Film quiz - number 10 - new clue

[chickenfeet]

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[thidwick.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what the movie is, but is that Miss Tessbacher (?) from Superman?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

It's the same actress (Valerie Perrine)

[thidwick.livejournal.com]

Hmm. In that case, I'm going to take a stab in the dark...Slaughterhouse Five?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

correct

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

I THOUGHT YOU SAID 10) WAS MAINSTREAM???????????????????

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Slaughterhouse Five is mainstream. The bloody book has been on English Lit syllabi almost since it was written and the film has been doing the rounds for 30 years.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

It's a very lovely film. But not mainstream as the world would understand it...

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

It won the Jury Prize at Cannes and was nominated for the Palme d'Or and it won a Golden Globe. It was an adaptation of a best selling novel and got a full theatrical release by Universal. What aspect of mainstream am I missing here?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Anything that wins the Jury Prize at Cannes is, by definition, not mainstream. By mainstream, I think I mean that people went to see it.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on this - definitely mainstream.

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

maybe the English Lit syllabi thirty years ago on Planet Zog...

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

well that is approximately when and where I last studied English Lit

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

I would have thought it was a Modern American Lit class ... ;-)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I think it may have referred to language rather than nationality. After all I wouldn't want to claim Hemingway or Joyce as English.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Slaughterhouse Five!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

yes indeed

[shezan.livejournal.com]

I thought I was completely LJ-obsessed, but I didn't see your quiz until now...

(Competitive? Moi?)

And LOVED Slaughterhouse Five (I'm old enough to have seen it in a cinema...)

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

It's really good. I've watched it on DVD quite a few times.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough, I thought it was Michelle Dotrice...