The film is an adaptation of Parks' semi-autobiography under the same title.

Audio of Gordon Parks reading his book, The Learning Tree
https://youtu.be/fYttW9hvgEw

Director: Gordon Parks
Writers: Gordon Parks (novel), Genevieve Young (story consultant)

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"The Learning Tree:” A Literary and Cinematic Masterpiece

"The Learning Tree" (1969) is a coming-of-age book and film written, directed, composed, and produced by Gordon Parks.

Parks was a writer and photographer who turned into a filmmaker, which led him to become the first Black American director to make a Hollywood studio film.

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The Kenneth Burke collection that anchored my study of New Hollywood BO failures from Cimino, Coppola, Bogdanovich, Scorsese...
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Symbol-using animals.🎬

The Kenneth Burke collection that anchored my study of New Hollywood BO failures from Cimino, Coppola, Bogdanovich, Scorsese... :blobnom:

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#7filmstoknowme :blobnom:

THE UK EDITION 🎬 🇬🇧

1. THE FIELD
2. THE LADY VANISHES
3. TRAINSPOTTING
4. LOCAL HERO
5. MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH
6. BAD TIMING / DON'T LOOK NOW 🤔
7. BREAD AND ROSES

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THE UK EDITION 🎬 🇬🇧

1. THE FIELD
2. THE LADY VANISHES
3. TRAINSPOTTING
4. LOCAL HERO
5. MATTER OF LIFE & DEATH
6. BAD TIMING / DON'T LOOK NOW (Roeg) 🤔
7. BREAD AND ROSES/THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY (Loach) 🤔

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#7filmstoknowme :blobnom:

THE EUROPE EDITION 🎬

1. THREE COLORS RED (Kieslowski)
2. PROVIDENCE
3. THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE
4. L' AVVENTURA
5. FILM (Beckett)
6. WEEKEND
7. RUSSIAN ARK

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#7filmstoknowme :blobnom:

THE EUROPE EDITION 🎬

1. THREE COLORS RED (Kieslowski)
2. PROVIDENCE
3. THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE
4. L' AVVENTURA
5. FILM (Beckett)
6. WEEKEND
7. RUSSIAN ARK

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Scott..."obtained a diploma in design at West Hartlepool College of Art.[19] The industrial landscape in West Hartlepool would later inspire visuals in Blade Runner, with Scott stating, "There were steelworks adjacent to West Hartlepool, so every day I'd be going through them, and thinking they're kind of magnificent, beautiful, winter or summer, and the darker and more ominous it got, the more interesting it got."[20]'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridley_Scott

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Oh yes! Plus...
masterpiece Providence a 1977 French/Swiss film directed by Alain Resnais

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#BOTD Dec 5th...

Fritz and Walt.

What a party...🎬 🎈
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#BOTD Dec 5th...

Fritz and Walt.

What a party...🎬 🎈
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#BOTD Dec 5th...

Fritz and Walt.

What a party...🎬 🎈
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Dec 4th - #BOTD Jeff Bridges.

Two with Cimino - THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT and HEAVEN'S GATE.
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Dec 4th - #BOTD Jeff Bridges.

Two with Cimino - THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT and HEAVEN'S GATE.
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https://www.amazon.com/Film-Mavericks-Action-Hollywood-Rhetoric/dp/363163563X

Ha! 😎 Metaphor, Subtext.

All those times THE GODFATHER has come across my table and only NOW do I get the opening in- joke

...that The Don refuses the family portrait

...we don't do this without Michael!! 👍

Then the story finally kicks in once Michael/Pacino and Kay/Keaton stand with the rest of the main cast for the portrait

Coppola had won his casting tussle with the Studio

CLICK!

#CinemaScholars 🎬
#NETFLIX #TheGodfather
#Coppola #NewHollywood

Ha! 😎 Metaphor, Subtext.

All those times THE GODFATHER has come across my table and only NOW do I get the opening in- joke

...that The Don refuses the family portrait

...we don't do this without Michael!! 👍

Then the story finally kicks in once Michael/Pacino and Kay/Keaton stand with the rest of the main cast for the portrait

Coppola had won his casting tussle with the Studio

CLICK!

#CinemaScholars 🎬
#NETFLIX #TheGodfather
#Coppola #NewHollywood

@Nomad93

OUT.

The Wild Bunch
=84. Fanny and Alexander
=84. The Color of Pomegranates
=81. Lawrence of Arabia
=81. The Magnificent Ambersons
=78. Chinatown
=73. Nashville
=73. Le grande illusion
=73. Les enfants du paradise
=73. L’eclisse
=63. Wild Strawberries

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Ha! 😎

All those times THE GODFATHER has come across my table and only NOW do I get the opening in- joke

...that The Don refuses the family portrait

...we don't do this without Michael!! 👍

#CinemaScholars 🎬
#NETFLIX #TheGodfather

1. 2001
2. RED (Kieslowski)
3. VERTIGO
4. TOUCH OF EVIL (Welles)
5. THE WILD BUNCH
6. THE RECKLESS MOMENT
7. THE BANDWAGON

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