― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 21 June 2004 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lee G (Lee G), Monday, 21 June 2004 23:41 (nineteen years ago) link
monday 19th 13:15: the elusive pimperneltuesday 20th 13:00: a canterbury talethursday 22nd 13:20: ill met by moonlight
― koogs (koogs), Friday, 16 July 2004 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Enrique, naked in an unfamiliar future where corporations run the world... (Enri, Sunday, 14 August 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 14 August 2005 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Destroy: Powell's autobiography, rivaled only by Isaac Asimov's in length and tediousness.
The Pressburger bio that came out several years back was pretty good though. Maybe the guy who wrote it was his nephew or grandson?
And has anybody seen any of Powell's quota quickies? I have this strange memory of being in a hotel and a movie called something like Rynox came on the television and then it said "Directed by Michael Powell," but I had to go out so I didn't watch it. The beginning was nothing special.
― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 14 August 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Monday, 15 August 2005 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
http://telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/08/13/bfdvds13.xml&menuId=564&sSheet=/arts/2005/08/13/ixfilmmain.html
The Powell & Pressburger Box Set:Battle of the River Plate;A Canterbury Tale; 49th Parallel; I Know Where I'm Going; Ill Met by Moonlight; The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; The Red Shoes; A Matter of Life and Death; They're a Weird MobGranada Ventures, DVD (9 discs), £17.99; only in HMV
18 quid is a good deal."only in HMV"?
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 15 August 2005 07:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Monday, 15 August 2005 07:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Monday, 15 August 2005 07:44 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Monday, 15 August 2005 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Monday, 15 August 2005 12:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 15 August 2005 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Monday, 15 August 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 15 August 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― frankiemachine, Monday, 15 August 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 15 August 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 15 August 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Enrique, naked in an unfamiliar future where corporations run the world... (Enri, Monday, 15 August 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
not even then according to starry who popped out at lunchtime. appears both papers were incorrect.
― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 07:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Sunday, 18 September 2005 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 18 September 2005 11:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 19 September 2005 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 19 September 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 19 September 2005 12:27 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 11:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 24 September 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Sunday, 25 September 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― N_RQ, Monday, 26 September 2005 09:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 1 October 2005 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 2 October 2005 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033627/
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 7 November 2005 09:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Saturday 29th
9:00 pmIn Which We ServeClassic 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 pmThe Life and Death of Colonel BlimpPowell 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 pmThe Colditz StoryJohn 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 pmA Bridge Too FarStar-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 pmThe Man Who Never WasSpring 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 (seventeen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 10 August 2006 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 10 August 2006 06:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Thanks. As I still own the Bluray, I may not make the NYC screening (tho I need to see that silent), but we'll see.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 August 2019 07:13 (four years ago) link
don't have anything to add to the discussion about A Canterbury Tale except to say that I just saw it now for the first time and enjoyed it
― Dan S, Sunday, 1 September 2019 22:57 (four years ago) link
liked hearing the Toccata and Fugue in the cathedral near the end
― Dan S, Sunday, 1 September 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
I rewatched A Matter of Life and Death and had no memory that the first person Niven meets after his bailout is a nude shepherd boy (cut for US release btw).
My favorite detail of that great first Niven-Kim Hunter scene is that he's cracking bad jokes while he's using his last moments to quote every poet he can think of. "Andy Marvell, what a marvel!"
My only caveats are that all that US vs UK stuff in the celestial trial is just weird now (apparently the film office asked them to make a film about Yank-Brit unity), and
SPOILER
you can see Roger Livesey's death coming from his second scene.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
Bbc2 have been showing a few of these as matinees (and a bunch of other decent b&w films as well *)
Life and death todayRiver plate on SaturdayBlimp on Monday
(* Wooden horse, 633 squadron, triple cross, Odette, man who never was)
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 02:37 (four years ago) link
nude shepherd boy, hmm
haven't seen it yet
― Dan S, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
The number of nude shepherd boys I was exposed to my fully clothed boy life astonishes me to this day.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 03:03 (four years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 03:20 (four years ago) link
(apparently the film office asked them to make a film about Yank-Brit unity)
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 06:11 (four years ago) link
really liked Peeping Tom
― Dan S, Friday, 4 October 2019 03:24 (four years ago) link
Talking Pictures TVThu 16 Apr 202002:20The Wild Heart 1952. Drama. Directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. Stars Jennifer Jones, David Farrar & Cyril Cusack. Hazel, a child of nature, turns to a book of spells and charms when she has problems.
