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	Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948)
		Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) is the classic romantic film - a lush tearjerker par excellence - of the bittersweet theme of unrequited, lost love (it's considered a quintessential "woman's picture").
		The view blurs and fades, signifying a flashback (for virtually the remainder of the film) from the unknown woman's written deathbed confession, as she tells of her lifelong, almost 20 year obsession with a pianist and actually relives the feelings and thoughts of her life.
		The reading of the letter is represented by the narrating voice of the woman herself - now dead, although her voice doesn't sound labored or deathly sick.
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	IMDb user comments for Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		An admirable scene sums up the whole movie:Stefan and Liza are aboard a "train" and they "travel".It's actually a fixed train,and some kind of stagehand forwards a chocolate box scenery :Venice,Switzerland...
		Louis Jourdan is excellent as the shallow pianist who does not remember the woman who loved him so deeply until he reads her letter, written shortly before her death from typhoid.
		This film is deeply concerned with a woman's role under patriarchy and the limitations of "romantic" love as a form of fulfillment.
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	Letter from an Unknown Woman
		At the narrative's conclusion, however, the effect of this unknown woman's letter on this unremembering man is, indeed, ironically profound — and, ultimately, final.
		Letter From an Unknown Woman is the classic romantic film — a tearjerker par excellence — of the bittersweet theme of unrequited, lost love (a quintessential "woman’s picture").
		Critics are divided over the issue of point-of-view in Letter from an Unknown Woman: some argue that we are witnessing Lisa's recall of her moments with Stefan; some argue for an objective presentation of those moments; still others argue that we are witnessing Stefan's interpretation of the events described by Lisa's letter.
	course1.winona.edu /pjohnson/h140/letter.htm (2177 words)

	Ophuls Conducting: Music and Musicality in Letter from an Unknown Woman
		Intently listening to Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1953) is like watching the film for the first time: being surprised again by its fluidity and getting caught up in the smooth progression of the story, guided by the music.
		This sequence verges on comedy: it is accompanied by an awkward rendition of a Wagner tune by a military brass band.
		Letter constantly challenges the viewer to dismiss easy interpretations: contradictory emotions coexist, and both protagonists are portrayed with a large amount of ambiguity.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/03/28/music_letter_from_unknown_woman.html (4568 words)

