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From: seltzer@lebeef.DEC
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Subject: Obscure films
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Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 14:58:59 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 14:58:59 1985
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Dersu Uzala was recently on Bravo (Cable).
I recorded it (Beta VCR).
It wasn't anywhere near as good as I had been led to
believe.  I guess you'd have to see it on a big screen
to get the full effect of the photography.  On television,
despite my strong desire to watch it and enjoy it
(I had written an historical novel set in that part of
the world at that same c. 1900 period -- The Name of Hero),
I found myself drifting off to sleep.
Technically, the thing that struck me the most was that this
film by a Japanese director was done totally in Russian
(presumably for authenticity).  

Richard Seltzer
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