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-----Original Message----- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of ghand...@library.berkeley.edu Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 11:43 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance? Hi all An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I can use your help: I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets, dialogue, voiceover, etc. I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues in "Don't Look Back"; the "meta" credits from the movie Stranger Than Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's "Film"(1965); and--oddly enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D. Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: "Let's start with... Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? ") I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite remember. What do you say? Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." --Francois Truffaut VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
