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Saturday, August 14, 2004

# Posted 6:10 PM by Patrick Belton  

HOW DO YOU MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT IDEAS? One of the most frequent criticisms of movies made about poets, physicists, or thinkers of any stripe is that the films capture their love affairs or the quirks of their personalities without reflecting what makes them interesting to us in the first place - their work, and contributions to human thought. The recent film of Sylvia Plath fits this category, at least in its critical reception. But how do you do otherwise, without driving audiences away by filming a chalkboard? Recently two Melburnians have tried to do just that, by producing a film about a lecture Heidegger delivered on the German Romantic poet Holderlin. The film is called The Ister. It will hopefully draw an audience on the art film circuit, and at any rate seems like just precisely the sort of thing that public television networks are there to support.
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