Blogs about: Powell Pressburger
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I can imagine conversations between British moviegoers in 1933 probably went something like ~ “Darling, would you like to see the new talking pictograph at the Roxy Regal Odeon tonight?” … more →
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The Red Shoes Returns
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jwakeham wrote 1 month ago: “Why do you want to dance?” “Why do you want to live?” Powell and Pressburge … more →
4/26/09
Hank wrote 8 months ago: Click here to listen to the show. On tonight’s show: - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (19 … more →
Rest in Peace, Jack Cardiff
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Benjamin wrote 8 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 →
Hitler vs. Hosers (Faux-sers?)
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aintmsbtraven wrote 10 months ago: They can’t all be winners. Michael Powell’s (screenwriter Emeric Pressburger is not co-b … more →
The Squire Root of All Evil
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aintmsbtraven wrote 10 months ago: Gone to Earth represents the confluence of three of the most important elements in my mental univers … more →
Small Back Pain
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aintmsbtraven wrote 10 months ago: I’ve really been Powell and Pressburging my luck lately–revisiting some old favourites a … more →
F.P.1
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dcairns wrote 10 months ago: I can imagine conversations between British moviegoers in 1933 probably went something like ~ … more →
The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)
Vern McIlhenney wrote 10 months ago: This arrival of The Girl on a Motorcycle from LoveFilm couldn’t have been neater. Consider th … more →
Blanc Check
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aintmsbtraven wrote 10 months ago: "Reassuring, isn't it?" “Film Blanc” (the term was introduced by Peter Val … more →
Black Narcissus (1947)
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Vern McIlhenney wrote 11 months ago: An amazing film. This is a true horror film. It is a haunted house story, with the place of the gh … more →
They're a Weird Mob (1966)
Vern McIlhenney wrote 12 months ago: And, to be fair, that’s a weird film. It’s not surreal or intricate or confusingly plott … more →
A Matter of Life and Death
Chris Wright wrote 1 year ago: A Matter of Life and Death (1946) Powell & Pressburger at the zenith of their extraordinary care … more →
Oh... Ludmilla!!
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dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Fun and frolics from Powell & Pressburger’s OH… ROSALINDA!! A ballet/operetta movie … more →
Barn Storming
dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Hello, it’s Tod Slaughter again! And up to his old tricks — you know, murdering, and tha … more →
Slaughter House
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dcairns wrote 1 year ago: CRIMES AT THE DARK HOUSE is what the usually-wrong Leslie Halliwell quite rightly calls a “che … more →
I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper
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dcairns wrote 1 year ago: I wasn’t planning on having a Fever Dream Double Feature set in lighthouses, but right after I … more →
Three Disappointments and a Whoopee
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dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Disappointment 1: the lack of a really great critical study of Powell & Pressburger. Ian Christi … more →
Things I read off the screen in "They Drive By Night"
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dcairns wrote 1 year ago: This is the 1938 British movie THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT, not the 1940 Raoul Walsh one with the same title … more →
The Chills #3: "Look out!"
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dcairns wrote 1 year ago: Some scenes make you feel like your brain has been extracted, and carved into a crude trumpet, and s … more →
