In case this has not been posted, the Riverside Studio's in Hammersmith (which I'm sure are mentioned in Micky's biog as a location for special effects for one...
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Nicky Smith
nickysmith105
May 1, 2009 12:14 pm
I think some of the QQ's were filmed at Riverside. I'm fairly sure Hammersmith Fire Station is used in The Fire Raisers anyway. Nicky...
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Nicky Smith
nickysmith105
May 1, 2009 4:34 pm
Reina James, daughter of Sid, has just published her second novel but inevitably that's not really what interviewers want to talk to her about. ...
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Nicholas Waller
nawaller@...
May 1, 2009 6:18 pm
I saw Blimp in Wells on Monday, at a showing of the Wells Film Society. The print wasn't the best I have ever seen, and the sound was a little variable (and...
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Nicholas Waller
nawaller@...
May 1, 2009 7:37 pm
JG Ballard died a few days ago. He's someone I've read a fair amount of over the years, since I first discovered him in about 1975, when I was 17, and read...
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Steve Crook
steve127uk
May 1, 2009 7:47 pm
I already had him on the Famous Fans list at http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Famous.html because of that article :) Steve...
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Nicholas Waller
nawaller@...
May 1, 2009 7:55 pm
Yes, that's what I meant by saying "and is down as such [ie, a PnP fan] on the website", the website being powell-pressburger.org...
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Steve Crook
steve127uk
May 1, 2009 8:13 pm
Oops, sorry. I thought you meant some other website, one about Ballard. There is a lot on the PaPAS web site. But that should never stop anyone sending in even...
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Steve Crook
steve127uk
May 1, 2009 8:45 pm
Yes, Peter did extract quite a bit of information from me with some cleverly probing emails. It's always a pleasure to share information like that. As for...
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Nicholas Waller
nawaller@...
May 1, 2009 9:36 pm
... Yes, though execution was expected for spies in wartime, which is why downed-behind-the-lines service people tried to avoid changing out of their uniforms....
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gabrielbucsko
May 1, 2009 10:29 pm
Hey everyone, The New Beverly Cinema in Beverly Hills, CA will be showing 35mm prints of AMOLAD and The Red Shoes on Friday, June 26 and Saturday, June 27. ...
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Steve Crook
steve127uk
May 1, 2009 10:38 pm
An official "What ho" and welcome to you Gabriel. Thanks for that, I'll add the times to the web site Steve...
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siekba@...
theuofc
May 2, 2009 2:34 am
The Beverly Cinema is a very cool cinema to support, so please go see AMOLAD and TRS to reinforce their screening these gems. Barbara In a message dated...
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Dan Osterman
dan_illustra...
May 2, 2009 4:20 am
"So probably the only really fantastical and unexplained thing in the film is how Peter came to visualise the face of the judge, who turns out to be his...
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Steve Crook
steve127uk
May 2, 2009 4:29 am
... June doesn't say anything about seeing the stairway or about being interrogated by Farlan or even about seeing Doc Reeves again Steve...
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Nicholas Waller
nawaller@...
May 2, 2009 8:37 am
... Ah, but she sleeps - the Conductor put her to sleep. The waking June isn't involved - if she was, she'd be a bit less calm about meeting the court, you'd...
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Lou Volpe
ursus_ltd
May 2, 2009 10:19 am
Looking for something to do this Bank Holiday monday? Then how about the 3rd Dumfries Film Festival which is screening IKWIG. Be careful though as they warn it...
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PnP@yahoogroups.com
May 2, 2009 9:56 pm
Reminder from: PnP Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PnP/cal It's night over Europe ... Saturday May 2, 2009 10:15 pm - 10:30 pm (This event repeats...
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Mark Fuller
billfullersson
May 2, 2009 10:40 pm
Or about the Alekhine book being in his jacket pocket....which she must have packed?? There are elements pointing both ways; deliberately ambiguous. Mark ... ...
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Nicholas Waller
nawaller@...
May 3, 2009 12:06 am
... In the 1946 novelisation (adapted by Eric Warman) it says June did hurriedly pack Peter's bag with a few things he would need, and then in hospital after ...
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Steve Crook
steve127uk
May 3, 2009 12:25 am
It's that "I've never thought about it" response that annoys me most about June (as a character). She doesn't really do much except gaze adoringly at Peter and...
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Mark Fuller
billfullersson
May 3, 2009 12:49 am
All fine and dandy, and thanks for the quote, but that scene - the packing of Peter's things - ain't in the film...so is Warman rewriting it, or neatening up...
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Nicholas Waller
nawaller@...
May 3, 2009 10:44 am
Perhaps as well as The Future and Peter's future happiness, June also represents The Earthly Present. This may be laying too much allegorical baggage on the...
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Nicholas Waller
nawaller@...
May 3, 2009 10:49 am
I see June in the film as spotting the book in the pocket and thinking 'it was here all the time'. I don't see her thinking, wow, it was all really true, there...
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Nicholas Waller
nawaller@...
May 3, 2009 5:12 pm
Steve - if you noticed a raised blip in page hits on the Powell and Pressburger Pages in the last couple of days, it might be because there was a link to a...
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Steve Crook
steve127uk
May 3, 2009 9:05 pm
If you're at or near the Bergen film festival on 7th May then you can go along and see Bluebeard's Castle with an introduction by Norman Foster's widow,...
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PnP@yahoogroups.com
May 3, 2009 11:01 pm
Reminder from: PnP Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PnP/cal Esmond Knight's birthday Monday May 4, 2009 All Day (This event repeats every year.) ...
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Steve Crook
steve127uk
May 4, 2009 6:45 pm
I don't know what it has to do with SOA World and Service Oriented Architecture but there's a very nice report of the TRS restoration to be shown at Cannes at...
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siekba@...
theuofc
May 4, 2009 10:05 pm
TCM-US devotes the 9th of June to MP as part of its June tribute to directors. Starting at 6:00 am est with IKWIM and in the following sequence until the last,...
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siekba@...
theuofc
May 4, 2009 10:10 pm
Scorsese on 19th June, TCM-US month of directors. In addition to his films: "Scorsese on Scorsese", 10:00 pm est. Director Martin Scorsese discusses his career...
