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Congruence #2: Entrances
A kind Shadowplayer sent me a copy of Thorold Dickinson’s SECRET PEOPLE, which features the first major performance by Audrey Hepburn, so always gets a sort of footnote position in the history b… more →
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"The doubtful comforts of human love": The Red Shoes
wrote 1 week ago: Last week I watched the restored version of Powell and Pressburger’s The Red Shoes at BFI Sout … more →
The Red Shoes
wrote 2 months ago: Before going on to the top 100 of IMDb’s Top 250, I’m jumping back down on The List to p … more →
Carrousel d'amour: La ronde Review
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wrote 2 months ago: An irreverent, knowing look at casual sexual desire and infidelity in turn of the century Vienna, Ma … more →
Congruence #2: Entrances
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wrote 3 months ago: A kind Shadowplayer sent me a copy of Thorold Dickinson’s SECRET PEOPLE, which features the fi … more →
The Red Shoes: Restored and Resplendent
wrote 5 months ago: Moira Shearer in The Red Shoes, 1948 Last night, I had the supreme pleasure of attending the North A … more →
Student Bodies
wrote 5 months ago: New Forgotten is online over at The Auteurs’ Notebook, and as a sort of accompaniment, here … more →
Lola Montes (1955)
wrote 6 months ago: France/West Germany Director: Max Ophuls 110 min Synopsis American and Europe, the nineteenth centur … more →
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
wrote 8 months ago: The first Archers film that I watched. It follows Colonel Clive Candy’s (Roger Livesey) life … more →
The Red Shoes
wrote 8 months ago: Directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (the Archers) have influenced the careers of Martin … more →
Hitler vs. Hosers (Faux-sers?)
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wrote 10 months ago: They can’t all be winners. Michael Powell’s (screenwriter Emeric Pressburger is not co-b … more →
Oh... Ludmilla!!
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wrote 1 year ago: Fun and frolics from Powell & Pressburger’s OH… ROSALINDA!! A ballet/operetta movie … more →
The Mixed Joys of Seeing
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wrote 1 year ago: I adore the past. It is so much more restful than the present. And so much more reliable than the fu … more →
No Future
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wrote 1 year ago: What better way to spend an evening than by watching a 1939 French melodrama by a German director, … more →
Not Of This Earth
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wrote 1 year ago: So, my late friend Lawrie Knight was an A.D. on Powell and Pressburger’s THE RED SHOES. He h … more →
