It was sold for £31 and the bidders look to be just collectors of old camera equipment. So it looks like nobody else believed the claim either :) Steve...
OT: Not to be missed if you are in or near New York City this month: Billy Wilder retrospective at the Film Forum, New York City. Twenty-two Wilder films on...
Also in yesterday's Guardian, a review of a new book on Benjamin Britten, which covers his interest in the 1931 film of Emil and the Detectives, which Emeric...
Interesting story in yesterday' Guardian about P&P fave Patrick MacNee's evening with Keith Moon: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1809932,00.html ...
Time Magazine has an article about "7 DVDs Show How Divine and Dramatic Dance Can Be From Astaire to Fonteyn, these were the greats who put emotion in motion" ...
Thanks chelsea girl. If and when the theatre visits are made we will invite you to join the pupils if you're not doing anything. An aim of the tour is to...
I would like to meet you in San Francisco. My high school class included an exchange student from Australia, who added so much to our Senior year and who has...
I have just been watching my DVD copy of LHW and noticed that in one scene a large shadow of someone, looking remarkably like Michael Powell, is projected on...
Hmm, a shadow of someone speaking into a microphone. It could be. There's no evidence of any hair :) It's the sort of thing he might well have done for a...
Did Powell ever make a film at a London Studio? I've just discovered that there is an exhibition, Moving Pictures come to London: the first decades, at Holborn...
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Oops, I almost forgot to wish a happy 4th July to all of our American members. Remember Abraham Farlan, the first American killed by a British bullet - ...
From Roger Visit London Holborn library....for this PROF. IAN CHRISTIE curated exhibition Moving pictures come to London: the first decades An exhibition at...
... He did. But no problem in repeating it. I often find that I post something and then see that someone else (Roger, as often as not) has beaten me to it. I...
I know sometimes people are on the digest or their email system is a bit slow so duplication is just an accident. But it does seem that an awful lot of things...
... I tend to reply to a message when I read it. And then I often find as I read further down the thread that the same point has been made already by someone...
Steve- Thanks for the 4th of July wishes! Today is the fifth and we're back to unaccountable, arrogant, culture-less (including P&P) spying, secrecy-loving rat...
1. Paper and a strange stubby pen of a sort you only get in polling booths. Some areas do all the counting by computer though while some still stick the the...
Interview of Thelma by Terry Gross on NPR: I turned on my car radio yesterday and heard a familiar voice and talk about Marty. Thelma's interview was full of...
TCM is also showcasing Scorsese in its series on Maverick directors in "Edge Of Outside" later this month. Thelma will be speaking, so expect a few MP...
I've just had confirmation that the films shown at the "Powell Portrait" in Frankfurt (see http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Events.html#Portrait-Frankfurt)...
New Order are a 1980s electronic / rock group. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_order Their "Age of Consent" doesn't have any connection to the film that...
The interview with Thelma is online at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5069962 There's also an interview with Leo Marks in the same NPR...
Terry Gross's program has been a part of National Public Radio for several years. She specializes in doing interviews. Curiously, she does not interview...
Reminder from the Calendar of PnP http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PnP/cal Hein Heckroth died Thursday July 6, 2006 All Day (This event repeats every year.) ...
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From Roger "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (Screenplay) : Powell and Pressburger (Paperback) Edited with additional material by Ian Christie. Faber UK...
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