost Arc
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and uh and I don't want to
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And the films I do want to make and feel that I can make
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they don't want to make
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They want movies now that will
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Movie Summary
A look at the life and work of American film-maker Robert Altman.
