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that is damn fine. alas i have most of those, and paid more than that for 'em separately. if you don't have them, DO SO.

― N_RQ, Monday, 15 August 2005 07:44 (twenty years ago)

'grillion'.

I saw A Canterbury Tale last year, then went to Canterbury with the Vicar and Rener! It was a bit like, in the film.

I seem to have had half an eye on I Know Where I'm Going so many times.

A Matter Of Life and Death will always be the central picture for me.

― the bellefox, Monday, 15 August 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

> Perhaps only HMV have it that cheaply and it's a grillion pounds elsewhere...

including the HMV website (where it's still 40 quid). i guess this is an instore deal or the website's old. (or the guardian and the times were both wrong)

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 15 August 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

i'm not mad about IKWIG. i think 'canterbury tale' might be best.

― N_RQ, Monday, 15 August 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Reports Back from the Other Place (ie HMV Victoria) inform it's still £39.99, it's the first day out and they aren't aware of any cheaper editions coming out - so unless the bigger stores have it cheaper then I guess WE HAVE BEEN FED LIES.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Monday, 15 August 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

just checked and the guardian says 17.99 also.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/film/story/0,,1547982,00.html
time to start a class action lawsuit. or just wait until ch4 shows them in the afternoon again (i think the weird mob is the only one i haven't seen listed in the last 18 months)

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 15 August 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

Black Narcissus is my favorite. When I was a nipper, I was confused and thought Black Narcissus and Black Orpheus were the same movie, never having seen but only having heard of them. The first time I saw BN I couldn't always tell which nun was which, and I'm not sure if this wasn't intentioanal.

I saw a (WWII?) lifeboat movie that was shot by Jack Cardiff once that was pretty interesting- google tells me it was called Western Approaches.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

i didn't know JC shot that! 'westerna approaches' was directed by, i forget who, but the GPO-Crown documentary people -- ie archer foes.

― N_RQ, Monday, 15 August 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

It wasn't Len Lye or the Brazilian guy, that's for sure.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

I've rewatched Colonel Blimp since I posted to this thread last and completely changed my opinion of it. Great, great film.

― frankiemachine, Monday, 15 August 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

bensonsworld says that box is "off the schedule."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 15 August 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

Duh. I guess that would make sense since it's not HMV...

Is it only £17.99 if you pick it up "in store"? I'm not familiar with HMV as I'm not from the UK. But damn, I want this.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 15 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Was there some business in I Know Where I'm Going about talking on the radio and using "Roger" and "Over"? It's been so long since I've seen it.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 15 August 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

i think you've confused it with 'airplane' -- easily done.

― Enrique, naked in an unfamiliar future where corporations run the world... (Enri, Monday, 15 August 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I confused it with A Matter Of Life And Death?

No, the radio subplot involves her fiancé. Checking up on this led me to discover that Petula Clark has a small role in the movie.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 15 August 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

> Is it only £17.99 if you pick it up "in store"?

not even then according to starry who popped out at lunchtime. appears both papers were incorrect.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

A Matter Of Life Or Death is on english TV (channel 4) friday afternoon (about 1).

― koogs (koogs), Sunday, 18 September 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

It's on Turner Classic Movies over here next Saturday, I think.

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 18 September 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

I misspoke. It was just on, although there is probably another airing or two during the week. I watched the last half hour. Raymond Massey didn't annoy me nearly as much as the last time I saw it. I didn't realize the woman from Black Narcissus was in it. What did Kim Hunter ever do besides this and Planet Of The Apes? Black Narcissus is on in five minutes.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 19 September 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

Gong has become bullseye had become two Himalayan horns! See you in 1h 40min.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 19 September 2005 01:05 (twenty years ago)

"Sausages! They will eat sausages."

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 19 September 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

Nope that was their only screening of A Matter Of Life and Death.

Next Sunday is The Red Shoes and the TCM premiere of- they said it couldn't be shown on television - Peeping Tom.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

I've seen it on TV at least twice.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

Really, Martin? I was kidding actually. Because the guy said it was "the TCM premiere."

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

and Colonel Blimp is on this afternoon at 2:55. (BBC2 UK)

have seen Peeping Tom at least twice on english tv, last time was as recently as May.

― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 24 September 2005 09:03 (twenty years ago)

It would have been Michael Powell's 100th birthday, apparently, so that's why they are showing these things on TCM. They keep showing these promo things with Powell's widow, Thelma Schoonmaker talking about how "Scorcese and I would have died to get that color."

