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IHT sees the light on French student protests | 21 comments (21 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
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My guess was Polanski, but I found it was another famous Polish director, Andrzej Wajda, in a quote by a Guardian reporter:

Wajda once said to me, when I asked him whether he would prefer the freedom of Western film-making to the artistic constraints of the Eastern bloc, that there were always ways of getting round political censorship but no way to avoid the censorship of money. Later in his career, when his disillusion with the Communist party was complete, he showed - with Man Of Iron, Man Of Marble and several other outstanding films - exactly what he meant.


*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 06:20:07 PM EST
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DoDo gets the virtual cookie!  gee, that was spookily fast.  was that person knowledge, or should I hang my head for shame that I did not hit wikipedia or google or  imdb with the appropriately long and iterative search string?

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 06:59:49 PM EST
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The latter :-) Though, admittedly, I could narrow down the search using a select few directors' names.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 07:03:40 PM EST
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aha, so you did have a store of personal knowledge to commence the search operation.  I find that googlish success is dependent on the searcher having just one valid and specific clue.  with just that one clue (like a list of names, or the name of a school or atelier, or an event or a movie title, or a character in a movie, or the book on which it was based, or the year in which a showing provoked a theatre closing) all else can be tracked down.  but w/o that one specific key one can wander in the weblerness (sorry, there must be a better horrid neologism someone could think of) for tens of minutes getting nowhere.

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 at 07:45:39 PM EST
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Yeah, I made similar experiences...

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Mar 24th, 2006 at 03:20:56 AM EST
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IHT sees the light on French student protests | 21 comments (21 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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