XPost: alt.usage.english, sci.lang   
   From: HenHanna@dev.null   
      
   On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:38:25 +0000, LionelEdwards wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 21:41:53 +0000, HenHanna wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:15:38 +0000, LionelEdwards wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> They don't make films like this any more. Miss Jean   
   >>> Brodie before she went beyond her prime:   
   >>>   
   >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crJnW0UU2Ak   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>     Does the movie title mean...   
   >>              when she was at her most-Confident, Ablest, ...?   
   >   
   > Yes and quoting Keats at the end. A golden age of high-brow   
   > film-making seems to be dying with that generation. "A Room   
   > with a View" from 1985:   
   >   
   > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzLsrAx0n4k   
      
      
      
   iirc... this film  (a Room with a View) launched Merchant&Ivory, and....   
      
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchanted_April_(1991_film)   
                   Didn't this one have a  Merchant&Ivory feel?   
      
      
   _________________   
      
      i could never get  into  [A Separate Peace]  or this one (The Prime   
   of Miss Jean Brodie)   
   (seems too old, and/or too foreign)   
          as much as  into [Dead Poet Society]   or   [Paper Chase]   
      
      
   a teacher who remained  "in his prime" (most-Confident, Ablest, ...)   
       and got petrified,  fossilized  in that state is Prof. Kingsfield.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)