A movie that moved TP?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Kubrick's films, Paths of Glory and Dr. Strangelove.

LK


-----Original Message-----
>From: Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
>Sent: Jan 16, 2013 5:38 AM
>To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: A movie that moved TP?
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>I am not as up on movies as some on the list, but when I get the chance I try to watch something worthwhile. Last night I caught a movie on TV that I had no idea about until I saw it. As soon as I saw Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster and some others I knew it would be good.
> Judgement at Nuremburg was released in 1961 (filmed in black and white, at first I thought it was older) so it's a pretty safe bet that TP would have seen it. As far as I know this was one of the first films to refer to the horror of the Shoah and use images from the liberation of the camps by allied forces in ´45. Towards the end of the film IG Farben is mentioned, and a final note at the end of the film mentions that of the people convicted and encarcerated at Nuremburg none remained in prison at the time of the film´s release. Might this have set TP's wheels spinning? I don´t mean to imply that it was the origin of his idea for GR, but could it have been significant? What other films at that time might have moved TP to write? 
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>ciao
>mc otis