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Ever Since Chaucer. The scene could just as well have been ancient Babylon or the court of Richard the Lionhearted. Falconry's techniques of training and manning hawks have not changed in more than 3,000 years, and falconers still speak a language that was modish in Chaucer's days. "She's an intermewed eyas, and not yet enseamed" means: "She is a young falcon that has recently molted and is still too fat to hunt." A few falconry terms have made their way into modern vocabulary. A "cad" is a person fit for no other occupation...
...land is at all open, the falconer's choice by far is the princely peregrine falcon, a relatively small (about 2 lbs.) saber-winged hawk that puts on a breathtaking display...
Just as a falcon reaches its prey, it cocks a fist and lashes out; then it rolls over, "binds" to the stunned bird with its talons, and gives the coup de grace with its razor-sharp beak. If it is perfectly trained, and the load is not too heavy, it will carry the kill back to its master like a retriever...
...film about young people in Paris, was most popular, and "Pierrot Le Fou" was the best -- one of Godard's greatest achievements. On the surface, "Pierrot Le Fou," the 1965 film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, is a color and cinema-scope re-make of "The Maltese Falcon." But thematically, Godard's film is much blacker and more terrifying than its melodramatic plot line would imply...
...Falcon...