	The Letter (1940)
		The Letter (1940) is a classic melodramatic film noir of murder and deceit, effectively directed by William Wyler.
		There, a woman holding a smoking pistol in her hand calculatedly follows her victim and shoots him a second time.
		Crosbie comforts her further: "My poor child...You did what every woman would have done in your place, only nine-tenths of them wouldn't have had the courage." Meanwhile, Withers and Howard have been led by the head boy into the shed where Hammond's body has been taken.
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	Letter From an Unknown Woman : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Joan Fontaine stars as Lisa, an odd, possibly mentally disturbed young woman who adopts a stalkerlike, lifelong fixation on a rakish concert pianist, played by Louis Jordan, who beds her then forgets her, leaving her with child yet still obsessed with her one true love.
		The obsessed are to perish, consumed by their narrow, intense, cravings; thus obsessions lend themselves more to short stories than to novels, and indeed "A letter from an unknown woman" is based on a short story.
		Jourdan is genial and callow, an empty figure faced with the meaningless of his life and shamed with self-discovery.
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	Voyager: In Depth: Letter From an Unknown Woman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But in 1948 Ophuls was given an opportunity to display his legendary technique in a movie no one would have trouble understanding, the indulgently romantic Letter from an Unknown Woman.
		From the first moment that Joan Fontaine's eponymous unknown woman begins to speak -- "By the time you receive this letter, I may be dead" -- we're hooked on this hypnotic tale of fatal attraction, adapted from a novel by Stefan Zweig.
		As for Louis Jordan, Letter from an Unknown Woman was his second American film, and although producer John Houseman felt he lacked "sex," he does bring a blend of intellect and narcissism to the role and captures all of Stefan's facile charm.
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	Falling Women and Fallible Narrators (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Josephine is defined by her position as model and Jean's desire is inseparable from producing the woman as the subject of his painting – which is to say as an object for his gaze.
		Suicide could equally be seen as an admission of defeat but here it is turned into an extraordinary assertion of independence, even as it defines the appalling limits within which she is free to act, and the dreadful consequences of such action.
		There is an almost vertiginous fascination in attempting to unpeel the layers of narration and the levels of storytelling authority, but some of the fascination comes from the sense of being held in a fictional equivalent of Chinese boxes or a hall of mirrors.
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	Letter from an Unknown Woman by Stephan Zweig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		If you ever hold it in your hands, you may know that a dead woman is telling you her life story; the story of a life which was yours from its first to its last fully conscious hour.
		Twice I saw you with a woman, and the fact that I was now awakened, that there was something new and different in my feeling towards you, was disclosed by the sudden heart-pang when I saw a strange woman walking confidently with you arm-in-arm.
		Yes, he had vague memories of a neighbour's child, of a girl, of a woman in a dancing hall-all was dim and confused, like the flickering and shapeless view of a stone in the bed of a swiftly running stream.
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	The Ayn Rand Institute: FAQ
		An oft-repeated story claims that Ayn Rand took her last name from her Remington Rand typewriter while she was living in Chicago in 1926.
		Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality—not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.
		An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Video: Letter From An Unknown Woman [1948] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		She is the woman who could save him from himself, but is unable to speak of how she really feels, and he senses that there is more to her than to those women to whom he is generally drawn, but never values her sufficiently to find out the love of which she is really capable.
		The delight of the time they are together contrasts sharply with the pain of their separations: she acknowledges and knows the cause of this pain, while his life simply becomes increasingly problematic, his behaviour more erratic, while he searches for the meaning he can only find in her love.
		However, it is as a result of this letter that he is able to recognise who she was, and, to some extent, to requite her love.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: Letter from an Unknown Woman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The fifth title in the Rutgers Films in Print Series, "Letter from an Unknown Woman" is directed by Max Ophuls and based on the novella by Stefan Zweig.
		It is the story of Lisa, a young girl who rejects the constricting life of her small town and family in order to dedicate her life to a musician, Stefan.
		These essays acknowledge the film's significance as a preeminent example of Ophuls's art, as an important woman's film, and as a representative of the classic Hollywood style.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0813511607 (299 words)

	The Official Website of Representative David Duke, PhD
		The Jack London Literary Prize, an award of up to $10,000, is conferred on TOQ authors whose work reflects the expansive, fearless spirit of Jack London and is intended to promote the timeless values of Western civilization.
		Evidence also suggests that he was the one behind a letter mailed to the FBI in the wake of the anthrax scare implicating a scientist of Egyptian descent who worked at the facility.
		Such a scenario is almost an exact replay of the treachery of the Lavon Affair — unleash an attack upon America and then blame the Egyptians for the terrorism.
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	Letter From An Unknown Woman
		Opening with consummate gentleman Stefan Brand (Louis Jourdan) arriving home after a very late night's socialising with a duel to fight the next morning, our anti-hero finds a letter has been left for him by an unknown woman detailing her life and how it has all revolved around her love for him.
		Somewhat reminiscent of Kind Hearts & Coronets, the film continues through flashback with the unknown woman, played by Joan Fontaine, narrating the story until we arrive back at the film's present.
		Though the final resolving of the story is perhaps over redemptive (and not a little over-the-top), Letter From an Unknown Woman remains a beautifully shot and involving tragic classic.
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	Letter from an Unknown Woman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Howard Koch based on a novel by Stefan Zweig
		Letter From An Unknown Woman (Brief einer Unbekannten) is a novel authored by Stefan Zweig, which tells the story of a writer who, while reading a letter written by a woman he does not remember, gets glimpses into her life story.
		In 1948, it is adapted to film by Howard Koch.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Letter_From_An_Unknown_Woman (140 words)

