@deanduncan63Saw Richard Pearce’s #Heartland. Trekking Mormons forget about pioneering’s Homestead option. Plenty more where you came from!
#Heartland. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s stirring essay on the Arts & the Sciences (http://bit.ly/1JfxbYk) now looks problematic …
… in the way it idealizes indigenous populations. On the other hand, it applies exactly, perfectly to this subject, & setting …
… Provocative juxtaposition, inspiring combination!
#Heartland (1979). Thx, NEH! It’s like the ‘30s’ US Film Service (not to mention today’s NFB!). Commerce/industry not interested in, …
… or capable of, this kind of material. Citizenry badly ill-served as a result. Solution? Subsidy! Nothing pink about it! Rather …
… a contribution to the Public Good, or a media manifestation of The Commons.
#Heartland. Candidate for the greatest kiss in film history. (W’ Chaplin/Coogan & the Gish sisters, both 1921).
#Heartland. If they made a film immediately post-expulsion, & Eve had a child by another marriage …
… and the Fall, a la Aquinas & Milton & LDS, was seen as a being a blessing, then it might very well look and feel like this …
… Primeval to the point of being geological, & fresh as the morning. Movies can’t be better than this. An exceptionally, endlessly beautiful film.