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Films
Klawans, Stuart | January 31, 2000 issue

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The article discusses two films, "Holy Smoke!" and "The Edge of the World." To make the film "The Edge of the World," its director Michael Powell sailed to Scotland's outer islands. The film was shot in 1936 on Foula, using a dozen actors and all local residents. The film dramatizes the end of a traditional farming, fishing and herding community. Like filmmakers Robert Flaherty and F.W. Murnau's film "Tabu," the film titled "The Edge of the World" is one part ethnography to two parts romance. Unseen for many years in the U.S., the film is now being re-released by Milestone Film and Video in a restored print.

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MOTION pictures; HOLY Smoke! (Film); EDGE of the World, The (Film); POWELL, Michael; TABU (Film); MURNAU, F. W. (Friedrich Wilhelm), 1888-1931; FLAHERTY, Robert
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