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 24 September 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

hadn't seen Colonel Blimp before as it happens. and John Laurie was in it. pity it started half an hour late because of the stupid bat and ball thing.

― koogs (koogs), Sunday, 25 September 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I really did not like Black Narcissus. I've nothing much to add, I just wanted to balance out the fawning love. Nice imagery, settings, etc but the plot left me shivering freezing cold. I feel a more interesting film could have been made out of the flashbacks to the nuns pre-convent days. The denouement with the nun-gone-bad and her death seemed very rushed and tacked on. It felt like I was being forced to watch some dreary film on a wet Sunday afternoon.

However, Matter Of Life & Death is flawless. Wonderful in every way. I liked Peeping Tom but still, it pales next to most Hitchcock.

― Affectian (Affectian), Monday, 26 September 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

i think i like the b/2 stuff more than the color. props to them for exprimenting with color, but for whatever reason it's not for me (except for 'black narcissus' maybe).

― N_RQ, Monday, 26 September 2005 09:01 (twenty years ago)

two more:
I Know Where I'm Going - BBC4 3rd October (John Laurie again)
Peeping Tom - ITV 14th October (2nd time in 5 months)

― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 1 October 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

This thing about Peeping Tom being on UK TV all the time is practically a new ILX meme.

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 2 October 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

"49th Parallel" tuesday afternoon UK. worth watching for laurence olivier's accent (ok, maybe not).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033627/

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 7 November 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

Colonel Blimp is on on saturday as part of bbc4's War on Film season

Saturday 29th

9:00 pm
In Which We Serve
Classic drama starring Noel Coward and John Mills. Adrift at sea after their Royal Navy destroyer is attacked and sunk, the surviving crew members recount their stories in flashback. [1942, b&w][S]

10:50 pm
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Powell and Pressburger's masterpiece of British cinema chronicles the extraordinary life story of British army officer Clive Candy, beginning with his early career in the Boer War. [1943][S]

Sunday 30th

7:00 pm
The Colditz Story
John Mills stars in the true story of the notorious German POW establishment and the officers who tried to escape from it. [1955, b&w][S]

8:35 pm
A Bridge Too Far
Star-studded epic war film recounting Operation Market Garden, the daring Allied plan to parachute 35,000 troops into occupied Holland to capture a strategic line of bridges. [1977]

Monday 1st May

7:20 pm
The Man Who Never Was
Spring 1943. As the Allies plan to invade Europe through Sicily they must deceive the enemy into expecting the attack elsewhere. Two British officers propose a daring and ingenious plan. [1956]

(which is a nice little selection. needs more submarines though)

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 28 April 2006 15:03 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

HMV have the 10 dvd box set on sale now for £16.99, ordered my copy tonight.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

just saw the new canterbury criterion dvd last night... awesome

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

YUP.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 10 August 2006 06:22 (nineteen years ago)

I could not be doing with Battle of River Plate, although it does have the odd visual treat, by which I suppose I mean stuff that looks a bit like A Matter of Life and Death.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 10 August 2006 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

i gotta see a matter of l&d.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

I know where I'm going.

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

Don't the Americans call it 'stairway to heaven'? David Niven is a legend.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

We have called it that in the past, but I think that in recent years we have reverted to the British title, thereby avoiding a certain guitar store confusion.

― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:16 (nineteen years ago)

All I do know is that it was commissioned by the British government to promote goodwill between the US and Britain. How such a film is needed again now, eh?

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

canterbury tale is prob my favorite movie

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

gonna pick up the criterion edition?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

Wow, the Glue Man stuff (and Eric Portman's gayish ecologist creep) is soooooooo fuckin' weird in A Canterbury Tale. The American GI's folksiness wore thin too. Looks great as usual.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 March 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

I love A Canterbury Tale, it's my favourite P&P movie in many ways, but they veer strangely close to some Blood & Soil proselytising at times.

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

I saw Powell's The Edge of the World on Tuesday. Utterly brilliant, utterly beautiful. Shot almost entirely on location in an almost Mass Observation style but with a Thomas Hardy-esque plot. Like all of his movies he puts the emphasis where you least expect: landscape and the everyday, rather than melodrama. See it.

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 28 June 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

has ne1 read MP's autobiog? was he a ballet fan way back, ie in the teens and twenties?

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 27 August 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

I wouldn't know- I only got to page six hundred.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

Watching Black Narcissus again, I'd forgotten that every inch was shot in England.