(this, is turns out, is Gone To Earth, which is one i haven't seen)
― koogs, Monday, 13 April 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
A different cut of Gone to Earth iirc. It's been on Talking Pictures before so there's a good chance it'll be on at a more reasonable time in the future. Haven't watched it right thru either.
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 April 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
Consequently, Selznick had the film re-edited and some extra scenes shot in Hollywood under director Rouben Mamoulian to make the version known as The Wild Heart (1952). Selznick's changes were mostly additions to the film: a prologue; scenes explaining things, often literally, by putting labels or inscriptions on them; and more close-ups of his wife, Jennifer Jones.
There's a bit more, but spoilers so I left it out.
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 April 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
the accents in that film are both charming and all over the place
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, 13 April 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
watching The Battle Of The River Plate on bbc2. they are issuing commands on the boat using a bugle, different tunes for different commands.
― koogs, Thursday, 23 December 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link
Kathleen Byron's birthday today.
― Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 21:41 (one year ago) link
Well, had a chance to see -- for the first time even -- the restored Red Shoes just now at the local Alamo as a one off. Hell of a thing.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 January 2023 22:59 (one year ago) link
:)
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 January 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
Every time I watch it, it gets better
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Sunday, 15 January 2023 23:24 (one year ago) link
and for a while it was my least favorite P&P.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 January 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link
That’d be 49th Parallel for me (a perfectly good movie)
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Sunday, 15 January 2023 23:48 (one year ago) link
Oh! Right. Olivier.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 January 2023 23:53 (one year ago) link
Saw Thelma Schoonmaker talk Powell at the BFI yesterday - she showed a few clips, including one from an adaptation of Bartok's Bluebeard, upcoming on blu and BFI Player, which Powell did for a German company after Peeping Tom and which looks absolutely stunning, a real Mario Bava/Hammer horror colour palette and fascinating to see them reach for the same sumptousness of their big productions on a shoestring budget.
There's also a book out, an exhibition (Scorsese loaned the Red Shoes!) and of course they're showing tons of their movies, including a lot of early quota quickies.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 27 October 2023 10:25 (five months ago) link
RYNOX?
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 October 2023 11:33 (five months ago) link
What?
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 27 October 2023 12:20 (five months ago) link
It's showing on 10 Nov https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=rynoxhotelsplendide
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 27 October 2023 12:26 (five months ago) link
RYNOX was the quota quickie you always seemed to hear about, believe it was thought lost until the nineties. I seem to recall it popping up on television once while I was in a hotel but I didn’t have the time or sense to watch it.
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 October 2023 12:47 (five months ago) link
I think it's on the bfiplayer too, if that's available outside the UK?
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 27 October 2023 13:07 (five months ago) link
I see a streaming channel called BFI Player Classics which has some kind of more limited selection.
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 27 October 2023 13:34 (five months ago) link
Dunno if a VPN will work with this? https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-rynox-1932-online
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 27 October 2023 13:41 (five months ago) link
https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/cutting-edge-thelma-schoonmaker-on-powell-and-pressburger-scene-by-scene
― My Prelapsarian Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 November 2023 19:12 (five months ago) link
thanks for that James, good read. also alerted me to the fact that a restored I Know Where I'm Going is on at the NFT today. fortunately it's sold out. i say fortunately, because i really i ought to be doing a load of work, and a 12:30 showing of one of my all time favourite films would not have been conducive.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 12 November 2023 09:32 (five months ago) link
On the bonus features to Bluebeard's Castle there's a short piece about him making a prototype of Earthseahttps://www.murrayewing.co.uk/mewsings/2011/01/23/michael-powells-wizard-of-earthsea/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 12 February 2024 21:08 (two months ago) link
Really hope Gone To Earth will get a bluray soon.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 12 February 2024 21:10 (two months ago) link
It had one on Kino Lorber that seemed to quickly go out of print!
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 12 February 2024 21:18 (two months ago) link
I guessing the BFI will do it eventually, but Bluebeard's Castle must have been a higher priority because it was so rarely seen
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 12 February 2024 21:34 (two months ago) link