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, composer, 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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Symbol-using animals.🎬
The Kenneth Burke collection that anchored my study of New Hollywood BO failures from Cimino, Coppola, Bogdanovich, Scorsese... 
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) 🤔
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
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]'
Oh yes! Plus...
masterpiece Providence a 1977 French/Swiss film directed by Alain Resnais
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!
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Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco
📎🖐️ Alan Taylor 🎬 📚
