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Jack Cardiff5 comments

gem wrote 2 months ago: Some people may have heard that the great cinematographer, Jack Cardiff, passed away on April 22nd. … more →

Tags: Film news, A matter of Life and Death, camera, cinematography, film, Jack Cardiff, Magic Hour, Teh Red Shoes

Brilliant Cinematographer Jack Cardiff Dies

halmasonberg wrote 2 months ago: One of my heroes, the supremely talented and illustrious cinematographer Jack Cardiff has passed awa … more →

Tags: Blu-ray, film, 94, African Queen, Dies, DVD, Girl on a motorcycle, Jack Cardiff, passed away

Rest in Peace, Jack Cardiff2 comments

Benjamin wrote 2 months ago: I hate to be a Debbie Downer at this late hour in the day, but the BBC is reporting that filmmaker J … more →

Tags: Movies, News, Technicolor, Sadness, RIP, red shoes, Michael Powell, Emerich Pressburger, Powell & Pressburger

Jack Cardiff33 comments

dcairns wrote 2 months ago: RIP Jack Cardiff. The above is the scene in BLACK  NARCISSUS where Cardiff, perhaps Britain’s … more →

Tags: film, Lawrie Knight, Jack Cardiff

Waltz and All10 comments

dcairns wrote 3 months ago: ‘When I mentioned to Hitchcock that I’d never seen WALTZES FROM VIENNA, he said, “ … more →

Tags: film, Music, theatre, Hitchcock, Bernard Knowles, The Lady Vanishes, Rear Window, othello, Esmond Knight

An Old Fogey Watches The WATCHMEN. And Mourns...2 comments

halmasonberg wrote 4 months ago: I must be getting old because I find myself referring back far too often to my youth and how things … more →

Tags: film, Kubrick, point blank, Los Angeles Times, 2001: A Space Odyssey, New York Post, let the right one in, Old Fogey, Watchmen

Short Review: Black Narcissus

joshclaytonfilm wrote 4 months ago: Black Narcissus (dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, United Kingdom, 1947) had a very intrig … more →

Tags: Films I've seen, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Alfred Junge, Technicolor, Rumer Godden

"I love the artist's use of the colour blue..."30 comments

dcairns wrote 8 months ago: OK, the quality’s pretty bad, but this is the start of Michael Powell’s BLUEBEARD … more →

Tags: film, Bela Belazs, bluebeard's castle, Hein Heckroth, Michael Powell, Norman Foster

Netflix this: 'Black Narcissus' - Nuns gone wild!

yikbo wrote 8 months ago: Okay, so only one sister goes wild in Black Narcissus, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger … more →

Tags: Netflix This, Review, Movie, Drama, Movies, film, Sister Act, Nun, Catholic film

PUSHING DAISIES "Bzzzzzzzzz!": Flibbertigibbit Is a Title of Respect 3 comments

Mikaela wrote 9 months ago: While Pushing Daisies may have garnered 12 Emmy nominations, it may also have been one of the shows … more →

Tags: Pushing Daisies, Premières, Television, TV, Entertainment, Chi McBride, kristin chenoweth, dead like me, sound of music

I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper22 comments

dcairns wrote 9 months ago: I wasn’t planning on having a Fever Dream Double Feature set in lighthouses, but right after … more →

Tags: film, allen jenkins, Danger: Love at Work, Derek Twist, Donald Calthrop, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Edge of the world, Gordon Harker, Hugh Herbert

There are no sermons in stones5 comments

trickylittleimp wrote 10 months ago: Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. - Senec … more →

Tags: Environment, Society, spirituality, World Wonder, E.M. Forster, film, God, locus genii, Paganism

Six essential classics on Blu-Ray

Christian Hayes wrote 11 months ago: As the new high-definition format continues to grow, it is becoming a more and more interesting pros … more →

Tags: DVD, News, adventures of robin hood, Blu-ray, David Lean, Great Expectations, Ingmar Bergman, Michael Powell, seventh seal

Nun the Wiser6 comments

Ruby wrote 1 year ago: This morning, I happened to turn on Dave Fanning-as-Tubridy on Radio 1 only to hear Esther Rantzen b … more →

Tags: media, Women, beguinages, Esther Rantzen, Nuns

Sabu invents an entirely new kind of acting.12 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: From the Korda production ELEPHANT BOY. Directed by Robert Flaherty, then RE-directed by Alexan … more →

Tags: film, Catch-22, Jayne Mansfield, Jean Simmons, Lawrie Knight, Sabu, John Ford, Anthony Perkins, alexander korda

The Chills: Alive, Alive-O!8 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago: “Can you possibly conceive it? The unendurable oppression of the lungs, the stifling fume … more →

Tags: film, Murnau, Ray Milland, Faust, The Red Shoes, tim burton, Roger Corman, Hazel Court, Masque of the Red Death

Black Narcissus (1947)1 comment

pupson13 wrote 1 year ago: Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Starring: Deborah Kerr Awards: Academy Award for Cine … more →

Tags: adventure, criterion, Drama, Foreign, Thriller, Kerr, Nuns, Powell, Pressburger

The Chills #1: "You're out of your senses!"15 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year ago:   When a film hits you with such an overdose of poetry that it bends the needle on your Aesthetomete … more →

Tags: film, Music, Painting, Michael Powell, Powell & Pressburger, David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, "deborah kerr", Jack Cardiff

"Ah, Jean!"2 comments

dcairns wrote 1 year 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, Caesar and Cleopatra, Gabriel Pascal, George Bernard Shaw, Jean Simmons, Lawrie Knight


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