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	Cinefile Search Result: Detailed Information for "Letter to an Unknown Woman" - www.cinephilia.net.au
		A highly-regarded example of the 'woman's film' genre.
		Joan Fontaine (in probably her best but certainly her last outstanding role) plays a young girl with a crush on philandering concert pianist, played by Louis Jourdan.
		She falls pregnant after a one-night stand doesn't see him for 9 years and in the interim marries an understanding military man. The principals meet again and tragedy and redemption ensue.
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	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : A Letter from an Unknown Woman : Review
		"unknown" Lisa to Louis Jourdan's flippant Stefan begins a series of flashbacks recounting her all-consuming love for him and his inability to remember her, even after he seduced her once and impregnated her.
		Ophüls's fluid shooting style communicates the passion that Lisa cannot articulate until it is too late, with lyrical camera movements that linger over Lisa's fascination with anything related to her one night with Stefan and evocative shots of the curved staircase leading to Stefan's apartment.
		Though it was not initially a success, the gracefully romantic Letter From an Unknown Woman has since come to be considered Ophüls's best American film.
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	Variety.com - Reviews - Letter From an Unknown Woman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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		Based on Stephen Zweig's Vienna-set story that was famously adapted to the screen in 1948 by Max Ophuls, the sumptuously lensed Chinese costumer "Letter From an Unknown Woman" has many of the same problems a remake of "Citizen Kane" would have for fans of the original.
		Structured as a series of flashbacks, story opens in 1948 Peking when a middle-aged man (top star Jiang Wen) receives an anonymous letter that begins, "My son died yesterday." A poignant female voice, which recurs throughout the film, reads the lines written by a woman who has loved this man in silence all her life.
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	Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, USA 1948)
		The story is told in flashbacks as Stefan reads a letter from Lisa as she is suffering from typhus, and he finally learns her entire story.
		The story of lifelong, unrequited love-told via a posthumous letter-in being almost absurd is more cynical than it is romantic.
		ntently listening to Letter from an Unknown Woman is like watching the film for the first time: being surprised again by its fluidity and getting caught up in the smooth progression of the story, guided by the music.
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		Differences between Letter from an Unknown Woman and the original story by Stefan Zweig.
		The very general outline of the plot - a woman who loves a man who never recognizes her, who bears his son and dies after the son dies and of the same illness - is the same.
		The sum total of his emotional reaction to it is a vague discomfort.
	philosophy.wisc.edu /hunt/letterlists.htm (357 words)

	Letter from an Unknown Woman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN is set in Vienna at the turn of the century, an era Ophüls loved and had used in LA RONDE and LIEBELEI.
		Al Pacino is trying to corrupt someone again in Two for the Money, a tale of how the head of a sports consulting firm draws an up-and-coming agent into his sordid world.
		"Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) is the classic romantic film - a lush tearjerker par excellence - of the bittersweet theme of unrequited, lost love"
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	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : A Letter from an Unknown Woman : Plot
		Stefan is in the process of fleeing Vienna on the eve of fighting a duel.
		It begins, "By the time you read this letter, I may be dead." As Stefan sits back in his study to read this letter, it turns out to be a confession of unrequited love from Lisa.
		After Stefan reads the letter, he wants to rush to her side, but now poor Lisa is dying from typhus.
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	Letter from an Unknown Woman - Video(VHS)
		Comment: Joan Fontaine stars as Lisa, an odd, possibly mentally disturbed young woman who adopts a stalkerlike, lifelong fixation on a rakish concert pianist, played by Louis Jordan, who beds her then forgets her, leaving her with child yet still obsessed with her one true love.
		Comment: "Letter From an Unknown Woman" is a touching, emotionally-involving movie about a
		Comment: LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN remains one of those cinematic masterpieces that has never gotten its rightful due.
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