And I know it's a melodrama, but nearly everything about Sister Ruth (esp in the last half) is indeed WAY TOO MUCH.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

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Think Pressburger may have actually written more than one novel

― Thrapple from the Apple (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 July 2024 12:02 (one year ago)

Xpost Yes good point, and I guess also that not all the films of their imperial phase were so quintessentially English - I can imagine The Red Shoes as a late 40s French movie. Can't really see A Canterbury Tales transposed to Rouen or wherever though!

― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 17 July 2024 12:06 (one year ago)

Parts of ACT aren't so very far from e.g. Vigo

― you'll find this funny, children (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 17 July 2024 14:25 (one year ago)

been a long time since I've seen it, but perhaps Clouzot's Le Corbeau?

― bulb after bulb, Wednesday, 17 July 2024 14:47 (one year ago)

Got my eye on GONE TO EARTH and THE ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL this weekend

― Thrapple from the Apple (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 July 2024 23:11 (one year ago)

Guess there is also a version of this series in LA right now.

― Thrapple from the Apple (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 July 2024 00:31 (one year ago)

These BFI notes linked by MoMA are pretty good.

― Thrapple from the Apple (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 July 2024 20:58 (one year ago)

Although sometimes the story changes a bit. Here Powell is quoted as saying the germ of the idea of BLIMP was from Emeric, but elsewhere he says the suggestion came from David Lean.

― Thrapple from the Apple (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 July 2024 21:01 (one year ago)

been a long time since I've seen it, but perhaps Clouzot's Le Corbeau?

also a very distinctively weird movie that I liked, in many ways they both directors were at odds with over-censorious arseholes from right-wing/fascist regimes, but still managed to make a great movie

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 19 July 2024 21:30 (one year ago)

https://www.shropshirestar.com/entertainment/2016/04/04/pontesbury-woman-talks-about-her-familys-time-on-film/

― Thrapple from the Apple (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2024 09:53 (one year ago)

Because I saw GONE TO EARTH yesterday.

― Thrapple from the Apple (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 July 2024 00:14 (one year ago)

Today was THE ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL

― Thrapple from the Apple (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 July 2024 00:15 (one year ago)

three months pass...

BBC2 this weekend, new documentary

SAT 16th 13:30 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
SAT 16th 16:10 I Know Where I'm Going!

SUN 17th 22:00 Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

and then BBC4

THU 21st 20:00 Martin Scorcese remembers P&P
THU 21st 20:20 I Know Where I'm Going!
THU 21st 21:50 I Know Where I'm Going! (Making Of)
THU 21st 22:25 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

― koogs, Tuesday, 12 November 2024 14:51 (one year ago)

Doc is pretty good

― Sir Lester Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 14:53 (one year ago)

agreed

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 14:57 (one year ago)

sorry wait no I was thinking of the merchant ivory doc. i haven't seen this one yet

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 12 November 2024 14:58 (one year ago)

I have the blus of Powell's early quota quickies and that amazing looking late career opera adaptation they did on my "to watch" pile, gotta get around to those.

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 12 November 2024 15:36 (one year ago)

I've never seen it but the clips of tales of hoffmann in the 'made in England' doc make it look absolutely incredible

― oscar bravo, Monday, 18 November 2024 20:57 (one year ago)

Yeah, it's pretty good to look at. Of a piece with The Red Shoes, but maybe not quite as, um, focused.
Bluebeard's Castle also worth seeing tbh.

― Sir Lester Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 November 2024 00:12 (one year ago)

rare showing for The Edge Of The World and the documentary on bbc4 on Saturday.

― koogs, Tuesday, 26 November 2024 18:05 (one year ago)

Made In England was great btw. hard to miss given the subject matter really.

― koogs, Tuesday, 26 November 2024 18:06 (one year ago)

Looks like it’s streaming on Kanopy now.

― JoeStork, Tuesday, 26 November 2024 18:16 (one year ago)

eight months pass...

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n05/alex-harvey/heaven-s-waiting-room

Didn't know Pressburger had written novels

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 26 July 2025 11:30 (ten months ago)

two months pass...

Sky Arts (ch36) did one of their Classic Movies: The Story Of... on Colonel Blimp this week. it's repeated saturday (14:00) and sunday (monday 01:00). i don't suppose there's much new in there.

― koogs, Friday, 24 October 2025 15:30 (seven months ago)

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