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Sabu invents an entirely new kind of acting.

From the Korda production ELEPHANT BOY. Directed by Robert Flaherty, then RE-directed by Alexander Korda’s brother Zoltan, after Flaherty’s more purist documentary style was rejected as u… more »

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Sabu invents an entirely new kind of acting. — 12 comments

dcairns wrote 2 weeks ago: From the Korda production ELEPHANT BOY. Directed by Robert Flaherty, then RE-directed by Alexander … more »

Tags: film, alexander korda, Anthony Perkins, Black Narcissus, Catch-22, Charles Crichton, Cobra Woman, Elephant Boy, Jayne Mansfield

Quote of the Day: Upping the ante-rooms — 4 comments

dcairns wrote 3 months ago: Legendary production designer Ken Adam discusses designing the Marquess of Queensbury’s recep … more »

Tags: film, chitty chitty bang bang, Cromwell, Dr No, James Bond, ken adam, Ken Hughes, Luchino Visconti, Sir Christopher Frayling

Things I read off the screen in "They Drive By Night" — 9 comments

dcairns wrote 3 months ago: This is the 1938 British movie THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT, not the 1940 Raoul Walsh one with the same titl … more »

Tags: film, Literature, Television, A Gun For Sale, Are They Really So Awful?, Arthur Woods, brighton rock, Christopher Challis, Denham Studios

The Chills #3: "Look out!" — 3 comments

dcairns wrote 4 months ago: Some scenes make you feel like your brain has been extracted, and carved into a crude trumpet, and s … more »

Tags: film, A matter of Life and Death, Christopher Challis, David Mamet, Forty-Ninth Parallel, I Know Where I'm Going, Jack Cardiff, Laurence Olivier, Marius Goring

Polteroid — 9 comments

dcairns wrote 5 months ago:   This is my dear friend Lawrie. I’ve spoken of him before — assistant on THE RED SHOES … more »

Tags: film, Television, Powell & Pressburger

Euphoria #45: Call me — 7 comments

dcairns wrote 5 months ago:   We are assembling a shimmering pyramid composed of delightful movie scenes that shine out from yo … more »

Tags: film, Bill Forsyth, Local Hero, Scottish Screen, bresson, Au Hasard Balthasar

"Ah, Jean!" — 2 comments

dcairns wrote 5 months ago:   That’s what my late friend Lawrie would say whenever the subject of Jean Simmons came up. I … more »

Tags: film, Literature, Music, theatre, Black Narcissus, Caesar and Cleopatra, Gabriel Pascal, George Bernard Shaw, Jean Simmons

Euphoria #32: small boys — 18 comments

dcairns wrote 5 months ago: Edinburgh Filmhouse habitué David Watson (ever notice how everybody is called David?) nominates th … more »

Tags: film, theatre, Gregory's Girl, David Watson, Bill Forsyth, Chic Murray, Scottish cinema

When Anecdotes Collide — 3 comments

dcairns wrote 6 months ago:   I collect movie stories in my brain. Some of them may just be stories. But sometimes two stories … more »

Tags: film, Television, The Third Man, Carol Reed, alexander mackendrick, Korda, Philip Kemp, Lethal Innocence, Charles Drazin

Not Of This Earth — 14 comments

dcairns wrote 6 months ago:   So, my late friend Lawrie Knight was an A.D. on Powell and Pressburger’s THE RED SHOES. H … more »

Tags: film, theatre, Anton Walbrook, La Ronde, Michael Powell, Oh Rosalinda, ophuls, Powell & Pressburger, Robert Helpmann


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