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Three Disappointments and a Whoopee
Disappointment 1: the lack of a really great critical study of Powell & Pressburger. Ian Christie’s Arrows of Desire was a fine starting point, and the coffee-table quality of the book, wit… more →
SHADOWPLAY
Three Disappointments and a Whoopee
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dcairns wrote 6 days ago: Disappointment 1: the lack of a really great critical study of Powell & Pressburger. Ian Christ … more →
Six essential classics on Blu-Ray
Christian Hayes wrote 3 weeks ago: As the new high-definition format continues to grow, it is becoming a more and more interesting pros … more →
The Red Shoes
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Patrick wrote 1 month ago: IMDB (1948, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressberger) Magical movie about the aspiration to create. It … more →
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
monoursblanc wrote 1 month ago: We can all relate in some way to the idea of voyeurism. Even just watching a film is a voyeuristic a … more →
Congratulations
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dcairns wrote 1 month ago: – to my newly graduated students Anders and Jamie, who just won the McLaren Award for New Brit … more →
Age of Consent
Patrick wrote 3 months ago: IMDB (1969, Michael Powell) Odd to say, but it felt like a movie you’d watch at 2 a.m. on Sk … more →
Things I read off the screen in "They Drive By Night"
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dcairns wrote 4 months ago: This is the 1938 British movie THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT, not the 1940 Raoul Walsh one with the same titl … more →
The Farmer Takes a Knife
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dcairns wrote 5 months ago: THE COTTAGE is a new British horror film from writer-director Paul Andrew Williams, who had a critic … more →
Stand By Your Man?
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Temple3 wrote 5 months ago: Would you? If so, why? If not, why not? Does anyone recall if Hillary wore a blue dress t … more →
jesus vera
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piqued wrote 5 months ago: Anyone seen Vera Drake? Really you must, honestly, the funniest fucking film I think I’ve ever see … more →
The Chills #1: "You're out of your senses!"
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dcairns wrote 5 months ago: When a film hits you with such an overdose of poetry that it bends the needle on your Aesthetomet … more →
On Gene Nichol
Rob wrote 6 months ago: Next week’s Advocate will have a story about the departure of former W&M President Gene Ni … more →
Euphoria #34: IKWIG!
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dcairns wrote 6 months ago: Apologies to a couple of people who’ve suggested clips for our ongoing Cinema Euphoria proj … more →
Euphoria #33: Lip-flap a-go-go
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dcairns wrote 6 months ago: High-powered producer/assistant director David Brown (pictured) is the most well-placed film indust … more →
Uncle Silas
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dcairns wrote 7 months ago: Adapted from the novel by J. Sheridan LeFanu (CARMILLA), this maybe misses real greatness but has s … more →
Let the Shadows Play
dcairns wrote 7 months ago: Maurice Binder’s titles for Ken Russell’s THE BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN (the second sequel t … more →
Peeping Tom - 1960 - Michael Powell
cinefile wrote 7 months ago: A psychological thriller about a scoptophiliac who literally makes his victims, all women, see thei … more →
Not Of This Earth
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dcairns wrote 7 months ago: So, my late friend Lawrie Knight was an A.D. on Powell and Pressburger’s THE RED SHOES. H … more →
The Red Shoes (1948)
chaplin wrote 8 months ago: THE RED SHOES Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, LeonideMassine, Albert … more →
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