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
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Haarvest (Ken L), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 11 August 2006 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 11 August 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 1 March 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 1 March 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
I wouldn't know- I only got to page six hundred.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
[image of Lou Reed and VU here] You know it's just too much
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Watching Black Narcissus again, I'd forgotten that every inch was shot in England. They didn't have to go far to get to the Army Navy store to get the Black Narcissus.
Nor the sausages to eat.
i'd forgotten BN is cheap cologne too!
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
You obviously didn't read the RIP Deborah Kerr thread too carefully.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i seldom read entire threads carefully.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
At this point, me neither.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Guy who played three roles in Canterbury- Narrator/Lantern Show Brit/Village Idiot - was British character actor Esmond Knight, who had been blinded in the war, and also played the Old General in Black Narcissus, of which Powell said something like "he thoroughly enjoyed playing the Rajah, but I don't think he was a very convincing one."
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 November 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
And he's still alive. And he was in I, Claudius. Sweet.
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 29 November 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
My info says he passed in 1987, after appearing in Superman IV: The Quest For Peace.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 November 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Hm, I didn't know Jack Cardiff worked on a Rambo movie.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 November 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah, I misread his IMDB entry. ah well.
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 29 November 2007 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
"You can't hurry an elm!"
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 November 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
"I give it 'til the rains break."
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Thursday, 29 November 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Esmond White and Jean Simmons were both in both Blank Narcissus and Sir Larry's Hamlet, the fight over the use over the latter becoming almost a Pinewood-Denham "frontier war," according to Powell.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 30 November 2007 00:17 (sixteen years 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