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WaterDance Lives On …

April 30, 2008 | Posted by Terry Meyer

Several months ago now, facing the cold, wet, foggy, dreary and long 28 days in the dreaded month of February and desperate for a diversion, I proposed in the AWRA e-newsletter, Connections, a film festival to be held in each of our homes, and I provided a list of 28 films (mostly readily available) in which water plays an important role either as setting, protaganist or antagonist, supporting cast, metaphor, symbol, or allegory.  You can see the complete list here: http://www.awra.org/newsletter/0801newsletter.html.  I named it WaterDance and launched it into cyberspace with my “send” button.

Such a response I got!  I had no idea there were so many like me who love movies and dread the month of February, too.  There were those who added to my initial list, those who provided commentary on my selections, and those who set out to watch as many as they could of the films I suggested.  Many, many people could not believe I left “Chinatown” (1974, Roman Polanski) — that classic story of California water rights, intrigue, and incest — off my list, and I could hardly believe it myself.  So, I tried to make amends in my next issue of Connections (available here:  http://www.awra.org/newsletter/0802newsletter.html).

I had a number of great one-on-one email conversations, and one insightful person suggested posting the idea of WaterDance on a blog so the conversation could be more inclusive.  While I had to wait for the AWRA blog to exist in order to put her idea into action, here it is at last! 

I’ll start you off with a sampling of suggested additions to my original list from Connections readers: 

  • Deliverance (1972, John Boorman)
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, David Lean)
  • The River (1951, Jean Renoir)
  • Sphere (1998, Barry Levinson)
  • Cast Away (2000, Robert Zemeckis)
  • Holes (2003, Andrew Davis)

(Visit www.imdb.com for lots of information about these and many other movies.)

And, you can check out my previous lists at the links provided above, and with your help WaterDance can run all year long. 

With this post I launch WaterDance into the blogosphere.  Let’s see if it floats!


Comments

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  1. Gretchen on April 30, 2008 10:44 pm

    What a great idea! Thanks for reposting it on this blog. I’ll have to check out one of those movies this weekend.

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